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iam Noble, V. M. Durflinger, Edwin Alexander, treasurer, A. B. Elliott, William M. Jones, John Ott, D. M. Haysand, C. D. Hays.
The lodge prospered and enlarged the small hall they had provided at first, on the corner of Main and Cross streets. At the close of 1873 the membership was thirty-three, which by 1881 had increased to fifty-eight, not including deaths and removals. The society was incorporated in March, 1881, by William Clark, J. M. Noble, Henry Fulton, Henry Casey and J. M. McCoy, trustees.
In October, 1914, this lodge enjoyed a membership of ninety-seven and was in a flourishing condition. It had the misfortune to have its lodge rooms burned and all their furniture destroyed in April, 1912. But, like true brothers, they went to work and by November of that year were holding lodge in their new and magnificent hall, which was the second story of a fine yellow pressed-brick, two-story building, all owned by the order. It stands on the site of the old lodge rooms and cost, together with furniture and value of lot, about eight thousand five hundred dollars. There are few, if indeed any, lodge rooms in Ohio in towns of much larger size that possess so fine, well-arranged hall. They have a large banquet hall, kitchen, lobbies and reception rooms in addition to a good-sized hall. The Order of the Eastern Star is exceptionally strong here.
The elective officers serving in 1914 are: Worshipful master, Forest M. Hains ; senior warden, John N. Browning; junior warden, Allen P. West ; secretary, G. W. Gordon; treasurer, Henry Casey ; senior deacon, Claude Andrews; junior deacon, John Foster; chaplain, Robert G. Andrews; tyler, James W. Willis ; master of ceremonies, J. Y. Stitt ; stewards, Howard Fos- ter and C. S. Edwards. The trustees are J. M. Klever, Nathaniel Roler, W. T. Elliott, J. P. Leavell.
The following have served as masters in this lodge: John Brown, 1870; J. M. McCoy, 1871-77 ; A. B. Elliott, 1878; J. M. McCoy, 1879-82; William Clark, 1883-87; Samuel N. Brown, 1888; William Noble, 1889; J. M. Klever, 1890; Charles D. Hays, 1891 ; Solon Loofborrow, 1892-93; Sam- uel N. Brown, 1901; G. W. Gordon, 1902-03; J. M. Klever, 1904; F. M. McCoy, 1905-06: J. P. Leavell, 1907; J. Y. Stitt, 1908-09; F. E. Whiteside, 1910: V. M. Durflinger, 1911 : Claude Andrews, 1912: L. D. Exline, 1913.
Jeffersonville Lodge No. 468, Free and Accepted Masons, was organized January 31, 1873, by Col. C. Garris, of Washington C. H. The charter members were Mills Gardner, P. F. Johnson, James Straley, L. A. Elister, E. H. Bendle, Horney Robinson, J. C. Morris, William Wood, W. J. Horney, George Miller, Asberry Moon, J. W. Roebuck, W. F. Roebuck, G. L. Bush
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and Urban Hidy. Of the present history of this lodge it may be stated that the records show that the present officers are: A. A. Allen, worshipful master ; W. O. King, senior warden; L. A. Kessler, junior warden; M. E. Wilson, secretary: F. A. Chaney, senior deacon ; S. C. Morrow, junior dea- con ; C. R. Marshall, chaplain; G. H. Brock, master of ceremonies; J. C. Todd, tyler. The membership of this lodge is ninety-eight. The blue lodge is the only degree of Freemasonry here represented.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
Jefferson Lodge No. 454, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was or- ganized July 20, 1870, with the following charter membership: J. M. Bless- ing, Joseph Hurless, R. Fox, A. J. Aldridge, O. W. Marshall, E. L. Jones, George H. Creamer and Lewis Bentz.
In June, 1879. a part of the membership, in the absence of other men- bers, voted to surrender the charter of this lodge, sold the furniture and ap- propriated the proceeds to the Methodist Episcopal church of Jeffersonville. The other members returned and brought suit, but as the result a new lodge was organized, with officers as follows: Joseph Hurless, noble grand; W. C. Wilson, vice grand ; George Miller, recording secretary ; J. N. Yates, financial secretary; Richard Fox, treasurer: Jacob R. Hosier, Joseph Hurless, J. J. Thompson, trustees. At present this lodge is enjoying a membership of eighty-five. They occupy a leased hall. The officers in the autumn of 1914 were: William Higbee, noble grand ; William Spangler, vice grand ; L. Hay, financial secretary: A. W. Wright, recording secretary; S. M. Taggart, chaplain.
Initiatory, second and third degrees are here all represented.
An Odd Fellows lodge was instituted at Martinsburg by Grand Master William Slater, January 1, 1862. The charter members were these: Morris R. Ellis, Murry Wilson, J. A. Arick, C. Fortier, A. L. Snider, George Bine- gar and C. A. Kneedler. A beautiful hall was furnished and in 1880 this lodge had a membership of two hundred. The lodge is known in record as Wilstach Lodge No. 368.
Temple Lodge No. 227, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Wash- ington C. H. was instituted in the hall in the attic story of the old brick building on Court street, northeast of Fayette, over the printing office, March 13, 1854, and the charter was given to the following: Capt. John M. Bell. Col. S. N. Yeoman, M. Livingston, William H. Lanum and John Backenstoe. Four persons, John Millikan, C. H. Bell, V. M. Ogle and Doctor Brown,
CASTLE HALL, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, WASHINGTON C. H.
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were initiated into the order on the night of the institution. The lodge con- tinued to meet in the old attic room for about two years, when they removed to the third story of J. F. Ely's frame building on the corner of Main and East street, where also they remained two years. They then secured the third story of a new brick building on Court street, built by Z. W. Heagler. This was unfinished, but the lodge finished and furnished it and made their home in this place for about sixteen years. In the spring of 1873 they organized the Odd Fellows Building Association, which bought a piece of ground on Court street, southwest from the Vandeman corner, and pro- ceeded to build thereon a fine business building. In the spring of 1874 the lodge removed to their new hall, which was one of the best in the state. In the following October, on the night of the 13th, this handsome building was completely destroyed by fire. A meeting of the lodge was called and held in the Masonic hall on the night after the fire and it was resolved to rebuild the hall. In the winter and spring of 1875 a new building arose in the place of the old. The lodge moved in on November 6, 1875. During the building of the new structure the lodge met in the third story of the First National Bank building. The home of the order for ten years was in the building last named, having been built by the lodge after the fire had destroyed their former rooms. But while in the midst of lodge-room work, on that fateful evening of September 8, 1885, when Washington C. H. was visited by the tornado or cyclone storm, the lodge room and the building in which it was located were totally wrecked and most of the property within destroyed, save the records. After this the court house and Grand Army rooms were used for lodge meeting places, then the Williams building on Court street. After sixteen years there, the Katz building sheltered the lodge. Six years later and it was moved to the county memorial building. The present mag- nificent hall, on the corner of Fayette and Market streets, was erected in 1910 and its corner stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies on November 29, 1910. The cost of lot and building was fully twenty-two thousand dollars.
In the beginning the lodge was very weak in numbers, but has steadily grown ever since. The first elective officers were: John M. Bell, noble grand; S. N. Yeoman, vice grand : M. Livingston, recording secretary ; Will- iam H. Lanum, permanent secretary; John Backenstoe, treasurer.
The present membership of the lodge is four hundred and thirty. Its elective officers are : John Madison, noble grand; William Highmiller, vice- grand; Dr. C. V. Lanum, financial secretary ; E. C. Hamilton, recording secretary ; J. A. Edge, treasurer ; C. F. Bonham, Wilson Bachert and S. A. Plyley, trustees.
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Fayette Encampment No. 134, at Washington C. H., was instituted on May 17, 1871. in the Odd Fellows hall on Court street. The charter was. delivered to L. C. Karney, S. N. Yeoman, C. L. Getz, O. H. Saxton, M. Blanchard, W. S. Stewart, J. C. King, William Wilts and Charles Duffee. There were eleven persons admitted on the night of institution. Its first elective officers were: L. C. Karney, chief patriarch; M. Blanchard, high priest : William Wilts, senior warden; Dr. O. H. Saxton, junior warden; William Stewart, scribe: J. C. King, treasurer.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS LODGES.
This is one of the most recent fraternities in the list of secret orders. It was established about the close of the Civil War and Lodge No. I, at Wash- ington, District of Columbia, was the first of the order in the world.
The earliest body in Fayette county was Confidence Lodge No. 265, at Washington C. H., instituted December 7, 1887, with twenty-one members. The burning of the hall in 1912 caused the destruction of all records, besides a fine array of relics, books, charts and lodge room fixtures. The lodge held its first meetings in Midland block, then in Odd Fellows hall in the Williams block. Since 1900 they had occupied rooms in Masonic Temple, on the third floor of the building, but that fire of 1911 caused them a great loss. In February, 1912, they moved into their new castle, in the heart of the city, which property they had purchased and rebuilt, making their present hall a desirable one, valued at fifteen thousand dollars. In 1912 there were fully a thousand members in Fayette county belonging to this fraternity. Of this the pioneer lodge in the county of Knights of Pythias, it may be stated that in September, 1909, they had a membership of four hundred. Its elective officers were: Ray Maddox, chancellor commander; John Markley, vice chancellor : Richard Hays, prelate; W. J. Bevans, master of work: Fred Schmid, master of exchequer; L. J. Sherman, master of finance; H. M. Kingsbury, keeper of records and seal; R. A. Hyer, master at arms; Richard Elliott, inside guard ; H. A. Highmiller, outer guard.
There are now lodges of this order in Fayette county as follows: At Washington C. H., Madison Mills, Jeffersonville, Bloomingburg, Buena Vista and Yatesville.
At Jeffersonville, Sunflower Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was instituted February 19, 1892, and given the charter number of 541. Its charter mem- bers were J. H. Wilt, W. L. Boyer, Frank Carr, C. A. Teeters, Ira McKillip, H. L. Bendel, J. G. Boyer, T. Williams, J. H. Garlough, H. L. Clausing, C.
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W. Davis, H. C. Hosier, D. C. Serbine, T. L. Hayes, J. H. Davis, L. O. Fults, L. E. Ellis, Charles Compton, Pope Gregg, C. W. Gray, H. W. Duff, Jasper Roush and C. S. Spengler. The present total membership is one hundred and thirty. They own a well-appointed lodge room, erected in 1906, and the order is now in a flourishing condition. Its officers in October, 1914, are: W. L. Robinson, past chancellor; J. B. Armstrong, chancellor commander; W. W. Rontson, vice chancellor; W. C. Coil, prelate; A. L. French, keeper of records and seal: J. H. Garlough, master of finance; J. W. Howard, master of exchequer; B. D. Smith, master at arms; Howard Haynes, outside guard : S. C. Morrow, inside guard.
At Bloomingburg, Lodge No. 744 was organized December 29, 1905, with forty-one charter members. Its present membership is one hundred and sixteen. It erected a handsome, substantial pressed-brick building in 1912, at a cost, including lot, of about seven thousand five hundred dollars. . The Uniform Rank is also here well represented. The elective officers of the lodge here for 1914 are as follows: Chancellor commander, C. W. Larimer; vice chancellor, Grant Leach; prelate, Elmer McCoy; master at arms, Henry Elliott ; master of exchequer, Nathaniel Ross ; master of finance, L. D Exline ; keeper of records and seal, Claude Andrews ; inside guard, Robert Pummel; outside guard, Harrison Leach.
CHAPTER XVI.
HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES.
Wherever the church spire is seen, in both town and country, there one feels that he is safe. The American-born population predominates very largely in Fayette county, and hence there are none but American denomina- tions, to speak of. Among that rugged band of hardy pioneers who braved the dangers of a wild frontier life, away back a hundred years and more ago, there was a spirit of religion sprinkled in the communities from the first or- ganization of the county, and as the years advanced steps were promptly taken to form churches, though possibly not as rapidly as in some other sections.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.
The Presbyterian church of Washington C. H. was organized October 10, 1813, three years after the county was organized. There were thirteen members and James Clark, William Blair, Samuel Waddle, Anuences Allen and Col. James Stewart were chosen elders.
The Rev. Mr. Baldridge had charge of the church for a time. After him the pulpit was supplied by several different ministers, till Rev. . William Dickey came to be pastor in 1817. The church had no house of worship and meetings could not be held very regularly.
In 1817 part of the church was set off to form a separate congregation at Bloomingburg, and Thomas McGarraugh and Henry Snyder were chosen elders. Mr. Dickey supplied the church at Washington C. H. and also the one at Bloomingburg, which was now the larger. Shortly after he seems to have given all his attention to Bloomingburg and there are no records of the Pres- byterian church of Washington C. H. for fifteen years.
In 1834 the church took a new start. Nine of the old members were still on the ground, and seventeen were received. James Pollock, John Wil- son, Isaac Templeton and Joseph McLean were chosen elders and S. F. Kerr was made clerk of the session.
About 1835 Rev. John C. Eastman took charge of the church and the society seemed to progress nicely. They undertook, for the first time, to erect a house of worship, and soon it was constructed and dedicated.
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In 1840 Mr. Eastman left the church, after six years of faithful and successful labor. The next eight years passed with very irregular ministra- tions. Rev. James Dunlap and Rev. J. A. I. Lowes preached for a time.
In the winter of 1847-1848 the church was incorporated. About this time J. G. Hopkins came, as a licentiate, to supply its pulpit. James N. Wil- son and Eliphas Taylor were chosen and ordained elders. Mr. Hopkins, some time after, was chosen pastor and ordained. A division in the church grew out of this. Robert Robinson and Joseph McLean, two of the elders, and others left the church, among them Col. S. F. Kerr. This was a great loss to the feeble church. Mr. Hopkins soon left, and in the spring of 1851 Rev. S. J. Miller was called to the pastorate, after which church affairs ran along more smoothly. A new church edifice was built about 1856. Rev. Miller continued pastor for fifteen years, leaving the church in 1866 with seventy-five members.
In January, 1867, the Rev. George Carpenter was called to the pastorate. He was succeeded, in order, as follows: 1884 to 1892, Rev. Samuel B. Al- derson ; 1892 to 1905. Rev. James L. McNair : 1905 to 1910, Rev. David H. Jones ; 1910 to 1913, Rev. William I. Campbell; 1913 to present time, Rev. William Boynton Gage.
The membership is now about seven hundred and seventy-five. The present church was erected several years ago and is a modern edifice. The society also has a commodious, modern manse on the lot with the church.
THE CHURCH AT BLOOMINGBURG.
The Bloomingburg Presbyterian church is now ninety-seven years old, having been organized on November 22, 1817, with twenty-six constituent members. Fortunately for the author and reader, there still remains a good record of this old church, as it was carefully compiled during Centennial year by Rev. Edward Cooper, D. D., the third pastor, and from this the writer draws largely for the facts herein contained. At first there were four ruling elders. The first public service was held in a small barn and for some time this building and pioneer residences, which were but rude cabins, were the only places in which to worship. One of the earliest traveling preachers here was Rev. Dyer Burgess, who, in a letter in 1867 written to Rev. Cooper, said : "I distinctly remember my visits to Bloomingburg and the pleasant meetings we had, largely attended, in Colonel Stewart's barn. In January. 1817, they had invited Rev. William Dickey to preach for thein, when I was in the habit of making missionary tours to that settlement; and afterwards I
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visited Bloomingburg frequently, enjoying the Christian fellowship of Brother Dickey and the members of his congregation."
The first session of this church consisted of "Father Dickey," as all knew him, as moderator, Col. James Stewart, Judge James Menary, Robert Robin- son and Elijah Allen, all earnest men, of rare ability. The first sacrament was administered in Col. Stewart's barn. Father Dickey was called to be- come the united pastor of the church at Washington C. H., formed in 1813 and the one at Bloomingburg, and preached his first sermon November 22, 1817, when the church was really formed. In the following December he brought his family on from Kentucky and resided for three years; then, having decided to remove to Bloomingburg, a sufficient force of men and teams were sent for him, bringing also the log cabin in which he had resided, which was placed about a half mile southwest of the present church, sur- rounded by a dense hazel patch.
In 1830 the old log church building gave way to a brick structure of larger proportions. This was often assaulted by whiskey and slave-power mobs, and discussions which brought people from a long distance were held in it. In 1871 a neat frame structure was built. The society is still flourish- ing and doing a good work in the vicinity where it was so long ago estab- lished.
The pastors who have faithfully served this congregation have included these in their order: Revs. William Dickey, Robert W. Wilson, Edward Cooper, John Woods, Clark Kendall, John Moore, Rev. Kruge.
METHODISM IN FAYETTE COUNTY.
Grace Methodist Episcopal church at Washington C. H. was organized at the solicitation of John Bohran during the summer of 1817, by John Solo- mon and Thomas Carr, at the house of Robert Wilson.
The pastors who have served in this church have been: John Solomon and Thomas Carr, 1818; William P. Finley, 1819: Andrew Mclain, 1820; D. D. Davidson, 1821; James Smith, 1822; John Summerville and James Smith, 1823: Benjamin Laurence and George Gatch, 1824: Andrew F. Bax- ter, 1825-6; Z. Westlake, 1827; James T. Donahoe and Jesse Prior, 1830; Augustus Eddy and William T. Snow, 1831 ; William T. Snow and Henry Turner, 1832 (name changed to Washington circuit in 1832) ; James Turner and E. M. Dailey, 1833; E. T. Webster and Lester James, 1834; E. T. Webster and John Rogers, 1835; C. C. Lyhand and J. A. Brown, 1836; S. Clarke and E. Estell, 1837: Eli Truett and Joseph M. Smith, 1838; James
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Laws and Henry Wharton, 1839; James Laws and B. A. Cassat, 1840; Joseph A. Reeder and B. A. Cassat, 1841 ; John Fitch and O. P. Williams, 1842; Noah Hough, 1843; N. Hough and Martin Wolf, 1844; John W. Keeley and B. N. Spahr, 1845; Keeley and V. Beemer, 1846; J. B. Austin and Archibald Flemming, 1847; J. B. Auston, 1848; T. W. Chandler and S. Haines, 1849; Samuel Brown and M. G. Baker, 1850; M. G. Baker, S. Mid- dleton and J. C. Reed, 1851 ; Barton Lowe and H. F. Green, 1852 ; B. Lowe and William Sutton, 1853; Moses T. Bowman and W. Sutton, 1854; I. P. Morris and J. T. P. Williams, 1855-6. It was constituted a station, with one hundred and sixty-seven members, and Thomas H. Phillips was pastor in 1868-9 ; Henry T. Magill, 1860-1; Isaac Cook, 1862-3; E. H. Dixon, 1864; E. P. Hall, 1865-6; J. B. Brodreck, 1867-8-9; G. F. King, 1870-1; Samuel A. Keene, 1872-3; A. C. Hirst, 1874-5; James H. Gardner, 1877-8-9; W. D. Chemingten, 1880; T. M. Leslie, 1880-83; J. W. Peters, 1883-86; W. H. Lewis, 1887-88; D. C. Thomas, 1888-91 ; Franklin McElfresh, 1891-96; A. E. Johnson, 1896-97; W. H. Lewis, 1897-99; A. H. Norcross, 1899-1902; J. C. Arbuckle, 1902-07: Thomas W. Locke, 1907-12; Frederick E. Ross, 1912 and still pastor.
Methodism is now one hundred and eight years old in the world- having started in 1734 in England, under John Wesley, of Oxford. And one hundred and twenty years ago it had its birth in America. The church now has forty-one thousand five hundred traveling ministers and almost seven million membership.
The Ohio Methodist conference was held at Washington C. H. in the month of September, 1914.
After the organization of the society in 1817 services were held part of the time at the old court house and a part of the time at the residences of some of the congregation until 1828. In that year the brick school on Market street, later a part of the residence of Richard Millikan, was completed and occupied by this congregation for church purposes till 1834, when the brick church on the north corner of Main and Market streets was built. This was an immense structure for a village like Washington C. H. in those days. As the walls of this building were not considered safe, it was never finished on the inside and on account of its unfinished condition it could be occupied in the summer months only and in three years was abandoned entirely. From this time until 1845 the society occupied the court house and the Presbyterian church, when a frame church was erected on Market between Fayette and North streets. This was used until 1866, when a brick church was built at the cost of fourteen thousand dollars.
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THE NEW CHURCH.
The present beautiful church edifice of this denomination in Washing- ton C. H. was erected in 1896, on the corner of North street and East Mar- ket. The entire building seats about twelve hundred. A pipe organ was pur- chased for five thousand dollars, and the bell used years ago in the old church is still in use. The church and parsonage have now an estimated value of eighty-nine thousand dollars. Wesley chapel, in another part of the city, is valued at five thousand dollars, making a grand total of church property of ninety-four thousand dollars. The membership in 1914 was reported at the conference at one thousand two hundred seventy-seven. The present church building is of a fine style and there are but few in Ohio any better, in large or small cities. The parsonage was erected in 1910. It is modern throughout.
Wesley chapel, above mentioned, is another Methodist Episcopal church of this city and is under the jurisdiction of Grace church. A good building was erected about 1904, in the outskirts of the city.
West Lancaster Methodist Episcopal church, of Jefferson township, was organized at the house of Joseph Straley, one and a half miles southeast of West Lancaster, in about 1850. After using a school house for some years it was decided best to build a log church on the Jamestown and Wash- ington road, a mile and a half east of West Lancaster, where services were held until 1858-59, when a frame building, thirty-six by forty-eight feet, was constructed. On account of the coming on of the Civil War the building was not completed until 1863. The pioneer pastors stationed here were : Revs. Alfred Hance, Adams (who went to Texas), Joseph Tremble, T. W. Stanley, S. S. Stivers, Cartridge and R. I. DeSelm. Later this church was in the Jeffersonville circuit and London district.
In Jefferson township another Methodist church was formed in 1865, on the farm then, or possibly later owned by Milan L. Smith, military survey 1256. An organization was effected here and maintained for many years. The Protestant Methodists also held their services there.
In Jasper township the early settlers were of a remarkable religious ten- dency, and of the real practical type, too. It was in 1812, two years after the organization of the county, that James Brooks, a Methodist minister of Virginia. effected a church organization here in the Coile-Bush neighborhood, and served as pastor many years. No church building was provided for this active class until 1843. This was a rude, round-pole building, and served
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well its purpose until 1864, when Mount Carmel church was erected one mile to the east of Jasper Mills. This cost one thousand two hundred dollars.
Another Methodist church was formed in 1840, in the township, on the Albert Mark land. One followed in 18.43, on the Coons estate. These were both hewed-log buildings. In 1846 another society of this denomination was added to the township, a short distance from Plymouth. This building was in use until 1866, when a good brick building was built at Plymouth.
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