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Michigan By Rev. S. N. Griffith
The General Conference of 1836 met at Cincinnati, May 1st, at which the Michigan Annual Conference was organized and made to include all that part of Ohio not included in the Pittsburg, Erie, Ohio, and the Indiana conferences, and all the territory of Michigan except so much as wa3 included in the LaPorte district. It will be perceived that Kalamazoo still was a part of the LaPorte District, continued to belong to the Indiana Conference for four years after the formation of the Michigan Conference.
October 25th, 1837, the Indiana Conference met at New Albany, Indiana. Kalamazoo Mission reported 272 members. Rev. R, Hargrave was continued as presiding elder on the LaPorte district, and Rev. J. T. Robe was appointed to the Brookville charge; he had Rev. E. G. "Wood now (1878) a member of the South Indiana Conference, for his presiding elder. Kalamazoo was supplied by Rev. E. Kellogg and Rev. Jacob Colclazer, now (1878) a member of the North Indiana Conference. Rev. R. C. Meek located at this conference. Niles was supplied by Rev. Jas. S. Harrison and Rev. S. S. Williams. St. Joseph by Rev. W. Todd.
EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM
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