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St.
Mark's Reformed Church |
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 The St. Mark's Congregation of New Hamburg, was organized by Rev. H. F. Hartman, pastor of the West Greenville Charge, Sept. 30th 1860, with 30 members, and an old church in the village
[the old Presbyterian] was bought for the use of the congregation. In 1865 this congregation and a newly organized congregation in Greenville were made a charge, and Rev. C. R. Dieffenbacher became the pastor. He continued for thirteen years, when he was succeeded by
Rev. F. B. Hahn in 1878, and he by Rev.
S. H. Eisenberg in 1885. Rev. A. M. Keifer became pastor in 1890,
H. I. Crow, 1895 to 1901; J. W. Albertson, 1901 to 1903; D. W. Kerr,
1903 to 1906; E. C. Musselman, 1906 to 1908;
W. S. Fisher, 1910 to 1914; H. S. Garner, 1915 to 1918.
A new church was built in 1894, at a cost of $7,000. The next year the congregation was separated from the Greenville charge and made a charge by itself. In 1909 it was connected with the Zion's Congregation at Transfer and the Jerusalem congregation in Hickory Township in a new charge called the Pymatuning Charge.
The St. Marks' congregation has ninety-seven members. The Elders at present
[1918] are: S. B. Hall, J. A. Kashner, W. F. Heckman, and W. H. Saul; the Deacons: I. E. George, R. B. Buckley, C. A. Kashner an C. C. Stoyer.
The History of the Pittsburgh Synod, 1918, The Pymatuning Charge,
pages 444-455.
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