Author Archives: Elizabeth Richardson

1935

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Walter Cabot Baylies (1862-1936)

 

Walter Cabot Baylies, our greatest benefactor and longest-standing senior warden, retired. He had served faithfully with three rectors:   Elwood Worcester, Benjamin M. Washburn, and Phillips Endecott Osgood.

See also:  1888 & 1907.

 

 

 

In October, the Rev. Lloyd Gillmett, who later became dean of Los Angeles’ cathedral church,  was succeeded as curate by the Rev. Ivol Curtis, who left in 1937, thereafter held many posts including rector of St. John’s, Jamaica Plain, and became Bishop of Olympia (WA) in 1964.  Gathered in our Emmanuel Room is Dr. Osgood seated at his desk with the Rev. Albert Coursin Morris, Vicar of Church of the Ascension, on his right. Behind them (left to right) are Gillmett, Curtis, and the Rev. John Bradner, Curate of Church of the Ascension.  Thanks to Julian Bullitt for his research on our clergy.

1931

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Rosemary Dodge Hutcheson (1931-2000), 1957, Clerk of the Vestry (1971-72)

Rosemary Dodge was born in The Hague, Holland.  After graduating from Wellesley College and working in its admissions office, she married in 1957 a public-heath psychiatrist, Dr. Bellenden Hutcheson, and they had a son. In 1971 she became our first women officer as Clerk of the Vestry.

1927

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Having preached his first sermon at Emmanuel on Dec. 5, 1926, the Rev. James Dirickson Cummins then served as Associate Minister throughout the remainder of Elwood Worcester’s tenure as rector.  He ministered especially to the parish youth and preached at the 4pm Sunday services, which had special musical offerings. He lived with his wife Katherine P. Whaley Cummins and their young son at 68 Commonwealth Avenue. For the historic homes of our clergy, parishioners, and more, see our Parish Historian‘s map.

1926

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Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925) was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for What’s o’Clock.  

After the consecration Lindsey Chapel, our parish house was enlarged by adding a third floor to the former chapel.  A parish hall with built-in book shelves and a stage became known as “The Library”. Most of its books have been dispersed, but those remaining in 2008 were cataloged  by our Parish Historian, Mary Chitty.  What is now our second-floor Music Room served as a work area for women’s groups and as a dining hall.  For more details, please see our Timeline of Building History.

1925

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Elizabeth & Amy Lowell. credit: WikiCommons

May 12.  The poet Amy Lawrence Lowell died young of a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been born in 1874 to our parishioners Augustus Lowell (1830-1900) and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence (1832-95), daughter of daughter of Abbott Lawrence (1792-1835).  Her partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of her romantic poems.  A volume of her complete works was published in 1955.

Many members of the Lawrence and Lowell families attended Emmanuel. They are buried in the Lowell plot (#3401) on Bellwort Path in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.  Among Amy’s six siblings were Elizabeth Lowell Putnam (1862-1935); astronomer Percival Lowell (1855-1916); and President of Harvard College, Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943).

7 June.  Emmanuel became a year-round church with the Rev. Dr. Phillips Endicott Osgood preaching in Lindsey Chapel throughout the summer.  He was to be installed as our fifth rector in February 1932.

 

 

1923

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The Rev. Percy Tom Edrop (1883-1945) became assistant to Elwood Worcester and began to preach at our afternoon services.  Having immigrated as a teenager from Birmingham, England, he had worked his way up in journalism to become city editor of the New York American. He served at Emmanuel until June 1926, when he became rector of All Saints, Belmont MA. In 1929  he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield MA.

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.