Guide to the Pioneer Congregational Church
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Guide to the Pioneer Congregational Church
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Title: Pioneer Congregational Church
Box Number: 1554
Creator:
Pioneer Congregational Church (Sacramento, Calif.)
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Pioneer Congregational Church, California State Library.
Babson, Seth--Diaries.
Benton, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustine), 1818-1892.
Pioneer Congregational United Church (Sacramento, Calif.)--History.
Church records and registers--California--Sacramento.
Frontier and pioneer Life--California--Sacramento.
Pioneers--California.
Sacramento (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
Diary of Seth Babson; church records; photocopy of address by Loyal Lincoln Wirt,
"Reminiscences of Rev. Joseph Augustine Benton, D.D."
Pioneer Church is the oldest organized church in Sacramento. On September 16, 1849, in
the schoolhouse on the northwest corner of I and 3rd Streets, a small group of men voted
to form the First Church of Christ Congregational, in Sacramento City. Rev. Joseph A.
Benton, the first pastor, was one of the leading California pioneers.
Rev. Joseph A. Benton Collection
Box Box 1554
Diary of Seth Babson; church records; photocopy of address by Loyal Lincoln Wirt, "Reminiscences of Rev. Joseph Augustine Benton, D.D."