1875-1900 - The First Congregational Church of Pembroke, UCC

Our World and Country

1876	Battle at Little Big Horn. General Custer and men killed by Indians led by Chief Sitting Bull.
1877	First tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
1879	First Woolworth $.05 and $.10 Store opened.
1885-97	Grover Cleveland becomes only president to succeed his succesor.
1895	Wilhelm K. Roentgen, German Physicist, discovers the X-ray.

1877	George E. Gordon and Co. established. George Gordon becomes certified pharmacist in ’84.
1879	Jewell Lodge #94 AF&AM formed in the Masonic Hall.
1885	Pembroke Grange #111 is organized
1896	Mary Gordon Bartlett Rebekah Lodge #69 I.O.O.F instituted.
1899	Suncook Village Improvement Society formed.
1900	Original wooden Pembroke Academy building burns. Rebuilt in brick.
1900	Fred W. Saltmarsh founds F.W. Saltmarsh Coal and Ice Company.

1876	Wood burning stoves replaced with coal burning stoves.
1883	The Church has a new organ installed. (The same one presently in use).
1883	Professor Isaac Walker, Principal of Pembroke Academy for 27 years, is elected a Deacon of the church.
1900	Reverend Paul E. Bourne, Paster 1893-1904, is married to Eliza Downing. “With old and young alike he is a magnet that never fails to draw, in the pulpit and out of it.”