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This isn’t the first, nor is it the last time Carroll County will experience the stifling heat of the dog days of summer. Some years, however, have been hotter and more eventful than others.
News from the May 26, 1892 edition of The Ionia Daily Sentinel
By Bob Wessel This is the final installment in a series of six articles on Christian churches founded in Lenawee County in the 19th century. Methodism The Methodist Episcopal churches, discussed in the first article in this series, gave rise to several later iterations of Methodism in the county — the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church, the Free Methodist Church, and, in the 20th century, the United Methodist Church. August 1858 witnessed the organization of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Adrian in the home of Henry Russell. The con...
The date of June 17, 1862, is one that should be celebrated by anyone who has ever been associated with Adrian College.On this date, the board of trustees voted to invite the Methodist Protestant Church to join the college movement in Adrian. The decision included Dr. John Kost, a medical lecturer and internationally known scientist being elected to a professorship "to introduce the Methodist Protestant denomination" to the college.Dr. Kost was an interesting man for many reasons. He is often