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Beginning with the year 1843, the roll of the church runs as follows: 157, 150, 141, 149, 154, 155, 151, 135, 120, 121, 131, 127, 127, which brings the report to the close of Mr. Callen's pastorate. In 1856, Mr. Ham- ilton took charge of the church, and, beginning with this year, the report runs as follows during the ten years of his labors here : 121, 107, 108, 124, 114, 109, 112, 113, 118, 117, 130. The largest addition to the church during this pastorate was in the last year, when there were twenty-nine received.
Beginning with 1867, the report is: 134. 137, 138, 149, 157, 156. 154, 148. It will be noticed that during two periods of four years each in the history of the church the decrease was regular. The membership reported in 1874 was 148, in 1875 it was 181, and in 1876, 195. The present membership of the church is 203.
The five oldest members of this church whose names are now upon the roll are the following, given in the order in which they united with the church :
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, received by baptism and confession, June 26, 1825.
Mrs. Ann L. Ewing, widow of Hon. Nathaniel Ewing, united by certificate, Nov. 13, 1830.
Mrs. Eliza Wilson, united by certificate, Oct. 6, 1833.
Mrs. Catharine Dicus, united by examination, Oct. 6, 1833.
Miss Agnes Dutton, united by examination, Aug. 12, 1836.
Of the benevolent work of the church in the earliest times we have no statistics. The first record of a con-
for the commissioners' fund. In 1838, $325 were con- tributed to the general work of the church ; in 1842, $160; in 1843, 866; and in 1845, 8440, and in 1849, $102. These are the only statistics recorded in the century the statistics are quite full, being given an- nually. The figures just cited furnish a very good idea how the benevolence of the church varies with the most astonishing and unaccountable irregularity until near the present time.
During the period covered by the statistics that are quite full this church has contributed as follows to the various causes which have been presented : Home missions, 83240; foreign missions, $2942; church erection. 81380; relief fund, 8660 ; publication, 8549; freedmen, $247 ; snstentation, $187 ; miscellaneous, 83951 ; congregation, 841,000, or more than two-thirds of the whole. In all, over $50,000 have been given according to the statistics, and much has been con- tributed of which there is no record.
In February, 1875, a missionary society on a some- what extended scale, including the foreign work, was organized, and in the course of the year attained a membership of one hundred, and gave a contribution of $100 to the foreign missionary cause.
The following were the officers for the first year ;
President, Mrs. Eleazer Robinson.
Vice-Presidents, Mrs. S. S. Gilson, Mrs. Dr. Fuller, Mrs. Ewing Brownfield, Mrs. M. M. Browning, Mrs. William Carothers, Mrs. C. M. Livingston.
Secretaries, Miss Mary B. Campbell, Mrs. Susan Allison.
Managers, Mrs. Daniel Kaine, Mrs. J. K. Beeson, Misses Lizzie Reynolds, Sadie Cope, Lizzie Moreland, Annie Williams, Maggie Francis, Lida Harah, Laura Beeson, Lou Hatfield, Sallie Gaddis, and Sarah Mc- Dowell.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. H. Baily.
The germ of the Sabbath-school of this church, the first Sabbath-school of Uniontown, was a class taught by the wife of the Rev. William Wylie in her own home. A school was formally organized about 1820. Dr. Hugh Campbell, who was then present, is the chief authority in regard to the earliest history of the Sabbath-school. The following statements are from a written document prepared by himself:
One of the teachers at the time of the organiza-
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tion was Miss Elizabeth Hadden, " Betsy" Hadden, as she was called, who gave her time incessantly to the interest of the school, sometimes conducting it for long periods entirely alone, never giving up the school in its darkest days. Two others of the early teachers deserve especial notice,-Mr. John Lyon and Mr. John St. Clair. Mr. Lyon was a lawyer of unusual ability, an orthodox Presbyterian, and no ordinary theologian. He was fond of children, and apt to teach. He died a member of the State Senate of Pennsylvania. Mr. St. Clair was the pro- thonotary of the county. Few men excelled him in the imparting of knowledge.
Rev. William Wylie superintended the school until his removal to Wheeling. Col. Ewing Brownfield still has in his possession a reward-of-merit card, signed in their own handwriting by William Wylie, superintendent, and Andrew Stewart, secretary.
After Miss Hadden's death the school was super- intended successively by Nathaniel Ewing, Joseph Kibler, Ethelbert P. Oliphant, Dr. Hugh Campbell, W. H. Baily, and A. W. Boyd. Mr. Oliphant was elected superintendent in January, 1847, and J. K. Ewing, Esq., assistant.
In 1848, Dr. Campbell was elected superintendent, and held the office until 1865, the longest period of service ever given by one man. Up to 1848 the aver- age annual attendance of scholars was about eighty. During the period of Dr. Campbell's superintendency the contributions to the cause of missions were about one hundred and twenty-one dollars. The school has always been supported by the church, and the con- tributions of the children have gone to the general work.
The present superintendent of the Sunday-school is Nathaniel Ewing ; average attendance of scholars, one hundred and twenty ; number of volumes, one hundred and seventy-five.
William and Samuel Campbell, sons of Dr. Hugh Campbell, are the only ones who have entered the gospel ministry from this church.
HOUSES OF WORSHIP .- Before the erection of a church building the congregation worshiped in the old court-honse, which stood on the site of the pres- ent one. About the year 1824 a church edifice was begun, which after various difficulties was finally com- pleted and dedicated in January, 1827. It stood on the public ground, near the southwest corner of Mor- gantown and South Streets, a little south of the site of the present town hall. It was a plain, neat one- story brick, about thirty by fifty feet in size, without steeple or ornament, with the gable end fronting Morgantown Street, and standing a little back from the street. There was but one room, which was sub- stantially pewed in the ordinary manner, each slip having the high, old-fashioned back and rectangular end. The building cost about three thousand dol- lars.
raised to this occupancy of public ground, the lot upon which the present church stands, on the south side of Church Street, just at the point of the angle made by its deflection northward, was purchased in the year 1836, and a second building, considerably larger and more pretentious than the first, was erected thereon. This building, of which Elder William Redick was the architect, contractor, and builder, stood a few feet back from the street, though not as far as the present building. It was a two-story brick, with high windows answering for both stories, with vestibule, steeple, and bell; open on the front, with large wooden columns extending as high as the square and supporting the gable. The lecture-room on the first floor was occupied in the fall of 1837, and the audience-room above in the following spring. This building cost about five thousand five hundred dollars. This structure, though sufficiently large and intended to be imposing, failed to satisfy the taste of the congregation, and after an occupancy of only some nineteen years, in April, 1857, a fire, originating from a stove-pipe, somewhat damaged the interior. This was generally hailed as a pretext for erecting a new church, and the enterprise was at once set on foot and generously and heartily carried out. Thus the present church edifice came to be constructed. It was dedicated to God April 10, 1860. It occupies nearly the identical spot covered by the previous building. It is forty-seven by seventy-five feet in size, of brick, two stories, semi-gothic in style, with a belfry surmounted with a spire. The walls and ceiling of the lecture-room are neatly painted. The audience-room is handsomely frescoed. The windows are of stained glass. The whole house is lighted with gas. The entire cost, exclusive of the value of the lot, was about ten thousand dollars, a sum much less than it would have cost at any time since, and the economy of its construction is largely because of the excellent financial management and close attention of the building committee, especially of J. K. Ewing, chairman. The handsome and substantial iron fence along the front of the lot was erected about 1865. | The material of each of the old buildings, as far as suitable, was used in the construction of the subse- quent one, so that at least some of the bricks of the first edifice form a part of the present church building.
The memorial fund raised by the congregation was set apart for the construction of a parsonage. This work was undertaken in September, 1875, and com- pleted in September, 1876, and stands as a monument of the centennial year. The erection of the parson- age at a very reasonable cost is due chiefly to the building committee, which consisted of Messrs. Jasper M. Thompson, Wm. H. Baily, and Daniel F. Cooper. It is a handsome, commodious, and convenient two- story brick house, located north of the town, a few feet outside the borough line. It is situated on about half an acre of ground, on the west side of Gallatin
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scenery, and also a good view of the town. The cost of the house alone was four thousand two hundred dollars.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF UNIONTOWN.
" A brief narrative1 of the rise and organization of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Union Town, Penna. :
" In that vast series of events arising in the ad- ministration of Divine Providence, such events oc- curred as directed the labors of the Cumberland Presbyterian missionaries to this place. In the month of December, 1831, a protracted meeting was held by the Rev. A. M. Brien and Milton Bird, which con- tinned five days. Although it commenced under very inauspicions circumstances, yet it closed with quite favorable auspices. Owing to the numerous and imperious calls elsewhere, another was not held until the latter part of January, 1832. A third was held during the month of February, both by the above-named ministers. Those two last occasions were increasingly signalized with displays of Divine influence in the conviction and conversion of sinners, and in exciting the attention of many who had hith- erto been thoughtless to serions reflection and decision on the subject of Christianity.
" A desire having been and still being expressed by sundry individuals for the formation of a Cumber- land Presbyterian congregation, and God in his providence having opened an effectual door in this borough and adjacent neighborhood, the above de- sire was complied with in the formation of a Cum- berland Presbyterian congregation in 1832. It having been manifest that such an event would meet the Divine approbation, additions were made from time to time, and on the - day of -, 1832, this con- gregation was regularly organized, and its narrative proceeds from this date in the records of the session."
The names of the original members are not given in the record. The first names that appear with dates are Sabina Campbell, Lewis Marchand, Sarah Mar- chand, and Ann Maria MeCall, who appear to have been admitted as members on the 23d of December, 1832. The first pastor of the church was the Rev. Milton Bird. The following names are those of per- sons admitted to membership in the church during the year 1833 :
Jan. 20. 1833 :
Nancy Cannon.
Eliza Minor.
Matilda Aldridge.
Elizabeth McCormick.
William Wood.
David Campbell.
George Meason. Mary Meason.
Isaac Beeson.
Hannah Wolten.
Elihu Gregg. Sarah Law. Joseph Price. George Wiggins. John Jackson. Joseph Rockwell.
Samuel Hudson.
Mary McClean.
Christian Lechrone.
James Gaddis.
Catharine Lechrone.
Ann M. Wood.
Daniel Brubaker.
Ephraim D. Kellan. Lneinda Payne. Jane Osborn.
Mary Dougherty.
Samuel Yarnell.
Mary Snelling.
Ausley Gaddis.
John King.
John MeDowell.
James Collins.
John Minor.
Jesse Payne.
Louis F. Wells.
Thomas Stewart.
Caleb Woodward.
Rebecca Rager.
Phebe Woodward.
Catharine Cornell.
Hannah Johns.
Catharine Payne.
Perry Tautlinger.
Priscilla Wiggins.
Henry H. Beeson.
Adaline Shelcart. April 21, 1833 :
Nancy Abrams.
David Hess.
Catharine A. Balsinger.
Hannah Downard.
Isaac Vance.
Elizabeth Desmond.
Sarah MeCubbins.
John L. Dicus.
John Lazure.
Nancy Holley.
Sept. 16, 1833 :
Priscilla Shotwell.
Mirah Whitmire.
Malinda Hall.
William Scott. Juliet Seaton.
Hannah Stewart. Mary Fulton.
John Black ford.
Sabina Malaby.
Mary Walker.
Edward Richards.
Susan Sharrar.
Ann Scott.
Mary Scott.
Elizabeth Young.
Mary Derolff.
Elizabeth Richart.
Mary Springer. Susan Bright.
Dec. 29, 1833 : Margery Vanhook.
Rebecca Dixon. Mary Collins. Jane MeCleary.
James Piper.
Lonisa C. Beeson.
Mary Lewis. Van Rensselaer Taylor. Ann Morris.
Margaret Boyle.
1 These extracts are from a narrative written by Isaac Beeson at the commencement of the church record.
Feb. 23, 1834: Jacob Beeson.
Susan Roderick.
Nancy Carrol.
Mary Vance.
Ruth Downard.
Rachel Downard.
Charlotte MeClelland.
Mary Hess.
Samuel Swearingen. Sarah Williams.
Sept. 17, 1833:
Elizabeth Beeson.
John Whitmore. Conrad Ritchard.
Mary McCormick. Nancy Deselms.
Dec. 21, 1833 : Elizabeth Boyle.
Mary Sullivan. Aug. 4, 1833 :
Henry Dougherty. Eleanor Kaine. Sept. 15, 1833:
Mary Scott.
John Beatty. Ann Mariah Beatty.
William S. Cannon.
Hannah Turner. Elizabeth Clark. Ann Carson. Elizabeth Kurtz.
Thomas D. Miller. Barbara Bevier.
John Miller.
Priscilla Springer. Nancy Taylor. Ann Dawson. .Jane Todd.
Elizabeth Yarnell. Nancy Kean. Mordecai Yarnell.
Margaret Bowers.
Eliza Dougherty.
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The first report to the Presbytery, in April, 1833, gave the membership as two hundred and sixteen. From Dec. 23, 1832, to April 1, 1833, thirty-eight were admitted, leaving one hundred and seventy- eight who had been admitted prior to the former date. A list of ruling elders is given in the record of the church without date. The names of William Nixon, James Boyle, and Joseph Pennock appear before the names of Isaac Beeson and William McQuilken, who were chosen June 8, 1833. At the same time James Piper was chosen clerk. As trustees the names of Robert C. Wood, Daniel Kellar, Isaac P. Minor, and Dr. Lewis Marchand appear before those of H. H. Beeson and George Meason, who were elected Sept. 30, 1833.
On the 11th of July, 1833, at a meeting of the male members of the congregation, "it was agreed that the congregation hold a protracted camp-meeting on the farm of Brother William Nixon, in George township, to commence on the second Tuesday of September next."
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On Monday evening, Aug. 5, 1833, the record says, " The congregation this evening held their first meet- ing of monthly concert of prayer."
"Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1833 .- The corner-stone of our church edifice in Uniontown was this day laid, in which was deposited a copy of the Old and New Testaments, a copy of the Confession of Faith, an enrollment of the members' names in communion with the church, together with a brief narrative of the rise and organization of the church in this place. The ceremonies were closed with a few pertinent re- marks suited to the occasion and prayer by the Rev. Brother Bird." And under date of Sept. 13, 1834, is recorded, " The new church was this day dedicated to the use of Almighty God, an appropriate address being delivered by the Rev. John Morgan."
The camp-meeting proposed at the meeting on the 11th of July, as before noticed, was held at the place designated, beginning on Sunday, the 15th of Sep- tember. The ministers present were the Revs. Milton Bird, John Morgan, Aston, Sparks, and Wood, and a licentiate named Robinson. On the first day of the meeting twenty-five persons were added to the church, of whom fourteen were baptized. On the second day seventeen were examined and admitted, and on the third day eight more were added. The meeting closed on the 17th, having resulted in the conversion of fifty persons.
On the 18th of September, 1833, a report of the condition of the church was made to the Presbytery at Washington, Pa., showing that the number of per- sons added to the church since the 1st of April of the same year was seventy-eight.
"Nov. 4, 1833 .- The congregation, in pursuance of the request of the Pennsylvania Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, this evening formed a society auxiliary to the Presbyterian Society, for the more effectually extending the bounds of the
church by building np and supplying new and vacant congregations and sending ont missionaries, to be known by the name of the Union Town Congregation Auxiliary Missionary Society. Officers, George Mea- son, president ; James Piper, secretary ; Richard Bee- son, treasurer." On the 7th of the same month : "This day the church formed a Sabbath-school, the following officers being duly elected : Isaac Beeson, Dr. Lewis Marchand, and Robert C. Wood, superin- tendents; Archibald Coulter, secretary ; William McQuilken, treasurer."
The Rev. Milton Bird served this church as mis- sionary till September, 1834, when the Rev. John Morgan became its pastor. On the 15th of that month, " In pursuance of a public notice, the congre- gation met in the church. Brother R. Beeson ap- pointed moderator. Rev. Brother Morgan stated the object of the meeting, the destitute condition of a number of the brethren in the region and neighbor- hood of Connellsville, they having no ruling elder among them. Lutellus Lindley was nominated and elected. It was resolved that this congregation give their consent that the Rev. Brother Morgan labor one-fourth of his time in Connellsville and vicinity, and that one-fourth of his salary be secured to him by that people."
The Rev. Mr. Morgan continued as pastor until 1841, when he was compelled by disease (of which he died in Uniontown on the 15th of October in that year) to send in his resignation. On the 22d of June in that year, "By reason of the ill health of the pastor, the Rev. John Morgan, the session was directed to wait upon the Rev. James Smith, and inform him that it is the desire of the church that he should as- sume the pastoral charge, and promise him a salary of five hundred dollars." Mr. Smith's answer was favorable, and on the 27th of July following a formal call was extended to him, but for some reason which does not appear the matter fell through, and on the 21st of November a letter was addressed to the Rev. Isaac Shook, inviting him to the pastorate. He ac- cepted the call, and assumed the charge Jan. 1, 1843, but resigned soon after. In March, 1843, a call was extended to the Rev. J. T. A. Henderson, who ac- cepted, and became pastor of this church May 15, 1843.
The increase of membership from 1834 to 1842 is shown by the reports made to Presbytery from time to time, giving the number of members at different dates as follows : April, 1834, 318; September, 1834, 342; March, 1835, 391; October, 1835, 425; April, 1836, 432; August, 1837, 442; August, 1838, 494; March, 1840, 504; April, 1842, 520.
The Rev. Mr. Henderson remained pastor of the church until 1847, then the Rev. Milton Bird served for a time as a supply. The Rev. L. H. Lowry suc- ceeded as pastor on the second Sabbath of April, 1847, and held the pastorate at a salary of four hun- dred dollars a year until the spring of 1849. About
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this time the Rev. A. D. Bryce frequently occupied the pulpit as a supply. On the 1st of July, 1849, the Rev. Hiram A. Hunter became pastor, and remained till Nov. 1, 1852, then came Rev. S. E. Hudson, whose term of service dates from April 1, 1853, to April 1, 1854. He was succeeded without an inter- mission by Rev. John Cary, who preached until Jan. 17,1857.
Ang. 30, 1858, a call was extended to the Rev. Isaac N. Biddle, who became the pastor in November of that year at a salary of $400 per year (afterwards in- creased to 8600), and remained till Aug. 1, 1866, when he resigned. He was immediately followed by Rev. A. D. Hail, who served until May 26, 1869. A year later, in the spring of 1870, Rev. George A. Flower accepted the pastorate, whose functions he . Riddle proposed to furnish and deliver 100,000 bricks discharged until his resignation in May, 1872. Rev. | J. H. Coulter acted as supply until February, 1873, when Rev. Henry Melville was permanently installed. Mr. Melville resigned April 1, 1879, since when the church has been without a regular pastor. Rev. Walter Baugh is now acting as supply. The mem- bership of the church is now one hundred and seventy.
On the 26th of February, 1873, to consider the pro- priety of erecting a parsonage a building committee was appointed to select a location and superintend the work of building. A site was selected on Red- stone Street, and a parsonage erected on it at a cost of $2500.
The Sabbath-school in connection with this church numbers one hundred and thirty scholars and fifteen teachers, with James Hadden as superintendent.
Recently the congregation have decided to build a new house of worship. The following article, from the Republican Standard of May 26, 1881, is of interest in its reference to the demolition of the old edifice and its history :
" The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, now un- dergoing demolition on Church Street, was built in 1833 and dedicated Sept. 13, 1834. At that time the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination was one of the most flourishing in this section of country. Last week there was found under the pulpit a box contain- ing bids, contracts, receipts, memoranda, reports, etc., written at the time the church was building. They give the price of labor and material then, and show exactly what the church cost, which was, in- cluding the lot, 83190.79. These papers were wrapped up in a copy of the Genius of 1835. The com- mittee appointed by the congregation to supervise the building of the edifice consisted of Isaac Bee- son, George Meason, Dr. Louis Marchand, James Boyle, and John Dawson. Among the bids was the following from George D. Stevenson : 'I propose to find all materials and plaster your house in a good and workmanlike manner (with a vestibule) for $208.50; without vestibule or lobby, for $187.50.' John Harvey offered to build the foundation wall, 40 by 60 feet, the committee to find the materials, for
53 cents a perch; or find the materials himself and do the work for $1.56} a perch. David Jones' bid for the stone-work was $1.87} per perch and find the materials himself. Thomas Prentice offered to fur- nish 'good stone for the foundation at 75 cents a perch, or stone raised at the quarry at 48 cents a perch, the committee to haul the same.'
" Hague & Meredith offered to lay 85,950 bricks for 8287.781. Reuben Hague's bid for the same work was to find the lime, sand, scaffolding, tenders and boarding, and lay the bricks for $2.80 a thousand. Joseph Brashear, of Franklin township, proposed under the conditions laid down by Hague to do the work for 82.75 a thousand. Edward Hyde wanted $3.75 a thousand. John P. Sturgis and Benjamin
at $5.50 a thousand. James McCoy underbid them 50 cents a thousand and got the contract. William Maquilken offered to do the painting for $37.94. Ephraim McLean proposed to furnish 42 locust posts, 4 by 5, good butts, 83 feet long, at 31} cents each, delivered. Absalom White offered to find all the materials and do all the carpenter-work for $1240; or find no materials and do the work for $650. On his consenting also to furnish the glass and do the neces- sary priming his bid was accepted. Following is a copy of the report of the committee appointed to audit and close the accounts of the building commit- tee :
" The committee appointed by the congregational meeting held in November last, for the purpose of closing the accounts of the building committee, met at the house of Isaac Beeson on the 25th of Novem- ber, 1835, and proceeded to an examination of the accounts of said committee, as per documents here- with inclosed :
We find that Isaac Beeson has paid out. ................ $3061.09 And has received and assumed. 2702.78
Leaving a balance due to Isaac Becson, for which we gave him a certificate for. 358.31
Also a certificate to Hague & Meredith for. 25.00
.. William MeQuilken for .. 18.94
James Boyle for. $5.76
Making the cost of said building, including lot ... 3190.79
Leaving a balance due from congregation to individ- uals 488.01
"There remains uncollected subscriptions to the amount of 8127.291, which in all probability cannot be collected.
"HENRY H. BEESON,
"JOHN CANON, "CHARLES PEACH,
" Committee.
" DEC. 28, 1835.
"A gentleman who has a retentive memory re- cently remarked to the writer that to the older resi- dents of the town a considerable degree of interest attaches to the old church. John Quincy Adams spoke there once. He was on his way back from Cincinnati, where he had attended the laying of the corner-stone of an observatory, and the people of
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