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Elijah A. Coil, December 9, 1891.
George R. Gebauer from December 8, 1895, to March 3, 1898.
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THE WOMAN'S ALLIANCE
The local branch of the National Women's Auxiliary Conference of Unitarian and other liberal Christian churches was formed in March, 1881. In October, 1890, the name of the general association was changed to the National Alliance; and in 1913, it became simply The Alliance of Unitarian and other Liberal Christian Women. Of this local branch, Mrs. Fayette Smith was President from 1881 to 1895.
Subsequent Presidents have been :
Miss Fanny Field, 1895-1903. Mrs. E. H. Montieth, 1903-1905. Miss Fanny Field, 1905-1907. Mrs. William S. Sampson, Jr., 1907-1908. Mrs. John V. Lewis, 1908-1911. Miss Jessie Gardner, 1911-1913. Mrs. Davis L. James, 1913-1915. Miss Jessie Gardner, 1915.
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TRUSTEES OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
1876-77-Alphonzo Taft, Robert Hosea, William Wiswell, John Kebler, John D. Caldwell, Fayette Smith. Fayette Smith, Treasurer.
1877-78-Fayette Smith, President; Theodore Stanwood, Michael Tempest,
John D. Caldwell, F. W. Clark, Zeph Brown. Zeph Brown, Treasurer. 1880-81-M. E. Ingalls in place of F. W. Clark.
1882-83-Fayette Smith, Theodore Stanwood, Charles A. Kebler, George H. Hill, M. E. Ingalls, Aaron B. Champion. Charles A. Kebler, Treasurer. 1883-84-Melville E. Ingalls, Theodore Stanwood, Aaron B. Champion,
Charles A. Kebler, Herman Duhme, Edward Goepper. Edward Goepper, Treasurer.
1884-85-No change.
1885-86-M. E. Ingalls, A. B. Champion, Edward Goepper, Charles A. Kebler, Herman Duhme, James B. Stanwood.
1888-M. E. Ingalls, Joseph W. Wayne, Joseph Wilby, Edward Goepper,
A. B. Champion, Stephen H. Wilder. Harold Ryland, Assistant Treasurer.
1889-No change.
1890-91-M. E. Ingalls, Joseph W. Wayne, Joseph Wilby, Edward Goepper, Stephen H. Wilder, George Hoadly, Jr.
1892-Ingalls, Wayne, Wilby, Goepper, Wilder, and Gerrit S. Sykes. 1893-Ingalls, Wayne, Wilby, Goepper, Sykes, vacancy. Joseph Wilby, Treasurer, 1894 to 1910.
1895-Ingalls, Wayne, Wilby, Goepper, Sykes, George Thornton Second.
1896-The same Board, except Albert G. Corre in place of Thornton.
1897-No change.
1900-Henry C. Peters in place of Corre.
1901-No change.
1902-James B. Stanwood, in place of Wayne.
From 1903 to 1908-No change.
1909-Frank D. Jamison in place of Sykes.
1910-Casper H. Rowe, in place of Peters.
1911-Ingalls, Stanwood, Jamison, Rowe, Thomas B. Punshon, Arthur C. Johnson. F. D. Jamison, Treasurer.
1912-L. A. Ault, Stanwood, Jamison, Punshon, Johnson, Robert Hoch- stetter.
1913-Ault, Stanwood, Jamison, Punshon, Johnson, Hochstetter, Davis L. James.
1914-Arthur H. Morse in place of Johnson.
1915-The same Board.
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1916-Hochstetter, President; James, Clerk, Abbot A. Thayer, Treasurer; James B. Stanwood, Mrs. N. A. Lloyd, Howard P. Warren, William R. Wood.
Earlier records have not been found except in fragmentary form.
Charles D. Dana was Treasurer in 1830 to 1834.
John C. Vaughan was Treasurer later.
The Trustees in 1838-39, were Nathan Hastings, John C. Vaughan, Charles Fisher, Benjamin Urner, John S. Child.
In 1839, Benjamin Urner, William Donaldson, Timothy Walker, John C. Hill, J. S. Child.
PEW OWNERS IN 1830
The following names appear upon the book of the Treasurer of the church, in July, 1830, as purchasers of pews:
Jedediah Cobb $90
Rukard Hurd
80
Isaiah Whitman 80
Jesse Smith . 120
Jordan 180
Clark and Sprigman 115
Timothy Kirby 150
Samuel E. Foote. 105
W. W. Appleton
100
Thomas Lee 135
Nathan Guilford. 175
Benjamin Urner 200
Allison Owen 190
Calvin Fletcher 180
Charles Fisher 135
Rice and Chamberlain
130
Isaiah Thomas, Jr
100
SUBSCRIPTIONS IN 1830
Elisha Brigham $500
Christian Donaldson & Co .. 300
Robert B. Bowler 275
Benjamin Urner 200
Jedediah Cobb 100
Josiah Whitman 100
Allison Owen. 100
George Carlisle 200
Isaiah Thompson 50
William Greene. $500
Smith & Co. 200
Thomas W. Bakewell 200
Nathan Guilford. 300
Jephtha D. Garrard 100
Caleb Bates 200
William S. Sampson.
100
Wm. P. Rice and Wm. E.
Chamberlain .
50
.
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William Barnes $160
William Greene 200
Caleb Bates. 190
Thomas H. Yeatman 150
Timothy Flint. 100
Charles Stetson 200
William S. Sampson 200
Robert B. Bowler 200
Thomas Bakewell, 2 pews, each $175. 350
Christian Donaldson and Co.
2 pews, at $175 350
George Carlisle 170
Subscriptions to payment of the church debt, without date, but probably between 1830 and 1840:
Charles Stetson $1000
William S. Sampson 100
C. Donaldson and Co 1000
Thomas G. Lea 50
Charles Fisher 500
John R. Child. 50
R. B. Bowler 500
George H. Hill. 50
Edmund Dexter 500
Joseph Bates 25
William Greene
500
Thomas Newell. 25
Thomas W. Bakewell
300
Timothy Walker
250
William Goodman 25
Z. Thayer 200
Nathan Hastings 50
George Carlisle 200
Caleb Allen
25
Parkhurst. 175
. J. Lea 50
Davis B. Lawler 150
Rowland Ellis 20
Calvin Fletcher 100
Charles D. Dana
25
Nathan Guilford 100
Joseph Rawson. 30
Rukard Hurd .
100
Paul Anderson
20
Joseph Sampson
100
SIGNERS OF THE COVENANT IN 1855
Names of signers to the Covenant adopted in Mr. Liver- more's ministry :
William Greene
John H. Osborne
William Goodman
Henry Shreve
John R. Child
John White
John Kebler
Fayette Smith
William L. Aldrich
S. H. Longley
John G. Anthony
Robert Hogue
M. Hazen White
John Colquhoun
Robert Hosea
Samuel Davis, Jr.
Eliza D. Wilder
Joseph Rawson
Anne R. Anthony
Abiel A. Livermore
Elizabeth D. Livermore
W. F. Aldrich
Charlotte L. Thomlinson
John J. Taylor
Margaret O. Spencer
Charles Stetson
Anna R. Spencer
Albert H. Allen
Ellen Manly
William S. Sampson, Jr.
Mrs. J. Peters
James Mullen
Hannah L. Brown
Mary M. White
Ellen D. Dana
Mary D. DeGraw
Sallie Ellis
Eliza A. Russell
Clara C. Pratt
R. R. Stetson George Carlisle
John DeGraw
Henry Twitchell
Sarah P. Dana
J. A. James Jonathan Mullen
. Mary Louise DeGraw Manning F. Force
Charlotte Carey L. E. A. Kebler
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Monel 25
Anne Ryland Louisa M. Keckeler A. B. Calhoun Mary A. Price Elizabeth Price Anna Eddowes Mary W. Hill Deborah Hill Caroline H. Allen
Paul Anderson
Henry Wescott
Jenny Logan Mary Wright E. W. Crowther Gilbert Pryor
A. H. Burckardt
N. D. Root R. W. Root
Ellen M. Riley
Joseph Merrill James F. Rhodes
William H. Coolidge John M. Edwards
Sophy A. Whetstone
Elizabeth Coolidge
A. B. Williams
Ruth H. Williams L. F. Potter Lydia Potter
M. C. Lea James W. Ward
P. Leonhard
Alphons W. Blinn
Samuel E. Mudge
D. I. Manly William Spencer H. N. Hosea
H. E. Hosea J. B. Russell
Mary H. Russell
Samuel Reuss
George Hoadley, Jr. S. Meta Spencer S. A. Moore
A. C. Moore E. S. Wiswell Annie Gay Rebecca H. Sampson
William S. Sampson Elizabeth Sampson Fanny Mullen S. W. Haseltine Minerva N. Haseltine
J. N. Laboyteau
William R. Sarle
Harriet E. Sarle
Sophia F. Stewart
M. F. Sampson E. G. Eaton
E. J. Adams
William D. R. Graham
Rhoda A. Graham
Abigail Hastings
Catharine Hastings
Susan T. Brigham
Anna I. Aldrich
Elizabeth Aldrich
Susan Aldrich
Anna J. Aldrich
Mary H. Smith
John B. Hatch
Catharine M. Coolidge
Elizabeth D. Field
Elizabeth D. Allen
Alphonse A. Brunner
J. C. Christin W. S. Carnahan Josiah Bridge
N. R. Meader
M. T. Meader
M. Louisa Meader
Robert Montgomery
A. G. Negley James W. Bryan J. O. Eaton
John R. Child, Jr.
Sallie A. Webster
A. O. Tylor
Emily Tylor
Agnes Thompson
Nannie Burget
Eliza Jane Brown
L. Currier
Mary W. Boynton
Charles Fisher J. R. Fisher
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N. Morrill Mary B. Morrill Annie S. Hooper Jeremy Peters Ada A. Coffin Rebecca S. Coolidge Jacob P. Whetstone
Mary J. Coolidge Mary B. Robert William B. Pierce E. F. Pierce L. R. Johnson
Hannah R. Child Seth Evans
Winifred M. Evans
Mary E. Smith
Abby B. Greene
Eleanor Bridge
Jenny C. Trotter
Mary E. Brickett
Esther H. Brickett
E. W. Parkhurst
Harriet M. Hartshorn
R. B. Field
Elizabeth Lea Ewing
Delia Newell
Emilie U. Addleman
Marian Nichols
. Emma Bateman
Barton White
Mary A. James
SUBSCRIBERS IN 1890
Subscribers to the completion of the church and purchase of an organ, Reading Road and Linton Street, February 22, 1890: M. E. Ingalls $3000.00
Mrs. Frederick Eckstein and Frederick Eck- stein, Jr.
651.90
Mrs. Charles Schmidlapp 600.00
George H. Hill . 500.00
Joseph W. Wayne. 500.00
J. D. Buck. 100.00
Mrs. Herman Duhme. 100.00
Mrs. Elizabeth Zinn and Charles Davis. 125.00
Herman and Edward Goepper . 300.00
Mrs. T. T. Haydock 300.00
W. H. Forwood 200.00
Aaron B. Champion
170.00
Mrs. George N. Stone 100.00
Robert Hosea
125.00
John W. Hartwell Elizabeth S. Hartwell George A. Wheeler C. Wheeler W. H. Wright S. H. Davis
Lucy A. Davis
W. L. Mallory
William Wiswell, Jr.
Sarah Wiswell
A. H. Lewis
Sarah M. Lewis
William H. Wiswell
Almera A. Wiswell
C. Elizabeth Young Lewis Worthington Sallie A. Worthington
John C. Trotter
Julietta D. Littell
J. William Hartwell
Frances Child Mary Rawson
A. Halsey Nichols
Joshua D. Dickson
Elizabeth Urner
D. Nobbs
Joseph Wilby $100.00
L. B. Harrison. 100.00
E. Cortlandt Williams 100.00
Fayette Smith 100.00
George Thornton . 125.00
C. D. Robertson 100.00
Morris and Stephen Wilder . 500.00
Mrs. Frederick Lunken- heimer 100.00
R. B. Field. 100.00
J. G. Schmidlapp 100.00
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James B. Stanwood $75.00
John W. Miller
$25.00
Julius Balke.
50.00
Miss Elizabeth Goepper . . 20.00
Harold Ryland
25.00
W. E. Brotherton. 10.00
Ellen M. Patrick. 25.00
Edmund E. Wood 10.00
Daniel and C. B. Fithian
25.00
Jules Sarran 10.00
J. Frank Hill
25.00
William Lodge. 10.00
Gerritt S. Sykes
25.00
Louis W. Hoffman 5.00
George W. Nye.
25.00
W. Linn DeBeck. 5.00
Henry B. Lupton .
25.00
Frederick L. Steele
5.00
Edward R. Anthony . . .
25.00
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MEMORIAL WINDOW, MAY, 1900
Timothy Flint (Miss Phoebe Baker)
William Greene and Abigail Lyman Greene (Annie, Harry and Frederick Roelker)
Timothy Walker (Mrs. Susan W. Longworth)
Elisha Brigham (Miss Ellen P. Sampson)
George Carlisle (John Carlisle, Mrs. Charles Mendenhall)
Robert B. Bowler (Robert S. Bowler)
Nathan Guilford (Nathan Guilford)
Edmund Dexter (Edmund G. Dexter)
Charles Stetson, Rebecca R. Stetson (Frank A. Lee)
Wm. Goodman (Mrs. Learner B. Harrison)
Charles Fisher (Mrs. John A. Tweedy)
James Handasyd Perkins, Sarah Elliott Perkins (Charles E. Perkins) William S. Sampson (Ellen P., and William S. Sampson, Jr .; Mrs. Annie Woodruff)
Samuel Davis (Mrs. William H. Davis)
Rowland Ellis (Frank R. Ellis)
John R. Child, Hannah R. Child (Miss Mary Rawson)
James Ryland, Anne Ryland (Mrs. Mary Russell, Harold Ryland)
Davis B. Lawler (Davis L. James)
Rukard Hurd (Ethan O. Hurd, Mrs. Richard Folsom)
Charles D. Dana, Sarah Lyman Dana (Charles Dana) Francis Donaldson (Francis Donaldson)
John G. Anthony, Annie R. Anthony (Edward R. Anthony)
William D. Gallagher (The Unity Lecture Committee)
Edward Page Cranch (Davis L. James) Richard B. Field, Elizabeth Dana Field (Fannie, Elsie and Walter Field) Joseph Rawson (Miss Mary Rawson) Jacob Hoffner (Mrs. Jacob Hoffner)
John K. Coolidge (Mrs. Nathan Hill)
George H. Hill (Mrs. Alice H. Brown and Mrs. Sophie Boyd)
John W. Hartwell (Mrs. Carrie H. Fiske)
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ORDER OF SERVICES AT THE DEDICATION OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITARIAN CHURCH, OF CINCINNATI, READING ROAD AND LINTON STREET, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1889, AT 7.30 O'CLOCK. 1830-1889.
I. Organ Voluntary.
II Choral (Old Hundred), to be sung by the Congre- gation, standing.
Be Thou, O God, exalted high, And as Thy glory fills the sky, So let it be on earth displayed, Till Thou art here as there obeyed.
III. Responsive service, by Minister, Rev. Chas. J. K. Jones, of Louisville, and the Congregation.
How lovely are Thy dwellings, O Lord of Hosts.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house: they will still be praising Thee.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee, in whose heart are Thy ways.
For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
I was glad when my companions said unto me, come, it is our holy day.
Let us go into the house of the Lord, let us take sweet counsel together.
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Reading Road and Linton Street -- 1889
Let our feet stand within His gates, and heart and voice give thanks unto Him.
Blessed be the temple hallowed by His name, pray for peace within its walls.
Peace to young and old that enter here. Peace to every soul abiding therein.
For friends and brethren's sake, I will never cease to say: Peace be within thee.
What though for Him, who filleth heaven and earth, there can be no dwelling made with hands!
What, though His way is in the deep, and His knowledge too wonderful for us!
O Lord, when we cry unto Thee from the deep, and wait for Thee as they that wait for the morning!
Thou wilt have regard to our entreaty: the sigh of the lowly Thou wilt not despise.
Let the dead and the living praise Thee, O God, above, below; let all the generations praise Thee.
Let angels in the height praise Thee, who dwellest in the heavens.
Let Thy church on earth praise Thee, the delight of whose wisdom is the children of men.
O, house of the Lord's praise, peace be to them that love Thee. IV. Prayer, to be said by Minister and People.
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
V. Choral response by Choir.
Glory be to God, most high, the ever blessed Father, Who is, and was, and shall be, world without end. Amen.
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VI. Anthem Duet. The Lord is my Shepherd.
VII. Selection from the Old Testament, by Rev. David Philipson, of Mound Street Temple.
VIII. Hymn. Written for this dedication by Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton. Read by Rev. E. W. Whitney, of the Universalist Church.
(Tune, Arlington. The Congregation will rise and sing.)
Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Ps. cxxvii., 1.
Our Father, here our ark we rest, Our temple walls we rear; O, may the place by Thee be blest, Thy mercy seat be here.
Except the shaping hand be Thine, In vain our work is done; Make strong these beams, with love divine, Make faith our corner stone.
Lord, while these walls we dedicate, O, consecrate each will Upon Thy call to haste or wait, To work Thy bidding still.
Be with us in this holy place, And in our daily lives; In chanted hymn we'll render praise, In soul, that silent strives.
Then let the path be long or brief, We can not go astray; In gleam of joy or cloud of grief, Thou leadest day by day.
IX. Selections from New Testament, by Rev. A. G. Jen- nings, of Toledo.
X. Dedication prayer, by Rev. Frederick L. Hosmer, of Cleveland.
XI. Response by the Choir.
XII. Sermon by Rev. Minot J. Savage, of Boston.
XIII. Anthem, Benedictus in E.
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XIV. Dedication Sentences, to be read by the Minister of this Church, Rev. George A. Thayer, and the Congre- gation, all standing.
We have built this house to be a house of prayer, a house of thought, a house of love, and of united action.
We now dedicate it to these high uses.
We dedicate it to the worship and love of God, in Whom we live, and move, and have our being.
We dedicate it to the love of man, to the spreading of the gospel of peace and good will which Jesus taught, and to all that may bless and uplift human lives.
We dedicate it to free and earnest thought, to the study of truth, to an ever increasing insight, to an ever advancing knowledge.
To the Holy Spirit of purity and love, to the sweet breathing of God in our hearts, to the Spirit of Christian Communion, we dedicate this place.
And may the blessing of the Infinite Father crown our work.
O Lord, establish Thou the work of our hands upon us. Yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it.
XV. Hymn, written for this dedication by Mrs. Virginia G. Ellard. Read by Rev. Judson Fisher, of Unity Church.
(Tune, Marlow. To be sung by the Congregation, standing.)
O Lord, from out the builder's hand, We consecrate to Thee This house of prayer, and trust its walls Thy fitting shrine may be.
O let Thy benediction rest Upon our worship here And may we feel with reverent hearts, Thy holy presence near.
But better than in walls of stone, Thy temple shall be found, Within the throbbing heart of man, Where love and grace abound.
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The altar's flame, when kindled bright With pure aspiring thought, Will light the soul to truer bliss Than earthly pleasures brought.
For warm in every human life Shall glow the spark divine. Redeemed by truth, our eyes shall see, Thy glory which is Thine.
XVI. Benediction by the Minister of the Church. Choral, Amen.
Trustees and Building Committee of the Church
M. E. Ingalls A. B. Champion Joseph W. Wayne
Joseph Wilby Edward Goepper Stephen H. Wilder
Minister George A. Thayer
Choir Organist, F. D. Jamison
Miss Alice Goepper Miss Frances L. Taft Joseph Wilby Charles L. Harrison
The pews will be rented by auction, on Saturday Evening March 30, at 8 o'clock
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