The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

and King streets had It's incebtion I'm
1905 when a mission was started In
a back room of the old Fox hotel.
Rev. |. @. Rankin was the first pas
tor OF this church and preached
when the church home was at Cam
eron md Cheyenne. Rev. Charles
Newcomb. who took the pastorate in
1916 Is ;he present pastor.
student preachers from the Uni
versity OF Tulsa have filled pastor
ates in the Builette Memorial Pres
byterian church, organized in 1913
as mission church and OF which
w, f. Garvin is now pastor.
City extension necessitated the cs-
tablishment of branch church in
1917 and group OF Presbyterians
made up OF Mr.. and Mrs. T.. A. Rob
inson, j, Il. stockton, Mr.. and Mrs.
6. S. Edwards, Mrs. Minnie Jack
man, Mrs. X. NJ. Nichol and MIR ana
Mrs. C.. J Mead met IN the Mead
home ana organized the Second
Presbyterian ct arch. Rev. w. II.
Murphy, the churchs pastor. has
been constantly with the organza-
tion during the years when 1t has
built and paid for its own buildings,
involving an expenditure OF some
$S0,00O.e
The first annual Methodist confer
ence ever held in Oklahoma was
held here in Tulsa. 1t was fitting
that this should he so as the Method
ist church was but scant year be-
hind the Presbyterian in pioneering
in this field. II was with nine white
members and five Indians that the
first Methodist Episcopal church
was established here in Tulsa in
1856, a mission church of which the
Rev. w. +. Bowden was pastor. For
the magnificent sum OF $40 the
church purchased one block OF the
two comprising the tract used as a
church-Jte, the Indians deciding the
other block as n gift to the church.
These blocks we're the two on what
is now Brady and North Main: one
blocR beginning on Main and run
ming west the other the site upon
which convention nal! now stands.
Reverend Mowbray Arrives.
In 1883, Rev. q. w. Mowbray
came TO take the pastorate of the
church and remained for four years.
During that time the church liqui-
dated its entire debt. 1t was Bishop
Walden Of Cincinnati who presided
over the first church conference that
oklahoma ever held, here in the
a dlSd Dullhlubs
Rev. Robert Forbes dedicated the
church building at Boulder and
Fifth in May, 1906. The coHgrega-
tion outgrew that building and today
is seeing the completion OF the mag
nificent and commodious new
church home at the corner OF Ninth
and Boulder. Rev. j. w. Abel,
the present pastor of the church,
took the pastorate in February,
1917.
1t was in the days of the circuit
rider, and as part OF the circuit
that the boston Avenue church
South, first saw the light of day.
Rev. l.. Il. Chenoworth. circuit rider,
was its first pastor after the church
was organized in 1893 as part of
the Catoosa circuit. The church's
charter members were the pastors
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. George Forsythe,
DR.. and Mrs. +. l.. Brewer and Miss
Lola Brewer. The fret church home
was on the north side OF the Frisco
station. The present building, Fifth
and Boston. was built during the
pastorate of Rev. J. II. Ball. The
has been with the church for eight
years.
Centenary Organized.
The Centenary Methodist church
was organized in 1906 to fill the
need of a church of that denomina-
ton for the north side. With the
taking of the pastorate In 1918 by
Rev. Harold G.. Cooke, agitation for
new church building was begun,
eliminating after several years OF
effort in the splendid structure at
North Denver and Easton, repre-
senting an investment of something
more than 100000. Waite Phil
lips, Oil operator. made a gift OF the
furnishings OF the church and John
w. Gilliland provided the pipe or
gan. The present pastor of the
church Is Rev. w. L. Biz ckburn.
Almost every day was moving day
for the Orcutt Memorial NJ. l..
church Sunday school in the days OF
its infancy. First organized by
Rev. Sylvester Morris in 1907. the
Sunday school began its itinerary
soon after his death. Clarence B.
Douglas. in his History of Tulsa"
describes its wanderings thus:
THE Sunday school was soon
afterward moved about 800 feet
south to a lot north OF where Doctor
Beasley now lives. From here 1t was
taken to "a small house $50 feet
north OF where Judge Standeven
now lives;- from there to grove
where Floyd McGray now lives;