Rev. John Kalenberg Minister of the Gospel:
The first record of the pastor, Rev. John Kalenberg, is found in the Baptismal Record, under
the date of November, 1864. His congregation gathered from Pomeroy, Middleport, a village two miles down the Ohio river from Pomeroy, from Syracuse, a village about six miles up the river, and also from Mason City, W. Virginia, just across the Ohio.
The original church on Mulberry Street, situated upon the hillside that flanks the natural water drain
called Sugar Run, was enlarged in 1865 with the addition to the front. The school accommodations were now too small. A new building was decided upon and built of brick just across Mulberry Street from the church during the spring and summer of 1866. It opened in September of that year with about two hundred children in care of four Sisters of Charity from the Cincinnati province. Sister Qara the superior is still held in veneration by her old pupils.