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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
In the early days of Trenton, when the town was small, while there were quite a number of Protestant denominations, they were not strong enough in number or in wealth to erect separate places of worship, and year after year they formed a union church, and each took their turn in using it as a place of worship.
The Methodist Episcopal Church members became strong enough to form
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an organization of their own, at least as a nucleus for, as it was hoped, a large and more influential one in the near future. To that end a few worthy people met together and organized in March, 1865, and called their church as above named.
The church record of that early day is not now to be found, and the names of all the original members of this church organization cannot be given. The following are a portion of those active members who showed their faith by their works: Samuel D. Luke and wife (now of Fort Collins, Colorado), George W. Schlotterback and wife, William Songer (now deceased) and wife, Giles Songer (now deceased) and wife, Peter Colley (now deceased) and wife, Mrs. A. Gilbeant, J. F. Price, and others whose names, as above stated, cannot be found.
After the organization the church steadily grew and prospered, not rap- idly, but as the town grew, and by the spring of 1869 felt strong enough to commence the erection of a house of worship. Heretofore they had several temporary places of worship. The church first held service in the Baptist church and continued its use until the fall of 1867. They then made ar- rangements for the use of the court-house, and held regular service at that place until the spring of 1869.
That spring the work of building a Methodist Episcopal church was com- menced and by fall the building was completed. In the meantime, during the summer and fall the members used the Christian church to hold ser- vice in, instead of the court-house, the congregation of the latter church kindly granting them its use.
The church built was a neat frame building and when completed cost $2,500. It was afterwards enlarged (in 1879) at a further cost of $950. The house was originally erected on the south part of block four, in Mer- rill's First Addition to the town of Trenton. It stood on the spot where now stands Mr. J. B. Carnes's building, now occupied by J. W. Cherry as a dry goods store, at the junction known as "Five Corners." It was removed from there in 1872 to the pleasant location where it now stands.
The church was dedicated to the worship of God in 1872, the Rev. Mr. Higgins preaching an impressive dedication sermon.
The pastors who have officiated in the years gone by and up to the present time, are as follows: Rev. J. T. Mesner, 1865; Rev. S. G. Anderson, 1866; Rev. W. J. Fowler in the year 1867; Rev. Edwin Rozzel in 1868; Rev. T. H. Hollingsworth and Rev. L. V. Ismond in 1869; Revs. Hatfield and Robert Devlin in 1870; Rev. T. B. Bratton in 1871-72; Rev. J. W. Congh- lin in 1873-74; Rev. O. Bruner, 1875; Rev. J. R. Sossein in 1876-77; Rev. J. M. Parker for the years 1878-79-80; and the present pastor the Rev. T. J. Ferrill in 1881.
From the small beginning of a score of members in 1865, the church has grown, and strengthened with its growth and it now holds a membership of
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275. Thus has the earnest work and faith of a few disciples of the lowly Jesus brought forth great fruit, and as the years fade may they ever gather strength and prosper.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CIIURCH.
The earliest written record of the Catholic Church in Missouri shows that Father Watrin performed ministerial services in Ste. Genevieve, in 1760, and in St. Louis in 1766. In 1770 Father Meurin erected a small log church in St. Louis. In 1818, there were in the State four chapels, and for upper Louisiana, seven priests. A college and seminary was opened in Perry county about this period, for the education of the young, being the first college west of the Mississippi River. In 1826, Father Rosatti was appointed bishop of St. Louis, and, through his instrumentality, the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph and of the Visitation were founded, besides other benevolent and charitable institutions. In 1834 he completed the Cathedral Church, at St. Louis. Churches were built in different portions of the State. In 1847 St. Louis was created an arch-diocese, with Bishop Kenrick, archbishop.
ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH.
This church was first organized in the city of Trenton in the autumn of 1872. Services were held at the residence of Mr. Joseph McMullen, on Prospect Street, and where the members gathered occasionally to hear instruction and assist at the holy sacrifice of the mass. Among the first members of the church, and who did much to advance its interests, were Joseph McMullen, John Buckley, James Fitzsimmons and family, George Fischer and sons, Chris. O'Brien and wife, and a few others, numbering ten families in all. Father Kennedy was the first priest who visited Trenton, and organized the church. Father Murphy attended at Trenton and other out missions a few months at the beginning of the year 1873, and Father Kennedy returned to Trenton and the Trenton mission, and took up his residence in July, 1873. Steps were taken immediately to secure a plat of ground for a church edifice; this was purchased, and arrangements also effected for the building of a church. The building is of Gothic style of architecture, of wood, and in size thirty-three by sixty-eight, and cost about $4,000. The organ, sacred vestments, furniture, etc., cost $1,000 more. The church was named the St. Joseph Church, and was dedicated to the service of Almighty God on the first Sunday in September, 1874, by Rt. Rev. John J. Hogan, bishop of the diocese. The Rev. J. J. Kennedy is the pastor in charge. The present membership numbers nearly 200. Some two years ago, by the united efforts of pastor and people, a beautiful sloping hill, adjacent to the city, was purchased, containing six acres, and laid out for a cemetery. It was blessed as a "city of the dead " by the Rt. Rev.
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Bishop Hogan, and called St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery. This is the first Catholic Church and cemetery in Grundy county.
CHRISTIAN CHURCHI.
The Christian Church of Trenton is one of the oldest established churches in the city, and although it has not been one of rapid progress, its growth has been steady, and strength gained from year to year. Those who adopted its creed as their faith were few in number at the start, but faith and work will build up both church and State, and they who have the God-like inheritance of the one, and the earnest and persevering will to do the other, can accomplish all things that man is capable of doing.
In the year 1847 a band of earnest workers, and possessed of an abiding faith, united together and founded the first organization of the Christian Church at Trenton and the heart's love they gave to it caused it to pros- per and find favor with God and man. The names of those who formed this first organization and were the first members of the church, are as fol- lows, and though not all the names were given us, those that were are here entered: Wm. Collier, Sr., Susan Collier, Adam Murray, David T. Wright and wife, Mrs. George W. Moberly, and about twenty others whose names have been lost. The trouble with most of the churches of the early times was a want of properly keeping or preserving the minutes of their churches. In this important point too much carelessness has existed in nearly all of them for the first few years of their organization, and many important and very interesting facts have been lost not only to the church, but history itself loses much in being unable to chronicle the early trials and the earnest work of those who have laid the foundation for the magnificent church edifices of the present day, and given character and strength to the growing organizations.
It was in the year 1856 that the members of the Christian Church united together to build a house of worship for themselves. To plan was to work, and so before the year last above mentioned was chronicled with the dead eternity of the past, a handsome and tastefully arranged church was built of brick, of medium size, and at a cost of $2,000. It was dedicated the same year, by an eloquent and very impressive sermon from Rev. Benj. H. Smith, now of Canton, Missouri, who was called to conduct the dedication ceremonies. He was asked to become their pastor, which he accepted. He was succeeded by the following eminent divines in the order named: Rev. D. T. Wright, Rev. Benjamin Lockhart, Rev. D. M. Turney, Rev. E. V. Rice, Rev. H. W. Dale, Rev. J. R. Gaff, Rev. Martin Peterson and Rev. W. H. Blanks. The church is in a favorable condition, and its member- ship numbers one hundred and fifty.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF TRENTON.
This church was first organized in the spring of 1838, under a large elm tree, just south of the bridge across Grand River, on the road leading to Edinburg, and was first known as the " Washington United Baptist Church." After Trenton was laid out the name was changed to Trenton Baptist Church. Elder Elijah Merrill was the first pastor. It was organized with ten members, as follows:
Elder Elijah Merrill, Nancy Merrill, James R. Merrill, Elizabeth Merrill, Samuel Benson, Matilda Benson, Cornelius Darnaby and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Oxford. Mr. Oxford was elected as the first clerk. The records of the church were supposed to have been in the possession of Deacon James Benson, until his death, a few years since, but a search for them among his effects has been unavailing to bring them to light, and they have not yet been found.
PASTORS.
While, therefore, a full and perfect list of the pastors who have presided over the church cannot be given, the following, however, are known to have held such connection, and in the order named: Elijah Merrill, Henry M. Henderson, A. F. Martin, Terry Bradley, Geo. W. Warmoth, P. McCollum, H. H. Turner, A. Jones, P. McCollum again, Robert Livingston, J. R. M. Beeson, R. L. Jamison and F. J. Leavitt, the present pastor.
CLERKS.
Jacob Oxford, J. R. Merrill, J. M. Henderson, Wm. H. Robertson, W. C. Benson, W. W. Brooks, D. W. Robertson, J. M. Robertson, J. F. Cran- dall, J. M. Leedy and W. B. Rogers, present clerk. All of the above served in the order named.
WHERE THEY MET.
For several years after the organization, the country being new and the members living some distance apart, the meetings were held from place to place, taking their turns at the houses of the members and of the citizens, and for a while in a school-house near the old graveyard south of town, which was known as the old Baptist Church at the time that Trenton was located as the county seat in 1841, the first session of the Circuit Court having been held at this log church. In 1844, at the completion of the court-house, service was held there. D. T. Wright then built the house now occupied by A. K. Sykes, which was rented to the Baptists and other denominations, to hold service in.
The first house of worship erected and belonging to the church was in 1852, on the lot in front of where W. H. Yerian now lives. It was about twenty-six by forty feet, and was then in the central part of the town. The
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church proved too small, and ten feet were added to it soon after. It was in the spring of 1850 that a very remarkable revival took place, resulting in over one hundred additions to the church.
NEW ORGANIZATION.
It still continued to be known as the Trenton Baptist Church as late as 1875, when, in the month of March of that year, it was duly incorporated under the laws of the State and under the name of the First Baptist Church of Trenton, at Trenton, Missouri, with the following named gentlemen as trustees: A. H. Burkeholder, W. C. Benson, James Austin, W. B. Rogers, W. H. Yerian, James G. Benson and J. M. Robertson. C. A. Hoffman has since been elected in place of Wm. C. Benson, resigned, and J. G. Hemley in place of James G. Benson, deceased. In 1876 the church com- pleted the handsome edifice now occupied by them, on Elm Street, which cost, including the lot, the sum of $5,600.
WIIAT IT JOINED.
The church sent messengers soon after its organization to what was known as the Fishing River Association of Baptist Churches-an old school or hard-shell association, but there is no evidence of record that it was ever a member or received as a member of that association. In the organization of the North Grand River Association of Missionary Baptist Churches the Trenton Church was one of the constitutional members, and has remained a member ever since. At its organization, or at the time it entered the North Grand River Association, it was supposed to have adopted the articles of faith and covenant as published in the encyclopedia of religious knowledge, but in 1879, the articles of faith having been lost, with the records of the church, the articles of faith and covenant known as the Philadelphia Articles of Faith, and published by the American Baptist Publication Society at Philadel- phia were adopted, and remain the faith of the church. While the church has always been known as a missionary church, and has cooperated in the mis- sionary work, there has always been more or less of the predestination or anti-missionary sentiment in the church, holding to the Calvanistic doctrine of election. There is less, however, of that sentiment of late years than formerly.
The church now numbers one hundred and forty members, and is the third in number in the city of Trenton.
COLORED BAPTIST CHURCHI.
The Second Baptist Church, colored, of the city of Trenton, was organ- ized a few years ago, by a few persevering brethren, and resulted in con- tinued success. In 1880 the members of the church united in a determined effort to build a place of worship and the corner-stone was laid that year under
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the auspices of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle, the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Chillicothe, and the Rev. Amos Johnson, of Macon, Missouri, conducting the ceremonies, assisted by the Rev. M. S. Bryant. The church building is now completed. It is a neat frame building, and the church under its pleasant and able pastor, the Rev. Harvey Morton, with a membership of thirty-five, is in a flourishing condition.
AFRICAN M. E. CHURCII.
This church was organized about the year 1875, and its progress was of such a character that in 1877 the members united and built a neat house of worship. It was dedicated the same year, the Rev. S. Love preaching the dedication sermon. Its pastors have been the Rev. J. R. Loving, and the Rev. H. H. Triplette up to 1879, when in September of that year the Rev. M. S. Byrant was called, who accepted, and he is the present pastor of the church. It has grown steadily under his administration and now numbers forty members, with every prospect of a prosperous future.
CEMETERY.
"I walk these silent haunts with reverend tread, And seem to gaze upon the mighty dead; Imagination calls the noble train, From dust and darkness back to life again."
The cemeteries of Trenton are numerous enough, being five in number The Odd Fellow's and the Mason's burial-grounds lie in the west part of the city on a gentle slope. A handsome roadway separates the grounds, and they are kept in excellent order. The Catholic cemetery is on high ground sloping to the west. The old cemetery, with some twelve acres of ground, lies just east of the Catholic cemetery, and the grounds of the Ancient Order of United Workman containing seven acres are handsomely laid out, but have not yet received an occupant. They lie west of the ground of the Masonic and Odd Fellows.
SECRET ORDERS AND SOCIETIES.
Trenton has quite a number of secret orders and societies all of which are in a flourishing condition and seem to grow with her growth for as she gains in population, so do these societies and orders increase in number and niem- bership. It would be impossible for the author of this work, with the space at his command, to give a full and succinct history of each and all of these lodges, but has given to each the date of their organization, with their officers and membership, and also the officers and the number of members at the date of this history They are nearly one and all in a flourishing con- dition, and have done much to cement the ties of brotherhood and fraternal feeling among our people.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Adelphia Lodge No. 38 .- This lodge was instituted January 26th, 1876, by Grand Chancellor Chas. D. Lucas, and Grand Keeper of R. and S. John T. Swygard, assisted by Past Grand Chancellor J. L. Nichols of the State of Pennsylvania, and the founder of this lodge, who still lives in Trenton.
Its officers and charter members were: J. L. Nichols, past chancellor; W. H. Roberts, chancellor commander; Henry Stormfelts, vice-chancellor; E. F. Horton, prelate; J. U. Ward, K. of record and seal; M. H. Gessler, master of exchange; D. D. Ridgway, master of finance; J. A. Webster, W. M. Garden, C. L. Webber, C. R. Dudley, F. M. Hall, J. G. Heamley, M. M. Berry, J. R. Custard, B. D. Beecher, R. H. Hume, seventeen in all.
Its present membership is sixty-four. Its present officers are: E. F. Brown, past chancellor; G. P. Hammer, chancellor commander; M. H. Gessler, vice- chancellor; M. A. Berry, K. of record and seal; Henry Stormfelts, M. of F; F. Klett, M. of Ex; A. Morris, prelate; Wes. Sparkes, M. of A .; Frank Cosner, T. G .; J. Steinhauser, O. G.
This lodge is in a prosperous condition and has lately moved into a beauti- ful new hall over the post-office.
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Trenton Lodge No. 21, organized July 20th, 1877, with the following officers and charter members: J. M. Crawford, P. M. W .; T. B. Harber, M. W .; G. W. Milton, G. F .; Levi Greer, O .; H. J. Herrick, recorder; A. V. Young, financier; D. L. Truesdale, recorder; M. C. Asher, G; E. L. McCluen, I. W .; B. F. Thomas, O. W .; P. C. Mason, Thos. Kimlin, W. C: Swayze, C. A. Dudley, W. C. Fowler.
It has steadily grown and among its members may be found some of Trenton's oldest and most prominent citizens. Its present officers are: J. W. Smith, P. M. W .; G. D. Smith, M. W .; P. C. Stepp, G. F .; C. L. Ewing, O .; W. M. Maxwell, recorder; E. A. Benson, financier; Luther Collier, receiver; G. G. McFarland, guide; A. J. Stetler, I. W .; G. L. Winters, O. W .; T. Kimlin, Med. Ex. Total membership ninety.
MASONIC.
Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery No. 24, K. T., organized June 23d, 1874, as follows: James C. Wyatt, Em. Com .; E. R. Fetherstonh, general- issimo; A. D. Mullens, Capt. Gen .; R. O. Carscadin, Prel .; George Tindall, treasurer; J. B. Farnam, recorder; T. Kimlin, S. W .; I. M. Patton, J. W .; J. L. Nichols, standard bearer; W. H. Roberts, sword bearer; W. H. McGrath, warden, and John Kirk, guard.
Its present officers are: R. O. Carscadin, Em. Com .; J. B. Farnam, gen- eralissimo; W. S. Prentiss, Capt. Gen .; Thomas Kimlin, prelate; P. H. Ya- key, treasurer; W. C. Swayze, recorder; John Fitterer, S. W .; L. D. Hall,
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J. W .; J. M. Bailey, standard bearer; C. C. Parker, sword bearer; B. F. Harding, warden; W. H. McGrath, guard. Total number of members, thirty-seven.
Trenton Lodge, No. 111, A. F. & A. M., was organized October, 10th, 1849, with the following elected officers: J. B. Allen, W. M .; B. H. Smith, S. W .; B. S. Nordyke, J. W .; J. Snyder, secretary; J. Winter, treasurer; Benj. F. White, S. D .; John R.Clark, J. D .; John W. Smith, tyler.
Officers 1881: James B. Murray, W. M .; Charles S. Glaspell, S. W .; Wm. C. Swayze, J. W .; James Austin, treasurer; Wm. P. Lafferty, sec- retary; Wm. Hibbert, S. D .; B. A. Fry, J. D .; Thos. Montgomery, Chap .; Wm. H. Johnson, tyler. Total number of members, 138.
Trenton R. A. C. No. 66, was organized November 16, 1870. At the time of its organization the following were chosen officers: Marshall Ful- ton, H. P .; J. E. Harris, E. K .; N. A. Winters, scribe; W. H. Roberts, C. H .; J. L. Shipley, P. S .; Stephen Peery, R. A. C .; A. K. Sykes, G. M. 1st V .; J. H. Kerfoot, G. M. 2d V .; William Pond, G. M. 3d V .; A. H. Burkeholder, secretary; W. W. Brooks, treasurer; R. F. Keith, guard.
It steadily advanced from the date of its organization to the present time. The year 1881 the following were elected officers: W. H. McGrath, H. P .; W. C. Swayze, E. K .; B. F. Harding, scribe; J. Goldenburg, P. S .; W. C. Swayze, secretary pro tem .; John Fitterer, R. A. C .; P. C. Mason, C. H .; P. H. Yakey, treasurer; S. A. Lafferty, G. M. 3d V .; T. Torpey, G. M. 2d Vt. T. M. Hull, G. M. 1st V .; L. B. Walker, guard. Total number of members, fifty-eight.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
America Lodge No. 2273, was instituted August 6th, 1880, and char- ter received from the Supreme Lodge August 19th, 1881, as follows: "To all whom it may concern, greeting: Know ye that by virtue of the power vested in Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, as a corporate body, this charter is granted to A. Morris, M. L. Boyles, J. H. Braidwood, J. B. Berry, F. J. Leavitt, H. C. Lanius, W. I. George, J. H. Patton, D. F. Trunkey, F. H. Storts, J. W. Cherry, Fred. Day, D. C. Pugh, A. Walker, N. Shanklin, J. M. Bailey, E. F. Horton, O. J. Rockwell and J. H. George, their associates and successors, constituting them a subordinate lodge of the order to be hailed by the title of America Lodge No. 2273 ' Knights of Honor.'" W. B. Hoke, supreme dictator; J. C. Plumer, supreme R. In- stituted by W. A. Halstead, dictator. The officers elect were: A. Morris, past dictator; M. L. Boyles, dictator; Thos. F. Dean, vice-dictator; Geo. D. Fox, assistant dictator; F. J. Leavitt, chaplain ; J. H. Braidwood, repor- ter; J. B. Berry, financial reporter; D. C. Pugh, treasurer; Geo. Walker, guide; A. Walker, guard; Jos. Beekler, sentinel; J. M. Bailey, W. Shank- lin, W. I. George, trustees.
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The present membership of the lodge munbers thirty-three and the offi- cers are as follows: A. J. Rockwell, district deputy past grand dictator; A. Morris, lodge, deputy past grand dictator; M. L. Boyles, past dictator; H. C. Lanius, past sitting dictator; Wm. Hibbert, dictator; Geo. Walker, vice-dictator; Geo. D. Fox, assistant dictator; F. J. Leavitt, chaplain; James F. Low, reporter; R. A. Collier, financial reporter; D. C. Pugh, treasurer; Jos. Beekler, guide; A. Forbes, sentinel; A. J. Spitler, guard; J. M. Bailey, W. Shanklin, W. I. George, trustees.
The order is in a flourishing condition and the present membership in the United States numbers over 125,000. The object of the organization is benevolent and fraternal. Over one million dollars were paid to widows and orphans for the year 1880, and the order is increasing in membership at the rate of twenty-five hundred per month.
I. O. O. F.
Trenton Encampment No. 55 was organized May 13, 1871. The charter members were: Wm. Collier, Luther Collier, D. M. Ferguson, R. P. Carnes, T. A. Murphy, F. C. Conrads, J. H. Shanklin, C. A. Conrads and C. Gilhanı. The first elective officers were: Luther Collier, C. P .; C. A. Conrads, H. P .; R. P. Carnes, S. W .; L. D. Hall, J. W .; W. H. Roberts, scribe; Wm. Collier, treasurer.
The last semi-annual report to the grand encampment shows a member- ship of thirty-four. Amount received during term, $103; amount of cash on hand, $254.93.
The present officers are: L. B. Crowder, C. P .; J. M. Wannamaker, H. P .; II. Ginn, S. W .; Gus. Barth, J. W .; R. S. Carnes, scribe; H. F. Carnes, financial scribe; J. B. Carnes, treasurer.
The encampment meets semi-monthly, on the first and third Monday nights of each month.
Grand River Lodge No. 52 was organized January 7, 1852, by D. D. G. M. Charles Derrickson and the following charter members: H. HI. T. Grill, Wm. E. Moberly, N. J. McAshan, S. Weil, W. H. Dollman, J. Winter, T. Hamburger and T. M. Forkner. The first elected officers were: J. Winter, N. G .; J. H. Shanklin, V. G .; M. A. Thaxton, secretary; H. H. Bledsoe, treasurer.
Since its organization, and up to date, there were two hundred and fifty- seven names enrolled and admitted; present membership one hundred and thirteen, in good standing. During the last fourteen years there was paid out for benevolent purposes and sick benefits the sum of $1,529.61.
The last semi-annual report to the grand lodge of Missouri, of March 31, 1881, shows the following condition of the lodge: total receipts during the term, $313.55; amount paid for relief during term, $180; amount in the treasury, $264.14; amount of notes secured by real estate, $950; member- ship, one hundred and nine.
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Present officers: Henry F. Carnes, N. G .; Gus. Barth, V. G .; Robt. S. Carnes, secretary; J. W. Smith, permanent secretary; G. W. Smith, treas- urer.
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