Cambridge: CHURCH HISTORY.
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
page 46-47
The earliest meetings in the town, as has been mentioned
elsewhere, were held in the private houses. Among the first
ministers to labor in Cambridge were Mr. Hamilton, Mr.
Knowles, Rob't Lewis, Jacob Hatch and Forest Hatch. The
Baptist church, of which the Methodists formerly owned one
quarter, was erected about 1855, but has been considerably
changed since that time. A few years ago a furnace was in-
stalled, most of the work being. given by the townspeople.
While engaged in this work the Rev. Ernest Ham recalled the
interesting fact that forty years before the fathers of the men
working there at that time were laying the very stones which
they were taking out to make room for the furnace. Beside
the ministers mentioned above, many pastors have served this
church. The most recent was Mr. Romeyn, a graduate of
Colby College, who supplied the church during the summer
of 1911.
A corporation was formed in 1856 to erect a Union Church,
which was built the same year by the Methodist, Christian
Baptist and Star Baptist societies. The church prospered for
twenty years or more, alternate ministers of the different de-
nominations serving it as pastors. After that time its numbers
decreased, until religious services ceased to be held there. The
church building has now been rebuilt into the fine grange hall.
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