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Call No.: bMS 6
Title: First Unitarian Society (Hyde Park, Mass.) Records
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 boxes)
Abstract: Church constitution; membership lists and certificates; church correspondence; minister's records; church financial records; miscellaneous church records.

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Historical note

The Hyde Park Unitarian Church (The First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, the Church of the Christian Fraternity) was organized June 3, 1868. The meeting house was dedicated February 18, 1875.

Ministers

• 1867-1868
  • Trowbridge Brigham Forbush
• 1868-1869
  • William Hamilton
• 1870-1879
  • Francis Charles Williams
• 1880-1883
  • Adoniram Judson Rich
• 1884-1890
  • James Huxtable
• 1890-1894
  • Edmund Quincey Sewall Orgood
• 1896-1899
  • Arthur Gooding Pettingill
• 1900-1905
  • William Henry Savage
• 1905-1908
  • Samuel Louis Elberfeld
• 1909-1909
  • Johannes A.C. Fagginger Auer
• 1910-1914
  • Louis Clas Dethlefs
• 1915-1916
  • Philip Slaney Thacher
• 1916-1927
  • Alexander Thomas Bowser
• 1927-1935
  • Forrester Alexander Macdonald
• 1936-1937
  • Edward Allison Cahil

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the church constitution; membership lists and certificates; church correspondence; minister's records; church financial records; and miscellaneous church records.

Register

• bMS 6/1 (1) "Bond of Union, First Unitarian Society, Hyde Park, Massachusetts"; Constitution; List of signatures of new members of Hyde Park, 1902; and membership applications, 1902, 1905, 1908, and 1910.

• bMS 6/1 (2) "Hyde Park Women's Alliance"; "Unitarian Mens Club," 1917; Order of Service for the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Church School Chapel, First Unitarian Society; map of property; Installation of Rev. J.A.C. Fagginger Auer..., 1909; "Constitution and By-Laws of the Theodore Weld Union, Hyde Park"; "Twenty-Fifth Anniversary... and Installation of Rev. William H. Savage, February 21, 1900."; the Rev. Louis Dethlefs' letter of acceptance as pastor to Hyde Park, 1910; and Report of the Frances Merry Barnard Home, Inc., 1948.

• bMS 6/1 (3) "The Seventh Inning, News Bulletin of the Unitarian Church of Hyde Park," 1933-1934; completed questionnaires for Sunday Church School; and membership certificates, June 10, 1934.

• bMS 6/1 (4) Financial papers; papers relating to the wrecking and removal of church, 1945; Mortgage paid on church property, September 19, 1874; newsclippings on Theodore Weld and Reverend A.T. Bowser; and letter of resignation of W.H. Savage, 1905.

• bMS 6/1 (5) Correspondence re: A.T. Bowser, potential members; trustee records, 1921-1940; treasurer's reports, 1903- 1937; and marriage and death records, 1927-1936.

• bMS 6/1 (6) Records of the First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, 1875-1914. Includes newspaper clippings.

• bMS 6/2 (1) Minister's records. Contains "A Brief History of the First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, Mass. from the Date of Formation to November 20, 1890."

• bMS 6/2 (2) "Hyde Park Branch of the National Alliance of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Women, January, 1906-October, 1915."

• bMS 6/2 (3) "Records. First Unitarian Society Sunday School, Hyde Park, January 1, 1898-1911."

• bMS 6/2 (4) "Constitution ... [and Records] of the Young People's Religious Union," 1910-1912.

• bMS 6/2 (5) "Record Book [of the Ladies Society], 1874-1889."

• bMS 6/2 (6) Financial record book, 1874-1883.

• bMS 6/3 (1) Financial receipts, 1891; mortgage to Henry Grew, 1874; and specifications for church building.

• bMS 6/3 (2) Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, etc., 1914- 1933.

• bMS 6/3 (3) Financial record book for Women's Alliance, 1915- 1930.

• bMS 6/3 (4) Receipts from Women's Alliance record book.

• bMS 6/4 (1) Hyde Park Branch of the Alliance of Unitarian Women, record book of minutes, 1915-1926.

• bMS 6/4 (2) "Records of the Executive Committee of the First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, Volume 2," 1894- 1923.

• bMS 6/4 (3) "Record Book... Ladies Social and Benevolent Society...," 1888-1897.