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The present membership of the chapter is fifty-six. Grand Chapter dues for 1881 were $49. But few deaths have occurred in the chapter since its organization. It meets in the hall occupied by the " blue lodge," and will join it in building when the " sign is right."
Very many of the Masons of Bedford are Knights Templar, and belong to Bethany Commandery at Creston. There are M. C. Connett, H. Mc- Conoile, and W. F. Walker, certain. R. B. Rockwell is associated with the commandery at Clarinda.
ODD-FELLOWS.
Bedford Encampment No. 73, I. O. O. F., was organized October 21, 1874, or rather that was the date of the charter. It was instituted Novem- ber 3, 1874, by H. N. Cramer, of Clarinda, assisted by several patriarchs from the Clarinda encampment. The first officers were J. M. Thirkield, chief patriarch; Levi Sheaffer, high priest; L. S. Morris, senior warden; John Graff, junior warden; Cyrus Woolverton, treasurer, and W. W. Clark, scribe.
The charter members were John Graff, Cyrus Woolverton, David H. Brown, L. S. Morris, Levi Sheaffer, W. W. Clark, and J. M. Thirkield.
The present officers are John Graff, chief patriarch; G. M. Gillette, high priest; T. F. Fitzgerald, senior warden; W. W. Clark, junior warden; Lafe. Combs, treasurer, and W. N. Farlow, scribe. The present membership is 118. The meetings occur twice each month, on Tuesday evenings.
Bedford Lodge No. 19, I. O. O. F., was organized October 9, 1856, or at least the charter bears that date. The records of the first year are not in existence. Hence, it is impossible to give the names of its first officers and its early history. We are indebted to Mr. Joel Walker for a partial list of the charter members. He remembers that among them were Oliver Jencks, Oliver Hyde, Josiah Litteer, and Ezekiel Rose. Mr. Rose did not become an Odd-Fellow until the year following. Since then he has been an active member, a representative at the grand lodge of the State, and a deputy grand master.
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The present officers are: T. F. Fitzgerald, N. G .; John Wykoff, V. G .; W. W. Clark, R. S .; F. M. Beall, P. S .; and G. M. Gillette, treasurer.
ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN.
Unity Lodge No. 176, was instituted September 21, 1878, by J. J. Stuckey, of Des Moines. The original members were W. F. Evans, P. C. King, R. G. Berry, O. W. Ormsley, H. H. Taylor, L. Evans, John Graff, H. P. Long, N. Goodsill, F. Dunning, G. W. Sweveny, W. F. Randolph, A. J. Sowers, H. M. Grimes, J. J. Evans, J. N. Bean, John O'Connor, Thomas Jenkins and Gid Wieser.
The first officers of the lodge were: John Graff, P. M. W .; P. C. King, M. W .; J. J. Evans, F .; A. J. Sowers, O .; H. P. Long, recorder; F. Dun- ning, financier; W. F. Evans, receiver; Gid. Wieser, guide; John O'Connor I. W .; G. W. Sweveny, O. W .; and H. H. Taylor, N. Goodsill and L. Ev- ans, trustees.
The present officers are: Gid Wieser, P. M. W .; F. W. Van O'Linder, M .; W .; John Schovertley, F .; F. B. Webb, O .; E. E. Cass, recorder; W. F. Evans, financier; John Graff, receiver; R. G. Berry, guide; John O'Connor, I. W .; P. C. King, O. W .; and trustees, A. J. Sowers, W. F. Evans and M. Miller. The medical examiner is W. F. Randolph. The lodge meets the first and third Monday evenings of each month. The hall is a rented one over the Citizens' Bank. The membership is forty, and no death has yet reduced its ranks.
Before proceeding further it will be well to supply an omission. Josiah Litteer and John Graff, of the lodge of Odd-Fellows at Bedford, have been representatives to the grand lodge of the State, and deputy grand mas- ters, also.
CIGAR-MAKER'S UNION.
The cigar-makers of Bedford were members of the Union at St. Joseph, Missouri, until recently. There being some trouble, which it is not neces- sary to here relate, the Bedford boys have perfected a union of their own, No. 146. The organization musters about twenty-five members.
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
Some years ago there was an organization of Universalists at Bedford. The last services in the name of that denomination were held by Mattie Hulet Parry and Rev. J. E. Huston-all occurring near the same time. This was in 1877. Prior to this time the Universalists had services with considerable regularity. During a period of twenty years they had enjoyed the preaching of such profound orators and liberal thinkers as J. P. San-
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ford and A. J. Fishback, who have reputations as wide as the nation; W. W. Merrill, afterward the Greeley candidate for Congress in this district; T. C. Eaton, J. R. Baker and Jay Bishop. Along in the first years of the seventies they erected a church edifice, which is now the property of
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
Of this denomination here and elsewhere in the county we are indebted to a friend for the following account, some of which is a repetition of what has been said in another place in this book: "The growth of the Presby- terian Church in this county has been very slow but steady. The first or- ganization was effected at Lexington, June 27, 1857, with eleven members and one ruling elder. The organization was called The One Hundred and Two River Church. The ruling elder was J. C. McCandliss. This organ- ization was effected under the direction of Rev. C. G. Bell, who did the first Presbyterian preaching in the county. Not one of the eleven original members are connected with any organization in the county, all of them having removed therefrom. In 1859 this organization was removed to Bedford, and has since been known as the Bedford Presbyterian Church. This church has been served by the following ministers: Revs. L. G. Bell, 1857-59; W. M. Stryker, 1859-64; S. A. McElherney, 1868-70; and A. T. Randolph, 1870-76. The present pastor of the church is Rev. R. A. Mc- Kinley, who began his labors in June, 1878. Up to 1878 the church was very weak in numbers and influence, owing its existence thus far to the aid afforded by the Board of Home Missions. But since 1878 the church has "faced to the front," and now occupies a commanding position in the city. It now has a membership of 150, three-fourths of which has been added during the present pastorate. It is no longer dependent upon the Board of Home Missions, but is self-sustaining. It owns a very comfortable house of worship on the northwest corner of the public square, and a parsonage which is now being enlarged. A fair proportion of the wealth and culture of this city adhere to this church. While its growth was retarded by the war, and by the removal of its members to other places, it is now a strong church with a promising outlook for the future. At the last communion service, October 2, 1881, five new members were received, Among the young members of the church is one young man in the college at Fairfield, Iowa, who is a candidate for the gospel ministry. The church now has a board of six elders and five deacons. The amount of money collected and disbursed for all purposes during the year closing April 1, 1881, was $1,805. Among the ministers who have served this church only the last two- Ran-
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dolph and Mckinley-have been settled pastors. The others were stated supplies, and preached at various other points during the same time.
"For a few years past there have been small organizations at Conway and ten miles north of Bedford. They number about twenty members each. They are now being supplied with preaching by Rev. W. S. Bartle, of Con well. It is expected that the new railroad will add importance to these points." To this we would add that among the more influential members of the Presbyterian Church are N. Goodsile and wife, John Graff and wife, J. M. Thompson and wife, J. M. Windsor and wife and Lyman Evans and wife. Mr. Windsor especially should have mention, for he was the first and has been foremost in the church interests and in the sabbath-schools. Lyman Evans, who has the superintendency of the Presbyterian sabbath- school, which is a very large and popular one, is the member-elect to the legislature.
M. E. CHURCH.
One of the most prosperous and active church organizations in south- western Iowa is the Methodist Church of Bedford, or at least such has been its history up to this date. It was organized by Rev. Isaac Kelley. The original members were W. M. P. Long, E. J. Long, S. J. Hall, Hannah Long, Anna Johnston, Daniel Martin, Sarah J. Underwood, Mrs. E. Mar- tin, D. M. Greeson and Jesse R. Herbert and wife. The different pastors have been Rev. Isaac Kelley, Rev. William Hays, Rev. J. P. Evans, Rev. W. J. Beck, Rev. George Clammer, Rev. C. W. Blodgett and R. L. M. Walters. Rev. W. D. Bennett is the new pastor of the church. The mem- bership is about two hundred. The church edifice stands directly opposite the Presbyterian church, on the northwest corner of the public square. It is built of brick. Its size is 44x60 feet, and cost $6,000. It was erected in 1868, and has undergone many repairs since. Internally it is "as handsome as a picture." The church also owns a fine parsonage, which was built while Rev. J. P. Evans was pastor. During Rev. Walters' ministry it was enlarged and improved. It is now a fine structure, costing about $3,000
The Methodists have a very large and popular sabbath-school which meets at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoons. Frank Dunning is the superin- tendent and W. P. Jeffry the assistant. Lincoln McCloud is the secretary and A. B. Caplinger assistant secretary.
INDEPENDENT CHURCH.
While Rev. L. M. Walters was in charge of the Methodist Church, some difficulty arose between himself and the leading members. It would not
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be proper for this work to say which party was wrong. Suffice it to state that Rev. Walters desired to be returned to Bedford for the year 1881-82 chiefly as an indorsement for himself. A very large majority of his church was in accord with him in this wish. But he was transferred to the Ohio M. E. Conference, and there Mr. Walters declined going. Some of his church members and friends calculated to keep him in Bedford, which has been done with the following result-we glean from the Bedford Argus of October 6, 1881:
" There was a very large attendance at Steele's Opera House last Sunday. The occasion was the first of the regular services it is intended to hold on each sabbath during the year. At the close of the morning services, an ex- pression was had as to whether or not a new independent church organiza- tion should be formed, and over two hundred persons voted in the affirmative. A committee on organization and employment of a pastor was then ap- pointed, such committee consisting of the following named gentlemen: J. E. Huston, J. W. Combs, Jacob Cole, Milton Houck, Wm. P. Long, M. C. Fuller, Isaac Bruner, C. K. Zimmerman and A. G. Berkley. This com- mittee met on Monday evening, and agreed upon a plan of organization, the chief points of which are that its government shall be congregational, and its faith regulated by the Bible. Rev. L. M. Walters was called to the pastorate, at a salary of $1,500 a year. All of this action of the committee is to be submitted to the congregation, for acceptance or rejection, next Sunday."
The Taylor County Republican of the same date contains a similar ac- count, and has this additional:
" Rev. O'Neal, presiding elder of the Corning district of the M. E. Church, was in the city on Tuesday and of him, we learn Mr. Walters announced his intention of withdrawing wholly from the M. E. Church with which he has hitherto been connected."
BAPTIST CHURCH.
The First Baptist Church of Bedford, was organized December 2d, 1854. Elder J. M. Smith was moderator of the council and V. Knight, clerk. The original members were Rev. J. M. Smith and wife, V. Knight and wife, Albert Derrickson and wife, John Derrickson and wife, David Smith and wife, Mrs. Greer, J. A. Golding and wife and William Smith and wife.
1855-May, Elder J, M. Smith chosen pastor; John A. Golding, clerk; E. B. Larrison and N. H. Hestor, deacons.
1856 -- January, voted to build a meeting-house and appointed a com- mittee to select a site. February, appointed a building committee. May,
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D. Ives, G. B. Golding and N. H. Hester appointed trustees. Elder J. M. Smith reelected pastor, and John A. Golding, clerk. August, voted to in- vite sister churches of southwestern Iowa to meet at Bedford in October and organize an association. December, J. A. Todd licensed to preach.
1857-May, two added to the building committee, and committee in- structed to finish the house. June, J. M. Smith recalled to the pastorate and John Evans elected clerk. Leave of absence for three months granted Elder Smith, and D. Ivins invited to supply the pulpit. The work of fin- ishing the house let, with instructions to have it done by July 15th. (This was the old building on the corner of Pearl and Pensylvania streets. The lot was donated by Mr. E. Houck.) Sunday, June 21, first members re- ceived for baptism; viz., A. B. Vansickle, Amanda Vansickle, Caroline Hahnenkratt and Ella Shultz. Following this are records of baptisms at almost every meeting for several months. October, Elder J. M. Smith returned from his visit to Indiana and resumed his pastorate.
1858-January, special meetings for three weeks, resulting in twenty- nine additions to the church. February, meetings continued and seventeen additions. May, voted pastor's salary $100 a year. June, John Evans li- censed to preach.
1859-January, a union meeting, resulting in conversions and additions to membership. January to July, trouble with unruly members and a number excluded.
1860-January, protracted meetings and seventeen additions. Appointed a committee to buy candles. April, John Evans resigned clerkship and C. C. Eldred elected. September, Elder William Golding chosen pastor but did not accept. October, Elder E. Otis called to the pastorate. November, Thomas McCracken appointed clerk.
1861-January, John Evans ordained to the work of the ministry. April, B. Wilson, John Derrickson and A. B. Vansickle appointed trustees. May to October, trouble again with disorderly members and quite a number ex- cluded. October, Elder J. M. Smith called to the pastorate again, to preach twice a month.
1862-September, Elder Smith resigns his pastoral charge and Elder I. M. Seay is called.
1863-January, voted to withdraw the hand of fellowship from thirty re- ported delinquent for over a year. February, William Lewis licensed to preach. March, Matthew Golding appointed deacon. April, C. C. Baird licensed to preach. September, Elder Seay reëlected pastor.
1864-February, J. Lambert licensed to preach. July, J. Lambert or-
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dained. August, voted to go into the Southwest Iowa Association. Octo- ber, Elder John Evans called to the pastorate care of the church.
1865-July, Thomas McCracken's resignation as clerk accepted and Geo. Larrison appointed. September, called Elder C. C. Baird to the pastorate, but he did not accept. December, protracted meetings conducted by Elder I. M. Seay, resulting in twenty-six additions to the church.
1866 -- March, Elder I. M. Seay again called to pastorate. October, called Elder C. C. Baird to preach twice a month for $300 a year, one-third to be paid in produce.
1868-August, George Larrison resigned the clerkship and C. T. S. No- ble appointed to the office. September, Elder Baird resigned his pastorate to accept appointment as missionary.
1869 -- January. Elder S. Morton called to the charge of the church. April, Elder Morton resigned. July, Elder J. M. Smith again in the pas- torate.
1870-January, great revival conducted by Elders Smith and Roe, about 100 additions to the church. At the close of this meeting moved in the matter of building a new house-the one now occupied by the church.
1871-January, cost of new house reported $7,567.69. November, dedi- cated new house, Rev. G. J. Johnson, of St. Louis, preaching the sermon.
1872-January, Elder Stimpson invited to supply the pulpit on Sundays not occupied by the pastor. March, charges preferred against Elder Baird and wife and council called. April, Baird deposed from the ministry. Sep- tember, Elder Smith resigned the pastorate to accept the appointment as missionary of the Southwest Iowa Association. Elder Wm. Golding called. October, E. J. Lockwood invited to supply the pulpit on Sundays not occu- pied by the pastor.
1873-October, called Rev. Williamson Tilley to the pastoral charge of the church, Elder Lockwood to supply the pulpit till pastor elect is heard from.
1874-April, called Elder J. W. Coffman. May, Elder Tilley accepted pastorate and preached his first sermon Sunday, 17th. October, Elder Brown, evangelist, holds a meeting; some interest and a few additions.
1875-Elder Tilley resigns and church extends a call to Elder G. W. Robey. September, Elder Robey accepts and begins work as pastor; salary $900. December, Elder A. F. Randall, evangelist, assists in a protracted meeting, resulting in about twenty additions to the church.
1876-May, raised $1,300 in interest-bearing notes to pay on meeting- house. August, adopted envelope system for raising pastor's salary. De-
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cided to build a parsonage on church lots. December, pastor moved into the parsonage. Whole cost of parsonage $1,000.
1877-September, voted to invite the State Convention to meet with us next year. November, began special meeting which continued for about four months, resulting in 100 additions to the church. The church is gath- ering fruits of these meetings yet.
1878-March, T. S. Lindley requested to use his office as deacon in this church. April, salary raised to $1,000. June, Thomas McCracken, Thomas Jones and D. O. Banta ordained to the deaconship. October, thirty-sev- enth annual meeting of the Iowa State Convention, held with the Bedford Baptist Church. The moderator pronounced this one of the most pleasant meetings of the convention, and complimented the church on their success in entertaining the body. The meeting was a blessing to the church.
1879-January, special meetings were held, resulting in a great spiritual blessing upon the church, and several additions to the membership. Feb- ruary, covenant meeting day this month, the red letter day of the church's history. March, A. P. Evans appointed trustee to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of B. Wilson.
1880-The church enjoyed its accustomed prosperity.
1881-Church lifted out of debt. Third sabbath in September Elder G. W. Robey resigned charge of the church. It was not accepted. Septem- ber 18, the seventh year of his pastorate was begun.
The death roll during the last four or five years has not been a long one, but it was the old veterans who fell-Deacon Matthew Golding, Elizabeth Golding, Delilah Derrickson, William Lewis, Benner Wilson and Sarah Houck. Perhaps others have gone whose names we do not recall.
In speaking of the organization of the Baptist Church at Bedford, Elder J. M. Smith, in his work on " Revivals" says: There was no Baptist Church of our order-that is, Missionary Baptist -- nearer than 60 miles, and no Baptist minister in all that county. My brother-in-law who went out there
with me, was a Baptist preacher. He assisted me in meetings while he stayed, but he went back to Indiana and never returned. The Indians were thick around us and sometimes would alarm us. They would come and stand around the house when I was preaching, but for all this I was pleased with my work. When we organized the first church in 1854, it was in a log cabin with but one door, and no window at all, and the wind blew so hard that we had to shut the door. Then it was so dark that we had to have a candle burning to get light enough in the day to see to read the Bible."
A flourishing Baptist sabbath-school walks hand in hand with the church. It meets sabbath mornings at 9 o'clock. Thomas McCracken is the super-
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intendent, W. F. Evans, secretary, and Miss Ella Meek, organist. The membership is very large.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Perhaps the denomination in Bedford having the largest membership is the Christian Church. It was organized in 1856 with thirteen original members. Among these were Thomas and E. W. Cobb, Asa and Mary Cobb, William C. and Mary Cole, J. D. Ross and wife, Julia Vincent, and William Bradbury. The church owns a neat house of worship and other property valued at $6,000. Rev. F. M. Kirkham was the pastor until about September 1, when he was called to a large and wealthy church in Chicago. The church is now without a regular pastor.
The popular sabbath-school that goes with the church is superintended by Jonathan Atkinson. From the Bedford membership of the church sev- eral organizations have sprung up in the county, and all of them are in healthy condition.
CATHOLIC.
There are a large number of people of this faith residing in Bedford. Reg- ular services are had, but they have no church building as yet.
THE AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH
Has a regularly employed pastor, and the colored people meet for wor- ship at the court-house every Sunday. Their prayer-meetings occur once each week, while frequent meetings are held for singing. In music their services are peculiarly melodious and interesting.
W. C. T. UNION.
There is an organization of this name in Bedford, but when we requested some of its history for publication in this work the society very haughtily said that it had no desire to be written up. Three saloons and four drug stores smelling under their nostrils probably furnished the occasion for their refusal, their record in this note being sufficiently commendatory to bear blazoning abroad.
INCORPORATION.
Bedford was incorporated May 28, 1866, and Joseph H. Turner was elected mayor, W. F. Walker, recorder and William Walker, Curtis Wil- kins, Charles Cope, R. H. Patrick and J. M. Houck, councilmen.
November 13, 1866, the council met to report by-laws and ordinances, and " boundaries and seals," as well. It was ordered that the meetings of the council should be Monday evenings on or before the full moon in each
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month, and elective officers to serve for one year. At all meetings the mayor should preside, but he had no voice in the doings of the council. Bonds were fixed as follows: Recorder's bond, $500; marshal's bond, $500; treas- urer's bond, $500, and street commissioner's bond, $500. It was then ar- ranged that licenses should be as follows: Auctioneer's (annually), $5; billiard-tables (annually), $10; bowling-alleys (each track), $10; bagatelle tables, $10; circus or menagerie (per day), $25; side-show, $5; and dray- men (annually), $1. The license upon each billiard-table is now $40. An ordinance prohibiting stock running at large in the corporate limits took effect February 18, 1867.
February 18, 1867, the first ordinance on sidewalks was passed. They were ordered to be ten feet wide.
March 2, 1868, L. N. Lewis elected mayor; R. A. Moser, recorder; D. W. Atkinson, assessor; E. Rose, D. C. Eldridge, D. R. Hammer, W. E. Swap and Wm. P. Long, councilmen. The same officers were reelected in 1869 and in 1870.
First Monday in March, 1871, G. L. Finn was elected mayor; Robert Reid, recorder; J. F. Hale, treasurer; and A. J. Sowers, D. R. Hammer, J. D. Morris, J. P. Flick and W. F. Walker, councilmen.
March 4, 1872, J. D. Morris was elected mayor; R. Reid, recorder; A. Sowers, J. J. Evans, J. P. Flick, D. R. Hammer and J. H. Jolly, councilmen.
1873-L. Evans elected mayor; G. W. Howe, recorder; J. M. Houck, John Groff, R. Rogers, H. McConvill and W. G. Barrows, councilmen.
1874-W. Randolph elected mayor; G. W. Howe, recorder; Isaac Houcks, William Bauchart, John F. Hale, W. W. Clark and N. Teachout, councilmen.
1875-W. F. Walker elected mayor; M. V. King, recorder; Ezra Ste- phens, assessor; J. M. Thompson, W. G. Barrows, Guy Webster, D. R. Hammer and M. D. E. Long, councilmen.
June 28, 1875, W. F. Walker tendered his resignation as mayor, and M. V. King, recorder, acted in that capacity until the election of W. F. Ran- dolph to that place in the October following.
1876-W. F. Randolph elected mayor; J. J. Evans, recorder; A. S. Houck, Lyman Evans, Guy Webster, S. J. Dallison and J. M. Thompson, councilmen.
1877-W. F. Randolph elected mayor; J. J. Evans, recorder; W. F. Walker, assessor; J. W. Combs, Guy Webster, S. J. Dallison, Lyman Evans and W. W. Hyde, councilmen.
1878-W. F. Randolph elected mayor; J. J. Evans, recorder; F. E. Walker, Lyman Evans, Lafe Long, J. M. Thompson, and Jacob Cole, councilmen.
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1879-F. E. Walker elected mayor; Charles Martin, recorder; Ezra Ste- phens, assessor; J. M. Thompson, H. McConnell, Guy Webster, W. E. Swap, J. R. Derrickson and Jacob Cole, councilmen.
1880 -- S. E. Walker elected mayor; Charles Martin, recorder; Jacob Cole, J. R. Derrickson, John Wilkins, Guy Webster, Wm. Bauchart and J. M. Thompson, councilmen.
1881 -- M. C. Fuller elected mayor; Charles Martin, recorder; Ezra Ste- phens, assessor; W. E. Crum, treasurer; T. H. Morgan, marshal; D. E. Jones, street commissioner; J. M. Thompson, Guy Webster, Lafe Long, William Bauchart, Jacob Cole and J. R. Derrickson, councilmen.
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