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History Timeline
1877-1925 |
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1877 |
* Trinity Lutheran Church and Day School was formed. |
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1877 |
* Church, School, and
Parsonage was built for $3,000. |
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06 May 1877 |
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The first constitution was
signed on this Sunday by twenty-five founding members. |
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21 Oct 1877 |
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The
first
resident pastor and first teacher at Trinity School was Peter Hansen was
installed. |
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28 Oct 1877 |
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Pastor Hansen's first baptism was Julius Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reese,
the Sunday after he
was installed. |
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1877 |
* The first
church custodian, Sam Merz. |
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1882 |
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Karl
F. Kirsch, the
first called teacher
at Trinity. |
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1882 |
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Karl
F. Kirsch, began keeping permanent records of the school and voters
meetings. |
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Spring 1883 |
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Pastor Hansen's first wife dies. He remarries in the same year. |
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Dec 1894
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* The corner-stone is
layed for a new church building. |
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1896 |
* A confirmation
room is built. |
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Jan 1899 |
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Teacher Karl Kirsch leaves
Trinity School. |
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12 Apr 1899 |
* H. F. Bunjes is installed as new teacher. |
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1902 |
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25th anniversary of the congregation is
celebrated. |
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1904 |
* Schools in the St. Louis area were asked to take part
in the World Exposition at St. Louis in
1904. |
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1905 |
* A new school
building was planned. |
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1906 |
* Rain leaks in the
steeple is repaired. |
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1907 |
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First
revision and printing of the church constitution. |
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1908 |
* Cemetery
Committee is formed. |
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1911 |
* A
state law in 1911
banned drinking from one common cup or container, so each child was asked
to bring his
own cup to school. |
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1911 |
* Also in
1911 the congregation named a man to represent the congregation in a dispute
over damages caused by
two youths in an automobile. Evidently
they had frightened several horses in a funeral procession.
No other details are given. |
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Apr 1912 |
* Teacher Bunjes accepted
the call to Frankenmuth, Michigan. |
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29 Dec 1912 |
* Albert Meyer became the new
teacher. |
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1913 |
* Teacher
Albert Meyer was permitted an electric light in the teacherage. |
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11 Apr 1915 |
* Pastor Peter Hansen retires. |
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11 Jul 1915 |
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Pastor Herman C. Kothe, was installed. |
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1915 |
* Signs of growth, addition
is added to the school, introduction of the envelope system, parsonage
built, and church wired for electricity. |
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1915 |
* Teacher Miss
Clara Kleinhans is first teacher hired to teach grades one to four. |
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1916 |
* The congregation was further
organized for growth with the first annual election of a chairman. |
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1916 |
* The church is insured for the first time. |
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1918 |
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The
first insurance claim was to be filed, and it was followed by a
redecoration of the church. This
could have been the result of the first church fire. |
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May 1918 |
* A
painful sign of growth was the change from German to English. |
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Jun 1918 |
* Mr. Samuel Merz was ill or
became too old to function as custodian, for in June of that year the trustees were instructed to find a janitor. |
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1919 |
* Teacher Albert
Meyer accepted a call to Fort Wayne. |
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1919 |
* Miss
Clara Kleinhans leaves
Trinity. |
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1919 |
* Miss
Irma Kothe is
hired to teach grade one to four. |
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1919 |
* In the 1919-20 school year German instruction was again resumed. |
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28 Sep 1919 |
* 25th
Anniversary of the church building. |
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1920 |
* English
Bible class and English Communion. |
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15 Aug 1920 |
* Principal and Teacher A. C. Neuman was installed. |
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1920 |
* A campaign for an
electric blower for the
organ was begun. |
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1921 |
* At the advice of a
steeplejack, it was decided to remove the steeple. $40.00
was charged for the job! |
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1922 |
* At later meetings several plans were considered to rebuild the steeple
but the tower was merely rebuilt for $605.00. |
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1922 |
* The ladies aid offered $100.00 toward a proposed addition to the
confirmation room. They decided to increase it to $150.00
with additional costs. |
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1923 |
* A committee was elected to make plans
for a new teacherage. But
because of low contributions the plan was given up.
teacherage committee
was elected and at their recommendation it was decided to remodel and add
on to the existing house. |
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1924 |
* Meetings in German and English were the
next consideration. First
the minutes were kept in both languages intermittently. |
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12
Apr 1925
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* The entire church meeting was conducted
in both German and English. |
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18 Jun 1925 |
* More remodeling came including a
furnace costing $4351.00. |
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