he Reverend Hiram D.
Weston is the present pastor.

[Illustration: COUNTY COURT HOUSE, GORHAM STREET, 1860.]

[Illustration: LOWELL SKATING RINK, GORHAM STREET.]

The First Universalist Church was organized in July, 1827. The following
year they built their church on Chapel Street, but removed it in 1837
to Central Street. The Reverend Eliphalet Case was pastor from 1828 to
1830; the Reverend Calvin Gardner, from 1830 to 1833; the Reverend
Thomas B. Thayer, from 1833 to 1845; the Reverend E.G. Brooks, in 1845;
the Reverend Uriah Clark, from 1846 to 1850; the Reverend Thomas B.
Thayer, from 1851 to October, 1857; the Reverend J.J. Twiss, from 1859
to January 1, 1872; the Reverend G.T. Flanders was settled in 1872; the
Reverend George W. Bicknell was settled December 21, 1880.

The South Congregational (Unitarian) Church was organized November 7,
1830, and the edifice was dedicated December 25, 1832. The Reverend
William Barry was pastor from 1830 to 1835; the Reverend Henry A. Mills,
D.D., from 1836 to 1853; the Reverend Theodore Tibbetts, in 1855 and
1856; the Reverend Frederick Hinckley, from 1856 to 1864; the Reverend
Charles Grinnell was settled February 19, 1867; the Reverend Henry
Blanchard was ordained January 19, 1871; the Reverend Josiah Lafayette
Seward was ordained December 31, 1874.

[Illustration: DANIEL LOVEJOY AND SON'S MACHINE KNIFE WORKS.]

The Appleton-street (Orthodox) Congregational Church was organized
December 2, 1830; their edifice was built the following year. The
Reverend William Twining was pastor from 1831 to 1835; A.C. Burnap,
from 1837 to 1852; the Reverend George Darling, from 1852 to 1855; the
Reverend John P. Cleaveland, D.D., from 1855 to 1862, when he became
chaplain of the Thirtieth Massachusetts Regiment in the Department of
the Gulf; the Reverend J.E. Rankin, from 1863 to 1865; the Reverend A.P.
Foster, was settled October 3, 1866, resigned October 17, 1868; the
Reverend J.M. Green was installed July 30, 1870.

The Worthen-street Baptist Church was organized in 1831. The edifice
known as St. Mary's Church was built for this society. Their present
edifice was built in 1838. The Reverend James Barnaby was pastor from
1832 to 1835; the Reverend Lemuel Porter, from 1835 to 1851; the
Reverend J.W. Smith, from 1851 to 1853; the Reverend D.D. Winn, from
1853 to 1855; the Reverend T.D. Worrall, from 1855 to 1857; the Reverend
J.W. Bonham, from 1857 to 1860; the Reverend George F. Warre