Elder F. Topping was invited to preach half the time.

The evidence

• “This building was used by them until the year 1867, when the present structure was erected, which is a building 38x64, with a vestry in the rear which is 20x33, at a cost of some $6,500. October 24, 1840, Elder F. Topping was invited to preach half the time.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 132 / book p. 641

  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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