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 First
Presbyterian Church.
—This congregation was organized by a committee of the
Presbytery of Beaver, consisting of Revs. Samuel
A. McLain, B. C. Critchlow and Elder Marcus Best, on the 16th of
August, 1844. The original membership included twenty-four persons,
viz.: Andrew McBride, Samuel McBride and
wife, Benjamin Love and wife, Jane
Haywood, John Dennison, Nancy Campbell, Mary Annie Love, Esther Stewart,
Margaret Satterfield, Hannah Budd, Rachel McRay, Elizabeth Riggs, H.
Jacobs and wife, Nancy Jane Rankin, James
S. Moore and wife, John Rankin and
wife, Susannah Bell, Sarah Gray and Adelaide
Moore. The first eldership consisted of James
S. Moore, H. Jacobs and John Rankin. The following persons have
likewise served in that capacity: Alexander
Porter, Smith Agnew, Samuel Shilling, John Phillips, David Agnew, N.
McGowan, James M. Willson. James K. Bell, S. C. Yoder, Joseph King, John
A. Robinson, John Paisley and C. K. Rice. The brick church
edifice, standing on Main Street, north of State, was built in 1857, at
a cost of about $2,500. The original members came largely from the old
Moorefleld Church, and worshiped with the congregation in the old
Protestant Methodist house, then known as “the barn.” The
congregation had a half interest in this house, which it finally sold to
Judge David T. Porter. The following
pastors have served the congregation: Revs. E
Webber, W. T. McAdam, Dr. Riggs, J. B. Dickey, W. S. Falconer, B. J.
Graves, J. C. Truesdale, Perry S. Allen, James H. Snowden and W. G.
Nevin, the present incumbent. The congregation has a membership
of 250, and is one of the most substantial religious societies in the
borough.
History
of Mercer County, 1888, pages 338-390 |
First
Presbyterian Church, Sharon Photo from an early post card,
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