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M. E. CHURCH

The M. E. Church was organized as a Mission Church Dec. 16, 1854, at Illinois City, and was made a Circuit Church in 1857. The original membership was forty-two, among whom were Robert B. Lawson and wife, S. B. Simpsom and wife, W. H. Wornacks and wife, W. A. Duffield and wife. The church edifice was erected in 1861, and cost $1,700 ; and the parsonage was built in 1857, at a cost of $550. The Sunday School has an average attendance of eighty, under the superintendance of C. M. Rood, assisted by Richard Kingdon. The church membership is now about thirty- seven.

The pastors and their terms of service are respectively as follows : Rev. James Sheldon, 1854 to 1855 ; Rev. A. J. Jones, 1855 to 1856 ; Rev. J. L. Kirkpatrick, 1856 to 1858 ; Rev. J. L. Harris, 1858 to 1859 ; Rev. Geo. M. Morey, 1869 to 1860 ; Rev. Jas. Sheldon, 1860 to 1861 ; Rev. B. E. Kaufman, 1861 to 1863 ; Rev. J. B. Taylor, 1863 to 1861 ; Rev. Jno. Grundy, 1S64 to 1865 ; Rev. Geo. W. Martin, 1865 to 1867 ; Rev. L. M. Bennett, 1867 to 1868 ; Rev. G. W. Stout, 1868 to 1869 ; Rev. Theodore Hoagland, 1869 to 1870 ; Rev. W. B. Caruthers, 1870 to 1872 ; R-x. Wm. Mathena, 1872 to 1873 ; Rev. J. W. Megan, 1873 to 1874 ; Rev. C. W. Sherman, 1874 to 1876 ; Rev. J. S. James is the present pastor.

The M. E. Church (German)

It was organized in 1874, with sixty members, among whom were Carl Mavis and wife, Henry Myer and wife, and August Kranz and wife. The earliest meetings were held in Cold Bank schoolhouse, but a church was built on Section 21, in 1875, at a cost of $1,200 ; also a parsonage costing $700. The membership numbers about eighty at the present time, and under W. Kruger has a Sunday School of forty members. The pastors have been, John Haller, 1874 to 1876, and the present pastor is H. Niemeyer.

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