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[First Baptist Church of Eugene], [No date: circa 2006]. Spiral bound, 177 pp.; 22 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and portraits.
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In Very Good condition. Dark brown stiff card covers printed in gilt with ornamental frame, title and sepia vignette of a log cabin; black coated coil binding. Mild shelf and edge wear with some bumping to edges and corners; small nick to the paper at the fore-edge of the front cover; a few small dimples and light scuffing to rear cover with a hint of color loss. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. History of Eugene's First Baptist Church from its founders' lives in Missouri through the completion of its new building in 2003, written by the church's historian Lucile McKenzie from the church history notebooks, minute books, newspapers, family papers and members' recollections. The church was organized on July 1, 1852 in the log cabin of Mahlon Harlow as the Willamette Forks Baptist Church, after the Harlow and Tandy families crossed the Oregon Trail in 1850. The prologue addresses the founders' pre-Oregon lives in Lafayette County, Missouri, including their part in the resistance to Mormon settlement and their ownership of slaves. Later chapters cover temperance and Eugene City's first jail, the Depression, the long pastorate of Dr. Vance Webster (1941-1969), the 1952 centennial, and the move to the Harlow Triangle. Bibliography and list of consultants. Privately produced; no copies located in WorldCat, viaLibri, AbeBooks or eBay at time of listing. Contents: Introduction; Prologue: Lafayette County, Missouri, 1830-1850; The Oregon Trail, 1850-1851; The First Fifty Years, 1852-1902; Standing on the Promises, 1903-1930; The Great Depression, 1931-1940; The Webster Years, 1941-1969; Moving Onward, 1970-1989; Building on the Blessing, 1990-2002; Epilogue: Full Circle, 2002-2003; Bibliography; Consultants