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CHAPTER III. 
Organization of Nebraska Conference — General Statistics. 
The thirteenth General Conference was held 
in Westerville, Ohio, in May, 1861. There were 
now thirty conferences in the Church, including 
those which had been organized by the preceed- 
ing General Conference, and one or two which 
had beeen recognized without any special order 
from that body; namely, Virginia, Pennsylvania, 
East Pennsylvania, Alleghany, Parkersburg, 
Scioto, Miami, Muskingum, Erie, Sandusky, 
luglaize, Ohio German, Canada, Michigan, 
Indiana, White River, St. Joseph, Upper Wabash, 
-Lower Wabash, Illinois, Rock River, Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Iowa, Des Moines, Missouri, Kansas, 
Kentucky, and Oregon 
NEBRASKA CONFERENCE. 
This work had grown into some consequence 
under the labors of Rev. J. M. Posh, and in the 
autumn of 1858 Bishop Edwards visited the terri- 
tory and organized Nebraska Conference. It 
