Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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and Lorenzo Quackenbush, David Groome, Warren Briggs, O. F.
Olas, Nathaniel Glassbrook, and Richard Walton are named as
trustees.
The Methodist Episcopal church of Lansing also organized in
1848, with "F. A. Blades, preacher in charge of the Mapleton Circuit," appointing the following trustees: John Berry, John Jennings, Ephraim F. Thompson, David A. Miller, Joseph Kilbourne,
William Wheadone.
St. Paul's Episcopal church organized on Feb. 7, 1849, met at
the Senate chamber for the services, and, after the appointment of
their several trustees, the record goes on to say, "It was then and
there duly determined that the said trustees and their successors
in office forever should thereafter be called and known as the Rectors, Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Paul's Parish, Lansing."
On Dec. 9, 1848, the Lansing Presbyterian church was organized
at the school (lower town), and five trustees elected "to take
charge of the temporalities of said church."
The Universalist Congregation also worshipped in the Senate
chamber at Lansing, and organized on May 9, 1848, and after
electing Ephraim H. Utley, Levi Hunt and Henry H. Ross as
trustees, said church was then and there duly organized by the
name and style of the "First Universalist society in the town of
Lansing," and that at said meeting it was determined that said
trustees and their successors in office forever thereafter shall be
called and known as "The First Universalist church in the town
of Lansing."
These are only a part of the churches the organization of which
is included in the book. Among others mentioned are the Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Stockbridge, the first organized
in 1852, and the latter in 1853. The Leslie Baptist church was
also organized in 1853. "The First New Church" of Lansing,
The Second Society of the M. P. church in the Ingham Circuit,
The First Wesleyan Methodist, are among numerous other
Lansing churches, the early records of which are in this book.