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ROSS M. E. CHURCH.
The Ross class of the Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1892 as a part of what was then Audubon circuit, the other points on the circuit being Bethel, Melville Center and Sunny Side. The charter members or Organizers were: J. J. Quimby and wife, Charles Kibler and wife, A. J. Eddy and wife, and others. The church building, which is twenty-four by thirty-six in size, with vestibule and spire, was erected in 1892 under the ministrations of Rev. A. V. Knepper and cost one thousand two hundred dollars. It was dedicated on June 4, 1892, by Rev. E. E. Ilgenfritz.
The following is a list of those who have served as pastors: Rev. A. V. Knepper, Rev. W. J. Richards, 1893; Rev. T. W. Tippet, 1894; Rev. I. H. Elliott, 1895; Rev. Samuel Krell, 1896-7; Rev. C. H. Miller, 1898; Rev. O. T. Nichols, 1899; Rev. M. F. Loomis, 1900; Rev. George Wey- rauch, 1901-2; Rev. E. W. Bates, 1903; Rev. E. H. Moore, 1904; Rev. B. Shinn, 1905; Rev. M. L. Hill, 1906; Rev. E. B. Scoggen; Rev. C. S. Lyles, who is the present pastor. The class is now a part of the Manning charge. The present membership is fifteen.
GRAY M. E. CHURCH.
Fray Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1885, as a part of the Manning charge, with seven charter members, J. M. Greenlee, Mary J. Greenlee, Russell A. Steere, Alice J. Steere and three others. The church edifice, thirty-two by forty feet in size, costing one thousand five hundred
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dollars, was built in 1886. The dedication sermon was preached by Rev. H. J. Everly.
Rev. I. H. Elliott was pastor from 1885 to 1887; Rev. J. S. Throckmor- ton, 1887 to 1888; Rev. J. W. Eckels, 1888-9; Rev. I. M. O'Flying, '89 to '91 ; Rev. S. O. Elliott, '94 to July, '95; Rev. W. B. Cox, July, '95, to Sep- tember, '95 Rev. G. W. Wood, '95 to '98; Rev. S. T. Weaver, '98 to 1900; Rev. F. T. Stevenson, 1900 to 1901 ; Rev. A. A. Bennett, 'OI to '04; Rev. J. N. McCurdy, '04 to '05; Rev. A. L. Golden, '05 to '08; Rev. R. E. Harvey, '08 to 'I0; Rev. J. A. Hosier, 'Jo to 'II ; Rev. E. B. Scoggen, 'II to '14. The present pastor is Rev. C. S. Lyles. The membership is thirty-four.
VIOLA CENTER M. E. CHURCH.
The Viola Center Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1880 and was connected with the Dedham charge, with which it has been identified since. The church building, which was erected in 1887, is a frame structure, thirty-two by sixty feet in size. The membership is not large, on account of its proximity to other churches. The ministers who served as pastors are : Rev. J. S. Morrow, 1882; Rev. S. Milligan, 1883; Rev. J. S. Hall, 1884; Rev. D. W. Henderson, 1884; Rev. W. Stevenson, 1885; Rev. Charles Brown, 1886; Rev. F. J. Brown, 1887; Rev. R. R. C. Grantham, 1888-9; Rev. A. Adair, 1890; Rev. F. M. Carpenter, 1891; Rev. I. M. O'Flying, 1892; Rev. R. E. Harvey, 1893-4-5-6 and 7; Rev. W. L. Cox, 1898-9; Rev. J. W. Lucas, 1900; Rev. W. H. Doyle, 1901-2; Rev. A. J. Mathews, 1903-4; Rev. W. T. Rink, 1905-6; Rev. W. E. Shugg, 1907-8-9; Rev. J. H. Prall, 1909-10; Rev. E. R. Stroud, 1911-12; Rev. C. S. Lyles, 1913. The present pastor is Rev. C. W. Peer.
HAMLIN M. E. CHURCH.
We have not the data as to the first organization of the Hamlin church. However, we find that in the early seventies, it was the center from which radiated the religious influence for the north nine townships in the county, but after the building of the town of Audubon that center was transferred, and by death and removal the membership in Hamlin became so weak that services for a time were almost, if not wholly, abandoned. - In 1896 the class was reorganized with the following members and connected with the Exira charge : William L. Clark and wife, James McNutt and wife, Frank White and wife. George H. Morey and wife, R. J. Fullerton and wife, Emily Godwin and Frank Godwin.
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In 1898, during the pastorate of Rev. O. T. Nichols, the present church edifice, a structure twenty-eight by thirty-six feet in size, was erected, at a cost of one thousand two hundred dollars. The building committee was W. L. Clark, James McNutt and George Lafoy. Andrew Dove did the carpenter work and Lyman Kelley the mason work.
The following have served as pastors: Rev. L. H. Humphrey, O. T. Nichols, R. C. F. Chambers, J. E. Nichol, T. G. Aten, E. W. Bates, W. E. Harvey, John Harned, George A. Lawton and H. P. Grinyer, the present pastor. The present membership is about forty-five. A flourishing Sunday school is maintained under the superintendency of John H. Parnhan.
GREELEY CENTER M. E. CHURCH.
The Greeley Center Methodist Episcopal church, located in section 22, Greeley township, was organized in 1886, with the following membership: John H. Reynolds, Lucy Reynolds, Fred Reynolds, Samuel W. Reynolds and Katie V. Reynolds. Services were held in the Greeley Center school house until in 1898, when the present church was built, its size being twenty- four by thirty-six feet, and cost one thousand eighty dollars. The present membership is twenty-six. A Sunday school and Epworth League are main- tained a greater portion of the time.
The first pastor was Rev. Lewis Tabor, a local preacher ; then followed Rev. F. B. Dunn, Rev. William Mercer, Rev. W. J. Richards, Rev. L. D. Bartley, Rev. M. T. Brown, Rev. J. F. Davis, Rev. T. G. Clark, Rev. G. E. Nichols, Rev. W. T. Rink, Rev. Elliott Voorhees, Rev. R. B. Hughes, Rev. T. G. Aten, Rev. P. A. Smith, Rev. L. D. Gager, Rev. F. C. Whtiney, Rev. R. P. Roberts, Rev. Robert Swick, Rev. F. C. Taylor and the present pastor, Rev. H. T. Young. This church has always been associated with, and a part of, the North Branch circuit.
MELVILLE CENTER M. E. CHURCH.
The Melville Center class of the Methodist Episcopal church was organ- ized in 1892 as a part of the Audubon circuit and is located in section 22, Melville township. Among the early members were James Hunt, P. J. Keith and wife and A. B. Hunt and wife. The church building, twenty-four by thirty-six feet in size, with vestibule, was erected in 1892, at a cost of one thousand two hundred dollars.
Rev. A. V. Knepper was the first pastor and was largely instrumental in the building. He was followed by Rev. W. J. Richards, Rev. T. W. Tippett,
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Rev. I. H. Elliott, Rev. Samuel Krell, Rev. C. H. Miller, Rev. O. T. Nichols, Rev. M. F. Loomis, Rev. George Weyrauch, Rev. E. W. Bates, Rev. E. H. Moore, Rev. B. Shinn and Rev. M. L. Hill.
Owing to removals and other causes, the membership became reduced to two or three members, and not being able to support a pastor, no services were held for three or four years, but a Sunday school was maintained a por- tion of the time, until the spring of 1914, when, largely through the influence of Rev. J. H. Freedline, then pastor at Audubon, services were renewed and since that time has been supplied by the pastor in Audubon. During the fall of 1914 a revival was held by Rev. Jackson Giddins, and accessions were received until now the membership is twenty-two, with preaching every Sun- day afternoon and a flourishing Sunday school, superintended by Mrs. W. A. Hollister.
BETHEL M. E. CHURCH.
Bethel Methodist Episcopal church is located in section 5, Melville township. It was organized in 1887 by the following members, a portion of whom came from Viola church, and others who resided at too great a dis- tance to attend any church: C. H. Sampson and wife, W. W. Weston and wife, Charles J. Johnson and wife, Otis Morey and wife, L. M. Carper and wife, D. D. Sampson and wife, H. Byrd and wife, William Wilde and wife, Mrs. Olive Beason, Ella Beason and Lewis Beason.
A Sunday school was first organized, with C. H. Sampson as superin- tendent ; afterward a class was organized and attached to the Audubon cir- suit. Arrangements were made with Rev. F. M. Carpenter to supply the church until the annual conference convened in September, when Rev. Will- iam Mercer came as pastor, under whose pastorate, in 1888, a neat church building, twenty-eight by thirty-six feet in size, was erected, at a cost of one thousand five hundred dollars. The class continued as a part of the Audu- bon circuit until 1907, with the following pastors serving: Rev. F. B. Dunn, Rev. A. V. Knepper, Rev. W. J. Richards, Rev. T. W. Tippett, Rev. I. H. Elliott, Rev. Samuel Krell, Rev. C. H. Miller, Rev. M. F. Loomis, Rev. G. W. Weyrauch, Rev. E. W. Bates, Rev. E. H. Moore, Rev. B. Shinn, Rev. M. L. Hill.
In 1907 the class was detached from the Audubon circuit and annexed to the Dedham circuit, the following pastors serving: Rev. W. E. Shugg, two years; Rev. J. H. Prall, two years; Rev. E. R. Stroud, two years ; Rev. C. S. Lyles, one year, and the present pastor, Rev. C. W. Peer. The present membership is about forty. The Sunday school has continued to do excellent
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work all these years, at times the membership running up to one hundred. Since C. H. Sampson's removal, D. D. Sampson has been superintendent.
SUNNYSIDE CLASS OF THE M. E. CHURCH.
About 1891 a class of the Methodist Episcopal church was organized at Sunny Side school house, Greeley township. Some of the leading persons in its organization were David Sheets, Col. E. G. White and wife, R. H. Gar- nett and wife, W. C. Rice and wife and Mrs. F. M. Rice. The first pastor was Rev. L. Tabor, a local preacher, who supplied for a time. Afterward the . class was attached to the Audubon circuit and the following served as pas- tors: Rev. A. V. Knepper, Rev. W. J. Richards, Rev. T. W. Tippett, Rev. I. H. Elliott, Rev. Samuel Krell. By removals and death, this class became so weakened that services were abandoned in 1897, those remaining taking their membership elsewhere.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AUDUBON.
On July 7, 1899, at the time of the laying of the cornerstone of the new church, Rev. E. B. Cousins gave the following historical sketch of this church up to that time, which is the best obtainable :
"An encouraging prospect appearing for the organization and establish- ment of a Presbyterian church in the new town of Audubun, which had just become the terminus of the railroad, located centrally in Audubon county, with assuring promises of soon becoming the county seat; and with an urgent demand for such a church being manifest, on the part of a large number of the business men and citizens of the surrounding country the presbytery of Council Bluffs, at an adjourned meeting, held in Council Bluffs, November 12, 1878, appointed a committee, consisting of Rev. John Herron and Elder J. G. Cotton, both of Atlantic, to look over the field, and, if the way be clear, effect an organization at their earliest convenience.
"That committee at once proceeded to a more thorough canvass of the field during the following winter and early spring, while the young town was growing rapidly, and, after a number of services, held in the school house in town by Rev. John Herron and Rev. Ed. B. Cousins, of Clarence, Iowa, the prospect brightened, the demand on the part of the people became more urgent and the way appeared clear to effect the formal organization.
"A public meeting of the congregation was held in the school house on (14)
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Monday, April 14, 1879, at three P. M., and after a sermon by Rev. John Herron, the committee proceeded at once to the organization.
"It was found that only seven were then fully prepared to become mem- bers of the organization, five by letter and two by examination and confes- sion of faith. Three others reported having sent for their church letters, but had not yet received them and only one of that number ever received his letter and formally united with the church. So this church was organized really with only seven members. The roll of original membership is as fol- lows: By letter, E. C. Brown, Alex. A. Campbell and wife, Mrs. Maggie Ross, Evan Davis; by examination and confession, Robert Henderson and Mrs. Janet Griffin, and George W. Newcomer by letter, April 28, fourteen days after organization. The membership thus constituted chose the name by which the new church should be known and enrolled upon the records of presbytery as the First Presbyterian Church of Audubon. This was also the first and only Presbyterian church in Audubon county.
"E. C. Brown and A. A. Campbell were elected and ordained the first ruling elders. Capt. Charles Stuart, A. A. Campbell, E. C. Brown, Wilson Burnside, Evan Davis, Robert Henderson, John L. Dynes and George W. Newcomer were elected as a building committee, the latter five of whom were also elected as the first trustees. The newly organized church at once made a pastoral call and extended the same to Rev. Ed. B. Cousins, of Clar- ence, Iowa, to become its first pastor.
"The formal organization, thus completed, was reported by the com- mittee to the presbytery in session at Walnut, Iowa, April 18, 1879. The report was approved and the church enrolled by presbytery.
"The pastoral call previously made by the church was presented to presbytery by Elder E. C. Brown. That body, according to form, placed said call in the hands of the pastor-elect, who accepted it formally, but, on due deliberation, it was thought best, both by himself and the presbytery, to delay the consummation of the pastoral union until reasonable time and oppor- tunity were granted for pastor and people to become better acquainted. On motion, the call was returned to the church, with the suggestion that, 'In view of the youthfulness of the church, the formation of a pastoral relation be deferred until the next stated meeting of the presbytery.'
"The church then engaged the services of the pastor-elect for one year as stated supply. Services were held in the school house each alternate Sabbath until the new church could be erected and completed, which occurred about one year later. The building committee diligently prosecuted their work. The required funds were readily raised, the people generally respond-
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ing liberally according to their means. Plans and specifications were pro- cured and adopted. The contract was let so that, early in June, 1879, the building (thirty-eight by sixty feet) was raised and rapidly approaching completion when a severe wind storm leveled the entire structure to the ground. After a serious delay, however, the work was taken up again with renewed vigor and zeal and, with a force of twenty or more men, from the ruins of the old, a new structure was soon erected upon the original founda- tion. The work was carried along to completion at an extra cost of about four hundred dollars, and on Sabbath, January 18, 1880, the first service was held in the church. The text of the discourse was Psalms 122:1, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord," and the appreciation of the truth of that text was greatly attested by an immense audience, both morning and evening, with congregations who appeared glad to be permitted to again attend divine service in a church building. After holding service the next Sabbath, the building was closed for inside painting and finish, until Sabbath, March 28, when it was again occupied, and after a sermon by the pastor-elect, the sacrament of the Lord's supper was observed, with a number of accessions to the church membership. Regular services were held until the day of formal dedication, May 9, when Rev. Thomas H. McClelland, D. D., of Council Bluffs, preached the dedicatory sermon. The dedicatory prayer and address were made by Rev. Ed. B. Cousins, pastor- elect, and the house was formally dedicated to the service and worship of Almighty God, free from debt. The entire cost was something over four thousand dollars, of which the presbytery board of church erection gave seven hundred dollars. The two valuable lots, each fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in size, were donated by the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad Com- pany. The magnificent gift to this church of the premium four-hundred- dollar Mancely & Kimberly Troy bell is due to the good offices of Capt. Charles Stuart, since deceased, who not only secured the donation of one · hundred dollars each from three of the prominent officers of the railroad company with free freight from Chicago, but generously footed the balance of the bill himself.
"After nearly one year's services as stated supply, a new call for the pastoral services of Rev. Edward B. Cousins was issued and forwarded to the presbytery in session at Emerson, April 16, 1880. The same was accepted by him. Rev. John Herron preached the installation sermon, Rev. S. L. McAffee charged the pastor, Rev. Thomas McClelland charged the people at installation day, May 9, 1880. On April 4, 1880, the Sabbath school was organized, with a membership of fifty, which, within one year, about doubled
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itself in numbers and during two following years grew to and sustained an average membership of one hundred and twenty-five. A choice library of two hundred and sixty-four volumes was put in, at a cost of one hundred and fifty dollars.
"From its organization until the present time (July 7, 1899), a little over twenty years, only six different ministers have been engaged to serve this church for regular stated term. Of these, three have been regularly installed as pastors, and the other three served as stated supplies. The first pastorate closed on May 13, 1883, after a little more than four years' service, by Rev. E. B. Cousins. After trying the weekly supply system, on October 25, 1883, Rev. D. A. Blose was installed as pastor, and served until the spring of 1885. In May, 1885, Rev. J. H. Bartlett came as stated supply for one year and in January, 1886, left the field and presbytery. The church then remained vacant until September, 1886, when Rev. Edward Dickinson came and engaged as stated supply. He continued in that capacity for nearly ten years, an able, efficient preacher and successful laborer in the Master's vineyard, until the close of August, 1896. He was followed by Rev. Joseph Austin Cahill, who, in September, 1896, engaged as stated supply for one year and again the church was vacant. In 1897 Rev. John F. Hinkhouse began serving the church as stated supply, the engagement being for twelve or fifteen months, with a view to settlement as pastor, if the way appear clear. He came from Lenox, where his labors had been abundantly blessed, and his cordial greeting in this new field gave encouraging promise of successful work and blessed results in the Master's cause among us. That promise has been verified even in a much larger measure than could be hoped for, even by the most sanguine. During the winter of 1897-8 he secured the assistance of Evangelist Foot in conducting a series of meetings of two weeks, with blessed results, some of the precious fruits of which were the gathering into church of many by letter and by confession of faith in Christ. His ministra- tions, thus proving so satisfactory to the church and congregation, also accomplished another most important result of effectually bringing to a pre- mature end the un-presbyterian stated supply system so long in vogue in this church.
"On April 3, 1898, a formal ballot was taken with a view to calling Rev. Hinkhouse to a pastorate of the church, resulting in one hundred yeas to one nay. The call, after the usual form by the presbytery, was accepted by Rev. Hinkhouse. The formal installation ceremony occurred on May 13, 1898. Under the new pastorate the work has gone forward very encourag- ingly for more than a year, showing in good results a steady, healthful
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growth and a continued increasing interest on the part of the membership and congregation."
The old building proving to be inadequate for the needs of the con- gregation, a congregational meeting was held on February 15, 1899, to con- sider the question of building a new one. It was unanimously voted to pro- ceed to the erection of a new edifice. A building committee was appointed, consisting of Rev. J. F. Hinkhouse, Thomas Oliver, W. Burnside, R. L. Harris, H. A. Arnold, W. H. Cowles, J. M. McKarahan and Samuel Switzer. The committee at once proceeded to the work of soliciting funds and select- ing plans for a beautiful and commodious (seventy by eighty feet in size) building, which was built of frame, veneered with pressed brick, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars. This is the largest and best appointed church building in the county. It was dedicated on the 10th of December, 1899, free from debt, through the generosity of Mrs. Lois G. Stuart, who gave one dollar for each dollar subscribed, and then made up a deficiency at the end; recently this church has also received five thousand dollars, bequeathed to it by Mrs. Stuart in her will.
During the pastorate of Rev. Hinkhouse the "Sunday Meetings" were held, from which this church received a wonderful inspiration, gathering in about two hundred new members, some of whom have proven strong factors and burden bearers in the church work.
Rev. Hinkhouse remained as pastor till January 17, 1904, when he removed to Sioux City. The next pastor was Rev. Samuel Conybeare, who began his work on the first Sunday in May, 1904, and continued the work in a very acceptable manner until February 24, 1907, when he severed his con- nection to accept a call to Cedar Rapids. The services of Rev. D. C. McIn- tosh were then secured, he beginning his labors on March 31, 1907, and con- tinuing until January 24, 1909. The next pastor was Rev. A. B. Miller, who came on April II, 1909, and continued until September 8, 1913, when he accepted a call to Tarkio, Missouri. The next to accept the pastorate was Rev. Thomas B. Greenlee, who begun his work on January 25, 1914, and who is still pastor, doing acceptable service and under whose ministry the church still prospers.
A strong and active Ladies' Aid Society and Woman's Missionary Society have done and are still doing excellent service in carrying on the work of the church. A Christian Endeavor Society has also been no small factor in helping the young people in the Christian way, and the Sunday school, a greater portion of the time under the superintendency of Rev. E. B. Cousins, has been a power for the building up of Christian characters among the children and young people.
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In 1891 this congregation purchased a two-story, eight-room house, across the street, for a parsonage, which was remodeled, a hot-air furnace put in, and other improvements made, at a total cost of about three thousand dollars. This church also organized what was known as the "Old Hamlin" Presbyterian church, a branch of this church, the membership there being members of this church. The present membership of the church is two hun- dred and ten.
OLD HAMLIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
As a branch of the Audubon Presbyterian church, an organization was effected at Old Hamlin in 1893, J. T. Bell, D. L. Thomas and W. D. Stanley being largely instrumental in the movement, as, on account of the distance to Audubon, they were not able to attend worship regularly. In the same year a neat church, twenty-eight by thirty-six feet in size, was built, at a cost of about one thousand five hundred dollars. Services were held and also a Sunday school conducted for a number of years, the following doing pastoral work: Rev. E. Dickinson, Rev. J. A. Cahill, Rev. J. F. Hinkhouse, Rev. J. T. Ragan, Rev. W. Graham, Rev. Hamilton, Rev. Samuel Boyce, Rev. Paul Nailor, Rev. Montgomery, Rev. Coneybeare, Rev. Archie Mitchell. Since 1909 there has been no pastor and no services. The building has recently been sold and removed.
UNITED BRETHREN.
There are two United Brethren churches in the county. One is located at Gray and the other at the northeast corner of section 23, Cameron town- ship, both comprising one circuit, with one pastor.
GRAY U. B. CHURCH.
The society at Gray was organized in 1889, with twenty-one charter members. The church edifice, erected in 1890, is twenty-eight by thirty-six feet in size, and cost approximately one thousand five hundred dollars. The present membership is fifty-one. The following have served as pastors of this church : Revs. N. F. Hicks, A. J. Patterson, J. H. Young, H. M. Potter, Rev. Wickwire, L. Nichols, J. M. Harper, J. L. Hayden, G. N. Porter, G. E. Bertch, H. G. Hicks, L. A. Fleming, H. A. Hayes, C. J. Stark, G. N. Arnold, A. H. McVey, F. M. Boyd and J. A. Mitchell, who is the present pastor.
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EDEN VALLEY U. B. CHURCH.
The Eden Valley United Brtehren church is located at the northeast corner of section 23, Cameron township, and was named by T. J. Sheley. The class was organized about 1883, and among the early members were Joshua Rodgers and wife, Myrtle Rodgers, James Kilpatrick and wife, W. R. Neitzel and wife, William Ballou and wife and William Pangborn and wife. Not one of these charter members is now living. Services were held in Sands' school house until the erection of the present church building, in 1901, during the pastorate of the Rev. G. E. Bertch. The size of the build- ing is twenty-eight by thirty-six feet, with vestibule and spire, and the cost was one thousand five hundred dollars. Sunday school is held each Sunday, followed by preaching. The present membership is about forty, and the pastor in charge is Rev. J. A. Mitchell. The list of pastors who have served the charge is the same as the Gray list, is being a part of the Gray circuit. This church is well located and occupies a splendid field for active Christian work.
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