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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 338-339
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN ZION'S CHURCH. The Evangelical Lutheran Zion's church was organized in 1885, its members having previously worshiped with the German Protestant Lutherans in their church on Sycamore between Third and Fourth streets. At this time, (1885) the church felt it had the necessary strength and financial ability to build a church edifice and support a pastor, so the separation was completed, a church erected at a cost of $14,000 on the corner of Sycamore and Sixth streets, and Rev. Henry Reinemund was installed as the first pastor. Mr. Reinemund had for some years previously served as pastor of the mother church, referred to above. In 1896 Rev. George Meier succeeded Rev. Reinemund, the latter's time being consumed in the superintendency of the Lutheran Old Ladies' Home. Rev. John Haefner, the present pastor, took charge of the church's spiritual affairs in the fall of 1910. The church is in splendid condition. The membership is composed of 200 families, or 700 souls.
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