History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men, Part 159

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1358

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proved. It will now seat seven hundred persons. The parsonage, which stood a few steps from the church, was erected during the pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Woodward. The renovated church was reconsecrated Sunday, May 28, 1882. As it had once been for- mally consecrated by the bishop, it was deemed un- necessary to repeat the ceremonies in full, and a con- secration prayer merely was therefore offered. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Ingrahanı, and his assistant, the Rev. Mr. Phelps. Dr. Ingraham preached the consecration sermon, in the course of which he stated that the amount re- quired to defray the cost of the alterations, payment of the old debt, etc., was ten thousand five hundred dollars. Of this sum five thousand dollars had been given and pledged by Joseph W. Branch, and over five thousand dollars more by the parishioners, leav- ing an indebtedness still remaining of one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.

The rectors of St. John's have been the Revs. E. H. Cressy, 1845-48; R. H. Weller, 1850-51; W. H. Woodward, 1851-58 ; Francis J. Clerc, 1858-60; Bishop C. S. Hawks, D.D., 1863-67; William L. Githens, 1868-73; William N. Webbe, 1873-74; William L. Githens, 1874-77 ; Abiel Leonard, 1877 -78; J. Gierlow, Ph. D., 1878-81 ; J. P. T. Ingraham, 1881. Dr. Ingraham is still the rector. Rev. Philip McKim and Benjamin O'Fallon were respectively as- sistant rector and lay reader of the church in its early days. According to the report of the rector for 1882, there were ninety communicants and sixteen teachers and one hundred and sixty children in the Sunday- school.

St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church is situated at the northwest corner of Beaumont and Chestnut Streets, Rev. John Fulton, D.D., rector. The organization of this parish grew out of the loss of Kemper College, which was sold for debt in 1845, while Rev. E. Carter Hutchinson was its president. Some time before Bishop Hawks was invited to be- come rector of Christ Church, Mr. Hutchinson had received a call from the vestry, but had declined it, his friends wishing him to remain at the head of the college. When the college was sold, many who were attached to him, in order to retain him in the diocese, proposed to organize a parish of which he should be the rector, and under date of March 22, 1845, ad- dressed to Bishop Hawks the following petition :

" The undersigned, being anxious to advance the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this growing city, beg leave to state that the medical faculty of the St. Louis University have generously offered the use of their hall, on Washington Avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, as a house of religious wor- ship, during the spring, summer, and autumn months. As there

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is a rapidly increasing population in that neighborhood, we deem it important that a speedy effort should be made to pre- sent the claims of the church there. We understand there is a eanon of the church forbidding a elergyman to officiate within the limits of a city where there are regularly organized churches without the consent of the settled reetor or reetors. We do, therefore, most respectfully and earnestly solieit your perinis- sion and co-operation in the furtheranee of our wishes. We have understood that the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, late president of Kemper College, will probably spend some months in this vicinity for the purpose of arranging some matters of business, and although he has not been advised with by us on the sub- ject, we are not without hope that his services may be procured in aid of this important object." Signed, James Hutton, Robert Ranken, James Gresham, Robert C. Greer, David H. Armstrong, Frederic L. Billon, Isaiah Forbes, W. Carr Lane, H. S. Geyer, B. H. Randolph, Edward Tracy, Thomas Shore, Samuel B. Churebill, H. W. Chambers, Thomas T. Russell, Charles Pettit, Z. B. Curtis, T. S. Rutherford, P. H. MeBride, Edward E. Areher, B. H. Batte, Henry C. Hart, David M. Hill, Henry B. Belt, Josiah Spalding, Britton A. Hill, M. S. Gray, J. O'Fal- lon, W. H. Pritehartt, Henry Von Phul, G. Erskine, Edward Mead, William Glasgow, R. Wash, Win. Smith, H. S. Case, Thomas Skinker, Edward Stagg, J. S. B. Alleyne, Julius Mo- rise, Edward Charless, John D. Daggett, Dr. John Shore, F. W. Southaek.

The necessary consent having been obtained, a meeting was held in the hall of the St. Louis Lyceum, Gen. William Milburn presiding, and a new parish organized, with the Rev. E. C. Hutchinson as rector, and John O'Fallon, Henry S. Geyer, William Milburn, Thomas Shore, James Henry, Josephus W. Hall, and Josiah Dent as vestrymen. The name of St. George was given to the church by the rector, after a church of the same name in New York, in charge of Dr. Milnor, a leader of the Evangelical school, the doc- trines of which were indorsed by Mr. Hutchinson. On May 13, 1846, the churchi was admitted into the Diocesan Convention, and reported fifty-five commu- nicants. For nearly two years the services were held in the morning at the public school-house on Sixth Street, and in the afternoon at the Methodist Church on Fifth Street. The first church building erected by the parish stood on Locust Street near Seventh, and was dedicated April 13, 1847. In 1851, Rev. S. G. Gassaway, of Georgetown, D. C., was chosen assistant rector. Questions which had arisen as to the administration, and afterwards as to the loss of Kemper College, of which Mr. Hutchinson was one of the creditors, caused much feeling and division, and although St. George's Church was built expressly for its first rector, and many of his friends thought that he should have remained and outlived the oppo- sition which had begun to be manifested, after an assistant minister had been called Mr. Hutchinson resigned, in 1852, and three years later organized Trinity Church. Mr. Gassaway then became rector. He was one of the victims of the explosion of the

St. Louis and Alton packet, just after it had left the St. Louis wharf, Feb. 16, 1854. His many virtues and zealous devotion to his parish had greatly en- deared him to his parishioners, who presented his family with five thousand dollars, and erected to his memory a marble tablet, which was placed in the church, and subsequently removed to the walls of the new building and placed near the font.

The rectors of the church since then have been Rev. William Colvin Brown, deacon, ordained priest Dec. 10, 1854; Rev. T. A. Hopkins, son of Bishop Hopkins, of. Vermont, called July 8, 1855, resigned in the fall of 1857; Rev. Edward F. Berkley, D.D., of Lexington, Ky., 1 took charge Nov. 20, 1858, resigned Dec. 5, 1871 ; Rev. Robert A. Holland, of Baltimore, called Jan. 1, 1872, resigned Nov. 1, 1879, to take charge of Trinity Church, Chicago; Rev. S. W. Young, of Canada, had temporary oversight of the parish until the present rector entered upon his duties (April 4, 1880). After the death of Mr. Gassaway, St. George's parish fell off from one hundred and fifty-five communicants to sixty-eight ; the indebted- ness increased from six thousand nine hundred dollars to over ten thousand dollars, and in February, 1855, a number of the members withdrew to form Trinity Church. In 1856, however, the Rev. Mr. Hopkins reported one hundred and sixty-six communicants and the church free from debt. In 1857 the church bought a lot in Bellefontaine cemetery for the inter- ment of its indigent communicants. In 1860 tlie organ which is still in use was bought for four thou- sand three hundred dollars. At the close of the war, in 1865, the church was in debt to the extent of fif- teen thousand dollars, but this was fully paid off in 1866. In September, 1868, the Diocesan Conven- tion, which elected Bishop Robertson, was held in this church. In 1871 the present site of the church was bought for eighteen thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars, and in 1872 the first church build- ing and lot on Locust Street were sold to John R. Shepley for fifty thousand dollars, although services

1 A controversy having arisen as to the mode in which Henry Clay, the Whig statesman, was baptized, the Rev. Mr. Berkley, who had officiated at that ceremony and who also read the fu- neral service at the interment of Clay at Lexington, Ky., was appealed to by W. A. Beil, of Paducah, Ky., for information on the subject. Mr. Berkley replied that Mr. Clay was baptized in his parlor at Ashland on the 22d of June, 1847, in the form ordinarily observed in the Episcopal Church,-i.e., "by pouring a handful of water on his head in the name of the Holy Trinity." One of his daughters-in-law and four of his granddaughters were baptized in the same way. It had been asserted that Mr. Clay had been baptized by immersion, but this statement was specifically denied by Mr. Berkley.

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continued to be held there until the chapel of the new building was completed, May 1, 1873. The corner- stone of the present church edifice was laid May 30, 1873, and the first services in the completed church were held on Easter Sunday, 1874. The building is cruciform, the nave being one hundred and fourtecn by fifty-five feet, and the transepts seventy-seven by twenty-five feet. The height from the street to the finial of the spire is one hundred and forty-five feet. The seating capacity is eight hundred. The property cost in all one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, and a debt of fifty-nine thousand dollars which re- mained at the time of completion was entirely canceled in May, 1879. The present officers of the church are : Senior Warden, John W. Luke; Junior Warden, Joseph W. Branch; Secretary, D. E .. Garrison ; Treasurer, M. W. Alexander ; Vestry, Edwin Harri- son, Isaac M. Mason, Hugh Rogers, John G. Wells, H. T. Simon, H. H. Curtis, John D. Pope, John C. Orrick, and Western Bascome. The number of com- municants in 1882 was two hundred and seventy-five, and the Sunday-school pupils numbered four hun- dred.

Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church is situ- ated at the northwest corner of Washington Avenue and Eleventh Street. Rev. George C. Betts is its rector. In the sketch of St. George's Church it was stated that Rev. E. Carter Hutchinson, D.D., resigned the rectorship of that parish in 1852, much against the wishes of a large number of his friends. These friends at once conceived the project of organizing a new parish for him, but nearly three years elapsed before their efforts were successful. In February, 1855, however, Trinity parish was organized, mainly by members of St. George's, who withdrew for the purpose, and who elected as the first vestry, James W. Finley, senior warden ; T. S. Rutherford, junior warden ; and L. Levering, C. Derby, N. Phillips, T. Skinker, W. M. Price, M. Moody, S. O. Butler, T. Griffiths, L. P. Perry, E. Barry, and J. Y. Page, vestrymen. The new congregation met at first, and for some months, in St. Paul's Church, corner of Fifth and Wash Streets. A hall was then rented from the Cumberland Presbyterians, at Eleventh and St. Charles Streets, and later a building which had been used by the Congregationalists on Locust between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. The present site of the church was leased for a term of forty years from Feb. 1, 1859, Messrs. Derby, Powell, and Shands being the selecting committee, and in October, 1859, the erection of the building was begun. The corner-stone of the church was laid with impressive services by Bishop Hawks, assisted by several other

clergymen, on March 14, 1860, and the rector, Dr. Hutchinson, preached his first sermon in the com- pleted building, then considered one of the finest in the city, on June 20, 1861. The structure was sixty- six feet long, forty-seven fcet wide, and fifty-six feet high. The number of communicants Junc 20, 1861, was one hundred and thirty. On Jan. 22, 1865, the church was burned down, but was immediately re- built and again consecrated Aug. 27, 1865. It is a neat stone edifice, with a seating capacity of nearly seven hundred, and has a chapel and Sunday-school room in the rear. Dr. Hutchinson resigned the rec- torship Feb. 1, 1869, and was succeeded by Rev. J. D. Easter, D.D., who served until 1872. During this period the parish suffered greatly from financial embarrassments and the withdrawal of its members, several of whom joined in organizing the Church of the Holy Communion. Rev. Joseph Cross, D.D., served as rector for a few months in 1872, but on the 15th of November, 1872, Bishop Robertson assumed the rectorship, with Rev. Edwin Coan as assistant, and under their management strenuous efforts were made to clear off the debt. Several changes were in- troduced, one that remains yet being the substitution for the paid choir of one composed of surpliced men and boys, whose music has become justly celebrated. The present rector entered upon his duties on Easter, 1876. Under his ministrations the church has pros- pered, and is now in a fair way to clear off all incum- brances. When the lease expires in 1899, or perhaps, sooner, the parish will probably be prepared for a re- moval farther west. The congregation at present numbers about one hundred families, or four hundred and fifty persons, with two hundred and seventy-five communicants. The Sunday-school is attended by ten teachers and eighty scholars.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, situated at the northwest corner of Twenty-eighth Street (Leffingwell Avenue) and Wash- ington Avenue, Rev. P. G. Robert, rector, grew out of a mission Sunday-school in connection with Trinity Church (Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, rector), with William H. Thomson superintendent, which was held in a brick school-house on Morgan Street, near Garrison Avenue. This building had been fitted up for relig- ious purposes, and services were held in it thence- forward every Tuesday evening, the city clergy officiating in turn. After several unsuccessful efforts the parish was finally organized Jan. 24, 1869, its first vestry consisting of Francis Webster and William T. Mason, wardens ; Francis Carter, James Wilgus, N. G. Hart, William J. Lewis, R. W. Powell, R. M. Wilson, H. G. Isaacs, L. E. Alexander, Wil-

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liam H. Thomson, Elijah Welles, and J. T. Utter- baek. Francis Carter was elected elerk, and L. E. Alex- ander treasurer. Rev. P. G. Robert, then at Little Roek, was ehosen reetor, and preached his first ser- mon June 6, 1869. A lot was bought on the corner of Washington and Ewing Avenues, which was sub- sequently exchanged for the present site, which is eighty and three-twelfths feet in width, and eost twelve thousand dollars. Ground was broken June 15, 1870, and a ehapel (now the transept) was built and first occupied Dee. 18, 1870. The little school- house on Morgan Street, which this congregation had up to this period used, was the property of William J. Lewis (one of the vestrymen), who had given the use of it, rent free, for five years. Its site is now oc- eupied by a residence. Work on the nave was begun June 15, 1876, the first stone was laid July 2, 1876, and the whole church was opened for service on Easter Eve, March 31, 1877. The building is of stone, and one hundred and twenty-five feet in depth, and it contains seven hundred and two sittings. In this ehureh no pews are sold, and the singing is eongre- gational, these having been two of the conditions upon which the reetor took charge of the parish. Nearly all the furniture and ornaments of the church are memorials of deceased persons. The sacred ves- sels were manufactured from silver relics of departed friends, some of the articles being nearly two hundred years old, contributed for the purpose by members of the congregation. The communion-plate was first used Jan. 2, 1876, and the alms-basin on the Easter following. While the nave of the church was building the congregation worshiped in a wooden chapel which they had purchased from Dr. Brank's congregation. The parish began with twenty-three communieants, and now numbers four hundred and seven. Its membership embraces two hundred and twenty families. The Sunday-school has twenty- seven teachers and an attendance of two hundred and seventy-five pupils. Connected with the ehureh are the Parish Aid Society, Maternity Society for assist- ing poor women, Young Ladies' Sewing Cirele, and the Parish Missionary Soeicty, all in vigorous opera- tion, and the Parish Guild. The Parish Record, a four-page monthly journal, is published by an asso- ciation of members of the parish. Its first number was issued Nov. 28, 1880.

Mount Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, southwest corner of Lafayette and Jefferson Avenues, Rev. Benjamin E. Reed, reetor, was organized Sept. 6, 1870, in Compton Hill Mission sehool-house, a small frame building on Henrietta Street, north of Lafayette Avenue. Prominent among its founders

were George D. Appleton, Wells Hendershott, Lewis Lipman, James O. Broadhead, T. A. Hutchins, David Davis, and Hugh Davis. Henry Shaw gave a lot, one hundred and seventy-five by four hundred feet, at the head of Lafayette Avenue, on Grand Av- enue, and on this, through the munificenee of George D. Appleton, who defrayed nearly the entire cost, a beautiful church was built at an expenditure, for build- ing, furniture, ete., of about twelve thousand dollars. It was eonseeratcd in 1871. C. B. Clark was the arch- itect. The reetors have been Rev. W. O. Jarvis, who took charge Jan. 23, 1871, resigned Jan. 31, 1872 ; Rev. Dr. Hedges (pro tem.), resigned Sept. 30, 1872 ; Rev. Benjamin E. Reed, took charge Dec. 25, 1873. In the spring of 1877, the congregation having grown too large for the building, and the remoteness of the situation rendering its removal advisable, a joint-stock company was formed, under the title of " The Mount Calvary Building Association," which having pur- chased a lot seventy-five by one hundred and forty feet on Lafayette and Jefferson Avenues, erected (1877-78) a chapel with a seating capacity of three hundred and fifty, and at a cost of ten thousand dol- lars. This also has since proved too contracted, and the parish is contemplating the building of a large and handsome church capable of seating from eight hundred to one thousand. The present reetor is also chaplain of the Episcopal Orphans' Home. The property on Grand Avenue still belongs to the parish. There are several societies belonging to the congrega- tion,-a Humane Society (organized in 1872) for the relief of the poor, that has done important work, dis- tributing in gifts about six hundred dollars per annum ; a Sewing Society, Young Ladies' Association, Parish Library, Young Men's Guild, and a Missionary So- eiety. In 1882 there were one hundred and eighty- six communieants, and the Sunday-school was attended by over thirty teachers and three hundred scholars.

Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, an off- shoot from Christ Church, was organized in August, 1859, by the Rev. J. W. Clark. Mr. Clark under- took the work with the understanding that there was to be no charge for pews or seats. At first the eon- gregation worshiped in Veranda Hall, but soon after its organization steps were taken for the erection of a church building at the corner of Morgan and Twenty-first Streets, after designs by George Mitehell, of St. Louis. The corner-stone was laid on Sunday, June 4, 1860. The architecture was Gothie, of the early English style, and the exterior dimensions of the building, ineluding vestibule, poreh, and bell-gable, were to be one hundred and thirty-seven by fifty feet, affording about one thousand sittings. The material

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to be used was brick with stone dressings, and the estimated cost was ten thousand dollars. Had it been completed it would have been the largest Episcopal Church in St. Louis, with the exception of the new Christ Church. The building committee was com- posed of E. Morgan, James Duncan, E. J. Cubbage, and Samuel Spencer. The church was never built. In his historical address, at the semi-centennial anni- versary of Christ Church in 1869, Rev. Dr. Schuyler stated that the enterprise " soon died out."

St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, El- leardsville, Rev. C. S. Hedges, D.D., rector, was or- ganized in 1870 (services having been held for a year before that), in which year the building of the church was begun. The edifice was completed and conse- crated by Bishop Robertson, May 29, 1871. The rectors have been Revs. J. I. Corbyn, 1870-74 ; Louis S. Schuyler, 1874-75 ; D. E. Barr, 1875-76 ; and the present pastor since 1876. In 1882 there were twenty communicants, and forty pupils in the Sunday-school.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Innocents, Oak Hill, Rev. Thomas H. Gordon, rec- tor, was organized in the spring of 1871, Rev. Edwin Wickins holding the first services. The rectors have been the Revs. A. I. Samuels, M.D., 1871-72; J. N. Chestnutt, 1872-73 ; Louis S. Schuyler, 1873- 78; A. Batte, 1879-80 ; Thomas H. Gordon since 1881. The church has no building of its own. The last report of the rector stated that there were fifty- five communicants, and ninety individuals connected with the Sunday-school.

The Protestant Episcopal Mission Church of the Good Shepherd, Eighth Street, between Lan- caster and Pestalozzi Streets, Rev. H. A. Grantham, rector, was organized in March, 1871, in a building on Seventh Street, near Sidney, where the congrega- tion worshiped until the completion of the present chapel in 1873. This building has since been en- larged. The rectors have been the Revs. Edwin Wickins, 1871-73 ; M. A. Hyde, 1873-75 ; H. D. Jardine, 1875-79 ; and the present rector since 1881. The communicants number one hundred and five, and the Sunday-school is attended by five teachers and fifty pupils.

St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Grand Avenue, between Olive Street and Washington Ave- nue, Rev. Edward F. Berkley, D.D., rector, was or- ganized by its present rector in 1872, in a hall on the northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and Olive Street, where worship was continued until the chapel now occupied was finished, in the fall of 1873. This chapel is of stone, of Gothic architecture, and will

seat two hundred and fifty persons. It stands in the rear of the lot bought by the church in 1872, on the northeast corner of Olive Street and Washington Avenue, the front part of which was sold after the erection of the chapel, fifty-five by one hundred feet being retained. The rector reports about sixty com- municants, and one hundred and twenty pupils in the Sunday-school.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, Rev. Cassius M. C. Mason, rector, was organized in 1873 by Rev. James E. Thompson, for colored members of the church. It was then called the Mission of our Saviour, and worshiped in the chapel of Trinity Church until 1875, when the old Jewish Synagogue, on Sixth Street, near Cerré, was purchased for its use. This building, however, was abandoned in 1881, the location having proved un- suitable, and the congregation now meets for worship in Trinity Church, at Eleventli Street and Wash- ington Avenue. The second and present rector (appointed Sept. 26, 1880) reports forty-four families, or two hundred persons, with seventy communicants, as being connected with his church, and five teachers with ninety pupils in the Sunday-school.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ad- vent, Twentieth Street, near Wash, Rev. J. N. Chestnutt, rector, was formed out of a mission Sun- day-school which was organized in 1871 and met in the Masonic Hall, corner of Wash and Eighteenth Streets, until 1876, when the present building was bought from the Presbyterians. It has since been much improved. The rectors have been the Revs. D. E. Barr, 1875-76 ; L. E. Brainerd, 1876-77 ; and the present pastor since 1877. There are eighty- three communicants, and ten teachers and seventy- five pupils in the Sunday-school.

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Mission was begun in 1881 in a hall at the corner of Garrison and Easton Avenues, where its services are still held. Rev. John Gierlow, Ph.D., is the rector.

UNITARIAN CHURCHES.

Church of the Messiah .- In the summer of 1830, Rev. Dr. John Pierrepont, an eminent Unitarian divine, poet, and temperance advocate, visited St. Louis and preached in the market-house at Main and Market Strcets. Three years later Rev. George Chap- man, a Unitarian minister from Louisville, Ky., preached three times in the parlor of the National Hotel, corner of Market and Third Strects, then just built. There existed in St. Louis at the time a small band of Unitarians, recent immigrants from New Eng- land, and among these Christopher Rhodes, James

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Smith, and George H. Callender specially interested themselves in raising funds to provide for the rent of a room or hall and the board and lodging expenses of a minister. Their efforts resulted in the establishment in November, 1834, of regular religious exereises in Elihu H. Shepard's school-rooms, opposite the court- house. The minister was Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., then a recent graduate of the Harvard University Divinity School, and afterwards one of the most distinguished preachers and educators of St. Louis. On the 26th of January, 1835, "The First Congregational Society of St. Louis" was organized, with C. Rhodes as presi- dent, and Joseph M. Chadwiek as secretary and treas- urer. On the 1st of November of that year the society removed from the school-rooms to the third story of the Masonic Hall, at the corner of Main and Locust Streets, over John Riggins' store. This building is still standing, being one of the few business structures spared by the great fire of 1849. Previous to this, however, the society had purchased a lot at the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets. The corner-stone of the first church located on this site was laid in May, 1836, and the building was dedicated on the 29th of Octo- ber, 1837. In 1842 it was enlarged, the addition being half the original size of the building, which, as remodeled, presented the appearance of a Greeian temple of the Doric order. In the winter of 1835-36 an informal association for the care of the poor, which has continued in active operation ever sinee, was or- ganized. The first communion service was held at Easter, 1836, eight persons participating, and two years later, the number of communicants having doubled, a regular church covenant was adopted. In 1836 the first attempt was made to establish a Sun- day-school, but it failed ; eight teachers appeared, but no scholars. In the spring of 1837, however, a very small Sunday-school was organized, which in 1839 was put under the care of Seth A. Ranlett as superin- tendent, who served as such until 1870. In the fall of 1840 a "ministry at large" was established, Revs. Charles H. A. Dall, Mordecai De Lange, Carlos G. Ward, and Thomas L. Eliot, a son of Dr. Eliot, now settled at Portland, Oregon, successively, but irregu- larly, filling the position, and in November, 1841, the church members resolved themselves into a charitable association, with the minister at large as agent, for the conduct of schools for the poor, sewing and in- dustrial schools, etc. For the use of these schools some years later a house and lot on Eighth Street, between Locust and St. Charles, were secured at a cost of fifteen thousand dollars. In 1879-80 the present mission house, a beautiful structure, situated at the southwest corner of Ninth and Wash Streets, was

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History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men, Part 159

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898 Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts Number of Pages: 1358

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1358