here has also been, for several years, a Christian Endeavor Society at East Sullivan. Both societies in the town are conducted on the same plan. They meet on Sunday evenings, at the church at the Centre, and at Union Hall at East Sullivan, where meetings are conducted quite similar to any prayer meeting. They have done much good among the young people, because the latter have had the charge of them and have taken a lively interest in the proceedings. Through them the churches have been largely and principally recruited of late years. A town without a good church would rapidly sink into insignificance, and a church to be permanently healthy must be recruited from the ranks of the younger members of the society. In large towns and cities, many attractions divert the young and it is more difficult to hold them to church work. In smaller towns such societies as these receive proportionately more attention and help to sustain a good ethical and religious influence. The East Sullivan Christian Endeavor was established, July 1, 1890, by Ellsworth W. Phillips, then supplying the pulpit, who became the pastor of a Congregational church in Worcester and is there yet. The first moderator was Grace H. Smith. The successive presidents have been the following, each serving until election of successor:…Mrs. Marietta A. Ware, 1900;…

Source:  The History of the Town of Sullivan New Hampshire, 1777 -1917, Vol. 1, by Rev. Josiah Lafayette Seward, D. D., 1921, p.549