HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



directors were lyUther 

 Foote, Evans, Randolph, 

 Bixby, and Phillips. 

 The}' bought from A. F. 

 Mills a lot on Del,acy 

 street for $450, and pro- 

 ceeded at once to build 

 a house of worship. De- 

 cember II, 1890, this 

 building was blown 

 down. [See page 165.] 

 The society then secured 

 a vacant store-room on 

 North Fair Oaks Avenue 



FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Photo. 1894. ^ud fitted it Up for thcit 



use. But in 1892, under the energetic pastorship of Elder T. D. Garvin, 

 they bought the lot and built the handsome little church in Norman 

 style of architecture, on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Mary 

 street, as it stands in 1S95. The successive pastors of this church have 

 been : Elders B. F. Coulter, John A. Hedrick, F. W. Pattee, A. J. Wood, 

 Wm. Bayard Craig, T. D. Garvin, H. Elliott Ward. The membership in 

 April, 1895, was something over 300. Auxiliary organizations within the 

 church are : Eadies' Aid Society, Ladies' Missionary Society, Young People's 

 Society of Christian Endeavor, Junior Y. P. S. C.E., Bible School, Chinese 

 Mission School. 



Holiness Church. — In 1884 the people of this order built a little 

 church in the vicinity of North Moline Avenue and Ashtabula street, in 

 O. K. Hines's subdivision. At that time that location was "away out in 

 the country." Among its principal members were Isaac McCollum and 

 family; Mrs. Eliza Jacobson and her daughter Carrie, and a few others. In 

 1888 they held a camp meeting on Dr. Reid's lots at corner of Pasadena Avenue 

 and Kansas street ; and then they rented the frame building next south of 

 the Wooster block on Fair Oaks Avenue, occupying it as their church and 

 parsonage. Rev. J. H. Clark, pastor till 1893, when he and his wife joined 

 the Salvation Army and went into its missionary work. In 1893 the society 

 established their church on North Fair Oaks Avenue, near Peoria street. 



FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 



The first religious services of this order ever held in Pasadena 

 was in an unfinished upper room called Wakeley's hall, on Colorado 

 street, on Sunday, May 10, 1885. Rev. J. H. Warren, D. D., of 

 San Francisco, state superintendent of Home Missions, had come 

 here to view the field. That was the only room he could get. It 



