Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-07-21


ganized about 1920, consisting o
| about twenty-five, old and young
The School now number 200 child
rem, 50 officers and teachers.
Rev. L. w. Day is now serving oi
the second year as Minister Of thu
Church.
s Is EPISCOPAL cHUReH,l
In Isll-I2 several families of Ep
iseopalians emigrated from Ply
month, Conn.,, and settled in Soutl
Ashtabula (now Plymonth). In Is
l3 they began to. meet for worship
by lay reading. They were led by
Zadock Mann. They thus met IN
til The Rev. Roger Searle, their for
mer Minister, arrived among then
from Connecticut, who. on the lgth
dav of FeGy 1877, held service will
them at the house of Hall Smith, ID
this village. After services tse5
were organized as parish of s'Tht
ProtestantEpiscopal Church in the
United States" which was the first
parish of that Church organized in
the State of Ohio. The number OF
commandments was IL. The Rev,
Mr.. Searle, being requested to name
the parish, called it ''The Parish, of
st. Peters Church, Ashtab1la." Mr..
Searle left the next year, dividing
his time between the various par
iShes organized soon after on the
Western Reserve, until 1924. Rev.
John Hall was Minister from March,
1924, to May, 1884. Rev. Samuel
W.Selden ofiiciated as Minister from
May to August, 1884, when he died
Rev. Seth Davis was Minister from
October, 1884, to October, 1885. In
September, 1886, Rev. John Hall
was reelected Rector and Minister.
Heresigned in 1853, but continued
to supply the pulpit until May, ls-
"a. After having officiated more
or less every year for about 80 years,
he retired and was succeeded by
Rev. Homer Wheeler, who served
the Church until 1858, when be was
succeeded by Rev. James Bonnar
until 1872, when the present Rector,
Rev. James Moore, d. D., entered
upon his duties. ofF aas.5rl -
BaptiSms recorded;-infants, 739,
adults, PIG; total, 955. Burials re-
corded, 100. Whole number of com
municants, recorded, 600; present
number PSI.
Present oficers;-Geo. Willard,
Senior Warden; Lorenzo Tyler,
Junior Warden; S. C. Talcott, Ne.
hemiah Hubbard, Geo. B. Raser and
A. A. Strong, Vestrymen.
BAPTIST CH URcH.
During the years 1918 and 1919,
Elder Jesse Hartwell visited Ashta-
hula and held religious services
March 1s, 1919, he baptized Mrs
Temperance Harmon and Mrs. Emf
| ly Klice, the first persons known to
have been baptized by this order in
| AshtabuIa. From that time to 1S-
E24 Elder Abbott preached alternate.
| ly in Ashtabula and KingsYille. In
| 1924 Dea. Amos Fisk, at his own
expense, erected a house of worship,
which was on lot now the south.
I west corner of this Park. On the
18th of December, 1924, at a meet
ing of the Baptists in Ashtabula,
Articles of Faith and q Covenant
were adopted; and at a Council con.
vened January 5, 1925, the Baptist
Church of Ashtabula was duly re-
eognized as Church of that order,
The number of members at that time
was IL males and % females; total
80. The first deacons were Amos
Fiskand Asa w. w. Hickox; sub
sequent ones, Dan'l Dibble, Norman
MARINER, Justus Brooks and Tim
othy Smith. Justas Brooks is the
present Deacon.
n Total number baptized since the
organization of the Church, l96;to-
tai number Of members belonging
to the Church from its organization
to this date, 498; present member
ship, 8s.
4 The church built in 1924 was sold
in 1859 to the Board of Education
for school purposes, and removed tc
the school grounds west of this Park
Their present house of worship wa
dedicated November 27, 1859.
The following is a list of Minis
ters who have had charge of thii
Church since its organization :-El
ders w. B. .Curtiss, Jacob Bailey
w. b. Newman, Asahel Chaplin
Charles Morton, Archibald VIII
Jams, L. Andruss, Geo. w. Fuller
Nelson Crahdally J. w. B. Clark
M. Roberts, and the present Pastor
/. o. Fisher. -ifa4 $50
ha4i rREsBYTERI2N cHURcH. ~
The Presbyterian Church Of Ash
tabula was organized Dec. Z, 1921,
by the Rev's Joseph, Badger and
Giles II. CowIes, under 'sThe Plar
of Union between Presbyterians anC
Congregationists in the New Set
| Elements. The original member
ship consisted of seven persons, viz
Joshua Nettleton, Lot Newell
! Sally Mcdonald, Anna Carter Lydi;
Hall, Tabitha Smith aud Jerush;
Cocktail uniting by letters from
other ehnrohes.I Dec. 20, 1884
William, Hubbard and Moses Inger
soil were. elected Deaeons-the frs
mentioned IN the records.
The present house of worship wal
dedicated June Esd, 1886, follow
ing which there was 3 prOtraeteC
meeting held under the direction o.
Rev. Mr.. Parker, an Evangelist, re
sulting in e8 additions to the Church
This Church, though in nam,
Presbyterian, and connected from
its organization with Grand Rive
Presbytery, was nevertheless Con
gergational IN It's government un
Gil Nov, 22d, 1850, when it adopted
the Order and Discipline of the
Presbyterian Church, except an an
nual elective Session, and a right D
appeal. under certain restrictions
from the Session 20 the Church. II
1859 the organization was made
strictly Pres sbvterian. ~,