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 The
Presbyterian Church of Leesburg was the first church
organized at the village, that event taking place in 1853, with thirteen
members, all of whom are dead. The first elders were Robert
Stevenson and William Rice. Rev. David
Waggoner served the congregation as a supply for three or four
years. In fact, the organization had no ministers except supplies until
1864, when its first pastor, Rev. S. A. Hughes,
was called, and he divided his time between this and a church at Rich
Hill, Lawrence County. He resigned his pastorate of the Leesburg
congregation in 1866, and was followed by Rev. A.
W. Boyd in 1887, and he by Rev. Cooper
in 1869. In 1877 the present pastor, Rev. B. M.
Davis, was called, ordained and installed. Rev.
A. W. Boyd is the only one of the pastors, who has served this
church, who is dead. The following have been ruling elders since the
terms of Rice and Stevenson:
J. M. Orr, Osben Grandy, Samuel Drake, B. F. Gordon, W. A. Munnell and
G. S. Elliott. Of these Grandy
and Elliott are dead, as also
Rice and Stevenson. The present
membership is 225, and the church is in a prosperous condition.
History
of Mercer County, 1888,
page
598
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Some
Exceptional Gatherings
1869-
Rev. Boyd, 85
converts
1877-
Rev. Davis, 35
converts
1888-
Rev. Davis, 50
converts
1893-
Rev. Kirkbride,
27 converts
1909-
Rev. Pearson, 50
converts
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One Hundred Years of the Shenango Presbytery,
1808
- 1908 |
The
First Presbyterian Church at Leesburg was erected about 1854, and its
first regular pastor was Samuel Hughes,
the pulpit having been supplied by the Presbytery for several years after
its organization.
