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Probably the first white settlement in the limits of Macomb County was made between 1790 and 1800, in the present township of Harrison, on the banks of the Clinton River, about three miles from Mt. Clemens. The settlement was then and is now called the Tucker settlement.
It was here that the first school was taught in Macomb County, on the farm now owned by Franklin Tucker. Between 1795 and 1800, a Mr. Roe, great-grandfather of Milton H. Butler, swayed the rod. Schools were kept up almost continuously in this set- tlement, but little can be learned of them till about 1816 or 1817, when Mr. Charles Stew- ard taught in a house then standing just below the present residence of Lafayette Tucker. Mr. Steward was called a most excellent teacher for those early days, when he was sober; but he was exceedingly fond of strong drink, and his sprees were not few nor far between. He nearly perished by freezing during one of his carousals, when, attempting to cross the river on the ice, he fell and lay for some time in the snow.
In 1820, the eccentric Dr. Dodge was employed. Nothing delighted this old-time teacher more than to dress up in some fantastic costume of flaming and incongruous col- ors. From 1820 to 1830, some of the teachers in the Tucker settlement were as follows: Dr. Chamberlain, about 1821; an old soldier of the war of 1812, about 1822; Mr. Richard Butler, now living one mile south of Mt. Clemens, aged eighty-three, in 1823; a Mr. Haw- kins, who was fond of the .. ardent, " in 1825, 1826 and 1827; Dr. Hemy Taylor, who died in Mt. Clemens in 1876, about 1827; Mrs. McKinney, whose husband was at the same time teaching in Detroit, taught a private school in her own house in 1827 or 1828, and a Miss Cook in 1830.
All the foregoing record relates to the schools of Tucker settlement. Of course it will be understood that all these early schools were in the strictest sense private, public schools, not then being known in Michigan. Each pupil was required to pay a stipulated sum per quarter of twelve weeks, the teacher making his own collections and receiving no public aid.
The following table shows the number of children in the county, in 1839, between the
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ages of five and seventeen years, together with the amount of money apportioned by the State:
No. of Children he- tween 5 and 17 Years.
Amount of State School Apportioned.
Shelby.
316
$126 40
Clinton ..
226
90 40
Richmond.
106
42 40
Erin.
170
68 00
Lenox.
54
21 60
Macomb
176
70 40
Ray
213
85 20
Bruce.
232
132 80
Armada
235
94 00
Warren
43
17 20
Sterling.
131
52 40
Washington
441
176 40
Harrison
181
72 40
Total
2,624
$1,049 60
The value of this table rests upon its comparative antiquity, and the opportunity which it gives of obtaining an insight into the school statistics of the county near half a centmy ago.
Similar statistics for 1881 show that the amount of primary school funds to which the county is entitled is $11,454.36, or an average of $1.06 to every scholar. It is distrib- uted among the townships as follows. Mt. Clemens being counted in Clinton as of yore:
Townships.
No. Children.
Amount.
Armada.
590
$625 40
Bruce.
817
866 02
Chesterfield.
927
982 62
Clinton
1,542
1,634 52
Erin.
1,044
1.106 54
Harrison
266
281 96
Lenox.
853
904 18
Macomb.
870
922 20
Ray
417
442 02
Richmond.
988
1,047 28
Shelby
780
773 80
Sterling.
582
616 92
Warren
801
849 06
Washington
379
401 74
Total.
10,806
$11,451 36
The amount of primary school fund accruing to this county at present is almost eleven times the sum granted in 1839, while the number of children increased from 2,624, in 1839, to 10,806 in 1880, being 4.118 as many as the county could boast of possessing in the years immediately following the Territorial days.
The schools of Mt. Clemens, Romeo. Utica and Disco, together with the township schools, are treated in the histories of the townships, villages, etc., of the county.
SABBATH SCHOOLS.
A Sabbath school was organized at Mt. Clemens so early as 1823. when a school was held in an old building used for the manufacture of pottery. It occupied a place where
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the opera house now stands. The organizer was Richard Butler, and the number of scholars was twenty, one of whom was Mrs. H. A. Cady. The next school was organized by Samuel Evarts and Chauncey G. Cady, in 1825, and was held in the old log court house. The Episcopalian Catechism was used in the school; probably it was the only one that could be procured at that early day. Mr. Evarts died in 1826, and the school was scattered.
In 1830, William and Samuel Canfield and R. O. Cooley organized another school. which was held in the court house. Those three men were not Christians, but the early habit of attending Sabbath school followed them to the far West, and they could not rest easy under the state of things they found here. Mr. Canfield went to Detroit to procure books, but could get nothing better than small primers, and they were distributed among the pupils. There seems to have been no one prepared to open the school with prayer. so they were obliged to use the Episcopalian prayer-book, Mr. Canfield reading the prayer. The teachers were Mrs. Silas Halsey, Mrs. R. O. Cooley, Mrs. Ezekiel Allen and Mrs. Ch. G. Cady. Col. J. Stockton was one of the officers. The next school was organized by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1832. It was held in a schoolhouse occupying a position near the present home of George Pelton. It afterward became more of a union school-Baptists, Congregationalists and Methodists all working together. Elder Booth, Mas. Hosia Pratt, Mrs. Allen and others were teachers. In 1834, Rev. Mr. Eastman, a Presbyterian, came to Mt. Clemens and organized the first church of that de- nomination. The following summer of 1835, Mrs. Eastman and Mrs. Joseph Hubbard organized a Sabbath school in the log court house. Mr. Eastman was Superintendent. The Deacons were W. H. Warner, Hosia Pratt. Mrs. Eastman, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hud- bard, Mrs. E. Mather, Mrs. R. Butler, Miss M. McChesney and others. This was not distinctly a Presbyterian enterprise. Churches of other denominations helped in the work. About the year 1836, the denominational schools commenced. The Methodists held a school in the schoolhouse hitherto referred to; the Presbyterians held a school in the court house. About the year 1840, the Methodist school was in a flourishing condi- tion, the teachers being Mr. and Mrs. Gary Pratt, John Lutes, Hosia Pratt, and others. In 1841, the Presbyterian Church divided, a part calling themselves the Old Line and a part the New Line. They worshiped, one class in the court house, and the other over one of the stores. Soon after, the New Line got possession of the church building now occupied by the Presbyterian society, and the Old Line built the church now belonging to the Methodist society. The New Line adopted the Congregational form of government with Rev. Mr. Hamilton as minister, and W. H. Warner or Col. Chandler, first Superin- tendent. The teachers were William Canfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. Warner, Mrs. D. C. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. High, Samuel Axtell and others. The Old Line retained the Presbyterian form of government, their minister being Rev. Mr. Wells. James H. Snook was an earnest worker connected with this church, and was probably the first Su- perintendent. Mrs. Wells, Miss J. Hall, Mrs. Lucy Mather, Mrs. Richard Butler. Miss Mary McChesney, John J. Leonard, were teachers.
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The Baptist Church was built in 1840. The main workers in the Sunday school were Elder Hillis, William Jenney, Thomas and Mrs. Gilbert. At this time, there were four Sabbath schools in operation, viz., Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap- tist. The Presbyterian and Congregational churches re-united under Rev. Mr. Foot. These two churches, after a struggle to keep up a separate existence, found that, after all, there was not past grievance of sufficient moment to keep them longer as separate organ- izations; consequently, they are now working together as a Presbyterian Church. The condition of the Sabbath schools of the county at the close of the last decade is set forth as follows in a table prepared by the Secretary of the Sunday School Association of the county, John E. Day. and shows the reports of various schools for the year 1878:
NAMES of SCHOOLS.
Names of Superintend- ents.
Whole No. in Attendance.
No. Officers .;
No. Teachers.
Average Attendance.
No. Adult Classes.
No. Other Classes.
How many Months Taught.
Volumies in Library.
Sunday-school Concerts.
Amount Collections.
Hymn Book Used.
Armada Cong ..
H. Barrows.
215
6
19
134
4
15
12
435 No .. $62 55 Garlands of Praise.
Armada Baptist ...
Rev. E. N. Selleck
50,
4
6
35
3
3
12
150 No .. 15 00 Gospel Hymns.
Bruce and Armada. J. E. Day.
85
3
5
55
?
3
12
250 Yes 12 00 .Joy Bells.
Brooklyn.
P. M. Bentley
50
7
5
50
3
2
12
75,No ..
Joy Bells.
Erin Presbyterian .. John Common.
30
2
5
20
0
5
6
200 No ..
1 50 S. S. Bell.
Mt. Clemens M. E .. George Robinson ...
143
7
11
91
3
S
12
280 No 135 00 Diadem.
Mt. Clemens Pres .. J. W. Porter.
160
3
14
102
3
10
12
300 No .. 85 00 Welcome Tidings.
Memphis Cong
S. G. Taylor ...
145
5
14
106
4
10
12
175 No .. 64 78 Brightest and Best.
New Haven Cong ... H. E. Holcomb .....
70
6
10
40
3
7
12
12
182 Yes
35 00 Welcome Tidings.
Ray Union
George Bottomley.
60
4
6
50
2
4
7
40 .....
10 43 Diadem.
Richmond, Dist. 12. Robert Burns ......
50
4
5
35
2
3
10
103 No ..
27 00,Gospel llymns.
Richmond Baptist .. M. H. Dewitt.
66
6
7
50
2
4
12
100 No ..
13 00 Pure Gold.
Romeo Congregat'l. M. A. Giddings ....
194
4
15
106
4
11
12
560 Yes
43 46 Diadem.
New Baltimore ...... D. M. Mills.
100
10
75
2
8
175 No ..
15 00
In every city, township and village of Macomb, progress-remarkable, unnsnal, mag- nificent-has been made. No reasonable expense has been spared to render the workings of the schools perfect, and it must be a subject for congratulation to a people who made much sacrifice of time and money, to behold the results of their own earnestness in the matter, and the zeal manifested by both township, city and county school officials.
It must not be thought, however, that our system is perfect. It is wanting in many essential qualities. It is, in a measure, better adapted to a community of plutocrats, who can bestow upon their children a sufficient wealth to pass through this world without labor, than to a community of men who labored honestly to acquire a competence, and who ex- pect that for all time their children will be honest workers.
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CHAPTER XXI. THE CHURCHES OF MACOMB.
That there exists a God is doubted by few, and so generally received is the idea of the existence of a Divinity, that millions of men, called wise men, continue to adore Him, ceasing their inquiries into His attributes. A writer who once entered the region of doubt which leads to infidelity, returned to a calm inquiry, after the mental storin which swept over him subsided, and exclaimed passionately, "There is a God!" We see that Divinity in everything that is beautiful; the herbs of the valley, the cedars of the mountain, bless Him: the insect sports in His beam: the bird sings Him in His foliage: the thunder pro- claims Him in the heavens: the ocean declares His immensity: man alone has been the exception in denying Him: man alone has said there is no God.
Unite in thought the same instant the most beautiful objects in nature. Suppose you see at once all the hours of the day and all the seasons of the year-a morning of spring and a morning of fall: a night bespangled with stars and a night darkened by clouds; meadows enameled with flowers: forests hoary with snow; fields gilded with the tints of autumn-then alone you will have a small conception of that God of the universe. While you are gazing on that sun which is plunging in the vault of the West, another observer admires him coming through the golden gates of the East. By what inconceivable power does that aged star, which is sinking. fatigued and burning, in the shades of the evening, re-appear at the same instant, fresh and humid, with the rosy dew of the morning? At every hour of the day, the glorious orb is at once rising. resplendent as noonday, and set- ting in the West: or rather our senses deceive us, and there is properly no east or west, no north or south, in this world.
Poetry never yet doubted the existence of the Deity. Some of the most astute think- ers were poets and Christians. The most gifted prose-writers devoted much attention to the question of a God, and proclaimed the existence of Him, who is at once the Omniscient and Omnipotent Ruler. Every thing combines to prove and glorify a God. Man alone questions His reality. But happily, the questioners are few and far between, and still the Christian majority here grants to Jew, Turk, Atheist and heathen Mongolian, every toleration, leaving them at liberty to worship at their respective shrines.
This is the first principle of liberty: its protection is guaranteed by the Republic, and under its genial. influence the Christian and non-Christian are enabled to make just such progress as each class merits.
In this county, the varied forms of Christianity have made great advances. Churches have multiplied until every village and town show their spires and cupolas, containing bells of harmony, which have long since ceased to peal the hymn of debasing bigotry. The centennial of Yorktown witnessed peace throughout the land: religious dissensions,
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savage bigotry entombed, and the Republic happy in the possession of. citizens each one of whom essays to serve God after his own notion, without impertinent interference with his neighbor's faith. The people have evidently realized the fact that the evil example offered by members of every religious society does more to check Christianity than all the sophis. try of the infidel, the arms of the united Mussulmans, or the presence of one hundred thou sand Mongolian mandarins and high priests. Abuses will continue so long as the world exists, but the number may be lessened if each section of the Christian Church will do its duty by watching its interests closely-by minding its own business.
In the following pages. the organization of each church in the county, as shown in the records, is given. There are no public records to base data regarding the first Catholic congregation formed in this county, but it may be presumed that large numbers of the French missionary fathers visited the camping-grounds of the Indians along the Huron, erected temporary altars, and offered the sacrifice of the Mass in presence of the wondering Red-men. After the French Canadians made settlements here, they were visited regularly by the priests of Detroit until the establishment of permanent missions here. Since the American pioneer period, the following religious societies were formed within this county :
The Moravian Church established a mission on the Huron and Clinton about 1781. under Rev. John Huckenwelder and sixteen Delaware Indians. This mission existed until 1786, when Mr. Huckenwelder and his disciples returned to Muskingum.
The Congregational Church society of Romeo was organized February 6, 1832, with Gad Chamberlin, Asa Holman and N. T. Taylor. Trustees. The church was formed in 1828.
The first Presbyterian Church of Mt. Clemens was organized May 4. 1835, with Rod ney O. Cooley, William H. Warner, Daniel Chandler, Noadiah Sackett. Aaron Conklin and Joel Brown, Trustees.
The Baptist Church of Mt. Clemens was organized October 14, 1836, with Horace H. Cady. C. Flinn, Benjamin Gamber, Manson Farrar, Ortin Gibbs and John Gilbert, Trust ees of the society.
The Bruce and Armada Congregational society was formed November 19, 1835. with Erastus Day, Joseph Thurston and John Taylor, Trustees. The church was formed in 1832.
The First Presbyterian Church of Utica was organized January 6, 1837. with Gurdon C. Leech, Orson Sheldon. Albert G. Fuller, Joseph Lester and O. Stevens, Trustees.
First Methodist Episcopal society of the village of Utica was formed March 19, 1839, with Ralph Wright, Elias Scott, Peter D. Lerick, Hiram Squires and John Stead. Trust- ees. A record of re-organization appears May 11, 1844, and April 25. 1856.
The Catholic Church of St. Felicite of L'Anse Cruse, in the township of Harrison, was organized July 16, 1839. with Joseph Pomerville, Joseph L. Sansfaucon, Hubert Forton. Trustees.
Methodist Episcopal Church of Romeo was organized January 28. 1839, with James Starkweather, Ariel Pratt, Job Howell. Sewell Hovey and Samuel Cooley, Trustees.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mt. Clemens was organized January 15, 1841, with Edward Tucker, Chauncey G. Cady, E. G. Pratt, Horace H. Cady, John Stockton, B. T. Castle and Robert Little, Trustees.
The first Congregational religions society of the township of Richmond was organized April 13, 1841, with Hugh Gregg, Arannah Gilbert and Jeremiah Sabin, Trustees. Re- organized November 11, 1844, and January 8, 1867.
The First Baptist Church of Utica was organized March 1, 1842, with Ephraim Cal- kin, Benjamin Morey, Dan W. Phillips, Daniel St. John, Ralph Sackett, Cephas Farrar, John B. St. John, Morris Todd and Manson Farrar, Trustees.
"The First Christian Church of Washington was organized June 1, 1842, with George Wilson, George Hanscom, Levi Hoard, Hiram Andrews, Conley Bates, Nathan Keeler and Zebulon Hayden, Trustees.
The first Methodist Episcopal society of Washington was organized November 25, 1842, with Abel Warren, Benjamin McGregor, David W. Noyes, John Keeler, Justin H. Butler, Elon Andrus and Ephraim Graves, Trustees.
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ray was organized February 4, 1844, with Jon- athan E. Davis, Duncan Gass, John Inman, John Gass, Jr., William Lyons, Robert Mc- Gregor and Horace Myers, Trustees.
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Warren was organized November 24, 1845, with Elijah Johnson, Isaac Barton, R. D. Smith, Peter Gillett, H. Leroy, John Wilson, Will- iam Terry, Trustees.
The first union society was organized at Mt. Clemens September 1, 1845, with Pres- cott B. Thurston, Aaron Weeks, Isaac J. Grovier, E. Wright Hall, William Beer and John J. Leonard, Trustees.
First Congregational Church of Armada was organized November 26, 1844, with Alvah Sibley, Perrin C. Goodell, Sumner Pierce and Solomon Stone, Trustees.
The first Baptist society of Romeo was organized February 9, 1847, with David Quack- enboss, Nathaniel Bennett, Horace Bogart, Wiley Bancroft, David Green and Philo Will- son, Trustees.
The first Baptist Church was organized January 28, 1854.
First Baptist Church and society of Mt. Vernon was organized May 23, 1848, with Hiram Calkins, William A. Burt, A. G. Benedict, Lewis G. Tanner and Elisha Calkins, Trustees.
The German Evangelical Lutheran (St. Peter's) congregation of Wayne and Macomb Counties, formed in 1846, was organized as a society under State law February 6, 1849, with Frederick Reh, George Nauymer, Fred Speirs, Bernhard Christoph, Schroeder, J. F. Winkler.
The Baptist society of Macomb was organized January 22, 1849, with Benjamin Gam- ber, George Hall, Jolin Crittenden, Jesse Goodsell, Leonard Weston and J. Huntoon, Trustees.
First Congregational Church of Chesterfield was organized June 2, 1850, with Charles
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B. Matthews, Eber C. Denison and Samuel Coppernoll, Trustees. The church was formed in 1847.
First Methodist Episcopal society of Chesterfield was organized November 15, 1851, by the appointment of John Herriman, Stephen Fairchild, S. B. Simmons, Robert S. Craw- ford and Andrew Ross, Trustees.
First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mt. Clemens was organized July 3, 1854, un- der the name of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mt. Clemens, with John Vrocklen, J. C. Reimold, Abram Devantier, J. W. Miller, C. Roekr, John I. Murthum, Trustees.
The Evangelical Emanuel Lutheran Church was organized in the town of Macomb, October 9, 1854, with C. F. Schultz, C. F. Pasner and J. F. W. Randts, Trustees.
The First Congregational society of Utica was organized January 13, 1855, with Payne K. Leech, Ira H. Butterfield, George W. Giddings, John B. Chapman and Oliver Adams, Trustees.
The first Methodist Episcopal Church of Macomb was organized February 15, 1855, by the appointment of the following Trustees: R. S. Crawford, Samuel Farr. J. A. Craw- ford, L. Bloss and Jacob Ellis.
First Free-Will Baptist Church of Bruce was organized June 12, 1855, with James Hosner. H. Hosner, Abram S. Powell, Absalom Brabb and Jacob Hosner, Trustees.
The Free-Will Baptist society of Lenox and Chesterfield was organized March 15, 1856, with Benjamin D. Rogers, Levi S. Bement, Thadeus Hazleton, Allen Farr and George McCaul. Trustees.
First Baptist society of Armada was organized May 24, 1856, with Ezra Torey, Al- bertus A. Puison and Sanford H. Corkin, Trustees.
First Congregational Society of Ashley was organized April 29, 1856, with T. M. Willson, L. Haskins, Charles Terry, S. F. Atwood, A. Ashley, S. B. Farnham, Trustees.
First German United Evangelical society of Mt. Clemens was formed January 31, 1859, with thirty-one members.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Armada was organized February 19, 1859, with Allen L. Frost, Joseph Gleason, Gideon Draper, Warren Tibbits, William F. Mallary and Benjamin Maybee, Trustees.
First Presbyterian society of Erin Township was organized January 7, 1861, with John Common. James McPherson, Moses Bottomley, James Middleton, George Moore- house and Thomas Common, Trustees.
"The Church at Warren," presumably of the denomination known as the "Church of Christ." was organized February, 185S, with Hazen Warner, Sylvanus B. Royce and Sylvester Harvey, Trustees.
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Richmond was organized February 12, 1858, with Amsey W. Sutton, Asa Allen, Jen. B. Graves, Middleton Thompson and Hamilton Holly, Trustees.
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Bruce was organized, with Daniel Smith, Elijah Smith. William H. Pool, M. E. Hunt, Trustees.
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The Protestant Methodist Church of New Baltimore was organized June 15, 1863. with Marvin M. Saunders, Ransom Fox, William Fralick. A. J. Heath and James House, Trustees.
The Protestant Methodist Church of Shelby was organized April 13, 1863. with Will- iam Arnold, William Buxton, Austin McLellen, Joel Lewis, James McLellen, Henry Decker and Henry Singer. Trustees.
First St. Peter's United Reform Lutheran Church of Lenox was organized July 6. 1863, with John G. Meyer. Hemy Remer and William Beir, Trustees.
Seventh-Day Adventists of Memphis organized a society January 5, 1864, with James Potter, Harford Phillips and Mitchell McConnell. Trustees.
First St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Erin was organized February S. 1864, with Justus Wormspecker, John Eberlein. John T. Eberlein, Trustees.
The Baptist Church of Disco was organized, and the following-named Trustees elected, December 18, 1865: James Payne, Alson Haines and Isaac Montfore.
The Christian Union Association of Richmond was organized January 2, 1866, with Reuben Burgess, William Lamphire, Daniel Gleason, John Hicks. George H. Perkins, Harvey G. Trench, Daniel Flagler, J. M. Hicks and Reuben A. Burgess, Trustees.
The Religious Philosophical society of Sterling was organized April 7, 1866, with Justus V. Starkey, James Bentley and Calvin More, Trustees.
The German United Evangelical St. Paul's Church of Warren was organized June 12, 1864, with G. B. Berz, W. E. Hartsig, John B. Jacob, C. Ringe and Louis Hartsig, Trustees.
St. Emanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waldenburg was organized April 28, 1867, with Ang. Weber, Godlove Klockow and Aug. Posner, Trustees.
The First Christian Church of Romeo was organized October 12, 1867, with Nathan Keeler, Robert Hamilton, Daniel Flagler, Stephen Grinnell and Edward Soule, Trustees.
The first religious society of Ray was organized February 16, 1869, with A. B. Shel- don, John E. Day, Arad Freeman, S. A. Fenton, A. L. Armstrong, R. S. Cairns, George Bottomley and Oran Freeman, Trustees.
The First Congregational society of New Haven was organized November 17, 1868, with John Millard. Adam Bennett, Morgan Nye and James F. Dryer, Trustees.
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of New Baltimore was organized in January, 1871, with F. Miller, W. Heineman, A. Stuth, J. Larch, H. Heidderck. Fred Harms, Trustees.
First Baptist society of Richmond was organized June 15, 1869, with Manson Far- rar. Harvey French. D. J. Stewart, James W. Cooper and H. F. Douglass, Trustees,
First Methodist Church of Warren was organized July 18, 1872, with Israel Hudge, pastor; Benjamin B. Smith, Secretary; John L. Beebe, Elijah Davy and Nelson Tupper, Trustees.
The Emanuel Church of Lenox was associated January 25, 1873, with William Kuhn, Aug. Kuhn. William Killman, Carl Furstnem and Fritz Killman, Trustees.
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