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church was changed to Mount Zion Baptist Church with this move. Brown remained pastor until 1976. From 1976 to 1979, several ministers served at the church: James Streeter, James Crawford, Elmore Morris, and Herman L. Harris. In 1979 the church’s name was changed back to Second Baptist Church. In March 1980 Rev. Paul D. McMillan was called to lead the Second Baptist Church. Under his leadership, the church became involved in many community and civic activities, such as the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center on January 16, 2001. Historical notes on fi le at Second Baptist Church, Newport, Ky. Installation Ser vice for Rev. H. L. Harris, Sunday, May 20, thru Sunday, May 27, 1979, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Newport, Kentucky. Newport, Ky.: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1979. Pamphlet. “Simpson Recalls Rights Struggle,” KP, January 16, 2001, 3K.
Theodore H. H. Harris
SECOND METHODIST CHURCH. There were two locations of this congregation at Carrollton, the Sycamore Chapel on Sycamore St. and the Wilkerson Chapel on Eighth St. African Americans who were Methodists in Carrollton can be traced back to 1824, when the George Boorom Class for Methodists had four slave members. Membership lists of the Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church–South provide slave names along with the names of their white masters. In 1850 Christian Gangelback deeded part of lot 288 on Sycamore St. to be used as the Second Methodist Church, a congregation comprising slaves and free people of color. The building, owned by the white M.E. Church, was completed in 1852 and used by the African American Methodists until 1890, when a new church building was built in town on Eighth St. The deed for the Sycamore St. property was turned over to the trustees of the Colored Methodist Church in 1872. Two deeds, one from Mary Harris in 1899 and another from J. A. Donaldson in 1906, refer to the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton. This church’s last deed for the Eighth St. location was dated 1923, and it named Kitty Keene, an African American member of the church. This new brick church was named Wilkerson Chapel in honor of Rev. Prentice Wilkerson, who copastored a church in Bowling Green, Ky., and at Carrollton for many years. Eventually the congregation became too small to sustain itself and the church closed. The building was sold as a residence but later was destroyed. The Carrollton Women’s Club purchased the old church building on Sycamore St. and used it as a meeting place and public library until 1950, when a new library was built in the downtown area. The Sycamore St. building was then sold as a residence. Gentry, Mary Ann. A History of Carroll County. Madison, Ind.: Coleman, 1984.
Diane Perrine Coon
SECOND TWELVE MILE BAPTIST CHURCH. The Second Twelve Mile Baptist Church, located in the northeastern Pendleton Co. community of Peach Grove, along Ky. Rt. 159, near the intersection of Ky. Rt. 10, was established on May 8, 1841, when 33 former members of the Flagg Springs Baptist Church, with favorable letters of dismissal from that church, met at the home of John Ellis to form a new church. The congregation began as the Fellowship Baptist Church but soon changed its name to Second Twelve Mile Baptist Church, for the Twelve Mile Creek that flows into the Ohio River nearby. Ser vices initially were held in a local school and neighboring homes. At the first business meeting, which took place on June 5, 1841, at Ellis’s home, Fergus German and John Cutter were elected as the first deacons. Five trustees were elected and instructed to purchase land for a church. John Ellis offered 14 acres, which included the Ellis Graveyard, now called the Old Cemetery, located across the road from the church. At the August 14, 1841, business meeting, William Morin was called as the church’s fi rst pastor. The congregation joined the Campbell Co. Association, today’s Northern Kentucky Baptist Association. Ser vices were to be held twice a month, and an annual revival was to be held each year on the second Saturday in November, after the harvest. A brick building, 34 by 44 feet in size, was built to serve as the congregation’s fi rst house of worship. The church fi rst met on December 13, 1845, in their new meetinghouse. In 1860, owing to increasing attendance, the fi rst church was torn down and its material was used in building a larger church, which was 35 by 55 feet and cost $1,500. The second church building was completed in summer 1861. The Second Twelve Mile Baptist Church worships today in its third building. Belew, Mildred Boden. The First 200 Years of Pendleton County. Falmouth, Ky.: M. B. Belew, n.d. [ca. 1994].
Mildred Belew
SEGER, DANIEL (b. ca. 1856, Iowa; d. 1927, Sigourney, Iowa). Daniel T. Seger, “Covington’s popu lar architect,” lived and worked in Covington during the late 19th century. He secured numerous commissions from the local German American community and from the Diocese of Covington (see Roman Catholics); he was commissioned for projects in Cincinnati as well. The buildings he designed have been described as having “a somewhat distinctive, if provincial late Queen Anne– Richardsonian Romanesque character.” A laudatory 1893 account labeled Seger Covington’s “leading architect and superintendent of building construction.” During his six years of work in Covington, he drew plans for some of the fi nest buildings that were built in that period, including several in what is now Covington’s West Side–Main Strasse Historic District. He also designed numerous small dwellings and storerooms in Covington and some fine houses in Cincinnati and its suburbs.
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Seger began his architectural practice in Covington in 1886 and is listed in local city directories from 1890 to 1900. For several years German American architect William A. Rabe, later a member of the firm of Schofield & Rabe, worked in his office. Seger was married and lived with his wife and child in a house he designed and had built in 1893 at 1553 Holman St. in Covington’s Peaselburg neighborhood. It is a two-story, gable-fronted edifice with an encircling spindle-work porch. Among Seger’s leading works was the former Fire Station No. 1 at Sixth and Washington Sts. in Covington, which is a Richardsonian Romanesque edifice in rock-faced sandstone and pressed brick. An innovative “iron truss,” capable of bearing 154 tons, supported the roof and the second floor. The firehouse has been adaptively reused as a bar and restaurant (Tickets Restaurant). Seger also designed two imposing commercial Queen Anne– style edifices, both of pressed brick, at the prominent corner of Pike St. and Madison Ave., for many years the center of downtown Covington. One was the Eilerman Building (1896), which housed the clothing store of the same name (see Eilerman & Sons, Men’s Clothiers). The building’s canted corner, with an arched stained-glass window, addressed the intersection. The other was the Pieper Block, with a circular corner turret, which was home to Covington’s Citizens National Bank and several storefronts. When the Pieper Block was “modernized” in the 1960s, the turret was removed and the walls wrapped with metal screening, which has since been removed. In 1920 Seger, his wife Ellen, and his son Charles J. were living in Sigourney, Keokuk Co., Iowa, where the federal census indicates that he was employed as an architect building schools and residences. Seger died there in 1927 and was buried in the West Cemetery in Sigourney. Other buildings in Covington identified as Seger’s work include the Catholic Orphans’ Home, Dixie Highway, 1889 (demolished); John R. Coppin’s residence, Madison Pike, the LatoniaLakeview (demolished); the Henry Grisan Building, 18 W. Seventh St., 1896; the Holy Cross Catholic Church rectory, 1892 (demolished); the Phoenix Furniture Factory, Fourth and Russell Sts., ca. 1890 (demolished); the St. Aloysius Catholic Church parsonage, 716 Bakewell St., 1890; Fred Schmitz’s “Swiss Cottage,” Rosedale section of Covington, 1896; the Frank Wegman house, W. Covington, 1896; and the J. B. Worsham house addition, 84 Martin St., 1896. In addition, the following buildings have been attributed to Seger: Covington Fire Station No. 2, on the west side of the 400 block of Greenup St., 1890s (Richardsonian brick with stone trim); an unknown house, 611 W. Seventh St., 1890s; and the Wood Property Remodeling building, Madison Ave, probably on the west side in the 500 block. Burns, Christopher. “Northern Kentucky Architects Provided Unique Character,” Ludlow News Enterprise, July 12, 1989, 1–2. Covington and Newport city directories, various years. “Daniel Seger,” KP, March 18, 1893, 6.