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This church not being of sufficient capacity for the increasing congre- gation, early in the year 1883 it was determined to build a larger and better house of worship. June IIth, the trustees, Thomas Fairman, Sey- mour Raymond, Benjamin S. Peters, George W. Ettele, John Fratts, John Atkinson and A. S. Matheson, purchased lot No. 298, at the south- east corner of Ann and Catherine streets, of Adam Baumbach for $2,500. The following committee were selected to superintend the erection of a building thereon, viz: Rev. L. B. Brown, Seymour Raymond, B. S. Peters, John Atkinson and A. S. Matheson.
August 3rd, 1883, the cornerstone was laid in the presence of a very large concourse of people, with Masonic ceremonies. In it were placed a Bible, a Methodist Episcopal hymn book, a Methodist Episcopal year book, a Methodist Episcopal discipine, a copy of the Christian Advo- cate, Our Church Monthly, Middletown Press, Middletown Journal,
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names of the members of the church and Sunday schools, history of the three church buildings, and a program of the exercises.
The work was immediately commenced and so vigorously pushed that the edifice was completed and ready for occupancy by the time for the meeting of the succeeding annual conference. The church was dedi- cated by Bishop Thomas Bowman, D. D., LL. D., Sunday, April 27, 1884.
The building is a handsome one, is eighty-five feet long and fifty-five feet wide, with an annex four feet in depth in the rear. It is built of brick, trimmed with Gettysburg gray granite, is two stories high and roofed with slate. Four doors give easy ingress and egress. Two wide stairways, protected with heavy balustrades of walnut lead to the auditorium. This room is filled with the softened mellow light entering through nine Gothic windows of cathedral glass. The ceiling is high and peaked, following the slope of the roof. The pews are constructed of walnut and ash; the pulpit, chancel and pulpit furniture are of solid carved walnut. The choir is back of the pulpit, slightly higher and facing the congregation. In a recess behind the choir is a large and handsome pipe organ. The arrangements for heating and ventilation cannot be surpassed; a battery located in the basement automatically opens or closes the ventilators, thus maintaining an even temperature. The Sunday school room on the first floor, is very complete; it is divided by glass partitions into three departments, and at the opening and clos- ing of the school these are all thrown into one. The infant school is in the rear of the main school; both are well furnished. The other two rooms are used as class rooms. The library is also in the rear of the Sunday school room, and is well stocked with books.
The architect was William Miller, of Harrisburg; the builder, Wil- liam Starry.
The pastors of the church have been: 1856-58, George E. Rakestraw ; 1858-60, S. W. Kurtz; 1860, William B. Gregg; 1861-63, J. S. Lame ; 1863-65, J. M. Wheeler ; 1865-67, S. T. Kemble; 1867-69, Allen Johns ; 1869, L. B. Hughes ; 1870-72, J. Montgomery; 1872-74, T. B. Miller ; 1874-77, S. G. Grove; 1877-79, J. T. Swindells; 1879-82, W. H. Fries; 1882-85, L. B. Brown; 1885-86, M. L. Graves; 1886, David Mckee; 1890, William Rink; 1891, S. H. Evans; 1895; William Ridgway; 1898, J. T. Gray; 1900, W. H. Pickop; 1902, R. H. Crawford; 1905, W. E. Yeager, the present pastor.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
The history of the Methodist church is so identified with that of the Sunday school, that I am tempted to give a slight sketch of the latter institution.
Hannah Ball, a young Methodist, at High Wycombe, England, organ- ized a Sunday school in 1767, fourteen years before Robert Raikes began his at Gloucester; and it was Sophia Cook, a member of the Wesleyan
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Society at Gloucester, who afterwards became the wife of Samuel Bran- burn, one of Mr. Wesley's most efficient ministers, who first suggested to Robert Raikes the idea of a Sunday school, who was also his first teacher, and first led his ragamuffin school through the streets of Glou- cester to the parish church.
When Raikes organized his Sunday school in 1781, from John Wes- ley it received its principal support. "It seems," says he, "these schools will be our great means of reviving religion throughout the nation." The Sunday school was first noted in print by Raikes in 1783. In Jan- uary, 1785, Wesley, in his Armenian Magazine, commended it to his so- cieties as a promising field of usefulness. Before 1787 he had Sunday schools among his people numbering seven or eight hundred pupils. The Methodist Church also originated the system of gratuitous teaching, recommended by John Wesley in England, and Francis Asbury in Amer- ica, and by the South Carolina conference in 1790, which was the first great advance in the spirit and method of Sunday school work. John Fletcher conceived the idea of a Sunday school literature; Dr. Vincent originated the uniform and international system of lessons; the Sunday School Institute was first suggested by Dr. Kidder.
Bishop Asbury established the first Robert Raikes Sunday school on this continent, at the house of Thomas Crenshaw, in Hanover county, Virginia, but Ludwig Hacker started a Sunday school in Pennsylvania (thirty years before Robert Raikes established his), which flourished for over twenty-five years. Joseph Alleine opened a similar school in England fifty-nine years before that; the Pilgrim Fathers established the first Sunday school in Massachusetts fourteen years before that ; Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, established them throughout his large diocese before that; John Knox inaugurated the Sunday schools of Scotland, "with readers," twenty-three years before that; Martin Luther's celebrated Sunday school at Wirtemburg existed thirty-three years before that; the catumenical schools of Origen and Tertullian were in operation thirteen hundred years before that. If necessary we can trace it back for forty centuries. But these schools degenerating into mere training places for endless formalities and soulless catechisms, were finally abandoned altogether, and it was two hundred and fifty years after the Reformation, before the Sunday school of to-day took a definite form in the brain of Robert Raikes.
After the removal of the Union Sunday school from the Ebenezer Methodist church (see paper No. 21), it ceased to have any Methodist connection. Some time afterwards a union school was opened in the school house, southeast corner of Ann and Wood streets, but the church was poor and weak, and it was not until Middletown was made a sta- tion that a sustained effort was made.
June 7th, 1856, a Sunday school was organized in the new (second) church, the basement not being completed.
The first officers were: Superintendent, Thomas Fairman; assistant superintendent, Solomon Heiney; secretary, Yetman Eaves ; librarian,
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D. J. Boynton; assistant librarian, Reuben Miller; treasurer, G. G. Rakestraw; teachers, Harry Fisher, David Boyle, J. Horner, B. Black, J. S. Steese, Wm. Embich, J. A. Platt, V. Foreman, A. E. Fairman, F. A. Murray, Mercy Woughter, Sara Eaves, Annie Wolfley, Matrona Fisher, Harriet Fairman, Mrs. Reed, Lydia Hughes, Mary J. Bennett, Angeline Lochman, Margaret Henderson, Mary Fairman and about eighty scholars. July 20, Seymour Raymond was made assistant super- intendent. In September following the school numbered 32 teachers and 150 scholars.
In May, 1862, a mission school was started in Port Royal, with Sey- mour Raymond as superintendent; in a short while it numbered 140 scholars. In 1864 so many of the male members of the Sunday school had gone into the army that the superintendent had to relinquish its control, to take charge of the parent school.
The superintendents have been: 1856, Thomas Fairman; 1857-62- 63-64, N. T. Wood; 1858-70, D. J. Boynton ; 1860-61, 1865-69, 1871- 83, Seymour Raymond; 1883-1903, Joseph F. Raymond ; 1904, H. V. B. Garver, the present incumbent.
XXXIV.
About 1825 Rev. John Winebrenner, a minister of the German Re- formed Church, but who had withdrawn therefrom and entertained and preached views on experimental religion which differed somewhat from those held by the church, resided at Harrisburg. At the request of the friends of Mrs. Black, who had been at one time a member of his con- gregation, and who had died on the farm of George Fisher, Esq., Mr. Winebrenner came to Middletown to preach the funeral sermon. The feeling against him was so strong that some of the older citizens refused to have anything to do with him, on the ground that he was not a min- ister in good standing in any church. John McCammon, however, on being asked whether he would walk with Mr. Winebrenner on the occa- sion, cheerfully consented, and they were afterwards warm friends. The funeral services were held in the Lutheran church and some of the young men of the town were so favorably impressed with Mr. Wine- brenner, they invited him to preach. The doors of the Lutheran church were, however, closed against him, but Mrs. Flanagan, who had charge of the Ebenezer Methodist meeting house, opened that building to him, and under his ministrations a great revival commenced .. He continued preaching alternately with the Methodist circuit preachers for several years. About 1832 his friends deemed it advisable to have an edifice of their own. In the meantime, however, some friends of Mr. Winebrenner residing in Middletown, Harrisburg and vicinity met at Linglestown and organized a new church or sect, adopting the doctrines taught by Mr. Winebrenner and styled themselves the "Church of God," but for many years they were generally known as "Winebrennarians." Mr. Wine-
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brenner always disapproved of this term, and all his followers are now known as members of the "Church of God." The first members of this congregation (in 1827), were Susanna Smuller, - Bare, Elizabeth King, Jacob Rife, Joshua Heppich, Jacob Benner, John Benner, Henry Siple, Joseph Ross, George Smuller, George Etter, Conrad Seabaugh, George Baker, John McFarland, Eliza Longhead and Eva Crist.
The first church edifice of this new denomination ever built, was erected in Middletown in 1832, on lot No. 23, on the east side of Union street, about midway between Water street and Centre Square. It was a frame structure, lathed and plastered on the outside. There were two entrances at the front, reached by high stairs or steps. The pulpit was placed between the doors at the end of the building towards the street, and those entering faced the audience. The building had a basement in which the Sunday school was held, and at one time a week-day school was taught therein by Samuel Dennis.
In 1848, by a change of grade in the street, so much filling was done in front of the church that the high steps were no longer necessary, and the entrance to the building was made much easier. In 1852 the edifice was enlarged by extending the front to the line of the street, casing the whole outside with brick, and making a vestibule and gallery. The lat- ter was constructed so as to be shut off entirely from the auditorium, if desired, and was of sufficient capacity for Sabbath school and prayer meetings. The internal arrangements were so changed that the pulpit was at the end opposite the entrance. On account of the gradual giving away of the wall, the church council, in June, 1873, appointed a com- mittee to ascertain the cost of repairing the building ; and at the meeting of council, in July following, it reported that it was inexpedient to spend any money on repairs. Shortly afterwards it was decided to erect a new church edifice, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and to be- gin its erection when eight thousand dollars were subscribed.
The lot section was on the northeast corner of Spring and Water streets, which was purchased for twelve hundred dollars. In November, 1873, eight thousand and thirty-eight dollars had been subscribed. Ground was broken June 9th, 1874, and the cornerstone laid June 8th. During the following winter the regular services, prayer meetings and Sunday schools were held in the basement; and in the winter of 1875 and 1876, the auditorium was thrown open for the use of the great con- course of people attending the union meetings. It is a brick structure, and the steeple is one hundred and sixty-eight feet high, surmounted by a ball and vane. The roof is of slate, both on main building and steeple. The walls are frescoed and the windows of ground and stained glass.
. The seats of the basement are of iron and walnut and chestnut wood, with movable backs. Those of the audience room are of the same ma- terial, but fixed. The pulpit and reading desk are made of walnut and chestnut.
Among the pastors have been Elders John Winebrenner, Smitmer, Kyle, Edward West, McCartney, Croll, Mackey, William Miller, Joseph
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Adams, Jacob Flake, William Mooney, A. Swartz, Edward H. Thomas, William Mullineux, A. Snyder, D. A. L. Laverty and B. F. Beck. Since 1867 the pastors have been: 1867, J. Stamm; 1867-70, J. Keller ; 1870- 72, J. Haifleigh ; 1872-75, George Sigler ; 1875-77; W. L. Jones; 1877- 79, J. Miller ; 1879-80, W. P. Winbigler; 1880-83, D. S. Shoop; 1883- 85, J. B. Lockwood; 1885, O. H. Betts; 1888, G. W. Getz; 1891, J. M. Carvell; 1893, C. I. Behney; 1894, J. H. Esterline; 1896, George Sigler ; 1903, W. J. Schaner; 1905, Harry Hoover, the present pastor.
BETHEL SUNDAY SCHOOL.
In the early part of the year 1832 (eight years after the formation of the "American Sunday School Union"), a Union Sunday school, one of the first in the country, was commenced in the old Ebenezer Methodist church. It opened with seventy scholars, six male and four female teachers. November 25 of the same year it was moved to the Bethel church edifice, and, the schoolroom in the basement not being completed, met in the auditorium.
Its male superintendents up to the present time have been: Joshua Heppich, George Smuller, Martin Peck, Augustus H. Shote, Lawrence Elberti, Jacob Rife, Sr., John Heppich, D. W. Stehman, J. W. Bax- stresser and H. G. Schreiner. Its female superintendents were Desidary Metzgar and Margaret A. Shott. Its earliest secretaries were W. J. Mc- Cammon, Daniel Kendig and Henry Schreiner. Augustus H. Shott was the first librarian and continued in that position for many years. The scholars in 1832 from November 25th to the close of the year were.
SCHOLARS.
PARENTS.
Brestle, Michael,
Peter Brestle,
Brestle, Mary,
Joseph Brestle,
Brestle, Ann,
Joseph Brestle (uncle),
Bomberger, Jacob,
John Bomberger,
Brown, David,
Mercer Brown,
Boyer, Washington,
Mrs. Wiman (G. M.),
Boner, Amanda,
William Glover,
Crawford, Jane,
James Crawford,
Crawford, Sarah,
James Crawford,
Cameron, W. Brua,
Simon Cameron,
Cameron, Rachael,
Simon Cameron,
Crawford, Thomas,
James Crawford,
Carr, Margaret,
Margaret Carr,
Davis, Daniel,
Henry Hawk (stepfather),
Ettley, David,
Philip Ettley,
Ettley, Mary D.,
Philip Ettley,
Etter, Franklin,
George Etter,
Etter, John,
George Etter,
Etter, Harriet,
George Etter,
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SCHOLARS.
PARENTS.
Etter, Anna Eliza,
Elder, John,
George Etter, John Elder, Thomas Elliot,
Elliot, William,
Earisman, Elizabeth,
Jacob Earisman,
Earisman, Charlotte,
Jacob Earisman,
Earisman, Christian,
Jacob Earisman,
Gross, Elizabeth,
George Gross,
Glover, Washington,
William Glover,
Glover, Susan,
William Glover,
Glover, John A.,
William Glover,
Heppich, Catharine,
Joseph Heppich,
Heppich, John,
Joseph Heppich,
Hemperly, Harriet,
Michael Hemperly,
Hemperly, Lena,
Michael Hemperly,
Hemperly, John,
Michael Hemperly,
Hogan, Richard,
Richard Hogan,
Heppich, Christian,
Jacob Heppich,
King, Christian,
Elizabeth King,
Kendig, Daniel,
Martin Kendig,
Kendig, Ann,
Daniel Kendig,
Kendig, Benjamin,
Daniel Kendig,
Kisseker, Sarah A.,
Eliza Kisseker,
Kisseker, Margaret,
Eliza Kisseker,
Kunkle, Christian,
Benjamin Kunkle,
Kobb, Sarah,
Peter Kobb,
Lowman, Frederick,
William Lowman,
Lowman, Edward, Lemon, James,
Samuel Lemon,
Metzgar, Laura,
Jonas Metzgar,
Murray, Rachel,
Francis Murray,
Murray, Sarah,
Francis Murray, Conrad Miller (grandfather),
Miller, Sarah, McCammon, Elisha,
John McCammon,
McCammon, David,
John McCammon,
McClure, David,
Mary McClure,
Mary McClure,
McGlennan, John,
Richard McGlennan,
Benjamin Murphy,
Geo. Smuller (guardian), Simon Cameron,
David McMurtrie, John Mundal (brother),
James Russel,
James Russel,
Joseph Ross,
Joseph Ross,
McClure, William,
Murphy, John, Morton, James,
· Minshall, Geo. A., McMurtrie, Wm., Mundal, David, Russel, James, Russel, William, Ross, Joseph, Ross, William,
William Lowman,
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SCHOLARS.
PARENTS.
Ross, Christian,
Joseph Ross,
Redfield, Philander,
Anna Redfield,
Seabaugh, John,
Conrad Seabaugh,
Seabaugh, Samuel,
Conrad Seabaugh,
Shott, John,
Margaret Shott,
Snyderly, Christian,
Widow Sndyerly,
Snyder, Jacob,
Widow Snyder,
Snyder, John,
Widow Snyder,
Snyder, Jeremiah,
Francis Murray (uncle),
Snyder, Maria,
John Snyder,
Snyder, Sarah,
John Snyder,
Sellers, George,
George Sellers,
Sellers, Hiram,
George Sellers,
Sellers, Sarah,
George Sellers,
Sellers, Mary,
George Sellers,
Simcox, Abraham,
Henry Schreiner (uncle),
Stoner, Henrietta,
Joseph Ross (uncle),
Smith, Sarah,
Henry Smith,
Smith, Elizabeth,
Henry Smith,
Smith, Ann,
Henry Smith,
Smith, Catherine,
Henry Smith,
Schuster, Susan,
Christian Schuster,
Schuler, John,
John Schuler,
Spayd, George,
Christian Spayd,
Thompson, Sarah,
John McCammon, Mr. Thomas,
Thomas, William,
Woodruff, John,
Caleb Woodruff,
Woodruff, Caleb,
Caleb Woodruff,
Williams, Samuel,
Major Williams (uncle),
Yorger, George,
Simon Yorger,
Yorger, Emanuel.
Simon Yorger.
XXXV.
WAR OF 1812.
This war arose, as is well known, from the assumption by England of the right to search American vessels, and to take therefrom all sea- men whom her officers claimed as British subjects. Congress declared war June 18, 1812; authorized a call for 100,000 troops and voted $5,- 000,000 for war purposes.
On March 12th (one month before this action by Congress), Gover- nor Snyder of Pennsylvania issued his proclamation calling for 14,000 men. More than three times the number of volunteers responded. In 1812-13 they were not needed, but upon the destruction of Washington and threatened attack upon Baltimore in 1814, the troop from this
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county marched to York and Baltimore. News of the signing of the treaty of peace (December 24, 1814) reached here February 11, 1815, and in March, after an absence of about six months, the boys returned home.
Among others from Middletown who marched on that occasion were: Christian Spayd, brigade inspector; Captain Peter Snyder, John Sny- der, John Lehigh, George Hathorn, Joshua Heppich, Michael Cassel, Jacob Brown, John McElrato, David Weirich, John Wolf, David Moser, John Grunden, David Ettele, Michael Hemperly, John Conrad, Daniel Bollinger, Jacob Bollinger, John Smith, Lawrence Elberti, Geo. Johntz, Michael Gross, John Cassel, W. Curry, George Remley, George Critzen, Charles Hughes, Christian Karp, Philip Youngblood, Thomas McNair.
INCORPORATION OF THE BOROUGH.
The borough was incorporated February 19, 1826, with the following boundaries : "Beginning at a stone at the east end of the town on the south side of Main street, thence south six degrees east forty-one perches to a stone; thence south eighty-six degrees west sixty perches to an apple tree; thence south sixty-six degrees west eighty-two perches to a stone; thence south twenty-two degrees east two perches and five- tenths to a stone; thence south sixty-seven and a half degrees west thirty-two perches to a stone; thence north twenty-four degrees west across Main street sixty-one perches to a stone; thence north thirty- four degrees east six perches to a stone; thence north thirty-two de- grees west twenty-one perches to a stone; thence north seventy degrees east thirty-two perches to a stone; thence north thirty-two degrees west two perches to a stone; thence north sixty-five degrees east one hun- dred and eight perches and five tenths to a stone; thence north eighty- six degrees east sixty-one perches and five-tenths to a stone; thence south eight degrees west forty-six perches to a stone; and thence along the south side of the said Main street south eighty-nine degrees east seven perches and five-tenths to the place of beginning."
The first borough election was held the second Tuesday of April following, at the tavern of David Kissecker. By legislative act of March 9th, 1857, the limits and boundaries were so extended as to in- clude the town of Portsmouth and lands contiguous and adjacent to the said borough and town. Thus the borough boundaries were then made · to comprise the following limits: "Beginning at a point on the river Susquehanna, and at low watermark thereof, opposite to the termina- tion of a certain lane between the lands of George Crist and company, and land now or lately the property of A. Welsh; thence by lands of same and J. Rife, John J. Walborn, and Stephen Wilson, north eighteen and one-quarter degrees east, two hundred and seven perches to the center of the Middletown and Harrisburg Turnpike road; thence by said turnpike road south seventy-eight degrees east, forty-six perches to a stone; thence north sixty-four degrees east twelve perches; thence
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north sixty-one and one quarter degrees east sixty perches to George Crist's lane; thence by lands of Christ Brown, Croll and others, north twenty-seven and one-quarter degrees west one hundred and seventy- two and one-half perches to lane at side of Red Hill; thence by said lane north sixty-nine degrees east one hundred and one perches to the great road leading from Middletown to Hummelstown; thence south one-half degree east three hundred and twenty-one perches to center of Swatara creek; thence down the said creek or river, the several courses thereof, to the junction of the said creek and the Susquehanna river at low water mark thereof seven hundred and thirty-eight perches; thence up the said Susquehanna river the several courses thereof to the place of beginning."
The same act divided the borough into three wards, viz: All that part of the said borough lying north of a line commencing at a point on the Middletown and Harrisburg Turnpike, and running directly through Water street to a point on the Swatara creek, to be called the North ward, and all that part lying south of said line, and north of a line com- mencing in the lane forming the western boundary of the borough op- posite the extension of Ann street, directly through said extension and through Ann street to a point on Swatara creek to be called the Middle ward, and all that part lying south of the said Ann street line to be called the South ward.
The first election under the newly extended wards and borough oc- curred on the third Friday in March, 1857, when three councilmen were elected from each ward, and were by lot divided into three classes, to serve one, two and three years respectively. Thereafter one was annu- ally elected from each ward for a term of three years. The first elec- tions were held as follows: In the North ward, at the brick schoolhouse on Pine street; in the Middle ward, at Union Hall on Elizabeth street ; and in the South ward, at the town schoolhouse, corner of Spring and Ann streets.
The fourteenth section of this act, extending the limits of the bor- ough, and giving council power to survey, lay out, enact and ordain streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts and sewers, was specially exempted from applying to the tract of land included within the borough limits (as created by this act) late the estate of George Fisher, deceased, called and known by the name of "Pine Ford."
THE MEXICAN WAR.
Then annexation of Texas-a measure which, although opposed by a powerful minority in that republic, was earnestly desired by the slave oligarchy in the United States, who hoped by its subsequent division into four or five States, to increase their representation, strengthen their rapidly declining power, and maintain their supremacy in the national councils-was successfully accomplished December 24, 1845.
Texas had originally been a province of Mexico; and that country
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had never recognized its independence, consequently war ensued. In 1846 Congress appropriated $10,000,000 to carry on the war, and au- thorized President Polk to accept 50,000 volunteers. Of this number Pennsylvania was awarded two regiments.
The people of Middletown were staunch Whigs, and were not enthu- siastic supporters of the war. Few of them responded and I have been given the names of but nine who went from this place, viz: Henry Stentz, Christian R. Spayd, Abraham Simcox, John Kincey, Daniel O'Donnell, James Murphy, George M. Lauman, Jacob Furman and William Black. They participated in several engagements. Henry Stentz was wounded, lay for some weeks in the hospital at Vera Cruz, and was discharged from there April 13th, 1847; Christian R. Spayd died in the city of Mexico, and Abraham Simcox returned home at the close of the war in 1848. Of the others I have no record, except that George M. Lauman was appointed paymaster.
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