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,542 BIOGRAPHY AND REMTSISCENCES<br />
year induced thirty-eight persons to pledge tliemselves to temperance.<br />
1n January, 1842, twenty-four nlore signed, ancl thus temperance and<br />
reli$!on Irere prenclletl there until 1846, wllell some members ~vithdre1\7<br />
to join the newly org~nizetl Cong~egit~tioniil Ch~~rch at Toulon, the first<br />
being Jonatllitn il1ncl Ilannall ltl~ocles ant1 Hug11 and Jnlii~ Itliodes.<br />
In Marcll, 1S47, Mrs. Mntiltla 11:111, Eliza :mtl J-~L~Z<br />
11:~11, Oren and Sarali<br />
Rhodes, Robert a,~~tl Sarah Nicholson anti John ;~nd Miwy Pollok witht<br />
lre w. Fro111 t 11 is (late fo~\\nrd tlllc meinbelbship d eclaeasetl, nil til, like<br />
the Baptist Cl1urc11, it ceased to be an institution in this t30\\-nsllil,.<br />
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter D;by Saints fo~lntl a footing<br />
on Walnut Creeli in IS40-7, antl gainecl i~ fc\v converts in this county.<br />
A111ong th(tm \\.as De:tcon hlott, t'lje i~nilder of the oltl court house.<br />
Tile IT. M. Y. (:lrurch was .sst:J~lishetl here in lS.i:-;, but of it there<br />
is nothing on recorcl.<br />
Tlle U~live~s;clist Cl~urch \vas ore;~nizetl Kovemhe~ 29,173. by Eev.<br />
John IInglls, with the follo\ring nZ11lct1 inembers : MY. tent1 Mrs. (4.<br />
H. Retllieltl, J. A. White, 31r. and Bhs. A. 13. 11. Snyder, MI.. and Mrs.<br />
A. M. Snycler, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Cllnrcll, Mi3s. N. Lafli~rty, Mrs. A.<br />
E. Parker, MY. and Mrs. Sninoel White, Mr. ant1 31i1s. CIri~s. 1;. Smitll,<br />
Mr. P. 1-1. Smith, Julia Lake, 3l1.s. Sar;~ll Ch~wcll, Mrs. An11 Dun l~i~r.<br />
The names of p;~sto~*s a~ltl date of pasto~i~te ;u3e 21s follo\vs : Rev.<br />
J-olln Iruglls, Is73 ; Iiev. T. 11. Tabor, 1874 i~ncl '75 : Ilev. John IIugl~s,<br />
1876, '77 and '7s ; I tev. Wiles, IS79 :~ntl'S( 1. Deceasetl that ye;w, Kev.<br />
C. I%. Gibson, lSSl and '82; Iter. IIeietlle, 1853 ; Iiev. Geo. Crlll~l, ISS4,<br />
'S5 and '86. Tl~e names of secretn~ies are S;~nli~el V711ite, Bliss >1/1aqv<br />
J. Willi:ims, '79 ; Mrs. 11. 13. IVllittt, '81, ant1 Mrs. M. E. Snytlela. The<br />
trustees were, 1873, tJolln A. White, A. 8. 11. Snytier, I). A. M. Snyder,<br />
:mtl in ISSR, J. A. Wl~ite, Austin Grant anel A. M. Snytlcr weye<br />
elected. The cl~urch \r;ls i~niit in 1575 at ;L cost of' over $:
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