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.
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1920
The stained-glass triptych created by Henry Wynd Young (1874–1923) was installed in the narthex (lobby) as a memorial to Emmanuel’s youth who sacrificed their lives in the Great War. Edward Hale Perry was one of them.
1919
- Mary Robeson Sargent died of diabetes at the age of 66.
- Courtenay Baylor (1870-1947) published Remaking a Man: One Successful Method of Mental Refitting (NY: Moffat, Yard): read full text. Recently helped by our fourth rector Elwood Worcester, Baylor gave up his insurance business to join the Emmanuel staff in 1912. Under Worcester’s supervision he became a lay therapist for alcoholics.
In 1925 he and Worcester formed the Craigie Foundation to continue their work privately in anticipation of Worcester’s retirement from Emmanuel Church in 1929. In his book, Baylor claimed he had success with about two thirds of a thousand patients. Through his patients Rowland Hazard III and Richard R. Peabody he influenced William G. Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
For more information on Baylor’s contribution see:
- “The Continuation of Therapy: Courtenay Baylor and Richard R. Peabody”, pp. 35-59 in Richard M. Dubiel, The Road to Fellowship: The Role of the Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club in the Development of Alcoholics Anonymous (NY:iUniverse for the Hindsfoot Foundation, 2004).
- “Worcester in Retirement and Successors to the Emmanuel Movement”, pp. 99-108 in Sanford Gifford, The Emmanuel Movement: The Origins of Group Treatment and the Assault on Lay Psychotherapy (Boston: Harvard U. Press for the Francis Countway Library of Medicine, 1997).
- “Early alcoholism treatment: the Emmanuel Movement and Richard Peabody”, K. McCarthy. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 45(1):59-74, Jan. 1984. PMID: 6366377.
1918
Albert Williams Snow replaced Lynnwood Farnum as organist.
January 20. The Anthony Memorial Organ in the West Gallery was dedicated, honoring Silas Reed Anthony (1863-1914), who served as Parish Clerk (1887-1898), Vestryman (1898-1906), and Junior Warden (1906-1914). The organ was a gift of his widow, Harriet Weeks. who later became Mrs. Randolph Frothingham.
March 22. Bishop William Lawrence and Rector Elwood Worcester officiated at the funeral of Andrew Robeson Sargent, who at the age of 42 died in his sleep. After graduating from Harvard College in 1900, he had followed in his father Charles Sprague Sargent‘s footsteps and worked as a landscape architect with his brother-in-law Guy Lowell. His wife Maria de Acosta Sargent, daughter of the writer Mercedes de Acosta, had been painted by his third cousin John Singer Sargent. His mother Mary Robeson Sargent and sisters Henrietta, Molly, and Alice Sargent gave in his memory our hymn boards and the carved doors to leading from our sanctuary to the “Bride’s Lobby”.
See also:
- His letters to his father Charles Sprague Sargent in the archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
- “Andrew Robeson Sargent, Class of 1900.” The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, 1918.
- “Andrew Robeson Sargent Dies.” The New York Times, March 21, 1918.
- “Many Friends Mourn Andrew R. Sargent.” The Boston Daily Globe, March 23, 1918.
August 26.Col. Cranmore Nesmith Wallace, who had served on our vestry from 1896 until his death, died at the age of 74. His widow Eunice Sprague Wallace gave 2 lancets in our sanctuary (#18: Adoration of the Magi) in his memory
November 2. The Churchman (p. 518) reported that the Emmanuel Memorial House was serving as an emergency shelter for children made homeless by the influenza epidemic. Nurses and workers from the Children’s Aid Society and the (Episcopal) Church Home Society were supervising children housed in its “clubrooms” until they could be placed with families by “the usual placing-out services”.
Aimee Rotch Sargent (born 1852) died. She had married at Emmanuel in 1874 Winthrop Henry Sargent (1840-1916). In 1893 she had given funds to create our sanctuary’s reredos in memory of her parents Annie & Benjamin S. Rotch and her siblings Arthur and Edith Rotch.
1917
- President Theodore Roosevelt came to Emmanuel for his son Archie’s wedding. See a Library of Congress clip of their arrival on Newbury Street.
- Emmanuel organist Lynnwood Farnam designed and supervised the installation by Casavant Frères of a 137-stop pipe organ, which was the third-largest in N. America. See also Timeline entry 1918 about its dedication & 2007 about its sale and restoration.
1914
The Students’ House Corporation, under the direction of Mary S. Holmes and Charlotte Upham Baylies, built at 96 The Fenway a home for our Students’ House, which had been in rented quarters since its inception in 1899. They engaged architects Kilham & Hopkins, raised a large portion of its construction cost ($124K), and secured a mortgage for the remainder. The building is now Kerr Hall, a Northeastern University dormitory.
October 6. About a thousand people attended the funeral service for financier, philanthropist, and parishioner Gardiner Martin Lane (born 1859). The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester, The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, The Rev. John W. Suter of Winchester, and The Rev. Prescott Evarts from Lane’s Harvard Class of 1881 officiated. Pallbearers included President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Francis Adams, and several of his partners from Lee Higginson & Co.. Lynnwood Farnum played a Tchaikovsky funeral march and “Dead March” from Handel’s “Saul”. The boys choir sang “Abide with me” and “The strife is over”.
Gardiner Martin Lane from Harvard College Class of 1881 biography of him in the papers of Katharine Lane Weems at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe.
As treasurer of the New England chapter of the International Red Cross, Lane collected and distributed relief funds for the Salem fire (1914), the San Francisco earthquake (1906), and other disasters. Appointed trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1906, and elected its president in 1907, he oversaw its move from Copley Square to the Evans Building on Huntington Ave., which was designed by Emmanuelite Guy Lowell. Spearheading the Museum’s fundraising effort for the new facility, Lane said, “A mere collection of beautiful objects is of little value unless seen, appreciated, and understood by many.”
Gardiner was born in Cambridge in 1859 to Fannie Bradford and Harvard philologist George Martin Lane, who became the first Harvard professor to receive a pension. Gardiner graduated from Harvard in 1881 and married Emma Louise, a daughter of Basil L. Gildersleeve, his father’s colleague at Johns Hopkins U.. The Lanes are buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery’s Lot 1727 on Yarrow Path. His widow and daughter Katharine Lane Weems, were parishioners for years after his death and generous benefactors of Emmanuel.
See also our pages World War I Memorial and Katharine Lane Weems.
The Lanes’ home at 53 Marlborough is now the French Cultural Center.
The Lanes’ summer house, The Chimneys, in Manchester by the Sea, MA was designed by Emma G. Lane’s brother Raleigh C. Gildersleeve.
1913
Lynnwood Farnam
When Weston Gale retired, Lynnwood Farnam became Emmanuel’s organist, a post he held until 1918, when he left to join the Canadian Army. According to the L. F. Society, when the Music Committee asked what he would play for his audition, “He handed them a notebook containing a list of 200 pieces which he had memorized, saying “Anything in this book.”
We thank the Royal Canadian College of Organists for this photo. For more about Lynnwood Farnam, see 1914, 1918, 1932, and History of Music at Emmanuel.
13 Mar. Bishop William Lawrence presided at the funeral of Silas Reed Anthony, which was attended by more than 400. Born in 1863, he had become a Boston banker and served as Clerk of the Vestry (1887-97) and Jr. Warden (1907-13). Assisting the bishop were the Rev. Dr. Samuel McComb and the Rev. Ralph Bray of Emmanuel and the Rev. Charles Clark of Church of the Ascension. Among the pallbearers were Sr. Warden Walter Cabot Baylies, William Endicott, Jr., Philip L. & Richard M. Saltonstall, and several Anthony and Weeks relatives.
Nora Iasigi Bullitt
31 May. Nora Iasigi, daughter of parishioners Amelia Gore Iasigi and the late Oscar Iasigi, married at St. Paul’s Church, Stockbridge, US Solicitor General William Marshall Bullitt, great uncle of our parishioner Julian Bullitt.
1912
The Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester established a Free Legal Bureau, which was set up at the Emmanuel Memorial House in the South End under the direction of the Vicar of Church of the Ascension, The Rev. William A. Brade. He reported in the Year Book of Emmanuel Parish (pp. 168-70):
Some cases have required but a word of counsel, others have required time and care to adjust, and only in extreme cases has recourse been had to our courts….the wrong has, in many cases, been righted and the oppression removed as quietly and expeditiously as possible and at no expense.
1911
June 2. Rector Elwood Worcester presided at the funeral of Dr. Emma W. Davidson Mooers, who had been a parishioner since 1880. She had died on May 31 at 52 of streptococcal meningitis contracted when she and Dr. Elmer Ernest Southard were performing an autopsy. She was one of 13 women to receive an MD from U. of Michigan in 1884, then worked at Northampton State Hospital, McLean Hospital, and the neuropathology laboratory of Dr. Alois Alzheimer in Munich before becoming Custodian of Harvard’s Neuropathological Collection in 1910. Her articles on syphilis and other bacterial infections of the nervous system were published in the precursors to the American Journal of Psychiatry and New England Journal of Medicine. May this pioneer rise in glory!
Dr. Emma W.D. Mooers seated in center with Dr. Alois Alzheimer (back row 3d from right) and co-workers in his Laboratory for Neurology, Munich, 1909.
Credit: Wikicommons
July. Choirmaster Weston Spies Gales, young William Appleton Lawrence (1889-1968), and a cook, Mr. Wood, took thirty choirboys to Camp Lowell in Winthrop, Maine, for a fortnight of fellowship.
1909
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Thanks to the late Craig Smith for this image of Priscilla as a girl, c1915.
7 May. Benefactor of our cantata program, Priscilla Rawson (Young) was born in Bayside, NYC to Clementine Herschel of Holyoke MA & Hobart Rawson of Cincinnati OH. She was named for her Mayflower ancestor Priscilla Mullins Alden, who in turn was the namesake of Priscilla, now thought to have been the amanuensis of Paul the Apostle and author of the Epistle to the Hebrews [1]. See also 1939, 1942, 1971, 1973, 1994 & 2000.
- Elwood Worcester and Samuel McComb published The Christian Religion as a Healing Power: A Defense and Exposition of the Emmanuel Movement (NY: Moffat, Yard), full text. It is an addendum to their Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders (NY: Moffat, Yard, 1908), full text.
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Charlotte Spaulding (Mrs. Ernest) Jacoby, c. 1907. Photo credit: Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Parishioner Ernest Jacoby started a group for alcoholic men with special emphasis on fellowship as a path to recovery. It eventually moved from our basement and continued into the 1930s as the Jacoby Club. The first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Boston was held in 1940 at the Club, then at 115 Newbury Street. Papers of the Club are archived at the Mass. Historical Society.
Entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- The first section of parishioner Guy Lowell‘s design for the Museum of Fine Arts was completed. Lowell (1870-1927) also designed the Charles River Dam (built in 1910) and the Esplanade from the Charlesgate to the dam. For more about him and his other architectural achievements, please see Wikipedia.
1. Ruth Hoppin, Priscilla’s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Ft. Bragg CA: Lost Coast Press, 2000.