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The Guild meets every two weeks, on Monday evening, at the houses of the members in turn. The meetings are social in character. Conversation, readings, music, and any other entertainment furnished, fill up the evening after the regular business is dispatched. At present,
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the society is engaged in furnishing a box of clothing, scarfs, mittens, etc., to be sent to a school of Indian boys in Dakota.
A set of handsome book-marks was presented on Easter for use in the Church.
In connection with the Guild. a Bible Class has been formed ; also a penny fund, to which each person contributes a penny a week.
In order to meet a want that has long been felt by the young people . of the Church, the young ladies of the Guild decided to organize a Bible Class, which should meet during Lent. The time was limited to. Lent with an understanding that if the class succeeded and sufficient interest was manifested, another organization should be formed inde- pendent of the Guild.
The Class meets in the lecture room on Sunday afternoon, and is opened and closed with a short service. The first lessons were taken up with the definitions and explanations of terms constantly occurring in sacred writings. The different translations of the Bible, with the re- vision now going on were discussed and articles on this subject, prepared for the occasion, were read. Next the three Creeds were taken up, their early history and forin, the Arian Heresy, etc. A most interesting les- son was on the origin and early history of the Church of England, the Church of Rome, and the Greek Church. The last lesson consisted of a review of what had been gone over previously.
The attendance being good and a deep interest being expressed, it was decided, after Lent, to continue the class, and to extend the priv- ilege of joining it to all who cared to avail themselves of it. At the first lesson the three Creeds were again discussed. Next the history of the Jews was considered. After concluding the study of the three tem- ples, and the history of the Jews from the close of the old Testament to the beginning of the new, the life of Christ was taken up. For this winter's work, it is the intention of the class to consider the events in chronological order, with the lessons each one affords."
Miss Anderson was the first teacher, and when she was obliged to give up the work, Mr. Wilson Waters succeeded her. The study of the Prayer Book was taken up and continued, for some months with much interest.
The officers of the Guild have been :
President-Miss E. Anderson.
Vice President-Miss M. P. Woodbridge.
Treasurers-Miss H. W. Waters, Miss V. R. Hall, Miss Phenie Aver- beck.
Secretaries-Miss Caddie G. Eggleston, Miss Alice B. Waters, Miss V. R. Hall.
Directresses-Miss Grace Rolston, Miss H. W. Waters, Mrs. C. R. Hovey, Mrs. J. W. Sniffen.
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BOXES SENT.
November, 1878. Box to Grand Rapids, Mich $ 32.00
1879. " " Rev. Mr. Whitten's School ..
16 25
March, 1850. " New Mexico.
35.00
January, 1.81. 66
66
25.00
December, 1ss1. .6
20.00
July, 1×2. 66 66
8.00
December, 1 2. 66
25.00
May,
IS3.
66 66
25.00
October, 1883. 66
27.00
MONEY CONTRIBUTED.
- December, IS81. Fannie C. Paddock, Mem. Hospital $ 1.00
January, 1532. Bishop Jaggar Scholarship 1.00
May,
1ss2. Diocesan Missions 1.00
January, 1533. Salary Diocesan Missionary 5.00
"Fannie C. Paddock Hospital 1.00
1.00
June,
1883. Young Mem. Chapel 5.00
Dr. Thompson Outfit. 1.00
December, 1833. Fannie C. Paddock Hospital
1.00
Bishop Jaggar Scholarship 1.00
Bishop Whittaker Scholarship
2.00
$20.00
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From St. Luke's Chronicle, Easter, 1879: "On the first Saturday in November, 1873, a meeting of the ladies of St. Luke's Church was called by Mrs. R. E. Harte, to consider the question of opening a sewing- school, for the benefit of those children whose mothers have not the time, perhaps not the ability to teach them. The suggestion was favor- ably received, and the school at once organized, with Miss Sallie MeFar- land, President, Mrs. R. E. Harte, Vice President, and Miss Mary Ross, Secretary. For the first two years the school met in the lecture room, since then the City Council have very kindly allowed the ladies the use of their room, in the City Hall.
The school is held every Saturday, from two until four o'clock, be- ginning the first Saturday in November and closing the last Saturday in March. The children are taken without regard to sect, age or na- tionality. They are assigned to classes, each class in charge of a teach- er. Beginners are first taught to make patch-work, and then promoted to work on articles of clothing. The records for the first two years have been lost. but it is believed that the first year had a larger number of scholars than any succeeding year, the reason for this being, that since "then, two other schools have been organized, and the scholars are thus
$213.25
Bishop Jaggar Scholarship ..
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distributed. In the winter of '75 and '76, there were in attendance 82 · scholars, 112 yards of material were consumed, 103 garments made, 5 dozen handkerchiefs henmed, and a great deal of patchwork done. The winter of '76 and '77 shows 65 scholars, 137 yards of material and 102 garments made. In '77 and '78, 47 scholars were enrolled, 100 yards of material used, 87 garments made, and two dozen handkerchiefs hemmed. During the past winter, 38 scholars have been in attendance, 132 yards of material made into 116 garments, and about three dozen handkerchiefs hemmed. The organization of the two other sewing schools will account for the decrease in the number of scholars, and the increase in the number of garments made is owing to the fact that of late but little patchwork has been done, the ladies feeling that it is just as well, perhaps better, to let the children begin immediately on some . article of wear. At first the material for each class was furnished by its teacher: that being quite a heavy tax on a few, it was decided to ap- peal to the ladies of the Church, not engaged in the school, and since then, all material has been furnished by them. Each child is presented with the garment she has made, when it is done."
During the winter of 1879-80 there were 52 scholars between the ages of 6 and 14. Money was contributed to pay the expense of making fires-25 cents per fire. 129 yards.of material were made into 105 gar- ments and 53 dozen handkerchiefs henmed.
1880-81. 64 scholars between the ages of 6 and 15. Material con- tributed : 155 yards of calico, muslin and flannel and 43 dozen pocket handkerchiefs. 102 garments were made.
1881-82. 68 scholars between the ages of 6 and 14. Material con- tributed : 2243 yards of muslin, calico and flannel, 33 dozen handker- chiefs, 1 card of buttons and 8 spools of thread. 175 garments were made.
1882-83. 48 scholars between the ages of 6 and 14. Material con- tributed : 152 yards of muslin, flannel and calico and 2 dozen handker- chiefs, besides buttons and thread. 100 garments were made.
The school now meets in the lecture-room.
The officers of the Sewing School have been :
President-Miss McFarland.
Vice President-Mrs. R. E. Harte.
Secretary- Miss Mary Ross, Mrs. I. R. Waters, Mrs. John Hall, Miss Nellie L. Hall.
Teachers-Miss S. B. MeFarland, Mrs. W. L. Rolston, Mrs Geo. M. Woodbridge, Mrs. R. E. Harte, Mrs. A. T. Nye, Jr., Mrs. John Hall, Mrs. C. B. Hall, Mrs. Sammel Hart, Mrs. C. B. Wells, Mrs. James R. Hall, Mrs. E. R. Dale, Mrs. Geo. Benedict, Mrs. I. R. Waters, Miss Delia Rice, Miss Mary Boyd, Miss Nellie L. Hall, Miss Elizabeth Anderson, Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. C. H. Turner, Miss Virginia R. Hall, Miss Grace Rolston. Miss Linda Whiting, Miss Sarah Buchanan, Miss M. L. Skinner, Miss Nellie Boyd, Miss Laura Virginia Nye, Miss H. W. Waters, Miss A. B. Waters.
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APPENDIX.
NOTE I. Page 12.
It may be interesting to note that the region of the Muskingum Valley was first consecrated to the Christian religion by the representa- tive of an Apostolic Church, the Rev. Christian Frederick Post, a Mora- vian missionary, who came to this vicinity as early as 1761, the fore- runner of those interesting missions afterwards established among the Indians. One of these missionaries, the Rev. John Heckewelder, was afterwards intimately associated with the Marietta settlers.
Another interesting event is the birth of the Mohawk chief Thay- endanegea or Joseph Brant, on the banks of the Ohio, in 1742; this noted Christian Indian translated the Gospel of St. Mark into the Mo- hawk language, and built a church near Brantford, Canada, in 1785. The writer has in his library a Book of Common Prayer in the Mohawk tongue, printed in 1787, to which is added the above mentioned trans- lation of St. Mark ; the whole volume is printed with Mohawk and English on opposite pages. Capt. Joseph Brant is said by his biograph- er, Stone, to have been present at the Treaty of Fort Harmar in 1788-9, at which the Rev. John Heckewelder was also present.
Bishop Chase gives a very interesting account of a visit he made in August, 1825, to the remnants of the Oneida and Mohawk tribes of In- dians, in the northern part of the State, near the Sandusky river, who still retained the use of our Liturgy, once taught them by the British missionaries. The Bishop took his way through the forests one gloomy morning, in company with a friend, but missed the path and traveled about twenty-five miles in the rain before reaching the huts of the In- dians. He says, "some aged men and women of the Mohawks, fit em- blems of their tribe, once vigorous, now in decay, met us at their lowly cabin doors. I passed around their little settlement and the evening
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and morning were spent in trying to do them good. I found them not like heathen. They had known Jesu-, their Creator and Saviour, from their youth, and the liturgy and formularies of the Church of England, with part of the book of Genesis, and the Gospel of St. Mark, trans- lated into their own language. A. D. 1787, had been the blessed means, by which this faith had been taught and handed down from their fore- fathers. What a comment this, on the great utility of accompanying the translation of the Scriptures with the formularies of primitive devo- tion ! And what an overpowering refutation is this, of the ungodly ob- jections made to the Christianizing of the heathen, by diffu-ing the light of the Holy Bible among them !". Although it rained incessantly the next day, these people came in goodly numbers to Divine Service, and seemed with one heart and voice to join in the responses, as the prayers were read by the Bishop and repeated by an elderly person in their language. Through the Secretary of War, the Government al- lowed the Bishop $100.00 per annum each for the education of six boys of the tribe.
NOTE II. Page 12.
The following from the Magazine of American History for April, 1883, gives an interesting account of the first Christmas at Marietta.
Letter from Solomon Drowne, M. D., to Mrs. Elizabeth ( Russel) Droume.
Marietta, at the confluence of Ohio and Muskingum,
December 31st, 1785.
My Dear and amiable Consort,
I need not mention how painful to me is this separation from you, and our dear children ; and make no doubt you are also often filled with regret at my long absence from you . . . . May we yet see many happy years . .
The 19th Inst. I went over the Muskingum, to the Council Bower, where the great Treaty is held between Governor St. Clair (who is Commissioner from Congress) and the Chiefs of a number of Nations. I was much pleased with Cornplanter, and have since written what I could recollect of his speech, but cannot now transcribe it. It afforded me great satisfaction to see their manner of doing business .- at the end of a speech presenting a String of Beads, or Belt of Wampum. I think there was more decorum ob- served than in the British Parliament, when I was there.
Last Thun lay, the 25th Inst. was observed here as a day of public Thanksgiving, agreeably to a Proclamation, issued by the Governor. It being Christinas, public worship was introduced by reading the Collect, de., in the Church Prayer Book. Geni. Par- sons read a sermon adapted to the occasion, from Psalms 103, 1 & 2 verses. Good singing.
. I dined at Major Goodale's (who came from Brookfield and as this is such a new Country, perhaps you will like to know our
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bill of fare .- A boiled dish, Turkey, Beef and Bacon, Cabbage, Turnips and Potatoes, Butter, &c .- A roast Turkey, 17 lbs .-- A Turkey Pie .- Custards .- Wheat Bread, &c.
1789, January 2d. New Year's day was celebrated by much firing, which commenced at about midnight on the Virginia side, and occasioned an alarm in the stockade, terrifying some of the : women, very much. A number of Indians, cordially joined, with their Rifles, bringing an American Flag: and were allowed to ex -. cel our people in the regularity of their firing. Three discharges of cannon at Fort Harmar Garrison and Stockade. [By order of Capt. John Pratt.]
There is a great profit to be made by trading with the Indians in skins, &c. I think I have heard Thomas Russell say he had half a share here; if so, you may give him a hint that I think he can trade to better advantage here than in Newport . ... The business of the Treaty has been suspended by the cold weather, and partly by the Governor's want of health ; the Bower, where- in they meet being very open and airy. They met however late- ly and there is reason to expect a favorable issue, as they are : peaceably disposed.
I have a view from the Chamber where I write of the beauti- ful Muskingum gliding gently by, with a good deal of rotten ice floating on its surface; also of a lofty hill on its opposite bank containing a quarry of excellent stone, easily cut into any shape and hardening in the air (a kind of free stone), and more than sufficient to build the whole City of Marietta.
I have had some few patients; but in general the inhabitants Irave been very healthy, except colds lately.
Sincerely wishing you all a happy New Year, I am, yours, most affectionately,
SOLOMON DROWNE.
To Mrs. Drowne, Providence, R. I.
NOTE III. Page 25.
Kenyon College was founded by Bishop Chase. Among the most prominent early benefactors of the Institution were Henry Clay, whose introduction of Bishop Chase to the Admiral Lord Gambier, of Eng- land, initiated the movement in 1823; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishops of London, Durham, St. David's, Chester, Litchfield ; the Deans of Canterbury and Salisbury ; Lords Kenyon, Gambier, Bex- ley, Sir Thomas Ackland : Rev. Edward Bickersteth, Henry Hoare, Mar- riott, Pratt, William Wilberforce, Thomas Wiggin, Thomas Bates; the Dowager Countess of Ross; Hannah More; William Hogg, John Quin- cy Adams, Pres't of U. S, John Jay, Mrs. Governor Sargeant, &c., &c.
The Rev. Intrepid Morse gave $100.00, and also (which will give an idea of some of the other donations) twelve yards of bed-ticking, to be used in the Seminary. Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised through the Bishop's first appeal in this country, and afterwards the U. S. Sen- ate passed a bill granting the College a township of land, but for some cause it failed to pass the House of Representatives.
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The following letter is in the possession of C. B. Hall, Esq. John Mathews, the father of James B. Mathews, lived near Zanesville. He was one of the Surveyors of the N. W. Territory, and was among the forty-seven who landed at Marietta in the Mayflower, Monday, April 7, 1788. His name appears with those of Aruis and Rowena Nye in the list of those confirmed at Zanesville in 1819. He was a delegate from that parish to the Preliminary Convention of the Diocese of Ohio in 1818, and also to the first Annual Convention in the same year.
TO JOHN MATHEWS, ESQ.
Very Dear Sir.
Washington City, 18. Feb. 1828.
I have great pleasure in telling you that the Committee, to whom was referred my petition in favour of Kenyon College, has reported a bill favourable to our prayer, embracing the grant of two Townships of land to be located in parcels of not less than one section of 640 acres apiece.
This is glorious news and would animate me exceedingly if our Ohio Delegates in the House of Representatives were warm in our favour, as the good Committee in the Senate, Messrs. Bar- ton, King, Eaton, Ellis & Kane have been. Can not, will you write to my good Friend Stansbery to befriend me in this matter ? Gen'l Finley and the Speaker, Mr. Stevenson are in my favour and many, very many others.
Do present my most affectionate regards to all my friends in Zanesville and believe me,
Dear Sir, Your faithful Friend,
PHR. CHASE.
This letter is of interest in connection with those on the same sub- ject published in the Bishop's Reminiscences. In one of these, to his wife, under the same date as the above, he mentions the receipt of a letter from Arius Nye, telling him that certain taxes had been remitted.
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NOTE IV. Page 40.
The first newspaper issued at Marietta was The Ohio Gazette and the Territorial and Virginia Hcrald, December 7, 1801. Royal Prentiss, whose name may be mentioned in the early history of this Parish, was a printer in the office of this paper and afterwards became one of its edi- tors. Nine years later this paper was succeeded by the Western Specta- tor. "It was edited by one of the best known characters, and one of the ablest men Marietta ever possessed-Caleb Emerson." In two years and a half the paper was sold to the proprietors of the American Friend, first published April 24, 1813. D. H. Buell was one of the owners, and he became Editor, January 1, 1814. In April of the same year Royal Prentiss became a partner and in 1816 sole owner of the paper. He was a man of true worth and great popularity and held several important offices in the community. In 1823 the paper became The American
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Friend and Marietta Gazette. In 1833 Mr. Prentiss sold the paper to John Delafield, Jr., a name prominent in St. Luke's early history, and E. W. Nye, a brother of Arius Nye. They changed the name to The Marietta Gazette. In this connection may be mentioned the names of Walter C. Hood, Rodney M. Stimson and E. Winchester, all of whom were journalists whose families were connected with St. Luke's.
The Circle met at the house of Royal Prentiss several times, though he was not much of a church-goer. The family of his brother, Jennison Prentiss, were Episcopalians. The latter married a niece of the Misses Stone, who, like them, was a good Church-woman and a member of St. Luke's. His daughter, Mary M. Prentiss, married Thomas W. Wil- liams, a cousin of the Misses Ward, mentioned on page 247.
Benjamin Corp was an Englishman and an Episcopalian who lived in Marietta in the early days. He built and lived in the brick part of the building now used by the Marietta Academy, on Fourth Street, and under it he had a good wine cellar. He was quite a mechanic and or- namented his house inside and out in a peculiar manner. He is said to have been a very upright and good man.
Edward Postlethwaite Page, the High Priest of Nature, was one of Marietta's noted characters. He was a pleasant man and something of a rhymester. He was always .endeavoring to square the circle or to solve some great mathematical problem. He now and then issued an explanation of his St. Peter's Key ; or a word of warning.in connection with his Oracle to explain Bissextiles, Olympiads &c., &c. He published numerous notices such as the following and sometimes lectured in fan- tastic costume.
NOTICE .- On Monday evening, March 11th (1833), in the dramatic aspect of a Ghost, I shall lecture at the New Court House at early can- dlelight on a most interesting subject. I invite the public gratis.
EDW. P. PAGE.
His first wife was a woman of considerable wealth and connected with Admiral Nelson's family.
Col. Joseph. Barker was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1818, and Associate Judge from 1830 to 1843. At an earlier date, 1802 and 1803, he was engaged in building ships at this point. In 1833 he, with Messrs. A. V. D. Joline, Buell, Swearingen and Hobby, was one of the organizers of the Washington County Agricultural Society. His grandson, John D. Barker, married Miss Mary L. Anderson, whose mother, Mrs. Eunice Anderson, was a sister of Joseph E. Hall.
Col. Barker once met Bishop Mellvaine at the residence of Mr. Buell, and said to him : "Bishop, I have long wanted to see you, a man who lives in a religious atmosphere and who has given thought to such matters, to ask you, what has caused the people of New England, with "a reformed religion and the restraints of Puritanism, from whom we - have inherited our schools and so much of the best in our system of
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Government, what has caused them to go off into the deadly errors of Unitarianism and infidelity ?" The Bishop answered briefly and forci- bly : "Sir, it is the want of a Liturgy!" The Bishop has said elsewhere of the Liturgy : "Hold on to those holy and spiritual services as your anchor, to keep you steadfast." "It serves as a help to all that is of the Holy Ghost, and a check against that disposition to extravagance and novelty, by which so many revivals have been deformed and so much promise of precious fruit been blasted. If any think they have ad- vanced so far in religion, that they cannot relish the Liturgy, they have been learning elsewhere than at the feet of Jesus, and have received some spirit besides that which is of God."
Caleb Emerson was a native of Massachusetts and left New Eng- land for Ohio in 1808 and practised law in Marietta ; he also was editor of the Western Spectator in 1810, and of the Marietta Gazette in 1836. He held the office of Prosecuting Attorney for several years. Prior to the organization of St. Luke's he had been a Baptist and afterwards re- turned to that body.
He became fond of the Church service, though he objected some- what to some of the strong expressions it contains, one of which is in regard to our manifold sins-"the burden of them is intolerable"-in the Confession at the Communion. Bishop Brownell quotes Archbishop Secker on that expression : "By this phrase we mean not always, that the sorrow, which we that instant feel for them, is extreme: for, though very sincere, it may be imperfect in its degree ; or, though as perfect, as the natural constitution of our mind and body admit, it may not be very passionate and affecting; or, though it were once so, it may now be moderated by a joyful sense of God's mercy to us: but we mean, that the weight with which our guilt, if not removed, will finally sit heavy on our souls, is unspeakably greater, than we shall be able to bear."
Mrs. Sheppard, who married Dr. Creel of Parkersburg was born in London, England, in 1791, and came to Marietta in 1835, having been in this country about ten years. She was a great reader and an artist and had fine taste and exquisite skill in music. She was in every way a lady of the highest culture. She died in Marietta, November 8, 1878.
Her son, Mr. C. J. Sheppard, was appointed by Bishop Meade, as lay-reader in Wellsburg and St. John's, Va., where his (Mr. S's) wife's family was among the prominent Church families. Her father built the church there. Mrs. Sheppard's daughter Julia married Mr. R. M. Stim- son.
Capt. Daniel Greene was a sea captain, whose family was connected with that of General Greene of the Revolution. He married an Eng- lish lady of great beauty, who was a good Church woman. Bishop Mcilvaine sometimes stopped at their house. They lived in the house, now number 186 Front street, the residence of Mr. C. B. Hall, (son of
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Joseph E. Hall), who married Caroline S., daughter of Capt. Greene. Part of this house was made from an old block house at Fort Harmar. His daughter, Isabella Greene, married William Holden, a brother of Mrs. R. E. Harte (Miss Julia Holden). His daughter, Mary Ann Greene, married James B. Mathews.
Joseph E. Hall, whose sister, Theodosia, married Daniel H. Buell, came to Marietta in 1817. He married first, Miss Rhoda Butler, of Durham, Conn., aunt of Mrs. M. P. Wells and great aunt of Miss Cad- die Butler, at one time organist in St. Luke's, whose sister, Williamina, married W. James Harte, son of Mrs. R. E. Harte. Joseph E. Hall's sister, Mrs. Mary Dodge, was the mother of Mrs. Susan Cooke, widow .. of J. R. Cooke.
James R., son of Charles B., son of Joseph E. Hall married Estelle de la Vergne, a relative of Mrs. C. B. Wells.
John Hall, son of J. E. Hall, married Miss Frances E. Hereford, a niece of Mrs. Betty Washington Lovell. Miss Ellen Lewis, also a niece of Mrs. Lovell, married A. T. Nye, Jr., nephew of Arius Nye.
Joseph E. Hall, married second, Miss Rosanna Roe.
Joseph E. Hall, Jr., married Eliza H., daughter of Dr. Hugh Trevor, who came from County Down, Ireland, to Marietta about 1834. Dr. Trevor married Miss Harriet Holden, a sister of Mrs. R. E. Harte.
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