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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., The Congregational Church of West Medford. (search)
e was no church organization which could build a meeting-house, and no joint action of different denominations seemed feasible. The Baptists, under the lead of Mr. Horace A. Breed, agitated the question of a Baptist church and were satisfied to give it up. Then the Methodists discussed the matter, but took no public action. It remained for the Congregationalists to see what they could do and whether they ought to proceed. And so it came to pass that members of the families of Ackerman, Ansorge, Brown, Fuller, Leonard, McLean, Norton, Phipps and Teele, with some others, to the number of about twenty persons, met at Mr. Norton's house, on February 26, 1872, to take counsel together with reference to this situation. John H. Norton was elected chairman and David H. Brown secretary. After prayer by J. G. Fuller, Mr. Norton stated the object of the meeting, to consider the expediency of forming a Congregational church in West Medford, and Messrs. J. G. Fuller, Abner J. Phipps, Ira P