Parishioner Guy Lowell‘s widow Henrietta Sargent Lowell gave us his 1896 Steinway piano, which is frequently played in our Music Room.
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1931
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.
1930
Nov. 23. Our former organist (1913-1918) Lynnwood Farnam, who was head of the Organ Department at the Curtis Institute of Music, died and bequeathed his papers to their library.
- See his memorial plaque in the chancel behind the organ.
- Listen to a rendition of his Toccata by Diana Bish.
- See also 1913, 1917, 1932, and History of Music at Emmanuel.
1927
- 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.
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Julian Bullitt’s photo of the 3 types of wiring bundles found on Emmanuel’s circuits.
The Third Floor of our Parish House was completed with electrical wiring sheathed in lead (center bundle).
1926
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
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
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
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.
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.