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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
the neighborhood was soon fitted up as a temporary place of worship, and the pulpit was supplied by neighboring clergymen, and by students from the Theological Seminary at Andover, till October 2, when the seventeen members from the First Church, with nine members of other churches, who had removed lately to Medford, and had brought with them letters of dismission, were organized into a church by an ecclesiastical council, of which Rev. William Greenough, of Newton, was moderator, and Rev. B. B. Wisner, of Boston, was scribe. The church adopted a name which corresponded with that of the society, but June 25, 1857, changed it to the First Trinitarian Congregational Church of Medford. In this narrative, however, it will, for convenience, be referred to simply as the First, or Mother Church. The society retained its corporate name till its disbandment after the union of the First and Mystic Churches in 1874. A Sunday-school was at once organized, its first teachers being three C