south side of Broad St. near Prospect, and in that same year a second daughter, again named Mary, was born. Their last child, James, was born in 1847. Alfred Field ' s name is inseparable from the story of Congregationalism in Beloit. The Monadnock Congregational Church ofColebrook gave letters of recommendation and dismissal to Field and others "to j oin any church o/Christ where God in his providence shall call them. " He was present in Caleb Blodgett's kitchen for the organizational meeting of the First Congregational Church, December 30, 1838, and with Eliza was one of its charter members. His father, Peter, who had moved to Beloit, was chosen as the fi rst deacon of the church. In 1859 when Beloit Congregationalists wanted to build a church on the city' s west side, Alfred was one of Second Congregational's founding members, and he and Eliza were enrolled as the first and second members of the new church. Like his father, Alfred was elected the first deacon; he was also the first clerk and one of the first c