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Lester Brace, 400.00
I. T. Hatch, 1,000.00
200.00
Geo. E. Hayes, 500.00
John T. Lacy (in 3 years), 250.00
A. E. Hart, $ 500.00
Wm. Sutton,
200.00
Robt. Hart, 300.00
A. Hayden (no notes), . 400.00
Henry I. Warren (assumed by E. S. Warren), 200.00
John D. Shepard, 400.00
John Hebard (Ist sub.), 200.00
Seth E. Sill,
500.00 Geo. N. Burwell, 500.00
Henry H. Sizer, 500.00
Geo W. Bull, for self ; F. S. Wheeler and J. W. Sanford, $100 each, . 300.00
Sheldon Thompson (Ist sub.), 1,000.00
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Henry K. Viele, . $ 500.00
Loring Peirce,
$ 10.00
A. Porter Thompson,
500.00
Henry Streater, 200.00
Lydia Pomeroy, .
500.00
Abel Archer, 50,00
John Patterson,
1,000.00
Austin Flint, . 100.00
Stephen Walker (Ist sub.),
200.00
Horatio Seymour, Jr., . 200.00
J. B. Bull, .
300.00
Philo Dubois (Ist sub.), 100.00
S. B. Van de Venter,
300.00
Benjamin Brent (by W. S.), 100.00
Mrs. E. B. Mathews,
200.00
Robert Kittle (Ist sub.), 100.00
Sylvia Chapin,
150.00
Wm. H. Walker (Ist sub.),
100.00
John E. Russell, 200.00
Jesse Ralph, 100.00
Thomas Mathews, 100.00
Asher P. Nichols, 100.00
Samuel L. Meech, 100.00
Charles W. Evans (Ist sub.), . 600.00
Thomas Savage,
100.00
Jacob A. Barker (Ist sub.), 400.00
Geo. J. Webb, 200.00
James P. Provoost, 500.00
Nelson Willard (Ist sub.), .
500.00
E. L. Stevenson, 1,000.00
H. S. Chamberlain,
200.00
Albert H. Tracy, 1,000.00
Henry Hamilton,
400.00
G. H. Goodrich, .
300.00
Elijah Ford (to be paid in 1851),
200.00
Henry Hagar (2d sub., to be paid in 1851), 500.00
James C. Evans, .
300.00
Ellicott Evans,
300.00
H. K. Smith, .
500.00
Seth H. Grosvenor, 300.00
Robert Kittle (2d sub.),
25.00
E. S. Warren, 500.00
A. H. Caryl (2d sub.), .
100.00
Henry Moore,
Philo Dubois (2d sub.), 100.00
Stephen Walker (2d sub.), .
50.00
A. I. Mathews (Ist sub.),
250.00
G. R. Wilson,
500.00
James D. Sheppard (Ist sub.), 400.00
H. Colton, .
360.00
Ira A. Blossom (2d sub.), 100.00
Ira A. Blossom (Ist sub.), .
500.00
Wm. A. Thompson, 300.00
A. H. Caryl (Ist sub.), . 300.00
Henry Wells ($10 paid into
Building Fund Society and credited on their books), . 10.00
C. L. Brace (per L. B.), 200.00
Jeremiah Staats, 200.00
100.00
Nelson Willard (2d sub.) . Wm. H. Walker (2d sub.),
25.00
John Pease, 200.00
500.00
G. B. Webster (Ist sub.), Lewis Eaton, Silas Sawin,
2,500.00
300.00
300.00
Sheldon Thompson (2d sub.), 400.00
William Williams (2d sub.), . 400.00
James D. Sheppard (2d sub.), 100.00
Jacob A. Barker (2d sub.), 100.00
A. I. Mathews (2d sub.), . 100.00
Walter Joy, 1,000.00
Thos. Jones ($10 paid into Building Fund Society and credited on their books), 10.00
George Gibson, 50.00
Charles W. Evans (2d sub.), . 200.00 George C. Webster (Ist sub.), 400.00
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B. C. Caryl,
Charles W. Evans (3d sub.) . $ 200.00
N. H. Warner,
$ 500.00
A. I. Mathews (3d sub.), 150.00
William Shelton, . 500.00
Wm. H. Walker (3d sub.) . 100.00
Geo. C. Webster (2d sub.), 100.00
James V. De Witt,
200.00
Wm. Williams (3d sub.),
700.00
David Forbey, 50.00
G. B. Webster (2d sub.),
1,000.00
John Hebard (2d sub.), 50.00
Geo. S. Burns,
100.00
$48,870.00
See pages 52 and 53.
A condensed form of the above list will be found at page 53, in which the total amounts given by each subscriber are summarized. The list is given above in its original form as an object lesson, to show how St. Paul's was built - the same persons giving again and again as the need arose, often under circumstances involving much personal self-denial, which was very real in the business conditions of the small city of Buffalo of those days. It must be remembered that the popu- lation of Buffalo in 1850 was only 42,261.
The general feeling among the parishioners in regard to the build- ing of the new church is well expressed in the following extract from an address delivered by William H. Walker, at the Christmas dinner (1849) of the "Junior Vestry." (See page 57.)
"The parish of St. Paul's in which it has been our good fortune to be trained, has experienced many changes within six years; it has increased largely in number, in communicants, and in liberality. Age has not destroyed its energies, for now, with the vigor and zeal of youth, it has addressed itself to a new and glorious enterprise, the erection of a spacious and imposing House of Prayer, . . . . a church complete and beautiful in its proportion, where we shall find 'sermons in stones' and the Prayer Book speaking to us from every part, from the firm foundation to the heavenward pointing spire. May we all live to hear the glorious music from its chimes, and in years to come listen to them with hearts in unison with their peaceful and solemn tones." .
SUBSCRIPTION, 1851.
" We, the undersigned, hereby agree to give our notes to the Treasurer of St. Paul's Parish, payable at some bank in the City of Buffalo, for the amount set opposite
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our names in three equal payments at five, seven, and nine months from this date, without interest, for the purpose of finishing St. Paul's Church. For which notes we agree to receive certificates from said Treasurer, bearing interest after said notes are paid, and redeemable in stock in said church or money, as we shall elect at the time of sale of slips in said church.
Buffalo, January 4, 1851.
John W. Williams,
$700.00
H. K. Smith,
$300.00
Samuel D. Flagg,
500.00
Geo. E. Hayes,
500.00
Louisa M. Weed and DeWitt
C. Weed,
500.00
Elijah Ford,
5 00.00
John L. Kimberly,
600.00
Russell H. Heywood, 300.00
E. S. Warren, .
600.00
De Witt C. Weed, 300.00
J. B. Bull,
600.00
John W. Williams, 300.00
A. E. Hart,
300.00
James D. Sheppard,
300.00
Sheldon Thompson, 1,000.00
George Truscott, . 300.00
Reported to the vestry Octo-
I. T. Hatch,
600.00
ber 4, 1851, $2,000.00
John Pease,
200.00
Benjamin Bradley,
300.00
Am't subscribed in this way, $10, 100.00
Lester Brace, 300.00
Reported to the vestry Jan-
uary 14, 1851, $8,100.00
Charles W. Evans, 300.00
A. Porter Thompson, 300.00
Walter Joy, 300.00
Amasa Mason,
200.00
St. Paul's Church Building Fund Association, commonly known as the Young Men's Fund, although many women of the parish were among the subscribers, was organized October 24, 1847, and, therefore, preceded the foregoing subscriptions. The subscribers to this fund agreed that it should be paid over to the vestry when the vestry should have raised ten thousand dollars towards building the new St. Paul's. This fund was paid over to the vestry in the year 1850. The total amount contributed to the fund was $1,372.65, in small sums averaging about $5.00. In January, 1848, the young ladies of the parish also formed their association for the same object. (See note foot of page 58 )
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Subscriptions towards the completion of the church edifice, main tower, porches, Sunday School room, etc., dated January 11, 1854 :
Louisa M. Weed,
$1,500.00
Benjamin Bradley,
$500.00
De Witt C. Weed,
1,500.00
Lydia Pomeroy, 300.00
A. I. Mathews,
1,000.00
N. H. Warner, 150.00
Thomas Savage,
150.00
B. C. Caryl,
150.00
John L. Kimberly,
1,500.00
A. P. Nichols,
100.00
Joseph Stringham,
200.00
S G. Cornell,
50.00
William Shelton,.
500.00
Henry Hagar,
400.00
Elijah Ford,
1,000.00
50.00
Matthew Wilson,
100.00
Charles D. Gibson, John T. Lacy, 100.00
Charles W. Evans,
600.00
George Truscott, 150.00
John Pease,
300.00
Sidney Shepard,
100.00
Asa E. Hart,
300.00
William Sutton, . 200.00
Stephen Walker,
250.00
C. C. Wyckoff,
100.00
Sylvia Chapin, 50.00
Walter W. Stanard, . 100.00
Amasa Mason,
500.00
Elizabeth L. Gwinn, S. M. Chamberlain, .
100.00
H. S. Chamberlain,
200.00
I. Chamberlain,
25.00
Lester Brace, . 250.00
B. F. Greene, .
250.00
Philander Hodge,
100.00
George N. Burwell, . Samuel D. Flagg,
400.00
S. H. Grosvenor,
100.00
G. F. Pratt,
100.00
John S. Ganson, .
500.00
A. Porter Thompson,
1,000.00
George E. Hayes,
500.00
R. H. Heywood,
2,000.00
E. S. Warren,
600.00
Jacob A. Barker,
300.00
Agnes Warren,
500.00
$19,490.00
15.00
Sevilla B. Hayden,
200.00
250.00
Curtiss L. Brace, .
200.00
To be added to these is a subscription of $265 (£50) from the Rev. Thomas Bowdler of London, England, included in the report of the building committee, April 5, 1855. (See page 270.)
Also, the proceeds of the "Young Ladies' Fair," held in February, 1854. (See page 80.)
For subscriptions reported July, 1856 ($6,600), see page 34.
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Subscriptions for completing the main spire, crosses and finials of the church, interior improvements, etc., and also to discharge a debt of $3,500 upon the rectory.
Dated September 19, 1866.
William Shelton, $2,000.00
Geo. H. Bryant, .
$200.00
De Witt C. Weed,
1,000.00
Thos. C. Pitkin, .
100.00
Wm. H. Walker, 1,000.00
Thos. H. Pitkin, . 50.00
Mrs. Caroline Sanford, . 5.00
George N. Burwell, 300.00
Mrs. Mary Ann Duff,
7.00
Clark B. Lacy, 25.00
Louisa M. Weed,
300.00
John T. Lacy, Jr., 25.00
Lord Bishop of Gibraltar, 10.00
Wm. Lacy,
25.00
Ezekiel Birdseye,
10.00
A. A. Gillet,
50.00
Charles W. Evans,
600.00
Philo DuBois, .
100.00
James Sweeney, $ 50
Matthew O'Neill, 20.00
Wm. B. Depew, .
50
500.00
Geo. W. Wallace,
25.00
John S. Ganson,
400
George L. Burns,
50.00
John T. Lacy,
500.00
Laetitia P. Viele,
400.00
Asher P. Nichols,
500.00
Edward Kimberly,
100.00
H. C. Squier, .
200.00
John L. Kimberly,
300.00
Henry Shelton Sanford,
500.00
James W. Brown,
500.00
S. G. Cornell,
Thomas Hickman, 5.00
S. D. Cornell,
S. Squier, 250.00
Nelson Willard,
50.00
J. B. Bull, .
200.00
Claud Hamilton,
25.00
Thomas F. Rochester,
350.00
L. C. Woodruff,
2,000.00
Curtiss L. Brace, 100.00
John Pease,
100.00
James F. Demarest, 50.00
John Pease, Jr.,
50.00
Asa E. Hart,
100.00
James Pease,
10.00
Henry Bull,
100.00
E. B. Seymour,
300.00
O. H. P. Champlin, 18.00
Henry T. Gillet,
100.00
I. T. Hatch,
100.00
J. B. Dubois, .
100.00
John B. Seymour, 25.00
Wm. Squires, .
30.00
Mrs. Amelia Chapin Pickering,
50.00
Geo. E. Hayes,
300.00
Mrs. Harriet F. Tracy,
500.00
G. F. Pratt,
100.00
James Patterson, . 100.00
James M. Weed, .
25.00
Chas. J. Hubbard, 50.00
Jane Wey Grosvenor, 25.00
Hobart Weed,
200.00
2,000.00
$16,815.00
The subscription of the Bishop of Gibraltar, included in above list, was a piece of gold, which he requested should be used to pay for " a stone in St. Paul's."
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Subscription Lists.
It was handed to Dr. Shelton in Naples, Italy, while he was the bishop's guest, in October, 1864. Dr. Shelton mentions the gift in his European Diary ; and in a note, appended to a historical sermon, delivered by him February 19, 1867, and afterwards published, he says : "When the steeple is complete there will be a stone in it with the initials of the See and the name of the donor."
According to English authorities, the Right Reverend Walter John Trower, D. D., was Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1848 until his resignation in 1859. After officiating for a time as sub-dean of Exeter Cathedral, he became in 1863 the second Bishop of Gibraltar, resigning that See in 1868. From 1871 until his death, October 24, 1877, he was rector of Ashington, Sussex. Bishop Trower was the author of a number of works relating to the Church. Bishop C. A. Harris succeeded him in the See of Gibraltar in 1868. (See page 318.)
Subscriptions for completing the church, etc.
Dated April 5, 1869.
William Shelton, .
. $1,000.00
Agnes Warren,
$200.00
Samuel G. Cornell,
1,000.00
Miss Wells,
2.00
William H. Walker,
1,000.00
Nelson Willard,
20.00
A. P. Thompson,
1,000.00
Asa E. Hart, .
100.00
L. C. Woodruff, .
1,000.00
Fred. W. Newbould,
100.00
Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe,
100.00
James Sweeney,
100.00
De Witt C. Weed,
500.00
Edward C. Walker, . 5.00
Cyrus Clarke, .
500.00
Mrs. John L. Kimberly,
50.00
John T. Lacy, 500.00
Geo. H. Bryant, .
100.00
Charles W. Evans,
300.00
John B. Hurray, .
100.00
E. B. Seymour,
100.00
Elizabeth McKee,
50.00
H. C. Squier, .
100.00
$7,927.00
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Subscriptions for building the spire of small tower, stone crosses, finials, etc.
Dated May 23, 1871.
William Shelton,
$100.00
Geo. H. Bryant, .
$100.00
Cyrus Clarke, .
100.00
DeWitt C. Weed,
100.00
Henry T. Gillet,
100.00
Geo. W. Smith, . 50.00
M. B. Moore, .
50.00 Wm. H. Walker,
100.00
H. H. Baker, .
50.00
J. N. Dorris, .
100.00
Charles W. Evans,
100.00
L. C. Woodruff, 100.00
John T. Lacy,
50.00
C. C. Wyckoff, 50.00
$1,150.00
For subscription, 1878-1881, amounting to $12,928.81, to defray certain indebtedness of the parish, see pages 131, 132.
For the subscription, amounting to over $60,000.00, for rebuilding the church after the fire of 1888, see page 176.
For subscription, 1895, for new rectory, see page 200.
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PARISH HOUSE BUILDING FUND, 1896.
William H. Walker,
Miss Abby W. Grosvenor, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Har-
Mrs. Agnes L. Warren,
Mrs. Laetitia P. Viele, A. Porter Thompson,
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Mrs. Grace A. Grant, Hayes,
Miss Amelia Stevenson,
Mrs. Charles W. Evans,
Mr. and Mrs. James Swee- James M. Smith, ney, James Sweeney, Jr.,
Miss Louisa Weed Sweeney,
Mrs. George E. Hayes,
Mrs. Jane W. Grosvenor, Miss Lucretia S. Grosvenor,
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Glenny, S. Douglas Cornell,
rower,
James R. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hutch- inson,
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon T. Viele, Mrs. Catherine Cottier, Miss M. Elizabeth Cottier,
Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hop- kins,
Miss Katherine G. Har- rower, Charles R. Wilson, Miss Esther Glenny, W. Harry Glenny, Hobart Weed, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ben- nett, Miss Keturah B. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Robins,
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Mrs. Robert P. Wilson, Mrs. Mary H. Lee,
Dr. and Mrs. G. Hunter Fred. H. Barton, Bartlett,
Theodore Vosburgh,
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Miss Virginia Evans Bart- Mann,
lett,
Mr. and Mrs. O. H. P. Evans Ellicott Bartlett, Champlin, Merritt F. Cook,
Miss Carrie M. Champlin,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Baker,
Miss Helen L. Baker, Howard A. Baker,
George H. Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Joyce,
John D. Smith Company, Edward C. Walker,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Warren,
Derrick B. Warren,
Mrs. Laetitia V. W. Has- brouck,
T. D. Sheridan,
Miss Elizabeth A. McKee, John Pease,
Miss Sarah M. Pease,
Robert Ferguson,
Miss Eliza Gorman,
Miss Mary Gorman, Miss Nancy Gorman, Miss Jane Gorman, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dorr Viele,
Faxon,
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Cald- well,
Miss Laetitia Viele, Sheldon K. Viele,
Mrs. Margaret L. Larke, Mrs. Maria P. Vosburgh, Matthew O'Neill, Miss Alice J. Thompson,
Mrs. L. J. Pope,
Miss Julia M. Pfeiffer,
F. H. Blackmon,
Mrs. Jennie M. H. Barton, N. Orsini de Bock,
Charles W. Hinson, Miss Sarah M. Hinson,
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. P. Miss Annie Currie, Champlin, 2d, Herbert H. Embry, Mrs. Martin Lautz,
Mrs. Thomas King Mann,
Mrs. H. Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Marvin,
Mrs. Oliver Watson, Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Abbott, Mrs. Rebecca N. Hall,
Henry Bull, Henry Adsit Bull,
Mrs. E. F. Meister,
Mrs. L. Broad,
Mrs. E. C. W. O'Brien,
Mrs. Anna Berry, Mrs. Fanny A. Bull,
W. S. Tremaine,
Miss Margaret Brandon Richmond,
Miss Grace Montague Rich- mond, Miss Grace Viele,
Mrs. John L. Crosthwaite, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. How- land, Mrs. Charles R. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Walker,
J. Tillinghast, Miss Carrie E. B. Neill,
Dr. Thomas Lothrop, Mrs. L. M. Diehl,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dev- ereux, Thos. S. King, John T. Gard's family, Sheldon Thompson,
C. N. Riggs, Carleton Greene,
Dr. Bernard Bartow,
Dr. and Mrs. F. Park Lewis,
Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Perry Champlin, Jr.,
H. J. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barton, George Alfred Stringer,
William J. Wolfe,
Mrs. Amelia H. Lee,
Amelia H. Lee, 2d, Mrs. Ann M. Ganson, Miss Katharine H. Bristol, Mrs. Ann J. Rose, Mrs. Mary Carlisle Dames, Francis C. Dames,
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendsen,
Miss Jennette White,
Jerome Brandon Richmond,
Miss Anna Viele,
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J. C. Milsom,
Miss Ethel Mann,
Mrs. M. W. Graham,
Wm. Warren Smith,
Mrs. Mary E. Stimpson,
Mrs. John L. Bryant, Miss Sarah E. Bryant,
Miss Carrie C. Reitz,
Miss Bessie S. Cooper,
Mrs. F. K. Vine,
Miss Mary L. Raiber,
Mrs. K. R. Willett,
Miss M. Westcott,
Mrs. Nelson White,
Miss Mary Graham Tucker,
Mrs. Jane Andrews,
Miss Mary N. Dorr,
Miss Emma McDonald,
Mrs. Geo. P. Germain,
R. J. Bennett,
Mrs. F. McDonald,
Mrs. Schenkelberger,
Jack Green,
Mrs. M. L. Sutphin,
Miss Alice Schenkelberger,
Geo. E. Messer, Jr., Sheldon Burt,
Misses Persch,
Miss C. Anna Williams,
Gertrude Cashmore,
Mrs. A. D. Gail,
Frank Cashmore,
Miss R. J. Gardner,
Ida Cashmore,
Miss Gertrude B. Spauld - ing, S. M. Dewey,
Miss Mary F. Houghton,
Bessie Cashmore,
Paul Carris,
C. M. Cashmore,
Carrie P. Whalen,
Miss Alice M. Hopkins, Chauncey Depew, Mrs. Wm. B. Depew,
Florence L. Masten,
M. Belle King,
Mrs. C. K. Harrington,
Mary L. Hampton,
Anna M. Rings,
Miss Adelaide M. Wilson,
Florence Taylor Smith,
Minnie M. Rings,
Mrs. Annie M. Mitchell,
George A. Clark,
A. Eliza Hamilton,
Miss Lillian R. Richmond, J. R. H. Richmond,
Miss Carroll, Anna H. Squibb,
Mrs. Charles H. Cushman,
Mrs. Rosalie H. Wright,
Mrs. Hobart Weed,
Mary Carter,
Mrs. Maria G. Atwater, Miss Julia Atwater,
Walter I. Weed,
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Gallagher,
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. At- Miss Martha W. Hutchin- Mrs. Streater and daughters, water, Mrs. Julia W. Smith,
Miss Alice Hopkins,
son, Mrs. John C. Devereux,
Mrs. M. A. Crockett,
Miss Helen Hopkins,
John A. Devereux,
Mrs. Frances R. Hunsicker,
Miss S. E. Kimberly,
Miss Frances Eldred, Miss Mabel Wright,
James A. Hawley,
Miss Charlotte Kimberly
Mrs. Dewitt C. Weed,
Miss Florence Adsit, George C. Greene,
William Wippert, Mrs. Woolley,
George T. Weed,
Mrs. William T. Miller, Miss Genevieve E. Mor- row, Miss E. Maude Morrow,
Charley Stimpson,
Howard Wade, Mrs. Evelyn S. P. Dorr, Mrs. Allen Jones,
Miss Adelaide K. Rich- mond,
Miss M. Hunter, Miss Elizabeth Brinkmann,
Mrs. Fanny E. Harris,
Mrs. E. L. Baker,
Hattie J. Mason,
Miss Gertrude L. House,
Mrs. John Coit,
Shelton Weed,
John H. Cooper,
Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Cor- Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. nell, Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dorr, Mrs. Sarah E. Bryant,
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Miss Edith K. Weed, Kimberly, M. K. Lewis,
Edward J. Prehn,
W. A. Hawley,
Miss Louise Kimberly,
Robert Palen,
Frank Gedies,
Miss Kate S. Weed, George T. Ballachey,
A. L. Jones.
Total amount of subscriptions, $20,730.61.
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND FOR PAYING OFF THE MORTGAGE ON THE NEW PARISH HOUSE, THE FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS OF ST. PAUL'S, ETC., 1900-1902.
William H. Walker, W. H. Glenny,
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Mrs. Lucy H. Weed,
Hayes,
George T. Weed,
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hutch- Miss Kate S. Weed,
inson,
Miss Edith Weed,
Mrs. J. M. Richmond and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Geo. C. Greene, family, Joyce, Miss Amelia Stevenson, James Sweeney,
Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Weed, Dr. Henry Reed Hopkins,
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Smith,
H. C. Harrower, Miss Katherine G. Har- Dr. and Mrs. Alexander M. rower,
Curtiss, Mrs. Alice O. Mann,
Mrs. Robert P. Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Warren,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nagel,
Charles R. Wilson,
Mrs. Julia W. Smith,
John H. Cooper,
A. P. Thompson,
Wm. H. Walker, Jr.,
Mrs. Charles W. Evans,
Wm. Warren Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Fax- on, Robert Palen,
Mrs. J. C. Devereux, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Baker,
James R. Smith, Mrs. P. P. Burtis,
Miss Susan E. Kimberly,
Dr. Thos. Lothrop,
Mr. and Mrs. S. Douglas Cornell,
Miss L. S. Grosvenor,
Miss A. W. Grosvenor,
Howard H. Baker, Walter I. Weed, Mrs. Mary H. Lee, John K. Walker,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. At- water, Mr. and Mrs. Ganson Depew,
Dr. F. Park Lewis,
Mrs. J. H. Lee,
DeWitt Clinton,
Mrs. Streater and daughters,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Har- rower, Miss Catherine McVickar, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon T. Viele,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Forman,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Gal- lagher,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Y. War- ren,
Mrs. Edward Bennett,
Mrs. Geo. E. Hayes,
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall J. Root, Shelton Weed,
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Henry English, Edward F. Meister, Stephen Walker, John M. Provoost,
Walter Devereux, Jr., Maxwell S. Wheeler, Mrs. C. J. Fisher, Miss Virginia Evans Bart- lett,
Evans Ellicott Bartlett,
Mrs. Thomas Rose,
E. Corning Townsend,
Miss Grace E. Meredith,
Miss Anna M. Rings,
George Stevenson Fenton, Miss Emma U. Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adsit Bull,
Lester Wheeler,
Miss Elizabeth Brinkmann,
Geo. T. Ballachey,
Miss Julie M. Pfeiffer,
Mrs. Kate Cottier,
Wm. A. Faxon, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bret Hart,
Sheldon Thompson,
G. Frederick Ogilvie, J. Sweeney, Jr., Mrs. Norman E. Mack, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. How- land,
Norman Rogers, George A. Clark, S. G. Walker, Mrs. J. H. Dames,
Sullivan A. Meredith,
The Misses Persch, Mrs. Sue C. Perkins,
Miss Sabin Perkins, Mrs. M. A. Crockett, Mrs. R. S. Smithwick,
Wm. J. Wolfe,
Lorenzo Harris, Miss M. C. Lovering, Robert M. Codd, Jr.,
Miss Gertrude Lee House,
Mrs. Alice A. Howard,
Miss Marjorie Howard, Mrs. W. S. Sizer,
Dr. M. D. Mann,
William Wippert,
Miss Adeline Campbell,
Mrs. A. D. Stewart,
Miss Eva E. Rugg,
Miss Ida J. Stickney, Miss Emma J. Thomas, Clarence D. Rogers,
Mrs. Howard J. Vigrass, Miss Ruth E. Isaacs,
Byron M. Tuttle,
Miss Florence M. Filstead,
Mrs. William Spears,
Miss E. Maude Morrow,
Miss Genevieve E. Morrow.
Miss M. Belle King,
Mrs. Mary Shenkelberger,
Miss Alice A. Shenkelber- ger, Miss C. Anna Williams, Miss Julia K. Klein,
Miss Emma Klein,
Miss Ida M. Klein,
Miss Bertha Klein,
Mrs. Frank Burt,
Dr. Fred. A. Ballachey, Mrs. Jemima Jones, Miss Mary E. Tench,
Louis N. Smith, James Hornibrook, John Reitz,
Miss Fannie Harris,
Miss Sarah M. Hinson,
Howard A. Baker,
George A. Baker, Mrs. Alfred Campbell,
Mrs. E. S. Traenkle,
A. S. Traenkle.
G. R. Traenkle,
Estate of Dr. F. W. Abbott,
W. L. Moffat, Mrs. John D. Larkin,
Mrs. Louisa E. Fowler,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tal- boys and children,
Joseph S. Abbs,
Mrs. J. J. Huber,
Mrs. L. M. Burgstahler,
Miss Georgia M. Filstead,
Miss Ella M. Wall,
Mrs. Jane A. Andrews,
Mrs. Kate Kee Knowles,
Mrs. E. C. W. O'Brien,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Marvin,
Mr. and Mrs. John G. H. Marvin,
Miss Eunice Henderson,
Mrs. Ashley Smith,
Miss Louise De Langie,
Miss Mary E. Walker,
Mrs. Margaret L. Larke,
Mrs. A. D. Gail, Mrs. Gifford Morgan,
Mrs. Catherine Dixon,
Charles Wood,
L. G. Sellstedt,
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Subscription Lists.
Miss Sarah M. Pease,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Bar-
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barton, Dorr, Mrs. Harriet Smith,
tow, Mrs. Lucy Broad,
Miss Julia Atwater,
Miss Mary F. Houghton,
Dr. and Mrs. Allen A. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendsen,
Miss Katherine M. Hurl- Jones,
burt,
George Alfred Stringer,
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Whalen, Miss E. L. Small.
Total amount, $28,813.75.
The above subscription has freed the parish of St. Paul's from debt, with the exception of the balance due on the rectory in Johnson's Park. (See pages 200, 241, 243.)
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In Conclusion.
In the great increase of Buffalo, and its growth northward, St. Paul's has been left alone, stranded as it were in the heart of the business portion of the city. The " daughter churches," Trinity and St. John's, have followed their parishioners up-town. Trinity, first, hav- ing removed from the old building on the southeast corner of Wash- ington and Mohawk streets into the beautiful brown-stone church edifice on the east side of Delaware Avenue between Tupper and Edward streets. The members of St. John's some time ago sold the old church property on the southeast corner of Washington and Swan streets, and have built a new grey-stone chapel on the north- east corner of Lafayette Avenue and Bidwell Parkway, which was opened by the bishop, November 5, 1893. They hope to build a large church there in the near future.
The old First Presbyterian Church, which was for so many years the neighbor of St. Paul's on the opposite lot, between Niagara and Church streets, and which, with St. Paul's, gave the name of "the churches " to that portion of Main Street, has disappeared, and in its place stands the lofty and imposing gray-stone building of the Erie County Savings Bank. The First Church congregation now worships in its stately brown-stone edifice on The Circle.
St. Paul's alone remains the same ; the same massive, brown-stone walls, the same graceful, tapering spire, with its gilded cross, losing itself in the clouds. The triangular block of ground which it occupies seems also little changed, with its high iron fence, and grass-covered space within, making a pleasant spot in the midst of the dusty, busy city. And yet, so much have the surroundings changed, and so dif- ferent seems the life of the streets around it, that even "Dr. Shelton's St. Paul's" seems a thing of the distant past, and it is almost impossi- ble for the oldest parishioners to call up a mental vision of the little frame church, which stood long ago on the same spot, with the foot- paths leading to it from the surrounding village streets.
LOOKING ACROSS SHELTON SQUARE FROM CORNER OF MAIN AND SOUTH DIV'SION STREETS
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LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE ÉRIE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK BUILDING.
ST. PAUL'S AND ITS ENVIRONMENT, November, 1902. (See pages 174, 219, 220, 261.) Photographs by G. H. B.
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In Conclusion.
Buffalo from a tiny village has grown into a great, thriving, and pros- perous city, the population in 1903 being about 400,000 ; and the parish of St. Paul's has grown with it. As we think of the small beginnings, comparing them with the present prosperity, and look forward to the great work which St. Paul's has yet to do in the future of this rapidly- growing city, the words from Isaiah, which Dr. Shelton used as the text for his farewell sermon, in the old frame edifice, March 17, 1850, come to us with ever greater force,- truly, " A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation."
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