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Pastors of the Community
Congregational Church
Prior to 1905
we were part
of the Bitterroot Circuit of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, The circuit riders covered
Carleton, Bonner, Lolo, Florence, Lothrop,
Iron Mountain, St. Regis and DeBorgia (Branch
line of N.P.R.R.) and Paradise, Swamp Creek,
Thompson Falls, Whitepine and Trout Creek
(Main line of N.P.R.R.) |
D.S. Monro
P.L. Kiplinger
Peter R. Keplinger
William A. Hall
J.W. Rice
Edward M. Dugger
James M. Eastland
P.D. Price
Alvin H. Morton
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1888-1889
1892
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1903
1904 |
1905 - 1951
Methodist Episcopal Church
Corner stone of existing church laid October
24, 1905 and the church building was dedicated
July 5, 1907.
Part of this time, Thompson Falls and Trout
Creek were together, Thompson Falls and Whitepine were together
and from 1923-1929
Thompson Falls and Plains were together. |
Clark L. Cone
William Samuel Tester
James Taylor
Samuel Taylor
The Taylor Brothers, James
& Samuel, serviced Thompson Falls & Trout
Creek together.
Clarence B. May
J. Franklin Holton
Ralph F. Blanning
S.W. Clemes
Frank E. Dodds
Archibald E. Plummer
Wilder Nutter
Thomas Clarkson
Charles Rhodes
Thomas Henry Barker
Ralph Carleton
Augustus Winegar Hammer
Rev. Hammer had been a
cowboy for 25 years. Trailed cattle
from Texas to Wyoming; in 1875 was a Texas
Ranger; in 1886 trailed cattle from Texas to
Montana & here converted by the preaching of
Brother Van (William Wesley Van Orsdel) &
became a Methodist preacher.)
Miss
Nelle Phillips
Buried
in Wild Rose Cemetery, Thompson
Falls
Clark Arnold Newton
Wilbur Roy Benett
Albert C. Rostron
Emile F. Mignery, Jr.
J. Eldon Whitesitt
Was a licensed Lay Preacher, served Noxon in 1942 &
possible Thompson Falls at the same
time.
Bert D. Fridley
Built Fridley Annex, mostly from
scavenged lumber & materials.
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1905
1907
1909
1909
1910
1911
1912
1912-1913
1914-1918
1918
1919
1922
1922
1923-1926
1927-1928
1929
1930-1933
1934
1935
1936
1938-1941
no date given
1944-1951 |
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Most of the above
information was gleaned from Bicentennial
Tapestry of the Yellowstone Conference;
Whithorn, Doris; Livingston:
Livingston Enterprise, 1984.
1952-1961
Congregational Christian Church |
Miss Olah Moore
Clare E. Olney
Miss
Olah Moore
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1951-1952
1952-1957
1957-1961 |
.1961-1981 United Church
of Christ
In 1961 the Congregational Christian Church
merged with the Evangelical & Reformed
Church
to form the United Church of Christ |
John Gebhardt
Lobell Bennett
Bruce Kline
E.M. (Tim) Hawkins
Gaylund G. Olson
In 1983 we
withdrew from the United Church of Christ
and joined first the National Association of
Congregational Christian Churches in 1984
and then in 1998 Withdrew from that
association and joined the Conservative
Congregational Christian Conference.
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1961-1963
1964-1969
1969-1974
1975-1977
1977-2007
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1998-Present
Conservative Congregational Christian
Conference |
Dr. Milton Reimer
Matthew Schraeder
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2008-2011
2011-Present |
