Elder Stillman Coon returned and settled among his congregation; he is also listed as their first pastor from 1841.

The evidence

• “Elder StiUman Coon was their first Pastor, visiting them in the fall of 1840, and returning and settling among them about the 1st of July, 1841. Joseph Goodrich proposed the purchase of, forty acres of land, by the Church, for his first year's salary, with such donations of provisions, etc., as they could make him This was accepted, and the land made him a good home, subsequently becoming valuable, being located at Milton Junction, where Elder Coon lived and died, a useful and a universally respected man.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/13-rock-county-ch07-town-histories.md, PDF p. 515 / book p. 519

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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