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The activity shown by the Methodist denomination has borne excellent results as may be seen by the numerous edifices that are an ornament to the borough.
The Roman Catholics in the Bronx have shown much energy, and the panorama of the borough is dotted in all direc- tions with the spires of the churches that point skyward.
Among the earlier churches of this denomination St. Augus- tine's, at 167th Street and Franklin Avenue, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, at 150th Street, west of Melrose Ave- nue, St. Raymond's at Westchester, and St. Mary's at White Plains Avenue near 215th Street, may be justly considered the pioneers. They have largely been added to in numbers in keep- ing with the development of the borough, and among the most prominent for their architectural appearance might be noted the following :
St. Jerome's, at 138th Street and Alexander Avenue, which presents an imposing appearance. Connected with it is a paro- chial school in which an excellent curriculum prevails.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, 150th Street and Melrose Avenue, is a monument to the zeal of its members. Beside the church proper it has a parochial school and a com- modious hall for the use of the men's club, wherein lectures, en- tertainments and other functions are held.
St. Joseph's Church on Bathgate Avenue, near 177th Street. is another edifice that holds the attention of the passerby owing to its spire which is visible from many parts of the bor ough.
The new edifice of the Presbyterians of West Farms is the result of the munificence of the late Charles Bathgate Beck, who bequeathed $100,000 for its construction as a memorial to his Inother, Jeannette Beck. It is situated at 186th Street and Vyse Avenue, and the style of architecture is pure French Gothic, and the material is Indiana limestone.
The First Presbyterian Church and its manse, located on Fast 225th Street just cast of White Plains Avenue, is another example of the progressiveness of Williamsbridge, and is a credit to that section.
The Church of the Reformation ( Evangelical Lutheran) at Wilkins Place and Jennings Street, is one more of the recent striking additions to the ecclesiastical structures of the Bronx.
Temple Hand in-Hand, 145th Street, East of Willis Avenue
First German M. E. Church, Elton Avenue and 158th Street
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Tremont Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington Ave .. near 174th Street
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The Emmanuel English Lutheran Church, at 137th Street and Brown Place, is another attractive edifice built of Tuckahoe marble.
Olin M. E. Church on White Plains Avenue, opposite 218th Street, is the finest appearing structure in the upper part of the borough. Built upon a rising knoll the massiveness of the structure, and the varying colors of the Indiana limestone of .
which is constructed, at once attract the attention of the passer- by.
Bethany Presbyterian Church on East 137th Street, near Willis Avenue, is a fine example of the liberality of the members of that denomination which has resulted in the erection of an edifice that is a credit to the neighborhood.
146th Street is another attractive feature in chairch architecte:s in the lower part of the borough.
St. George's Episcopal Church at 219th Street, west oi White Plains Avenue, is the most recent acquisition to church architecture in that section. It is located in what was formerly a part of the extensive parish of St. Paul's at Eastchester.
The following is a list of the churches in the Bronx. the arrangement being in alphabetical order in the respective denom. inations :
BAPTIST.
Alexander Avenue, corner East 14Ist Street. Ascension, 16cth Street, near Park Avenue.
St. John's German Evangelical Letheran Church, Fulton Avenue
The North New York Congregational Church, in 143d Street, near Willis Avenue, is the most recent specimen of church archi- tecture which redonnds to the credit of the lower Bronx.
The Alexander Avenue Baptist Church is another recent ad- dition to the handsome edifices which indicates the progressiveness of the borough.
St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church at 238th Street and Verio Avenue, a handsome edifice, which was started as a mis- sion, has proven a valuable acquisition in that section of the city. The Mott Haven Reformed Church at Third Avenue and
Beth Eden, Webster Avenue and 189th Street. Eagle Avenue, Eagle Avenue, near 163d Street. Emmanuel, 215th Street and White Plains Avenne. Eton Hall, 1058 Dawson Street. Mt. Pleasant, 765 Courtlandt Avenue. Pilgrim, Boston Road and Vyse Avenue. Third German, 1127 Fulton Avenue. Tremont. 170th Street ard Tremont Avenue. Trinity, Park Avenue and 215th Street, Williamsbridge.
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St. Margaret's P. E. Church
Ofin M. E. Church, Williamsbridge
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Bathgate Ave .. near 177th Street
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North New York Congregational Church
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CONGREGATIONAL.
Bedford Park, 201st Street and Bainbridge Avenue. brist. Topping Avenue and 175th Street. Claremont Park, Webster Avenue and 167th Street. Forest Avenue, Forest Avenue and 166th Street. Longwood Avenue, Beck Street.
North New York, 143d Street, near Willis Avenue. Trinity, Washington Avenue and 176th Street.
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
Second Church of Disciples of Christ, 169th Street, near Hanklin Avenue and Southern Boulevard and 167th Street.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN.
Bethany. 10 Teasdale Place. Emmanuel. Brown Place and 137th Street.
Golgothe, 887 Tinton Avenue. Gustavus Adolphus, Brown Place and 137th Street.
Reformation, Wilkins Place and Jennings Street.
St. John's, 1343 Fulton Avenue.
St. Luke's, Van Nest.
St. Matthews, 626 East 156th Street.
St. Paul's, 18Ist Street and Third Avenue.
St. Paulus, 156th Street, near Westchester Avenue.
St. Peter's, Williamsbridge.
St. Peter's, 626 East 161st Street.
St. Stephen's, Union Avenue, near 165th Street.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Bronxdale, Boston Road.
Centenary. Washington Avenue and 166th Street. Elton Avenue, Elton Avenue and 158th Street.
Fordham. 2503 Marion Avenuc.
Grace, White Plains Avenue, between 24Is' and 242/1 Streets.
Morris Heights, Sedgwick Avenue. Mott Avenue, Mott Avenue and 150th Street. Mt. Hope, 1881 Morris Avenue. Olin. White Plains Avenue and 216th Street.
Prospect Avenue, Prospect Avenue and Macy Place. St. John's, Fulton Street, between 239th and 240th Streets. St. Stephen's, Kingsbridge. Tremont. Washington Avenue and 178th Street. Tremont German, Bathgate Avenue, near 175th Street. Trinity, Main Street. City Island. Westchester. West Farms Road, Westchester. Willi- Avenue, Willis Avenue, corner I4Ist Street. Woodlawn, 237th Street, ncar Kepler Avenue.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Bedford Park, Bainbridge Avenue and 200th Street. Bethany, 137th Street, ncar Willis Avenue. Intervale, Intervale Avenue and Home Street. First Morrisania, 17 Ritter Place. First Williamsbridge, 225th Street, cast of White Plains Name. Riverdale, Riverdale. I hroug's Neck, Ft. Schuyler Road, Westchester. Fremont, Washington Avenue. ... stock, Fast 165th Street and Boston Road. 4. 4 Farms, 1246 Fast iSoth Street. Niversity Heights, New York University, University
United. East 187th Street and Lorillard Place.
Van Nest Park, Morris Park Avenue and Lincoln Street.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.
Advocate, 181st Street and Bathgate Avenue. Atonement, Webster Avenue and 175th Street. Christ, Riverdale.
Emmanuel, 681 East 155th Street.
Grace, Main Street, City Island. Grace, Vyse and Tremont Avenucs.
Holy Faith, 870 East 166th Street. Holy Nativity, Vyse Avenue, near Freeman Street.
Mediator, Kingsbridge Avenue, Kingsbridge.
St. Alban's, Summit Avenue, near 165th Street, Highbridge.
St. Ann's, St. Ann's Avenue and East 140th Street.
St. David's, 642 East 160th Street.
St. Edmund's, Morris Avenue and 177th Street. St. George's, 219th Street and Park Avenue, Williamsbridge.
St. James', Jerome Avenue and St. James Place.
St. Margaret's, Dawson and 156th Streets.
St. Martha's, Van Nest.
St. Mary's, Alexander Avenue, near 142d Street.
St. Paul's, Washington Avenue and 170th Street.
St. Peter's, Westchester Avenue, Westchester.
St. Simeon's, 163d Street, near Morris Avenue.
St. Stephen's, Verio Avenue and 238th Street, Woodlawn.
Trinity, East 164th Street, near Boston Road.
REFORMED EPISCOPAL.
St. Paul's, 236th Street ,near Verio Avenue, Woodlawn.
REFORMED.
Anderson Memorial. Cambreling Avenue and 183d Street.
Comforter, 509 East 162d Street.
Fordham, Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue.
Melrose (German), Elton Avenue and 156th Street.
Mott Haven, Third Avenue and 146th Street.
St. Paul's ( Evangelical), 874 East 14Ist Street.
Union, Ogden Avenue and 169th Street.
West Farms, Boston Road and East froth Street.
Belmont Cong., Crotona Avenue and East ISoth Street.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Chapel of the Sacred Heart. Hart's Island.
Holy Family. Ninth Street, corner of Avenue C, Unionport Holy Spirit, Burnside Avenue, corner of Aqueduct Avenue. Inimmaculate Conception, 635 East 150th Street, near Mel- rose Avenue.
Immaculate Conception, Maple and Olin Avenues, Willians- bridge. .
Our Lady of Solace, Van Nest.
Our Lady of Mercy, Webster Avenue and East 190th Street. Sacred Heart. Shakespeare . Avenue, near East 169th Street.
St. Angela. Morris Avenue and 163d Street.
St. Anselmi's, Beach Avenue, near East 152d Street.
St. Anthony, 1010 East 166th Street.
St. Augustine's, East 167th Street, corner Fulton Avenue. St. Francis of Rome, Fulton Street, between 236th and 237th Streets, Wakefield.
St. Jerome's, Alexander Avenue, corner of t38th Street
St. John Chrysostom's, to7th Street, near Hloe Avenue.
St. John's, 2011 Kingsbridge Avenue.
St. Joseph's, 10443 Bathgate Avenue.
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CATHOLIC-Continued.
St. Lawrence, Park Avenue, corner of East 184th Street
St. Luke's, East 138th Street and Cypress Avenue.
St. Martin of Tours, East 182d Street, corner of Grote Street.
St. Margaret's, Riverdale.
St. Mary's, White Plains Road and 215th Street, Williams- bridge.
St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Main Street, City Island.
St. Philip Neri. Anthony Avenue, opposite 202d Street.
St. Raymond's, West Farms Road, Westchester.
St. Thomas Aquinas. 1277 Tremont Avenue.
St. Valentine's, 221st Street, between Fourth and Fifth Ave- nues, Williamsbridge.
HEBREW.
Temple Hand-in-Hand, East 145th Street, between Brook and Willis Avenues.
Adath Israel, East 169th Street, between Third and Franklin Avenues.
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Perspective View of the Reformed St. Paul's Church, 141st Street, St. Ann's and Trinity Avenues
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Some of the Pastors of Bronx Churches
REV. WILLIAM HOWARD KEPHART, pastor of the North New York Congregational Church, 143d Street, near Wil- lis Avenue, will complete the ninth year of his ministry therc, this fall of 1905. He came here from Plymouth Church, Bing- lanton, N. Y. He was born October 1, 1864, at Middletown, Md. In 1873, at 8 years of age, he moved to Altoona, Pa., and attended the public schools there in his boyhood. Later he took a four years' course and graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and after a three years' course, graduated also from the Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1889. Mr. Kephart is a member of the Congregational Club of New York and of the Manhattan Association of Congregational Ministers. He was chosen Moderator last spring of the State Associa- tion of Congregational Churches, a fact indicative of his popu- larity and abilities. He is a member of the F. and A. M. and has been honored with the thirty-third degree and also Grand Chap- lain of the State of New York. He married, June 16, 1893, Miss Mary Wood. His only child, Charles, a boy of II years, died in 1903.
ALVAH EDWARD KNAPP was born at Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., on August 17, 1863. After having studied in the local schools, he took a preparatory course in Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich .; a college course in Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., receiving the degree of B. A., and a theological course in Theological Seminary of Colgate University, receiving the degree of B. D. He is well known in the Baptist denomination, and has resided in the Bronx about six and a half years. While his politics are gen- erally Republican, he is not a partisan, and has never held a political office, being identified too closely with his calling. In the various gatherings of the Baptist denomination he has been honored by being selected as Moderator of the San Diego (Cal.) Baptist Association; Vice-President and Director of Southern California Baptist Convention; President Southern New York Baptist Association; is Treasurer of the Permanent Council of Baptist Churches of New York City and vicinity; a member of the Executive Board of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society ; also a member of the Baptist Social Union; The Fort nightly (a Bronx literary society), and the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences. He married Lillie Gertrude Doak, of Marble- head, Mass., on June 17, 1890, the result of the happy union being one child, Aiva Gertrude Knapp. now living. Rev. Mr. Knapp has met with great success in the field of his labor at the Tremont Baptist Church, whose activity has resulted in great good to the community. Mr. Knapp, while in California, was captain and chaplain in the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, First Brigade, National Guard of California.
REV. GEO. NIXON .- Not only among members of his denomination and faith is he known, but throughout all the dis- trict in which he lias ministered so long and faithfully as pastor, I. a man among men, a true citizen, gentleman and Christian, such is our subject. He is a New Yorker, born Nov. 7, 1834, 31 54 Dey Street (now the heart of the business quarter of Man- hattan), 71 years ago. At 19 he graduated from the Free Academy of the City of New York and the following year matriculated at Princeton Theological Seminary, whence he
graduated : three years later April, 1858, was licensed to preach Presbyterian faith and doctrine. Thence his pastorate has been continuous to date. He received a call to the West Farms Presbyterian Church in October, 1858, and was ordained Nov. IC. 1859, by the Second Presbytery of New York. Under his ministration its membership increased. He married Oct. 9, 186;, Miss Mary Isabella Deacon, daughter of Robert Deacon, Post- master of Kingston, Canada. They have had eight children, of whom three are living-Charles A., Florence D. and Blanch Ogden; the deceased are-Robert Ogden, Isabella E., Marie Haincs, George and Reginald Heber. He has four grandchildren, the issue respectively of his son, Chas. Alexander (a daugliter Ruth Evelyn). of his daughter, Isabella, deceased, (Sidney George and Beatrice), and his daughter Blanche E. (Marie Isabel). "A patriach in Israel" so to speak, "with from 25 to 130." In 1861, during the Civil War, he was commissioned chaplain in the army, but was disqualified for physical disa- bility. He has been pastor of the Tremont Presbyterian Church to date. He was elected moderator of the Second Presbytery of New York in 1863, of the Presbytery of Westchester in 1874, and is now moderator of the Presbytery of New York. He was commissioner to the General Assembly at Cleveland in 1875, and again in 1898. In July, 1900. he celebrated his 25th anniversary as pastor in Tremont. In 1861 he entered the Masonic Order. He affiliated with Guiding Star Lodge. F. and A. M., in 1878, and was chaplain in Royal Arch Phoenix Chapter No. 2 for seventeen years. Miss Isabell Evelyn married Mr. Thomas C. Bent. March 4, 1896, Miss Blanche Ogden married Mr. Henry C. Farrand June 30, 1904, and Charles married Miss Carrie Probanzana of New York City on July 31, 1901.
PASTOR HUGO RICHTER was born in Germany in the year 1850. After serving in the Franco-Prussian war, he came to the United States. Having finished his theological studies. he was for a number of years assistant to the Rev. Pastor J. F. C. Hennicke in New York City. From herc he went to Martins- ville, near Buffalo. N. Y., and then came back to Brooklyn. where. in January. 1882. he planned his first congregation in the Bronx, the St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church of East Morrisania. The frame church which was built the same year and is now in the possession of Roman Catholics, is situated in East 150th Street between Tinton and Robbins Ave- nues. Under one of the successors of Pastor Richter, the St. Paul's congregation has built a new stone church in East 156th Street between Westchester and Union Avenucs. For nine ycars Pastor Richter extended his services in the interests of the congregation by assembling German Lutherans for church and Sunday school services. He also conducted a German- English parochial school for six and a half years. In the year 1890 he started a Sunday school in a hall in East 142d Street near Alexander Avenue. In a few months the Second German Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter's Congregation was founded. Ile now held services in both churches until April. tSot. when he resigned his first ofice to a Brother Lutheran. This allowel him to devote all his time and energy to his new congregation. so that in 1893 they had gathered a sufficient sum to buy a house and lot, a chapel being built in the rear of the house
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REV. ALVAH EDWARD KNAPP
REV. GEORGE NIXON
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REV. A. ARTHUR KING
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There the church services are still held. In 1902 the congregation bought a plot in I40th Street between Willis and Brook Ave- nues for the sum of $16,320, upon which the new church edifice and parsonage are erected.
REV. EDWARD GEORGE CLIFTON, D.D., is the founder and rector of St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, at 642 to 646 East 160th Street, which was dedicated February 26, 1903, with a service in which the most prominent clergy of the Episcopal Church in this city assisted. Dr. Clifton has earned reputation as a most energetic and worthy pastor. He was born at St. Kitts, British West Indies, February 4, 1865, and was edu -
REV. EDWARD GEORGE CLIFTO, N DD.
cated for his profession in the West Indies, Newfoundland and New York City. He was ordained to the priesthood twenty- five years ago. On August 13, 1885, he married Miss Ida Rogers, who has proven a most worthy helpmcet to him. He is, of course, the moving spirit in many organizations of his congregation. He has espoused Republican party principles, but is nowise active in politics. His little church has been the recipient of many beauti- ful memorial gifts and is thriving handsomely.
A. ARTHUR KING, D.D., pastor of Emmanuel English Lutheran Church, located on the corner of Brown Place and East 137th Street, Bronx, was born February 16, 1868, at Easton, r'a. Dr. King was educated in the public schools of Easton, Pa .; Newburg (N. Y.) Academy; the Moravian College, at Nazareth, Pa., after which he entered the Lutheran institution at Gettys- burg, Pa., graduating from the Theological Seminary in the year 1894. Immediately after his graduation he .... ived a call to the First Lutheran Church of Glen Gardner, N. J., where he served as pastor until he came to New York to organize the church of which he is now pastor. Through his untiring efforts the congregation increased in membership and in October, 1902, he succeeded in laying the corner-stone of the beautiful marble structure in which the congregation is now worshipping. He is a Republican in national affairs, but a staunch Democrat on local matters. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Dr. King married Miss Alice A. Reimer October 9, 1894, immediately
after her graduation from Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg, Pa. The union has been blessed with one child, Arthur Reimer King.
REV. GUSTAV H. TAPPERT, pastor of St. Paul's Evan . gelical Lutheran Church at 156th Street, near Westchester Ave- nue, is a native of Hameln, Germany. He was educated for his calling in the old country. Ten years ago lie came here to the Bronx. He began his ministrations at 150th Street and Rob- bins Avenue, and continued there three years. Then the pres- ent edifice was built. Meanwhile, his congregation has increased fully seventy-five per cent, and now has something like 250 men- bers. Dr. Tappert credits his success largely to the work of the board of trustees of the church and to the co-operation of the Ladies' Aid Society and the Young Men's and Young Ladies' organizations of the church. The Sunday school of this church is in a specifically flourishing condition.
REV. GEORGE JOSEPH MELANCTHON KETNER is the able and eloquent pastor of the Church of the Reformation, situated at Jennings Street and Wilkins Place, a church with a congregation of 100, and steadily increasing, which is now about three years old. Mr. Ketner was born October 17, 1868, in Etna, Pennsylvania. After the usual course in the public schools of his native place, he took a course in the Pennsylvania College and graduated from that institution in 1892. Choosing the ministry then for his vocation in life, he entered the Theo. logical Seminary at historic Gettysburg and received his de- gree there in 1895, thence accepting a call to his first pastorate at New Chester, Pa. He remained there three years and was then called to Davis, W. Va., where he spent three years also, and was then invited here. He married in December, 1895, Miss Su- sie B. Warren, of the Keystone State. They have two children, Ruth and Warren. Mr. Ketner's affiliations are almost wholly of and with the church. He is, however, a member of two clubs,
REV. FRED'K WM. BOESE, pastor of the Elton Avenue German Methodist Episcopal Church, is one of the borough's venerable shepherds, "a patriarch in Israel," presiding over one of the oldest and largest Protestant congregations of the Bronx, a church founded, in fact, in 1853. Mr. Boese has been its min- ister for the past six years. For 30 years before that he had various charges of the Eastern German Conference, none, how- ever, pleasanter or happier than this. Rev. Boese was born in Germany September 24, 1839. When he came to America in 1864, he was converted in the old Second Street Church, New York City. He was educated in part in the old country and in part at the German Theological Seminary of Berea, Ohio. He left that institution in 1865 to take his first congregational charge. That was the Callicoon Circuit in New York State, his second charge was the New York City Port Mission. Others were held in Hartford, Conn., Boston, Mass., Jersey City, N. J., Troy, N. Y., Baltimore, Md., and other places. He married in 1869, Mrs. Rebecca Gerken, who died in 1884. Remarried in IS85 Wilhelmina Rey. The surviving children of the first wife are John Henry F., and William H. J. H. F. Boese is minister of the German M. E. Church of Long Island City and Dr. William Boese is a physician of Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx. One child of second wife died in infancy.
REV. DR. FRANK MONTROSE CLENDENNIN, rector of St. Peter's P. E. Church. Westchester, was born in Washing- ton, D. C., September 17. 1853, and was educated at Columbian University, Princeton. He has occupied his present pastoral position since 1887. and as pastor of his flock is devoted to his
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dates. He is a member of the City and New York Club, He married, April 23, 1801, at the age of 38, Miss Gabrielle, daugh- ter of the distinguished founder of the New York "Tribune," florave Greeley.
REV. GEORGE HENRY MILLER .- A well known and highly respected Bronxite is the Rev. George H. Miller, pastor of the German Dutch Reformed Church of Melrose, corner of Fast 156th Street and Elton Avenue, and this not for his high calling alone, but his personal character. He was born in Brooklyn, January 9, 1864, and was educated in part in the public schools of that borough, and in part by private tutors, under whom he studied literature, the classics and modern languages, until at 16 years of age he entered Bloomfield Semi- narv. New Jersey, from which institution he graduated in ISS7.
at the age of 23. He then took up the ministry as a vocation, for which he had been fitting himself, and had pastoral charge of the Fifth German Presbyterian Church, Moore Street, Brook- lyn, from 1887 to 1801. In the latter year he accepted a call from his present charge, which, organized in 1852, is one of the oldest congregations in the borough, and here he has re- mained during the fourteen years since, a term which in itself peaks for his acceptability and popularity. In 1887 he married Miss Catherine Hucke. Ile is the father of three children liv- ing, Paul, Elsa and George, and of two dead, Hans Herbert and Kurt. Politically he has espoused Democratic principles, but he has not interested himself actively in politics, leaving that task rather to the laity, though he has not neglected the duties imposed on good citizenship.
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