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The church has been supplied by Wm. Reed, D. Mc- Ruer, C. C. Hembree, James A. Mckay and James Reed.
A frame church, thirty by forty feet, ample for this small country neighborhood, was built in 1876. Though never large and constantly depleted by re- movals, this church has furnished valuable workers for the church at large and has been a feeder for other churches.
Elder George Morgan, Clerk of Session, furnished the above data.
In the early seventies, Rev. Luther Dodd did good service for the Master in preaching at every point in Atchison County where there was any opening. Among these was the Willsie or London school house where, on June 19, 1874, he and Rev. E. B. Sherwood organized the Tarkio Church with the following mem- bers : Miss Blessing, Mrs. Rebecca Booth, David Flack and wife, G. W. Marquis and wife, Mrs. B. Schaum and "Grandma" Schaum. Of these G. W. Marquis was elected elder. Two years later Adam Faris and family and others from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, were re- ceived, and Mr. Faris and H. C. Wilson were ordained elders. The place of meeting for the first four years was the London school house. Then Homer Hall was used, and Barger Hall afterwards till the church was built. The first Sunday school in town was organized at a meeting held in the depot. The town of Tarkio was not even located till six years after the organiza- tion of the church. A frame church, thirty by fifty feet, and costing $2,500, the first one erected in the town, was dedicated April 9, 1882.
For the preceding early history we are indebted to Elder Robert Lynn.
This church has been supplied by L. Dodd, S. M. . Kier, J. F. Clarkson, F. J. Reichert, James Kirkwood, A. W. Benson, George Miller, Duncan Brown, John H. Hatfield and Samuel B. Alderson. The complete
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roll of elders is Geo. W. Marquis, A. Faris, Harry C. Wilson, Peter Mckenzie, Wm. B. Travis, John C. Lynn, John Currie, And. B. Craig, Robert Lynn, H. K. Noel, J. W. Botkin and James H. Filson. It has been self- supporting since 1888.
This large, able and very liberal church has also contributed to the work of the Master, one minister, John A. Currie, son of Elder Currie, and one devoted missionary to our American Highlanders, Miss Sarah E. McMullen.
The sketch we give is condensed from one written by Mrs. J. A. Postlewaite and furnished by Mrs. Geo. S. Luckhardt.
Miss Sarah E. McMullen was born and educated in Pennsylvania, and came in 1890, from Stella, Neb., to Tarkio, as a public school teacher. As elder daughter she was a dependence, counsellor and sym- pathizer in the home circle, as among friends, and no less an ever ready helper in every department of Christian work. She spent nearly two years in Bible study in the Moody Institute and in city mission work in Chicago. Dedicating her life to the work among the mountaineers, she went to Jarrold's Valley, W. Va., in October, 1896.
The record of her work is from her letters to per- sonal friends. In the first three months she attended ยท seventy-five meetings, which she usually conducted, and made 217 visits. All the traveling had to be done on horseback or on foot, over the worst of roads, cross- ing and re-crossing bridgeless streams. And for wearied body and intensely active and overtasked mind, there was no home for relaxation and recupera- tion except such as was offered by the crude civiliza- tion of this primitive people. We cannot wonder that failing health compelled her to lay down her work in June, 1897, when she went to Pennsylvania, hoping to regain her health.
But God had otherwise ordained, and on the 5th of August, He took to Himself the brave spirit which
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had so honored Him in life. Dr. Humble says: "Hers was a heroic, self-sacrificing life, and though dead she yet speaketh through her mountain people."
The Fairview congregation was organized by Rev. J. M. Ragan, August 9, 1874, and was known as High Prairie congregation till about 1884. It was received under the care of Chillicothe Presbytery, October 4, 1874. The names of the constitutional members : Lethe J. Allen, John, Martha, Mary and Polley Palmer, Mary J., Phebe and Wm. Patton, Magdalena Ruby, Clark, Hattie and Mahala A. Smith, and George, Nancy and Susie Tipton.
The above information was kindly furnished in December, 1906, by Wm. J. Smith, Clerk of Session. We gather the following additional items from printed Minutes.
The recent pastors are E. L. Uptegrove, J. R. Ad- kins and Amos Coen. The present elders are F. Mill- sted, F. Brownhill, J. Minor and J. W. Snider. The church, valued at $700, is situated four miles west of Chula and four miles south of Winston.
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1875-1885.
The Walkup's Grove congregation was organized December 3, 1876, at the Walkup's Grove school house, with six members: Silas C. Combs, Maggie Turnbull, Henry R. Walkup, Mary F. Walkup, Marguerite Walk- up and Wm. R. Walkup. H. R. Walkup was chosen elder.
Leander F. Hayes was the pastor most of the time from 1876 till 1898, alternating after 1890 with O. D. Allen, the present pastor. For some years about 1900 and after, the church was much reduced and discour- aged, but in 1906, it was greatly revived. The house of worship, on a two acre lot about nine miles east by south of Fairfax, which cost about $2,000 originally, has been modernized recently at an expenditure of over $500. The complete list of elders is-H. R. Walk- up, J. M. West, John Hogland, Timothy H. Proud, Silas C. Combs, Philip Drayer, Wm. M. Goldsberry, T. F. Rolofson, J. B. Smith, G. W. C. Littell, S. E. Proud, Walter B. Littell and James Thompson.
For the above we are indebted to Elder W. B. Lit- tell.
The Round Grove Cumberland Presbyterian congre- gation was organized September 15, 1877, by Rev. F. Mitchell Miller, with the following members: Anna and S. C. Broderick, Eliz. D., Harrison V., James E., James M., Jos. S., Martha J., M. E., M. J., R. F. M., S. Nancy and S. Thomas Clark, David F., Mary F. and Mary J. Fitzgerald, And. C., B. Caroline, Cassandra F .. Clementina B., John R., Nathaniel, Newton K. and R. May Gartin and David F. Jameson. The list of elders is : D. F. Fitzgerald, A. C. Gartin, D. F. Jameson, C. L. Owen and Daniel Fore.
The church has been served by Revs. C. C. Luce, C. B. Powers, J. H. Tharp, J. H. Norman, W. O. H. Perry, C. E. Hayes, S. T. Divinia, H. R. Norris, A. S. McDaniel,
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M. Lowe, R. J. Beard, L. F. Hayes, O. D. Allen, J. Fro- man, E. L. Uptegrove and J. M. Glick.
The above was furnished by Elder D. F. Jameson, Clerk of the congregation. The house of worship, val- ued at $700, is situated near Darlington.
The Craig church was organized in the school house September 16, 1877, by Revs. J. W. Allen and Duncan Brown and Elder W. W. Frazer with six members: Dr. S. S. Bacon, A. M. Hunter, S. P. Jewell, Mrs. E. F. Welch, Mrs. Harriet M. Wilson, and W. B. Wilson. S. P. Jewell was chosen elder. Mr. Brown, then sup- plying the Mound City Church, had been preaching in the school house for about three months, and on Sep- tember 2nd, S. S. Bacon, A. M. Hunter and W. B. Wilson had been elected trustees.
The elders who have served the church are S. P. Jewell, S. S. Bacon, G. W. Gaskill, A. M. Hunter, J. W. Nauman, W. L. Riffe, S. K. Allen, T. D. Frazer, L. A. Shipley and. S. E. Judy ; the ministers : Duncan Brown, B. D. Luther, D. C. Smith, James Reed, A. P. Haydon, M. E. Krotzer, John A. Currie and R. Bruce West; the deacons : W. B. Wilson, Robert Lyons, Wm. Thayer, H. S. Hogue, F. S. Brownfield, G. W. Ballinger, J. H. Riffe, W. T. Crews and Chas. McClandish.
In 1879, this solid church built a solid brick church, thirty by fifty feet, at a cost of $3,000. The manse is on a lot 100 by 110 feet.
The above is from a very complete and concise sketch by Elder A. M. Hunter, long the clerk of Ses- sion, who has served the church over twenty-nine years.
The records of the Stanberry Church having been burned and no information furnished by the church itself, what is here given has been gathered at a great expenditure of time, from various sources.
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The church was organized by Revs. J. W. Allen, F. G. Strange and B. D. Luther. 1883 has been given as the date of organization, but 1880 is undoubtedly the true date, as Dr. Allen was not Synodical Missionary after that year, and Dr. Strange, who was then at Em- pire Prairie, went to Hiawatha, Kans., before May, 1881. Dr. Strange writes: "If my memory is correct, the Stanberry Church was organized in October, 1880. The town was started in a corn field. The services at which the organization was effected were held in the upstairs of a new, unfinished building. The railroad was not yet completed."
Miss Ida Birge and Dr. R. R. Dunshee were among the charter members. The church has been served by Revs. Duncan Brown, Carson Reed, T. M. Hillman, A. W. McGlothlan, D. C. Smith and C. C. Armstrong, and Elders L. A. Kimball, Wm. Miller, C. F. Gardner, J. W. Huggins, John Davis, Edgar M. Hurlburt, J. C. Dhume, Dr. J. A. Hawthorne, C. C. Ward, D. G. Boleyn, John Kuyler, W. H. Fawcett, W. C. Porter, L. A. Cook, W. C. Smothers, T. J. Smith, J. H. McGinnis, Owen L. Smith, Dr. E. P. Campbell, N. E. Reynold, and Wm. Sterritt. Elder O. L. Smith has been the Clerk of Session for several years. The church has a frame house of worship, is grouped with Knox, and has preaching half of the time, with a flourishing Sabbath school.
The following is taken from "Twenty-Five Years of Tarkio Congregation," by Prof. J. Vallance Brown, published in The United Presbyterian, of June 14, 1906.
"In August of 1880 the surveyor put Tarkio on the map. Some three or four months later, Rev. R. M. Sherrard conducted the initial religious meeting in the only available building, the primitive temple of the prairie lands, the railroad station. On the ninth of June, 1881, the maiden service of the first public hall was the formal organization of the Tarkio congrega-
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tion by the pioneer missionary, preacher and supply. The first elder was Mr. J. F. Hanna, one of the most influential in the history of the congregation. The winter following Tarkio united with York in calling Rev. R. H. Barnes. March 14, 1882, dates his accept- ance. On May 5, 1883, Mr. W. O. Miller became second ruling elder. Summer of the same year saw a $5,000 building erected without help from the Board of Church Extension. With June of 1885, Rev. Barnes gave York his entire time.
"The memories of the 'western Sunday,' on which the first pastor preached his initial sermon. It was afternoon of the last Sabbath of November, 1881. The half-story upper room over the grocery story held six early listeners. Stragglers numbered two or three. Outside were crowds and open booths. Pounding ham- mers well nigh drowned the preacher's appeals.
"The longest (the second) pastorate was that of Rev. W. P. McNary, D. D. May 3, 1886 dates his call ; July 1, his entrance on the work. Not until September 1, 1899, was the relation dissolved. Three statements are suggestive. Membership attained to 390. On March 15, 1896, the present $18,000 edifice was dedi- cated. In 1899, the Committee of Missions met in Tar- kio. Dr. McNary was also active in college interests. For practically his entire pastorate he was president of the Board of Directors, and was later an efficient financial agent.
"On February 28, 1900, Rev. R. B. A. McBride was called. On the first of April he entered the work. His first year was the year of the great revival' in Tarkio and community under Williams and Alexander. A not- able sequel was the communion occasion of December 16, 1900. Seventy-six accessions were reported. Sixty- four of these were by profession and baptism. An event of wider historic interest was the meeting of the memorable 'Missionary' Assembly of 1903, in Tarkio. On October 8, 1905, the pulpit was again vacated. -8
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"Musical history : At first an elder 'took the pitch' and led the congregation. A favorite opening refrain was from the long meter of the twenty-second Psalm :
To Thee in praise, I'll lift my song, Amid the great assembled throng;
"In the application 'the great assembled throng' numbered ordinarily-seven! Later, the session 'se- lected twelve members to constitute a choir.' March 26, 1899, Session was petitioned to grant the congrega- tion an opportunity to express itself on the use of an instrument in worship. September 9, 1899, Session's committee on choir was authorized to rent a piano. The pipe-organ was installed in 1903. The present. choir consists of forty-two."
Prof. Brown, who is also Clerk of Session, wrote December 16, 1907: "To the article enclosed must be added our present pastor, Rev. E. C. Little, who settled with us a year ago. Below you will also find a list of the charter sixteen: Mrs. James Anderson, Mrs. Sarah Black, Wm. A. Carothers, Mrs. Ollie Foster, S. S. Fos- ter, J. F. Hanna, Mrs. Nettie V. Hanna, Miss Sarah Ingstrum, T. S. McCullough, Mrs. Lon Miller, Robert F. Miller, W. O. Miller, Mrs. Esther Phillips, Isaac Phillips, Mrs. Nina Stevenson, and R. M. Stevenson."
Something will be said later, in the sketch of Tarkio College, of the ministers and missionaries, many of whom were doubtless temporary members of this church, and some of them probably raised up in it.
In August, 1908, Elder T. D. Frazer, Clerk of Ses- sion of the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Joseph, sent a very full and exact memorandum of its history, from which the following is taken, verbally or in sub- stance :
The records of the Session state: "July 11, 1881, the Lafayette Presbytery appointed Revs. R. S. Camp- bell and H. S. P. Willis and Elder W. P. Sanders a
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committee to arrange for the organization of a church. The committee met and enrolled the following persons : Mrs. Agnes Abercrombie, Thomas Crawford and wife, Mrs. Mary Gibson and Miss Lauretta Richards, all from the First Church, and Mrs. R. G. Brown from Hiawatha, Kans, and on profession of faith, Miss Clara Richards, Elizabeth Richards, Katie Sever and Magda- line Walker.
"This action was reported to Presbytery and the committee was instructed to complete the work of or- ganization. Oct. 7, 1881, the committee met and added the following names to the list of members: B. B. Frazer, Sr., and wife, B. B. Frazer, Jr., T. D. Frazer, J. E. Hewlett and wife, Samuel M. Beattie, Miss Lu- emma Dimmitt, Miss Bettie Glaskin and Dr. J. M. Rich- mond and wife, all from the First Church ; also Chester L. Evans, of Oregon, Mo., B. B. Frazer, Sr., and J. E. Hewlett, who had been elders in the First Church were chosen and installed elders in this church. Rev. George Miller, of Oregon, Mo., accepted a call as stated supply, and entered on his duties October 1, 1881."
"The following ministers have acceptably served the church : Geo. Miller, B. H. Dupuy, W. S. Trimble, W. S. Foreman, and L. E. McNair. Rev. McNair re- signed Nov. 3, 1907. The pulpit has been supplied since by Rev. Duncan Brown, till the middle of May, and by Rev. W. W. Harrison since. The following per- sons have served the church as elders : B. B. Frazer, Sr., J. E. Hewlett, John Williams, John L. Leonard, T. D. Frazer, M. C. Powell, C. R. McCoy and R. W. McDon- ald. The following persons have served the church as deacons: James W. Patrick, T. D. Frazer, M. C. Powell, James Ferguson, M. L. Seip, John L. Leonard, Wm. Ewing, John Massey, Floyd C. Stannard, David Aitchison, Chas. A. Hensley, A. W. Coats, W. R. Mach- ett, Daniel L. Sims, J. W. Koch and F. H. Bierman.
"The Church and Sabbath school have always been active workers. The Sabbath school has been super- intended continuously the last twenty-five years by M.
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C. Powell. Mr. Powell has several times desired to re- tire, but at the urgent request of the school has re- mained."
This organization is the outgrowth of a Sunday school started about 1870, on Penn street, nearly oppo- site where the church now stands. It was superintend- ed from the first up to 1881 by Col. John F. Tyler, who paid the rent of the room in which it was held. Miss Lauretta Richards was very active in the Sabbath school both before and after the organization of the church. Many times when the attendance was very small, she acted as superintendent and all the other officers. No doubt her fidelity was the means of keep- ing up the school.
The Grant City Church was organized October 8, 1881, by Rev. E. B. Sherwood and Elders Walter Glad- stone and Wm. A. Patton, with the following members : Wm. C. and Helen Gladstone, Mrs. Caroline Harrison, Mrs. Martha Hicks, Mrs. Araminta (James) Kerr, Hen- ry E. and Mary J. Martin, Mrs. L. A. Raplee, Wm. N. and Mary E. Woods and Thomas J. and Sarah B. Wors- ter. W. C. Gladstone and H. E. Martin were elected elders. The elders elected since are Stokely C. Da- vidson, Chas. L. Wheeler, B. F. Lucas, Geo. H. Hota- ling, John Stalder, A. W. Kelso, Erdley O. Sayle and John F. Robertson. The church has been supplied by Wm. Meyer, Carson Reed, James Kirkwood, Duncan McRuer, Jr., Edward H. Bull and Allen D. Seelig.
A Sabbath school was begun three months after the church was organized and has been very prosper- ous. A frame church costing $3,000 and replacing the old one was dedicated April 26, 1891, free of debt.
For the above we are indebted to Dr. S. C. David- son, elder for over twenty years, Clerk of Session for sixteen, and Sabbath school superintendent for prob- ably a longer period.
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Elder E. H. White, Clerk of Session, the sustaining and inspiring power of the whole community as well as the church which he has served for twenty-two years, though a very busy man, has kindly furnished the following :
The First Presbyterian Church of Fairfax was organized March 18, 1882, by Rev. E. B. Sherwood and Elders Robert Montgomery and Geo. W. Gaskill, with eight members: Henry L. and Abbie E. Allen, Thomas Bright, Wm. Newton and Julia Curry, S. P. and Ida S. Jewell and Mrs. Anna Lininger, W. N. Curry and S. P. Jewell were elected elders. To these have been added H. L. Allen, E. H. White, J. Harvey Laird, A. C. Hayes, James Thompson and Ruffner Dunlap.
Its ministers are Wilson Asdale, Chas. W. Price, James Kirkwood, D. C. Smith, James Reed, James E. Leyda, J. C. Gilkerson, Wisel Beale, Robert S. Wat- son, Donald S. West, John Duncan and J. M. Bell.
The church was built in 1882, costing about $2,200. The manse cost $750. This is a missionary church, having an outstation at Nishnabotna.
For several years Union Star had been considered an outpost of Empire Prairie whose ministers held ser- vices there as they had opportunity. In 1882, a Union church, in which the Presbyterians of Union Star had a one-fourth interest, having been built, a petition was presented Platte Presbytery asking for an organiza- tion. Presbytery appointed Revs. E. B. Sherwood and Wm. Meyer and Elder James W. Porterfield to visit the field. They met at Union Star, September 29, 1882, and on October first, completed the organization of the church with the following members: A. A. Daugherty and wife, Mrs. Maggie Hudson, Mrs. Rebecca Lowe, Miss Annie Miller, Geo. Moyes and wife, Miss Jennie Moyes, J. C. Ogden and wife, Misses Julia and Kate Ogden, John Patterson and wife, Mrs. Mary Teanor and Miss Harriet N. White. Judge A. A. Daugherty
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was elected elder. Miss Ansie Herron was received on profession the next day.
The elders elected since then are W. S. Earls, Geo. Moyes, Walter L. Reynolds, James L. Landers, Geo. D. Burton, Samuel Stewart and Geo. A. Moyes. James Moyes is deacon.
Rev. F. E. Thompson was the first pastor, and he has been followed by J. F. Clarkson, W. Weaver, J. B. Rice, S. W. Richards, James Reed, F. W. Grossman, C. C. Armstrong, U. G. Schell and D. M. Boyer.
November 30, 1895, the Ladies Aid Society pur- chased a half acre lot on which a neat church was erected ; all now valued at about $2,400.
The above was furnished by Rev. James Reed, who knows more about the churches of Platte Presbytery than any other man living.
The Kingston Church was organized May 18, 1884, by Revs. John C. Young, Thomas Marshall and C. W. Higgins, with the following members: Abijah W. and Julia A. Bishop, Mrs. Belle Buxton, Mrs. Laura Dodge, Mrs. Mary Higgins, Edward D. and Emily Johnson, Jacob and Mary A. Krautz, Mrs. Hannah L. Lambert, Dr. Daniel Neff, James A. Rathbun and Mrs. Mary C. Spivey. D. Neff and J. A. Rathburn were elected elders, and E. D. Johnson, A. W. Bishop and R. D. Sackman, trustees; C. S. McGlothlan became trustee later.
The church, thirty by forty feet, was built in 1868 by the Congregationalists, and purchased from them in 1884, for $750, (according to a history in the Kansas City Library). The manse lot contains an acre.
The church has been ministered to by C. W. Hig- gins, A. B. Goodale, G. E. Northrup, La Theo. Iobe, John Weston, E. S. Farrand, A: B. Byram, C. P. Blay- ney and W. E. Barksdale.
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The roll of elders is D. Neff, J .A. Rathbun, John McNaughton, L. M. Spivey, Wm. Spivey, John W. Sni- der, Geo. K. Dodge, Lee Bridgewater, C. S. McLaugh- lin and Q. T. Jones.
The church was in a discouraging condition, being much depleted by removals, but has lately been greatly revived and has taken on new life.
For the above we are indebted to Elders L. M. and Wm. Spivey.
On February 28, 1885, Rev. Duncan McRuer and Elder James Scott, a committee appointed by Platte Presbytery, proceeded, after due consideration, to or- ganize a church in New Hampton, there being no other church in the place. The charter members were: Mich- al and Elizabeth Scott Cochrane, Josiah W. and Mary S. Corell, Mrs. Margaret Tennant, Geo. Tennant, and John W. and Caroline D. Virden. Of these Messrs. Virden, Cochrane and Corell were elected elders. M. Cochrane was chosen Clerk of Session, and served the church faithfully in that capacity until September 19, 1897, when he resigned because of infirmity and age. "Those who have been possibly the most faithful and instrumental in the continued existence of the church and Sabbath school are Mr. and Mrs. Cochrane, Mrs. Wm. Virden, Miss Naomi Virden, Mr. Albert McMillen, Miss Sarah Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tennant."
The church, twenty-eight by forty feet, was erected in 1885, at a cost of $1200. The very comfortable manse built in 1902 at a cost of $1,000, owes its ex- istence largely to the Virden family, who contributed half of the amount.
The church has been served by Revs. D. McRuer, James A. McKay, Chas. P. Blayney, James Reed and Henry A. Brown; and Elders Cochrane, Corell, Virden, A. L. Funk and John Tennant.
The church has always been especially strong in its Sabbath school.
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The above was furnished by Elder A. L. Funk, Clerk of Session, for nearly twelve years and the effi- cient and enthusiastic superintendent of the Sabbath school for ten years.
Elder Charles Baker, Clerk of Session, wrote in June, 1907: "The Cumberland Presbyterian congre- gation was organized in the Congregational church building at Mabel P. O. on May 17, 1885, by Rev. El- bert S. Ragan. Sallie Bendure, John Blackburn, Retta. Blackburn, Ella F. Crum, L. W. Crum, Kate Davis, Mary E. Hainline, J. E. Medlar, Annabell Webb and John Webb were the charter members. Ministers: E. S. Ragan, S. A. McPherson, M. T. Bell. Ruling elders : John Webb, L. W. Crum, Frank Blackburn, Adam Reiminschneider, John Blackburn, Chas. Baker, E. M. Smith, Wm. McHenry and Guy Hunter.
Nothing additional or later has come to hand.
The Linkville congregation was organized Nov. 23, 1885, at Mt. Pleasant (Second Creek) by Rev. C. B. Hodges. The charter members were Pete Baron and wife, F. W. Hilbus and wife, Anna Hodges, C. B. Hodges and wife, J. J. Hodges and wife, Jesse Hodges, R. T. Hodges and wife, Wm. McMonigle and wife, Mrs. Nancy Slaughter, Mrs. Amanda Taylor and Mrs. Lee Vance.
The church has been served by Revs. James Fro- man, L. Munkirs, S. T. Divinia, W. O. H. Perry, Arthur Perry, S. H. Murray, J. H. Norman, J. C. Moore and D. M. Boyer ; and by elders J. J. Hodges, R. T. Hodges, F. W. Hilbus, W. W. Morrow and Scott Jones. Rev. James Froman is the present pastor.
Elder F. W. Hilbus, Clerk of Session, kindly fur- nished the above.
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1886-1907.
Gower Presbyterian Church was organized May 20, 1886, by a Commission of Upper Missouri Presbytery, consisting of Rev. J. A. D. Hughes, Chairman, Rev. H. B. Boude, D. D., Elder W. P. Hooper, of Plattsburg Church and Elder John L. Wylie of Stewartsville Church. Thomas Hall and F. R. Allen were elected and ordained Ruling Elders; John C. Atchison and D. S. Hall, Deacons; and William Hammett, Trustee. Soon after, date not given, N. G. Cummings and Calvin M. Graves, having been elders in other churches, were elected Elders; and William Hammett, elected and ordained Deacon. Beside the above the following be- came charter members: Mrs. Mattie Allen, Mrs. Mary F. Gartin, Mrs. M. J. Graves, Miss Annie Hall, Mrs. Edna F. Hall, Mrs. Emma Hall, Mrs. Inez C. Hall, Mrs. Virginia Hammett, Miss Minnie Pryor, Mrs. Celia Smith, Samuel Starrett and Mrs. J. E. White. Rev. J. A. D. Hughes became the first regular monthly supply, and the following succeeded him, in the order named : L. E. McNair, O. W. Ganss (installed as pastor), Chas. P. Foreman, J. M. Campbell, Xenophon Ryland, and James B. Carpenter, our present worthy supply. The present officers are Elders F. R. Allen, A. C. Cummings and William Hammett; Deacons J. C. Atchison and Robert C. Cummings.
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