Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — Church With a History. [ARTICLE]

Church With a History.

The Christian building at Hammond, where Evangelists Shearer Harrold will hold their next meeting, has rather an interesting history. It was the First Christian church of Chicago, established in the days when Chicago was a town. In this church Potter Palmer was one of the deacons, and among the eminent men who ministered for it was President Garfield. In 1892 a new First Church was built in Chicago and the old church was taken doWn and moved to Hammond where a body of people of the Christian church bad been worshiping in a hall. The building was dedicated by the late Gov. Ira J. Chase, Feb. 28, 1892.