The first child baptized in the Beloit church was the infant son of Deacon Hobart, Horace R.

The evidence

• “Adams reported a Sunday school of twenty scholars, organized during the previous year, the first superintendent being the surveyor, John Hopkins. The first child baptized (in November, 1839) was the infant son of Deacon Hobart, Horace R., (now, 1908, editor of the ''Railway Age," Chicago).”

  1908-brown-rock-county/13-beloit-churches.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 287 / book p. 263

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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