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Lewis Bodwell was a Congregational minister located in Topeka, Kansas Territory. He reported that his activities to organize a Congregational Church in Topeka had resulted in 24 members. Apparently, he was working under the auspices of the Home Missionary Church. He wrote that he only held one service a month in a "public hall," as it was also used by three or four other denominations. He indicated that he had preached "in the open air, in ball-rooms and bar-rooms and kitchens." He implied that there was a great need to form a permanent church to aid the congregation by having its own center of activitiy but also to take the financial burden off the Home Missionary Society. This item is undated and the years 1856 and 1860 are both written on it in pencil.
Creator: Bodwell, Lewis, 1827-1894
Date: 1856
Item Number: 5429
Call Number: Port Vault K 285.8 B633d 1856
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5429
Collections - Library
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Congregational
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries
Community Life - Religion - Places of Worship
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Home and Family - Activities - Religious - Church attendance
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Printed materials - Ephemera
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