The San Francisco directory for the year 1869, Part 207

Author: Langley, Henry G
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons
Number of Pages: 1076

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United Presbyterian Church.

Chapel of the City College, east side of Stockton Street, between Geary and O'Farrell. Rev. M. M. GIBSON, Pastor ; residence 710 Taylor Street.

Services are held every Sabbath, at eleven o'clock A.M., and half past seven o'clock P.M. Sunday School at half past nine o'clock A.M.

Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Location west side of Fell Street, between Octa- via and Laguna. Rev. I. N. HURD, Pastor ; resi- dence west side of Hayes Street between Buchanan and Webster.

Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and forty-five minutes past seven o'clock P.M.

Officers .- Isaac Cook, Charles Athearn, and I. S, Van Winkle, Trustees.

- - Presbyterian Church.

Location east side of Howard Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second. Rev. JAMES H. MARR, Pastor ; residence rear of church.

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

ROMAN CATHOLIC

St. Mary's Cathedral ..

Location northeast corner of California and Du- pont streets. Most Rev. JOSEPH S. ALEMANY, Arch- bishop; Very Rev. James Croke, V. G. Pastor ; Rev. Denis Nugent and Rev. J. Prendergast, Assist- ants ; Rev. W. Bowman, Secretary ; Archi-episco- pal and pastoral residence California Street, adjoin- ing the Cathedral.

The erection of this noble structure was com- menced on the seventeenth of July, 1853, during which year the basement portion was built, and the work was resumed the July following. Dedicated December 25th, 1854. The church is seventy-five feet wide, fronting on California Street, by one hundred and thirty-one feet on Dupont Street, being the largest church in the State. Service was begun at midnight on December 24th, 1854. The basement portion is lighted from both sides and well ventilated. The present expenditure of the building is $175,000. The church portion is forty-five feet high in the clear, and contains spacious galleries and an organ loft. The ceilings are vaulted with a series of groined arches which are decorated, and every means has been resorted to for accommodation, light, and ventilation. The church can seat twelve hundred persons. The tower is at present one hundred and thirty-five feet high, and when completed, with a spire, will be two hundred feet high. The edifice is of Gothic archi- tecture, which has been carried out in every detail through the building. In all the arrangements for the erection of the church, the greatest attention has been paid to the selection of the best material, and to

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The present dimensions of the cathedral not being sufficiently large for the vast congregation that attends it, it is intended to add about thirty feet more to its length. An archi episcopal and pastoral residence on California Street, as also a beautiful and spacious Baptistry, have been recently erected. Attached to the Cathedral is a large day school for bovs.

Masses, Sundays, at half past six, eight, nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; week days, six, half past six, seven, and half past seven o'clock A.M .; Vespers, at seven o'clock Sunday evenings, in winter, and half past seven in summer.

St. Francis.

Location north side of Vallejo Street between Dupont and Stockton. Rev. J. H. Aerden, Pastor ; Rev. A. Garriga and Rev. J. Valentini, Assistants. Pastoral residence 519 Green.

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This church was organized by Very Rev. Anthony Langlois, in the spring of 1849, through whose efforts a commodions frame building was erected in the month of December, 1849, and was the first Roman Catholic Church organized in San Francisco. Its ground base was forty by one hundred feet, one story in hight. During the year 1859-60, a large and commodious church was erected, which was dedicated on the seventeenth of March, 1860. Its designs is of the Gothic order, prevalent in the four- teenth century, presenting an illustration of the Christian architecture of that period. The principal features of this imposing structure are the towers, which project beyond the body of the church, and present in their elevation four divisions, rising to a hight of ninety feet from the ground. The entrance porch, or vestibule, has two side aisles, a semi- octagonal sanctuary, and two sacristies, and is ap- proached by a flight of ten steps, ascending to the vestibule, from which, at each side, are entrances to the galleries and baptistry, and in front are the pointed arched doorways which lead to the nave and aisles. In the central space between the towers, are the three doorways communicating with the vestibule, and thence with the interior. Over the central door there is a large and elegant three-com- partment window, and in the gable a highly-deco- rated rose window. Over each side door there is a lofty and spacious niche, which rises from richly- molded brick corbels ; there are also three marble panels, with appropriate inscriptions, recessed in the brick work immediately over the doorway and gable ; the work is finished with a massive and richly-decorated cross.

The east and the west sides of the structure are divided by buttresses into eight spaces, in each in- stance ; seven of which contain the large, pointed arched windows, which light the church. Beneath the floor of the church there is a large, well-lighted basement, which is used as a school-room, and also as a place of meeting for the parishioners. The ex- treme dimensions of the building are sixty six feet front by one hundred and thirty-seven and one-half feet in depth ; from the floor to the foot of the raft- ers is thirty-five feet. Cost, nearly $100,000. The church has been recently plastered and embellished at an additional cost of some $15,000.

Services, Sunday at six, half past eight, and half past ten o'clock A.M., and evening devotions at seven o'clock P.M .; at half past eight o'clock A.M., the sermon is in Spanish. Sunday School at two o'clock P.M.

St. Patrick's Church.

Location south side of Market Street between Second and Third. Rev. PETER J. GREY, Pastor ; Rev. Lawrence Seanlan and Rev. William B. O'Con-

nor, Assistants ; pastoral residence Market Street ad- cent to the church. Masses : Snudays, at half past six, forty-five minutes past seven. forty five minutes past eight, and half past ten o'clock A.M. ; during the week, daily, at seven and half past seven o'clock A.M .; evening service, at balf past seven o'clock. A boys' school is kept in the basement, at which there is an average attendance of nearly fonr hun- dred pupils.

A new church, one hundred and sixty feet long and eighty feet wide, is in course of erection on Mission Street between Third and Fourth. When completed it will be a magnificent building. The" cost will be about $100,000.

St. Boniface Church (German).

Location north side of Sutter Street between Montgomery and Kearny. Rev. P. J. KAISER, Pastor; Rev. S. Wolf, Assistant ; Pastoral residence west side of Mason Street between Geary and Post.

This church was dedicated April 5th, 1860. Serv- ices : Sundays, Mass at eight and Hfa of past ten o'clock A.M. and Vespers at seven o'clock P.M. ; week days, at half past seven o'clock A.M.

St. Ignatius Church.

Location north side of Market Street between Fourth and Fifth. Served by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, connected with St. Ignatius' Col- lege. The old building, dedicated July 15th, 1855, being found too small for the rapidly-increasing con- gregation, the new hall of the College is at present used as a church, and accommodates about three thonsand persons. The present portion of the institu- tion, recently erected, cost abont $120,000. Masses : Sundays, at five, forty-five minutes past five, half past six, fifteen minutes past seven, eight, forty-five minutes past eight, half past nine, and half past ten o'clock A.M. ; Vespers at half past seven o'clock P.M. ; week days, at five, forty-five minutes past five, balf past six, fifteen minutes past seven, and eight o'clock A.M.

Notre Dame des Victoires.

Location north side of Bush Street between Du- pont and Stockton. Rev. FATHER MOLINIER, Pastor ; residence 516 Bush Street.

The congregation was organized May, 1856, and its splendid edifice dedicated on the fourth of the same month. The building was constructed by a society of Baptists, and at the date above given was disposed of to the present owners. It has a ground base of fifty by one hundred feet, is a very beantiful and massive brick structure, and with its basement, which is intended for school rooms cou- nected with the church, has a capacity of comfort- ably seating seven hundred persons.

Services at eight o'clock A.M. every day. Sun- days at eight o'clock and half past ten o'clock A.M .; also, Vespers at three o'clock P.M.

Mission Dolores. .

Location southwest corner of Sixteenth and Do- lores strecte. Rev. THOMAS CUSHING, Pastor; Rev. Michael Gualco, Assistant ; pastoral residence adjoining the church.

This church was dedicated on the ninth of Octo- ber, 1776, although projected in 1769, by Father Junipero Serra, the Father of the California Mis- sions. The first Friar who had charge was Fran- cisco Palon, who was assisted in his labors by Benito Cambon. At the organization of this Mis- sion and for its protection there were fifteen soldiers located at the Presidio, under the command of S. Flores. A cemetery is attached to the church, in which the first interment was made in September, 1776. The first Indian convert was baptized on the twenty-seventh of December, in the same year. In

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the introductory portion of the San Francisco Di- | o'clock A.M. Sunday School at half past nine o'clock rectory for 1862, page five, will be found further A.M. details connected with the history of this Mission. Chapels. Attached to this church is a large day school.

Services at eight and half past ten o'clock A.M. on Sundays and Festivals.

St. Joseph's Church.

Location west side of Tenth Street between Fol- som and Howard, Rev. H. P. GALLAGHER, Pas- tor; Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher, Assistant ; pastoral residence adjoining the church.

This church was opened for divine service on the eighth day of December, 1861. The building first erected was a neat and substantial one-story frame, sixty feet long by thirty-seven feet wide, and stands ou the one hundred-vara lot donated by Horace Hawes, Esq., for the future Cathedral of the Arch-Diocese. The forementioned building, re- moved back for a school, has been replaced by a new edifice, over thrice the size of the above. It is cruciform Gothic, and elegantly finished. The new building is designed to be, as nearly as possible, earthquake and panic proof, the ceiling being done in finely-finished wood, and the large entrance door to slide on rollers. During the past year two side galleries and a transept nave have been added to the church.

Services on Sundays and Festival days. Masses: Sundays at half past six, eight, and half past ten o'clock A.M .; Catechism at half past nine o'clock A.M., and Vespers at seven o'clock P.M .; Mass, week days at seven and half past seven o'clock A.M.

St. Rose's Church.

Location Brannan Street near Fourth. Pastor (vacant). Attended from the cathedral.

This church was dedicated on the Festival of Pentecost, June 8th, 1862. There is connected with the church a school for girls, in charge of the Sis- ters of St. Dominic, which contained, within one month after its establishment, one hundred and fifty-six pupils. There are now abont four hundred girls in regular attendance.

Mass, Sundays at eight o'clock A.M.

St. Bridget's Church.

Location southwest corner of Broadway and Van Ness Avenue. Rev. B. M. DOOGAN, O. P., Pastor ; Rev. P. Callaban, O. P., Assistant ; residence rear of church.

This church was completed and services first held in February, 1864. It is a one-story wooden struc- ture, forty by seventy-six feet, erected upon a valu- able lot purchased by Archbishop Alemany, at a cost of $5,000. The services for burial of the dead at Calvary Cemetery are attended by the clergy- men of St. Bridget's Church from three to five o'clock P.M., from March to October, and from half past two to four o'clock p.M., from October to March. An addition, at a cost of several thou- sand dollars, has lately been made to this church, and it is now about twice its former size.

Services are held every Sunday at eight and half past ten o'clock A.M., and seven o'clock P.M ; week days, at seven o'clock A.M.

St. Peter's Church.

Location west side of Columbia Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth. Rev. THOMAS LARKIN, Pastor ; residence east side of Alabama Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth.

A new pastoral residence has lately been finished, and it is the intention of the Pastor to eularge the church to accommodate the ever-increasing congre- gation.

Services on Sundays at eight and half past ten

In addition to the services held at the different. Roman Catholic Churches throughout the city, reli- gious exercises take place regularly at the following institutions : Presentation Convent Chapel, Powell Street ; St. Mary's Hospital Chapel, Brannan Street; Magdalen Asylum Chapel, San Bruno Road ; St. Mary's College Chapel, San Jose Road, and St. Joseph's Infant Asylum, Bay View Turnpike.

SWEDENBORGIAN.

Church of the New Jerusalem.

Location north side of O'Farrell Street between Mason and Taylor. Rev. JOHN DOUGHTY, Pastor ; residence 1508 Leavenworth.

This society was organized February 15th, 1852. It has recently erected upon an eligible lot, meas- uring fifty-five feet front by one hundred and thirty- seven feet deep, a very neat church edifice in the Gothic style. capable of seating about three hundred and fifty persons, and at a total expense, including lot and church, of a little over $12,000. The seats are entirely free to the public.

There is a library connected with the church, con- taining all the theological and nearly all the scientific books of Swedenborg, both in English and Latin, and a large number of collateral works by various authors. explanatory of the New Church faith, which is free to all who desire to inform themselves concerning this peculiar religious system.

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. Administration of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the close of the morning service on the Sundays next succeeding the second Mondays in January. April, July, and October. Sabbath School at half past twelve o'clock P.M.

Officers .- Thomas C. Banks, President ; F. H. Day, Secretary ; Benjamin Shellard, Treasurer ; Charles Pace, S. W. Holladay, C. C. Webb, and Earl Bartlett, Trustees. Thomas Miller, Dr. A. Kel- logg, W. G. W. Harford, John MeCraith, and E. Eke- lund, Church Committee. J. McCraith, Secretary of the Society. L. L. Blood, Librarian.

New Jerusalem Church.

Rev. JOSEPH WORCESTER, Pastor ; residence 812 Taylor.

Services are held on Sunday, at eleven o'clock A.M., in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, north side of Sutter Street between Kearny and Dupont.

UNITARIAN. First Unitarian Church.

Location south side of Geary Street between Du- pont and Stockton. Rev. HORATIO STEBBINS, Pas- tor ; residence 16 Ellis.

This church was organized September 1st, 1850. The first edifice owned by them was erected in 1852, on Stockton Street between Clay and Sacramento. The first regular Pastor, the Rev. Joseph Harring- ton, arrived August 27th, 1852, and died Novem- ber 2d of the same year, of Panama fever. The second regular Pastor, Rev. F. T. Gray, ar- rived June, 1853, and left in June, 1854, and died in Boston in February, 1855. The third regular Pastor, the Rev. R. P. Cutler, arrived August 31st, 1854, and continued his ministrations without intermission until June 1st, 1859, at which time he resigned bis charge and left for New York. The Rev. John A. Buckingham then officiated as

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temporary Pastor nutil April 5th, 1860. The Rev. Thomas Starr King arrived here with his family April 28th, 1860, and commenced bis ministrations the following day (Sunday) before one of the largest congregations ever assembled in this city.

During the period of Mr. King's ministry, the so- ciety extinguished a long-standing debt of $20,000, and erected a new church on Geary Street near Stockton, at a cost of $115,000, all of which has been paid. It is one of the most beautiful structures our city contains, and is remarkable for the purity of its architectural design and its interior beauty.

Upon the death of Thomas Starr King, on the fourth of March, 1864, Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, of All Saints Church, New York, President of the Sanitary Commission, and one of the most distin- gnished and influential ministers of the denomina- tion, responded to an earnest call from the society, and left New York within a few weeks to fill the pulpit thus vacant, for a period of six months.

The Rev. Horatio Stebbins, of Portland, Maine, who had received a unanimous call from the society, became the permanent Pastor the following Septem- ber. Since then the society has enjoyed its accus- tomed prosperity.

The pews of the Church are not owned by indi- vidnals, but belong to the society whose organic laws require that they shall be rented annually at auction to the highest bidder. A clanse in the New Constitution of the society provides that the property shall never be pledged, mortgaged, or incumbered, for any purpose whatever. .

Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and half past seven o'clock P.M. Sunday School at half past nine o'clock A.M.

Officers .- James Otis, Moderator ; George C. Hickox, Treasurer ; S. L. Cutter, Jr., Clerk ; W. C. Hinckley, Horatio Frost, Orlando Lawton. Otis V. Sawyer, Thomas House worth, and Addison E. Head, Trustees.

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Chinese Mission House.

Location northeast corner of Stockton and Sacra- mento streets. Rev. A. W. Loomis, Pastor ; resi- dence 800 Stockton Street.

Religions services in the Chinese language on each Sabbath afternoon and evening, and also ou Wed- nesday evening. An evening school is open through- out the week, also a Sabbath School. The house is brick, and was built by the liberality of the citizens of San Francisco, and by funds from the Presby. terian Board of Foreign Missions, whose office is in New York, by which the Mission to the Chinese in California is supported. The house contains school rooms in the basement ; on the first floor is a chapel which will seat nearly three hundred persons, and on the second, apartments for the accommodation of the Missionary family.

The Mariners' Church.

Location northeast corner of Sacramento and Drumin streets. Rev. JOSEPH ROWELL, Pastor ; residence 1206 California Street.

This church was organized with six members, in December, 1858, and now numbers one hundred and thirty. The house of worship. occupied by the so- ciety, is a commodious wooden building erected in 1867 by contributions from merchants and other citi- zens of San Francisco.

This church finds a wide field for usefulness, in the usual church services, a large Bible Class for seameu and strangers, a Sabbath religious reading room, weekly meetings of the S. F. Mariue Temper- ance Society, several Prayer Meetings, on week day

evenings, preaching on the Sabbath, and personal labor during the week at the U. S. Marine Hospital, distribution of bibles and tracts on shipboard, board- ing houses, and elsewhere, and missionary labors about the streets, wharves, and shipping, and on board several men-of-war and other seagoing ves- sels. It is an undenominational missionary church.

There is connected with this church a Bible Class and Sabbath School numbering more than one hun- dred teachers and scholars.

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

During the year 1860 a society was formed among the business men of San Francisco, having for its object the moral improvement of seamen, called the San Francisco Port Society. It seeks to attain its object by sustaining the preaching of the gospel, and other missionary labors in connection with the Mar- iners Church.

Officers .- Rev. J. Rowell, Pastor and Chaplain of the American Seaman's Friend Society, who has labored here since August, 1858 ; Henry Chester and Rasmus Poulson, Deacons ; Oliver Eldridge, Presi- dent ; R. B. Swain, Vice-President ; J. Rowell, Secretary ; David N. Hawley, Treasurer ; Ira P. Rankin, Levi Stevens, David N. Hawley, Wm. H. Stowell, I. W. Raymond, J. T. Dean, Dr. J. T. Mc- Lean, J. Rowell, and James F. Stewart, Trustees.

Disciples of Christ.

Pastor, (vacant). Congregation of Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) meets every Lord's Day at eleven o'clock A.M., in the University School Hall, 318 Post Street. opposite Union Square. Sunday School at one o'clock P.M. Membership, fifty.

First German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Reorganized.

Location Mission Street between Second and Third. Rev. F. MOOSHAKE, Pastor ; residence 245 Stevenson Street.

Service every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. Sunday School at ten o'clock A.JI.

United German Evangelic Lutheran Congre- gation of St. Mark's Church.

Location sonth side of Geary Street between Stock- ton and Powell. Rev. PAUL LORENTZEN, Pastor ; residence 963 Folsom.

The consolidation of the First German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Greenwich Street, and the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. Mark's Church, was unanimously ratified at the meeting of Tuesday, the twenty-third of July, 1867.

Services in the German language every Sabbath at half past ten o'clock A.M. The Sunday School connected with the church is conducted by L. Michaelis.

Officers .- L. Goettig, President ; William Ehrenp- fort, Vice-President; Edward Kruse, Secretary ; Frederick Putzmann, Treasurer ; I. F. M 168, James Nibbe, A. Folckers, D. George, and E. Schlueter, Board of Directors ou Church Matters ; D. Bark- hans. Peter Spreckels, and C. Brosius, Board of Directors on School Matters.

St. John's German Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Rev. FREDERICK NANNS. Pastor ; residence 944 Mission Street. Organized August 11th, 1868.

Services are held at present every Sabbath at half past two o'clock P.M., in the Church of the Advent on Howard Street between Second and Third.

Officers .- G. W. Kempf, A. Kugeler, and M. Man- gels, Trustees.

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St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Location Mission Street between Fifth and Sixth. Rev. J. M. BUEHLER, Pastor ; residence 29 O'Far- rell.

This church was organized on the fifteenth of May, 1867, with forty members. The congregation wor- shiped at Dashaway Hall until 1869, when they secured the lot and building formerly occupied by the Central Presbyterian Church at a cost of $24,000 including alterations. The Ladies' Society connect- ed with this church has a membership of eighty, and has proven a very efficient auxiliary to the cause.

Services in the German language every Sabbath at half past ten o'clock A.M., and half past seven o'clock P. M. Sunday School at nine o'clock A.M.

Officers. - Hermann Meese, President; Philip Schwerdt, Vice-President ; Jacob Lohmann, Secre- tary ; Christian Kohlmoos, Treasurer ; C. Werner, H. Kohlmoos, W. Martin, and John Hayden, Asso- ciate Vestrymen.

Emanuel Church of the Evangelical Associ- ation.

Location north side of Jessie Street between Sixth and Seventh. Rev. JOHN G. MARQUARDT, Pastor ; residence 534 Jessie.

Services in the German language every Sabbatlı at half past ten o'clock A. M., and half past seven o'clock P.M. Sunday School at nine o'clock A.M., and two o'clock P.M. Prayer meetings every Tues- day and Thursday at half past seven o'clock P.M.

Officers .- P. F. Mohrbardt, G. Reisch, and F. Obermeyer, Trustees.

First Reformed Church (German).

Present place of worship, Excelsior Hall, 711 Mission Street. Rev. FREDERICK Fox, Pastor ; residence 4312 Tehama.

This society was organized by the Rev. Frederick Fox on the eleventh of April, 1869. Three Elders and three Deacons, together with the Pastor, constitute the Consistory. The government of this church is Presbyterian ; its form of worship liturgical.

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The San Francisco directory for the year 1869, Part 207

Author: Langley, Henry G Publication date: 1858 Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons Number of Pages: 1076

Author: Langley, Henry G
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons
Number of Pages: 1076