About the records:
     The records of the First German Presbyterian Church (later First Street Presbyterian Church) may now be held by the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. None of the records are online and must be searched in person or by a paid researcher. The registers that record membership information cover 1853-1983.

Additional information about the church:
     A 32-page, illustrated history of the church, History of the First Street Presbyterian Church, by its pastor Rev. Louis Voss, D.D., read at its seventy-fifth anniversary, by the Rev. Louis Voss (1856-1936), was published in 1929. A copy is available at the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library. The call number is 285.1763 V96h

Other names of this church:
     First German Presbyterian Church
     First Street Presbyterian Church

Clergy who served the church up to 1893:
     _______ Münzenmaier (1853-1857); Christian Mayer (1857-1858); J. C. Seybold (1859-1860); Johann Heinrich Holländer (1861-1876); Lesko Triest (1877-1878); Wilhelm Graf (1878-1879); Louis Voss (1880-1893+).

Current affiliation:
     The First German [First Street] Presbyterian Church was dissolved about 1983 and no longer exists as a congregation.

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