A July 1923 article on Rev. A.H. Sutphin says that a national committee on the Survey of Town and County Churches chose Sutphin’s church, New Monmouth Church Baptist Church, as one of the forty or fifty most successful in the county. Sutphin was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1860, the third of 10 children to a blacksmith. We worked for a butcher and for Standard Oil Company before entering Colgate Academy at Hamilton. He spent ten years in the academy, Colgate University and Colgate Theological Seminary. He became deaf in one ear at the age of twenty. He rebuilt the church at Southwest Oswego, New York and also served in Jackson, Michigan, where is hearing became worse. While recuperating at the family farm, he accepted an invitation to preach in the struggling New Monmouth Church, which began to flourish during his time there. Despite eventual deafness, he taught on rural churches in the New Jersey Summer Assembly at Peddie Institute.