Chapter 14
-- Compiled by the Cumberland Women's Club
and Published by the Cumberland Advocate
1874-1974
(used by permission of the Cumberland Advocate)
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Congregational Church
In May, 1888, a Congregational
Sunday School was instituted, and in August of the same year the Revenant
T.F. Murphy came to the city and conducted services. In the following
October a Congregational Church was organized with fourteen members. The
services were held for a while in Miller's Hall.
In the spring of 1889 the Society purchased the building known as
Gymnasium
Hall and altered and fitted it up for church purposes. In 1909 the
church building was remodeled. In 1922 the church had about 50 members.
The Revenant T.F. Murphy was the pastor for several years, and since then the church has had a number of others, including the Reverend E.D. Bennett, Reverend I.B. Tracy, Reverend Julius Parsons, Reverend W.T. Ream, Reverend Lewis Skidmore and Reverend J.H. Bielefield.
This church organization was
dissolved in the late twenties and members of the congregation were absorbed
into other local churches.
to Cumberland
Catholic Community
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