History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

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B. Dunham as pastor. Early in the following
year the worshippers purchased the meeting-house
then standing on the Common, and owned by the
Second Unitarian Society, and in June of the same
year a regular church organization was formed,
with about forty members. Waltham and Watertown
were now made a distinct circuit, with Eev.
Thomas Pickering in charge (residing in Waltham),
and Rev. Otis H. Howard as junior. In 1839
Rev. Franklin Fisk and Edward A. Lyon were ap-
pointed to the circuit (the latter residing here),
succeeded in 184.0 by Rev. Daniel Webb and
Horace G. Barrus (Mr. Barrus being resident
here) ; in 1841 Rev. Mr. Barrus was placed in
charge, with Rev. G. W. Frost assistant; in 1842
Rev. B. K. Pierce was stationed af Waltham ;
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after
this (in 1843) the relations of the two tow-ns as a
circuit ceased. Since then the Waltham church
has had for pastors the following: 1843-44,
Rev. David Kdburn ; 1845, Rev. .John Paulson;
1846-47, Rev. Moses Webster; 1848-49, Rev.
Jacob Sanborn; 1850-51, Rev. George W.
Bates (Mr. Bates dying while in charge was suc-
ceeded in 1851 by Rev. N. J. Merrill, who was
reappointed in 1853) ; 1853 - 54, Rev. Luman
Boyden (Mr. Boyden, about tiie middle of his
second year, was appointed to mission work, and
Rev. J. S. Barrows completed his term) ; 1855,
Rev. J. S. Barrows; 1856-57, Rev. T. W.
Lewis; 1858-60, Rev. E. A. Manning (in
1859 the meeting-house was removed from the
Common to the corner of Main and Moody
streets, where, four months after its dedication,
which took place January 25, 1860, it was de-
stroyed by fire ; a ntw edifice was erected on
the same site, and dedicated March 13, 1861,
services having been iield continuously, except
from January to May, 1860, in Rumford Hall) ;
I86L-62, R3V. Samuel Kelley ; 1863 -64, R