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Transfer
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First
Baptist Church, Transfer |
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 Transfer
Regular Baptist Church was
organized in February, 1872, in the town hall, by Revs.
Jacob Morris and J. W. Snyder. The
first members, seventeen in number, were J.
Frampton, Matilda Frampton, Miss H. J. Frampton, Miss Tillie Frampton,
S. McClelland, Mrs. E. McClelland, L. Chittenden, M. J. Chittenden,
William T. McClelland, D. A. Frampton, Delora Frampton, L. Bunpus, Miss
M. E. McClelland, Miss N. A. McClelland, Mrs. E. Frampton, Miss C. B.
McClelland and Miss
A. Saveren. The building in which worship is held is a good,
substantial frame structure, 86x50 feet in dimensions, erected in 1876
at a cost of $3,500, to which an addition 33x18 feet was made in 1887,
thus securing a very convenient meeting place. The church has baptized
on profession of faith, since its organization, seventy members, and has
received by letter sixteen more. The membership, which is at present
sixty-four, would be much larger were it not for the fact that the
residents of the place are constantly removing to other localities. The
first pastor was Rev. J. W. Snyder, who
remained, five years. Following him came Revs.
William P. Keile, two years, and T. J.
Bristow, D. Bull, A. Peckham and A. G.
McLean, the latter acting as supplies. The secretaries of the
congregation have been Leroy
Chittenden and R. E. Woods.
Considering the obstacles with which it has had to contend, this
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First
Baptist Church,
50
Broad Street, Transfer photographed Jun 2001
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 The
Baptists built a church in the same village [Transfer] in the summer of
1876.
History
of Mercer County,
1877, page 64. |
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congregation is in a truly prosperous condition. Its annual expenses are
$501, and the members are in good spiritual and material state of
advancement.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, pages 576-577 |
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