CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - LOGAN VIEW CHURCH BUILT IN 1898 SOLD
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Cedar County News November 18, 1951

LOGAN VIEW CHURCH BUILT IN 1898 SOLD; MOVED TO OBERT TO SERVE BAPTIST 
GROUP

Coleridge - The Logan View Presbyterian church, which once formed the 
hub around which that community's acitvities revolved, has been sold 
to the Baptist congregation at Obert and is being moved to that place.  

With the departure of the building from the community a land mark will 
be gone, but in the hearts of some of the old-timers there will linger 
a bit of heart-ache and memory of weddings, fuenrals and pleasant 
social events held there through the more than 50 years of its 
existance.

The history of the Logan View church goes back a bit farher than the 
building itself. The first permanent Sunday School was founded in May 
1895 and meetings were held in the Logan View School house. Among the 
early day superintendennts of this organization were Lafe Darland, 
Merrill Douglass, Ivan Walt, Frank Wilkerson and others.

In February 1898 the people of the community met in the V.E. Ballard 
home with Rev. Scudder as chairman and Charles Fleener as secretary 
and organized the first church body. Merrill Douglass donated the land 
for the church and in April of the same year the Logan View 
Presbyterian church became a reality. M.M. Douglas, O.C. Whitney, W.C. 
Boucher, W.R. Reaugh and V.E. Ballard were appointed to get the 
building started.  It was completed in time for Christmas exercises 
and was officially dedicated on New Years 1899. Rev. C.W. Marshall 
was secured to hold morning and evening services alternating Sundays 
with Coleridge.

FIRST MEMBERS
First members of the Logan View church were: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Flick, 
Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Barron, Mr. and Mrs. William Lamborn, M.r and Mrs. 
V.E. Ballard, Mrs. Abbie Bleener, Mrs. E. Lamborn, Mr. and Mrs. George 
Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Darland, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Douglass, Mrs. 
O.C. Whitney, W.C. Boucher, Mrs. Sarah Sutton and Mrs. Emma Lamborn, 
now Mrs. Vern Coonrod.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
The christian endeavor of the church was organized in 1913, and was 
the center of social life for the young people of the community. This 
group, too, always seemed able to raise the money to paper and carpet 
the church. 

Improvements were made through the years. In 1920 a basement was put 
under the church, a piano was purchased and Ralph Hall, Ralph Darland, 
and Morris Bailey were named to secure a light plant for the building.

CHURCH PASTORS
Regular ministers serving the church during its existance were C. 
Marshall, T.J. Amsus, Rev. Welch, O.A. Elliott, H.S. Moorison, Alex 
McCleland, A.M. Sheppard, G.M. Caldwell, Rev. Heathcat, Joseph Angell, 
C.P. Graham, Rev. Morrison, G.A. Swanson, Rev. Caoter, J.C. Christie 
and the last regular pastor was Rev. McKeen who served during the 
time he was editor of the Coleridge Blade. He died and on January 6, 
1933 his funeral was held at the church.

GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
A fifty year celebration was held in April 1948, to observe the golden 
anniversary of the founding of the congregation. Mrs. Lizzie Barron, 
Lafe Darland, and Mrs. Sarah Sutton, charter members present at the 
celebration were honored. During the past few years the affairs of the 
church have been managed by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Selber, who are life-long 
residents of the Logan View community. Mrs. Seibert said of the 
breaking up of the congregation and sale of the church, "We simply ran 
out of children."