Identifier: kingshandbookofs00king (find matches)
Title: King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: King, Moses, 1853-1909 Clogston, William
Subjects: Springfield (Mass.) -- Description and travel Springfield (Mass.) -- Bibliography
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : J.D. Gill, Publisher
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d on Bridge Street, and the name of thesociety was changed to the Trinity Methodist-Epi-scopal Church. Thechurch is in the Romanesque style of architecture, 122 feet long and 74 feetwide, with a tower and spire 185 feet high. Its cost, including land, was$73,000. The pastors here have been C. D. Hills, J. O. Peck, D.D., MerrittHulburd, S. F. Upham, D.D., and F. J. Wagner. Their pastor now isFrederick Woods. There is a Sunday school connected with the society,with 38 teachers and 377 scholars, and a library of about 1,000 volumes.The church-membership, in 1883, was 447. The Sanford-street Congregational Church (colored) was the outgrowthof an independent church known as the Zions Methodist, which was forseveral years aided by liberal contributions from both Congregationalistsand Methodists. It is a fact of some historic interest, that the famousJohn Brown, subsequently called Ossawatomie Brown, while residing inSpringfield as a wool-merchant, from 1846 to 1849, was a frequent attendant
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TRINITY METHODIST-EPISCOPAL CHURCH.On Budge Street. 192 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. at this church. By an almost unanimous vote, on the 23d of February.1864, it was re-organized as a Congregational church. The articles of faithpresented by the church were approved, and the recognition of the Congrega-tional churches was given by Rev. E. B. Clark of the First Church in Chico-pee. The council then ordained and installed William W. Mallory of New-Haven, Conn., as the pastor. The introductory exercises were conductedby Rev. H. M. Parsons; Rev. J. W. Harding of Longmeadow offered theordaining prayer; Rev. Dr. E. Davis gave the charge to the pastor; Rev.S. G. Buckingham, of the South Church of this city, gave the right hand offellowship; the charge to the people was by Rev. Roswell Foster. Thelongest pastorates have been those of W. W. Mallory, Samuel Harrison,and John H. Docher. The church has an aid society, and the ladies havea missionary society auxiliary to the Womans Board. The pre

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