USA > Massachusetts > Hampden County > Our county and its people : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. Volume 3 > Part 41
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68
Frequently in this chapter, and also in various other chapters of this work. writers have spelled this surname Bedertha and occasionally Bodortha, thus follow- ing the example of carly Springfield and West Springfield town clerks, The name properly spelled is Bodurtha, and has been known in our county history for two and a half centuries.
( 1
526
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
Seth N. Bennett; 1875, J. Henry Churchill, Byron C. Roberts, Edward K. Bodurtha ; 1876, J. Henry Churchill, Lewis L. Whit- man, Edwin Leonard, 2d; 1877, J. Henry Churchill, Lewis L. Whitman, Frederick N. Leonard; 1878, Lewis L. Whitman, J. Henry Churchill, Edwin Leonard, 2d; 1879, Lewis L. Whitman, Oscar A, Parks, Edwin Leonard, 2d; 1880, Edward K. Bodurtha, Edwin Leonard, 2d, J. Henry Churchill ; 1881, Edwin Leonard, 2d, Edward K. Bodurtha, Charles C. Wright; 1882-5, Edward K. Bodurtha, Edwin Leonard, 2d, J. Henry Churchill; 1886-8, Edward K. Bodurtha, Edwin Leonard, 2d, William H. Granger ; 1889-90, Henry E. Bodurtha, James F. Barry, Edwin Leonard, 2d; 1891-2, James F. Barry, Alson W. Allen, Edwin Leonard, 2d; 1893, James F. Barry, Willis C. Campbell, Edwin Leonard, 2d ; 1894, James F. Barry, Albert H. Brown, Willis C. Campbell ; 1895, Henry E. Bodurtha, Albert H. Brown, James F. Barry ; 1896, Henry E. Bodurtha, Edwin Leonard, 2d, R. Mather Taylor ; 1897-9, Henry E. Bodurtha, R. Mather Taylor, John H. Reed ; 1900, Henry E. Bodurtha, John H. Reed, James F. Barry.
Town Clerk and Treasurer .- 1855, Alfred Flower; 1856, Ashbel Sykes: 1857, Joel J. Bailey; 1858, Ashbel Sykes; 1859, Josiah Johnson ; 1860-64, Ashbel Sykes ; 1865, Charles C . Wright ; 1866-67, Samuel Flower; 1868-87, Stephen H. Bodurtha; 1888- 1901, Dr. Jndson W. Hastings.
For the year 1901 the full list of town officers is as follows : Town clerk and treasurer, Dr. Judson W. Hastings; seleetmen, assessors, overseers of the poor and board of health, Henry E. Bodurtha, James F. Barry, John H. Reed; auditors, Fred A. Sykes, John G. Freeland; collectors, Munroe Hayward, Dennis M. Crowley, Daniel W. Corwin; constables, James M. Bean, Willis C. Campbell, Elmer E. MeIntire, Frank J. Pomeroy, Albert H. Brown, Amos Gosselin, Monroe Hayward, William H. Tower, Albert E. Worthington ; highway surveyors, Willis C. Campbell, Horace B. Worden, Daniel L. White; trustees Whiting Street fund, Seth N. Bennett. Osear A. Parks; cemetery com- missioners, Robert Ely, Jr., Seth N. Bennett ; sinking fund com- missioners, William HI. Granger, Edward K. Bodurtha, Oscar A. Parks ; school committee, Charles P. Davis. William H. Granger,
( )
527
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
J. Arsene Roy. Fred A. Worthington : superintendent of schools, Francis S. Briek ; library trustees. Ralph Perry, S. Newell Smith, Henry L. Tower: librarian, Emma F. Pyne.
The record of the town for patriotic action is every way creditable and worthy its New England environment. In the revolutionary war. the district sent from its few scattered families a worthy representation on the quota of Springfield. The only experience of the town as a corporation during a serious war period was in connection with the rebellion, which came npon the country almost before the people of Agawam had acens- tomed themselves to the routine of local self-government. But the response was no less earnest and efficient. With a popula- tion not varying much from 1,700 souls of all ages and eondi- tions, the town sent 172 men to the war, or fully one-tenth of its population. Of this number twenty-two gave their lives, either in battle or from disease, a percentage of ahnost 13, and con- siderably higher than the average death loss of all the troops from the state. The number furnished to the Union armies was ten in excess of all calls during the war. The amount of money expended by the town reached nearly $23,000. exelusive of state aid. The women of the community were in no sense less devoted than their husbands and brothers to the great cause of national unity. A soldiers' relief society was formed in October, 1861, and until the elose of the struggle weekly meetings were held at which lint. bandages, underclothing and various useful articles for the soldiers were made and sent to the front ; while the society also contributed about $1,000 in money for the same noble eause.
Argriculture has ever been the principal industry of Aga- wam. The soil is fertile. especially in the extensive meadows bordering the Connectieut river, and yields generously the grains, vegetables and fruits adapted to the elimate. Dairving is also pursued quite extensively. the various farm prodnets finding ready sale in Springfield markets. As a result most of the farmers are prosperous. the evidences of which are shown in their well-kept buildings and attractive fields. This pros- perity is generously distributed. There are few large farms ; none extremely large. Most of the holdings are of moderate
( 1
528
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
extent, and in consequence utilized to the best advantage by their owners, so that in the more fertile portions of the town there is very little "unimproved" land.
In this connection it may be noted that the only organized society in the town, at present, is a prosperous grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, known as Agawam grange, No. 151, of which HI. Preston Worden is master, Mrs. Carrie L. Hayward, seeretary, and Miss Nellie Campbell, treasurer.
The manufacturing interests of Agawam began, as in so many other early settlements, with the primitive saw mill-a necessity in every community which sought to pass the "log- house" stage of its development. In 1665 a grant was made unto Samuel Mashfield, Thomas Noble, Thomas Miller and Elizur Holyoke, which in addition to permission for "ye setting up of a saw mill on a brook below Ensign Cooper's farm, over Agawam river," conveyed forty acres of land, "where they shall choose it, near the place where the mill shall stand, not prejudieing any of ye inhabitants' property on the highway, " also "thirty aeres of meadow within two or three miles of ye place, where they shall find it most convenient for their use; and they are not to be restrained of the liberty of the commons for all sorts of timber for their use for sawing or otherwise." This was cer- tainly generous encouragement for the "infant industry," and there seems no doubt that the mill was built and put in operation by the first of April, 1666, as required by the terms of the grant. Other saw mills, grist mills, blacksmith shops, with one or two briek yards probably comprised the range of the district's manu- facturing interests for the first century and a half after the original grants were made.
During or about the year 1810 the first steps were taken for the manufacture of both cotton and woolen goods in a small way. In the former, one Thomas Belden of Hartford associated him- self with four Agawam men-Amos Ambrose, Jonathan Worth- ington, John Norman, and Elijah Porter-and built a small mill on the power formerly occupied by a saw mill in the south part of the town, near the mouth of Three-mile brook. As was then much the enstom, the yarn was spun at the mill and sent out
34-3
( 529 1
Ok house, South Agawam
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
among the women of the vicinity to be woven on hand looms. The business was continued intermittently, but not with marked success, until 1825, when the mill was closed. It was reopened in 1832 by Leonard & Parmenter, then woolen manufacturers at Agawam Center, by whom it was run for two years more. when the plant was abandoned and the business removed. This is said to have been the first cotton mill of any description started in Western Massachusetts.
The first woolen manufactory in Agawam was a small mill for carding and fulling, built very soon after the cotton mill, by Justus and Calvin Bedortha. The proprietors did custom work only until the breaking out of the war of 1812, when they took up the manufacture of broadeloths; but the business declined after the close of the war, when the importation of foreign-made goods was resumed. In 1840, after several changes had been made in the proprietorship, Norton, Bedortha & Co., became the owners, rebuilt and enlarged the mill, and made a success of custom work. Fifteen years later-May 12, 1857-the present Agawam com- pany was organized, with a capital stock of $10,000. Stockinet manufacture was taken up. and proved extremely successful during the civil war. In 1875 the original wooden mill was supplemented by a fine brick building. The capital stoek is now $50.000, and the company is officered by Samuel Pyne, president and agent ; Fred A. Sykes, treasurer.
About 1840 Lyman Whitman took up the manufacture of wall paper, occupying the old cotton mill building, and continued in the industry for some ten years. In 1872 the Worthy Paper company was organized and built a high-grade paper mill at Mittineagne, using power obtained from the Agawam river. For thirty years this mill has maintained a first-class reputation for the best quality of linen and ledger papers. While the nominal capitalization has remained unchanged, the buildings have been enlarged from time to time, and improved machinery has been substituted whenever available, so that the capacity has been materially enlarged. Charles Southworth is the president, and Edgar S. Bliss, treasurer and manager.
The business of gin and whiskey manufacture carried on by the H. Porter company, with Edson W. Lindsey as manager,
( 531 )
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
originated more than a century ago, when E. Porter established a plant on or near the present site in the south part of the town, and began the industry of distilling peppermint. Later the produet was changed to potato whiskey, while for very many years the name of the town was a household word through the extensive use of " Agawam gin."
The matter of edneation has always received practical atten- tion in Agawam, the money and care of the residents having been given ungrudgingly for the promotion of schools, satisfactory in number and of the best quality. The educational work has, how-
School Building-Feeding Hills
ever, been confined to the district and graded schools, no high sehool or academic institution having been organized in the town. An important step in relation to school buildings was taken in 1874, when as the result of some controversy over the location of a town hall it was voted to erect buildings for the accomoda- tion of the higher school grades at Agawam Center and at Feeding Hills, each to have a large hall in the upper story for the accommodation of town meetings and other public gather- ings. These were completed during the following year, and more
( )
532
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
recently a handsome brick school building has been erected at Mittineague, so that the scholars in all portions of the town have good accommodations in these central buildings and the un- graded schools conveniently located in the more sparsely settled sections. Some fifteen teachers are employed, under the direc- tion of a superintendent and the sehool committee of the town.
A free public library was organized in 1890, and has now over 2,000 volumes of well-selected books. The advantages of the library are free to all residents of the town over twelve years of age, and a weekly delivery of books is made at the three prin- cipal villages, giving equal facilities to all inhabitants.
For forty years after the first grants were made to settlers in the Agawam district, the people there residing were obliged to cross both the Agawam and the Connecticut rivers in order to attend church; and, there being neither bridges nor adequate boats, we must admire the strength of the religious spirit which kept these people faithful to their principles. The dangers encountered are well illustrated by the aceident to the Bedortha family, three of whose members-Reice, John, and the wife of Joseph-were drowned in the Connectieut in 1683 by the over- turning of the boat. One has but to reeall this incident with the tragie deaths of Longmeadow settlers a few years carlier, also on their way to the Springfield church, to realize something of the meaning of religious fidelity in those carly days.
In 1695 the thirty-two families residing west of the Connecti- cut river, numbering more than 200 members, took steps to secure recognition as a separate parish, and in 1698 a church was formed in what later became the town of West Springfield. With this the Agawam families affiliated, on account of its con- venience, and with it they remained identified until 1757, when the territory now comprising the town of Agawam was set off as the sixth parish of Springfield. This parish at that time com- prised about seventy five families. The inhabitants were called together in precinct meeting February 2. 1758, and after electing Capt. Samuel Mirick as moderator and Moses Leonard as clerk. voted to raise £17 "in order to have the gospel preached among us here." About a year later it was voted to build a meeting
( 533 )
.
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
house "in the center of the present inhabitants, or as near as may be. " and a committee was appointed to determine the loca- tion. In January, 1760. it was voted to build "at ye head of the first branch beyond Ensign Reuben Leonard's"-a location now pointed out at a fork of the roads on the edge of the plain be- tween Agawam and Feeding Hills villages. The meeting house was erected in the same year, and so far completed that it could be used for holding services. The church was organized on the 10th of November, 1762, and a week later Rev. Sylvanus Gris- wold was ordained and installed as the first pastor of the Sixth church of Springfield. In 1774. when the town of West Spring- field was created. the title was changed to the Second church of West Springfield. The church was organized with nine members in addition to the pastor-elect,-Samuel Merrick. Joseph Bodurtha, Benjamin Leonard. John Leonard, Reuben Leonard, Abel Leonard, Joseph Selden. Joseph Flower, and Jonathan Bodurtha. Twenty others united by letter on the 28th of the same month. some of the number being Baptists, each denomina- tion agreeing to respect the convictions of the other regarding baptism. and other points of difference in belief and customs.
The pastorate of Rev. Mr. Griswold extended over fifty- seven years until his death in 1819, and covered a variety of experiences in connection with the church work. Although his salary was small, being abont $225 a year, with use of a tract of forty acres of land. the stress of the revolutionary war made its payment difficult. and it is recorded that the pastor released his people from their obligations to him. But other difficulties and perplexities arose, among which it is probable that a want of harmony betwen the sections was a factor, so that about the year 1500 the precinct was again divided, Feeding Hills and Agawam proper being made separate parishes. The former retained the original name and the church building, which was taken down, removed to the village and re-erected, but was left in an unfinished stato for twenty years. This stucture, by the way, had a varied experience. For the first ten years it was used by the mixed congregation of Congregationalists and Baptists, and after the organization of a separate Baptist church the two
( 534 )
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
bodies jointly used the same house of worship. In 1802 a Methodist society was organized, and they also used the same building. It was neatly finished in 1821. and the joint occupaney continued until the Congregationalists withdrew in 1834 and built their present house of worship, which was en- larged in 1857, and has since undergone considerable change. In 1855, at the incorporation of the town the church name was changed to "First Congregational Church of Agawam."
Following the death of Rev. Mr. Griswold, the church was without a pastor until 1821, when Rev. Reuben Hazen was or- dained, and for nine years served the Feeding Hills church as well as that at Agawam, dividing his time in the pastoral work, and preaching in the two pulpits on alternate Sabbaths. He resigned the pastorate at Feeding Hills in 1830 to devote himself to the Agawam parish. His successors at the First church have been : Rev. Harvey Smith, August 11, 1830, to June, 1833; Rev. Horatio J. Lombard. June 8, 1834, to 1836; Rev. Calvin Foote, December 21. 1836, to September 23, 1839; Rev. Dillon Williams, June 30, 1841, to May 28, 1848; Rev. Stephen D. Ward, October, 1853, until his death, June 11. 1858: Rev. M. Harrington, 1859- 60; Rev. William M. Birchard, 1860-63; Rev. Lewis Grout, May 14, 1864, to October 1, 1865; Rev. Charles S. Sylvester, May 13, 1866, to April, 1879; Rev. A. W. Field, 1879-82; Rev. Thomas M. Price, 1883-6; Rev. Jasper P. Harvey, 1887-9; Rev. Egbert N. Monroe, 1889-90; Rev. Frank L. Garfield, the present pastor, settled in 1892.
The Second Congregational church of Agawam, more com- monly called the Agawam Congregational church, was created by the division of the parish during or about the year 1800. but it was not for ahnost twenty years that a church was organized at. Agawam Center. Directly after the separation, however, the Agawam people procured the frame of a meeting house from a society at Suffield, Conn .. which was created on the common, and was adopted as a parish house, money being voted by the parish for its completion. It was some three years, however, before its dedication, after which it was used under mutual agreement by Baptists and Congregationalists, the latter having a society,
( 535
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
though without a church organization. Matters ran along until 1819, when Capt. Timothy Allyn, Calvin Bedortha, and Ebenezer Wyman, members of the First church in West Spring- field, requested dismissal and that they might be organized into a church in Agawam. A council was held at the house of Capt. Allyn on the first day of September, to consider and act upon the matter. Rev. Richard S. Storrs of Longmeadow was the moder- ator. It appears from the records of this conference that not only was the Second church organized, but at the same time the church at Feeding Hills, which had become too much reduced in member- ship to maintain a minister. was reorganized, identical articles of faith and covenant being adopted by the two bodies, to the end that one pastor might be engaged to minister alternately to the two churches. This plan was consummated in 1821, after nearly two years of temporary pastoral supply, when Rev Reu- ben S. Hazen was settled as pastor of the two churches, being paid $250 annually by the Agawam church, and $190 by that at Feeding Hills. This joint pastorate continued until 1830, when Rev. Mr. Ilazen resigned the Feeding Hills charge to give all of his strength and energy to the people at Agawam, where he labored faithfully until May 17, 1843, when he was dismissed.
The second pastor of the church, Rev. Ralph Perry, who came from Manchester, Conn., was ordained and installed Jan- mary 3. 1844. His health failing, he was dismissed iu 1846, but on recovery he was again installed near the close of the following year, and served the church faithfully and most acceptably until August 26, 1874, when a severe accident sustained at a railroad erosing in Springfickl rendered him for a long time helpless. He resigned in the spring of 1875, and was succeeded by Rev. George H. Pratt of Glastonbury, Conn., who was invited October 1, 1875, to supply the church, and was settled a year later. His pastorate was succeessful, but was terminated in 1879. For the next twelve years no pastor was formally settled, but the officiating clergymen were Rev. Allen Hazen, D. D., February 1. 1-80, to AApril 1, 1852 : Rey. Edward E. Lamb, from December, 1852, until his death, July 21, 1883; Rev. Charles L. Tomblen, from April 1, 1884, to May 1, 1887; and Rev. F. M. Sprague,
( )
536
1.
منطر
Feeding Hills Street, Town of Agawam
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
from May, 1887, to October, 1591. Notwithstanding the informality of these pastorates, ninety-three members were added to the church during the twelve years. The present pastor, Rev. Walter Rice, was called December 27, 1891, and was in- stalled February 3, 1892. During his pastorate sixty-five per- sons have joined the church, and its membership is now 177. The church building was fitted with a belfry and steeple in 1833, and was removed to its present site in 1845, being remodeled two years later. A chapel was built in 1868. and the main building was again remodeled, to its present form, in 1875.
The First Baptist church was organized in 1790 by certain persons of that faith who for that purpose withdrew from the First Baptist church at Westfield, by a letter dated January 9, of that year. Eleven persons subscribed to the covenant at the organization of the church, January 26, 1790-John Porter, Stephen Bodurtha, Jonathan Purchase. Earl Bancroft. Margaret Purchase. Molly Worthington, Mary Porter, Martha Purchase,
Abigail Palmer, Eleanor Bodurtha. Roxana Bancroft.
It
appears that earlier in the history of the community a small and weak Baptist society and church had been organized, but both had long before ceased to exist, and the only positive records re- garding the matter show that Rev. Edward Upham was pastor from 1740 to about 1749. On the 4th of March. 1790. the new church extended a call to Rev. Jesse Wightman. a lieentiate of the First Baptist church of Groton, Conn., to become the pastor, and on the 29th of September of that year he was duly ordained. The pastorate continued until his death. September 7. 1817. So devoted was Mr. Wightman to the work of his life that long after he became unable to stand at the desk he was assisted to the pul- pit, where, sitting, he would "address the assembled audience in the most fervent manner." A serious dissension in the church regarding the subject of singing occurred in 1814. and threat- ened the life of the church itself. Many withdrew. and obser- vance of the communion was suspended for several months. Through the earnest efforts of the pastor the trouble was finally arranged, and an era of good feeling which began in 1815 induced a strong revival in the community.
( 538 1
THE TOWN OF AGAWAM
Following the death of Rev. Mr. Wightman came a period of depression, and no pastor was settled until 1823, although the pulpit seems to have been supplied most of the time, Rev. John Grant, Rev. David Wright. Rev. B. M. Hill and others officiating. Rev. Thomas Barrett of Sharon. Mass., was called to the pastor- ate in 1823. accepted, and served faithfully for nearly seven years until his resignation in 1829. During this time a remark- able religious revival took place. and with it a revival in the pros- peets of the church and society. In 1826 an old member of the church, Asa Button, died and left a house and several acres of land as a parsonage, of which Mr. Barrett, at his request, took im- mediate possession. Soon after the subject of a meeting house began to be agitated. For ten years meetings were held at the houses of members or at school houses, and afterward the Bap- tists held an interest in the parish house, which was also occupied by the Congregationalists. In February, 1830, it was voted to ereet a building of their own, their interest in the parish house being disposed of to the Congregationalists for $600. The com- pleted structure was dedicated October 20 of the same year, Rev. Gustavus Davis. D. D., of Hartford, Conn., preaching the ser- mon. A series of brief pastorates followed, these being the names of the ineumbents : Rev. Erastus Andrews, 1830-31 ; Rev. John W. MeDonald, 1831-5; Rev. Pierpont Broekett, 1835-6; Rev. Matthew Batchelder. 1837-40; Rev. William A. Smith, 1840- 41; Rev. Lester Lewis, 1841-6; Rev. John Cook, 1847; Rev. Asa A. Robinson, 1848-52; Rev. Thomas Dowling, 1852-4; Rev. Ad- dison Parker, 1855-64, when he died; Rev. George Colesworthy, 1865-9: Rev. E. P. Bond, 1870-73; Rev. A. H. Simons, 1874-83; Rev. H. M. Heywood, 1884-9; Rev. S. A. Read, 1889-1899. Rev. Frederie S. Boody is the present pastor. The location of the parsonage was changed about the year 1865, when the old par- sonage was sold and the house purchased by Rev. Mr. Parker during his pastorate, located near the church, was taken in its stead. In 1883 the church building was extensively repaired and improved ; and as an illustration of the spirit of Christian fellow- ship between the denominations, it may be mentioned that dur- ing the repairs the Baptists were offered and accepted the use
( )
539
OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
of the Congregational church, and when the repaired church was reopened with appropriate services, both congregations united in the exercises.
A Methodist Episcopal church was established at Feeding llills as early as 1802, but the first forty years of its existenee were uneventful, and no records have been preserved. The preaching during this time was doubtless principally by eireuit riders and casual supply. The church was reorganized in 1844, and in 1851 a small. plain church building was ereeted. With some improvements this served until 1900, when a small but neat church building was completed and dedicated. In 1840 the New England Methodist Episcopal conferenee built a small church in the south part of the town, where serviees were held for a few years with some regularity by Rev. David Taylor, a lieentiate who lived in the vicinity. No church was organized in that por- tion of the town. The pastors who have been regularly assigned to Methodist pulpits in what is now the town of Agawam, so far as ean be ascertained, (serving other parishes also in some eases, ) is as follows: Rev. Amasa Taylor, 1836-7; Rev. William Taylor, 1838-9: Rev. Asa Niles, 1840; Rev. John Cadwell, 1841; Rev. David L. Winslow and Rev. Albert A. Cook, 1842; Rev. William Fleming. 1843; Rev. Homer Clark, 1844; Rev. George W. Greene, 1845; Rev. Ephraim Scott, 1846; Rev. George W. Greene, 1847-50; Rev. W. A. Clapp, 1850; Rev. Ephraim Seott, 1551-2; Rev. George W. Greene, 1852-3; Rev. John Moore, 1853; Rev. D. Todd. 1854: Rev. R. Mitehell, 1855; Rev. Daniel Wait, 1856-7; Rev. John Cadwell, 1858: Rev. John Moore, 1859; Rev. Osman W. Adams, 1861; Rev. N. J. Merrill. 1868; Rev. J. H. Lord, 1871; Rev. N. JJ. Merrill, 1873-4; Rev. A. Caldwell, 1875; Rev. Jonathan Neal. 1878-80: Rev. S. L. Rodgers, 1881-2; Rev. F. T. George. 1883-1: Rev. II. W. Adams. 1885-6; Rev. A. C. Godfrey. 1887-8: Rev. William Ferguson, 1889; Rev. S. L. Rodgers, 1890-91; Rev. Charles Nieklin, 1892-4; Rev. H. G. Buckingham, 1900-01.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.