Sheboygan Mission, the next point visited, appears on the Minutes, as stated in a former chapter, in 1837, with Rev. H.W.  Frink as Pastor.  During this year Brother Frink formed a class at Sheboygan, consisting of the following members:  Mr. and Mrs. Morris Farmin, Uriel Farmin, Benjamin Farmin, Mr. and Mrs. Elder Farmin, and Mr. and Mrs. McCreedy.

At the close of this year Sheboygan disappears from the list of appointments, but in 1843 the Manitowoc mission appears with Rev. D. Lewis as Pastor, and Sheboygan, it will be recollected, is named as one of the appointments.  In 1845, however, the name re-appears, and Rev. Joseph T. Lewis was sent to the charge.  From this time until 1849 the strength of the circuit consisted largely in the outlying appointments.  But at this date Sheboygan Falls was erected into a separate charge, taking from Sheboygan its several interior appointments.

Rev. Daniel Stansbury, the Pastor, had commenced his labors in 1849, and was now on his second year.  The Membership numbered only thirty-three, but Brother Stansbury had achieved a great work in the erection of a large and convenient Church edifice.  I had visited the village the preceding year, as before stated, to dedicate the German Church, and had formed a very agreeable acquaintance with this truly noble man and his most estimable family.

Brother Stansbury was from Baltimore, and brought with him to Wisconsin a goodly portion of the warm and cheerful type of Baltimore Methodism.  He was received on trial by the Wisconsin Conference in 1849, and hence Sheboygan was his first appointment.  His subsequent appointments were Janesville, Union, Portage City, Beaver Dam, Berlin and Janesville District.  In July of his second year on the District, and while preaching at his Quarterly Meeting on Cambridge circuit, he was stricken down by paralysis.  He was taken to his home in Janesville, where he lingered in extreme feebleness until Oct. 28, when he died in great peace.

Brother Stansbury was a man of warm impulses, practical mind, and abundant labors.  In the protracted meeting, his rare gifts of prayer and exhortation, made his labors a grand success, and, in the bright world beyond, it will be found that his comparatively short ministry gathered a large harvest of souls.

I next visited Sheboygan Falls.  The charge first appears on the Minutes in 1849, it having been created out of the interior portions of the Sheboygan circuit.  Its first Pastor, as we have seen, was Rev. David Lewis.  In 1850, the following year, Rev. Matthias Himebaugh was appointed to the work.  At this time the field embraced fifteen appointments, and required the travel of two hundred miles each month.  Like his predecessors, Revs.  J.S.  Prescott and D. Lewis, Brother Himebaugh traveled this circuit on foot.  The Society in the village consisted of thirteen members, and included the names of Mr. and Mrs. L. Cheeseman, Mr. and Mrs. Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. Goodell, Mr. and Mrs. Sully, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Waite, and others.