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Show Establishment and Sunday School increasing to 1891-1900 Collapse: almost 100.36 Rev. Hudson spoke about the present state of the society and the success he envisioned in the future. The next week Rev. Hudson told the trustees that he had sent letters churches in the East, in "fitting up" their soliciting new funds meeting to eleven friends and to pay debts incurred From January 1896 place." until December 1898 the Unitarians met in Denhalter's Hall, located at 28-30 West 300 South, which they also named Unity Hall, as they had their meeting place at 44 South East Temple In Street. June 1896, board of at a trustees meeting, a letter from George W. Snow was read in which he tendered his resignation from the board and as a member of the society, explaining that "in justice to myself permit me to say that I am not a Unitarian and never have been." Snow had joined the society in January of that year and had been made a member of the board the position dissenting vote at same meeting month. Though he claims forced upon me," there was the time of his election to the board. that "the this same was Rev. Hudson asked for a seventeen no At percent raise, and after full discussion, he was granted the requested annual salary of $ 2,100, with a guarantee from the national association to pay twenty-nine percent of his In November 1896 Rev. Hudson married the wages." widow, Margaret Benson, whose husband, Wendell Benson, had died two years previously. The marriage was performed by the local Margaret 36 37 Bx Since minister, Clarence T. Brown. Benson Hudson was paid for work on the five-year Congregational Congregational Meeting Board of Trustees Minutes, 19 January 1896, located in Ms 508, Bx I, Fd 2. Meeting Minutes, 26 January 1896, located in Ms 508, I, Fd 2. 38 Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 21 June 1896, located in Ms 508, Bx I, Fd 2. 37 |