Antigo
Wisconsin
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Peace Lutheran Church and School
Mission :
As followers of Jesus Christ, our purpose is to strengthen each other in Him and share His Good News with everyone.
History :
In the year 1883 Antigo, Wisconsin, was a town of only 800 people. In that year Rev. Christian Purzner of Wittenberg, Wisconsin, a theological student from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri came to this area on horseback in search of Lutheran families and preached to them God's Law and His Gospel of grace. One year later, in l884, the Rev. H. Daib, then a young candidate from the seminary, succeeded Rev. Purzner at Wittenberg.
Pastor Daib preached in Antigo, Polar, Norwood and as far north as Hurley, Wisconsin, and Ironwood, Michigan, and south as far as Tigerton.
On September 16, l884, Pastor Daib called a meeting at the Gustav Ulrich tailor shop at which time Peace Lutheran Congregation was founded with thirteen charter members present. The founders names were: Gustav Ulrich, H. Boldt, F. Berger, C. Voss, L. Theilmann, C. F. Dallmann, H. Berner, A. Kropf, W. Kupper, Sr., L. Krueger, C. Gaertner, H. Findeisen, and B. Stege. The first president of the congregation was Mr. G. Ulrich.
Church services were held in various public halls, such as the skating rink, and in private homes. Mr. C. F. Dallmann rented the second floor of his house to the church the first winter for the sum of two dollars. A contract was signed the following year in 1885 with the Congregational Church for the use of their church building every Sunday afternoon for a rental fee of one dollar per service.
Rev. H. Daib, who had been serving Lutheran families in twelve communities received an assistant in 1885. He was student Alfred Grimm, a young man of twenty years from Concordia Seminary Springfield, Illinois, who was stationed in Antigo and also served the people of Polar, Norwood, Elmhurst and Birnamwood. At this time Peace Lutheran Church numbered twenty-eight families. In 1886 the congregation purchased seven lots of its present church property from August Zellmer, who had acquired it from Michael Weix for $175. After thirteen months of faithful service in the Lord's work, Student Grimm returned to the seminary at Springfield and was succeeded by another theological student by the name of G. Drews.
As followers of Jesus Christ, our purpose is to strengthen each other in Him and share His Good News with everyone.
History :
In the year 1883 Antigo, Wisconsin, was a town of only 800 people. In that year Rev. Christian Purzner of Wittenberg, Wisconsin, a theological student from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri came to this area on horseback in search of Lutheran families and preached to them God's Law and His Gospel of grace. One year later, in l884, the Rev. H. Daib, then a young candidate from the seminary, succeeded Rev. Purzner at Wittenberg.
Pastor Daib preached in Antigo, Polar, Norwood and as far north as Hurley, Wisconsin, and Ironwood, Michigan, and south as far as Tigerton.
On September 16, l884, Pastor Daib called a meeting at the Gustav Ulrich tailor shop at which time Peace Lutheran Congregation was founded with thirteen charter members present. The founders names were: Gustav Ulrich, H. Boldt, F. Berger, C. Voss, L. Theilmann, C. F. Dallmann, H. Berner, A. Kropf, W. Kupper, Sr., L. Krueger, C. Gaertner, H. Findeisen, and B. Stege. The first president of the congregation was Mr. G. Ulrich.
Church services were held in various public halls, such as the skating rink, and in private homes. Mr. C. F. Dallmann rented the second floor of his house to the church the first winter for the sum of two dollars. A contract was signed the following year in 1885 with the Congregational Church for the use of their church building every Sunday afternoon for a rental fee of one dollar per service.
Rev. H. Daib, who had been serving Lutheran families in twelve communities received an assistant in 1885. He was student Alfred Grimm, a young man of twenty years from Concordia Seminary Springfield, Illinois, who was stationed in Antigo and also served the people of Polar, Norwood, Elmhurst and Birnamwood. At this time Peace Lutheran Church numbered twenty-eight families. In 1886 the congregation purchased seven lots of its present church property from August Zellmer, who had acquired it from Michael Weix for $175. After thirteen months of faithful service in the Lord's work, Student Grimm returned to the seminary at Springfield and was succeeded by another theological student by the name of G. Drews.