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Title: Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Montana
Subjects: Montana -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Rocky Mountain Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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ttention of the writer. Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, D. D., president of WheatonCollege, Illinois, accompanied by his son, Charles A. Blan-chard, visited Virginia City early in the summer of 1864.Letters received from Rev. Charles A. Blanchard, D. D.,in 1897, then having succeeded his father as president ofAVheaton College, give the following account of this trip.The letters are in the archive box of the Helena Church: In 1864, my father. Rev. President Blanchard, of Whea-ton College, Illinois, being broken in health, visited Mon-tana, going by wagon via Omaha, Kearney and BridgersCut-off. He returned via Salt Lake and Denver, preachingin all places where opportunity otfered. He was at the time a Congregational minister. He be-gan his ministry in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Cincin-nati, preaching there nine years, leaving to become presi-dent of Knox College, Illinois, in 1846. I was with him on that trip and attended the meetingswhich he held in the rough boaid court house at Virginia
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REV. JONATHAN BLANCHARD, D. D.*♦Deceased 1892. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 293 City. He took the trip chiefly for his health, though he hada commission from the American Missionary Association toexplore mountain regions and • report to the society. Inpursuance of his report the First Congregational Churchesof Denver and Salt Lake City were organized. At the timewe were in Virginia City there was no church of any kindand no religious services regularly held. We met in the courthouse and had a little company gathered while the streetswere crowded with thousands of men, the gambling shops,saloons, and auctioneers doing their work on every hand.We did not remain in Virginia City long, perhaps two orthree weeks. My father, I think, preached every Sabbathwhile there. We then left by wagon over the mountains forSalt Lake City. Permanent work was not undertaken by the Congrega-tional Church in Montana until 18 years later in 1882. Mrs. W, F. Sanders relates that when they moved toVirgini

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