The Congregationalists, whose articles of faith were similar to those of the Presbyterian Church, have not been numerically strong in McDonough County. The first church of the denomination in this vicinity was first organized at Virgil, Fulton County, October 1, 1842, by REV. LEVI SPENCER , but removed to Prairie City October 9, 1858, a substantial church building being erected there in 1865, at a cost of $3,000. In 1858 a church of this denomination was organized at Macomb, which had a church building for a time on Carroll Street east of Randolph.