Sometimes, there was preaching and there were conversions before the believers were organized into a permanent body. The Christian Church of Hillsboro date themselves from 1862 when church planter John Ecles Murphy organized a group of believers meeting in the home of Amanda Perkins at Third and Baseline Streets. Her house was moved and a church building erected there in 1887. It was the first church building in Hillsboro. They were originally named the Church of Christ.
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Contracts were usually for one year. The first baptism was that of Katherine Towner in 1863 and the second was that of Isaac Butler. Underlined names lead to personal profiles. T his Washington County congregation celebrated its centennial in 1982, having been established 100 years earlier. The first preacher was Peter R. Burnett beginning in 1883 followed by James A. Campbell in 1886.