Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 105

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360

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The First Free Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn was organized May 31, 1881, with Rev. W. J. Clarke as Pastor. During five months the congregation worshiped in a mis- sion chapel, in Clifton place. The present place of worship is Granada Hall, in Myrtle ave. This is the only church in Brooklyn where the psalms and paraphrases are sung.

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The following Presbyterian clergymen are residing in Brooklyn :

Rev. JAMES H. CALLEN, D.D., born in Ireland, 1824; grad. Lafayette Coll., Pa., 1846; Alleghany Theol. Sem., 1848. Previous locations, Uniontown, Pa., and Trenton, N. J., 1848-'64.

Rev. LYMAN GILBERT, born at Brandon, Vt., June, 1798; grad. Middlebury Coll., 1824, and Andover Theol. Sem., 1827. Pastor Congl. Ch., West Newton, Mass., 1828-'56; at Maklen- on-the-Hudson, 1859-'63; came to B'klyn, 1863.

Rev. BENJAMIN PARSONS, born in Bloomfield, N. J., 1826; grad. Yale, 1850, and Hartford Theol. Sem., 1854; was Mis- sionary of Amer. Bd. C. F. Missions in Turkey, 6 yrs. ; located Le Roy, N. Y., B'klyn, 1882-'4; was with Army of Cumber- land in U. S. Chr. Com.

Rev. WILLIAM M. MARTIN, born in Rahway, N. J .; grad. N. Y. Univ., 1837, and Union Theol. Som., N. Y., 1840; lo- cated Woodbridge, N. J., 1852-'63; Columbia City, Cal., 1863 -'4; Virginia City, Nev., 1864-'7; Sec'y B'klyn Y. M. C. A., 1868-'76; Supt. B'klyn City Miss. and Tract Soc., 1878-'84; in 1863, in Chris. Com. Works.

Rev. JOHN ABEEL BALDWIN, born in New York, 1810; grad. Yale Coll., 1829, and Princeton Theol. Sem., 1834; located in Flatlands and New Lots, 1836-'52; Lancaster, Pa., 1852-'6; New Providence, 1857-'63; came to B'klyn, 1863; Pastor at Woodhaven, L. I., 1869.

Rev. DAVID LYME, born in Perthshire, Scotland, 1810; grad. St. Andrew's Univ., 1828; in theology, at St. Mary's Coll., St. Andrew's Univ., 1832; licensed to preach, 1833; Prof. Mathe- matics, etc .. in Columbia Coll. Gram. School; Principal B'klyn Pub. School No. 7, 1849-53; of No. 6, 1853; was Prin. of first evening sch., 1852; opened Eng. and class. scli., 1562; retired in 1871.

Rev. BENJAMIN G. BENEDICT, born in Patterson, N. Y., 1839; grad. La Fayette Coll., Pa., 1859, and Princeton Theol. Sem., 1866; located in Hopewell, N. Y., 1866-'74; B'klyn, 1876- 4.

Rev. OLIVER S. ST. JOHN, born in New York, 1814; grad. Amherst Coll., 1838; studied Hartford Theol. Sem., 1×40-'1; located Elizabethport, N. J., 1841-50; Prof. Latin and Greek, 1850-'4; located B'klyn, 1865-'84.

Rev. CHIARLES W. TAYLOR, born at Candor, N. Y .; grad. Union Coll., 1848, and Princeton Theol. Sem., 1853; was tutor in Union Coll .; located Ballston Center, Cambridge, Le Roy, B'klyn, 1878-'84.

Rev. JOHN GOTTFRIED HEHIR, born in Germany, 1853; grad. Acad. Dep't., 1878; Theol. Sch. Bloomfield, N. J., 1881; lo- cated B'klyn, 1882.

Rev. LOUIS EULNER, born in Hessen Cassel, Germany, 1815; Missionary Amer, and B'klyn Mission and Tract Soc., 1843-'84.

Rev. WILLIAM J. BRIDGES, born in Baltimore, Md., 1835; grad. Princeton Theol. Sem., 1875; located B'klyn, 1875-'84.

BAPTIST CHURCHES.

The First Baptist Church, cor. of Pierrepont and Clinton sts., represents, since April, 1873, two organizations, viz., the First Baptist Church, formerly located on the corner of Nassau and Liberty sts., and the Pierrepont St. Baptist Church, which formerly occupied a part of the present site. John Ellis, a Baptist preacher from Oyster Bay, L. I., seems to have attempted, during the winter of 1819-'20, to establish a church of this denomination in the village of Brooklyn. We have no further record of the results of his effort; but, during the prevalence of the yellow fever in New York, in the summer of 1822, among those who sought refuge in Brooklyn were two Baptists, viz., Eliakim Raymond (father of the late John H. Raymond, LL. D., first president of the Polytechnic Institute, and afterward president of Vassar College) and Elijah Lewis (father of Elijah Lewis, Jr., the well-known Long Island naturalist and active director of the L. 1. Hist. Soc.), who subsequently became one of Brooklyn's prominent merchants. Finding in the village five other Bap- tists, they commenced a prayer-meeting, occasionally pro- curing preaching for the twenty or thirty persons whom they could gather to hear a Baptist minister. Despite the subse- quent return of these two brethren to New York, after the pestilence had ceased, they still continued to strengthen the hands of the little band they had left in Brooklyn by fre- queut visits, often crossing the East River iu open boats, in all sorts of weather ; and by supplying preachers at their own cost, in which they were afterward joined by Mr. Wni. Winterton. On the 19th August, 1823, a church was fiunlly organized, with the following members : Charles P. Jacobs (Clerk), Richard and Hannah Jones, Joshua and Margaret Evans, Maria Cornell, Sarah Querean, Elizabeth Jacobs, Margaret Nostrand and Eliza Ann Rust.

Messrs. Raymond and Lewis continued their membership in New York, but gave their counsel and labor to the new

enterprise. The first communion service was held Sunday, Aug. 24, 1823, and the church was formally incorp. on the 16th of the following October, with Eliakim Raymond, Elijah Lewis, John Brown, Richard Poland and Chas. P. Jacobs as Trustees. Meetings continued to be held at private houses until 1824, when the use was secured of the First District School-house, on the site of the present Pub. S. No. 1, corner of Concord and Adams sts., and Rev. Wm. C. Hawley was set apart to the charge of the church in March of that year. Afterwards the congregation occupied the public school- house in Middagh st., until early in 1827, when (by the man- agement and strenuous exertions of Messrs. Raymond, Lewis and Corning) they had completed an edifice, 40 by 60 feet, without galleries, but ample for their wants at that time, which is still in existence, being occupied as a synagogue by the Jewish Congregation of Beth Elohim. Mr. Hawley was at this time receiving for his pastoral services at the rate of $11.22 a month. The first deacons of the church were Elijah Lewis, Gersham Howell and E. Raymond. Mr. Haw- ley was succeeded in the pastorate by Rev. Jos. A. Warne, 1928-'29; Rev. Geo. Colt and Rev. Josiah Denham, 1829-'80; Rev. J. E. Lascalle, 1830-'31; Rev. Leland Ilowell, 1533-'37. During his term (1834) the buikling was sold to the Calvary Free Episcopal Church, and a new one, cor. of Liberty and Nassau sts., was dedicated May 3, 1835. In June, 1857, the bass viol was ousted from the choir by an organ, not with- ont great opposition from the older members. In 1557, Rev. Silas Ilsley became Pastor; and, in April, 1840, 33 members were dismissed to form what was first known as the East, and later as the Pierrepont St. B. Ch., which was reunited to the parent church in 1873. In 1837, the Central B. Ch. w.R org. from this congregation, which, in 1848, with many others, suffered the loss of its edifice in " the great fire." But, by Nov., 1849, a new builling was ready for use, costing

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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

$16,000. Colonies were sent forth from the church, which stablished the Washington Ave. B. Ch. in 1851; and the Hanson Place B. Ch. in 1854.

The Pastors which succeeded Mr. Ilsley (who resigned Nov., 841, to take charge of the Wash. Ave. enterprise) were : Revs. Jas. L. Hodge, O. W. Briggs, in 1853; D. J. Yerkes, in Fuly, 1860; H. M. Gallaher, in Sept., 1864, during whose pas- orate the church edifice was twice enlarged and improved, und a parsonage purchased. In Sept., 1872, Mr. Gallaher was obliged by ill health to resign. Elijah Lewis, Sr., after service of 25 years as Superintendent of the Sabbath-school, lied in August, 1860, and was succeeded by Edward L. Brown.

In April, 1873, the Pierrepont St. B. Ch. was reunited with this church, and, in November following, the united body extended a call to Rev. J. B. Thomas, D. D., of Chicago, Ill., former Pastor of the former church, who commenced his du- ies Jan. 1, 1874. In Dec., 1873, the edifice was partially destroyed by fire, so that the church was obliged to worship n the Pierrepont st. building; and, in 1880, the property was sold, and the site is now occupied by the publishing estab- ishment of A. S. Barnes & Co.

Rev. JESSE B. THOMAS, D. D., was born at Edwardsville, Ill., July 29, 1832, a son of Judge Thomas, of the Supreme Court of Illinois. He grad. at Kenyon Coll., O., iu 1850; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He after- wards entered Rochester Theol. Sem .. but ill health obliged him to leave after a short time. In 1862, he entered the ministry at Waukegan, Ill. His subsequent locations were in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Chicago, returning to Brook- lyn Jan. 1, 1874. Dr. Thomas is a pungent and forcible speaker. He has a judicial mind, with great logical powers, and is very systematic. He is known as lecturer and author.

The Second Baptist Church, org. about 1830, with seven members, who at first worshiped in the " Brooklyn Acad- emy " on the corner of Henry and Pineapple streets. In 1834, a church edifice was erected on a leased lot, cor. of Tillary and Lawrence, at a cost of about $4,000. The Rev. Jacob Price, C. F. Frey, John Beetham (1839-'40), and Octavius Winslow (1836-'37), successively labored here; but whether any of them were settled as pastors is not ascertained. In the autumn of 1838, this church was dissolved, and the build- ing sold to the Free Presbyterian congregation.

PIERREPONT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.

Pierrepont Street Baptist Church was org. April, 1840, with 33 members from the First Church (See p. 1074,) by the name of the East Baptist Church. A building was hired at the cor. of Tillary and Lawrence sts., and the Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, under wnose labors the enterprise had commenced, became its Pastor. On the 20th of July, 1843, at the cor. of Pierrepont and Clinton sts., the corner-stone was laid of a brick edifice (Gothic style), on Pierrepont st., seventy-seven by sixty feet, which was finished in March, 1844, at a cost in- cluding lot of over $19,000. The church was org. as The Pierrepont St. B. Church, May 24, 1843, with the following Trustees: John Speir, Win. T. Dugan, Amos Allen, John West, Joseph Steele, John H. Smith, Geo. Gault, Gilbert Beam and Adam T. Tiebout. In 1847, thirty-eight members left the church to aid in forming the Central B. Church. In 1849, the Pastor, Rev. E. E. L. Taylor and fifty-four members left to form the Strong Place B. Church, and in 1854, others aided in establishing the Hanson Place B. Church.

In November, 1848, the Rev. Dr. Bartholomew Welsh, of Albany, N. Y., succeeded Mr. Taylor, and was followed June, 1854, by the Rev. Johu S. Holmes. He was followed by Rev. J. B. Thomas, D. D., who was installed July, 1864, and re- signed January, 1868; and he, by the Rev. Walter W. Ham- mond, who was installed September 10, 1868, and officiated until Feb., 1870, from which time, until 1873, the church was without a regular Pastor.

In 1873, this church and the First Baptist Church were con- solidated under the name of First Baptist Church. (See account of that church).

Soon after the consolidation, the interior of the church building of the First Church in Nassau street, in which the united congregation worshiped, was burned out, aud the Gothic edifice on the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton streets was occupied. Within a year the insurance company re- paired the church in Nassau street, and the congregation re- turned to it. In 1877, the erection of a new building on the

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site of the one in Pierrepont street was commenced, and, in 1×80, it was completed and dedicated.

It is a brick structure, trimmed with Oho free-stone, cost- ing with furniture, $65,000, and having a seating capacity of 1,800. The auditorium has the form of an amphitheater, with the pulpit and ($7,000) organ in one corner. The acoustic ar- rangement of this audience-room is nearly perfect, and the church is in many of its features unique. This is the only Bap- tist church in the city with an open Baptistry. The building was dedicated free from debt. The seats are free, and contri- butions voluntary.

The Young People's Association of the church numbers 300, and from it came the Y. P. B. Union, having selected organizations in all the Baptist churches in Brooklyn. The Sabbath-school (II. C. S. Jervis, Sup't) has 500 scholars, of whom 200 are in the Adult Bible Classes, and over 25 Chinese scholars.

Willoughby Avenue Baptist Church .- The first meeting of the Baptists of Bushwick was held April 5, 1851, for the pur- pose of organizing a Baptist Church in that vicinity. On April 25, 1854, a regular Board of Trustees was elected and ineorporated, and the church was organized with 25 consti- tuent members, and known as the First Baptist Church of Bushwick. They purchased their first house of worship from the Episcopal Society, for $1,600, and oeenpied it for twelve years, whea it became so dilapidated that they could use it no longer. They then moved temporarily to what was known as J. Whittlesey's Omnibus House, on B'way, (near the present Railroad engine house, near Sumner avenne,) which they ocenpied nearly one year. In the meantime, five lots were purchased on Willoughby ave., near Broadway (ninth Ward), on a portion of which the new church was erected and fitted up, at an expense of nearly $8,000. It is a framed structure, 74 by 35, one story in height, and capable of seating about four hundred persons. The interior is finished off in a neat and substantial manner, well heated and lighted, and in every respect well suited to the purpose to which it is devoted. In the rear of the main building is an extension, 14 feet deep, running entirely across, and divided into two apartments, the library and infant-class rooms respectively.

In May, 1866, they changed their name to Gethsemane Bup- tist Church : on Jan. 20, 1877, dedicated the new church building, situated on Willoughby avenne, near B'way; on Jan., 1873. enlarged the building to about the present size; August 1578, changed the name to Willoughby Arenue Baptist Church. Sabbath-school was organized May 2, 1854, and re- organized Jan. 9, 1862; at dedieation of the new Church, in 1867, numbered 164 scholars, and now numbers abont 800 scholars. The church edifice is 65x65; extension, 20x65; is a frame building; its seating capacity 500; approximate cost, $10,000.

Nov. 19, 1882, a mission-school was opened at Ridgewood, which now numbers over 100; and steps have already been taken towards building a church in that neighborhood.

Pastors: Sdas Ilsley, 1854; J. W. Daniels, 1856; W. H. Pendleton, 1857; J. B. Morse,' 1861; G. W. Folwell, 1862; Matthew C. Kempsey, 1863; Beriah N. Leach, 1865; Henry S. Stevens, 1867; A. D. Gillette, 1872; A. Stewart Walsh, 1473; A. H. Burlingham, 1878; Geo. T. Stansbury, 1879; R. B. Montgomery, 1880-'81. Present membership of Church, 525.

First German Baptist Church of Williamsburgh was or- ganized 1853; recognized by council, Jan. 10, 1854. Jere- miah Grimmell had gathered the first members. He was suc- rorded by Rev. W. Fasning who was Pastor for two years. It had grown to 70 members in 1873, when Rev. J. C. Grim-

mell was ealled, and the present house of worship on Mont- rose ave. was secured for a sum of $12,000. The church since then has grown to a membership of 310, besides giving letters of dismission to 60 members now forming the Har- rison Avenue German Baptist Church. Rev. Zachariah Martin entered upon the pastorate, Oet. 1, 1883.

The East Brooklyn Baptist Church (Bedford ave., north of Myrtle) was commenced by the labors of Rev. Mr. Wil- liams, and afterwards of Rev. Mr. Ballard, assembling first at the Academy, and subsequently at Temperance Hall, in Graham st .; was org. January 27, 1847.

In 1852, the church purchased three lots on Bedford ave., betw. Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, and erected thereon a church edifice, in the basement of which they commenced worship, Feb. 12, 1853. The edifice was completed and ded- icated on the 11th of October, 1855.

The following have been Pastors: Rev. William Hntchin- son, 1847; Rev. Henry Green, 1847; Rev. Arris Haynes, 1848; Rev. W. J. Goodno, 1852; Rev. Stephen Remington, 1954, and the present Pastor, Hiram Hutchins, D. D., 1859.

Lefferts Park Mission is also under charge of this church.

The South Baptist Church .- A church with this name was org. with seventy members, principally from the First Baptist Church, in April, 1845; and a small lecture-room building erected on Livingston st. The ehnrch, however, dissolved in the fall of 1847.

The present South Baptist Church is the youngest Baptist Church of this city. At a meeting of the Lee Avenue Bap- tist Church, of which Rev. J. Hyatt Smith was Pastor, held January, 1882, a unanimous call was extended to Rev. N. B. Thompson, late of Newport, R. I. The call was ar- cepted at a meeting held February 23, 1882. The Lee Ave- nue Baptist Church adjourned sine die. The body pres- ent, without Christian organization or name, was at once called to order; and, upon the election of proper officers for such a meeting, the same body at once declared themselves by vote and the permission of the Law of the State as the South Bap. Church of Brooklyn. Services were held in the building on Lee ave. until July, when the church held service in the chapel of All Souls' Universalist Ch. until Sept. Then Knickerbocker Hall, on Clymer st., near Bedford ave., was se- eured, where the elnirch continned to worship. In the mean- time, the property of the Fifth Bap. Ch., corner of Hooper st. and Harrison ave. was purchased and occupied Sept. 1, 123. The building is of stone, substantially built; will seat about 500 people. It cost the South Church $3,200. There are 336 names on church roll, and a Sunday-school of nearly 2(x) members.

The Central Baptist Church, Bridge st., between Myrtle ave. and Willoughby st., was org. 4th of October, 1847, with 90 members, a Sabbath-school having been formed, and preaching services and prayer-meetings sustained since the early part of the preceding spring. The congregation, which had previously occupied the second floor of " Granada Hall," on Myrtle ave .. between Bridge and Duffield sts., secured during its first year the lots which it now occupies, and ercc- ted a lecture room, sixty-two by thirty-two feet, at the rear of the property; the main building, fifty-eight by sixty-ight feet, being finished about the end of the second year, the whole costing about $18,000.

Jolin Wesley Searles, D. D. was Pastor of this church till 1879. Rev. Theo. A. K. Gessler assumed the pastorate Jan. 1, 1880; since which time about one hundred persons have been added to the membership of the church. During the summer of 1882 the church building and lecture-room were improved and enlarged, at an expense of about $5,000; and the present estimated vale of the property is $35,000.

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CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, E. D. (See page 1081).

o. of scholars in Sunday-school, 260; No. of officers and achers, 31.

Rev. THEODORE A. K. GESSLER was born in Phila., 1841; rad. Lewisburg Univ., 1864; Pres. N. J. Bapt. S. S. Union, 374-'80; located at West Farms, N. Y., 1864-'68; Elizabeth, . J., 1868-'80; enlisted in invasion of Pa., 1863.

The Strong Place Baptist Church .- In the month of ctober, 1847, some of the residents in South Brooklyn, then rapidly growing section of the city, established a Sunday- ·hool in a vacant house on Degraw st., near Columbia. mong them were Wm. M. Price, Truman Richards, Dr. . C. Burke, Mrs. D. P. Richards, Mrs. A. T. and Miss M. owner: and Mr. Geo. M. Vanderlip, a lieentiate of tlic liver St. B. Ch. and student in the University of New York, reached for them during the year 1848. In Oct., 1848, the hurch was duly org., with Edwin C. Burt, James E. South- orth and E. Darwin Littlefield as trustees. This was the eginning of the Strong Place Baptist Church, the organiza- on of which was completed in 1849. Most of the members t its organization were from the Pierrepont Street Baptist Church. In that year, a lecture-room, on the corner of trong place and Degraw st., was so far completed that ser- ices were hekl therein in January, 1849. This continued to e the place of worship till 1856, when the present church

edifiee was erected in front of the lecture- room, which was enlarged. This church is a brown-stone structure, finished in the Gothic style. The church has no debt.

In 1858, a number of members of this churel were dismissed, to form the Greenwood Bap- tist Church, and in 1862, fifty-five were dis- missed to participate in the formation of the Tabernacle Baptist Church.

The first Pastor was Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, in Nov. 1848, who resigned, on account of ill health, after serving the elureh efficiently during many years. He was sueceeded by Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt, who remained six years, and was followed by Galusha Ander- son, D. D., who resigned, after a pastorate of three years. Mr. Hoyt then became Pastor again.

In Feb., 1883, Rev. T. H. Kerfoot, D. D., accepted a unanimous call. During the nine years Rev. Dr. Kerfoot has been actively engaged in the work of the ministry, hc has acquired a national reputation as a learned and eloquent preacher; and, from the outset of his career, he has exerted an influence of more than ordinary weight in the denomi- nation of which he is now coneeded to be one of the leaders. He has been honored by being elected President of the Southern Bap- tist Convention. During his five years' labors in Baltimore the Eutaw Church grew so rapidly that two new churches were sent out, and great success attended his efforts in other directions.

The Strong Place Church is large and influ- ential, having a membership of 900 persons, and there are no pecuniary incumbrances on its property. It has a large and well organ- ized Sunday-school, and in addition to other beneficent works the members of the Strong Place Church contribute the money necessary for the maintenance of the Carroll Park Mis- sion Chapel.

Strong Placc (formerly known as Carroll St.) Mission was established by this church at an early day. The Chapel of the Mission, on Carroll st., near Hoyt, was dedicated on the 17th of January, 1864. It is a Gothic structure of brick, cap- able of holding 500 persons. Its arrangements are for con- venienee rather than architectural beauty. Its eost was $6,400, and it was dedicated free from debt.

The Washington Avenue Baptist Church originated in the efforts of Deacon Hepburn Clark, at whose house meetings were first held. In 1851, the property of a Duteh Reformed Church, on the corner of Washington and Gates aves., was purchased for $7,000, and the church was fully organized in December of that year. A church edifice was erected adjoin- ing the leeture-room in which the church had worshiped, and it was dedicated in February, 1860. In 1865, the old lee- ture-room was taken down, and in its place was erected a chapel combining Sunday-school room, church parlor and other rooms. In addition to their own Sunday-school this church has supported the Van Buren St. and the Herkimer St. Mission Schools.

In 1873-'4, the exterior of the church building was eom- pleted, by the ereetion of two graceful spires; and, since that time, much has been expended in beautifying the interior of the church. The structure has a seating capacity of 1,650.

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WASHINGTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.

The church has no debt, and during many years it has dis- pensed large sums for charitable and benevolent purposes. Its donations sometimes reach the amount of $100,000 in a year.

In 1872, the Marey Avenue Mission was established by this church, and is soon became an independent church.

In April, 1881, a colony from this church was organized as th , Emmanuel Baptist Church.

Ministry: Rev. J. L. Hodge, Sept., 185', to Dec., 1856; Rev. Courtland D. Anable, Dec. 11, 1856, to March 1, 1864; Rev. David Moore, Jr., March 1, 1864-'77; Rev. Emory J. Haynes, 1877-'84.

Rev. EMORY J. HAYNES, born at Cabot, Vt., 1846; grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1867; special four year conrse in theol .; Anthor of Are These Things So? and The Fairest of Three; located at Norwich, Ct., Fall River, B'klyn, 1872-84.

The Tabernacle Baptist Church was organized June 26, 1×62. It occupied the edifice on the corner of Rapelyea and Hicks sts., until it built the structure now standing on the corner of 3d place and Clinton st. The first Pastor was Rev. T. Edwin Brown, D. D., from November, 1862, to October, 1869. Rev. A. C. Osborn, D. D., December, 1869, to October, 1873; May, 1874, to April, 1878, Rev. Thomas Rambaut, D. D. December, 18;8, the present Pastor, Rev. Frank Rogers Morse, D. D., assumed charge of the church.

Since its organization this church has had connected with its membership nearly 1,400 different persons; and it has raised, for all purposes, nearly $200,000. It has always sus- tained a large and flourishing Sunday-school. For many years its superintendent has been Deacon Theodore Shotwell, a well-known citizen of our city. The President of its Board of Trustees is George B. Forrester, Esq., a prominent Baptist layman, and a rising business man.

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Civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Part 105

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909. Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : Munsell Number of Pages: 1360

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : Munsell
Number of Pages: 1360