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A HISTORY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
Ten Ministers 
 
 £1 history of the First Presbyterian Qhurch 
 of Springfield, Illinois 
 
 1 8280 953 
 
 By Roger E. Chapin 
 
 FOR THE /25TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS ORGANIZATION 
 AND THE /25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL 
 OF DR. JOHN G. BERGEN, THE FIRST MINISTER 
 
ass.) 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 A previous history of our church was written by Dr. Thomas 
 D. Logan on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. It was re- 
 vised and extended by Dr. John T. Thomas at the time of the 
 Centennial anniversary. Some of the events of the first century 
 have by the passage of time gained importance, or lost some 
 which was previously attached to them and another quarter of 
 a century of history has now been made. Our 125th anniver- 
 sary therefore appears to be an appropriate time to present a 
 new history of the church. 
 
 Jaunary 30, 1828, the date this church was organized, has 
 generally been accepted as the point our church history began, 
 and this history will begin there too, but in a broad sense it be- 
 gan long before that time. When the founders on that day 
 adopted the Westminster confession of faith and thereby de- 
 clared "God alone is Lord of the conscience; and hath left it 
 free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are 
 in anything contrary to His Word," the whole history of the 
 Presbyterian faith became a part of our own. Our church's 
 history was thus extended backwards through the religious 
 struggles of three previous centuries to the Reformation and the 
 founding of our faith. This faith became ours by inheritance 
 and the history of an inheritance should properly begin with 
 those that created it rather than with the heirs. 
 
 Indeed the Presbyterian faith can be traced back to the 
 Apostles of Christ. How it can be traced was indicated by a 
 Presbyterian elder who upon being asked by a priest, "Where 
 was your church before the Reformation?" replied by inquiring, 
 "Where was your face this morning before it was washed?" 
 
 These observations are merely made for the reflection of the 
 reader as there has been no intent to write a history of the 
 church in this broad sense for several very sound reasons, one 
 of which will suffice, namely, that the writer is wholly unquali- 
 fied for such a task. 
 
 The life of a church is centered around its minister and its 
 welfare is largely dependent on him. The minister will therefore 
 appear much in its history to show what leadership was pro- 
 vided. The results of that leadership should also appear and 
 these include the growth of the church, its community coopera- 
 
 
tion, the use made of its resources and its concern to help 
 create a Christian society, not only in the community, state and 
 nation but one that encircles the world. 
 
 Some events have been included which are not important in 
 themselves but because they bear a relation to others that are, 
 and a few merely because they seemed interesting. The mention 
 of individual members has been largely omitted and for theom- 
 mission a just criticism may be due. The only justification that 
 may be made is that there have been so many men and women 
 who rendered valiant service to the church that it would be im- 
 possible to name them all and to mention only a few would ap- 
 pear to disparage services of others equally important. 
 
 One difficulty encountered in writing the church history is 
 the silence of the church records as to many of its activities. 
 For the most part the recordkeepers meticulously confined 
 themselves to duty, and this as they saw it was to record ac- 
 tions taken by their church boards, not discussions or their 
 own observations. They neatly set down the presence of a quo- 
 rum, the resolutions presented, the vote, and the adjournment. 
 If the Angel Gabriel had suddenly appeared to address them no 
 mention of it would have gotten in the minutes unless some 
 elder offered a resolution commending the address. Gabriel 
 would then have got in, not on his own but through the resolu- 
 tion, even if it was lost for want of a second. Records are the 
 primary source for a church history and the historian of the 
 future would be much helped if the recordkeepers would ex- 
 pand their minutes to include events that touch the church as 
 well as those that move it. 
 
 In preparing this history the previous histories have been 
 liberally borrowed from. Recourse has also been had to many 
 other sources, including church records, newspaper files, Pres- 
 bytery records, the Reverend Dr. Wines' Discourse on Dr. 
 Bergen, Paul Angle's book Here 1 Have Lived, Benjamin P. 
 Thomas's book Abraham Lincoln, Power's History of Sanga- 
 mon County, History of Sangamon County I88i, the records 
 in the Recorder's Office, Clinton L. Conkling's History of 
 Westminster Church, Historical Records Survey of Church 
 Archives and 'Mary Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall. 
 
 VI 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Preface v 
 
 Preliminary Period 1 
 
 Organization of the Church 2 
 
 The Bergen Era, 1828-1848 6 
 
 Second Division 10 
 
 Dr. Smith Pastorate, 1849-1856 22 
 
 Lincoln 25 
 
 The Brown Pastorate, 1857-1864 29 
 
 Frederick W. Wines, 1865-1869 31 
 
 The Reed Pastorate, 1870-1888 34 
 
 The Logan Era, 1888-1913 37 
 
 The MacLeod Pastorate, 1913-1917 45 
 
 The Thomas Era, 1918-1940 47 
 
 Dr. William H. Hudnut, Jr., 1940-1946 52 
 
 Dr. Richard Paul Graebel, 1946- 59 
 
 Appendix 
 
 Roll of Elders 72 
 
 Roll of Deacons 74 
 
 Resident Membership as of January 1953 76 
 
 New Members Received Since January 1953 85 
 
 125th Anniversary Celebration , 86 
 
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o 
 
 preliminarjj period 
 
 n January 30, 182S nineteen pioneer men and 
 women of the county met in the home of Dr. John 
 Todd, and under the leadership of Reverend John 
 Ellis, a Presbyterian missionary and minister, they 
 solemnly engaged <c To so live and walk before the world as be- 
 comes the children of the Most High and *** to promote the 
 cause of vital Godliness in this place where we live/' and re- 
 solved that a church be formed and known by the name of 
 Sangamo Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The founders left us the official record of that meeting but 
 no record at all of the things that led up to it or of the details 
 concerning it, but some of the background has been obtained 
 from other sources. 
 
 The State of Illinois was then a new country and was in the 
 early process of being settled by white men, most of whom 
 came from Kentucky, entering Illinois by way of Shawneetown. 
 The southern part of the state was settled first and the settle- 
 ments gradually extended northward reaching the part which is 
 I now Sangamon County in 1817. 
 
 The first setjjer in the area which was later to become Spring- 
 field was John Kelly, who built a cabin here in 1819. Other f&zteu, 
 settlers soon followed and in 1821 they succeeded in getting 
 the settlement designated as the temporary county seat. Land 
 sales by the Government did not begin until 1823, but those 
 who came before managed in most cases to acquire the title to 
 the tracts they settled on. 
 
 The town was made the permanent seat of Sangamon Coun- 
 ty in 1825 and a frame courthouse was built that year on the 
 Northeast corner of Sixth and Adams Street at a total cost of 
 $519.00. 
 
 In 1828 Springfield was still a prairie village with a popula- 
 tion not exceeding 200 inhabitants living in 35 log cabins and 6 
 frame houses. There were a few stores and taverns which made 
 the village a trading center for settlers and Indians who came 
 from as far as 75 miles distance to make purchases. These con- 
 sisted mostly of staples, including iron castings, nails, coffee, 
 salt and whiskey. Much of the trade was by barter. The In- 
 
dians brought furs and skins and the whites grain, produce and 
 game. While the village was a crude one by our standards, the 
 crudeness applied only to the man-made part of it, the streets 
 and buildings, and was offset by the natural beauty of the roll- 
 ing meadows, winding streams, trees, wild shrubs and flowers, 
 adjoining fields and woods. 
 
 The people presented a similar contrast. Their attire may 
 have been dull and drab but the settlers themselves were not. 
 They were adventurous and hearty people, qualities essential 
 to the danger and hardship of pioneer life. Included among 
 them were men and women of education and culture although 
 most were people of small means with little or no formal educa- 
 tion. All of them had come to the new country with the hope of 
 improving their circumstances as the country developed. They 
 did not dislike the frontier life or merely endure it but found 
 that it had a buoyancy and rough charm in spite of its hard- 
 ships. If there was monotony it was the monotony of work and 
 not of idleness. If they were deprived of social contacts, their 
 isolation stimulated their powers of thought and reflection. 
 They felt the need of a church, and in 1828 no church had as 
 yet been built here, although there had been occasional preach- 
 ing in Springfield by circuit riding ministers of various denomi- 
 nations who visited the scattered settlements. 
 
 The first Presbyterian minister who was known to have 
 preached in Springfield was Reverend Eldridge C. Howe, a na- 
 tive of Massachusetts and a graduate of Andover Theological 
 Seminary. After being ordained in 1824 he made his way to 
 Illinois and held services in Springfield and in other places in 
 the county during the same year, and he reported that in Spring- 
 field he found material for a church. He made Springfield his 
 residence and in 1826 opened a school here and also attended 
 
 i to supplying preaching stations in the three large counties of 
 Green, Morgan and Sangamon, but he soon tired of frontier 
 
 \ work and in 1828 returned East. 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH 
 
 The man most responsible for the founding of our church 
 was the Reverend John M. Ellis. He came to Illinois in 1825 
 and labored in this state for the cause of religion and education 
 until his death 29 years later. 
 
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The Reverend Mr. Ellis was born in New Hampshire in 1793 
 of Welsh origin. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1822 
 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1825, and after be- 
 ing ordained was sent to Illinois by the United Domestic Mis- 
 isonary Society of New York. In 1828 he made a tour of the 
 Sangamon country, founded our church and took the first steps 
 toward the organization of Illinois College. He served the Pres- 
 byterian Church at Jacksonville as a pastor until 1831. After 
 this he engaged vigorously in planting churches and educational 
 institutions in this and neighboring states. 
 
 His part in the history of our church was but an episode in 
 his busy life but it was sufficiently important to us to repeat 
 here the tribute paid to him by Samuel Coulter Baldridge: 
 
 "He was instrumental in arousing Presbyterians in the East to re- 
 ligious needs and missionary opportunities of the new country. His 
 fervent soul was stirred as he saw the open door of present usefulness, 
 the boundless prospects of the future and the supreme supineness of 
 the churches. He breathed a holy ardor in his work. The story of his 
 incessant joyous, fruitful labors and his glowing appeals published in 
 the Society's (American Home Missionary Society) public journals 
 tended mightily to arouse the attention and sympathy of pious people 
 and direct their gaze to the wondrous West." 
 
 Mr. Ellis was aided in the organization of the church by 
 Mrs. Elizabeth F. Smith, an elect lady and one of the Spring- 
 field settlers, whose efforts gave the movement the impetus 
 which resulted in its success. Mrs. Smith was the widow of the 
 Reverend John Blair Smith, who had been the President of 
 Hampton-Sidney College. Her daughter married Dr. John Todd 
 and after the death of the Reverend Mr. Smith she made her 
 home with her son-in-law. They lived for five years in Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky, then removed to Edwardsville, Illinois, where a 
 church was organized in her home. While in Edwardsville she 
 wrote a letter setting forth the spiritual needs of the West 
 which was laid before the General Assembly and resulted in 
 two missionaries being sent to Illinois in 1820. 
 
 In 1827 Dr. Todd and his family, including Mrs. Smith, 
 came to Springfield. Dr. Todd had been a surgeon in the War 
 of 1812 and was a man of experience and ability. In Springfield 
 he practiced his profession and as one of the town's leading 
 citizens he occupied one of the few two-story frame houses. It 
 
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was located on a lot now numbered 116 East Washington 
 Street, and it was in this house that the organization meeting of 
 the church was held. 
 
 Only 6 of the founders were from the village, the rest being 
 from the county, many of these being from Indian Point twenty 
 miles to the north. The group included the following persons: 
 Mrs. Elizabeth H. Smith, John Moore, James White, Elijah 
 Scott, John N. Moore, Samuel Reid, William Proctor, Andrew 
 Moore, Isaiah Stillman, Mary Moore, Jane Reid, Phoebe 
 Moore, Jane Scott, Mary R. Humphreys, Ann lies and Olive 
 Slater. Doubtless others had planned on attending and would 
 have made it if they could have foreseen the importance of the 
 occasion, but historical moments are seldom recognized by the 
 participants. The following is a copy of the original record of 
 the organization meeting of the church : 
 
 "At a meeting held in the town of Springfield, Sangamon County, 111., 
 on the 30th day of January, 1828 for the purpose of forming a Pres- 
 byterian Church, the Rev. John Ellis, Chairman, and Isaiah Stillman, 
 Clerk. After the meeting was duly opened and the object of it made 
 known by the Chairman, it was unanimously resolved that a church 
 be formed to be known by the name of the Sangamo Presbyterian 
 Church. The following brethren were duly elected elders, viz., John 
 Moore, Samuel Reid, Isaiah Stillman, John N. Moore and Isaiah 
 Stillman, Clerk. After which it was resolved that the Rev. J. M. Ellis, 
 and Samuel Reid, or either of them, represent us in Presbytery on the 
 third Thursday of March next, and that the subjoined covenant and 
 profession of faith be adopted: 
 
 "We, the subscribers, anxious to secure to ourselves and others the 
 privileges and ordinances of the Gospel do solemnly agree to receive 
 each other in the love and fellowship of JESUS CHRIST; and walk 
 together as heirs of the grace of life; taking the word of GOD as 
 the rule and guide of our faith and practice, building only on the 
 foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, JESUS CHRIST Himself 
 being the chief Corner Stone. We engage to aid each others' growth 
 in grace and knowledge, to watch over each other in Christian af- 
 fection, and faithfulness and to reprove and exhort with all long 
 suffering and patience. Relying on the grace of God, we will strive 
 so to live and walk before the world as becomes the children of the 
 Most High; and we will endeavor to promote the cause of vital 
 godliness in the place where we live, esteeming like Moses the re- 
 proach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; having 
 respect unto the recompense of the reward. We will seek first the 
 Kingdom of God, the Kingdom which is not of this world. Admonish- 
 ing one another daily, lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness 
 of sin,- and stirring up each others pure minds by way of remem- 
 
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brance to be faithful unto death; that we may receive the crown of 
 life, 'looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, who, 
 for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the 
 shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.' 
 "And we adopt for our Constitution, Confession of Faith, etc. that ot 
 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United 
 States, regarding that, as every other summary of Christian doctrine 
 and discipline drawn by uninspired men not as absolutely perfec:, but 
 as being more conformable to the doctrine and precepts of the Gospel 
 than any other within our knowledge." 
 
 The church was now organized, but it was a flock without a 
 shepherd or a sheepfold. Services appear to have been held 
 alternately at Springfield and Indian Point for some time there- 
 after. The Springfield services were held in a log schoolhouse 
 located in a hazel thicket at the intersection of Second and 
 Adams Street where the Armory now stands. 
 
 This pastorless, drifting and uncertain period in the church's 
 history came to a sudden and happy end on December 21,1 828 
 when the Reverend John G. Bergen, who had come to Spring- 
 field at the request of Dr. Ellis, appeared as a guest minister 
 and conducted the service. At the close of the service the Rev- 
 erend Mr. Bergen announced that he had "come with his fam- 
 ily to seek a home here, not to make an experiment but to plant 
 with their planting and to grow with their growing." He thought 
 they ought to do one thing without delay, which he expressed 
 in words indicative of his vigor and confidence: "Let us rise 
 up and build a house for God." This announcement was made 
 with the previous concurrence of the Session at their meeting 
 on December 15, 1828 when the following was adopted: 
 
 "Resolved that the citizens of the place be invited to meet at the 
 schoolhouse at early candlelight on Monday evening to take into con- 
 sideration the expediency of undertaking to build a Presbyterian 
 meeting house and that Rev. Bergen give notice at the preparatorv 
 lecture this afternoon." 
 
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The Bergen <9rai$2$-w$ 
 
 THE REVEREND JOHN G. BERGEN Was DOITl at HightS- 
 town, New Jersey, November TJ , 1790. He attended 
 the academy at Baskinridge, then entered Princeton 
 college from which he graduated in 1 808 and served 
 as a tutor at the same institution for two years thereafter. His 
 theological training was under the Reverend Dr. Woodhull of 
 Monmouth who had been appointed professor of Theology by 
 
 the Synod of New Jersey 
 in the absence of a sem- 
 inary. Bergen was licensed to 
 preach in 1811 by the Pres- 
 bytery of New Brunswick 
 and the next year he took 
 charge of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Madison, New 
 Jersey, and was ordained to 
 the ministry February 7, 
 1813. His ministry at Madi- 
 son was a successful one but 
 it was marred by the activi- 
 ties of a few unruly members 
 who were full of theological 
 conceit. An elder questioned 
 the right of sinners to pray. 
 Another claimed the right to be consulted as to what the min- 
 ister should or should not preach, and endeavored to stir up 
 dissension when his claim was resisted. The few zealots in his 
 congregation continued their aggravations and in 1828 one 
 made so much trouble that Bergen, after much deliberation, felt 
 a strong call to go West and work on the frontier. 
 
 He resigned his pastorate and after obtaining a release from 
 his Presbytery he started West on September Tl, 1 828 with his 
 wife and five children in two light carriages, his library and 
 other goods having been previously shipped by wagon. Many 
 of his parishioners from Madison were so loath to see him leave 
 that they accompanied him for 10 miles distance on his journey 
 west. Two months later after forty days of actual travel they 
 
 IOH.V G. BFRGENT, D.D. 
 
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reached Rock Springs, 18 miles west-of St. Louis, where Bergen 
 found a letter from Reverend John Ellis urging him to come at 
 once to Sangamon County. He came immediately, leaving his 
 family for a short time in Morgan County where his relatives 
 had settled. When he reached Springfield he was cordially re- 
 ceived and was entertained by Major lies, one of the four 
 original proprietors. Arrangements were hastily made by Dr. 
 Gershom Jayne for getting one of the six frame houses of the 
 town prepared for his family. The house had but two rooms 
 and was located on Adams Street where the Bressmer building 
 now stands. The Bergens occupied this house the first winter, 
 the five children sleeping cross-wise on a trundle bed. The next 
 year Bergen bought a house on the corner of Fourth and Wash- 
 ington Streets where the family lived for many years. 
 
 The Reverend John G. Bergen had come West to do mis- 
 sionary work with no thought of becoming a settled pastor at 
 the time, but accepted the position of stated supply minister for 
 the church. 
 
 He had all of the qualifications necessary to undertake his 
 new post and to build a church on the frontier. He was then 38 
 years of age, well educated, possessed of previous experience as 
 a minister, and had a zeal for the undertaking. These qualifica- 
 tions were supplemented by a helpful wife who possessed many 
 virtues of her own and soon won the friendship and respect of 
 the community. In the church records of that day Mrs. Bergen 
 is with great formality referred to as <f Marguerita Matilda Ber- 
 gen, consort of the Reverend Mr. Bergen." 
 
 Within a week after his arrival, Mr. Bergen called at every 
 home in town and in this way made a personal acquaintance 
 with the entire population — church members and non-members 
 alike. 
 
 Bergen's plea to cf rise up and build a house for God" received 
 an immediate and favorable response. At the schoolhouse meet- 
 ing where the matter was considered it was resolved to undertake 
 the enterprise at once. A building committee was appointed and 
 in a few days $1,000.00 was subscribed. To this was added two 
 gifts of $100.00 each, one from New York and one from Boston, 
 these being in response to an appeal published in "The Home 
 Missionary." The window sash for the church was donated by 
 an anonymous citizen of Illinois. 
 
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The site selected for the new church was the lot at the South- 
 east corner of Washington and Third Street. At that time the 
 center of the new town was Jefferson and Second Street and the 
 lot selected was considered a choice one. It was owned by Wil- 
 liam lies, a member of the congregation, and a price of $25.00 
 was agreed upon, this being half the value of the lot. The trans- 
 fer of title however was postponed until 1833, long after the 
 new church was completed and occupied, owing to the fact that 
 the building of the church exhausted the funds on hand and left 
 a few unpaid bills, and Mr. lies was willing to wait until these 
 had been paid. 
 
 It was decided that the new church should be built of brick 
 and Thomas Brooker, a brick-maker and stone mason of Belle- 
 ville, Illinois, was sent for to do the work. At that time there 
 was no brick church in the State of Illinois although two Cath- 
 olic churches had been built of stone in the vicinity of East St. 
 Louis. There were no buildings in Springfield except log cabins 
 and frame houses and stores. The burning of the brick and 
 other preparations occupied the summer of 1829 and the cor- 
 nerstone was laid on August 15th of that year. 
 
 The church was built on the south 40 feet of the new lot and 
 faced Third Street, but was placed well back from that street. 
 The building was 30 feet wide and 45 feet long and had a 
 raised ceiling supported by pillars. The windows were circle 
 headed and the pews were made of black walnut. The belfry 
 was located in a separate structure built to the rear. 
 
 While the church was being built, services continued to be 
 held in the log schoolhouse at Second and Adams Streets every 
 two weeks and on alternate Sundays at Indian Point. 
 
 The first church building was dedicated on the third Sunday 
 of November, 1830 and served until 1843 when it would no 
 longer accommodate the growing congregation. A sexton was 
 appointed and among his duties he was instructed "to furnish 
 wood and candles for the meeting-house and present his ac- 
 count quarterly." 
 
 The new minister did not await the completion of the church 
 building to begin the arduous work awaiting him in his parish, 
 which then included all of Sangamon County but began at once 
 with the work of minister and pastor. 
 
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iS 
 
 Me also gave immediate evidence of the leadership he was to 
 give the community for a period of forty years. In the summer 
 of 1829 Dr. Jayne called his attention to six sermons by Dr. Ly- 
 man Beecher on intemperance. Preacher Bergen read one of the 
 Beecher sermons to the people assembled to hear him on each 
 Sunday for six successive weeks, then organized a Temperance 
 Society, the first in Central Illinois. This organization grew 
 rapidly and soon thereafter the Society had 1,500 members 
 from all parts of the county. 
 
 On Christmas Eve, 1830, a month after the dedication of the 
 church the "Deep Snow" began. Years later Dr. Bergen wrote 
 the story of the "Deep Snow" and read it before the first meet- 
 ing of the Old Settlers Association. In it the following facts are 
 related : 
 
 The snow at first ''contributed greatly to the amusement of the boys 
 and called forth the hilarity of all who had sleighs or sleds or who 
 could rig a 'jumper' with a store box or crate. Bells of any description 
 if not in the cut;ers were hung on the horses by ropes or twine. The 
 straps of bells we brought from New Jersey were 1 believe the first 
 and only straps here at the time. They were freely at the service of 
 Doctors Todd and Jayne, who were famous for fast horses if not good 
 sleighs. They were famous horsemen, hardy and hard drivers. 
 "As the snow fell night after night these implements, if they lost in 
 novelty, gained in utility. Several preparations were made by increas- 
 ing the size and strength of the sleighs and doubling teams to break 
 the way to mill and woods for household bread, fuel, corn and prov- 
 ender. Mr. Enos . . . turned out with a great sled and two yoke of 
 oxen to haul wood to the destitute. With a wolfskin cap on head and 
 vankee frock buttoned up to his neck behind, reaching below his 
 knees, belted over a greatcoat beneath, with legging protectors and 
 oxgoad in hand he rolled up the bodies and limbs of trees, some of 
 <:hem more than 50 feet long to the door of the writer, for which he 
 and his family shall receive our thanks while life shall last. The same 
 j^ind act he did for many others. His timber was nearest to the town. 
 Woodmen felled the trees, rolled them on the sled, and the benevolent 
 veteran left them at our doors. 
 
 "The snow continued for nine weeks until it averaged from 4 to 5 
 feet in depth. During this time the thermometer ranged close to zero 
 and a few times went to 20 below, and the water dropped from the 
 eaves only two days ro intense was the continuous cold. Great hard- 
 ships were endured by men and beasts. Water mills, scarce and small 
 as they were, were frozen and stopped a considerable portion of the 
 time. Much livesrock and game perished. Deer became imprisoned by 
 the snow and were destroyed in such numbers by the wolves that 
 they never afterwards became plentiful." 
 
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In 1831 the Synod of Illinois was created, and divided into 
 three Presbyteries, named after the three principal rivers of the 
 state, Illinois, Kaskaskia and Sangamon. Our church fell into 
 the Sangamon Presbytery and at that time its name was 
 changed from Sangamon Presbyterian Church to the Presby- 
 terian Church of Springfield, and shortly thereafter the desig- 
 nation was changed to First Presbyterian Church of Springfield. 
 
 By 1832 the Church had 84 members, a substantial part of 
 them being from the county. The year after the "Deep Snow" 
 33 of the country members from Indian Point and Irish Grove 
 decided to have their own church. The Session record of May 
 25, 1832 presents their difficulty in their own words. 
 
 'Up to this time it has been the plan of our minister in which we have 
 all concurred to gather unto one church all persons living in this 
 county who desire to join in faith and fellowship with the Presby- 
 terian Church. In consequence of this our members live 40 miles apart. 
 After deliberation it was resolved by the elders that the members of 
 our church living at Indian Point and Irish Grove, in consideration of 
 their distance (20 miles) from Springfield ... be dismissed ... to or- 
 ganize North Sangamon Presbyterian Church." 
 
 Their request was granted, and at their invitation Mr. Bergen 
 helped organize their church which has continued to this day 
 and will soon be celebrating its own 125th anniversary. The di- 
 vision left 51 members on the roll of Dr. Bergen's church. The 
 membership had to be rebuilt and while this required a good 
 part of the minister's time he managed to devote some of his 
 energy to his missionary vocation of organizing other churches. 
 Between 1832 and 1835 he organized six, including Lick Creek 
 Presbyterian Church and Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church in 
 1833, Farmington (later Farmingdale) in 1834, and the Second 
 Presbyterian Church of Springfield and Middletown Presbyter- 
 ian Church (Logan County) in 1835. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION 
 
 In 1834 a protracted revival meeting was held in the church 
 by two evangelists, Rev. Albert Hale and Rev. Theron Baldwin, 
 who were on a journey west and had been compelled to stay in 
 Springfield because the Illinois River stood in flood and pre- 
 vented them from proceeding. The Hale-Baldwin revival re- 
 sulted in many conversions, a number of new members, and a 
 division of the church. 
 
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Shortly after the revival meeting the Trustees decided to take 
 steps to call Dr. Bergen as the settled pastor. He was reluctant 
 at first to accept on account of his interest in missionary work, 
 and while he had the matter under consideration a small group 
 of individual members met and decided to inform him that 
 they wanted another pastor. Bergen asked that a meeting of the 
 congregation be called and wrote his resignation. The congre- 
 gation with only 9 dissenting votes asked him to continue. The 
 dissenters then filed a complaint in Presbytery asserting that 
 supporters of the church who were not members had been al- 
 lowed to vote. Presbytery sustained the complaint but on an 
 appeal taken to Synod the decision of Presbytery was reversed. 
 
 Synod's decision settled the controversy but it did not mend 
 the breach and on May 6, 1835, thirty members asked to be 
 dismissed for the purpose of forming a Second Presbyterian 
 Church. Their request was granted and at their invitation Dr. 
 Bergen officiated in organizing the Second Presbyterian Church,, 
 the name of which was changed to Westminster Presbyterian 
 Churchin 1919. 
 
 These two churches have each grown in size, strength and 
 usefulness and for more than one hundred years have enjoyed 
 the most harmonious relationship. At this distance in time it is 
 interesting to note the reasons which were said to have caused 
 the division. Dr. D. S. Johnson, pastor of the Second Presby- 
 terian Church at the time of its Fiftieth Anniversary stated in 
 his sermon on the history of that church that its birth could be 
 traced to revivals held in the First Church in 1834, as a result 
 of which "a deep desire had taken possession of some hearts in 
 the First Church for a more pronounced spirituality in the 
 church. In their view worldly influences had asserted too great 
 a control in the affairs of the congregation." 
 
 Another cause asserted at the time was that the First Church 
 was not sufficiently enthusiastic about abolition. This Church 
 was never an ardent supporter of abolition but it is clear that 
 the slavery question did not enter into the trouble as the posi- 
 tion of both churches on this question was alike as late as 1837 
 as will appear hereafter. 
 
 The Reverend Dewey Whitney became the first pastor of 
 the Second Presbyterian Church and in 1840 was succeeded by 
 Reverend Albert Hale who served that church ably for 26 years. 
 
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He and Dr. Bergen remained warm friends and worked together 
 in perfect harmony. 
 
 After the division the 41 members remaining in the church 
 voted again to call Dr. Bergen as pastor and this time the vote 
 was unanimous. At long last, on November 25, 1835, he was 
 formally installed as pastor of the church he had already served 
 for seven years. Reverend Dewey Whitney, the first minister of 
 the newly formed Presbyterian church, preached the installa- 
 tion service and this kindness was reciprocated the following 
 April when Dr. Bergen preached the installation service for Mr. 
 Whitney. 
 
 It was the early churches that realized the importance of edu- 
 cation, and saw the urgency of getting schools and colleges 
 started if the new community was to be protected from the 
 danger of a little learning. Many church schools and colleges 
 were founded in Illinois before 1850. The Presbyterian influ- 
 ence in this respect was very great as they were frequently the 
 first to arrive on the frontier and arrived with college educated 
 ministers. Some of the early Presbyterian colleges were Illinois 
 College, 1829; Knox, 1837; Monmouth, 1853; Lake Forest, 
 1857; Lincoln, 1865. McCormick Theological Seminary was 
 originally a part of Hanover Academy at Hanover, Indiana. It 
 was removed to Chicago in 1859 and was first known as the 
 Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest but later 
 took its present name in honor of Cyrus McCormick who gave 
 it a large endowment. 
 
 In relation to education it is also to be noted that Jane Ber- 
 gen, a daughter of Dr. Bergen, started a school in her father's 
 home in 1829 and continued to serve as teacher until 1832 
 when she was married. The teaching was then taken over by 
 Reverend Samuel Chase, the new Episcopal minister. This was 
 the second school in the community, the first being one where 
 the church held services prior to the completion of the building. 
 
 While the church was interested in general education its par- 
 ticular concern was about religious education and soon after 
 Dr. Bergen's arrival a Sunday School was organized. The Sun- 
 day School has always been the church's primary means for 
 religious instruction of young and old, and the children of the 
 church have attended as a matter of course predetermined by 
 their parents. The school was staffed by volunteer teachers and 
 
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it has continued with volunteers through the years. Hundreds 
 of devoted members of the church have rendered faithful and 
 efficient service to the church in this capacity. 
 
 We have a record of an interesting incident connected with 
 the Sunday School Christmas festival held in 1832. On that oc- 
 casion Mr. John F. Rague, the town baker, presented each pupil 
 with an individual Christmas cake, the size of a dinner plate, 
 decorated with an immense spread eagle of frosting. Mr. Rague 
 was also the leader of the choir, which then used a songbook 
 called "Mason's Missouri Harmony with Patent Notes/' The 
 instrumental church music at that time included a flute and a 
 violin. 
 
 There is a further story concerning the same with Mr. Rague 
 which deserves relating. He came here from New York in 1831 
 and during his stay of ten years engaged in such a variety of 
 unrelated activities that his record is somewhat fabulous. In ad- 
 dition to being a baker he bought and sold real estate, and 
 served as president of the Mechanics Union, an organization 
 that operated a school, and which later acquired our first 
 church building after the church outgrew it. 
 
 In 1837 when Springfield was made the permanent capital a 
 $300.00 prize was offered for the best plan received for the 
 proposed new State House. Nine plans were submitted, but the 
 one accented was that of our baker and choir-leader, John F. 
 Rague. He received $200.00 of the award, the other $100.00 
 going to a Mr. Singleton of St. Louis. He was then retained by 
 the Commissioners as supervising architect. The building that 
 grew from his plan and supervision has served for more than 
 one-hundred years, first as the State House, and now as the 
 Sangamon County Court House, and has become an important 
 American shrine. It has been pronounced by eminent archi- 
 tects as one of the finest examples of Grecian architecture in 
 the country. It seems almost incredible that this prairie village 
 of about 1100 people in 1837 could have produced an archi- 
 tect capable of designing such a building. When the corner- 
 stone was laid on July 4, 1837 the members of the Mechanics 
 Union were assembled at the First Presbyterian Church, and 
 under the direction of Mr. Rague formed a procession and 
 marched to the public square where the ceremony was held and 
 where Major Edward D. Baker made an eloquent address. 
 
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Major Baker was Springfield's most romantic character and 
 will appear again in this history in connection with the Synod 
 meeting held in our church the same year. He was born in Eng- 
 land in 1811 and came to Springfield in 1835. He served two 
 jterms in our Legislature, two terms in Congress, and was a 
 Major in the Mexican War. In 1852 he moved to California 
 where he distinguished himself, then to Oregon, from which 
 state he was elected to the United States Senate. When the 
 Civil War was declared he organized, and became Colonel of 
 a regiment from the Pacific coast, and was killed at the battle 
 of Balls Bluff, October 20, 1861. Abraham Lincoln's second 
 son, Edward Baker Lincoln, was named after him. 
 
 Mr. Rague left Springfield in 1841, and no record has been 
 found of his later achievements. He died in Dubuque, Iowa, 
 in 1877. 
 
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 :V 
 
 INTERIOR OF SECOND BUILDING 
 THE DRAPED PEW WAS OCCUPIED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 Springfield had been made the capital city of the state in 
 1837 but is was not until 1839 that the state offices were moved 
 here from Vandalia. The city which had been growing gradual- 
 ly then received a noted increase in number and by 1840 its 
 population was 2,579. 
 
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The church grew also, and by 1840 the congregation had so 
 increased that the first church building was inadequate and the 
 trustees voted "to build a new church of sufficient size to ac- 
 commodate those who worship with us." Plans were made and 
 in 1841 a contract was let for the building of the new church, 
 the cost of which was estimated at $1 1,250.00, but which ran 
 in excess of $15,000.00. The new church was built on the 
 north end of the original lot and faced Washington Street at 
 Third. The cornerstone was laid May 23, 1842 and the church 
 was dedicated November 9, 1843. 
 
 The first church building with the south forty feet of the lot 
 was then sold to the Mechanics Union for $500.00. It was used 
 as a school for some time and was later transferred to the Ger- 
 man-Lutheran Church and used a^ain as a church until 1860 
 when that congregation razed the building and erected a new 
 church on the same site which has since been removed. The 
 site of the first church is now occupied by the garage of the Illi- 
 nois Commercial Telephone Companv. 
 
 The cost of the new church building left the church with an 
 indebtedness of about $2,100.00 which became a matter of 
 serious concern to the Trustees for some vears. In 1845 after 
 they had resolved not to create any new indebtedness some en- 
 thusiasts in the church circumvented the Trustees and bought 
 an organ on credit. The new organ created what Paul Angle in 
 his book Here 7 Have Lived described as "consternation among 
 the conservative members of the congregation." The reverbera- 
 tions from this incident were greater than those from the organ 
 itself and continued for a number of years. Further mention of 
 the first organ will be made later. 
 
 In 1847 the building indebtedness was still outstanding and 
 in addition there was a deficiency of funds to pay the minister's 
 salary which had now been increased to $600.00. The Trustees 
 were determined to make ends meet, and among other steps re- 
 duced the minister's salary for the ensuing year to $500.00. 
 When they notified Dr. Bergen of their action they learned that 
 he had already made a pledge to the church for $100.00 and 
 were so abashed that they gave him leave to withdraw his 
 pledge. Special assessments against pewholders were a conveni- 
 ent means of raising funds in the early church and this means 
 was again resorted to in an endeavor to make up the deficiency. 
 
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The slavery issue was the most vexing one that confronted 
 the American people in the 19th century and it touched every 
 community and every church. The church's position on this 
 issue is a part of its history. As a background the situation that 
 
 SECOND BUILDING FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 existed in this state and city at the time should be stated. While 
 the ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Northwest Ter- 
 ritory, this institution had already been established in Illinois, 
 and it was held that the ordinance did not apply to slaves who 
 were then in the area. Many of the pioneer families from the 
 South brought their slaves with them as bondservants. Two 
 slave states adjoined Illinois — Kentucky and Missouri — and 
 most of the early settlers came from these states. The southern 
 
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part of the state was settled first, and southern Illinois was pro- 
 slavery territory. It was in northern Illinois that anti-slavery 
 predominated. In Springfield the sentiment on slavery was 
 strong and divided and remained so during all of the years of 
 the abolition movement and throughout the period of the Civil 
 War. 
 
 Dr. Bergen had been an advocate of the Colonization Move- 
 ment from the time of his school days at Baskinridge Academy. 
 He had studied there under Dr. Finley, the father of the move- 
 ment, and Dr. Finley's teaching made such an impression upon 
 him that he became a lifelong supporter of Colonization. This 
 movement had for its purpose purchasing the freedom of the 
 slaves and furnishing a refuge home in Africa for those who 
 desired to settle there. A Colonization Society was organized in 
 Springfield in 1833, and Dr. Bergen and John T. Stuart were 
 both elected as vice presidents. It appears to have had a long 
 and vigorous life, as twenty years later Abraham Lincoln made 
 an address in the church in favor of Colonization, and on July 
 23 of the same year (1853) Dr. Bergen made an address there 
 on the same subject. 
 
 The church maintained a broad tolerance regarding the 
 Negro and admitted both Negroes and slaveholders into its 
 membership. The church records of September, 1831 show that 
 Dinah, a colored woman,, was received as a member, and under 
 date of June 4, 1 846 that Nancy Hargrove, a colored woman 
 from the church of Hopkinsville was received a member of this 
 church by certificate. Both of these records are in Dr. Bergen's 
 own handwriting. 
 
 The Session record of May, 1843 includes a report on the 
 case of Mrs. Dorothea Grant, a member who was cited for 
 "UnChristian conduct in the treatment of a colored girl bound 
 to her." The Session committee reported that ff she had whipped 
 the girl with cowhide, and acknowleged that the whipping was 
 too severe and not accompanied with that mercy which the 
 Christian should exercise, and she was sincerely sorry for the 
 reproach she had brought in the church, and asked forgiveness 
 of her fellow members as she also does of her God." The com- 
 mittee's report with Mrs. Grant's penitent statement was or- 
 dered to be published to the church. 
 
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 The abolition movement had begun in 1831 and grew rapid- 
 ly. In 1837 the annual meeting of Synod was held in our church 
 and a resolution was adopted "that it is the duty of Christians 
 in all places and at all times to hear testimony both public and 
 private against the sin of slavery." 
 
 When it was announced that Reverend Jeremiah Porter 
 would preach a sermon in the church before Synod on the sub- 
 ject of slavery, the town was in a ferment and the following 
 exciting scene took place, which Dr. Logan described in his 
 history of the church : 
 
 "A party of men collected in the court house square at the ringing of 
 a bell and it was proposed to deal violently with the preacher. At this 
 moment a young man stepped out before the crowd and began to 
 speak. He appealed to their manhood and called on them to hear 
 what the preacher had to say before they assailed him. This young 
 man was Edward D. Baker, who at Balls Bluff 25 years later gave his 
 life so gallantly for his country. The leaders came to the church to 
 hear the sermon which dealt fearlessly with the great evil. A member 
 of the Synod attempted to modify some of its view and expressions. 
 Then Edward W. Beecher, a member of the body, arose and in scath- 
 ing words denounced both slavery and those who defended it. Point- 
 ing to the men in the back seats he said, c And those men have dared 
 to come into the House of God to intimidate a Christian minister 
 speaking the truth.' The men in the back seats slunk out. The Rev- 
 erend Elijah P. Lovejoy was a member of this Synod. Three weeks 
 afterwards he fell a martyr to an infuriated mob at Alton." 
 
 After the murder of Lovejoy excitement ran high and a reso- 
 lution was presented in Presbytery later in the same year 
 (1837) to make slaveholding a bar to communion. This resolu- 
 tion was opposed by both Dr. Bergen and Reverend Dewey 
 Whitney, then the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, 
 and they agreed in supporting a milder resolution looking to the 
 ultimate extinction of slavery. 
 
 In 1837 a schism occured in the Presbyterian denomination 
 dividing it for thirty years into the so-called Old School and 
 New School. The division was occasioned by differences in 
 opinion in relation to missionary work and matters of doctrine 
 deemed important at the time. The missionary work of the 
 Presbyterian Church from 1810 to 1837 was conducted in con- 
 junction with the Congregational Church, the American Home 
 Missionary Society acting as the directing agency for both de- 
 
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nominations, but when the schism occurred this arrangement 
 was abrogated and the Old School with which our church was 
 affiliated placed its Home Missionary work under its own 
 board. 
 
 After the schism the New School churches generally became 
 enthusiastic supporters of the abolition movement. The Old 
 School churches denounced slavery as an institution but their 
 position on abolition was watered down and in general they 
 worked for an ultimate extinction of slavery rather than the im- 
 mediate action demanded by the abolitionists. 
 
 The church was friendly to the founding of churches by 
 other denominations and was cooperative in several instances : 
 
 In March, 1833 Reverend Josephus Hewitt came here to es- 
 tablish a Christian church. To enable a member of our church 
 to become one of the organizers and the first member of the 
 new Christian church an unusual letter of dismissal was granted. 
 It read : 
 
 "Springfield, April 24, 1833. This is to certify that Mrs. Martha 
 Beers is a member in good and regular standing in the Presbyterian 
 Church of Springfield. As such she is hereby at her own request dis- 
 missed from us and recommended to the communion and fellowship 
 of any church of Christ where God in His providence may cast her 
 lot. By order of the Session. John G. Bergen, Moderator." 
 
 In 1836 Reverend Samuel Chase of the Episcopal Church 
 organized a parish here by the name of Saint Paul's. Some of 
 the services were held in the Presbyterian Church and in 1837 
 the Episcopal Convention was held there. 
 
 In 1837 the ladies of the church provided a silver communion 
 service which is still preserved as one of the church's priceless 
 heritages, and is still used. 
 
 Evangelistic revivals were the accepted means of building up 
 the early church. The religious enthusiasm generated by a fer- 
 vent evangelist added new converts, and aroused the member- 
 ship to greater service. 
 
 In the year 1848 another evangelistic revival was held in the 
 church, and like the one in 1 834, it was followed by a division of 
 the church. This time the evangelist was Reverend R.V.Dodge. 
 At the conclusion of the revival about thirty members of the 
 congregation decided that they liked Dodge's preaching better 
 than Bergen's and requested that he be called as co-pastor. The 
 
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majority of the church, however, stood firmly behind Bergen. 
 He was nevertheless greatly troubled by the request and sensed 
 the problem which would be invited if the request were granted, 
 and the risk of the division of the church if it were denied. After 
 deliberation he decided to resign as minister, hoping thereby to 
 prevent the difficulties of both alternatives. His resignation was 
 twice placed in the hands of Presbytery and after twice refus- 
 ing to accept it, the Presbytery at last consented to dissolve the 
 relation of minister, but first passed a resolution expressing the 
 highest regard for Dr. Bergen's Christian character and effici- 
 ency as a minister. 
 
 Dr. Bergen's resignation did not settle the difficulty. The sup- 
 porters of Mr. Dodge were not to be pacified unless Dodge was 
 to be the new minister for the church. The majority of the con- 
 gregation did not share this infatuation for Mr. Dodge and 
 would not consent to call him as pastor. On this issue the 
 church divided and thirty members asked to be dismissed for 
 the purpose of organizing a Third Presbyterian Church. Upon 
 being dismissed they organized the new church on February 7, 
 1848 and called Reverend R. V. Dodge as the first pastor. 
 Under his leadership and that of his successors the Third Pres- 
 byterian Church developed a vigorous life. It was the Third 
 Presbyterian Church which built our present church building 
 in 1867, further reference to which will appear in connection 
 with the pastorate of Reverend James A. Reed. 
 
 Dr. Bergen remained with the congregation of the First 
 Church in an unofficial capacity for 24 years thereafter, heartily 
 cooperating with the four successive pastors who followed him 
 in his lifetime and continuing to do missionary work in the 
 churches of the county. He organized the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Taylorville and Dawson Presbyterian Church in 
 1857 and served for some time as minister of the latter one. He 
 also devoted much of his time to writing for the religious publi- 
 cations of that day under the signature "Old Man of the 
 Prairie." In 1854 Centre College of Danville, Kentucky, con- 
 ferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 
 
 His wife, Margaretta M. Bergen, died October 18, 1853. 
 After her death he wrote a long tribute to her which was pub- 
 lished in the Illinois Presbyter. It included the following: "Her 
 life as a pastor's wife for 16 years in Madison, New Jersey and 
 
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70 years in Springfield, Illinois had been the life of selfsacrific- 
 ing for the good of others in humble walks, of prudence, prayer, 
 peace and works of benevolence." In November 1857 Dr. Ber- 
 gen married Mrs. Susan A. Vanhoff who survived him. He lived 
 to reach 81 years and died on January 16, 1872. At the time of 
 his death he resided on a 32-acre farm one mile east of the city, 
 and just west of Bergen Park, which was named for him. 
 
 When he settled in Springfield he was the eighth minister in 
 the state and was the farthest north of any of them. He once 
 entertained all the Presbyterian ministers in Illinois at his home 
 and had seven guests. There are now 517 Presbyterian churches 
 in the state with an aggregate membership of 170,000. He as- 
 sisted in forming the first Presbytery and the first Synod of 
 Illinois and was the first Moderator of each. 
 
 Three divisions of the church had occurred in the first 70 
 years of its history and in its first pastorate. After each division 
 the church continued to grow in numbers, strength and leader- 
 ship. Out of this increase there grew a tendency to cohere. The 
 tendency to divide had spent itself. After 1848 differences were 
 resolved through discussion and debate. The Church had 
 reached maturity. 
 
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Dr. jSmith pastorate mg-i $56 
 
 The second pastor of our church was Reverend 
 James Simth, D. D., a native of Scotland. Dr Smith 
 was a scholarly man and had great ability as a min- 
 ister. Some years before coming here (1843) he had 
 written a book "Jhe Christian's Defense" in which he examined 
 the objections urged by infidels against the Bible and answered 
 them point by point. This book was later to gain historical 
 
 importance because of the 
 impression it made on Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. Dr. Smith 
 jf came here from Shelbyville, 
 
 Kentucky, in March, 1849, 
 as a supply pastor, but with- 
 *--. in the month he was invited 
 
 to become pastor and was 
 installed on April 11th. His 
 pastorate, though not long 
 in years, was an eventful 
 one, and many members 
 were added to the congre- 
 gation, including the family 
 of Abraham Lincoln. Lin- 
 coln's association with the 
 church will be referred to 
 later. 
 The city's population in 1848 was 3,912 and by 1850 it had 
 grown to 5,106 increasing the demand for common schools. In 
 1850 the church provided a parochial school, the opening of 
 the fall term being announced in the press. It is not known how 
 long this school was operated. Public schools were not author- 
 ized until 1854 and were not provided until two years later. 
 
 Dr. Smith inherited the vexing problem of the organ that had 
 created discord in the church when it was first installed in 1 845 
 and a number of minor discords thereafter. The records refer- 
 ring to the organ dispute are sometimes vague but are suffici- 
 ently numerous to show that it was a major issue, and the story 
 as nearly as it can be reconstructed follows : 
 
 JAMES SMITH, D,D. 
 
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In 1845 a small group decided that the church should have 
 an organ. The Trustees, being more concerned with trying to 
 pay the existing debt, resolved not to add to it. Mr. Edmund R. 
 Wiley, who was then an elder in the church, and Mr. R. M. 
 Beach, two of the leaders in the movement for a new organ, de- 
 cided to circumvent the Trustees and buy an organ on a plan 
 of their own. Subscriptions were taken amounting to $900.00 
 and when $400.00 had been collected they bought an organ 
 from Mr. M. G. House for $1,200.00, paid $400.00 down and 
 gave their notes for the balance. 
 
 In Scotland the early Covenanters at first disdainfully refer- 
 red to the church organ as a "chist of whistles." It appears that 
 there was a similar early day prejudice in our own church 
 against the organ as an instrument of church music and the 
 prejudice was considerably greater against an organ that had 
 not been paid for. Messrs. Wiley and Beach, however, managed 
 to collect an additional $317.00 from subscriptions, paying the 
 same to Mr. House. Their notes became due in 1847 with a 
 balance of about $500.00 still owing to Mr. House and there 
 the matter rested for several years. 
 
 When the trouble arose in the church in 1848 which led to 
 the third division, Mr. Wiley was one of the leaders of the 
 movement and was included in the group which asked to be 
 dismissed to organize the Third Presbyterian Church. Mr. 
 House waited for his money until 1853 when he brought a suit 
 against Messrs. Wiley and Beach on their notes. Mr. Wiley 
 then appealed to the Trustees to pay Mr. House the balance 
 due him, but the Trustees replied that the church had no such 
 obligation. Later in the same month a complaint was filed in 
 Presbytery and a committee consisting of Abraham Lincoln, 
 Messrs. Van Hoff and Lewis was appointed to assist in defend- 
 ing the claim. It is assumed that the claim related to the organ 
 bill. 
 
 The organ itself became a sore reminder of these difficulties. 
 The Trustees had not welcomed it to the church in the first 
 place, and they now decided to dispose of it, and repeatedly 
 authorized its sale at decreasing amounts, first for what it had 
 cost, later for $900.00, and finally in 1856 for $400.00. The 
 records do not disclose any sale. The rest of the organ story is 
 lost in the mist of the unrecorded past. Power's History of San- A^n- 
 
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gamon County records that Mr. Wiley's son, Richard B. Wiley, 
 was distinguished for his musical talent and became the or- 
 ganist for the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church of Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky. He presided at the organ in the Third Church 
 (our present building) at the time of the dedication, and played 
 "a Voluntary!" 
 
 In 1853 the trustees were still struggling with the indebted- 
 ness resulting from a deficit in building the second church, 
 which was now reduced to $1,575.00. In desperation they de- 
 clared that ff a church debt is prejudicial to the peace and har- 
 mony of its members and is injurious to the spiritual as well as 
 the temporal offices of the church," and sold the parsonage for 
 the amount of the debt, taking a lease back on it for three years. 
 The church was then out of debt for the first time in many 
 years. 
 
 The Alton and Sangamon Railroad was completed and the 
 first train was put in operation on September 10 in the year 
 1852. The railroad entered the city on Third Street passing 
 along the west side of the church. It brought new life and great 
 advantages to the city, but brought smoke and noise to the 
 church sanctuary — inconveniences which were patiently ac- 
 cepted by both listeners and nappers for 20 years — until the 
 present church building was acquired. 
 
 In 1853 the women of the church raised $1,300.00 to pur- 
 chase a new bell to replace the original one which had become 
 cracked. Their customary way of raising money was by church 
 suppers. One of these was given on the night of January 11, 
 1853 in the Senate chamber after Ralph Waldo Emerson gave 
 his lecture on "Power." The new bell was cast in St. Louis and 
 bears the inscription, "Presented by the ladies of the First 
 Presbyterian Church." This bell was reserved when the second 
 church building was sold and was later installed in the present 
 church where it now hangs. 
 
 Dr. Smith, like his predecessor, was a strong temperance 
 advocate and on the evening of January 3, 1853, he gave a 
 temperance lecture in the church which became a classic in the 
 prohibition movement. Lincoln attended this lecture and on the 
 following day he and several other citizens addressed a letter to 
 Dr. Smith recommending that the lecture be published. It was 
 entitled "A Discourse on the Bottle — Its Evils and Remedies 
 
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or A Vindication of the Liquor Seller and the Liquor Drinker 
 from Certain Aspersions Cast Upon Them by the Many/' and 
 was published in 1853 and republished in 1892, long after Dr. 
 Smith's death. The discourse began with the premise that the 
 manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor was a lawful busi- 
 ness. Treading his way carefully Dr. Smith examined the pro- 
 cesses whereby it became lawful, enumerated its evils, and 
 pictured each of them in deep scarlet or black. After many 
 pages and a full analysis he triumphantly placed the blame and 
 also the power to remedy it on everyone, including the legis- 
 lators who passed the laws and the citizens who voted for them. 
 In 1855 the church granted a leave of absence to Dr. Smith 
 for six months in order that he might become an agent for 
 Peoria University. A year later he reported that Synod insisted 
 that he resume the work for Peoria University on a permanent 
 basis, and pursuant to Synod's request, Dr. Smith resigned as 
 minister in October 1856. He was at a later date appointed by 
 President Lincoln, United States Consul to Dundee, Scotland 
 and he remained in that country until his death, and was buried 
 there. 
 
 LINCOLN 
 
 Abraham Lincoln's association with the church began in 
 1850 and continued until he left Springfield to assume the 
 duties of President in 1861, encompassing the period of his 
 emergence on the national scene and of his rise to greatness. 
 
 There was some Presbyterian background which related to 
 Mrs. Lincoln. The church had been organized in the home of 
 her uncle, Dr. John Todd, and Mrs. Lincoln had been brought 
 up in Lexington, Kentucky, as a Presbyterian, although when 
 she became a member of the Springfield household of her sister, 
 Mrs. Ninian^Edwards, she attended the Episcopal Church with 
 the Edwards family and continued to do so for some time after 
 her marriage. 
 
 On February 1, 1850, Abraham and Mary Lincoln's second 
 son, Edward, died. The minister of the First Presbyterian 
 Church was asked to conduct the funeral. The minister at that 
 time was Reverend James Smith and his service made a deep 
 impression on both of the bereaved parents. 
 
 Shortly after Edward's death Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln made a 
 visit to Lexington and while there Mr. Lincoln found in the 
 
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Todd library a thick volume entitled "J/ie Christian s Defense." 
 He became particularly interested in it when he discovered that 
 the author was Dr. James Smith, the pastor who had conducted 
 his son's funeral. When Mr. Lincoln returned to Springfield 
 from Lexington he sought Dr. Smith to talk over with him some 
 of the religious doubts he had entertained. Dr. Smith tells us 
 that as a result of these talks Lincoln's doubts were shattered 
 and from that time on he was a believer in the Christian faith. 
 Thus began what proved to be a close and lasting friendship. 
 
 These two circumstances led Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to the 
 First Church. They rented a pew and regularly attended church 
 services, and thereafter Dr. Smith stood in the close relation of 
 the pastor who "buried their dead, baptized their living and 
 was admitted to their full confidence." He was a welcome 
 neighbor and dropped in at least twice a month to spend a 
 pleasant evening in the midst of the Lincoln family circle. He 
 and Lincoln had long conversations when the latter came to see 
 him, or when they drove together over the prairies. Mr. Lincoln, 
 however, never formally joined the church, although his wife 
 became a member October 13, 1852. Thomas (Tad) Lincoln 
 was baptized in the church on April 4, 1856. Abraham Lincoln 
 made an address in the church on August 30, 1853 on coloniza- 
 tion. The Illinois State Register in commenting on this address 
 said, "The subject is of deep interest and growing magnitude 
 and well worthy of consideration on the part of all good pa- 
 triots and well wishers of humanity." 
 
 In the same year the records show that he was one of three 
 persons appointed by the Trustees to assist Dr. Smith in de- /^ 
 
 fending a suit pending in Presbytery. , ^ v 
 
 The Lincoln pew was the one numbered 70 in the second 
 church building at Third and Washington Streets and the an- ^ 
 nual pew rental was $36.00 and was paid by Mr. Lincoln as 
 shown by the treasurer's books. The attachment of the Lin- 
 colns to the church and to this particular pew, which has now 
 become one of the Lincoln shrines in Springfield, is indicated 
 by a letter Mrs. Lincoln wrote two months after reaching 
 Washington to Mrs. Samuel Melvin, one of her Springfield 
 friends and neighbors. In that letter Mrs. Lincoln said: 
 
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THE LINCOLN PEW TODAY 
 
 "I had intended requesting Mr. Melvin to have given me a promise 
 
 thai on our return to S we would be able to secure our particular 
 
 par to which I was very much attached and which we occupied some 
 ten years. May I hope he will be able to do so." 
 
 At the time of Lincoln's funeral in the State Capitol Building, 
 a service was also held in our church. In that solemn hour when 
 the sympathy of the entire world centered on Springfield, Dr. 
 Henry A. Nelson of St. Louis occupied the pulpit and preached 
 an eloquent sermon which made a profound impression. 
 
 After her husband's death Mrs. Lincoln lived for a time in 
 Chicago and spent much time abroad and returned to Spring- 
 field only for short intervals. When she died July 16, 1882 her 
 funeral service was held in the church. It was a fitting funeral 
 for the widow of a President. The flowers were many and the 
 designs costly and elaborate. The pallbearers included the Gov- 
 ernor of Illinois and many of the city's leading citizens. Rev- 
 
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erend James A. Reed, who was then pastor, preached the 
 funeral service. He compared Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to two 
 lofty pines struck by the same bolt of lightning, one felled to 
 the ground, the other, though shattered, lived on. 
 
 The Lincoln pew was marked with an appropriate silver 
 tablet but remained in the old church building at Third and 
 Washington until 1912. It was then purchased by Mr. John W. 
 Bunn, a friend of Mr. Lincoln's and brought to the special 
 place it now occupies in the front of the sanctuary of this 
 church. Each year hundreds of pilgrims to the Lincoln shrines 
 in Springfield visit our church to see this historic pew. 
 
 After Lincoln's death there was a heated controversy as to 
 his religion. His old law partner, W. H. Herndon, who was 
 himself an unbeliever, asserted that Lincoln had never accepted 
 Christianity and was an unbeliever, and tenaciously published 
 this conclusion from both platform and the press. Dr. Smith 
 and Dr. Reed replied to these assertions, both emphatically af- 
 firming that Lincoln was a Christian. Dr. Smith expressed a 
 low opinion of those who raised the controversy. Herndon later 
 modified his statement to a mere assertion that Lincoln was not 
 a technical Christian — whatever that may be. 
 
 As of today it appears rather surprising that such a question 
 was ever raised, as in his own writings and public utterances 
 and even in his official pronouncements Lincoln repeatedly and 
 without reservation stated his firm belief in God. 
 
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The ©rottm pastorate i$57i8H 
 
 The third pastor of the church was Reverend 
 John H. Brown. He was born March 26, 1806 at 
 Greensburg, Kentucky. After being ordained as a 
 minister he held the pastorate of the Presbyterian 
 church at Richmond, Kentucky 12 years, and was then called to 
 the First Presbyterian Church at Lexington. He received the 
 call from our church when he had been at Lexington 15 months. 
 
 Dr. Lo^an describes Mr. 
 Brown in the following 
 terms: 
 
 "Dr. Brown was a man of com- 
 manding presence, of pleasing 
 countenance, gentle and genial in 
 manner, exceedingly companion- 
 able in social life, strong in cour- 
 age, decided in conviction, wise in 
 counsel, and was accorded by his 
 contemporaries a place in the 
 very front rank of the preachers 
 of the day." 
 
 He was called April 3, 
 1857 and was installed 
 shortly thereafter and his 
 pastorate was characterized 
 by a strengthening of the 
 church along all lines. It 
 covered most of the Civil War period and the disturbing in- 
 fluences of the war were felt in the church. In spite of these the 
 contributions to benevolences were greatly increased. Fifteen 
 of the young men of the church left to join the service of the 
 Union. The church supported the work of the United States 
 Christian Commission, the forerunner of the Red Cross, and on 
 one occasion $800.00 for this work was raised by Dr. Brown in 
 a few minutes at a church service. Dr. Brown served as manager 
 of the Illinois State Colonization Society, and for a time as 
 President of the Springfield Female Academy. He was the uncle 
 of Mr. Christopher C. Brown in whose memory one of the 
 memorial windows of the church was provided. 
 
 JOHN H. BROWN, D.D. 
 
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How the church reacted to the stirring events of this period 
 we do not know. The records reveal all the minutiae of church 
 housekeeping — admissions, collection, expenses, baptisms — but 
 are silent as to the church's reaction to events that made his- 
 tory — the Dred Scott case, the Lincoln and Douglas debates, 
 Lincoln's election as President, secession, Lincoln's farewell 
 and only the slightest references appear as to the Civil War 
 itself. 
 
 Among the letters which Dr. Thomas received at the time of 
 our Centennial anniversary was one from a former member, 
 which at first promised to be a relevant and thrilling story. He 
 told of being in church on the morning Richmond fell. A deacon 
 handed the minister a note with the news, and it was read from 
 the pulpit. The congregation instantly arose and with one ac- 
 cord joined in singing <f Mine eyes have seen the glory of the 
 coming of the Lord" with such energy that the very walls 
 vibrated. Later in the letter he explained that it was the Second 
 Presbyterian Church he had visited on that morning. 
 
 In June of 1859 Dr. Brown went to Chicago on a mission to 
 locate the Theological Seminary. 
 
 In January 1 864 Session took note of the inadequacy of the 
 second church building and the impairment of its use as a 
 church by the railroad, and observed that the Trustees were 
 looking forward to a sale of the building. 
 
 A contemporary appraisement of Dr. Brown's ministry is 
 found in a letter by Mrs. John T. Stuart to her daughter Bettie 
 in December 1864: fC It will be unfortunate for any (minister) 
 coming just after Dr. Brown but we do not need to expect to 
 find his place filled. I don't find any such East or West." 
 
 Failing health led to Dr. Brown's resignation in 1864. He 
 subsequently moved to Chicago and became the pastor of the 
 31st Street Presbyterian Church there and died February 24, 
 1872. His remains were returned to Springfield and interred in 
 Oak Ridge Cemetery. 
 
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Frederick HJ.GQines i $65-185? 
 
 The fourth minister was Reverend Frederick W. 
 Wines, who was called in 1865. Mr. Wines was 
 horn in Philadelphia, April 9, 1838. He graudated 
 from Washington College (now Washington-Jeffer- 
 son) in 1857 with highest honors in his class. He entered 
 Princeton Theological Seminary in 1858 and after the out- 
 break of the Civil War he interrupted his ministerial training 
 and became a hospital chap- 
 
 lain in the Army. The call 
 from this church was issued 
 to him before his ordination 
 as a minister and he was or- 
 dained and installed in the 
 same ceremony on October 
 29, 1865. In the winter of 
 1865 soon after commenc- 
 ing his labor as minister, he 
 gave two lectures on the 
 need of a library in Spring- 
 field which gave impetus to 
 a movement resulting in the 
 formation of the Springfield 
 Library Association in 
 March of 1866 and it 
 opened the first public li- 
 brary in 1867 with 1,300 
 
 volumes. It was continued until 1885 as a stock company and 
 then transferred the library to the City on the condition that it 
 be free. It occupied rooms in the City Hall until 1904 when the 
 present library building was completed. There had been a pre- 
 vious association organized in 1856 under the same name but it 
 became defunct. 
 
 In the year 1866 the church joined with other Springfield 
 churches in a great revival service conducted by Reverend E. P. 
 Hammond, an evangelist of national reknown, and 100 mem- 
 bers were added to the church during that year. 
 
 FREDERICK W. WINES, D.D. 
 
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The minutes of Session for 1 867 show that a Moderator was 
 appointed "to converse with sundry persons who as per report 
 attended the masked ball at the Governor's to the injury of 
 their Christian character." It is not revealed whether the in- 
 juries were repaired. 
 
 In 1867 the First Congregational Church was organized here. 
 Up to this time the men and women of that denomination who 
 came here from New England gave their allegiance to the Pres- 
 byterian churches with which Congregationalism had been 
 closely affiliated. When the First Congregational Church was 
 organized these people made up part of its membership and Dr. 
 Wines took an active and friendly part in getting it established. 
 
 After the Emancipation it was soon discovered that the aboli- 
 tion of slavery had not solved the whole problem. Organiz0- 
 tions were formed to aid the freedmen and the church supported 
 this cause. A Freedmen's Aid Society was organized. In 1863 
 Dr. Bergen was chairman of the Society and an appeal was 
 made at the meeting of Synod for support. The church contrib- 
 uted first to this cause during Dr. Wines' pastorate and con- 
 tinued to give it aid for the next 46 years. 
 
 In September, 1869 the national union of the Old School and 
 New School churches was celebrated in Springfield by a joint 
 meeting of the First and Second Presbyterian churches. 
 
 In the latter part of 1 869 Dr. Wines was led to give up his 
 pastorate by an appeal to accept the position of Secretary of 
 the State Board of Charities, and in that position he displayed a 
 special fitness for the work which at that time involved the re- 
 organization of the various state institutions having care of the 
 afflicted. He continued to reside in Springfield except for a pe- 
 riod of about 10 years spent in Washington, D. C. 
 
 He distinguished himself in the capacity of a former pastor on 
 two important occasions : In January, 1 872 at the funeral service 
 of Dr. Bergen he gave a discourse on the life of the first pastor 
 which was both adequate and scholarly and was later published 
 and it is today the most complete record we have of Dr. Bergen. 
 On the occasion of the First Annual Meeting of the Illinois 
 State Bar Association held in Springfield in 1878 Dr. Wines was 
 called upon to respond to a toast to the clergy, and in his re- 
 sponse described the obligations of the three learned profes- 
 sions to human needs, the medical to man's physical welfare, 
 
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the legal to his relation with his fellow men, the clergy to his 
 spiritual welfare and pointed out how the scope of each of 
 these professions overlaps and intertwines with the others. 
 
 Dr. Wines died January 31, 1912, at the age of 73 years. His 
 funeral was held in this church and he was buried in Oak Ridge 
 Cemetery where all the previous pastors of the church had been 
 laid to rest except Dr. Smith, who died and was buried in Scot- 
 land. 
 
 After Dr. Wines' resignation negotiations were had with 
 Reverend W. H. Marquis of Chicago with a view of calling him 
 as pastor. Marquis laid before the Session the conditions which 
 would induce him to accept the call. These included free pews 
 for all and a new church to be built to hold a thousand people. 
 Session replied that they couldn't promise a new church al- 
 though they thought it likely one would have to be built soon. 
 All his other conditions could be complied with. Dr. Marquis 
 was not called but the free pews and the new church requested 
 by him eventually became realities. 
 
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The Beed pastorate 1 870-1$$$ 
 
 f* ^f^^ EVEREND JAMES ARMSTRONG REED who Was Called 
 
 W January 11, 1870, became the fifth minister. Dr. 
 *^^ Reed was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania, May 
 Ml W Tl r 1830 and completed his training for the minis- 
 try at Allegheny Theological Seminary in 1859. He 
 occupied pulpits in Wooster, Ohio; Washington, D. C; Dan- 
 ville, Pennsylvania and Dubuque, Iowa before coming to 
 mm k Springfield. He had a long 
 
 Mg*~ Pfefe an d successful pastorate 
 
 f^ ,v and it included a number of 
 
 m m events of historic interest. 
 
 /• £ttmk In September, 1871 the 
 
 Third Presbyterian Church 
 offered to sell its church 
 building at Seventh and 
 Capitol Avenue to the First 
 Church. We acquired the 
 property in 1872 and have 
 retained it since as our 
 church home. The site on 
 which the church stands 
 was, prior to 1865, im- 
 proved with a residence. Dr. 
 C. Perry Slater, a son of one 
 of the church founders, 
 lived and had has office there for some time prior to 1858. In 
 the partition of his estate the property was sold to the Third 
 Church. The architect for the present church was Mr. L. D. 
 Cleveland of this city. It was built at a cost of $65,000.00. The 
 cornerstone was laid June 25, 1866 and the building was com- 
 pleted and dedicated April 12, 1868. In the dedicatory services 
 the first pastor of each church, Dr. Bergen and the Rev. Mr. 
 Dodge, and the active pastor of each church, Dr. Wines and 
 the Reverend George W. S. F. Birch, all participated. 
 
 At the time the Third Church property was purchased a 
 majority of the members of the Third Church decided to stay 
 with the church building and transferred their memberships to 
 
 JAMES A. REED, D.D. 
 
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the First Church. A nucleus of 23 members, however, remained 
 in the Third Church and its organization was continued. In 
 1890 when the Third Church built its present building on 
 Seventh and Bergen Streets our congregation contributed about 
 $4,000.00 to the expense in addition to the lot, which was do- 
 nated by one of our members. The Third Church has grown 
 and has a strong and active membership and one of the largest 
 Sunday Schools in the state. 
 
 The church building at Third and Washington Streets was 
 then sold to the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. 
 
 While a spirit of tolerance always prevailed in the church in 
 the early days, it did not extend to the neglect of religious 
 duties. Such neglect was severely frowned upon and at times 
 Session gave the offender the "what for." Session was particu- 
 larly vigilant on this score during Dr. Reed's pastorate and the 
 Session books of that period are dotted with frequent admoni- 
 tions to neglectful or wayward members. A committee was ap- 
 pointed to instruct a member as to her religious duty, another 
 to acquaint a member with the views of the Session in regard to 
 a lottery he was conducting for the disposal of his property — 
 the views of the Session being that the scheme was contrary to 
 the spirit of the Gospel. Members were called upon to explain 
 their "neglect of duty/' absenting themselves from the House 
 of God," ''neglect of the ordinances of the Church," "continued 
 neglect of the means of grace." In one instance the admonition 
 was followed by a citation on the erring member and in re- 
 sponse he appeared, professed sorrow for his past course and 
 promised to return to duty. 
 
 An entry of a different character appears when Session met 
 at the poor house to receive into membership a lady who was 
 unable to come to church. 
 
 When William H. Herndon in a series of lectures preceeding 
 the publication of Herndon's Life of Lincoln raised the contro- 
 versy about Lincoln's religion, Dr. Reed followed the example of 
 Dr. Smith and strenuously defended Lincoln's religious faith. 
 This greatly increased the interest in the controversy, to the de- 
 light of Herndon's publishers. Dr. Reed repeated his reply in a 
 number of lectures in various places in the West but finally 
 concluded that his efforts were merely keeping the controversy 
 alive and withdrew from the arena. 
 
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During Dr. Reed's pastorate a mission chapel was established 
 at Starne Station and Women's Foreign Missionary Society 
 and the Home Missionary Society were organized. Miss Alice 
 Schmucker, a member of Dr. Reed's family, entered foreign 
 missionary work. 
 
 In April 1888 Dr. Reed resigned on account of failing health. 
 He died February 7, 1890 in Chicago and his remains were 
 brought to Springfield for burial. 
 
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The logan <£(ra i $88-1930 
 
 Beverend thomas daee logan, the sixth pastor of the 
 church was born at Pittsburgh in 1851. He gradu- 
 ated from LaFayette College with A.B. and M.A. 
 degrees in 1869 and then attended Western Theo- 
 " logical Seminary. During his seminary training he 
 spent six months visiting in Europe and was graduated from 
 the seminary and ordained in 1874. His first pastorate was at 
 the Central Presbyterian Church of Meadville, Pennsylvania, 
 where he remained until coming to Springfield. He was married 
 at Meadville to Caroline Mahoney and all of his children were 
 born there. 
 
 His pastorate here, which began on October 7, 1 888, was an 
 outstanding one and continued nearly 75 years — the longest in 
 our church's history. 
 
 Dr. Logan was a forceful minister in the pulpit and a militant 
 one when civic corruption or lawlessness appeared in the com- 
 munity — and their appearance was not infrequent! He flayed 
 these evils with a stinging lash of outraged recititude that was 
 as effective as a grand jury indictment. Except where sin was 
 involved, he was the kindest and gentlest of men. 
 
 Dr. Logan's staff consisted of a sexton but he somehow 
 found time to carefully attend to all the many phases of the 
 minister's duties. If any subject received predominant attention 
 it was home missions. He was particularly interested in the for- 
 eign element and the Negro. He served twelve years as chair- 
 man of Synod's Home Mission Committee. During this time he 
 suceeded in inaugurating the practice of having Synod give di- 
 rect support to home missions rather than to have such aid 
 administered through the national agency. The church shared 
 his zeal for direct home mission service and during his pastor- 
 ate aid was given to the Home for the Friendless, Y.M.C.A., 
 Y.W.C.A., Kings Daughters, Fifth Presbyterian Church, Third 
 Presbyterian Church and Washington Street Mission. 
 
 Dr. Logan became President of the Board of Trustees of 
 Blackburn College at a time when the survival of that institu- 
 tion was in great doubt. Through his administration and coun- 
 sel the college was revived and placed on a financial basis that 
 
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made its future growth possible, Among other positions, he 
 served for many years as a Director of McCormick Theological 
 Seminary and as Stated Clerk of Synod. 
 
 THOMAS D. LOGAN, D.D. 
 
 Soon after he assumed the Springfield pastorate plans were 
 made to build a Sunday School room with adjoining classrooms 
 on the North side of the church. These were completed in the 
 early part of 1893. There was then a handsome three story 
 brick livery stable on the lot now occupied by the Y.M.C.A. 
 This stable had been built in 1889 by G. J. Little and was op- 
 erated by John W. Crafton. Many of Springfield's finest horses 
 were boarded there and a great number of the expensive ve- 
 hicles of Springfield citizens were housed on the second and 
 third floors. On October 19, 1893, just nine months after the 
 
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Sunday School rooms had been completed, the livery stable 
 burned in a disastrous fire which also damaged many adjoining 
 properties. Wind spread the flames southward and the Sunday 
 School rooms were totally destroyed and other damage done to 
 the church. By the quick action of the stable attendants the 
 halter ropes were cut and all of the horses were stampeded 
 onto the street to roam at will, but the stable and its other con- 
 tents were totally destroyed. 
 
 The Trustees immediately made plans to rebuild the Sunday 
 School rooms and repair the church. When they learned that 
 Mr. Little was also making plans to rebuild, they decided to try 
 to persuade him to do it somewhere else. Livery stables had a 
 high combustibility — a few of them had records of burning a 
 second and even a third time — and there were some whispered 
 objections to having a livery stable to the windward of the 
 church even between fires. The Trustees succeeded in solving 
 the problem by purchasing the lot for $5,000.00 and borrowing 
 the money at 6%. The annual expenses were thereby increased 
 $300.00 each year until 1904 when the lot was sold for $6,500.- 
 00. The Y.M.C.A. acquired it in 1907. 
 
 The church proceeded to rebuild the Sunday School rooms 
 and repair the other damage, and in August, 1894, while the 
 workmen were repairing the underside of the roof of the main 
 building a new fire was started and the church narrowly es- 
 caped entire destruction. This time repairs were made on an 
 extensive scale. The roof was replaced and a panelled oak ceil- 
 ing installed. Electric lights were also installed. 
 
 In 1899 the great spires were rebuilt, the tallest then being 
 183 feet, At a later time, when the spires again required repair- 
 ing they were taken down. 
 
 The rebuilding program was completed by the installation 
 of a handsome window in memory of Mrs. McKee Holmes 
 given by girls of the Bettie Stuart Institute of which she was 
 the principal for many years. On account of its delicate color- 
 ing it was placed in a northern light. Subsequently three other 
 beautiful windows were presented to the church, one in mem- 
 ory of Mrs. Sarah Irwin Ferguson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson 
 Bunn and Mrs. Sarah Bunn Jones, grandmother, mother and 
 daughter who had been faithful members of the church, and 
 one in memory of the Stuve family. 
 
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The mission chapel was moved to Capitol and Wheeler 
 Avenues in East Springfield in 1893. This chapel later became 
 the Fifth Presbyterian Church of which Reverend Abraham G. 
 Bergen, grandnephew of Dr. Bergen, became the minister. 
 
 In the year 1894 Reverend E. P. Hammond, who had con- 
 ducted a notable revival here in 1 866, returned after an absence 
 of 28 years and held a series of revivals in the First, Second 
 and Third Presbyterian churches. 
 
 When war was declared with Spain in 1898 the entire Illi- 
 nois National Guard was mobilized in Springfield and remained 
 here several weeks. Thirteen young men from the church were 
 included among the mobilized troops and the church made 
 special efforts during this period to supply the religious and 
 material needs of the men in uniform. 
 
 The Second Presbyterian Church built its new church build- 
 ing at Walnut and Edwards Streets in the year 1907 and during 
 the period of construction their vesper services were held in 
 our church. 
 
 The keen rivalry between the early Protestant churches 
 had been gradually diminishing and in 1907 they cooperated 
 in inaugurating a plan of Union Sunday evening meetings dur- 
 ing the summer months. At that time most of the Protestant 
 churches, including our own, had regular Sunday evening serv- 
 ices throughout the year. The Summer Services have been 
 continued to the present day. 
 
 One year after the Union evening services had been inaugu- 
 rated, the Springfield race riots of 1908 occurred and these 
 services had to be suspended that summer in obedience to the 
 command of the authorities for people to remain in their homes 
 after dark. 
 
 Dr. Logan had a personal experience on the first night of the 
 race riots which forcefully demonstrated to him their violent 
 and lawless character. While he was on his way to attend a 
 meeting at the Court House some of the rioters chased a Negro 
 past him and when he remonstrated with them, one of the riot- 
 ers struck him violently in the face. Later that night he met 
 with Governor D/neen and pointed out the growing danger and 
 urged the calling of the militia and this action was promptly 
 taken by the Governor. 
 
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On the following Sunday he gave directions from his pulpit 
 as to public discipline during the riot, urging law abiding citi- 
 zens to be deputized and assist in enforcing the law or to stay 
 at home after dark. On the next succeeding Sunday hepreached 
 a vigorous sermon on the riot, pointing out the laxity and cor- 
 ruption of public officials which permitted the lawlessness and 
 mob violence, and admonished law abiding citizens to remedy 
 the situation. 
 
 At the time of Dr. Logan's death, Vachel Lindsay remem- 
 bered his leadership during this period and paid him the fol- 
 lowing tribute : 
 
 "In the days of the despicable race riots Reverend Logan's tearless 
 denunciation of them from the pulpit while the storm was still on and 
 there was panic everywhere was the first really resolute note. He put 
 courage into the whole city in its weakest and lowest hour . . . Law 
 and order began with his courageous voice." 
 
 A revival which made religious history in Springfield was 
 conducted in Springfield in February, 1909 by Reverend Wil- 
 liam A. Sunday. Twenty Springfield churches including our 
 own cooperated. A frame tabernacle seating 7,500 people was 
 erected for the occasion on the lot west of the Armory building. 
 The city was districted, and 120 neighborhood prayer meetings 
 were held weekly during the revival, which continued for six 
 weeks. 151 persons joined the church as a result of this revival. 
 The Washington Street Mission was also an outgrowth of the 
 revival, the Halsted Street Mission in Chicago where Billy Sun- 
 day was converted having furnished the inspiration which led 
 to its founding. 
 
 The system of renting pews in the church which began in 
 1830 was still in practice in 1908, but there had been growing 
 demand for free pews, and after the Billy Sunday revival, pew 
 rents were abolished. The annual pledge or subscription was 
 substituted as a means of raising the church budget. 
 
 Another memorable event of the year 1909 was the Centen- 
 nial celebration of Lincoln's birthday. Included in that celebra- 
 tion program was a morning service held in our second church 
 building at Washington and Third Street where Lincoln at- 
 tended (then the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church). 
 Dr. Logan delivered the address on that occasion on the subject 
 of "Lincoln as a Worshipper" and the church was filled to its 
 
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capacity. The audience included the Honorable James Bryce, 
 Ambassador from Great Britain, the Honorable Jules Jusserand, 
 Ambassador from France, William Jennings Bryan and other 
 notable guests. 
 
 In 1910, cards, theatres and dancing were still looked upon 
 by the church as harmful. In May, 1910 a newspaper an- 
 nouncement appeared that the Air Dome, a motion picture 
 show, would open on the following Sunday. Session took note 
 of this and requested a legal opinion as to whether the Sunday 
 performance could be enjoined by court action. 
 
 Dr. Logan was an ardent temperance advocate and a scourge 
 to the old saloon. He repeatedly checkmated any deviations 
 from strict obedience to the law by public exposure. In 1911 
 when the City Commissioners granted the saloon keepers leave 
 to keep their places open two hours later than the legal closing 
 time during fair week, Dr. Logan called a congregational meet- 
 ing of the church where the Commissioners action was de- 
 nounced as a violation of law, and of their official duty and 
 obligations to the public. 
 
 Reverend William A. Freidinger was ordained as a minister 
 at a ceremony in the church in 1911 so that he might be ap- 
 pointed as our missionary to Syria. He was believed to be the 
 first member of the church to be ordained. In 1953 Reverend 
 and Mrs. Freidinger returned to Springfield after 42 years of 
 missionary service. Most of their missionary work was in Syria 
 and Lebanon and for the past 30 years Reverend Freidinger 
 and his wife Elizabeth March Freidinger have been the personal 
 missionaries of this church. There was a very close and affec- 
 tionate association between them and our congregation, partic- 
 ularly in the missionary society. 
 
 The Lincoln Centennial anniversary stimulated a new interest 
 in Lincoln history and the ceremony in the St. John's Lutheran 
 Church on that day focused attention on the Lincoln pew 
 which had remained there since our church moved to its present 
 location in 1872. In 1912 the St. John's Lutheran Church 
 building was razed and the location gave way to commercial 
 buildings. At that time Mr. John W. Bunn purchased the pew 
 from the St. John's Church and presented it to the First Church. 
 
 On April 14, 1912, the anniversary of Lincoln's -death, the 
 pew was formally presented to the church at a union meeting j^-- 
 
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 9* 
 
in which all the Springfield churches were represented. The 
 meeting was in tribute to Lincoln's religious character. On the 
 previous Sunday, which was Easter, ex-President Theodore 
 Roosevelt, who was visiting in Illinois attended the Easter serv- 
 ice and sat in the Lincoln pew at the special invitation of Ses- 
 sion. 
 
 During the pastorate of Dr. Logan the membership rolls were 
 combed regularly and cleared of inactive members. Deaths and 
 removals constantly deplete the church membership and a sub- 
 stantial number of new members must be added each year to 
 hold the membership rolls at a level. In most of the years during 
 Dr. Logan's pastorate there was a gradual increase in member- 
 ship. An annual church narrative was published at the close of 
 each fiscal year summarizing the general work of the church 
 and the particular activities of all of the church organizations. 
 In 1912 an annual subscription was still being made to The 
 Freedmen, an organization the church began to support at the 
 close of the Civil War. 
 
 Early in the year 1913 Dr. Logan's health failed and he was 
 compelled to resign his pastorate. Although he lived eight more 
 years he did not regain his health and he died on Easter Sun- 
 day, April 17, 1921. His funeral was conducted from his own 
 pulpit by Dr. John T. Thomas and his body was returned to 
 Pittsburgh and laid to rest with his honored forebears. His son, 
 Howard, and his daughters, Marjorie and Elsie, are all active 
 members of the church. 
 
 Dr. Logan's ministry had a power derived from his character 
 and sturdy Christian faith that has continued to exert an in- 
 fluence on the community, and although forty years have 
 passed since his resignation, many who knew him as their pas- 
 cor still pay tribute to his work and memory. 
 
 Dr. Logan's pastorate coincided with a period of transition 
 that greatly influenced the church and the community. The 
 pioneer era was over by 1840, but the pioneer influence re- 
 mained for another 50 years. Many of the older generation in 
 1888 had been born in poineer days, and raised in pioneer 
 homes lighted by candles or kerosene lamps. Some of them as 
 children had plowed with oxen. Their education had been in 
 private schools or by the self-educational method. The Bible 
 was their most familiar book. They had seen a civilization built 
 
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on the prairie and had shared in the many hardships of such a 
 process. These early experiences were never forgotten. Their 
 lives had been molded by them and their habits, speech and 
 minds reflected their pioneer culture. In 1888 these children of 
 pioneers still exercised authority and influence in the church 
 and in the community. By 1913 they were gone and their places 
 taken by a generation born in the industrial or machine age. 
 The pioneer's mode of living had gone long before them. Edu- 
 cation now was not only free but was compulsory. Gas and 
 electric lights had replaced candles. The prairie village was 
 now a sizable city. During the Logan era the motor-car, the 
 telephone, the airplane, radio and moving pictures arrived. Dr. 
 Logan conducted funerals for men who had driven oxen but 
 who had never seen a motor-car, and he baptized children who 
 lived to drive cars and planes, operate radios and television but 
 who never saw a pioneer or experienced pioneer hardships. 
 These two separate cultures overlapped for a time during this 
 pastorate but at its end the modern world of science and indus- 
 try was well started and on its rapid way. Customs and habits 
 were changing. Travel was increasing. Leisure became the 
 objective rather than the pioneers' goal of mere survival. The 
 church and the community had to accommodate themselves to 
 this changing world and the process of change and accommo- 
 dation is still going on. 
 
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The pacteofl era iqrriqi7 
 
 The next minister of the church was the Reverend 
 Donald C. MacLeod, D.D., who was installed Sep- 
 tember Yl, 1913. Dr. MacLeod was born in Nova 
 Scotia. After being ordained he served his first pas- 
 torate at the Central Presbyterian Church of Meadville, Penn- 
 sylvania, the same church where Dr. Logan had had his first 
 pastorate. Before coming here Dr. MacLeod had been minister 
 
 of the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Washington, 
 D. C. for fourteen years 
 where he had had a most 
 successful pastorate and 
 during that time had great- 
 ly increased the member- 
 ship of that church and 
 cleared it of debt. He was 
 forty years of age at the 
 beginning of his Spring- 
 field pastorate. A church 
 constitution was adopted 
 at a congregational meet- 
 ing held October 17, 1913. 
 The campaign of the Anti- 
 Saloon League was then in 
 full swing and the church 
 backed this movement and 
 gave it financial support. 
 The church budget was 
 then $12,500.0® 
 In the summer of 1914 the First World War broke out in 
 Europe and in October a committee was appointed by Session 
 to ascertain what the church could do to best aid foreign mis- 
 sions. In December a special ofTering was taken to help support 
 the needs of the missionaries of the warring nations while their 
 home supplies were cut off. Support was also voted for the ex- 
 traordinary expense of missionary work in China to meet the 
 crisis in the new Republic. Special aid for missions continued 
 
 nox'ALD c. mac: leod, n.n. 
 
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throughout the war. In 1916a week of self-denial was declared 
 to aid missions. In 1917, $1,000.00 was raised for this purpose. 
 
 In November 1915 the Music Committee reported that the 
 new organ had been installed and Ethel Lynn Ross was ap- 
 pointed organist. Hearing transmitters for the deaf were 
 installed, the church bell was put back in use, and an outside 
 sign and bulletin board was provided. With these aids church 
 attendance was apparently increased to the church's capacity, 
 as it appears that shortly thereafter, the Trustees were request- 
 ed to purchase additional trays and plates to permit the serving 
 of Communion to the balcony. In 1916 Session requested that 
 the Trustees take early action to supply the seats in the balcony 
 with cushions. 
 
 The war in Europe continued and in 1916 Germany renewed 
 its submarine attacks on neutral shipping, sinking 3 American 
 ships. The United States entered the war in April, 1917 and 
 after that, 104 of the young men from the church left for train- 
 ing camps and later for overseas service. In November of that 
 year a committee was appointed to correspond with those in 
 the service. A Service Flag was hung in the church with a star 
 for each member in the Armed Forces. Other stars were added 
 as the list of those in the service grew. 
 
 The church budget for the year 1917-1918 was $14,265, but 
 this amount did not reflect the special contributions to missions 
 and benevolences. 
 
 In December 1917 Dr. MacLeod received a call from the 
 Central Presbyterian Church of St. Louis and resigned Decem- 
 ber 13, 1917 to go to that church. At a later time he became the 
 minister of the Dundee Presbyterian Church of Omaha, Ne- 
 braska. He died on October 27, 1942 at Wilmington, Delaware. 
 
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 The Thomas G[ra 191 8-1 940 
 
 The church then called, as its eighth minister, Dr. 
 John T. Thomas. His pastorate began in September, 
 1918 while the First World War was raging to its 
 climax and extended past the beginning of the Sec- 
 ond World War. Dr. Thomas was of Welsh descent on his 
 father's side and of Scotch-Irish descent on his mother's. He 
 was born February 14, 1S77 in Bristol, Tennessee. He received 
 his education at Sweetwater 
 Territory School and Kings 
 College and his preparation 
 for the ministry at McCor- 
 mick Seminary. Prior to 
 coming here he had pastor- 
 ates in the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Canyon City, 
 Colorado, the Westminster 
 Presbyterian Church of 
 Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
 and the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky. Dr. Thomas had a 
 great natural love for peo- 
 ple, and was folksy with 
 honest dignity which en- 
 abled him to make friends 
 easily, and to retain them. 
 He possessed a strong sense 
 of humor, and had retained 
 a slight Tennessee accent, and these combined to give his 
 speech sparkle and added flavor. He was an accomplished 
 storyteller, and always had a good anecdote to emphasize his 
 point. A sincere modesty continually called upon him to dep- 
 recate his ability while he was demonstrating it. 
 
 In 1918 the church plant had not been rehabilitated for some 
 75 years and was in need of a general overhauling. This task 
 was begun early in Dr. Thomas' pastorate and included im- 
 provements in the sanctuary and the entire rebuilding of all the 
 
 JOHN T. THOMAS, D.D. 
 
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other facilities of the church. Handsome bronze lighting fix- 
 tures with recessed lights were installed, a gift from the late 
 Robert C. Lanphier. The great spires of the church had become 
 unsafe and taken down and it was decided not to rebuild them. 
 During his pastorate two beautiful stained glass windows were 
 presented to the church, one in memory of Stuart Brown and 
 Kate Hay Brown, the other in memory of Nancy Jane Mackie. 
 A manse was acquired at 937 South Second Street and the 
 Thomases resided there during the whole of his pastorate. 
 
 The church had grown to a point which made a church staff 
 essential. A church secretary was employed. This post was 
 held by Miss Mary Murphy from 1920 to 1925 and later by 
 Miss Louise Jacobs, who rendered a full 25 years of faithful 
 service and retired September 1, 1950. An assistant minister 
 was also provided during a part of the Thomas pastorate. Rev- 
 erend Abraham G. Bergen, a great-nephew of Dr. Bergen, who 
 had been the pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian Church*, held 
 this post for about a year. 
 
 Dr. Thomas was a strong advocate of missions and the bud- 
 get for both home and foreign missions was substantially in- 
 creased at the beginning of his pastorate and further increases 
 were regularly added. He frequently employed a congregational 
 letter as a means of communicating church events and impor- 
 tant matters, and more aid to benevolences was usually one of 
 the important matters. 
 
 Among the many events of his ministry the following are 
 noted: 
 
 The Clementine Memorial Church, a colony of this church, 
 was organized June 5, 1919 with 150 members as a result of 
 work begun in 1892. It was named for Mrs. Clementine Knud- 
 son, wife of the donor and a member of our church. 
 
 November 16. 1919, the Memorial tablet to World War 
 soldiers was dedicated with an adress by Governor Frank O. 
 Lowden. Governor Lowden, who had been a frequent attend- 
 
 * The Fourth Presbyterian Church of this city is the only one that is not a colony of this 
 church but its origin is of interest. In 1855 a number of immigrants from the island of 
 Maderia, who had been exiled for insisting upon the right to read and study the Bible, 
 came here and organized The First Portuguese Church. In 1858 the membership divided 
 and a second Portuguese Church was organized. In 18% these two churches were consoli- 
 dated and in 1908 the name was changed and it has since been known as the Fourth Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
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ant, joined the church the following year. In 1921 financial aid 
 was given to the Fifth Presbyterian Church. Session endorsed 
 the resolution of the Illini Country Club to strictly observe the 
 prohibition law. The regular church budget reached $23,000.00 
 in 1922. The activities of the Ku Klux Klan were vigorously de- 
 nounced. In 1923 the memorial tablet to former pastors was 
 dedicated. 
 
 The church reached a membership of 1,245 in 1926. The 
 Sunday evening services were broadcast in January 1927, this 
 being the first use of radio made in the church. After a month's 
 trial it was reported that attendance had increased and the 
 broadcasts were continued. A permanent endowment fund was 
 created in 1927 with a $5,000.00 bequest from Mrs. Kate Fon- 
 day as the first gift. 
 
 In 1927 a committee was appointed to take charge of the 
 Centennial celebration of the church. A girl Scout troop was 
 organized. Candlelight services were held on Christmas Eve 
 and the church made 300 subscriptions to the Presbyterian 
 magazine, one for each family. 
 
 Dr. Thomas taught a Men's Bible Class for many years in 
 addition to his other Sunday duties, while Mrs. Thomas took 
 an active part in the Women's Assembly and other church 
 groups. 
 
 In 1928 the church celebrated its 100th Anniversary. The 
 celebration took a form, fitting to so important an occasion, 
 and extended over a period of an entire week — from January 
 29th to February 5th. Included in the events of the week were 
 the following: 
 
 Sunday, January 29. Homecoming Sunday. A sermon was preached 
 by Reverend Donald MacLeod, D.D., of Omaha, Nebraska, then the 
 only living former pastor. 
 
 Monday. Homecoming Reception, for Dr. and Mrs. MacLeod to- 
 gether with the families of deceased former pastors. 
 Tuesday. Woman's Day. This day was concluded with an evening 
 service by Reverend John T. Stone, D.D., former Moderator of the 
 General Assembly and minister of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of 
 Chicago. 
 
 Wednesday. Centennial dinner with greetings from "Our Colonies" — 
 North Sangamon, Westminster, Third, Fifth and Clementine Me- 
 morial Presbyterian churches. 
 
 Thursday. Historical pageant. The centennial pageant was written by 
 Mrs. Velma Shumway Stokes, who now resides at Mobile, Alabama. 
 
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The characters of the cast represented the founders of the church. 
 The pageant was staged in the high school auditorium as the church 
 could not accommodate the large audience that attended. 
 Friday. Young People's Day, which was concluded with an address by 
 Reverend James I. Vance, D.D., ex-Moderator of the General As- 
 sembly. 
 
 Saturday. Address by Reverend Robert E. Speer, D.D., Moderator of 
 the General Assembly. 
 
 Sunday. Dr. Thomas delivered the historical address which was fol- 
 lowed by a union communion service of all of the churches in the 
 Presbytery. 
 
 At the time of the Centennial about 50 letters were received 
 by Dr. Thomas or the church from former members, two of 
 them from men who had heard Dr. Bergen and one of these, 
 W. T. Kincaid, had heard all of the ministers from Bergen to 
 Thomas. The other, John B. Wright, began attending in 1845 
 and was present the Sunday that Dr. Bergen resigned and con- 
 tinued attending through Dr. Smith's pastorate and remem- 
 bered seeing Lincoln in the congregation. 
 
 Among the institutions started by Dr. Thomas was the an- 
 nual Thanksgiving dinner. On these occasions a number of 
 noted speakers were guests, including Samuel Higgenbotham 
 and Governor Henry Horner. Governor Horner was so im- 
 pressed by his visit as a guest speaker that the following year 
 (1934) he requested that he be again invited in the capacity of 
 a listener and that he be permitted to furnish a turkey. A table 
 was reserved for him and he performed the honors of carving 
 for many of those present. 
 
 Among the many warm friends Dr. Thomas made while here, 
 Reverend Jerry Wallace of Christ Episcopal Church held a 
 very high rank. In the many religious and civic enterprises dur- 
 ing their pastorates they joined in furnishing strong leadership. 
 
 In 1936 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas spent several months making 
 a world trip. In Syria they visited the church's missionaries, 
 Reverend W. A. Freidinger and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth March 
 Friedinger, at Beirut where they were then stationed. 
 
 In 1938 the church celebrated Dr. Thomas' 20th anniversary 
 as the minister. Several distinguished minister friends of Dr. 
 Thomas attended, and spoke at the dinner on this occasion. 
 
 Dr. Thomas retired in January 15, 1940 after 77 years of 
 faithful service to this church. A testimonial dinner was given 
 
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him by the church at the Leland Hotel, January 1 1, 1940, just 
 previous to the date of his retirement. Upon his retirement he 
 was elected Pastor Emeritus. He and Mrs. Thomas then re- 
 moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where he has resided since. 
 Since 1940 he has been kept comfortably busy with engage- 
 ments as supply pastor in a number of churches. He has re- 
 visited Springfield and the First Church on several occasions. 
 On Sunday, May 13, 1951, Dr. Thomas celebrated the 50th 
 Anniversary of his ordination by preaching in our church. A 
 silver platter was presented to him as a memento of affection 
 and as a remembrance of the occasion. 
 
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Br. HJilliam t\. I^udnut, Jx. 
 
 D 
 
 r. william i-l hudnut, jr., came here as minister 
 January 16, 1940. He had been rooted and nur- 
 tured in the Presbyterian ministry, being the son 
 of Dr. William H. Hudnut, the distinguished 
 minister who served the Presbyterian Church at Youngstown, 
 Ohio during a pastorate of 38 years and who on several occa- 
 sions preached from our pulpit during his son's pastorate. 
 
 The new minister received 
 his college education at 
 Princeton University and 
 his theological training at 
 Union Seminary, where he 
 studied under Dr. George 
 Buttrick and Dr. Harry Em- 
 erson Fosdick. After being 
 ordained he was for a time 
 Director of Religious Edu- 
 cation at Hill School, then 
 held the pastorate of the 
 Glendale Presbyterian 
 Church of Cincinnati for 
 eight years before coming 
 to Springfield. His installa- 
 tion service was participat- 
 ed in by Dr. Thomas, our 
 eighth pastor, Dr. William 
 H. Hudnut, Sr. and Rever- 
 
 WILLIAM H. HUDNUT, JR., D.D. 
 
 end Herbert Beecher Hud- 
 nut, brother of the new minister, and Dr. J. Harry Cotton, who 
 later became President of McCormick Theological Seminary. 
 Dr. Hudnut possessed an excellent and active mind and a 
 warm heart, which permitted in him sound intellectual decisions 
 and strong convictions, and his preaching reflected both. Both 
 he and Mrs. Hudnut, who is a distant relative of Henry Ward 
 Beecher, made friends easily, and the hearts and doors of the 
 congregation were quickly opened to them, and the new minis- 
 ter was soon on a first name basis with most of its members. 
 
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Dr. Hudnut was still a young man of 35 when he came here 
 and took up the task of pastor with the full vigor and zeal of 
 his prime years. 
 
 His whole pastorate of six years here had a backdrop of war. 
 He arrived during the period of World War II when isolation 
 was still the goal of American foreign policy. Within six months 
 the Germans had invaded the Low Countries, defeated France 
 and dominated the entire continent of Europe. After Dunkirk, 
 when England stood alone, and unarmed, and in mortal danger, 
 America's course was quickly reversed. A million rifles and 
 fifty destroyers were quickly dispatched to help England in the 
 Battle of Britain, and the draft law was passed to raise an 
 American army. There was no longer any neutrality in Ameri- 
 can hearts although we remained technically neutral until De- 
 cember 7, 1941. 
 
 Such was the background that occupied the thoughts of the 
 congregation during the first year of Dr. Hudnut's ministry and 
 his ministry was attuned to it. The church loved peace and 
 cherished freedom but when a choice had to be made, it chose 
 the latter. The church had always been a strong supporter of 
 the League of Nations and had opposed isolation. It now de- 
 nounced the aggressions and the brutality of Germany. 
 
 After Pearl Harbor there was a constant transfer of young 
 men and women from the church to the armed services of the 
 United States, until an aggregate of 113 members had with- 
 drawn. As in World War I, a service flag was again hung in the 
 front of the church with a blue star for each absentee. Later as 
 word came that one of these men in arms had made the su- 
 preme sacrifice his star was changed from blue to gold. In all 
 there were 7 gold stars on the church service flag. 
 
 The war substantially changed the pastoral duties of the 
 minister. Men in the service wanted to keep contact with the 
 church. They wanted advice or guidance. And frequently they 
 just wanted letters. The war caused a great migration of war 
 workers to defense plant areas. Sometimes their families accom- 
 panied them; sometimes they were left behind. In either case 
 they presented special needs for pastoral care. The minister was 
 much employed in these matters. 
 
 While the war was in progress Dr. Hudnut's leadership was 
 directed forward to the time of peace when a world organiza- 
 
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tion to keep the peace might be brought into being. Similar 
 leadership was furnished in most American churches and it had 
 no small part in creating the demand for the United Nations' 
 which became a reality in June 1945, a month after Germany 
 surrendered. 
 
 At the beginning of Dr. Hudnut's pastorate the church plant 
 was again in need of rehabilitation and this was attended to 
 early. The sanctuary was lengthened by the removal of an in- 
 terior wall, so that it now extended the full length of the church 
 east to west, permitting the installation of three chancel win- 
 dows in the west wall, thereby adding to the size and beauty 
 of the sancutary. The organ, which theretofore had intruded 
 heavily into the chancel area, was removed to enclosed recesses 
 on either side. A spacious new chancel with accompanying Te- 
 redos, pulpit, lectern, and choir seats for a larger choir was 
 provided. The center aisle of the sanctuary, which had been 
 abandoned in the previous seating arrangement, was re-estab- 
 lished and new pews were installed. A beautiful chapel, fur- 
 nished in the manner of New England churches was built in the 
 north wing, the gift of Miss Alice Bunn. The Sunday School 
 rooms, church parlor and offices were re-arranged. 
 
 A new manse was acquired for the minister and a few years 
 later when an assistant minister was employed the church pur- 
 chased a residence for his occupancy. 
 
 The program of refurnishing the church was completed by 
 providing the superb stained glass windows in the chancel, 
 gallery and an additional window on the north and south walls. 
 The chancel windows were provided from a fund left by the 
 Will of the late Jacob Bunn as a memorial to his sister, Miss 
 Alice Edwards Bunn. In one of the medalions Lincoln is depict- 
 ed freeing the slaves. A north wall window portraying the min- 
 istry of Christ was given in memory of John Glenn Miller and 
 Nelle Grant Miller and one on the south wall depicting the plan 
 of salvation was given in memory of Harry P. Jones. The five 
 gallery windows portray a number of noted missionaries, in- 
 cluding Lowrie, Stanley, Sheldon Jackson, Sam Higgenbotham 
 and Sir Wilfred Grenfel. A booklet describing the artistry in 
 the windows was published in 1947. 
 
 Dr. Hudnut understood the value of architectural beauty in 
 the church and gave much thought and energy to securing a 
 
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harmony of design in the church structure, and of color in the 
 rich stained glass windows which were provided. The church 
 building was then 78 years old and on the outside the mortar 
 joints were crumbling and these were carefully tuck-pointed. 
 The garden was enclosed with a brick wall built along the Sev- 
 enth Street side and appropriately planted. 
 
 The costs of these improvements had been estimated at $47,- 
 500.00. Rising prices and extras brought the cost to $70,000, 
 but the amount was raised and the work completed in the year 
 1941. In that year the regular church budget was $22,750.00. 
 
 THE CHURCH BEFORE REMODELING 
 
 During the time the sanctuary was b_eing remodelled the con- 
 gregation of B'rith Sholom Temple offered the use of their 
 Synagogue and this invitation was accepted and services held 
 in the Synagogue for a number of Sundays. The neighborly 
 kindness of the BVith Sholom congregation established most 
 friendly relations and their members have been our guests on 
 a number of occasions since. 
 
 Following the rehabilitation of the church plant the church 
 nomenclature was remodelled and the Court House terms for- 
 merly used were replaced by more ecclesiastical words. The 
 vestibule or lobby became the narthex, the auditorium the 
 sanctuary, the platform the chancel, the basement the assembly 
 room, the organist the minister of music, and the janitor the 
 sexton. Some temporary confusion was caused by these changes 
 and it is reported from unreliable sources that one or two board 
 meetings had to be postponed for want of a quorum, the ab- 
 sentees having reported to various recesses of the church be- 
 tween the narthex and the belfry as the meeting place, and that 
 
 
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the sexton felt he should no longer work for janitor's wages. 
 Adjustment to the change was soon made and the new nomen- 
 clature is now well established. 
 
 Blackburn College of Carlinville conferred on Dr. Hudnut a 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity at a special convocation held Oc- 
 tober 15, 1941. 
 
 The war, which demanded equality of service from the armed 
 forces, was a stimulus to the movement for equal rights of the 
 Negro and through Dr. Hudnut's humanitarian leadership the 
 church shared in such movements. During the war gambling 
 and vice became rife in the community and Dr. Hudnut or- 
 ganized and assumed the leadership of a Good Government 
 League which was aimed at the existing lawlessness, and start- 
 ed it on a campaign which was continued under the next min- 
 ister and had important results. A cry was soon heard from the 
 outside that the minister should keep in his pulpit and confine 
 himself to spiritual matters. The church has always believed 
 that things which affect human dignity and human welfare af- 
 fect the church and are therefore the church's business. All of 
 its ministers have implemented this belief by a broad leadership 
 in the church and extending beyond as far as their voices could 
 be heard. 
 
 Another effect of the war related to foreign missions. Thou- 
 sands of Americans found themselves fighting in many of the 
 Pacific islands during the war and many of them were rescued 
 or given aid by natives who had become Christians and had 
 learned about America as well as the Bible from missionaries. 
 The welcome and thrilling reports of these adventures gave a 
 new understanding to the missionaries' service and an increased 
 interest in the missionary movement. 
 
 The Sunday School was reorganized in 1943 in keeping with 
 the advances made in the general education field. Classes were 
 graded and a new system of textbooks and lessons supplied. 
 Visual education (moving pictures to oldsters) was provided 
 for the primary grades with specially selected films. During the 
 hour of Sunday morning church service films are also used to 
 entertain the primary grade children while their parents attend 
 the service. 
 
 The Sunday School has contributed greatly to the church in 
 all of its 125 years. Many of those who read this will recall 
 
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their own Sunday School days. They may not remember any 
 particular lesson which was learned but will be aware of a 
 background for religious understanding which was acquired in 
 the Sunday School. 
 
 While the reader is trying to recall what he learned in Sun- 
 day School other retained impressions of those days may be 
 revived, the patient and devoted teachers, the classmates, the 
 Sunday School songs, the special programs on Children's Day 
 and Easter, and more clearly than all else for those who suf- 
 fered the progressive steps of that exhausting experience, the 
 ordeal of the recited poem : the nervous heart-throbbing start, 
 the racing pace of the first three verses, then the forgotten 
 word, the embarrassed pause, the nudges, prompting' , and 
 snickering from the rear, the worried faces of the family and 
 friends in front, the starting over again and sailing through to 
 the end on the second try. Then hardest of all, living through 
 the taunts from childhood friends for weeks afterwards. 
 
 But if there be nostalgia for those days it will center on the 
 Christmas program when a real flesh and blood Santa Claus 
 presented each good boy and girl with a big orange and a small 
 chimney shaped carton of the finest and hardest candy ever 
 made. In affluent years a chocolate drop or two would find its 
 (or their) way into the assortment. But the real prize was the 
 orange. Oranges are old stuff to the present younger genera- 
 tion, which has been raised on daily squeezings of the juice, 
 but until the turn of the century oranges were comparatively 
 rare, and appeared only on special occasions. For many a child 
 of the nineties the orange from the Sunday School Santa might 
 be the first one he had had since Santa's last visit. The graph 
 of Sunday School had a lot of dips during the first ten months 
 of the year but beginning about November 1st an improve- 
 ment could always be noticed, which continued steadily for the 
 next six weeks and reached the high point on the Sunday be- 
 fore Christmas. 
 
 Dr. Hudnut was active in the work of Synod and in 1945 
 formulated the plan which was adopted by Synod creating the 
 Presbyterian Foundation to hold and manage the trust funds 
 of Synod. The Foundation is managed by a board of 15 trustees 
 appointed by Synod and a member of this church has served as 
 its president since its organization. 
 
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In 1946 a full time assistant minister was provided and the 
 Reverend Paul S. Bischoff was called to this position. The as- 
 sistant minister was placed in charge of the work of the Sunday 
 School and other young people's organizations. Mr. Bischoff 
 developed rapidly in his new position and served the church 
 well. During the vacancy after Dr. Hudnut's resignation he 
 filled the pulpit as acting minister for several months. He was 
 later called to a full pastorate by the First Presbyterian Church 
 at Independence, Missouri and went to that church July 31, 
 1948. 
 
 Dr. Hudnut received a call from the Third Presbyterian 
 Church of Rochester, New York and resigned his pastorate 
 here January 20, 1946. He still holds the Rochester pastorate 
 and his church there which is one year older than our own 
 celebrated its 125th anniversary last year. 
 
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Dr. Bichard Paul ©raebel 1946- 
 
 Beverend richard paul graebel, the present min- 
 ister and the tenth in the church's history, came 
 here in December 1946 from the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Ottumwa, Iowa. He was born January 
 'T7 , 1908 in Wausau, Wisconsin, graduated from the 
 University of Wisconsin and from McCormick Theological 
 Seminary in Chicago, and received his Doctor of Divinity de- 
 gree at Parsons College. He also attended Columbia University 
 and the University of 
 Heidelberg, Germany, 
 where he majored in liter- 
 ature and music. He is 
 scholarly, courageous, and 
 articulate, and is endowed 
 with a great reservoir of 
 energy which permits 
 overtime employment of 
 these abilities. Dr. Graebel 
 was installed as minister 
 on January 12, 1947. At 
 that time the many mem- 
 bers who had served in 
 the armed forces, and sur- 
 vived, had returned — the 
 most travelled generation 
 in the world's history. 
 These veterans quietly re- 
 sumed their place in the 
 church but were curious 
 to know whether the new minister would be able to furnish 
 the kind of inspiration and leadership which would keep them 
 there. Dr. Graebel had wide experience in working with serv- 
 icemen at Ottumwa where many thousands were stationed 
 during the war. They had filled his church there on Sundays 
 and were frequently entertained in his home. He proved more 
 than equal to this task and the returned veterans of our church 
 found in him a friend and companion as well as a minister. 
 
 RICHARD PAUL C.RA] 
 
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A ministers pastoral duties are of first importance, and in a 
 church of this size these duties are numerous. It is a rule of Dr. 
 Graebel's pastorate that every case of sickness, distress or be- 
 reavement of which he has notice receives his personal atten- 
 tion. That all of our ministers have been able to give unusually 
 active and broad service to the church and the community has 
 been due in no small measure to the devoted support they have 
 had from their wives; Mrs. Graebel very quickly demonstrated 
 her aptitude for the role of ever-present but self-effacing sup- 
 port of her husband and enthusiastic participant in the activi- 
 ties of the church. 
 
 Dr. Graebel's sermons are carefully prepared, lucid and 
 forceful, and usually sparkle with gems of his own creation or 
 quotations from his extensive reading. The Sunday service had 
 previously been broadcast at intervals during Dr. Thomas's 
 and Dr. Hudnut's pastorates but arrangements were soon made 
 for regular broadcasts and these were continued until October 
 1953 when in place of the broadcast a second Sunday morning 
 service was provided in the sanctuary, one service being at 9:30 
 and the other at 1 1 :00. 
 
 The new minister had no building problems, these having 
 been taken care of by his predecessor, and was able to immedi- 
 ately direct his energies to the leadership of the church and its 
 community. In 1947 the war was over but there was no peace 
 — "time was out of joint." The world's two most powerful 
 nations, as reluctant allies, had vanquished their foes, but now 
 stood on the occupied lands of the conquered, staring at each 
 other, growling, one endeavoring to restore freedom, the other 
 to enslave the conquered. No one could be sure that the blood, 
 sweat and tears of World War II were at an end. 
 
 In such a world America needed military power, but it also 
 needed tolerance, understanding, and Christian faith if the 
 problems of the ominous and unknown future were to be 
 peacefully solved, and its churches have helped to supply this 
 need. In our church the minister gave whole-hearted support to 
 the United Nations as mankind's best hope. He supported the 
 Truman Doctrine, aid for Europe, China and Japan, admission 
 of more displaced persons, increased aid for foreign missions. 
 When the fear of communists in the United States became such 
 an obsession that many Americans advocated practices des- 
 
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tructive of our own freedom, the minister strenuously and re- 
 peatedly maintained that the danger and evil could be overcome 
 only by adherence to the ideas of our own faith and institutions. 
 
 'Jhe Clarion, the church's weekly bulletin started by Dr. 
 Hudnut, has continued in modified form as a monthly bulletin. 
 A short, thoughtful message by the minister entitled "The 
 Minister's Minute" is published each week in the press. 
 
 In September 1947, Elise Morrow's article about Springfield 
 published in the Saturday Evening Post started a chain reaction 
 of events in which the church had a part. It was stated in the 
 article that Lincoln's mark was everywhere discernible in 
 Snrinsfield except in its political morals; that gambling and 
 vice flourished here because of the apathy of the citizens. 
 
 This accusation was loudly denied by some, and was held to 
 be an unnecessary insult by many others who preferred to 
 treat unpleasant facts as non-existent. Dr. Graebel was not so 
 squeamish. He discussed the article from the pulpit, defended 
 Mrs. Morrow, reasserted the accusations, and called upon the 
 citizens to throw off their apathy. The Good Government 
 League organized bv Dr. Hudnut during the previous pastorate 
 was stimulated to take up the task. The St. Louis Post Dispatch 
 grew curious about the issue and sent a skilled reporter here to 
 investigate. The Post Dispatch published the results from day to 
 day over a period of several weeks in factual detail, giving 
 names, dates and places. 
 
 These reports made exciting reading. The facts startled most 
 of the citizens and proved that Mrs. Morrow had stated the 
 case mildly. Public interest was aroused and the citizens were 
 indignant. The League took steps to procure the appointment 
 of a special State's Attorney, and while it did not succeed, the 
 move served <:o focus further public attention on the issues of 
 commercialized gambling, vice and corruption. 
 
 The Vosl Dispatch decided to widen the investigation to 
 other parts of the state. In Peoria another Post Dispatch re- 
 porter obtained evidence of similar conditions there, and with 
 implications that the corruption extended to the State House. 
 The Attorney General of the state made a frenzied effort to 
 halt the investigation by procuring the indictment of the Post 
 Dispatch reporter at Peoria. The public regarded this tactic as 
 indicating something more than mere ineptness. The distrust 
 
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and resentment became statewide and contributed to the defeat 
 of the whole state administration in the election of 1948, and 
 in that year Adlai E. Stevenson was elected Governor. 
 
 In the same year a similarly aroused public interest led to the 
 election of a member of this church as State's Attorney of San- 
 gamon County and his administration of this office for the past 
 six years has brought credit to the community and those who 
 sponsored him. The aim of the Good Government League was 
 thus realized more fully than could been have anticipated. 
 
 Through his musical education Dr. Graebel developed a 
 wide interest in music, not only as an appreciative and critical 
 listener but in a minor way as a composer and singer. In 1948 
 he composed the words and music for a hymn entitled "Sover- 
 eign God, Great King of Kings," which has been sung at two 
 General Assemblies in the Presbyterian Church. He is a great 
 admirer of Welsh hymns and an evening service has frequently 
 been devoted to congregational singing of Welsh music. As a 
 singer he has participated in a number of musical programs. He 
 is a modest but willing soloist and sings his favorite number 
 "Stille 'Nachl" exceedingly well in either English or German 
 and can be induced to do so without undue persuasion. 
 
 Since the days of its organization the church has endeavored 
 to provide good church music, both choir and instrumental. 
 The choir of the early church was a volunteer choir. At a later 
 time it was replaced by a professional quartet and in 1940 a 
 volunteer choir was reinstated, this time under the direction of 
 a competent Minister of Music, who by his teaching and lead- 
 ership was able to develop a choir of fine attainment, and the 
 volunteer choirs have continued to be of this high order. 
 
 Not much is known about the quality of the instrumental 
 music of the early church but in the days when the instruments 
 were confined to the pitch pipe, the bass viol and coronet and 
 even in the days of the first church organ there is no hint that 
 the incidental music was outstanding. During the pastorate of 
 Dr. Logan, Professor Louis Lehman, Springfield's most distin- 
 guished musician of that day, was the organist. He endeared 
 himself to the church in general by his ability at the organ, and 
 with the new brides of the church in particular by playing the 
 wedding march as a part of the organ prelude when a new 
 bride first appeared at the church after her wedding. 
 
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When the present organ was installed in 1915 Ethel Lynn 
 Ross became the organist and served in that capacity for many 
 years. During the first World War the music of "America" was 
 a regular part of the organ prelude and the church fairly vi- 
 brated with the chords of this patriotic song. Miss Ross was 
 but one of the many excellent musicians who have served the 
 church over the years. 
 
 The present Minister of Music, who is also the organist, is 
 Mr. Donald Allured, a graduate of Union Theological Semi- 
 nary with a degree of Master in Sacred Music. He is an ac- 
 complished organist and choir leader, and has built up an en- 
 thusiastic and devoted choir. Mr. Allured is also president of 
 the Springfield Organ Guild, which has brought several world 
 renowned organists to Springfield and their recitals have usual- 
 ly been held in our church because of the excellent tone of the 
 organ. He is also the leader of the Springfield Oratorio Society 
 which has held several concerts in the church, including Han- 
 del's "Messiah" which is presented annually at Christmas time. 
 
 The church has been equipped with a modern public address 
 system which includes connected loudspeakers in all of the 
 adjacent rooms. This system has proved most efficient and en- 
 ables persons seated in all parts of the sanctuary to hear equally 
 well. It also proves useful on occasions when there is an over- 
 flow crowd which cannot all be seated in the sanctuary. At 
 such times, and the Springfield Oratorio Society concerts have 
 been examples, the chapel and the other church rooms have 
 been used, and the program presented in the sanctuary is heard 
 in these rooms. 
 
 The church has for many years sponsored Boy Scout Troop 
 14 and Cub Pack 14, furnishing quarters for their meetings and 
 providing equipment. Members of the church have always been 
 included in the troop membership but the troop is not restricted 
 to church members. Leadership of the troop has been provided 
 much of the time by younger men of the church but has also 
 been furnished frequently by others. For many years the church 
 also furnished the meeting place for a second troop of Scouts. 
 The interest of the present pastor in youth work is reflected in 
 the steady growth and increasing activity of the sponsored 
 troop over the past several years. 
 
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In 1948 the Knox Presbyterian Church was organized. The 
 initiative for this new church and much of the manpower in 
 getting it organized came from the Third Presbyterian Church; 
 our church cooperated and gave substantial financial support. 
 
 When the United Nations entered the War in Korea 15 
 members of this church were called to the armed service. 
 
 Family nights, as the Wednesday night services are called, 
 have been continued. Interesting programs for these meetings 
 are provided by outstanding men in religious work. Dr. Marcus 
 Bach has been one of the favorite lecturers in recent years and 
 has returned several times. The family nights are dinner meet- 
 ings and the various circles of the Women's Assembly alternate 
 in serving. 
 
 Reverend Roy Smith, the assistant minister who succeeded 
 Paul Bischoff, broadened the work of the church among the 
 younger groups and made an outstanding record in this field. 
 In 1951 he received a call to take a similar position with the 
 Fourth Presbyterian Church of Evanston which he accepted 
 and in February of 1952 Reverend Frederick Missel was called 
 as assistant minister. 
 
 Mr. Missel was born and raised in Middle Village, Long Is- 
 land and finished his first year of college when the war came, 
 and then enlisted in the Navy. He was stationed for a time at 
 Ottumwa and from a close contact he had with Dr. Graebel 
 there, decided to enter the ministry. After the war he returned 
 to Trinity College and upon the completion of his course there 
 entered Union Theological Seminary, from which he gradu- 
 ated. Since assuming the duties of assistant minister of this 
 church he has made an excellent record and on a number of 
 occasions during the minister's absence has occupied the pulpit 
 with much credit to himself and the church. 
 
 In 1953 Mrs. Ines Catron FIorTman, was elected to the office 
 of elder in this church. She is the first woman to hold this office 
 in our church's history although there was precedent for wom- 
 en as elders in many other Presbyterian churches. 
 
 In 1951 there was instituted by the Women's Assembly of 
 the church, under the leadership of Mrs. Edward J. Fisher, a 
 program of entertaining a group of foreign students of many 
 nationalities in attendance at the University of Illinois. Belief 
 in the brotherhood of man was the inspiration for this program, 
 
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and its goal was to make a practical demonstration of such be- 
 lief. The students became house guests in many homes and 
 were entertained in all respects as though they were visiting 
 cousins. The experiment was begun in a mild sacrificial mood 
 of doing good. The guests proved to be more intelligent than 
 most cousins and more travelled than most hosts and were both 
 gracious and entertaining. The experiment was continued again 
 in 1953 and now promises to be an annual event. 
 
 The Women's Assembly which includes all of the women of 
 the church was reorganized in 1950. It is now divided into 
 eleven circles, each of about fifty members and the personnel 
 of each circle is arbitrarily changed every two years. The As- 
 sembly and its circles under the guidance of the national boards 
 has an intensive program of study and support for both national 
 and home missions, and community affairs. While the leader- 
 ship for the church is furnished by its minister the achievements 
 of the church depend on the work of its members individually 
 or through service on its boards or in its organized groups. The 
 Women's Assembly is the church's best example of effective- 
 ness through organization. 
 
 In 1948 when a group was organized here for reading and 
 study of the Great Books, Dr. Graebel became one of its regu- 
 lar members. He also became chairman of a committee to pre- 
 serve the Vachel Lindsay house. 
 
 In 1950 the Mid-Day Luncheon Club, which annually cele- 
 brates Lincoln's Birthday with a big-name speaker, honored 
 Dr. Graebel with this role and he filled the assignment with an 
 address showing great scholarship and reflective understanding. 
 On this occasion he was introduced by Governor Adlai E. 
 Stevenson whom he had not known intimately before. Gover- 
 nor Stevenson is a Lincoln student in his own right and was so 
 impressed by the address that after the meeting he invited Dr. 
 Graebel to the mansion where they discussed the address para- 
 graph by paragraph and visited until past midnight. From this 
 meeting a warm friendship developed between the two and 
 although Governor Stevenson is not a Presbyterian, he became 
 a worshiper in our church. 
 
 Dr. Graebel was appointed as a member of the Illinois Com- 
 mission on Human Relations in 1950, and he has served on 
 this commission since that time. 
 
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In the same year he decided that a broad understanding of 
 the troubled world situation required first hand impressions, 
 and he and Mrs. Graebel made a trip to Europe for this pur- 
 pose. He is a keen observer of men and events and upon his 
 return, lectured on his trip and has subsequently made incisive 
 observations based on it. 
 
 Dr. Graebel has long been an admirer of Albert Schweitzer 
 and in 1949 when it was announced that Dr. Schweitzer was to 
 be one of the speakers at the Goethe Bi-Centennial, to be held 
 in Aspen, Colorado, he decided to attend. A death in the 
 church delayed Dr. Graebel's departure and when he reached 
 Aspen, Dr. Schweitzer had already given his lectures and left. 
 The trip was nevertheless a rewarding one for he heard and 
 met Dr. Jose Ortega y Gasset the great Spanish philisopher, 
 and they returned together from Aspen as far as Chicago and 
 had a great visit. Dr. Ortega does not speak English and Dr. 
 Graebel does not speak Spanish but both spoke German fluent- 
 ly and their visit was in this medium. The philosophy and life 
 example of both Dr. Schweitzer and Dr. Ortega have been 
 cited to good effect in the minister's sermons. 
 
 In 1952 the General Assembly of our church sent representa- 
 tives to both of the great national party conventions which met 
 in Chicago and urged each party to include in its platform the 
 following points: 1. Strong civil rights legislation; 2. strength- 
 ening of our American tradition of personal freedom and fair 
 play; 3. ratification by the Senate of the convention on pre- 
 vention and punishment of the crime of genocide; 4. affirmation 
 of faith in the United Nations as a major cornerstone of Ameri- 
 can foreign policy; 5. extension of the program of technical 
 assistance, both by our Department of State and through the 
 United Nations, by which social and economic justice is 
 brought to underdeveloped regions; 6. pressing of disarmament 
 proposals previously sponsored by the United States, Great 
 Britain and France in the United Nations. 
 
 Our church again came into national prominence when Gov- 
 ernor Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated by the Democratic 
 party for the office of President of the United States. 
 
 The United States had become the strongest power among 
 all the nations and on its leadership was to depend the fate of 
 the world. Who was to furnish such leadership, and what man- 
 
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ner of man the candidate of the Democratic party was, became 
 a matter of the greatest public interest and concern, not only to 
 Americans but under the circumstances to the whole world. 
 
 Governor Stevenson conducted his presidential campaign 
 from Springfield, and during the period between his nomination 
 and the election this city became a Mecca for many people of 
 high rank, including senators, governors and leaders of political, 
 religious, labor and other groups. The national press services, 
 foreign press, and many individual newspapers were repre- 
 sented by a large corps of correspondents and photographers 
 whose duty it was to report fully on the candidate, picture his 
 background, and every detail of the local scene. 
 
 Governor Stevenson regularly attended Sunday service when 
 he was in the city. When he came to church the press corps 
 came too, notebooks in hand and cameras loaded. It would not 
 be accurate to say that the correspondents and photographers 
 followed him like bird-dogs for in many instances they arrived 
 ahead of him and thereby foretold his coming. So eager was the 
 demand for news about him that what the minister said in his 
 presence was frequently reported in the national news, some- 
 times producing responses of bricks and sometimes bouquets 
 for the minister. 
 
 Adlai E. Stevenson was not elected in 1952, but he demon- 
 strated that he bears the stamp of greatness, and it would not 
 be amiss for the Trustees to nick the pew now which he occu- 
 pied, against the day when pilgrims to the church may demand 
 to see the place where he worshipped. It is significant of the 
 church's leadership that twice in times of great crises in the 
 nation's history an aspirant for the presidency came here to 
 worship and to seek divine guidance. 
 
 The 125th anniversary of the church was celebrated with 
 appropriate ceremonies in January 1953. On Sunday, January 
 18, Dr. Hudnut returned and occupied the pulpit. He and Mrs. 
 Hudnut were warmly welcomed by a capacity congregation. 
 The choir sang a new anthem written especially for the 125th 
 anniversary celebration by Frank R. Bohnhorst, a former mem- 
 ber of the choir and now a professor of music at Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University. On Sunday, January 25, Dr. Graebel 
 preached an historical sermon. On Wednesday, January 28, an 
 evening Reunion Service was held at the church. The sermon 
 
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was preached by Dr. Robert Worth Frank, president of Mc- 
 Cormick Theological Seminary, and the ministers of the Spring- 
 field Presbytery participated. Reverend William Freidinger and 
 Mrs. Freidinger who had recently returned from Souh el Gharb, 
 Lebanon, and Dr. John T. Thomas, our pastor emeritus, and 
 Mrs. Thomas were also present. After the service a reception 
 was held in the assembly hall of the church which was beauti- 
 fully decorated for the occasion. 
 
 On Friday night. January 30th, the anniversary date of the 
 church's organization, a banquet was held in the assembly ha!l 
 where Dr. John T. Thomas was the speaker and guest of hon- 
 or. The guests included representatives of the families of two 
 other former pastors, Dr. Smith and Dr. Logan. 
 
 There are two members of the church now studying for the 
 ministry, Orville Lanham, who is a senior at McCormick Semi- 
 nary, and Edgar Perkins, who is a junior at the same institution. 
 Wayne King, another member, who is now a senior at Beliot 
 College, plans to go into the ministry and will enter the Semi- 
 nary next year. 
 
 This church was the first Presbyterian church in the country 
 to subscribe for Presbyterian Life magazine for all of its fami- 
 lies, and did so six months before the first issue appeared. 
 
 In the year 1953 the regular budget of the church was $61,- 
 170.00 and the entire budget was raised by voluntary pledges 
 made in response to a letter from the budget committee. This 
 was the first time in the church's history that the budget was 
 raised in this manner, previous budget campaigns having been 
 by personal canvass of the membership. The budget includes 
 $19,500.00 for benevolences. In addition to the regular budget 
 the third annual installment of $3,500.00 was paid to the Res- 
 toration Fund for overseas relief and rehabilitation. The total 
 subscriptions by the church to this fund were $10,500.00 and 
 while this amount was in excess of the quota, additional con- 
 tributions have subsequently been made. 
 
 The "matchless organ" as Dr. Thomas called it, purchased in 
 1915, is now 38 years of age and has become afflicted with 
 several chronic complaints, including one known as "ciphering" 
 (stuck notes) . A number of improvements had been made in 
 organ manufacture since 1915 and the Trustees decided to in- 
 corporate some of these while repairing the other organ difficul- 
 
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ties. A new antiphonal organ is being added and also a new 
 console. The expenditures on the organ will amount to about 
 $16,000.00. 
 
 At the June meeting of Synod, Mr. Edward J. Fisher, an 
 elder of this church, was elected Moderator for the coming 
 year. This is one of the few times in Synod's history that a 
 
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 appointed Dr. Graebel Chairman of its Committee on Steward- 
 ship and Promotion. 
 
 The summer of 1953 was an extremely hot one and the 
 Trustees discussed the advisability of installing air-conditioning 
 in the sanctuary, but when they learned what the cost would 
 be, they decided that in view of the other commitments for im- 
 provements this year the air-conditioning would have to be 
 postponed. The John Bressmer Company cardboard fans are 
 still in good repair and will have to serve a while longer. The 
 kitchen too, was demanding attention and a program of mod- 
 ernizing it is being considered. Except for these two problems 
 the church plant is in first class condition. 
 
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On its anniversary the church could now look back on its 
 125 years with modest pride. The capital city of a great state 
 had arisen from the prairie and the church had helped make it 
 a better place to live. The church had grown from a member- 
 ship of 19 to 1,401. Even the church building had shared in 
 the miracles of the past century of science, an example of which 
 could be seen in the lighting. The candles had been replaced by 
 oil lamps, then by gas and later by electric lights. 
 
 On the larger scene the church had had a small part in the 
 steady march of human progress. Slavery had been outlawed 
 and some progress made against ignorance, intolerance, pov- 
 erty, hunger and disease. Christianity had been spread over 
 greater areas and had gained a foothold in some of the far 
 corners of the earth. The world had finally recognized that 
 man had common problems which required discussion in a 
 world organization and the United Nations had been created. 
 
 But the 125th anniversary year was not a year for the church 
 to spend much time in looking back. The Army announced that 
 in case of a Russian attack America would be able to retaliate 
 on Russian cities but that it would not be possible to prevent 
 Russian planes from geting through to us. The Civil Defense 
 Administration announced that Springfield was rated as the 
 eighth target in Illinois for enemy bombs and citizens were 
 urged to provide bomb shelters and keep them stocked with 
 food, water and a battery radio. 
 
 It was now clear that through science, nations on the oppo- 
 site sides of the earth had been provided with the means to 
 destroy each other. It was also clear that no means had been 
 developed to keep them from doing so. The church understood 
 the peril, which was great, and the minister pointed a way to 
 peace: 
 
 "The world needs reunion on the highest possihle level. Only Christ- 
 like concern for all sorts and conditions of men is going to build the 
 bridges that will unite people of every part of this distraught world. 
 Science has made the world a neighborhood; Christ must make a 
 brotherhood. 1 ' 
 
 ". . .Warfare is intolerable! The ashes of victory are not worth the 
 flames of burning civilization and the bodies of millions of people. 
 We must find another way to win the world. We must lift the world 
 or lose the world!" 
 
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Other churches were urging the same way to peace. 
 
 If Brotherhood is to be the way to Peace the churches have 
 a tremendous responsibility. Christian Brotherhood must be 
 preached, and taught, so that all mankind will comprehend it, 
 and demand this way to Peace, while there is still time. 
 
 All that the churches had done since their beginning is only 
 preliminary to such a task. All the energy and zeal of their 
 seminaries and colleges, their educated ministry, scholars and 
 missionaries, and their organizations of devoted members will 
 be needed if the goal is to be reached. 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
 ROLL OF ELDERS 
 
 John Moore Jan. 30, 1828 
 
 Samuel Reid Jan. 30, 1828 
 
 Isaiah Stillman Jan. 30, 1828 
 
 John H. Moore Jan. 30, 1828 
 
 Ebenezer S. Phelps Jan. 3, 1832 
 
 Elijah Slater. Jan. 3, 1832 
 
 James L. Lamb June 4, 1835 
 
 Joseph Torrey June 4, 1837 
 
 Edmund R. Wiley June 4, 1837 
 
 James M. Duncan Dec. 1, 1839 
 
 Asahel Stone Oct. 16, 1842 
 
 Joseph K. Lewis ...Jan. 1, 1849 
 
 Edmund G. Jones Jan. 1, 1849 
 
 Henry C. Remann Jan. 1, 1849 
 
 John Todd June 22, 1849 
 
 Henry Van Hoff July 11, 1850 
 
 Robert Officer April, 1854 
 
 Thomas Lewis August, 1854 
 
 Thomas H. Bergen Oct. 31, 1857 
 
 William A. Bennett Oct. 31, 1857 
 
 Josiah Waddell Oct. 31, 1857 
 
 Thomas S. Henning Feb. 8, 1861 
 
 Richard H. Beach Oct. 13, 1867 
 
 Christopher C. Brown Oct. 13, 1867 
 
 William H. Hayden Oct. 13, 1867 
 
 James P. Bryce Oct. 13, 1867 
 
 James L. Lamb Oct. 13, 1872 
 
 John S. Vredenburgh Oct. 13, 1872 
 
 Joshua G. Lamb Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 Roland W. Diller Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 Daniel C. Brown Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 Edward P. Beach Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 John W. Dalbey Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 George B. Hemenway Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 Andrew M. Brooks Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 George White Dec. 19, 1880 
 
 A. A. Patteson Sept. 14, 1885 
 
 Alexander L. Patteson Aug. 11, 1893 
 
 Thomas Condell July 3, 1905 
 
 George B. Winston July 3, 1905 
 
 Walter E. Edmonds.... ...July 3, 1905 
 
 Lewis S. Miller July 3, 1905 
 
 Isaac R. Diller July 3, 1905 
 
 Ralph N. Baker June 4, 1909 
 
 Charles M. Bowcock June 4, 1909 
 
 David A. DeVares June 4, 1909 
 
 Edward R. Talbott June 4, 1909 
 
 Fred S. Brown April 10, 1912 
 
 Robert T. Brown Jan. 28, 1914 
 
 John L. Pickering April 1, 1914 
 
 Warren R. Bailey Jan. 28, 1914 
 
 D. D. Flanner Jan. 28, 1914 
 
 Harry C. Barnes Jan. 27, 1915 
 
 John E. George Jan. 27 
 
 Charles F. Mills Jan. 28 
 
 R. Francis Ruth Jan. 26 
 
 Shelby C. Dorwin Jan. 27 
 
 John C. Hanna Jan. 26 
 
 W. Edgar Sampson April 25 
 
 Bayard L. Catron April 6 
 
 Grafton Munroe Jan. 28 
 
 Wilbur C. Hoover Jan. 28 
 
 George M. Wilson Jan. 28 
 
 James H. Danley Jan. 28 
 
 Noah C. Bainum Jan. 28 
 
 L. M. Cunningham April 6 
 
 Frank H. McKelvey Jan. 4 
 
 Albert H. Rankin. April 4 
 
 James M. Furry April 4 
 
 Berton W. Hole April 2 
 
 Julian L. Vallette April 1 
 
 Edward M. Majors April 7 
 
 Henry L. Child March 30 
 
 Clarence O. Miller March 30 
 
 Church G. Todd March 30 
 
 H. M. Thrasher Nov. 16 
 
 Harry P. Jones Jan. 11 
 
 Alex. B. Macpherson Jan. 11 
 
 W. I. Woodworth April 11 
 
 Edward E. Craft April 11 
 
 Frank V. Partridge April 10 
 
 Axel T. Smith April 10 
 
 Christopher B. Stuart April 10 
 
 E. S. Boyd April 15 
 
 Harry D. McCreary April 15 
 
 Robert E. Miller . April 6 
 
 W. B. Whitlock April 6 
 
 E. C. Whittaker April 6 
 
 Charles M. Fox April 19 
 
 W. G. Potter April 11 
 
 Ogden Munroe April 11 
 
 Gilbert McCoy April 10 
 
 John D. Cooke. April 15 
 
 P. C. Yocom April 14 
 
 H. L. Metcalf April 14 
 
 William M. Stowell April 14 
 
 Earnest S. Jones. April 20 
 
 W. B. Curry April 20 
 
 Robert C. Lanphier April 20 
 
 J. L. Northrup.. April 12 
 
 A. Miller Young April 10, 
 
 O. L. Herndon.. April 15 
 
 Roger E. Chapin April 15 
 
 John T. Hatcher April 15 
 
 Stanley Thomas April 15 
 
 C. F. Jacobson April 15 
 
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John E. MacWherter April 15, 1942 
 
 M. W. Schueler April 15, 1942 
 
 Robert B. Irwin April 15, 1942 
 
 Fred A. Bohnhorst.... April 14, 1943 
 
 Otho A. Gillin April 14, 1943 
 
 Roosevelt E. Patton April 14, 1943 
 
 Ambrose Wetherbee April 14, 1943 
 
 Lauren O. Lindstrom Jan. 12, 1944 
 
 Harry W. Hill ..Jan. 12, 1944 
 
 Edward J. Fisher.. April 12, 1944 
 
 H. H. Janssen April 12, 1944 
 
 John G. Miller April 11, 1945 
 
 Richings J. Shand, Jr April 11, 1945 
 
 Cecil I. Thomas April 11, 1945 
 
 Theodore Agnew April 10, 1946 
 
 Glenn A. Kniss April 10, 1946 
 
 Kurt T. Bretscher April 9, 1947 
 
 C. A. Haag April 9, 1947 
 
 S. J. Krogdahl April 9, 1947 
 
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 C. Gordon Cruickshank April 9, 1947 
 
 Henr^K. Barber Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 O. M. Hatch III ...Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 J. A. Stocker Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 Douglas W. Erskine.... Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 J. Marvin Garfield Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 Theodore F. Morf Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 Emmet F. Pearson .Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 J. Porter Coble .Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Alton G. Hall Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Win. DeHollander Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 John F. Curtis Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Henry E. Diers Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Charles H. Northrup Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Paul M. Vance Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Mrs. Ines C. Hoffmann Jan. 14, 1953 
 
 Arthur Parkison Jan. 14, 1953 
 
 John A. Patton Jan. 14, 1953 
 
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 Edward P. Beach. __ July 
 
 Edwin A. Wilson July 
 
 S. C. Runyan Oct. 
 
 John T. Stuart Feb. 
 
 R. F. Ruth Jan. 
 
 Frederick W. Sutton Jan. 
 
 Henry Van Hoff Jan. 
 
 George B. Hemenway Jan. 
 
 William A. Turney Jan. 
 
 William C. Cowgill Jan. 
 
 Thomas Condell -Jan. 
 
 LaRue Vredenburgh Jan. 
 
 Charles F. Mills Jan. 
 
 Samuel H. Gehlman Jan. 
 
 Joseph B. Perkins Jan. 
 
 George B. Winston Jan. 
 
 Harry B. Allen Jan. 
 
 Austin A. Taylor Aug. 
 
 Ralph N. Baker July 
 
 Albert Carver July 
 
 George A. Farmer July 
 
 Grafton Munroe July 
 
 Charles H. Sutton July 
 
 Edward R. Talbott July 
 
 Warren R. Bailey July 
 
 Thomas L. Jarrett July 
 
 Charles L. Patton July 
 
 Albert H. Rankin July 
 
 Shelby C. Dorwin Jan. 
 
 R. Francis Ruth Jan. 
 
 Samuel J. Willett Jan. 
 
 S. O. Pearce April 
 
 William A. Baker Jan. 
 
 Alex. B. Macpherson, Jr Jan. 
 
 George M. Wilson Jan. 
 
 Harry A. Barnes April 
 
 Ogden B. Munroe ...April 
 
 Alfred Booth. Jan. 
 
 John E. George April 
 
 John P. Lloyd ...Jan. 
 
 Thomas English Jan. 
 
 Otho A. Gillin.... Jan. 
 
 Carley H. Hoy April 
 
 David Chandler Prince Jan. 
 
 William Harding Jan. 
 
 Benjamin F. M. Cassiday April 
 
 George E. Morton Jan. 
 
 Elmer R. Cogswell. Jan. 
 
 Clarence E. Dauner Jan. 
 
 Allen G. Call Jan. 
 
 Walter S. Todd Jan. 
 
 Charles G. Maxwell Jan. 
 
 Henry H. Janssen Jan. 
 
 Louis J. Titus Jan. 
 
 Frederick S. Sperry Jan. 
 
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 Frank H. McKelvey April, 1921 
 
 J. Fleetwood Connelly April, 1921 
 
 Roger E. Chapin April, 1921 
 
 Robert S. Hudson March, 1922 
 
 Harrv M. Thrasher March, 1922 
 
 John H. Nims March, 1922 
 
 Alexis E. Stoddard March, 1922 
 
 Julian L. Vallette April, 1924 
 
 Sven |. Krogdahl April, 1923 
 
 Edgar S. Boyd April, 1923 
 
 Albert C. Millspaugh April, 1923 
 
 Church G. Todd April, 1924 
 
 Donald O. Needham April, 1924 
 
 Charles M. Fox April, 1925 
 
 Elmer C. Whittaker April, 1925 
 
 Clarence F. Brumbach April, 1925 
 
 Robert P. Butts April, 1925 
 
 Paul W. Pickering April, 1925 
 
 W. 1. Woodruff Dec, 1926 
 
 Herman Helmle April, 1926 
 
 Harold C. George April, 1926 
 
 Christopher B. Stuart April, 1926 
 
 Ross L. Weller March, 1927 
 
 Charles Z. Quay April 11, 1928 
 
 Lindsay C. English April 11, 1928 
 
 Axtell Kramer April 11, 1928 
 
 H. J. Ramsey April 11, 1928 
 
 Robert McNair April 10, 1929 
 
 Allen T. Smith April 10, 1929 
 
 Ronald Schroeder April 10, 1929 
 
 Raymond Walters April 10, 1929 
 
 Robert Furry April 9, 1930 
 
 Alton G. Hall... April 9, 1930 
 
 Scott Thomas April 9, 1930 
 
 Earnest S. Jones. Apr 
 
 David Ditmore Apri 
 
 Samuel Ryerson Apri 
 
 P. R. Patterson Apr 
 
 Harold Folley April 19, 1933 
 
 Arthur Comer April 19, 1933 
 
 Hayward McMurray April 19, 1933 
 
 Fred W. Wenzel April 11, 1934 
 
 Henry R. Barber April 11, 1934 
 
 George P. Coutrakon April 10, 1935 
 
 Hugh J. Dobbs April 10, 1935 
 
 J. Speed Reid April 10, 1935 
 
 A. Miller Young April 15, 1936 
 
 Knowles Laird April 15, 1936 
 
 O. L. Leefers ....April 15, 1936 
 
 Wm. Rcinhardt April 15, 1936 
 
 LaRue K. Vredenburgh April 15, 1936 
 
 Ambrose Wetherbee April 14, 1937 
 
 Stanley Thomas April 14, 1937 
 
 J. A. Todson April 14, 1937 
 
 John T. Hatcher April 14, 1937 
 
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 E. Harold Ennis April 20, 1938 
 
 Lauren O. Lindstrom April 20, 1933 
 
 John G. Miller April 12, 1939 
 
 Edwin George... April 12, 1939 
 
 O. M. Hatch III April 12, 1939 
 
 M. W. Schueler April 12, 1939 
 
 Walter O. Schulze April 12, 1939 
 
 L. A. Hammond April 10, 1940 
 
 Walter Myers. April 10, 1940 
 
 F. R. Trigg April 15, 1941 
 
 W. J. Broad April 15, 1941 
 
 Charles Puntney April 15, 1941 
 
 Charles H. Northrup April 15, 1941 
 
 Frank McKelvey, Jr April 15, 1941 
 
 Charles Y. Milford April 15, 1941 
 
 Claude Goddard. April 15, 1942 
 
 Glenn Kniss. April 15, 1942 
 
 Kenneth Lawyer April 15, 1942 
 
 Cecil I. Thomas April 15, 1942 
 
 Yontz Bonnett, Jr April 15, 1942 
 
 Francis Shuster April 15, 1942 
 
 James B. Cassiday April 14, 1943 
 
 John F. Curtis April 14, 1943 
 
 Wm. DeHollander April 14, 1943 
 
 George Y. Helmle April 14, 1943 
 
 C. A. Haag April 14, 1943 
 
 Donnel Hudson Jan. 12,1944 
 
 Lynden Hornbrook Jan. 12,1944 
 
 Frank Houska Jan. 12, 1944 
 
 Gordon Cruickshank April 12, 1944 
 
 Judson Jusell ...April 12, 1944 
 
 Robert H. Tittle April 12, 1<>44 
 
 E. J. Raich April 12, 1944 
 
 Ralph Truitt April 12, 1944 
 
 Douglas W. Erskine April 11, 1945 
 
 Alien M. Jones April 11, 1945 
 
 L. W. Neber April 11, 1945 
 
 Herbert O. Sorensen April 11, 1945 
 
 J. A. Stocker April 11, 1945 
 
 Rogers W. Troxell April 11, 1945 
 
 Alexander Church April 10, 1946 
 
 Henrv E. Diers April 10, 1946 
 
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 J. Marvin Garfield April 10, 1946 
 
 Emmet F. Pearson April 10, 1946 
 
 Theodore F. Mori April 10, 1946 
 
 Roy E. Ziegler April 10, 1946 
 
 Harry J. Alton April 9, 1947 
 
 John R. Chapin April 9, 1947 
 
 A. C. Buchmann .April 9, 1947 
 
 J. Porter Coble April 9, 1947 
 
 Basil Coutrakon April 9, 1947 
 
 Myrle V. Homey Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 Robert E. Hurie Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 Robert A. Orndorff Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 Wiliiam W. Sherwood Jan. 14, 1948 
 
 Floyd L. Bal linger Jan. 12, 1949 
 
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 Robert L. Boardman Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 Arthur R. Parkison Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 J. K. Pottorff Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 Paul M- Vance Jan. 12, 1949 
 
 Brockett R. Bates Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 George Edw. Day III Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 John A. Patton Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 John B. Stoddart, Jr Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Robert H. Brunsman Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Robert A. Stuart Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Richard Thrasher Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 John Giltner Twist Jan. 11, 1950 
 
 Edgar H. Andresen Jan. 10, 1951 
 
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 John F. Macpherson Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Wayne E. Morgan Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 LeRoy L. Rasch Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Robert C. Roach Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Wilbur F. Zanin. ....Jan. 10, 1951 
 
 Charles A. Chapin Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Douglas M. Cover Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Charles H. Herr.. Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Ben D. Kiningham, Jr... Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Robert E. Miller, Jr Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Robert B. Oxtoby Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 David Phillips Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Roderick Tipton Jan. 10, 1952 
 
 Gershom K. Greening Jan. 14, 1953 
 
 DeWitt Lindley. .Jan. 14, 1953 
 
 Charles C. Patton Jan. 14, 1953 
 
 Donald R. Patton Jan. 14, 1953 
 
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 Abbey, Mr. F. L. 
 Ackelmire, Mr. Fred 
 Ackelmire, Mrs. Mary Lou 
 Ackerman, Mr. Harcld G. 
 Ackerman, Mrs. Virginia 
 Ackerman, Mr. Kenneth 
 Ackerman, Mrs. Gretchcn 
 Adams, Mr. J. B. 
 Adams, Mrs. Josephine 
 Adams, Mr. James L., Jr. 
 Adams, Miss Lucy 
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 Agnew, Mr. Theodore 
 Agnew, Mrs. Helen 
 Akers, Mrs. Ann 
 Allan, Mr. Harper 
 Allan, Mrs. Julia Keys 
 Allen, Miss Helen L. 
 Allen, Mr. Harry Edward 
 Allured, Mr. Donald E. 
 Allured, Mrs. Carolyn 
 Alton, Mr. Harry J. 
 Alton, Mrs. Shirley R. 
 Alton, Miss Barbara Ann 
 Alton, Mr. Harry J., Jr. 
 Andersen, Mr. Ernest 
 Andersen, Mrs. Muriel 
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 Anderson, Mr. J. Duncan 
 Anderson, Mrs. Lola Mae 
 Anderson, Mr. Leo Lewis 
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 Archer, Mr. William, Jr. 
 Armstrong, Dr. Wilber Price 
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 Attora, Mr. Albert G. 
 Attora, Mrs. Maurine 
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 Backus, Mrs. Beulah 
 Baird, Mrs. Margaret 
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 Baker, Miss Evelyn 
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 Baker, Miss Ida 
 Bales, Mr. Jay 
 Ballinger, Mr. Floyd L. 
 Ballinger, Mrs. Flora L. 
 Ballinger, Mr. James Lee 
 Barber, Mr. Clayton J. 
 Barber, Mrs. Emma Rankin 
 Barber, Mr. Henry R. 
 Barber, Mr. William 
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 Barry, Mr. Robert 
 Barry, Mrs. Leona 
 Bartholf, Mr. Stephen 
 
 Bast, Mr. Ernest R. 
 
 Bast, Mrs. Leone 
 
 Bates, Mr. Brockett 
 
 Bates, Mrs. Marguerite T. 
 
 Baucom, Mr. Thomas H. 
 
 Baucom, Mrs. Dorothy Cunningham 
 
 Beard, Mrs. Helen Vaniman 
 
 Beaver, Mr. Jerry 
 
 Behrend, Miss Frieda C. 
 
 Behrend, Miss Gussie M. 
 
 Belt, Mrs. Maude Moore 
 
 Bernard, Mrs. Bess E. 
 
 Bethel, Miss Thelma 
 
 Bidwell, Mr. Roger Lee 
 
 Bidwell, Mrs. Pearl May 
 
 Black, Miss Martha E. 
 
 Blair, Mrs. Jane Weller 
 
 Boardman, Mr. Robert L. 
 
 Boardman, Mrs. Betty W. 
 
 Bohnhorst, Mr. Fred A. 
 
 Bohnhorst, Mrs. Dorothy 
 
 Bohnhorst, Miss Emilie A. 
 
 Bohnhorst, Mr. Frank R. 
 
 Bohnhorst, Mrs. Janet Withey 
 
 Bonney, Mr. Guy E. 
 
 Bonney, Mrs. Christine 
 
 Borbely, Mr. Louis 
 
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 Bowen, Mrs. Grace M. 
 
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 Boyd, Mr. Robert Hayes 
 
 Boyd, Mr. Raymond Leigh 
 
 Boyd, Mrs. Luella 
 
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 Boynton, Mrs. Janice Goodsitt 
 
 Bradburn, Mr. Hubert 
 
 Bressmer, Miss Mary 
 
 Bretscher, Mr. Kurt T. 
 
 Bretscher, Mrs. Jean F. 
 
 Bretscher, Miss Linda 
 
 Bretz, Mrs. John F. 
 
 Brinkerhoff, Miss Bessie W. 
 
 Brinkerhoff, Mr. John W 
 
 Brinkerhoff, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 
 
 Brinkerhoff, John W., Jr. 
 
 Broadwell, Mr. Norman M. 
 
 Broadwell, Mr. B. Latham 
 
 Broadwell, Mrs. Mary Celeste 
 
 Broderick, Mrs. Daisy S. 
 
 Brooks, Mr. Claude J. 
 
 Brooks, Mrs. Helen Combs 
 
 Brooks, Mr. Robert John 
 
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 Brown, Miss Harriett 
 
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Brown, Mr. Meal E. 
 Brown, Mrs. Clarabelle Pritchitt 
 Brown, Mrs. Mary 
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 Brown, Mr. Walter V. 
 Brown, Mrs. Alma B. 
 Brunsman, Mr. Robert H. 
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 Bryden, Mr. Howarth O 
 Buchmann, Dr. A. C. 
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 Bullard, Mrs. Robert 
 Bunn, Miss Alice E. 
 Bunn, Mr. George W., Jr. 
 Bunn, Mrs. Melinda Jones 
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 Bunn, Miss Linda 
 Bunn, Mrs. Mildred J. 
 Bunn, Mr. Jacob, Jr. 
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 Call, Mrs. Mary Bradish 
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 Campbell, Mrs. Alice Miner 
 Campbell, Miss Clarice 
 Campbell, Mrs. Leland L. 
 Cantrall, Mr. Evans E. 
 Cantrall, Mrs. Edna Vail 
 Cantrall, Miss Marjorie 
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 Cassiday, Mr. James B., Jr. 
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 Castles, Mrs. Charles H. 
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 Chapin, Mr. John R. 
 Chapin, Mrs. Betty McNally 
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 Chapin, Mrs. Mildred Armstrong 
 Chapin, Mr. Charles 
 
 Chapin, Mr. Samuel 
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 Chittick, Mrs. Lillian 
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 Cloyd, Mr. Walter C. 
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 Cochran, Mr. Albert C 
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 Coble, Dr. J. Porter 
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 Conrad, Mrs. Nelle B. 
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 Cook. Mrs. Mabel 
 Cory, Miss Helen 
 Coutrakon, Mr. Basil H. 
 Coutrakon, Mrs. Elynore Booth 
 Coutrakon, Mr. George P. 
 Coutrakon, Mrs. Isabelle 
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 Crahtree. Mrs. Ruth Hall 
 Cramer, Mr. Dewey C 
 Cramer, Mrs. Ethel Bryant 
 Cramer, Mr. Bryant 
 Crow Mrs. Marion 
 Crow, Nancy 
 
 Crowder, Mrs. Lucille Crowley 
 Crowley, Mrs. Henrietta Grace 
 Cunningham, Miss Ella 
 Curdie, Miss Elizabeth 
 Curtis, Mr. John F. 
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 Davis. Mr. Arthur Garfield 
 Davis. Mrs. Eleanor Smith 
 Dawson, Mrs. Alberta 
 Dawson, Mr. Vere 
 Day, Mr. Eugene G. 
 Day, Mrs. Esther Whipple 
 Dav. Miss Suzanne 
 Day, Miss Cathryn Elizabeth 
 Day, Mr. George Edward 1 1 1 
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 Day, Mr. James Edward 
 
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Day, Mrs. Mary Burgess 
 
 Deal, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 Deatnn, Miss Louise 
 
 DeBruler, Mr. Clarence 
 
 DeBruler, Mrs. Josephine Rich 
 
 DeFratis, Mr. Albert E 
 
 DeHollander, Dr. William 
 
 DeHollander, Mrs. Hazel 
 
 DeHollander, Miss Joanne E 
 
 DeMuth, Mrs. Ellen Taylor 
 
 DeMnth, Miss Constance 
 
 DePew, Mrs. Daisy 
 
 DePew, Miss Joan Marcia 
 
 Deuel, Mrs. Nora Quain 
 
 Deuel, Mr. Wm. Townsley 
 
 Devey, Mr. Robert 
 
 Deyo, Miss Margaret 
 
 Dickerman, Dr. Street 
 
 Dickerman, Mrs. Georgia 
 
 Dickerson, Mr. Fred Russell 
 
 Dickerson, Mrs. Joyce 
 
 Diers, Mr. Henry E. 
 
 Diers, Mrs. Ruth 
 
 Diller, Mr. Wm. Hughes, Sr. 
 
 Diller, Mr. Wm. Hughes, Jr. 
 
 Dobbs, Mr. Hugh J. 
 
 Dobbs, Mrs. Sybil 
 
 Dorey, Mr. Vance D. 
 
 Dorev, Mrs. Eloise 
 
 Downing, Mrs. Agnes Morgan 
 
 Downing, Miss Libby Lou 
 
 Drake, Miss Annie P. 
 
 Drake, Mr. Robert Bruce 
 
 Drake, Mrs. Dorothy Scruggs 
 
 Dugan, Mrs. Pearl B 
 
 Earl, Mr. Jack 
 
 Earl, Mr. Joe Ed 
 
 Earl, Mr. Wm. R. 
 
 Earl. Mr. Clarence Richard 
 
 Early, Mr. Charles D. 
 
 Ecklund, Mrs. Betty Bryden 
 
 Elkin, Mr. Herbert A. 
 
 Elkin, Mrs. Alma B 
 
 Elkin, Mr. Robert 
 
 English, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 Ennis, Mrs. Eva C. 
 
 Ennis, Dr. E. Harold 
 
 Ennis, Mrs. Virginia Keys 
 
 Entemann, Miss Charlotte Stimpson 
 
 Erskine, Mr. Douglas W. 
 
 Erskine, Mrs. Helen Stevenson 
 
 Erwin, Mrs. Ivadine Robinson 
 
 Evans, Dr. Frank 
 
 Evans, Mrs. Gertrude 
 
 Fayart, Mrs. Alice Brooks 
 
 Fayart, Mrs. Cordelia C 
 
 Feldkamp, Miss Jennie 
 
 Ferguson, Mrs. Zelde H. 
 
 Ferguson, Miss Nadine 
 
 Finley, Mr. Walter R. 
 
 Finley, Mrs. Eleanor 
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 Fox, Mr. Charles M. 
 Fox, Mrs. Victoria 
 Furry, Mr. Robert D. 
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 Garner, Mrs. Jennie 
 Garner, Mr. Edison, Jr. 
 Getzlaff, Miss Mildred 
 Gillespie, Mrs. Frances M. 
 Gillespie, Mr. George 
 Gillin, Mr. Otho A 
 Glass, Mr. Horace E. 
 Glass, Mrs. Marjorie D. 
 Good, Mrs. Ethel Louise 
 Good, Mr. John Clinton 
 Good, Mrs. Aley Ann Campbell 
 Goodsitt, Mr. Harry 
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 Goodwin, Mr. Thomas 
 Goodwin, Mrs. Lula 
 Cover, Dr. Douglas M. 
 Graebel, Mrs. Dorothy 
 Grannis, Mrs. Margaret Kienzle 
 Greene, Mr. Wesley 
 Greening, Dr. Gershom K. 
 Greening, Mrs. Barbara Flogaus 
 Griffith, Mrs. Gray 
 Grote, Mr. Lenard 
 Grote, Mrs. Charlotte L 
 Grotts, Mr. Fred 
 Grotts, Mrs. Maude 
 Gurske, Mrs. Lorene Hanson 
 Haag, Mr. Cornelius A. 
 Haag, Mrs. Lillian 
 Hagar, Mr. Horace E. 
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 Hall, Mrs. Mary Gene 
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 Hammond, Mr. Charles 
 Hanahan, Mrs. Cleo Swaftord 
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Hart, Mr. Albert W. 
 Harris, Mrs. Robert 
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 Harwood, Mrs. Maude 
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 Hatch, Miss Marilyn Abatha 
 Hatch, Mr. Ozias Mather, IV 
 Hatcher, Dr. John T. 
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 Hatfield, Miss Bette Jane 
 Haug, Miss Pearl 
 Hawkins, Mr. Russell L 
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 Hawkins, Mr. Robert Wayne 
 Hazelwood, Mrs. Christina W. 
 Helmle, Mr. George Y. 
 Helmle, Mrs. Mable D. 
 Helmle, Mr. Paul Norman 
 Hemenway, Miss Nelie 
 Henrv, Dr. Wm. A. 
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 Herndon, Mr. John Wm. 
 Herndon, Mrs. Calista Twist 
 Herndon, Mr. Noah Twist 
 Herndon, Mr. Stephen 
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 Herndon, Dr. Richard F. 
 Herndon, Mrs. Henrietta Robinson 
 Herndon, Mr. Charles Henson 
 Herndon, Mr. Lewis Langdon 
 Herndon, Mrs. R. F., Sr 
 Herr, Mr. Chas. H. 
 Herr Mrs. Jeane 
 Hicks, Mrs. Fay B. 
 Hiett, Mrs. Emma 
 Hiett, Miss Naomi 
 Hill, Mrs. Edna Muehlhauser 
 Hill, Mrs. Agnes Ada 
 Hill. Mrs. Florence L. 
 Hillburg, Mrs. Lillian 
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 Hinesley, Mr. Walter C 
 Hinesley, Mrs. Luanna A. 
 Hoff, Mrs. Elizabeth W 
 Hoffman, Mrs. June Wenzel 
 Hoffmann, Mr. George C. 
 Hoffmann, Mrs. Ines Catron 
 Hoffmann, Mr. George Catron 
 Hoffmann, Mr. John M 
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 Holz, Mrs. Ethel 
 Holz Mr. William Carl 
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 Homhledol, Miss Helen Kay 
 
 Hood, Mr. John D. 
 
 Hood. Mrs. Lillian 
 
 Hood, Miss Lillian 
 
 Hook, Mrs. Pearl H. 
 
 Hooker, Mr. Wm. L. 
 
 Hooker, Mrs. Helen Nelson 
 
 Hoover, Mr. Wilbur C. 
 
 Hoover, Mrs. Anna C. 
 
 Hopper, Mrs. Sallie 
 
 Hornbrook, Mr. F. Lynden 
 
 Hornbrook, Mrs. Ruth S 
 
 Hornbrook, Mr. Lynn 
 
 Hornbrook, Miss Christine 
 
 Hornev, Mr. Myrle V. 
 
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 Horton, Mr. William W. 
 
 Horton, Mrs. June 
 
 Hosford, Mr. Thomas T. 
 
 Hosford, Mrs. Beulah 
 
 Hosford, Miss Donna Gayle 
 
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 Houska, Mr. Frank 
 
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 Houska, Mr. George 
 
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 Howe, Mr. Walter 
 
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 Hudson, Mr. Donnel O 
 
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 Hudson, Mr. Robert 
 
 Huffman, Miss Mildred 
 
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 Hull, Mrs. Jean 
 
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 Irwin, Mr. Robert B. 
 
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 Lahm, Mr. Philip J. 
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 Lambert, Mr. Clarence 
 Lambert, Mrs. Esther Lattner 
 Lambert, Mr. Duane 
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 Langston, Mr. Thomas H 
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 Lanham, Mr. Russell 
 Lanham, Mrs. Florence 
 Lanham, Mr. Orville 
 Lanphier, Mrs. Bertha O. 
 Lanphier, Mr. Charles H. 
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 Lemme, Mrs. Margaret 
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 McKelvey, Mr. Frank H 
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 Meinders, Mr. Elmer L. 
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 Missel, Mrs. Esther 
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 Mitchell, Mr. George 
 Mitchon, Mr. John E. 
 Mitchon, Mrs. Dorothy Beth 
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 Morgan, Mrs. Charlotte Roberts 
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 Oxtoby, Mr. Robert 
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 Pickering, Mrs. Catherine 
 Pickrell, Miss Mildred 
 Poston, Mr. W. Dow 
 Poston, Mrs. Sally Goodsitt 
 Poston, Mr. Emmet V. 
 Poston, Mrs. Beryl 
 Pottorff, Mr. Kenneth 
 Pottorff, Mrs. Ruth Talbott 
 Powell, Miss Catherine Irene 
 Prather, Mrs. Maria Peteflsh 
 Prather, Mr. Robert Vaughan 
 Prather, Mr. Louis Petefish 
 Prince, Mrs. Charlotte 
 Pritchitt, Mrs. Georgia 
 Prichitt, Miss Clarabelle P. 
 Proctor, Mr. Philip Holman 
 Puntenney, Miss Elleanor 
 Purnell, Mr. Ernest Alfred 
 Purnell, Mrs. Elizabeth Irwin 
 Purvines, Mrs. Mayme Raman 
 Quay, Mr. Charles Z. 
 Quay, Mrs. Irene M. 
 Raich, Mr. Edwin J. 
 Raich, Mrs. Lou Eva 
 Raich, Mr. John Jerry 
 Raich, Mr. Robert Anderson 
 Ramsey, Mrs. Louise 
 Rasch, Mr. LeRoy L. 
 Rasch, Mrs. Odette 
 Reavley, Mrs. Nora Motfet 
 Reid, Miss Carol 
 Reid, Mr. J. Speed 
 Reid, Mrs. Frances Shriver 
 Reid, Miss Sallie 
 Reid, Mr. Drake Speed 
 Reilly, Mrs. Edith Johnson 
 Reisch, Dr. Jacob E. 
 Reisch, Mrs. Gladys Wilson 
 Reisch, Miss Veve 
 Reisch, Miss Susan Diane 
 Reilly, Mrs. June Powers 
 Richards, Mr. Earnest H. 
 Richards, Mrs. Gladys Burtle 
 Richards, Mr. William 
 
 Richards, Mrs. Ruth Cobb 
 Richardson, Mr. Amos 
 Richardson, Mrs. Mary Prince 
 Richardson, Mrs. Frances Johnson 
 Rippey, Miss Opel Margaret 
 Ritter, Mrs. Margaret A. 
 Ritter, Mr. Russell 
 Roach, Mr. Corwine E. 
 Roach, Mrs. Henrietta Day 
 Roach, Miss Mary Leigh 
 Roach, Mr. Robert Corwine 
 Roberts, Mr. Alva N. 
 Roberts, Mrs. Maude 
 Roberts, Mr. Mark O. 
 Roberts, Mrs. Florence 
 Roberts, Miss Marcia 
 Robinson, Mrs. Martha Hazell 
 Robinson, Miss Sarah Anne 
 Robinson, Mr. Wilbur B. 
 Rolli, Mr. Donald Rudolph 
 Rolli, Mrs. June Anna 
 Rose, Dr. Norman James 
 Rose, Mrs. Ethel 
 Rose, Mr. Norman 
 Ross, Mr. Clyde W. 
 Ross, Mrs. Catherine 
 Ross, Miss Jeanette 
 Ross, Mr. John 
 Ross, Miss Ona 
 Rudin, Mr. Franklin 
 Runvan, Mrs. Cora 
 Runyan, Miss Helen 
 Russel, Mr. Martin 
 Russel, Mrs. Mary 
 Russel, Mr. James 
 Russel, Mr. William G 
 Ryerson, Mr. Samuel 
 Ryerson, Mrs. Mary M. 
 Ryerson, Miss Lynda Ann 
 Sager, Miss Dorothea 
 Saloka, Miss Anne 
 Sampson, Mrs. Ethel 
 Sanders, Mr. George 
 Sanders, Mrs. Edna Irene 
 Sargent, Miss Phillis 
 Saunders, Mrs. Ruth 
 Schaich, Mr. John F. 
 Schaich, Mrs. Mary Craft 
 Schanbacher, Mrs. Sarah Bonn 
 Schlangen, Mrs. Betty Bernard 
 Schlipf, Miss Margaret 
 Schlitt, Mr. Frederick P 
 Schlitt, Mrs. Irma C 
 Schnepp, Mrs. Lois Catron 
 Scott. Mr. David W. 
 Scott Mrs. Manila Adams 
 Scott Mr. David 
 Schulze, Mr. Walter O. 
 Schulze, Mrs. Lydia I. 
 Schryver, Mr. C. Archie 
 
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Schryver, Mrs. Jeanette Smitli 
 Schrvver, Miss Jacqueline 
 Schrvver, Mr. Emil Archie 
 Seabright, Miss Helen K 
 Sebring, Mr. Chas. K. 
 Sebring, Mrs. Marjorie M. 
 Seger, Mrs. Edith Ann 
 Shand, Mr. Richings J., Jr. 
 Shand, Mrs. Odell G. 
 Shand, Miss Lois Odell 
 Shelton, Mr. Lewis P. 
 Shelton, Mrs. Lucile 
 Shepherd, Mrs. Martha 
 Sherwood, Mrs. Yvonne Y 
 Shoemaker, Mrs. Lutie 
 Shunick, Mrs. Louise 
 Shuster, Mr. Albert 
 Shuster, Mrs. Margery 
 Shuster, Mr. H. Francis 
 Shuster, Mrs. Marjorie S 
 Sims, Mr. Jewel D 
 Sims, Mrs. Ada B. 
 Sims, Miss Nancy Jo 
 Slater, Mrs. Patricia Haag 
 Slavmaker, Mr. Charles M. 
 Slavmaker, Mrs. Chas. M. 
 Sleeth, Mr. John Gilbert 
 Sieeth, Mrs. Pauline Lanharo 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Allen T. 
 Smith. Mrs. Mary Ward Whitlock 
 Smith, Mr. Axel 
 Smith, Mrs. Annie 
 Smith, Mrs. Katie Johnson 
 Smith, Mr. Donald B. 
 Smith, Miss Frieda L 
 Smith, Mr. Harry K. 
 Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Penick 
 Smith, Miss Helen Janet 
 Smith, Mrs. Lydia 
 Smith, Miss Lavinia 
 Smith, Mrs. Leigh Day 
 Smith, Miss Barbara 
 Smith Mrs. Eloise Cook- 
 Smith Miss Marilyn Joan 
 Smith, Miss Linda Leigh 
 Smith, Mrs. Amy B. 
 Smith, Mr. Thomas C. 
 Smith, Mr. William W 
 Sorensen, Mrs. Grace M 
 Sorensen, Mr. Herbert John 
 Soutier, Miss Blanche 
 Soutfar, Mr. W. J. 
 Souttar, Mrs. Madge 
 Spencer, Mr. Elmer G 
 Spencer, Mrs. Anna P. 
 Spencer, Miss Shirley Ann 
 Spencer, Mr. David 
 Sperry, Mrs. Frederick L. 
 Spinner, Mrs. Nancy Baird 
 Spratt, Mrs. Thelma Ramsey 
 
 Springer, Mrs. Samuel F. M 
 Sprinkell, Mr. William A 
 Sprinkell, Mrs. Edith 
 Squires, Mr. William \X 
 Squires, Mrs. E. Kathleen 
 Staab, Mrs. Marilyn Schryver 
 Stahl. Miss Clare 
 Starchevich, Mrs. Lera Ann Craft 
 Stocker, Dr. J. A 
 Stocker, Mrs. Corinne Althem 
 Stocker, Mr. William 
 Stocker, Miss Sue 
 Stoddart, Mr. John B., Jr 
 Stoddart, Mrs. Betty Wait 
 Stout. Mrs. James Howard 
 Stout. Miss Judy 
 Stout Mr. Sam 
 Stout. Mrs. Sam 
 Stowell, Mrs. W. M. 
 Stuart, Dr. Christopher B. 
 Stuart, Mrs. Clementine 
 Stuart, Mrs. Mary 
 Stuart, Mr. Robert Allen 
 Stuart, Mrs. Elizabeth P. 
 Sturgis, Mrs. Nellie 
 Sudduth, Mr. James B 
 Sudduth, Mrs. Frances 
 Sudduth, Mr. John W. 
 Sudduth Mrs. Olive G 
 Sugg, Miss Ruby 
 Sutton, Mrs. Mary A. 
 Sutton, Mr. Robert T. 
 Sutton, Mrs. Mary Jane 
 Sutton, Miss Julia Ann 
 Sutton, Miss Victoria 
 Swatsley, Mrs. Sarah 
 Talbott, Mrs. Jessie Brown 
 Taylor, Mrs. Ruth Vallette 
 Tavlor, Miss Marcia Isabel 
 Tavlor, Mr. Bvron David 
 Tavlor, Mr. Will 
 Tavlor, Mrs. Charlotta W. 
 Teckenbrock, Mr. Alfred C. 
 Teckenbrock, Mrs. Ethel 
 Terrv, Miss Leila Mae 
 Tharp, Mr. Russell S, 
 Tharp, Mrs. Josephine Munroe 
 Tharp, Mr. Lawrence Grafton 
 Thayer, Miss Maude 
 Theisen, Mrs. Martha 
 Thomas, Mr. Cecil 1 
 Thomas, Mrs. Emily Clark 
 Thomas, Miss Ann Elizabeth 
 Thomas, Miss Margaret Emily 
 Thomas, Mr. Stanley 
 Thomas, Mrs. Jean Briggle 
 Thrasher, Mr. Richard Francis 
 Thrasher, Mrs. Dorothy Moore 
 Tittle, Mr. Robert H. 
 Tittle, Mrs. Frances W 
 Todd, Mrs. Mural 
 
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Todson, Mr. Jesse A. 
 Townsend, Mrs. Frances B. 
 Triebel, Mr. Richard 
 Trigg, Mr. Frank R. 
 Trigg, Mrs. Grace Johnson 
 Trigg, Miss Carol Frances 
 Trigg, Mr. John Robert 
 Troxell, Mrs. Erma R. 
 Troxell, Mr. Rogers W. 
 Troxell, Mrs. Arlene Bennett 
 Truitt, Mr. Ralph 
 Truitt, Mrs. Alice Lindquist 
 Truitt, Miss Janice Ellen 
 Turner, Mrs. Rebecca 
 Tuttle, Mrs. Mary 
 Twist, Mr. John Giltner 
 Vaniman, Mr. F. S. 
 Vaniman, Mrs. Ruth 
 Vaniman, Mr. Harold 
 VanMeter, Mrs. S. C. 
 Van Meter, Mr. W. H. 
 Van Meter, Mrs. Polly S 
 Verardi, Mrs. Johnette 
 Verardi, Mr. Ledo 
 Verley, Mrs. Floida 
 Vick, Mrs. Marjorie 
 Vick, Mr. Robert E. 
 Vredenburgh, Mrs. Dorothy Ann 
 Vredenburgh, Mr. Warren Ogden 
 Vredenburgh, Mrs. Mary Alice 
 Wahl, Miss Joan 
 Wahl, Mr. David Catlin 
 Wallace, Mr. George M. 
 Wallace, Mrs. Dott 
 Walter, Mr. L. D. 
 Walter, Mrs. Bernice 
 Walters, Mr. Chas. Raymond 
 Walters, Mrs. Elizabeth McKown 
 Walters, Miss Betty Ann 
 Walters, Miss Mary Carol 
 Warrington, Mrs. Annie K. 
 Washbond, Mrs. George 
 Washbond, Miss Suzy 
 Watkins, Mrs. Laura A 
 Watson, Mr. Harry W. 
 Watson, Mrs. Katherine 
 Watts, Mr. Phillip L. 
 Watts, Mrs. Hallie F. 
 Watts, Miss Shirley 
 Wear, Miss Lucille 
 Weber, Miss Helen K. 
 Weir, Dr. H. E. 
 Weir, Mrs. Ruth McKee 
 
 Welch, Mrs. Gracia 
 Welch, Miss Margaret Ann 
 Weller, Mr. Ross L. 
 Weller, Mrs. Ethel Colby 
 Wenzel, Miss Anna M. 
 Wenzel, Miss Clara A. 
 Westlake, Mrs. Frances 
 Westlake, Miss Ruth Ann 
 Wetherbee, Mr. Ambrose 
 Wetherbee, Mrs. Miriam Curry 
 Wetherbee, Mrs. Grace Ambrose 
 White, Mrs. Lena Elkins 
 White, Mr. Otis, Jr. 
 White, Mrs. Iva S. 
 White, Mrs. Jane Abbey- 
 Whitney, Mr. Prosper King IV 
 Whitecraft, Miss Bess 
 Whiting, Mrs. Ethel 
 Whittaker, Mr. E. Carlin 
 Whittaker, Mrs. Louise W. 
 Wiechert, Miss Delia 
 Wiese, Miss Adelia D. 
 Wilder, Mrs. Gladys Edwards 
 Williams, Mrs. Dorothy 
 Williams, Mr. Gerald John 
 Williams, Mr. Wilford Aaron 
 Williams, Mrs. Gwen Dorkin 
 Wilson, Dr. Wm. E. 
 Wilson, Mrs. Mary Leib 
 Wines, Mrs. Eva C. 
 Wineteer, Mrs. Marie Ayres 
 Wolgamott, Mr. Gordon R. 
 Wolgamott, Mrs. Ila 
 Wolgamott, Mr. Richard 
 Woods, Mrs. F. Shepherd 
 Wood, Mrs. Lela 
 Woodland, Mr. James Sumner 
 Wright, Mrs. Adah 
 Yocom, Mr. P. C. 
 Yocom, Mrs. Rite B. 
 Young, Mrs. Florence 
 Young, Mrs. Helen A. 
 Younkin, Mr. Glenn 
 Younkin, Mrs. Margaret Wiley 
 Zanin, Mr. Wilbur F. 
 Zanin, Mrs. Lena C. 
 Zanin, Mr. Norman 
 Zanin, Mr. Wilbur, Jr. 
 Ziegler, Mr. Roy 
 Ziegler, Mrs. Dorothy Hawkins 
 Ziegler, Miss Dorothy Lee 
 Zimmerman, Mrs. M. O. 
 Zimmerman, Miss Madge Elizabeth 
 
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NEW MEMBERS RECEIVED SINCE JANUARY 1953 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Helen Hanley 
 Brunsman, Robert Wood 
 Coltman, Barbara Jane 
 Erskine, Susan 
 Furry, Dana Lou 
 Graebel, Richard Read 
 Herndon, David Lewis 
 Light, Don James 
 McKenzie, Margaret June 
 Nord, Michael Leigh 
 Patton, James William 
 Pearson, Mary Lenore 
 Sorensen, Richard Lawson 
 Stout, James Howard, Jr. 
 Sutton, Robert Geoffrey 
 Thomas, Stanley, Jr. 
 Van Meter, John Robert 
 Van Meter, Nancy Jane 
 Fisher, Mr. Charles 
 Fisher, Mrs. Mary 
 Hall, Miss Maude 
 Robinson, Mr. Stuart 
 Robinson, Mrs. Marguerite R. 
 Slater, Mr. Duane Earl 
 Coe, Mrs. Helen M. 
 Hubly, Mrs. Josephine 
 dinger, Mr. Elgin D. 
 dinger, Mrs. Betty G. 
 Blair, Mr. Byron L. 
 Klemm, Mrs. Amanda 
 Sorensen, Mrs. Bernadine 
 Stout, Mr. James Howard 
 Bunn, Mrs. Esto Hart 
 Ecklund, Mr. George W. 
 Jones, Mr. Norman P. 
 
 Loomis, Mr. Robert C. 
 Loomis, Mrs. Virginia 
 Loomis, Robert, Jr. 
 Zelle, Dr. Charles Kane 
 Zelle, Mrs. Libby 
 Schwaner, Mr. Wm. Frederick 
 Schwaner, Mrs. Adele 
 Perkins, Mr. Edgar Haas 
 Gillespie, Miss Mary Ellis 
 Beebe, Mr. William Michael 
 Beebe, Mrs. Marilyn Stufer 
 Furry, Mr. Harry 
 Furry, Mrs. M. Lucile 
 Grant, Mrs. Margaret G. 
 Richard, Mr. Richard C. 
 Miller, Mrs. Katherine Mae 
 Patton, Mrs. Helen 
 Patton, Mrs. Nancy Noonan 
 W'anberg, Mr. H. Theodore 
 Wanberg, Mrs. Helen 
 Wan berg, Ted 
 Wanberg, Kristine 
 Herndon, Mrs. Barbara Boll 
 Herndon, Mrs. Beverly Kent 
 Martin, Mr. William 
 Martin, Mrs. Jean 
 Herring, Mrs. Florence 
 Herring, Miss Beth 
 Jess, Mr. Robert Agee 
 Prather, Mrs. Lois Jarman 
 Sherertz, Mr. Everett L. 
 Sherertz, Mrs. Helen M. 
 Zcuitffes. Mr. Ralph W. 
 Zeunges, Mrs. Gertrude 
 
 
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The Historical Celebration Committeee for the 125th Anniversary is as 
 
 follows: 
 
 Mr. Roger E. Chapin, Chairman 
 
 Mrs. Kurt T. Bretscher 
 
 Mr. William Hughes Diller 
 
 Mrs. Emerv Ennis 
 
 Mr. O. M." Hatch, III 
 
 Mr. Wilbur C. Hoover 
 
 Miss Elsie Lo«an 
 
 Miss Marjorie Logan 
 
 Mrs. John Francis Macpherson 
 
 Mr. John G. Miller 
 
 Mrs. Elmer Nafziger 
 
 Mr. John A. Patton 
 
 Mrs. A. C. Teckenbrock 
 
 Mr. Stanlev Thomas 
 
 Mis. Elmer Nafziger directed the banquet arrangements,- Miss Mary 
 Louise McCreary did the newspaper publicity,- and Mrs. Kurt T. Bretscher 
 was secretary. 
 
 In connection with the January observance, Dr. William H. Hudnut, 
 Jr., preached on January 18. Dr. Graebel preached the historical sermon on 
 January 25; Dr. Robert Worth Frank, (president, McCormick Seminary) 
 was guest speaker for the Wednesday night reunion service,- Dr. John T. 
 Thomas was the speaker for the banquet on Friday night, January 30. The 
 picture above was taken at the reunion reception and shows Judge Chapin 
 and Dr. Graebel examining the historical exhibit which is centered around 
 an oil portrait of Dr. John G. Bergen, first pastor of the church. 
 
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