Robinson  and  Mrs.  Salinda  Smith,  on  Kaighn
Avenue,  which  resulted  in  efiecting  an  organiza-
tion, and  during  the  fall  of  1865  the  newly-
formed  society  obtained  the  use  of  the  second
story  of  a  frame  building  at  Second  Street  and  Pine,
owned  by  the  City  Fire  Department.  Rev.  Frank
Fletcher,  the  first  pastor,  by  the  end  of.  the  first
year,  had  secured  a  church  membership  of  ninety
communicants  and  established  a  Sunday-school  in
connection  with  the  congregation.  In  1866  a
church  building,  thirty-two  by  forty-eight  feet,
was  erected  on  Broadway,  below  Kaighn  Avenue,
and  the  Rev.  Boston  Corbett '  was  chosen  the  second
pastor.
In  1867  Rev.  William  Staulcup  became  pastor,
continued  until  1874  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.
J.  K.  Freed,  during  whose  ministry  a  new  brick
church,  forty  by  sixty  feet,  was  built  upon  the  site
of  the  old  one.      In  1877   Rev.  C.  Applegate  suc-

1  Sergeant  Boston  Corbett,  above  mentioned,  is  the  person  who,
as  a  soldier,  shot  John  Wilkes  Booth,  the  aasaesin  of  President
Abraham  Lincoln.
