IIISToKY OF GOODHUE COUNTS 445 During the fifty-two years' work of the church il has been ministered to by pastors as follows: April. 1857, to October 1. 18*57— Rev. Charles Shedd; October, L857, to October, L858— Rev. David Andrews; September 2, 1859, to September, 1863 — Rev. Henry Willard; August L5, 1864, to August, 1866 — Rev. Edward Brown; Benjamin A. Dean served, as stated, supply for two or three months; March, 1867, to Sep- tember. 1868 — Rev. Charles Seccombe; September, 1868, to September, 1869 — Rev. Joseph S. Coggswell; May 15, 1870, to May 1, 1877— Rev. Sidney IL. Barteau; November 1, 1877, to May 1, 1879— Rev. Augustus A. Joss; June 8, 1879, to fall of 1883— Rev. Charles H. Rogers; December, 1883. to October, 1889— Rev. William C. Rice; January 1, 1890, to December, 1892— John W. Hargrave; December 1. 1893, to April 1, 1898 — Rev. James Oakey; September 25, 1898, to July 18, 1899— Rev. S. W. Dickinson; November 19, 1899, to December 31, 1902— Rev. S. E. Lynd; April 15, 1903, to April 27, 1904— Rev. C. H. Mcintosh ; August 29, 1904, to September 3, 1906— Rev. Frank G. Wilcox; October 8, 1906, to March 2, 1908— Rev. H. C. Todd. Rev. John Hayes Barnett, the present pastor, commenced service with the church July 15, 1908. Of the above, Rev. Joseph S. Coggswell was ordained to the ministry by a council convened in the church November 18, 1868. The council was composed of Rev. N. W. Grover, of Mantorville; the Rev. W. B. Dada, of Lake City; the Rev. E. P. Dada, of Rockford, 111. ; I. C. Stearns, of Zumbrota, and George W. Allen, of Mazeppa. Rev. John Hayes Barnett, born in Bridget on, Cumberland county, New Jersey, May 15, 1871, is the pastor of the First Con- gregational church, of Zumbrota. By the death of his father, March 22. 1872, his mother was left with the care of two boys, the elder of whom was four years of age. Their mother pre- sented them with a new T father in April, 1877. They moved to Colehour, now T a part of Chicago, 111., in March, 1881. In 1885 they settled in the northwest corner of Indiana, on what is now the site of Indiana Harbor. Leaving school at the age of four- teen, after having completed the grammar school course, he became car accountant and timekeeper for the George P. Benton Gravel & Sand Company. When the Standard Oil Company started to erect their refinery at Whiting, Ind., he entered the pipe department of the company, remaining with them until June, 1893. In 1894 he commenced to learn the printer's trade, using this to pay his way in the Moody Bible Institute, of Chicago, and the Ridgeville (Ind.) College, which he entered in the fall of 1897. He received his first preacher's license in September, 1896, it being granted by the Michigan City, Indiana. Association.
