The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . st. James Epi a I hurch. 220 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. ooo and $12,000. Dr. Waterman re-signed his pastorate about a year ago,in order to devote more attention to lit-erary work, and the church at the pres-ent time is without a regular settledpastor. First M. E. Church. The First Methodist Episcopal churchis, as an organization, thirty-eight yearsold. The building occupied by thissociety is older still, having been origin-ally the property of a Universalist churc


The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . st. James Epi a I hurch. 220 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. ooo and $12,000. Dr. Waterman re-signed his pastorate about a year ago,in order to devote more attention to lit-erary work, and the church at the pres-ent time is without a regular settledpastor. First M. E. Church. The First Methodist Episcopal churchis, as an organization, thirty-eight yearsold. The building occupied by thissociety is older still, having been origin-ally the property of a Universalist Methodists bought the building. On the 1st of April, 1861, the firstquarterly conference of this church washeld, with James Pike, presiding elder,in the chair. The original members ofthe church and quarterly conferencewere : Hiram Gilman, S. C. Gilman, andR. T. Martin. At the annual confer-ence, which met a few clays thereafter,Rev. G. W. H. Clark was appointed bythe bishop as pastor of the new churchat Laconia. Of the persons here named,only R. T. Martin is now living. At anadvanced aire, he maintains the keenest.


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