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In 1858 a young pastor from Germany formally organized St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Galena. Traveling pastors had laid the groundwork. The congregation had no church building for its first seven years, but with the end of the Civil War the present brick church building on High Street was finished. Soon afterward the congregation purchased a bell and set it … <\/p>\n

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