The following is a list of the churches of San Bernardino:
First Methodist Episcopal. Corner of Sixth and E streets. Value $30,000. Seating capacity 1,200. Services every Sabbath at 11 A. M. and 7 P. m. Sunday school at 9:30 A. M.: A. Fussel, Superintendent. Prayer meeting Wednesdays at 7:30 P. M. Rev. George W. White, Pastor.
Methodist Episcopal Church South. Fifth street, between D and E. Established fifteen years. Value $8,000. Seating capacity 800. Services every Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 9:45 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7:00 P. M. Rev. W. B. Stradley, Pastor.
Congregational. Corner Fifth and D streets. Organized and church built and dedicated November 1876. Value $4,500. Has a seating capacity of 200. Services every Sabbath at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sunday school at 9:45 A. M. Rev. J. H. Jenkins, Pastor.
Presbyterian. Church corner of E and Park avenue. Value $4,500. Seating capacity 300. Services every Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sunday school at 9:30 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. Rev. John Morrison, Pastor.
Baptist First Church. Third street, between F and G. Value $4,000. Seating capacity 200. Services every Sabbath at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Prayer meeting on Wednesdays at 7:30 P. M. Rev. A. J. Frost, Pastor.
The Evangelische Gemeindeschaft hold their regular services every Sunday afternoon at A. O. U. W. Hall on Third Street. Sunday school at 1:45 P. M., and preaching at 3 P. M. German-speaking citizens are kindly invited to attend. Theodore Suhr, Pastor.
Holiness Church. Meets every Sunday in Swing Block, corner of D and Fourth street, at 10 A. m., 3 P. M., and evening.
Latter Day Saints. Corner of Fifth and G streets. Regular services every Sabbath. David Harris, Minister.
African Methodist Episcopal Church. Has regular services every second and fourth Sundays of each month at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M., with class at P. M. Building on west side of D street, between First and Second. Charles Augustus, Pastor.
Roman Catholic. The church of San Bernardino of Siena was built in 1870. Prior to this Roman Catholic worship had been conducted in two small chapels. The present edifice was erected at the cost of Mrs. Catherine Quinn, the value being some $9,000. This parish includes San Bernardino and a large portion of San Diego County. There are some 100 families of this faith within the city limits. Rev. Father Stockman is the incumbent.
Source: An Illustrated History of Southern California: embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California.