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July 27, 1828
James Wilson Moore organized the First Church of Little Rock, a foreign mission church in the Presbytery of Mississippi and South Alabama. Charter members were Dudley D. Mason, Christiana Mason, Elizabeth Martin, Catherine Eller, Matilda Hall, Priscilla Smith, and Jesse Brown. Presbyterian Church, USA, historians record Moore as the “Father of Presbyterianism in Arkansas.”