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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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d there formed the nucleus ofthe present large and influential congregation. From thattime until 1 8.)4 Father Kelley occasionally cclibratcd ma.sswith tlie liltliM-liunh, .service being held at Mr. !>oiinellys,also over a store in First street, and subsequently in Iondsliall. In January, 18.)4, the chun-li had become materiallystrengthened by the accession of .several Catholic families,and it wils deemed expedient to have a priest of its own,and accordingly the Rev. James Smith was appointed bythe bishop of Albany to take charge of the flock-. The church continued their worship in Ponds hall abouttwo years, wiicn they removed into Empire hall, whichoccupied the .site of the Midland depot. Here they re-mained about two years, when tluV )mrcha.sed (he premiseslocated on the corner of Third and Rochester streets, for-merly occupied by the Fulton female seminary. The oldseminary building was fitted up as a place of worship, andin about 1858 it was consecrated to the .service of God by
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lOENce or MRS.L.£.LOOMIS,toR;i^&.LiricSTs, FULTON,N.Y HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. 241 the bishop of Albany, now Archbishop McClosky. Thebuilding has since been enlarged and improved, and is acommodious and substantial structure. The .society has grown from a feeble band to a large and influential church organization, and its present prosperity I is mainly due to Father Smith, who has labored earnestly in its behalf nearly a quarter of a century. The church is now under the control of Father Mehan. THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH. This ecclesiastical body first organized a class, June 15,1869, on the Chittenango camp ground, which was com-posed of the following persons: Alexander Wise, Mary A.Wise, Emma Hill, Sarah Graham, and Harriet Briggs, allof whom were former members of the Methodist Episcopalchurch of Fulton. Mr. Wise was chosen class-leader, and the old red school-house at the Upper Landing was soon after fitted for a placeof worship, and in the forenoon of July 4, 1SG9,

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