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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
learning of the work of that state, ordered a 
separate conference to be organized as soon as 
practicable. Accordingly, Bishop Davis met the 
preachers in Dane Copnty, ’ in the fall of 1858, 
and organized a conference of twenty-one preach- 
ers, and supplied as many fields of labor. The 
number of members was reported at 554. 
After several years Fox River Conference, 
composed of several fields in northern Wisconsin, 
was organized into a separate conference, and so 
remained till 1885, when it was again reunited 
with Wisconsin Conference. The two thus united 
aggregate 2,207 members ^and 47 local and travel- 
ing ministers. They paid last year for support of 
their pastors |5,965.59, and for the cause of mis- 
sions $215.75. 
KENTUCKY MISSION-CONFERENCE. 
Rev. A. Armstrong ana Rev. W. Blair, two 
very devoted ministers whom God raised up to 
preach in this state, reported six preachers, nine 
meeting-houses, and three fields of labor. The 
General Conference therefore recognized it as one 
of its own children, and set it oft‘ as a conference 
to be organized by one of the bishops at an 
early day. 
It will thus be seen that m four years after the 
organization of the missionary society there were 
