The First Church of Fairfield : being a brief account of three hundred and twenty three years in the First Church, Congregational, of Fairfield, Connecticut, Part 12

Author: Deming, Wilbur Stone, 1889-1971
Publication date: 1963
Publisher: Bridgeport, Conn. : Cutting & Woods
Number of Pages: 302


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Kinsman, Russell C., Jr., 117, 119 Kinsman, Mrs. Russell C., Jr., 110 Klein, Mr. and Mrs. John, 45 Klinedinst, Mrs. Kenneth, 101 Knapp, Shepherd, 66 Knowlton, C. W., 39 Krom, Asbury E., 50 Krynick, Nicholas, 46


Lafayette, 10 Lamb, Carl, 81


Lamb, J. R. Company, 68 Lathrop, Mrs. Ellen, 100 Lavery, A. E., 57, 67 Leonard, Mrs. Grant, 70, 71 Lewis, Lothrop, 29 Link, Mrs. Leroy R., 77 Lockwood, 2 Lockwood, Joseph, 29 Lockwood, Ralph, 46 Lonsdale, Stanley J., 123 Lord, Willis, 19, 26 Lothrop, Dr. Nathaniel, 2 1 Ludlow, Roger, 1, 31 Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. Morris W., 44 Lyons and Mather, 121


Maciejewski, Austin, 78 Mallory, Wesley, 71 Markle, Dehar S., 62


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Morts and Lundy, 121 McClean, Alexander, 23, 26, 27 McLean, Alexander, 23, 26, 27 Mckay, Mrs. Harold C., Jr., 83 Mershon, Harry G., 41 Miller, Louise, 81 Morehouse, 2 Morehouse, Annie O., 50, 71, 77 Morehouse, J. Madison, 29


Morehouse, John B., 29 Morehouse, Samuel C., 29, 35, 63 Morehouse, William, 29


Morgan, J. Pierpont, 24


Mortensen, E. D., 118 Mortensen, Martin, 39 Murphy, George, 70


New Lights, 8, 14 Newfield, II Nichols, Finette, 77 Nichols, Samuel A., 29 Nonguier, Anthony, 21


Old Lights, 8 Orton, Herbert, 103 Osborn, 2


Osborn, Burr, 24


Osborn, Daniel, 29, 33


Osborn, Edward, 29, 50, 65


Osborn, Thomas Burr, 18 Osgood, Samuel, 68 Otis, Mrs. Edna Coggswell, 71, 74, 81 Overbaugh, Elbert S., 46, 117, 118


Palmer Fund, 42 Parke, Richard, 102 Park, Mrs. Paul A., 122 Parnhoffe, Genario, 46 Parsons, Willard, 47 Paulding, Colonel and Mrs. William, 38 Pell, 2 Penfield, James, 33 Perry, 2 Petersen, Peter, 38 Petersen, P. Sterling, 103 Pfeif, Mrs. William J., 120, 122


Pickett, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. S., 69 Pinkney, 2 Potter, Rockwell Harmon, II I Price, David W., 77, 94, 108 Prime Ancient Society, 1, 13 Pumphrey, Ralph, 119


Quincy family, 10


Rankin, Edward, 19, 25, 28 Read, 2


Redfield, W. M., 59


Redfield, Walter J., 62


Renneson, Clyde, 46


Riker, Andrew L., 62


Riker, J. Edgar, 57, 59, 121 Rinden, Arthur, 70


Robbins, Donald G., Jr., 100


Robbins, Mrs. Donald G., Jr., 120


Roberts, Frederick W., 110


Robinson, Mrs. Henry E., 110


Robinson, Henry Evans, 110, 112, 124


Roche, James T., Jr., 62


Roger Ludlow High School, 76, 78


Rodrigues, Mrs. O. Victor, 85


Rope, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E.,


121, 122, 123 Rowe, First Selectman, 39 Rowland, 2


Rowland, Andrew, 10


Rowland, David, 29


Rowland, Samuel, 69


Rowlison, Carlos C., 65


Rundelet, Mrs. Charles F., 122 Russell, Galen E., 94


Saltus, J. Sanford, 24, 25, 52 Sanford, 2


Sandstrom, David H., III Saybrook Platform, 3, 4, 7 Saybrook Synod, 2


Sayre, Rector, 1 I Schroeder, John, 78


Scotford, John R., 118 Scully, John, 46 Seabury, Bishop, 13


Second Awakening, 14


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Senger, Edwin C., 120, 122, 124 Seymour, Charles, 78 Sherman, Roger, Judge, 15, 18, 22 Sherman, Roger, 15 Sherman School, 39


Sherwood, 2 Sherwood, Wesley, 77


Shove, Seth, 6 Silcox, Clarice Edwin, 50, 51,'52


Silcox, Mrs. Clarice, 50


Silliman, 2


Silliman, Gold Selleck, 29


Silliman, Captain John, 21, 22, 99


Silliman, Colonel, 10


Sloss, Sarah, 21


Smedley, Colonel James, 22 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Livingston G., 71,83, 84


Smith, H. Shelton, 41


Smith, Roger C., 39, 117


Snedeker, Rodney C., 96, 103, 104 Soule, Sherrod, 66


Spaulding, Mrs. Katherine M., 77


Spelman, Henry Beale, 77


Sprouse, Lawrence H., 120


Sprouse, Mrs. Lawrence H., 122


Squier, William, 33 State Audubon Society, 34


Stier, Hugh A., 102


Stilson, Mrs. Minott, 117


Stoddard, Anthony, 6


Streeter, Ronald L., 120, 122


Sturges, 2 Sturges, Amelia, 24


Sturges, Ella, 24


Sturges, Frederick, 24, 39, 40


Sturges, Frederick, Jr., 40, 53, 60


Sturges, H. Pemberton, 38, 63


Sturges, Jonathan, 10, 13, 21


Sturges, Lewis, 21, 99


Sturges, Mary A., 68


Sturges, Samuel, 33


Swaffield, Harold A., 94, 105


Thompson, John, 4, 28


Thompson, Thomas, 46 Todd, George L., 81, 94, 110 Tracy, Maurice B., 94 Trinity Church, 11, 13 Trumbull, 10 Tryon, Major-General, 32 Turney, Albert, 35 Twichell, Joseph, 78, 80


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Village Improvement Society, 34 Visiting Nurse Association, 48


Wakeman, 2 Wakeman, Andrew P., 29, 68


Wakeman, Bacon, 39, 41, 50


Wakeman, Cornelia, 68


Wakeman, Emma, 59


Wakeman, Esther, 110


Wakeman, Capt. Joseph, 21, 100


Wakeman, Samuel, 3, 21, 26


Ward, Andrew, 2


Washington, George, 10


Webb, Joseph, 3, 4, 6


Welles, Roger P., 77, 94, 100


West, William E., 38


Wheeler, 2


Wheeler, Mrs. E., 78


Whitfield, 8, 9, 17


White, Mr. and Mrs. Lester, 64


Wilkes, Malcolm G., 122


Wilson, Eleanor, 73


Wilson, George, 78


Wilson, Sereno, 24


Winchester, Benjamin, 50


Wishard, Glenn, 84, 97, 103


Wolcott, Roger, 7


Wright, Mrs. Mabel Osgood, 46, 63, 68 Wyncoop, Mrs. E., 21, 99


Yale College, 3, 26


Ziroli, Mr. Oreste C. S., 52, 60


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A Summary of Dates from 1639 to 1910


Organization of Public Worship


1639 1640


Erection of Log Meeting-House


1644 Installation of Rev. John Jones, First Pastor


Approval of Hooker's "Survey" by the Church


1645 1663 1 664


Meeting-House rebuilt


Death of Rev. John Jones


1665


Installation of Rev. Samuel Wakeman, Second Pastor


1668


Appointment of Mr. Wakeman by General Court to "consider some expedient for our peace" together with others


1669 Church in Fairfield follows the "Half-Way Covenant"


1671-80 Meeting-House altered and repaired


1683 Election Sermon before General Court


by Rev. Samuel Wakeman


1692 Death of Mr. Wakeman


1694 Installation of Rev. Joseph Webb


1695 Organization of the Church in Stratfield, First Church, Bridgeport


1698 New Meeting-House completed


1700-1 Mr. Webb assists in founding Yale College


1709 Fairfield Consociation formed, the church representatives being Mr. Webb, Deacon John Thomson and Mr. Samuel Cobbett


17II Parish of West Farms (Greens Farms) set off


1725 Parish of Greenfield Hill set off


1729 Parish of Redding organized


I732 Death of Mr. Webb


I733 Installation of Rev. Noah Hobart


I743 General Association of Connecticut Colony meets at Fairfield


I747 New Meeting-House ordered to be built on same location, 60 feet long, 40 feet wide, 26 feet high, steeple 120 feet high


1748 Publishing of address to members of the "Episcopal Separation in New England" by Rev. Noah Hobart


1750 Printing of Election Sermon by Mr. Hobart before the General Court


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1751 Publishing of Second Address to "Members of the Episcopal Separation in New England" by Mr. Hobart


I753 Mr. Hobart elected Moderator of the General Association


1754 Publishing of "Principles of Congregational Churches" by Noah Hobart


1757


Norfield Parish set off


1767 North Fairfield Parish set off


I773


Death of Noah Hobart, after a pastorate of forty years


I774 Installation of Rev. Andrew Eliot


1777 General Association of Connecticut convened in Fairfield


1779 Meeting-House burned by the British on July 9th


1779 1779


Public Worship held in private houses


1780


The New Court House used for Public Worship


1786


Public Worship conducted in the unfinished Meeting-House


1790


Andrew Eliot, a member of Committee on Union between Congregational and Presbyterian Churches


1790 Voted that the Society Committee set up warnings for "ven- duing the Pews in the Meeting-House for ready money"


1805


Death of Rev. Andrew Eliot


1807


Installation of Rev. Heman Humphrey


1807


Disuse of the Half-Way Covenant


1907


New Confession of Faith and Covenant adopted


1811 General Association of Connecticut meets in Fairfield


1813


Mr. Humphrey appointed by Consociation to prepare address on Intemperance


1813 Mr. Humphrey publishes a Series of Articles on Intemperance


1815 Fairfield Charitable Society organized at residence of Mrs. David Hull


1818 Rev. Nathaniel Hewit succeeds Mr. Humphrey in the Pastorate


1818 Congregationalism as the established religion of Connecticut is dis-established by law


1821 Female Prayer Meeting Society organized at the Home of Mrs. Nathaniel Hewit


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1825 The Sunday School becomes a flourishing part of the Church


1827 Dr. Hewit elected Secretary of the American Temperance Society


1828


Rev. John Hunter installed as Pastor


1832 Westport Congregational Church is organized


1835 Rev. Lyman Atwater succeeds Mr. Hunter


1843


Congregational Church of Southport is organized


1844 Judge Roger M. Sherman, deacon, bequeaths his mansion and nine acres of land to the Prime Ancient Society, to be used as parsonage


1848 Congregational Church at Black Rock is organized


1849 Fifth House of Worship is erected by the Prime Ancient Society


1854 Dr. Atwater is elected to the Chair of Logic in Princeton College


1854 Dr. Willis Lord becomes pastor of the Church


1856 Dr. Lord is made Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago


1857 Rev. Alexander McLean is installed as Pastor


1858 The Chapel is erected on the lawn adjoining the church


1866 Dr. McLean is called to the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Buffalo


1866 Rev. E. E. Rankin, D.D. is installed as Pastor


1872


Hope Chapel is erected in Jennings Woods


1873


First Volume of Church Records copied by Miss Hannah Hobart. On Cover of original book was the inscription: "This Booke of Records belongs to ye Church of Christ in Fairfield of which I am pastor, Joseph Webb. Bought in ye year 1704, cost 6,8 in money, paid for by ye Church"


1875 Church redecorated, stained glass windows installed, pew doors removed.


1879 Centennial of the Burning of. Fairfield. Address by Dr. Rankin


1880 Rev. George S. Burroughs succeeds Dr. Rankin in the pas- torate


1880 Public Worship conducted in Hope Chapel by Yale Divinity Students


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Mr. Burroughs receives the Ph.D. degree from Princeton College


1884 Mr. Burroughs is called to the First Congregational Church, New Britain


1884 Rev. John E. Bushnell installed as Pastor


1885 The Church Parlors erected


1888 Christian Endeavor Society organized


1888 Mr. Bushnell accepts a call to Presbyterian Church, New York


1888


Rev. Frank S. Child begins his pastorate


1889


Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Church


1889


Publishing of catechism of "Children's Mid-Week Service"


Sketch of Prime Ancient Society is printed


1890 1890 Fifth House of Worship is burned on night of May 29th


1891


Corner Stone of present Church Building is laid, May 2nd


1892


Dedication of Sixth Sanctuary


1 892 1894 1895 1896 1904 1906 1906


Fresh Air Home instituted


"The Friendship of Jesus" published


New Church Manual issued


"The Colonial Parson of New England" published


Sherman Parsonage renovated


The pastor away for a six months' travel vacation


Historical Tablet, containing the names of pastors, placed in vestibule of Church


1906 1906


"Ministers of Prime Ancient Society" published


New Building for Fresh Air Home erected and put in use


1908 Jewel glass windows placed in north end of the Church, in memory of Deacon Oliver B. Jennings and Mrs. Esther J. Jennings


1909


A jewel glass window placed in the west transept of the Church, in memory of Rev. Andrew Eliot


1910 Publishing of "A Church of the Established Religion in Connecticut" being "An Historical Sketch" by Rev. Frank S. Child.


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