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The society which has charge of the finances of the church was organized January 7, 1861. In the following September they purchased a block of land, bounded by Broadway, Washington, Tenth, and Eleventh streets, for $1,400, one half of which they sold in 1872 for the sum of $65,000.
The church edifice was dedicated June 8, 1862, and cost, including furniture, $11,345. In 1867 the building was enlarged at an expense of $3,500, and in 1868 a chapel erected at an additional cost of $2,500. In the Spring of 1872 the church and chapel were removed, enlarged, and refitted, at an expense of $8,000. A new site has just been purchased on the corner of Washington and Thirteenth streets, upon which a new church will probably be erected in 1876.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized in December, 1860. It has an average attendance of two hundred and seventy-five teachers and scholars, and a library of one thousand vol- umes. Meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M. Superintendent, A. H. Post. The church has under its control the Mission Sunday School, located on the corner of Third and Castro streets, organized in 1868, with an attendance of about one hundred and fifty; Superintendent, F. W. Gill; also, a Chinese school of over one hundred scholars, E. P. Sanford, Superintendent.
Oficers .- T. B. Bigelow, R. E. Cole, E. P. Flint, A. P. Flint, I. W. Knox, and E. P. Sanford, Deacons ; C. W. Kellogg, Clerk and Treasurer.
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL.
Location, south side of Wood Street near Willow, Oakland Point. Rev. C. H. Pope, Pastor.
This church was organized May 31, 1868, with a membership of nine persons. The Rev. Eli Corwin was installed Pastor, in November, 1868, and resigned January 1, 1870. He was succeeded by the Rev. David B. Gray, who was installed August 9, 1870, and officiated until August, 1873. Number of communicants, about eighty.
The edifice occupied by this congregation was dedicated August 31, 1868, and cost, including lot, about $4,500.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized August
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12, 1867. It has an attendance of one hundred and seventy-five teachers and scholars, and a library of three hundred volumes. Meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M .; Superintendent, James Stratton.
Officers .- L. P. Collins and Jarvis Jewett, Deacons; J. A. Folger, Jacob Collyer, W. S. Snook, L. P. Collins, and Q. A. Chase, Trustees.
PLYMOUTH AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL.
The Plymouth Avenue Congregational Church is situated on Plymouth Avenue, corner of Elm Street, one block east of Telegraph Avenue. The church was organized by Council, April 9, 1874. Present number of members, sixty. Services are held every Sunday at eleven o'clock ; the first Sunday evening of each month at half past seven o'clock ; and every Wednesday evening at half past seven o'clock.
The Sunday School is held at the close of the morning service, each Sunday ; Frank Barrows, Superintendent; S. F. Daniels, Assistant Superintendent ; Benj. Wall, Librarian; J. C. Ferrell, Assistant Librarian. Number of pupils enrolled, one hundred and seventy ; average attendance, one hundred and twenty ; volumes in library, two hundred ; papers distributed, one hundred and thirty.
Officers .- Professors Benton and Moore, Pastors; W. K. Rowell, Abel Whitton, and Charles F. Whitton, Deacons ; W. M. Boyd, W. K. Rowell, W. H. Love, D. S. Sutton, and S. F. Daniels, Trustees ; J. C. Ferrell, Clerk.
ST. JOHN'S-EPISCOPAL.
Location, west side of Grove Street, between Seventh and Eighth. Rev. Benjamin Akerly, D.D., Rector; residence, west side of Adeline Street, between West Fourteenth and West Sixteenth. The Rector is in his study, rear of the church, daily, from nine o'clock A. M. till twelve M.
This church had an humble origin when Oakland numbered but few houses, and not over a hundred inhabitants. During the Summer of 1852, two families met and worshiped unitedly until a member of one of the families fell seriously ill, when the services were discontinued.
In August, 1853, Rev. Dr. Ver Mehr, Rector of Grace Church, San Francisco, visited Oakland to aid in the establishment of a church, and with much difficulty a meeting of twelve persons was convened. For various reasons, however, the project was for the time abandoned. Toward the close of the same year, the Rev. Dr. Morgan appeared, and preached a sermon to a small but attentive audience beneath the branches of one of Oakland's shady trees; and so favorable was the impression then made, that it was determined that a covered church of some kind should be procured by the following Sunday, if the reverend gentleman would repeat his visit. A large tent, twenty-five by seventy feet, was erected, with a cross upon the apex to designate the object of the struc- ture, and a temporary pulpit fitted up. Mr. Morgan, however, was in some manner detained, but a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Mr. Wals- worth, who had incidentally visited Oakland, being present in the con- gregation, was invited to officiate. The same week the tent and appur- tenances were sold to the Presbyterians.
In December, 1854, the Right Rev. Bishop Kip celebrated divine ser- vice in a room that had been prepared for the purpose. In January, 1855, the missionary, Rev. E. W. Syle arrived, and became acting Rector of the embryo parish. The first communion service was celebrated on Sunday, February 4, when eleven communed with the Rector. On March 5, of the same year, the parish was regularly incorporated and trustees elected, but it was not until the 8th of August following that a constitution and by-laws were finally adopted. During the same month
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a rented room was fitted up as a church, with benches, at a cost of $150, current expenses being met by collections every Sunday.
The Rev. Mr. Syle resigned January, 1856, and from that time lay services were regularly held, Bishop Kip occasionally officiating. In July, 1856, the Rev. James W. Capen became Rector, and continued in charge until 1857, when he resigned. On March 1st, 1858, the present Rector entered upon the discharge of his duties.
A lot was purchased in 1860 for the sum of $450, and a church edifice erected thereon at a cost of $2,600, which has since been enlarged twice. The church was consecrated to divine service March 1, 1860. Number of communicants, August, 1875, one hundred and fifty.
Services every Sunday at eleven o'clock A.M. On week days, daily morning prayer, at eleven o'clock. Holy Communion, the first Sunday of each month ; also upon each saint's day and festival.
Mission services on Sunday at Temescal in the school house at three o'clock P.M .; evening prayer and sermon at four o'clock P.M., and at Oakland Point at half past seven o'clock P.M.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized April, 1858. It has an attendance of one hundred and fifty teachers and scholars. Meets at forty-five minutes past nine o'clock A. M. Superintendent, Wal- ter W. Blow.
Officers .- R. W. Kirkham, Senior Warden ; Charles D. Haven, Junior Warden; Dr. W. J. Younger, Clerk; James De Fremery, Robert H. Bennett, Joseph W. Jordan, and Frank Soulé, Jr., Vestrymen ; David M. Henderson, Treasurer.
ST. PAUL'S-EPISCOPAL.
Location, southeast corner of Twelfth and Webster streets. Rev. J. Lewis Parks, Rector; residence, Telegraph Avenue between Delger and Hobart streets.
This church was organized January 19, 1871, with a membership of twenty. The Rev. Thomas Williams was placed temporarily in charge, and officiated until May, 1871, when Charles W. Turner was called and officiated until December, 1874, when the present Rector was called to the parish.
Immediately after the date of organization, the congregation purchased a lot and edifice for the sum of $10,000, fitting it for divine service at a cost of $2,500 additional. In August, 1872, the church building was enlarged and greatly improved at an expense of $4,000. It will now accommodate three hundred and fifty people ; and besides the church itself has a vestry room and two large rooms for the Sunday school and other purposes. Number of communicants, July, 1875, one hundred and twenty.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized January, 1871. It has an attendance of about eighty teachers and scholars, and a library of one hundred and fifty volumes. Meets at half past nine o'clock A. M.
Officers .- Allen I. Gladding, Senior Warden; Watson Webb, Junior Warden and Treasurer; John C. Kelton, Secretary ; John A. Stanly, John B. Harmon, Thomas Yolland, William C. Parker, George A. Par- ker, E. B. Marsh, A. T. Elliott, and David H. Ward, Vestrymen.
CHURCH OF THE ADVENT-EPISCOPAL.
Location, southwest corner of Seventeenth Avenue and East Four- teenth Street. Rev. Sidney Wilbur, Rector; residence, with James McGrath, south side Sixteenth Avenue near East Sixteenth Street.
This church was organized May 25, 1860. The Rev. Benjamin Akerly,
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of St. John's Church, Oakland, was the first Rector, and officiated until February 25, 1866, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Daniel Wills. In 1869 Mr. Wills resigned, and was succeeded by the Rev. Daniel Kendig, who continued in charge until July, 1870. In January, 1871, the present Rector entered upon the discharge of his duties. Number of communicants, June, 1875, fifty-eight.
In the Spring of 1860, James B. Larue, Esq., donated to the parish two lots on the corner of Broadway and Adams streets, and the same year the church edifice was erected, at a cost of $2,400. Since that date, the sum of $600 has been expended in improving the building and lots.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized in 1860. It has an attendance of eighty teachers and scholars, and a library of two hundred volumes. Meets at half past nine o'clock A.M. Superin- tendent, Rev. Sidney Wilbur.
Officers .- A. F. Rodgers, Senior Warden; C. M. Nichols, Junior Warden ; J. West Martin, L. J. Rector, Walter Turnbull, Daniel Hutch- ings, and A. H. Webb, Vestrymen ; Henry Steere, Treasurer and Clerk.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Location, southwest corner of Washington and Ninth streets. Rev. C. V. Anthony, Pastor; residence, 917 Alice Street.
This church was organized in 1862, through the exertions of Rev. C. E. Rich, who entered upon his duties as Pastor in September of the same year, and continued in charge until September, 1864, when he was succeeded by the Rev. C. Miller, who officiated one year. The Rev. H. H. Hartwell next took charge, until September, 1866, when he was suc- ceeded by the Rev. L. Walker, who officiated until September, 1869, when he was succeeded by the Rev. T. S. Dunn, who officiated until September, 1872, when the Rev. W. J. McClay served for one year, and was followed by the present Pastor. In December, 1862, a small build- ing was erected on the corner of Sixth and Washington streets, and used as a chapel until 1864, when the society purchased a lot for the sum of $1,000, and erected the edifice now occupied by them at a cost of about $4,500. The society has recently purchased land on the southwest corner of Fourteenth and Clay streets for $10,000, on which they are erecting a fine substantial church to cost about $35,000. Number of communi- cants, June, 1875, three hundred and thirty-two.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized Decem- ber, 1862. It has an average attendance of two hundred teachers and scholars, and a library of eight hundred and ninety-three volumes. Three hundred and ten Sunday school papers and magazines are distrib- uted monthly. Sabbath school meets at half past nine o'clock A.M. Services at eleven o'clock A. M.
Officers .- E. W. Playter, M. S. Hurd, George Miller, W. H. Rouse, J. H. Redstone, W. S. Bouton, J. W. Carrick, James Dods, R. E. Wenk, William Bartling, M. T. Holcomb.
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Location, southeast corner of Market and Seventh streets. (Vacant), Pastor.
This church had its origin in 1862, when a small congregation was brought together through the exertions of Mr. Abram Gross, who preached to them for a time in a school house near the corner of Clay and Fifth streets. They afterwards worshiped for a few months at the residence of a member of the congregation, and then in the public school house at Brooklyn.
In 1863 they organized and purchased a lot and the small wooden
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edifice which they now occupy, for the sum of $700. Mr. John Lane, a local preacher, then took charge and officiated about one year. Since his connection with the church ceased, several local preachers officiated suc- cessively until the Spring of 1872, when the Rev. James Dorsey took charge, in 1874 he was succeeded by the Rev. James B. Sanderson, who officiated until his death in August of the present year.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized in 1868. It has an attendance of about forty teachers and scholars. Meets at one o'clock P.M. Superintendent, William Harris.
Officers .- Abram Gross, Isaac Flood, and Prince Williams, Stewards ; Cornelius Francis Abram Gross, Isaac Flood, William Wesley, George Howard, Isaac West, and Lewis Whiting, Trustees.
GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Rev. F. Bonn, Pastor ; dwelling, south side Brown Street, between Telegraph Avenue and Grove Street. This church was organized in the Fall of 1872, with a membership of eight.
Services are held every Sunday at three P.M., at the Methodist Church, corner Ninth and Washington streets. The congregation contemplate erecting a church edifice of their own as soon as practicable.
The Sunday school connected with the church meets at two o'clock P. M. Officers .- Christian Rode and August Kaese, Stewards.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Location, northeast corner of Franklin and Fourteenth streets. Rev. James Eells, D.D., Pastor; residence, southwest corner Telegraph Avenue and Hobart Street.
This church was organized March 26, 1853, and admitted to the Pres- bytery of San Francisco on the eighth of November of that year, making it the oldest church organization in Oakland. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was first celebrated in the Oakland Free School, Rev. S. B. Bell officiating. Some years afterwards the society built a frame church edifice at the corner of Seventh and Webster streets. This building was in a few years more moved to the southeast corner of Thirteenth and Broadway streets, when the society purchased a small piece of land, one hundred feet on Broadway and one hundred and fifty feet on Thirteenth streets. In 1874 the society sold this land for $24,000, and obtained $2,000 for the building. With this proceeds they immediately began to erect the present convenient and handsome structure, now occupied by them, on the corner of Fourteenth and Franklin streets, the corner stone of which was laid April 24, 1875.
The lot on which this church stands has a frontage, on the north side of Fourteenth Street, of one hundred and fifty feet, and on the east side of Franklin of two hundred and six feet. The building fronts on Four- teenth Street, to the south. The main building is one hundred feet wide, ninety-four feet deep, and seventy-two feet high at the apex. This contains an auditorium a little more than semi-circular in form, ninety-six feet wide, seventy-six feet deep on first floor (eighty-five feet including gallery over vestibule), and fifty-five feet high, and contains one hundred and sixty pews, and seats seven hundred and fifty-six per- sons on first floor. The towers are eighteen feet square ; the more lofty one, one hundred and ninety-five feet and the other one hundred and forty feet high. Over the vestibule is a gallery gained by a staircase in either tower, which contains thirty-four pews, besides wall seats, and will seat two hundred and fifty persons, making the total capacity of the church one thousand and six. The auditorium is lighted in the evening by a sun-burner suspended from the ceiling, about forty-five feet from the
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auditorium, and gives a soft and pleasant light. The ceiling of this room is arched and the roof is supported by three immense trusses, the strength of which is unquestioned.
The rear building is sixty-eight feet wide and seventy-eight feet deep, and contains the organ loft, pastor's study, and a lecture room thirty-six feet wide, thirty-two feet deep, and forty-three feet high in center. This room is surrounded on three sides by a gallery fifteen feet wide, and when the main room and the rooms under this gallery are thrown into one by opening the folding doors, it gives a room of fifty-two by sixty-six feet.
The building is a model for a church and supplies all the conveniences necessary for social gatherings or Sunday school purposes. The organ was made by Messrs. Bevington & Sons of London, and cost $4,600, delivered and placed in position. The entire cost of the church property, including the organ and furnishing, is $78,600.
Messrs. Wright & Sanders, of San Francisco, were the architects and Mr. W. E. Boone was the builder.
The following pastors have been settled over this church : Rev. S. B. Bell, D.D .; E. B. Walsworth, D.D .; J. D. Strong, L. Hamilton, L. W. Poor, D.D., and the present pastor, Rev. James Eells, D.D., who assumed charge in July, 1874.
Officers .- E. Bigelow, J. J. Gardiner, W. C. Dodge, C. W. Armes, G. W. Armes, W. S. Bartlett, and J. B. Ford, Elders ; W. H. Knight, J. M. Selfridge, C. K. Clark, J. L. Barker, and C. P. Hoag, Deacons ; W. C. Dodge, Clerk ; C. P. Hoag, Superintendent of Sunday school; G. M. Grant, Superintendent of Chinese Sunday school.
The officers of the society are : E. J. Crane, President ; J. B. Ford, J. W. Shanklin, C. W. Banks, J. L. Barker, and G. H. Gray, Trustees ; W. H. Friend, Secretary.
PRESBYTERIAN-EAST OAKLAND.
Location, northeast corner of East Fourteenth Street and Fifteenth Avenue. Rev. W. H. Dean, Pastor; residence, 749 East Fourteenth.
This church was organized February 17, 1861, with ten members. The Rev. George Pierson was the first Pastor, and officiated until 1870. From that time the Rev. Oliver Hemstreet, Rev. E. H. Camp, and others, acted as stated supplies until December, 1872, when the Rev. T. M. Dawson, in response to a unanimous call from the congregation, en- tered upon the discharge of his duties, and was installed Pastor on the thirteenth of February, 1873. He continued in charge until May 1, 1875, when he resigned and the present Pastor took charge. Number of com- municants, August, 1875, seventy.
The church edifice was erected in the Summer of 1861, at a cost of $4,700. The lot on which it stands is seventy-five by one hundred and fifty feet, and was donated to the society by James B. Larue, Esq. In 1867, the building was improved at an additional expense of $1,800, and a bell for the edifice purchased for the sum of $1,000.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized in the Spring of 1861, with eight teachers and forty scholars. At present, there are one hundred and fifty teachers and scholars, and a library of one thousand volumes. Meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M. Super- intendent, J. H. Sumner.
Officers .- J. H. Sumner, Elder; V. S. Northey, W. C. Mason, Frank Hostetter, David Carrick, and W. A. Bray, Trustees.
INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN.
Location, southeast corner of Jefferson and Twelfth streets. Rev. L. Hamilton, Pastor ; residence, 1165 Jackson Street near Twelfth.
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This church was organized February 28, 1869, and is the only one of a similar character in California. The Pastor of this congregation officiated for several years as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in this city, but for opinions expressed by him he was tried before the Presbytery, and subsequently before the Synod, resulting in his being deposed by those bodies February 24, 1869. A large portion of Mr. Hamilton's congregation, who were opposed to this decision of the Presbytery and Synod, determined upon organizing another society, and secured Brayton Hall as a temporary place of worship, where services were held until the Spring of 1870, when the edifice now occupied by the congregation was erected at a cost, including lot, of about $22,500. Number of communi- cants, June, 1875, about one hundred.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized March 6, 1869. It has an attendance of one hundred and thirty-seven teachers and scholars, and a library of five hundred volumes. Meets at half past nine o'clock A. M. Superintendent, Wm. H. Jordan.
Trustees .- Walter Blair, General George A. Nourse, T. J. Arnold, Joseph Gillivray, C. W. Phelps, C. W. Reid, G. W. Grayson, J. L. N. Shepard, and W. W. Spaulding, President.
FIRST GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev. William Buehren, Pastor ; residence, west side of Eighth Avenue between East Seventeenth and East Eighteenth streets, East Oakland.
This church was organized in 1873, with a membership of thirty-three, and received under the care of the Presbytery of San Francisco.
At present services are held every Sunday at eleven o'clock A.M., in Odd Fellows' Hall, corner of Franklin and Eleventh streets.
Officers .- Julius F. Heimbold and A. H. Buehren, Elders; H. Kirch- heiner and John H. Dreyer, Deacons.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.
This church had its origin in the Summer of 1874, when a small con- gregation was brought together by the united labors of Elders James White, J. N. Loughborough, and D. M. Canright, during a tent meeting held from the month of April to July; it now numbers over fifty com- municants. Regular services are held at their Hall, corner Broadway and Twelfth streets, Sabbath (Saturday), at eleven o'clock A. M., and on Sunday and Wednesday evenings. It also has a Sabbath school of nearly one hundred scholars and teachers ; exercises commence at ten o'clock A. M.
CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION-ROMAN CATHOLIC
Location, west side of Jefferson Street, between Seventh and Eighth. Rev. Michael King, Pastor; Rev. Lawrence Serda, Assistant. Pastoral residence adjoining the church.
Twenty years ago a room in a private house served as a place of wor- ship for the Catholics of Oakland, and nearly the whole of the present County of Alameda. A priest from the Mission of San José occasionally made a visit to celebrate mass and administer the sacraments, and even these occasional visits had to be omitted during the rainy season, owing to the bad roads. The first church, a building of the most modest description, was erected in 1853 through the exertions of a few of the congregation, and for some time was the only Catholic place of worship in the whole of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, with the exception of the old Mission. Subsequent additions, made by the Rev. Fathers Croke and King, increased the size of this edifice until it was capable of holding a congregation of several hundreds, but this, too, had become
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entirely inadequate to the needs of the population of Oakland, although three new parishes had been formed in the county. In 1869, Father King determined to erect a church on a scale commensurate with the promised importance of this city. Plans accordingly were prepared for a building surpassing in dimensions anything in the State, though only with the intention of erecting a part of it at first, a design which has been carried out in the present structure. The foundations were laid in that year, but various causes retarded any further progress until May, 1871, when the superstructure was commenced, and pushed vigorously forward. Although not quite completed, the church was dedicated on the 23d of June, 1872. The ceremony of dedication was performed by the Most Rev. Archbishop Alemany. The sermon was preached by Father Gallagher, to whom, nearly twenty years before, the Catholics of Oakland were in a great measure indebted for their first place of wor- ship. The entire cost of the building is about $33,000. It will seat about twelve hundred and fifty persons.
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