The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 253

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BAPTIST.

First Baptist Church.

Location, north side of Washington Street, between Stockton and Dupont. Rev. JOSEPH FREEMAN, Pas- tor ; residence, 809 Washington Street.

This church was organized in June, 1849, under the labors of its first pastor, Rev. O. C. Wheeler. The church lot was purchased in the spring of that year for the sum of $10,000. The first house of worship was dedicated in August. 1849, and was the first Protestant house of worship erected in California. Mr. Wheeler's pastorate ended in November, 1850. He was succeeded by the Rev. B. Brierlv in Mav, 1852, who officiated until May, 1858. In July, 1859, Rev. D. B. Cheney was called to the pastorate, and continued in charge until 1867, when he was forced to resign on account of ill-health. After his resignation, Rev. C. A. Buckbee officiated as pastorate supply until the arrival of Rev. J. B. Thomas, February, 1868, who continued in charge until December, 1868, when he also was compelled by ill-health to resign. The Rev. A. R. Medbury took charge in November, 1870, and officiated until June 1, 1872. In the sum- mer of 1853, the wooden building was removed. and the basement of the present edifice was erected at a cost of 13,000. In this the congregation worshiped until September, 1857, when it dedicated its newly finished building which it had completed, for the sum of $16,000, including upholstery.

Number of communicants, two hundred and nine- ty-two. The Sabbath School has an average attend- ance of about two hundred and fifty. The library contains about nineteen hundred volumes.

Sabbath services morning and evening. Sabbath School at one o'clock p.M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday and Friday evenings : Church Covenant Meeting the Friday evening preceding the first Sab- bath in each month.

From this church the Columbia Square Baptist Church was organized, December, 1862 ; the Taber- nacle Baptist Church, December, 1865 ; the San Pablo Baptist Church, February, 1867, and the Fifth Bap- tist Church, September. 1869.

Officers .- A. B. Forbes, B. H. Freeman, E. S. Farnsworth, Peter Craig, and N. Heath, Trustees; A. B. Forbes, Superintendent of Sabbath School ; George C. Richards, Assistant Superintendent ; S. W. Backus, Treasurer ; F. D. Conro, Librarian.

Columbia Square Baptist Church.

Location, west side of Russ Street, between Howard and Folsom. Rev. WILLIAM D. CLARK, Pastor ; resi- dence, 918 Harrison Street.

The first steps for the organization of this church were taken in 1860, when Dr. Cheney's congregation established a Mission interest in the Nonantum School House on Third Street, near Bryant. The Sun- day School was under the superintendence of H. H. Heath. After several changes, a lot was purchased on Fifth Street, corner of Jessie, and a church erect- ed and organized December 22, 1862, where the con- gregation worshiped until the spring of 1869, when the present commodious and elegant edifice was con- pleted. Rev. H. A. Sawtelle was the first Pastor, who continued to officiate until October, 1866, when he re- tired from his pastoral charge and established the Union Square Baptist Church. Rev. C. R. Hendrick- son, for several years Pastor at Stockton, was called by the congregation to fill the vacancy. He entered upon his duties on the first of January, 1867, and re- signed June 15, 1870. The Rev. D. S. Watson, of Pittsfield, Mass., was unanimously called by the church to the pastorate January, 1871, and continued in charge until his decease, December 27, 1872. The present pastor took charge August 1, 1873. The church is now in a flourishing condition, with a mem- bership of one hundred and sixty. Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and half-past seven o'clock p.M. Prayer meetings every Wednes- day and Friday evenings.

Officers .- C. B. Cooley and B. W. Owens, Deacons; B. W. Owens, Charles W. Elliott, H. D. Clark, J. M.

Hurlbut, and I. Hamma, Trustees ; S. B. Leavitt, Treasurer ; K.Christopher, Clerk.

A Sabbath School, with an average attendance of one hundred and fifty, and a library of over one thousand volumes, is connected with the church. Rev. W. D. Clark. Superintendent ; Marshall Stew- art, Librarian. The school meets at one o'clock P.M.

Third Baptist Church (Colored).

Lecation, east side Powell Street, between Bush and Sutter. Rev. J. R. YOUNG, Pastor ; residence, 849 Clay Street.

This church was organized in 1854, and formerly held worship on Dupont Street, between Filbert and Greenwich. In 1867, the congregation purchased the building and grounds formerly occupied by the How- ard Presbyterian Church, at a cost of $10.000, where services were held until the fall of 1868, when an ex- change was made for the present site, and a church edifice erected thereon. Services are held every Sab- bath at three o'clock and half past seven o'clock P.M.

Officers .- George Duncan, J. II. Miller, J. T. Val- entine, E. W. Parker, and B. Wilson, Trustees.

Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Location, north side of Post Street, between Hyde and Larkin. (Vacant), Pastor.

This church was organized November 23, 1865, with a constituent membership of forty-five. Recognized by an Ecclesiastical Council duly called December 12, 1865. Present membership, one hundred and fif- teen. Thechurch edifice was dedicated August 20, 1865; is forty-four by sixty-four feet, and presents a neat and tasty appearance. It has a sitting capacity of about three hundred, and cost, with lot, about $11.000.

Services are held every Sabbath, at eleven o'clock A.M. and at half past seven o'clock p.M. Prayer meetings every Wednesday evening. The Sabbath School connected with the church has an attendance of one hundred and twenty-five scholars, and a library of four hundred and forty volumes. Meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M.

Officers .- I. Lankershim, R. H. Clement, and J. C. Robinson, Deacons: E. Worth, Clerk and Treasurer; I. Lankershim, R. H. Clement, J. C. Robinson, F. A. Jennings, and F. Landers, Trustees; Rev. B. T. Mar- tin, Sabbath School Superintendent; R. H. Clement, Assistant Superintendent.

Union Square Baptist Church.

Location, south side of Post Street, between Pow- ell and Mason. Rev. HENRY A. SAWTELLE, Pastor; residence, 810 Taylor Street.

The church was organized in the City College Chapel, October 31, 1866, with fifty-three members, to which additions have been made nearly every month, and the number now is two hundred and fifteen. In 1867 the church purchased its present eligible lot, fifty-five by one hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet, and erected thereon a plain edifice, capable of seating four hundred and fifty people. Since then the house has been raised, the front improved, and convenient basement apartments finished and furn- ished. The financial affairs of the church are in a prosperous condition, and the public worship well attended. The Lord's Supper is observed monthly, and christians of other churches when present are fellowshiped in the service. There never has been as yet a change in the pastorate of this congregation.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock p.M. Prayer meet- ing is held on Wednesday evening, and a sermon is preached on Friday evening at half past seven o'clock.

A Sabbath School, with an average attendance of one hundred and eighty, and a library of more than one thousand volumes is connected with the church. The school meets immediately after morning service.

Church Officers .- John Reynolds, L. L. Alexan- der. W. A. Mowry, and T. H. Way, Deacons; H. B. Angell, H. M. Rosekrans, N. D. Arnot, H. K. Cum- mings, G. M. Wood, L. Knight, and R. F. Roth,

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CHURCHES.

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Trustees; Thomas H. Way, Treasurer; E. Irving Smith, Clerk.

Sabbath School Officers .- Rev. Henry A. Sawtelle, Superintendent; W. G. Dixon, Secretary and Treas- urer; H. K. Cummings, Librarian; John Edwards and J. H. Allbright, Assistant Librarians.

Fifth Baptist Church.

Location, Twenty-second Street, between Howard and Capp. Rev. JOSEPH FREEMAN, Pastor; residence, 817 Stockton Street.

This church was organized August 17, 1869, with twenty-eight members. The church edifice was erected at a cost of $5,000, including furniture, and dedicated October 3, 1869. The lot is ninety feet front by one hundred and twenty-five feet deep, and cost $5,000. Number of members, at present, ninety.

Services are held every Sabbath, at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock r.M. in winter, and forty-five minutes past seven o'clock p.M. in summer. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at half past seven o'clock P.M. in winter, and forty-five minutes past seven o'clock p.M. in summer.

A Sabbath School, with an average attendance of one hundred and forty, and a library of about four hundred volumes, is connected with the church. The school meets immediately after morning service. Oficers .- C. V. Grey and P. D. Code, Deacons; P. D. Code, E. T. Seagrave, John Bergstrom, C. W. Ta- ber, and T. H. Zeigenfuss, Trustees; P. D. Code, Treasurer; C. V. Grey, Secretary. Sunday School: Kev. C. A. Buckbee, Superintendent; C. H. Cham- berlain, Treasurer ; George Maxtield, Librarian; Henry Bigelow, Secretary.

Baptist Mission Chapel.

Location, Eleventh Avenue, between F and G streets, South San Francisco. Rev. GEORGE E. DA- vis, Missionary ; residence, corner Ninth Avenue and H Street. The house of worship is neat and convenient. One preaching service is held every Sabbath, in connection with which is a good Sunday School. No church has yet been organized.

Baptist Chinese Mission ..

Location, 829 Washington Street ; Rev. JOHN FRAN- cis of the American Baptist Home Mission Society in charge. Religious meetings are held overy evening at seven o'clock P.M. Services on Sunday at eleven o'clock A.M. and three o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at six o'clock P.M. The library, consisting of works in the English and Chinese languages, numbers tive hundred volumes.

CONGREGATIONAL.

First Congregational Church.

Location, southeast corner of Post and Mason streets. Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., Pastor; residence, 617 Bush Street.

This church was organized July 29, 1849, when Thomas Douglas and Frederick S. Mlawley were cho- sen Deacons, and inducted into office on the following Sunday by kev. T. D. Hunt, assisted by Kev. A. Wil- liams. The society met in the school house on the Plaza, until it was required for other purposes, when the members were deprived of a regular place of meeting for several months. As early as practicable, however, efforts were made for the erection of a suit- able house of worship, which resulted in the build- ing of a commodious frame structure, twenty-five by titty feet, on the corner of Jackson and Virginia streets, which was dedicated to the worship of God February 10, 1850. Rev. T. D. Hunt was chosen Pas- tor, and installed June 26, 1850, who, in this connec- tion, it is proper to state, was the first Protestant clergyman, located as such, in the State, having ar- rived in San Francisco as early as October 20, 1848, and was immediately invited by the citizens, in a meeting called for the purpose, to act as their chaplain for one year, commencing November 1, 1818, in which capacity he was laboring at the time. of the organization of this church. The congrega- tion increased so greatly as to require a larger house. Accordingly measures were adopted, in the summer of 1852, tor the erection of the substantial brick edifice on the southwest corner of California and Dupont streets, which was dedicated on the tenth of July, 1853. The second pastor, Rev. E. S. Lacy, was installed July 6, 1856, and dismissed Octo-

ber 3, 1865. In the spring of 1870, the society deemed it essential to seek a different location and larger accommodations. Measures were taken which ro- sulted in the erection of the present large and com- modious house of worship. The dimensions are ninety-two feet frontage on Post Street by a depth of one hundred and thirty-five on Mason Street, and is ninety feet to the apex of the roof, which is steeply pitched. On the northwest angle is the grand tower and spire, rising to the hight of two hundred and thirty feet, surmounted by a vane and weathercock in gilt. The style of architecture is the early English Gothic. The three principal en- trances are on Post Street, with one in the tower fronting on Mason, and are all reached by broad flights of stone steps partly covered by deeply recessed porches supported on brick piors and detached stone columns, The entrance doors aro wide and made sliding, and are banded and ornamented with iron. Between the buttresses of the side walls are five large windows on each side of the church, having deeply molded and trained heads and recessed arch- es. These windows terminate with gablets extending above the eaves of the building, and finished with iron terminals. The other gables throughout are fin- ished with terminals, and those of the front and rear main gables are ornamented in character and richly gilded. The roof is broken by ventilators, in the style of dormers, having iron terminals, and the or- mental roof is crowned with a cast-iron ridgeway. The front of the church, on Post Street, is designed with groups of two and three-light windows, arranged centrally over doorways with deeply recessed arches, relieved by white and dark brick ornamentally dis- posed. The tower on three of its faces has an arcade of light columns and arches, and the belfry has two largo and lofty windows divided by buttresses on each face. The angle buttresses terminate upward in bold pinnacles, and group well with the canopies and pinnacles of the spire windows. There is also a sec- ond or midway tier of spire windows. The front en- trance doors open into a large and airy vestibule, with doors opening opposite into the auditorium, and stairways right and left leading to the galleries. The auditorium is eighty-eight teet in length on the ground floor, and seventy-four feet wido-the length above the gallery, including the organ and choir recess, being one hundred and twenty-five feet. The hight to the center portion of the ceiling is sixty-five feet. The seating accommodations on ordinary occa- sions will be tor about seventeen hundred persons, but will comfortably receive two thousand. The base- ment is divided into lecture room, class room, infant class room, ladies' room, library, and lumber rooms, which are provided with all the necessary lavatories and conveniences. The basement rooms are so ar- ranged that they can all be thrown into one apart- ment during exercises or for social purposes. It was dedicated on the nineteenth day of May, 1872. The entire cost of this beautiful structure (including the site and furnishing) somewhat exceeds $150,000. The third and present Pastor, Rev. A. L. Stone, D.D., was installed June 14, 1806.

The whole number of members admitted to the church since its organization is about nine hundred. The present membership is about five hundred and fitty.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and at half past seven o'clock P.M. between the first of September and first of May, and at forty-five minutes past seven o'clock p.M. during the other months of the year. Lecture every Wednesday at half-past seven o'clock P.M.

Sabbath School .- L. B. Benchley, Superintendent ; Charles J. King, Assistant ; J. H. Morse, Secretary and Treasurer. Number at present connected with the school, scholars and teachers, exceeds five hun- dred. A valuable and instructive library of over four- teen hundred volumes is attached to the Sabbath School. The school meets immediately after morning service.

Officers of Church .- L. B. Benchley, J. W. Clark, M.D., Walter N. Hawley, Charles S. Eaton, S. A. Chapin, and A. C. Nichols, Deacons ; D. W. Folger, L. Ii. Clement, J. P. Rankin, J. S. Tabor, and T. W. McCollam, Standing Committee.

Officers of the Society .- Ira P. Rankin, Moderator ; A. G. Stiles, Clerk ; J. W. Clark, Treasurer ; A. C. Nichols, A. G. Stiles, W. N. Hawley, John Taylor, William F. Whittier, and J. O. Eldridge, Trustees.

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Plymouth Congregational Church.

Location, east side of Taylor Street, between Geary and O'Farrell. Rev. T. K. NOBLE, Pastor ; residence, 422 Minna.

This church was organized on the twelfth of Janu- ary, 1862, with twenty-six members. It grew out of a Sunday School which had been maintained in the building corner of Mason and Geary streets, known as the "Little Brown Church." Here publie worship was established in the autumn of 1861, and the Rev. John Kimball engaged to take charge of the enter- prise. He began his very diligent and successful la- bors in November, 1861, and continued in them until January, 1863, when he resigned and went to the East to do service in the armies of his country. In December, 1862, the church and society invited the Rev. J. A. Benton, of Sacramento, to become their Pastor. After a faithful pastorate of six years he resigned to take the position of professor in the Pa- citic Theological Seminary at Oakland. After a vacan- cy of about four years, during which the Revs. E. G. Beckwith, John Kimball, and others supplied the church, the Rev. T. K. Noble, of Cleveland, Ohio, was unanimously called to the pastorate, and was formal- ly installed December 6, 1872.

The present edifice on Taylor Street, which was dedicated April 10, 1864, is a structure forty-two by ninety-two feet, with a spire one hundred and fifty feet high. It is complete in all its parts and arrange- ments, having a basement under the whole, divided into lecture-room, ladies' parlor, and infant class- room. It has a Pastor's study in the rear. It will seat seven hundred persons.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half-past seven o'clock p.M. Sabbath School and Bible classes meet immediately after the morning service. Weekly Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Teachers' Bible class every Friday evening. Officers .- N. P. Cole, President ; John Hender- son, Jr., Secretary; S. M. Duncan, R. G. Byxbee, James Spiers, Halford Earle, E. D. Sawyer, John Morton, A. C. Titcomb, and S. S. Smith, Trustees.

Third Congregational Church.

Location, south side Fifteenth Street near Mission. Rev. EDWARD P. BAKER, Acting Pastor; residence, 422 Minna Street.

This church had its origin in the fall of 1862, when several persons, heads of families, residing in the vi- cinity of the Mission Dolores, met to consult together in regard to the practicability of organizing a church in the neighborhood.

After much discussion extending through several informal meetings, it was decided to extend an invi- tation to the Rov. E. G. Beckwith, then pursuing his theological studies at Andover, Mass., to visit this city and upon the organization of a Congregational Church at the Mission, to become its pastor. The in- vitation was accepted and Mr. Beckwith with his family arrived on Sunday the twenty-sixth day of October, and on the next Sabbath he preached his first sermon to his future church and society, and on the following Sabbath organized a Sabbath School. . On January 7, 1863, the organization of the church was completed, and on the 8th of February following the installation services took place, in the old church edifice on First Avenue.

After five years of faithful labor, Mr. Beckwith re- signed the pastorate, much to the regret of his con- gregation. From October, 1867, to April, 1869, the church was without a settled Pastor, the Rev. Selah Merrill supplying its pulpit from December, 1867, to June, 1868. In August, 1868, the Rev. William C. Pond was invited to fill the pulpit for the period of six months, at the expiration of which time he ac- copted a call from the congregation to become their settled Pastor, and continued in charge until the fall of 1872. Rev. Edward P. Baker has been Acting Pastor since October, 1872.

From November 2, 1862, until October 30, 1864, the old Methodist church edifice on First Avenue, which had become private property, was occupied by the church and society as a place of worship. The first services in the present chapel were held on the sixth day of November, 1804. The total cost of lot, build- ing, and furniture was $14,000.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half-past seven o'clock P.M. Prayer meet- ing every Wednesday evening.

The Sabbath School was organized November 5, 1862. Its first session was held on Sunday, November 9, of the same year, the total attendance being thirty- three. At present, the average attendance is about three hundred and fifty. Meets immediately after morning service. There is also a Chinese Sabbath School connected with the church, average attend- ance about thirty.

Officers .- H. N. Turner, Samuel Cowles, J. M. Ha- ven, and W. H. Hyde, Deacons; Samuel Cowles, W. H. Hyde, J. M. Haven, C. B. Williams, William Ede, and J. M. Parker, Trustees.

Green Street Congregational Church.

Location, south side of Green Street, between Stockton and Powell. (Vacant), Pastor.

The Rev. J. M. Caldwell was first connected with this enterprise, and was succeeded by the Rev. Wm. C. Bartlett-services then being held in the hall southeast corner Green and Dupont streets. The church was organized February, 1865, with a mem- bership of twenty-six persons. The building occu- pied by the society is of wood, and is neatly finished. It has an organ worth $2,000. The edifice was de- signed by S. C. Bugbee & Son, and cost about $5,000, exclusive of the amount ($5,000) paid for the lot. The dedication services occurred in March, 1805.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock p.M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at eight o'clock p.M. The Sabbath School connected with the church numbers about three hundred members. The library contains eight hundred volumes. Meets immediately after morn- ing service.

Officers .- W. W. Chase, W. B. Agard, William C. Pease, A. H. Phelps, and E. Farrell, Trustees; O. Livermore, Treasurer and Clerk.

Bethany Congregational Church.

Location, Bartlett Street near Twenty-fifth. Rev. WILLIAM C. POND, Pastor; residence, Howard Street, between Twenty-fourth and Twenth-fifth.

This church was organized February 23, 1873. Recognized by an Ecclesiastical Council duly called February 18, 1874. The church edifice is & frame building, thirty by fifty-five feet, erected November, 1872, at a cost of $1,600. Services are held every Sab- bath at eleven o'clock A.M. and forty-five minutes past seven o'clock P.M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at eight o'clock p.M. A Sabbath School, from whence sprung this church, was organized in August, 1872. It has an attendance of one hundred and ninety scholars, and a library of four hundred volumes. Meets at half past two o'clock P.M.

Officers .- J. A. Snook and Edmund Palache, Dea- cons; C. G. Roberts, John E. Ager, George Babcock, James E. Ager, and A. H. Schou, Trustees: William Johnstone, Superintendent of Sabbath School.

EPISCOPAL. Trinity Church.

Location, northeast corner Post and Powell streets. Rev. GEORGE D. SILLIMAN, Minister in charge; resi- dence, 227 Geary Street. May be seen daily at the vestry room, entrance on Post Street, adjoining the church, between the hours of twelve and one P.M.

This is the oldest parish of the Protestant Episco- pal Church on the Pacific Coast.

It had its beginning in Divine Service, celebrated by the Rev. Flavel S. Mines and the Rev. Augustus Fitch, Presbyters of the Diocese of New York, on the Sth day of July, 1849.

On the 22d of the same month, several citizens of the city resolved to form themselves into a congre- gation, to be known hereafter as the Holy Trinity Church.

On the 29th of July, wardens and vestrymen were electod, and on the vth of August, the Rev. Mr. Mines was elected Rector.

A fifty-vara lot on the southwest corner of Jackson and Powell streets, was purchased August 26, and a church edifice erected thereon, which was occupied the following November. In December, 1851, a lot on the north side of Pine Street, between Montgom- ery and Kearny streets, was purchased for the sum of $4,000, and a wooden edifice, forty by ninety feet, covered with corrugated iron, erected thereon. The first services in this church were held January 25,

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 253

Author: Publication date: 1874 Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G. Number of Pages: 1128

Author:
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
Number of Pages: 1128