The San Francisco directory: embracing a general directory of residents and a business directory : also, a directory of streets, 1879 , Part 302

Author: Langely, Henry G
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196


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Church Officers .- A. J. Wohlander, Ernst Krull, William Schmidt, Charles Lucky, Ellert Hansen, John Hensen and J. Lindner


First Reformed Church (German).


Location, east side of Eleventh street, between Mar- ket and Mission. Rev. J. Fuendeling, Pastor ; resi- dence, 29 Eleventh street, basement church.


This society was organized by the Rev. Frederick Fox, on the eleventh of April, 1839. Three Elders and three Deacons, together with the Pastor, constitute the consistory.


The church and Sabbath School are the first of the kind organized on the Pacific Coast, and, until the ninth of September, 1874, stood in connection with the Zion's Classis Penna of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States, when on said date four ministers and three congregations on the Pacific Coast of said Reformed Church organized a San Francisco Classis in connection with the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States.


The church, occupied by the congregation, was erected at a cost, including lot, of $7,000. Dedicated December 15, 1872.


Services on Sabbath in the German language at eleven o'clock, A. M .. and at half-past seven o'clock, P. M. German Sabbath School at half-past nine o'clock, A. M.


Church Officers .- Behrend Joost, Herman Cornah- rens, John H. Tietjen, Bernard Hauser, Christian Rieben and George Hertel, Trustees.


French Reformed Evangelical Church.


Present place of worship, rooms of the Young Wo- men's Christian Association, 218 Stockton street; Rev. Edward Verrue, Pastor; residence, Oakland. Or- ganized February 18th, 1877. Number of members nineteen. Services in the French language every Sun- day at eleven o'clock A.M. A Sunday S hool in con- nection with the church, meets at ten o'clock A.M.


Officers .- Adolph Juillerat and Numa Duperu, El- ders.


HEBREW.


Congregation Emanu-El.


Location of synagogue, north side of Sutter street, between Stockton and Powell, Rev. Elkan Cohn, Rabbi ; residence, 905 Hyde street; Max Wolf, Reader.


Organized April, 1851. The new synagogue of this society, erected in 1866, is an elegant and substantial structure, built of brick, at a cost, including the price paid for the lot, of $185,000. The auditorium is fifty- three feet wide, ninety-seven feet long, and fifty feet high, affording a seating capacity for over twelve hun- dred persons. The internal arrangements are chaste and appropriate, and admirably adapted to the pur- poses of the congregation. A school for the religious education of the youth, with four hundred and sixty- three pupils, is conducted in the basement rooms of the synagogue building.


Location of synagogue, northeast corner of Post and Taylor streets. Rev. Dr. H. Vidaver, Rabbi ; residence, 119 Turk street. M. Luxenburg, Cantor.


Officers-G. Aronson, President ; M. Phillips, Vice- President; H. Lowenberg, Secretary ; S. Reinstein, Treasurer ; A. L, Badt, W. Saalberg, M. Davidson, M.


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CHURCHES.


1073


B. Lichtenstein, J. Newman, B. Sheideman, H. W. Hyman, H. Liebes and B. Mish, Trustees ; A. Coney, Collector.


Congregation Beth Israel.


Location of synagogue, Turk street, near Taylor. Rev. Dr. A. J. Messing, Rabbi ; residence, 630 Eddy street.


This congregation was organized in 1861, and wor- shipped for many years in rented buildings, more latterly using the small frame structure on the corner of Mission and Mary streets. The growing wants of the congregation, coupled with its increased ability, early last year led to the purchase of their present location, upon which there has been built and just completed an elegant and suitable synagogue at a cost of $15,000. It has a frontage of fifty feet by one hun- dred in depth, has lecture and school rooms in base- ment, the audience chamber occupying the entire second floor. The present membership is about one hundred and seventy-five. Services are held daily, morning and evening, at the usual hours.


Officers .- S. Zemansky, President ; S. Goldman, Vice-President; Nathan Levy, Secretary ; Marcus Levy, Treasurer ; S. Bloom, E. Aschersohn, S. Pecker- man, M. G. Harris, J. Lindner, L. Licht, M. B. Eph- raim, I. Brownstone and M. Marks, Trustees ; D. Davis, Collector.


Congregation Shaarey Tzedek.


Location of Synagogue, east side of Stockton street, between Pacific and Broadway. Rev. Ph. Bernstein, Rabbi ; residence, southwest corner Vallejo and Pow- ell streets


Officers .- Jacob Berel, President ; Dr. N. A. A. Wolff, Vice-President ; Samuel Polack, Secretary ; Solomon Levy, Treasurer ; M. Enkle, J. Smith, H. Solomon, Dr.Wolf, and B. Vogel, Trustees ; A. Slager, Collector.


Congregation Shaare-Tefilah.


Organized February, 1879. Daily services are for the present held at the residence of the late Rabbi Streisand, 964 Howard street. Services on holidays at Irish American Hall. Rabbi, vacant.


Officers .- J. L. Kalischer, President; J. Aronsohn, Secretary


METHODIST.


First Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, west side of Powell street, between Wash- ington and Jackson. Rev. R. L. Harford, Pastor ; resi- dence, 1008 Washington street


This is the oldest Protestant church organization in San Francisco or in California, several families having been formed into a society here by Rev. W. Roberts, in 1846. The timbers and shingles of a church building were hewn in Oregon, and were in course of erection upon the present site when Rev. W. Taylor arrived, as Missionary, in 1849. From this beginning the M. E. Church in California has grown, until it now numbers over seven thousand members.


The present beautiful edifice was erected in 1871, at a cost of $25,000. Its spire is one of the most grace- ful in the city, and all its adornments are in exquis- ite taste, without extravagance.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and half-past seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at half- past twelve o'clock P.M. Prayer Meeting on Wednes. day evenings.


Church Officers .- John Truebody, Annis Merrill, John R. Sims, J. M. Johnson, Leander Bly, J. T. Mc- Lean, and R. G. Davisson. George Southwell, Secre- tary ; E. M. Furbush, Treasurer.


Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church


Location, south side of Howard street, between Second and Third. Rev. M. C. Briggs, Pastor ; resi- dence, 9 Hubbard street.


The society, organized in 1852, under the superin- tendence of Rev. Isaac Owen, erected and dedicated December 5, 1853, a plain, but substantial, neatly-fur- nished House of worship on Folsom street. The present building was erected in 1862, under the pas- torship and superintendence of Rev. J. D. Blain. The building is Gothic, of the fourteenth century, ninety- six feet long by fifty eight feet wide. It seats about twelve hundred persons. Value, including lot and


parsonage, $100,000, with a debt about $10,000. After setting off the Central and Mission Street churches, there are now more than four hundred communicants, and a Sabbath School, numbering sixty officers and teachers and one thousand scholars, with an average attendance of about five hundred, and a library of two thousand volumes. Services every Sabbath morning and evening at the usual hours. Prayer Meeting, etc., on Sunday, at half past six o'clock P. M., and on Wednesday, at half past seven o'clock P. M. Class meetings at nine o'clock A. M. and twelve o'clock M. Sundays. Sabbath School at two o'clock P. M.


Church Officers .- Charles Goodall, James Harlow, S. Mosgrove, Samuel Hancock, John Curry, H. H. Noble, J. F. Byxbee, J. M. Whiting, and J. M. Buffing- ton, Trustees.


Central Methodist Episcopal Church,


Location, north side of Mission street, between Sixth and Seventh. Rev. C.V. Anthony, Pastor; resi- dence, 1165 Mission street.


The church was organized in 1864, by Rev. J. D. Blain, and a small building erected on a leased lot nearly opposite the present site. The present lot was purchased in 1866, under the pastoral charge of Rev. J. B. Hill, and is seventy-five feet front on Mission street, running through one hundred and sixty to Jes- sie street. The church edifice is fifty-six by one hun- dred feet, besides Sunday School and class rooms, which are accommodated in an L on the back of the main church building, forty-six by fifty feet. The present church was placed on the lot in 1872, under the pastoral charge of Rev. A. M. Hough, who re- mained in charge until September, 1873, when the Rev. T. S. Dunn succeeded him, who remained until 1875, when Dr. Jewell succeeded to the pastorate. remaining until September, 1878, when he was fol- lowed by the present pastor. Within the past three years new galleries have been put in, largely increas- ing the sitting capacity of the church. The society now numbers, including probationers, three hundred and ninety.


Services every Sabbath morning and evening at the usual hours. Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings, and Praise Service Sabbath at six o'clock P.M. Sab- bath School and Bible classes at two o'clock P.M. Class Meetings Sabbath at half past nine o'clock A.M., and at half past twelve o'clock P.M., and on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Young people's meeting ev- ery Monday evening.


Church Officers .- E. Burke, President ; William Ab- bott, Secretary ; N. Anderson, Treasurer; William Abbott, George Watterson, Charles M Pusey, J. W. Gale, E. O. Glynn, C. J. Holmes, N. J. Bird, and J. C. Hoag, Trustees.


Grace Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, east side of Mission street, between Eigh- teenth and Nineteenth. Rev. A. J. Wells, Pastor ; resi- dence, 2336 Mission street.


The building occupied by this church, erected on a lot sixty-five by one hundred and twenty-two feet, presented by John Center, is a neat and substantial frame structure, fifty by ninety feet, with a lecture room fifty by fifty-two feet, and so constructed thatit can be extended whenever the wants of the society demand it.


This church was known as the Mission Street Meth- odist Episcopal until 1876, when the present name was adopted. Number of members, one hundred and ten.


Services on Sabbath at eleven o'clock A. M., and at half past seven o'clock P. M. Prayer Meeting on Wednesdays at half past seven o'clock P. M. The Sabbath School connected with the church has an av- erage attendance of three hundred and a library of six hundred volumes. Meets at half past two o'clock P. M.


Church Officers .- C. S. Holmes, N. J. Rogers, D. Henderson, J. C. Stubbs, G. W. Lemont, and J. L. Culin, Trustees.


Kentucky Street Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Tennessee street, south of Solano, Po- trero. Rev. R. W. Willamson, Pastor ; residence, ad- joining the church. Organized 1870. Number of members, thirty. Sunday School attendance, ninety. Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A. M. and


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1074


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half past seven o'clock P. M. Prayer Meeting Thurs- day evenings. Sunday School at two o'clock P. M.


Church Officers .- Hugh Fraser, T. Shannon, John McLean and P. Noble, Trustees


Broadway German Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, north side Broadway street, between Stockton and Powell. Rev. R. Steinbach, Pastor ; residence, at church.


This church was organized February 29, 1859.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A. M. and half past seven o'clock P. M .; also, every Wednesday evening in the German language. Sunday School at half past nine o'clock A. M.


German Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Folsom street, between Fourth and Fifth. Rev. Hermann Brück, Pastor ; residence, 864 Folsom street, rear.


This church was organized in the Fall of 1855. Number of members fifty-five.


Services every Sunday at forty-five minutes past ten o'clock A. M. and half past seven o'clock P. M. Sab- bath School at nine o'clock A. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening at half past seven o'clock Praise meeting every Friday evening at half past seven o'clock. All services in the German language.


Church Officers. - Christian Kobicke, President ; August Muller, Treasurer ; Charles F. Krebs, Secre- tary; Hermann Schrader, F. Jansen, William Krug, and Carl Stein, Trustees.


St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


Location, west side of Russ street, between Howard and Folsom. Rev. W. M. Prottsman, Pastor, resi- dence, Girard House, 142 Seventh street.


This church was re-organized in October, 1858, by the Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, Revs. W. R. Gober, Morris Evans, Samuel Brown, E. K. Miller, Jesse Wood, Dab- ney Ball, E. E. Hoss, W. J. Mahon, and C. Chamber- lin having severally had pastoral charge. The con- gregation worshipped for several years on Minna Street, between Fourth and Fifth, and afterwards in Pythian Hall Building. They now own and occupy the commodious edifice formerly known as the Colum- bia Square Baptist Church.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and half past seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at close of morning service. Class Meetings at half past nine o'clock A.M. Prayer meeting on Thursday evenings.


Church Officers .- Wick B. Parsons, John A. McClel- land, Rufus K. Cain, C. L. Newman, and R. Larri- more, Trustees.


Bush Street Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Bush street, between Scott and Devisa- dero. Rev. Wesley Peck, Pastor; residence, 2520 Bush street.


This house of worship was built, at a cost of $5,500, from the proceeds of the sale of the Seaman's Bethel, in 1869. A Sabbath School, with about three hundred members and a library of three hundred volumes, is connected with the church. Number of communicants and probationers, eighty-four.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Class Meeting Fridays, at 7.30 P.M. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evenings.


Church Officers .- Charles C. Lombard, Henry Ma- han, J. B. Owens, Gershom H. Percy, and D.L. Hadley, Trustees.


South San Francisco Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Fifteenth avenue, South S. F., Pastor, vacant.


This society has erected a small edifice, at a cost, including furniture, of $3,500. The lot, seventy-five by one hundred feet, was donated by Messrs. Williams & Case.


Regular services are for the present suspended, although occasional meetings are held under the leadership of Mr. Nicholson, of South San Francisco.


Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church.


Place of worship, north side of Harrison street, be- tween Fifth and Sixth; Rev. E. Shogren, Pastor; resi- dence, 928 Harrison street.


This church was organized September 27, [1875. Services are held every Sabbath at half past ten o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Prayer Meetings Thursdays at half past seven o'clock P.M.


African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.


Location west side of Stockton street, between Clay and Sacramento. Rev. Adam Smith, Pastor ; residence 24 John street.


The congregation was organized by Rev. John J. Moore, August 1, 1852. In April, 1864, they purchased the Unitarian Church on Stockton street, for $15,500, on which there is a debt of $2,000. Connected with the church is a Sabbath School of three teachers and thirty scholars, and a library of four hundred vol- umes.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A. M. and half past seven o'clock P. M. Sabbath School at one o'clock P. M.


Church Officers, -- S. E. Freeman, President ; Will- iam Mitchell, Secretary ; John Harris, James Har- grove, W. J. Parker, John Mason, Henry Tolburt, Giles Sneads, and George F. Norton, Trustees.


African Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location west side of Powell street, between Jack- son and Pacific. Rev. George Jamison, Pastor ; resi- dence, Oakland.


The society worshiping here was organized in 1859, and is the same that formerly occupied the St. Cyp- rian Church. Under the pastorship of Rev. T. M. D, Ward, they reorganized in 1856, and secured the Scott Street Church property, where they continued to worship until March, 1862, when they purchased the property, which, up to that time, had been known as Grace Church, for $5,500. Rev. J. B. Sanderson was Pastor from May, 1857, to June, 1859. At this time Rev. T. M. D. Ward again took charge, and re- mained Pastor until May, 1868, when he was conse- crated Bishop. From July, 1869, to June, 1870, Rev. John R. V. Morgan acted as Pastor. The Rev. R. Dor- sey next took charge, and was succeeded by the Rev. J. H. Hubbard March 30, 1872. He was succeeded by the Rev. I. N. Triplett, who officiated until 1876, when the Rev. John L. Dyer took charge, officiating un- til the latter part of 1877, from which time until De- cember, 1878, the pastorate remained vacant, when the present pastor took charge. During the year 1865 three deacons were ordained by the Rt. Rev. Jabez P. Campbell, Bishop of California.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A. M., and half past seven o'clock P. M. Sabbath School at half past one o'clock P. M.


Church Officers, -Barney Fletcher, George Rich- ardson, William H. Carter, James Reader, George Green, Thomas B. Davidson, and Philip Jenkins, Trustees.


Chinese Mission House of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, north side of Washington street, between Stockton and Powell. Rev. Otis Gibson, Superinten- dent; Rev. A. J. Hanson, Assistant Superintendent ; residence, 916 Washington street. Lau Hok Han, Chan Pak Kwai, and Chan Hon Fan, native helpers.


This Mission House, erected in 1870, is a neat and commodious edifice, fifty-six by seventy feet, and three stories high. On the main floor are three school rooms, with double folding doors between, so that when desirable they can all be thrown into one room for general school exercises or religious services. On the second floor of the Chinese department are two school rooms, also connected by folding doors, and rooms for a missionary family. The third floor of this portion of the building contains four fine rooms, designed for, and used as, an Asylum for Chinese women and girls, who may be saved from lives of slavery and shame. Mrs. Jane Walker is employed as teacher and missionary in this department. Sab- bath School for women at twenty minutes past one o'clock P. M. every Sabbath. The entrance to the Chinese department is on Stone street, and to the Parsonage department, 916 Washington street.


The total cost of the property is $32,000, one-third of which has been contributed by friends on this coast, and the balance has been paid by the Missionary So- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which society the property is deeded.


The schools are graded into five classes, employing five experienced teachers, and are open every evening


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CHURCHES.


1075


during the week except Saturday. Tuition $1 per month. Bible Class meets every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. Sabbath School at half past six o'clock P.M. Praise Service and Bible Class Wednesday even- ings. Services in the Chinese language every Sab- bath, at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock P.M., at the Mission House, and every day of the week at two o'clock P.M. at the Chapel, 620 Jackson street, be- tween Dupont and Kearny.


PRESBYTERIAN.


First Presbyterian Church


Location, west side of Stockton street, between Washington and Clay. Rev. William Alexander, D.D., Acting Pastor ; residence, Oakland.


This church was organized May 20, 1849, under the direction of Rev. Albert Williams, and was the first Protestant church organized in San Francisco. W.W. Caldwell, Frederick Billings, Dr. George F. Turner, Mrs. Sarah B. Gillespie, Mrs. Ann Hodgson, and Mrs. Margaret A. Geary were the original members; Cap- tain B. Simmons, E. Woodruff, and H. Grimes were the first Trustees.


During the Summer of 1849 the congregation wor- shipped in a tent on Dupont street, afterward in a store room of the Custom House, and in the Superior Court Room, City Hall, until January 19, 1851, when a neat Gothic edifice was erected on Stockton street, neur Broadway, capable of holding seven hundred persons. This house was destroyed by the great fire of June 22, 1851. A plain building was immediately erected on the same spot, in which the congregation worshipped until August, 1857 ; and from that time until May, 1858, their meetings were held in the Chi- nese Mission Chapel. Their present fine house of worship was built in the Summer and Autumn of 1857, at a cost of about $60,000, including the lot, fur- niture, and fixtures. It is in the Gothic style of ar- chitecture throughout. The main building is one hundred and seventeen feet long, or to the outside of the tower, one hundred and twenty-three feet, and is sixty-one feet wide. Rooms for the Pastor's study and social meetings are on the same floor with the audience room, which last is eighty-one by fifty-eight feet, with a ceiling thirty-nine feet high. A Sabbath School room, fifty-seven by thirty-six feet, is over the front apartments; on the northeast corner of the house is a brick tower, ninety-six feet in height. There is an organ gallery that will seat a choir of fortv per- sons, and contains one of the largest and handsomest organs in the city. In all its arrangements the edifice is admirably adapted to its purpose, and at the same time is in accordance with true architectural taste.


The church is entirely free from debt. Present number of communicants is about one hundred and ninety.


Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and at half past seven o'clock P.M .; Lecture on Wednesday evenings. Evening Prayer Meeting at seven P.M. The public invited to all services.


There is a large and flourishing Sabbath School con- nected with the church. Average attendance, two hundred. Number of teachers, thirty-five. A choice library of over eight hundred volumes is attached to the school. Sabbath School and Bible Class meet at one o'clock P.M.


Church Officers .- N. Gray, S. Hopkins, J. K. S. La- tham, Samuel Irving, Robert Flennikin and Charles Kellogg, Elders; C. L. Kellogg and S. B. King, Dea- cons; Robert Flenniken, J. F. Heston (Secretary and Treasurer), H. L. King, J. B. Painter, William Bos- worth, Joseph Gordon, S. Carrothers, William Whit- ney, J. H. Marvin and David Hewes.


Calvary Presbyterian Church.


Location, northwest corner of Geary and Powell streets. Rev. John Hemphill, Pastor; residence, Grand Hotel.


This church was organized July 17, 1854. The first Pastor was the Rev. W. A. Scott, D.D., who com- menced his labors in this city on the twenty-first of May previously. Dr. Scott continued to officiate until the close of the year 1861, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, D.D., who continued in charge until the Summer of 1869. The Rev. John Hemphill, the present Pastor, entered upon his duties on the first Sabbath of April, 1870. In 1854 this con- gregation erected a church on Bush street, between


Montgomery and Sansom, where they worshiped un- til the dedication of their present house of worship. The construction of the new edifice was commenced in 1868 and completed in May, 1869. It occupies a fifty-vara lot, and is one of the most beautiful and convenient churches in the city. It will comfortably seat about one thousand persons. The Lecture and Sunday School Room is handsomely furnished, and will accommodate from six to eight hundred persons.


The church has a splendid organ, built by Henry Erben, of New York, which cost over $8,000, and is one of the largest and most costly instruments on the Pacific Coast; for excellence of workmanship and brilliancy of tone it has been pronounced unsur- passed.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock P.M .; in summer at half past seven o'clock P. M. Public Lecture Wednesday evening. Prayer Meeting every Friday evening and every Sabbath, one hour before the evening service. Sab- bath School meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M.


Church Officers .- R. McKee, James B. Roberts, William H. Stowell. Cyrus Carmany, Thomas Magee, John Dunn, and Nicholas T. Romaine, Elders ; Charles W. Gordon, Jonathan Shaw, A. L. Taylor, John W. Brown, John E. Bidwell, and Bishop Biddle, Dea- cons: Charles Clayton (President), James B. Roberts (Secretary), William Blackwood (Treasurer), Angus Cameron, W. S. Clark, M. P. Jones, David Meeker, Alexander R. Baldwin, and Prentiss Selby, Trustees.


Howard Presbyterian Church.


Location, south side of Mission street, between Third and Fourth. Pastor, vacant.


The church was organized September, 1850, under the auspices of the Rev. S. H. Willey, who continued in the pastorate for twelve years. The building then occupied by the congregation was dedicated June 17, 1851; was enlarged and repaired in 1864, and in 1867 was sold to the Third Baptist Society. The Rev. H. M. Scudder, D.D., who was for many years a mission- ary in India, was installed by the Presbytery of San Francisco, July 23, 1865, and prosecuted his work with great success until March, 1871, when he re- signed. The Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, D.D., sup- plied the pulpit from February, 1872, to March, 1874, when he resigned. He was succeeded by the Rev. Alfred H. Kellogg, who commenced his services, as Acting Pastor, on the first Sunday of December, 1874. Rev. A. S. Fiske was installed by the Presbytery of San Francisco October 10, 1875, and dismissed No- vember 29, 1877. The number of communicants en- rolled is about three hundred.




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