THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF ROCK ISLAND

 

The Christian Church of Rock Island was organized on the 23d day of March, 1868. During the winter previous C. W. Sherwood, under the direction of the Christian Missionary Society of the State of Illinois, held a series of meetings here, having in view an organization. Those forming the organization were P. L. Mitchell, W. F. Gilmore, Agenoria H. Gilmore, Kate M. Gilmore, Almira Holt, Amelia Fiscus, Adam Blackball, Jessie E. Blackball, John Bulley, Isaac McGrew, Parthena Vermillion, Eliza­beth H. McNeal, Christina Swiningar, Sarah Ann Ranberger, Abraham Rinker. The congregation commenced occupying, as a place of worship, a hall in Mitchell & Lynde's block on West 17111 Street north of Second Avenue, in which they continued till October, 1870, at which time P. L. Mitchell, having purchased of the First Baptist Church the house vacated by them on the northeast corner of 3d Avenue and 15th Street, erecting a tower and otherwise beau­ tifying it, presented it to the Christian congregation as a place of worship, in which they have continued to the present time. The Church has been fairly prosperous, now numbering 75 worthy members. J. H. Wright is the present Pastor

 

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