There was one Philip McGuire, a pioneer, who emigrated to this country at an early date settling on the land where the church now stands. In his last will, he left this ground with the provision that a church be built on the corner and the remaining ground used for a cemetery. He also had a farm of one hundred acres in what is now Beaver Township and he left this to be sold and the money used to help build the church. This one hundred acres was afterwards sold for $300.00 but he specified a certain time in which the church should be built. If not, it was to be divided between his two grandsons, so their fathers took it up and tried to hold the land but the church stood them a lawsuit and kept the ground.

In August 1852, the contract was given to the Rice Brothers, Meadville, Penna. They started work at once and the church was finished and ready for Mass in the last of the year 1852 or the first of the year 1853.

I have heard my father and mother tell the story of the first time the church was cleaned. Thomas McGuire and his wife, Philip McGuire and his wife and Robert Robinson and his wife were the people who cleaned it the first time. There were no automobiles, vacuum cleaners Or electric cleaners at that time so Thomas McGuire did the next best thing. He hitched his oxen to the old log sled on which he put two large iron kettles, took his wife, went over to his brothers Philip's home, took him and his wife and drove up the hill to where Robert Robinson lived, took him and his wife and drove to the church and cleaned it for the first time. I don't think that his grandsons Don and Paul were any happier when they drove their first fine automobile than their grandfather was when he drove up for the first time to the Immaculate Conception Church and he and his men built a fire of logs in the churchyard, hung their kettles and carried the water up the hill. I have heard my mother tell how happy they were all day long with the thoughts of having a church of their own in which to worship. Then they had to get some furniture before the Father could celebrate Mass. Most of the congregation were poor as they had just arrived from the old home in Ireland but they gave what they could with a good heart. Mrs. Thomas McGuire had just bought a new set of cane seated chairs for her parlor. She said she would give three of them to the church. Some of the ladies asked her if she did not hate to give them and she said "No. Nothing I have is too good for the House of God."

At that time, the Summit was attended from Crossingville. Rev. Father Smith was the priest in 1852 - 1853. Then some time in 1854, Rev. K Obranagan came for a short time. He went away and Rev. Father McConnel came and was our pastor until some time in 1857 or 1858.