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Facts: Montana Firsts: Religion (redirected from Montana Facts: Montana Firsts: Religion)

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Inauguration Marsh Church, July 25, 1920

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Religion

 

Episcopal Church

 

  • When thousands of gold seekers swarmed into Alder Gulch in 1863 Thomas J. Dimsdale was among them. In 1863, Dimsdale read the Episcopal Church service to a gathering of people from various denominations and startled the congregation when he asked the lord to bless Queen Victoria of England instead of President Lincoln. In September of 1866 Dimsdale died, and left as a legacy the start of the first Episcopal Church in Montana. (Montana Standard, November 4, 1971)

 

Christian Service

 

  • The Daily Ravalli Republican reported that the first Christian religious service in Montana took place on September 20, 1835, in the deep West Fork area of the upper Bitter Root. The service was preformed by Rev. Samuel Parker, who had branched off from the Marcus Whitman expedition en route to Idaho and Washington. (Daily Ravalli Republican, March 27, 1964)

 

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