Outagamie County WI Archives Church Records.....Assistant Pastors
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Assistant Pastors.

DURING the period of building the new church and for a few years thereafter, the
increase in church activities, with the rapid growth in membership and extension
of the parish, which made much additional work, seemed to demand temporary help
for the pastor. This was met at once by providing the necessary assistance.

     IN 1892, MR. C. W. BARNES, a graduate of Yale seminary, was employed during
the months of July, August, and September, chiefly as pulpit supply. Since that
time, Mr. Barnes has been a successful pastor of a church in Chicago.

    Miss KATHERINE S. WILLARD, a sister of our late pastor, Rev John D. Willard,
was engaged for the months of June, July, and August, 1893, principally in
pastoral work, after which she returned to Massachusetts and engaged in similar
work in Boston.

     MR. E. A. PROUTY, the former secretary of the Y. M. C. A., in this city,
began work in December, 1893, and remained till July, 1894. His work was largely
Sunday-school and pastoral. He has since been serving as assistant to the pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J.

    MR. KARL MATHIE, following him, served one year, doing considerable pulpit
supply work in addition to pastoral. He relinquished this field to engage in
educational work, and since 1894, has served as superintendent of the public
schools at Wausau.

     MR. W. S. WESCOTT succeeded Mr. Mathie, and remained in this work a little
over three years, till June, 1899. In addition to Sunday school and pastoral
work, Mr. Wescott has at times supplied the pulpit with great acceptance. Since
his resignation, Mr. Wescott has graduated from Lawrence university, and is now
pursuing his theological studies at the seminary in Chicago, in preparation for
his chosen vocation, and also serves as assistant to the pastor of the First
Congregational church of that city.

    Since June, 1899, the pastoral work in connection with the recently
organized activities, has been so systematized that the urgent necessity for an
assistant has disappeared.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

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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