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Show i ". "'rv:--:-- j -m . mA. -1" sm, v- mi. S 1 a ii imt)i ijiihi iiininriiij-'uy-f iii-in-ii.iinri-nn ininiinwnifw WTnif nnnri-n-n'T.nn"riinnrT r'Tr-nr-"-" v V ' j ..... . I -Vvtv W. v. t 4S5sN.v. v v, M?fff ?,:?M??-ffjj ! ff'ff: ? ?" ffmmmff?r?M h: ?ts -ff : M? ? ffffffmlil???? k iiiiiii m imm iMWmmiini I X 1 - .SSWf'-iM Jfff- 'ffffr l ' " v::::;; '. -. : . . , Ir tl wmM --i- - i i - - - -Jl - ------ , j-... . iiWmiiviv.t.imi..l..... .. m i n The cathedral windows are still a part of the "roomy and cheerful building" for which the first reverend, E. M. Knox, conducted fund raisers." Kaysville Presbyterian Church Century-old edifice celebrates I'ISS''-' " ;'" f: i-' " $?ff$ff ?ff?ffffffff?ff???ff?$ The Kaysville Presbyterian school ceased functioning in , 1909. Worship services A continued until ' about 1917. By DONETA GATHERUM KAYSVILLE There is a centennial cen-tennial celebration going on this year in Kaysville that most people aren't aware of. One hundred years ago, Oct. 19, 1888 the Haines Memorial Church, located at the intersection of Center Street and 100 East, was officially dedicated. Today, the building is still standing. stand-ing. It is owned by Mrs. Ivy Harvey, Har-vey, who resides in a home adjacent to the church that originally provided pro-vided lodging for the school teachers and ministers who labored la-bored in Kaysville among the Mormons. Mor-mons. Early accounts of the Haines Church can be found in missionary magazines such as the "Church Review." The magazines were circulated cir-culated by Home Mission commit- of 1881. Miss Ella McDonald, a school teacher, worked from September Sep-tember until January of 1882 to find a place to purchase for a school. She succeeded in obtaining an acre and a half of property and a small adobe cottage which was converted con-verted into living quarters for herself her-self and a school room for any Kaysville youngsters who wanted a quality free education. This first school was on the spot later occupied occu-pied by the Haines Church. For five years Miss McDonald instructed the children of Kaysville. Kaysvil-le. Enrollment increased from two pupils when the school opened, Jan. 16, 1882 to 75 pupils in 1895. Mormon church officials weren't pleased with the success of the Protestant Pro-testant schools in Utah and local leaders put pressure on members of the Kaysville Ward to stop send- "The building was -i completed on the 21st of September 1888 and dedicated October 19, 1888. The edifice is a beautiful one." q waatu LuiiwuiMiiug 111 v 1909. Worship services A continued until ' about 1917. i "The building was ROGER TUTTLE M completed on the 21st v of September 1888 and fi: dedicated October 19, 1888- The edifice is a beautiful one." n W- ' JSSf I- L...... .- . 1 iV SSSiT- , 1 I'- Sf X ' Iffm i A m - 41 Kf""'" " ill J -j i u fi n I ' - -'"S.j.K ' " ''' k' .. : . r-"" ? " vjipii m t " - ;-;frf-:;-j IQ ffiff -rlv , r -W J , ,f -f . 1 , I ' ' '"'' . -? i n 1 -TV V LL' " m 1 C T v I - - -- : J monism. No permanent minister was assigned to Kaysville until 1887 when Rev. E. M. Knox arrived. ar-rived. His first job was to raise enough money from missionary contacts in the East to build a church. Construction was started as soon as he arrived. Mr. Knox wrote, "The building was completed com-pleted on the 21st of September, 1888 and dedicated Oct. 19, 1888. The edifice is a beautiful one. It is divided into two school-rooms by means of a sliding partition. The Women's Executive Committee of Home Missions raised $1400 and the Board of Church Erection gave $600. We only wish all those who contributed toward the erection of our new chapel could look upon two pictures one being that of the old house in its most crowded condition, and the other our present pre-sent roomy and cheerful building, with teachers and pupils seated in their respective rooms." The centurv-old brick church is 26 x 46 feet with a vestibule and tower 7x11 feet on the corner. The outside is almost completely unchanged. The interior was remodeled re-modeled by a Church of the Nazarene congregation that rented the building during the 1950s. Many churches with small congregations congre-gations have used this "missionary" "mission-ary" building until they became well-established in the North Davis area. During the winter of 1892-93 the home for teachers was erected next to the church at a cost of $1000 including furniture. The formal organization of a Presbyterian Pre-sbyterian church in Kaysville didn't occur until Oct. 20, 1891 when 11 members living in Kaysville Kays-ville formally petitioned the governing gov-erning presbytery of the church for recognition as a congregation. In 1890, the LDS Church issued the Manifesto stopping the practice of polygamy. That same year the Territorial Legislature passed the Uniform Public School Act establishing estab-lishing free public schools throughout through-out the territory. Today, a century after its construction, con-struction, it is one of the few early protestant churches still standing in Utah, a well-preserved reminder of one of the most emotional and interesting periods of Western American history. "The children are improving satisfactorily," wrote Miss Ella McDonald, the first church school teacher. tees usually consisting of women to congregations in the East as a means of explaining the progress of schools and churches in the Mormon Mor-mon mission field and of soliciting contributions toward the missionary mission-ary work. Miss P.J. Hart, one of the missionary mis-sionary teachers assigned to the Kaysville "station" wrote in one magazine article, "It is my impression im-pression that the work here must, for some time, be carried on like that of the foreign field." Presbyterian missionaries first arrived in Kaysville in September ing their children to the Presbyterian Presbyte-rian school. Miss McDonald wrote, "The average attendance is much better than it was at this time last year ( 1 883) and the children are improving satisfactorily. Satan's fiery tongue is especially active just now. . . He sees there is a prospect of his losing his hold on the people. Those who sent their children to school here and voted the Liberal ticket, are under trial by the church." While it was fairly easy to establish estab-lish a church school jn Kaysville, the community was resistant to the founding of a church outside Mor Jre'sere'd 100-year-old building has been fji.-Hnren. f.i. nUifBiTifli nrr ii,, i if finiMiffiaT. mTirTrniiit-,',T'F'E g nt';),T---'"TT-l'i";Vi...iii Ail t .j-t i |