Fifty-Seventh Anniversary Historical Sketch of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Santa Cruz, California

A 1905 booklet detailing the long history of the Santa Cruz Methodist Episcopal Church and its members, starting in 1848. Filled with biographies of core founders and contemporary members, it connects many foundational individuals of Santa Cruz to the church, such as C. D. Hinkle, Adna Hecox, and Frank Heath & Lillian Heath. Also chronologizes the financial and locational decisions of the church, along with the history of the Sunday Schools.

Notables: C. V. Anthony, A. A. Hecox / Adna Hecox / Adna A. Hecox, Elihu Anthony, Silas Hitchcock, Sons of Temperance, Good Templars, M. M. Hecox / Margaret Hamer Hecox, Sarah Anthony, Margaret M. Hecox, B. A. Case, Mary Case / Mary Amney Case, Jane Van Anda, Mary A. Dunleavy, Caroline Mathews, Dr. John T. McLean, Santa Cruz Sunday School, Alexander McLean, Silas F. Bennett, Lydia Burnett / Lydia Anthony Burnett, Harriet Hinton / Harriet Anthony Hinton, Joseph Pringle Stewart, William Reynolds, Wilbur Huntington, Louisa Huntington, Matilda Longley, Laura Hecox, Amelia Heath, Jacob Schwan, Elizabeth Schwan, Abbie M. Sagar, Rosa Case, E. H. Garrett, John Williamson, Sarah Roff, Jane Williamson, Elizabeth Towne, Mary A. Lucas, Sarah Marsh, E. Holbrook, Anna Rapetti, William Short, W. D. Storey, Eliza Storey, William Taylor, Enos Beaumont, Alexander McClean, H. S. Loveland, Silas Bennett, C. M. Brown, D. A. Dryden, Santa Cruz Quarterly Conference, J. W. Brier, S. F. Bennett, Charles Campbell, William Campbell, John Jones, Asa Finley, J. H. Dye, R. H. Swain, William Roberts, Isaac Owens, A. H. Shafer, W. S. Turner, Wilson Pitner, P. G. Buchanan, Alfred Higbie, William Gafney, C. H. Lawton, K. W. Williamson, James O. Wanzer, P. Y. Cool, E. A. Hazen, P. L. Haynes, J. P. Tansey, A. J. Nelson, H. D. Hunter, Wesley Peck, J. L. Trefren, Wesley Dennett, C. G. Milnes, J. W. Bryant, J. L. Mann, E. E. Dodge, E. D. McCreary, H. B. Heacock, H. F. Briggs, Thomas Filben, M. D. Buck, Montgomery Hall, Dr. J. T. Peck, J. F. Van Pelt, F. K. Baker, C. D. Hinkle, L. J. Dake, H. S. Holway, James Williamson, Helen R. Peck, Luther B. Wilson, J. W. Hamilton, W. S. Matthew, F. L. Heath / Frank Heath / Frank L. Heath / Frank Lucien Heath, Caleb Izant, W. H. Heard, D. C. Merrill, H. J. Garrett, Makinney & Dake, Williamson & Garrett, B. F. Brown, J. H. Sinkinson, Silas Baker, William C. Izant, Peter Robertson, Hattie M. Snedecor, Nellie Huntington, George F. Hannah, Dr. George A. Bangs, Epworth League, Kate Klipple, Ladies' Working Band, T. J. Rickey, Otis Longley, Lilly Ruth Baker, Sabbath School, Penfield, G. W. Frick, Peter Wilkinson, George Remnant, James Wagor, Charles Burrows, J. G. Mundell, R. C. Laws, E. S. West, W. P. Young, T. D. Alexander, George Place, Methodist Sunday School, H. D. Smith, J. E. Robertson, W. C. Izant, Will Carmean, Myrtle Hedgpeth, Bessie Hedgpeth, Ruth Grant, Ethel Bowen, May Grant, R. Kaill, G. W. Roberts, Rebeca Bell, Charles Bennett, Leah Marvin, George W. Ross, Pearl Hedgpeth, Lillian Heath, William Pringle, Bessie Coats, Otis A. Longley, Pennsylvania Avenue Sunday School, East Santa Cruz Chapel, Will Clapp, A. A. Cox, Florence Mosher, T. J. Clapp, Dr. C. L. Bliss, Etta Snedecor, G. A. Bangs, Kate Bauter, W. A. Stilwell, Minnie Pooley, Walter Carmean, Ollie Carmean, Josephine Beers, Hazel Polhemus, Helen Robertson, Ruth Britton, Hester Rice, Harold Hapgood, Junior League, Woman's Home Missionary Society, George Yale, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, E. S. Wilson, Eva Bruce, Maggie Williamson, Hope Swinford, Lucy Pooley, T. Meilandt, Donna Beman, Emma Clapp, Rebie Howland, Ruby Lewis, Embert Mosher, Charles J. Bennett, Percy Izant, Henry J. Garrett, J. E. Sinkinson, B. A. Case, John Wesley, William Naffzigger, M. M. Corey, Bessie May Baker, C. B. Pease, Dr. J. L. Eby, Dr. McMahan, S. E. Cook, V. R. Bennett, William Aydelotte, Eleanor Little, Emma Little, P. A. Izant, S. A. Chappell, A. H. Needham

1900s, 1850s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, education, music
Creator: Frank K. Baker
Date: 1905
Type: BOOKLET; PHOTO; ILLUSTRATION; PROGRAM
Coverage:
  • Santa Cruz
  • Churches
  • Methodism
  • Episcopalianism
  • Biographies
  • Spanish
  • Architecture
  • Christianity
  • Prohibition
  • Clubs
  • Protestantism
  • Events
  • Education
  • Music
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
Identifier: MS-SANTA CRUZ-CHURCHES METHODIST EPISCOPAL-5

Citation

Baker, Frank K. “Fifty-Seventh Anniversary Historical Sketch of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Santa Cruz, California.” 1905. SCPL Local History. https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/141860. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.