484 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



a Monthly Meeting also, with 67 original members. This first meeting 

 occurred on the first Saturday of March, 1884. A Sunday school was also 

 organized, with T. K. Bufkin as superintendent. 



In 1885, Rev. Jeremiah A. Grinnell became pastor of the church — the 

 first to fill this oflQce ; and he also served as a presiding elder, visiting, en- 

 couraging and aiding all the churches of this order in Southern California. 

 The successive pastors after Father Grinnell have been : Reuben H. 

 Hartley ; C. C. Reynolds ; Dr. Wm. Nicholson ; Ruth B. Ridges ; Prof. 

 C. E. Tebbetts — 1895. In 1888 a Christian Endeavor society was organ- 

 ized within the church, with C. C. Reynolds its first president. And before 

 this a Woman's Foreign Mission society had been formed. 



Early in 1886, a new church edifice was erected at the corner ot 

 Marengo Avenue and Mountain street, at a cost of $3,500, and seating over 

 300. It was dedicated November 28, 1886. In 1894 ^^lis church was 

 moved to a more central location, corner of Raymond Avenue and Villa 

 street, and considerably enlarged, at a cost of $2,800. Rededicated first 

 Sunday in March, 1895. 



In 1895 the Whittier Quarterly Meeting was divided, so as to establish 

 a Pasadena Quarterly Meeting, composed of Monthly Meetings at Pasadena, 

 Wildomar, Long Beach, San Jose and Berkeley. (The original organization 

 was incorporated May 16, 1891, under title of " Pasadena Quarterly Meeting 

 Society of Friends, to assemble at Whittier.") 



Pasadena Meeting, Society of Friends, under Discipline of Ohio 

 Yearly Meeting. — The first meeting of this order was held December 5, 

 1886, at the house of Wm. Penn Evans, corner Walnut street and Los 

 Robles Avenue — the place now called "Rosedale," and owned in 1894-95 by 

 R. M. Furlong. Those present at this meeting were : David Evans, Sarah 

 T. House, Elisha Roberts and wife, Ann Sharpless, Mary Hanner, Josiah 

 Stratton and family, Allen and Mary Lee, Caroline Cope, W. P. Evans and 

 wife, Edward Sharpless, Wm. Shaw and family. Meetings were held at the 

 same place for about a year ; and afterward at Wm. Shaw's house at Monks 

 Hill, and other private houses, until the spring of 1894, when they built a 

 goodly meeting house at the corner of Galena Avenue and Villa street. 

 Mary Lee is a minister. Abram Cowgill is clerk of the society. There 

 were about fifty-five members in April, 1895. The Daily Siaroi January 8, 

 1895, said : 



"A committee from the Hickory Grove (Iowa) Quarterly Meeting of 

 Friends, composed of Zacheus Test and wife (parents of our townsman, 

 L. L. Test), John Thomas and wife, Albert Emmons and wife, Anna 

 Painter (sister of M. D. Painter), Nathan Satterthwaite and Joshua Smith 

 arrived here Saturday night for the purpose of establishing a " Meeting of 

 Discipline " in the Friends church on the corner of Villa and Galena. The 

 visit will result in giving the society full power as the Pasadena Monthly 

 Meeting, under the Iowa Quarterlj^ and Yearly Meeting." 



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