Clark SMITH gave the land for the parsonage which was built in 1899. He was on the building committee when the Motor Friends Church was re-built in 1905 and he was on the endowment committee that provided for the care of the cemetery. (Source: Motor Friends Church, written by Florence Gibbons MICHENER, copied from the History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard SCHULTZ and Don L. BERRY, The Record and Tribune Company, Indianola, Iowa, 1953, pages 119-151)