ont Avenue, the
Metropolitan, Berean, Pilgrim of Brentwood, Salem and Israel Baptist
Churches.

[18] The following persons constituted the church: John F. Cook, David
Carroll, Jane Noland, Mary Ann Tilghman, Clement Talbert, Lydia
Williams, Elizabeth Carroll, Ann Brown, Charles Bruce, Basil Gutridge,
Clarissa Forest, John Madison, Catherine Madison, Ann Chew, Ruth
Smith, Emily Norris, Maria Newton, Alfred Cook and Eliza Stewart.

[19] See F. J. Grimke's _Anniversary Address on the Occasion of the
Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian
Church_.

[20] A statement verified by the present pastor, Dr. J. L. S.
Holloman.

In 1883 Dr. William Bishop Johnson accepted the call to the pastorate
which, notwithstanding its nearly forty years of struggle, had been
reduced to a membership of less than one hundred. During Dr. Johnson's
pastorate a church edifice was erected in 1895 at a cost of $75,000,
one of the largest and most imposing in the city. An outstanding
feature of Dr. Johnson's administration was the organization of a
Sunday School Lyceum in 1885 which was one of the most popular
literary organizations in the Capitol, meeting Sunday afternoons, when
there were discussions of some foremost topic by representative
thinkers of both sexes and races. Notable among the presidents of the
Sunday School Lyceum were Mr. Jesse Lawson, Mr. R. D. Ruffin, and Mr.
R. W. Thompson, the newspaper correspondent. Johnson died in 1917
mourned by the congregation and community as one of its leading
preachers. Through his administration of the affairs the church became
one of the best known throughout the country because of the organizing
abilities of the pastor and his unusual ability. In 1917 the church
called as pastor Dr. J. L. S. Holloman of Winton, North Carolina.
During his four years of service the church has been practically freed
of debt and has entered on a new era of progress.

[21] The present building was erected about 1886, by Dr. R. H. G.
Dyson. The present pastor is Rev. H. J. Callis, who easily takes rank
in the city as one of its leading public-spirited influences.

[22] This story is taken largely from records preserved by Mr. B. J.
Grant, one of the oldest members of this church.

[23] At the present time this plot of ground is covered by the
Ebenezer A. M. E. Church.

[24] Two years later they erected another story, which remained intact
until the church was sold. The remodeling and addi