The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . Frank E. E. Albert W. Garland. Harry C. George N. Eastman. and Miles Scruton lived tobe one hundred and oneyears old. The first meeting-house in Farmington stood in theRoberts district south of the village, John S. Psrker, M. DDwight E. Edgerly. Capt. W. S. H. P. Wneatley. in trust by the late L. Whitehouse, to beheld by the parish so longas used for such a the outgrowing of this struc-ture a large chuich was built, inon Meeting-house hill, but the
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . Frank E. E. Albert W. Garland. Harry C. George N. Eastman. and Miles Scruton lived tobe one hundred and oneyears old. The first meeting-house in Farmington stood in theRoberts district south of the village, John S. Psrker, M. DDwight E. Edgerly. Capt. W. S. H. P. Wneatley. in trust by the late L. Whitehouse, to beheld by the parish so longas used for such a the outgrowing of this struc-ture a large chuich was built, inon Meeting-house hill, but the 1S70, in Main street, which, in 1875, 276 FARMINGTON. c^TT^w? Kc^ijJ \v ySss First church of theCongregationalists, thistoo has been favored withexcellent pastors, amongwhom have been the lateRev. Thomas Spooner;the Rev. G. L. White,now of New Hampton,who has an exceptionallyfine literary sense; andthe Rev. C. A. Bickiord,D. D., the very able editorof the denominational or- Opera House. was destroyed by fire, and was fol-lowed by a picturesque brick buildingin whose tower is the town clock. The First Congregational churchwas organized, in 1819, under thepastoral care of the Rev. JamesWalker, with a membership of eightother persons. Among the thirteengood men who have ministered to theparish have been several especiallynotable, and the longest pastorateshave been those of the first incum-bent, and of the Revs. D. D. Tappan,D. D., and Walter E. Darling ofblessed memory, and of the M. Sargent, who now resideswith his son, the Rev. Clarence , of the Central Congrega-tional, church in St. Louis, Mo. TheRev. S. H. Goodwin wa
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