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The First Congregational Church was organized in 

 1830, by the Rev. John H. Sehemerhorn, as the Re- 

 formed Protestant Dutch Church, and a building was 

 erected in 1830-31. In 1872 the organization was 

 changed to a Congregational Society, and in 1883-4 the 

 present handsome edifice on tbe corner of Seneca and 

 Geneva Streets was erected. Beautiful, but not espe- 

 cially imposing, viewed from the exterior, the church 

 from the interior is a model of taste, comfort and con- 

 venience. 



The Second Methodist Church occupies a large brick 

 edifice on the corner of State and Albany Streets. The 

 society was organized from the First Church in 1851 ; 

 and first erected a frame structure on the corner of 

 Seneca and Plain Streets. The society was then known 

 as the Seneca Street M. E. Church. In 1878 the pres- 

 ent church building was erected, and the church has 

 since been known as the State Street Church. 



The First Unitarian Society of Ithaca was the out- 

 growth of a series of meetings which began in the 

 Town Hall on the 15th of October, 1865. The Rev. 

 Samuel J. May, notable in anti-slavery history, officia- 

 ted at this meeting, and was prominently interested in 

 the movement which followed. In 1 868 articles of asso- 

 ciation were adopted, and the name of the society 

 changed to the Church of Christian Unity. The society 

 at present occupies a neat frame edifice on Buffalo Street 

 near Aurora, which was erected in 1873. 



The first Catholic settfers came to Ithaca about 1830, 

 and a church was organized in 1834, and called the 



