Sunday school class led by the Reverend James Ansel Sutton, who is in the center of the group. Sutton was an 1888 Hamline University graduate and he served as a Methodist Episcopal minister in Minnesota, Washington, Alaska, and California.
The Union Presbyterian Church faces South Third Street on the northwestern corner of the intersection with West Locust Street in St. Peter, Minnesota. The building on the right was once the home of the ministers who served the church.
This is a photo of the Union Presbyterian Church in St. Peter, located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Third and Locust streets, facing Third street. See also E4008.
This photograph shows an interior view of the Union Presbyterian Church in St. Peter, which is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Third and Locust Streets, facing Third Street. Construction of the church began in 1871. It was dedicated in 1872.
This photo shows the Union Presbyterian Church in St. Peter, located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Third and Locust streets, facing Third street. See also E7580.
Interior view of the Union Presbyterian Church in St. Peter in 1878. The church is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Third and Locust streets, facing Third street.
Attendees of the Young People's Alliance, District Convention at the Sleepy Eye Evangelical Church pose in front of the church on the lawn. This movement won approval of the General Conference in 1891. It was the organization which had been designed to bring unification among the young people of the Church, as well as to consolidate the numerous Jugend-Bunds (Youth Leagues) which had formed in Evangelical Association congregations throughout the country. As a youth society, its purpose was the promotion of intellectual, religious, and social culture and to train young people in Christian living and for service in the Church. It served to fill the gap between the Sunday School and the Church.
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Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Pastor and Mrs. Thomas Johnsen and children outside the parsonage of Norseland Lutheran church (originally known as Nicollet Lutheran Church. The log parsonage was constructed in 1863, sided in 1867 and then dismantled in 1906.