Universalist
Church
–
Stoughton’s
first church was organized in 1857 and completed in 1858. Earlier services were held at the Red Brick
Schoolhouse. The first service inside
the church was Christmas day 1858 by Rev. Cheeseman Dodge.
L.R. Usher
and Ogden Isham broke the first furrows for the excavation with their oxen and
also hauled the brick from Milwaukee by oxteam.
The church
is a Greek Revival, designed by Stephen Shipman and P.J.Hynes and built with cream
city brick.
Prior to
1882 the Pastors were: Revs. B.F. Dodge,
Mr. Peck, B.F. Rodgers, Miss Swartz, J.C. Crawford, Mr. Horne, L.B. Mason, E.
Garfield, S.W. Sutton, and Rev. Edgar Leavitt.