Dr. Richard Manning Hodges and his wife Frances Gardner White (first cousin of parishioner John Lowell (Jack) Gardner, Jr.) moved into their house @ 408 Beacon St., which was designed by parishioner Francis Richmond Allen.  Dr. Hodges, who had served on our vestry 1874-75, published in 1891 his account of the first use of ether for surgical anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The door from our sanctuary to the sacristy is dedicated to his memory.