. The first one hundred years of McKeesport. An historical and statistical description of the city from its inception until its centennial in 1894. nut street, was dedicated on October 15th, 1871,Rev. Haddeus, a former pastor, preaching the sermon. Lehman was pastor at the time and continued to be until hisdeath, in 1884. He was succeeded some time after h\ thepresent pastor. Rev. Gustave A. Schmidt. The church alsoowns a parochial school and a parsonage. A list of the pastorscaring for the welfare of the church is as follows: Revs. DanielMeier, J. T. Zoller, H. T. Freeman, G. Groff, Ch
. The first one hundred years of McKeesport. An historical and statistical description of the city from its inception until its centennial in 1894. nut street, was dedicated on October 15th, 1871,Rev. Haddeus, a former pastor, preaching the sermon. Lehman was pastor at the time and continued to be until hisdeath, in 1884. He was succeeded some time after h\ thepresent pastor. Rev. Gustave A. Schmidt. The church alsoowns a parochial school and a parsonage. A list of the pastorscaring for the welfare of the church is as follows: Revs. DanielMeier, J. T. Zoller, H. T. Freeman, G. Groff, Charles Haddeus,R. Mutchol and G. A. Schmidt. The present membership is threehundred families. George Kinzenbaugh, one of the chartermembers, still lives here. McKeesports Churches. 83 The Central Presbyterian Church was formed by a committeeof Redstone Presbytery, December 8th, 1871, with forty-ninemembers. The present membership is one hundred and eighty-one. Services were first held in a frame building on Union ave-nue. The present church edifice, corner of Versailles and Unionavenues, was erected in 1892, at a cost of twenty-three thousand. Croasa/PSi t*e?i, f^. Co ^-/^ CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (Illustrating present cliiircli architecture). dollars. The benevolent contributions last year amounted toover four hundred and fifty dollars, beside which the congrega-tion contributed seven thousand, two hundred and seventy-onedollars for purposes directl}- connected with the church. TheSunday school enrollment is four hundred and C. B. Hatch is pastor, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars. 84 History of McKeesport. The First German M. E. Church started as a mission in 1886,under the care of Rev. H. Barr, who, in 1888, was succeeded byRev. D. A. Stohl. In the spring of i88g, with a membership ofthirty, the congregation purchased the old Second M. E. churchbuilding, on Fifth avenue, for five thousand dollars. Thisproperty was sold in 1892, for eight thousand doll
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