The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-25

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August 1907 the number was augment
ed to eighty-four. children included,
and West Branch tOhio) Monthly
Meeting "indulged" subordinate
meeting here A log meeting house
was erected. 1t was twenty-four feet
square and in 1t the present White
water Monthly Meeting was establish
ed by Miami (Ohio) Quarterly meet
ing DIR. Plummer. one of the pioneers
of the city in his Memoir referring to
this meeting house says: 81 remem-
Der its leaking roof. letting the rain
through upon the slab benches, with
their pairs of legs and no backs: its
charcoal fires, kept in sugar kettles.
for as yet stoves were not procured.
and the ties pinchvrd with cold of the
young, who sat remote from the ket-
ties. and under such circumstances
their attendance sufficiently attested
the sincerity of their devotion"
The shed, which was built on the
rear of the meeting house, was sixty
feet long and forty feet wide and was
built especially for the accommodation
of the Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1921.
John Henley. who was one of the well
known Quakers of this community,
was a member of the Indiana Yearly
meeting from its opening until his
death. In telling of the location of
the old Meeting house. he said that
it was located about 200 feet due west
of the old brick Meeting house on
North G street.
This was before the city had been
laid out so that the Meeting house
must have been located at place
which was later laid out as North
Tenth street.
Records show that there must have
been about 200 members of the White
water Monthly Meeting within few
years after its opening. The Meeting
showed a steady growth as in 1910 the
names of 1877 additional members were
added to the records. In 1911. 30
members were added and in 1872 there
were o34 additions to the Meeting
roll
The Friends had settled here and
were holding religious meetings fiji
teen years before any other religious
denomination began regular work
here. The Methodists in 1922 opened
I'D a church in Richmond although
they had a church located about three
miles from Richmond which had been
opened in about 1910
In 1910. Jesse Bond was approved
by the church as a minister OF the
gospel and AS far as can be learned
this is the first minister that was re-
corded by the Monthly Meeting. A
few years later there is a record OF
John Morrow. who was a Quaker min
lister. Within few years. however.
regularly approved ministers came
from other localities and settled in diff
ferent places among the Friends OF
this community. William Williams. in
1914 and George Hatton in 1918. locat-
ed near Richmond as Friend ministers.
The records of the Meeting show that
frequently. travelling ministering
Friends attended the meeting.
The Whitewater Monthly Meeting.
which was the first meeting to be es-
tablished in this community was re-
sponsible for the establishment of nu-
merous other meetings in the neigh
boring counties.
Prominent among the early Friends
of this community. was Elijah Coffin.
who was clerk of the Indiana Yearly
Meeting from 1927 to 1859. He can
really be called the Father OF Earl
nam College" because he was the first
person to propose the establishment
of the Friends Boarding School. which
later came to Earlham college. He
was active in the management OF the