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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
Died 11 April, 1866. 1856,Rev. Moses A. Howe. Died 27 Jan. 1861. 1857, 1858,Rev. Isaac Smith. Died 16 July, 1860. 1859, 1860,Rev. Gilbert Haven, W. U. 1846. Elected Bishop, 1872. 1861, 1862,Rev. Edward Cooke, W. U. 1838, D. D. (H. C.) 1855. 1863, 1864,Rev. Lorenzo R. Thayer, W. U. 1841, D. D. 1863. 1865-1867,Rev. Henry W. Warren, W. U. 1853. 1868, 1869,Rev. Nelson Stutson. Died 16 April, 1871. 1870, 1871,Rev. Ira G. Bidwell. 1872, 1873,Rev. Andrew McKeown. 1874-1876,Rev. Melville B. Chapman. [For most of the statistics concerning this church I am indebted to its Secretary, Mr. Samuel L. Ward.] old Cambridge Baptist.—The Old Cambridge Baptist Church was organized Aug. 20, 1844, and was publicly recognized Oct. 23, 1845. Eighty-three members of the church were formerly members of the First Baptist Church, and a large number of the society and congregation had worshipped with them in Cambridgeport. Their first meeting-house was a wooden structure, which was erecte
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. (search)
f the mothers were Methodists. This took its name from Mystic Hall, where it was held. This school was undenominational, and as an outgrowth of it the villagers of the west end began a Sunday preaching service, securing the services of Rev. Melville B. Chapman, then a student in the School of Theology in Boston. Prior to 1870 the western section of Medford's population was almost wholly to the east of the railroad. In March of that year a large tract of land westward changed ownership and building operations began thereon and also in the other portion. In April of the same year Mr. Chapman removed and was succeeded by Rev. Louis Charpiot (a Congregational preacher of ability, but out of fellowship with his order, and employed on a Boston newspaper). A goodly number attended the Union Services as they were called, and also the Sunday-school; but the Union was in no sense a church organization, and no one so considered it. It was simply a neighborhood or village effort to susta
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Connecting link in Medford Church history. (search)
est Medford in 1870. The Union was a neighborhood affair which was expected in time to grow into a Protestant church of some order, or possibly a Union church, hence the appropriate name in some way adopted. It may be that sometime records that must have been kept may be found, and give more accurate information. We have been told that such were deposited in the office of the town clerk, but recent research among the city records therefor has been fruitless. Up to April, 1870, Rev. Melville B. Chapman, a student in Boston University, supplied its pulpit. He was of the Methodist Episcopal order, was much liked by the people, and at the above date was, by his bishop, appointed minister of his church in Wakefield, Mass. He in later years achieved success and prominence in the Christian ministry, making a good beginning with the Union in West Medford. He was succeeded by Rev. Louis E. Charpiot, a French gentleman of much ability and many excellent qualities, who had been pastor of