The following is from Saleste, Paul H., Ninetieth Anniversary of Saint John's Evangelical and Reformed Church, January 1, 1935.
Rev. Albert Schory, continued the program of efficiently organizing the church for service, as well as that of inward strengthening of faith. This effort to elaborate the instrumentalities of the church resulted in the formation of the first choir under Peter Christmann and Martin Boettcher. (You had to pay a ten cent penalty when you missed on of those choir rehearsals.)
The first choir consisted of Martin Boettcher, director; Peter Remy, Peter Mueller, Wm. Fleck, William Mueller, William Weidner, Peter Diehl, Jacob Shafer, Karl Fleck, Jacob Wolfarth, Adam Kern, Fred Ackermann, Catherine Bauer, Catherine Bicker, Christine Bicker, Maria Kleinhans, Mari C. Touby, Maria M. Touby, Anna F. Schmidt, Christine Kahl, Katherine Krebill, Margaret Fischer, Elizabeth Fischer and Catherine Mueller. (A choir of twenty-eight voices and their anthems have not dies out. Perhaps an invention of the future will permit us to recapture the wave-notes of song still circulating in the ether.)