Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 29

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898

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August 29, 1863, the Third Baptist church was organized in the old brick school house, in Mox- ahala avenue, Putnam, by Rev. Isaac Jones, who served as pastor ten years, and in 1870, a one- story, frame church, 24 by 40 feet, was erected in Moxahala avenue, between Harrison and Pierce streets, at a cost of $2,500.00, which was sold and the proceeds placed in the Union church upon the consolidation of the congregations to form the Union Baptist church.

The original building, in Eighth street, proved too small to accommodate the growing congre- gation and a new one-story frame, 30 by 40 feet, was erected on the site, at a cost of $1,500.00, and dedicated May 5, 1872, but this was inade- quate when the union was effected, and in 1893 the present graceful, two-story brick, 35 by 60 feet, was built. The basement and auditorium each contain an organ, and a Sunday school has been maintained from the beginning of each of the original congregations.

ST. JAMES PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

There may be one older parish in the State of Ohio, but certainly there is none in the diocese of Southern Ohio, than St. James.' At a meet- ing held in the Senate chamber of the old court house, October 17, 1816, pursuant to public no- tice, with Horace Reed, M. D., as chairman, and John Gordon as secretary, it was unanimously resolved to form a church organization, to be called "St. James'," and the following officers were chosen :

Horace Reed, M. D., and Seth Adams, war- dens ; Jeffrey Price, Moses Moorehead, E. B. Mervin, and Calvin Conant, M. D., vestrymen ; Alexander Harper, treasurer ; Samuel Burnham. M. D., lay reader. Rev. Joseph Doddridge, M. D., was chosen pastor, and the first service was held in the Senate chamber, but in June, 1817, and for some time thereafter, they were con- ducted in the Methodist church, which was loaned

for the purpose. The first class for confirmation comprised twenty-five persons, and the rite was administered May 23, 1819, by Bishop Chase, in the Presbyterian church, at Fourth and South streets.

August 30, 1830, G. A. Hall and John T. Fracker, as building committee, awarded a con- tract for the erection of a brick church building at the southeast corner of South and Sixth streets ; many of the members were affiliated with the Freemasons, and desired that society to plant the corner-stone, but Mr. Hall protested so strenu- ously that no corner-stone was laid; the structure was very small and rigidly plain. By act of the General Assembly, January 31, 1833, the parish was incorporated and the church building having become too limited for the congregation, addi- tions were made to the east and south sides, which doubled the original capacity. In 1841, the building was sold to the congregation of St. John's English Lutheran church, and the erec- tion of the present stone edifice was begun on the west side of Sixth street, near North, the corner-stone being laid June 24, 1841. The con- gregation occupied the Senate chamber during the construction, and the basement having been sufficiently finished, services were held therein on Easter Day, 1843. The completion of the audi- torium having sufficiently progressed, a pipe organ was purchased in 1851, and both basement and auditorium having been completed, the build- ing was consecrated September 7, 1853, the en- tire sanctuary representing an expenditure of $20,000.00. The tower was not finished until 1878, when the bell, weighing 2,000 pounds, was donated by Mrs. Julia Peabody Chandler, of Ger- mantown, Pennsylvania, a former communicant of the church. The other private donations and memorials have been: The stained glass win- dows in the body of the church were furnished by James R. Cooper, in the early 'seventies; the altar was a memorial by her children to Mrs. Lucy WV. Hazlett ; the stone front was the gift of the Shinnick family, the brass eagle lectern is a memorial of Charles W. Chandler by his widow, who donated the bell; the lectern Bible was do- nated by the Girls' society, October 4, 1882, and the service books, colored stoles, and festival white altar hangings were the gifts of the Daugh- ters of the King ; the "kite heads" of the windows of the auditorium were mostly furnished by Rev. George W. Dubois; the chancel window is a memorial of William Shultz by his widow, and the east window is a memorial of Margaret Ap- plegate Buell ; the jewelled chalice and brass altar cross were presented in 1893, by Mrs. Amanda A. Pratt, as memorials of her son, Douglass Cassel.

The Sunday school was organized in 1828, in the Senate chamber, but the legend that the par-

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ish enjoys the distinction of being the one in which each bishop has entered upon his sacer- dotal office is not sustained by the facts.

In 1902, a parish house of brick was erected in the rear of the church, consisting of a base- ment, a Sunday school room, pastor's study, rob- ing room, committee rooms, and kitchen, in which the business meetings and social gatherings of the congregation are held.

ST. THOMAS' ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Prior to 1815 there was no Catholics in Zanes- ville, and the first of that communion was Wil- liam C. Colerick, a printer, who came in that year to be associated with Dr. Reed, of Putnam, in a periodical enterprise, which did not mate- rialize. In 1817, John S. Dugan, wife and child, and brother, Peter, and in the succeeding year his widowed sister, Mrs. Harkins, with nine children, arrived, and these fourteen persons com- prised the first congregation which assembled in Zanesville for services, according to the Roman ritual, which were held in a frame building at the southwest corner of Market and Fifth streets. John S. Dugan was proprietor of the tavern at the corner of Main and Fifth streets, and in 1819, the first service by a priest in Zanesville was conducted in his hotel, by Father Young, of Somerset, and in the same year, in the Burnham tavern, in Putnam, but the complaint was made that the latter room was so large that the small congregation was lost in it. Father Young made semi-annual visits and as more Catholics settled the subject of a church building was considered, and during one of the Father's visits he and Dugan selected a one-story, brick warehouse, 20 by 50 feet, at the northeast corner of Fifth street and Locust alley, as capable of being adapted to the purpose ; Dugan purchased it for $2,000.00, November 20, 1820, and when the pas- tor returned in the spring of 1821, he found a church, which he dedicated, and which was known locally as "Trinity" church, and as the "brick chapel ;" semi-monthly visits were then made until Father Young's home duties pre- vented, and Father Stephen H. Montgomery ar- rived in 1823 as the first stationed pastor.

In the spring of 1824, Dugan purchased a lot fronting 134 feet on Fifth street, at its intersec- tion with Spruce alley, which he donated to the congregation, and contributed liberally to the erection of a new stone and brick church, the plans and specifications for which were donated by a New York architect. The corner-stone was laid March 4, 1825, for a building 40 by 70 feet, 35 feet high, and July 2, 1826, it was dedicated to St. John, the Evangelist, and opened by Rt. Rev. Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati, and called the St. John's Roman Catho-

lic church. The front door was arched and bore the inscription: "This is none other than the house of God, and the gates of heaven," and above it, "I. H. S." During the summer of 1827, while Father Montgomery was in France, he procured a bell, which was sus- pended over the entrance, from a horizontal beam supported by two others, one end resting upon the ground and the other against the building ; in 1829 a steeple, in spiral form, 100 feet high, was erected with a copper ball surmounted by a cross, and shortly after a two-story frame pastoral resi- dence was built, adjoining the church, on the north. Upon the authority of the venerable Father Lynch, it is stated that the averment that the church was called St. Patrick is untrue : when the German members withdrew and formed St. Nicholas church, the congregations were des- ignated as the German and Irish Catholics : as the titular designation of the original church was seldom mentioned, the logical conclusion was that as the German church was St. Nicholas, the Irish must be St. Patrick.

When the church became too small the Ger- mans withdrew and the English-speaking mem- bers recognized the necessity of a larger building. and Patrick Keely, of Brooklyn, New York, do- nated the plans and specifications for a new church. A brick structure was contemplated and Mr. John P. Howard offered Father Charles P. Montgomery, the pastor at the time, all the stone required for the erection of a stone church at the cost of quarrying and hauling, and the offer was accepted, and from the time the St. John struc- ture was razed until the new building was com- pleted, the congregation met in the third story of the Blocksom building, at the northwest corner of Main street and Sewer alley. The corner- stone was laid March 17. 1842, the black walnut door and window frames were made by Isaac Dillon at his saw mill. at the mouth of Licking : the bell was purchased at Cincinnati, and donated by William Mattingly at a cost of $1,200.00; its weight is 2,000 pounds, height three feet one inch, and diameter three feet ten inches. Decem- ber 4, 1854, Rt. Rev. Bishop Purcell consecrated St. Thomas' Catholic church, and it was gener- ally known at the time, and is repeated as his- tory, as the only concecrated edifice in the dio- cese, except the Cathedral at Cincinnati : the structure is a large and beautiful one, 60 by 120 feet, and cost $40,000.00.

Sunday evening, July 14. 1901, the jubilee cele- bration was begun by a procession from St. Thomas' to St. Nicholas' church and return, in charge of Father Farmer, the present pastor, and led by the venerable Father Lynch : first were the small school boys and girls ; next, single and married women, followed by the men, in all about 1,250 persons.

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PARISH SCHOOL.

The parish school, attached to St. Thomas' church, was established in the basement of old St. John's church, in 1838, by Father Wilson, the pastor, and was maintained there until the removal of the building. in the spring of 1842, to erect the new church : the school was then con- ducted in an old building, opposite the church, at the southwest corner of Sewer and Spruce alleys, on the rear of the lot lately known as the "hay market." It remained there only a short time, as Father Montgomery, who became pas- tor, leased ground from the McIntire estate at southeast corner of Sixth and Center streets, where the High school now stands, and erected a parish school house of two rooms, which was occupied about ten years. May 3, 1854. the tier of lots from Spruce alley to North street, on the west side of Fifth street, was purchased from E. Buckingham, and in 1855. a two-story brick building was erected and occupied ; in 1856, St. Columbia's Academy building, with basement and two stories of brick, was erected at the north end. and occupied as a young ladies' boarding school until 1873: in July, 1861, it was partially de- stroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt and a third story added. The school is taught by sisters of the order of St. Francis.

The St. Patrick's Benevolent Society was or- ganized March 17, 1859, but is not now in ex- istence : when President Lincoln called for troops, in 1861, the society had $500.00 in the treasury and at once voted the entire sum to equip men for service. As the money had been collected for charitable purposes and there was no necessity for the sacrifice, the contribution was declined with thanks and an expression of the appreciation of the patriotic motives which prompted the loyal Irishmen to vote their hard-earned savings to such a purpose.

ST. NICHOLAS CATHOLIC CHURCHI.

In 1842 the male German communicants of the Catholic church, at Zanesville, forty-one in num- ber, formed the congregation of St. Nicholas' church. and the original stone church, 45 by 60 feet, was dedicated December 1, 1842, by Rt. Rev. John Baptist Purcell, bishop, of Cincinnati. The first pastor was Rev. Joseph Galligher, who was instituted December 26, 1842. About 1860-1, an addition, thirty-six feet in length, was made, and during the pastorate of Rev. Magnus Eppink, in 1870, the brick school building, with five rooms, convent with six rooms, and pastorate, were erected. The original site was upon the brow of the hill at the head of Main street, but in 1885 the

lot between Main and Silliman streets. extending to Greenwood avenue, was purchased and ter- raced, forty stone steps erected to the front of the church, and the building given extensive re- pairs, and December 6, 1892, the golden jubilee of the church was celebrated.

The present pastor, Rev. A. L. Leininger, came December 6, 1893, and when Main street and Greenwood avenue were graded and paved, a meeting of the congregation was held January 16, 1897, and it was decided to grade the church lot, and the succeeding day men and teams were at work ; during the following year a meeting of the congregation was held to devise methods for erecting a new church building. The entire charge of the work was placed in the pastor's hands, and his fidelity and adaptability for the commission is evinced in the beautiful structure which was erected under his supervision. The corner-stone was laid Sunday, July 10, 1898, by Rt. Rev. John A. Watterson, D. D., bishop of Columbus, succeeding an imposing parade of resident and visiting church societies, and De- cember II, 1898, the same eminent prelate blessed a large bell, weighing 2,600 pounds, which was christened "St. Anthony," the gift of the tireless pastor.

The building is in the Romanesque style of architecture, similar to St. Peter's, at Rome, and St. Mark's, at Venice, and covers an area of 80 by 118 feet ; the exterior finish is mottled brick with terra cotta trimmings, and a large semi- circular panel, in inlaid mosaic, over the front entrance, representing the landing of Columbus, designed and executed by Zanesville manufac- turers ; a graceful dome crowns the structure, and the roof of the entire building is red slate ; the floors are of tile and the lighting is by elec- tricity. The stained-glass windows in the audi- torium are gifts from church societies, or memo- rials of deceased pastors, members or relatives, and the figures portrayed are all life size.

The dedicatory services were conducted Sun- day, August 27, 1899, by Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, D. D., O. B., bishop of North Carolina ; the exercises were opened at 10:30 a. m., when the exterior walls were consecrated and when a similar rite had been performed for the interior walls the vast audience was admitted and high mass was celebrated by Father Leininger. At 2 p. m. a parade of the Catholic societies was had, the first division formed of un-uniformed and the second of the uniformed bodies.

The parochial schools are conducted by Sisters of St. Francis, and are in flourishing condition, the average attendance being about two hun- dred. The school was opened in 1842, in a small frame building, upon the site of the present struc- ture.

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ST. JOHN'S ENGLISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN.

There appears to be no real difference in the creeds of the three congregations worshiping at Seventh and Harvey streets, Seventh and South streets, and Sixth and South streets, but each holds to a different system or form of govern- ment ; their festivals and observances appear identical to the layman not acquainted with the technical ecclesiastical distinction which may exist and which are comprehended by the adher- ents ; at one period they seem to have been one organization and the inception of the St. John's congregation is more logically attributable to a desire on the part of the English-speaking mem- bers to conduct services in a familiar tongue.

The church fixes its origin at the time of the pastorate of Rev. Kaemmerer, who was pastor of the church at Seventh and South streets, in 1820, and who was in charge when the English members formed their congregation, in 1839, with sixty signers, and purchased, for $3,000.00, the brick church formerly occupied by the Epis- copalians, at the southeast corner of South and Sixth streets, which was dedicated December 2, 1841, with Rev. Amos Bartholomew as first pastor.

From September 30, 1855, to June 1, 1870, there was no settled pastor, and the congregation was practically disbanded ; the trustees held the church building, and in 1869 a traveling mis- sionary learned of the conditions, organized a Sunday school, re-organized the congregation, and June 1, 1870, Rev. M. C. Horine was in- stalled pastor ; since then the congregation has been vigorous, and upon the death of Rev. W. P. Ruthrauff, in 1876, Rev. Franklin Richards be- came pastor, November 26, under whose vigi- lance and prudence the church became prosper- ous. The old church had become dilapidated, and the corner-stone of a new one was laid June 2, 1878, and December 1, 1878, the thirty-seventh anniversary of the dedication of the first church. the present ornamental edifice was dedicated on the original site. In 1904, a handsome brick parsonage was rected in South street, adjoining the church, and the sorrow of the congregation at the death of their venerable pastor, September II, 1904, after nearly twenty-eight years' ser- vice, was shared by members of other congrega- tions, who recognized in him one who practiced the precepts he so eloquently inculcated.

TRINITY GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHIERAN.

In 1844 Rev. George Bartels began his pastorate at Zanesville, and organized this congregation, March 16, 1845, with the names of thirty-two men attached to the first constitution. The orig- inal church, erected upon the present site, north- cast corner of Seventh and Harvey streets, was

enlarged, and in 1866 the present brick edifice was built, at a cost of $30,000.00, and furnished with a powerful pipe organ. Although the con- gregation is largely German, during recent years services have been frequently conducted in the English tongue. An effort was made in 1860 to organize a parish school, and after a brief ex- istence it was discontinued by reason of the death of the teacher ; in 1866 it was re-opened, but was not successfully conducted until 1871, in which year the brick school house was built at a cost of $2,000.00. A local board of education, of which the pastor is ex-officio member, has charge, the expenses being met by subscription.

GERMAN EVANGELICAL.

Early in the last century Lutherans were ac- customed to meet at private houss for religious service, the first of these "cottage meetings." as they were styled, being held at Fourth and South streets. An occasional itinerant preacher was secured, and in 1818 the congregation had grown sufficiently to enable the members to erect a small frame building, at the southwest corner of Seventh and South streets, in which was placed a pipe organ, made by L. P. Bailey, the famous organ-builder of the city. In 1864 the present brick structure was erected, and in 1904 the front was remodeled, a steeple added. stained- glass windows inserted, and other improvements made, at a cost of $4,000.00. The church does not maintain a parish school.

GERMAN UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST.

The original congregation of this church con- sisted of nine persons, all from the families of Christian and Christopher Bischoff, Frederick Greul, and Henry Veit Bauer, who were formally organized at the home of Frederick Greul, in Eighth street, April 8, 1865, by Rev. Casper Streich, who had been sent for the purpose by the German Conference of United Brethren. The present brick church, 28 by 60 feet, with the pas- tor's residence in the rear, on the west side of Seventh street, between Market street and Foun- tain alley, was built in 1866, at a cost of $4.000, and until its erection the congregation niet at each other's houses. The present membership is one hundred and thirty-three, and a Young Peo- ple's society has an enrollment of seventy-five : a large Sunday school has always been main- tained and possesses a good library. The church has no debt and plans are being considered for remodeling the building.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

During the initial period of the formation of this congregation the members met at each other's houses, and in 1870 an organization was effected

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and meetings were held in Haver's hall, in Put- nam avenue, for a few years, and later in a small hall in Fifth street: there was no pastor, but occasional meetings were held by evangelists, and the membership was gradually increased. Wor- rell's hall, at the corner of Linden avenue and Lee street, was obtained and the social meetings, with occasional preaching and evangelistic ser- vices, were held, and a Sunday school organized. It was then determined to erect a permanent re- ligious home, and the lecture room of the church building, at the northeast corner of Amelia and Park streets, was erected and evangelistic ser- vices were conducted in it during February and March, 1888, which added so many to the church and so strengthened its vitality that the comple- tion of the church was determined upon and the structure completed in June of that year, during the pastorate of Rev. E. S. DeMiller, its first pas- tor, the dedicatory services being conducted June 29, by Rev. Robert Moffett, of Cleveland. Twelve pastors succeeded, with occasional short periods, when the congregation was without a head, until July 13, 1902, when the present pastor, Rev. Asa McDaniel, began his labors, during which the church has been repaired interiorly, and the so- ciety brought to a condition of financial freedom and comfort.

CONGREGATIONALISM.

First Congregational church. During 1884 a number of persons met at the home of L. D. Dillon to consider the expediency of forming a new religious society ; two succeeding meetings were held at the residence of W. E. Atwell, M. D., and November 13 a fourth was held at Mr. Dil- lon's ; at a meeting one week later, an invitation was extended to Rev. E. I. Jones, of Newark, to address a meeting in the probate court room, November 28, which he complied with, and after an explanation of the doctrines and usages of Congregationalism, it was unanimously

"Resolved, That it is the sense of this meet- ing that it is expedient to organize a Congrega- tional church in this city."

Rev. A. C. Barrows, of Kent, Ohio, was in- vited to attend a meeting in Odd Fellows' hall, December 4, which he did, and on the following evening preached in the probate court room ; tem- porary officers were chosen and the home of Mr. Dillon was selected for weekly praper and busi- ness meetings. The first Sunday services were held January 4, 1885, at 10:45 a. m., and Janu- ary 7 permanent officers were chosen and the name, "The First Congregational Church of Zanesville," unanimously approved for the or- ganization.

A Sunday school was organized January II, 1885. and February II an ecclesiastical council was ordered to assemble in Odd Fellows' hall,

February 24, which was attended by six clerical and four lay delegates, when Dr. G. M. Weller stated the reasons for desiring the organization of a Congregational church and the action already taken thereon ; the council unanimously approved the action, and the new church began with forty members. Services were held in Odd Fellows' hall, Black's Music hall, a room over Weller's drug store, Second Presbyterian church, and in a room in the market house. Rev. George D. Herron, D. D., was first pastor, and two years later was succeeded by Rev. Thomas Clayton, under whose pastorate a lot was purchased at the southwest corner of Sixth street and Cyprus al- ley, and a brick church building erected in 1888, at a cost of $6.500.00. Succeeding pastors have been: Revs. D. I. Jones, Carlos H. Hanks, J. Addison Seibert, J. Alexander Jenkins, and Charles H. Couch.

Second Congregational church was organized about 1898, in the Union Sunday School building, at Wortley's station, on the Adamsville road, and was disbanded in March, 1905, with a member- ship of about forty members. Services were held in the Sunday School building under Revs. Fred. C. Smith and Charles E. Keller, but the neighborhood was unable to sustain the organ- ization.

WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH.

The African Wesleyan Methodist church was organized July 24, 1875, and occupied a frame building in Moorehead avenue, east of Blue ave- nue, erected in 1887 : when the congregation dis- solved it came into possession of the Wesleyan Methodists, and is known as the "Union Mis- sion." It has no connection with the Salvation Army, but its labors are in the same field of evangelical work.

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Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 29

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846- Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 898

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898