Through Three Centuries : Colver And Rosenberger Lives And Times, 1620-1922
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It was a frame one, either 24 by 28 or 25 by 30 feet in size. It was called the "Elgin Chapel," or the "Elgin Union Chapel, " the latter designation being due to the fact that it was owned jointly by the Baptists and the Congregationalists and was used by them respectively on alternate Sundays for about four years. Then the Baptists bought out the interest of the Congregationalists. In 1849 the Baptists built a new and larger church, of cobblestones, a material that was plentiful and from which... several of the best of the early residences were constructed. PASTORATES IN ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN 169 This building was used for church purposes until 1870, and it was then converted into a schoolhouse. 1 Something of what Elgin was at the time of Mr. Colver's pastorate there is indicated by the fact that in i860 its popula- tion was 2,797, an d by 1870 it was 5,441. But his ministry there was during the latter part of the Civil War and the beginning of the subsequent era of reconstruction, which were trying times for almost everyone everywhere; still, his pastorate has been included within the period of the history of the church wherein the latter has been described as having " enjoyed a good degree of spiritual and temporal prosperity." While the war was ruthlessly destroying lives and property and spreading woe throughout the land, Mr.
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