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| | Handbook of Texas Online: BAPTIST CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The first Baptist church in Texas was organized in Illinois in July 1833 and moved to Texas as a body, called the Pilgrim Church of Predestinarian Regular Baptists, in January 1834. |
 | | By 1860 Baptists operated at least a dozen colleges, most of them for women and many of brief duration; by the turn of the twentieth century Baptist colleges were in operation in Waco, Brownwood, Abilene, Jacksboro, Decatur, Rusk, Greenville, Waller, and Belton. |
 | | By 1890 fl Baptists totaled 111,138 statewide, and in 1916, 72 percent of the state's fl churchgoers were Baptists. |
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