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You're helping with this event: September 10, 1837, The first sermon was preached in [Beloit] by Prof. Whitney/Whitman, a Baptist minister from Belvidere, Ill.; the 1879 history places it in the old Beloit House, the 1908 history in the big boarding house built for Blodgett's mill men — both readings reported.