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Regular Baptist Church was organized in
February,
1872, in the town hall, by Revs.
Jacob Morris and J.
W.
Snyder. The first members, seventeen in number, were J. Frampton, Matilda Frampton, Miss H. J.
Frampton, Miss Tillie Frampton, S. McClelland, Mrs. E. McClelland, L.
Chittenden, M. J. Chittenden, William T. McClelland, D. A. Frampton,
Delora Frampton, L. Bunpus, Miss M. E. McClelland, Miss N. A.
McClelland, Mrs. E. Frampton, Miss C. B. McClelland and Miss A. Saveren. The building
in which worship is held is a good, substantial frame structure, 86x50
feet in dimensions, erected in 1876 at a cost of $3,500, to which an
addition 33x18 feet was made in 1887, thus securing a very convenient
meeting place. The church has baptized on profession of faith, since
its organization, seventy members, and has received by letter sixteen
more. The membership, which is at present sixty-four, would be much
larger were it not for the fact that the residents of the place are
constantly removing to other localities. The first pastor was Rev. J. W. Snyder, who
remained, five years. Following him came Revs.
William P. Keile, two years, and T.
J. Bristow, D. Bull, A. Peckham and
A. G. McLean, the latter acting as supplies. The
secretaries of the congregation have been Leroy Chittenden and R. E. Woods. Considering the
obstacles with which it has had to contend, this congregation is in a truly prosperous condition. Its
annual expenses are $501, and the members are in good spiritual and
material state of advancement.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, pages 576-577
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The
Baptists built a church in the
same village [Transfer] in the summer of 1876.
(History of Mercer County, 1877, page 64)
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