From the Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1901

TO HELP NEGROES.

Benevolent Citizens Organize to Assist the Movement for an Institutional Church for Colored People.

In answer to a call issued by Dr. C. G. Baldwin and Rev. C. C. Pierce, a number of representative gentlemen of the city assembled at Y.M.C.A parlors Thursday evening, to discuss the matter of aiding the colored people in their efforts to better their present condition.

A leader has lately come among these three thousand colored people of our city in the person of Rev. A. D. Chandler, who was present and enlarged on the needs and conditions, and outlined an idea for an institutional church for his race which would be able to do for his young men what the Y.M.C.A. is doing for white boys.

The negroes are ambitious to perfect such a plan, have bought a suitable lot and secured excellent plans for the proposed building, but they are not financially able to carry the work to completion without aid, and as a result of the meeting an organization was formed to assist them.

Suitable resolutions were adopted and the necessary preliminary steps were taken to incorporate, the following five gentlemen being elected to act for one year as trustees of the corporation.

  • J[ames]. A. Foshay [an assistant superintendent of the Los Angeles schools, after whom Foshay Junior High School in South Central was later named]
  • N.P. Conrey [a Superior Court judge]
  • J.H. Lapham
  • W.A. Kennedy
  • W.H. Pierce  [in 1904 an attorney with the city of Los Angeles]     

Judge T.M. Stewart was chairman of the meeting, and Dr. O. Shepard Barnum acted as secretary.
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PRESBYTERIAN LAITY.

Fifth Annual Convention of Southern California Association — Programme Announced for Washington’s Day.

The Presbyterian Laity Association has selected February 22 as the date for holding its fifth annual convention. The officers of the association are Dr. O. Shepard Barnum, moderator; Col. George de la Vergue, vice-moderator; Ralph Waldo Bailey, secretary

The convention will be held in Immanuel Presbyterian Church, this city, with day and evening sessions.

The programme will include a special address to church officers by Rev. A.J. Brown, D.D., secretary of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and papers by

  • Hon. Samuel Merrill, ex-Minister to Japan,
  • J.E. Coulthurst of San Diego, ex-president of the Y.P.S.C.E., and
  • James A. Montgomery of this city.  

In the evening will occur a mass meeting, when Dr. A.J. Brown and Dr. Hugh K. Walker will make addresses.

[Dr. Walker is mentioned in Chapter 20 of the Web-published “Papa's Story,” by Beulah Mullen Karney.]

The ladies of the church will serve a supper, which will be followed by responses to a series of toasts.

Comments

The Rev. C.C. Pierce appears to have hailed from Delaware County, N.Y., where the local newspaper printed an undated essay by him in which he inveighed against “the surrender of our great cities to the un-American and often irresponsible and uneducated foreign throngs.” He may also have been the noted Southern California photographer who left behind many images. Return to article.

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