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*Churches*	*Page*	*Photographs*	*Notes*
Baptist Church	91		Services held in Temperance Hall - 1882
Colby Methodist Episcopal Church	91	Yes	1881 Church & parsonage in photo. Trustees: D. C Bullock,
			Frank Brott, L. D. Reynolds, Wm. Penny and Chas. Mack.
			Ministers: Rev. Chas. Barker, Rev. Couch, Rev. Arthur Chalfant,
			Rev. L. W. McKibbon, Rev. James Braddick, Dr. W. J. Davidson,
			Rev. Bervie A. Scott. Others mentioned: D. C. Bullock, Frank
			Brott, L. D. Reynolds, Wm. Penny, Chas. Mack, Rev. Barker,
			Rev. Couch, Rev. Arthur Chalfant, Rev. L. W. McKibbon, B. F.
			Frasier, Eva Clouse, M. Matteson, Gertrude Darton, Mrs. Bowne,
			Mrs. Haskins, Miss Nina Fern Cole, Mrs. Vischer, O. R. Briggs,
			K. Andrews, Gust Voss, Alvin Brotherton, Dr. W. J. Davidson,
			Mr. & Mrs. Ervin Eggebrecht, Michael and Katherine Firnstahl,
			and Rev. Bervie A. Scott
First Evangelical and Reformed Church	95	Yes	See Immanuel Ref./St. John's Reformed Church
First United Church of Christ	94 & 95	Yes	See United CC/First Ev. & Ref./Immanuel Ref./St. John's Ref.
Immanual Reformed Church	95		See St. John's Reformed Church
Presbyterian Church	91		Organized in 1874 - Rev. Fuller
Presbyterian Church	105		Township of Hull
St. John's Evangelical Reformed Church	54	Yes	Only identified person, Rev. Hartenstein - Sunday school teachers
	94 & 95		Rev. Frederick Werhahn, Rev. C. C. Hartenstein, Mr. Lorfeldt,
			Pastor Siegfried A. Schmichen, Rev. Kenneth Dix, Rev. Edwin
			Becker, Henrietta Draeger, Miss Rena Bauer, Mrs. Fred Wolk.
St. Kilian Catholic Church	92	Yes	abt. 1878 Rev. Nickolas, Rev. Abb, John Joseph Murray, Father
			Schuttlehoefer, Henry Merritt, Rev. A. J. Joerres, Rev. Carl
			Weekman, Joseph Demmer, R. J. Weix, Rev. Wm. Reding,
			Frank Firnstahl, Ben Riplinger, Rev. L. J. Lang, Father Francis
			Rushman, Dr. Karl Von Newpert Sr., Paul Firnstahl Sr., Conrad
			Stetter, Matt Hinkes, Mrs. S. J. Shaefer, Miss Fannie Kugle,
			Father Schram, C. Joseph Kraus, Mary Artmann, Bernadette
			Krause
St. Mary's Catholic Church	93	Yes	1905, see St. Kilian (above)
St. Mary's Knights of Columbus	93		Robert Bodden, Andrew Kaiser, Michael Stieber, Angus Lamont,
			Eugene Makovec, Adolph Dums, Rev. John Pinion, Rev.
			Krebsbach, Frank Nikolay, Anthony Beck, Kenneth Gierl, Lee
			Bunker, Bernard Wavrunek, Edward Brehm, Paul Firnstahl,
			Ervin Meyer, Rev. Hodnik, Ray Krebbach, Marcellus Foster,
			Richard Polnazek, Fred Zassenhaus, Neil Melvin, Howard Barr,
			John Kassie and Rod Cook
St. Mary's National Catholic Soc. of Foresters	93		Lucy Kersten, Alma Harry, Anna McMonagle, Clara Bartik, Celia
			Weix, Laura Frane, Anna Nigeman, Minnie Will, Dr. Anthony
			Shemmer, Emma Welsch, Theresa Foster, Dena Sterzinger,
			Margaret Hobelspreger, Anna Gierl, Hazel Will, Caroline Thorn,
			Anna Schlimm, Gertrude Schemmer, Anna Dhein, Anna Stroiber,
			Ruth Hein, Clara Umhoefer, Toni Umhoefer, Emma Gabriele
St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church (aka North Green Grove)	95 & 96	Yes	Rev. W. C. Schilling, Candidate H. Erch, Fred Marquardt,
			Aug. Lulloff, Herman Laabs, Fredrich Grambort, Heinrich
			Diedach, Justus Glenzer, Rev. H. Erch, Rev. Frank Steyer, Rev. J.
			Schutte, Rev. H. C. F. Otte, Rev. J. Fiehler, Rev. Kuring, Rev. C.
			Witshonke, Rev. Behrend, Rev. M. C. Goetsch, Rev. O. Hoffman,
			Rev. Paul T. Dietz, Rev. Richard J. Scholz, Rev. Wm. C. Grafe,
			Rev. Howard Timmerman, Rev. Jerome Walfiel, Shirley Witel,
			Bernice Miller, Erma Schultz and Eileen Hardrath.
United Church of Christ	94 & 95	Yes	See First Ev. & Ref./Immanuel Ref./St. John's Ref.
United Methodist Church	91 & 92	Yes	1968 - Merger of Evangelical Bretheren & Methodist Episcopal
Zion Lutheran Church	93 & 94	Yes	1877 Rev. Schilling, Rev. W. Erck, Wm. Buchholz, Aug.
			Erdmann, Mr. Borchert, Mr. Greseke, Mr. Siebert, Rev. Otte,
			Rev. Ed. Kuring, J. Wiedenhoeft, T. Bleichroth, Carl Hertz,
			Rev. Hoffman, Rev. Pankow, Rev. Woodworth, Rev. Christian,
			Mrs. F. Greseke, C. Eder, A. Kobs, A. Pankow, O. Borchert, Mrs.
			L. List, Mrs. A Wiedenhoeft, Mrs. B. Georgas, Mrs. E. A.
			Fleischauer, Elaine Schultz, Larette Mielke, Lois Monness,
			Elaine Frome, Patricia Kilty, Jean Schultz & Arnold Krueger