Rev. Albert Burgess preached in the school house (organizing the Baptist Church on April 24, 1841).

The evidence

• “Rev. Albert Burgess preached in this school house in 1840, and on April 24, 1841, he organized the Baptist Church with fourteen members. At the close of the first year the church numbered forty-three.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/13-beloit-churches.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 300 / book p. 274

  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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