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Members of the Month, First Congregational Church, short biographies written by current members on leading church people such as Charlotte Lembke; Ernest Hall; Ruth Wilson; Glen O. Ream; Margaret Copeland; Ann Jones; Anne Shannon; Davis and Eleanor Stapp; Louise Krause; Norman and Frank Buck and Catherine Higgins. Includes a section by Margaret Connell Szasz on a century of church history, background on Jacob Mills Ashley; Charles E. Hodgin; L. A. and Laura Collings and Josiah Heald and Katherine Pike Heald. Also her history of the 1908 Rio Grande Industrial School - the Hispanic successor to the Albuquerque Academy, the first Albuquerque public high school, boarding school, class room topics, farming and homemaking, compared it to Albuquerque Indian school, followed later by regular high school programs. Her history of the Congregationalists in Albuquerque, contributions of both men and women; also some history of the city; the Fox family; Mrs. Hopping; Henry Cobb; Eddie Ross, etc. List of ministers 1883-1976. Also accounts by Reverend Clarence E. Pall and O. R. Warford as pastors at the church. Includes First Congregational Church bulletins from May 11, 1980 and October 12 and October 14, 1980, church centennial, 1979-1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8

Scope and Content

From the Collection: Dr. Margaret Connell Szasz donated to the Center for Southwest Research her papers and notes for a book on the 100th anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Albuquerque (1880-1980), the only Protestant Church in the Territory of New Mexico at that time. In addition, she and others from the church prepared short biographies about leading men and women members of the congregation. She wrote an article for the July 1980 New Mexico Historical Review entitled, "Albuquerque Congregationalists and Southwestern Social Reform, 1900-1917." .

Dates

  • 1979-1980

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 box (.38 cu. ft.)

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451