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a public audience, when Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, of world-wide fame, 

 delivered there her brilliant lecture entitled, "A Dream of To-morrow." 

 At the annual meeting in May, 1889, the building committee reported that the 

 new church property had cost $56,000, and was $20,000 in debt. This debt 

 was, within two years later, all removed, chiefly by the munificence of 

 "Father Throop," who once told me himself that he had $40,000 in it, 

 although it was against his judgment, he said, to undertake so large and 

 a costly structure. 



FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Photo. 1895. 

 Ronmnesque Architecture. West-by-north view. 



A report in November, 1894, gave $65,000 as total cost ot the grounds, 

 church building and furnishings. And since that time a $5,000 organ has 

 been added. The library contained 300 volumes in 1894; ^^^ the roll of 



membership was 256. The successive pastors have been : Rev. Briggs, 



in 1886-87; Rev. E. ly. Conger, D. D., 1888 to 1893; Rev. Florence E. 

 Kollock, A. M., associate pastor in 1892-93, and sole pastor in 1893-94-95. 

 In Ma}^, 1895, Miss Kollock resigned ; and in June Rev. W. M. Jones was 

 elected to the pastorate, to commence September i, 1895. Its auxiliary 

 societies are : Woman's I^eague; Young People's Christian Union; Fort- 

 nightly Club. 



SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 



This church was organized in June, 1888, in a. tent on Villa street, near 

 Reservoir No. 2, by Elder E. A. Briggs. The first members were : J. T. 



