The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-07-03
Notable Display of Photographs of For
mer Members Of the Congregation
Proves Big Feature Of Gathering
More than $50 Attend the Banquet.


gathered to celebrate the diamond
jubilee of the organization Of the
parish. Seyenty-fve years ago on
June %, 1888, a little body of pioneers
of the city met in an old building just
north of the First National Bank and
formed the First Congregational con
gregation. Through the seventy-fve
years the congregation has thriyed and
prospered and in these seventy-fKe
years the society numbered among its
members many men and women who
had done much for the advancement
Of Southport and Kenosha.
In the two hundred and fifty guests
that gathered about the handsomely
appointed tables at the church on
Wednesday evening where many who
had been members of the church in
other days, there were visitors from
other cities and members of other
church societies in the city who at
tended the banquet to extend their
congratulations to the congregation.
The committees in charge Of the
banquet had made it one of real in
terest by featuring the historical facts
in connection with the church and the
members Of the society. Most inter
esting along this line was the group of
pictures displayed in the auditorium of
the church This series of pictures
showing three quarters of century
of Congregationalism in Kenosha was
collected under the direction Of Frank
H. Lyman and it was probably the most
notable collection of photographs Of
pioneer citizens ever shown in Re
nosha.
At the start Of the collection was a
photograph Of Mrs Marietta ToWsley
Lay, one of the few women who had
been present at the meeting Of the
founders of the congregation June
25th, 1888. With it was her hus-
band, Nelson Lay, who while not
at the first meeting, was one Of
the founders Of the congregation.
In the next frame we're pictures
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hale, Deacon
and Mrs, d. G. Gaskill, Deacon and
Mrs. L. G. Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs. D. B.
Theirs, the latter still living at the
age of ninety-nine years. Judge and
Mrs. J. J.. Petit, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Newell, Miss Harriet Newell, Mr..
and Mrs. James IL. Stryker, Mr.. and
MRS. John Lamb, DR.. and Mrs. A. Farr,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan r Allen, Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick W Lyman, Col
and Mrs. Michael Frank, T. T. Bent,
Sylvender Baldwin, Deacon and Mrs
William Bone, Mr.. and Mrs. Jared
Brockett, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Jilson,
Mrs. Dorcas Lyman, Levi Lyman
Pierce, Mrs. A. B. White, Governor
and Mrs. M. H. Petit, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Balm, James Scott, DR.. S. R.
Mcclellan, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. w. Blinn,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. 7. Van Arsdale, Mr..
and Mrs. George S. Richardson, Mrs.
Eliza George, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
S. Newell, Mr.. and Mrs. James Rob-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Brown, Mr.
and Mrs. William Stanbridge, Mrs.
Head, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Gilchrist,
Deacon and Mrs. Silas Clark, John G..
McMynn, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Durant,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Durant, Horace
Clark, the Rev. and Mrs. James Mat
thews, Mr.. and Mrs. O. S. Newell,
Mrs. John Gridley, Mrs. Ever, Henry
Ever, Mrs. Arabella Ever Wilcox.
A special collection had been made
of the ministers of the congregation
and in the long list were portraits of
the Rev. 0. P. Clinton, who was pastor
of the church in 1845 and afterward
became the chaplain Of the 21st Wis
consin infantry in the war Of the re-
bellion; the Rev. John Gridley, who
served the congregation from 1S47 to
1858; the Rev. N. G, Chaplin, who had
charge of the church from 1858 to
1857; the Rev. P. G. Pettibone, 1857
and 1858; the Rev. James T. Matthews,
1860-1864; the Rev. Fl. G.. Hitchcock,
1869-1S77, father of Frank Hitchcock
recently postmaster general of the
United States; the Rev. James Cruik-
shanks, 187s-1S80; the Rev. Richard
Miller, 1Ss0-1ss4; the Rev. w. L. Bray,
1SS4-1S91; the Rev. G. Fl. Rogers,
1s92-1S96; the Rev. II. S. Roblee, 1896
1902; the Rev. E. T. Farril1, 1902-1912.
In another frame was Cyrus Briggs,
one of the old deacons Of the church
who conceived and executed the plan
Of moving the old church across the.
Kcnosha river on the ice in 1853.
| Among the pictures Of members Of so.