Alexander Charles Garrett, born in Ireland in 1832, came to Canada as an Anglican missionary, later moved to San Francisco and then Omaha, Nebraska, and in 1874 was sent to Dallas as bishop of the Northern Missionary District of Texas, where he served an area of 100,000 square miles, traveling mostly on horseback or in horse-drawn vehicles. John Trent, born in South Carolina in 1839, moved to Texas from Tennessee in 1875 with his wife, children, and other relatives, and the family built a log house at Tecumseh Peak and raised sheep and cattle. On a trip to market in Dallas, Trent met Garrett, who offered to visit the ranch. After losing his way on an earlier attempt, Garrett found the homestead the next year, and on Feb. 23, 1878, with neighbors gathered in, an Anglican service was held for the first time in the Callahan area's wild mountains. Garrett later became presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.