Founding of Freeport First Presbyterian Church
The article recounts the 1842 organization of Freeport's first Presbyterian Church, its founders and early members from Pennsylvania New York Vermont Ohio and Naples Illinois, and the challenging frontier context including poverty widespread lawlessness and slow settlement. it notes the leadership of Rev Calvin Waterbury and the initial elders Philip Reitzel A W Lucas and A W Rice among others and details early meeting places and efforts to establish worship and a union Sunday School.
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Mt. Denis
Temann Grimm
Europe
Michael Angelo
First Presbyterian Church of
Freeport
Stephenson County
Orestes HI. Wright
Vermont
Spring Branch
Pecatonica
Stephenson
McCain
Log Hotel
Galena
Chicago
L. W. Guiteau
Exchange
Nev. Morrell
Briies
Galena Street
Wilcoxon
City Mills
Our Church
Calvin Taterbury
Old Court House
First Presbyterian
Hi. Woodmanse
Julesburg
Friends
Messrs
D. A. Knowlton
A.T. Green
L. W. Guitea
Gene. Atkins
County Commissioners
O. B. Munn
Ilinois
Church of Christ
Calvin Waterbury
Otsego Presbytery
N.Y
American Home Missionary Society
Samuel Spencer
Presbyterian Church of the
Congregational
Philip Reitzel
Mary Reitzell
Orestes H. Wright
Emmaretta Henderson
Adrian W. Lucas
Elizabeth Lucas
A. W
Sarah Young
Asahel W. Rice
Nancy Rice
Orrin B. Munn
Jane L. Wright
Elizabeth Spencer
Lucas
A. W. Rice
Austria and Russia face a European crisis dilemma
The piece argues Austria’s cautious stance keeps Europe unsettled as Russia seeks to move on Bulgaria and the Balkans. It compares wartime aims, from Gortschakoff to Ignatieff, predicting Bulgaria and Roumelia tests, and warns a Western intervention checkmate through a split outcome. The analysis cites a Times dispatch on looming shifts in power and independence.
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Servia
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Kars
Batoum
Trebizond
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Bosnia
Herzegovina
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Napoleon
Alexander I
Roumelia
Constantinople
Hand and speech in a Scottish courtroom humorous trial
A speech by Mr. Harry Erskine, succeeding Lord Melville as Lord Advocate, features a playful defense for a female client named Lickel. The judge replies with a sharp quip as auditors laugh, remarking that the defendant could ticket herself.
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Henry Dundas
Lord Melville
Scotland
Lickel
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