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This Day in Minnesota History

January 6, 1851

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The first known baptism in the upper Mississippi River occurs in St. Paul. Schoolteacher Harriet E. Bishop had written the Baptist Home Missionary Society requesting a preacher, and the Reverend J. P. Parsons arrived in May 1849. The First Baptist Church was organized soon after, holding meetings in the schoolhouse on Jackson Street.

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