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WASHINGTON ST. METHODIST.
The pioneer Methodist preacher in Columbia was Rev. Isaac Smith, who, in 1787, was in the prac- tice of visiting the Methodist Epis- copal churches in Richland District. Next came Rev. John Harper, who was the father of Chancellor Har-
The Young Men's Christian Asso- per. In 1804 the first "Washington ciation of Columbia was organized St. Methodist Church" was built. in this city in July, 1885, and under This building was afterwards en- the efficient management of its Pre- larged. In 1832, under the auspices sident, Prof. D. B. Johnson, and of Rev. Wm. Capers, D. D., who be- others, has increased its member- came Bishop, a large substantial ship from twenty to over two hun- brick house was consecrated to the dred members. It has passed from worship of God by Bishop Andrew. the embryo stage to a healthy plant, This was destroyed in the general and is now drawing many young conflagration, and in August, 1866, a men under the shade of its branch- small chapel, built on the site of the es-its moral. mental, social, and old lecture room, was dedicated by physical features. Rev. Wm. Martin.
Through the liberality of its many
In 1867 the Revs. D. J. Simmons patrons, funds were raised for the and Wm. Martin were appointed co- rental and furnishing of four rooms. pastors of this and the Marion St. In June, 1886, a General Secretary Church-the two charges being was employed, who is devoting his united. In 1868 Rev. Wm Martin entire time to the further develop- ment of the work. was appointed pastor of the Wash- ington St. Methodist Church, and
The rooms are opened daily from requested to solicit subscriptions to 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., Sunday excepted. rebuild the burnt church. Subse- The reading room is open to the quently the Rev. Wm. Martin was public, and on its files can be found appointed agent for rebuilding the
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church. By his influential and earn- The older Parishes in the Diocese est labors, a large sum was raised. were all founded by acts of the As- By September, 1871, the corner- sembly, under the Colonial Govern- stone of the present edifice was laid ment, between the years 1704 and by Rev. Lovick Pierce. D. D., who 1788.
At commencement of the Rector-
had been pastor of the church in 180S. The building now completed ship of the late Dr. Shand, which is a handsome and imposing struc- began in 1834, and comprised the ture, with a seating capacity of long period of fifty-two years, Trini- seven hundred. The membership ty numbered only six families. At numbers 426. The church is in a present there are 117 in union with prosperous condition, with a flour- the Parish, besides a good number ishing Sunday-school, in charge of whohave united with Trinity's young Capt. L. D. Childs. The present pastor is Rev. W. A. Richardson.
daughter, the church of the Good Shepherd. Under the long and faith- ful ministry of Rev. P. J. Shand, D. D., the Parish gathered strength from
MARION ST. M. E. CHURCH.
Forty years ago the congregation year to year, so that when the con- of. the Washington St. M. E. Church gregation celebrated their Rector's had grown too large for accommoda- fiftieth anniversary, on February 10, tion in the old building, and Rev. 1884, Trinity was the fourth Parish Win. Martin was the instrument in in strength in the Diocese, though forming the Marion St. Church, her elder sisters in the low country which was dedicated December 31, had a hundred years the start of 1848, by Bishop Capers, and two her. years later its congregation became During the last decade of his Rec- a separate organization from the torship, Dr. Shand was assisted by mother church. The first addition the Rev. J. H. Stringfellow and the to this church was a young girl, Rev. H. O. Judd. Mr. Judd became who is now the mother of six chil- assistant minister in May, 1879, and dren, all members of the same succeeded Dr. Shand as Rector in church. The church building has November, 1886. a seating capacity of 650 and a
Of the Rev. Dr. Shand, it need membership of 250, with a flourish- only be said here that he died full of ing Sunday-school, from whom five years and honors, after a life of ministers have gone forth to preach Christian precept and example. the gospel. A handsomely finished Ill health compelled Mr. Judd to two-story parsonage adjoins the resign in October, 1887, amid the re- church. The present pastor is Rev. grets of his flock. Marion Dargan.
TRINITY CHURCH.
In December, 1887, Mr. Judd was succeeded by the present incumbent, Rev. Ellison Capers, under whose ministrations the church is flourish- ing.
Admitted into union with the Con- vention of the Diocese of South Carolina in 1813, Trinity was the The present church edifice is one second Parish organized after the of the handsomest in the State. war of the Revolution, St. Paul's The Sunday-school building near Radcliffeboro, Charleston, having by is a neat structure, which owes been previously admitted in 1810. its existence to the enterprise of sev-
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eral active members of the church. material aid towards making present The school numbers about 125 schol- additions and improvements to the ars and 12 teachers.
building. The number of communi-
The Ladies' Aid Society dispenses cants is about 90. Sunday-school 95, charity to the poor, and visits the Industrial School 33. sick and afflicted.
The beautiful cemetery of Trinity is the resting place of many of the honored dead of the city and of the State. Here Gen. Peter Horry is eu- tombed; here repose the remains of South Carolina's sweetest and great- est poet, Henry Timrod ; bere rest the learned Professors Blackburn, Parr, Cooper, Henry, and LaBorde, of the South Carolina College. Here sleep in cold marble 'Hamptons and Prestons and Taylors and Goodwyns and Guignards and Gibbeses and Starks and Fishers and Trezevants and Generals State Rights Gist and Winder and John Waties and Wm. Reynolds and Chancellor Carroll and Surgeon Darby and Rev. C. Bruce Walker and the beloved Rector of more than fifty years, and other good and true men as well as noble women, whose names are borne in Columbia in grateful memory.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
EBENEZER LUTHERAN.
The Rev. E. B. Hort, who died January 14, 1863, was for twenty years the pastor of this church-he and Dr. Bachman having performed service for the first time on Novem- ber 19, 1843. The next pastor was the sturdy Rev. A. R. Rude, under whose sound ministry the church grew un- til the burning of Columbia, when the torch of the enemy destroyed the building.
The Rev. A. R. Rude resigned in 1874. and Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh be- gan his ministry and continued it until about the year 1877. Rev. A. R. Rude was recalled from Texas and served as pastor until 1882. His successor was Rev. J. B. Haskell; who was pastor until his death in June. 1884. Rev. A. J. Bowers was elected pastor and began his services in August, 1884. He resigned in August, 1886.
Rev. M. M. Kinard, the present Rev. H. O. Judd. while pastor of pastor, was elected September 26, Trinity Church, a few years since 1886, while he was yet a student in established a lecture service and the Theological Seminary at New- Sunday school in the northeastern berry. S. C. He continued there part of the city, and to this was until June, 1887, during which time added an industrial school. In 1883 Rev. Dr. J. Steck served the church a chapel was built. a permanent mis- as supply. sion formed, and Rev. Dr. Foote, of Rev. Mr. Kinard was ordained in Rochester. N. Y., put in charge. Rev. Ebenezer church July 10, 1887, bv Alex. R. Mitchell succeeded in 1885, Rev. S. T. Hallman. President of S. and a Parish wasorganizedin March, C. Synod, assisted by Revs. E. A. 1886. The "Guild of the Good Shep- Bolles, Dr. G. W. Holland, and J. E. herd,"in its charitable and industrial Berley. He was installed as pastor workings, has been a great auxiliary on evening of same day. The church for good. This church has received is in an encouraging condition, with the support and attendance of many a flourishing Sunday-school, and a of the railroad men of that section number of living and active societies of the city, and this assistance is a that are doing excellent work.
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ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN.
On the 22d of November, 1886, a number of Lutherans decided to form a second church of that faith here, and Dec. 12th following a church was organized with 45 members, the government of the S. C. Synod adopted, and regular officers elected, Reverends Edwin A. Bolles, J. A. Sligh and C. P. Boozer aiding in the work. Rev. J. Hawkins, D. D., officiated as pastor for a year, and Dec. 8th, 1887, Rev. E. A. Wingard was installed. A lot at the corner of Bull and Blanding streets has been purchased, and Feb. 6th. ground was broken for a chapel, 40 by 62 feet, the designs for which have been drawn by Frank Niern- see, after the gothic style of archi- tecture. It will have a seating ca- pacity for 300, and the church starts off with a hopeful outlook.
ST. PETER'S R. C. CHURCH.
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church was organized here in 1824, and the edifice on Assembly street erected at that time, having since had liberal additions. The present membership is about 500, and the parochial school is in charge of the Ursuline Sisters. Rev. James Fullerton, the present spiritual shepherd, is a native of Ireland, was educated by the Bene- dictine Fathers at Philadelphia and
lina's capital had its beginning in the spring of 1794. The church was organized that year, and Mr. David E. Dunlap was in 1795 duly installed pastor of the church. Mr. Dunlap served for ten years until his death in 1804. Although, according to Dr. Ramsay, in his history of South Carolina, the Presbyterian was "a numerous and wealthy congrega- tion," yet there was no successor of Mr. Dunlap until 1810, when the Rev. John Brown, D. D., was en- gaged as minister. Following these have come 27 diff rent names, in- cluding the present pastor, Neander M. Woods. Rev. N. M. Woods is a Kentuckian, and graduate of Union Theological Seminary of Virginia. He has been fifteen years in the min- istry, and two years in his present charge. There were 70 names add- ed to the church rolls for the year ending March 31, 1887, and the to- tal membership at present is over 300. The steeple of the church was blown down in 1875, and work is now in process for the reconstruc- tion of this and other needed repairs, which will cost about $7,000. The original cost of the structure was about $30,000.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN.
The Second Presbyterian was be- gun as a mission Sunday-school Dec. ordained to the priesthood in 1870, 23, 1883, and the interest increased shortly afterwards coming to Colum- until a building was erected and de- bia, where he has ever since been in dicated Feb. 28, 1885. About a year charge. This church, like all the later the church was organized with older churches of the city, has its ad- 22 constituting members, and Dr. J. joining grave-yard, but a half dozen L. Girardeau chosen as pastor. Rev. years since secured a burial site near G. A. Blackburn became the spirit- Elmwood, which is known as St. ual shepherd July 1, 1887, although Peter's Cemetery.
Dr. Girardeau still continues to preach a portion of the time. Rev. Blackburn is a native of Tennessee, reared in Alabama, graduated from
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CORNER MARION AND LADY STREETS. Presbyterianism in South Caro- a literary course at Clarksville,
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Tenn., and took his theological EDGEWOOD SUNDAY-SCHOOL. course at the Columbia Theological COLUMBIA CITY MISSION. Seminary. This church excludes
Through the carnest efforts of H. instrumental music from its wor- G. Guerry and L. D. Childs, a mis- ship, is strict in its discipline, and is supported by the tithes and offerings of its members. sion was established in the suburbs of town, known as Edgewood, in 1884. The good work grew apace, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. and in the spring of '86 a chapel, with seating capacity for 400, was erected. The school has increased voted superintendency of Mr. Childs and now numbers over 140. The church services are conducted by Rev. S. J. Vaughan, of the Metho-
The Baptist church of Columbia was organized in 1807, and for many in numbers rapidly under the de- years occupied the old building on Plain street. Early in the fifties a movement was put on foot for the erection of the present handsome and commodious brick structure, dist Church. which was built at a contract price of $27,000, and finished about 1854. This was the building used in Dec., 1860, by the Secession Convention, but on account of the small pox epidemic breaking out in Columbia about that time, the Convention adjourned to Charleston, where the ordinance was passed Dec. 20th, 1860, which for five bloody years severed South Carolina from her allegiance to the United States. pass to the consideration of other
All of the city churches have Sun- day-schools about in accordance with their church membership, and in addi- tion to the foregoing churches which we have mentioned in detail, the ne- gro race have some eight or ten regu- lar church organizations and com- modious houses of worship. Park church, now nearing completion, is especially worthy of mention, but our space is exhausted and we must matters.
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On page 6 we have given a sum- mary of manufacturing inducements. Page 18 shows an outline of the $30,000, and the membership is about growth of these establishments in 170. Rev. W. C. Lindsay, of Vir- our State during the present decade. ginia. has been pastor for ten years Other pages refer to transportation past, and the church appears to be and facilities, and in the following prospering.
ASSEMBLY ST. M. E. CHURCH
pages we propose to give a detailed account of the leading industries of Columbia. It is eminently proper in a descriptive review of this char-
Was built some four years ago under the ministrations of Rev. L. acter that the men, or corporations, M. Little, and a class organized who have really done something, who which is preached to by Rev. S. J. have ventured their time and means Vaughan. The Sunday-school is to the establishment of industrial flourishing under the superinten- works, and liberally dispensed their dency of A. M. Boozer.
money in our midst for the con-
When the Federal troops invaded the city in 1865, the old church, then used as a Sunday-school room, was burned under the misapprehension that it was the one in which Seces- sion had been debated. The present church, with grounds, is worth over
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struction of buildings, salary to firm by the Reading Iron Works, of employees, and purchase of ma- Pennsylvania. This machine re- terial, should have a deserving quired 16 flat cars for its transpor- mention in these pages. Such in- tation, and is conceded by experts stitutions risk large sums of money to be one of the best, giving a pres- in buildings and machinery, sur- sure of 4,500,000 pounds. It will rounded by inflammable or. com- reduce a 500 pound bale of cotton to bustible materials, and it is but due 8 inches in thickness, at a rate of that they should receive good per- 100 bales per hour. The railroads centages as a reward for their great pay 50 cents per bale for this reduc- risks, heavy outlay of capital and tion, as it greatly facilitates the con- business tact required in their opera- venience of transportation to North- tion. As these industries use up the ern cities, and is an absolute essen- raw materials of the country at re- tial for shipment to European ports. munerative prices and dispense large The original platforms were built amounts in weekly wages, which 103x205 feet, and in '85 an addition of revert to the tills of our merchants 63x205 was added, making the sheds and mechanics, the municipality can and platforms now cover almost an well afford to give them liberal in- acre of ground. A system of fire ducements in the way of exemption protection has been put in position, from taxation or other subsidies. We reiterate what we have said be- giving four plugs and abundant hose, which is always attached, ready for fore, that on thriving manufacturing use. This is doubtless the largest industries the growth and continued and finest machinery of its kind in prosperity of our city largely de- the State of South Carolina, and is a pends, and to Capt. R. S. Desportes, monument worthy of the enterprise Capt.C. J. Iredell, Col. Geo. K. Wright, of its builders. The Compress Com- and other influential members of the pany owus a similar mill at Chatta- Board of Trade and Council, who are nooga, Tenn., and in each place have zealously working for our upbuild- switches, which give access to all the ing in that direction, the city is railroads centering there. M. Grant, largely indebted for its present bright outlook for coming prosperity and future permanency.
COTTON COMPRESS COMPANY, 3 BLOCKS S. OF DEPOT,
For Repressing of Cotton Bales.
of Chattanooga, is president, H. W. Grant, of the same place, vice presi- dent. Dr. J. S. Dunn, the secretary and treasurer, is a native Tennesee- an, and has been in charge as super- intendent and manager in Colum- bia since the erection of the works tial employment to about 50 men,
During the summer season of 1884 here. The business here gives par-
a site was secured where all of the railroads could centre, and the Co- but is scarcely run to one-third of lumbia Cotton Compress Company its capacity. With the upbuilding erected buildings and put in a 48- of Columbia as a cotton market it inch compress. Realizing the fact is fully adequate to turn out three that this press did not give a sufficient times its present amount of work. -0
density, the company bought in the following summer a 90-inch cylinder . Every year the South is becoming compress of the Morse patent, and more popular as a place for health, made especially for the Columbia comfort, and business.
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OLIVER OIL COMPANY, GADSDEN STREET. Cotton Seed Oil, Cake, Meal, and Re-gins. to animal fat from a hygienic stand- point, and equally as good from an economical and epicurean basis. It is doubtless used to a large extent The plant for cotton seed oil manu- in making butterine and other com- facture, established by the Oliver pounds of that nature. As we give Brothers in 1885, set the ball to roll- a detailed account of the process of ing which has brought additional industries, and is of itself a business of no mean iniportance. Some four acres of ground was purchased by the firm, four blocks south of the Union Depot, brick buildings erected at a cost of $18.500, a full outfit of annum, and their weekly pay roll modern oil mill machinery, costing
oil manufacture in the following article, we shall not reproduce it here for the operation in the two mills is almost precisely the same. The Oliver Oil Company expend for cotton seed more than $175,000 per foots up to nearly $500. Some 75 over $50,000 put in operation, and men are employed, and the amount the plant is now nearing the close of of money which they circulate in the city adds materially to the vol- ume of the floating currency in Co- lumbia.
its third successful season in the bu- siness. The same company started the Charlotte, N. C., mills prior to locating a plant here, and the Oliver Oil Company still operates that in connection with the Columbia mill. The president of the company is A. E. Thornton, of Atlanta. while Geo. L. Baker, of Selma, Ala., now a resi-
THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL COMPANY.
GADSDEN STREET.
Cotton Seed Oil, Meal, and Re-gins.
The manufacture of cotton seed dent of Columbia, officiates as sec- oil in the South has become an im- retary and treasurer here. J. A. portant one, and a large amount of Rankin is superintendent and M. C. capital is now interested in its pro- Robertson bookkeeper. The ca- duction. The Southern Cotton Oil pacity of the mill is over 90 tons Company was incorporated March, per day (24 hours), and the season, 1887, with a capital of five million which will close in May, will have dollars, and last year erected eight oil used up over 12.000 tons of seed. mills in prominent Southern cities. From this 4,000 tons of meal is pro- The Columbia works is a hand- duced, which is principally returned some brick structure, and with its to the farming sections of this State accompanying four acres of ground, as a fertilizer, or used as feed for cost about $100,000. It has a capaci- stock. More than 10,000 (50 gallon) ty for 100 tons of seed per day, and barrels of oil are produced during the company expect to double this the year, and this is principally output for the coming season. The shipped to the eastern markets. motor power is 400-horse, and the The cotton seed oil has rapidly se- mill equipped with the latest im- cured a staple market value in the provements in oil seed machinery. metropolitan cities, as by many it is It runs day and night, and gives used instead of the olive for salads, employment to over 50 men, there- etc. For culinary purposes it is fast by dispensing a large sum of money taking the precedence of lard, being for immediate circulation. The gen- without doubt decidedly preferable eral offices of this company are at
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Philadelphia : Henry C. Butcher, placed between steel plates well President ; Richard Arnold. Vice perforated, which allow the oil to President ; Fred Oliver, General drain out as the pressure is applied. Manager; John Oliver, Secretary The cake remains under a pressure of and Treasurer, while J. S. Price is 3,800 pounds to the square inch for Manager of the Columbia mill. Mr. 15 or 20 minutes, when it is removed Price is a Charlestonian, and a and fresh meal put in, and so on from young man of sterling business change to change. The amount of qualifications.
oil usually extracted is 40 gallons per ton, although when worked under favorable circumstances 45 gallons is often realized. This oil has a market value of 30 cents per gal- lon in its crude state. The cake is sold at about $20 per ton, and hulls not used as fuel are disposed of for bedding horses, etc., so that every part of the commercial seed, which formerly was almost wholly wasted, is, by new inventions and modern processes, entirely utilized.
The converting of cotton seed into oil is an interesting one, and we will give it in detail. After weighing the seed on its arrival at the mill it is either fed directly to the machine, or else stored in seed houses built similar to a grain elevator, with all facilities for handling the seed upon the most improved principle. When fed to the mill it first passes through a sand screen, which takes out the dirt, thence to a coarser screen. which removes the loose locks of "THE DIAL ENGINE WORKS." NEAR UNION DEPOT. cotton, rocks, and other foreign sub- stances which may be in the seed. It is now passed over a magnet, by Building Engines and Repair Works. means of a current of air. The This corporation is now in process magnet catches the nails and other of organization under the general injurious substances. It is then con- incorporation Act, for the purpose veyed to the linters, where about 40 of manufacturing steam engines and pounds of lint to the ton is removed boilers, and doing all kinds of repair which has a market value of 5 cents and job work in iron or other metal. per pound. The seed next passes The arrangements are perfected for into the huller, where it is cut up the corporation to own and run the and thence to a bolting screen, simi- commodious machine shops and foun- lar to that used in a flour mill, and dry so conveniently located near the together with use of a shaker, the Union Passenger Depot, and so fa- meats are separated from the bulls. vorably known as the "Tozer & Dial The meats now go to the rolls, a Machine Shops," with the right to heavy machine with smooth surfaces manufacture and sell the "Tozer En- rolling together, crushing the oil gine," an engine that is unequalled cells. thus making it easier to ex-
in its reputation by any other en- tract the oil. The hulls are conveved gine made in the South. These shops to the furnace and serve as fuel. The are a model in the convenience of meats are cooked in large iron ket- their arrangement, and have a capa- tles about 18 minutes, then placed city for turning out one hundred and between camelshair cloth and press- fifty engines per annum, besides do- ed through a moulding machine, ing an unlimited amount of repair. which shapes the cake and gives it These shops have manufactured and a uniform thickness. They are now sent to different cities in the South
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nearly 500 engines, a fair share of land, came to New York in boyhood, which are in use in this State. The served as machinist's apprentice in machine room is 40 by 90 ft .; boiler Albany, N. Y., coming to this city department 30 by 190; foundry 40 about 1850 to work for Glaze & Boat- by 60, pattern room 40 by 60, and wright, who were engaged in the store room 30 by 60 ; the whole plant manufacture of guns for South Caro- covering an acre of ground. It is lina. The firm added a general ma- worthy of note that a fine specimen chine shop, and after the war Mr. of moulding sand is found adjacent Shields purchased the property, re- to the city, and everything desirable organized the shops, and began the "in clay. The general outfit of the manufacture of steam engines and works is not surpassed in the State. all kinds of iron work and repair.
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