| Elected. | Died. | Age. | |
| Levi Farwell | Feb. 10, 1818 | May 27, 1844 | 60 |
| William Brown2 | Feb. 10, 1818 | June 25, 1861 | 75 |
| Josiah Coolidge3 | July 30, 1844 | Sept. 13, 1874 | 87 |
| George Cummings4 | Aug. 23, 1844 | ||
| Josiah W. Cook | Aug. 23, 1844 | ||
| William B. Hovey | Jan. 29, 1849 | July 4, 1871 | 75 |
| Joseph A. Holmes | Jan. 29. 1849 | ||
| Albert Vinal | Feb. 19, 1850 | ||
| Joseph Goodnow | Oct. 13, 1871 |
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Financial Agent of the Trustees of the Newton Theological Institution.
He received the degree of D. D. from Brown University, 1852. Rev. Sumner R. Mason, formerly pastor of the Baptist Church in Lockport, N. Y., entered upon his labors the first Sabbath in March, 1855, and ‘on the 25th of the same month he was publicly recognized by religious services.’
He received the degree of D. D. from Chicago University.
His ministry was diligent and successful for somewhat more than sixteen years. It had an unexpected and tragical termination on Saturday evening, Aug. 26, 1871, when a disastrous collision of cars occurred on the Eastern Railroad, at Revere, Mass., by which about thirty persons were killed,1 and a still larger number wounded,—some of them fatally.
Among those who were killed outright was Dr. Mason.
He died at his post, while engaged in his Master's service; for the object of his journey was to fulfil an engagement to preach the gospel.
His mutilated body was identified on the next day, and was interred at Mount Auburn on the following Thursday, after appropriate funeral services in the presence of a great congregation, and in the house where he had so long been a living power.
The present pastor of the church, Rev. Hiram K. Pervear, B. U. 1855, had been pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Cambridge about seven years, and of the First Baptist Church in Worcester nearly eight years, before his public recognition here on the 5th of January, 1873.
The church has had nine Deacons, to wit:—
1 Among the killed was Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D. D., born in Cambridge, May 4, 1801, H. C. 1820, for many years colleague-pastor (with Rev. W. E. Channing, D. D.), and afterwards sole pastor of the church now in Arlington Street, Boston.
2 Deacons Brown and Coolidge were ‘dismissed to the Church in Old Cambridge, Aug. 16, 1844.’
3 Deacons Brown and Coolidge were ‘dismissed to the Church in Old Cambridge, Aug. 16, 1844.’
Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.
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