History of Cass County, Indiana, from its earliest settlement to the present time; with Biographical Sketches and Reference to Biographies, Volume I, Part 55

Author: Powell, Jehu Z., 1848- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago and New York. The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 763


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Officers : Elder, James W. Smith (now deceased) ; trustees, John Dunn, Alfred Spencer, William H. Hayes. Pastors who have served this charge: Elders, James Harding, 1889; A. W. Harvey, 1891; Daniel Sommers, 1892; James Briggs, 1892-3; Arthur Jackson, 1895; N. P. Lawrence, 1900-02; William Elmore, 1907; E. G. Denny, 1908; L. J. Jackson, 1909-10; Ephraim E. Richardson, 1911-13.


CHURCH OF GOD


This denomination is a branch of the "Old Dunkard" or German Baptist church, and is sometimes called "New Dunkards." They have no written creeds but the Bible. The denomination was founded in Carroll county, Indiana, in 1847, by Peter Eyman, George Patton, Henry Klepinger, Ephraim Fry and James Hanna. The denomina- tion now numbers twenty churches confined to the state of Indiana.


The Logansport church was organized by Alexander Reed and Clin- ton Small, on the third Sunday in January, 1900, in "Good Templars Hall," in Shultz-town (south side), with about twenty-five charter mem- bers. The first officers were: Elder, Isaac Patton; clerk, Willard Prit- chett; deacon, William Bailey; steward, E. Cogshall. The first bap- tismal service was performed by Alexander Reed in the Wabash river, on May 30, 1899. In 1900 a frame church, forty by sixty feet was erected on the south bank of the Wabash river west of the Cicott street bridge, costing $3,000, and the first service held in the new church was on March 16, 1901, conducted by Alexander Reed. A Sunday school and church societies are maintained, and the membership now numbers eighty. Pastors who have supplied this church are: Alexander Reed, 1899-1901 ; John P. Parson, 1903; B. F. Watts, 1905; C. H. Hallady, supply ; Jacob Fross, supply; Edward Corts, 1911-13.


ZION GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH -.


About 1873, Rev. William Kannig began to hold religious meetings in the Eighth street schoolhouse for the benefit of a number of Ger- man families of this faith, and the following year organized a class consisting of eleven charter members, to-wit: Gotleib Schaffer and wife, John Keis and wife, William Keis, Jacob Jacoba, Herman Bettis- cher and wife, Fredrika Markert, David Rumbold and Charles Felker. Services continued to be held in the schoolhouse and courthouse until 1878 when a small church edifice was erected at the corner of Brown and Wheatland streets. The contract for the work was let to' John Wefel for $1,225, and the church was dedicated to the Master's service, Decem- ber 15, 1878. During the summer of 1899 the church building was remodelled and enlarged at an additional cost of $800. A Sunday Vol. 1-28


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school was organized in 1877, and has been in continuous operation ever since. During the pastorate of Reverend Pontius, "The English Organ- ization" was perfected and since that date the preaching has been deliv- ered in English, but prior to that time, the German language was used in all church services. The present membership is eighty-seven and this small, but earnest band, is doing a good work among the anglicized Germans of the city.


Pastors who have served the congregation: William Koenig, 1874-8; August Ewan, 1878-80; W. Hoem, 1880; L. Kramer, 1881; F. L. Shirk, 1882-3; H. Arlin, 1884; J. H. Snitz, 1884; D. J. Pontius, 1885; H. E. Overmeyer, 1886-7; D. D. Spiker, 1888; George H. Halderman, 1889; Joseph Fisher, 1890-5; S. J. Ziekiel, 1896-7; Reverend Snyder, 1898-9; James Wales, 1899-00; Samuel Cramer, 1901-2; Reverend Steinninger, 1903-4; August Geist, 1906; F. McClure, 1905; George Eastes, 1907-8; Reverend - Slimmer, 1909; J. W. Carter, 1910; E. E. Hauser, 1911-12.


ST. JACOB'S GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH


Reverend Fritze, of Fort Wayne, was the first preacher to propound the doctrines of this church in Logansport. Services were held in the early forties over the tin shop, northwest corner of Fourth and Broad- way. It was not until 1848 that an organization was perfected by Rev- erend Sturcken with nine charter members, to-wit: Ernest Homburg, Adam Smith, Charles Klinsick, Charles Berg, Chris. Berg, William Conrad, Gotleib Schaffer and brother.


Reverend Sturcken was a man of great energy and executive ability and at once began to raise a building fund and in 1852 erected a plain frame house of worship, twenty-two by fifty feet, two stories in height, on the south side of Canal street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. The upper story was used as an audience room, and the lower as a school room with a room in the rear for the pastor's residence. . Reverend Sturcken continued as pastor, with marked success until 1864, when he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and died there May, 1865. Rev. J. H. Jox of Wisconsin, became pastor. Under his management the church prospered and in 1867-8, a commodious brick church was erected on the northeast corner of Ninth and Spear streets. The price of the lot and building aggregated $18,000, seating eight hundred, and at that time the largest church in the city. The debt contracted in building this beau- tiful structure had just been liquidated when on March 7, 1883, it was completely destroyed by fire.


The congregation, however, were not discouraged and at once went to work with Christian energy and fortitude and rebuilt the church which was dedicated on Christmas day, 1883. The total expense of rebuilding was about $20,000. A parsonage, adjoining the church, was built soon after the church was erected. This was replaced in 1905 by the present modern building, at an outlay of $4,000.


In 1884 the congregation erected a two-story brick parochial school building at the corner of Sixth and Market streets which is well patron- ized. Prior to this a parochial school was held in the old church on the railroad. The congregation is prosperous and has a membership of seven hundred. Ladies' Aid, and various other church societies are successfully maintained. On November 16, 1908, the congregation cele- brated the sixtieth anniversary of the organization of the church with appropriate ceremonies.


List of pastors with time of service: Rev. C. Sturcken, 1848-1864; Rev. J. H. Jox, 1865-1893, died March, 1893; Rev. M. Termanstein, 1893-1905; Rev. H. E. Steuhm, 1905-1913.


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ST. LUKE'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH


As Martin Luther was the first to break away from the Church of Rome, in 1517, and began the great spiritual awakening that resulted in the final reformation and organization of the Protestant churches, the Lutherans may be justly regarded as the mother of all Protestant churches with the Augsburg confession as the basis of their religious belief. In the spring of 1884, Rev. J. J. Purcell collected the believers of this church, in the Point school house on lower Market street, and on June 22d, of that year, organized a society with the following char- ter members: Lewis and Susan Ray, Andrew and Isabelle Ray, Ma- linda Sigmund, Catharine Brookmeyer, James and Elizabeth Tolen, Agnes and Christian Homberg, Eliza Hinkle, Julia Downham, Thomas, Blanche and Sarah DeFord, Joseph, Benjamin and Emma Hankee, Adam and Margaret Snyder, Frank Hall, Samuel and Nancy Lyons, Christian and Nancy Ruff, Pilsa W. Purcell.


During the year 1885, a small brick church was erected on the south- west corner of First and Market streets at a cost of $5,500, which was completed and dedicated to the service of God on December 13, 1885, by Rev. S. A. Ort assisted by Revs. S. J. Kiefer, J. L. Guard and J. C. Jacoby. The church was dedicated free from debt and since then the membership has rapidly increased and in 1908 the old church was replaced by the, present handsome brick and stone church with tile roof, representing a capital of $25,000, which was dedicated December 20, 1908, by C. G. Heckert of Springfield, Ohio, assisted by the pastor, J. O. Simon. With this beautiful church edifice and a membership of four hundred and forty-five, St. Luke's has a bright and prosperous outlook for the future. A Sunday school was organized in 1884 and has been successfully maintained ever since. Various missionary and charitable societies are also maintained.


At this time the officers are: Trustees, E. F. Dock, B. F. Long, Frank Wipperman; superintendent of Sunday school, J. S. Bohannon. President of the council, Charles E. Etnire. Pastors who have served the congregation are: J. J. Purcell, 1884-8; A. B. McMackin, 1889-91; S. Kelso, 1891; H. M. Oberholser, 1891-3; J. C. Kauffman, 1894-7; B. E. Shaner, 1897-1900; W. S. Dysinger, 1901-1905; C. S. Bauslin, 1905- 07; J. O. Simon, 1907-12; W. D. Zeigler, 1912.


ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH


The first record of Logansport's part in Catholic history was in 1834, when Rt. Rev. Simon B. Remus, bishop of Vincennes, visited here and said mass for the Catholic colony; but it was not until 1838 that Father John Claude Francois attemped to organize a congregation of Catholics. These were mostly Irish laborers, working on the canal. He purchased twenty acres of land in Lot 2, Barron's reserve, in the northwest part of the city and erected a log church and priest's resi- dence combined. In 1840, Father Francois abandoned the old log church, as it was too far from town, and built a stone church which still stands on Railroad street west of Berkley, and is now occupied as a shop. This building served the needs of the congregation until 1863, when the present church was erected on Spencer street under the pastorate of Rev. George A. Hamilton. In 1888, Father Campion built an addition to the south end of the church at a cost of $11,500. During the pastorate of Father Hamilton the twenty acres of land upon which the original church was built, was sold.


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decorated and under the pastorate of Father Crosson many improve- ments have been made. The property of the church consisting of the church, the Holy Angels' Academy at Ninth and Broadway, the paro- chial brick school building west of the church, and the priest's resi- dence on the east, a commodious brick house, makes the most extensive and valuable church property in the city. Three boys of this congre- gation have become priests and twelve girls have entered religious com- munities. Societies connected with the church are the "Sodality of the Living Rosary," the "Children of Mary," the "League of the Sacred Heart," the "St. Vincent Cadets," "Total Abstinence Society," and the "Catholic Benevolent Legion.


The following priests have administered to the congregation: John Claude Francois, 1838-41; August M. Martin, 1841-44; Michael J. Clark, 1844; Maurice de St. Palais, 1845; Francois Fisher, 1846-8; P. Mur- phy, 1848-50; Patrick McDermott, P. O. Connell, 1852; Francois An- thony Gaines, 1852-5; William Doyle, 1855-7; Charles Zucker, 1857-9; George A. Hamilton, 1859-64; Bernard Joseph Force, 1864-8; M. E. Campion, 1868-9; Jacob Mayer, 1869-71; Francis Lawler, 1871-8; Edward P. Walters, 1878-93; M. E. Campion, 1883 to his death, Decem- ber, 1899; J. P. Crosson, 1900 to date.


ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH


In the year 1869, fifty German families, from St. Vincent's church, branched off and formed St. Joseph's parish, with Rev. Joseph Mayer in charge. He purchased the lot, northwest corner of Market and Second streets. On the north end of this lot he erected the first St. Joseph's church, a brick building, forty by sixty feet, at a cost of about $5,000. The church was completed and dedicated February 2, 1870. In August, 1870, Rev. Henry Koehne took charge of the parish. In May, 1882, he paid a debt of $6,000, incurred in the purchase of the grounds and its improvement. In 1885 the present brick church facing Market street, was begun but was not completed for two years, being dedicated Octo- ber 23, 1887, by Bishop Dwenger, assisted by Bishop Rademacher of Nashville. The building is sixty-five by one hundred and sixty-five feet and the elevation of the spire is one hundred and sixty-one feet sur- mounted by a cross twelve feet high. The style of architecture is Romanesque. The total cost of the building was $80,000.


During the absence of Father Koehne in Europe in 1888 the con- gregation placed a chime of three large bells in the tower, and the first time they were rung was on his arrival home, and proved to be a very pleasant surprise to him. The altar, paintings, frescoes, ornamental windows and other interior furnishings are elaborate and in beautiful harmony with the surroundings. The house on the corner of Second street, formerly a hotel, was used as a priests' residence and parochial school. In 1891, the old church was torn down and the present St. Joseph's school was erected and dedicated with appropriate ceremonies January 17, 1892, and the corner building is now occupied by the Sisters of Notre Dame, who have charge of the school. In 1904, Father Koehne purchased the lot on the west for $9,000, using his own private funds, and donated the same to the church. In 1910, a handsome, mod- ern brick parsonage was erected, the finest in the city, at an expendi- ture of $10,000. Various church and benevolent societies are main- tained in active operation by the congregation.


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supply ; Henry Koehne, 1872 to his death, November 24, 1906; Anthony J. Kroeger, 1907, the present pastor.


ST. BRIDGET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH


Prior to 1873, there were forty-five Catholic families on the west side, and Bishop Dwenger, whose attention was called to this fact, took steps to organize a separate parish, and in that year purchased of D. D. Dykeman, a square of ground, bounded by Linden, Heath, Wheatland and Wilkinson streets, paying therefor $5,000. These families formed the new parish and Rev. Bernard Kroeger was appointed to take charge of the congregation. In 1875 he erected the present building which has been used for church and school purposes ever since. It is a plain, square, but substantial brick structure, two stories high. The upper story is an assembly room and the lower is used for school pur- poses. The school is under the care of the Sisters of St. Francis, whose mother home is at Lafayette. The building was completed and dedi- cated August 15, 1876. The contract price of the building was $12,000. In 1890 the congregation built a one story brick hall north of the church in which to hold entertainments, society and social functions, and in 1893, a substantial brick structure was built for the priest's residence, on the southeast corner of the square. Four girls of this parish have become members of religious communities. Several Catholic societies are in active operation and prove great aids in promoting the interests of the church. Father Kroeger continued in charge of the parish until July 14, 1907, when age and failing health compelled his retirement, since which time Rev. P. J. Quinn was appointed his successor. Father Kroeger died in 1909 and his mortal remains lie in Mt. St. Vincent's cemetery, and his spirit has gone to his God whom he served so faith- fully and well and to whom this parish owes so much.


The writer can testify to the sterling qualities of Father Kroeger, not only as a minister of the Gospel of Christ but also as a trustworthy and upright citizen who was fearless in upholding the cause of right- eousness and fighting for all moral and temperance reforms. He took a bold stand against the liquor traffic and all other evil influences and on numerous occasions he has gone with the writer to the homes of his parishioners to plead with a drunken husband and extend kind words and a helping hand to the poor and destitute family of a drunkard.


BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH (COLORED)


The colored people of Logansport manifested a disposition to secure the benefits of church worship for themselves and under the leadership of Rev. W. L. Langford, James and Mary Hill, Anna Brooks and Frances Carter with others, met in a schoolhouse on the west side in the fall of 1862, and perfected an organization and took steps to erect a house of worship. The following year a small frame church was erected on the southeast corner of Cicott and West Market streets. In 1878 this original building was replaced by a larger one at a cost of $2,500, which was enlarged. and remodeled about 1900, and today the African Methodist Episcopal church is a comfortable building capable of accommodating the increasing colored population of the city. A Sunday school was organized with the church and has been success- fully conducted ever since. The present membership is reported as sixty-one.


List of pastors: W. H. Langford, 1862; Benjamin Hill, John, Mit- chell, R. H. Cain, Robert Turner, Alexander Spotwood, - Birch,


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John Burton, Madison Patterson, W. J. Davis, Wilson Watson, Harry Thompson, 1877-80; John Jordan, 1881-2; Jason Bundy, 1876-7; McDaniel, -Collins, B. J. Coleman, E. E. Gregory, William Kelly, Hubbard Brewer, J. L. Cravens, - Ampey, Jonathan Mitchen, Mon- trose Thornton, Jesse Bass, 1887; T. R. Ferguson, 1889; James Simpson, 1890; L. W. Ratliff, 1892; H. H. Thompson, 1889; Alexander Smith, 1899; J. F. Pettiford, 1901; Andrew M. Taylor, 1903; Henderson Davis, 1905; J. M. Townsend, 1910; G. H. White, 1911-12; B. J. Coleman, 1912-13.


SOUTH SIDE U. B. CHURCH


This church was organized December 23, 1886, by Rev. Horace Clark, in the Christian church in Shultz-town with the following charter mem- bers: Nathan Morgan, Frank Hight, David Kensinger, Samuel Vernon, Sarah Lewis, Mrs. Lytle, William Johnson, Harvey Larimore, Nancy Hight, Elizabeth Smith and probably some others.


The brick church on Sherman street, where the organization was perfected, was purchased from the Disciple (Christian) denomination, on June 11, 1891, and repaired at a total cost of $1,600, and the con- gregation has occupied this neat little church regularly since that time A Sunday school was instituted soon after the church and is a great aid, not only to the church but also in the moral uplift of that section known as Shultz-town. The first class leader was David Kensinger. The present class leader is Isaac Lees, and Sunday school superintend- ent, B. F. Staley. Trustees, A. C. Walters, B. F. Staley, and George Houk.


List of pastors with time of service: Horace Clark, 1886-8; Bechdol, 1889; H. Buttler, 1890-91; A. Cloud, 1893-4; C. A. Spittler, 1896; S. N. Howe, 1897-8; J. W. Cummins, 1899; George W. Lambert, 1900-01; - Kelsey, 1902; D. B. Kessinger, 1902-3; James N. Mar- tin, 1903-4; John T. Keesey, 1905-6; -- Crum, 1907: J. N. Martin, 1908-9; W. H. Bast, 1910-12; L. M. Miller, 1913.


NORTH SIDE U. B. CHURCH


This congregation of United Brethren was organized by Rev. C. A. Spittler, in the Christian church on the corner of Oak and Sugar streets, north side, during the year 1894. Some of the charter members were Stephen Posey and wife, Margaret Beck, George W. Smith and wife, Mrs. A. J. and Effie. Gallion, William Stanley, John H. Burnett. The first trustees were J. H. Burnett, J. A. Stanley and Stephen Posey. Soon after the organization the brick church above mentioned was purchased from the "Disciple" people for a consideration of $1,600.


Regular services are held and the congregation has gradually in- creased until it numbers over forty members. The pastors of this church also serve the South Side U. B. church, which are given there and will not be repeated here.


NORTH SIDE UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL HALL


The erection of this house of worship was brought about by some differences arising among the patrons and communicants of the Union Mission or Christian church on the North Side and now owned by the United Brethren. A. J. Sutton, Daniel Conrad, David E. Bryer, Henry Thomas, Amos Mobley, W. B. Enyart, A. McDonald, J. H. Burnett, and others, taking offense at the management of the above named church on July 31, 1877, entered into articles of association and erected the


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North Side Union Sunday School Hall, on corner of Michigan avenue and Oak street, only one square west of the North Side Christian church. This is a plain frame building, thirty-two by forty-two feet in dimen- sions, erected on a lot donated by Daniel Conrad. A union Sunday school was at once instituted and flourished for many years.


Religious services are held here by various denominations at irregu- lar intervals. The hall is also used for various meetings and gatherings of the people of the north side, known as Smith-town.


For several years the Brethren or Dunkards have held regular ser- vices here. The hall is controlled by a board of trustees which now consist of J. H. Burnett, W. B. Enyart, Homer Marvin, Rufus Living- stone and Daniel Tarver.


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (EDDY) CHURCH


This religious sect was founded by Mrs. Mary Baker-Eddy who was born in New Hampshire, 1821, and died in Boston, 1910. The first church of the denomination was established by Mrs. Eddy in 1879.


The Logansport society was organized in the basement of the Uni- versalist church, July 11, 1898, with twenty-eight charter members, among whom were Mrs. Mattie Johnson, S. T. McConnell and wife, George H. and A. J. Prescott, Mrs. Mattie M. Booth, Mrs. Jennie Peck- ham, John R. Moore, Miss Effie Ridinger, and the Misses Heppe. A Sunday school was also instituted at the same time with eighteen chil- dren in attendance. The meetings were held in the Universalist church until a house of worship could be secured. On October 1, 1900, the old Aldrich-Nash residence on the northeast corner of Ninth and North streets was purchased, remodeled and converted into a church and occu- pied May 3, 1901. This was a substantial stone structure but with in- creasing membership became too small and in the spring of 1913 it was razed and the contract was let to James I. Barnes for the erection of a handsome and commodious $35,000 church edifice, which is now under process of construction. A public reading room is maintained in the Stettner building which is kept open daily. This congregation employs no minister but appoints one of its members as reader to lead in the ser- vice. There is a first and second reader each appointed for three years. The first reader appointed July 11, 1898, was Mrs. C. Prescott. The reader at the present time is John H. Stephens.


HOLINESS CHRISTIAN CHURCH


This denomination is an off-shoot of the Methodists and its church government is similar. It originated in Philadelphia in 1882, when a few zealous Methodists began mission work among the non-church going people of that city. "Seeing that the churches had but the form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof" they organized a class to promote scriptural holiness and exercise vital godliness. The good work went on and the first conference was held at Linwood, Pennsyl- vania, in 1889. The first Indiana conference was organized at Tipton in 1897.


We quote some items of faith as taken from their book of "Disci- pline:" We believe singing is a part of the worship of God and should be as sacred as preaching; therefore choirs will not be tolerated and no unsaved person shall lead in song or music, "and no instrument shall be taken into the church without a two-thirds vote of the class and consent of the pastor." "None shall be retained in the church who is


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guilty of using alcoholic drinks as a beverage." "The use of tobacco is forbidden."


The local congregation was organized August 25, 1908, in a store room at 204 Sixth street, by L. A. Green, with sixteen charter members among whom were G. A. Kinneman, James Reed, George Hershey, George Smith, Lewis Mullins, Jesse Williams and Joseph Hartman.


A Sunday school was organized when the class was instituted and has been held regularly ever since.


They continued to occupy the store room on Sixth street for about two years when they rented a room on West Columbia street, which they still occupy but are arranging to erect a house of worship in the near future. The membership now numbers twenty-five. The following per- sons have had pastoral charge: Elder, C. S. Green, 1898; elders, E. A. Davis, E. J. Bradshaw, J. G. Williams and Lilie Rogers.


CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN (DUNKARDS)


As early as 1892 Elder Joel Weaver of Monticello, Indiana, held services in the courthouse with a number of the faithful of this belief and in October, 1896, Elder Allen A. Oberlin moved to Logansport and held regular meetings in the North Side Union Sunday School Hall, on Michigan avenue. In 1898, Elder A. G. Crosswhite, of Flora, Indiana, perfected an organization and since then regular meetings of the con- gregation have been held in the north side hall, as they, as yet, have no house of worship of their own. A Sunday school is regularly main- tained. The congregation now numbers 35. Elders in charge of the congregation have been as follows: Joel Weaver, 1892; Allen A. Ober- lin, 1896; A. G. Crosswhite, 1898; A. B. Wicke, 1900-01; A. A. Oberlin, 1907; J. V. Felthouse, 1909-10; Charles R. Oberlin, present incumbent.




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