Monthly Archives: February 2013

1939

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  • Priscilla Rawson Young (1909-2000), benefactor of our series of Bach Cantatas

    Our benefactor Priscilla Rawson (Young) studied music with Stanley Chapwell at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Craig Smith, founder of Emmanuel Music, who also had studied with Chapwell, kept this portrait of her on his desk. See also 1909, 1942, 1971, 1973, 1994 & 2000.

  • January.  A funeral was held at Emmanuel for our organist Albert Williams Snow, who had recently retired and died at the age of sixty.  Having studied under Wallace Goodrich at New England Conservatory of Music, he had become organist at Church of the Advent, Boston, before he replaced our organist  Lynnwood Farnum in 1918.  During his tenure he taught at NEC and served as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  His memorial plaque (#G4), reconstructed by Ted Southwick in 2021, can be seen behind the chancel organ.

 

1936

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December 13. Celebration of our 75th Year

Bishop Wm. Lawrence

The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts (1893-1927). Photo credit: WikiCommons

Our fifth rector, The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endicott Osgood, said in his sermon:  “We are stewards of an inheritance, interpreters of a tradition”.  Organist Dr. Albert Snow composed an anthem for the service.  Bishop William Lawrence praised our first four wardens:

  • Edward Sprague Rand (1st senior warden), a trustworthy, public-spirited lawyer
  • his uncle William Richards Lawrence (1st junior warden), who had bought the land for our church
  • Benjamin Tyler Reed (2nd senior warden), who founded in Cambridge the Episcopal Theological School, which became the Episcopal Divinity School
  • Enoch Reddington Mudge (2nd junior warden), who later built St. Stephen’s Church, Lynn

For more detail, see Boston Globe, Dec. 14,1936, p. 4:  “Bishop Lawrence in Tribute to Early Emmanuel Wardens. Services Celebrate 75th Birthday of Church. Dr. Osgood Views Future”.

Seated on the right at his desk in our Emmanuel Room is  Dr. Osgood with The Rev. Ivol Ira Curtis (center), who became Bishop of Olympia.

 

1932

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  • The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endicott Osgood became our sixth rector. For information about him and his tenure, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
  • Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Rev. Elwood Worcester‘s autobiography Life’s Adventure: The Story of a Varied Career (OCLC# 1896075). For a description of his calling based on it, please see Wikipedia on the Emmanuel Movement and our page.

1930

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  • Farnam253Nov. 23.  Our former organist Lynnwood Farnam, who was head of the Organ Department at the Curtis Institute of Music, died and bequeathed his papers to their library.  In 1932, the Theodore Presser Co. (Phila.), published his Toccata on “O Filii et Filiae“, which he had played when he tested the “full organ” sound of the many organs he visited.
  • See his memorial plaque in the chancel behind the organ.
  • Listen to a rendition of his Toccata by Diana Bish.
  • See also 1913, 1917, and History of Music at Emmanuel.

1929

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Upon the planned retirement of The Rev. Elwood Worcester, The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Martin Washburn became rector. For more about the Washburn tenure during the Great Depression, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.

This image of “The Emmanuelists” honors men associated with the Emmanuel Movement during Worcester’s rectorship: (top row) William James, Richard C. Cabot, Joseph Hersey Pratt, Pierre Janet & (bottow row): Lyman Pierson Powell, Samuel McComb, Elwood Worcester, Isador Coriat, and Courtenay Baylor.

1925

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May 12.  The poet Amy Lawrence Lowell died young of a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been born in 1874 to our parishioners Katherine Bigelow Lawrence (1832-95) and Augustus Lowell (1830-1900). Many members of the Lawrence and Lowell families attended Emmanuel.  Her partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of her romantic poems.  A volume of her complete works was published in 1955.  She is buried in the Lowell plot (#3401) on Bellwort Path in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

 

1922

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25 Nov.  William Lindsey, Jr. died before completion of his last and greatest creation, our Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel.  He had been born to Maria and William Lindsey on 12 August 1858 in Fall River MA. He is buried in the Lindsey plot (6462) on Cherry Ave. in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. For his Horatio Alger story, see FindaGrave. His funeral was held here on 29 November. He was survived by his wife Anne Hawthorne Sheen (whom he had married in Fall River in 1884), their son Kenneth L. Lindsey and daughter Dorothy Lindsey, his sisters Ann & Eliza Lindsey, and his brother Dr. John H. Lindsey.