Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-28
HISTORICAL SKETCH Of MILLBURY

The building that we left in fair way
for an early completion mentioned in last
weeks paper, still stands In Mlllbury,
and was, for some years, the best build
ing in the village. We have heard It re-
markt d several times that there should
be steeple put on the house to commem-
orate Its origin. 1t was thus we found
out that these particular directors could
well afford to promise to help us and saw
lot of lumber If we would begin to build
a church. We were compelled to give up
building, and also lost good site to build
on. The land whereon Mr.. Chapnan's
Bowl Factory now stands, was given by
Mr.. Dar sty, of Toledo, with the under
standing that church should be erected
thereon. By loosing our lumber, and not
building, we also lost our claim to the
land, The poet truly says:
Good moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform"
And we think it has been well verified in
NJ llbury as regards churches, as we have
now great deal better and larger church
than we should had we built on the site
and with the lumber. above referred to-
Our present church site is about one
acre OF land, given by Mr.. A. B Waite,
of Toledo. 1t is decided to the Trustees
of the Evangelical Association, of Mill
bury, Wood county. Ohio. tc be 50 long
as it is wanted for Church pu~poecs
We had still "a b go rtp,ed toho'd our
meetings and Sabua n sch o. y .b.
5 ,hool House for reasons above s.a.ci.
We organized a Sabbath school within a
few weeks of the time our class was or
ganiz d which has been held on Sabbath
morning from its commenctm mt up to
this time. We shall have to say sorac-
thing more about schools in this sketch
of Millbury.
AbOu three years since we found the
School House not large enough to accom-
moAate the congregation that attended
there for worship so we made another
start to build church. Subscriptions
were asked for and well responded to as
cln be seen by our present church edf ,e,
although we had to build some time be-
fore we were preD rcd On account of the
burning Of The School II Juse. We might
say htTe that Methodists built a
church at the same tim as the one above
spoken OF and, also at the same time the
School House was built, costing altogeth-
er about $4,000. Now we viii venture
to say that there is not village in the
State, of the same age and populaii IN.
that ever expended so much for school
| and chuich purposes in so short a space
of time. But this history of building
churches and school houses don't exactly
agree with the history and character OF
Mllbury that we have heard Of. A little
Incident that came under our notice we
will here relate, and we do it to show the
| inconsistency Cf men who profess to BE-
Chris iins, and who brought such unde
served name on our place and people.
Some years since we went to Stony
Ridge, il Troy township to a Quarterly
Meeting. Mr.. Caples, who is now dead
and no doubt is d" where the weary are al
rest" was the Prt siding Elder OF that
District. After the morning services We
were invited to friends house to dinner
/ the Elder and another brother being pres
ent also. This other brother l suppose
was not aware that we belonged to Mill
bury and began to paint out our place ir
characters tf living letters.
tTo BE CONTINUED.