. A history of Republic County, Kansas : embracing a full and complete account of all the leading events in its history, from its first settlement down to June 1, '01 ... Also the topography of the County ... and other valuable information never before published . the schoolhouse in the western part of town until a church buildingwas erected on the hill in the eastern part of town, ad-joining the present residence of H. S. Cooper. This houseof worship was dedicated January 25th, 1880. ^For the Lordhas chosen the vine. He has desired it for his the year 1888 the church building wa
. A history of Republic County, Kansas : embracing a full and complete account of all the leading events in its history, from its first settlement down to June 1, '01 ... Also the topography of the County ... and other valuable information never before published . the schoolhouse in the western part of town until a church buildingwas erected on the hill in the eastern part of town, ad-joining the present residence of H. S. Cooper. This houseof worship was dedicated January 25th, 1880. ^For the Lordhas chosen the vine. He has desired it for his the year 1888 the church building was removed to pres-ent situation on Fourth street and improved. Improve-ment committee was Messrs Hunter, Caldwell, Bulkley,Wilson and Mesdames Louisa Whitney, Caldwell, Donald-son, Bulkley, Kelly, Laughlin, Kerr and McGillivary. Therecords show that the above named committee was veryfaithful and zealous, and performed a great amount ofwork before their labor was finally crowned with success,and the house of worship improved and furnished to meetthe requirements of the congregation. ■And let the beauty of the Lord, our God, be upon us; andestablish thou the work of our hands upon us. Yea, the zvork ofour hands establish thou it. CD Q C o opD P p a v> p. History of Republic County. 211 Of the members of the original committee there re-main in this lield only the following: Mr. and. Mrs. Bulk-ley and Miss Louisa Whitney, the others having removedfrom Scandia. Those now living are nearly all widelyseparated and are now located, some on the Pacific coast,some in Kansas and some in Georgia. But nearly all holdproperty interests in Scandia and return from time to timeto the scene of their early church work. To say of thiscommittee that their friendship and religious ties, formed,in those early days grow stronger as the years pass, wouldperhaps hardly express their feelings or their deep inter-est in each other and the church work, in which they wereinstrumental in organizing and
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