Mr. Speaker. on Saturday evening. October 15. the parishioners of St. Marys Antiochian Orthodox Church celebrated the 75th anniversary of their parish and the amortization of their churchs mortgage. The founding fathers of St. Marys began their immigration to America in the year 1890. The families of Saba. Hyder. Broody. Audi. Simon. Serhan. and Atiyeh hailed from the area of the mountains of Lebanon. above Tripoli. The Syrian Orthodox families of Betar. Abraham. Johns. Cross. Namey. Baroody. and Solomon were among the earliest to arrive from the area of Latakia before 1900. The young men came alone and found work here under sponsorship of Protestant missionaries in the Middle East.
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