History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 168

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286

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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EAST CHESTER.

the State, re-incorporated, and took then first the name of St. Paul. The first Wardens were Wm. Popham and Laneaster Underhill, and the first Vestrymen Philip Pell, Lewis Guion, Isaae Ward, John Reid, Isaie Guion, Abraham Valentine, Wm. Pinkuey and Win. Crawford. The Rev. Isaac Wilkins succeeded Mr. Cooper in the Rectorship. Dr. Wilkins, twenty- five years before this, had been a member of the Colonial Assembly from the borough of Westchester, and was, besides, the reputed author of the political pamphlets which bore the name of the " Westchester Farmer." He seems to have been regarded with the greatest respect, and in connection with his duties at St. Peter's, Westehester, to have rendered most faith- ful service at East Chester. During this period he

1 Hawk's N. Y. MSS., vol. i, 18, 19, 20. 2 Doc. Hist. of N. Y., vol. iii. p. 928. 54

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represented the diocese of New York in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Lower House, of which body he was for several ses- sions a most able presiding officer. Dr. Wilkins was succeeded by the Rev. Ravaud Kearney. Of fine presence and great ardor, Mr. Kearney drew around him a large congregation. His immediate successor was the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, afterwards Rector of St. Clement's Church. New York. The Rev. Lawson Carter was Rector for ten years, from October, 1826, and the Rev. Robt. Bolton for seven or eight years. The Rev. Edwin Harwood, now Rector of Trinity Church, New Haven ; was in charge for about thirteen months. In August, 1847, the Rev. Henry E. Duncan was elected Rector. Under Mr. Duncan a parsonage was built. After four and a half years of devoted labor, Mr. Dun- can resigned this, his first parish, and became Rector of the Holy Innocents, West Point. He has since been Rector of St. Luke's Church, Fishkill Landing. Ou the 1st of February, 1852, the present incumbent, Rev. William Samuel Coffey, entered upon his prolonged ministry. During this period an enlargement of the church edifice has taken place. The church-yard has been inclosed with a substantial stone fencing, and the Parish has received a comfortable endowment and other smaller pecuniary benefactions. The following persons have been Church Wardens of this Parish :

William Popham. . October 4, 1795, to Easter, 1804.

William l'opham. Easter, 1817, to Easter, 1823.

Lancaster I'nderhil October 4, 1795, to Easter, 1824.

Rom Rapelye Easter, 1804, to Easter 1805.

Jeronemns Alstyn Easter, 1805, to Kaster, 1808.

Lewis Guion

Easter, INOS, to Easter, 1810.

Isaac Ward.

Easter, 1810, to Easter, 1817.

John Townsend Kaster, 1×23, to December 18, 1849.

Philemon HI. Fowler Kaster, 1821, to Easter, 1853.

Robert Bartow Easter, 1850, to Easter, 1853.

Nathaniel Valentine

Easter, 1853, to Easter, 1855.

Nathamel Valentine Easter, 1858, to November 6, 1877.

Sammel T. Carey . Kaster, 1853, to July, 1857.

Francis W. Edinonds

Easter, 1855, to Easter, 1857.

Philip R. Underhill.

Easter, 1857, to Enster, 1872.

Robert H. Coburn. Faster, 1872, to Easter, 1879.

Alfred 11. Duncombe Kaster, 1878.

Geo. P. Clapp Easter, 1879, to January, 1884.

Stephen P. IIu

Easter, 1884.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD contains about three and a half acres of land, and, it is estimated, hokls in sacred trust over six thousand bodies. This burying- place was started in the very infancy of the town. The oldest inscriptions legible are those of "M. V. D.," who deceased " FEB. 15, 1704," and of " R. S.,' the date of whose death was Dec. 14th, of the same year. The monument to William Crawford, which rests horizontally upon brick walls, seems to have heen the most conspicuous in the yard before the Revolution. The following family names of the town are read frequently upon the tomb-stones: Pinkney, Drake, Fowler, Shute, Hunt, Ward, Valentine, Pell, Sherwood, Underhill, Morgan, Briggs, Scaring, Purdy, Reid, Barker, Bertine, Odell. There are vaults in this cemetery belonging to the Pell, Hill, Grigg, Prime, Sands, Morgan, Valentine, Masterton, Kain, H. R.

Morgan, Drake, Seaman, Coutant, Oakley, Beek- inan, Farrington, Schieffelin, Dooley, Skidmore, Fowler and Street families. The Comfort Sands Vault bears the date of 1790, but its erection here was at a much later period, the remains in it being trans- ferred with the slab from Brooklyn to this church- yard. Comfort Sands, who was born at Sands Point, Long Island, in 1748, and a merchant in New York City from 1769, was most active in all the patriotic movements preceding and during the Revolu- tionary war. In 1775 he was a member of the Provincial Congress, and in 1776 was chosen auditor-general of accounts in the American army, which office he held for five years. At the close of the war he returned to mercantile life. He was Pres- ident of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of Assembly for several years. He died in 1834. The Fowler vault contains the remains of Capt. Jonathan Fowler, of the French War, and of his son, Capt. Theodosius Fowler, of Revolutionary fame. In the "Prevost Plot" are buried Major George W. Prevost, of the British army, and the Rev. Augustine P. Prevost, who was at his death Rector of St. John's Church, Canandaigua. In this yard are also the re- mains of Philip Pell, Judge-Advocate of the Ameri- can army, and those of his brother, Major Samuel Pell. A spot is pointed out in this cemetery where the sand for the mortar used in erecting the church was obtained. It has the added interest of being the burial-place of a large number of sol- diers who died at the time of the Revolution, of the prevailing disease (bloody flux), in the church, then used as a hospital.

The following are the names of the Sextons of this church-yard :

Richard Stivers. 1735

William Biddle . 18.54

Mark Christian. . 1766-91

Abraham Kingston 1855-57

James Pell . 1791-93

Enoch Wilson. 1857-73

Benjamin Barton. 1793-1816

William Harker.

Augustus Lawrence 1816-42

Anthony Bennett . 1875

Theodosius Ilnut . 1842-51

l'eter Kralıer. 1877-85

John Lamont. 1×1-54

Engene Holley . 1×85

The following very injudicious language is upon the tombstone of a mother :

" Life ending here is life begun,

For here a Christian lies, tho' not a modern one-

One who, in life, evinced to all good will, Who died a vietnin to a want of skill- One who, in life and death forgave Those here or nlsent from her grave .- My Mother.

How much in contrast the lines to a mother on another tombstone ! Here are two of the verses,-

" Never more to hear her saying, Darling, are you ill or well ; Gently on our forehead laying ' lands that like a blessing fell. Oh, my mother, never more.

" Never more to feel her gliding By the bed her prayers bnd blest,

With her hand the candle hiding Lest it should disturb our rest. oh, my mother, never more."

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EAST CHESTER.

METHODIST CHURCH IN THE VILLAGE OF EAST CHESTER .- The followers of John Wesley seem very early to have held meetings in this town. Bishop Asbury, who was frequently the guest of a Widow Sherwood, in Tuckahoe, near the Bronx, on many oc- casions, it is said, eame down and preached in the village of East Chester, at Moses Secord's house,1 which was on the road to West Chester, near Rattle- snake Brook. In the formation of the Methodist So- eiety of New Rochelle, four of the six incorporators were residents of East Chester.

In 1835 an incorporation took place under the name of "The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of East Chester, in the County of West Chester and State of New York." This took place on the 16th of November and immediately a strip of land, one hundred and sixty feet front by seventy-five feet deep, was purchased from Frederick Friend, and the ereetion of a church, sixty feet long by thirty feet wide and twenty feet high, was commeneed. This building was dedicated on Sunday, July 31, 1836, in the presence of a " large and respectable congrega- tion," the Rev. Drs. Bangs and Lnckey 2 preaching able and appropriate sermons. In 1841 the parsonage was built on the north end of the church lot, with a stable of medium size adjoining it. The following ministers have been in charge of this congregation : Edward Ohlrin 1836-37

Edward Oldrin 1859

J. D. Banks

1837

Alexander McAlister 1861

John Davis 1838

Buel Goodsell 1863

S. C. Perry . 1838-39

Samnel W. King . 1863

llenry llatfield 1839

T. D. Littlewood 1864

Daniel R. Wright

1840

Henry Gidman 1866

Thomas Burch . 1840

William E. Bell 1869

John A. Silleck 1842

llenry Scofield .

1870

F. W. Seser

1843

Justus O. Worth

1874

J. C. Washburn 1845

Samuel Seaman

George Waterbury 1847

M. N. Olmstead

John Henson 1849

Charles Kelsey .

Daniel De Vinne . 1851

Moses L. Sendder

William II. Bangs 1853

- Wilson

Seth W. Scofield

1855

J. S. Hangh

William Ross 1857

C. S. Wing 1886

Mr. Thomas Griffin, who was a local preacher from 1833 till his death (in 1843), was one of the earliest and strongest supporters of this religious movement. The following persons have been trustees of this church :

Thomas Gritlin.

William Howe.

Peter Bertine.

J. M. Lock wood.

Isaiah Sickles.

T. P. Nuestis.

Nicholas Duff.

J. G. Lane.

Gilbert Underhill.

E. A. Campbell.

Jolın Wolfe.

J. W. Anderson.

John Boyce.

F. Il. lart.

Edward Deere.

Joseph Latting.

Andrew Wolfe.

W. H. H. Barker.

John W. Towt.

Norman Secord.

Augustus Lawrence.

Lewis K. Osborne.

E. L. Tommine.

J. P. Marquand, Jr.

L. Disbrow.

Wilham Johnson.

Peter S. Burtis.

W. Full.

James P. Hinman.

James Barker.

Andrew Beattie. Richard Williams. Peter Colling. Frances Crawford.

REFORMED CHURCH, BRONXVILLE .- This church was formed in 1850 by a committee from the Classis of New York. Land having been given in 1849 by the family of the Rev. Robert Bolton, who, while rector of St. Paul's, had resided in this neighborhood, the erection of a church edifice was commeneed. It was dedicated April 9, 1850. The Rev. Dr. Dewitt preached the sermon, being assisted in the opening services by the pastor, the Rev. A. T. Stewart. Ou the 14th of December the church was legally incor- porated as " The Reformed Protestant Dutch Chnreli of Bronxville." The following is the list of pastors : Rev. A. T. Stewart. . . ... 1850 Rev. Alfred C. Myers. . . . 1872 Rev. Josephi A. Collier . . . 1852 Rev Rev. John Hutchinson . . . 1876 Rev. Washington Roosevelt. 1857 Rev. E. I. Runk . . . 1884

The present elders are T. Burwell and Alexander Masterton, and the present deacons Francis Bacon, Clarence Leggett and F. Springer. The number of communicants is eighty-nine. The church has late- ly been enlarged by the addition of a chapel, in which is a beautiful memorial window. In 1880 a parson- age was built, which is regarded as one of the most attractive in the county.

REFORMED CHURCH, MT. VERNON .- In the autumn of 1852 or winter of 1852 and 1853, the Rev. Mr. Snyder, a missionary of the Reformed Church, commenced his labors in the village of Mt. Vernon. A church was established with an original member- ship of fourteen persons in May, 1853. In November the society was incorporated under the name of " Re- formed Church of Mt. Vernon." A frame building was soon erceted, which continued in ise until 1872,

when the mueh-admired edifice now in use was dedi- cated. The sermons on this occasion, May 28, 1872, were preached by the Rev. Drs. Ormiston and Jolin Hall, of New York City. The old building was con- verted into a chapel. The Rev. Isaac M. See was the second installed pastor of this congregation and ren- dered it faithful service for ten years. He was suc- ceeded by the Rev. Maneius H. Hutton who remained in charge fifteen years. His ability and courteous- ness won him hosts of friends. The present pastor, the Rev. Charles K. Clearwater, entered upon his duties in the fall of 1879, and is successfully carrying on the work.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, MOUNT VER- NON .- The first services of this society were held by the minister in charge of the Methodist Church at East Chester, - the Rev. Daniel De Vinne, - at first in private residences, and eventually in a room over the carpenter's shop of Mr. Wisdom, in Third AAvenne, near First Street. The society was organ- ized Jannary 13, 1852, and incorporated March 6, 1854, under the name of "First Methodist Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon." The church, which was commenced in 1853 (the corner-stone being laid on

1 This old house, now removed, stood near the entrance to Cragdon, late the residence of Mr. William Seaton.

2 Christian Advocate and Journal, September 2, 1836.

1873

H. Humphrey 1842

Gny S. Frazay.

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the 4th of July), was not finished until the spring of 1856; but, for more than two years before this, the congregation assembled for worship in the basement of the new building. The dedication services took place on the 20th of April, 1856, the Rev. Dr. James Floy, J. B. Hagany and Rev. L. W. Peck offici- ating. The following clergymen of the Methodist Church have been stationed at this church : Revs. Daniel De Vinne, William Bangs, Seneca Howland, Samuel Smith, William H. Boole, Samuel A. Sea- man, Seymour Landon, Isaac E. Smith, Charles Kel- sey, James Carroll, John Dickinson, A. C. Bowdish, M. L. Scudder, D.D., Robert Crook, LL.D., and C. S. Wing, the present pastor. The membership of this society, at this time, is about three hundred and fifty. The yearly expenditure is about three thou- sand dollars. The benevolent collections amount to seven hundred and fifty dollars.

The erection of a beautiful and commodious new church is progressing. The old building has been moved and the new placed on the original site. Among the names of the deceased officers of this church are the honored ones of John G. Satterly, William Miller, William Howe, Jonathan Hicks, James Howland.

BAPTIST CHURCH .- The first meetings of the Baptists of the town were held in Wisdom's sash and blind factory, on Third Avenue, near First Street, Mt. Vernon, and later in Journeau's Hall, Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street, in the same village. A meeting to form a society was first held Sunday, April 24, 1853, after morning service, and on the 11th of May, at the house of John Buskirk, eighteen mem- bers organized themselves into a Baptist Church and asked for recognition as such from the Baptist Churches in New York City and vicinity. Two coun- cils accordingly were held, one of consent and the second to give the hand of fellowship. On the 26th of December, 1853, the church called its first pastor, Brother Joseph Burnett. On the 17th of Angust, 1854, the society was incorporated, the corporate name assumed being "The Trustees of the Baptist Church of the village of Mt. Vernon, town of East- Chester, connty of Westchester." On the 27th of November the corner-stone of a church building was laid, when addresses were delivered by the Rev. I. A. Mckean and by the Rev. A. D. Gillette, of New York. The Rev. Charles Waterhouse was called to be pastor April 30, 1855, and on the 25th of December of the same year the church, with appropriate ceremonies, was opened for the worship of God. On the 26th of Jannary, 1857. Brother Richard Harris was called. His successors have been Rev. U. B. Guiscard, called August 15, 1862; Brother Owen A. Williams, called Angust 20, 1865 ; Brother E. T. Hiscox, P.D., called December 3, 1874; and the Rev. Dr. T. M. Colwell, called October, 1885. There are at present two hun- dred and thirty-four names on the rollof membership representing one hundred and forty-six families.

Efforts which promise success are being put forth to raise by subscription the amount necessary for a new church.

UNIVERSALIST CHURCH .- The first services of this society were held by the Rev. Henry Lyon in a second-story room, corner of Third Avenue and Fourth Street, called Central Hall. Incorporation took place February 12, 1855, the name taken being "The Universalist Society of Mt. Vernon." An edifice was erected the next year, and was dedicated September 23, 1856, the Rev. T. J. Sawyer delivering the sermon in the morning and the Rev. Dr. E. II. Chapin in the afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Lombard, the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, the Rev. T. S. Altrich and the Rev. Mr. Johnson, the present pastor, have in succession had the charge of this congregation.

TRINITY CHURCH, MT. VERNON .- It was the de- sire of the Rev. H. E. Dunean, rector of St. Paul's, to meet the coming responsibilities of his position, in the settlement of the village of Mt. Vernon, by providing in advance in its midst a house of worship for the new-comers. In his sermon (June 22, 1851) on oe- casion of the Jubilee of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, he says : " There will come, not far from us, many, I fear, to be added to the already lamentable number of those who know not the Lord Jesus. But there will be those whose souls are athirst for God, who love Christ and his Church, and who will want. a sanctuary and a minister, and the ordinances of re- ligion. I have no time to show the necessity of building a church for these new neighbors. I be- lieve it to be just as requisite for us to do so as it was for the churchmen of England to send over the gospel and the church to us."

Evening prayer was held by him under this thought, in 1851, at the house of Samson Valentine, Esq., near Hunt's Bridge, where also his successor, the Rev. W. S. Coffey, officiated. On the 21st of June, 1852, the new Reetor, in a small school-house at Scott's Bridge, commenced a series of services which. after an inter- ruption, were resumed in the spring of 1854, on Fourth Avenue, Mt. Vernon, in the office of Mr. P. L. MeClelan, counselor-at-law, but soon more permanently estab- lished in the building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and First Street, now Kapp's Hotel. At this room, on the 21st of October, 1856, a new Parish was formed, under the corporate name "The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, in the village of Mt. Vernon, Town of East Chester, County of Westches- ter and State of New York." The Rev. Mr. Coffey still retained the rectorship, Mr. Richard Baldwin and Mr. George (). Street being the wardens. The place of worship was soon removed to Journeau's Ilall, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street. A subscription of about four thousand dol- lars having been obtained, and three quarter-acre lots donated by Richard Atkinson, George O. Street and Samuel T. Jennings, the corner-stone of a stone church was laid on the 24th of November, 1857, with appro-

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priate ceremonies, by the Bishop of the Diocese. Mr. Henry Dudley, of New York, was the architect, and the Rector, Richard Atkinson and John Stevens, the building committee.

After two years, during one of which the work, with a desire to avoid debt, was prudently suspended, the church was opened for Evening prayer on Christmas Day, 1859. The Reetor preached the sermon, but was assisted in the service by several of the neighboring clergy. It was stated at the time that more than four hundred persons had contributed to the expense incurred. The stained glass windows (except the East Window and the memorial window to Mrs. Elizabeth Underhill), the chancel furniture and the massive doors were individual donations. The Rev. Mr. Coffey continued Rector until 1873, during which time numerous improvements were made. He was succeeded by the Rev. Clarence Buel in a ministry of eighteen months. The Rev. William B. Hooper came to the rectorship in 1875, and was followed in 1878 by the Rev. Stephen F. Holmes, the present ineumbent.

The following persons have been Wardens of this church.

Richard Baldwin.

William A. Seaver.

George O. Street.

Gideon D. Poud.

Richard Atkinson.

Stephen Gray.

John Stevens.

Sammel O. Howe.

Edward Martin.

Inke Blakelock.

Peter Noll.

Dr. Archibald M. Campbell.

James II. Jenkins.

An addition to this church is now in course of com- pletion.

CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART .- The Rom- an Catholies of East Chester, who became more numerous at the laying out of Mount Vernon were early in 1852 favored with the services of the priest from Westehester, Father Eugene MeGuire. The first Mass was celebrated on the ground-floor of a barn near Fourth Avenue and Fifth Street, and after- ward in the house of Peter O'Connor, on the corner of Third Avenue and Fifth Street. Father O'Reilly, who soon after came to Westchester, continued these visitations. About the same time the Rev. Father Joseph Baldoff was sent from New York to officiate for the German settlers. His first Mass was in the house of John Begelspacher, on Seventh Avenue, near Fourth Street, and after a while at O'Con- nor's. The whole care eventually devolved upon Father Baldoff. In 1856 he transferred the place of assembling to the house of George Rickert, in Bleecker Street, West Mount Vernon, where he him- self had rooms, and where, after two or three years of duty. he died. Father Kinsella, of Westehester, now taking the charge of this movement, determined upon the erection of a church, and lot 366, corner of Fifth Avenne and Second Street, was purchased for two hundred and thirty-five dollars, and a plain wooden structure, without debt, erected. This building, which was named St. Matthew's and which was afterward enlarged, continued in use for a number of years and

was in 1878 removed to give place to the fine edifice which now so adorns the neighborhood. Father Kinsella was succeeded by Father J. T. Cole, under whose active and wise administration the new church was built. The Priest's house, on the opposite corner, is one of the best in the village.

THE CHURCH OF ST. JACOB .- The German Roman Catholics, especially of West Mount Vernon, very naturally desiring the ministrations of one speaking their own language, made application to their Bishop, who at last consented and placed the Rev. Father Karl over the new congregation, which was incorpor- ated February 18, 1870. A school building, to which an addition and other improvemonts were subsequent- ly made, serves, for the time being, the purposes of this congregation. .

The following priests, since Father Karl, have had the charge : The Rev. Father Preiss, the Rev. Father Bruhy, the Rev. Father Stumpe, the Rev. Father Sorg and the Rev. Father Albinger.

LUTHERAN (ST. PAUL'S) CHURCH, MT. VERNON. -In the early months of 1858 the Lutherans of the town eommeneed a movement to provide themselves with religions services, and in the latter part of March established themselves in the upper room of the build- ing at the corner of Fifth Avenue and First Street, under the ministrations of Rev. Herman Boeringen. They removed from this place of meeting to one in Bleecker Street, where Rev. J. H. Baden officiated for them for six years. Just before the close of this pe- riod their church on the corner of Mt. Vernon Ave- nue and Union was built. It was opened (without debt) for worship in December, 1864, the Rev. Mr. Garlieh preaching the sermon, and the Rev. Mr. Stohlman, the Rev. Mr. Dress and the minister in charge, Mr. Baden, assisting in the services. The trustees were Messrs. F. W. Weiss, Constantine Weiss, F. Friedhoff, F. Nolting, E. Fishbeck, Charles Rich- ter, I. Gruband John Henry Apel. . In 1865 the trus- tees received, by deed, the lots 215 and 216 of the Teutonie Homestead Association, originally inalien- ably set apart by it for religious or educational pur- poses. The incorporation of the church seems not to have been effected until March 25, when the name in law assumed was "German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church at West Mount Vernon." The Rev. Mr. Semon in 1865, the Rev. Mr. Brandt, in 1866, and the Rev. Mr. Berkenmayer, in 1868, came to the pas- toral charge. In 1875, after the cutting down of Boek's Hill, which was a great advantage to the position of the church building, it was resolved to dispose of it and erect another on Seventh Avenue, near First Street, in Mount Vernon. This building was dedicated to divine worship on the 12th of Jan- uary, 1877, the sermons being preached by the Rev. Dr. Krotel and Pastor Bose, of New York City. The Rev. Mr. Berkenmayer was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Sommers, the present pastor.

In 1875 a new society of Lutherans was formed,

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which organized under the name of St. Matthew's, and have occupied the old church. Their first pastor was the Rev. AAngust Torbeck, who was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Bruno Dietrich.

MOUNT VERNON NEW CHURCH SOCIETY .- The first services of this religious body in this town were held in this town in 1864, at the residence of Dr. S. L. Close, in Fourth Avenne, near Sixth Street, Mount Vernon, under the Rev. J. P. Stuart, and continued in this more quiet way for several years, when they were removed to the Universalist Church. On the 18th of January an act of incorporation was obtained. In 1873 a church was built on Chester Hill, and on the 31st of October of that year opened with the proper ceremonies. Soon after this Rev. Oliver Dyer was ordained for this charge.

GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH, MT. VERNON .- The first services of this society were held in 1854 by the Rev. John Lutz, who came up from Morrisania for the purpose. 'The second place of meeting was in the hall on Twelfth Avenue, near First Street, whence it was removed to the room on the corner of Fifth Avenue and First Street. Here the congregation remained until able to use the basement of their new church, commenced in 1864. The church proper was first nsed on the last Sunday of that year. This society was incorporated September 19, 1870. The following clergymen have had charge of this congre- gation : The Rev. John Lutz, the Rev. Charles Bot- senhart, Rev. 1. Deininger, Rev. Leonard Mayer, Rev. George Meyer, Rev. Jacob Week, Rev. Frederick Bonn, Rev. Charles Brockmeier, Rev. C. F. Hoffrogge, Rev. F. W. Hoppman, Rev. Jacob Kindler, Rev. Philip Stahl, Rev. E. Wolf, Rev. J. J. Messiner, Rev. F. Rey, Rev. John Flad.

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History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 168

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co. Number of Pages: 1286

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286