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VILLAGE ORGANIZATION.
The
village of Oakland was incorporated years ago, but as the first
records were not to be had we could not get the exact date, nor
the names of hte first Board of Trustees. The present
Board is as follows, voz., William Henderson, M. W. Ammerman,
J. W. Stokes, Frank Pleasant, J. R. Lawson and Merrill
Hackett. William Henderson is President of the Board;
W. M. Bowman, Village Clerk; A. A. Dunseth, Police
Magistrate, and John Tibbs, Town Marshal.
The first church was organized by the Old-School
Presbyterians in the year 1831. They built a small log
church on the site of the "upper grave-yard," which afterward
was turned into a schoolhouse. They next erected a frame
building on the public square, 25x40 feet, but for lack of funds
never finished it. It was finally abandoned, and, in 1844,
their present church edifice was erected. Rev. Isaac
Bennett was one of the first preachers. He was a naive
of Philadelphia, was educated at Princeton and was a man of much
intelligence and refinement. He was averse to noise, the
cry of a child, when preaching, totally upset him. After
his marriage, a "change came over the spirit of his dreams," and
when two, three or four children had gathered about his knees,
he was altogether another person, and could study his sermons
better than ever and "preach right along in the stiffest kind of
a squall." Rev. Mr. Montgomery
was another preacher of this congregation; also Rev. Mr.
McDonald and Rev. Mr. Venable, of Paris. At
present, there is no regular pastor. A good Sunday school
is maintained, of which Mr. Eckard is Superintendent.
The Cumberland Presbyterians organized a society in
1843, under the Rev. James Ashmore, a son of Amos
Ashmore and a brother to the wife of Rev. Mr. Bennett.
They have an elegant little frame church in the village and a
flourishing society. Rev. J. P. Campbell is the
present Pastor. R. G. Forsythe is Superintendent of
the Sunday school connected with this Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized by Rev.
Arthur Bradshaw in 1858. Their church was built soon
after its organization. The society is
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