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The St. Mark's
Congregation of New Hamburg, was organized by
Rev. H. F. Hartman, pastor of the West Greenville Charge,
Sept. 30th 1860, with 30 members, and an old church in the village [the
old Presbyterian] was bought for the use of the congregation.
In 1865 this congregation and a newly organized congregation in
Greenville were made a charge, and
Rev. C. R. Dieffenbacher became the pastor. He continued
for thirteen years, when he was succeeded by
Rev. F. B. Hahn in 1878, and he by Rev. S. H. Eisenberg in 1885. Rev. A. M. Keifer became
pastor in 1890, H. I. Crow,
1895 to 1901; J. W. Albertson,
1901 to 1903; D. W. Kerr,
1903 to 1906; E. C. Musselman,
1906 to 1908; W. S. Fisher,
1910 to 1914; H. S. Garner,
1915 to 1918.
A new church was built in 1894, at a cost of $7,000. The next year the
congregation was separated from the Greenville charge and made a charge
by itself. In 1909 it was connected with the Zion's Congregation at
Transfer and the Jerusalem congregation in Hickory Township in a new
charge called the Pymatuning Charge.
The St. Marks' congregation has ninety-seven members. The Elders at
present [1918] are: S. B. Hall, J.
A. Kashner, W. F. Heckman, and W. H. Saul; the Deacons: I. E. George,
R. B. Buckley, C. A. Kashner an C. C. Stoyer.
The
History of the Pittsburgh Synod, 1918, The Pymatuning Charge,
pages
444-455.
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