Florence E. Kollock

She subsequently served as pastor of the Universalist Church, Pasadena, California, 1892–95, where, with a membership of nearly 500, it was the largest congregation in the world under the charge of a woman.

[1][7] While a student at St. Lawrence, Kollock came to Rochester, New York early in the summer of 1874, and preached for the Universalist Society about three months.

Augusta Jane Chapin as pastor of the Universalist church at Blue Island, Illinois, one of Chicago's suburbs.

The little group which first gathered about her rapidly increased in numbers until within a year, a church was formed in Englewood and she became its pastor, removing there in 1879.

Kollock's ability as an organizer was felt everywhere, in the flourishing Sunday-school, numbering over 300, which ranked high in regular attendance and enthusiasm, and in the various other branches of church work, which was reduced to a system.

While church-going in that day was often left by the husbands to the women of the family, it was not so in Kollock's church, which contained an unusual proportion of men, young and old.

[13] She was in Washington, D.C. in March 1891 at a meeting of the Woman's National Suffrage Association where she joined a committee appointed to confer with the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition intent on launching an active campaign in the southern states.

[9] She busied herself with lectures at the University of Oxford and the British Museum, and writing a series of articles on co-education in Europe for home papers.

[17] In May 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition's religious services, Kollock and seventeen other ordained women ministers sat in the front row of the speaker's platform in the Washington Hall.

At the Woman's Parliament of Southern California, October 1894, Kollock read her paper on "What the Public Schools Should Teach".

[32] In October, Kollock-Crooker was back in Boston, representing the Unitarian and Universalist denominations in missionary work for Michigan, and addressing the Massachusetts woman suffrage association on "What Disfranchised Citizens Can do for Home and Country".

[33] In 1902, in Auburn, New York, Kollock-Crooker was elected president of the Woman's Centenary Association of the Universalist Church during its annual convention.

[35] Kollock-Crooker was called to the Universalist church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts in 1904 and began her work there on November 1, Dr. Crooker becoming a co-worker in the religious life of Boston.