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Michigan By Rev. S. N. Griffith
During this conference year, (1832-3), Rev. J. T. Robe preached the first sermon in what was then known as Bronson. now Kalamazoo. It was preached in the house of Titus Bronson, who was the proprietor of the place. His house stood near the corner of Church and Water streets. Rev. Mr. Robe did not succeed in forming a class in Bronson this year, but the seed sown was not lost, for Rev. Richard C. Meek, who succeeded him the next year, did succeed in forming a class. Thus it is that one soweth and another reapeth, and in the harvest both rejoice together. In the summer of 1833 Rev. J. T. Robe held the first camp-meeting on Prairie Ronde, alluded to before.
The Indiana Conference met at Madison, October 16th, 1833, and the Rev. James T. Robe was ordained a deacon and appointed to the Carlisle and Vincennes work, Vincennes district. Rev. James L. Thompson was presiding elder. Kalamazoo reported 156 members. Rev. Richard C. Meek was appointed to the Kalamazoo work, and in the spring of 1834 Rev. R. C. Meek succeeded in forming a class in Kalamazoo consisting of Wm. H. Colman, leader; E. A. Colman, Francis Colman, Julia Col-man, George Patterson, (still a member of the class), and living here, Rebecca, his wife, (long since gone to rest), and Mrs. Wood, mother of Smith L. Wood, now living on Asylum avenue, beyond the asylum building for the insane. This class was organized at the house of George Patterson, now familiarly called Uncle George.
EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM
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