Pioneering in La Crosse

and Elder Card (the first Baptist).16 When we had sociables
and donation parties, every one attended, no matter to what
church he belonged. There was then a spirit of neighborliness
and kindness that does not seem to me to exist today.

W. H. Card, he organized the First Congregational church of La Crosse.
At the same time and place he assisted Mr. Card in organizing the
First Baptist church of La Crosse. In 1857 Sherwin became super-
intendent of home missions in northwestern Wisconsin and continued
in this position until 1868, with the exception of the years 1862 and
1863, when he was pastor of the Congregational churches at Barre
and West Salem, in La Crosse County. In 1868 he became pastor of
the First Congregational church of Eau Claire. Resigning this posi-
tion in 1875, on account of his health, he removed to Sherman, Tex.,
where he engaged in missionary work. In 1881 he returned to Eau
Claire where he died in 1892. For the above facts I am indebted to
L. R. Montague of La Crosse.—A. H. S.

16 Rev. W. H. Card was a native of Lewis County, N. Y., and a grad-
uate of Hamilton College. He was a missionary to the Mississippi
River towns at the time spoken of above. He died in 1889 at the age
of seventy-seven.—A, H. S.
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