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ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, NEW WINDSOR,
Was organized April 8, 1818. The church was built in 1848. The succession of rectors is as follows: Rev. John Brown, D.D., 1818-1847 ; Rev. Edmund Embury, 1848-1850 ; Rev. Reuben Riley, 1851, part of the year; Rev. Christopher B. Wyatt, 1858-1862 ; Rev. E. H. Cressey, 1862-1863 ; Rev. Richard Temple, 1868-1870; Rev. Haslett McKim, 1872- 1883; Rev. William H. Burbank, since 1883, incumbent. The present rectory was purchased in 1883. One was built in 1861 but was sold soon after. Since organization 170 have received baptism. There are no reports of con- firmations or communicants previous to 1851. Since 1853, 97 have been confirmed. In 1851 there were 73 communi- cants ; in 1861, no record ; in 1872, 87, and in 1882, after dropping the names of persons no longer regular communi- cants, there were 51. The present number is 54. The war- dens have been : in 1820, Thomas Ellison and Charles Lud- low; in 1830, Charles Ludlow and David Humphrey ; in 1840, Thomas Ellison and Julius Hale; in 1850, Thomas Ellison and Christopher B. Miller ; in 1860, Thomas Ellison and Philip Verplanck ; in 1870, S. B. Caldwell and Thomas Ellison, and in 1880, Thomas Ellison and S. B. Musgrave.
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CHRIST CHURCH, PATERSON .*
There is no report from this parish which was received into union with the Convention in 1821. The latest Conven- tion report is dated 1881, when Rev. Matthew A. Baily, M.D., was rector and missionary; at that time there were 24 com- municants.
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized in 1820 and a church built in 1821, which constituted the nucleus for subsequent enlarge- ments in 1850 and in 1875. Its rectors have been Rev. George Upfold, first rector, 1821 ; Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, (no dates) ; Rev. William Rollinson Whittingham, 1831 ; Rev. John Murray Forbes, 1834; and Rev. Isaac Henry Tuttle, who became rector June 30, 1850, and is present incumbent. A rectory was provided about the year 1823, now bearing the number 477 Hudson Street, adjoining the church. The first Sunday-school building, adjoining the church on the south side, 64 x 32 feet, was erected about 1859. The second Sunday-school building, adjoining on the north side, 50 x 36 feet, and the church extension in the rear, nearly 80 x 38, in 1875, were all added during the present rectorship. It is estimated that 6,000 baptisms have been administered. It is quite impossible to estimate the number of confirma- tions or state the number of communicants by decades. The present number is 460. The rector, who at this writing is absent, detained by domestic affliction, writes thus : " Away from the Church Records, I cannot give the actual statistics of baptisms, confirmations, and communicants ; nor could I, if at home, as I found on my succession to the rectorship, in 1850, no records covering communicants and confirmations. As the baptisms have annually averaged 100 or more, during the thirty-six years of my ministry over the parish, there must have have been more than 6,000 baptisms since organization." The present wardens are Francis Pott and Alexander Mc- Donald.
At the time of its organization, St. Luke's was the parish
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church of a quiet, rural village lying well out of town on the Albany Post Road. Local changes have left it in the midst of a dense population-of a poor, laboring population, or tradespeople in a small way. The tides of thrift and wealth have taken more central channels, leaving both the extreme east and west sides of the city, for the most part, literally missionary ground. We find that the Year Book of Trinity Parish, for 1884, says of St. Luke's : "This is, in the strict sense of the word, a mission church, having daily morning and evening prayer, the weekly Communion, a large Sunday school, a parochial school, and several clergymen, one of whom resides in the ninth ward, in the midst of the poor popula- tion in that quarter of the town. St. Luke's Church has scarcely a wealthy person connected with it; the people are unable to support it, and the building would have been sold and the site abandoned long ago had not the Corporation of Trinity interposed to prevent this calamity. The allowance of $10,000 per annum to this church is still continued, in con- sideration of which annual grant, and of additional assistance in enlarging the church and providing greater accommodation for the people of the district in which it is situated, St. Luke's has been made free." Strange fortunes have overtaken its rectorship. The first three subsequently became bishops respectively of the Dioceses of Indiana, North Carolina, and Maryland. Two of them abandoned the Church for Rome, and one of these, Dr. Forbes, afterwards made his recantation, and was restored to his first ministry, from which he recently entered into rest. The following memorabilia will have interest for both young and aged :
Work on the church was begun in 1821. The locality was then known as the village of Greenwich. Green fields stretched all around it. Houses were few and scattered. Hudson Street presented the appearance of an ordinary country road. Back of the church stood the old State prison. Trinity Church promptly gave the ground for the new church, and soon added two lots for the churchyard. The vestry projected a building of the dimensions of forty-five feet by fifty-five feet, and not without misgivings that they were
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attempting too much, enlarged the plan to forty-eight by sixty-three feet. John Heath contracted to build it for $7,500. Mr. Labagh, a zealous layman, prepared the corner stone at his own expense. At the time the stone was laid, only one stage, twice a day, ran from Greenwich to New York. The population of the city was still concentrated near the Battery. The ceremony of laying the corner stone was performed by Bishop Hobart, assisted by the rector, the Rev. Dr. George Upfold, and most of the clergy of the city. Pending the building of the church, services were held in a room over the watch house at Hudson and Christopher Streets. Greenwich soon became a favorite summer resort. Some enterprising Churchmen, zealous to secure for St. Luke's a winter congregation, induced capitalists to experiment in the erection of houses, which proved a success. The parson- age was one of the first dwellings erected in Hudson Street. The church became ambitious, and in the third year of its existence procured an organ with 312 octaves for $250, con- ditional, however, on securing voluntary music and an organ- ist. The parish steadily increased, and in 1825 had about 100 families. After a rectorship of eight years, the Rev. Dr. Upfold resigned, and accepted the charge of St. Thomas' Church.
The Rev. Levi S. Ives became the second rector of St. Luke's. During his rectorship of three years the vestry en- larged the church at a cost of about $5,000. At this time also Miss Louisa Gillingham was engaged to sing at the un- precedented salary of $250 a year. On June 29, 1831, the Rev. W. R. Wittingham, afterwards Bishop of Maryland, ac- cepted the rectorship of St. Luke's. He was an enthusiastic advocate of parochial education. Soon the walls of the large building now standing on the south-west corner of Hudson and Grove Streets began to rise, but the enterprise proved too costly for the means of the parish. In August, 1834, the Rev. John Murray Forbes was called to fill the vacant rector- ship. He remained in charge for sixteen years, and the con- gregation steadily increased. He went over to the Church of Rome, but subsequently returned to his former belief.
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The present incumbent, the Rev. Isaac H. Tuttle, became rector of St. Luke's on June 30, 1850, and the church soon emerged from the shadow which Mr. Forbes' defection had thrown over it. A large school-room as a wing on the south of the church was soon erected. It proved insufficient in size, and another large wing was subsequently built on the north of the church. In 1875 the church was still further enlarged, aided by Trinity Church, by an addition to the rear thirty-eight by eighty feet. The congregation of St. Luke's Church numbers on an average 400 persons, more than double that number being on the rolls.
ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized December 25, 1823. The first church was built of stone, after plans designed by Rev. Prof. Mc Vickar, D.D., of Columbia College (1824-1825), and situated at the north-west corner of Broadway and Houston Street. The new church, after designs by Richard Upjohn, was built in the years 1868-1870. The corner-stone was laid in 1868 ; it was opened for Divine service in 1870, and consecrated May 15, 1883. The rectors have been ; Rev. Cornelius R. Duffie, D.D., 1823-1827; Rev. George Upfold, M.D., D.D., afterwards Bishop of Indiana, 1828-1831 ; Rev. Francis L. Hawks, D.D., 1831-1843 ; Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Illinois, 1843-1851; Rev. Edmund Ne- ville, D.D., July, 1852-1856, and Rev. William F. Morgan, D.D., from January, 1857, present incumbent.
There is a spacious and beautiful rectory, after designs by Upjohn, in architectural keeping with the group of church buildings of which it is part. It was built in 1872 and 1873. Other parish buildings and mission houses are St. Thomas' Free Chapel, East Sixtieth Street, between Third and Sec- ond Avenues. The corner-stone was laid by Bishop Horatio Potter, October 4, 1872, and was consecrated on the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, December 21, 1872. Its cost was $25,- 000. St. Thomas' House, East Fifty-ninth Street, adjacent to the Free Chapel, was built at the sole cost of Hon. and Mrs. Roswell P. Flower, as a memorial of their only son, deceased,
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Henry Keep Flower; $40,000 was expended in its construction. Mr. Charles C. Haight made the designs, which are admirably executed in brown stone, in what may be styled Collegiate Gothic ; all the buildings now in use by the parish and its mission works were built during the rectorship of the Rev. Wm. F. Morgan, D.D.
Since organization 2,430 baptisms are recorded, and 1,643 have received confirmation. The present number of com- municants is about 1,000. The wardens and vestry of Old St. Thomas', in 1823, were: wardens, Isaac Lawrence and Thomas M. Huntington, and vestry, David Hadden, John Duer, William B. Lawrence, Richard Oakley, John J. Lam- bert, Charles King, Murray Hoffman, and William B. Astor. At present (1886) the wardens are Daniel T. Hoag and George MacCulloch Miller, and the vestry are John H. Watson, James C. Fargo, William H. Lee, Joseph W. Harper, Jr., Charles Short, LL.D., Henry H. Cook, Roswell P. Flower, and Hiram W. Sibley.
The present church edifice, at the north-west corner of Fifth Avenueand Fifty-third Street, with the rectory at the rear, on Fifty-third, is one of the most commanding architect- ural groups in the city, and was looked upon by Mr. Upjohn as his masterpiece. It represents, altogether, with the furnish- ings and grounds, a value of nearly or quite $1,000,000. The ground plans and treatment of interior spaces and proportions are strikingly bold and vigorous. The columns that support the nave roofing are monoliths, and the effect of a central dome is secured at the intersection of nave and transept, much in the spirit of the Florentine Gothic. The head of the cross, apsed, gives a chancel of impressive proportions and dimen- sions, which is adorned in a most reverent spirit by a series of cartoons by John La Farge and a reredos in old gold by St. Gaudens, presenting the Adoration of the Cross by cherubs and angels. The chancel is flanked on both sides by shal- lower recesses, in which the great organ, by Roosevelt, is built in two parts, for a double choir. This dome-like effect, under the lantern, is accentuated by the broad, shallow arms of the cross, and the great breadth of the nave, brought out by the
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partial suppression of the aisles. Indeed, there is a striking and edifying union of both Byzantine and Gothic suggestion. The sense of spaciousness is also enhanced by throwing the chapel, first and second floors, lying along the north side, full into the nave. There are not far from 2,500 sittings available for the congregation. The entire cost of decorating the chancel, including the valuable works of La Farge and St. Gaudens, was assumed by Mr. Charles H. Housman, a mem- ber of the parish, as a memorial to his mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Housman, who also provided the cost of the angels with instruments of music, after Fra Angelico, in the arched re- cesses above the organ, also executed by La Farge. There is a Meneely chime of bells in the tower, placed as a memo- rial of his mother by Mr. Thomas W. Walton, at a cost of $6,000. The cross surmounting the tower, the richly carved lectern, the stained-glass windows, and other valuable gifts, are memorials.
The clergy in charge of St. Thomas' Free Chapel have been Rev. Frederick Sill, Rev. Ralph Hoyt, Rev. J. B. C. Beaubien, Rev. J. J. Roberts, D.D., and Rev. Robert Lowrey, incumbent.
Assistant ministers during the present rectorship have been Rev. Nathaniel P. Richardson, D.D., Rev. John F. But- terworth, Rev. John Brainard Morgan, Rev. Christopher B. Wyatt, D.D., Rev. Frank L. Norton, Rev. Joseph P. Jowett, Rev. Mytton Maury, D.D., Rev. John Anketell, Rev. Fred- erick Courtney, D.D., and Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smith.
ST. MARY'S CHURCH, MANHATTANVILLE.
The first Divine worship at Manhattanville, according to the Liturgy of the Church, was by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hobart, D.D., and the Rev. Dr. Jarvis. The services were held in a building used as an academy by Mr. Francis Finlay. In 1820, the occasional services resulted in the appointment of Mr. Thomas I. Croshon as a lay reader, and his services were continued until 1824, when he became a candidate for Holy Orders.
In 1823, Rev. William Richmond performed some clerical
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duties for the congregation, and the parish was duly incor- porated. The Rev. William Richmond was elected rector, and a resolution was passed to open a free parish school, and to admit all denominations. The next May (1824) Mr. Jacob Schieffelin donated lots numbers 105 and 107 and ten feet of 103 on Lawrence Street, the present site of St. Mary's Church, for the erection of a church edifice.
In May, 1827, Mr. Richmond resigned, and Rev. Mr. Croshon succeeded him. During this year (1827) the church was so far completed that the pews were rented. October 29, 1828, Rev. Wm. Richmond was unanimously elected rec- tor of St. Mary's, and to this date there is no record in the register of any baptism, confirmation, marriage, or the name of any person as a communicant. June 1, 1829, the Rev. George L. Hinton was elected assistant minister, with salary of $100. The following April 13, 1830, Rev. Mr. Hinton re- signed. This year Trinity Church appropriated $300 annually towards the salary of the rector. In 1836, the Rev. James C. Richmond was elected assistant minister, and the next year (1837) William Richmond resigned the charge, and the Rev. James C. Richmond was elected rector, and so continued until 1840 or '41.
In 1843 the Rev. William Richmond was re-elected rec- tor, and continued so until 1852, when he resigned, but the resignation was not accepted until February, 1853. In 1853 the Rev. J. M. C. Peters was elected rector. It appears from the minutes that he had assisted in the parish from 1847.
The Rev. Geo. L. Neide appears to have done some duties in the parish from 1851, but in 1853 he was elected assist- ant minister, and continued so until 1854. In 1858 the Rev. Mr. Peters resigned the rectorship, and in 1859 the Rev. Chas. F. Rodenstein was chosen rector. In 1861 the Rev. Mr. Rodenstein having absented himself from the parish for three months, the vestry declared the rectorship vacant, and elected the Rev. George Fox Seymour rector. In 1862 the Rev. Mr. Seymour resigned, and Mr. Rodenstein was re- elected and declined, and in November, 1862, the Rev. Charles C. Adams, the present rector, was elected.
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The first baptisms on the register were in 1829; the last one was February 21, 1886; total, 921. The first confirma- tion in the church was June, 1832 ; the last one was May 24, 1885 ; total, 354. The first communicant recorded was in 1832; the last one on the register was February, 1866; total, 541.
For more than twenty-three years the church has been supported as a free church, with weekly communion and daily service, by the offertory, and $200 stipend from Trinity Church, without pew rents, or subscriptions, or envelopes, and without a dollar's debt remaining.
And the present rector cannot close his report without expressing his gratitude to the present wardens, R. L. Schieffelin and Daniel F. Tiemann, for their liberality to him- self and their ready help in the improvements and good works in the parish.
The wardens in 1823 were : Valentine Mott and Jacob Schieffelin ; in 1862, Richard L. Schieffelin and James Pun- nett ; and in 1886, Richard L. Schieffelin and Daniel F. Tieman.
From an address by Rev. Dr. Peters, in St. Mary's, on its semi-centennial, December, 1873, the following particulars are quoted :
" Of the families connected with the church at its organ- ization, two only have maintained their connection through- out its whole history.
" Mr. Jacob Schieffelin, who was the founder of the parish, gave the land on which the church and parsonage were built, and a pew is yet known as the Schieffelin pew, and is occupied by the organ ; and a vault, containing the re- mains of himself and wife and several descendants, is in front of the church. A beautiful memorial window of husband and wife was erected by their son, Gen. Richard L. Schieffelin, shedding its light into the Schieffelin pew.
" Gen. R. L. Schieffelin has been fifty years a member of the vestry, and a large part of the time senior warden, and since 1824 annually a delegate to the Diocesan Convention, and his son, Geo. R. Schieffelin, was elected vestryman in
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1870, and during the present rectorship adults and infants of four generations of Mr. Jacob Schieffelin have been baptized in the church.
" The other family worshiping for fifty years in the church is a colored one named Nichols. Several members of the fifth generation have been confirmed during the present rectorship.
"Among the departed benefactors of the church, and the first on the list of communicants (1829), was Mrs. Francis Finlay. She had passed a half century of life when the church was organized, and survived several years into the present rectorship, and by will left several hundred dollars legacy to the church as an endowment for the rector's salary.
" Mrs. Ann Fortune, who had been for more than thirty years a devout communicant in St. Mary's Church, at the time of her death also bequeathed by her will, during the present rectorship, $500, the interest to be devoted to the rector's salary. Mr. Henry Muller, formerly a Roman Cath- olic, became a communicant during the present rectorship, died in St. Luke's Hospital, and left some four hundred dollars as an endowment toward the rector's salary.
" In 1885 the vestry sold lands adjoining the church for five or six thousand dollars, which is well invested for sup- port of the church.
"St. Mary's was probably the first free church in the city. For a short time some pews were rented, but in 1833 the an- nual report to the Convention said : 'There are no pew rents,' and it is probable there were none after 1831. And for twenty-three years of the present rectorship it has con- tinued a free church, supported by free-will offerings.
" At one time the services in St. Mary's were held only on Sunday evening, Trinity stipend was withdrawn, and in 1842 the whole receipts from the offertory were but $16 for the year. The Rev. Mr. Richmond bore all the expenses until the close of 1850, when the amount was $6,696, which he generously relinquished.
" The church edifice was once sold for taxes, and bought in by Gen. R. L. Schieffelin, and presented to the vestry.
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He also obtained $1, 100 from Trinity towards the assessments on the church, and has contributed liberally for many im- provements and repairs."
GRACE CHURCH, WHITE PLAINS,
Was organized March 22, 1824. The first church was com- pleted June 19, 1826, and the present edifice was completed in July, 1865. The rectors have been Rev. William Cooper Mead, 1824-1826; Rev. Alexander H. Crosby, 1826-1828 ; Rev. John W. Curtis, 1828-1831; Rev. Robert Wilson Harris, D.D., 1831-1855 ; Rev. Theodore Sill Rumney, D.D., 1855- 1870; and the present rector, Rev. Frederick B. Van Kleeck, since May I, 1870. Since organization there have been 1,040 baptisms recorded, and 545 have received confirmation. The number of communicants in 1826 was 28; in 1834, 50; in 1844, 51 ; in 1854, 90; in 1864, 120; in 1874, 193; in 1884, 199, and the present number is 207. By decades, the war- dens, in 1824, were Richard Jarvis and Allan MacDonald; in 1834, the same ; in 1844, Joshua Horton and Richard Jarvis ; in 1854, the same; in 1864, Joshua Horton and Elisha Hor- ton; in 1874, Elisha Horton and Myndert M. Fisher, and in 1884, Myndert M. Fisher and Eugene L. Prud'homme. As early as 1724, Rev. Mr. Jenney, rector of Christ Church, Rye, gave a portion of his time in holding services in White Plains. Upon the IIth of April, 1784, Mr. Andrew Fowler collected the congregation at White Plains, and continued to officiate as lay reader both there and at Rye, until Rev. R. C. Moore (afterwards Bishop of Virginia) was appointed rec- tor in 1787. In January, 1788, the people of White Plains and Rye united in the erection of a new church edifice at the latter place, and the connection between the two places con- tinued until 1816. From 1816 to 1823 occasional services were held in White Plains by the neighboring clergy.
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, NEW YORK,
Was organized May 27, 1824. The corner-stone was laid October 3, 1827 ; the church was completed in 1829, conse- crated June 5, 1828, and enlarged in 1849. The rectors have
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been : Rev. Wm. Atwater Clark, 1824-1837 ; Rev. Benjamin I. Haight, D.D., 1837-1846; Rev. Wm. E. Eigenbrodt, D.D., 1846-1857; Rev. Edward O. Flagg, D.D., 1858-1861 ; Rev. Edward Cuthbert Barclay, 1861-1862; Rev. Samuel J. Cor- neille, 1863-1871 ; and since 1871 Rev. William N. Dunnell, present incumbent. A rectory was procured in 1872, by re- modeling the parish school-house, which was built during the ministry of Dr. Haight. The parish records have a break of seven and one-half years. They contain record of 3,102 bap- tisms, and of 1,103 who have received confirmation. The present number of communicants is about 466. There is no record of wardens previous to 1845. In that year John B. Hunter held the office; in 1855, P. Hanford and John Miller ; in 1865, Wilson Small and John Mowbrey; in 1875, Wilson Small and W. Plumb, and the same gentlemen in 1885. It should be noted that from 1824 to 1871, a period of forty- seven years, there were 1,914 baptisms; while from 1871 to 1886, a period of fifteen years, there were 1, 188 baptisms ; and that while there were 624 persons confirmed in the forty-seven years after organization, there were 459 persons confirmed during the last fifteen years.
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, NEW YORK .*
No report having been received from this parish, such data are presented as may be gathered from the Convention Journals. This parish was admitted into union with the Con- vention in 1827. In that year Rev. Manton Eastburn ap- pears in the list of diocesan clergy as rector of the Church of the Ascension. He continued until 1843, when Rev. Gregory T. Bedell, D.D., became rector, his predecessor having been elected to the bishopric of Massachusetts. Dr. Bedell having been elected to the bishopric of Ohio, he was succeeded in 1861 by Rev. John Cotton Smith, D.D., who remained in the rectorship until 1881. In 1882 Rev. E. Winchester Donald became rector and is present incumbent, and in 1885, Rev. H. Dyer, D.D., Rev. John F. Steen, and Rev. E. H. Van Winkle are mentioned as his assistants. The wardens are James M. Brown and D. F. Appleton. In 1885, there were
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254 baptized, 96 confirmed, and 1,206 communicants. These statistics include Ascension Chapel, 330 West Forty-third Street. There is a rectory adjoining the church, and both are of stone. The interior of the church was remodeled last summer; new chancel arrangements effected ; the side galler- ies removed, and the church greatly beautified.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, NEW YORK,
Was organized February 14, 1829. The first church was built and opened June 7, 1830, and the present edifice, No- vember 30, 1873. The rectors have been, Rev. George L. Hinton, 1829-1832 ; Rev. Abram Hart, 1833-1840; Rev. James R. Bailey (afterward Roman Catholic, and Archbishop of Baltimore), 1840-1842 ; Rev. R. M. Abercrombie, S.T.D., 1846-1850; Rev. George B. Draper, S.T.D., 1850 until his decease in 1876; Rev. Samuel Earp, 1877-1879, and since 1879, Rev. Francis Lobdell, S.T.D., present incumbent. The rector's assistants are Rev. H. B. Hitchings and Rev. E. H. Cleveland. A spacious and thoroughly appointed Sunday school and parish building, adjoining the church and har- monizing with it architecturally, was built during the rector- ship of Dr. Draper, as was the church, The number of bap- tisms recorded is 2,257, and 823 have received confirmation. The number of communicants in 1835 was 30; in 1845, 39; in 1855, 56; in 1865, 207; in 1875, 351, and in 1885, 875. The present number is 895. The wardens in 1829 were Charles Henry Hall and John Rook; in 1835, Charles Henry Hall and E. R. Jones ; in 1845, Jacob Lorillard and Abel T. Anderson; in 1885, J. W. Hartman and C. G. Bunnell; in 1865, Edward H. Jacob and B. C. Paddock ; in 1875, Miln P. Dayton and L. Bailey, and in 1885, Charles C. Tyler and Morris Wilkins. The church is a Gothic structure in gray stone, admirable in its proportions, after plans by Henry M. Congdon, and is among the most effective and completely appointed churches in the diocese.
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