Baker University - Wildcat Yearbook (Baldwin City, KS)

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HISTORY OF THE SOUTH KANSAS CONFERENCE. Conference the whole of the state of Kansas was in one Conference known as the Kansas. OR several years prior to 1873, since the division of the Kansas and Nebraska In March, 1873, the session of the Conference was held at Ottawa, with Bishop Bowman as the presiding bishop. At this session, after considerable debate, the action was taken by which the state was divided into two Conferences. the line of division being the south line of township sixteen, all south of that line and the cities of Ottawa and Louisburg, north of it to be known as the South Kansas Conference. This Conference then had four districts, viz.: Emporia, Fort Scott, Humboldt and Wichita, and covered a territory four hundred miles long and one hundred miles wide. In addition to the four districts there were 93 pastoral appointments. Of these four Presiding Elders, P. T. Rhodes, D. P. Mitchell, A. K. Johnson, and J. McQuiston, all are dead and of the preachers, a large majority of them are known to be dead and only three are now in the effective ranks in this Conference. These are B. Kelly, VV. T. Xvhite, and H. W. Chaffee. Three others only are connected with the Conference and these are the honored superannuates, G. W. Pye, Wm. Bristow, and C. R. Rice. The minutes of the session in closing say, Old comrades, who have stood side by side in the days that tried 1ll6Il'S souls, met in Conference together for the last time until the general gathering shall be when all the coniiicts are past. The first session of the South Kansas Conference convened in Fort Scott, March 11, 1874, with Bishop Andrews presiding. At the close of the Conference there were 88 ap- pointments including those of the four Presiding Elders. At this session the Preachers' Aid Society was organized and it has since become an organization of no small force in the Conference and now distributes annually to its beneficiaries about 35400. The statistics of this session show a membership of 12,721 There were forty-three church buildings and forty-one parsonages. The valuation of this property was S125,745. There was raised that year for missions 8758, and for education 3526. At this session the Missionary Society appropriated 354,500 to assist in the work. In ministerial support the claims were 3550,832, of which only 334,277 was paid. At the session of the Conference held in 1882 at Burlington, at which Bishop Warren presided, a new Conference was formed to be known as the Southwest Kansas Confer- ence. This took practically 300 miles in length from the west end of the Conference territory, the dividing line being the west line of Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, and Chase counties. This left the South Kansas Conference with a territory practically 100 miles square in the southeast corner of the state of Kansas, and embracing the counties of Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Chautauqua, Elk, Wilson, Neosho, Greenwood, Chase, Crawford, Bourbon, Linn, Allen, Woodson, Anderson, Coffey, with the south parts of 17