This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DGC.2ACI/1571 Message Board Post: Abstracted from the Central Wisconsin Sunday (an edition of the Wausau Daily Herald serving Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids and Stevens Point), Sunday March 3, 2002, Page 3A (Not the complete article due to copyright restrictions) St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Marshfield recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. It was one of the earliest Catholic churches established in the Marshfield area, commissioned by the La Crosse Diocese in 1877. Marshfield was incorporated as a city in 1883*. The church currently has about 3700 members. The current church building was built in 1893, and is located at 201 West Blodgett Street. Mass was celebrated in private homes by visiting priests as early as 1874 in the community that would later become Marshfield. Rev. Anthony Schuettelhoefer, formerly a pastor at Medford, became the first resident pastor for St. John's in 1880, and the first church building was completed in 1882. Founders opened the current church building in 1893. Transcriber's Note: According to the Wisconsin Postal History Society's "Wisconsin: It's Territorial and Statehood Post Offices" by Frank Moertl, 1995, the Marshfield post office was established July 16, 1873, with Louis Rivers as postmaster. Submitter: Joan M Benner <jmbenner@tznet.com> Golden Rule Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm Specializing in Central Wisconsin Records Member, Association of Professional Genealogists