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NOTARIES PUBLIC-E. W. Bond, A. L. Soule, J. M. Stebbins, J. H. Morton, J. M. Thompson, Charles Marsh, Horace C. Lee, Henry S. Lee, James A. Rumrill, Frederick H. Harris, Edward H. Lathrop, J. E. McIn- tire, William S. Greene, Edward Morris, T. Alden Curtis, Stephen E. Seymour, John M. Stebbins, Edward R. Stickney, H. M. Phillips, Smith R. Phillips, P. S. Bailey, Henry K. Simons, James M. Porter; Wil-
liam B. Rogers, Henry H. Bowman, Wil- liam P. Alexander, T. M. Brown.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER-William L. Smith.
COMMISSIONERS resident in Springfield ap- pointed to take testimony to be used, and acknowl- edgments of deeds to be recorded in the following named States-Maine, James H. Morton ; New York, E. W. Bond, A. L. Soule, Wil- liam S. Slurtleff, S. R. Phillips; Rhode Island, James H. Morton ; South Carolina, James H. Morton ; Connecticut, S. R Phil- lips ; Oregon, S. R. Phillips.
REGISTER OF BANKRUPTCY, Tentli Con- gressional District-Gideon Wells.
SENATORS-Hampden County, First Dis- trict, E. H. Lathrop of Springfield. This district comprises Brimfield, Holland, Mon- son, Palmer, Springfield, Wales and Wil- braham : 6,306 voters (census of 1865.) Second District, Henry Fuller of West- field. This district is made up of Agawam, Blandford, Chester, Chicopee, Granville, Holyoke, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Montgom- ery, Russell, Southwick, Tolland, Westfield and West Springfield ; 6,024 voters (census of 1865.)
REPRESENTATIVES - Hampden County, First District, Monson, Brimfield, Holland and Wales; 1,102 voters (census of 1865,) Julius M. Lyon of Wales. Second District, Palmer and Wilbraliam ; 966 voters (census of 1865,) Francis E. Clark of Wilbraham. Third District, first, second and third wards of Springfield ; 2,099 voters, (census of 1865,) F. E. Gray and Charles L. Shaw of Spring- field. Fourth District, fourth and sixth wards of Springfield ; 858 voters, (census of 1865,) Smith R. Phillips of Springfield ; Fifth District, fifth, seventh and eighth wards of Springfield ; 1,281 voters, (census of 1865,) Henry W. Plielps of Springfield Sixth District, Holyoke, Chicopee and Lud- low; 2,105 voters, (census of 1865,) George D. Robinson of Chicopee ; Allen Higgin- bottom of Holyoke. Seventh District, Gran- ville, Southwick, Agawam, West Spring- field and Longmeadow ; 1,676 voters, (cen- sus of 1865,) E. H. Seymour, Rufus Smith both of Granville. Eighth District, West- field ; 1,326 voters, (census of 1865,) Reu- ben Noble of Westfield. Ninth District, Chester, Blandford, Montgomery, Russell and Tolland ; 917 voters, (census of 1865,) Enos W. Boise of Blandford.
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COUNCILOR-Eighth District, E. H. Brews- ter of Worthington. This district includes five Senate districts, viz : first and second Hampden, Hampshire, Hampshire and Berk- shire, and Berkshire.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS-Tenth District, consisting of the counties of Hampden and Berkshire, Henry L. Dawes of Pittsfield.
U. S. Internal Revenue.
The Tenth Collection District of Massa- chusetts includes Hampden and Berkshire Counties. Probably tliree-fourths of the rev- enue received is from the city of Springfield and the towns of Westfield and Agawam.
COLLECTOR-Edward R. Tinker of North Adams.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR-William P. Alex- ander, Springfield. Office at the Second National Bank, 405 Main street. Clerk, E. M. Coats.
GAUGERS-Byron Porter and E. M. Coats. Office at Second National Bank.
STOREKEEPERS-Isaac N. Weston, Aga- wam, Andrew Campbell, 2d, Westfield.
Population of Hampden County.
By the census of 1870, the population of Hampden County is 78,409, and the num- ber of inhabitants in each town is as fol- lows :- Agawam, 2,001; Blandford, 1,026 Brimfield, 1,288; Chester, 1,253 ; Chicopee, 9,607 ; Granville, 1,293 ; Holland, 344 ; Hol- yoke, 10,733 ; (5,648 in 1865 ;) Longmeadow, 1,342; Ludlow, 1,136 ; Monson, 3,204 ; Mont- gomery, 318 ; Palmer, 3,631; Russell, 635; Southwick, 1,100; Springfield, 26,703 ; Tol- land, 509; Wales, 831; Westfield, 6,519; West Springfield, 2,606 ; Wilbraham, 2,330.
State Government.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT - Governor, Thomas Talbot of Billerica, in place of Wil- liam B. Washburn of Greenfield, elected United States Senator ; salary $5,000. Coun- cilors, First District, Alfred Macy of Nan- tucket; Second District, Seth Turner of Randolph ; Third District, Milo Hildreth of Northborough; Fourth District, Rufus S. Frost of Chelsea ; Fifth District, Daniel H. Stickney of Groveland; Sixth District, George O. Brastow of Somerville; Seventh District, George Whitney of Royalston ; Eighth District, E. H. Brewster of Worthing-
ton ; salary, each, $5 per day for actual ser- vice and mileage. Secretary of the Com- monwealth, 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 Can- ton; salary, $2,500; Attorney-General, Charles R. Train of Boston ; salary, $3,500. U. S. Senators, William B. Washburn, George S. Boutwell.
Courts.
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES -Holden in the U. S. Court House, 140 Tremont street, Boston, May 15 and Octo- ber 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, Roland 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 De- mond, Winslow Warren, Jr., Boston ; A. S. Cushman, New Bedford ; William L. Smith, Springfield ; Wendell T. Davis, Greenfield ; E. M. Wood, Pittsfield ; J. H. Hill, Worces- ter.
DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES -Holden in the U. S. Court House, 140 Tremont street, Boston, third Tuesday in March, fourth Tuesday in June, second Tuesday in September, and first Tuesday in December. Special courts held every Friday afternoon. District Judge, John Lowell. Clerk, Edward Dexter.
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT-Holds a law term in Springfield, fourth Monday in Sep- tember ; nisi prius term, fourth Tuesday in April. Chief Justice, Horace Gray ; salary, $6,500. Associate Justices, John Wells of Brookline, James D. Colt of Pittsfield, Seth Ames of Brookline, Marcus Morton of Andover, Charles Devens, Jr. of Worcester ; salary, $6,000 each.
SUPERIOR COURT-Civil terms holden in Springfield, second Monday in March and June, and fourth Monday in October ; crim- inal terms, third Monday in May and first Monday in December. Chief Justice, Lin- coln F. Brigham of Salem; salary, $5,300. Associate Justices, Julius Rockwell of Len- ox, Otis P. Lord of Salem, Ezra Wilkinson
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of Dedham, John P. Putnam of Boston, Francis H. Dewey of Worcester, Robert C. Pitman of New Bedford, John W. Bacon of Natick, William Allen of Northampton, P. Emery Aldrich of Worcester; salary, $5,000 each. N. A. Leonard of Springfield, District Attorney for Hampshire and Berkshire Counties ; salary, $2,000.
COURTS OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY- Judge, William S. Shurtleff, office in Court House. Register, Samuel B. Spooner; sal- ary, $1,600.
Probate Court is holden at Springfield on the first Tuesdays of every month except August and October; at Westfield on the third Tuesdays of March, June, September and December; at Monson on the second Tuesday of June ; at Palmer on the second Tuesday of September.
The Court of Insolvency is held at the discretion of the Judge; according to the re- quirements of business to come before it.
POLICE COURT-Justice, James H. Mor- ton ; salary, $2,400. Special Justices, Sam- uel B. Spooner, A. M. Copeland. Clerk, Charles C. Spellman, salary $1,200. Court held daily (Sunday excepted) at 9 A. M. in the Court House.
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 persons and the Indians number only 13,189. The popula- tion of its cities (including those recently chartered) in 1870 was as follows :- Boston, 250,526 ; Worcester, 41,105 ; Lowell, 40,928 ; Cambridge, 39,634; Lawrence, 28,921; Charlestown, 28,323 ; Lynn, 28,233; Fall River, 26,766 ; Springfield, 26,703 ; Salem, 24,117; New Bedford, 21,320; Taunton, 18,629 ; Chelsea, 18,547; Gloucester, 15,- 389; Somerville, 14,685; Newburyport, 12,595; Haverhill, 12,092; Fitchburg, 11,- 260; Holyoke, 10,733. In 1865 the census showed the population of Massachusetts to be 1,267,031 ; voters, 216,182.
The valuation of this State, by the census of 1870, is $1,634,000,000, against $1,009,- 709,652 in 1865. The actual wealth of our people is, however, much greater. Allow- ing 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, giving 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, per- haps, 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, $50,000. Vice- President, Henry Wilson of Massachusetts ; salary, $10,000.
THE CABINET-Secretary of State, Ham- ilton Fish of New York; salary, $10,000. Secretary of the Treasury, B. H. Bristow of Kentucky ; salary, $10,000. Secretary of War, William W. Belknap of Iowa; salary, $10,000. Secretary of the Navy, George M. Robeson of New Jersey ; salary, $10,000. Secretary of the Interior, Colum- bus Delano of Ohio; salary, $10,000. Attorney-General, George H. Williams of Oregon ; salary, $10,000. Postmaster-Gen- eral, John A. J. Cresswell of Maryland ; salary, $10,000.
U. S. SUPREME COURT-Chief Justice, Morrison R. Waite of Ohio; salary, $10,500. Associate Justices, Nathan Clifford of Maine, Samuel Nelson of New York, Jo- seph 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 Cali- fornia; salary, $10,000 each.
Court meets first Monday in December at Washington.
Foreign Coins.
France and
Franc, ·
.
0.167
( Louis, or Napoleon,
3.62
Spain, .
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, ·
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,
0.68
Russsia .
Half Imberial,
3.83
Sous,
$0.009}
Belgium,
Hard Dollar, -
0.93
Crusada Nova, .
0.50
0.019
Springfield in Detail.
Banks.
AGAWAM NATIONAL BANK-New granite block, 237 Main street, corner Lyman street -Capital, $500,000. President, Henry S. Hyde; vice-president, T. M. Brown; cash- ier, Frederick S. Bailey ; teller, Samuel S. Bailey; discount clerk, W. M. Willard; book-keeper, A. M. Gleason ; assistant book- keeper, John C. Griswold; clerk, Edward Pynchon ; directors, Marvin Chapin, John H. Southworth, Jared Beebe, T. M. Brown, Arthur I. Bemis, L. J. Powers, H. S. Hyde, Charles O. Chapin, Wm. Whiting.
CHAPIN BANKING AND TRUST CO .- South corner of Main and Lyman streets- Capital, $500,000. President, C. W. Cha- pin; vice-president, William K. Baker ; secretary and cashier, James D. Safford ; teller, William F. Callender ; book-keeper, C. M. Shedd; clerk, Henry Skinner; di- rectors, C. W. Chapin, W. K. Baker, D. L. Harris, C. O. Russell, John B. Stebbins, Ethan S. Chapin, J. M. Thompson, H. S. Lee, J. A. Rumrill, George C. Fisk, B. F. Bowles.
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, A. W. Rice; clerk, H. P. Porter ; directors, Henry Fuller, Jr , J. D. Brewer, Horace Smith, H. S. Lee, E. Dick- inson, G. L. Wright, H. W. Hallett.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK-NO. 455 Main street, opposite Court Square - Capital, $400,000. President, James Kirkham ; cashier, D. A. Folsom ; teller, F. L. Saf- ford ; book-keeper, J. W. Kirkham; assist- ant book-keeper, W. A. Wilcox ; clerk, Charles P. Johnson ; directors, James Kirk- ham, Henry Morris, O. H. Greenleaf, George E. Howard, J. H. Appleton, E. Trask, W. H. Wesson, John Olmstead, Tim Henry.
JOHN HANCOCK NATIONAL BANK-NO. 288 Main street, Fort block, corner Main and Fort streets-Capital, $150,000. Presi- dent, R. S. Moore; cashier, Edmund D. Chapin; teller, Geo. K. Tapley; book- keeper, T. W. Schlesinger; clerk, Frank Grinnell ; directors, R. S. Moore, Elisha Gunn, A. L. Soule, Abijah W. Chapin, W. H. Wilkinson, John Kimberly, James M. Thompson.
PYNCHON NATIONAL BANK - No. 486 Main street-Capital, $200,000. President, H. N. Case ; cashier, Chiarles Marsh; teller, Wm. C. Simons; book-keeper, Leonard Greene ; clerk, George R. Bond ; directors, H. N. Case, Homer Foot, E. W. Bond, Wil- lis 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 Alex- ander, Jr. ; cashier, Lewis Warriner; teller, Frederick O. Wells; book-keeper, G. W. Hubbard; assistant book-keeper, Harry P. Piper; clerk, F. R. Shedd; directors, Hen- ry Alexander, Jr., A. T. Folsom, William Gunn, Alfred Rowe, H. M. Phillips, 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; assistant cashier, Frederick Harris; teller, E. W. Seeger; book-keeper, W. J. Cooper; clerk, Ed- ward P. Bagg ; directors, George Walker, James H. Newton, Edmund Freeman, Clark W. Bryan, H. A. Gould, Joseph Carew, J. C. Parsons, Aaron Bagg, James H. Morton.
SPRINGFIELD CLEARING HOUSE-Organ- ized March 25, 1873. All the banks ,of Springfield members. Officers-President,
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H. S. Hyde, president of Agawam National Bank; secretary, Charles Marslı, cashier of Pynchon National Bank ; manager, T. War- ner, Jr., cashier of Chicopee National Bank. Clearings, daily, at Chicopee National Bank, at 11 A. M.
HAMPDEN SAVINGS BANK-New granite block, corner Main and Lyman streets. President, Eliphalet Trask ; vice-presidents, Chester W. Chapin, D. L. Harris, H. S. Hyde, F. S. Bailey ; trustees, Marvin Cha- pin, Lewis J. Powers, O. H. Greenleaf, C. O. Russell, W. F. Sturtevant, W. K. Baker, John M. Stebbins, T. M. Brown, R. F. Hawkins, J. A. Rumrill, Arthur I. Bemis, William Melcher; secretary and treasurer, P. S. Bailey ; clerk, Ralph Kirkham. De- posits $1,500,000. Business hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Interest commences on deposits thie fifteenth day of each month. 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. Pynchon ; vice-presidents, Willis Phelps, Aaron Bagg, A. W. Chapin ; trustees, Ephraim W. Bond, H. Fuller, T. Warner, Jr., William Rice, Charles Marsh, William H. Smith, Wm. L. Smith, James E. Russell ; secretary, E. W. Bond ; treasurer, D. J. Marsh ; book-keeper, C. H. Booth. Deposits, $1,100,000. Busi- ness hours, from 9 A. M. to 1 P. M., and from 2 to 3 P. M. Deposits received from Five Cents to One Thousand Dollars ; inter- est commences the fifteenth of each month.
SPRINGFIELD INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS -New building, corner of Main and State streets. Incorporated 1827. President, James M. Thompson ; vice-president, John B. Stebbins ; board of managers, James M. Thompson, J. B. Stebbins, William Gunn, Henry Morris, George Dwight, Charles Marsh and Henry S. Lee ; auditors, Homer Foot, Edmund Freeman and J. D. Brewer ; secretary, William S. Shurtleff; treasurer, Henry S. Lee; receiving teller, W. H. Hawkes ; paying teller, Henry H. Bowman; book-keeper, Wm. F. Ferry ; clerks, J. K. Dexter, Winfred N. Caldwell. Deposits, $5,200,000. Business hours, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Receives deposits and pays in- terest on all sums from One to One Thou- sand Dollars. Deposits commence interest the first day of each month.
Insurance Companies.
MUTUAL FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY- Incorporated 1827. Cash assets, January, 1874, $90,000. President, W. C. Sturtevant ; secretary, L. A. Tifft ; directors, W. C. Stur- tevant, Henry Fuller, Henry S. Lee, Elijalı Blake, Eliphalet Trask, Henry Morris, Charles L. Shaw, Alfred Rowe, James Kirk- ham. Office over Chicopee National Bank, 470 Main street.
SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY-Incorporated 1849-Cash capital, $500,000. President, Dwight R. Smith; secretary, Sanford J. Hall ; treas- urer, Andrew J. Wright; clerks, T. W. Coburn, George R. Harrington, Henry M. Gates, Loyal L. Rogers, W. D. Bigelow, A. A. Chapin ; directors, Edmund Freeman, Chester W. Chapin, Daniel L. Harris, Mar- vin Chapin, George S. C. Southworth, Wm. 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 in Fort block, 292 Main street.
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY-Incorporated 1851. As- sets, exceeding $5,000,000. President, E. W. Bond; vice-president, Henry Fuller, Jr .; secretary, Avery J. Smith ; actuary, Oscar B. Ireland ; medical examiner, David P. Smith, M. D .; assistant medical examiner, Charles P. Kemp, M. D .; clerks, E. D. Ca -. pron, C. T. Merrill, John A. Schlesinger, N A. Winans, H. H. Leonard, Charles T. Safford, W. C. Robinson, C. H. Lang, Geo. P. Hammett, Thomas T. Davee, George W. Bates, E. S. Whittemore, George D. Lang, E. H. Beach; directors, Ephraim W. Bond, Henry Fuller, Jr., Edmund Free- man, W. C. Sturtevant, Samuel Bowles, James Kirkham, Clark W. Bryan, David P. Smitlı, M. D., Homer Foot, Dwight R. Smith, Julius H. Appleton, Lewis J. Pow- ers, Henry S. Lee, Springfield ; Charles McLean Knox, Philadelphia ; Otis Childs, . Newton ; J. Arthur Burr, New York ; A. I. Benyon, William B. Sears, Boston ; Wm. Bross, Chicago, Ill .; J. L. Erringer, Benj. B. Comegys, Philadelphia, Pa .; John W. Newton, St. Albans, Vt .; John S. Kidder, C. W. Stanley, Manchester, N. H .; James M. Churchill, Charles P. Kimball, Portland, Me .; Geo. C. Kimball, Flint, Mich .; Robert L. Johnson, Albany, N. Y .; Merritt Burt,
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Cleveland, O .; James M. Whaling, Mil- waukee, Wis .; L. W. Hall, Syracuse, N. Y. Office in Company's new building, 413 Main street.
John A. Hall, general agent for Western Massachusetts. Office in Company's build- ing, 413 Main street.
HAMPDEN BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS .- Organized May, 1872. Officers-President, Dwight R. Smith; Secretary and Treasu- rer, E. Dudley Chapin. There are 25 mem- bers.
Churches.
Location - Pastors - Time of Meetings - Membership-Historical Facts.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST-Court square, between Elm and Court streets. Founded 1637. Rev. E. A. Reed, pastor; settled June, 1871; salary, $4,000. Residence, 97 Spring street. Deacons, Benjamin Eldridge, (retired,) John R. Hixon, Roderick Burt, Charles H. Smith, Samuel R. Newell, Henry Morris, Austin L. Leonard. Superintend- ent of Bible service, the Pastor with Austin L. Leonard, J. L. Shipley and Amos Whit- ing as assistants.
Meetings-Sunday, at 1012 A. M., with preaching. Bible service and Sunday school at 212 P. M. in Winter, and 3 P. M. in Sum- mer, prayer meeting in Winter at 7 P. M., and in Summer at 8 P. M. Monday even- ing, young people's prayer meeting at 712 P. M., in Winter, and 8 P. M. in Summer. Wednesday, female prayer meeting at 3 P. M. Thursday evening, regular church prayer meeting at the chapel at 712 P. M. in Winter, and 8 P. M. in Summer. Neighbor- hood prayer meetings are held in Wards One and Three, Wednesday evenings.
The former pastors of this church were : Rev. George Moxon (1637-1652), Rev. Peletiah Grover (1661-1692), Rev. Daniel Brewer (1693-1733), Rev. Robert Breck (1736-1785), Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D. (1785-1809), Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D. (1809-1862), Rev. Henry M. Parsons (1854- 1870).
The number of members is 664, of wliom perhaps 50 are non-resident, and there are twenty-five over eighty years of age. The average attendance at Sunday morning ser- vice is 600; benevolent contributions for the year 1873 about $4,620.77, of which amount $615 was from the Sunday school; raised
for church purposes, $8,000. The Sunday school numbers 550, with an average attend- ance of 350; contributions from its mem- bers the past year, $615.
This society have just completed a new gothic chapel on Elm street, 50 x 113 feet, with a tower 90 feet in hight. A transept fronting toward Court square, contains 18 separate class-rooms, arranged in semi-cir- cular form on two floors and opening into a common rotunda, sash doors open from each room into the rotunda, thus throwing all the apartments into one common room or iso- lating them as may be desired. These rooms, together with the pastor's class- room and the rotunda for intermediate classes, afford seats for 700 persons.
The building contains on the first floor the Bible service and vestry rooms, on the second floor are large parlors for social pur- poses, the pastor's study, also the kitchen and dining-rooms.
The cost of the building, land and furni- ture will exceed $32,000.
A new feature 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 in- formed of such, and in other cases of need, he can not call on everybody who may ex- pect 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 Congregational church there are thirty), and ladies appointed for each, who visit quarterly or oftener every family in the congregation.
Parish Committee-N. C. Newell, F. A. Brewer, Emerson Wight; Sexton, Oliver H. Perry. For seats, apply to H. E. Mose- ley, No. 10 Barnes' block.
OLIVET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH -- State street, opposite Armory grounds. Founded in 1833. Rev. L. H. Cone, pastor ; settled in 1867; salary, $2,500; residence, 82 Walnut street. Deacons, William A. Spooner, B. F. Quinby, George Dillingham, George B. Kilbon, George S. Savage; Sun- day school superintendent, B. F. Quinby ; assistant superintendents, F. W. Anderson and A. B. Forbes. Clerk, Geo. B. Kilbon.
Meetings-Sabbath, 1012 A. M., (Bible service and Sunday school;) 214 P. M., (preaching;) 7 P. M. in Winter, 712 P. M.
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in Summer, (prayer.) Thursday night, church prayer-meeting, at 712 P. M. in Winter, and 734 P. M. in Summer.
This church is the second in age of its de- nomination in the city. Of the nineteen original members, but five are living, and three still connected with it. The member- ship is 280, average congregation 450.
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, number- ing 270.
Parish Committee-Alexander B. Forbes, Geo. S. Savage, Samuel W. Porter, J. W. Hitchcock, Isaac Hawley ; James S. Wheel- er, clerk; Charles A. Ford, sexton ; J. W. Hitchcock, collector, 447 State street, to whom apply for seats.
SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Cor- ner Maple and High streets. Founded in 1843. Rev. S. G. Buckingham, D. D., pas- tor; settled, June, 1847; salary, $3,000. Residence, 30 Howard street. Deacons, A. F. Cowles, O. W. Wilcox, E. H. Patch and Charles Marsh. Sunday-school superin- tendent, Edward P. Chapin; assistant su- perintendents, A. H. Kirkham, Mrs. E. H. Barnes, Miss H. T. Buckingham.
Meetings-Sunday, at 1012 A. M., with preaching ; 3 P. M., Sunday-school ; 7 P. M., in Winter, 712 P. M. in Summer, missionary concert first Sunday of the montlı, Sunday- school concert every second Sunday of the month, and prayer-meeting on other Sunday evenings. Thursday night, church prayer- meeting, at 72 P. M. in Winter, 734 P. M. in Summer. This church had but one pas- tor before the present one, Rev. Noah Por- ter, who was dismissed in 1847 to accept a professorship in Yale college, of which he is now President. The membership is 393 ; average attendance on the Sabbath, 300. The Sunday-school and mission schools number 499, with an average attendance of 388.
The mission Sunday-school, gathered by members of this church, near corner of Union street and Eastern avenue, occupies the new Hope Chapel there, and meets on Sunday at 1 P. M. The membership is 259, with an av- erage attendance of 185, none being received who also attend Sunday school elsewhere, for want of room. There is a library of 800
volumes, and papers are supplied every week. H. S. Lee is superintendent ; George R. Bond, secretary ; Frank Kendall and Sanford Lawton, Jr., librarians. Regular preaching is sustained here on the Sabbath at 1012 A. M. and 6 P. M., and well attend- ed. The second Sunday evening of the month is usually given to the Sunday-school concert. Prayer meeting Wednesday even- ings at 712 P. M., at Hope Chapel.
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