Pleasant Grove Church
Founded 1873
Where everyone is Welcome!

Story County and Ames and Pleasant Grove Pastors:

1855: Rev. John Parker, First Circuit Rider in Story County.
1856:First Quarterly Conference held at Parkers between Nevada and Cambridge, J. E. Hestwood, Pastor in charge, considered "Father of Methodism in Story Co." Ref. Paine, p.110
1859: Rev. S. G. Gossard
1861: Rev. W. O. Glasner
1865: Rev. W. S. Dorwin

                            Ames Circuit:
1867: Rev. Theodore Powell Newland
1868: Rev. Elijah Kendall
1870: Rev. James Eckles
1871: Rev. Amos Wilson
1873: Rev. Artemas Brown, probably first Pastor in new Pleasant Grove Church
1875: Rev. Ichabod Taylor Miller
1877: Rev Ebenezer Walker Brady
1878: Rev. Benjamin Franklin Durfee
1879: Rev. J. A. Smith
1880: Rev.. William Abraham
1881: Rev. E. Kendall
1883: Rev. Dugald Thompson
1884: Rev. H. J. Everly
1887: Rev. A. L. Hunt for Ames
          Rev. Fegtley  Pleasant Grove
1888: Rev Ostrander, Pleasant Grove
1889: Rev. E. E. Raymond, Pleasant Grove
1890: Rev, J. S. Throckmorton, Pleasant Grove


Report of ministers from the Methodist Conference records which were researched by Mrs. Helen Black for our Centennial.

Mrs. Black states, having to do with Pleasant Grove, "It was logical to assume, however, and we found this to be true, that at the close of the conference year, Pleasant Grove severed its relationship from the Ames Charge, this final conference meeting for the Pleasant Grove Church having convened on December 19, 1886.