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 Church of the Holy Trinity.—This
congregation, although dating its history as an organization no further
back than 1865, had really one anterior to that period. For a number of
years previous, as a settlement of Germans gradually clustered about
Greenville and spread out into the surrounding country, there came to
the believers of Lutheran faith a longing for collective worship. In
1826 Rev. Michael Kuchler, one of the
pioneer Lutheran ministers of Shenango Valley, began holding regular
services in Mercer County, though for several years prior to that date
he had been engaged in giving religions instruction. From that time
until the permanent organization of the Greenville congregation, he
conducted worship in various portions of the valley with untiring zeal.
His preaching was always done in the German language. The first step
toward the establishment of a permanent congregation was taken by Rev.
William F. Ullery, a traveling missionary of the Pittsburgh
synod, who made a visit to Greenville in October, 1863, for the purpose
of reporting the spiritual condition of the members of the Lutheran
faith in the village to the general synod. On his recommendation a
mission was established in 1884. The first service occurred on Christmas
day, and was held in the old academy
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