Henderson township

Henderson: the first congregations

From the county histories, on Henderson township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

In 1858 Mount Zion church, in Henderson township, Huntingdon ■county, was organized. For years prior to that time the Lutherans living in the vicinity of Mill Creek had been attending church at Belleville or McAlevy's fort. In they leased the old Baptist church at Mill Creek and organized a congregation. Its official name is St. Stephen's, but it is generally called the Licking Creek church. Water Street church was organized early in the nineteenth century. In 1868 a number of members of this congregation who lived near Petersburg withdrew and organized the Evangelical Lutheran church in that borough.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 887,185 of the scanned text

Checked against the record. DATES PUT BACK, and they were this site's own doing rather than the scanner's. The passage below promises to print the record exactly as it appears, and it was doing so apart from one thing: sentences kept losing their year. “In an imposing brick church” for “In 1877 an imposing brick church”, “organized in by Rev. Richard Allen” for “organized in 1816 by”. The cause was a rule meant to strip page numbers where a running head had run into the text. It removed any two to four digit number standing between two lowercase words, which is what a page number looks like there, and also what a year looks like in a sentence. Measured against the 1883 county history, the rule fired 2,260 times and 1,896 of those were four-digit years: eight dates deleted for every page number caught. The rule now refuses to touch a number between 1600 and 1999, and it still removes page numbers, which was checked both ways. The dates on this page were restored one at a time from the full text of the book itself.

Sources

John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913)

Checked 2026-09-10 · Quoted from the county histories

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