Our Building Committee reported expending $16K to expand the seating capacity of the Church of the Ascension (our mission in the South End) to hold more that 565. Vestry member Cranmore N. Wallace (1834-1918) reported on cost overrides for the project in the Year Book of Emmanuel Church.
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1885
Senior Warden Edward Sprague Rand, Jr. has an orchid named for him by French
Paphinia cristata var. Randi named for ES Rand, Jr. by Lucien Linden (1851-1940) & Émile Rodigas (1831-1902) in 1885
colleagues Lucien Linden (1851-1940) and Émile Rodigas (1831-1902).
1884
Edward Sprague Rand (1809-84, senior warden 1860-64)
Jan 18. SS City of Columbus was wrecked on Devil’s Bridge off Martha’s Vineyard. A group of Wampanoags heroically managed to rescue several men. All women and children had perished when an icy wave swept them overboard.
Among the 65 passengers drowned were parishioner Oscar Iasigi, who was the Turkish consul for New England and our founding senior warden Edward Sprague Rand, who was on his way to Florida with his wife, daughter-in-law, grandson, and son, The Rev. C. A. Rand, rector of Trinity Church, Haverhill. All were lost.
1864
The Rev. Mary Douglass Burnham, 1899, by permission of SUNY Upstate Medical University
Having learned of a recent massacre of Sioux Indians from her friend Evelina Bogart of Albany NY, parishioner Mary Douglass Saville (Mrs. Wesley) Burnham (1832-1904) founded the Dakota League, a mission of our diocese (and eventually other Boston-area churches) to support Native Americans in the Dakota Territory.
Isabella Stewart Gardner by John Singer Sargent, courtesy of the Gardner Museum via WikiCommons
April 10.Isabella Stewart Gardner was confirmed at Emmanuel by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Manton Eastburn, Bishop of Massachusetts. It was the fourth anniversary of her marriage to John Lowell Gardner, Jr., who had purchased Pew 28 in 1862. Although the Stewarts had been members of Grace Church in New York City, their children were not confirmed until they reached adulthood. Louise Hall Tharp in her biography Mrs. Jack hypothesizes that Isabella’s confirmation “might have been a sort of thank-offering for the child she so much wanted”. John Lowell 3rd, born on June 18, 1863, unfortunately died on March 15, 1865. His baptism and burial are recorded in our parish register. The Gardners, who lived nearby at 152 Beacon St., later raised their orphaned nephews, sons of Jack’s brother Joseph, also owned a pew until his death in 1875.
Take a visual tour of her museum and its collection at Google’s Cultural Institute.