Champion, Jefferson, NY Churches, Part II |
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Champion, Jefferson, NY Churches, Part II |
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METHODIST CHURCH OF CHAMPION VILLAGE The Methodists first organized a legal society December 30, 1825, with Mr. Andrews, Wilson Pennock, and Josiah Townsend trustees. A second society was formed April 11, 1827.
The church has at present eighty-two members. The Sabbath-school has an attendance of seventy-five, and is supplied with a small library.
THE METHOIDST CHURCH AT NORTH CHAMPION THE METHODIST CHURCH OF North Champion is one of the oldest in the town. The church building was erected in 1826. This church is connected with the Champion charge, and presided over by the pastor of the champion church. It has a flourishing Sunday-school and a small library.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CHAMPION VILLAGE This church was organized about ten years since. The old academy building was given to the society at that time by the Freemasons, and the upper room, fitted up for church purposes, has been used by the society since that time. Services are at present held every alternate Sunday by Rev. Cathell of Carthage. When organized the society consisted of but fifteen members, since that time the number has increased to forty-five.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WEST CARTHAGE The church was organized March 31, 1835. It was voted to call it the "First Congregational Church of Carthage." The Rev. Dutton and Monroe were the organizers, and the following persons united to form the church: Philo Weed, Abigail Weed, C. h. Morrison, Prudence Morrison, Daniel and Mary Wilcox, John and Hepzibah Hewitt, Merritt Coughlin, Lucy Nimocks, and Lovieu Gilbert. Merritt Coughlin was elected clerk, and Philo Weed deacon. The church was organized in East Carthage, and for a time held its meetings in the stone school-house in that village. Afterwards the church moved over the river, and held its meetings in the old store near Mr. Woolsons’ which is now used as a workshop. When Rev. Mr. Doane preached in the village of Carthage the church divided and a number of the members were organized into the Presbyterian church now worshipping in East Carthage. On November 16, 1852, the citizens of West Carthage convened, and organized themselves into a congregational society by calling Deacon Daniel Jackson and Mr. John Vrooman to preside, when Alfred Lathrop, James Mix, Joel Manchester, Reuben H. Potter, Truman Buck, Ezra Carter, and Theodorus Buck wre chosen trustees. In the previous year they had built the present meeting-house. The following is a list of the ministers who have preached in the church since its organization: Revs. Northrop, Hulsey, Woolcot, Waite, Jenks, Wheelock, Rockwood, Place, and Farrar.
BAPTIST CHURCH-GREAT BEND The Baptist church in this town, in 1818, reported twenty-five members, and the First Baptist Ecclesiastical Society was formed October 16, 1826, with Moses C. Merrill, Elisha Jones, Thomas Campbell, Elisha Bentley, Moses Miller, Sidney Hastings, and James Thompson trustees. There was no house of worship erected in town by this order until 1842, when the church in North Rutland decided to rebuild at the Great Bend, and formed a society with Cicero Potter, Miner C. Merrill, Thomas P. Francis, Daniel Potter, and henry g. potter trustees, in January of that year. In May, 1843, a subscription was drawn up for this purpose, and in December the house was completed and dedicated. The building is thirty-six feet by forty-eight feet, and cost, with fixtures, fourteen hundred dollars. The society is at present without a pastor. (Jefferson County History, L. H. Everts, 1878)
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