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* Mr. Giles died August 30, 1564, at the advanced age of eighty-four years and was buried in the Salina burying ground.
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herd, W. Mason, O. A. Houghton, M. Wheeler, J. B. Foote; Rev. T. F Clarke came in 187S and remained two years; Rev. William Jones, one year ; Rev. Loren Eastwood, three years; Rev. Wesley Mason, two years ; Rev. Benjamin Shove, on his fourth year, was succeeded by W. H. Latti- mer in August, 1890.
In 1887 extensive repairs were made on the church and the parsonage, at a cost of $1,600. The following are the present church officers: Trus- tees, Charles Wilcox, B. C. Ross, T. Redhead, Wm. Barnes, A. McChes- ney, W. H. Powell, E. O. Johnson, J. Sprole, William Borst ; Organist, Hattie Annable.
First Methodist Episcopal Church .- Previous to the erection of the First M. E. Church in the village of Syracuse, services were held in the school house on Church street by Rev. Eben L. North and Rev. Vincent Coryell. It is thought the former pastor organized the first class here about IS30. Rev. Mr. Coryell preached here during the years 1835 and 1836. In the latter of these years the church edifice was begun and was finished in 1837. The church was thoroughly repaired inside in 1856, largely through the earnest efforts of David French, who placed a mortgage on his private property to make the repairs .*
The church edifice was rebuilt in 1869-70 at a cost of $25,000, by ex- tending the front twenty feet and building two towers; an addition was also made to the rear fifteen feet, for the organ and class rooms.
Considerable numbers of the members of this church have from time to time been dismissed from this society to form other Methodist churches in the city-the Centenary, the University Avenue, Furman Street and the Rose Hill churches.
The regular succession of ministers in this church, as nearly as can be ascertained, has been as follows: Rev. V. M. Coryell, 1835 to 1836; Rev.
* An anecdote is told of Father Pease, one of the prominent early members of the church, and the builders of the old church, with reference to the peculiar shaped tower which many of the early citizens may remember once surmounted the building. It was a sort of a pyramid built up from a square base and covered with tin. Messrs. Judson and Hicks, well known and enterprising citizens, had the most to do with the original building of the church, and they departed from the plain Meth- odist style of those days in having a fine, tall steeple placed upon the building. This, in the eyes of Father Pease, a genuine old-fashioned Methodist, was a tower of pride and vanity and an insult to high heaven, and after protesting against it he resolved to invoke the Lord to take it down. He prayed earnestly against the steeple. In a short time it was struck by lightning and splintered from top to bottom ; but the friends of the steeple soon had it rebuilt. Father Dease still prayed against it. It was demolished a second time-a strong gust of wind struck it, and carried it entirely from its base, landing it in fragments on the ground near by. The friends of the steeple did not again rebuild it. Whether they believed that the Lord was actually working against them, or whether they tame to the conclusion that their work was not sufficiently strong to resist the strain of a tornado, is uncertain, but it is certain that the steeple was twice demolished, and that the second time instead of attempting to rebuild it as at first, the base of the tower was carried up and finished in the peculiar pyramid dome referred to, and that tower remained on the church for more than thirty years.
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A. D. Peck, 1837 and 1838; Rev. W. W. Nind, 1839 and 1840; Rev. Gardner Baker, 1841; Rev. A. D. Peck, 1842 and 1843; Rev. Edward Ban- nister, 1844 ; Rev. James Erwin, 1845 and 1846; Rev. E. E. Bragdon, 1847 ; Rev. II. E. Chapin, 1848 and 1849; Rev. I. S. Bingham, 1850 and 1851; Rev. Nathaniel Salisbury, 1852 ; Rev. A. J. Phelps, 1853 and 1854 : Rev. James Erwn, 1855 and 1856; Rev. Hiram Mattison, 1857; Rev. John B. Foote, 1858 and 1859; Rev. E. C. Bruce, 1860 and 1861 ; Rev. S. R. Fuller, 1862 and 1863 ; Rev. Wesley Mason, 1864 and 1865 ; Rev. C. P. Lyford, 1866, 1867 and 1868; Rev. J. D. Adams, 1869, 1870 and 1871; Rev. L. C. Queal, 1872, 1873 and 1874; Rev. W. H. Annable, 1875, 1876 and 1877; 1878 to 1881, Rev. J. H. McCarthy, D. D .; 1881 to 1884, Rev. John F. Clymer ; 1884 to 1887, Rev. J. V. Benham ; 1887 to 1888, Rev. Edmund M. Mills ; present pastor, Rev. Leroy M. Vernon, D. D.
The present officers of this church are as follows: Trustees, D. B. Cooper, David Stevens, William Nottingham, D. P. Robinson, W. A. Brownell, C. E. Cherry ; Clerk, Charles Bachman; Treasurer, D. P. Robin- son ; Chorister, W. G. Foote ; Organist, Miss Kate S. Burr.
The Geddes Methodist Episcopal Church .--- In the year 1839, W. H. Farrar and his wife, with a few other christians, began holding prayer meetings in Geddes. Mr. and Mrs. Farrar had been members of the First M. E. Church in Syracuse. The persons present at the first meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Farrar, Horatio Ward and wife, Simeon Draper and wife, and Peter Coy- kendall and wife. The meetings grew in interest and some who in after years were the strongest workers in the church and have since died, were then converted.
About this time a young man, Mr. Cross, from near Jamesville, went to Geddes to teach the public school. He also preached on Sundays in the school house for one year. He was followed by Elder Bussing, a local preacher, who also served the people one year. Soon afterward the society began to liold their services in the Episcopal church, which stood on the village green.
Mr. Barber, who was sent by the Conference, was the first regular pas- tor. In two years he was followed by Ezra Squires, who also served two years. The Methodists and Episcopalians used the church on alternate Sundays until the year 1852. when the society began holding services in the basement of the school building, Rev. C. S. Bragdon, pastor. Dr. W. W. Porter, who had just settled in Geddes as principal of the public school, was elected superintendent of the Sabbath school and served several months, when W. H. Farrar succeeded him. Following is a list of the pastors of the church, with the date of their service: Rev. C. S. Bragdon, 1851, one year ; Dr. Arnold, 1852, one year ; Rev. Mr. Reynolds, 1853, one year; Rev. A. S. Wightman, 1854, two years; Rev. J. C. Vandercook, 1856,
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two years; Rev. J. D. Adams, 1858, two years; Rev. L. L. Adkins, 1860, two years ; Rev. M. D. Kinney, 1862, two years; Rev. W. S. Titus, 1864, one year ; Rev. J. C. Vandercook, 1865, one year ; Rev. W. D. Chase, 1866, one year ; Rev. G. N. Pierce. 1867, three years ; Rev. W. H. Annable, 1870, two and a half years; Rev. O. A. Houghton, 1872, three years; Rev. D. W. Beadle, 1875, one year ; Rev. L. Eastwood, 1876, three years; Rev. G. S. White, 1879, one year; Rev. T. F. Clark, 1880, three years; Rev. M. Hamblin, 1883. three years ; Rev. Wesley Mason, 1886, two years; Rev. W. H. Giles, 1888 to the present.
The church directory published in 1886 mentions a few of its many de- ceased members who are remembered for the devotion and service they rendered to their Heavenly Master and to this church in which they were strong pillars and shining lights. Charles E. Pharis died in 1877; Honor- able George Geddes, died 1883 ; W. W. Tripp, died in 1884; Mrs. Jane D. Porter and her husband, Dr. Wilfred W. Porter, in 1885. The loss in a single year of the last mentioned was a grevious experience for this church. At a meeting of its officers held July 8, 1885, resolutions were passed, recit- ing his thirty three years' membership, his twenty-five years' presidency of the Board of Trustees, his wisdom in counsel, his devotion in piety and zeal, his generosity in service and in material aid, and deeply lamenting his loss. Trustees are: M. P. Pharis, President; M. C. Darrow, Secretary ; H. O. Salisbury, W. C. Chamberlain, P. Jay Schuyler, Charles Mills, James Westfall, F. W. Power, E. M. Klock, Will W. Porter, Treasurer.
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church .-- This society was the outgrowth of the general impulse given to this religious denomination by the occurrence of the Centenary of Amerian Methodism. It proved to be the beginning of a new era in the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Syracuse. The policy of colonization and expansion made necessary by the founding of the Syracuse University in this city in that year created a feeling of general interest and was promptly adopted and carried out. It was felt that if the Methodists of the State should undertake to found a great uni- versity here, it would be highly desirable that the local church system should be extended and made as influential as possible. At the Black River Con- ference held in April, 1866, the Presiding Bishop appointed Rev. Ebenezer Arnold to the Fifth ward of Syracuse, with the hope that he could establish here a Centenary Monumental Church of this faith. Mr. Arnold long ago told the story of his experience in this undertaking and we give it in his own words:
"It was as bald and barren a charge as was ever spread upon white paper or read off by a Bishop. But the very next day the appointee was on the spot and looking for some place to begin work. To and fro, right and left, over his crude field he wandered, watched and listened. No familiar face or
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voice greeted him. No one watched or waited for his arrival, or cared to know his voice. The next week he came on again with his family and goods. * * Utterly failing to find a place to live in in the Fifth ward, he furnished a lodging room and joined the pastor in the First ward par- sonage and found most of his dinners in the Onondaga House. The next difficulty was to find a place in which to preach. There was no hall within or near the Fifth ward, and only two chapels-one owned and fully occupied by the Protestant Episcopal Church ; the other owned by the Baptists and occupied a part of the Sabbaths by a Young Men's Christian Association Sunday School. This 'pastor' without a flock wanted to occupy a hall in the center of the city, but the fear of awakening opposition among his own people decided against it, and the Baptist 'Hope Chapel' was hired for a part of each Sabbath."
The first fund contributed towards this church was three cents by a little boy and girl. During a discussion of finances one evening, "the audience was astonished to see a little boy, sitting alone, rise up and march resolutely to the speaker's table and lay down two cents. 'What is that for, bub?' asked the preacher. 'That's for the church,' replied the boy. Instantly a little girl from the other side came up and laid down one cent, saying, 'That's for the church, too.' 'Well, well,' said the preacher, we can no longer say we have no funds. The work is begun and the Lord will provide for its completion." The audience went away profoundly impressed with the assured success of the undertaking.
Soon afterward about half a dozen families decided to enlist in the new society. The Board of Missions of the State of New York granted $500 for the preacher's expenses, and July 16 the lot was purchased by Rev. A. J. Phelps and Rev. Mr. Arnold, who had faith enough in the result to pay their own money for it and take the deed in their own names. A subscrip- tion was immediately opened and five men subscribed $1,000, $750, $200, $200 and $100 respectively. Then followed, by the aid of the united min- istry, a large and enthusiastic meeting in the First Church. Then the First Ward church came to the aid of the work. The Presiding Elder and pastors pushed into the country for subscriptions, and, to effect an organi- zation, forty members of the First Church asked to be transferred to the new colony, to aid in forming the "Centenary Church."
"It was in a moderate sized room in the second story of the Pike Block, January 6, 1867. The great clock of American Methodism had just struck One Hundred, the first Sunday of the year One had reached high noon. Fifty persons, mostly young and middle-aged, stood up and covenanted to- gether in Holy Church Fellowship-one in name, one in purpose, one in heart. Such was the material of the Centenary Church as thus organized, and of the congregation thereof, that a large Board of Trustees, a fine quar-
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terly conference, a good Sunday School, able prayer and class meetings, and social societies were very soon in successful operation.
"A subscription of $13,000 being raised, the site purchased by the two clergymen, the foundation laid, the building rose rapidly, so that by the assembling of the annual Conference in this city in April, 1867, the massive stone work was nearly completed and the corner stone was laid by Bishop Janes. The following year the church was finished and dedicated, the en- tire cost being about $37,000. It is a fine, substantial brick building, situated on West street, near Onondaga."
The following ministers have served the Centenary church in the order named: Rev. Ebenezer Arnold, the founder, one year; Rev. Elijah Horr, Jr., three years ; Rev. Jesse T. Peck, one and a half years; Rev. Manly S, Hard, three and a half years; Rev. A. C. George, D. D., one and a half years; Prof. W. P. Coddington, to fill vacancy; Rev. Oscar A. Houghton, three years ; Rev. Benjamin Shove, three years; Rev. Augustus W. Green, three years ; Rev. Theron R. Green, three years ; and Rev. Theron Cooper, the present pastor, beginning October Ist, 1889.
The following are the present officers of this church : Trustees, Presi- dent, John F. Pease ; Secretary and Treasurer, George J. Sager; R. E. Boschert, W. H. Warner, F. D. Enney, L. L. Bidwell, George J. Champlin, E. Drake and F. L. Hess. Financial Secretary, George J. Champlin. Or- ganist, Sarah M. Seeley.
University Avenue M. E. Church .-- This society was one of the results of the activity in this denomination at about the time of the occurrence of the Centenary of American Methodism, already alluded to. It was organized with only nine members in 1867, and meetings were for a time held in pri- vate residences. In 1868 a small chapel was erected on the corner of Chestnut and Fayette streets, and in the latter part of the same year, when the membership had increased to about thirty, the society was organized as a separate charge. Rev. C. P. Lyford was appointed pastor while he was yet officiating in the First M. E. Church. In 1869 Rev. T. B. Shepherd assumed the pastorate, the meetings at this time being held at Seager Hall. During his pastorate the lot on which the church now stands, corner of East Genesee street and University avenue, was purchased at a cost of $7,000. In 1870 Rev. C. P. Lyford was again appointed pastor, and during his ministration a temporary chapel was erected on the lot and the church building advanced so that meetings could be held in the basement. The membership had now increased to about one hundred and fifty. In 1872 Rev. J. T. Gracy was appointed pastor and in December of that year the church was dedicated. His successor in 1873 was Rev. D. W. C. Hunting- ton, D.D., who was followed in 1876 by Rev. Theron Cooper. He remained until 1879 and was succeeded by Rev. John D. Adams, D.D., who continued
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to 1882, and was followed by Rev. C. Wilbor, Ph.D., who remained until 1885. He was succeeded by Rev. L. F. Congdon, D.D., who served five years. The present pastor, Rev. J. H. Willey, was appointed to succeed Dr. Congdon in October, 1890. The present church edifice cost about $50,000.
The officers are as follows: Trustees, C. C. Brown, President ; J. H. Coe, W. A. Arnold, B. D. Bramer, J. Will Page, J. R. French, M. S. Roe, J. B. Brooks. James Atwell, Treasurer.
The membership numbers about 600. There is a prosperous Sunday School in this church with an enrolled membership of 658 scholars, 45 teachers, and 13 officers.
Brown Memorial M. E. Church .- This society was organized as the " Delaware' Street M. E. Church." On the 16th of June, 1872, Rev. Ebe- nezer Arnold began street preaching on the corners of Geddes, Delaware, Fulton and Davis streets. Mr. Arnold was then pastor of the Magnolia Street M. E. Church, organized in 1869, on the hill north of the Idiot Asylum. A few of the members of this latter church lived in the vicinity where he began street work. Mr. Arnold's plan was to remove the church from the hill into the southwest part of the city, and unite its members with new ones that might be gathered in that locality. It was practically the dissolving of the old church and the organization of a new one. Street and cottage meetings were continued about three seasons, and in the mean- time a spacious church site was selected and a payment of $1,400 was made on it. The new society was organized in 1873, with about forty members transferred from the old society. The church prospered and a new and larger place of meeting was desirable. Accordingly, the present edifice was erected in 1875 and dedicated in 1876. It is of brick and cost about $12,000. By the year 1878 the church had attained a membership of over 101. In the meantime Mr. Alexander J. Brown had devoted much time and means to the general welfare of the society, and in his honor the church and society was re-named the Brown Memorial Church, as it is now known. The following pastors have acted for this church : Rev. M. Pierce, Rev. T. B. Shepherd, Rev. Robert Brewster, Rev. Ebenezer Arnold, Rev. U. S. Beebe, Rev. Edmund M. Mills, Rev. L. B. Wells, Rev. A. S. Durston, Rev. T. F. Clark, Rev. D. W. Smith, and Rev. Thomas Stacey, the present in- cumbent.
The officers of the church are as follows: Trustees, President, J. D. Coleman ; Treasurer, William Posthill; Secretary, Fredrick Dygert ; John North, Thomas Faulder, Joseph A. Griffin, Jr., Richard Davis, Frank M. Spen- cer, George Stone. Membership 245.
Furman Street M. E. Church .- Previous to 1870 occasional Methodist preaching had been enjoyed in what was then Danforth (now the Eleventh
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ward). Meetings and prayer gatherings were held at the homes of the members of this faith. In the year 1869 steps were taken to organize a church, and in October of that year a Board of Trustees was appointed, consisting of Ceorge Raynor, Selah Stocking, Rev. Curtis Palmer, Calvin Frost, and William R. Cleaveland. In the summer of 1870 Rev. Ebenezer Arnold began regular preaching and continued until November. On the 30th of that month a meeting was held at which it was resolved to purchase a lot and build a church. This was done, the lot being part of the present church site on Furman street, and the small wooden church was dedicated March 9th, 1871. At the Conference held in Ithaca in 1874 this mission was made a regular station of the Central New York Conference and Rev. Elijah Wood was appointed as the first pastor. He continued to 1875, when he was succeeded by Rev. J. M. Wells. He was followed by Dr. Charles H. Bennett as a supply for three years. Rev. John Easter came next and was succeeded in October, 1881, by Rev. Jay N. Taft. During his term the church grew rapidly and many wealthy families who had been members of other churches, transferred their allegiance to this one. The debt of $1, 100 which had been left on the lot, was paid off. Rev. Dr. E. C. Bruce was the next pastor. During his administration the church had be- come so large that in 1885 the subject of building a new and larger one was agitated. A subscription paper was finally started headed by subscriptions from several of the more wealthy members, of $1,000 each. In 1885 the next pastor, Rev. W. H. York, came to the church and saw at once the great necessity of pushing forward for a new church. The subscription soon reached $10,000 ; additional land was purchased and paid for by the Sunday School and the ladies of the society ; plans were obtained and on the 21st of September, 1886, the corner stone of the handsome brick church was laid. The building was finished and dedicated in July, 1887. The church is now one of the most energetic and prosperous in the city. Present membership 270. Members in Sunday School 430.
The officers of the church are as follows : President of the Board of Trustees, S. J. Clark ; Treasurer, J. D. Lane : Clerk, C. W. C. Howe. Trustees, S. J. Clark, W. P. Rogers, O. E. Hayden, James W. Reed, I. S. Wright, J. D. Lane, C. W. C. Howe, C. P. Edwards, and Spencer Beard. Organist, Miss Alice Adams. Present pastor, Rev. Charles M. Eddy.
The First Free Methodist Church of Syracuse .- Was organized by Rev. B. T. Roberts, at the house of Charles T. Hicks, August 5th, 1863. The following composed the first Board of Trustees: Charles T. Hicks, J. D. Osterhout and William T. Gere.
The society first worshipped in the brick church, corner of Church and Franklin streets. In 1874 they erected the neat church on Linden street
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which they have since occupied. The church officers are: Trustces, John Lee, B. Austin, Henry Tague, John Keene, and Smith Moore.
The first pastor was Rev. D. W. Thurston, who served the church in 1864. He was succeeded as follows: Rev. W. Cooley, 1.865 ; Rev. W. J. Selby, 1867-1868 ; Rev. G. W. Anderson, 186g; Rev. C. Damon, 1870; Rev. W. H. Steeger, 1871 ; Rev. O. M. Owen, 1872-1873 ; Rev. W. Southworth, 1874-1875 ; Rev. E. Owen, 1876; Rev. L. H. Robinson, 1877-1878; Rev. W. H. Clark, 1879-1880 ; Rev. O. W. Young, 1881 ; Rev. J. N. Fulford, 1882-1883-1884 ; Rev. J. A. Odell, 1885; Rev. M. D. McDougall, 1886; Rev. A. Smith, 1887-1888-1889 ; and Rev. T. Whiffen, the present pastor.
Wesleyan Methodist Church .- The first meeting preparatory to the organ- ization of this church was held on the 2d day of May, 1843, in the basement of the First Methodist Church of this city. The organization was perfected the same evening with a small number of members, among whom were the following : A. F. Green, Dr. A. Bliss, Arthur Hughes, H. I. Fritcher, Charles Merrick, M. Merrick, P. W. Rice, James Connell, and James White. In 1845 the church was erected on the corner of East Onondaga and Jeffer- son streets, and cost about $2,500, but it has since been enlarged and im- proved. The following pastors have served the church for the respective periods named: Luther Lee, D. D., one year ; P. R. Sawyer, one year ; B. Rider, three years ; P. M. Way, one year; Marshall Frink, two years; Samuel Salisbury, three years ; Luther Lee, two years ; D. B. Douglass, one year ; Samuel Salisbury, two or three years; J. P. Betker, four years ; A. S. Wightman, four years ; T. H. Keniston, two years, and died during his pastorate ; S. H. Foster, four years, and down to 1877 ; N. E. Jenkins, to 1881 ; E. Jones, to 1884 ; E. W. Bruce, to 1887 ; J. B. Knappenberger, to the present time.
The present church officers are as follows: Clerk, James Brown; treas- urer, Henry J. Hart ; trustees, Robert. Bowers, Joshua Mckinney, A. J. Post, Wm. Brown, C. H. Merrick ; organist, Miss Minnie Carr. .
The Zion M. E. Church .- (Colored.)-This society was organized in 1835, by Rev. Thomas James, of Rochester, N. Y., who was then missionary to the western part of the State. He was ordained minister in May, 1833, by Bishop Christopher Rush, of the A. M. E. Zion Church. The society have a small brick church on Crouse avenue, near Washington street. The church records are very incomplete and we can only give the following list of pastors who have served the society : Thomas James, Rev. Dempsey Kennedy, Rev. John Chester, Rev. Sampson Talbort, Rev. J. W. Loguen, Rev. John Tyles, Rev. John Tappen. Rev. A. Coleman, Rev. W. H. Decker, Rev. W. Cromwell, Rev. John Anderson, Rev. John H. Burley, Rev. M. H. Ross, Rev. John Thomas, who served two terms, Rev. J. C. Lodge, Rev. J. C. Gilbert, Rev. James E. Mason, Rev. N. E. Collins, Rev.
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M. H. Ross, the present pastor. The present trustees of the church are as follows : C. J. Lewis, president ; John Henderson, Thomas Coleman, John Cloe, W. Brown, Richard Stewart, Wm. H. Johnson.
St. James' Church .-- The first service preparatory to the organization of this society was held January 27th, 1848, in the chapel built for the Mission of St. Paul's church. St. James Parish was organized August 14th, 1848, and at the first communion service there were twenty-one communicants. Among the earliest parishioners were James D. Wallace, Abraham Bartlett, William W. Green, Barent Filkins, Cornelius Shirley, Henry D. Hatch, Thomas Hurst, Nehemiah H. Earll, Dr. R. F. Trowbridge. The present church edifice was begun in 1851 and finished in 1853. It was enlarged in 1866. Dr. Henry Gregory was Rector from 1848 to 1857; Rev. C. C. Bar- clay in 1857 and 1858; Dr. Joseph M. Clark from 1858 to 1886, and was succeeded by Rev. Henry L. Teller. The present rector is Rev. Charles Ferguson. The present officers of the church are : Wardens, Daniel O. Salmon, George J. Gardner. Vestrymen, D. O. Knowlton, J. Wesley Yale, J. C. White, Charles L. Behm, Louis A. Sherbano, George H. Armstrong. Organist, Thomas Blair.
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