My family was not the only one that started out growing on religion. Our city was not the only city that had families growing with religion. A church of some religion existed on every block, every corner, and every street of St. Paul, Minnesota. Almost all of the 202,000 people that lived in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area of the early 1900s attended some type of religious service. “In 1900, the U.S. Census of Religious Bodies counted 161 church organizations in St. Paul” (Carole Zellie & Garneth O. Peterson, 16). During that time, the city of St. Paul was one of hundreds in the United States that grew based on religion. The city was centered on the idea of religion. It became a societal norm for all families. It was a place to not only learn,
