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CHAPTER XV.

CHURCHES AND RELIGION. (CONT'D)

From History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915)
by H. F. Andrews

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, EXIRA.

The First Church of Christ. Scientist, was organized at Exira, on May 15, 1897, with twelve members. The following have been first readers in the church : John G. Gates, R. Ella Hensley, William R. Bruner, Flora B. Hensley, Isaac Statzell. The church edifice was built in 1906-7, at a cost of seven hundred dollars. The present membership is seven.

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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, November, 2018, from History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915), by H. F. Andrews, pg. 234.