Rev. John Churchill

He was born in Litchfield. Connecticut. He fitted at Amherst College for Yale, in 1832 & 1833. Studied medicine at Yale 1833-1835 and then changed , and took the course in Theology and graduated in 1839. He preached the rest of that year at Watertown,Conn until April 22 , 1840 , when he was ordained as minister of the North Church in Woodbury,Conn which office he filled until June 25th 1869 when he became acting pastor of the church in Oxford, Ct.

 He was a man of wide influence and a preacher of ability. He received the degree of MA from Yale in 1844 and in 1868 delivered the annual address to the alumni, which was published. He took deep interest in public questions and was elected to represent Woodbury in the legislature in 1867 and again in 1868. 

( source : The Churchill Family in america pg 988 )

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In 1819 the Reverend Grove L. Brownell (1790-1855), the first minister of the North Congregational Church in Woodbury, acquired land where he soon (by 1824) erected a house. After Rev. Brownell left Woodbury in 1840, the house was deeded to three trustees, who then passed it on in 1845 to the church’s next minister, Rev. John Churchill (1811-1880). Between 1850 and 1853, Rev. Churchill moved the house to its current location at 94 Main Street South and built a larger house for himself on the original site. He sold the old house in 1855. The original rear of the house was replaced by a new addition around 1894.