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AUDUBON MISSION EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
In 1880 Rev. J. H. Yaggy came to Audubun county and purchased a tract of land in Douglas township. Through Rev. Yaggy's influence, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company donated forty acres of land adjoining his, to the Evangelical Association for church purposes. A number of families, members of the Evangelical Association, having settled near, the Audubon mission was formed, Pleasant Hill class being one point and Rev. Yaggy preaching the first sermon. Fairview class, two miles south- west of Audubon, was organized on July 2, 1882, and at the end of that year the pastor reported a membership of thirty-seven, and fifty members of the mission.
During that year services were also held at Melville Center and at Morlands school house, one mile south of Viola Center, also at Winter's school house. In 1883 Rev. J. W. Hamilton came as pastor. During that year Fairview class was moved two miles west, and the class thereafter known as the Pleasant Hill class; a new class was organized at Hamlin.
Rev. G. F. Heilman was assigned as pastor in 1884 and returned in 1885. During this year a new appointment was taken up, being the Aikman school house in Lincoln township. Rev. J. H. Yaggy, who was then presid- ing elder, moved to Audubon. The net gain in membership that year was
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thirty-five. In 1886 Rev. C. Knoll was appointed as pastor. During that year the congregation at Viola became too large to be accommodated in the school house and plans were laid and money subscribed for a new church. In 1887 Rev. L. N. Day was assigned as pastor and served two years. The Mt. Zion church, in Viola township, was built, and dedicated on June 28, 1887, Rev. J. H. Yerger officiating, assisted by Revs. Yaggy, Knowl, Urbino and Day. Services having been held irregularly at Aikman's school house in Lincoln township, it was now taken up as a regular appointment and in 1888 a class of nine members formed. In 1888 about fourteen of the mem- bership of the Mission moved away, a total loss of one-third of the member- ship, making, above the gains, a net loss of nine. In 1889, Rev. J. H. Yaggy was assigned as pastor and served two years. A new appointment, Highland Grove, seven miles south of Audubon, was taken up and a class of forty- five organized; also Lone Willow and Diggs were supplied.
In 1891 Rev. Arthur Lyttle came as pastor and two new appointments were taken up, Hamlin Center and Greeley No. 4. Excellent revivals were held this year, fifty conversions reported and a net gain in membership of twenty-three. In 1892 Rev. G. F. Heilman was pastor and Rev. A. W. Lyttle assistant. Pleasant Hill. Highland Grove, Terry and Easts were detached and formed a new mission, called Hamlin mission, both being served by the pastor and assistant. Revs. Heilman and Lyttle were again assigned to the work in 1893 and had a large increase of membership at Mt. Zion and Aikmans. New appointments. Prairie and Swaney school house, were taken up. In 1894 Rev. Heilman was again assigned as pastor. Mt. Zion was detached and Pleasant Hill added and the town of Audubon taken up as a new appointment.
BETHANY CHURCII EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION, AUDUBON.
The Audubon mission of the Evangelical Association, having long had an organization doing Christian work around Audubon, but having no organization in the town, in 1894 it was thought expedient to organize a class in town, which was done with the following charter members: Joseph Kopp, Louisa Kopp, Mrs. G. W. Hoover and J. W. Richards. A building committee, consisting of Rev. J. H. Yaggy, Rev. W. R. Astleford, J. Kopp, John Ott, Charles Evans and Rev. G. F. Heilman, was appointed and the work of building a church at once began. On September 3, of that year, a comfortable church, with a seating capacity of two hundred and costing two thousand dollars, was dedicated, free from debt.
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In 1895 the charge was served by Rev. L. N. Day,, alternate Sundays ; when away attending district work, R. H. Lint, G. M. Thorp, W. R. Astle- ford and W. C. Lang supplied. Rev. Day was returned for the years 1896 and 1897, with Rev. M. J. Conner as assistant. During this year a comfort- able parsonage was erected, adjoining the church, and made ready for occu- pancy by Rev. G. L. Wilson, who served as pastor for the station in 1898. In 1899 Rev. L. J. U. Smay served as pastor, when Mt. Zion was again attached to the charge. In 1900 Rev. M. J. Conner came as pastor and good revivals were held at Audubon, Fairview and Pleasant Hill.
In 1901 Rev. Conner, having been returned, a good-sized front was built to the parsonage, the old one forming a dining room and kitchen. In 1902, also in 1903, Rev. Conner was returned. In the latter year Fairview, in Douglas township, was discontinued and Champion Hill added. Rev. C. D. Wendel came as pastor in 1905 and served until 1907. In 1908 Rev. C. H. Schlesselman was assigned and served during 1909 and 1910. Rev. J. C. Schwab was pastor in 1911-1912 and 1913. In 1914 Rev. Clinton F. Smith was assigned and is the present pastor. He also serves the church at Ross, the two constituting the Audubon circuit.
The present membership is sixty-five and the church is stronger today than ever before, both in ability as workers and financially. A good Sunday school and a strong Young People's Society are supported. Mrs. Lois G. Stuart remembered this church in her will to the amount of one thousand dollars.
FRIEDMANS EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF ROSS.
Friedmans Evangelical church, at Ross, was organized in March, 1900, with the following charter members: Rev. A. Raecker, Chris Bauer, Will- iam Weiderstein, John Nakies, John Koenig, Charles Heuss, William Deist, William Lhrenkransz, Christ Mack and Egbert Drussel. They erected a church edifice the same year, with a seating capacity of one hundred and fifty, at a cost of one thousand five hundred dollars. The present membership is fifty.
Those who have served as pastors are: 1899-1900, A. Roecker; 1901- 1903, H. J. Faust ; 1904-1906, M. J. Knolls; 1907-1908, E. C. Granner ; 1909-1910, R. J. Simon ; 1911-1914, O. Mehnert. The present pastor is Rev. Clinton F. Smith. The services are held in the German language, excepting that every two weeks, at night, the Rev. C. L. Fuller, from Mt. Zion, preaches in English language.
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MT. ZION EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Mt. Zion Evangelical church, located in section 27, Viola township, was organized in school house No. 8, in the year 1883. The leading mem- bers in organizing were William Morland, Nels Olsen, James Yeager, Jesse Snively and Harve Gipple. The church building, a frame structure, thirty- two by forty-four feet in size, was erected, with a vestibule eight by fourteen and spire twenty-three feet high, in 1887, at a cost of two thousand dollars.
The pastors who have served this church are the Revs. Knoll, Day, Heiliman, Astleford, Throp, Plummer, Buttman, Lehman, J. H. Yaggy, Fickinger, O. M. Yaggy, C. D. Wendel, H. Alber, M. O. Mehnert and the present pastor, Rev. C. L. Fuller. The present membership is forty-one. The church has a good parsonage property adjoining the church.
FAIRVIEW CLASS, EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Fairview class of the Evangelical church is located in the school house in district No. 4, Greeley township. Having no church building, they wor- ship in the school house. The class was organized in 1891, with a mem- bership of ten, and the present membership is fourteen. A large portion of the time this class has been idntified with the Evangelical church in Audubon, but a portion of the time it has been connected with Mt. Zion, as at present.
Rev. J. H. Yaggy was instrumental in organizing the class and was its first pastor; then followed Rev. Astleford, Rev. M. J. Connor, Rev. J. Wirth, Rev. George Heileman, Rev. O. M. Yaggy, Rev. C. D. Wendel, Rev. C. H. Schlesselman, Rev. J. C. Schwab and the present pastor, Rev. C. L. Fuller.
HAMLIN EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
A class of the Evangelical church was organized at Hamlin Station about 1891 and a church building erected. Some of the charter members were Robert Campbell and wife, D. Brandstatter and wife, H. Young and wife and J. Skinner and wife. This church never had a large membership, and their ranks were so depleted by removals that it was found difficult to keep up the organization : consequently, it was decided to sell the building and disband the organization, which was accordingly done. The building was sold to the Danish Lutherans in 1906, who have since occupied it and have a flourishing membership.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH, EXIRA.
About 1861 Elder C. P. Evans preached several times in the school house at Audubon City, near Hamlin Grove, in Exira township. His efforts were rewarded by the conversion of Hanna M. Hamlin, Malinda C. Hamlin, John Wilcox and Joseph Wilcox, who were then baptized in Troublesome creek. Elder Evans is still preaching at Arapahoe, Nebraska, at the age of eighty-seven years. Benjamin F. Thomas settled at Hamlin Grove, Febru- ary 20, 1864, and preached occasionally in Exira and vicinity until 1868, when he went to Missouri. James Wilson settled near Exira in 1865 and preached there several years. In 1866-7 Elder J. C. White, from Adel, Iowa, preached several times in Exira, and in April, 1867, he baptized twenty-two converts and formed a temporary church organization in Exira. The meetings were held in the old school house.
In 1876 a permanent organization was effected, with twenty-two mem- bers, and Elder J. M. Crocker became the first regular pastor. Melvin Nichols also preached there occasionally. In 1877 a church edifice was erected, thirty-eight by fifty-four feet in size, at a cost of one thousand four hundred dollars. Elders Crocker and Nichols contributed their personal labors to the enterprise. This building was destroyed by fire in June, 1910, and a more pretentious and modern building was erected the same year upon the same ground. The present membership is about one hundred.
There have been as elders, Joseph Clure, William R. Botts, James P. Lair, W. C. Mitchell, Charles W. Johnson, Joseph H. Bell, Fred Anderson, Oscar Hunt ; deacons, Joseph H. Bell, Jesse E. Miller, Burt Anderson, Charles Clure, Samuel D. Ham, Charles McCord, Nels H. Johnson, Okey Hendrick- son, George Milliman, W. W. Hammer, John Stoner, Ola Christensen, Roxy Huyck, N. P. Christensen, Charles E. Hawk, John Porter, Hans Nelson, George Gore, Hugh Smith, P. Frederick, Elmer Heath, P. I. Whitted ; pas- tors, James Wilson, J. M. Crocker, G. W. Hamilton, J. A. Walten, Charles A. Lockhart, J. C. McQuarry, L. H. Humphreys, E. C. Whittaker G. E. Nichols, H. A. Pallister, C. A. Poulson, T. A. Manley, S. M. Smith, Charles S. Linkletter.
CHURCH OF CHRIST.
The Church of Christ, at Audubon, was organized in 1894 by the fol- lowing charter members: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Beason, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Burrows, Mrs. T. V. Belles, Mrs. Rachel Cole, Mr. and Mrs. John Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. C. Gates, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
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Keith, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ellis. The church edifice, forty-six by forty- eight feet in size, was erected in 1900, at a cost of five thousand dollars. The membership at present is about forty.
These have served as pastors: Elders C. A. Lockhart, W. B. Clemens, R. V. Leeson, J. H. McSparran, A. A. Holmes, H. C. Littleton, W. H. McCormick, H. Wilson, I. E. Carney, P. J. Pond, Frank Maples, C. A. Vonnay, J. J. Ruppert, F. E. Glendenning, William P. Hauser.
A Young People's Society and a flourishing Sunday school are main- tained. Carl Neilsen is the present superintendent. The following have been elders: J. C. Keith, W. H. Aldrich, .T. H. Beason and C. Gates; deacons, J. W. Landerman. Carl Neilsen, James Hollenbeck and James Gray. Mrs. D. C. Ross is president of the Ladies' Aid Society; Miss Mabel Keith is clerk.
Rev. D. W. Bryant, from Iuka, Illinois, has recently taken charge of the church as pastor, and now devotes half his time to this pastorate and the other half to Manning.
Mrs. Lois G. Stuart also bequeathed this church one thousand dollars.
FISCUS CHURCH OF CHRIST.
The Church of Christ, at Spring Valley-later known as the Fiscus Church of Christ-was organized, February 5, 1882. The charter member- ship was composed mostly of families formerly from Indiana, who were the first settlers of that neighborhood. Their names were, Adam Cain Fiscus, who was the first, and continued as their preacher for a number of years ; Wilson Fiscus and wife, Emma Fiscus, Albert Fiscus and wife, Eliza; Isaac Fiscus and wife, Melissa; Elias Fiscus and wife, Harriet; Levy Fiscus ; Sarah J. Fiscus ; Adeline Fiscus; Mrs. Martha Somerlot; Mrs. Ruth Duling; Mrs. Paulina Wiley; Mrs. Eliza J. Rinehart; Mrs. Elizabeth Spear; J. F. Conrad; Henry Hauser ; Nelson Hon and wife, Mary; E. J. Arney and wife, Lucinda; Hannah Hilsabeck; Mrs. Ann M. Speas; Jesse Hon and wife, Matilda, and Mrs. Mary Mitten. A number of these people had formerly been members of the old Bethel Church of Christ, in Owen county, Indiana, and others had been members of the Bethel Grove church, of Marshall county, Iowa. The elders were A. C. Fiscus, Wilson Fiscus and Elias Fis- cus; deacons, E. J. Arney and Albert Fiscus.
Other members were added from time to time, until a large congrega- tion was built up, with a good Sunday school, and regular preaching services were held for a number of years. This was the only organized Church of
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Christ in that part of the county, and its membership finally included almost the entire community, people coming a long distance in their farm wagons to attend these services. Protracted meetings were held from time to time, when great crowds would fill the school house at night to overflow. All the spring-seats from the wagons would be carried in to seat the women and children, the men standing in the doorway and at the open windows, eager to hear the preached word. All-day basket-meetings were often held at some grove near by (a church building was never erected), and always drew large crowds of people, who were welcome and well fed, for the friendship and hospitality of the people was unlimited and their faithfulness and loyalty never questioned.
Brother A. C. Fiscus served this congregation for a number of years as pastor and, as the membership were of rather limited means he depended largely upon his farm for support of himself and family. Later, came Brother W. N. Littell, who served for some time, and who also started the first store and the postoffice at Fiscus. Then came Brother Tibbitts, of Botna, Iowa, followed by Brother D. H. Reagan, of Indiana, and Brother F. A. Sheets, of Manning, who was followed by Brother C. A. Lockhart, of Exira.
During all these years, death called the members one by one, to cease their labors and answer the call to the Great Beyond, and, like other country churches, there was great loss by removals. Thus the membership of what was once a prosperous church gradually weakened until it was difficult for the few struggling members to keep the work going, so that all efforts finally ceased, and the organization was abandoned.
Of the charter members, there are but four now living, and only three now reside in Audubon county. Elias Fiscus, one of them, also one of the elders, now has his home with his daughter, Mrs. Speas, in Lincoln town- ship, who kindly furnished many of the facts for this little history of this church and who knows the history of the county almost from the beginning, he being one of the first settlers in that part of the county; also, Mrs. Ruth Duling (now Mrs. Hilsabeck) still lives in Douglass township, and Mrs. Eliza Rinhart, who lives in Audubon.
Those of this congregation who still survive and have found homes elsewhere, no doubt still remember the joys and sorrows and the struggles of the organization that sprang up, bore its fruit, brought souls into the kingdom, nurtured the children into manhood and womanhood, saw lover and sweetheart made one, saw father and mother pass to the Great Beyond, held friends and neighbors together in love and friendship, made the com-
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munity better for its influence, and finally, after having lived its life, to slowly fade away and pass into history. But the great good that it accom- plished and the influence that it shed abroad in the world, eternity alone can tell.
ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (GERMAN).
On August 1, 1875, a few German Lutheran families residing in Audu- bon township, Audubon county, and in Grant township, Guthrie county, met for the purpose of organizing a Lutheran congregation. Those participating and who became charter members were Henry Nesack, who, at the age of eighty-four, is still (1915) an active member and the only charter member remaining a member of the congregation; George Faga, now in Chicago; John Mueller, now in Adair, Iowa; Henry Gerboldt, Fred Fienen, and the late Henry Faga.
A constitution was adopted and the little band organized for effective Christian work. No meeting was held until the spring of 1876, when the congregation was increased by the addition of six new members, and from that time on the congregation continued a steady and healthy growth, the present membership being eighty-five, a majority of whom are heads of families.
Rev. John Horn, at that time of Dexter, Iowa, was secured as the first pastor of this little flock. Services were held every four weeks in the public school houses, or in the homes of the members. In 1880 Rev. Fred Ehlers, a young man and a graduate of one of the Lutheran colleges, was called to take charge of the congregation. He accepted and proved to be such an energetic and faithful worker that in a short time the congregation grew to such proportions that the school houses would not accommodate it. In 1884, at a special meeting called to consider the matter, it was decided to erect a church edifice. Accordingly, plans were laid and a site selected, being the one where the church now stands, on the east side of the public highway between Audubon and Guthrie counties, in Grant township, Guthrie county. A church, thirty-six by fifty feet in size, was erected that year and has been in continuous use since. A few years later the congregation built a school house adjacent to the church, where both English and German languages are taught.
After ten years of faithful and successful service, Rev. Ehlers was called to another field of labor and was succeeded by Rev. O. Clocter, who, for nineteen years, continued to minister to the flock, sharing its joys and sorrows, and adding many new members during his pastorate. In 1905 the
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congregation built a fine parsonage on a site on the west side of the public highway, in Audubon township.
Five years later, Rev. Clocter accepted a call to Minnesota and Rev. A. H. Deletzke, the present pastor of the congregation, who at that time held a charge in Ft. Dodge, was called, and has very successfully continued his ministrations up to the present time. About two-thirds of the membership of this congregation live in Audubon county, principally in Audubon town- ship, the remaining members living in Guthrie county. The present value of the church property, including the parsonage and school, is about ten thou- sand dollars. Regular services are held in the English and German languages.
AUDUBON TOWNSHIP CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
A Sunday school was organized in school district No. 2 about 1899, which was changed to district No. 3. About 1903-5 a church society was organized, consisting of Mrs. F. W. Hocamp, Mrs. Alonzo F. Littlefield, Mr. and Mrs. John Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker, Mrs. William Van Aernam. A large church edifice was then erected in the northeast corner of section 8. The pastors were supplied from Exira and were the same as at that place, Rev. E. C. Whittaker being the first. It never had a resident pastor. Most of the members have removed and regular services are no longer maintained. The present membership is about six.
GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN TRINITY CHURCH, LINCOLN TOWNSHIP.
During the years 1870 to 1879 a number of German Lutheran families having settled in Douglas, LeRoy and Cameron townships, but more in Lin- coln township, they were spiritually advised by Lutheran ministers who hap- pened in this vicinity. The first Lutheran minister who regularly attended these widely scattered Lutheran people was Rev. F. J. Oehlert, of Walnut, Iowa, who, from April, 1879, to March, 1880, held regular services, admin- istered the communion and baptized their children.
On January 2, 1881, under the supervision of Rev. W. Mallon, mis- sionary of the German Evangelical Lutheran Missouri synod, these people organized the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of Lincoln township. This congregation has, through all these thirty-four years of its existence, stood devoutly in practice as well as in theory, for the true Lutheran doc- trine, as contained in the Bible and preached by Dr. Martin Luther and his followers. The congregation is a member of the well-known Evangelical Lutheran synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States, consisting of 2,978 organized and 1,127 unorganized congregations, a total of 4,105, with 2,535 ministers and professors.
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The first board of trustees and elders elected were, Aug Polzin, Hum Polzin, John Polzin, Hy Borkowski, Alb Polzin, Kienst Sen, George Bald- sen and George Schroeder. Subsequent to the work of Revs. Oehlert and Mallon, the congregation called, at intervals, Rev. Fred Ehlers, of Adair, Iowa, on June 20, 1881 ; Rev. Jul Dickman, of Atlantic, Iowa, on August 13, 1882, then, after a vacancy of four months, Rev. Anthon Ehlers, of Elling- wood, Kansas, on December 26, 1886. He served the congregation with great faithfulness and satisfaction for a period of nearly nineteen years, finally resigning on account of nervous prostration. Rev. J. P. Guenther, of Boone, Iowa, was then called and served for six and a half years, when, in the latter part of 1912, the present pastor, Rev. E. J. W. Starck, was called.
The membership of this congregation underwent the trials and hard- ships incident to the early settlers of the county, but, true to their aim to serve in this their adopted country, not only their families, but also their country as good and law-abiding citizens and Christians, they strove with all their power to uphold, build up, enlarge and strengthen their church for their own eternal blessing. So, on January 20, 1884, they began building, on section 27, Lincoln township, their first church edifice, a structure thirty by fifty feet in size, which was dedicated on July 6, 1884. This building was twice damaged by storm. The congregation, having outgrown this building, it was turned into a school house and, on the 2nd day of June, 1901, it was replaced by a larger and more costly church edifice, thirty-six by seventy- two feet in size, with a spire ninety-two feet high. The cost of the first build- ing was eight hundred dollars and the new one about five thousand dollars.
This church, after being in use twelve years, was razed to the foundation and totally destroyed by the tornado that laid Omaha in ruins, on Easter day, March 23, 1913, nothing but a glass picture and the bell being unbroken. But, with a large faith in God, this people again went to work with a will and, Phoenix-like, there arose from the ruins another beautiful edifice, and on the 26th of October, 1913, a grand dedication of the new church took place. It is a more costly structure, costing nine thousand dollars, with inclined floor and very finely decorated, and equipped with furniture to the amount of two thousand dollars.
In 1884 a well-appointed parsonage consisting of nine rooms and hall was built near by on section 22.
The regularly attended school of the congregation is taught by the pastor from September till June of each year, excepting one month allowed for cornpicking. The attendance the past year was forty-seven scholars. With
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the number of four hundred and fifty souls, there are about two hundred members and the voting members number. thirty-six. Under the supervision of the Rev. E. J. W. Starck, the elders are Ludw Borkowski and William Berg; the board of trustees are Aug. Brown, Alb Rudwick and Aug. Kienast ; cashier, G. F. Borkowski; secretary, Otto Rudnick; chairman, Louis Grote- keschen. A number of the members of this congregation having residence in Audubon, services are held there every two weeks on Sunday aftrnoon, in the Danish church. All worship is conducted in the German language. In the school, both English and German are taught.
GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The Evangelical Lutheran Friedens church of the German Evangelical synod of North America is located in Audubon, having been organized in 1891. Among the active and leading members in pushing the organization and building were Christ Hahn and Conrad Burkhardt. The church edifice, which was erected in 1891, is fifty by twenty-eight feet in size, and cost two thousand five hundred dollars. The present membership is ten. The fol- lowing here served as pastors; Reverend Strange, Reverend Herman, Rev- erend Rounthal, Reverend Dollman, Reverend Seck, Reverend Jansen, Rev- erend Braun and the present pastor, Reverend Gust Tillmanses. Services are held irregularly.
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