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History of Hingham. 



Sept. 29, 1882. He resigned his pastorate Nov. 1, 1888, to accept 

 a call from the " Church of the Savior," Brooklyn, N. Y. 



March 10, 1890, the parish voted to invite Mr. Eugene R. 

 Shippen, who was graduated at Harvard College in 1887 and 

 at the Harvard Divinity School in 1890, but the invitation was 

 not accepted. 



Rev. John W. Day, the ninth and present minister was born 

 in Woburn, Mass., June 13, 1861. He studied theology at the 

 Meadville Theological School in 1881-82 and afterwards at the 

 Harvard Divinity School, where he was graduated in 1885. He 

 was ordained at Newport, Jan. 6, 1886, as minister of the Chan- 

 ning Memorial Church, and remained there until 1887. From 

 1887 until 1890 he was minister of the First Unitarian Society of 

 Ithaca, N. Y. Oct. 1, 1890, he became minister of this parish, 

 the services of installation taking place Oct. 8, 1890. 



Deacons of the Church of the First Parish. 



* Succeeded Dea. Wui. disking. 



Originally a Puritan church, under the influence of Dr. Gay, 

 with his spirit for free inquiry, the opinions of the people became 

 less and less Calvinistic. The Trinitaran became Unitarian. It 

 cannot be said that there was any fixed date of this change ; it was 

 gradual. When the Unitarians were acknowledged as a denom- 

 ination, this parish was confessedly Unitarian and has continued 

 as such to the present time. The same is true of the Cohasset 

 and Second parishes already referred to. The Third Congrega- 

 tional Society is also of the Unitarian denomination. There was 



