Methodist Church History in Bainbridge

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The pioneer church in Bainbridge and in Paxton Township was the Methodist Church. In 1818, John Mick and John Collins, early preachers, made the first church organization in Bainbridge. A class was started that year consisting of James Gaskle/Gaskil and his wife, Sarah McCollum, Rebecca Turner, John Baird, and Magdalin Gilmore, and placed under the leadership of James Gaskle/Gaskill. The class met at the Gaskle/Gaskill house, which became, and for some time continued to be, a regular "preaching place". James Gaskle/Gaskill gave permission to build a meeting-house on his land, and about 1820, a small frame church was built there. Mr. Gaskle/Gaskill was a tanner, and used the adjacent land as a tanyard.