History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 54

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1532

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Lehman Presbyterian Church, Lehman township; organized February, 1862. Pastors: Rev. J. S. Ferguson, 1863-6; Charles E. Van Allen, 1868; A. G. Harned, 1868; Charles K. Canfield, 1871; W. B. Darrach, 1878; now disbanded.

Plains Church; organized November 18, 1869; church building erected 1872; seating 350. Pastors: Rev. A. C. Smith, 1869-76; A. L. Loder, 1876-9; H. H. Welles, 1879-92; Henry Spayd, 1892.

Larksville Church (Snowden Memorial); organized May 27, 1890; church build- ing erected 1872. Pastor, Rev. E. H. Snowden.

Plymouth Church; organized October 5, 1856; church building erected 1868. Pastors: Rev. E. H. Snowden; stated supply for fifteen years; William P: White, 1870-82; John Ewing, D. D., 1882; Jonathan Edward, D. D .; William J. Day, 1887-92.

Sugar Loaf Church, at Conyngham, was organized December 19, 1841. Pastors: Rev. Daniel Gaston, 1841-44; Robert Steele, 1844; Darwin Cook, 1845-7; John Johnson, 1848-71; C. Bridgman, 1873-4; Homer S. Newcomb, 1874.

Mountain Top Church, Fairview township; mission connected with Ashley church.

Wyoming Presbyterian Church, Kingston township, was organized in 1833, when a chapel was built opposite the cemetery. This chapel was destroyed by lightning in 1854, and the present church was erected in 1857. Pastors: Rev. Alex- ander Heberton, J. D. Mitchell, D. D., 1847-9, 1855-6; Paul E. Stevenson, 1850-4; N. S. Prime, D. D., Thomas P. Hunt, William L. Moore, 1857-8; Frederick L. King, Henry Rinkes, H. H. Welles, Albert B. King, 1863-73; Lewis H. Boehler, Scott Stites, 1873-7; George W. Ely; now W. A. Beecher.

First Presbyterian Church of Hanover, Sugar Notch, was organized in 1871. Hon. H. B. Wright gave a lot, in 1874, for a church building, which was erected that year at a cost of $4,000. Pastors: Rev. William D. Jenkins, E. J. Hughes, Joseph E. Davis, D. D., 1874-92.

Bennett Presbyterian Church, Mill Hollow, was organized in 1874. Building was erected in 1876, costing $6,000. Pastor, Rev. A. C. Smith.

Nanticoke Presbyterian Church .- Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve and Nicholas Murray began mission work here in 1829 in a schoolhouse. The church was organized about the same time. Two buildings were erected, the second of brick, in 1833. Pastors: Revs. Cyrus Gildersleeve, William Rhodes, M. Corse, E. H. Snowden, 1839-43, 1849-54; W. Hunting, 1843; Thomas P. Hunt, Darwin Cooke, 1846-8; Jacob Weidman, William J. Day, H. H. Welles, Arthur Johnson, J. P. Harsen, George H. Ingram and Eli O. Gooding.

Coalville Presbyterian Church, Ashley .- A Sunday-school was organized here in 1834, and a church built in 1844. The new church, of brick, was erected in 1860 at a cost of $8,500; is now valued at $10,000. In 1844 the membership was five; it is now about 300. Pastors: Rev. John Dorrance, 1844; Thomas P. Hunt, Jacob Weidman, 1860-5; William J. Day, 1865-87; Norman Custer, 1888-92.

Presbyterian Church, White Haven. - Missionary work was begun here in 1843. The church was organized December 6, 1850, and the first building erected. The present building was dedicated December 2, 1869. Pastors: Revs. Darwin Cook,

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1844; David Harbison, 1848; Samuel A. Gayley, 1850; James Scott, 1850; John T. Baker, 1852-4; John W. Porter, 1854-7; Jonathan Osmond, 1857; James M. Salmon, 1863-73; P. B. Cook, 1873-5; N. J. M. Bogert, 1876; now Justice T. Umstead, D. D.

Presbyterian Church, Upper Lehigh, was organized June 28, 1868. Church built in 1871 at a cost of $4,500; present value, $4,000. Pastors: Revs. John Johnson, 1868-70; George H. Hammers, 1870-7; D. McLeod, 1877-92.

Freeland Borough .- Church built in 1880.

First Presbyterian Church, Pittston, was organized February 25, 1842, with thirty members, and incorporated January 22, 1848. Church building was erected in 1846 at a cost of $2,000. This became too small, and a new building was erected in 1857. Pastors: Revs. Charles Evans, 1842-4; N. G. Parke, D. D., 1844-92. Dr. Parke published, in 1879, "An Historical Discourse in the First Presbyterian church, of Pittston;" 80 p. 43; delivered in 1876.

First Presbyterian Church, West Pittston, was organized December 21, 1877. Church building was erected in 1878, seating 350, at a cost of $6,500. Pastors: Revs. R. E. Wilson, 1877-8; N. J. Rubikan, 1878-80; Thomas Nichols, 1882; Thomas W. Swann, 1892.

Presbyterian Church, Hazleton .- Rev. Richard Webster, pastor of the Presby- terian church in Mauch Chunk, began services here in 1836-7. A brick church was built 1854-69. The property, including the parsonage, is worth $15,000. The pastors have been: Revs. Richard Webster, 1836-8; Daniel Gaston, 1838-44; James Green Moore, 1845-8; Daniel Harbison, 1848-52; John Johnson and W. Baker, 1850-4; John Armstrong, 1854-64; E. J. Newlin, 1864-71; J. A. Maxwell, 1871-4; A. B. Jack, 1874; William C. Stett, 1889; Joseph G. Williamson, Jr., 1892.

Langcliffe Church .- The Presbytery of Lackawanna was organized in June, 1870. At its second meeting, held in the Second Presbyterian church of Wyalu- sing in September, 1870, a committee was appointed to organize a church in Pleas- ant Valley. September 25 the committee met in Pleasant Valley, where a church edifice had been erected and dedicated, and organized the church. The members of the committee present were Revs. N. G. Parke, A. B. King; Elders Theodore Strong and Charles F. Mattes. The church received the name of " Langcliffe" in honor of the family who donated the ground for the church. Twenty-four persons became members of the church at its organization; bas a total membership of forty- five; first pastor of the church, Rev. A. S. Stewart, installed in November, 1871. In July, 1876, Sabbath-school and Sunday afternoon preaching services were started at Moosic, and maintained four years in the schoolhouse and in Houser's hall, until the congregation was provided, by the generosity of the Moosic Powder company, with a church building, which was dedicated July 22, 1880. On the same day the Sunday-school in Pleasant Valley, which had previously been a union school, was organized. April 1, 1879, the church reported ninety-three, and a Sun- day-school membership of 253. January 16, 1883, the presbytery dissolved the pastoral relation between Rev. Mr. Brydie and the church.

On August 5, 1882, John R. Davies was called to the pastorate. In March, 1884, ground was broken for a basement, and the church was enlarged by an addi- tion of two wings, each 11x50, and the church was re-dedicated. March 22, 1885, the Moosic church was burned. It was immediately rebuilt, and the new one was dedicated July 8. Report for the year ending April, 1875: Total membership, 230; Sunday-school membership, 611. October 24, 1886, William Dick, Thomas Ellis, Samuel H. Houser and James McMillan were ordained and installed elders, and David Wildrick, ordained to the eldership in another congregation, was installed. Services which had been carried on by the Methodists at No. 4 Plane

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were placed into the hands of the Langcliffe church in 1887. In the summer of 1887 the Rev. John R. Davies retired and the church was again left without a pastor.

Rev. G. N. Makely received a unanimous call to the pastorate. In 1889 the church tower was built and a bell secured for the church in Avoca. December 21, 1890, the eldership was increased by the ordination and installation of William Watson, Charles Monie, John McCrindle and William Anderson, Jr.

Rev. Bernard Page, of the Church of England, ordained by the Lord Bishop of London for " Wyoming Parish, Penn'a," August 24, 1772, was the first Protestant Episcopal minister to officiate in this section. Owing to the great political disturb- ances of that date, Mr. Page did not long remain in the valley, but retired to Vir- ginia. No other minister of the church is known to have visited these parts until 1814, when that "Apostle of the Northwest," Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, D. D., chairman of the committee on missions in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and assistant to Bishop White, held services in the old Wilkes-Barre academy, and stirred up the church people of the village of Wilkes-Barre. Who officiated here during the next three years can not be learned. No definite steps were taken to organize a parish until September 19, 1817, when the church people met together and elected the first vestry, applied for a charter, which was granted October 7, 1817, and engaged the services of Rev. Richard Sharpe Mason, D. D.

Dr. Mason was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Phinney. His ministry here was brief, and no record exists of his work.

In 1819 Rev. Manning R. Roche became the missionary at St. Stephens. The Sunday-school had been organized in 1818 by Hon. David Scott, then the only male communicant of the church here, and the parish appears to have been prosper- ous. Mr. Roche retired from the parish in 1820, and from the ministry in 1822. During 1821 and 1822 the services were conducted by Mr. Samuel Bowman, a lay reader.

St. Stephen's parish was admitted to the convention of Pennsylvania May 2, 1821. During the previous years her people had worshiped in the "Old Ship Zion." It was determined, December 27, 1821, to sell the right of St. Stephen's parish in this building, to purchase a lot and erect a church. Through the aid of Judge Scott this work was begun January 15, 1822.

When in the good old days three organized bodies of Christian people (Presby- terians, Methodists, Episcopalians) met in the union meeting-house (in those days "meeting-house " was the chosen term), Mrs. Bowman and other ladies deemed it fit- ting to deck the interior of the same with evergreen, in commemoration of the birth of our Savior. This was too much for the feelings of some of the worshipers, and their zealous indignation found vent in the tearing down of the symbolic green. This so aroused these good Episcopalian sisters that they determined to have a church edifice of their own. A lot was procured and eventually the church was built.

When it was formally opened does not appear, but the pews were rented Novem- ber, 1822. Sunday, June 14, 1824, the church was consecrated by Bishop White, who administered the rite of confirmation to a class of forty-one persons. On the following Sunday Rev. Samuel Sitgraves, whom Bishop White had ordained deacon May 3, 1820, and who in 1823 had been called to be rector of St. Stephen's, was ordained priest by Bishop White. Bishop (then Rev. Dr.) Kemper preached the sermon. This day the holy communion was administered to forty-three persons. Mr. Sitgraves, who died August 12, 1830, resigned in December, 1823, and was suc- ceeded by Rev. Enoch Huntington, who remained until 1826.

He was succeeded February, 1827, by Rev. James May, D.D., born October 1, 1805; was graduated from Jefferson college 1823, and the Virginia Theological seminary 1826; ordained deacon by Bishop White, 1826, and officiated the next ten" years.

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Dr. May's later history is still a part of the history of St. Stephen's parish. In 1842 he was elected to the professorship of church history in the Virginia Theolog- ical seminary, and it was under his instruction there that the present rector of St. Stephen's fitted himself for the work of the ministry. In 1861 Dr. May became a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity school, where he died December 11, 1863.

Rev. William James Clark was rector from 1837 to 1840, when Robert Bethel Claxton, S. T. D., who had just been ordained deacon by Bishop Moore, became rector. Dr. Claxton was rector until 1846. Like Dr. May, he left his impress on the church here by his unwearied and zealous labors. He resigned in 1846.

In 1846 Rev. Charles Dekay Cooper, D. D., of Mount Morris, N. Y., was called and accepted charge, but after a few months resigned. The next rector was Rev. George David Miles, born 1815, ordained 1846. He entered upon his duties at Wilkes-Barre, April 1, 1848, serving until 1866. His last sermon in St. Stephen's was preached October 15, 1865, on the eve of his departure for Europe. In 1852 the increase of the congregation was such as to demand enlarged accommodations. The church building erected in 1832 was a frame structure of one story, with a tower at the northeast corner. In 1852 the congregation decided to tear down the old church and erect one of brick. March 27, 1853, Rev. Mr. Miles preached his last sermon in the old edifice, and June 20, 1853, Bishop Alonzo Potter laid the corner-stone of the new building. It had a seating capacity of 600. The first serv- ice was held in the basement, or Sunday-school room, December 25, 1853. The building was consecrated by Bishop A. Potter, April 19, 1855.

Rev. Robert Henry Williamson succeeded Mr. Miles and remained until 1874, when he was deposed from the ministry. During part of 1874 the parish had the services of the late Rev. Chauncey Colton, D. D., late president of Bristol college, Pa., and professor in Kenyon college, Ohio.

In 1875 the vestry elected as rector Rev. Henry L. Jones, S. T. D., then rector of Christ church, Fitchburg, Mass. Mr. Jones is the son of Rev. Lot Jones, S. T. D. He was graduated at Columbia college, New York, 1858; A. M., 1861; Virginia Theological seminary 1861; received honorary degree of S. T. D. from his alma mater, 1891. During the eighteen years of his rectorate in Wilkes-Barre the church has kept pace with the town, which has quadrupled its population in that time.

Five years ago the increased attendance at St. Stephen's was such as again neces- sitated the enlargement of the building. The old parish church was what had been flippantly termed a "double-decker"-a high basement below, used for Sunday- school purposes, and approached by a flight of outside and inside steps through a central tower, and an upper story forming what is popularly termed the auditorium. The basement was abandoned and the floor of the auditorium dropped six feet. On the vacant lot in the rear of the church was built a commodious and convenient parish building, containing all that is needful for the varied demands of Sunday- school and parochial work.

Eight clergymen have gone out into the ministry from St. Stephen's: Rt. Rev. Samnel Bowman, D. D .; Revs. George C. Drake and Henry M. Denison, all of whom are now dead; Alexander Shiras, D. D., of Washington; De Witt C. Loop, of Hammondton, N. J. ; James L. Maxwell, of Danville, Pa .; James Caird, of Troy, N. Y .; Rev. Charles H. Kidder, of Asbury Park, N. J. Among the lay readers of the parish were Judges Scott, Woodward, Conyngham and Dana.

She has organized, and through the instrumentality of individual communicants, aids in supporting six mission churches and Sunday-schools within the limits of Wyoming valley, which are under the charge of the assistant ministers of the parish: St. Peter's, Plymouth, owning a handsome property with church and rectory; St. Andrew's, Alden, with new church and rectory; St. George's, Nanticoke, with a brick church; St. John's, Ashley, with a handsome frame church; Log chapel,

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Laurel Run, connected with Gen. P. A. Oliver's powder mills, an exquisite model of rustic work, and Calvary chapel, North Wilkes-Barre, with a building in which a flourishing Sunday-school is kept up. To carry on this outside work St. Stephen's has three assistant ministers, as follows: Revs. Horace Edwin Hayden, 1879-92; Charles M. Carr, 1885-8; Thomas B. Angell, 1886-9; James P. Ware, 1889-92; D. W. Coxe, D. D., 1890-2; T. Lewis Banister, 1892; Wilber F. Watkins, 1883-5; Will- iam Brittain, 1885; J. Dudley Ferguson, 1888.

St. Clement's Church, Hauover street, was chartered April 8, 1869, on application from Gen. E. W. Sturdevant, Charles Sturdevant, John W. Horton, Charles E. Butler, Daniel Harkins, N. M. Horton, Benjamin F. Pfouts, G. F. Pfouts, Miller H. Cooke, Dr. Isaac E. Ross, M. S. Quick, John B. Quick, Elijah W. Richard, Thomas Carpenter, Cortland W. Gates, Moses Drumheller, J. G. Horton, and W. Lee, Jr., many of whom were communicants of St. Stephen's church. Rev. John Long first held service in South Wilkes-Barre. The rectors of the church have been Revs. William J. Cleveland, April 21, 1872, to September 22, 1873; George W. Knapp, Decem- ber 15, 1873, to 1877; Peter Baldy Lightner, March 31, 1878, to 1879; Edward W. Pecke, April 23, 1879, to 1880; J. P. Fugitt in charge 1880-1; Charles H. Kidder, May 2, 1882, to 1885; Horace Edwin Hayden, assistant minister of St. Stephen's church, and rector of St. Clement's, October 1, 1885, to June 15, 1887; Charles L. Sleight, present rector, October 1, 1887, to 1892. St. Clement's church owns a handsome property including a stone church erected June, 1871, at a cost of $10,000; consecrated July 11, 1871, and a frame rectory, erected 1891.

St. John's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, Ashley, was organized early in 1871, and has been mainly sustained, like St. Peter's church, Plymouth, as a mission of St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre. The first stationed minister officiating there was Rev. J. H. Mac-El-Rey, a deacon, who resigned in 1892. His first report, 1871, notes three baptisms, four communicants and $21.22 of offerings; his second report notes a confirmation by Bishop Stevens of twenty-one persons, mostly males. Under his ministrations, aided by St. Stephen's church, a church building was erected on property deeded as a gift by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal company. This edifice was destroyed by fire November 4, 1871, but insured; it was replaced by the present building in 1874, under Rev. William Kennedy, at a cost of $4,000. William Ken- nedy's report states that the fund for the new building in addition to the insurance was given by the family of the late Hon. John N. Conyngham, LL. D., and by other friends. W. Kennedy resigned in 1874. Rev. Thomas Burrows succeeded him in October, 1875, and resigned in November, 1878. During his ministry the business depression induced many removals from Ashley, and the communicants were reduced from twenty eight to twenty-one in 1877, and to seventeen in 1878. Services were occasionally held in the church by Rev. Henry L. Jones, and Rev. P. B. Lightner, of Wilkes-Barre. November 1, 1879, St. John's was placed under the immediate charge of St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre, and regular services were begun, once each Sunday, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, assistant minister of St. Stephen's, and continued by him to the present time, with an exception of an intermission of fifteen months, when Rev. T. Lewis Banister, also assistant at St. Stephen's, officiated. During the past thirteen years the number of families in the church have ranged from seventeen to forty. There have been thirty-two per- sons confirmed and forty-six added to the communicant list. James W. Diefendefer is warden and W. F. J. Rosengrant treasurer.

St. Peter's Church, Hazleton, was chartered December 31, 1864. The first regu- lar ministrations of the church were held at Hazleton by Revs. Peter Russell and A. Pryor, 1859. In 1860 Revs. William Smith Heaton was in charge; Thomas W. Steele in 1863; and Henry S. Gitz, 1864 to 1867, being the first rector. The church was built in 1865. The several rectors of the church were: Revs. Faber Byllerly, June 1, 1867, to July 1, 1868; Charles H. Van Dyne, June 18, 1870, to

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June 1, 1872; Jesse M. Williams, November, 1873, to March, 1875; John Hewitt, June 1, 1876, to July, 1877; Peter Russell, 1880; Charles A. Marks, 1881-2; J. P. Bryton, 1883-4; Louis C. Washburn, 1884-9; William Holden, 1889; E. J. Humes, March, 1890.

St. James (Protestant Episcopal) church, Pittston. Mission work was begun here in 1848 by two or three students, from the Virginia Theological seminary. The parish was organized August 12, 1849. The various rectors of the church: Revs. John Long, 1852; W. C. Robinson, 1857-8; John A. Jerome; 1859-62; Chancler Hare, 1862-71; S. H. Boyer, 1872-3; John K. Karcher, 1874-5; George C. Foley, 1875-9; George H. Kirkland, 1879-84; Jacob Miller, 1884-6; George D. Stond, 1886, died June 26, 1887; George Rogers, 1887-8, missionary; Elijah J. Roke, 1889-91, missionary ; J. W. Burras, present missionary in charge, 1892. The church building was erected in 1858. The immigration of a large part of the congregation to West Pittston reduced the strength of the parish until it is now a mission of the diocese.

Trinity (Protestant Episcopal) Church, West Pittston, was organized in 1885, shortly after the resignation of Rev. George H. Kirkland from St. James. A valu- able church property was purchased and a handsome brick edifice capable of holding 300 persons, with basement for Sunday-school, was erected, 1886. Rev. D. Webster Coxe, D. D., of Ohio, was called to be rector and entered upon his duties October 18, 1885. Dr. Coxe resigned February 22, 1890, to accept the charge of Alden and Nanticoke as assistant minister to St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre, and Rev. James P. Buxton of Drifton became rector, June 1, 1890. He also resigned December 1, 1890 and returned to Drifton. Rev. Edward Henry Eckel B. D., became rector April 12, 1891. The present condition of the church is most encouraging.

St. Peter's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, Plymouth, was organized April, 1856, and sustained for some time by the services of Rev. George D. Miles, rector of St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre. After his resignation from St. Stephen's, no services were held until 1871, when Rev. R. H. Williamson became temporary rector. Charles Parish, of Wilkes-Barre, donated a small schoolhouse adjoining the Methodist Episcopal church, to the congregation of St. Peter's for use. This building was remodeled and occasional services were held there by Rev. R. H. Williamson until he was succeeded by Rev. Frank W. Winslow, who was in charge for six months. The succeeding rectors were, Rev. William S. Heaton, from February 1874 to November 1874; and Rev. J. P. Furey from January 24, 1875, to June, 1875. St. Peter's was then connected whith St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre, and occasional services were held by Rev. Henry L. Jones, S. T. D., rector of St. Stephen's until November 1, 1879, when Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, assistant of St. Stephen's, took charge of the work. He was succeeded by Rev. Thomas B. Angell, also assistant at St. Stephen's, March 28, 1886. He was succeeded by Rev. James P. Ware, the present minister, also assistant at St. Stephen's, May 1, 1889. Mr. Hayden, being also in charge of other missions of St. Stephen's, continued in that work, and Mr. Angell became rector of St. Stephen's church, Harrissburg, from 1879 to 1892. During Mr. Hayden's ministry the church build- ing was removed to its present location and enlarged and four building lots secured for a new church and rectory. During Mr. Angell's ministry the rectory was built, and during Mr. Ware's ministry it is expected that a new church edifice will be built. The church property is valued at $8,000.

St. Paul's Church, White Haven, Pa .- The first services were held here August 23, 1846, by Rev. Peter Russell, rector of St. Mark's church, Mauch Chunk. The parish was organized January 6, 1859. The corner-stone of the church was .laid in 1860. The church was consecrated in 1861. Rev. Mr. Russell was succeeded by Rev. L. Coleman, now the bishop of Delaware. Rev.

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Peter Russell became rector in 1873, resigning in 1877. He was succeeded by Revs. Marcellus Karcher, 1878-85; D'Estaing Jennings, 1885-9; H. M. Jarvis, 1890-2. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1892, but was rebuilt a few months later.

St. Andrew's Mission, Alden, was organized as a mission of St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre, 1884; has been under the charge of the following clergymen, assistant minister of St. Stephen's church: Revs. William Brittain, 1885; Charles M. Carr, 1885-8; J. Dudley Ferguson, 1888; D. Webster Coxe, D. D., February 16, 1890, to the present time.

St. George's Mission, Nanticoke, was organized as a mission of St. Stephen's church, Wilkes-Barre, 1884. It has been served by the ministers of Alden, and has a handsome brick church.

St. James Protestant Episcopal church, Eckley; organized 1858; church built 1858. Rectors: Rev. James Walker, 1871-5; A. H. Boyle, 1875-6; John In- land, 1876-92. After the formation of St. James church, Drifton, this point was being much reduced in numbers and means.

The Methodist Episcopal Church .- By permission of Rev. W. W. Loomis, this paper on "Early Wilkes-Barre Methodism," now before the Wyoming conference, May, 1892, is given here in part:

Methodism established a preaching place at Ross Hill, midway between Plym- outh and Kingston, about 1781. The meetings of the Methodists were held in private or schoolhouses, and in barns or in the open air when the weather permitted.

In 1804 the former courthouse of Wilkes-Barre was erected, and some years after the Methodists were allowed to hold Sunday meetings in a large upper room and social meetings in a small room.

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History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 54

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.) Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago : S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1532

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1532