| Elected. | Held office until | Age. | ||
| Ebenezer Hovey | May, 1865 | Died | March 25, 1866 | 65 |
| Josiah Sparrow | May, 1865 | Resigned | Nov. 1872 | |
| Jacob Eaton | Dec. 1867 | |||
| Simeon Taylor | Dec. 1867 | Resigned | Oct. 1869 | |
| Charles L. Fessenden | Nov. 1872 |
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patronage of the First Baptist Church.
In 1861, a small chapel was erected for the accommodation of the school, and for religious meetings, on the southerly side of Harvard Street, about two hundred feet easterly from Pine Street. The school held its first meeting in this chapel Jan. 12, 1862; and it was dedicated as a house of worship Feb. 9, 1862.
This chapel was afterwards sold, and removed to the southeasterly corner of Harvard and Essex streets, where it was occupied by a school under the direction of the Catholic Church.
A new house of worship, for the accommodation of the Sabbath-school and the congregation which had been gathered in connection with it, was erected in 1866, on the southwesterly corner of Broadway and Boardman Street, eighty. six feet in length and sixty-four in breadth, which was dedicated Nov. 22, 1866.
Meantime, Rev. William Howe, Waterville College, 1833, formerly pastor of the Union Church in Boston, had been engaged by the First Baptist Church as a missionary at this station.
He commenced his labors early in 1863, which were so successful that on the 9th of May, 1865, a church consisting of fifty members was constituted under the name of ‘The Broadway Baptist Church,’ and he was unanimously elected pastor.
The public services of recognition were held in the First Baptist Church, June 25, 1865. Mr. Howe remained pastor until July, 1870, when he resigned; he continues to reside in Cambridge, and performs clerical duties, but without pastoral charge.
The present pastor of the church, the Rev. Henry Hinckley, H. C. 1860, was installed Dec. 13, 1870; he had previously been settled at Winchester, and more recently at Groveland, Mass.
Free Church of St. James.—The Parish of St. James, at North Cambridge, was organized on Christmas day, 1864, and from that time divine service was regularly continued under the charge of Rev. Andrew Croswell, B. U. 1843, who was elected Rector at Easter, 1865, and remained in that office until Easter,
Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.
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