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CHURCH BOOK OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 1907
Gc 974.402 N816nor 1759254
M. L.
REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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CHURCH BOOK
OF THE
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST C
IN
NORTHAMPTON
MASS.
MAY, 1907
GC 974.402 N816 mor
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. PRESS OF GAZETTE PRINTING CO.
1907
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Officers of the Church.
Pastor HENRY T. ROSE
Deacons
GEORGE L. WRIGHT
WILLIAM P. STRICKLAND
A. LYMAN WILLISTON
NOAH H. LEE
HARRY NORMAN GARDINER
ERNST H. MENSEL
ROBERT F. ARMSTRONG
Church Committee
The PASTOR AND DEACONS together with L. CLARK SEELYE, OLIVER WALKER, CHARLES N. FITTS, E. H. COPELAND, M. D., W. N. DOANE
Treasurer
NOAH H. LEE
Clerk
WILLIAM G. BASSETT
Officers of the Parish.
Moderator CHARLES N. CLARK
Secretary H. M. ABBOTT
Treasurer
OLIVER B. BRADLEY
Assessors E. H. COPELAND, M. D. R. L. WILLISTON F. M. STARKWEATHER
HISTORICAL.
On March 18, 1657, within three years of the settle- ment of Northampton, the people in town meeting voted to take steps towards securing a minister. On June 7, 1658, Rev. Eleazer Mather, son of Rev. Richard Mather, of Dorchester, and brother of Increase Mather, having been approved by the General Court, was called to preach. The Church was organized and Mr. Mather installed June 18, 1661. A second, assistant minister was voted in December, 1662, and for several years Rev. Joseph Eliot, son of Rev. John Eliot, "the Apostle to the In- dians," served in that capacity, but was not installed. Mr. Mather was a member of the synod which adopted the Half-Way Covenant, to which he was himself opposed. He died July 24, 1669, at the age of 32. The inscrip- tion on his memorial in the Bridge Street Cemetery, written by Cotton Mather, his nephew, extols his piety and zeal. Seventy-one names are recorded as members of the church during his ministry.
About three months after Mr. Mather's death, the town invited Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Boston, just returned from a chaplaincy in the Barbadoes, to preach on trial. He came to Northampton in 1670, was in- stalled September 11, 1672, and died February 11, 1729, at the age of 86, after a ministry here of nearly fifty-
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eight years. He was a graduate and fellow of Har- vard College, and for seven years its first librarian. He took a prominent part in the ecclesiastical affairs of the province, suggested the establishment of a national church, contending that the individual churches should be accountable to some controlling authority, and ex- tended the principle of the Half-Way Covenant, which the church had already adopted, in the system which bears his name, vindicating in controversy with the Mathers, its principal opponents, "the right of visible saints to the Lord's Supper, though they be destitute of a saving work of God's Spirit in their hearts." Besides the controversial writings on this subject, he published many sermons, one being the Annual Election Sermon before the Legislature (1703). During his ministry there were four revivals and six hundred and thirty persons were admitted to the church.
Some years before Mr. Stoddard's death, Rev. Isaac Chauncey, of Hadley, had been engaged as a temporary assistant. In 1726 Rev. Jonathan Edwards, then a tutor in Yale College, where he graduated in 1720, was invit- ed to become the colleague of Mr. Stoddard, his grand- father. He was installed February 11, 1727, and dis- missed June 22, 1750. During the twenty-three years of his ministry here five hundred and fifty persons were enrolled as members of the church. Two notable re- vivals were stimulated by his preaching, one in 1734-35, which, beginning in Northampton, extended to the neighboring colonies and beyond, and one in 1740-42, part of the movement known as the Great Awakening. Mr. Edwards wrote the history of the first, and was a
recognized leader and the chief literary apologist of the second. Besides his writings on the revivals, he also published while minister in Northampton a number of sermons, a treatise on the Religious Affections and a work on the Qualifications for Full Communion ; here too he wrote his memoir of David Brainerd, the mis- sionary, who died in his house in 1747. The immediate occasion of his dismissal was a controversy growing out of his opposition to the views and practices established in the church by Mr. Stoddard, and accepted at the time by nearly all the churches in the county, concern- ing admission to the Lord's Supper ; Mr. Edwards re- quired from the candidate, as is now the custom, a credible profession of faith and godliness. After leaving Northampton he went as pastor of the village church and missionary to the Indians to Stockbridge, where (1751-58) he wrote the treatises on which rest his endur- ing fame as a theologian. He was installed President of New Jersey College at Princeton February 16, 1758, and died there of small-pox on the 22nd of the follow- ing month. The memorial tablet in this church was erected June 22, 1900, the one hundred and fiftieth an- niversary of his dismissal.
For three years the church was without a pastor. Rev. John Hooker, the fourth minister, great grandson of Thomas Hooker, "the father of the Connecticut churches", was ordained December 5, 1753. He was a graduate of Yale, preached here for twenty-three years and died of small-pox February 6, 1777. He was an ardent patriot at the time of the Revolution. While not achieving the commanding position of his predeces-
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sors, he succeeded by his ability as a preacher, his gen- tle deportment and sound discretion in uniting a divided people and in winning and retaining their affections. His monument in the Bridge Street cemetery was their tribute to his memory. Some four hundred members were added to the church during his ministry.
Since the close of the Colonial period the church has had ten ministers of whom, down to the present, only one has continued in office till death. This was Rev. Solomon Williams, called from a tutorship at Yale and ordained as Mr. Hooker's successor in 1778. His offi- cial connection with the church extended over fifty-six years. He died at the age of 82, November 9, 1834. For three years, 1817-20, he was assisted by a relative, Rev. Samuel P. Williams. Rev. Mark Tucker was in- stalled as colleague pastor in 1824 and dismissed in 1827; Rev. Ichabod S. Spencer was pastor from 1828 to 1832, and Rev. Joseph Penny, a native of Ireland, from 1833 to 1835. Over fourteen hundred members were admitted during the ministry of Mr. Williams and his colleagues. After leaving Northampton Dr. Tucker preached with success in Troy, N. Y., Providence, R. I. and elsewhere, and died in Weathersfield, Conn., March 19, 1875; Dr. Spencer was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn till his death, November 23, 1854; Dr. Penny was for four years President of Hamilton College and died in Rochester, N. Y., March 22, 1860.
Rev. Charles Wiley, ordained November 7, 1837 and dismissed February 9, 1845, afterwards filled various po- sitions as preacher and teacher. £ Rev. Eliphalet Young Swift, installed November 19, 1845 and dismissed Sep-
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tember 22, 1851, had been pastor of a Presbyterian church in Ohio and was afterwards settled in South Hadley and Williamsburg and later in Denmark, Iowa, where he died June 15, 1892. Rev. John P. Cleave- land, D. D., installed April 20, 1853 and dismissed July 11, 1855, held many responsible positions in Detroit, Prov- idence, Lowell and other places. He died in Newbury- port March 7, 1873. He was a strong advocate of tem- perance and anti-slavery and in 1862 was for some time chaplain of the 30th Regiment of Massachusetts Volun- teers.
Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D., was installed March 3, 1858 and dismissed April 1, 1867. Before coming to Northampton he had been a home missionary in Wis- consin and Western New York, and the pastor of two churches ; he was afterwards settled in Brooklyn, Chel- sea and Detroit. He died in Detroit November 15, 1891. Three hundred and fourteen names added to the roll of church members testify to his faithful ministry here. Besides numerous sermons and pamphlets, he published a Life of Christ (1868) and assisted in the compilation of two hymn-books ("Hymns of the Church," 1869 ; " Hymns and Songs of Praise" 1873).
Rev. William S. Leavitt, minister of the church from 1867 to 1881, related by common ancestry to his prede- cessor of a century earlier, Solomon Williams, was born in Vermont in 1822, graduated at Yale College in 1840 and, prior to his settlement had been pastor of the Eliot Church in Newton and of the First Presbyterian Church in Hudson, N. Y. His able sermons are still remem- bered by many of the congregation. Since the close of
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his pastorate here he has retired from the active min- istry.
Rev. Herbert W. Lathe, minister from 1882 to 1891, has held pastorates at Pasadena, California, and at Manitou and Silverton, Colorado, and is now living at San Diego, California.
The present minister, Rev. Henry Terbell Rose, was installed February 18, 1892.
The first meeting house, 26 feet by 18 feet, and 9 feet high, was erected in 1655, and was used for all public assemblages ; the second, 42 feet square, in 1664, in Mr. Mather's ministry ; the third, in 1737, in Mr. Ed- wards's ministry ; the fourth in 1812, in Mr. Williams's ministry. This last, the "Old Church," was destroyed by fire in 1876. All these buildings were of wood. The present church building was completed in 1878, in Mr. Leavitt's ministry. In 1888 a fire burnt out the interior, which was restored in its present form in 1889.
Two Northampton churches have sprung directly from this church, the Second Congregational Society (Unitarian), organized in 1825, and the Edwards church, founded in 1833.
Form of Admission to the Church.
When any present themselves to be admitted to the Church, their names being read, they shall come to the open space before the Com- munion Table, and they standing there the Minister may repeat some of these words of Holy Scripture :
What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all His people.
We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you; come thou with us and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken good con- cerning Israel.
Come ye children hearken unto me, and I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Him, My Father, Thou art the guide of my youth ?
With the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Whereas in the former time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world; ye now are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless,
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Then the Minister shall say :
The Lord Jesus Christ witnessed a good confession be- fore Pontius Pilate when He said, To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. And we remember how for our assurance He hath promised that whosoever shall confess Him before men, him He will confess before the Father which is in Heaven. It is very right and fitting then, that you here present, making acknowledgment of the infinite mercy, should profess yourself a servant and disciple of Jesus, and ask to be received into membership in His Church.
CONFESSION.
Relying upon the tender mercy and gracious assistance of God and disclaiming any worthiness of myself, I do now promise in the presence of the Lord, the Searcher of all hearts, and before this company, first and chiefly to cleave forever unto God with my whole heart, as my chief, best, yea and only good ; and unto Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord, the Prophet, Priest and King of our salvation. And for the furthering of this holy communion with God the Father, and Christ Jesus His Son, and the Holy Spirit of God the Teacher, Guide and Comforter of souls, I do now engage to maintain, observe and follow the holy in- structions and ordinances which God hath appointed for His Church .*
I hope I truly find in my heart a willingness to comply with all the Commandments of God, which require me to give up myself wholly to Him, and to serve Him with my body and my spirit ; and accordingly do now promise to walk in a way of obedience to all the Commandments of God, so long as I live.t
Do you now make this Confession ?
* Adapted from the "Form of Words expressing the Church Cove- nent, entered into the eighteenth of the fourth [month], 1661, by those that then begun that work, and afterward by such as were admitted into Church Estate and subscribed their names thereunto."
+ Form proposed by Jonathan Edwards, 1750.
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Here, if there be occasion for it, the Sacrament of Baptism shall be administered. And if any are to be received by letter, their names shall be read ; and then the Minister shall read this
COVENANT.
You do now publicly take hold of the Covenant of the Lord, giving up yourself to be one of His. Subjecting yourself to the teaching and government of Jesus Christ in this Church, you engage according to your place and power to promote the welfare thereof ; and you will seek the help of the Spirit, that you may accompany this your confession by a pure, upright and useful life.
Do you so covenant and promise ?
Here the members of the Church will rise.
We do here publicly acknowledge you a member of this Church, promising to act toward you in brotherly love, to seek your best spiritual good, to take care of your instruc- tion in the Lord,* and to unite with you in our common prayers, counsels and works, to the end that we all may be faithful unto death, and may receive the crown of life. These things we do all promise in full sincerity as before the Lord, the Examiner of all hearts, beseeching Him so to bless us as we shall truly endeavor by His grace the faith- ful observation of the same. And when we through weak- ness shall fail, then will we wait and rely upon our Lord Jesus Christ for pardon, acceptance and healing for His name's sake.+
The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gra- cious unto you.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
AMEN.
* Adapted from the "Form of Words expressive of the sense of the Covenant to be used at the admission of members into Full Com- munion, November 5, 1672."
+ From the original Covenant, adopted June 18, 1661.
MINISTERS
Settled since the Organization of the Church.
Ordained or Installed
Dismissed
Died
Eleazer Mather,
O. 1661
1669
Jonathan Edwards,
O. 1727
1750
1758
John Hooker,
O. 1753
1777
Solomon Williams,
O. 1778
1834
Mark Tucker,
I. 1824
1827
1875
I. S. Spencer,
O. 1828
1833
1854
Joseph Penney,
I.
1833
1835
1860
Charles Wiley,
O. 1837
1844
E. Y. Swift,
I. 1845
1851
1892
J. P. Cleaveland,
I.
1853
1855
1873
Zachary Eddy,
I.
1858
1867
1891
William S. Leavitt,
I.
1867
1881
Herbert W. Lathe,
I. 1882
1891
Henry T. Rose,
I.
1892
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Solomon Stoddard,
O. 1672
1729
ELDERS AND DEACONS
Since the Organization of the Church,
June 16, 1661.
ELDERS
Ordained
Died
Aged
John Strong,
1663
1699
92
Preserved Clapp,
1720
77
Ebenezer Strong,
1729
85
DEACONS
William Holton,
1663
1691
Thomas Hanchet,
1668
Medad Pomeroy,
1675
1720
78
Jonathan Hunt,
1680
1691
54
Nathaniel Phelps,
1691
1702
75
John Clark,
1691
1704
53
Thomas Sheldon,
1702
1725
63
Ebenezer Wright,
1704
1748
86
Samuel Allen,
1725
1739
64
John Clark,
1730
1768
89
Noah Cook,
1739
1773
85
Ebenezer Pomeroy,
1739
1774
77
2Stephen Wright,
1739
1 Removed to Westfield
2 Removed to 2nd Precinct, now Easthampton
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DEACONS
Chosen
Died
Aged
Ebenezer Hunt,
1754
1788
84
Supply Kingsley,
1754
1768
60
Joseph Hawley,
1762
1788
64
Jonathan Hunt,
1764
1796
69
Aaron Cook,
1774
1805
76
Josiah Clark,
1774
1808
87
Elijah Clark,
1785
1791
60
3Moses Kingsley,
1785
Enos Wright,
1791
1834
79
4Solomon Allen,
1797
Israel Clark,
1804
1851
86
Luther Clark,
1805
1855
88
5Ebenezer S. Phelps,
1816
6Enos Clark,
1818
Eliphalet Williams,
1831
1874
94
"Lewis Strong,
1831
David S. Whitney,
1831
1840
51
John P. Williston,
1838
1872
68
Aaron Breck,
1839
1868
Jared Clark,
1839
1888
85
Daniel Kingsley,
1864
1880
71
8Haynes K. Starkweather,
1873
Charles B. Kingsley,
1873
1887
54
George L. Wright,
1878
William H. Nowell,
1878
1881
57
William P. Strickland,
1878
3 Removed to Chesterfield in 1794
4 Became a minister and removed to New York in 1804
5 Removed to Illinois, 1831
6 Dismissed to the Edwards Church
7 Dismissed to the Edwards Church
8 Removed West
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DEACONS
Chosen
Died Aged
A. Lyman Williston,
1883
9John B. Clark,
1883
D. D. Gorham,
1884
1891
74
Silas M. Smith,
1884
1887
76
J. H. Searle,
1884
1906
84
10 William M. Trow,
1887
11S. D. Hadley,
1892
Edward M. Mills,
1894
1900
66
Noah H. Lee,
1895
H. N. Gardiner,
1900
E. H. Mensel,
1906
R. F. Armstrong,
1906
9 Removed to New York
10 Removed to Sunderland, 1904
11 Removed to Marion, Mass., 1893
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
Initials in brackets indicate the husband's name, w. signifies a widow, and l after the date, joined by letter.
A
1893 Abbott, Edwin K.
1901 Abbott, Harriet
1846 Allen, Mary Annette
22 Paradise Road
1883 lAllen, Miriam L.
69 High St.
1901 lAnderson, Nettie (w. Geo. L.)
57 King St.
1897 ZArmstrong, Robert F.
72 North St.
1897 lArmstrong, Mary E. (R. F.)
72 North St.
1904 Armstrong, Robert G.
72 North St.
1904 Armstrong, Roy S.
72 North St.
1890 lArnold, Frances R. (J. W.)
41 West St.
1863 Ayres, Lucy A. (w. Austin)
14 Pine St.
1893 Ayres, George Austin
14 Pine St.
B
1863 Baker Elizabeth O.
1893 /Ball, Alice (w.)
78 Pomeroy Terrace Hospital Hill 124 South St.
1864 Bartlett, Alvah L.
1860 Bartlett, Mary (A. L.)
124 South St.
1845 Bartlett, Corinth E. (w. Samuel)
124 South St. 26 Green St.
1901 /Barrows, Mary R. (w. Charles) 1889 /Bassett, Wm. G.
1889 Bates, Harriet E. (John E.)
60 Crescent St. 14 Fruit St. 14 Fruit St.
1901 Bates, Lucy 1902 /Behrends, Frances (w. A. J. F.) The Pierpont
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42 West St. 42 West St.
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1903 /Belden, Albert M.
1903 /Belden, Caroline J. (A. M.)
1893 Bennett, Ella M. (R. C.)
1899 /Best, John L.
1899 /Best, Estella F. (J. L.)
1858 Bliss, Einma C.
1858 Bliss, Maria A.
1882 /Bradford, Wealthy A. (Herbert L.) 1907 Bradford, Ethel May
1889 /Bradley, Ellen M. (w. Judson)
1897 Bradley, Lucy M.
1903 Bradley, Oliver B.
1907 Bradley, Carl Wellington
1907 Bradshaw, Frances M.
1893 /Brady, J. Everett
1893 /Brady, Mary Seelye (J. E.)
1899 /Brown, Kate Shipman (Clarence E.) 5312 Centre St.
1904 /Brown, Laura Hall (Ed. W.)
1874 Butler, Sarah Minot
75 Round Hill Plymouth Inn
C
1859 Carlisle, Hannah S. (C. B.)
1900 Carlisle, Annie C.
1897 Carlisle, Carrie L.
1858 Clapp, Frances A. (w. M. L.)
1882 Clapp, Sarah
1906 ZClapp, Sarah M. (w. Chas. C.)
1895 ZClapp, Lucelia B. (Willis)
1889 Clark, Ellen P. (w. C. S.)
1882
Clark, Sophia C.
1887 Clark, Charles A.
1858 Clark, Susan E.
1858 Clark, George D.
1840 Clark, Dorcas A.
1889 Clark, Sarah L. (w. Orman S.)
1862 Clark, Sarah R. (w. Isaac R.)
82 Harrison Ave. 82 Harrison Ave. 269 Main St. 29 Pomeroy Terrace 29 Pomeroy Terrace 57 Henshaw Ave. 57 Henshaw Ave. 33 Grant Ave. 33 Grant Ave. ʻ 79 New South St. 79 New South St. 79 New South St. 75 Kensington Ave. Arnold Hall 5 Crescent St. 5 Crescent St.
8 Pomeroy Terrace 8 Pomeroy Terrace 8 Pomeroy Terrace 206 South St. 206 South St. Bay State 65 Kensington Ave. 52 Crescent St. 52 Crescent St. 211 Elm St. 26 Maple St. 90 Maple St. 89 Bridge St. 59 Phillips Place 188 Bridge St.
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1858 Clark, Frances A.
1890 /Clark, Nellie E. (w. F. F.)
1866 Clark, Mary F.
1893 Clark, Alice M.
1893 Clark, Susie L.
1905 Clark, Maud Louise
1882
Clark, Abby L. (w. B. S.)
1882 Clark, Mary E.
1907 /Clark, Mary Morris (w. O. B.)
1907 Clark, Gwenn Marie
1858 Coggswell, Laurentia C. (C. C.)
1897 Collins, Helen S. (Henry C.)
1907 Collins, Katrine
1906 /Conklin, Mabel L. (w.)
1906 /Conklin, Margaret L.
1892 7Cooley, Esther E. (w. Simon)
1904 Cooley, Sarah L. (w. Silas R.)
1904 Cooley, Clara Louise
1907 Cooley, Alice Wright
1864 Copeland, Marietta C. (w. Ed. P.) 85 New South St.
1898 7Copeland, Elmer H. 70 Elm St. 70 Elm St.
1898 7Copeland, Anna C. (E. H.)
1877 Crafts, Sarah H. (Thos. H.)
87 Bridge St.
1906 Crafts, Lewis C.
87 Bridge St.
D
197 Elm St. 33 Gothic St. 207 South St. 354 Bridge St. 354 Bridge St. 4 Bates St. 12 School St. 12 School St. Washburn House Washburn House Smiths Ferry 44 Pomeroy Terrace 44 Pomeroy Terrace 6 Bedford Terrace 6 Bedford Terrace 36 High St. 36 High St. 36 High St. 36 High St.
1889 Daly, Sarah L.
1867 Day, Alma J. (w. Leonard)
1886 /Day, Myron
1894 IDepuy, Rhoda A. (w. E. C.)
1848 Dickinson, Charles Henry 1901 Dickinson, Martha K.
1894 7Doane, William N.
1895 IDoane, Clara Fay (Arthur G.) 1903 /Dwight, Annie Boyd
52 Crescent St. 117 South St. 28 Union St. 12 Bedford Terrace 2 Phillips Place 4 Phillips Place 31 Forbes Ave. 59 West St. 22 Paradise Road
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E
1870
Edwards, Fanny A.
49 Elm St.
1885 Edwards, Mabel Kingsley (O. W.)
1905 Edwards, Hilda Blanche
1897 Eldridge, Hosmer Winthrop
1894 /Elwell, Amelia M.
1888 (Elwell, Myron L.
1888 /Elwell, Kate M. (M. L.)
1896 Elwell, Edmund W.
1893 /Emerson, Edwin B.
1893 /Emerson, Mary E. (E. B.)
1889 /Ewing, Thomas B.
1889 /Ewing, Ada L. (T. B.)
49 Kensington Ave. 49 Kensington Ave.
F
1907 /Fay, Clara (J. M.)
71 King St.
1907 Fay, Grace
71 King St.
1907 Fay, Mary Belle
71 King St.
1906 /Fairman, Emily W.
45 King St. Bay State
1895 Feiker, Fanny B. (Fred C.)
1905 Feiker, Mabel Gretchen
Bay State
1891 Fitts, Charles N.
1889 /Fitts, Lillian Depuy (C. N.)
1907 Fitts, Donald Cummings
1890 /Flagg, Charlotte (Geo. W.)
1890 Flagg, Gertrude E.
12 Bedford Terrace 12 Bedford Terrace 12 Bedford Terrace 48 Green St. 48 Green St.
1902 /French, Gertrude S. (Howard C.) 20 Glenwood Ave.
G
1885 /Gardiner, Harry Norman 23 Crafts Ave. 191 North Elm St.
1907 Gare, Edward John 1899 /Garrison, Jeanette S. (w. A. E.) Hatfield House 1862 /Gaylord, Achsah G. (w. W. M.) 58 Pomeroy Terrace 1868 Gibbs, Sarah J. (w. Dwight)
1906 Gorham, Anna K. 50 West St.
21 Prospect St. 23 Crafts Ave. 83 Third Ave. 208 South St. 4 River St. 4 River St. 41 Maple St. 53 Harrison Ave. 53 Harrison Ave.
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1889 Graves, Diantha L. (Josiah S.)
1857 /Graves, Emeline C. (w. Chas. F.) 1907 Graves, Marian Edson
200 Bridge St. 50 Centre St. 22 Butler Place
H
1889 Harlow, Etta Locke (Geo. F.)
1875 Higbee, Edwin W.
1888 Higbee, Nettie E. (E. W.)
1898 7Hildreth, Helen Louise (w. Ed.)
1882 Hill, Edward Adam
1882 Hill, John
1896 Hill, Myrtie (John)
1888 Hill, Bertha Clapp (Alex. Jr.,)
1890 /Hill, Mary Clark (Alex.)
13 Spring St.
1901 Hill, Jennie
13 Spring St.
1882 Hillman, Harriet L.
1870 /Hinckley, Mary B. (H. R.)
1897 Hinckley, Rose
1901 /Hitchcock, Mary Bryan (J. S.) 26 Washington Ave.
1887 Howland, Emma Starkweather (D. B.) 15 Maple Ave.
J
1858 Jewett, Elizabeth P. (w. Joseph) 1893 lJordan, Mary A.
190 Round Hill Hatfield House
K
1846 Kellogg, Caroline R. (w. J. D.)
1877 Kellogg, Sarah D.
1846 Kellogg, Cornelia A. (w. J. M.)
1884 Kellogg, Annie P.
1900 /King, Warren M.
1900 /King, Effie A. (W. M.)
1900 /King, Raymond B.
1907 King, Arlene Cleone
1905 /Kingsley, Helen C.
13 Monroe St. 6 West St. 6 West St. 58 Phillips Place 57 Gothic St. 20 Fruit St. 20 Fruit St. 206 South St.
89 Bridge St. 54 Prospect St. 54 Prospect St.
12 Arnold Ave. 12 Arnold Ave. 54 South St. 54 South St. 39 Harrison Ave. 39 Harrison Ave. 39 Harrison Ave. 39 Harrison Ave. 31 Park St.
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1907 Kingsley, Elizabeth Lyman
1883 Kingsley, Charles B.
1894 /Kingsley, Helen Chapin (C. B.)
1887 Kingsley, Walter C.
1906 /Kingsley, Mary T. (w. Wm. M.)
1906 /Kingsley, Mary Dwight
1850 Kingsley, Judith B.
1874
Krause, Etta Theresa (Wallace H.)
1907 Krause, Frances Theresa
1901 Kreiner, Louise B.
1907 Kreiner, Fannie
107 Pleasant St. 168 Elm St. 168 Elm St. Rahar's Inn 56 Centre St. 56 Centre St. 69 South St. 293 Elm St. 293 Elm St.
21 James Ave. 21 James Ave.
L
1866 /Lamb, Harriet H. (w. Horace)
1906 /Lange, Carl F. A.
1906 ILange, Mary L. (C. F. A.)
1840 Lathrop, Clara S. (w. Henry)
1874 Lathrop, Clara W.
81 Bridge St.
1874 Lathrop, Bessie S.
81 Bridge St.
1893 ZLee, Noah H.
25 North St.
1893 ZLee, Mary E. (N. H.)
25 North St. 25 North St.
1893 /Lee, Mary T.
1893 ZLee, James W.
Fairfield Ave., Florence 63 King St.
1893 /Loomis, Laura W.
1907 ILoveland, Mary A. (w. Milo) 1885 ILyman, Carrie T.
58 Pleasant St. 63 Centre St. 30 Cherry St.
1866 Lyman, Harriet
1896 ILyman, Robert W.
11 Linden St.
74 King St.
M
1891 Marsh, Bertha Clark (W. D.)
1866 McCallum, Catherine S.
1893 McCallum, George B.
1891 /McCloud, Lucy C.
1894 lMcCurdy, Margaret
59 Phillips Place 10 Prospect St. 21 Henshaw Ave. 186 South St. Campus, Smith College
1907 Lyman, Ethel Louise
39 High St. 83 Massasoit St.
83 Massasoit St. 81 Bridge St.
24
1902 IMensel, Ernst H.
93 Prospect St. 1902 IMensel, Sarah L. (E. H.) 93 Prospect St. 1907 Mensel, Ernst Edmund 93 Prospect St. 1907 Mensel, Margaret Lucinda 93 Prospect St. 1887 Merrick, Mary Frances 26 Prospect St. 1900 /Miller, Anna E. 45 Prospect St. 1874 Miller, Nancy L. 45 Prospect St. 1901 /Mills, Silas R. 11 Crescent St. 1901 IMills, Caroline H. (Silas R.) 11 Crescent St. 1905 Mills, Charlotte H. 11 Crescent St. 1903 /Mills, Frances H. Wallace House 1893 Minshall, Catherine Turner (A. G.) 95 Round Hill 1901 IMontgomery, Helen F. (Chas. A.) 22 Columbus Ave. 1907 Montgomery, Florence Isabel 22 Columbus Ave. 1890 IMoodey, Hannah M. (w. M. K.) 32 Round Hill 32 Round Hill
1887 Moodey, Nellie C.
N
1900 INorton, Ella F. (Geo. A.)
1907 Norton, Irving Towne
1868 INowell, Roxana S. (w. W. H.)
111 North St. 111 North St.
15 Maple Ave.
P
1907 Parker, Mabel Aldrich
1862 Parsons, Amanda (w. Spencer)
1876 Parsons, Ruth
1877 Parsons, Ella B. (Samuel B.)
1877 Parsons, Minnie M.
1882 Parsons, Sarah D.
1889 Parsons, Annie A. (Chauncey E.)
1887 Peaseley, Jessie
1905 Pettiford, Laura M.
1887 Phelps, Katherine E.
122 Bridge St. 122 Bridge St. 49 Grant Ave. 217 Main St. 73 Centre St. 58 Pleasant St.
1907 Pierpont, Eliza J. (w. A. T.)
1889 Pomeroy, Elizabeth Simison (F. S.) 226 Prospect St.
1888 Porter, Cornelia Strong (E. F.) 29 Henshaw Ave.
25 Phillips Place 105 Prospect St. 105 Prospect St. 50 West St. 41 West St.
25
1866
Prentiss, Sarah C. (w. J. A.)
30 Cherry St.
1890 Prindle, Elizabeth S. (w. Josiah H.) 75 Harrison Ave.
1890 Prindle, J. Imogene
75 Harrison Ave.
R
1899 /Ray, Emeline (Myron)
1858 Roberts, Caroline R. (w. Henry)
1893 Roberts, Henry A.
1888 Rolfe, Martha M. (w. Ed. M.)
1892 /Rose, Henry T.
1892 /Rose, Grace B. (H. T.)
1892 /Rose, Helen C.
1901 /Rust, Rose Kingsley (Charles)
29 Butler Place 104 North St. 27 Highland Ave. 22 East St. 74 Bridge St. 74 Bridge St.
74 Bridge St. 51 Maple St.
S
1873 /Sawin, Andrew T.
1907 Sawin, Nina Elsie
1857 /Searle, Helen V. (w. J. H.)
1875 ZSeelye, L. Clark
1875 /Seelye, Henrietta C. (L. C.)
1891 Seelye, Henrietta
1907 /Senter, Lucia L. (w. O.)
1907 Senter, Oramella Stevens
1893 Sergeant, Helen C.
1870 Sergeant, Katherine De Forest
1875 /Seymour, Frances B. (Christopher) 1880 /Shipman, Sarah M. (w. Charles) 1886 Simison, Mary A.
1906 /Sleeper, Henry Dike
1906 ZSleeper, Mary P. (H. D.)
1882 Smith, Jennie D.
1893 Smith, Mary
1889 Smith, Mary M.
1874 Smith, Sarah B. (Henry)
1892 ZSmith, J. Maria (w. Milo L.)
1890 /Smith, William H. 4
1759254
30 Butler Place 30 Butler Place 45 King St. 20 Elm St. 20 Elm St. 20 Elm St. 54 Pleasant St. 54 Pleasant St. 82 Bridge St. 82 Bridge St. 79 Elm St. 53 Centre St. 230 Prospect St. 101 Prospect St. 101 Prospect St. 46 Bridge St. 46 Round Hill 39 High St. 309 South St. 75 Washington Ave. 296 Elm St.
26
1890 ZSmith, N. Gertrude (Wm. H.)
1850 Smith, Hervey J.
1901 ZSmith, Harriet E. (w.)
1907 Smith, Raymond Hildreth
1888 ZSnell, Annie G.
1887 Staab, Mary E. (Wm. K.)
1863 IStarkweather, Sophronia (w. Chas. G.) 14 Maple St. 1893 Starkweather, Roderick M. 14 Maple St.
1887 Stocker, Harriet Copeland (A. H.) 85 New South St. 57 Crescent St.
IStoddard, John T.
1879 1870 Stoddard, Mary Leavitt (J. T.)
57 Crescent St. 83 Round Hill
1865 Strickland, William P.
1865 Strickland, Mary P. (W. P.)
83 Round Hill
1893
Strickland, E. Christine
83 Round Hill
1858 Strong, Martha A. (w. George)
155 South St.
1907
Strong, Adeline Brewer
1889 Strong, Allen L.
155 South St. 278 South St. 278 South St.
1880 Strong, Harriet E.
1864 /Strong, Julia H. (w. Sidney)
1882 Strong, Carrie E.
1888 Strong, Maud E.
29 Henshaw Ave. 236 South St. 52 North St.
T
1890 Thompson, Frances E.
1907 Thorington, Carl Haskell
1905 Towne, Beulah C.
1882 ZTrow, William M.
Sunderland Sunderland
1882 /Elizabeth A. (W. M.)
1900 Trumbull, Martha H.
45 Prospect St. 143 Main St.
W
1866 /Walker, Oliver
19 Round Hill
1869 /Walker, Fannie J. (Oliver)
19 Round Hill
1893 Walker, Charles W.
19 Round Hill
19 Round Hill
1893 Walker, Caro L.
94 Hawley St. Union St. 43 Graves Ave.
1874 7Turner, John M.
296 Elm St. Prospect Heights Prospect St. 4 Glenwood Ave. 25 Hancock St. 302 Elm St.
27
1889 Walker, Alice M. (w. George)
9 Cherry St.
1894 Walker, Harriet Smith (Herbert E.) 261 Main St.
1872 Warner, Mary I. (John L.) 23 Washington Ave. 1903 /Warner, Isabel F. 37 Franklin St. 1898 /Waterman, Frank A. 22 Kensington Ave. 1888 /Watson, Ellen A. 28 Clark Ave. 1840 Weller, Martha A. 87 Prospect St. 1901 /Wells, Carrie E. (James F.) 11 Third Ave. 1903 /Wentworth, Anna E (w. J. H.) 5 Clark Ave. 57 Kensington Ave.
1850 Wetherbee, Helen M. (C. W.)
1850 Whitcomb, Sarah T. (w. David B.) 125 State St.
1884 Whiting, Minnie Barrett (C. W.) 93 South St.
1907 Whiting, Howard Joseph 93 South St.
1896 /Wilcox, Josephine Kellogg (w. C. H.) 159 Elm St.
1882 (Williams, Sarah F. (w. H. F.) 71 Pomeroy Terrace 59 Pomeroy Terrace
1880 (Williams, Charles E.
1882 /Williston, A. Lyman
35 Round Hill
1882 /Williston, Sarah T. (A. L.)
35 Round Hill
1887 Williston, Robert L.
23 Round Hill
1901 /Williston, Margaret Bryan (R. L.)
1870 (Witherell, Eliza J.
1887 /Witherell, Esther M. (Alphonso)
1883 Woodruff, Sarah D.
1906 /Woodward, Mary A. (w. J. W.)
1878 lWorcester, Catherine E.
1872 lWright, Anna
1858 lWright, George L.
1889 Wright, Elizabeth A. (Geo. L.)
134 South St.
1905 lWright, Charles M.
160 South St.
1905 /Wright, Electa J. (C. M.)
160 South St.
1907 Wright, Carolyn P.
160 South St. 160 South St.
1907 Wright, Elizabeth Cobb
11 Fruit St.
1901 Wright, Mary E.
1907 Wright, Ozro Luther
11 Fruit St.
1872 Wright, Margaret R. (Luther C.)
23 Round Hill 78 High St. 78 High St. 199 Main St. 25 Hancock St. 150 Elm St. 58 Bridge St. 134 South St.
32 Crescent St.
LIST OF ABSENT MEMBERS
A
1885 Alvord, Clarence
Urbana, Ill.
1893 Atkinson, Eleanora
B
1884 /Bacon, Annie B.
Waltham
1904 Baldwin, Ralph L.
Hartford, Ct.
1885 Barrus, Mattie M. (Clifford)
1887 Bell, Charlotte Webber (Clinton)
1899 Beers, F. Isabel
Wallingford, Ct. Oberlin, O.
1884 /Blodgett, Benjamin C.
Palo Alto, Cal.
1884 /Blodgett, Aletha E. (B. C.)
Palo Alto, Cal.
1894 Brandegee, Susan Lord (Robert)
Farmington, Ct.
1895 Briggs, Annie (w.)
1893 Bullard, Elizabeth Williston (Herbert) Hartford, Ct.
C
1894 7Carr, Mrs. Curtis
1888 ZClapp, John L.
1893 Clapp, Arthur
1893 Clapp, Edith Bates (Arthur)
1871 lClapp, Willis
1893 Clark, Frederick
1871 Clark, Arthur W.
1885 Clark, Caroline
1901 Colburn, Mary Peabody
1890 Cooley, Harriet Mills (R. C.)
Boston Compton, Ill. Springfield Springfield New Haven, Ct. New York Hartford, Ct. Greenfield Pittsford, Vt. Springfield
28
Springfield Springfield
1884 /Billings, Harriet S.
29
D
1847 Damon, Martha S.
1885 (Damon, Euretta L, (w. Oscar J.)
1893 Damon, Inez Field
1866 Dewey, Maria N.
1880 IDickinson, Mary R. (w. Geo. P.)
1890 Dole, Mary M.
Dorchester Morehead, Minn. Morehead, Minn. Worcester Springfield Los Angeles, Cal.
E
1898 /Eastwood, Aurilla (w. D. W.)
Springfield
1850 Edwards, Anna C.
Montreat, S. C.
1880 Edwards, Anna Dickinson (Franklin) Springfield
1895 /Edwards, Mabel Morse (F. W.)
Southbridge
1893 /Emerson, Edward N. New York
1893 Ewing, Albert E.
Utica, N. Y.
F
1876 Foote, L. Elizabeth (w. Alvah)
Boston
1872 Fowle, Anna E. (John C.)
Newburg, N. Y.
G
1898 7Gaines, Ruth
1893 /Gault, Bertha
New York Mt. Holyoke College
H
1868 Harding, Maria (w. Evans B.)
1894 7Hewitt, Caroline
1894 /Hewitt, Josephine
1894 /Hewitt, Elizabeth Springfield
1887 Howe, Bessie Kellogg (C. B.)
New York
1893 Hum, Eva Kline (Robert)
Berlin Heights, O.
J
1896
Johnson, Lilian K. (H. B.)
Maywood, Ill. Worthington Worthington
Westboro
30
K
1894 Kingsley, Silas
Boston
L
1883 /Lamb, Waldo H.
New Haven, Ct.
1890 ILewis, Mrs. Drexie
1889 ILuques, Elizabeth N. (w. Andrew)
Melrose
1896 ILyman, Abby E.
Northfield, Vt.
M
1902 Matthews, Sarah Elizabeth
Minneapolis, Minn.
1894 lMcBride, Ella Hewitt (Charles)
New York
1895 IMorse, Edwin T. Worcester
1895 IMorse, Martha A. (Ed. T.) Worcester
1883 Munson, Helen Hillman (Oliver) Chesterfield
P
1884 /Palmer, Mattie Blodgett (R. M.)
1893 /Parsons, Ella Emerson (Payn W.)
1877 Parsons, William M.
1887 Patterson, Louise
1901 /Perry, Ralph Barton
1893 /Pickett, Julia
1893 /Pickett, Mary
Seattle, Wash. New York
New Haven, Ct. Cambridge Cambridge Baltimore, Md. Lake Forest, Ill.
R
1893 7Reed, Harriet (w.)
1882 Rhees, Harriet Seelye (Rush)
1879 Rice, Emma I. Boston
1895 /Rogers, Dwight L.
1895 /Rogers, Fanny Smith (D. L.)
1898 /Robotham, Georgia
Springfield
Rochester, N. Y.
Lynn Lynn
Willimantic, Ct.
31
S
1846 Shepherd, Julia
1878 /Smith, Angeline (w.)
1882 ZSmith, Lavinia M.
1893 Soule, Jennie P. 1881 /Stevens, Charles E.
1881 /Stevens, Netta M. (Chas. E.)
Boston
1899 Stevens, Mabel A.
Boston
T
1899 /Twitchell, A. R. (w. Justin)
1877 /Tyler Caroline E. (w. John E.)
1872 lTyler, Julia R.
New York
1877 Tyler, Mary E.
New York
1877 Tyler, Frances M.
New York
1865 Tyler, John B.
1874 Tyler, Jennie Spaulding (J. B.)
Billerica Billerica
W
1861
Wells, Erasta K. (w.)
1901 Wilcox, Frank Day
1887 /Williams, Robert G.
1887 Williston, Harry S.
Greenfield Minneapolis, Minn. Buffalo
West Lynn
West Newton Springfield South Deerfield Mexico City, M. Boston
Cleveland, O. New York
5991P
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