1892 program for Ordination of William B. Geoghegan at Dane Street Conregational Church, Beverly, Massachusetts

Dane St. Congregational Church, Beverly, Massachusetts.  
Ordination Service
June 16th, 1892 at 7 o'clock, P.M.

Ordination of
Mr. William B. Geoghegan
as Pastor of the
Dane Street Congregational Church
Beverly, Massachusetts
Thursday Eve, June 16, 1892, at 7 o'clock.

Organ Prelude
The Minutes of the Council
Anthem "Jubilate Deo, " Meitzke,                 By the Choir
Invocation
Reading of the Scriptures
Hymn                                                              By the Choir
[lyrics]
Sermon                                            By Rev. L. T. Townsend, D.D.

Ordaining Prayer                      By Rev. O. T. Lanphear, D.D.
Hymn
(The congregation will please rise and join in the singing.)
[lyrics]
Charge to the Pastor                      By Rev. DeWitt S. Clark
Right Hand of Fellowship              By Rev. W. E. Strong
Charge to the People                      By Rev. E. C. Ewing
Address of Welcome                      By Rev. E. C. Butler
Hymn
(The congregation will please rise and join in the singing.)
[lyrics]
Benediction                                           By the Pastor

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From online research, hopefully correct:

William Bernard Geoghegan (1865-1962) was born 31 August 1865 at Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Captain James A. and Rosalia Geoghegan of Baltimore.  

After stints at several churches in New England, Rev. Geoghegan settled at New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a clergyman and in the public health field.  In the 1910 and 1920 Censuses of New Bedford, wife Mary is enumerated with him, but he was living as a boarder without Mary in the 1930 Census of New Bedford.

According to a reader, Rev. Geoghegan was president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society about 1938.  This reader has a copies of The Pine Crier, a mimeographed monthly newspaper published by the patients of the Sassaquin Sanatorium in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as part of their occupational therapy. The November 1938 issue contains an article about Rev. Geoghegan.

If you have any corrections, additions or insights regarding the information presented here, please leave a comment or contact me directly.  Thanks!


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