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 The
Presbyterian Church was organized in the McElwain Institute
Chapel on October 5, 1885, by a committee consisting of Revs.
C. B. Wakefield, A. W. Verner and C. W.
Heydrick, an elder from Cochranton. Among the charter members
were Dr. C. F. Daubenspeck and wife, Samuel
S. Overmyer and wife, A. C. Grove, Mrs. A.
C. Grove, Nettie C. Grove, L. V. Grove, A. McCaughtry and wife, Kate
and Mattie McCaughtry, C. S. Carnahan, Jennie Carnahan, C. C. Christy,
Kate Fetterwolf, Allie Grove, Mrs. C. C. Christy, A. T. McElwain
and wife, Miss Tressie McElwain and others. The membership is fifty-three, and is
in flourishing condition.
The
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 482.
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your ancestors attend church here? Do you have
more information (church booklets, photos, history) on this
church? Please let
me know.
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