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Pastors
Rev. Jeremiah Curtiss	1728-1755	Rev. Benjamin Chapman	1756-1774	Rev. William Robinson	1780-1821
Rev. David L. Ogden	1821-1836	Rev. Elisha Cowles Jones	1837-1872	Rev. Alexander Hall	1872-1873
Rev. Heman R. Timlow	1873-1875	Rev. Cyrus P. Osborne	1876-1880	Rev. Milan C. Ayres	1880-1884
Rev. Frederic L. Stevens	1885-1888	Rev. Frank R. Kahler	1888-1889	Rev. Joseph Danielson	1890-1897
Rev. Shepard Knapp, Jr.	1897-1901	Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard	1901-1904	Rev. Ray F. Carter	1904-1909
Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison	1909-1914	Rev. Claude G. Beardslee	1914-1920	Rev. Dr. Roy Pavy	1921-1925
Rev. Walter B. Denny	1925	Rev. Horace C. Greensmith	1926-1940	Rev. Richard H. Ritter	1941-1948
Rev. Leroy G. Allen	1948-1955	Rev. Dr. W. Millard Stevens	1955-1964	Rev. John W. Hosmer	1965-1980
Rev. William A. Chace, Jr.	1980-1989	Rev. Dr. Gordon E. Ellis	1990-present

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the 1999 Edition

2. Introduction to the 1974 Edition

3. The First Church

4. Second Meeting House

5. The Third Meeting House

6. History of the First Congregational Church and its Pastors

7. Our First School

8. Organizations of the Church

9. The Deaconate

10. Reminiscences of L.A. Goodsell

11. Reminiscences of Miss Clara T. Dunham

12. Reminiscences of Richard Ritter

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