Oneida County NyArchives Church Records.....Central Church Chapel Copyright Date November 1, 1943
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From Utica, NY Dispatch, Nov. 1, 1943, top of page 10:

[This caption is under a photograph.]
FELLOWSHIP NIGHT in Central Church Chapel found, from the left, Vincent G. Brown,
The Rev.
Russell S. Brown, pastor; Dr. Albert E. Legg, William C. Hughes and E. O. Folsom
reviewing events
from 1912, when the building was dedicated, to this month, when the mortgage on it
was paid and
                   burned.
*
 "Methodism itself has followed the lead of Central Church of Utica in many
regards," said Dr. Albert E. Legg, its first pastor and honor guest last night at
the Fellowship dinner attended in the church house by 800.
     The event was in celebration of the recent payment of the mortgage on the
chapel and in commemoration of the laying of its corner stone in 1912.     
Doctor Legg recalled that Central Church pioneered in organizing a business women's
unit and again in leading the way to federating all of its women's societies, a
practice now established in most other churches. Mrs. Legg was the organizer of the
business and women's unit, now known as the Wesleyan Service Guild.
     The Rev. Russell S. Brown, pastor, read greetings from Dr. Edgar Brown,
Schaghticoke, who laid the chapel foundations in 1912 and who now is 86, and from
Dr. William J. Hart, Lacons, who was minister of the church when it was called South
Methodist.
     I.W. J. McClain, lay leader, gave a short talk on congregational objectives and
the Rev. John Warren, district superintendent, dismissed the assemblage with a
prayer.
     The supper was served by Mizpah Circle members, under the chairmanship of Mrs.
George Walker."
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Additional Comments:
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Thanks to John S Wilkinson for this transcription.  My note:  This newspaper
clipping was found in the scrapbook of Mary Gouge Hughes [1863-1944] who married
John Hughes, [1834-1919] my 2 great grandfather who emigrated from Angelsey, North
Wales to Trenton, Oneida Co., New York.  
Jan Jordan <jnrose@webtv.net>

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