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Show Unitarianism in Utah Northampton, Massachusetts, and serving in several other places in Massachusetts, New York, and England. Church in He was a minister at the All sours Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from order to returned study 1897 and travel in to City pulpit and arrived Because he had Europe. America, Rev. Fish to 1901, when he resigned in was free to just take the Salt Lake Saturday, 3 January 1903. He gave his first sermon the following day. Rev. Fish was instrumental in pushing forward the efforts to construct a church building. Jay F. Sturgis, president of the board of trustees, wrote in January 1903 that "there is a movement on foot to buy a lot, and erect thereon a building in the near on future, and if successful this will assure the ,,23 At the January permanency of the Society in this city. 1903 congregational meeting it was decided to choose a building was committee. The next month selected, and Rev. Fish from the East. The a lot costing $6,500 promised $ 2,500 by a friend society expected to raise the other was $4,000.24 In March 1903 the lot at 138 South 200 East was The construction contract for $9,749 was purchased. awarded to George H. Raybould, who served as a member of the board of trustees from 1904 until 1928.25 After returning from a September 1903 building. On 5 that he had received $2,300 for the church November 1903 the board of trustees held trip to the East, Rev. Fish reported in their first meeting in the new building. Regular Sunday services began on 15 November 1903. At this first public meeting Rev. Fish spoke "Our Church, Why We Have Built It and What We Expect to Do with It." He said that 23 24 64 25 Hance and The Salt Lake on Picht, In Commemoration, 77. Tribune, [Jacob Trapp], 23 February 1903, The Humanist 4 8. (February 1936),located in Ms 508, Bx 102, Fd 8. |
