Outagamie-Winnebago-Ashland County WI Archives Biographies.....Grassie, Thomas G. 1831 - 1898
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Author: J. F. Fuller

Thomas G. Grassie.

REV. T. G. GRASSIE, of Methuen, Mass., came in June, 1873, as the fifth pastor,
and served till February, 1875. During his ministry, forty-six were added to the
church. This brief pastorate precluded the possibility of any marked changes in
any department of the church, while all its activities made steady progress.

    Thomas Gordon Grassie was born in Kildrummy, Scotland, Nov. 29th, 1831.
Early coming to this country, he fitted for college at Bolton high school,
Bolton, Mass. He entered Amherst college in 1853 and graduated in 1857. For
three years he was principal of Barre academy, Barre, Mass., afterward taking
his theological course at Andover, Mass., graduating in 1863, where he was
ordained in March the same year. He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Holbrook, of
Bolton, Mass., April 7th, 1863. During the last two years of the Civil War, Mr.
Grassie served as chaplain of the 108th regiment of New York Volunteers. For two
years, 1865-67, he was acting pastor of the Congregational church at Richmond,
Me., after which he became pastor of the Congregational church at Methuen,
Mass., serving from 1867 to 1873. Leaving Appleton in 1875, he accepted the
pastorate of the First Congregational church at Oshkosh, remaining with that
church till 1877. He went from the church at Oshkosh to the Congregational
church at Sycamore, Ill., where he was pastor three years, and in 1880 took the
pastorate of the Congregational church at Keokuk, Iowa, serving that church
nearly four years. In October, 1883, Mr. Grassie was appointed secretary of the
Wisconsin Home Missionary Society, and held that office nine years, located at
Milwaukee. Resigning this in 1892, he accepted the superintendency of the
American Home Missionary Society for Northern Wisconsin, and remained in that
service until his death, which occurred at his home in Ashland, Wis., April
24th, 1898. His public funeral service was held in the Appleton church May 3d,
1898.

     Mr. Grassie's resignation was followed by another vacancy in the pastorate
of the church of sixteen months. Rev. Caleb E. Fisher, an able preacher from
Lawrence, Mass., a graduate of the college and seminary at Oberlin, O., was
engaged for one year, and began work in June, 1875, serving till his death the
following March. During these sixteen months there were added to the church
nineteen members.


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THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
APPLET0N, WIS.

PREPARED FOR THE
SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, DEC. 18, 1900.
BY
J. F. FULLER, A. M., Compiler of the "Fuller" Genealogy.

1850—1900.
APPLETON PRINTING CO.,
APPLETON, WIS.


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