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COUNCILOR-Eighth District, Edwin Chase of Holyoke. This district in- cludes five Senate districts, viz: First and second Hampden, Hampshire, Hampshire and Berkshire, and Berk- shire.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-Tenth Dis- trict, consisting of the counties. of Hampden and Berkshire, Henry L. Dawes of Pittsfield.
U. S. Internal Revenue.
The Tenth Collection District of Mas- sachusetts includes Hampden and Berk- shire counties.
ASSESSOR-T. M. Brown of Spring- field. Office, Pynchon House Block. Chief Clerk, Edward M. Coates.
ASSISTANT ASSESSORS-First Divi- sion-Williamstown, Clarksburg, Flor- ida, Adams and Savoy-William P. Porter of North Adams. Second Di- vision-Cheshire, New Ashford, Han- cock, Lanesboro, Windsor, Hinsdale, Dalton, Peru, Washington, Richmond, Lenox, Lee and Pittsfield - George C. Dunham of Pittsfield. Third Division
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-West Stockbridge, Stockbridge, Al- ford, Great Barrington, Tyringham, Monterey, New Marlboro, Sheffield, Mt. Washington and Egremont - Justin Dewey, Jr., of Gt. Barrington. Fourth Division-Becket, Otis, Sandisfield, Rus- sell, Chester, Blandford, Tolland, Mont- gomery, Southwick, Granville and Aga- wam, except H. Porter & Co's distil- lery-Nelson D. Parks of Russell. Fifth Division-Westfield-Dr. Jehiel Abbott. Sixth Division-Holyoke and Chicopee -Oscar S. Tuttle of Holyoke. Seventh Division-Springfield, West Springfield, Longmeadow and H. Porter & Co's dis- tillery in Agawam-H. M. Phillips of Springfield. Eighth Division-Palmer, Monson, Holland, Wales, Wilbraham, Brimfield and Ludlow-Charles L. Gard- ner of Palmer. Special Assistant As- sessor, Andrew Campbell of Westfield.
COLLECTOR- Edward R. Tinker of North Adams.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR-Henry Alex- ander, Jr. of Springfield, Second Na- tional Bank.
GAUGERS-Byron Porter and .Edward M. Coates of Springfield, and Geo. C. Dunham of Pittsfield.
STOREKEEPERS-Isaac N. Weston and Andrew Campbell, 2d, of Westfield.
The revenue collected in the Tenth District for the year ending June 30, 1871, amounted to $623,159, of which nearly one-half was from Springfield.
Population of Hampden County.
By the census of 1870, the population of Hampden County is 78,409, and the number of inhabitants in each town is as follows :- Agawam, 2,001; Blandford, 1,026; Brimfield, 1,288; Chester, 1,253; Chicopee, 9,607; Granville, 1,293; Hol- land, 344; Holyoke, 10,733, (5,648 in 1865;) Longmeadow, 1,342; Ludlow, 1,136; Monson, 3,204; Montgomery, 318; Palmer, 3,631; Russell, 635; South- wick, 1,100; Springfield, 26,703; Tol- land, 509; Wales, 831; Westfield, 6,519; West Springfield, 2,606; Wilbraham, 2,330. The vote for President, of the whole county, in 1868, was 6,760 for Grant, and 3,750 for Seymour; of Spring- field, 2,485 for Grant, and 1,109 for Seymour.
State Government.
per day and mileage. Councilors, First District, Alfred Macy of Nantucket ; Second District, William L. Reed of Abington; Third District, Milo Hildreth of Northborough ; Fourth District, Jonas Fitch of Boston; Fifth District, John F. Harris of Marblehead; Sixth District, Jonathan B. Winn of Woburn; Seventh District, Elijah B. Stoddard of Worcester; Eighth District, Edwin Chase of Holyoke; salary, each, $5 per day for actual service and mileage. Secretary of the Commonwealth, Oliver Warner of Northampton ; salary, $2,500. Treasurer and Receiver-General and Tax Commissioner, Charles Adams, Jr. of North Brookfield; salary, $3,500. Auditor, Charles Endicott of Canton ; salary, $2,500. Attorney - General, Charles R. Train of Boston; salary, $3,500.
Courts.
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES-Holden in U. S. Court House, 140 Tremont street, Boston, May 15 and October 15. Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court, Nathan Clifford. District Judge, John Lowell. District Attorney, David H. Mason. Clerk, John G. Stetson. U. S. Marshal of the District of Massachusetts, Rowland G. Usher. Commissioners, Charles L. Woodbury, Elias Merwin, C. P. Curtis, Jr., C. W. Loring, Henry L. Hallet, William S. Dexter, Charles W. Tuttle, Charles Demond, Winslow Warren, Jr., Boston; A. S. Cushman, New Bedford ; William L. Smith, Springfield; Wendell T. Davis, Greenfield ; E. M. Wood, Pittsfield; J. H. Hill, Worcester.
DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES-Holden in the U. S. Court House, 140 Tremont street, Boston, third Tuesday in March, fourth Tues- day in June, second Tuesday in Sep- tember, and first Tuesday in December. Special courts held every Friday after- noon. District Judge, John Lowell. Clerk, Edward Dexter.
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT-Holds a law term in Springfield, fourth Monday in September; nisi prius term, fourth Tuesday in April. Chief Justice, Reu- ben A. Chapman of Monson; salary, $5,500. Associate Justices, Horace Gray, Jr., of Boston, John Wells of Brookline, James D. Colt of Pittsfield, Seth Ames of Brookline, Marcus Mor- ton of Andover; salary, $5,000 each.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT-Govern- or, William B. Washburn of Greenfield; salary, $5,000. Lieutenant Governor, SUPERIOR COURT-Civil terms holden Joseph Tucker of Lenox; salary, $10 in Springfield, second Monday in March
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and June, and fourth Monday in Octo- ber; criminal terms, third Monday in May and first Monday in December. Chief Justice, Lincoln F. Brigham of Salem; salary, $4,500. Associate Jus- tices, Julius Rockwell of Lenox, Otis P. Lord of Salem, Ezra Wilkinson of Ded- ham, John P. Putnam of Boston, Chas. Devens, Jr., of Worcester, Henry A. Scudder of Boston, Francis H. Dewey of Worcester, Robert C. Pitman of New Bedford, John W. Bacon of Natick; salary, $4,200 each. George M. Stearns of Chicopee, District Attorney for Hampden and Berkshire Counties; sal- ary, $1,500.
COURTS OF PROBATE AND INSOL- VENCY-Judge, William S. Shurtleff. Register, Samuel B. Spooner.
Probate Court is holden at Spring- field on the first Tuesdays of every month except August and October; at Westfield on the third Tuesdays of March, June, September and Decem- ber; at Monson on the second Tuesday of June, at Palmer on the second Tues- day of September.
The Court of Insolvency is held at the discretion of the Judge, according to the requirements of business to come before it.
POLICE COURT-Justice, James H. Morton ; salary, $2,000. Special Jus- tice, Edward Morris. Clerk, Charles C. Spellman; salary, $1,000. Court held daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 A. M. in the Police Court Room, City Hall.
MASSACHUSETTS, by the census of 1870, has a population of 1,457,351, of whom 1,104,032 are native born, and 353,319 foreign born ; the colored per- sons and the Indians number only 13,189. There are 340 towns and 16 cities, and the total population of the latter is a little more than 620,000, three quarters of whom are native born. In 1865, the census showed the popula- tion of Massachusetts to be 1,267,031; voters, 246,182.
The valuation of this state, by the census of 1870, is $1,684,000,000, against, $1,009,709,652 in 1865. The actual wealth of our people is, however, much greater. Allowing for undervaluation of property by town assessors, and for that exempt from taxation and so not reported, and the grand total must be over twenty-two hundred millions, giv- ing as the average for each man, woman and child in the State over $1,500,- larger, probably, than in any community of equal area in the world. And nowhere
else, perhaps, is it so largely distributed to all. We have but few paupers, and most of those come from abroad.
United States Government.
THE EXECUTIVE-President, Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois; salary, $25,000. Vice-President, Schuyler Colfax of In- diana; salary, $8,000.
THE CABINET-Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish of New York; salary, $8,000. Secretary of the Treasury, George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts ; salary, $8,000. Secretary of War, Wil- liam W. Belknap of Iowa; salary, $8,000. Secretary of the Navy, Geo. M. Robeson of New Jersey; salary, $8,000. Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano of Ohio; salary, $8,000. At- torney-General, George H. Williams of Oregon ; salary, $8,000. Postmaster- General, John A. J. Creswell of Mary- land; salary, $8,000.
U. S. SUPREME COURT-Chief Jus- tice, Salmon P. Chase of Ohio; salary, $8,500. Associate Justices, Nathan Clif- ford of Maine, Samuel Nelson of New York, Joseph P. Bradley of New Jersey, William M. Strong of Pennsylvania, David Davis of Illinois, Noah H. Swayne of Ohio, Samuel F. Miller of Iowa, Stephen J. Field of California; salary, $8,000 each.
Court meets first Monday in Decem- ber at Washington.
United States Census-1870.
Since the publication of the census last year, material corrections have been made in the official figures; the returns, even at that late day, not hav- ing been received from all parts of the country and ciphered out. It is now given with the revised figures, and will be handy for reference. There are 37 States and 10 Territories, besides Alaska, the latter being as yet of small account, and occupied by 75,000 Indians and a few soldiers and traders. The total population in 1860 was 31,443,783; in 1870, 38,555,983, of whom 4,880,009 are free colored, and foreign born 5,566,546. The Chinese number 63,254, and 25,731 Indians were counted, but the majority of the Red Men were not seen by the census-takers, and are estimated at 250,000 more, besides those in Alaska.
1870. 996,992
1860.
Alabama,
964,201
Arkansas,
484,471
435,450
California,
560,247
379,994
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1870.
1860.
GRANT.
SEYMOUR.
Connecticut,
537,454
460,147
Kentucky,
39,569
115,889
Delaware,
125,015
112,216
Louisiana,
33,263
80,225
Florida, .
187,748
140,424
Maine,
Maryland,
30,438
62,357
Illinois,
2,539,891
1,711,951
Massachusetts,
. 136,477
59,408
Indiana,
1,680,637
1,350,428
Michigan,
128,550
97,069
Iowa, .
1,191,792
674,948
Minnesota,
43,542
28,072
Kansas,
364,399
107,206
Kentucky,
1,321,011
1,155,684
Missouri,
85,671
59,788
Louisiana,
726,915
708,002
Nebraska,
9,729
5,439
Maine,
626,915
628,279
Nevada, .
6,480
5,218
Maryland,
780,894
687,049
New Hampshire, .
38,191
31,224
Massachusetts, .
1,457,351
1,231,066
New Jersey,
80,121
83,001
Michigan,
1,184,059
749,113
New York, .
419,883
429,883
Minnesota,
439,706
172,023
Mississippi,
827,922
791,305
1,182,012
Oregon,
10,961
11,125
Nebraska,
122,993
28,841
Pennsylvania, .
342,280
313,382
Nevada,
42,491
6,857
Rhode Island, .
12,903
6,548
New Hampshire, . New Jersey,
318,300
326,073
South Carolina,
62,391
45,237
New York,
4,382,759
3,880,735
Texas, (no vote,)
Vermont,
44,167
12,045
Ohio,
2,665,260
2,339,511
Oregon,
90,923
52,465
Pennsylvania,
3,521,791
2,906,215
Rhode Island,
217,353
174,620
South Carolina,
705,606
703,708
Tennessee,
1,258,520
1,109,801
Texas,
818,579
604,215
Vermont,
330,551
315,098
Virginia, .
. 1,225,163
1,196,115
West Virginia,
442,014
400,203
Wisconsin, .
1,054,670
775,881
Arizona, .
9,658
Colorado,
39,864
Dakota,
14,181
Dist. of Columbia,
131,700
Idaho,
14,999
Montana,
20,595
New Mexico,
91,874
Utah, .
86,786
Washington,
23,955
Wyoming,
9,118
Popular Vote for President in 1868.
People interested in politics, who desire often to turn to the figure of the last elec- tion for President, before voting this year, will find it convenient to have them at hand in the Directory, as below :
GRANT.
SEYMOUR.
Alabama,
76,366
72,086
Arkansas,
22,152
19,078
California, .
54,592
54,078
Connecticut,
50,996
47,951
Delaware,
7,623
10,980
Florida, (voted by Legislature,)
Georgia, .
57,134
102,822
Illinois, .
. 250,293
199,143
Indiana, .
. 176,552
166,980
Iowa,
. 120,399
74,040
Kansas,
. 31,046
14,019
Sous,
. $0.00912
France and
Franc,
0.167
Belgium, Louis, or Napoleon, . 3.52
Spain, . . Hard Dollar, 0.93
Doubloon, 14.44
Portugal,
Half Joe, 7.89
Stuyver, 0.019
Holland,
Guilder, or Flo, 0.37
Florin, 0.33
Austria,
Ducat,
2.11
Sovereign, 6.11
Thaler, 0.43
Prussia, ยท Frederic d'or,
3.72
Sweidrittel, 0.50
Hamburg,
Ducat, 2.11
Frederic d'or, .
3.72
Pound, 4.84
England,
Shilling,
0.22
Penny,
Common Rupee,
. 0.407
East Indies,
Common Mohur,
. 6.44
Silver Rouble, . . 0.681%
Russia,
Half Imperial, .
3.83
Georgia, .
1,184,109
1,057,286
Mississippi, (no vote,)
96,226
84,090
Ohio, .
280,128
238,700
Missouri,
1,721,295
906,096
672,035
Tennessee, .
56,757
26,311
North Carolina,
. 1,071,361
992,622
Virginia, (no vote,)
West Virginia, . 29,025
20,306
Wisconsin, .
108,857
84,710
Total, 3,013,188
2,703,600
Foreign Coins.
Persons going abroad, and those at home who are again handling specie, will find the following table convenient for reference. It shows the average value in American gold of foreign money most likely to be received, or the names of which are met in reading:
93,516
Crusada Nova, . 0.50
0.019
North Carolina,
70,426
42,396
Springfield in Detail.
Banks.
AGAWAM NATIONAL BANK - New granite block, 237 Main street, corner Lyman street-Capital, $500,000. Pres- ident, Henry S. Hyde ; cashier, Fred- erick S. Bailey ; teller, Henry K. Simons; discount clerk, Samuel S. Bailey; book- keeper, A. L. Thompson ; assistant book- keeper, Albert M. Gleason ; correspond- ing clerk, W. M. Willard; clerk, John C. Griswold; directors, Marvin Chapin, James A. Rumrill, D. L. Harris, T. M. Brown, Arthur I. Bemnis, L. J. Powers, H. S. Hyde, Charles O. Chapin, Wm. Whiting.
CHICOPEE NATIONAL BANK-Corner Main and Elm streets-Capital, $400,000. President, Henry Fuller, Jr. ; cashier, Thomas Warner, Jr. ; teller, A. B. West; book-keeper, C. H. Churchill; assistant book-keeper, W. F. Callender ; clerk, A. W. Rice; directors, Henry Fuller, Jr., J. D. Brewer, Horace Smith, H. S. Lee, E. Dickinson, G. L. Wright.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK - No. 455 Main street, opposite Court Square-Cap- ital, $400,000. President, James Kirk- ham ; cashier, J. D. Safford; teller, Dustin A. Folsom ; book-keeper, F. L. Safford ; assistant book-keeper, William Wallace; clerk, Charles M. Shedd; directors, James Kirkham, O. H. Greenleaf, Henry Morris, D. B. Wesson, W. K. Baker, E. Trask, George E. Howard.
JOHN HANCOCK NATIONAL BANK - No. 288 Main street, Fort block, corner Main and Fort streets-Capital,$150,000. President, R. S. Moore; cashier, Ed- mund D. Chapin; teller, A. H. Dunbar; book-keeper, George K. Tapley; direc- tors, R. S. Moore, Elisha Gunn, A. L. Soule, Abijah W. Chapin, W. H. Wil- kinson, John Kimberly, James M. Thompson.
PYNCHON NATIONAL BANK-NO. 486 Main street-Capital, $200,000. Presi- dent, N. H. Case ; cashier, Charles Marsh; teller, Wm. C. Simons ; directors, H. N. Case, Homer Foot, E. W. Bond, Willis Phelps, Benjamin K. Bliss, N. W. Tal- cott, R. M. Cooley, James Abbe.
SECOND NATIONAL BANK (formerly Springfield Bank)-No. 405 Main street -Capital, $300,000. President, Henry Alexander, Jr ; cashier, Lewis Warriner; teller, Frederick Harris; book-keeper, G. W. Hubbard ; clerk, Frederick O. Wells; directors, Henry Alexander, Jr., Benjamin Day, William Gunn, Alfred Rowe, George B. Morris, Horace Kibbe, Gurdon Bill, Hinsdale Smith, A. D. Briggs.
THIRD NATIONAL BANK-Barnes' Block, No. 394 Main street-Capital, $500,000. President, Joseph C. Parsons; cashier, Frederick H. Harris; teller, W. G. Twing; book-keeper, E. F. Seeger ; assistant book-keeper, W. J. Cooper ; clerk, Edward P. Bagg; directors, George Walker, John L. King, Edmund Free- man, Clark W. Bryan, George W. Pren- tiss, Joseph Carew, J. C Parsons, Aaron Bagg, James H. Morton.
HAMPDEN SAVINGS BANK-New gran- ite block, corner Main and Lyman streets. President, Eliphalet Trask; vice-presi- dents, Chester W. Chapin, D. L. Harris, Franklin Morgan, F. S. Bailey ; trustees, Marvin Chapin, Lewis J. Powers, O. H. Greenleaf, C. O. Russell, H. S. Hyde, W. K. Baker, John M. Stebbins, T. M. Brown, R. F. Hawkins, J. A. Rumrill, Arthur I. Bemis, William Melcher; sec- retary and treasurer, P. S. Bailey ; clerk, Ralph Kirkham. Deposits, $1,200,000. Business hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Quarter days, the third Mondays of Feb- ruary, May, August and November. Deposits draw interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum.
SPRINGFIELD FIVE CENTS SAVINGS BANK-Hampden House Block, No. 10 Court street. President, John C. Pyn- chon ; vice-presidents, Willis Phelps, Aaron Bagg, A. W. Chapin; trustees, Ephraim W. Bond, H. Fuller, T. War- ner, Jr., William Rice, Charles Marsh, Wm. H. Smith, George B. Morris, Wm. L. Smith, James E. Russell; secretary, E. W. Bond; treasurer, D. J. Marsh ; book-keeper, C. H. Booth. Deposits, $1,100,000. Business hours, from 9 A.
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M. to 1 P. M., and from 2 to 3 P. M. Deposits received from Five Cents to One Thousand Dollars.
SPRINGFIELD INSTITUTION FOR SAV- INGS-New building, corner of Main and State streets. Incorporated 1827. Presi- dent, Jas. M. Thompson; vice-president, John B. Stebbins; board of managers, James M. Thompson, J. B. Stebbins, William Gunn, Henry Morris, George Dwight and Henry S. Lee; auditors, Homer Foot, Edmund Freeman and J. D. Brewer; secretary, William S. Shurt- leff; treasurer, Henry S. Lee; receiving. teller, W. H. Hawks ; paying teller, Henry H. Bowman; book-keeper, Wm. F. Ferry ; clerk, J. K. Dexter. Deposits, $5,059,357. Business hours, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Receives deposits and pays interest on all sums from One to One Thousand Dollars. Deposits made on or before the first of January, April, July, or October, will draw interest from those dates.
Insurance Companies.
MUTUAL FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY -Incorporated 1827. Cash assets, Jan- uary, 1872, $80,000. President, W. C. Sturtevant ; secretary, L. A. Tifft ; directors, W. C. Sturtevant, Henry Fuller, Henry S. Lee, Elijah Blake, Jo- seph Ingraham, Roderick Ashley, Alfred Rowe, James Kirkham, Benning Leavitt. Office over Chicopee National Bank.
SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE IN- SURANCE COMPANY-Incorporated 1849 -Cash capital, $500,000. President, Ed- mund Freeman ; vice-president, Dwight R. Smith; secretary, Sanford J. Hall ; treasurer, Andrew J. Wright; clerks, H. W. Royce, Henry M. Gates, Loyal L. Rogers; directors, Edmund Freeman, Chester W. Chapin, Daniel L. Harris, Marvin Chapin, George S. C. South- worth, William Birnie, James Brewer, George Walker, Lombard Dale, A. D. Briggs, Henry E. Russell, C. L. Covell, George A. Hull, F. H. Harris, Dwight R. Smith. Office Fort Block, 292 Main street.
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE IN- SURANCE COMPANY-Incorporated 1851 Surplus, exceeding $4,100,000. Presi- dent, Caleb Rice; vice-president, E. W. Bond; secretary, Charles McLean Knox; assistant secretary, Avery J. Smith; act- uary, Oscar B. Ireland; medical examin- er, David P. Smith, M. D .; assistant medi- cal examiner, Nathan Adams, M. D .; clerks, George C. Andrews, E. D. Capron, C. T. Merrill, John A. Schlesinger, N.
A. Winans, H. H. Leonard, Charles T. Safford, W. C. Robinson, C. H. Lang, E. F. Holway, George P. Hammett, Thomas T. Davee, William H. Powers, E. S. Whittemore, James A. Gates. directors, Caleb Rice, Henry Fuller, Jr., Edmund Freeman, Otis Childs, W. C. Sturtevant, Samuel Bowles, Ephraim W. Bond, James Kirkham, Joseph Stone, Clark W. Bryan, David P. Smith, M. D., Homer Foot, Charles McLean Knox, Springfield; J. Arthur Burr, New York; A. I. Benyon, Wm. B. Sears, Boston ; William Bross, Chicago, Ill. ; J. L. Er- ringer, D. C. Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa .; Gen. George J. Stannard, Burlington, Vt. ; John S. Kidder, C. W. Stanley, Manchester, N. H. ; James M. Churchill, Charles P. Kimball, Portland, Me .; George C. Kimball, Flint, Mich. ; Rob- ert L. Johnson, Albany, N. Y .; Merritt Burt, Cleveland, O .; William Prescott Smith, Baltimore, M. D .; R. P. Elmore, Milwaukee, Wis .; L. W. Hall, Syracuse, N. Y. Office in Company's new build- ing, 413 Main street.
HAMPDEN BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS - Organized May, 1872. Officers - President, J. C. Pynchon; vice-president, C. R. Ladd; treasurer, A. W. Chapin; secretary, J. M. Porter. There are 25 members, and meetings are held in this city as appointed.
Churches.
Location - Pastors - Time of Meetings - Membership-Historical Facts.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH- Court square, between Elm and Court streets. Founded 1637. Rev. E. A. Reed, pastor ; settled June, 1871 ; salary, $4,000. Deacons, Benjamin Eldridge, (retired,) John R. Hixon, Roderick Burt, Elbridge Brigham, Charles H. Smith, Samuel R. Newell, Henry Morris. Su- perintendents of Bible service, Elbridge Brigham, James L. Johnson, and A. L. Leonard.
Meetings-Sunday, at 10 1-2 A. M., (with preaching,) 2 1-2 P. M., (Bible service and Sunday-school,) 7 P. M., (Prayer.) Monday night, young people's prayer meeting, 7 1-2 P. M .; Wednes- day, female prayer meeting, 3 P. M .; Thursday night at 7 1-2 P. M., regular church prayer meeting at the chapel, followed by teachers' meeting; also a prayer meeting at Central street school- house, Thursday evening, at 7 1-2 P. M. In summer, the evening meetings begin half an hour later Sunday, and a quarter of an hour later other nights.
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This is our oldest church, and but one year younger than Springfield. It has had few pastors, those preceding the last one having averaged a term of thirty- six years each. The former pastors were : Rev. George Moxon (1637-1652), Rev. Peletiah Grover (1661-1692), Rev. Daniel Brewer (1693-1733), Rev. Robert Breck (1736-1784), Rev. Bezaleel How- ard, D. D. (1785-1809), Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D. (1809-1862), Rev. Henry M. Parsons (1854-1870).
The number of members is 620, of whom perhaps 75 are non-resident, and there are thirty over eighty years of age, and the average attendance at Sunday morning service is over 600; benevolent contributions the past year, $4,276, of which amount $695 was from the Sunday-school; raised for church purposes, $7,629, besides paying a debt of $6,138. The Sunday-school numbers 565, with an average attendance of 350; contributions from its members the past year, $750. None of this sum was used for expenses, except a small portion for replenishing the library ; but a Sunday- school missionary in California received $500; $100 was given to aid a student in obtaining an education, and poor children at home were clothed and cared for, as is also done by the other churches.
The young people's society was organ- ized in 1871, and meets in the chapel the fourth Friday evening of every month at 7 1-2 P. M. The Young People's Ga- zette is read (a manuscript paper edited by two ladies and two gentlemen); and there are debates, charades, recitations and readings from select authors, with a full attendance; President, S. C. War- riner; Secretary, W. B. Parker. There are 160 members.
A new feature of the past year is noticeable in regard to all the larger churches of the city. People realize somewhat, that while their busy pastor visits at once the sick whenever informed of such, and in other cases of need, he can not call on every body who may expect him. Yet, that he may know of the welfare of all in his charge, and that new-comers especially may have kindly welcome and help, the parish is divided into districts, (for the First Congrega- tional Church there are thirty,) and la- dies appointed for each, who visit quar- terly or oftener every family in the con- gregation.
Parish Committee-Roderick Burt, J. R. Hixon, W. H. Wilkinson; Sexton, Oliver H. Perry. For seats apply to Roderick Burt.
OLIVET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH- State street, opposite Armory grounds. Founded in 1833. Rev. L. H. Cone, pas- tor; settled in 1867; salary, $2,500. Deacons, William A. Spooner, B. F. Quinby, E. A. Hubbard, George Dilling- ham. Sunday-school superintendent, B. F. Quinby; assistant superintendent, E. A. Hubbard.
Meetings-Sabbath, 10 1-2 A. M., (Bible service and Sunday school ;) 2 1-4 P. M., (preaching ;) 7 P. M. in winter, 7 1-2 P. M. in summer, (prayer.) Mon- day night, Sunday-school prayer meet- ing, and on Thursday night, church prayer meeting, at 7 1-2 P. M. in winter and 7 3-4 P. M. in summer.
This church is the second in age of its denomination in the city. Of the nine- teen original members, but five are liv- ing, and three still connected with it. The membership is 267, of whom 249 reside in Springfield; benevolent contri- butions the past year, about 81,200.
The Sabbath forenoon is given to the Bible service, (Sunday-school,) in which the pastor takes an active part. This is well attended, especially by the young, numbering 355, and averaging 205; and many of the older people, who are neces- sarily kept at home in the morning, are accommodated by the afternoon preach- ing. The average congregation is 400. Parish Committee, Charles Barrows, Horace Kibbe, William E. Montague, George S. Savage; Clerk, George B. Kilbon; Sexton, Charles A. Ford.
SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH- Bliss street, near Main. Founded in 1843. Rev. S. G. Buckingham, D. D., pastor; settled, January, 1847; salary, $3,000. Deacons, Erastus Hayes, Henry A. Robinson, A. F. Cowles, O. W. Wil- cox. Sunday-school superintendent, Rollin H. Loomis.
Meetings-Sunday, at 10 1-2 A. M., with preaching ; 3 P. M., Sunday school; 7 P. M. in winter, 7 1-2 P. M. in summer, missionary concert first Sunday of the month, Sunday-school concert second Sunday of the month, and prayer meet- ing on other Sunday evenings. Thurs- day night, church prayer meeting, at 7 1-2 P. M. in winter, 7 3-4 P. M. in summer, followed by a teachers' meeting.
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