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 HISTORY. OF GOODHUE COUNTY 153 held his lirsi service March 1. From that time .services were continued every Sunday evening until July, when Rev. Grover ' was elected to the rectorship and preached his opening sermon July 5, L874. The parish of Grace church bad been organized April 21 by the election of wardens and vestrymen as follows: Senior warden, (dies Hay ward; junior warden. 1). E. Sawyer; vestrymen, Dr. C. Hill, Mr. Simmons, II. Ahneman, W. E. Sear- geant, G. W. Parge, and Charles Parker. Ji was decided to build a chiii-. di at .nice at a cosl of $3,000, and the building was erected on the spot where the lirsi foundation was laid. The corner stone was laid July 13, by Rev. Welles, of Red Wing. The church building was begun in Augusl and was so far completed that the first communion service was held in the church on Christinas morning, it was formally opened February 1, 187"). In seven months there had been thirty-nine baptisms, of which eighteen were adults, and fourteen persons continued. A Sunday school had been gathered oumbering over one hundred children, with an average attendance of sixty-nine. December li. 1875, Rev, Grover resigned and Rev. A. Cornwall took charge, holding his first service the 'fourth Sunday in Advent. He resided at Kasson, and served two years. Rev. Robert Reed Goudy then took up the work, serving until July 1, 187!). when he was succeeded by Rev. L. F. Cole, who served until 1881. He was succeeded by Rev. Higgins, who took charge for one year: then lor a number of years the pulpit was filled by students from the Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, the last to serve being II. S. St reef- er, who gave up the charge August 31, 1895. Bishop Gilbert then appointed Rev. W. B. Magnan, who took charge September 1, 1895. One year later he severed his connection with the mission, and September 27 Rev. H. D. Chambers took charge of the mis- sions at Pine Island, Mazeppa and Zumbrota. In the spring of 1897 a bishop's committee was appointed and they immediately built a rectory, giving their personal notes for $600, the building to be deeded to the mission when paid for. Rev. Chambers re- signed in March, 1878, to take effect June, 1898. Rev. E. AYilson was then appointed, served until October 16, 1899, and was suc- ceeded by Rev. Frederic Pitts, deacon, who remained until Au- gust 15. 1901. Frederic S. Carson, a student at Seabury Divinity school, kept up the services until November, when the archdea- con. Rev. Houpt, held services once a month until June, 1902, after which Rev. J. S. Budlong, deacon, was appointed by Bishop Edsall. He resigned November 29, 1903, on account of failing health, and Stephen Gould Updyke, a student of the Seabury Di- vinity school at Faribault, took up the work. March 3. 1905, he was advanced to the priesthood at Seabury chapel. April 22.