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The
Disciple Church, in the southern part of the village [of
Milledgeville], was built in 1875, and is a plain, but substantial and
well-finished, edifice. The present [1877] pastor is Elder
Baker. The Disciples, or Campbellites, as they are otherwise
known, had an organization in and about the village at an early day, and
the union church, now used for public meetings, and, occasionally, as a
select-school building, was mainly erected by them, and was standing in
1852, on the north side of the village. Their first preaching was during
that year, by John Phillips, now
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extensively engaged in the oil business in Butler and Venango counties.
There was an extensive revival under his preaching, and the church owes
its existence mainly to his labors. The first family of Disciples in the
neighborhood was the Chatleys, the date of
whose settlement is mentioned above. The cost of their present [1877]
church was about $1,800.
History of Mercer County, 1877, page 41.
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