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. Although Mr. Lombard came here- in the spring of 1818, he was not regu- larly ordained and installed as pastor of the church until Oct. 28. He preached here nine years. Mr. Lom- bard was a nephew of deacon Solomon Jones and came here from one of the eastern states. Mr. Jones was a far- mer and lived near the old Tinkham plaster mill in the town of Tioga. He ' was looked upon as the congregational leader and in the absence of the pas- tor he was accustomed to read two sermons on Sunday .. Mr. Lombard lived near the Tinkham mill at the time of his death, when he was nearly eighty years old.
The movement to build a church be- gan during Mr. May's ministry. Oct. 10, 1817, the society purchased of Charles Pumpelly for $100 an acre and twelve perches of land at the north- east corner of Temple street and
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North avenue, on which the first church. was' built in 1819. The builder's name was McGeorge. It was. : 44 feet wide and 53 feet deep with large pillars in front. The building was painted white. The pulpit was a lofty one, between the entrance doors at the west end.
In 1831 the church was enlarged. by building an addition of twenty feet in length.at the east end. Mr. Lombard organized the first Sunday school in 1819. The teachers were Mrs. Jared Huntington, Jacob Miller McCormick, and Chas. B. Pixley. The first bell in Owego was placed in the steeple of this church in 1826.
The Presbyterian church came near. being burned in February, 1842, while it was being cleaned. John Freeman, the soytop went to Ebenezer Allen's house, which adjoi. od the church property on the north, to obiwill . a shovel full of live coals, with which to build a fire in the church. There was a high wind blowing at the time, and as he came upon the steps some coals were blown from the shovel and fell on the stoop setting it on fire. The flames had extended up into the steeple when the firemen came with their hand engine. H. W. Williams, who for many years lived as. bridge tender at the south end of the old toll bridge across the river, climbed on the church with ladders lashed together and cut a hole through the roof into the steeple. A stream of water' was thrown through the hole and the flames were finally extinguished, after a considerable portion of the roof had been burned, The steeple was so badly burned that it had to be rebuilt.
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In 1850, during the pastorate of Rev. Philip C. Hay, the long talked of division of the Presbyterian society was consummated, the Congregational portion of the membership having taken letters preparatory to organiz- ing a new society, with Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox, who had been pastor of the Presbyterian church from 1842 to 1846, as their pastor. The seceders organized the "Independent Congrega- tional Society" at the. Presbyterian session house Jan. 2, 1851, and built their first church in Park street in the same year. In October, 1852, the trus- tees of the Presbyterian society were directed to procure the passage of an act of the legislature changing the name of the "Owego Congregational Society" to the "First Presbyterian Society of the Village of Owego," and the change was so made by legislative enactment in June of the following year.
The growth of the First Presby- terian church was so rapid that in 1852 the question of building a new. church edifice was agitated. The so- ciety had voted that year to expend $2,000 in improving the church, but it was afterward decided to build an en- tirely new building of brick. No fur- ther action was taken until May, 1854, when. a building committee composed of William F. Warner, Frederick E. Platt, and Thomas I. Chatfield was ap- pointed to superintend its construc- tion. The organ was removed from the church to the village hall, which hall was then above the four fire com- panies' room in Main street and occu- pied all of what is now the second and third floors of the fire. deparment building. The entrance to this hall
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The First Presbyterian Church, Built in 1854, and Chapel, Built in 1857.
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was through double doors at the top of the first flight of stairs between that building and the store at the northwest corner of Main street and North avenue. In the village hall ser- vices were held until the old church was torn down and the new one erected in its place. The congregation worshipped in the old church May 7, 1854, for the last time and the next day the work of demolition was be- gun.
The architect of the new church was Gervase Wheeler, of New York city, and the builder was Chauncey Hungerford, a member of the congre- gation. The church was built on a contract, and as the cost of construc- tion was greater than had been ex- pected, Mr. Hungerford was a loser.
The corner stone of the new church was laid June 20, 1854, by Rev. Samuel H. Cox, of New York city, who the next year became pastor of the church. The building was duly completed and .was dedicated May 2, 1855, Mr. Cox preaching the dedication sermon. The new church was built under the super- intendence of William F. Warner and the grounds and terrace as they at present appear were planned and laid out by him. In February, 1857, a new bell was purchased and placed in the church tower. It weighed 2,09S pounds and was the largest bell in Owego.
The pastors of the Presbyterian church from its organization, in 1817, to the present time have been as fol- lows:
Rev. Hezekiah May, July, 1817- spring of 1818.
Rev. Horatio Lombard, Oct. 28, 1818 -Aug. 2, 1827.
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Rev. Aaron Putnam, Dec. 6, 1827 Dec. 28, 1831.
Rev. Charles White, April 19, 1832 May 25, 1841.
Rov. Sammuel (. Wilcox, May 24, 1842 -- April 30, IS4G.
Rev. Seth Williston, July, 1846 April 4, 1817.
Rov. Philip C. Hay, April 15, 1817 Oct. 7. [S .. )
Rev. Samuel U. Cox, Oct. 10, 1São Sept. 6, 185G.
Rov. Samuel H. Hall, Jan. 27, 1857
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Rev. Sofon Cobb, Aug. 29, 1864 Sept. 7, 1869
Roy. Samuel T. Clark, July 1, 1870 June 27, 1876.
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Rev. I. A. Ostrander, Sopt. 28, 1876 - Nov., 1882.
Rev. William d. GDI, June 7, 1883 July 30, 1885.
Rev. Alexander Cameron Mackon dle, January 30, 1886 - April 20, 1897.
Rov. Geo .. D. Young, Oct. 8, 1897
Rev. Daniel Loring lived in a house on the north side of Main street where the Park hotel stands. This house was a part of the estate of Dr. Samuel Tinkham and was later occupied by his son, David P. Tinkham.
Rev. Hezekiah May during his brief pastorate lived at the Deforest tavern In east Front street, east of Paige street. Mr. Lombard lived in west Front street, west of Academy street, In the house which was afterward for many years owned and occupied by Thomas M. Nichols. Mr. Putnam lived and died in the same house. . Mr. White also lived there.
The first manse was the house now owned and occupied by D. H. Blood- good on the west side of Park street. This property was a part of the es- tate of Dr. Tinkham, and after his death James Pumpelly built the house there .. It was occupied by Dr. William Jones until the Presbyterian society
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purchased it. for $2,500 on a contract. Rev. Philip C. Hay lived there all through his pastorate. It was sold Nov. 25, 1856, by Mr. Pumpelly's exe- cutors to Dr. L. H. Allen for $1,850.
The society owned no manse after this sale until 1888, when the present one was built in Temple street.
During the pastorate of Dr. Hay, Rev. Samuel . Hanson Cox came to Owego and in November, 1853, pur- chased the property. in the town of Tioga which he named "Vesper Cliff," and lived there during his sojourn of three years here. The pastors' who succeeded him lived in rented houses in various parts of the village.
The new manse on the north side of Temple street, nearly opposite Church street, was built in 1888 at a cost of about $4,000.
The brick session house, or chapel, now standing on the church grounds in Temple street was built in the sum- mer of 1859 by Chauncey Hungerford and . A. H. Keeler. It is 58 by 32 feet in size. Mr. Hungerford, who received $1,775 for building the chapel, to- gether with the old ssesion house, sold the session house for $150 to the A. M. E. society and it was removed to Fox street, where it is still used by that society as its church.
Rev. Aaron Putnam's pastorate here closed with his death on Dec. 28, 1831. He was born in, 1789 at Pomfret, Conn. His father whose name was also Aaron Putnam, preached fifty years in the New England Congregational church at Pomfret. In early life he was in business in Philadelphia with his father-in-law, Mr. Green, but gave up business to study for the ministry. His grandmother was the widow of
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Mr. Avery, whose daughter was the wife of Gon. Israel Putnam of revolu- tionary fame and was an own cousin of his father, Rev. Aaron Putnam, of Pomfret. Mr. Putnam came to Owego from Philadelphia. William E. War- ner, in his centennial history of Tioga county (1876) says of Mr. Putnam:
'"The four years of this most excel- . . lent man's ministry at Owego were a time of delightful memories. It was .at a period when there was a deep in- terest in religious matters throughout the country. The remarkable preach- ing of. Rey. Asahel Nettleton, D. D., of Connecticut, and the publication by him of the collection of devotional hymns known as "The Village Hymns," in' 1842 had awakened . pro- found interest far and wide. But . per- haps nowhere was the influence of the excellent Dr. Nettleton moré felt, nor his manners and mode of conducting religious ' services more closely fol- lowed with similar results, tnan here under the ministry of. Mr. Putnam. His style of preaching, like Dr. Nettle- ton's, was highly emotional, yet sob- . ered by a moderation that prevented its reaching the point of excess. In the full tide of his ministry, his life was terminated, amid the grievous lam- entation of the people, by whom he was universally loved."
Rev. Charles White was one of the ablest men that ever tilled a pulpit at Owego. He was born at Randolph, Mass., Dec. 28, 1795, and was gradu- ated from Dartmouth college in 1821- with the first honors of his class. He concluded his studies at Andover theo- logical seminary in 1824. From Jan. 1, 1825, he was settled over a Congre- gational church at Thetford, Vt., as collegiate pastor with his step-father, Rev. Dr. Burton. Four years later he became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cazenovia, N. Y., where he remained until called to Owego in the
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spring of 1832. In 1841 he resigned his pastorate here and went to Craw- fordsville, Ind., where on July 19, 1842, he became president of Wabash . col- lege, succeeding E. W. Baldwin, D. D., who had died on the 15th of the pre- vious October, falling dead while writ- ing a sermon in the evening.
Upon the removal of Mr. White from Owego, N. P. Willis wrote a poem entitled, "On the Departure of Rev. Mr. White from His Parish," the opening lines of which read as fol- lows:
Leave us not, man of prayer! Like Paul, hast thou
"Served God with all humility of mind," Dwelling among us, and. "with many tears," "From house to house," by night and day not ceasing,
Hast pleaded thy best errand. Leave us not ! Iwave as not now !.
Rev. Samuel Corlyus Wilcox was born Dec. 21, 1809, at Sandisfield, Mass., and was graduated in 1835 from Williams . college. He afterward taught three years in the Lenox, Mass., academy and then entered Au- burn theological seminary, from which he was graduated in 1840. He then supplied the Congregational church at Berkshire one year. In the spring of 1842 hé became pastor of the Owego Presbyterian church, and preached here until April, 1846, when he re- signed on account of lack of sympathy between himself and his elders on the subject of slavery and constitutional polity. In February, 1847, he went to Williamsburg, Mass., where he was for two years pastor of the Congrega- tional church. In 1849 he returned to Owego at the solicitation of many members of his former .congregation, who desired to form a new church and society. He became pastor of the Congregational church, which had
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seceded from the Presbyterian so- ciety. fle was a man of greater men- tal than physical strength, and was compelled on account of ill health to resign the pastorate on Sept. 11, 1853. . In company with Rev. Corbin Kidder he established a school for boys, one and one-half miles east of this village, and lived there until his death six months later, on March 26, 1854.
Rev. Seth Williston returned to Owego and became pastor of the church in July, 1846. He was a man of remarkable energy and ability: At . this time he was nearly eighty years of age, but retained his physical and mental vigor. He was held in high : estimation as a scholar and profound theologian.
Rev. Philip Cortland Hay was a son of General Philip Hay, who was a member of Gen. Washington's staff auring the revolutionary war and one of the founders of the society of the Cincinnati, a: military association formed by officers of the revolutionary army. Before coming to Owego he had been for ten years pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Geneva, N. Y., where he began his ministry Feb. 3, 1836, He was dismissed April 9, 1846, and six days afterward became pastor of the church at Owego. Mr. Hay re- signed his pastorate here in Septem- ber, 1855, owing to ill health and re- moved to Orange, N. J., where he died Jan. 27, 1866. William F. Warner in his centennial history of Tióga county says of Dr. Hay:
"Eminently genial in social life, Dr. Hay was a man of great excellence of character, 'solid rather than brilliant, and sound and conservative in his views upon every subject. He was
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held in high estimation by the clergy of the Presbyterian denomination, and was a safe and wise counsellor."
Samuel Hanson Cox was one of the most famous preachers of his time. He was born at Leesville, New Jersey, in 1793 of a. Quaker family: He aban- doned the study of law for the min- istry and was ordained July 1, 1817. He became pastor of the Spring street Presbyterian church in New York city in 1820. On account of his activity in the anti-slavery movement his house and church were sacked by a mob July 10, 1834. The same year he was appointed professor of sacred rhetoric in Auburn theological seminary. From 1837 to 1854 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn, and most of this time was also professor of ecclesiastical history in Union theo- logical seminary, New York. In June, 1853, his voice having failed, he came to Owego to visit his early college friend, Rev. Philip C. Hay. In Novem- ber of the same year he purchased the "Vesper Cliff" property. In the fol- lowing May he resigned the pastorate of the Brooklyn church and removed here for the benefit of his health. When Dr. Hay resigned the pastorate of the Owego church, in 1855, Mr. Cox succeeded him and was pastor of the church until April, 1866, when he re- signed to take the presidency of the Female Collegiate Institute at LeRoy, Genesee county, N. Y. During the last twenty years of his life he lived in re- tirement. He died at Bronxville, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1880, aged 86 years. One of Mr. Cox's sons was Right Reverend Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of the Prostestant Episcopal church of the diocese of western New York, and an-
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other was Rev. Dr. Samuel . Hanson Coxe, who was rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church at Auburn and after waid for twenty years rector of Trinity church at Utica.
Rev. Samuel H. Hall was born at Geneva, N. Y., in 1819, and was grad- uated from Union college in 1837 and from Union theological seminary in 1843. His first pastoral charge was at Marshall, Mich. Thence he went to Syracuse as pastor of the Park Pres- byterian church, where he remained six years. He began his ministry at Owego Feb. 24, 1857. He resigned his pastorate here in May, 1864, and went with the union army to Virginia under the auspices of the Christian Commis- sion. From 1866 to 1888 he was sec- rotary of the American Seamen's Friend society. He died Oct. 10, 1890, at Newark, N. J.
Rev. Solon Cobb came to Owego in the summer of 1864 from New Bed- ford, Mass. . He resigned the pastorate five years afterward and in. Septem- ber, 1869, became pastor of a church at Medford, Mass. Thence he went to Erie, Pa., and thence in February, 1875, to become pastor of the Point Breeze Presbyterian church in a suburb of that city. He died May 26, 1900, in Pittsburg, aged 62 years. Pre, vious to his leaving Owego the mem- bers of his church and congregation at a meeting in the session : house presented him with a handsome silver pitcher as a testimonial of their love and affection.
Rev. S. T. Clarke, a son of Rev. Dr. Walter Clarke, of Buffalo, preached here six years and resigned to accept a call to the Lake Street Presbyterian church at Elmira. He was several
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years afterward pastor of the Presby- terian church at Aurora, N.Y., and Jater pastor of the churches at Port- ville and Mt. Morris, N. Y.
Rev. Luther A. Ostrander came to Owego in 1876 from Dubuque, lową Earlier in life he had been first tutor in Robert college, Constantinople, Tur- key, whence he came to Dubuque, where he was pastor of the First Pres- byterian church four or five years. In November, 1882, he resigned his pas- torate at Owego in order to accept a call to the First Presbyterian church of Lyons, N. Y.
Rev. William H. Gill. went from Owego to Philadelphia where he lived during the rest of his life. 'His- health became impaired and he retired from the ministry, and he was employed as a writer for a religious newspaper. He died in Philadelphia in 1906.
Rev. Alexander Cameron Mackenzie was graduated in December, 1885; from Auburn theological seminary and was ordained pastor of this church May 25, 1886. Ten years later, in the summer of 1896, he engaged in rais- ing $100,000 by subscription to in- crease the endowment fund of Elmira female college. In April, 1897, he re- signed his pastorate to accept the presidency of that college. .
Rev. George D. Young was born in 1864 in New York city. He was grad- uated from New York university in 1887 and from Princeton seminary in 1897. He was ordained pastor of this church Oct. 8, 1897.
Sunday morning, December 28, 1890, the centennial of the advent of Pres- . byterianism in Owego was celebrated with appropriate exercises. Mr. Mac- Kenzie preached a historical sermon,
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reviewing church events of the pre- ceding one hundred years. In the al -.. ternoon a union service of the Pres byterian, Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist churches was held.
The "Owego Independent Congrega- tional Society," Its . Meeting Houses and Its Pastors from the Time of Its Separation from the Presbyter. ian Society in 1849 to the Present Time.
There was a long a diversity of opinion in relation to the ecclesiasti- cal character of the church known as the "Owego Congregational Society," which led to an estrangement of feel- ing among its members. The First Presbyterian church had been incor- porated by act of the legislature as the First Congregational church, and as such it had been legally known from its foundation. In the course of years, without any official or church action, the form of government was changed into a" semi-Presbyterian form.
In February, 1843, during the pas- torate of Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox, a meeting was held at the session house in Temple street for the purpose of changing the form of church govern- ment front Presbyterian to Congrega -- tional. The proposition was freely discussed, but the preponderance of opinion appeared to be against the proposition and no action was taken.
:In 1846 a portion of the church deemed it proper that the matter should be fully investigated and all. the facts made known to the society. To bring about this end a public in- vitation was given at a meeting at the session house on Jan. 6, 1846, to the
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members of the church to meet at the same place Jan. 14. At this second meeting both interests were repre- sented, and a committee, composed of Dr. Lucius H. Allen, Henry W. Camp, and Andrew H. Calhoun, was ap- pointed to make the requisite exam- ination. The committee's report, dated Feb. 19, 1847, was printed' in a pamphlet of sixteen, pages in July, 1847.
In December, 1849, the long talked of division of the church on the gov- ernment question. was consummated, the Congregational portion of the so- ciety having taken letters preparatory to organizing a new society. At a special meeting on Dec. 31 forty-six persons were upon their own request dismissed, for the purpose of forming the new "Owego Independent Congre- gational Society," which was regularly organized at a meeting of the eccles- iastical council at the session house Feb. 19, 1850. Rev. Richard S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, preached at the public services in the afternoon and Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, of New York, in the evening. At the time of this or- ganization Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox had returned from New York to assume the pastorate of the new church.
The meetings of the new society were held at the court nouse until a new church was built in. 1851. In Jan- ,uary of that year the society pur- chased of Thomas I. Chatfield for. $900 the lot on the west side of Park street, still owned and occupied by the so- ciety. A contract was made with Chauncey Hungerford, the builder of the Presbyterian church, and James Hill to erect a new church edifice for $5,100. The church, as shown in the
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engraving accompanying this article; was completed that year. This was the largest church at that time in the village. In the steeple was placed a: bell weighing 1,874 pounds, the largest bell then in Owego. The church was dedicated in the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1852. The dedication sermon was preached by Rev. R. E. Eggles- ton, of Brooklyn. Mr. Wilcox and the pastors of three other Owego churches assisted in the exercises. In August, 1863, a new session house was erected in the rear of the church.
The church and session house were burned in the morning of Dec. 3, 1877, by a fire which broke out near a chim- ney behind the organ in the wall be- tween the church and the Sunday school room. Nothing was saved from the church except a large bible and the pulpit chairs ..
Plans were at once made to build a new church on the site of the old one. At a meeting at L. N. Chamberlain's house, a committee was 'appointed to raise funds, prepare plans, etc., for a new church to cost from $10,000 to $12,000, the insurance money on the old church, $7,500, to be applied in part payment .. In the mean time re- ligious services were held at the court house, A building committee com- posed of 1 .. N. Chamberlain, John J. : Hooker, Frank L. Jones, Roger B. Howell, and the pastor, Rev. W. C. Scofield, was appointed. The archi- tect of the church was L. B. Valk, of New York city. It was built of brick, with stone trimmings, by Harrison Bros., of Fredonia, N. Y., and cost when completed $10,285. The building was 52 feet wide and 921/2 feet deep. An excellent view of the church is
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shown in the engraving. The new church was dedicated Dec. 11, 1878, Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, preaching the dedication sermon.
There have been seventeen pastors of this church since its organization, as follows:
Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox, 1849-Sept. 11, 1853.
Rev. Corbin Kidder, Sept. 11, 1853- Jan. 1, 1854.
Rev. Wm. H. Corning, March .8, 1854- May 1, 1857.
Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, Sept. 12, 1857-28 March, 1858.
Rev. Samuel Mclellan Gould, Sept. 11, 1858-April 1, 1859.
Rev. Moses Coit Tyler, May 1, 1859- June 24, 1860.
Rev. Wm. W. Page, Dec. 9, 1860-Dec. 1, 1861.
Rev. Charles Hall Everest, Jan. 1, 1862-Dec. 31, 1864.
Rev. Chas. Il. A. Bulkley, May . 13, 1865-Jan. 1, 1867.
Rev. James C. Beecher, May 4, 1867- May 1, 1871.
Rev. Dwight W. Marsh, Aug. 1, 1871- April 1, 1876.
Rev. Wm. C. Scofield, June 19, 1877- Oct. 19, 1880:
Rev. Rufus Underwood, April, 1880- .. Oct., 1880.
Rev. Miles G. Bullock, April 4, 1881- Oct. 19, 1886.
Rev. Olin R. Howe, Feb. 3, 1887-Nov. 11, 1888.
Rev. D. W. Teller, Dec. 20, 1888- Sept. 3, 1893.
Rev. Chas. M. Bartholomew, Jan. 7, 1894-
Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox was born at Sandisfield, Mass., Dec. 21, 1809. He was graduated from Williams college in 1835 and taught for three years thereafter In Lenox academy. He studied theology at Auburn seminary, graduating therefrom in 1840. He sup- plied the Congregational church at Berkshire one year and then came to
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Owego, where he became pastor of the Presbyterian church. He was after- ward pastor of the Congregational church at Williamsburg, Mass., in 1847 and 1848 .. The next year he returned to Owego, to assist.in forming the new Congregational church. He resigned the pastorate of this church in Sep- tember, 1853.
Rev. Corbin Kidder was born at Wardsboro, Vt., June 1, 1801. He was graduated from Amherst college in 1828, and from Andover theological seminary in 1832. From 1834 to 1837 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Saxonville, Mass., and dur- ing two years thereafter was agent for the American tract . society. From 1839 to 1845 he was pastor of the Con- gregational church at West Brattle: boro, . Vt. From 1815 to 1853 he preached at 'Warsaw, Dryden, and Groton in this state. He came to Owego in the fall of 1853 and preached here four months. Then in company with his predecessor in the pastorate of this charch, Mr. Wilcox, he opened a school for boys about a mile and a half east of this village in a farm house, which was burned several years ago and which stood where the home of Harry B. Tilbury is now. . Mr. Wilcox, who had resigned the pastorate of the church on account of ill health, died there .March 26, 1854. Mr. Kidder con- tinued the school after Mr. Wilcox's death a few years. Then he went to Spencer, and was pastor of the church there from 1858 to 1862. He subse- quently . preached at Churchville, N. Y .; Orland, Ind., and at Poplar Grove, Ill., where he died Dec. 29, 1874.
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