AREA HISTORY:  Sunday Schools of Lewisberry, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS, Page 636

Sunday schools. – Rev. Samuel Bacon, a man of eminent distinction as a soldier 
of the war of 1812, lawyer, and afterward as a clergyman of the Episcopal 
Church, in 1818 organized the first Sunday-school in Lewisberry, in the 
schoolhouse.  Isaac Kirk, Hugh Foster, Elisha Hammond, William Frankelberger, 
Daniel Pike, Abraham Stickel, Jacob Kirk, and others, assisted him.  The same 
school was continued for many years.  It was organized a second time, after 
being discontinued for awhile, by Mr. Jennison, in 1832.  In 1853, under the 
ministry of Rev. J. A. Baldwin, it became a denominational school, and has since 
been held in the Methodist Church.  Robert Foster was for many years its 
efficient superintendent, and was a member of the original school, in 1818.  He 
is still a member.