Guide to the Pioneer Congregational Church

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Guide to the Pioneer Congregational Church

California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

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

Descriptive Summary

Title: Pioneer Congregational Church

Box Number: 1554

Creator: Pioneer Congregational Church (Sacramento, Calif.)

Repository: California State Library

Sacramento, California

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Unrestricted.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Pioneer Congregational Church, California State Library.

Access Points

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.

Contents

Diary of Seth Babson; church records; photocopy of address by Loyal Lincoln Wirt, "Reminiscences of Rev. Joseph Augustine Benton, D.D."

History

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.

Related Collections

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."