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As a specimen of a minister's pioneer work, the following is described in Mr. Woods' own language, taken from his amusing and instruct- ive little work entitled "California Recol- lections:" " My duties in the summer of 1850, after the completion of the church edifice, were, to prepare and preach two sermons on the Sab- bath, teach school five days in the week, cook for the children, and wash the dishes when my wife was sick,-which was a good portion of the time that first summer,-nurse my feeble wife, visit the sick, bury the dead, marry the be- trothed, and spend my leisure hours in looking after matters and things generally."
For a biographical sketch of this devoted minister see two other places, to be found by the index.
Returning now to the history of the Stockton Presbyterian church: The pastors, since the days of Mr. Woods, have been, William C. Mosher, Mr. Davis, John A. Anderson, 1868- '62; Dr. Happersett, 1862-'65; James Skinner, 1865-'68; Benjamin E. S. Ely, 1869-'72; Samuel Robinson, 1877; L. Y. Hays, 1878; Robert Mckenzie, May 14, 1879, to April 25,
1880; Mr. Scofield, H. S.Snodgrass, L. Sprecker and D. L. Munro, the present pastor, who came from Michigan and took charge in Sep- tember, 1887. Supplies have filled the pulpit during the pastoral vacancies, so that the church should keep up service constantly. If any record was kept from 1866 to 1876 it has been lost.
The first elder was Martin Potter; deacon, Peter Modine; trustees, E. M. Howison. T. H. Pratt. Martin Potter, H. A. Alden and James Woods. The present elders are George Craig, Joseph R. Clayes and Angus McKennan. There are no deacons. The membership numbers abont 250. There are two ladies' auxiliary societies.
The older part of the present building, on tlie old site, was erected in the spring of 1859, at a cost of $19,000, and dedicated on Christmas day, that year. In February, 1885, a large ad- dition was completed and dedicated. It con- stitutes the front portion, and cost about $10,000.
The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Stockton was organized in September, 1886, by the Rev. T. A. Cowan, who is still the pas- tor. He was educated at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, but he came from Texas to this city. He is a critical scholar, rather small, wiry, active in his physical constitution, and a zealous Christian minister. The membership of this church has already increased from sixteen to eighty-six. A Sunday-school is maintained. The first board of elders comprised W. B. Ford, A. M. D. McIntoshı, John Wright® and A. J. Taylor; the present board consists of W. B. Ford, A. J. Taylor, A. M. D. McIntosh, J. D. Elder and W. N. Rutherford.
The first church building, bought from the "Christian" society and now constituting the front portion of the present edifice, was dedi- cated in the spring of 1888. An addition to the rear has just been completed. The total seating capacity is now about 300. This church is magnificently furnished, the chairs alone cost- ing $1,200. Total cost of the building, $2,300, not counting the ground. Location, on the
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west of San Joaquin street, between Miner ave- nne and Lindsay street.
The First Congregational Church of Stock- ton .-- On the evening of August 27, 1865, after the evening service a meeting was hield in the Cumberland Presbyterian church: of Stockton, for tie purpose of considering the advisability of organizing a Congregational church in the city. At that meeting Rev. P. G. Buchanan was moderator and George E. Honghton was scribe. At the meeting it was decided to or- ganize a Congregational church: a confession of faith, church covenant and standing rules were adopted, and, Rev. P. G. Buchanan, A. G. Brown and J. T. Mills appointed a committee to draft and issne letters missive calling a coun- cil of churches on September 16, 1865, to review proceedings, and, if deemed advisable, to organize a Congregational church. The coun- cil convened, in which the First Church of San Francisco was represented by C. F. Baldwin, Sacramento by Rev. I. E. Dwinell, pastor, and A. C. Sweetser, delegate; First Church of Oak- land by Rev. George Mooar, pastor, and I. L. Walker, delegate; San Mateo by Rev. J. H. Warren, pastor; and Clayton by Rev. B. S. Crosby, pastor.
Of this council, Rev. Dwiuell was moderator and Rev. Crosby scribe. The decision was to organize: religions exercises were conducted and a sermon delivered, and fourteen members joined the church. They worshiped in the City Hall and in the Cumberland Presbyterian church until 1869, when the latter was sold and the present church edifice, on the north side of Miner avenue between San Joaquin and Sntter streets, was erected, at an expense of $7,600. It will seat 360.
The following have been pastors of the church since its organization :
P. G. Buchanan, September, 1862, to July 7, 1867; J. A. Daly, May 1, 1868, to August 8, 1870; J. C. Holbrook, D. D., December, 15, 1870, to October 28, 1872; M. Post, June 1, 1873, to 1879; D. T. Packard, December 12, 1879, to 1880; J. Ilooper, 1881-'82; J. Kirby,
October 12, 1882, to June 5, 1885; W. F. Fur- man, November 1, 1885, to October 4, 1887; E. J. Riggs, January 1, 1888, to March 26, 1889; R. H. Sink, June 9, 1889, to the present time.
J. A. Daly, J. C. Holbrook, D. D., and W. T. Furman were installed pastors.
J. T. Mills and F. P. Holden were the first officers. The present membership is 109.
The Central Methodist Episcopal Church .- J. C. Westbay was one of the first Methodists in this section, arriving in Stockton September 5, 1849, and pitching his tent on the site of the present church east of the court-house. He soon mnet other Methodists, as Upton N. Reamer and George S. Pierce, and they held a prayer- meeting in his tent, where about seventy persons were in attendance. During the progress of the meeting a Methodist preacher from Tennes- see named Hopkins arrived, walking into town . and leading a packed mule. On approaching the vicinity of the tent he heard the singing and saw the crowd about the door, and at first thought that it was a gambling establishment. O i working his way in he thanked God with outstretched arms for what he found. He preached a short serinon that night, and also the next night, to a congregation of abont 100 peo- ple. The meetings were continued nightly for about ten or twelve days, when the rains set in and caused their discontinuance.
Shortly after Rev. James Corwin ("Uncle Jimmy") came and organized a class, who ap- pointed five trustees for a church building, namely, Joseph Landin, Upton N. Reamer, J. C. Westbay, "Uncle John" Andrews and Mr. Ratcliff. The first effort, that fall, to build a house of worship, was unsuccessful, as was also the second effort in February following. The third effort, in 1851, resulted in the erec- tion of a building, on Washington street, which was dedicated July 28, that year, by " Father" Isaac Owen. Rev. J. C. Corwin, being a carpenter by trade, did the mechanical work, with assist- ants, and he also was the pastor, and J. M. Buffington was superintendent of the Sunday- school. In the spring of 1860 the building
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was removed to the corner of Weber avenue and San Joaquin street, remodeled and enlarged, and rededicated June 3, that season, by Bishop Jesse T. Peck. But the membership increased so rapidly that soon a still larger edifice was needed. The old building was sold and fitted up for a hotel, and the building formerly known as Agricultural Hall was purchased and fitted up. During the summers of 1868-'69 they rented this building for the storage of grain, at considerable profit. The present (or, when this volume is issued, the last nsed) church building is in fact only the basement or first story of what was contemplated; but the needs of the society ontgrew their building at so rapid a rate that by the time this work is published they will be occupying their magnificent, modern structure, soon to be described. The present building, located precisely on the ground where Mr. Westbay's prayer-meeting tent was first set up, cost $22,000, and was dedicated on the first Sunday of January, 1870, by Rev. M. C. Briggs, Dr. Thomas preaching in the evening. Rev. J. H. Maddox was pastor.
The new church building, on the northeast corner of Miner avenue and San Joaquin street, is by far the most splendid in the city, and in the most favorable locality. It nearly covers two lots, the total dimensions of which are 101 x 151} feet. The spire is 172 feet high; the two gables about eighty feet in length. There are two great triple windows, one in the west and one in the south gable, which with the other windows flood the auditorium with a softened, mellow light. The main entrance is through the tower on the corner, and there is also an entrance at the north end of the main building, and another at the east end, at its junction with the Sunday-school building. The material of the walls is brick, with brown-stone trimmings. The choir and organ are back of and above the pulpit. The floor gently slopes from the south to the north, and the pews are arranged in the segments of a circle. Height of auditorium, forty-four feet in the center, twenty-eight at the sides, and the ceiling is of
open timbered work, with panels, ribs, etc. Seating capacity of the auditorium, including gallery, 1,004. The Sunday-school room, 70 x 76 feet, and gallery will accommodate 1,200. The six bible-class rooms and the primary room can, by the removal of sliding doors, be all thrown together into one room. Pastor's study and other rooms are added and magnificently furnished. Total cost of ground and church, $60,000, or rather, when the furnishing is all done, about $75,000.
The membership of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church is 424, according to the last annual report, and the number of probationers fifty-seven. There are two " local " preachers. Of course this large society has a goodly number of auxiliary organizations. The pastors have been, Revs. James Corwin; William Morrow, 1851-'52; H. C. Benson, 1852-'53; G. S. Phil- lips, 1853-'55; S. B. Rooney, 1855-'56; P. G. Bnehanan, 1856-'58; J. B. Hill, 1858-'60; D. A. Dryden, 1860-'62; J. W. Ross, 1862-'65; David Deal, 1865-'67; J. H. Maddox, 1867-'70; C. V. Anthony, 1870-'73; H. B. Heacock, 1873-'76; T. S. Dunn, 1876-'79; John Coyle, 1879-'82; J. L. Trefren, 1882-'83; A. T. Need- ham, 1883-'86; H. B. Heacock again, 1886-'87; W. Dennett, 1887-'88, and S. J. Carroll, since September, 1888.
Visher Methodist Episcopal Church, wor- shiping in a small building at the corner of San Joaquin and Clay streets, has eighteen members and one probationer, and was recently organized as an outgrowth of a mission that had been established in that vicinity in 1882, by Rev. J. L. Trefren, who is now the pastor. The chapel, erected four or five years ago, is esti- mated, with lot, at about $2,000.
See last page of this volume.
The German Methodist Episcopal Church was organized September 2, 1855, with only six members, Rev. August Kellner being their first pastor. The members were William Kuhl, Anna Maria Kuhl, Borchardt Boeschen, Christo- pher von Glahn, Cathrina Glahn and Aindia Mersfelder. The first officers were Rudolph
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Gnekow, H. Tienkin, J. Hamann, Lewis Mers. felder and C. Neumueller. The pastors since the first have been, Carl Dierking, G. H. Boll- inger, Charles Angustus Hertel, Hermann Brueck, Carl Dierking again, Matthaeus Guhl, G. H. Bollinger again, F. Bonn, K. Frenz, Andreas Konzelmann, C. A. E. Hertel, H. Brueck again, A. Lemkan to October, 1889, and G. J. Jaiser to date. There are now forty-seven mein bers and five probationers, with Christian Neumueller as class-leader. The church and parsonage are located on the west side of Sutter street, between Main and Market. The church was erected in 1869 at a cost of $7,000.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ('. Grace Church " ), now numbering about sixty members, worship in their large church edifice on Weber avenue between Sutter and California streets. The pastors for a number of years past have been: Revs. Mr. Richardson, about 1879; J. Gruell, J. T. Howard, and a local preacher who filled out his unexpired term; W: T. Grove; George Sim; R. Boyns two years; A. C. Bane, two years; and since October, 1888, R. J. Briggs, from Montgomery, Alabama. Rev. W. J. Mahon, of Modesto, is the presiding elder; pre- ceding him was Rev. Mr. Renfro. This charge is in the " Pacific Conference." T. A. Gill is the superintendent of the Sunday-school, where the average attendance is about fifty.
During the year 1887 a magnificent parsonage was built, at an expense of about $4,000, -- not counting the lot, -- on Stanislaus street, between Channel street and Miner avenue.
Ebenezer Church, African Methodist Epis- copal, was organized many years ago. There are now thirty-three members and a Sunday- school. The class-leaders are Dennis Maxwell and Thomas Campbell. The ministers for the last ten years have been Revs. P. R. Greene, J. F. Anderson, J. W. Sanderson, E. L. Tappan, Mr. Savins, and G. C. Clark since October 28, 1888. The house of worship is a brick struct- ure about 30 x 46 feet, will seat 200, and is situated on the west side of Commerce street, between Washington and Lafayette. This soci-
ety has been much stronger, numbering at one time about a hundred.
St. John's Church, Protestant Episcopal .- August 25, 1850, Rev. O. Harriman preached in the Corinthian building, and presided at the elec- tion of wardens and vestrymen, organizing and naming the church. R. K. Eastman and J. M. Bissell were elected wardens, and the vestrymen were Charles A. Ward, Samnel Knight, Isaac S. Freeborn, J. Lansing, Messrs. McCracken, Schenck, Sminmersheys and Prentice. For the first two years Mr. Bissell held regular lay serv- ices, with an occasional sermon front Rev. O. Clark, D. D., of San Francisco, and Rev. John Morgan. In November, 1855, Rev. Joseph S. Large was installed the first rector. The church was admitted into the union at the convention of 1854, being represented by W. H. Glover. The successive rectors have been, Revs. E. W. Hagar, D. F. McDonald, J. G. Gassman, Elias Birdsall, William P. Tucker, Mr. Birdsall again, H. L. Foote, H. H. Hewlett, 1878; Mr. Bird- sall, the third time, 1879-'81; E. H. Ward, 1882-'85; W. C. Mills, 1886-'88; and W. J. Lemon since November, 1888. The member- ship has been in the neighborhood of 175 to 200 for a number of years.
The house of worship was built in 1858, being ready for occupation April 29, that year, at a cost of about $10,000. It is situated on the northeast corner of Miner avenue and El Dorado street. A guild hall is just completed, at the same cost. The church edifice, one of the neatest in the State at the time it was erected, was built according to plans drawn up by R. K. Eastman, the senior warden, and will seat about 300. It was dedicated June 22, 1858. The organ cost $1,250. Besides this, a mission chapel was built in the fall of 1873, when Mr. Foote was rector, at a cost of $960. The mis- sion Sunday-school had been started during Mr. Birdsall's rectorship in 1870-'72. Since 1874 a fund has been in process of accumulation for the erection of a new churchi edifice.
First German Reformed Church .- As early as 1851 Rev. H. Kroh was sent to this coast as
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a missionary. He came to Stockton in 1852, and in June of that year held services, at his residence. For some years afterward there was occasional preaching, in the meeting-house east of the court-house, but no regular organization of this denomination was effected nntil May 23, 1870, when Rev. F. Fox became the pastor, preaching in the Christian church on Lindsay street. After this for two years they held serv- ice in the City Hall. A lot was then given them on the corner of Miner avenue and Stanis- lans street, by Captain Weber, and a building completed there by February 2, 1873, at a cost of $3,000. The first officers of the church were Conrad Bachman, T. Fruny, H. Lotze, Louis Tschierschky, S. Harney, and H. Schroeder. The pastors succeeding Rev. Fox were J. Wer- nely, E. Mullhaupt, E. Edmunds, J. Friendling, etc. At one time there were over a hundred mem- bers, but the society has become so weak of late years as to be unable to sustain regular services.
Zion's Church, First German Evangelical Lutheran, was organized February 27, 1882, by Rev. C. L. Wugezer, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, with sixty paying members. During the same year they built their house of worship, of brick, on the south side of Channel street, near American street, at an expense of nearly $7,000, including lot. It will seat 200. Rev. Wugezer was succeeded in the pastorate in 1886 by Rev. E. P. Block, the present incumbent, who also preaches at Lodi once a month, where lie has a " filiale." The number of members remains about the same. The trustees are G. Ledeker, president; H. Bekman, C. Bekman, H. Vogelgesang, and A. Gerdes. L. Tschier- schky is secretary of the church, and John Kafitz treasurer.
First Baptist Church .- In February, 1853, J. B. Saxton preached the first Baptist sermon in Stockton. On the 6th of the next month a church was organized, with the following officers: B. W. Owens, deacon and treasurer; R. Black, deacon; W. W. Webster, clerk; these three men and M. Walthall were the trustees. Mr. Owens immediately purchased a fandango honse and
lot on Center street, between Main and Market, and presented it to the society, who fitted it up and used it as a church until 1860, when the present building, a commanding brick structure on the southwest corner of Hunter and Lindsay streets, was erected, at a cost of $13,000.
A few years ago a fine pipe organ was provided, at an expense of about $3,000. There are now 185 members. E. R. Stockwell has been deacon of this church ever since 1856. A. M. Rowe and Thomas Barnes are the other deacons now serving; Charles Beecher is clerk of the church, and A. M. Allen, treasurer. Connected with this church are a young people's society of Christian endeavor, ladies' aid society, etc., and a mission Sunday-school in the eastern part of the city. The society owns a parsonage on the church lot. The pastors have been : Revs. J. B. Saxton, Thomas Atwood, Clark King, C. R. Hendrickson, J. H. Giles, S. B. Morse, F. N. Barlow, W. T. Fleenor, 1879-'82; F. S. Lawrence, 1882 '87, and A. M. Petty since May 1, 1889.
The Second Baptist Church (colored) was organized in September, 1854. Subsequently they purchased the famous frame church which Rev. James Woods had brought from San Fran- cisco for the Presbyterians, the first in the State. This building they moved to its present loca- tion on the south side of Washington street be- tween Commerce and Beaver streets, fitted it up and have ever since occupied it. Recently it has been remodeled and improved, at an expense of $525. Numerically this church has always been weak. At present there are about twenty- two members. Regular preaching, once a monthi. A Sunday-school is maintained. The deacons are J. Burrows, T. Petter and C. H. Sublett. Rev. W. A. Mitchell has been pastor since 1887.
The Christian Church was organized in Stock- ton August 24, 1851, with twenty one members, by Elder Thomas Thompson, from Santa Clara. January 24, 1852, they elected W. W. Steven- son, elder, and Thomas Maxwell, deacon. June 6 following, Mr. Maxwell, Silas Hitchcock and J. W. Smith were elected trustees. August 2,
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same year, J. D. Green, Sampson Hitchcock and John Hitchcock donated a lot to the churchi, where the Central M. E. Church now stands. May 8, 1853, the society mnet for the first time in their clinrch there, which was a small frame building purchased and moved upon the lot; it cost $1,250 unfurnished. April 18, 1858, the church was reorganized. Most of the members had been living abont six miles east of the town, on the Waterloo road, and met there un- til the reorganization. At this time they elected Messrs. Green and Maxwell elders, and Silas Hitchcock and J. Lynch deacons. Subse- quently they sold that property, and in 1860 bought the Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Lindsay street. Finally, in 1871, they pur- chased the frame building and lot they now oc- cupy, on the west side of Sutter street, between Main and Weber. This church is 36 x 50 feet in size.
The present inembership is about a 'hundred. The elders are W. C. Miller, Silas March and Dr. Spence. The chief ininisters for a number of years past have been Elders Ham, H. D. Connell, L. B. Wilkes and the present one, Peter Colvin. A Sunday school is kept up, but no signal prosperity attends it at present.
The " Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints " (" Joe Smith Mormons "), have had a small society in Stockton for many years, but it has scarcely grown any since the first. They claim nominally between twenty-five and thirty members. Their church is a very small build- ing near the corner of Sutter and Clay streets, in the southern part of the city. Jolin Night- ingale, a resident, is the presiding elder, Mr. Darrow the teacher, and Dr. Israel D. Davis the priest. Other ministers in recent times have been Henry Robbins, John Blake, Daily, Pot- ter, Darrow, etc. No regular meetings have been hield since last spring (1889).
For the Hebrew congregation (not " church") see under head of societies.
SOCIETIES.
The first convention of the Masonic order in this State met at Sacramento April 17, 1850,
and completed the organization of the first grand lodge of this State on the second day afterward. There were then but six lodges represented on the coast. The first formal meeting of Free- masons in Stockton was hield near Captain Weber's gate.
San Joaquin Lodge, No. 19, F. and A. M., was chartered May 5, 1852. The first officers were J. G. Candee, W. M .; F. C. Andrew, S. W .; Rasey Biven, J. W .; E. W. Colt, Sec .; J. C. Morris, Treas .; Wm. Hunter, S. D .; R. F. May, J. D .; M. Kierski, Tiler; Rev. James Woods, Chap. This, the oldest Masonic lodge in the city, now numbers ninety-eight members.
Previous to the organization of the above lodge, however, in 1850, the " Gregory Yale" lodge was instituted in the law office of Fair & Booker, under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Florida, but did not exist long.
Morning Star Lodge, No. 68, F. and A. M., was organized December 25, 1854, and chiar- tered May 2, 1855. The charter members were J. G. Jenkins, H. C. Benson, W. W. Stevenson, O. C. Gage, W. H. Gray, W. G. Canders, E. G. Vanghn, J. C. Simmons, W. F. McKee, E. G. Bateman, J. Burkhalter, J. M. Van Syckle, Allen Lee Bours and Lemuel Lyon. The first officers were: Lemuel Lyon, W. M .; G. R. Warren, S. W .; E. G. Vanghn, J. W .; J. M. Van Syckle, Treas .; Wm. H. Gray, Sec .; V. M. Peyton, S. D .; O. C. Gage, J. D .: W. W. Stevenson, M .; E. B. Bateman and Burkhalter, Stewards. At present this lodge has about 140 members, near which number it has ranged for many years.
Stockton Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., was in- stituted January 8, 1861, with the following eighteen charter incmbers: Robert Porterfield, Fletcher C. Andrew, Royal B. Parker, James A. Jackson, D. F. McDonald, L. Kullman, Alex- ander Burkett, Wm. Il. Neal, Cornelius Car- penter, F. Bonacina, James Littlehale, C. P. Benedict, E. D. Eldridge, S. Eldridge, Charles Grunsky, L. D. Hamilton, E. B. Lockley and Lawrence C. Van Allen.
The first officers were: Robert Porterfield, II.
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P .; Fletcher C. Andrew, K .; Royal B. Parker, S .; James A. Jackson, C. H .; D. F. McDonald, P. S .; L. Kullman, R. A. C .; A. Burkett, M. 3d V .; W. H. Neal, M. 2d V .; C. Carpenter, M. 1st V .; James Littlahale, Sec .; F. Bonacina, Treas .; C. L. Benedict, Gnard.
In this chapter there are now 106 members. Stockton Commandery, No. 8, K. T., was established March 18, 1867. The first officers were: S. H. Fiekett, Com .; R. C. Gridley, S. W .; J. Littlehale, J. W .; A. Burkett, Warder; W. Black, Standard Bearer; D. Deal, Prel .; D. Brown, Sword Bearer; J. Littlehale, Rec. pro tem .; A. Burkett, Treas. pro tem. These, with P. G. Buchanan, James Campbell and F. Bon- acina, were the charter members. The com- mandery now has a membership of 100.
Stockton Council, No. 10, R. and S. M., was organized February 8, 1869, with the following charter members: Win. A. Davies, G. B. Clai- borne, A. Burkett, Frank Stewart, R. W. Steven- son, D. W. Gelwick, James R. Selden, Wmn. T. Browne and S. H. Fickett. Present member- ship, seventy-three.
Home Chapter, No. 50, O. E. S., has a mem bership of 150 to 160. Present officers: Mrs. Emily A. Bagley, W. M .; Joseph F. Mos- ley, W. P .; Mary E. Welsh, A. M .; Fannie Harp, Sec .; Mrs. Lydia A. Henry, Treas .; Mar- garet Beebe, Cond .; Alice Banm, Assoc. Cond.
The Scottish-rite Freemasonry was once es- tablished in Stockton and flourished for a time, but no lodge of that order exists here now.
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