Katherine Graham, wife of Doctor Graham, who located the ranch in eighteen seventy-eight, called the few neighbors and the cowboys together and held services at regular intervals after that date.

Reverend J. H. Skinner in eighteen eighty-eight came to Harrison and preached in a building on Main street where the Lowry hotel is now situated, until the first Methodist church was built. Reverend J. F. Lusk occupied the Methodist pulpit in eighty-nine and ninety. E. E. Rorick followed, and then W. C. Glasner. In ninetythree Reverend J. W. (Wick) Kendall assumed the charge. He was followed by Chas. E. Connell, and then D. I. Clark, and in ninety-eight J. L. (Jce) Kendall. W. R. Warren was here in nineteen hundred, and then C. L. Smith and J. F. Youngman. W. C. Daniels was next, and then A. R.

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York followed by A. H. York. Reverend Meyer was the minister in nineteen ten, C. E. Carter in twelve, and Joseph Snowden in the latter part of thirteen. Geo. H. Wehn, O. H. Albertson and Edward McGill followed in turn, and in September, nineteen twenty. Reverend Clare L. Yan Metre arrived and he has splendidly followed up the work. The church now has a membership of about one hundred and the Sunday school an enrollment of one hundred seventy-two. A new and modern church edifice is contemplated in the near future.

Harrison's other church is the Catholic's. When the town was new. Father Carroll

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