Alameda County, Oakland, California
Independent Presbyterian Church
Independent Presbyterian Church -- This church was organized February 28, 1869, and is the only one of a similar character in California. The first pastor, Rev. L. Hamilton, officiated for several years as minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Oakland, but for opinions expressed by him he was tried before the Presbytery, and subsequently before the Synod, resulting in his being deposed by those bodies, February 24, 1869. A large portion of Mr. Hamilton's congregation, who were opposed to this decision of the Presbytery and Synod, determined upon organizing another society, and secured Brayton Hall as a temporary place of worship, where services were held until the spring of 1870, when the edifice, situated at the southeast corner of Thirteenth and Jefferson Streets, was erected, at a cost, including lot, of about twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. The pastor, since Mr. Hamilton's death, which occurred April 9, 1882, has been Clarence Fowler, who began his pastorate June 5, 1882, when the society assumed the name of Hamilton Church of Oakland.
The Sunday-school connected with the church was organized March 6,1869, and at present has an attendance of one hundred scholars, and ten teachers. The church officers are: Trustees, N. W. Spaulding, P. N. Remillard, J. W. Ward, Thomas Varney, J. D. Haines, O. M. Sanford, A. T. Dewey, and J. W. Mackie. Clarence Fowler is Superintendent of the Sunday-school. The church is essentially Unitarian, of the broadest Christian sentiment.
Alameda County, California,
Including Its
Geology, Topography, Soil and Productions
Oakland.: M.W. Wood Publisher, 1883
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, November, 2007 Pages 723-724
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