HISTORY
OF
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH

MUSCATINE, IOWA

1839-1942

Transcribed by Cheryl Sheets, February 4, 2018

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CLERKS OF SESSION

HARVEY GILLETTE 2-2-1842
JOHN STOCKER 1842-1845
AULEY McAULEY 1845-1848
JOHN H. WALLACE 1848-1852
THEODORE S. PARVIN 1852-1858
DR. CHARLES O. WATERS 1858-1860
CHARLES NEALLEY 1860-1860
CHARLES O. WATERS 1861-1863
E. L. BELDEN 1863-1864
JAMES S. HORTON 1864-1864
JOHN L. ARMSTRONG 1864-1874
R. H. McCAMPBELL 1875-1875
PHILIP STEIN 1875-1886
S. H. PARVIN 1886-1899
GEORGE M. TITUS 1899-1902
DR. E. H.KING 1902-1918
FRED BEACH 1918-To Date

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OUR ELDERS

AZEL FARNSWORTH 1842-1843
AULEY McAULEY 1843-1850
JOHN H. WALLACE 1848-1853
THEODORE S. PAVIN 1850-1862
JAMES S. HORTON 1850-1875
GABRIEL LITTLE 1856-1877
CHARLES O. WATERS 1856-1864
DAVID HOYT 1859-1865
CHARLES NEALLEY 1859-1861
PHILIP STEIN 1869-1908
JOSEPH BRIDGMAN 1869-1875
JACOB BERDINE 1869-1873
R. H. McCAMPBELL 1869-1892
JAMES S. WIGGINS 1869-1870
W. P. CRAWFORD 1878-1918
DR. J. M. ROBERTSON 1880-1887
G. M. TITUS 1886-To Date.
S. T. SINNETT 1886-1934
E. F. SCHALL 1887-1901
R. A. McINTYRE 1890-1901
B. KEMPER 1890-1926
DR. E. H. KING 1892-1918
SAMUEL McNUTT 1902-1911
E E. COLLINS 1903-1940
JOHN T. MARTIN 1904-1922
FRED BEACH 1908-To Date.
J. J. LEGLER 1908-To Date.
GEORGE D. BAKER 1908-1923
W. D. HINE 1910-1932
GEORGE EITMAN 1912-To Date.
DAVID BOGARD 1917-1936
THOMAS H. OGILVIE 1917-To Date.
FRANK C. SHINABARGER 1917-1939
J. W. TeSTRAKE 1918-1936
HENRY D. FOLSOM 1919-1928
HENRY F. OTTO 1923-1941

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J. K. WILKINS 1926-1929
FRED W. HERMANN 1927-To Date.
JOHN M. BUTLER 1929-1940
JAMES M. BROCKWAY 1929-
VICTOR W. HINE 1933-To Date.
W. CLAUDE HARRIS 1935-To Date.
FRANK J. HOWE 1936-To Date.
BENJAMIN L. GALLAHER 1936-To Date.
WILLIAM F. OTTO 1941-To Date.
G. CLYDE PARKS 1941-To Date.
J. J. FISHBURN 1941-To Date
FRED ANTHONY 1941-To Date.
GUSTAVUS ALLBEE 1941-To Date.

     (This list may not be complete. The Congregational Records of the years 1918 to 1931 are lost.)

OUR DEACONS
NO RECORD PRIOR TO 1886

JAMES WILSON 1886
F. P. SAWYER 1886
M. O. NEIDIG 1886
A. W. LEE 1887
C. T. McCAMPBELL 1887
E. E. COLLINS 1894
FRANK C. SHINABARGER 1900
WM. KINCAID 1900
GEORGE EITMAN 1903
E. A. OGILVIE 1904
FRANK P. SAWYER 1905
J. W. TeSTRAKE 1905
C. F. PURDUN 1909
THOMAS H. OGILVIE 1910
JOSEPH D. WILL 1910
DAVID BOGARD 1911
ROBERT C. SCHENCK 1912
LEONARD M. AGNEW 1917
WILLIAM F. OTTO 1917

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GEORGE W. MEERDINK 1917
JOHN M. BUTLER 1917
ERNEST MOORE 1917
FRED W. HERMANN 1917
WILLIAM G. EICHENAUER 1917
FRED VANDER PLOEG 1918
G. CLYDE PARKS 1918
G. RAYMOND TITUS 1918
FRED C. PETERSEN 1918
Records from 1918 to 1931 are lost.
JOSEPH F. HILL No Record.
FRANK P. HEBARD No Record.
J. OTTO SAUER No Record.
J. HERMAN MUNDT No Record.
VICTOR W. HINE 1931
GUSTAVUS ALLBEE 1931
JESSE J. FISHBURN 1932
HAROLD W. OGILVIE 1833
GEORGE H. HERMANN 1933
EDWARD VANCE 1933
ALBERT H. HARTWIG 1933
HERBERT LEU 1933
WILLIAM GELLER 1934
G. CHESTER LEU 1935
IRA E. ROMIG 1935
H. EDWARD SCHROEDER 1941
MAURICE NEIDIG 1941
LeROY BARNARD 1941
RAYMOND KORSCHOT 1941
GEORGE MOORE 1941
M. E. MOORHEAD 1941
LEE McKEE 1941
HARVEY G. ALLBEE 1942

OUR TRUSTEES
NO RECORDED LIST

JOSEPH BENNETT 2-7-1846
RALPH P. LOWE 2-7-1846
THOMAS M. ISETT 2-7-1846

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     From old deeds dated in 1850 and 1855 recorded in Book 2 of Lots, Page 302, and Book “P” of Lands, Page 16, we find

WILLIAM GORDON 1850-1855
JACOB BUTLER 1850-1855
THEODORE S. PARVIN 1850-1859
JOHN H. WALLACE 1855-1859
JOSEPH BRIDGMAN 1855-1859
S. G. STEIN, I 1859-Death 1892
JOHN LEMP 1859-1874
GEORGE G. MAHAN 1859
J. B. NEGLEY 1868-1873
M. O. NEIDIG 1874
W. W. WEBSTER 1875-1876
S. P. SAWYER 1875
G. A. GARRETTSON 1879
DR. S. G. STEIN 1892-Death 1926
COL. C. C. HORTON 1892
ALBERT BAIRD 1898
BENJAMIN BEACH, SR. 1898
S. P. SAWYER 1908
E. M. WARNER 1908
No Records since 1908.  
HENRY F. OTTO 1926
S. G. STEIN, III 1926-To Date.
HENRY F. GIESSLER 1926-Death 1939
C. C. HAGERMANN 1927-To Date.
HENRY F. OTTO 1939-To Date.

     NOTE: S. G. Stein I, II, and III, have served on the Board Eighty-three Consecutive years.

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