History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . , and sometimes in theschoii! house or court house, until 1827, when a small hrick church waserected at the corner nf ITefrdii and hirst >treets. It seems that the con-tractnr who erected this huilding slighted his job. The strucHire was mwafe ami was used uuh .-ibout Iwn years, when it was abandoned,.and for eight years the congregatinn again resnrted to ]iri\ate residences forwiirship. The
History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . , and sometimes in theschoii! house or court house, until 1827, when a small hrick church waserected at the corner nf ITefrdii and hirst >treets. It seems that the con-tractnr who erected this huilding slighted his job. The strucHire was mwafe ami was used uuh .-ibout Iwn years, when it was abandoned,.and for eight years the congregatinn again resnrted to ]iri\ate residences forwiirship. The congregation purchased a lot at the corner of Third and Ilorastreets, upnu which stond ;\ small dwelling. This was remodL-le<l by RewisJones, brver and William llrattnn and cimxerled into a house (if wor-shi]). the minlcst litile church being forniallv dedicated by Rev. John Wdiul,in 1837. The membership of the clim-ch at that time was one hundred andtwenty-li\e. ]n 1858 another church building was erected, at a cost (d about twothousand dnllars, .and was dedicated b\- Rev. Ialvin Kingsley, a prominentMethcilist di\ine, who afterward became bishop. There was a cuntiiuietl. ?IIIST .\:i;ilin|i|ST lllISCMlAl, rllll;c-|l, W ASI I I M ;Ti IN. DAVIKSS COUNTY, INDIANA. 187 increase in the membership of the congrei^atiuii eacli year until the necessityof a larger hiiikling became apparent. Accor church as choristerfor
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