Two men, James Davis and Coll T. Wilson, take out a notice in the Portland Weekly Advertiser to state that Rev. Samuel W. Chase IS a lawful agent of the ‘Abyssinian Religious Society of Portland’ a different entity than the ‘Abyssinian Church’ suggesting that Niles and Hammit are attempting to sabotage the efforts to raise funds and promote the church ‘because they cannot rule and govern the same.’
History of the Niles Family & Neighborhood
