Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . Catholics had a church building. The Episcopalianshad a strong organization. The Baptists had a brilliant min-ister, Rev. L. B. Woolfolk, who divided his time with DeerLodge. The Disciples held services every Sabbath, but hadabout that time no regular minister. The Methodists, bothNorth and South, were making efforts to obtain a footholdin Deer Lodge. The Episcopalians had a minister and agood membership there, but no house of worship. The Cath-olics had a church building. In Bozeman, the Methodists had a church building anda strong m
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . Catholics had a church building. The Episcopalianshad a strong organization. The Baptists had a brilliant min-ister, Rev. L. B. Woolfolk, who divided his time with DeerLodge. The Disciples held services every Sabbath, but hadabout that time no regular minister. The Methodists, bothNorth and South, were making efforts to obtain a footholdin Deer Lodge. The Episcopalians had a minister and agood membership there, but no house of worship. The Cath-olics had a church building. In Bozeman, the Methodists had a church building anda strong membership. The Episcopalians had an organi-zation, but no church building and no minister. In Missoula, the Methodists, North and South, hadorganizations and resident ministers. The North Metho-dists had a church buildfng in process of erection. TheCatholics had a school. At Hamilton, in Gallatin Valley, and at Gallatin Citythe two Methodist denominations were both representedwith memberships that numbered four or five to each churchin each ELDERS ORDAINED IN THE SEVENTIES. 1. J. Hopkins Taylor,* Bozeman. *Deceased March 21, 1901. 2. John E. Pyle,** Helena. **Deceased Sept. 18, 1879. 3. Joseph J. Davidson,*** Hamilton. ***Deceased Sept, 18, 1902. 4. Hon. Cornelius Hedges,**** Helena ****Deceased April 29, 1907. 5. Ferd Kennett, Missoula. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 305 This was the religious outlook when the Presbyteriansentered Montana. The Congregationalists did not enterthe Territory until 1882, when Rev. D. A. Leonard, Super-intendent of Congregational Missions in Utah, and Super-intendent Simmons of Dakota, both entered about the sametime. The Baptists came to Montana to stay and organize theirwork about the same time as the Congregationalists. Theyhave sent some excellent men to this field. The second annual meeting of the Presbytery of Montanawas held in Bozeman, in February, 1873. Messrs. Critten-den, Frackleton, Rommel and Russel were the ministerspresent. Eld
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