19.85

Booklet

1958

First Congregational Church History: 90 Years of Living. Material: paper. Size: 8 1/2" x 11". Description: tan card stock cover with two black and white photos of the first church building and the new church; cover title: "90 Years of Living, First Congregational Church, 1868-1968 Waseca, Minnesota. Contents: black and white photos of the interior and exterior of both churches; Rev. J. W. Stedman and family, Audrey, Joel, Marcia, Jack, Sara, Mark; parsonage, first at 608 Elm Street or Elm Avenue and later at 1008 3rd Avenue; charter members; several pages of church history written by Robert Hodgson; a poem writtenby Rev. P.W. Gibson, "These Ninety Years"; the new church building; acknowledgements and on the reverse an explanation of the symbolism in the church windows and brick figures.

Charter members: Rev. Edwin Alden, Frederick Stevens, Austin Vinton, Anna Alden, Lucy Stevens, Lydia Vinton, Wilfred Vinton, William Vinton, Samuel Hawkes, Ada Vinton, Caroline Hawkes, Edward Bennett, Gordon Henshaw, Eliza Bennett, Julia Hummiston, Ezra and Catherine Wood (and their family tree). The Wood family tree includes the names of Clayton, Weber, Muedeking, Spies, Churchill, Papke, Halle, Suemnick, Mokoff, Draheim, Sheldon, Iversen, Halstead, Kiesler and Gray. Pastors who served between 1870 and 1968: Edwin Alden, Thomas Wadsworth, Edward Starr, Levi Loring, Charles Merrill, Lucian Chaney, John Steman, James Smith, John Frizzell, Philip Holp, Stephen Updyke, Francis Carter, John Eakin, J. Lloyd, Allison Adams, Edwin Ewell, R. O Roberts, W. E. Griffith, Stewart Smith, Francis White, Elmer Gallagher, Merodach Green, Emrys Thomas, John Stedman, Walter Schilling and James Slocum.