Transfer - Pymatuning Township 

First Baptist Church, Transfer

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Transfer Regular Baptist Church was organized in February, 1872, in the town hall, by Revs. Jacob Morris  and J. W. Snyder. The first members, seventeen in number, were J. Frampton, Matilda Frampton, Miss H. J. Frampton, Miss Tillie Frampton, S. McClelland, Mrs. E. McClelland, L. Chittenden, M. J. Chittenden, William T. McClelland, D. A. Frampton, Delora Frampton, L. Bunpus, Miss M. E. McClelland, Miss N. A. McClelland, Mrs. E. Frampton, Miss C. B. McClelland and Miss A. Saveren. The building in which worship is held is a good, substantial frame structure, 86x50 feet in dimensions, erected in 1876 at a cost of $3,500, to which an addition 33x18 feet was made in 1887, thus securing a very convenient meeting place. The church has baptized on profession of faith, since its organization, seventy members, and has received by letter sixteen more. The membership, which is at present sixty-four, would be much larger were it not for the fact that the residents of the place are constantly removing to other localities. The first pastor was Rev. J. W. Snyder, who remained, five years. Following him came Revs. William P. Keile, two years, and T. J. Bristow, D. Bull, A. Peckham and A. G. McLean, the latter acting as supplies. The secretaries of the congregation have been Leroy Chittenden and R. E. Woods. Considering the obstacles with which it has had to contend, this congregation is in a truly prosperous condition. Its annual expenses are $501, and the members are in good spiritual and material state of advancement. 

History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 576-577

The Baptists built a church in the same village [Transfer] in the summer of 1876.  

(History of Mercer County, 1877, page 64)


First Baptist Church, 

50 Broad Street, Transfer

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(photographed Jun 2001) 


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