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CHAPTER lY. 
Fourteenth General Conference — Wisconsin Again Made a Mis- 
sion-Conference — Cascade Conference Organized. 
The fourteenth General Conference was held in 
Western College, Iowa, in May, 1865. At this 
date the Board had ten mission' conferences under 
its fostering care; namely, Parkersburg, Missouri, 
Kansas, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Canada, 
Pox River, Korth Michigan, and Indiana Ger- 
man. 
Indiana German Conference was, at this ses- 
sion of the General Conference united with the 
Ohio German Conference, and consequently re- 
ceived no further assistance from the Board. 
Wisconsin Conference, which is wanting in the 
above list, had been made self-supporting in 
1861, when Fox River Conference was organ- 
ized out of a part of its territory. But at this 
General Conference it was again placed on the 
list of mission-conferences — a decidedly unwise 
measure. 
Oregon Conference had become quite a strong 
