The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19
REV. MAYNARD ARRIVES
breaches His First Sermon at Unity
Hall Today.
is WELL FITTED FOR CARRYING
OUT THE WORK.
His Wife Is Also An Ordained Min
lister and a Most Accomplished
Lady-Their Work On the Coast.

Rev. r. A Maynard, who succeeds
Rev. A. L. Hudson as pastor of the
Unitarian church, accompanied by his
wife, arrived in this city yesterday
from California, and will preach his
first sermon at Unity hall today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard are at 121
West Fourth South.
The new pastor was educated at
Hillsdale college, Hillsdale, Mich, and
Michigan state university, at Ann Ar
Dor He added to his experience and
education through earning his ex-
penseS by teaching, and followed that
student in the law department at Ann
Arbor, and actively engaged in the
practice of law for Il years.
Rev. Milo Topper Maynard, the new
pastors wife, is, as the title would
| indicate, also an ordained minister, and
belongs to a distinguished family. She
graduated from Cornell university in
1889, receiving the degree of bachelor of
! letters Upon entering college she OBJ
tanned in competitive examination in
, mathematics a scholarship sufficient to
pay the greater part of college ex-
penses.
She was ordained to the ministry at
La Porte, Ind, in 1889, where she was
pastor of the Unitarian church for two
years, and was afterWard in charge of
the socieyt at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard were married
in 1898, and spent the summer of that
year in the Hull house social settle
ment at Chicago, and attended most of
the Worlds Fair congresses. Later in
the same year they removed to Reno,
New, where Mr.. Maynard began his
ministerial work and where they or
ganized Unity church of that city, be-
ing in charge Of the same for a period
of two years.
During their residence in Nevada they
We're also engaged in university extern
sion work at different points in the
state, Mrs. Maynard having been con-
nected with the department of English
and history in the state university.
During the past two years they have
resided in Los Angeles and Santa Mon
lea, Cal, and have conducted literary
work in the favor of social study
classes in these two cities, and in Pas
adena. Mrs. Maynard has been at the
head of the department of history and
literature in Cumm0ck school of ora
tory, one of the most prominent pri-
vate schools in Los Angeles. They be-
gan their joint passionate of Unity
church at Santa Monica in May, 1896
severing their relations with that So
ciety and closing their work in that
city Sunday, Dec. u, to accept the call
to Salt Lake. Rev. r. NJ Webster of
the Unity congregational church of
Pasadena has been called to continue
their work, and all the classes and
clubs which form a large part of their
church work are to be continued
While at Reno Mrs. Maynard found
ed the Twentieth Century club, Wo-
mans club, of over 100 members, and
was largely instrumental in securing a
public kindergarten system for the
schools of that city. During the cam
paign for the woman suffrage amend
ment in California she was president of
the Los Angeles county association.
which succeeded in carrying Los An
geles county and city for the measure
with a majority of over 1000. She is a
sister of Kate Topper Galpin OF Los
Angeles, and of Rev. Eliza Upper
Wilkes, formerly assistant pastor of
Unity church, Oakland Cal, also of
Mrs H. A. True or Denver, Colo, pres
ident of the Educational Alliance, and
prominent in the associated charities of
Denver. She is also cousin to Kate
Douglass Virgins, the well known au-
thor.
Mr. Maynard began his ministerial
work at Reno; has since been at Santa
Monica and was, during the past sum-
mer, temporarily in charge of the First
Unitarian church at Pomona, Cal, and
had under consideration a call to this
church when the call to Salt Lake was
received.