Primitive Baptists in the State of North Dakota
A Sketch of North Dakota History
Once inhabited mainly by the Dakota and other Indian tribes, white settlement in the northern Dakota plains increased greatly after it was made a territory of the United States in 1861. On November 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison approved the admission of North Dakota to the Union.
Primitive Baptist Members in North
Dakota
The Messenger of Peace published letters from Elder Benjamin F.
Butler, dated January and September 1896, respectively. His address
at that time was Holmes, North Dakota. In one of the letters he
wrote that he had spent much of the year visiting churches and
brethren in Illinois and Missouri, since his home in North Dakota
was over 425 miles from the nearest brethren, and he was lonely for
fellowship.
In January 1912, Bro. B. F. Tucker, a member of Friendship Church, near Knoxville (in Knox County), Illinois, wrote a letter to the "Messenger of Peace," from Des Lacs, North Dakota.
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