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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy

Chapter Nine: 1890 - 1899
Churches and pastors in Lake City in the 1890s

Florida Grant and her husband, Bishop Abram Grant in 1891

Adam Grant was born on August 25, 1848, the slave of
Frank Rollison. He ran away with his brother Alex, and Johns and
James Gray but was captured and sold by his owner in Columbus,
Georgia. He ran away again and joined the Union army. He returned
to Lake City after the war, then moved to Jacksonville, where he
entered the ministry. He was elected the 19th Bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church on May 19, 1888, and was ordained on
May 24. His wife was Florida Grant.

While Methodist minister Rev. R.H. Barnett was pastor in
1891, the congregation built a parsonage on Hernando Street facing
Lake Isabella and Park. While Baptist minister Rev. W.S. Rogers
was pastor in 1894, the congregation built a large, brick church on the
corner of Orange and Hernando streets. That same year members of
the Advent Christian Church organized their church in Henderson’s
Opera House. The hurricane of 1896 destroyed the second building
of the Lutherans, who then built a third facility the following year.
While Presbyterian minister J.C. Tims was pastor (1898 - 1902),
the congregation built a large two-story house as the manse. Workers
moved St. James Episcopal Church in 1898 to the corner of South
Marion and East Brown streets in order to better serve the FAC
students.

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