Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne
During the week of April 22-29, 1956, impressive services marked the dedication of the fifth house of worship of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Wayne. Distinguished guests, clergy, and prominent laymen united to observe the one-hundred-twenty fifth anniversary of the founding of the church in the Summit City.
In 1956 the congregation numbered twenty-five hundred members, who had contributed two million dollars to construct the beautiful modified early American edifice at Wayne and Webster streets. The area of Fort Wayne then encompassed twenty-eight square miles, and the population approximated one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants in forty-six thousand homes.
The story of the humble beginnings and the difficult under takings of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church and their successors constitutes a record of faith and courage in this com munity in the nineteenth century. To understand fully the numer ous obstacles and vicissitudes experienced by the Church and its congregation, the reader must turn back the pages of local history to the early decades of the last century.
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