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ceived in the forties. The directors have bought the lot adjoining the school-house,-the one on which the old Presbyterian Church stands,-and will erect a spacions building, embodying the most recent in- provements, which will cover a proper proportion of the old and the newly-acquired ground.
The schools of Upper Mauch Chunk, or the Second Ward, are under the same general management as those of the First Ward. The pioneer school of Upper Mauch Chunk was established about. 1842. ! For a number of years three buildings were in use, but in 1864 they were sold and a large frame building school children upon the hill. In 1883 a second building was put up for a primary school-house.
East Mauch Chunk Schools .- The first school in what is now the borough of East Mauch Chunk was established about 1850 in a frame school-house, built "in the woods, still standing on its original location . (now the corner of Fourth and North Streets), and occupied as a tailor-shop. The first teacher was Miss Ellen Thompson. She was succeeded by Mrs. George Barker. Another frame building was erected on the same lot in 1856, which is also still standing. In 1860 a school-house was built on the lower part of the present school lot, which was used until the ground was required for the erection of the present building, when it was sold to C. Frank Walter. It is now on the corner of Seventh and North Streets. A school was also established at the weigh-lock in 1856, and a house built there in 1860, which was used until the flood of 1862, after which the present brick building was erected on its site.
The capacity of the old school-house being too lim- ited to accommodate all the children, a new school building was erected during 1869 and 1871. This new structure is situated on North Street, north of Sixth Street. School grounds of sufficient size are attached to it. The building, which is fifty feet by seventy feet, is built of stone. It contains six rooms, in which there are as many schools, and, in addition, there is a spacious lecture-room.
The aggregate cost of the edifice was about seven- teen thousand five hundred dollars. Although the public schools were founded in this place in 1854, yet they were not regularly graded until 1871, when the new building was occupied for the first time. Mr. R. W. Young was the first principal, and served one term, 1871-72. The second term, 1871-72, Mr. Cyrus Brubaker was employed as principal. The following persons served for the terms indicated : Mr. J. L. Allen, for term 1872-73; Mr. J. K. Andre, 1873-74; Mr. - Kind, 1875-76; Mr. C. M. Arnold, 1876-77, 1877-78; Mr. O. Haverly, 1878-79, 1879-80; Mr. A. S. Miller, 1880-81, 1881-82; Mr. HI. A. Eisenhardt,
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At present there is an established high school course, including a number of the higher branches. All pupils passing a satisfactory examination are granted certificates.
The following are the names of the pupils who will complete the course this year : Miss Emma M. Arner, Emma J. Troxell, Philopena Rauchenberger, and Maggie M. Rowland.
· St. Mark's Church (Protestant Episcopal) .- St. Mark's parish, the mother of all the Episcopal churches in the Valley of the Lehigh, was organized May 17, 1835, at a meeting held for the purpose in a school-house on Broadway, above Quarry Street, near the site of the present residenec of Mr. A. W. Butler. This meeting was presided over by the Rev. J. H. Rog- ers, reetor of the Trinity Church, Easton. The articles of association were signed by Samuel Holland, Dr. B. R. McConnell, William Il. Sayre, Asa L. Foster, John Ruddle, Asa Packer, James Broderick, William But- ler, and J. II. Chapman. At the same meeting the following were elected vestrymen : William 11. Sayre, Asa Packer, S. Holland, J. Ruddle, Dr. McConnell, and A. L. Foster; the first two were elected wardens.
Lay services, with an occasional service by a visit- ing clergyman, had been held in the school-house since the year 1829, when Mr. William H. Sayre, a communicant of the Episcopal Church, came to this place from Columbia County. He at once began to gather a congregation and to serve as lay-reader. He continmed his services as lay-reader, vestryman, war- den, and Sunday-school superintendent until his re- moval to Bethlehem, in the year 1862. Ten years after his removal, on the 29th of May, 1872, he entered the rest of paradise.
The first clerical service was held on Sunday, Nov. 23, 1834, by the Rev. James May, rector of St. Ste- phen's Church, Wilkesbarre. After the parish or- ganization was effected, in the year 1835, and until a reetor was elected, services were held monthly by the Rev. James May, of Wilkesbarre; the Rev. J. H. Rogers, of Easton; the Rev. George C. Drake, of Bloomsburg; and the Rev. James Delui, of Potts- ville.
The first baptism in the parish was administered by the Rev. J. HI, .Rogers, Nov. 8, 1835, and the next day the first Episcopal visitation was held by the Rt. Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D.D., assistant bishop of Pen- sylvania, on which occasion five persons received the rite of confirmation. The first administration of the Holy Communion was by the Rev. James May, on the 20th day of March, 1836, when six persons partook of the blessed sacrament, viz. : William II. Sayre, James Broderick, Leonard Blakslee, William Butler, Sr .; Mrs. Jackson, and Mrs. McQuaid.
On the 19th day of May, 1836, the parish was ad- mitted into union with the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The Sunday-school was organized Nov. 24, 1839, with three teachers and eighteen scholars. Mr. Wil- liam H. Sayre was superintendent, and Mr. F. R.
Sayre, Miss Mary E. Sayre, and Miss Barnes were the teachers. From this small beginning has grown the vast Sunday-school work of the parish, which, at the time of writing this sketch (1884), ineludes four Sun- day-schools, with forty teachers and nearly six hundred scholars.
The first chmureh edifice was begun in 1840, com- pleted in 1845, and consecrated July 13, 1852. The dimensions of the building were: outside length, fifty- five feet; breadth, thirty-eight feet ; height of walls, twenty-three feet; tower in front, sixteen feet square; and vestry-room in the rear, eight by sixteen feet. This was taken down, and the present building eom- meneed in 1867. Plans for the new church were fur- nished by Mr. Upjohn, of New York ; the corner-stone was laid by Bishop Stevens, Sept. 21, 1867 ; and the consecration was held by the same bishop Nov. 25, 1869. The plans were drawn with special reference to the surrounding scenery. The structure, which is one of the most beautiful and imposing in this coun- try, is of a gray sandstone, with brownstone trim- mings, and stands on a rock-terrace eut in the side of the mountain. The main entrance is reached by forty-three stone steps, in three flights, covered by an ornamental Gothic porel. The woodwork is of black walnut, the floors of Minton tiles, and the windows are of riehly-ornamented stained-glass, with appro- priate designs of a memorial character. The ground- plan is the Latin eross. Length, ninety-six feet; width across transepts, seventy-five feet; height of nave-roof, fifty-seven feet ; height of spire, one hun- dred and thirty five feet.
In a recess on the south of the chancel there is a very fine organ, built by Jardine & Sons, of New York. It has twenty-eight stops, two manuals, with reverse action, and is arranged for a chancel choir.
The interior decorations in polychrome were de- signed by E. J. N. Stent, of New York, and are exceedingly rich and beantiful. The character of the coloring in the body of the church was chosen prin- cipally with reference to the non-absorption of light. The ceiling-panels have as a ground-work a cool greenish gray tint, pleasant and resting to the eye, and are ornamented with sprigs of conventional foliage, painted in properly contrasting colors, arranged sym- metrieally over the surface, while the massive roof timbers which separate these panels are painted very dark green, almost black, relieved with bands and monldings of gold, which harmonize pleasantly with the broad borders of peacock-blue which separate these timbers from the surface of the eciling. The walls of both nave and transepts are treated in the same manner,-first a broad, highly-decorated border over the wainseot, followed by a band of dull red, which occupies perhaps one-third of the wall surface. Above this, reaching to the cornice, comes a delicate sage tint, separated from the red by a floriated border, composed principally as to color of various shades of dull green and russet, very effective and artistic in
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treatment, and combining admirably with the other colors. The paneled corniee is quite elaborately treated, the principal spaces being ornamented with the marigold, a flower holding a valued place in Christian art symbolism. The richest decoration is . in the chancel, where crimson, blue, and gold are wrought into an elaborate symbolism, each teaching its own special lesson of Christian doctrine, and the whole forming an appropriate setting for the crown- ing feature of the edifice, the Packer memoria! altar ; and reredos. This beautiful work of art was erected by the family of the late Ifon. Asa Packer, who was one of the founders, for forty-four years a vestryman, and for twenty-four years one of the wardens of St. Mark's.
chancel, extending nearly across its whole width and rising to a height of twenty-three feet from the floor.
The altar is of highly polished statuary marble, resting on steps of veined marble. The top is of one slab, with inlaid Maltese crosses of dark Sienna mar- ble in the centre and corner, and surrounded with a riel heavy moulding. It is supported by four col- ums in front, the shafts of which are of dark Sienna marble, with bases and caps of statuary marble carved in natural foliage. On the front of the altar, between the columns, are three cirenlar panel- elaborately carved. The centre panels contain a crown of thorns thrown over a Greek cross, which is terminated with the symbols of the four Evangelists. The right-hand panel contains the Che Rho, and the left the Alpha and Omega, each in monogram and enriched with delicately carved grapes, wheat, and leaf-work.
On the face of the super-altar, in three sunken panels, is cut the Sanctus.
The reredos is built of Caen stone, elaborately worked, in the middle pointed style of architecture. In general arrangement it is composed vertically of three bays, divided by heavy buttresses. The bays are again divided horizontally at the level of the super-altar by a line of inscription, below which, on the side bays, are three enriched panels containing deeply carved bunches of wheat, grapes, passion- flowers and lilies, and a part of the inscription in raised ribbon-work.
Above the line of inscription and forming the prin- cipal features of the structure are three groups of ! of the bell was made into small hand-bells, and sold figures representing scenes from Holy Scripture. The figures are earved in high relief, about three-fourths life-size, The centre and most prominent group, rising above the altar, contains eleven figures in vari- ons attitudes, representing the scene on Mount Olivet at the ascension of our Lord-Aets i. 9.
On each side of this main group are post-resurrec- tion scenes; on the right, the garden scene on the morning of the resurrection, representing the appear- ance of our Lord to Mary-John xx. 15-17; and on the left, the appearance to the disciples on the evening of the resurrection-John xx. 19-23; in this group there are seven figures.
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In the main gable, above the ascension scene, in a diapered niche, is a sitting figure of our Lord in majesty. His left hand holds a globe surmounted with a cross, and his right hand is outstretched in blessing. The base of the niehe is supported by an angel corbel. Below the majesty, ou two spandrels, are angels in adoration swinging censers; and above the figure, in the top spandrel of the gable, is a group of seraphim illustrative of the verse in the Te Deum, "To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do . cry."
On the faees of the four buttresses are columns built up from the floor to the level of the super-altar, ter- minating with foliated capitals. On these, and under with animal heads, stand figures of the four evan- gelists, each holding a book in the attitude of decla- mation. These figures are three feet and seven inches high.
Between these buttressca, over the upper line of the inscription on each side of the main group, is a beau- tiful cornice richly carved in wheat, vine, and fruit- work, and eapped with battlements.
The buttresses are gabled at the top and terminate with croekoted pinnaeles. These support four angels playing upon musical instruments, representative of the heavenly host. These angels are nearly four feet high.
The central gable is finished with a cornice of richly carved leaf-work, presenting one of the most pleasing features of the structure. The whole is surmounted with a plain cross resting upon a foliated base.
The inscription, carved upon an embossed ribbon- seroll, and in mediaval raised letters, is arranged in six sections in the two side bays, and reads as follows : " To the Glory of God, and jte Memory of Asa Packer, Born Decem. xxix, Mdccev, Died May vil, Marcelxxix.
This Reredos was erreted by bis Wife, Sarah M. Packer, and by his surviving Children, Mary 11., Robert A., and Harry E. Packer."
In the year 1855, Rudolphns Kent, Esq., of Philadel- phia, presented to the parish a bell weighing eleven hundred and sixteen pounds, made by J. Bernhard, Philadelphia. This bell was cracked on the Fourth of July, 1876, and sold to the Troy Bell Foundry in exchange for the chime now in use. A portion as relies. In the tower of the church there is now a chime of nine bells, weighing nine thousand six hundred and forty-two pounds, keyed on E flat. The weight of each bell, and the inseriptions thereon, are as follows :
Ist, 2-189 lbs., " Presented by Asa Packer." 2d, 1613 lbs., " Presented by Charles O. Skeer." 3d, 1451 lbs., " Presented by G. B. Linderman."
4th, 1063 lbs., " In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. In memory of William Heysham Sayre, one of the founders, and for twenty years a warden of St. Mark's Parish ; also of his wife Elizabeth Kent Sayre; and of their children
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The memorial is built against the east end of the | elaborately wrought and gabled canopies crocketed
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and children's children, who sleep in Christ. A tribute of affection from Robert H. Sayre, A.D. 1876."
5th, 827 lbs., " Presented by James I. Blakslee."
6th, 626 lbs., " Holy Innocent's bell. Presented by the Sunday-school in memory of the children of the Parish whom Jesus has called to his arms: 'They are without fault before the throne of God.'"
7th, 610 lbs., " In memoriam. R. W. Packer, one of the original vestrymen of St. Mark's Church."
8th, 549 lbs., "Presented by the congregation to replace the first bell used in this Parish, given by Rudolphns Kent."
9th, 414 lbs., " Presented by A. W. Butler, and family, A.D. 1876."
The parish building, adjoining the church, and one of the most complete buildings of the kind in this country, was built as a memorial to the late Hon. Asa Packer, by his widow, Mrs. Sarah M. Packer, and named the "Sarah M. Packer Memorial Parish Build- ing of St. Mark's Church." In material and general style of architecture it corresponds with the church, except the interior finish, which is of white and yellow pine, and in what is known as the " Queen Anne" style of architecture. It is about one hundred feet in length, forty feet in breadth, and three stories in height. On the first floor there is a chantry for week-day and holy-day services, fitted up completely as a miniature church, with altar, reredos, chancel furniture, organ, and chairs upholstered in crimson plush velvet, with hat-rack, book-rack, and kneeling-benches attached. The walls are richly decorated in polychrome. The ceilings are finished in carved oak, and the floor set with Minton tiles. On the second floor there is a room for storage, and a choir and toilet-room. On the third floor, on a level with the entrance to the church, there is a Sunday-school room, divided by glass partitions into four rooms, which can be thrown into one, furnished with maps, blackboards, organ, and with the most approved style of seats made of ash and cherry. A gallery runs across the east end of the room, and a convenient room for the library opens ont of the main vestibule. The entire building was fur- wished by Miss Mary H. Packer, who also provides a permanent library for the Sunday-school.
The west end of the building is arranged for a sex- ton's residence, containing nine rooms, and connect- ing on two floors with the parish building and church.
The building and furniture were formally presented to the parish, at a service specially adapted to the occasion, after evening prayers, on Saturday, June 3, 1882. The presentation was made by R. A. Packer, Esq., and after the acceptance and an address by the rector, the Rev. Marcus A. Tolman, addresses were made by Mr. A. W. Butler and Mr. T. L. Foster.
In May, 1883, the great want of a town clock was met by the novel service of connecting the chime with the Lehigh Valley Railroad office clock, from which the hours could be struck by electricity. The machine and attachments for the purpose were in-
vented by Mr. James Hamblet, of New York, and the works were constructed after his designs by the Seth Thomas Clock Company, of Connectient. This was the first apparatus ever devised for striking the hours from a distant clock.
In the autumn of 1883 the wooden pulpit and lec- tern which were placed in the church when it was built were removed for the purpose of making room for two beautiful works of ecclesiastical art, presented by Mr. Harry E. and Miss Mary H. Packer, as memo- rials to their mother and brother.
The pulpit is octagonal in shape, and made of pol- ished brass and gray Champlain marble. From a large stone base rises a central shaft of marble with a richly-carved capital, and six brass columns with foli- ated capitals, which combine to support the marble floor of the pulpit. The pulpit proper is formed by polished brass shafts connected by richly-wrought panels of tracery, and surmounted by an oak top- monlding. In the central panel there is wrought in repousse the winged lion as the symbol of St. Mark. Above this rises the mannscript desk resting on a universal joint, and a hooded light, arranged to protect the eyes of speaker and congregation. The pulpit stands on the floor of the nave, and is entered from the choir by a brass staircase. The memorial inscription reads as follows :
"To the glory of God, and in memory of Robert Asa Packer; born Nov. 19, 1812 ; died Feb. 20, 1883 ; presented by his sister, Mary Il., and by his brother, Harry E. Pacher."
The lectern is a massive piece of work, eagle pat- tern, of richly-chased, polished brass. The base is in the form of a Greek cross, and rests on four lions, symbolizing strength, fortitude, and the resurrection. From this base spring buttressed brackets, which strengthen the cluster columns surrounding the shaft. These columns support the central post, on which are handsomely chased the four evangelical symbols. Above these are four angels, in standing position, holding scrolls with the names of the evangelists, and acting as supporters to the central shaft. The shaft terminates in a richly-carved capital, upon which, just below the crown, is engraved the inserip- tion. The lectern is surmounted by a timely-chased eagle,-the bird of inspiration, -which, with out- stretched wings, supports the Holy Bible. The whole rests upon a polished marble base, which raises it from the floor sufficiently to give dignity to the work, and causes it to appear to good advantage. The inscription reads as follows :
"To the glory of God, and in memory of Sarah M. Packer, A. D. 1883, born March 12, 1807; died Nov. 17, 1882; the gift of her children, -- Mary H. and Harry E. Packer."
These memorials were set apart for their sacred use by a special form of service on All-Saints' day, 1883, by the Right Rev. H. B. Whipple, D.D., Bishop of Minnesota, assisted by the rector of the parish.
Up to the present time the parish has been served by six rectors only. The Rev. Richard F. Burnham
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was reetor from January, 1839, to February, 1840; the Rev. Peter Russell, from June 2, 1844, to 1855; the Rev. Hurley Baldy, from Oct. 1, 1857, to Oct. 1, 1860; the Rev. Edward M. Pecke, from Oct. 1, 1860, to July, 1866; the Rev. Leighton Coleman, S.T. D., from Dee. 2, 1866, to April, 1874 ; and the Rev. Mar- ens Alden Tolman, the present incumbent, from Aug. 1, 1874.
Parochial Missions .- During the rectorship of the Rev. l'eter Russell mission services began to be held in the borough of East Manch Chunk.
Bacon Stevens, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, laid | the corner-stone of a chapel which was completed in the year 1875, and on the 23d day of September was consecrated under the name of St. John's Chapel by the Right Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Ilowe, D. D., Bishop of Central Pennsylvania. For several years a flour- ishing Sunday-school has been held in connection with this chapel.
At Hackelbirnie village occasional services have been held by the parish clergy for several years, and a Sunday-school was organized in the year 1875.
At Nesquehoning services were held on Sunday afternoons for several years, but owing to the change in the population this mission was abandoned.
At Upper Mauch Chunk a mission has been re- cently organized with very encouraging success.
This parish has always taken an active part in dio- cesan affairs, and shown a lively interest in the gen- eral work of the church.
It has been blessed with a band of earnest lay helpers, male and female, from the beginning, and to them-ever ready to give time, labor, and money for every department of the work-are largely due the great and growing prosperity and influence of St. Mark's Church.
Methodist Episcopal Church .- The first Meth- odist sermon in this place was preached in 1827 by the Rev. William Coder, a local preacher, at his own house, near where the weigh-lock now is. The first class was organized there, and Mr. Coder was ap- pointed leader. The class consisted of twelve per- sons, among whom were Henry Coder and wife, Wil- liam Coder and wife, and Isaac Allison and wife. Soon after the organization of the class, a school- house which stood in the ravine above the town was selected as the place for holding meetings. Subse- quently a room was rented and fitted up in the second story of a frame building on the main street, on the site of Alexander Butler's residence. In the fall of the year 1828 Mauch Chunk was visited by. Rev. Joseph Chattell, of the Philadelphia Conference, who organized the church and received it as one of the appointments of Lehigh Circuit, a six-weeks' cir- cuit embracing all the territory lying between the Delaware River and Broad Mountain, stretching from Stroudsburg ou the cast to Pottsville on the west. The three preachers appointed to this circuit in 1829
were Revs. Jacob Hevener, T. Gould, and Joseph Chattell. In the year 1830 Lehigh Circuit was di- vided, some of the appointments in its northwestern part being transferred to the Baltimore Conference, and thus leaving a fonr-weeks' circuit, to which Revs. Thomas Millard and James V. Potts were appointed. During this year William and Henry Coder removed to Port Carbon. The Conference of 1831 formed Mauch Chunk and Port Carbon into a separate cir- enit called Port Carbon Mission, with Rev. Joseph Chattell as pastor. He held the first protracted meet-
On Friday, Aug. 16, 1867, the Right Rev. William : ing and the first love-feast known in Mauch Chunk. A revival this year increased the membership of the church to forty. At the Philadelphia Conference of 1832 the mission was given the name of Mauch Chunk, and Rev. Abraham K. Street was appointed pastor. During his administration a house of wor- ship was erected and dedicated by Rev. George Banghart, presiding elder of the North Philadelphia District. The church was a frame building, aud lo- cated on the main street, near the lower end of town, where the Albright residence now is. The trustees were Jonathan Fincher, Joseph Butler, William But- ler, Jesse K. Pryor, and Thomas Patterson. The builder was Jesse K. Pryor. In 1834, Rev. Bromwell Andrew was appointed pastor of the mission. In 1835 the mission was left to be supplied, and Joseph . Butler and Jonathan Fincher, with the help of the leaders, kept up the meetings with regularity.
Rev. John L. Taft was appointed pastor in 1836. The following year the Conference annexed Mauch Chunk to Stroudsburg Circuit, with Rev. Jonathan Davidson as pastor, and Rev. James Neill as assistant pastor. One year later Mauch Chunk was made a station, and Rev. Christopher J. Cronch was appointed pastor. He labored two years, and was followed, in 1840, by Rev. William H. Elliott. At the elose of his services, he reported seventy-three members. Revs. William 11. MeCombs and James Y. Ashton were ap- pointed to the charge in 1841, with Tamaqua and Port Clinton as additional preaching-places. Rev. John A. Boyle was appointed pastor in 1842, and at the close of his labors reported two hundred members, there having been a large accession by reason of a revival. In 1843 Tamaqua became a separate charge, and Rev. Henry E. Gilroy was appointed pastor at Mauch Chunk, with Rev. Henry R. Calloway as as- sistant. During this year the congregation purchased a lot adjoining the school-house on Broadway for six hundred dollars from John Ruddle, and a new church edifice of brick, forty-four by sixty feet, was erected upon it, but not completed. In 1844, while Rev. Dallas D. Love was officiating as pastor, the audience-room was completed and the church dedicated, Rev. J. Neill preaching the sermon, and Rev. Thomas Bowman and Rev. L. M. Conser, of the Baltimore Conference, as- sisting in the services. The trustees were Jonathan Fincher, Jesse K. Pryor, Thomas Patterson, Jr., Jo- seph Butler, William Butler, Conrad Miller, Samnel
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