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In the winter of 1834-5, Warren B. Shepherd taught the first school, in a log school-house. The lumber for the floor, door and seats was floated down the creek from Bellevue. Gen. Convis erected the first frame building as an addition to his block-house. Among the early clergymen who penetrated the wilderness to exercise their holy functions, the Revs. Calvin Clark, John D. Pierce, Randall Hobart, Elijah Crane, and Elders Taylor and Adams are most gratefully remembered. The early settlers had been educated to a reverent observance of religious rites and ceremonies in their eastern homes, and when sickness and death invaded their family circles, their minds instinctively turned toward religious teachers and religion itself as a needed and powerful solace. The real and imaginary religious wants of the people still receive general attention, and the provision made for its inculcation in all its forms of belief and practice are most ample. There are eleven church organizations, and I believe about the same number of church edifices, to wit: The United Congregational and Presbyterian, the Methodist Episcopal, the African Methodist, the African Baptist, the Seventh-Day Adventist, the First Society of Spiritualists, the Baptist, the Roman Catholic, the American Reform, the Episcopal, the Friends.
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