Boston, Massachusetts. Mount Vernon Congregational Church. Records, 1842-1970.
Records, 1842 - 1970
RG 0026
Processed 1979, Revised 2005 by Carolyn Child
Box List
- Series I - Governing Boards and Committees
- Series II - Pew records
- Series III - Building Committee, Joint Church and Society
- Series I - Governing Boards and Committees
- Series II - Membership
Subgroup 3: Incorporated Church
- Series I - Governing Boards and Committees, General Records
- Series II - Standing Committees
- Series III - Membership
- Series IV - General Treasurer
- Series V - Church Treasurer
- Series VI - Annual Meetings
Subgroup 4: Parish Life and Worship
- Series I - Worship
- Series II - Ministers and Parish Life
- Series III - Publicity and Community Relations
- Series IV - Christian Education, Children
- Series V - Christian Education and Residence, College Students
- Series VI - Anniversary Celebrations
Subgroup 5: Voluntary Societies
- Series I - Young People's Societies
- Series II - Women's Societies
- Series III - Missionary Societies
- Series IV - Men's Societies
Series V - Children's Societies
Subgroup 7: Files on Individuals
Top of pageAbstract, provenance
The Mount Vernon Congregational Church had an independent existence in Boston, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1970. In 1970, the surviving members voted to federate with the Old South (Third) Church in Copley Square, Boston. The minister in charge of Old South is also listed as minister in charge of Mount Vernon, but the Mount Vernon Church has no building. The building on the corner of Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue, having been boarded up for some years, burned in the summer of 1977.
The records of the Mount Vernon Church were removed from the attic of the church building before it was abandoned. They were stored at Old South until the spring of 1979, when they were brought to the Congregational Library to be processed and stored on permanent loan as an independent record group among the Old South records. The Library has on permanent loan the oldest records of the Old South Church itself, from 1669 to about 1997.
Top of pageHistory
There are records of two churches in the Mount Vernon Church records. By far the largest is the Mount Vernon Church records, with perhaps 3,000 items. The records of the Chambers Street Church, in contrast, are in three books. Chambers Street had been a dependent chapel of the Old South Church. It struck out on its own in 1861, but financial pressures caused it to give up in 1879 and to merge with Mount Vernon Church.
The Mount Vernon Church was founded in 1842 by a group of enthusiastic lay men and women who felt the need of a church in Boston which would lead in the fight against indifference and Unitarianism. They invited the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, a famous evangelist, to be their pastor. He spent thirty two years in charge of the church, from 1842 until his death in 1874. Unfortunately, most of the records of his pastorate perished in a fire in 1879. He was succeeded by Samuel Edward Herrick, pastor until his death in 1904. He too was a famous preacher. The Mount Vernon records contain manuscript copies of most of his sermons. These two men, whose pastorates spanned more than sixty years, were innovators in sponsoring voluntary societies which appealed to the young unmarried teenagers who flocked to Boston form the countryside in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were not college graduates. Most of them such as Dwight L. Moody, the famous evangelist, went from the farm to retailing at the age of sixteen. They were initially attracted by Kirk and Herrick's preaching, but stayed because of the Christian fellowship and opportunity for self - education, which such groups as the Mount Vernon Association of Young Men provided. In the twentieth century, after the Church moved to the Back Bay, it turned its attention to male college students, especially those attending M.I.T., and to female office workers. The church, whose minister from 1933 to 1948, Carl Heath Kopf, took to the radio to spread the gospel, prospered until after World War II. Then it lost all its families, when the suburbs opened up and families with children left the Back Bay. For a while it was part of the Protestant chaplaincy at M.I.T., but when that failed, the remaining members, many of whom no longer lived in the Back Bay, voted to merge with Old South.
Top of pageScope and Content
I. Society*, 1842 - 1919
I. Governing boards and committees 1 - 3
II. Pew Records 4 - 7
III. Building Committee 8
The first series is the records of the Prudential Committee, the property holding body, and the treasurer's records to 1919. The second series is the pew records. The Mount Vernon Society owned two different buildings in the years of its existence. The first was on what is now Ashburton Place on Beacon Hill, an austere Greek temple that has long since disappeared. As part of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the parish, in 1892, it moved into a new home at the corner of Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay, this was the building which burned in 1977. The pew records are from both buildings. Their sale financed regular church operations and paid for the building. The third series of Society records are the records of the Building Committee, a joint committee of Society and Church responsible for planning the Beacon Street Church. Information on this building effort is also to be found in Box 82, Folder 7: Henry Woods. Woods bought the land and held it until the parish was ready to move.
*For the first seventy years of its existence, from 1842 to 1919, the Mount Vernon Church operated under the "Dual System" of Society and Church. The Society is a reflection of the original seventeenth century New England system whereby only the adult males of the property - holding elite had the right to vote. The Mount Vernon Church was founded after churches in Massachusetts had been dis - established, and were no longer supported by tax money, but it followed the older pattern, because not until 1887 was it possible for Massachusetts females to be members of a corporation with property - holding rights. Not until 1919 did the members of the Mount Vernon Society vote to dissolve it, and to incorporate as Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Inc.
II. Church, 1842 - 1919
I. Governing boards and committees 9 - 11
II. Membership 12 - 14
While the society membership was exclusively male, the Church consisted of fervently Christian adults, both male and female. They had passed rigorous questioning by the Membership Committee, or else came to Mount Vernon with a letter of dismission from another Congregational Church, declaring them to be members in good standing. The Church was concerned with worship and Christian education, and it was under its aegis that the voluntary societies flourished. The Church records for the earliest period were unfortunately destroyed in a fire in 1879. The records of the annual meetings and of the Church Committee for all of Mr. Kirk's pastorate burned. The Church had its own treasurer, who applied the money collected each Sunday in the plate to the maintenance of worship and to charitable causes. Most of the Church records are concerned with membership. In Box 12 is a Membership Roll from 1842 to 1967. It should be used with caution. More reliable for the early period is the information in Pauline Holmes, One Hundred Years of Mount Vernon Church, 1842 - 1942, found in Box 87. In Box 32 is a small black notebook with the raw accounts of discussion of eligibility for membership between 1872 and 1880, an unusual item to have survived.
III. Incorporated Church, 1919 - 1970
I. Governing boards and committees General records 15
II. Standing Committee 16
III. Membership 17 - 19
IV. General Treasurer 20 - 21
V. Church Treasurer 22 - 23
VI. Annual Meetings 24 - 27
These are the records of the various official boards and committees. They are divided into six series: Governing Boards, Standing Committee, Membership Records (admissions and dismissions), General Treasurer, Church Treasurer and the records of Annual Meetings with committee reports concerning the previous year's activities. The bulk of these records are letters of admission and dismission. The reports of the committees for the Annual Meeting should be supplemented by the records of the voluntary societies which make up Sub - Group V.
IV. Parish Life and Worship
I. Worship 28
II. Ministers and Parish Life 29
III. Publicity and Community Relations 30 - 33
IV. Christian Education, Children 34 - 35
V. Christian Education, College Students 36 - 37
VI. Anniversary Celebrations 38 - 41
Sub - Group IV is the record of the Church's effort to spread its influence in the community. These have been divided by categories, rather than by administrative function. On one level, the church spread the Gospel through worship services. The records in Worship are very brief and should be supplemented by the scrapbooks (Boxes 68 - 75) and by the sermons of second minister Samuel Edward Herrick (Boxes 77 - 79). The parish reached out to the wider world through a magazine, through radio programs, and through newspaper announcements at different periods. It also had relations, through its ministers, with other churches in its denomination. The Christian Education material should be considered with material from the records of the voluntary societies, all of whom were concerned with educating their members. There were Sunday Schools for small children, but the main educational effort was always aimed at college students, especially those at M.I.T. Herrick House, at one point run as a residence for college students, was part of this effort.
By far the most elaborate of the anniversary celebrations was the one hundredth in 1942. Not only were there pageants and special church services, but Pauline Holmes' book, One Hundred Year of Mount Vernon Church, 1842 - 1942 was published as part of the celebration ( Box 87). Its information is accurate, it quotes extensively from the records, and published some of the most important documents.
V. Voluntary Societies
I. Young People's Societies 42 - 53
II. Women's Societies 53 - 61
III. Missionary Societies 62 - 65
IV. Men's Societies 66
V. Children's Societies 67
This series on Voluntary Societies is the most complex and divided in the most artificial manner. The divisions are all by age and sex, except for societies which have " Mission" in their name. However, all the voluntary societies, whatever their ostensible purpose, raised money for missions and invited speakers from the mission field to address them. Nor does this arrangement show that the Pastor's Aid Society and the Women's Association were umbrella organizations for women's groups, as well as having their own existence. The Mount Vernon Association of Young Men was one of the earliest societies, founded in 1850 when the earliest YMCAs were being founded in this country. It sponsored debates on the burning issues of the day, and encouraged members to submit articles to be bound into a handwritten magazine, known for most of its existence as "The Illuminator." In 1873 the young women, tired of being left out, joined and the Association name was changed to "Young People". The magazine, still handwritten, became the "Literary Album" and persisted until 1881. This organization became the Young People's Society, and in the 1930s, the Youth Fellowship. The debates and literary magazines date only from 1850 to the 1880s.
There were numerous women's organizations. The first of them was the Maternal Association, founded in 1842 and lasting until at least 1879. The Civil War effort to supply the Union Army produced the Soldier's Aid Society, which spawned the Sewing Circle, which in World War I produced another vigorous sewing effort. Olla Podrida was founded as a self - help and entertainment group for women working in offices in the 1920's. The Guild, which became the Evening Guild, was more interested in simple entertainment than the others. The Women of Mount Vernon, founded in 1956, was the last effort to have a female society. It took in the remnants of previous societies.
The first of the Missionary Societies was also founded in the 1840s under Mr. Kirk. The Young Ladies' Colporteur Association was interested in spreading the (Evangelical Protestant) Gospel in France. Its interests were carried on by the American McAll Association. However, most of the foreign missionary attention was directed farther afield. A defect in this archival arrangement is that the general concern for the Chilesso Mission, " Mount Vernon in Africa," is slighted. For almost thirty years until World War II the church supported a missionary couple in Angola. ( Box 63 has specific information about Chilesso. Photographs are in Box 84, Folder 6). The young women of the Foreign Missionary Society supported a mission in Asia Minor, in the Turkish Empire. Glued into the secretary's book, 1879 - 1887 are letters from the missionaries and from the native Christians who were supported by this group. ( Box 61). Glued into the Sunday School attendance records of 1902 - 1905 ( Box 35) are letters from a missionary in Armenia and shares in the "Morning Star ," the Hawaiian Missions ship. Home missions were important as well. For many years a pillar of the church was Harriette Carter, employed by the Boston City Mission as a missionary to the Chinese in Boston. Material about her is in Box 82, but it should be studied in conjunction with Home Missions material in Box 64.
The men had fewer social organizations than the women, probably because they had the offices of real power in the church. The Dwight L. Moody Bible Class was one of a series of efforts to attract young male college students to the church, after it had lost its families to suburban churches. The Westminster Foundation was an M.I.T. Protestant chaplaincy.
The children were trained in Sunday School to be concerned with foreign missions. They also had their own junior missionary societies, depending on their ages.
VI. Scrapbooks 68 - 76
Sub - Group VI is the scrapbooks. The earliest material dates from 1880; until 1919 the collecting policy was very unsystematic. The earlier volumes may well have been a personal compilation. The 1919 - 1925 volume, which has suffered an effort at re - arrangement, begins the official sequence. The material is mostly newspaper clippings and printed matter arranged chronologically. Box 76 contains miscellaneous loose material arranged in folders by decade.
VII. Files on individuals 77 - 82
Sub - Group VII documents individuals associated with the church in some official capacity. The bulk of this is the manuscript sermons by Samuel Edward Herrick, the minister from 1871 to 1904. None of the ministers after 1948 stayed long enough to have any real impact on the parish, which began to decline almost immediately after World War II.
VIII. Photographs 83 - 86
All the photographs constitute Sub - Group VIII. They span the whole period of the church's existence. Most of them were labeled for an exhibit at the 1942 Centenary celebration.
IX. History 87
The Mount Vernon records have large gaps, the most of which were caused by the 1879 fire, but enough remains to give a picture of the structure and interests of the Church. Of all the records of the Church over its one hundred and thirty year span, the most unusual and complete are those of the voluntary societies from 1842 to World War I. They document how the Church evolved groups to engage the interests of young working people, initially attracted by the preaching of Kirk and Herrick.
Chambers Street Church 88
The Chambers Street Church records are part of the Mount Vernon record group. Chambers Street Church had only a brief independent existence. It had been a "chapel," a mission which could not support itself financially, under Old South. It became independent in 1861, could not manage financially, and voted to dissolve and merge with Mount Vernon in 1879.
Bibliography
Congregational Library
- Worthley, Harold F., "14 Beacon Street, Grand old address, great church library," A.D., United Church of Christ, Vol. 7, No. 10, Nov. 1978, pp. 39 - 42.
- Mount Vernon Church
- Hawes, Alice M., Glimpses of the old Mount Vernon Church, an informal talk given to the Mount Vernon Young People's Society, Herrick House, December 30, 1923. Boston: Thomas Todd Co., 1923. 19p.
- Holmes, Pauline. One hundred years of Mount Vernon Church, 1842 - 1942. Boston: Mount Vernon Church of Boston, 1942.
- Usher, Sally. Facts about Mount Vernon Church, 1842 - 1967. 11p., typewritten.
- Note: Dwight L. Moody, the famous evangelist, joined the Church May 3, 1856. ( Box 12, Rollbook). It is said that he had been rejected once before because his knowledge of the Bible was insufficient, but the Church membership records of the 1850s perished in the 1879 fire. Moody joined the Mount Vernon Association of Young Men in 1855, when it was re - organized. ( Box 43, Constitution and Membership list). His signature is on page 12.
Sub Group 1- Society, 1842-1919 |
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| Series I- Governing Boards and Committees | ||
| Box 1 | ||
| Prudential Committee. Book, Brown leather, spine missing. Front: Prudential Committee Mount Vernon Cong. Soc'y | 1842-1918 | |
| Treasurer. Book, Brown leather. Spine: Cash Waster Ledger No.1. Paper Label: 1842-1873 | 1843-1878 | |
| Box 2- Society, 1842-1919 | ||
| Prudential Committee, Typed duplicate | 1842-1878 | |
| Treasurer, miscellaneous | multiple dates | |
| Box 3 | ||
| Clerk's Record. Annual Meetings. Book, Large red leather bound. Spine: Mount Vernon Cong. Soc. | 1916-1919 | |
| Series II - Pew Records | ||
| Box 4- Society, Pews | ||
| Ashburton Place, Pews | ||
| Book, small black. Pew holders Beacon Street | ||
| Book. Small Tan. Pew Plan, Beacon Street | ||
| Bundle of Pew Deeds | ||
| Bundle of Pew Deeds | ||
| Box 5 | ||
| Pew records, Ashburton Place. Book, Large Brown. Front: Mount Vernon Congregational Society. Spine: Records of Deeds. Mt. Vernon Cong. Soc. | 1844-1892 | |
| Pew Deed Index. Book | Undated (pre-1892) | |
| Box 6 | ||
| Pew Rents and Taxes. Book, brown. Spine: Rents & Taxes Mt. Vernon Cong. Society | 1872-1880 | |
| Box 7 | ||
| Pew plan, Beacon Street. Book, black, flat | after 1892 | |
| Series III- Building Committee, Joint Church and Society | ||
| Box 8 | ||
| Building Committee, 1888-1892. Book. Front: Building Committee Records M. V. Church | 1888-1892 | |
| Building Committee. Book, flat, black, unlabelled | 1888-1892 | |
Sub Group 2- Church 1842-1919 |
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| Series I- Governing Boards and Committees | ||
| Box 9 | ||
| Church Committee. Admissions and Dismissions. Book. Front: Records M't Vernon Church Committee. Spine: (paper label) Church Committee. Note inside flyleaf: Records 1842-1879 burned December 28-29, 1879 | 1880-1919 | |
| Church Treasurer. Book, black red spine | 1880-1887 | |
| Church Treasurer | 1880-1919 | |
| Box 10 | ||
| Church Treasurer. Book, black red spine. Front: Treasurer Mount Vernon Church | 1907-1919 | |
| Annual Meetings. Book. Spine: Records M't Vernon Church. Paper Label Records from 1880 to 1919. Note inside flyleaf: Records 1842-1879 burned December 28-29, 1879 | 1880-1919 | |
| Box 11- Church, Miscellaneous, Pre-1919 | ||
| Membership | ca. 1850-1920 | |
| Church Committee | 1880-1915 | |
| Church Treasurer | 1888-1889 | |
| Funds | 1910-1922 | |
| Deacons | Pre- 1919 | |
| Series II- Membership | ||
| Box 12- Confessions of Faith, Catalogues, Manuals | ||
| Confessions of Faith | 1842, 1844, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1872(3), 1882(2) | |
| Manual | 1912 | |
| Directory | 1917 | |
| Catalogue | 1848, 1874 | |
| Yearbook | 1900, 1913, 1917(3) | |
| Rollbook of Members. Spine (coming off) on adhesive tape: Roll | 1842-1967 | |
| Box 13- Church Membership Records | ||
| Members List. Front: Records. Mount Vernon Church. Spine: (loose) Records. Mt. Vernon Church on adhesive tape: List of members | 1879-1909 | |
| Book: Alphabetical list. Front: Records Mt. Vernon Church. Spine: (paper label) 1871-1896 | 1871-1896 | |
| Book: Membership Committee. Small black notebook. Front: Records | 1872-1880 | |
| Membership. Book, reversible. Spine: records 1842-1873. Recto Cover: Church records (Contains admissions etc. 1842-1885). Verso Cover: Baptised Children (Contains baptisms 1842-1885) | 1842-1885 | |
| Box 14 | ||
| Church Records. Book. Front: Records. M't Vernon Church Cash Dismissions Deaths &c. Spine (paper label): Records 1880-1919 | 1880-1919 | |
Sub Group 3- Incorporated Church 1919-1969 |
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| Series I- Governing Boards and Committees, General records. | ||
| Box 15 | ||
| Records. Book, black leather spine. Spine (paper label) 1919-25 (2 books) | 1919-1933 | |
| Series II- Standing Committee | ||
| Box 16 | ||
| Standing Committee (3 Folders) | 1941-1957 | |
| Series III- Membership | ||
| Box 17- Admissions and dismissions, 1902-1944 | ||
| Membership records. Was in binder, red leather. Spine (paper label): Weddings, dismissals, funerals, baptisms etc. 1933-1940 | 1933-1940 | |
| Letters of dismission, stubs | 1902-1944 | |
| Admissions and dismissions, Letters | 1942-1944 | |
| Box 18- Admissions and dismissions, 1945-1948 | ||
| Admissions and Dismissions (4 Folders) | 1945-1948 | |
| Box 19- Admissions and dismissions, 1949-1955 | ||
| Admissions and Dismissions (7 Folders) | 1949-1955 | |
| Box 20 | ||
| General Treasurer. Receipts. Book, black. Front: Record | 1919-1924 | |
| General Treasurer. Disbursements. Book, black | 1919-1924 | |
| General Treasurer. Receipts and Disbursements. Book (3 Books) | 1925-1935 | |
| Box 21- General Treasurer, Miscellaneous Financial, 1919-1941 | ||
| Legacies | ||
| Audit. Treasurer | 1919-1920 | |
| Canvass material | 1927-1930 | |
| Bank loans | 1928-1932 | |
| Parish survey | 1939 | |
| Parish survey | 1941 | |
| Christmas Bazaar | 1952 | |
| Series V- Church Treasurer | ||
| Box 22 | ||
| Church Treasurer, Receipts and disbursements. Book | 1922-1934, 1944-1950 | |
| Box 23 | ||
| Church Treasurer, Receipts and disbursements. Book | 1951-1957 | |
| Treasurer's Books, Book | 1951-1952 | |
| Series VI- Annual Meetings | ||
| Box 24 | ||
| Annual Meetings and Records (2 Folders) |
1943-1954 | |
| Box 25 | ||
| Annual Meetings and Records | 1954-1958 | |
| Annual Meetings, Council Meetings | 1963-1964, 1962-1968 | |
| Box 26- Annual Meetings, 1925-1940 | ||
| Annual Meetings , Committee Reports (16 Folders) | 1925-1940 | |
| Box 27- Annual Meetings, 1941-1952 | ||
| Annual Meetings, Committee Reports (12 Folders) | 1941-1952 | |
Sub- Group 4- Parish Life and Worship |
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| Series I- Worship | ||
| Box 28- Worship, 1880-1952 | ||
| Worship | 1880-1952 | |
| Notebook: Music | 1892-1896 | |
| Sunday School Hymns | ||
| Music, miscellany | 1880s | |
| Organist search | 1941 | |
| Festival of Faith | 1952 | |
| Upper Room Communion Service, Maundy Thursday | Undated | |
| Service leaflets | 1928-1939 | |
| Series II- Ministers and Parish Life | ||
| Box 29- Ministers and Parish Life | ||
| Reports for Congregational Yearbook | 1904-1939 | |
| Central Church, merger possibilities | 1920s | |
| Standing Committee, Correspondence with ministers | 1926-1939 | |
| Ministers' Letters, Christmas and Easter | 1960s | |
| Notebook. Gray. Parish calls | 1944 | |
| Series III- Publicity and Community Relations | ||
| Box 30- Publicity and Community Outreach, 1950s | ||
| Radio Program, "Churchmen Weigh the News" | 1950-1953 | |
| Newspaper announcements (2 Folders) | 1952-1957 | |
| Box 31- Other Churches | ||
| Aniversaries and Services | ||
| Ecclesiastical Councils | ||
| Box 32- Mount Vernon Messenger, 1919-1933 | ||
| Mount Vernon Messenger,Vol. I-VIII (8 Folders) |
1919-1933 | |
| Mount Vernon Messsenger, Seperate issues | 1932, 1933 | |
| Mount Vernon Messsenger, Correspondence | ||
| Mount Vernon Messsenger, Treasurer | ||
| Box 33- Mount Vernon Messenger, 1919-1929 | ||
| Mount Vernon Messenger. Book. Leather bound, brown paper jacket | 1919-1925 | |
| Mount Vernon Messenger. Book. Leather bound, brown paper jacket | 1925-1929 | |
| Series IV- Christian Education, Children | ||
| Box 34- Sunday School Courses of Lessons, Undated | ||
| Notebook. Handwritten (2) | Undated | |
| Course of Lessons | Undated | |
| Box 35- Sunday School, Attendance and Miscellaneous,ca. 1900-1934; Boys and Girl Scouts, ca. 1948 | ||
| Sunday School clippings | ||
| Attendance | 1902-1905 | |
| Treasurer | 1919-1933 | |
| Notebook: Christian Endeavour. Roll call | Undated | |
| Notebook: Sunday School Attendance (2) | 1920-21, 1923-1924 | |
| Boy and Girl Scouts | ca. 1948 | |
| Series V- Christian Education and Residence, College Students | ||
| Box 36 | ||
| Herrick House. Financial. Book, Black (4 books) | 1923-1934 | |
| Box 37 | ||
| Herrick House Financial. Book, Black | 1933-1935 | |
| Westminster Foundation. Notebook, reddish | 1954-1956 | |
| Westminster Foundation. Envelope, reddish | 1955-1958 | |
| Series VI- Anniversary Celebrations | ||
| Box 38- Anniversaries, 25th, 50th, 75th, 125th | ||
| Anniversaries, 25th, 50th, 75th, 125th (4 Folders) | 1867, 1892, 1917, 1967 | |
| Box 39- Centenary, 1942 | ||
| Miscellaneous (2 Folders) | 1942 | |
| 100th Anniversary Pageant | 1942 | |
| 100th Anniversary Letters and Telegrams | 1942 | |
| Box 40- Centenary, Pauline Holmes, One Hundred Years of Mount Vernon Church, 1942 | ||
| Letters of Inquiry (2 Folders) | 1942 | |
| Membership List, Raw material | 1842-1942 | |
| Page Proofs and illustrations | 1942 | |
| Box 41 | ||
| Guest Book, Centenary. Book, Green Leather. Front: "Mount Vernon Church Centenary Guests 1842-1942". Spine (paper label): Centenary Guests. List of men in service | 1942 | |
Sub Group 5- Voluntary Societies |
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| Series I- Young People's Societies | ||
| A. Mount Vernon Association of Men, Mount Vernon Association of Young People | ||
| Box 42 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men Constitution and By- Laws. Secretary. Book, calf, brown paper jacket | 1850, 1850-1857 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men Constitution and Membership List. Book, black. Front: Mount Vernon Association of Young Men | 1855-1858 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men Secretary. Book. Brown calf. Front, printed vertically: Mount Vernon Association of Young Men | 1857-1867 | |
| Box 43 | ` | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men Constitution. Book. Flat, marbled paper. Cover: MtVA of YM | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men Secretary. Book. Brown calf. Front, printed vertically in red panel: Mount Vernon Association of Young Men | 1867-1878 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People Treasurer. Book. Cover: Treasurer's Accounts of MVAYP | 1876-1892 | |
| Box 44 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men "Illuminator" | 1850s-1860s | |
| Box 45 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men "Illuminator" | 1850s-1860s | |
| Box 46 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People "Proof-Sheet" and "Literary Album", Vols. 1 and 2. Book. Leather bound (2 volumes bound together) | 1873-1875 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People. "Literary Album" Vol. 3. Book. Leather Bound | 1876-1877 | |
| Box 47 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People "Literary Album" | 1877-1881 | |
| Box 48- Mount Vernon Association of Young People "Literary Album",1877-1881 | ||
| Manuscript articles, "Literary Album" | ||
| "Contributions Box, 1881" | 1881 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People. Scrapbook of the fourteenth International Convention of Christian Endeavour | 1895 | |
| B. Young People's Society | ||
| Box 49- Young People's Society , Committees, 1914-1933 | ||
| Program Committee | 1926-1927 | |
| Tea Committee | 1926-1931 | |
| Social Service Committee | 192-1933 | |
| Music Committee | 1928-1929 | |
| Book: Social Committee | 1914-1919 | |
| Book: President | 1914-1927 | |
| Box 50 | ||
| Correspondence | ||
| Missionary Committee. Treasurer | 1917-1944 | |
| 90th Anniversary Guest Book | ||
| Treasurer. Book, black, red spine | 1928-1954 | |
| C. (Youth) Fellowship | ||
| Box 51- Youth Fellowship, 1951-1966 | ||
| Secretary (3 Folders) | 1951-1953, 1965-1966 | |
| D. Young People's Societies, Miscellaneaous | ||
| Box 52- Young People's Societies, Miscellaneous, 1850-1963 | ||
| Mount Vernon Association of Young Men | 1850-1873 | |
| Mount Vernon Association of Young People | 1873 | |
| Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour | 1906 | |
| Intermediate Young People's Society | ||
| Couples Club (2 Folders) | 1948, 1959-1963 | |
| Series II- Women's Societies | ||
| A. Soldier's Aid, Civil War and World War I | ||
| Box 53 | ||
| Soldier's Aid, Special Aid Society. Book, paper, large, flat, black spine | 1861-1863, 1917-1918 | |
| Soldier's Aid, War Work Unit. Book, paper, calf spine | 1863-1864, 1917-1918 | |
| B. Sewing Circle | ||
| Box 54- Women's Groups, Sewing Circle, 1883-1936 | ||
| Constitution and By- Laws | ||
| Treasurer (3 Folders) | 1883-1896, 1895-1920, 1922-1936 | |
| Notebook: Secretary (2) | 1891-1909,1918-1929 | |
| C. Pastor's Aid Society | ||
| Box 55- Women's Groups, Pastor's AId Society, 1900-1925 | ||
| Secretary. Book. Black, red spine | 1909-1921 | |
| Miscellaneous | 1900-1916 | |
| Notebooks (6) | 1904-1910 | |
| Notebook: Church Members | ||
| Notebook (unlabelled): Members | ||
| Notebook: Treasurer | 1902-1925 | |
| D. Women's Association and Women of Mount Vernon | ||
| Box 56- Women's Groups- Women's Association, 1906-1956; Women of Mount Vernon, 1956-1961 | ||
| Women's Association, Miscellaneous (3 Folders) | 1906-1918, 1948-1954 | |
| Notebook: Women's Association,Treasurer (not in box 8/1/05) |
1940-1953 | |
| Women of Mount Vernon, Mimeographed Annual Reports | 1956-1961 | |
| Box 57 | ||
| Notebook: Women's Association, Secretary | 1940-1953 | |
| Women of Mount Vernon, Secretary. Binder, Black. Spine (Paper label): Women of Mount Vernon | 1956-1962 | |
| E. Olla Podrida | ||
| Box 58- Women's Groups- Olla Podrida, 1926-1956 | ||
| History | ||
| Secretary (3 Folders) | 1926-1937, 1946-1956 | |
| F. (Evening) Guild | ||
| Box 59- Women's Groups- (Evening) Guild, 1906-1956 | ||
| Guild, Miscellaneous | 1917-1922 | |
| Guild, "A Very Little Thing" | 1906-1907 | |
| Guild, Secretary | 1915-1924 | |
| Evening Guild, Secretary (2 Folders) | 1953-1956 | |
| Box 60 | ||
| Guild, Secretary. Book, black, red spine (2) | 1924-1950 | |
| Evening Guild, Secretary. Book, black, red spine "Law Notes" | 1950-1953 | |
| G. Women's Groups, Miscellaneous | ||
| Box 61- Women's Groups- Miscellaneous, 1842-1920s | ||
| Notebook: Maternal Association, Constitution and members | 1842-1879 | |
| Notebook: Maternal Association, Secretary | 1852-1865 | |
| Notebook: Maternal Association, Secretary | 1866-1879 | |
| Church Mite Society | 1887 | |
| Neighborhood Women's Club | 1914 | |
| Young Matron's Fortnightly Club | 1914 | |
| Phi Theta | 1920 | |
| Series III- Missionary Societies | ||
| Box 62- Missionary Societies- Young People (Ladies), (Women) Foreign Missionary Society (Circle), 1879-1938 | ||
| Young People's Foreign Missionary Circle, Treasurer | 1900-1907 | |
| Young People's Foreign Missionary Society | 1894-1906 | |
| Young Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Miscellaneous | 1905-1938 | |
| Notebook: Young Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Treasurer | 1882-1892 | |
| Notebook: Young Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Secretary | 1879-1887 | |
| Box 63- Missionary Societies- Foreign, 1843-1940s | ||
| Notebook: Young Ladies Colporteur Association | 1843-1849 | |
| American McAll Association | 1883-1933 | |
| "Race Relations" | Undated | |
| Chilesso, Angola, West Africa | ||
| Missions, not West Africa | ||
| Box 64- Missionary Societies- Home, 1895-1928 | ||
| Notebook: Mount Vernon Auxiliary, Women's Missionary Society, Treasurer | 1895-1926 | |
| Notebook: Pastor's Aid Society, Home Missionary Branch | 1912-1922 | |
| Notebook: Women's Association, Foreign Missionary Branch | 1920-1939 | |
| Box 65-Missionary Societies- Miscellaneous, 1893-1939 | ||
| Notebook: Mount Vernon Auxiliary, Women's Board of Missions, Secretary | 1893-1917 | |
| Notebook: Women's Association, Home and Foreign Missions | 1929-1939 | |
| Notebook: Women's Association, Foreign Missionary Branch | 1920-1939 | |
| Series IV- Men's Societies | ||
| Box 66- Men's Groups, 1909-1941 | ||
| Dwight L. Moody Bible Class. Charter Members | 1939 | |
| Dwight L. Moody Bible Class. Secretary | 1939-1941 | |
| Service League; Brotherhood | 1920;1913 | |
| Men's Club (2 Folders) | 1909-1913, 1935-1938 | |
| Men of Mount Vernon | 1937-1941 | |
| Notebook: Men's Club. Secretary | 1901-1909 | |
| Series V- Children's Societies | ||
| Box 67- Children's Societies | ||
| Junior Missionary Society | 1912-1916 | |
| Boy's Societies, Boys Association, Boys Athletic Club, Boys' Bible Club, Boys' Club | 1920s | |
| Girl's Society, Faithful Workers | ||
| Notebook: Junior Missionary Society, Attendance (2) | 1907-191 | |
| Notebook: Junior Missionary Society, Secretary | 1907-1917 | |
| Notebook: OJS Club, Secretary | Undated | |
| Notebook: AES Club, Secretary (2) | 1927-1929 | |
Sub Group 6- Scrapbooks |
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| Box 68 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1880-1908 | |
| Box 69 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1903-1909 | |
| Box 70 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1919-1925, 1925-1927 | |
| Box 71 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1930-1934, 1937-1939 | |
| Box 72 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1940-1942, 1942-1943 | |
| Box 73 | ||
| Scrapbook | 1944-1945 | |
| Scrapbook, YPS Clippings etc, Rev. Carl Kopf misc. info | 1945-1947 | |
| Box 74 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1948-1949, 1950-1953 | |
| Box 75 | ||
| Scrapbooks (2) | 1954-1958, 1959-1964 | |
| Box 76- Supplement to Scrapbooks by Decade, 1840-1959 | ||
| Supplements (13 Folders) | 1840-1959, Undated | |
Sub Group 7- Files on Individuals |
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| Box 77- People- Ministers (not Herrick) | ||
| Kirk, Edward Norris | 1842-1874 | |
| Fitch, Albert Parker | 1905-1909 | |
| Richards, James Austin | 1909-1918 | |
| Lovett, Sidney | 1919-1932 | |
| Kopf, Carl Heath | 1933-1948 | |
| Box 78- Herrick, Samuel Edward- Sermons and Prayers | ||
| Manuscript Sermons (2 Folders) | ||
| Printed Sermons | ||
| Prayers | ||
| Box 79- Herrick, Samuel Edward- Manuscript Sermons, Bound | ||
| 7 Books bound in green cloth | ||
| Box 80- Herrick, Samuel Edward- Manuscript Sermons, Bound | ||
| 4 Books bound in green cloth | ||
| Notebook: Black and white, Front: Record Book "A" Extracts and Sermons etc. | ||
| Box 81- Herrick, Samuel Edward- Works About | ||
| Clippings | ||
| 25th Anniversary | ||
| Funeral Tributes | ||
| Box 82- People- Lay | ||
| Carter, Harriette, missionary to Chinese in Boston | ||
| Clouter, Joseph, Libraries Newfoundland | ||
| Cushing, Andrew | ||
| Hawes, Alice M. | ||
| Neesima, Joseph Hardy | ||
| Palmer, Julius A. | ||
| Woods, Henry | ||
Sub- Group 8- Photographs |
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| Box 83- Photographs- People | ||
| Ministers | ||
| Laymen | ||
| Women and Children | ||
| Official Boards | ||
| Box 84- Photographs- Places and Events | ||
| Ashburton Place Church | ||
| Beacon Street Church | ||
| Plays and Pageants | ||
| Centenary | 1942 | |
| Youth Fellowship, Outings | 1952-1953 | |
| West Africa Missions | ||
| Missions, not West Africa | ||
| Box 85- Photographic Miscellany | ||
| Glass negatives | ||
| Film negatives | ||
| Engraving Plates | ||
| Movie of choir | ||
| Box 86 | ||
| 125th Anniversary Photograph Album, Book. Green leatherette, Front: 125th Anniversary Photograph Album | ||
Sub Group 9- History |
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| Box 87 | One Hundred Years of Mount Vernon Church, 1842-1942. Book, red | 1942 |
| Chambers Street Church | ||
| Box 88 | ||
| Records (2 Notebooks) | 1861-1865, 1863-1878 | |
| Chambers Street Church Records. Book. Brown calf. Brown paper jacket | 1877-1880 | |