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The first Annual Fair was held as per order, on the 28th of October, 1852, and the total number of entries made was sixty-nine, and the total number of premiums awarded was thirty, amounting in all to the sum of $48. The printing for this Fair was done by Wm. C. Talcott, of Valparaiso, for which he presented a bill of $8, which was duly allowed. The same President and Secretary were re-elected each year, up to and including the sixth Annual Fair.
The second Fair continued two days, and was held on the 27th and 28th days of October, 1853; and the premi- ums awarded at that Fair amounted to $61.75.
During the 7th and 8th Annual Fairs, A. D. Foster was President, and E. M. Cramer, Secretary. The 8th Fair was held on the 4th, 5th, and 6th days of October, 1859, after the close of which, I find no record of any further meetings of the society until July 20th, 1867. In 1860, the political excitement ran high, and immediately thereafter the war of the Rebellion broke out, so that the
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attention of farmers was drawn away from agricultural fairs to the all-absorbing affairs of the nation. At the meeting of July 20th, 1867, the Society was re-organ- ized, and elected Hiram Wason, President; Bartlett Woods, Vice-President; J. C. Sauerman, Treasurer, and A. E. Beattie, Secretary. Under the management of these officers the 9th Annual Fair was held on the 2d, 3d, and 4th days of October, 1867. Since then our An- nual Fair has been one of the fixed institutions of the county, and has increased in interest and magnitude each year. The 14th Annual Fair is to be held on Wed- nesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 11th, 12th, and 13th of September, 1872.
JOB BARNARD."
LAKE COUNTY SABBATH SCHOOL CONVENTION. Record .- " A few superintendants, teachers, and friends of Sabbath Schools in Lake County, met at Crown Point, September 16th, 1865, for the purpose of forming a Convention in accordance with a call given at the celebration at Cedar Lake. On motion, Rev. R. B. Young was called to the chair, and H. B. Austin chosen Secretary. * Some articles for adoption were offered by Judge Ball, and the following were adopted. * The officers elected were Hervey Ball, President ; Rev. R. B. Young, Vice-President ; Rev. J. L. Lower, Secretary ; M. A. Halsted, Treasurer."
Rev. H. Wason was the second President; Rev. R. B. Young the third and the present one. Rev. T. H. Ball was elected Secretary in 1866, and has so continued until the present time.
The following table gives the names of the schools, or
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places where held, of the present year, with the date of first organization, so far as known, and the present mem- bership in round numbers.
Crown Point Presbyterian
Date. 1840
Members. 75
Crown Point Methodist Episcopal
1843
100
Cedar Lake
1845
40
South East Grove
1845
40
Deer Creek
1846
55
Orchard Grove.
1849
40
Cedar Lake (German)
1850
50
Buncombe Union
1851
30
Hobart
1851
70
Plum Grove
1852 Not in session.
Lowell Union
1857 Closed in 1871.
Lake Prairie.
1857
40
Jones School House
1859
30
Crown Point Baptist
1860
40
Bryant's School House
1869
50
Centreville.
30
Eagle Creek
25
Prairie View
60
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Pleasant Prairie
50
Hurlburt School House
50
Vincent's School House
60
Hickory Top.
40
Ensign's School House
25
Lake Station
25
Hessville
30
Fuller's School House
25
Livingston School House
40
Lowell Methodist Episcopal
1871
50
Robinson's Prairie
30
Underwood School House
60
Adam's School House
40
Total membership
1310
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Number of children between six and twenty-one years of age, in the townships, as reported officially for 1872. North, 592 ; Hobart, 299; Ross, 625; St. Johns, 585 ; Hanover, 376; Centre, 340; Winfield, 232; West Creek, 400 ; Cedar Creek, 465; Eagle Creek, 232; Town of Crown Point, 439. (The latter number would increase the number in Centre Township to 779). Total, 4585.
The order of the townships in population, estimated according to the number of children, will then be the following : Centre, Ross, North, St. Johns, Cedar Creek, West Creek, Hanover, Hobart ; Winfield and Eagle Creek being the last in the order and equal in number.
The following table gives the names, so far as I have been able to obtain them, of those who have gone forth from our county to attend the higher institutions of learning.
Names of graduates are given first, with names of in- stitution and date of graduating.
T. H. Ball Franklin College, 1850
Henry Humphrey University of Michigan, 1851.
Milton Blayney Wabash College, 1861
Henry Johnson Hanover College, 1872
Leila G. Robinson Phipps Union Seminary, 1857
Mary Jane Ball Ladoga Seminary, 1859 Henrietta Ball Indianapolis Female Institute, 1861
1862 Fannie C. Vanhouten
Sarah J. Turner Oxford Female Seminary, 1868
Nannie Wason 66 1871 MEDICAL GRADUATES. Jolın Higgins La Porte Medical College, 1846 Samuel R. Pratt. University of Michigan, 1860
Stephen S. Farrington 1867
1869 Frederick Castle
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J. W. Johns -Chicago Medical, 1869
A. Tillotson Bennett Medical, 1871
H. H. Pratt Rush Medical, 1872
H. A. Castle Indiana Medical, 1872
A. Vincent Chicago Homopathic, 1872
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
Henry Humphrey Princeton, 1860
T. H. Ball
Newton Theological Institution, 1863
LAW GRADUATES.
James H. Ball University of Chicago, 1871
T. S. Fancher University of Michigan, 1871
J. W, Youche
" 1872
Milton Barnard " " 1872
NORMAL GRADUATES.
William Dubriel Englewood Normal, 1872
NOW PURSUING A REGULAR LITERARY COURSE.
J. H. Dowd Junior Class, State University, Bloomington
J. A. Burhans Sophomore Class, Indiana Asbury University
ENTERED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT CHICAGO.
Henry Johnson 1872
LITERARY COURSE NOT COMPLETED.
E. J. Farwell
Wabash College
H. G. Bliss
Charles Ball Franklin College "
James H. Ball
John Wood
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Alex. McDonald
Notre Dame
Ambrose McDonald
O. Dinwiddie University of Chicago
Milton Hart University of Michigan
J. W. Hart
Abbott Wason
Wabash College
E. Ames
Charles Holton
Henry Pettibone Hanover College
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COURSE NOT COMPLETED.
Mary E. Pelton Ontario Female Seminary
Martha B. Sanger
6. 66 66
Helen Clark
Lucina Brannon Oxford Female Seminary
Annie Gerrish
Mary E. Merrill
Englewood Normal
Loe R. Thomas Terre Haute Normal.
OXFORD STUDENTS OF THIS YEAR.
Cordelia Wood,
Emma Turner,
Ruth Ann Pettibone,
Mariah Wason,
Annie M. Turner,
Henrietta Bridgman.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MARRRIAGE RECORD OF LAKE COUNTY.
No. 1 .- Solomon Russell to Rosina Barnard. Mar- ried March 9, 1837, by S. Robinson, J. P.
(The county was organized February 15, 1837. Li- cense obtained at Valparaiso).
No. 2 .- Lorenzo O. Beebe to Betsey Prentice. March 12, 1837, by A. L. Ball, J. P.
No. 3 .- John Russell to Harriet Holton. October 19, 1837, by William F. Talbot, V. D. M.
No. 4 .- David M. Dille to Loretta Lilley. October 24, H. Taylor, J. P.
No. 6 .- Charles Woods to Mary Ann Russell. March 15, 1838, by H. Taylor, J. P.
No. 10 .- Thomas Clark and Harriet Lavina Farwell. January 23, 1839, by Hon. H. D. Palmer, Associate Judge.
No. 12 .- Alfred D. Foster and Emeline Hathaway. April 4, 1839, by E. W. Bryant, J. P.
No. 25 .- E. S. Townsend and Eliza Eddy. Decem-
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ber 17, 1839, by Rev. W. R. Marshall, Minister of the Gospel, of La Porte.
Up to this time every marriage ceremony in the county except one had been performed by a civil officer. And afterwards no minister appears till number 49, November 25, 1841, when A. Morrison's name is recorded.
No. 50 is by Robert M. Hyde, M. G.
No. 55 is by Norman Warriner, March 3, 1842.
Up to this time it is to be inferred that ministers in this region were few.
November 28, 1842, is the first record of the name, as an officiating clergyman, of Rev. J. C. Brown; and De- cember 22, 1842, is found the name of Rev. W. Blain.
FIRST MASONIC LODGE.
Dispensation dated November 11, 1853 ; six members : H. Ball, John Wood, H. S. Holton, W. A. Clark, W. G. McGlashon, and J. H. Luther. Charter granted May 24, 1854. Hervey Ball, W. M. from 1853 to 1857. Whole number of master masons up to this date, 164. First ma- sonic burial was that of W. C. Farrington, in 1856. Ser- mon preached by Rev. T. H. Ball. Text, John xiv : 6. " Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life ; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." Other masonic burials have been of the following mem- bers of Lake Lodge: John Wheeler, July, 1863 ; D. Crumbacker, 1864; Charles Ball, September, 1865 ; C. Kurtz, March, 1867; James B. Turner, August, 1867; Hervey Ball, October, 1868; A. E. Beattie, October, 1869; J. E. Fraas, May, 1871 ; A. Sanford, December, 1871 ; S. S. Farrington, May, 1872.
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LITERARY SOCIETIES.
In countries that enjoy constitutional liberty, voluntary associations for intellectual improvement are common and useful. Next to schools for the young come their literary societies. Before either, in importance, are, sometimes, the home training and private reading.
In Lake County a number of these societies have been organized. I think that as early as 1840 a debating club met for some time at the house of Solon Robinson. But the first one organized for the young, and of which there are existing records, I suppose to be
THE CEDAR LAKE LYCEUM.
The date or its organization is February, 1846 ; and a. grand day it was for the youth of Cedar Lake, Prarie West, and West Creek, when it started into existence. For a group of boys in these localities, at least five of whom are now active professional and business men, be- tween the ages of thirty and fifty, in the East, the West,. and the Far West, it accomplished, in the cultivation of a literary taste and in promoting a desire for thorough mental culture, what money could not purchase. A. number of its members are dead ; but the living can never forget its pleasant and profitable exercises. Next in or- der I name
THE CEDAR LAKE BELLES-LETTRES SOCIETY. Which included girls also among its members, met only once each month, and required the chief attention of its members to be given to writing. The date of its organi- zation is 1847.
One of the memorable addresses delivered before this
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LAKE COUNTY. 1 Society was by Selon Robinson, in which he paid a high compliment to the culture manifested in his note of in- vitation, and referred to his having met the Indians there, for some consultation, not many years before. The Cor- responding Secretary at that time was noted for her beau- tiful penmanship. She afterwards became the wife of Munson Church, of Prairie West, and after discharging her duties for several years as a wife and mother, she many years ago, died. I think that not more than two girls in Lake county have ever excelled her in penman- ship. Like many others of our early dead, she sleeps al- most forgotten by the living. I record here her given name, the name of that rare but lovely virtue, CHARITY.
The third of these organizations was formed at Crown Point, in the log court house, by young persons from Cedar Lake and Prairie West, with a few at Crown Point. Date of organization, 1848.
This was designed to be a Lake County Literary Soci- ety, but there was not at that time a sufficient literary spirit at Crown Point to aid in keeping up such an organi- zation, and its originators, therefore, let it die. In these later years there have been societies at Brunswick, Tink- erville, Lowell, Orchard Grove, Plum Grove, South East Grove, Hickory Point, Pleasant Prairie, DeepRiver, Mer- rillville, Hobart, and Crown Point, with the names and dates of which the secretaries have not thought to fur- nish me. At Crown Point I find :
I-THE CROWN POINT LITERARY.
Organized in 1863. Among the active members were especially the three pastors in the town, one of these doing considerable of the literary work, aided nobly by
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a choice band of coadjutors ; and J. E. Newhouse, and J. L. Lower, both teachers of vocal music, and amateur per- formers on the guitar, furnishing much excellent music. This Society met at the Brick School House, and its meetings were well attended by the citizens and by vis- itors. In musical talent it was highly favored, the two guitars and the accompanying voices producing rich melody.
II .- THE PIERIAN SOCIETY-1865.
This Society was composed exclusively of members of the Institute, and was the first, and only one of its class thus far, in this county. One of its programmes is placed here for preservation.
SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION
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PIERIAN SOCIETY.
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA.
CROWN POINT INSTITUTE, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1867,
CROWN POINT, INDIANA.
ORDER OF EXERCISES :
MUSIC.
PRAYER. MUSIC.
Declamation-I. CUTLER Cedar Lake
Letter-Miss C. BARTON Yellow Head, Ill.
Essay-Freedom-T. F. PALMER Burnettsville
Recitation-MISS A. BARBER. Crown Point
MUSIC.
Declamation-H. GRIFFIN.
Crown Point
Address-Education-MISS M. FOSTER Crown Point
Oration-A Good Name-H. JOHNSON Crown Point
MUSIC.
Discussion § Did Pocahontas save [ Aff. U. J. FRY Lowell ? the life of John Smith? ? Neg. J. DINWIDDIE Orchard Grove
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MUSIC.
Declamation-P. EBBERT Chicago
Letter-MIss F. STARR. Eagle Creek
Essay-Future Prospects of our Country-J. B. TURNER Crown Point
Recitation-MIss E. MILLIS Door Village
MUSIC.
Declamation-W. HILL Cedar Lake
Address-Study of the Languages-MISS B. F. WEATHERBE Chicago
Oration-Our Country-C. HOLTON Deep River
MUSIC. BENEDICTION.
Its meetings were held weekly during term time, and it doubtless did a good work in cultivating a literary taste.
III .- THE WEBSTER SOCIETY-1869-1872.
Meetings held first at Fraas' Hall, and finally at the Court House. At this society could be found, each week, the largest and most cultivated audience of the town.
The societies here named are no longer organized bod- ies. Their work is done. They belong to the records of the past.
The society at Hobart is apparently the most perma- nent Literary Society now in the county.
Crown Point has about reached the transition state be- tween literary societies and lecture associations. Its next organization in this line will probably be a Lecture Association, to secure for each winter a course of Ly- ceum Lectures.
As towns grow into cities this seems to be the sure result.
CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS.
There are in the county seven Catholic Churches, all having houses, and resident pastors or supplies. One more will soon be organized, and a chapel will be built at Lowell.
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There are four Lutheran Churches, all having houses of worship.
There are two Presbyterian Churches also having houses erected.
There is one Christian Church, and building.
There are two German Methodist Churches, and build- ings, one of these called Evangelical.
There are three Baptist Churches, and buildings ; one building not yet completed.
There are four Methodist Episcopal Classes having church buildings; and classes at Deer Creek, Prairie View, Centreville, Underwood School House, Lake, Eagle Creek, Orchard Grove, and Jones' School House, having no church buildings. Whole number of classes, 12.
There is a German Methodist class and congregation at Centreville. No church building. Evangelical Ger- man Methodist classes also meet at Deer Creek, and at Crown Point, having no church edifices.
There is a Methodist Church, not Episcopal, at Vin- cent School House.
All these make, of church organizations in the county, and maintaining public worship, 35. Besides these thirty-five places of preaching, the pastor at Lake Prairie preaches at the Burhan's School House, the Livingtone School House, and the Fuller School House; the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hebron preaches at South East Grove, and Bryant's School House; the pastor of the North Street Church preaches at South East Grove, and Pleasant Prairie; and the minister supplying at Sa- lem Presbyterian Church preaches at the Hurlburt School House.
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The German Methodist pastor at Cedar Lake preaches at Lake Prairie, at Crown Point, and near Centreville.
The Lutheran pastor at Tolleston also preaches at Hessville.
The pastor of the Vincent Methodist Church preaches. at Hickory Top.
There is also preaching this summer at the Adams. School House, by Rev. R. Randolph, who has lately moved here from Michigan.
The pastor of the Covenanter Church in Porter county,. also preaches at Hickory Point.
A German Methodist pastor at Valparaiso preaches at Hobart,
Number of places of religious meeting, 50.
TABULAR VIEW OF CHURCH BUILDINGS.
CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
Name of Church.
When Erected.
No. of Value of families. property ..
Church of St. John the Evan-
First Chapel, 1843. Present
gelist, at St. Johns.
Church built of brick, 1856.
140
$18,000
Church of the Holy Apostles
First Log Church, about 1852.
Peter and Paul, at Turkey Creek
Present large building of Joliet
stone, 1864.
40
8,000
Church of St. Anthony, at Klaasville
1861.
45
2,000
Church of St. Joseph, at Lake Station.
1861.
20
2,000
Church of St. Joseph,at Dyer.
1867.
60
6,000
Church of St. Martin, at Han- over Centre ...
1869.
60
4,000
Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at Crown Point.
I867.
90
5,400
Families at Hobart and at Lowell
45
Total No. of families
500
Whole No. of Churches, 7.
LUTHERAN CHURCHES.
Zion's Church, in Hanover.
1859.
3º
3,000.
Trinity Church, Crown Point.
1869.
23
3,300
Tolleston.
I869.
65
2,800
Hobart.
1870.
25
2,500
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455
The first three of these are German Lutheran ; the fourth is Sweedish Evangeli- cal Lutheran, supplied from Bailey Town, and Chicago. No resident pastor.
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Hickory Point.
About 1844.
Now dilapidated.
Crown Point, Ist.
I845-47.
Crown Point, 2d.
I860
6,000
Pleasant Grove.
1853
500
Now Lowell
1870
6,500
West Creek, Ist.
1843
West Creek, 2d.
1869
2,000
Hobart
1872
4,000
Membership in the county, 450.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Crown Point.
1845-47. 3,000
Lake Prairie.
1872
1,500
Membership in the county, 124.
GERMAN METHODIST.
Cedar Lake.
1855
2,000
GERMAN EVANGELICAL.
Cedar Lake.
1858 800
CHRISTIAN.
At Lowell.
1870
6,000
Crown Point,
1856
800
Lowell
1856
1,500
North Street, at Crown Point.
1872
1,500
Whole No. of members, 62.
In all 23 houses of worship now in the county. The Lutheran at Hobart, and. " North Street," not finished.
CONDENSED VIEW.
Whole number of families, 2,500; Catholic families, 500 ; Lutheran, 225 ; Methodist Episcopal, 250 ; Presby- terian, 80; Christian, 45; Baptist, 40; German Metho- dist, 50; Non-Episcopal Methodists, 25 ; Covenanters, IO; total, 1,250.
PASTORS OF THE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS.
BAPTIST-AT CEDAR LAKE.
N. Warriner, ordained in June, 1840, 1838-'42; Wm. T. Bly, 1845-'46; Alex. Hastings, 1848; Thomas Hunt, December, 1851, November, 1852. Died in the county ; buried July 22, 1853; Uriah McKay, October, 1853-'54. This Cedar Lake Baptist Church dismissed members to form a church at Thorn Grove, Illinois, in 1848; also.
BAPTIST.
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dismissed members to form a church at West Creek, in 1848; and in December, 1851, dismissed members to form a church at Crown Point.
The population changing, new centres springing up, and many removing, considering its mission accomplished, this church disbanded January 17, 1856, having been or- ganized June 17, 1838.
AT LOWELL.
T. H. Ball, 1856-'57; John Benny, 1857-'59; T. H. Ball, 1863-'64 ; G. Lewis, 1864-'65; J. Bruce, 1867-72.
A. E. Simons was pastor at Crown Point, from 1859 to I862.
The Presbyterian Church at Crown Point was consti- tuted, according to its session records, April 27, 1844.
PASTORS.
J. C. Brown, 1840-'46 ; Wm. Townley, 1846-'56 ; - Shultz, 1857-'59 ; James L. Lower, 1859-'65; A. Y. Moore, 1866-'69 ; Samuel McKee, 1870-'71 ; S. Fleming, 1871.
The first pastor, Rev. J. C. Brown, D. D., resided at Valparaiso. He died chaplain of the 48th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, at Paducah, Kentucky, July 14, 1862. The second pastor, Rev. Wm. Townley, was in- strumental in the erection of the first private school house in Crown Point, which is now the Presbyterian parsonage. He carried on a school himself for some years, and aided in giving quite an impulse to the cause of education. He was for some time School Examiner of the county, and conscientious in the discharge of duty. He died, during this year, in the State of Illinois.
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PASTORS IN LAKE PRAIRIE.
H. Wason, 1857-'64; B. Wells, 1864-'68; E. H. Post, 1870-'72.
CHRISTIAN.
PASTORS.
N. Cofenburg, 1842-'52; C. Blackman, 1855-'57.
SUPPLIES.
Johnson, Russell, Jones, Goodman.
Rose, 1862-'67 ; Shortridge, 1869-'70 ; Wheeler, March, 1871.
LUTHERAN.
The church at Tolleston had supplies for some six years from Dalton, and Chicago. H. Wunderlich, resident pastor since August, 1871.
Zion's Church, in Hanover Township, Rev. P. Lehman, pastor 1859-'68. No pastor at present.
Church at Hobart supplied.
CHURCH AT CROWN POINT .- PASTORS.
C. F. W. Huge, 1870-'71; George Heintz, 1871.
NON-EPISCOPAL METHODIST PASTORS. W. S. Hinds, 1871.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL PASTORS.
Lake and Porter, originally attached to La Porte, were a mission field, at first, of that circuit. Mission preach- ers were Jones and Beers.
CIRCUIT PREACHERS.
Robert Hyde, 1837-'38; Stagg, 1838-'39; Green, 1839-40 ; Wheeler, 1840-'40; W. Posey, 1840-41 ; W. J. Forbes, 1841-'42; Cozad, 1842-'43 ; D. Crumbacker, 1843-'44; J. Early, 1844-'45 ; S. B. Lamb, 1845-'47; Salisbury, 1847-'48 ; H. B. Ball, 1848-'49 ; Strite,
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1849-'50; Casey, 1850-'51 ; L. Moore, 1851-'52 ; C. S. Burgner, 1852-'53.
The county was now divided into two circuits.
CROWN POINT CIRCUIT.
R. B. Young, 1853-'54; F. Cox, 1854-55 ; Brown, 1855-'56; Crawford, 1856-'57; C. B. Heath, 1857-'58 ; J. W. Green, 1858-'59.
CROWN POINT NOW MADE A STATION.
J. W. Green, 1859-'60. New church built. Morris, Robinson, and R. B. Young, 1860-'61; J. H. Claypool, 1861-'62; H. C. Fraley, 1862-'63; J. E. Newhouse, 1863-'64 ; B. H. Bradbury, 1864-'65 ; S. P. Colvin, 1865 -'66 ; T. C. Stringer, 1866-'69; M. M. Stolz, 1869-'72.
LOWELL, OR WEST CREEK CIRCUIT.
D. Dunham, 1853-'55 ; C. B. Mawk, 1855-'56 ; McDan- iels, 1856-'58; W. J. Forbes, 1858-'59; A. Haze and J. H. Ciscel, 1859-'60; W. W. Jones, and Brook, 1860-'62 ; J. H. Claypool, 1862-'63 ; Unsworth, 1863-'64; W. T, Jones, 1864-'65 ; D. Winegar, 1865-'66 ; Vickars, 1866- '67; E. W. Lawhorn, 1867-'69; J. J. Hines and R. B. Young, 1869-'71 ; J. Harrison, 1871-'72.
HOBART CIRCUIT. N. B. Wood, 1866-'67; Vickars, 1867-'69; J. W. Crane, 1869-'70; Stafford, 1870-'72.
CATHOLIC PASTORS AT ST. JOHNS.
Francisco Antonio Carius, 1846-'49 ; F. Cointet, (S. S. C.,) 1849-'50, February; F. C. Schilling, 1850; B. J. Voors, 1851-'52; F. C. Schilling, 1853-'54, May ; B. J. Voors, 1854-'57, June ; A. Tursch, July, 1857-'58, March ; Jacob Mayor, 1858-'58, April to September ; B.
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Rachor, September, 1858-'70, September ; A. Heitmann, 1870.
AT KLAASVILLE.
Church consecrated May 12, 1861, by Right Reverend John Henry Luess, D. D., Bishop of this diocese. The present pastor has kindly furnished for me the following note : "Since the church's dedication, attended by Rev. Francis Nick, Rev. King, Rev. Frederick Fuchs, who died here, and is interred in the Catholic Cemetery of the congregation ; and he was succeeded by Rev. Henry Renssen ; and the church is now attended and pastored by the Rev. Francis Seigeluk, every Sunday, and holi- day. As the congregation is fast increasing a new church will be built there ere long." The pastor at Klaasville resides at Hanover Centre, and is pastor of that church.
At Turkey Creek, and at Lake, no resident pastors at present.
AT DYER.
K. Schmidt, 1867-'71; B. Wedne, 1872.
AT CROWN POINT.
P. Wehrle; L. Weiser, 1869-'70; H. Meissner, 1871.
I take the opportunity to acknowledge here the kind- ness and courtesy of the pastors at Hanover, St. Johns, and Crown Point, in furnishing to me information for these records ; and to express my gratification in regard to the pleasant acquaintances thus formed. Indeed, all . the pastors of the different churches have aided me in this very kindly ; but some of us do not keep our own records in as good shape as do our Catholic brethren.
Population in 1870, 12,339. Present population about 12,500.
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CHURCH MEMBERS.
(Some of these are estimated from the families.)
Catholic, 2500 ; Lutheran, 1125 ; Methodist Episcopal, 450 ; German Methodist, 120; Presbyterian, 124; Chris- tian, 78; Baptist, 62; Evangelical, 50; Non-Episcopal Methodists, 40 ; Covenanters, 20; total, 4560.
Number of children in the townships, as enumerated for public school purposes, 4585.
Number of children in the Sabbath Schools, under twenty-one years of age, about 1000.
The Catholic and Lutheran children, who are relig- iously instructed with great care, would number about I500.
Great changes have taken place in the religious orga- nizations in the past thirty years. Four Baptist churches have disbanded, located at Cedar Lake, West Creek, Ho- bart, and Eagle Creek. Methodist churches or classes have ceased to exist, that were once flourishing, at Pleas- ant Grove, Centre Prairie, Hickory Point, Hickory Top, and probably other places ; and Methodist preaching is discontinued also at Jones' School House, South East Grove, and the Butler School House. Flourishing United Brethren congregations have been scattered, and pasto- ral ministrations of this denomination have ceased. Yet the county, as a whole, is not falling back in regard to Christian civilization. Four resident Catholic pastors, two resident Lutheran, three Methodist pastors, and one Presbyterian, devote their time to the religious training and spiritual welfare of their flocks. Ten men devoting their whole time and energies to the upbuilding of Chris- tianity in our townships ought to accomplish much. And
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