The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-09
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MAN METHODIST. EPISCOPAL CHURCH
ERECTED IN THE woRLDl
We resume the history of "Old
Fourth Street." Rev. Lewis Barton
was stationed in Wheeling in connec-
ton with Rev. Wesley Kenney in 1899.
In'1S40, al, '42 and '43, Rev. 7. NJ. Hud-
son was Presiding Elder, the Revs. ].
G. Sunsom and S. Il. Babcock being the
preachers in charge, with n member
ship of 1,037, arranged in 81 classes.
During .1S44-5=6- Rev. S. E. Babcock
was Elder, Rows. T. NJ. Hudson and
In 1918, Rev. @. ID. Battelle was the
Elder, Rev. c. Cook, preacher. sblnl
In 1913, Henry Eehols and Thomas
Hornbrook, Esqrs., offered to donate a
lot 60 by 120 feet on ChHpline street, on
condition Il church should be built
thereonlbY the BcOming Christmas at a
cost of not less than $2, 600. Subscrip-
81, 700 dollars were subscribed. Messrs.
Echols and HOrnbroOk conveyed the
lot, and Mr.. VIM. Sxley contracted to
put up church AZ by -63 feet. The
house was finished by the time specifi-
ed, and was appropriately named
" "Chapline Street NJ. T.. Church."
In the same year (lS4S) MeSsrs. w. p.
Wilson, a. Armstrong, John Irwin,
o. Hawley, Thomas Lewis, Jere Glenn
ems, Elijah Day, w. Goodrich and d.
Pierce, were appointed committee to
purchase u lot in North Wheeling and
have erected thereon "a house of wor-
ship for the NJ. L. Church. They pur-
chased a lot 60 by l20 on the corner of
Market and North streetsSfor sixty dol
lars from Mr.. John Mcclure, on which
the present edifice now stands. AT n
quarterly conference held during this
year, it was resolved oask the Annual
Conference to set apart Chapline street
and North street as separate charges,
and the prayer was granted.
In 1919 so, Rev. Battelle was continued
as Elder, Rev. Geo. Holmes and George
Cranage and Il. Birkett, preachers in
charge ut Fourth street; -lS5l-52 Rev,
COX, 7. NJ. Hudson, P. E.; 1858 Rev.
S. r. Dawson, Rev. w. Lynch, p. E.
At the General Conference in 1852,
Fourth street and so much OF the
Wheeling district lying within the State
of Virginia, except the charge north of
Short Creek and Liberty circuit, were
attached to tie West Virginia Confer
ence.
Having brought down the list of Pre-
siding Elders and preachers in connec-
ton with this charge to the year 1858,
we deem it unnecessary to pursue it
any further, as most of our readers
have been acquainted with the minis
ters stationed there since that date.
Prior to 1925, Fourth Street NJ. Z.
Church was the principal place of wor-
ship for that denominations from Clients
rIh,i 4 miles, above the city, to Nc
Mechen's, 6 miles below, and the same
distances back from the river on each
side; and since thut year housesI Iofwor-
ship have been built, and large congre-
cations have been gathered at Martins
vile, Bridgeport, West Wheeling, Bell.
aire, McMechen's, Benwood, Mount
0livet, South Wheeling, Woods. run,
Ghapline Street and North Street, ali
of (which originally worshiped in sold
Fourth Street," and we would mention
in addition to the foregoing list, the
church on the Island, Chapline Street
German NJ. E. Church, the Zane street
church now building, and the African.
church getting ready to y! commence
operations on their own account.
In the year 1878 a Sabbath School
was opened in an old school house,
near John Goshorn's in North WheelE
ing, Messrs. Reddick Mckee and Dam
iel Peck engaging most Zealously in
the enterprise. The old school house
soon became too small, and the school
was removed to brick building on
Market alley. In those days Sabbath
School children were taughttheir letters,
to read and to write, as there were no
public schools in the city, The chill
dren of the INDECENT alone attended this
first school, but after time, those of
parents in better circumstances,
were induced to attend. In con-
Quoting it, Methodists, Presbyteri-
ans md Episcopalians. united and
continued to thus cooperate until the
erection of the first Episcopal Church
on Market street, East of Market square,
when the Presbyterians and part of
the Methodists removed to the Acade-
my, the remainder occupying the gal
lery of the Episcopal church.
The firstrecord of the Sabbath School
connected with the Fourth street NJ. E.
Church, is dated August 2Ist, 1929, at
which time constitution was adopted,
Rev. Charles Cook was elected Presi-
dent, Elijah Day Vice-President, Archi-
bald Fisher, superintendent, John
Burns, Assistant Superintendent, Ro-
bert Fisher Secretary and Treasurer,
and Chester. ID, Hubbard, Librarian.
The first meeting of the School was
held in the church on the morning of
the 18th of September, 1929, and was
attended by 81 boys, 60 girls and 27 Off
GERS and teachers. g.49
We present below a statement of the
present membership of the "Old Taber-
nacle" of Methodism iu Wheeling, to-
gether with the membership, value of
church property, contributions and
Sunday School statistics of the fifteen
churches that have originated from it.