History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, by Merton Edwin Krug, Publ. February 1929 by the author. Printed by Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wis., Page 425-427

We have seen how, over a period of a very few years, a dozen or more Quaker families from the settlement of Friends in Indiana, came to Woodland and established their faith, where it was destined to play a great part in the history of that township, and where it was to survive in an embodied church to the present time. Space does not permit but a brief history of this institution.

"In 1855, it was thought that a sufficient number of Friends had settled in the Valley to maintain a Friends' meeting. Accordingly one was organized in the home of Jabez BROWN and his father, Fielder BROWN, who then lived in a little log house beside the creek," wrote Mrs. Lydia M. WILLIAMS-CAMMACK, continuing: "Thirty charter members were on the list recorded in salaries in those days, and spoke only when the spirit moved them, there was no thought of any embarrassment over the number of preachers for the congregation of thirty.

"In 1856 a little log 'Friends Meeting House' was built about three miles west of Ironton,and a Sabbath School organized a little later. A Reading Circle was organized in this log church and young and old alike went to read and hear read tracts and good books. Later a sort of private school was organized that the children might being a guarded education. Antoinette COOK (Antoinette CORYELL) was the teacher.

"Death early claimed three of the original ministers, and James STANLEY, saint of all the valley remained as shepherd of the flock for more than forty years and as assisted by others who came to the calling of preachers later."

Among those of the early Friends who led devotionals were Antoinette CORYELL, Mrs. William (HANNAH) MANN, Jessa DENIS, Thomas MASON, CORYELLS, Mark DAVIS and Benjamin PICKERING and others, perhaps not brought to the writer's attention.

By 1867 the congregation had outgrown their rudimental place of worship and now elected to build a new Quaker Church at a point three and one-half miles west of Ironton, which was called Friendswood. This structure was thirty by fifty feet, with a large meeting hall and a room on the second floor for school purposes.
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