A History of Church Life

1639 - First Baptist congregation was formed in Providence, RI

1683 - First Mennonite groups in America settled in Pennsylvania

1774 - First Shaker group established at Watervliet, NY

1789 - Episcopal church separated its ties to the Church of England

1804 - Disciples of Christ began in Kentucky & western Pennsylvania

1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church

1820 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

1830 - Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church at Fayette, NY

1842 - The Amana group migrated to America settling in Ebenezer,
NY and later moving to Iowa

1843 - Wesleyan Methodist Church of America began

1844 - Joseph Smith, founder of Mormons is killed by lynch mob

1847 - Mormons now led by Brigham Young found Salt Lake City

1860 - Free Methodist Church began

1870 - Methodist Episcopal Church began

1871 - Charles Russell founds the Jehovah Witness

1875 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science publishes Science & Health.

1895 - Church of the Nazarene founded in Los Angeles, CA