From Sunday School students to members of Asylum Hill Congregational Church

The source for this event is Atwood Collins’s lecture for the church’s fiftieth anniversary.  The Courant’s article announcing the June 11 service gave only the time of the service and the minister giving the sermon.

The chapel was dedicated on March 12, 1865.

The church will be dedicated on June 15, 1866.

“Church services were held in the chapel continuously thereafter until the completion of the church building.”

1. The key word in Atwood Collins’s statement is “continuously”: the Courant’s weekly “Religious Intelligence” column (or its equivalent) lists services being held in the chapel every Sunday after the dedication service except for April 30 and June 4.
2. O. E. Daggett was from Canandaigua, NY.

Unattributed, “Religious Intelligence,” Hartford Daily Courant, June 10, 1865, page 2.

Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Honored at Anniversary of His Church,” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1915, page 16.