Records, 1829-c. 1849.

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Records, 1829-c. 1849.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259326

The records of the Evangelical City Missionary Society, c. 1849, contain bylaws, subscription lists, and brief minutes of organizational meetings. The latter refer to elections of officers, treasurer's reports, and a statement of purpose. There is also an unrelated three-page list of bylaws of a Worcester Club Society, with appointments of officers for 1829, 1831, and 1836. The organization appears to have been a women's club.

1 v. (82p., mostly blank) ; octavo.

Gadsden Public Library

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Gadsden Public Library

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Worcester Club Society (Worcester, Mass.)

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Evangelical City Missionary Society (Worcester, Mass.)

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The Evangelical City Missionary Society was organized in Worcester, Mass., in 1849 under the presidency of Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868). It was a layman's movement which eventually included representatives of all the Evangelical churches in the city, for the purpose of furnishing "to the destitute inhabitants of our own country, the means of Christian instruction and moral improvement." The group hired a City Missionary whose salary was paid by the subscribers and who helped create Sunday school...

Washburn, Ichabod, 1798-1868

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Mission Chapel (Worcester, Mass.)

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