1. The First 150 Years of Making Love Visible Getting to Joy…
November 1865 to November 2015
Dec 13, 2015

2. Mrs. E.O. Smith San Jose Suffrage Society Board of Lady Managers
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
California Pavilion at World’s Fair
Mrs. E.O. Smith
Re-invigorated Church

3. Catherine S. Hillman Smith née Brown (1838-1904)
Edward Owen Smith ( )
With President William McKinley (1901)

4. I always come with reverence. ”
“Wherever we find many races brought together, ... the Church is to proclaim the equality of the races.
Wherever the oppressed are congregated, there Christ is present— and not on the side of power.
Into such a presence,
I always come with reverence. ”
- Rev. Thomas Starr King: 2 Aug 1860

5. US Sanitary Commission
Henry Whitney Bellows ( )
NY Unitarian Minister
President & Founder
Thomas Starr King
( )
Laura J. & B.F. Watkins
SF Unitarian Minister
SF, then SJ Unitarian Congregants

6. The Watkins & the US Sanitary Commission:
or how our church really started…
Laura J. née Broughton
Benjamin Franklin
Ladies’ Union Association & American Women’s League

7. San Jose City Mayors (Mayoral term)
Mark Leavenworth ( )
Campbell Thompson Settle ( )
Ransom Grove Moody ( )

8. Sheltering 1906 Earthquake Victims
Join us!
Saturdays ~1pm-4pm
California Room
5th floor MLK Library
(408)
Establishing First Childcare Center:
San Jose Day Nursery
1906 by our congregants in our church building or 1916 in other place by other people?