UUSS HISTORY TIME LINE

1858 First known Unitarian sermon in Sacramento
1860 Rev. Starr King gives two lectures in city
1865 $100,000 raised for Unitarian ”missionary work“ in northern CA
1867 Rev. Charles Gordon Ames visiting; regular meetings held
1868 First Unitarian Church founded on 3129/68, serves 17 families
1868 to 1873 Rev. Henry W. Brown
1873 Financial Panic nationwide
1873 to 1887 No records of church activity for 14 years
1887 to 1892 Rev. Charles Massey, Pioneer Hall & Pythian Castle meetings
1892 Incorporation of First Unitarian Society of Sacramento
1892 to 1894 Rev. T.J. Horner
1893 Another Financial Panic nationwide
1895 to 1901 No church activity except one $25 donation to American Unitarian Association in 1898
1901 Request to American Unitarian Association for $25/mo. support for Sacramento church
1901 to 1911 No records of church activity for ten years
1911 Board of Directors resumes meeting
1912 to 1913 Rev. Franklin Baker serves Sacramento and Woodland
1913 to 1918 Rev. Charles Pease
1915 First Unitarian Church completed on 27th Street
1920 to 1921 Rev. Martin F. Fereshetian (Interim)
1921 to 1922 Rev. Hubert Cyril Carter (Interim)
1922 to 1927 Rev. Berkeley B. Blake
1927 to 1931 Rev. Robert E. Starkey 1929
Great Depression begins, membership tops 100 for the 1st time
1931 to 1933 Rev. Robert C. Withington
1934 to 1935 No minister; membership declines to 20 members
1936 Rev. Clarence Vickland serves Sacramento & Stockton (part time)
1936 to 1945 Rev. Arthur Foote serves Sacramento and Stockton (part time)
1945 to 1960 Rev. Theodore C. Abell
1949 Julia Bray Fund established, R.E. building completed
1951 200 attend Easter services, largest crowd to date
1960 New church completed on Sierra Boulevard, membership 450
1960 Rev. John Albert Taylor (interim)
1960 to 1970 Rev. Ford Lewis
1961 Merger creates national Unitarian Universalist Association
1961 Funds raised for construction of three church school buildings
1962 to 1968 Three new Unitarian churches spring up briefly in city
1966 Membership peaks at 735; three new R.E. buildings completed
1970 to 1971 Rev. Josiah Bartlett. 1st ”official“ Interim Minister
1971 to 1983 Rev. Theodore Webb
1976 Name changed to Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento
1979 Church membership at 559
1982 Eighteen symbolic banners hung in church
1983 to 1984 Rev. Aaron Gilmartin (Interim Minister)
1985 to 1989 Rev. Donald Beaudreault
1985 to 1986 Rev. Eileen Karples (Interim Minister)
1986 to 1988 Rev. Douglas Strong (Interim Minister)
1988 to 1998 Rev. Dr. John Young
1992 to 1994 Rev. Richelle Russell (Assistant Minister)
1997 to 2000 Rev. Shirley Ranck (Pastoral Minister)
1999 to 2000 Rev. Sydney Wilde (Interim co-Minister)
1999 to 2000 Rev. Dennis Daniel (Interim co-Minister)
2000 to present Rev. Douglas Kraft
2004 to 2006 Rev Lyn Cox (Asst Minister for Education)
2007 to 2008 Rev Connie Grant (Minister for Education)
2008 to present Rev. Roger Jones (Family Minister)