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Industry M. E. Church .- The first class was organized by Rev. E. Montgomery in 1855, with the following members: John Reed and wife, Henry Robely and wife, M. Merrick and wife, old Mrs. Vance, Fanny Bridges, and Polly Shannon. The growth of the society has been moderate, and at present the membership num- bers sixty. The church edifice was erected in 1866, and dedicated by Rev. Reuben Andrews, of Quincy; value of building $2,000; parsonage at Pennington's Point; salary of pastor for part of his time $200; Rev. J. Budd pastor; attendance in Sunday-school sixty; annual collection $50.
Colchester M. E. Church .- This church organized February 1, 1858, by Rev. H. Presson, and B. E. Kaufman, with the follow- ing 21 members : Joseph Taylor, Mary Taylor, Abraham Pearson, Elizabeth Pearson, Richard Musson, Rebecca Musson, James Roberts, Cecilia Roberts, A. B. Doan, Sarah Doan, Mary Bechtel,
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Margaret Musson, John Pearson, Abraham Newland, Jr., Thomas Pearson, William Cowan, David Sherbine, Mary A. Sherbine, Sarah K. Biell, Philip Lawrence, and John Level. Meetings were held in school house until 1861, when a good brick structure was erected at a cost of $1,200, its size is thirty-two by forty-six feet. The following are the names of the various pastors : Rev. II. Pres- son, B. E. Kaufman, B. B. Kennedy, McKee J. Tate, J. Cavet, Stephen Brink, W. B. Carithers, W. B. Frazzell, D. S. Main, G. J. Lucky, William Hany, L. Kirkpatrick, B. F. Tallman, T. Pool, A. S. Atherton, and T. P. Henry. The trustees are: James Rob- erts, John Pearson, Abraham Newland, Jr., Richard Williams, and James Underhill. Stewards are : William Hulson, and David Reece. Class leaders : Richard Musson, John Pearson, and John James. Local ministers are : John James, and John Parnell.
The average annual contributions for all purposes is $650. The growth of the church was for many years very great, but of late has decreased in numbers on account of so many removals and numerous deaths; but still they are prosperous, and have a good active membership. The value of church property is $2,000. The average attendance in Sunday School is 150, with an annual contribution of $100 ; Abraham Newland, Jr., Superintendent.
Mound M. E. Church-The church building is located on the northwest corner of section 6, Prairie City township, and was erected in 1858 at a cost of $1,400; size 32x48; the present mem- bership is sixty-five. The trustees are Thomas King, D. Craw- ford, Leonard Hall, William MeMahill, and T. J. Breiner. A parsonage, belonging to the congregation, stands just east of the church.
Linn Grove Chapel M. E. Church .- The church house stands on the northeast corner of section 24, Walnut Grove township, and was erected in 1870 at an outlay of $2,400. It is a good frame building, 32 feet wide by 48 feet long. The society was organized in 1861 with twelve members; the membership at present is thirty. A. J. Tiger, class-leader; William Pugh, steward; William Pugh, Mary J. George, A. J. Tiger, E. Chidester, David Chidester, S. Sandridge are the trustees; A. J. Tiger, superintendent of school; the average attendance is fifty.
Willow Grove M E Church .- This society has been organized for many years, and for some time met in Prosperity Hall, Emmet township. This congregation now occupies Willow Grove United
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Brethren Church on section 1 of Ilire township, meeting every alternate Sunday. The membership at present is thirty, and the contribution per year $250. At present Rev. G. B. Snedaker and W. B. Alexander are pastors. Mrs. Emily Wilson, steward; S. B. Davis, class-leader. Sunday-school in union with the United Brethren, with an average attendance of twenty-five.
New Hope M. E. Church .- The organization of this church was effected in 1866, and in the following year the present church structure was erected. It is a good frame, thirty-two by forty-five feet, and cost $1,600. The membership at that time was near sev- enty, at present but forty. Rev. James McElroy was the first pas- tor, the present is Rev. T. Head. The annual contribution is about $700. The Trustees are James C. Archer, George Barclay, James Depoy, and J. N. N. Horrell. Thomas Hanthorn is Class Leader and Superintendent of Sunday School, which has an average at- tendance of fifty-eight; contribution, $4.00 per quarter. The building is on the northeast quarter of section four, Bethel town- ship. In this neighborhood, about forty years ago, Bethel M. E. Church was organized, and about the year 1845, a building was erected on the southeast quarter of section seven. This house was burned in 1863, being set on fire by an incendiary.
Centennial M. E. Church .- The church edifice is located on the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, New Salem township, and was erected in 1871 at a cost of $1,850. It is thirty by forty feet, and a good, substantial, frame building. It was dedicated July 2, 1876, Rev. William Rutledge preaching the sermon. The congre- gation was organized in 1871 by the Rev. C. Atherton. Met for five years in school house. Solomon Ritter Class Leader ; Robert Jeffrey Steward. The following have officiated as pastors : Rev. C. Atherton, T. J. Pearson, T. M. Durham, F. R. Boggess and J. S. Budd. Joseph Porter is the Superintendent of the Sunday School.
Greenwood M. E. Church .-- Previous to the erection of a church building, the class had met in the various school houses in the neighborhood for several years, but was finally disbanded. In August, 1873, the class was reorganized, then numbering eight members; at present they have forty-eight. They proceeded to build, and on Sunday, Dec. 19, 1875, they dedicated their church edifice ; the sermon was preached by President Evans, of IIedding. It is situated on section two, Macomb township: it is 36x46, and H-35
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cost $2,000. The following have served as pastors : Rev. Fergu- son J. Mathews, Rev. Taylor. The Trustees are : David Chides- ter, HI. H. McElvain, Abraham Switzer, L. H. Shriner, A. C. Ford, J. Bricker and Geo. Beaver; Class Leader, A. Switzer; H. H. McElvain, Steward. Average attendance in Sunday School, one hundred.
Adair M. E. Church .- This society was organized in 1875, and the same year the present church structure was erected and dedi- cated in October. It was built by general contribution, of all de- nominations, at a cost of $2,000. It is a good, neat, frame edifice. The original members were Washington Williams, Lafayette Williams, Jacob Ready, Mrs. Wm. Lance, Josephine Porter and Martha Epperson. The present membership is ten. Rev. J. E. Taylor the first and present pastor. Trustees: W. Williams, L. Williams, J. Ready, Stephen Blackston, and Thornton Randolph; Steward, Jacob Ready ; Class Leader, L. Williams. Annual con- tribution, $350. Joseph E. Porter, Superintendent of Sabbath School. Average attendance, forty.
Second Church, Macomb, (colored)-This society was organized in September, 1876, by Rev. Jacob, of Galesburg, with the follow- ing members: Alexander Garner, Mrs. Shoots, Miss Rachel An- derson, Miss Walker and Milton Daniels. For some time meet- ings were held in the old Baptist Church on North Lafayette street, but now a hall on the south side of the square is used for worship. The present membership is about fifteen. M. Daniels, Steward ; Allen Cooper, Class Leader. An average attendance in Sunday School of twenty.
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
RELIGIOUS-CONTINUED.
PRESBYTERIANS.
This eminently respectable body of Evangelical Christians was the third to establish its cause in this county.
A sufficient number of former members of this body having settled in the neighborhood of Macomb in the early part of the year 1832, it was determined to effect an organization, and the Rev. William J. Frazer, of Morgan county, was invited here for that purpose. On the ninth of June, in that year, he organized the first Presbyterian Church in the county, in the old log court house, situated near the northeast corner of the square, on the site of the present Union National Bank. Mr. Frazer continued to labor for the congregation for some years, preaching frequently in various parts of the county. His death occurred in 1875, in Peoria county, Illinois.
Although not an aggressive body, the Presbyterians in this county have continued steadily to increase in numbers and influ- ence until they now number eight hundred and ninety communi- cants, and have organizations in nearly every town, and sev- eral large ones in the country. Among the most prominent min- isters who have served as pastors and "supplies," we recall the names of Revs. William K. Stewart, James Chase, Ralph Harris, I. Pillsbury, Joseph Warren, D. D., and J. H. Nesbitt. Mr. Stewart was among the pioneer preachers of the county, and did much to here establish the cause. In this work he was ably assisted by Rev. James Chase, a well known and well educated minister of the denomination.
In the order of their organization we append sketches of each congregation in the county, beginning with Macomb. For the
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information contained in this sketch we are indebted to Rev. Josiah Moore, now the efficient pastor of the church at Macomb.
Macomb .- The Presbyterian Church of Macomb was the first of this body, and was organized June 9, 1832, two years after the county seat was located at Macomb, then a wild prairie.
As evidence that the hardships of the wilderness did not bleach the "true blue" Presbyterians, it is said that Rev. Romulus Barnes, then presiding at Lewistown, proposed to assist in the organiza- tion, but some objected because they feared he was not sound in the faith ; and so they sent to Morgan county for Rev. William J. Frazer. Here, no doubt, is the first step which resulted afterward in the church becoming Old School.
The organization took place in the old log court house that stood near the northeast corner of the square. The following are the names of the original members, five men and nine women : Thomas Grant and Jane, his wife ; Alex Harris and Margaret, his wife; Alex. Campbell and wife ; John Harris and Jane, his wife, afterwards Provine, and now the widow of the late John Clark ; Mrs. Patsey Naylor, Thomas Pickett, Elizabeth M. Anderson, Miss Ruth Wilson, Miss Jane Campbell and Miss Mahala Camp- bell, afterward Mrs. Quintus Walker. The Elders chosen were: Alex. and John Harris, Thomas Grant and Alex. Campbell. This church at first included the fields now occupied by the prosperous churches of Camp Creek, Bardolph, Ebenezer and Good Hope, all of which are from six to eight miles distant.
Services were held in the log court house until 1834, when the first brick court house was erected in the center of the square. This was used until a church building was erected, which was in 1835, or 1836, and on the site of the present edifice, E. Car- roll street. This was a brick building, which in a few years had become so small that it was removed and a frame building erected, which was first occupied January 10, 1853, at three o'clock P. M. In 1867, this house was enlarged and remodelled at a cost of $700, and in 1870 the entire structure was rebuilt and enlarged to its present dimensions, at a cost of $4,458. The building is a frame, built in Gothic style, with two spires, one on either of the front corners ; it is entered by a vestibule, in the center of the front end. A very good bell, weighing nine hundred pounds, hangs in the main spire, which rises from the southwest corner. The audience room is neat and commodious, well furnished and tastefully fres-
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coed, and is capable of seating about four hundred persons. The value of the church structure is $8,000, and the value of the par- sonage, which is located on East Jackson street, about $1,600.
For want of documents we can only give statistics since 1865, or for about one-fourth of the church's existence. The membership in 1866 was 200. Since, 175 have united on pro- fession and 120 by certificate. Removals and deaths leave the pres- ent membership 300. Adults baptized, 41; infants, 80. Contri- butions as follows : Home missions, $746; foreign missions, $715 ; educating ministers, $526 ; publishing and colporter work, $185 ; building churches, $370 ; disabled ministers and their families, $180; Freedman's mission, $82; sustaining permanent pastorates, $54; commissions to Assembly, $163. Congregational work-pas- tor's salary, sexton, repairs, etc., $20,052. Miscellaneous-Ameri- can Bible society, Sabbath School union, public charities, etc., $1,629. Total, $24,703, or an average of $2,245.73 per year. The membership of the Sabbath School is 250. J. H. Cummings Superintendent. About a year after the organization, Rev. W. J. Frazer became stated supply for this and other points in the county until 1836, when Rev. William K. Stewart, of Van- dalia, Illinos, was called as pastor. Mr. Frazer, and some of the people not satisfied with this move, attempted to get up a rival organization, but after a year or so, the effort failed.
Mr. Stewart remained as pastor until his death, which occurred on the nineteenth day of April, 1852; aged fifty-two years. He was a man of noble worth ; au able minister of the gospel; a de- vout Christian, and a valuable citizen. During the last year or two of Mr. Stewart's ministry, and owing to failing health, he was assisted by Rev. Ralph Harris, a professor in MeDonough college, who, after the death of Mr. Stewart, became stated sup- ply, and September 17, 1853, was elected pastor, at a salary of $500 per year. He resigned the pastorate January 20, 1855. Rev. Ithamar Pillsbury, President of McDonough College, was elected stated supply March 7, 1855, and February 23, 1856, he was elected pastor, at a salary of $700 a year. April 10, 1859, he resigned the pastorate, but acceeded to the request of the Ses- sion May 2, to remain as stated supply till the election of a suc- cessor, which took place January 25, 1860, when Robert F. Tay- lor was elected as stated supply for one year.
Mr. Pillsbury returned to Andover, Illinois, the first field of his labors in the west, where, after a short illness, and on the
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twentieth day of April, 1862, he died, being in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
Time would fail to tell the eminent services of this devoted sol- dier of the cross. He was intrusted with many important respon- sibilities ; he took the lead and bore the burden in the establish- ment of the colony of which Andover is the commercial center, and in every enterprise he acquitted himself as worthy of the most sacred trust; but as a Minister of the Gospel, in unfurling the banner of truth in these, then western wilds, he had no supe- rior. His ministrations in Macomb were sealed with the richest tokens of divine favor.
Mr. Taylor, failing in health, resigned before the close of the year. In 1862 he went as Chaplain of the Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry. In January, 1861, Rev. Joseph Warren, D. D., was elected stated supply on a salary of $800. Mr. Warren had re- turned from the Foreign Mission work in India. Rev. John H. Woods was engaged as stated supply November 5, 1862. October 29, 1863, Mr. Nesbitt was chosen stated supply. He commenced his labors about the first of February, 1864, but was soon elected pastor at a salary of $800, and installed May 28th. April 11th, 1868, his salary was fixed at $1,000 per year and a parsonage.
Rev. Peter Hathaway K. McComb, of Bloomfield, Penn., was chosen pastor February 28, 1870. Salary, $1,000. IIe resigned May 11, 1873, and on the eighteenth of May, Dr. J. Jamieson, by the direction of the Presbytery, preached and declared the pulpit vacant. June 1, 8 and 15, 1873, Rev. J. Moore, of Canton, Illi- nois, the present pastor, occupied the pulpit for the first time. June 16 he was chosen stated supply, and October 2, 1874, was chosen pastor. Salary $1,000 and use of parsonage. October 1, 1875, the congregation adopted the "Term Eldership," and the session is as follows: Pastor, J. Moore ; Elders, A. Blackburn, W. E. Withrow, Dr. V. McDavitt, William Hunter, J. H. Cum- mings and II. L. Ross ; Deacons, J. II. Cummings, William Hun- ter, O. F. Piper, Dr. B. I. Dunn, H. R. Bartleson'and R. L. Coch- rane ; Trustees (elected for five years), J. II. Cummings, John McElrath and O. F. Piper.
Camp Creek .- This Church is located on section twenty-seven of Scotland township. The society was organized by Rev. W. K. Stewart and Rev. Samuel Wilson, on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1839, in Joseph MeCrosky's barn, on Camp Creek. There
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were thirty original members. The membership at present is ninety-nine.
The first services held by the Presbyterians were in 1832, and were held in school houses, log cabins, barns, or in the open air. In 1843 Rev. J. M. Hoge was called as the first pastor. During this year Sanders W. Campbell, John C. Clark and Alexander Provine were elected the first Ruling Elders, and also a Church building 30x35 feet was erected on ground given by Joseph Mc- Crosky.
In 1857 the Church resolved to elect Deacons instead of Trus- tees. Robert McNair, Alexander McLay and James C. Watson were elected to that office, since which time the following named gentlemen have served in that capacity : James Watson, A. Walker, James Walker, William McMullan, J. A. Provine, Dun- can McMillan, Grier McGoughy, Jonas Ringer, Joseph Simpson, Thomas Watson, T. J. Walker and James Bennie. In 1857 a parsonage was built at a cost of $1,200. In 1861 the present Church structure was erected at a cost of $1,800. Its size is 36x 48 feet. The old house was sold for $40.
The following gentlemen have served as Elders since 1852: David R. Morris, George W. Provine, Cyrus Walker, J. Sullivan, Alexander McMullen, Robert McNair, William McMillan, John Barclay and Joseph Simpson.
The following ministers have supplied the pulpit : J. M. Hoge, James Chase, William K. Stewart, William F. Ferguson, J. C. King, James Cameron, John Steel, C. Leavenworth, Joseph Platt, J. G. Bliss, Jolin Giffin, W. H. Goodeson, P. W. Thompson and J. G. Condit, the present occupant.
Shiloh .- Shiloh Presbyterian Church was organized at the resi- dence of Alexander Campbell, on section sixteen of Walnut Grove township, in 1839, and by Rev. James Chase, with twenty- three members. For several years meetings were held alternately at the residences of J. G. Walker and Alexander Campbell. In 1852 a large school house, twenty-two by thirty-two, was erected on section eight of Walnut Grove township, which has since been used for church purposes. When the township was redistricted into school districts, two miles square, the congregation purchased the building. The reason given for no church building ever being erected is, that the membership was so scattered that no point
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convenient for all could be selected. Members were living in Macomb township, as far north as the county line, and cast and west several miles. At one time the church was prosperous and had a large and interested membership, but when towns sprang up here and there in the surrounding country and new congrega- tions organized, the members residing near of course left Shiloh and. united with the new church nearer home. When the Bushnell Church was organized, the members living east and near the town united there; when Bardolph was started those living sonth left Shiloh and united there; and when Good Hope Church was organized but few remained in Shiloh Church, the present mem- bership being but eight or ten. The building is worth about $250. The first elders were Alexander Harris, J. G. Walker and Alex- ander Campbell. The first preachers were James Chase, Isaac B Moore, David Monfort, P. W. Thompson and Joseph Platt Present officers are Quintus Walker and Robert Pollock. Sunday school attendance about thirty-five.
Prairie City .- This church was organized September 19, 1841, with the following twelve members : George Kreider, Barbara Kreider, Celinda Woods, James Jackson, Phebe Woods, James Reed, Samuel Mourning, Katharine Mourning, Thomas Boyd, Eleanor Boyd, Mary Moore and Sophronia Schofield. George Kreider was chosen Elder, and Samuel Mourning Deacon. The. congregation met for several years at the residence of George Kreider, five miles northeast of Prairie City, and was known as the Pleasant Prairie Church. Rev. William Frazer and Robert Dobbins preached occasionally for ten years. The church was reorganized October 25, 1851, when Peter Bennett and J. D. Bel- ville were chosen Elders. In 1854, P. W. Thompson was chosen the first stated supply. The following year subscription to the amount of $1,115, was raised toward building a church at Virgil, to where the church was moved this year, holding meetings in a school house about three and a half miles east of Prairie City. In 1856, Rev. P. W. Thompson was installed as pastor, he being the first regular pastor the congregation ever employed. At this time the new town of Prairie City was attracting great attention, and it was thought best to move the church there, which was accord- ingly done, and a good frame church building erected and dedi- cated November 13, 1856. The cost of this building was about $2,800, and its size about forty feet square. In 1868 it was repaired
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and enlarged at a cost of $1,500, and now the congregation have a neat church edifice, forty feet wide by sixty long, with a seating capacity of two hundred and fifty. A finely proportioned spire rises from the center of the front, and contains a four hun- dred and forty-three pound bell. Its present value is $3,000. It stands on the corner of Clay and Columbia streets. The present membership is one hundred and seventeen. The average annual contribution, $900.
The following have served as pastors : Revs. P. W. Thompson, John S. Robertson and John D. Howey. The present officers are : Elders, M. Lichtenthaler, M. K. Sweeney and J. If. Wilson. Deacons, Thomas Campbell and John E. Dunham. Trustees, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Leard and II. W. Kreider.
Doddsville .- We are indebted to Henry Black, Esq., for the following interesting sketch of the church at Doddsville :
By request, Schuyler Presbytery appointed Rev. William K. Stewart, James M. Chase and Elder Briscoe, a committee to visit Doddsville; and if the way was clear, to organize a church. Ac- cordingly, these brethren visited Doddsville, held services in the house of Andrew Walker, in said village, on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1843, and proceeded to organize a church ot seven- teen members. The names of the original members are as fol- lows : Andrew Walker, Ann Walker, his wife, Charles W. Walker, Rachel Walker, John M. Clark and Mirah Clark, his wife, Margaret Hodge, Rebecca Clugston, Isabella Clugston, Jane Clugston, Hettie McCoy, John Scott and Rachel Scott, his wife, Sarah Black, Maria Black, Thomas Shannon and Elizabeth Shan- non, his wife. Andrew Walker was elected Ruling Elder. The next day, Sabbath, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was ad- ministered, and the church established. Of the original members, eleven were from near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four from near Urbana, Ohio, and two from Virginia. Five are still living, viz .: Charles W. Walker, Margaret Hoge, Jane Clugston and Maria Beaver, formally Black. The first four still belong to the church at Doddsville, having been members a period of over thirty-three years. The last named is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Plymouth, Illinois. On the seventeenth of September, about seven weeks after the organization, Andrew Walker, elder, was called to his long rest. The following named ministers have served as supplies to the church : Revs. John Hoge, James M. Chase, John Marshall, Cyrus B. Bristow, Joseph H. Marshall,
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James T. Bliss, Geo. A. Hutchison, Henry C. Mullen, P'reston W. Thompson, and now, the Rev. HI. C. Mullens. The Rev. Mr. Davis, a missionary of the New School branch of the church, also preached a short time. These were all stated supplies ex- cept Rev. Joseph H. Marshall, who was a regularly installed pas- tor. Of these ministers all are now living, as far as we know, ex- cept the Rev. James M. Chase, and John Marshall. The following persons were elected and served in the eldership : Andrew Walker, John M. Clark, John G. McGoughy, David R. Hindman, James MeDavett, Elijah Hindman, John McMillan, Hugh L. McGoughy, Thomas Conner, Thomas MeCoy, Henry Black, William Pol- lock and John Colleasure. Five of those serving have departed this life, namely : Andrew Walker, John M. Clark, Hugh F. McGoughy, Elijah Hindman and John Colleasure. James Col- leasure was elected, and would have accepted, but died before or- dination. The following named persons were elected and served as Deacons of the Church : George Bair, William H. Black, Samuel C. Hoge, John H. MeGrath and James Colleasure, all living except John Colleasure. George Bair, Samuel C. Hoge, John H. MeGrath and William S. MeLain, constitute the present Board of Trustees. The old church just vacated was built in 1851, as far as inclosing was concerned, when it was taken poses- sion of, but was not completed until the summer of 1855, four years after, consequently it was never dedicated a house of worship. It cost about $900. The first revival was in February and March of 1858, under the ministry of Rev. John Marshall, when twenty- eight members were received-twenty-two on profession and six on certificate. The second was under the ministry of the Rev. James T. Bliss in January, 1867, when eleven members were re- ceived-nine on profession and two on certificates. The third was under the ministry of Rev. George A. Hutchinson, Decem- ber, 1867, when eleven members were received on examination. The fourth was under the ministry of the Rev. II. C. Mullens, in union with the Rev. Mr. Garner, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, when six members were received on profession of their faith. This was in March, 1873. The fifth was in October, 1874. The meeting was under the direction of the Rev. Neil Johnston, an Evangelist, when God was pleased to pour out his spirit most copiously, thirty-five being received to membership on the profes- sion of their faith in Christ. The church was organized with seventeen original members. At the close of the Rev. John
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