Today, Iowa’s Cedar Valley Baptist Association assembles at Waterloo. While the war is uppermost in the minds of the delegates, the issue of higher education is also a concern of some individuals present. At the seventh anniversary of the Cedar Valley Baptist Association held at Waterloo, September [26], 1862, H. I. Parker presented the prospects…
Today Kentucky’s Campbell County Association of Baptists gather at the Baptist Church at Licking. The association meeting lasts for three days. Much of the talk is about missionary work, and in particular, home missions. The associational missionary reports one baptism for the past twelve months, compared to eighteen the prior year. In assessing the downtown,…
Rev. F. N. Barlow (born 1818), pastor of the Baptist Church in Halfmoon, New York, today enlists as a First Lieutenant in Co H 115th New York Infantry. Known as the “Iron Hearted Regiment,” the 115th New York is organized August 26, 1862 at Fonda, New York, mustering out on June 17, 1865. In the…