492 HISTORY OF PASADKNA. 



CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



The first Catholic religious services ever held in Pasadena was on Sun- 

 day, January 9, 1886, when mass was celebrated in the I^os Angeles house, 

 by courtesy of Mr. Banta. After mass a business meeting was held to talk 

 up the matter of building a church. The next meeting was at the residence 

 of G. T. Stamm, on South Marengo Avenue, Sunday May 23, 1886. In 

 November and December, 1887, their church was built, at the corner of 

 Pasadena Avenue and Bellefontaine Avenue, and mass was celebrated there 

 for the first time on December 18, 1887, by Rev. Father Hartnett. The 

 Pasadena Star of March 30, 1892, said: "Jas. T. Smith, president of the 

 Young Men's Catholic Institute, and Geo. Stanley, secretary, attended a 

 meeting of the Institute in Knights of Pythias hall last night, and ten new 

 members were received. J. A. Maclntyre is president of the society." 



Rev. Cornelius Scannell became pastor in 1893, ^^^ continues yet, 1895. 



FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 



The first preaching services of the Universalist persuasion ever held in 

 Pasadena was in Williams hall, April 18 and 25, and May i and 7, 1886, by 

 Rev. Miss Florence E. Kollock, then pastor of the Inglewood church at 

 Chicago, and a graduate of the St. I^awrence Divinity School, New York. 

 Arrangement for these meetings was made by Hon. A. G. Throop, "Father 

 Throop " of honored memory. On May 7, after Miss Kollock's sermon, 

 James A. Gates reported progress in the matter of securing names to organ- 

 ize a Universalist church. Father Throop submitted the Universalist creed, 

 and the form of constitution in use at Riverside and other points ; and they 

 were adopted. Then Mr. Gates, Mrs. S. E. Merritt, and Byron O. Clark 

 were appointed to canvass for members. The Star of June 4 reported thus : 



"The Universalists completed their parish organization last Sunday, and 

 elected as board of directors : Hon. A. G. Throop, moderator ; Mrs. S. E. 

 Merritt, secretary ; Mrs. H. J. Vail, treasurer ; J. A. Gates, Mrs. Filey Ar- 

 nold, Prof. J. D. Yocum, J. D. Ripley. Mr. Gates, chorister. Williams 

 hall was leased for holding regular preaching services." 



Meetings were sustained and members added, under this parish organiza- 

 tion, until April 21, 1889, when a church organization was formed with 97 

 members, who elected Prof. Yocum moderator ; Elisha Millard, treasurer ; 

 K. E. Spaulding, clerk. For deacons : Hon. A. G. Throop, M. W. Stim- 

 son, N. M. Johnson, J. B. Corson, Mrs. E. C. Bradley, Mrs. H. M. Conger. 

 Meanwhile they had purchased the old colony church building of the 

 Methodist people and moved it from Colorado street up to the corner of 

 Fair Oaks Avenue and Chestnut street, where Machinerj^ Hall of the Throop 

 Institute now stands ; and here was where the " parish" was advanced to a 

 "church" organization on that Easter Sunday. 



In 1888-89 they built their present church edifice, on corner of Ray- 

 mond Avenue and Chestnut street. March 19, 1889, it was first opened to 



