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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was attached to the Galena Conference, and was organized November 26, 1870, with seven members, and W. J.-Davis, Elder. At first, services were held in halls and private houses. 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.