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from the river into a reservoir constructed by dam- ming up Roberts' Valley, or else locating the reservoir on the southern slope of the First Mountain.
3. Constructing a water-power in the Susquehanna River at Brushy Rock, near McAllister's, and convey- ing it by a canal to a point at or near the present works, where it will be used by suitable water-motors, driving-pumps, for supplying the city.
4. Conveying the water of the Yellow Breeches Creek in Cumberland County by gravitation into a reservoir located on Fort Washington Hill, and carry- ing it in pipes across the river into the city.
5. Conveying the waters of Stony Creek by gravi- tation into a reservoir located upon the elevated ground east of the city known as Prospect Hill.
6. Conveying the waters of Manada Creek by gravi- tation into a reservoir located on Prospect Hill.
7. Pumping from the Susquehanna River at the site occupied by the present works for at a better one if it can be found) by means of improved steam ma- chinery, and forcing the water into a reservoir of suf- ficient altitude and capacity to meet the present and future wants of the city.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh sources were favorably regarded, the others decidedly objected to for varions reasons. The commissioners. however, themselves thoroughly examined every source of water supply, and after careful consideration decided upon the seventh plan, with a reservoir on Pro-peet Hill, and pumping from the Susquehanna at the foot of North Street (or, as it should be gratefully named, Ayres Avenue). At once reports were made to the City Councils, and immediate measures taken to secure the ground, construct the reservoir, and erect such
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HARRISBURG.
is due to
or Bearer, the sum of
Six and a Quarter Cents, payable on demand in PHILADELPHIA BANK NOTES, when presented in suins amounting to Five Dollars. Harrisburg, February 1$33.
41. 73
HARRISBURG.
There is, due to
or Bearer, the sum of
TIVELVE & A HALF CENTS,
payer " on demand in PHILADELPHIA BANK NOTES, when pred ated in sums amounting to Fire Dollars. Harrisburg, February - 1833.
FAC-SIMILE OF CHINPLASTERS JSOUED IN J330.
329
. CITY OF HARRISBURG.
additional works at the river-front as was proper and necessary. The cost of all the improvements required to secure to the city of Harrisburg one of the most satisfactory systems of water supply in the Union has been less than three-quarters of a million of dol- lars, and the entire establishment is an honor to those who managed its construction, and a credit to the capital city of Pennsylvania.
CHAPTER X.
Churches-Reformed-Lutheran-Presbyterian - Methodist Episcopal -l'rotestant Episcopal - Roman Catholic - Baptist-Evangelical- Church of God-Wesley Union.
REFORMED CHURCHES.
FIRST REFORMED CHURCH .- Early in the eigh- teenth century a large number of the members of the Reformed Church emigrated from the Palatinate and settled, as we have before stated. in Pennsylvania. These early settlers brought their Bibles, catechismns, and hymn-books with them. and as their numbers increased organized congregations in various sec- tions of the Province. They then invited ministers of their faith to visit their rude log cabins or churches, in order that they might preach to them. baptize their children, and administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. A- the country became more thickly settled the want of a spiritual head was greatly felt by the members of the church in Pennsylvania to gather the scattered flock and organize churche -. Aceord- ingly, in 1747, application was made to the mother- church for a pastor, and Rev. Michael Schlatter. of St. Gall, Switzerland, was sent to the Province. He arrived at Philadelphia on Sept. 6. 1746, and imme- diately entered upon his labor«. On the 23d of the same month we find him in Lancaster, and from that time he made frequent and often laborious journeys through this and the neighboring counties, extending his visits as far west and south as Frederick City, Md. Wherever he went he preached with great ac- ceptance to the people, baptized their children, and administered communion. He formed neighboring congregations into pastoral charges, and united them more closely with one another and with the mother- church in the Fatherland, so that by mutual co-op- eration the infant church might be more firmly es- tablished, and more readily supplied with such aid as it needed in its weak, scattered, and destitute condition.
At this time there was no regular church building in Harrisburg. The inhabitants of all religions de- nominations, whenever a minister visited them, wor- shiped together in a one -- tory log school-house which then stood at the foot of Capitol Hill, on the north corner of Third ind Walnut Street. When the town was laid out the first settler- took measures for the erection of a church building. and John Harris granted lot No. 187 on the town plat. situated at the
corner of Chestnut and Third Streets, for that pur- pose. The following is a copy of the English sub- scription-list for the erection of the "first church in Harrisburg":
We, the subscribers, do each of n- promise to pay, or canse to be paid, nuto John Senton, Christian Gunckel, George Redig, and Heury Brun- ner, or their order, on demand, the sums annexed to rich of our names respectively, to be held and appropriated by the said John Norton, Chris- tian Gunckel, George Redig, and Henry Brunner in purchasing mate- rials for and in building a church and school-house in some convenient part of the town of Harrisburg for the use of the subscribers, Iu wit- ness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, with the sims annexed, this 12th day of March, A.D. 1787.
Christian Gunckel 2
0
=
Henrich Cilman ()
5
0
J. Montgomery
0 15
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Michael Ansbach
6
John Hamilton. 1
10
1) George Rabsom .. . 15 C
John Brooks 0
John A. Hanna .. 1)
15
0
Andrew Forrest 0
Jacub Henning. 0
0 Jame, Innean.
Andrew Armstrong (hart gell ... 1
0
Jacob
=
George Ilartiran 0
5
0
7
6
Hanes Flickinger. 0
15
Alexander Power. =
17
6 F. Lang
0 Charles Banermeister. 11 John Bovil.
0
0 001 0
stephen Stevenson ..
10
Avorge Fackter .. .
0
15
C
Richard Dixon. . .
Merlelind & Reynolds. 0
Samuel Grinies . 0
Richard R. King (his mark).
0
Adamı Boyd
0
John Hage
0
Samuel Boyd
0
15
0 Joseph Smith
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6
John Ebert
1
10
Johannes Ife. se
1
6
Michael Bohl
C
Christian Schwiak
0
6
0 Peter Her-hey 0
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Henrich Bohl.
5
0
David Montgomery
6
James McNamee.
C
6
John Wilkes Kitteri. (
15 0
Alexander Gravion =
15
0
Jasper Yentes, I.q. 0
(
Alexander Barr. 0
5
0
6
vor die Kirch in Har- risburk =
George Frier. 0
5
John Spayd.
6
Die in cash
0
6
Johans Koeller ... 0
5
=
Dre. 21, 1787, Mr. Henry
George Hayer
0
paid in part his snb-
George Benedick 0
11 3
scription ; three dollars
William Kels .. 1)
5
remains
M. Lneth Pfarrer ... 0
6
Jacob Zimmerman ....... 3
Frederick Schweitzer pin 0
Tag Holz geschleft . .. 0 15 0
Thomas Hartley. upon reflection, in addition .. 0 € hab ich emtangen vor
Stephen Chambers ..... 15
7 den nelerrest von stri.1
Peter Haofnazle 15
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Jonathan Mcclure Esq ... 0
4 Kirch zu bauen .......... 0 5 0
The following is a copy of the German subserip- țion list :
Zur errichtung und Anbanung eines Schulhauses und Kirche auf einen der besten und tanglichsten plazes allhier in Harrisburg, ver- sprechen wir unter hrichenen die von uns bey gesetzte sinime zu bezahlen an George Rettich, Johannes S. rton, Christian Kunckel und Henry Brunner, davon der gebrauch allein vor die Unterschriebenen seyen solle, zur bugraeftigen dieses haben wir unsere Nahmen nebst der sunime welches wir zu diesem Gottes werck widmen wollen hey geset- zet, und wollen solches ohne fehl auf die erste anfrage an gemeldete Georg Hettich, Johannes Norton, Christinn Kunckel, und Henry Brunner richtig und ohne widerrede ubertraezen, so geschehen, Har- ri-burg den 12ten Mertz, 1757.
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s. d. 6
Henrich Brunner. 1
1
10
Michael Wolf
2 G
George Fritiry 1 10
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6
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Hearich Henninger (off ) 15
John Puni ..
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Jacob Weber darauf be- Mahlr ...
12
Michael Filli .... 15
0
Johannes Huessner 1.5
George Leru 0
15
0
Michael Capp.
15
Juhn Joseph Henry. 2
12
.Julin Tit-worth
Sammel Berryhill
Henry Fulton ..
Robert Stevenson.
George Dientebach ..
15
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Martin Bundlaget ..
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William l'rabb ... 0
6 J. Hubley
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John McChesney
15 Holen wir Einfangen von der Kurd (court)
James Saw yers 0
Robert Barr
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6
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3 Charles Stewart. 0
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Jacob Zollinger
330
HISTORY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY.
A sufficient sum having been raised by sub-cription. a log church was erected with a front of thirty-tive feet and five inches on Third Street, and a depth of thirty feet and five inches to Cherry Alley. The lot had a front of fifty-two feet and six inches ou Che-t- nut Street, and a depth of two hundred and ten feet to Cherry Alley. The first church building being for the use of all denominations, the original subscrip- tion papers, as we have seen, very properly recited that the edifice was " for the use of the subscribers," and for many years clergymen of different denominations officiated in it. A majority of the subscribers, how- ever, being those who professed the doctrines of Mar- tin Luther and Ulric Zwingle. the church was owned and occupied statedly only by the German Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran congregations. These two religious denomination- worshiped together in this building until the Lutherans purchased a lot on Fourth Street, between Market and Chestnut, and erected a handsome church for themselves, the corner- stone of which was laid in 1814. They sold their in- terest in the old church and lot in 1816 for one thon- sand dollars. In 1791 the two denominations erected a school-house on the old property, as will be seen by the following subscription list :
Da zum Nutzen und gebranch der heranwachsenden Dent-che Jugend ein Schulhaus neben die Kirche erbauet worden und in dasselbige, anch ein stuben ofeu gesetzt worden, und unn mehr auch bequem ist Waters zeit Gottes dienst darin zuhalten und da es eines jeden Christen sein. Plicht ist, vor seine Kinder zu sorgen damit sie in gutem nuterwiesen kommen werden, so werden alle diejenigen freundlichst ersucht einen gefaelligen Beytrag zu thun, damit die didurch verursachte Unkosten des Banes bezahlt werden koennen. Harrisburg den 19th December. 1791.
Trustees .- John Dentzel, Georg Rettig. Georg Huyger, Ilearich Brun- Der.
£ s. d.
George Hoyer hat 3 Tag geschaft, 3 9 .. 0 11 3
George Rettig nat 4 Tag geschaft, 15 0 )
50 Backenstein, 13 f ** 0 16 3
Friederich Pflieger gibt ein paar Baender 0
9
Michael Derstein ein Tag geschaft. 0
3
9
Georg Pfriemmer hat ein Tag geschaft. 0 3 9
Peter Walter vor ein Fuss zum ofen gemacht. 0
5 0 Jacob Ehebrecht gibt in Gelt, bezahlt vor der Rechnung
0 3
John Deutzel gibt in felt
0
6
Johannes Ebert.
0
3
Joseph Dritt
4
Georg Leber.
0
6
Jacob Welshans hat ein Tag geschaft 3 3
George Ziegler emu Tag geschaft
0
3 1
Peter Denig
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0
George Jaus
0
3
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Conrad Bombach
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Friederich Jaus-
9
Henrich Conra 1.
3 9
Schlurlott
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2
0
Georg Hew
2 6
Philipp Blimuth
0
6
Philipp Fobreit.
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1 10
Conrad Tresenreider hat geben 15 Licht (illegi- bl-).
6 3
Christi o Kuuckel.
Vale .tein Harter 0
3
Jacob Bucher. 1 1014
Caspar Smith
' Hannes Zin.
0 3 9
£ s. d.
Peter Nueger ein Tag geschaft.
3 9
Georg Feirstein
n 1 10
Andreas Rihm 0 2 6
Tobias Seyboth.
2 6
0 Adam Hocker 2 6
Christotl' Harker. 2
0
0
Johannes Hacker. 5 0
John Romge ...
0
1 0
Valentine Wanger ..
0
2 6
Jacob Zollinger bat 3 Tag geschaft .. 0
11
3
John Pool 15 Lits, sash for the school-house. 0
5
0
Andreas Kranzse 0
1 1016
Jacob Reitzel. 0
3 9
Michael Yaene.
1 1014
John Lother. 0
5 714
Michail Kopp 0 7 6
Carl Miller. 0
2 9
0 Heurich Beder .. 1 10
0
3 9
George Hartman 3 9 0
Johannes Schneider. 0
3 9
Johannes Heiss 14 1b. Naegel gemacht 5 Bens das Bund 0 5 10
Stephen Horuing.
1 0
Christopher Sites9. 0
5 0
Balser Suess. 0
5 0
Jacob Sehrly.
0
5
0
John Deffer. 0 2
0
1 10
Henrich Ruthraff 3 9
0
5
7
Frantz and Georg Lern in gesaegt Holtz. I
5 7
Indorsed on outside of subscription paper, viz .:
Est ist zusammen in Geld £7 19s. 10! {d.
After the death of John Harris his heirs released for five shillings all their interest in the church lot to the trustees of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches. The first pastor of the Reformed congregation was Rev. A. Hautz, and of the Lutheran, Rev. F. D. Schaeffer, the latter of whom then resided in or near Carlisle. The first records of this church bear date Oct. 18, 1788.
Both congregations appear to have been united in their temporal affairs and all church regulations from 1787 to 1795. Rev. A. Hautz was the first stationed pastor of the German Reformed Church, and the first resident pastor of any denomination settled in Har- risburg. He owned and occupied a house situated on Chestnut Street, the third house southwest of the church. It appears by the first record of an election, held Sept. 12, 1790, that the following persons were chosen by the respective congregations :
GERMAN REFORMED.
LUTHERAN.
Trusters.
Trustees.
George Hoyer.
John Dentzel.
Heinrich Brunner. George Rettig.
Elders.
Elders.
Jacol: Zullinger.
Christian Konkel.
George Hatz. Jobn Hocker.
Dencons. Dencons.
Jacob Stehley.
Michael von Keuen. John Ebert.
Jarob Wels. han -.
The entry for 1795 is as follows :
1
" Im Jahr 1797 wurden die zwei Gemeinden in Harrisborgh, Diumlich
die Reformiert und Lutherisch, von einander Sebarirt, und websiten auf · Reformirter Seite zum Kirchenrath :
-
·
0
John Comfort ein Tag geschaft.
Martin Kaplı
Abraham Iny.
0 0 Georg Frientley
331
CITY OF HARRISBURG.
" TRESTEES .- George Ilaeyer, Henrich Brunner; Aeltesten, Jacob Shultz, Simon Schneider ; Vonteher, Henrich Liphart, Johannes Pfeiffer."
Up to this time the two congregations had wor- shiped together, but in this year they separatedl. al- though they occupied the -ame building. In the same year the old church was wainscoted and put in thorough repair. In 1804 the vestries of the two de- nominations erected a pulpit and put up galleries on three sides. The walls were plastered and the exte- rior weatherboarded and painted white. On the 25th of March, 1812. Rev. Philip Gloninger, George Hover. Frederick Kelker, Nicholas Ott, and Frederick Boas purchased of Joseph Allen lot No. 186. adjoining the old church property, for fourteen hundred dollars, for the exclusive use of the German Reformed Church. On the 13th of July, 1813, the Lutherans formally proposed a division of the church property, which was declined by the Reformed brethren. On June 17, 1815, a second proposition was made by the Lutherans, that the German Reformed should purchase an un- divided half of the new Lutheran Church which had been built on Fourth Street in 1814. This oeca-ioned considerable discussion, but the majority of the Re- formed Church opposed the proposition, and the result was that on the 1st of April. 181G, the German Re- formed congregation purchased for one thousand dol- lars the interest of the Lutherans in the old church lot and buildings. On the 3d of July, ISIS, "The German Reformed Salem Church of Harrisburg" was incorporated with the following incorporators :
Vestry : Trustees, Christian Shaeffer. John Zinn ; Elders, George Wetherholt, John Kelker ; Deacons, John Horter, John S. Wiestling, George Kunkel, Jacob Hise ; Members, M. Rahm, A. Dor-heimer, George Hoyer, Henry George, Jacob Miesch, Jacob Cunkle, Jacob Hover, Jacob Bueher, George Snyder, Frederick Beisel, Joseph Doll, John Henning, Henry Frey, Henry Weltshover, Jacob Bal-ley, Frederick Kelker, David S. Forney, Jacob Steinman, Jacob Greenawalt, Peter Bachman, Jacob Kunkel, Samuel C. Wiestling, Jr., Samuel Swartz, Conrad Knepley, Michael Derstein. Nichola- Ott. John Horn, David Beissel, Peter Snider, Daniel Snider, John A. Stehley.
On the 15th of January, 1>21, a meeting of the members was held in the old church, at which Fred- erick Kelker presided and John S. Wie-tling acted as secretary. At this meeting it was resolved to erect a new church of suitable dimeusion-, to front on Chest- nut Street, and the following persons were appointed to collect subscriptions for the purpose : Jacob Bucher, John Kelker, John Zinn. John S. Wiestling, Rev. John Winebrenner, John Horter, Frederick Kelker, and Conrad Knepley. Three weeks afterwards on Feb. 5, 1821) the committee reported six thousand and six dollar- in cash and sub-cription-, and the vestry were requested to contraet for the erection of a new church.
On the 8th of March, 1821, the ve-try contracted
with Messrs. Samuel Pool and Henry V. Wilson for the ereetion of a brick church, sixty feet front and seventy-five feet deep, and with a tower one hundred and ten feet to the top of the wood-work, to be com- pleted by July 1, 1822, for the sum of eight thousand dollars. To carry the plan into execution, the old Jog school-house and the brick house, both of which stood on the church lots, were taken down and re- moved. The church building was immediately com- menced, and on the 11th of June, 1821, the corner- stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies. On the 21st of June, 1822, the bell, weighing six hundred and sixty-seven pounds, which had been procured in London at an expense of three hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-six and one-half cents, was taken to the church and placed in the tower. The following inscriptions are upon it : " T. Mears, of London, Fecit 1822;" " May all whom I may summon to the grave the blessing, of a well-spent life receive." The church wa- finished Ang. 1, 1822, and on the 4th of the same month dedicated to Jehorah. The total cost of the church up to Feb. 15, 1823, was eight thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents, exclusive of bell,
In 1827 the old church was altered by extending an upper floor from the eastern to the western gal- Jery, thus converting the interior into two large rooms. The upper one was used for some time by the Sunday- school. and the lower as a day-school. They were afterwards occupied by public schools. In the sum- mer of 1841 the pulpit of the brick church wa- re- placed by a new one, the walls painted, and many other improvements made. In the same year a spacious lecture-room one story high, twenty-eight by fifty-four feet, with thirteen-feet ceiling, was erected in the rear of the new church. It was subsequently extended to Cherry Alley, making a room twenty- eight by ninety-one feet, In 1855 its interior was handsomely frescoed by George Seiling, the noted fresco-painter of Reading, and in January, 1856, a splendid organ, purchased from Jardine & Son, of New York, and presented to the congregation by five members thereof. was put up. The "confirmation table." whichi stood before the pulpit in the first church since 1787, has been carefully preserved and is used as the speaker's desk in the new chapel, erected in 1880.
In 1854 the old log church, corner Third Street and Cherry Avenue, was taken down and four brick dwell- ing-houses erected on its site. The congregation also erected three additional brick dwellings on Cherry Avenue in 1531, after the completion of the chapel.
The church was remodeled in 1976, and Salem Chapel, an extensive and beautiful building for Sun- day-school purposes, erected in 1-30 and 1831, in the rear of and adjoining the main church building.
The following are the names of the stationed pa -- tors of the Reformed Church from its foundation to the present time :
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332
HISTORY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY.
Rev. Anthony Ilautz, from probably 1788 to 1797. ! and Miss Jane W. Umberger (afterwards Mrs. John In the tax duplicate- of Dauphin County it seems- that MIr. Ilautz was first taxed in 1792, and the last year in which he is noted as a resident of Harrisburg is in 1797.
Rev. Jonathan Helfenstein, from Sept. 7. 1805, to 1808.
Rev. Philip Gloninger, from July 17, 18OS, to June 26, 1814.
Rev. Frederick Rahauser, from April 5. 1316, to April 5, 1819.
Rev. John Winebrenner, from Oct. 22, 1820, to March 23, 1823.
Rev. Albert Helfenstein, from March 1. 1824, to Sept. 8, 1829.
Rev. Daniel Zacharias, from Feb. 21, 1830, to March 31, 1835.
Rev. Joseph F. Berg, from Nov. 1, 1835, to Nov. 6, 1836.
Rev. John H. Smaltz, from Nov. 1, 1838, to Nov. 1, 1840.
Rev. John F. Mesiek, from Dec. 17, 1840, to Feb- ruary, 1855.
Rev. Daniel Gans, from 1855 to 1864.
Rev. W. H. H. Snyder, from Dec. 18, 1:64, to the present tine.
SECOND REFORMED CHURCH .- On the 20th of April, 1861, Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Reily and Ru- dolph F. Kelker donated to the trustees ot the First Reformed Church of Harrisburg a certain lot of ground fronting on Reily Street one hundred and twelve feet, and on East Fifth and Sixth Streets one hundred feet, in trust for the use of any persons who might thereafter unite in forming a second Reformed congregation, to be in connection with the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States : the said trustees to convey the said lot of ground, with all improvements that might be ereeted thereon, to the trustees of said Second congregation, whenever they should be incorporated, for the -um of one dollar free of all incumbrance. Nothing was, however, done by the officers of the First Church in the premi-es until in February, 1863. On the 8th of that month the superintendent and teachers of the Sunday-school resolved in meeting that they would raise two bun- dred dollars for a prospective Sunday-school and Second Reformed Church. On the 12th of the same month, on the petition of the same parties, the con- sistory of the church elected William H. Seibert, one of the teachers in the Sunday-school, as superintend- ent of the proposed new school. During the week # member of the First Church secured the second story of the Good Will engine hon-e, on Ridge Road be- tween Cumberland and Broad Streets, and furnished it at his own expense. On the Sunday of April 19, 1843, at 8.30 o'clock A.M .. William H. Seibert, super- intendent-elect, with Miss Sarah Jane Gutelius, Miss Margaret Ulrich (now MIrs. Benjamin Umberger.,
F. Traut, now deceased), all teachers in the First Reformed Sunday-school, opened the new school with nine scholar -. On the following Sunday, April 20, 1863, Rev. George Kurzman, pastor of a Re- formed Church at Middletown, but a resident of Har- risburg, preached the first sermon. On the 19th of November, 1863, Rev. Frederick Fox entered upon hi- duties as a missionary of the Board of Home Mis- sion-, preaching in both the English and German ' languages. On the 31st of January, 1664, a meeting of persons of the Reformed faith was held at the dwelling of William HI. Seibert, then in South Street, between Second Street and Raspberry Avenne, and the following-named individuals agreed to organize as the Second Reformed Church of Harrisburg : Wil- liam H. Seibert, Philip Hoke, Eli Hollinger, Henry Fuehrer, Isaac Moyer, Solomon Wirtz, Daniel Eckert, Jacob Derstein, and Christian Ehirman. On the 24th of April following twenty-seven others united with the congregation.
Ou the 3d of June. 1865, the trustees of the First Church conveyed the real estate above mentioned to the trustees of the Second Church, the latter having been duly incorporated. In this year funds were col- leeted, and a ehapel built and dedicated Oet. 8, 1865, free of all incumbrance. Rev. Fox preached his farewell sermon March 11, 1866, intending to visit the Pacific coast and labor in the cause of missions there. The Rev. William A. Gring sueceeded him. begin- ning his pastorate on the third Sunday of August, 1.66. His connection with the congregation con- tinued until Aug. 2, 1868. Rev. Nathaniel E. Bress- ler was pastor from Nov. 8. 1868, until February, 1872. On the 26th of January, 1873, the congrega- tion called the Rev. George W. Snyder, then laboring in Danville, Pa., who entered upon his pastorate April 16, 1873, and has since occupied the same as a faithful laborer in the Master's vineyard. During the -ummer of 1874 the chapel was enlarged by the erection of an additional Sundav-school-room, and also a room in the basement of the building so as to accommodate the infant and senior Sunday-schools separately. Dedicatory services were held in the chapel and new annex on Dec. 5 and 6, 1874.
In the spring of 1876 the large frame church build- ing situated at the corner of Broad Street and Two- and-a-half Street, erected by the Second Advent con- gregation, was offered for sale. March 13, 1876, the congregation unanimously agreed to purchase it for six thousand dollar-, for which sum they mortgaged their church property on Reily Street. On the 19th of March, 1876. the first service was held in the lecture-room of the building, and on the 23d of April, 1576, the newly-purchased building was formally reopened and rededicated to God with appropriate servic ". The Reily Street property wa- disposed of by the congregation to W. H. Seibert for six thousand nine hundred dollars in July, 1877.
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