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on Orange Grove Avenue, south. Rev. W. C. Mosher, Presbyterian, had 

 preached there just the Sunday previous the first sermon of any sort ever 

 delivered in this vicinage. The church people of the colony thus main- 

 tained a union meeting for some months. 



April i8, 1875, a Methodist "class" was organized by Rev. J. M. 

 Campbell of Los Angeles, with I. N. Mundell as leader, and the following 

 first members : D. H. Pike, Lucinda Pike, A. O. Porter, Anna Porter, P. 

 M. Green, Hettie Green, W. J. Barcus, Elmina P. Barcus, I. N. Mundell, 

 Anna Mundell, and Elizabeth Edwards. This of course was the beginning 

 of a distinctively Methodist church; and on July 18, this year. Rev. F.»D. 

 Bovard commenced preaching for them regularly every alternate Sunday. 

 This continued until September, when the Conference made Pasadena a part 

 of a circuit which included East Eos Angeles, Florence and Vernon also, 

 and Rev. C. W. Tarr was appointed over it. He preached at Pasadena 

 once in two weeks until April 23, 1876, when he held his last service here 

 in the then unfinished new Presbyterian church building on California 

 street. Mr. Tarr returned east, and Rev. J. W. Stump of Eos Angeles 

 preached here until July. Then on July 2, 1876, Rev. Charles Shelling 

 commenced his labors here, with a notable centennial sermon for that day, 

 and continued as the Methodist pastor of Pasadena until September, 1878. 



October 13, 1876, Rev. Shelling, A. O. Porter, D. H. Pike and P. M. 

 Green were appointed a building committee to raise funds, buy a lot and let 

 contract for a church building of their own. Times were extremely " hard " 

 in California that year, and their numbers few; yet by January 7, 1877, 

 they had their new church dedicated, free of debt. It stood where now is 

 the corner of Orange Grove Avenue and Palmetto drive. Mr. Shelling 

 also procured a church to be built at Alhambra, which was in bis circuit. 



During the Conference year 1878-79, Rev. F. S. Woodcock was pastor 

 at Pasadena and Alhambra ; and in September, '79, the Pasadena church 

 reported 39 members. For the ensuing year Rev. E. S. Chase was pastor 

 of the two places. Then in September, 1880, Rev. R. W. C. Farnsworth 

 was appointed ; he served the two places two years, and the third year had 

 Pasadena alone. [It was during this period that he prepared his book en- 

 titled " A California Paradise," which was published in 1883. It took in 

 Pasadena, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Ea Canyada, Sierra Madre and Duarte.] 

 During Farnsworth's last year a parsonage was built. 



In September, 1883, R^v. J. B, Green became the pastor ; and during 

 his term the church was moved from its original site on Orange Grove 

 Avenue to a lot on Colorado street next to Wiley & Greeley's livery stable. 

 In September, 1884, Rev. A. W. Bunker became the pastor and continued 

 two years. 



January 23, 1886, it was decided to erect a new church and parsonage 

 combined, after a design furnished by Ridgway & Ripley, architects — ^to 



