REV. MICHAEL STECK, of the Lutheran Church, came here in 1816, and took charge of a society that had been preached to occasionally by missionaries. He at first preached in the Court House, but in 1819 a church building was erected at the foot of Wheeling street.
An old Lutheran said to the writer a year or two since: "Rev. Steck and Rev. Wright worked together like brothers."
In 1829 Rev. Steck resigned and returned to his old home in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was succeeded by Rev. John Wagenhals, who had a long and useful career in Lancaster.
