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The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various
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Reverend A.D. McCoy. The Reverend Timothy Atkinson was pastor from 1846
to 1847; the Reverend Joseph H. Towne, from 1848 to 1853; the Reverend
O.T. Lanphier, from 1855 to 1856; the Reverend Owen Street, from
September 17, 1857.

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church was originally built for the Baptists,
but was purchased in 1846 by the Reverend James T. McDermott, and
consecrated March 7, 1847.

[Illustration: SCENE BELOW HUNT'S FALLS.]

The Third Universalist Church was organized in 1843, and the edifice
known as Barristers' Hall was built for its use. It was disbanded after
a few years. The pastors were the Reverend H.G. Smith, the Reverend John
Moore, the Reverend H.G. Smith, and the Reverend L.J. Fletcher. The
Central Methodist Church occupied the edifice for a time, before they
secured the building of the Third Baptist Society. The Society was
gathered in 1854. The pastors have been the Reverend William S. Studley,
the Reverend Isaac S. Cushman, the Reverend Isaac J.P. Collyer, the
Reverend Chester Field, the Reverend Lorenzo R. Thayer, the Reverend
J.H. Mansfield, the Reverend Andrew McKeown, in 1865 and 1866, the
Reverend William C. High, in 1867. The Reverend Isaac H. Packard is the
present pastor.

[Illustration: FISKE'S BLOCK, CENTRAL STREET.]

In 1850, a Unitarian Society, organized in 1846, built the Gothic Chapel
on Lee Street, and occupied it until 1861, when it passed into the hands
of a society of Spiritualists. The Unitarian pastors were the Reverend
M.A.H. Niles, the Reverend William Barry, the Reverend Augustus
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