Mills County, Iowa


Iowa State Gazetteer, Shippers' Guide and Business Directory

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Iowa State Gazetteer, Shippers' Guide and Business Directory
Hair, James T., Editor
Chicago: Bailey & Hair, 1865

Churches
The following places where churches are organized are reported in the official proceedings of the Iowa Baptist State Convention:
  • Page 41 ~ BEDFORD ASSOCIATION
    • Baptist
      • Lewis
      • Mt. Olive
      • Platteville
  • Page 43 ~ IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN IOWA ASSOCIATION
    • Glenwood
      • Mills County
  • Page 45 ~ CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES [From the Report of 1865]
    • Glenwood
    • Fayette
    • Lewis
    • Tabor
    This denomination has in the State 152 churches, 116 ministers, 6,031 church members and 6, 137 scholars in Sabbath schools.
  • Page 45 ~ THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
      • The Iowa Annual Conference was formed by the General Conference of 1844, embracing the entire Territory of Iowa. The first session was held at Iowa City, Iowa, commencing August 14th, A. D. 1844, Bishop T. A. Morris presiding, Rev. H. W. Reed, Secretary. The Conference was divided into three Districts and twenty-nine Stations, Circuits and Missions, with eighteen traveling Preachers in full connection, and nine probationers. There were sixty local preachers, and five thousand four hundred and three Church members within the bounds of the Conference.

      The Upper Iowa Annual Conference was formed by the action of the General Conference in 1856, embracing all that part of the State of Iowa lying north of a line commencing at Davenport, and running on the line of the railroad to Iowa City; thence up the Iowa River to the south-west corner of Benton county; thence due west to the Missouri River, embracing Iowa City and Davenport. It was divided into nine Districts and eighty-eight Stations, Circuits and Missions, with fifty traveling Preachers in full connection, and twenty-eight on probation. The first session of the Conference was held at Maquketa, commencing August 27th, 1856. Bishop E. S. Janes presiding, Rev. Landon Taylor, Sec'y.

  • Page 46
      • The Western Iowa Annual Conference was formed by the General Conference of 1860, and bounced as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of Appanoose county., thence north to the Des Moines River; thence up said river to the south line of Boone county; thence west on the line to the Missouri River; thence down said river to the south line of the State; thence east on said line to the place of beginning. It is divided into four Districts and forty Stations, Circuits and Missions, with thirty-six traveling Preachers. In full connection, and ten on probation. The first session of the Conference was held at Indianola, Warren county, commencing August 22d, 1860, Bishop E. S. Janes presiding, Rev. E. M. H. Flemming Secretary. The General Conference in 1864 discontinued the Western Iowa Conference and formed the Des Moines Conference.

      The State is now divided into three Annual Conferences, the Iowa, Upper Iowa and Des Moines.

      The Iowa Annual Conference is bounded as follows to-wit: Commencing at Davenport on the Mississippi River; thence down said river to the south line of the State; thence west on said State line to the south-west corner of Appanoose county; thence north to the south side of Marshall county, leaving the town of Knoxville; thence east on the south line of Marshall county to the Iowa River; thence down said river to Iowa City; thence on the line of the railroad to Davenport, leaving Davenport and Iowa City in the Upper Iowa Conference, and the intermediate places in the Iowa Conferences. It is divided into sox districts and seventy-three Stations, Circuits and Missions, with eighty-three traveling Preachers in full connection, and six on probation.

      The Upper Iowa Conference is bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of the state; thence down the Mississippi River to Davenport; thence westward by the line of the Iowa Conference to the south-east corner of Storey county; thence due north to the State line; thence east on said line to the place of beginning, and is divided into six Districts and eighty-nine Stations, Circuits and Missions, with one hundred and two traveling Preachers in full connection, and nine on probation.

      The Des Moines Conference includes all that part of the State of Iowa not included in the Iowa and Upper Iowa Conferences, and the Dakota Mission, in Dakota Territory. It is divided into six districts and fifty-eight Stations, Circuits and Missions, with fifty-five traveling Preachers in full connection, and nine on probation.

      There are in the State 485 local Preachers, 33,072 Church members, and 35, 358 Sabbath school scholars.

  • Page 46 - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH [OLD SCHOOL.]
      • The State is embraced in two Synods, viz.: Synod of Iowa and Synod of Southern Iowa. The former contains three Presbyteries, viz: Cedar, Du Buque, and Toledo, the latter four, viz: Des Moines, Fairfield, Iowa and Missouri River. There are churches in the following places as per Report of 1865. There are in both Synods 6,480 Communicants and 99 Pastors.
  • Page 46 - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH [NEW SCHOOL]
      • The whole state is embraced in one Synod, called the Synod of Iowa, and is composed of six Presbyteries, viz.: Des Moines, Keokuk, Iowa City, Du Buque, Chariton and Cedar Valley. The first Presbytery (Des Moines was organized in 1845. There are in the State 2208 Communicants and 52 Pastors. The following places contain churches as per Report of 1865.
    • Chariton Presbytery
    • Mt. Olivet Troy
  • Page 48 - UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
      • The whole state is embraced in one Synod, called the Synod of Iowa, which is divided into four Presbyteries, viz.: Des Moines, Keokuk, Le Claire and Nebraska, the later including four churches in Minnesota and four in Nebraska. In the Presbytery of Nebraska the following churches:
    • Walnut Grove
  • Page 48 - PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
      • Diocese of Iowa - Bishop of the Diocese, Right Rev. Henry W. Lee, D. D., Davenport. Number of Communicant 1208. Number of Clergymen 35. Number of Sabbath school scholars 1743. From the journal of the proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention held at Des Moines, May 31st, and June 1st, 1865, we find reported the following Parishes:
    • St. Paul's Church
    • Fayette

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