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English Language Mission in Freeport, IL.
1881
 First Lutheran Church, Freeport, Illinois
was originally known as Women’s Memorial because the Executive Committee
of the General Synod Women’s Home and Foreign Mission Society, founded
in 1879, made Freeport one of its first projects. Miss Sarah Grosman had
canvassed the area and made an appeal to the Northern Illinois Synod in
1879 to begin an English Language mission. It was June, 1881 when the
Rev. Thomas F. Reeser was called as missionary to Freeport under the
direction of the WHFMS. |
