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Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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arge of the pastor andfive lay teachers. The fii-st pastor of St. Pauls was the Rev. Mr. C)l>oiiahoe.He was succeeded by the Rev. Jlr. Rogers, he by the Rev.Mr. Kenney, and later, in 1850, by the Rev. Michael Kelly.Mr. Kelly was the pastor, cxeej)t during an intermission ofa few months, until October, 1861), when the jire.-^inl incuiu-bent. Rev. Michael Barry, was appointed. TIIK AFRICAN .METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH was organized in 1847, under the jurisdiction of the NewYork annual conferi^ncc, at which time the Rt. Rev. Wui,P. t^uinn was ;>residing bishop of the New York eonterence.The church was organized with thirty-seven members. Thefollowing arc the names of those who have been appointedpastors: Revs. J. Ilenson, L. S. Lewis, Wm. II. Ross, L. S. Lewis,A. J. Dudley, E. J. T. Sparrow, R. Cliff, E. T. Thomji.son,Wm. M. Johnson, I), Dorrell, J, S. Leckins, C. Boly, J. W.Cooper, W. N. Bowman, E. R. Davis, W. N. Bowman. J.Frisby, A. J. Dudley, and A. S. Amos, the present iiicuni-
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 163 bent. The present board of trustees are J. H. Pomppaugh,William Thomas, F. Causer. The present Uicuibership ofthe church is twenty-seven. E.\ST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The East Jlethodist Episcopal church, of Oswego, wasformed by the division of the original Methodist society.It was organized May 25, 1848, the roll embracing oneliundrcd and sixty-one names. The first pastor was Rev.Arza J. riielps, and the first ofiicers were as follows: Local Preachers, Revs. Warren Allen and H. Colburn ;CI ass-Leaders, Russell Watson, Lyman Ferguson, J. II.Dow, J. E. Edwards, Martin Gilbert, Chauncey Whitney;Stewards, J. B. Edwards, Lyman Ferguson, C. B. Thomp-son, William Curtiss, James Lyon, S. G. Abbott; Trustees,J. B. Edwards, C. B. Thompson, M. F. Carpenter, JamesLyon, Lyman Ferguson, D. Davies, Thomas Mcintosh, Wm.Curtiss, N. Williams. The church edifice on East Fourth, near Bridge street,was erected in 1849, and cost a little more than fivethousand

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