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BUILDING OF THE PERRY COUNTY RAILROAD.
The Duncannon, Bloomfield & Loysville Railroad Company was chartered on April 3, 1872, with authority to build a line from Duncannon, via New Bloomfield, to Loysville, but like its prede- cessors, it resulted in nothing tangible. Its capital stock was $100,000, being two thousand shares of stock, the par value of which was $50. It had been surveyed, however. The original incorporators of this line were George Hench, Jacob Bixler, Samuel Gutshall, W. W. McClure, James McNeal, John A. Magee, John A. Baker, B. F. Junkin, John R. Shuler, John H. Sheibley, John Jones, Wm. R. Swartz, O. B. Ellis, John McAlister, Jr., and James Swartz. Over a decade later, on February 3, 1887, the Perry County Railroad Company secured its charter. In 1889. the road was begun and built as far as New Bloomfield. Maginnis & White were to grade the II.I miles for $32,199, but failed. Peter McGovern, of Tyrone, finished the contract. During the next two years it was extended to Loysville and Landisburg, as the newly built Newport & Sherman's Valley Railroad was divert- ing all traffic that way. The first locomotive ran into New Bloom- field, September 12, 1889, although the official opening was in October. After operating the Perry County Railroad for many years it met financial reverses, and it was sold to David Gring. who changed the name to the Susquehanna River & Western Rail- road. It passed to Rodney Gring at his father's death, and in 1921, when the Newport & Sherman's Valley Railroad was sold on fore- closure proceedings, that road was purchased by interests con- nected with the Susquehanna River & Western, and the part lying to the west of Bloomfield consolidated with that line. As the Newport & Sherman's Valley was a narrow gauge line, the part taken over is to be standardized. When the Perry County Rail- · road was in existence Charles H. Smiley was long the president, 28
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and S. H. Beck was its superintendent until he was killed, April 29, 1899.
The capital of the Perry County Railroad was $100,000, with 2,000 shares at $50. The incorporators were Frank Mortimer, president ; B. F. Junkin, Chas. A. Barnett, John A. Magee, John H. Sheibley, Silas W. Conn, John Adams, M. B. Strickler, James W. Shull, R. S. Minick, Wm. Grier, A. R. Johnston and E. R. Sponsler. The extension to Loysville was built by the Perry County Railroad Extension Company, incorporated May 27, 1891, its incorporators being Chas. H. Smiley, president, he having been made president of the Perry County Railroad in the meantime ; John H. Sheibley, Reuben S. Minick, B. F. Junkin, D. B. Milliken, Abraham Bower, George Patterson, H. C. Shearer, Samuel Ebert, L. C. Zimmerman, R. H. Moffitt (Harrisburg), and Wm. Miller ( York). The extension was merged with the main line June 2, 1892. The sale to David Gring was on September 14, 1903. the name being then changed to Susquehanna River & Western, with Martin Mumma, J. D. Landes, B. M. Eby, James M. Barnett, Ed- ward R. Sponsler and W. H. Sponsler as directors.
BUILDING OF THE NEWPORT & SHERMAN'S VALLEY RAILROAD.
As early as April 10, 1873, the Pennsylvania Legislature granted a charter to build a narrow gauge road from Newport westward through the Sherman's Valley. 'The capital was only $25,000, in $25 shares, with privilege of increasing to five thousand shares, but the company was authorized to issue and sell bonds so that the road could be constructed. Its projectors were from Newport. New Bloomfield and the entire Sherman's Valley. The original incorporators were James Everhart, Joseph W. Frank, B. F. Mil- ler, Wm. Bosserman, J. B. Leiby, Thos. Milligan, Wm. S. Mitchell, Nicholas Miller, David Mitchell, Josiah Fickes, Amos Clemson. Henry Troup. C. J. T. MeIntire, J. A. Magee, C. A. Barnett, W. A. Sponsler, Isaac Wright, A. J. Fickes, J. W. S. Kough, Thos. Milliken, H. H. Bechtel, Frank Eagle, P. Bosserman, C. Roth. Robert Neilson, John Minich, H. P. Lightner, Benj. Ritter, An- drew Loy, Samuel Shoemaker, George Hench, Jacob Bixler, Mar- tin Motzer, Israel Lupfer, J. F. McNeal, Samuel Gutshall, Jacob Kreamer, J. R. Dunbar, Wm. Stambaugh, Wm. S. Mitchell, James B. Leiby, Jesse L. Gantt, Wilson Darlington, Isaac Hollenbaugh, John A. Fisher, George Stroup, Jacob Shively, Wm. H. Minich, John W. Gantt, James G. Ferguson, David Clark, Solomon Gray, Win. Woods, John Bixler, George L. Ickes, Blain Grosh, George Hench (of Blain), Thomas Campbell, and Henry Cooper. Any route selected was permitted, and a three-year limit placed on the time to begin construction. The matter again dropped until, in 1890, the Newport & Sherman's Valley Company was chartered
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and the construction started on its line from Newport, via Loys- ville, to New Germantown, 29.1 miles westward. David Gring, interested in its construction, had owned and operated the Dia- mond Valley narrow gauge road, and much of that road's material was used in the construction of the Sherman's Valley line. The first train ran into Loysville, February 16, 1891. An extension, to be known as the Path Valley Railroad, was begun in 1893, but after working upon its grading for a year it was abandoned. The Newport & Sherman's Valley Railroad operated until 1921, when it was sold at foreclosure, and purchased by George H. Ross and Rodney Gring, as trustees for the Susquehanna Coal Company, which is a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The part from Newport to Bloomfield Junction was then abandoned and the remainder became a part of the Susquehanna River & Western, and will be standardized. The directors of the company are Rodney Gring, George H. Ross, Charles H. Bergner, James W. Shull, James M. Barnett, William H. Sponsler, E. R. Sponsler, L. M. Wentzell, and P. F. Duncan.
The Newport & Sherman's Valley Railroad Company was char- tered July 30, 1800, with David Gring as president, and H. H. Bechtel, W. H. Gantt, A. V. Caldwell, R. W. Cline ( Harrisburg), W. A. Denehey (Harrisburg), W. A. P. Johnston ( Harrisburg), and B. M. Eby, as directors. The capital was $180,000, with 3,600 shares at $50. Of the whole number David Gring had 1,500 shares. Others named on the charter were J. H. Irwin, C. W. Smith, Philip Bosserman, John Fleisher, Horace Beard, Geo. Fleisher, D. H. Spotts, Marx Dukes, A. B. Demaree, T. H. Milli- gan, J. S. Butz, Sr., J. S. Butz, Jr., T. H. Butturf, Frank A. Fry, W. H. Minich, and S. H. Gring. The date of the charter of the Path Valley extension was October 24, 1893.
The building of the two roads, the Perry County Railroad and the Newport & Sherman's Valley line, was really the result of an effort made by Newport in the "latter eighties" to have that town made the county seat. The late J. R. Flickinger was then the mem- ber from Perry County in the General Assembly, and gave New Bloomfield "a tip" that unless they could secure a railroad the change would be hard to avert. The county seat, spurred on by what appeared to them as their death blow, begun an effort for a railroad. In a single day E. R. Sponsler and James W. Shull, then young attorneys, secured subscriptions for $27,000 of stock in New Bloomfield alone. With the building of the Perry County Railroad, Newport, then as now the leading business town in the county, had visions of its trade being diverted, and then was born the rival railroad-the Newport & Sherman's Valley.
The Sherman's Valley, much of which is rich and productive . in soil, was without railroad communication for a long time, but
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eventually got these two lines, which have now, however, been combined into one. That two railroads should have been built traversing the western part of Perry County was a monstrous mis- take. As to which one should have been built there will always be a division of opinion, depending upon the section in which persons reside, on what interests they have, and all the attending and inter- locking conditions to which humans are heir. The writer bears no brief for either section, knows the people of both sections, having lived among both, and knows that barring personal interests, all are a broad-minded people.
Following the building of the Pennsylvania Railroad there was an effort made to build a railroad from Millersburg, Dauphin. County, to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Bailey's Station, on the Pennsylvania line below Newport. An act of the Pennsylvania Legislature dated April 12, 1851, incorporated a company composed of George Blattenberger, Joshua Hartshorn, Benjamin Parke, Henry Buehler, Jacob M. Haldeman, Robert J. Ross, James McCormick, John Patterson, John Reifsnyder, Sr., Job R. Tyson, J. Edgar Thompson, and Robert Faries, who were authorized to open books, receive subscriptions and organize the Millersburg & Baileysburg Railroad Company. There were to have been six thousand shares, the par value to be $50. The road was never built.
Many years ago a survey was made through the Raccoon Val- ley, from Millerstown, passing through the townships of Tusca- rora, Saville, and Northeast Madison, touching the villages of Ickesburg and Saville, and passing north of the Conococheague Mountain through Liberty Valley, to Honey Grove, Juniata County. Nothing resulted.
At an early date in the Pennsylvania Railroad's history the ad- visability of a direct line west was apparent. A civil engineer, a Dane named Hagey. in its employ, ran a line in 1847, which was almost identical with the present line of the Susquehanna River & Western from Duncannon to New Bloomfield. Too many ridges of the Shade Mountains were in the path of the proposed route. During October, 1869, another civil engineer, a Mr. Barrett, sur- veyed a route passing New Bloomfield to the East Broad Top coal fields. In 1879 H. L. Preisler, a civil engineer and a native of Landisburg, ran a line from New Bloomfield to Losh's Run, at the expense of a number of New Bloomfield attorneys, but the re- sources were not available for its building. In 1880 a line was surveyed from New Bloomfield to Newport, but the grade was found too heavy and the expense too great for the estimated in- come.
On May 20, 1903, a charter was granted for a railroad from Selinsgrove Junction. Northumberland County, crossing the Sus-
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quehanna River to the west bank, thence south through Snyder, Juniata and Perry Counties, via the route of the old Pennsylvania Canal, crossing the Juniata River, to a point on the Pennsylva- nia Railroad, near Aqueduct Station, thence through to the Enola yards. The capital stock was $350,000, and officials of the Penn- sylvania Railroad were the incorporators. It was known as the Southern Central Railway.
An electric line was once projected to operate an electric street railway from Marysville to Duncannon, and through the latter town. The Perry County Electric Railway was chartered July 23, 1902, with E. J. Stackpole, president, and Herman P. Miller, W. Ilarry Baker, Edward E. Jauss and Win. P. Miller on the board. The capital was $50,000, with 1,000 shares at $50. All were Har- risburg residents. No effort was made to construct the line.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT IN PERRY.
W HILE the Sunday school movement from the broad stand- point dates back to Robert Raikes and 1780, yet the history of the start of local schools in individual communities is largely lost, as few permanent records were kept; but that they came, that they multiplied to almost countless numbers, that they girdle the earth, and that they are one of the greatest benefactions to civilization, is no question. Their mission is to study the Bible, which, even apart from its divine inspiration, should be more uni- versally read and studied, for it is the greatest summary of human wisdom and a model of classic English. Almost all of us read it too little.
In Pennsylvania there is record of an carly Sunday school in connection with a church at Pittsburgh, in 1815. In ISI9, Rev. John George Lochmann, D.D., pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Harris- burg, organized the first one in the State Capitol for the teaching of Scripture. By referring to the history of the Duncannon Pres- byterian Church, elsewhere in this book, it will be seen that the Sunday school connected with that church (organized in 1816), then known as "the church at the mouth of the Juniata," was the first one to be formed within the limits of what is now Perry County, and the only one to be organized while the territory was yet a part of Cumberland. The organization of this school is accredited to Mrs. Campbell and her sister, Miss Harriet Miller, of Carlisle, and the former's daughters, Sallie and Julianna. The ladies evidently remained in the community for a time, as Mrs. Campbell is quoted as being the first superintendent opening the school with prayer, save on occasions when Isaac Kirkpatrick, the first elder of that church, was present. The first teachers were Mrs. Campbell; her sister, Miss Harriet Miller ; her daughters, Misses Sallie and Julianna Campbell, Mrs. Matilda Duncan, Miss Hannah Duncan, Miss Elizabeth Hackett, and Miss Isabella Wil- son. The attendance was about forty. It is well to remember that to women does Perry County owe its initiatory Sunday school work, and, to a great extent, the successful carrying on of its many Sunday schools during the past century.
Unless tradition and records exist which it has been impossible to uncover, this was the first Sunday school in the county's terri- tory. According to records compiled, there was one organized in Landisburg in 1821. The Perry Forester of September 27, 1821,
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contains a half-page of "Regulations for the government of the Landisburg Sunday school," which shows that it had been but re- cently organized then, instead of in 1822, as frequently stated. It collected fines for absences, as follows: From the superintendent, six cents; from directors, six cents each, and from teachers, three cents cach. Either in 1823 or 18244 one was organized at the Mid- dle Ridge Presbyterian Church, and continued for several years. Ralph Smiley was its first superintendent. He was a bachelor and the owner of Fravel's mill, south of Witherow's, near New Bloom- field, and lies buried in the old graveyard on High Street, New Bloomfield. In the year 1824 one was organized in Buck's Valley, Buffalo Township, in the log schoolhouse, on the Richard Baird place (at the forks of the road near the Richard Callin home). This old school building is yet remembered by Mrs. Mary (Buck) Kumler, who attended school there in later years. In 1825 there was one in the Linn schoolhouse, near Ickesburg. In 1828 one was organized at Loysville. In 1830 there were ten organized schools within the county. The number grew slowly but surely, at first, with the result that a County Bible Society was organized in 1846, at Landisburg, and existed for a number of years (at least, until 1855), being the forerunner of the Perry County Sab- bath School Association, which is conducted practically along the same lines, but likely with more energy. The Sunday schools con- tributed to its support and sent delegates. On August 24, 1871, at Loysville, the Perry County Sabbath School Association was organized, largely through the efforts of Rev. S. E. Herring, then pastor of the Reformed Church at Blain. The State Sabbath School Convention had been held at Harrisburg, June 14 to 16, 1871, and twenty persons from Perry County attended, which probably presaged the formation of the county organization two months later. The meeting at Loysville was in response to a public call and was followed by a second meeting the same year, at New Bloomfield, on November 14th and 15th. At the first convention eighteen schools were all that were represented, with an attendance of forty persons, although there were then many more schools in existence. A constitution was adopted, however. The most im- portant subject up for discussion was, "Should Sunday schools be open all the year?" It was unanimously decided that they should, wherever possible. The officers of the first convention were: S. E. Herring, of Blain, president; Rev. Sell and J. L. Diven, Lan- disburg, secretaries ; J. B. Habecker, of Newport, treasurer. The constitution adopted provided for five vice-presidents and entrusted the direction of the work to an executive committee, consisting of three ministers and two laymen.
At the second annual convention, in the Union Church, in New- · port, May 14, and 15, 1872, fifty schools were represented by
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eighty-one delegates. At the third convention, in New Bloomfield, in 1873, the late Judge B. F. Junkin was elected president, the first layman to fill the position. The forty-eight schools then repre- sented at the convention had 3,264 scholars and 578 teachers. Results were increasing and in 1876, when the convention met at Ickesburg, seventy-two schools reported 4,873 scholars and 874 officers and teachers. Thirty-four schools at that time already were open throughout the year, and the rest for periods varying from as low as three to nine months. The 1883 convention at Millerstown had an innovation, when the Centennial Band held a concert in the public square in the evening for the benefit of the delegates. A children's mass meeting was also held after the school hour. The county yet had toll bridges, and passage over the Juniata River bridge at that point was given free to delegates from entire western Perry. There were then 115 schools in the county, seventy-two being represented by delegates and reports. The organization of the first Home Department was not reported until the convention of 1900.
Rev. Homer G. McMillen, a scion of the noted McMillen family of Madison Township, was a field worker for the State Sunday School Association during the summers of 1904, 1905, and 1906, being assigned to cover his home county of Perry. He organized the county into ten districts and was the pioneer in modern Sun- day school work, organizing cradle rolls, home departments, teach- ers' training classes, etc., through district institutes, which were held in every district during three consecutive summers and have been continued since. During the first summer he traveled 1.539 miles, held nine district institutes, and visited thirty-two Sunday schools. During the succeeding two years his work was approxi- mately the same. This gave to the work its greatest impetus.
With his coming to Penn Township, Perry County, to reside, Arthur K. Lefevre, of Harrisburg, "yet in his twenties," became associated with the work of the Sunday schools and in 1910, at the Marysville convention, he was made president of the County As- sociation. Largely up to that time the presidency of the County Association was passed out as a sort of honor, and very few of the many fine and honorable men who occupied it did much work, outside of their own Sunday schools, in an organizing way, be- tween conventions. With Arthur Lefevre it was different. He was what modern parlance terms "a live wire," and during the two years in which he was president of the County Association he was continually on the job, holding conferences, visiting the schools, using publicity in the county press to keep the work be- fore the public, and putting new life into every department of the work. He set the pace, and to him is largely due the aggressive spirit and work now being so ably conducted under the leadership
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of David S. Fry, of Newport, who has been president of the County Association since 1915, save for one year.
Following is a list of the county presidents, secretaries, and the dates and places where the county conventions have been held :
Yr.
President.
Secretary
Place and Date.
18-1
Rev. S. E. Herring
Rev. Sell
Loysville, Aug. 24.
1871
Rev. H. C. Cheston
I. G. Black
Newport, May 14, 15.
1872
1873
Rev. James Crawford
Rev. Mr. Smith
Millerstown, May 13, 14.
1874
Hon. B. F. lunkin
Rev. R. MacPherson
Rev. W. H. Herbert
Landisburg, May 11, 12.
1876
Capt. F. M. McKeehan
E. P. Titzell
Newport, May 30, 31.
1877 1878
Rev. F. S. Lindaman,
Rev. Deitrich
Ickesburg, May 22, 23.
1879 Rev. J. Frazier
David Mickey
Blain, May 27, 28.
1880
Rev. R. MacPherson
David Mickey
Landisburg, May 31, June I.
1881
WVm. Willis
David Mickey
1882
Rev. Geo. W. Crist
Rev. J. W. Ely
Millerstown, May 15, 16.
1883
Rev. W. R. H. Deatrich
Rev. W. B. Glanding
Newport, May 20. 21.
1884
Rev. R. F. McClean
Rev. T. M. Griffith
1885
Rev. J. H. Cooper
Rev. W. J. Grissinger
Landisburg, May 20, 21.
1887
Rev. J. T. Wilson
Josiah W. Rice
Duncannon, May 31, June 1.
1888
Capt. F. M. McKeehan
W. W. McClure
Ickesburg, May 28, 29.
1890
L. B. Kerr
W. W. McClure
Blain, June 3. 4.
1891 1892
Rev. S. C. Alexander
Mr. Rice
Loysville, June 2, 3.
1893
T. B. Lahr
W. H. Kell
Newport, June 6. 7.
1 894
J. B. Lahr
W. H. Kell
Liverpool, June 5, 6.
1895
J. B. Lahr
W. H. Kell
Bloomfield, June 9, 10.
1896 1897 1898
Rev. W. D. E. Scott
A. C. Lackey
Marysville, May 18-20.
1899
Wm. R. Swartz
J. W. Morrow
Loysville, May 16, 17.
1900
Rev. T. C. Strock
A. C. Lackey
Duncannon, May 7, 8.
1901
Rev. E. T. Wheeler
Lillian Flickinger
Ickesburg. June 18, 19.
1902 1903
Rev. J. B. Lau *
Sarada MeLaughlin
Newport, May 13, 14.
1904
William Rounsley
Sarada Mclaughlin Sarada Mclaughlin
Millerstown, June 6. 7.
1905 1906
Rev. C. A. Waltman
Edna Souder
Duncannon, June 20, 21.
1907 Rev. W. S. Sturgeon
Mary Dum
Elliottsburg, May 21, 22.
1908
Rev. J. B. Baker
Mary Dum
Blain, June 2, 3.
1909 1910
A. K. Lefevre
Mary Dum
Marysville, June 1, 2.
A. K. Lefevre
Mary Dum
Newport, May II. 12. Liverpool, June 25, 26.
1913 1914
Chas. Bothwell
Catharine- Long
Bloomfield, May 7, 8.
1915
D. S. Fry
Catharine Long
Marysville, May 5, 6.
1916
D. S. Fry D. S. Fry
Puera Robinson
Newport, May 2. 3.
1918 D. S. Fry
Puera Robinson
Duncannon, May 8, 9.
1919 C. M. Bower
Mrs. George W. Hain
Ickesburg. May 7, 8.
1920 D. S. Fry
Mrs. George W. Hain
Millerstown, May 12, 13.
1921 D. S. Fry
Mrs. George W. Hain
. . Elliottsburg, May 4, 5.
*The convention of 1903 was to have been held at Blain, but was postponed. David Mickey was the first statistical secretary, elected in 1882 and serving to 1884. Other statistical secretaries were P. G. Kell, 1885-1905; Sarada Mclaughlin, 1906- 1907; Clara E. Waggoner, 1908-1909: Gertrude Fickes, 1910; Thersa Zimmerman. 1911; Daisie V. Kuhn, 1912-1915. (In 1916 the office of statistical secretary was abolished, the duties being merged with those of the corresponding secretary.)
The office of corresponding secretary was created in 1904, when Mame Seager was elected, who served in 1905 also: Sarada Mclaughlin. statistical secretary, was elected also corresponding secretary in 1906, but the latter title was dropped in 1907, and seemed to be used interchangeably with statistical secretary till 1911, when Daisie V. Kuhn was elected, to be followed in 1912 by Puera B. Robinson, who held the office until July 1, 1918, when she resigned and was succeeded by Mrs. George W. Hain, then Miss Emma Roberts.
The treasurers of the County Association were J. B. Habecker, 1871, 1872, 1874; Ezra P. Titzel. 1873; E. A. Flickinger, 1875; Henry Smith, 1876, 1877; Hon. T. A. Baker. 1878-1885; John Heim, 1886-1887; J. A. McCroskey, 1888-1889; H. E. Bonsall. 1890-1897; J. B. Lahr, 1898-1911; E. D. Bistline, 1912-1915: Chas. S. Brunner, 1916 to 1922.
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T. L. Diven
Bloomfield. Nov. 14. 15.
1872
Duncannon, Oct. 15, 16.
Bloomfield, May 12, 13.
1875
Rev. Mr. Winebeggler
W. W. McClure
Rev. F. L. Nicodemus
Loysville, May 30, 31.
1886
Prof. E. U. Aumiller
1I. H. Rice
Elliottsburg, May 31, June 1.
1889
Rev. A. B. Stoner
Chas. S. Losh
Chas. S. Losh
Bloomfield, June 4, 5.
Duncannon, June 4, 5.
Rev. F. T. Wheeler
WV. H. Graham
Blain, May 18-20.
Rev. W. D. E. Scott
A. C. Lackey
Blain, May 10, 11.
Milton E. Kline
Rev. P. H. Moover
Mary Dum
Newport. June 22. 23.
1912
D. S. Fry
Mary Dum
Mrs. W. C. Patterson
Duncannon, May 8. 9.
Chas. Bothwell
Puera Robinson
Blain, May 3, 4.
1917
Rev. J. Y. Shannon
Bloomfield, May 18, 19.
Bloomfield, May 30, 31.
Loysville, May 26, 27.
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Perry County has been ably represented at the many conven- tions of the State Association, and at two World Conventions, that at Switzerland, in 1913, and in Japan, in 1920. The latter two were attended by Mrs. Carrie Eby Jeffers and Mrs. Margaret Frank Sefton.
Rev. William Weaver, who filled the Liverpool Lutheran charge from early in 1847 until early in 1851, preaching at Liverpool, at Christ's Church (known as the White Church) in Perry Valley, at Millerstown, at St. Michael's in Pfontz Valley, at St. James' in Turkey Valley, at Richfield, and at St. John's ( Neiman's Church), organized more Sunday schools than any other minister in the his- tory of the county. He organized thirteen schools in his territory, but the last three of the churches named above were in Juniata County, and it is only fair to assume that some of the Sunday schools also were located there. However, should such have been the case, the number formed in Perry County still entitles him to the credit of organizing more than any other person, according to all available records.
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