Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit): Difference between revisions

The lot for the church was purchased from Mr. Shadrack and Mary (Stead) Gillett, whose home was located there prior to the construction of the church.<ref name="Michhist">{{cite book| url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=aT0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA63&dq=henry+lord%2Bgillett#PPA62,M1| title=Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan| publisher=Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan| volume=2| pages=61–62| year=1880| location=Detroit}}</ref> The population of Detroit grew rapidly in the 1830s and 1840s, in particular bringing an influx of [[English American|English]] Protestants to the city. In 1849, Reverend Robert Kellogg organized the Second Presbyterian Church, with 26 charter members.<ref name="det1701">{{cite web| url=http://detroit1701.org/Fort%20Street%20Presbyterian.html| title=Fort Street Presbyterian Church| date=December 2012| publisher=Detroit1701.org| accessdate=2014-10-24}}</ref> The congregation met for worship in the old Capitol building until it constructed a church on the corner of Lafayette and Wayne Street the next year.<ref name="fsearly">{{cite web| url=http://fortstreet.org/?page_id=158| title=History| publisher=Fort Street Presbyterian Church| accessdate=2014-10-24}}</ref>

*{{cite book| url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=lCb16WfegR8C| first=Dana Lee| last=Robert| title=Occupy Until I Come: A.T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World| publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing| pages=53–61| date=1 June 2003| isbn=978-0802807809| quote= Pierson served as pastor Fort Street Presbyterian beginning in 1869}}