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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was attached to the Galena Conference, and was organized on November 26, 1870, with seven members, and W. J.-Davis, Elder. The Rev. Cheek was the pastor of the church in 1876. He had come to Dubuque as a missionary in September. With no church or organized congregation, he held services in private homes and then invited potential members to attend the CENTENARY CHURCH on Thursday evenings to visit with other people. The ladies of the church established an aid society.
The congregation increased rapidly, and, in 1879, a little stone church on Locust, between Sixth and Seventh streets, erected in 1836-37, was purchased of the Christian Church for $1,500
In 1911 the congregation numbered 150 communicants.
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1. "The Colored Church," Dubuque Herald, December 22, 1876, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18761222&printsec=frontpage&hl=en