”METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The Methodists were the first to hold meetings of a religious character in this township. As early as 1831 and ’32, meetings were held at the residence of John Cornish, and in the school-house in later years. …

W. H. Ware (the boy-preacher), 1868;”

Reference Data:

History of Branch County, Michigan, by Crisfield Johnson, 1879, page 237