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1896

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  • Leighton Parks rejected a call from a Brooklyn parish.  The Vestry quickly began work on a larger church, which would add forty pews.
  • The Ascension Chapter (#1407) of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was organized by the Rev. Edward Atkinson.

  • Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, 1890, by John Singer Sargent. Credit: WikiCommons

    Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and her cousin Minna B. Hall founded the Mass. Audubon Society.  For some time they had fought against the slaughter of egrets and other birds for their plumes by organizing women to stop wearing feathered hats.

1893

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Anne Bigelow Lawrence Rotch. Portrait by Chester Harding in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Anne Bigelow Lawrence Rotch died. The daughter of Katherine Bigelow and Abbott Lawrence, Annie had married Benjamin S. Rotch in 1846 . Their daughter Aimee (Mrs. Winthrop Henry) Sargent gave our sanctuary’s Rotch reredos in memory of her, her husband, and two of their children, Arthur & Edith. They are buried in a family plot (#3004) on Bellwort Path, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

 

Another son, Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1861-1912) married Margaret Randolph Anderson (1866-1912).  A meterologist and astronomer, he served as our junior warden (1904-1906).

Jr. Warden Abbott Lawrence Rotch. Credit: Wikicommons

John Singer Sargent. 1903 portrait of Margaret R.A. (Mrs. Abbott Lawrence) Rotch.
Thanks to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1883

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Memorial bronze bust of The Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton by Augustus St. Gaudens was installed in the nave.  It was finally dedicated in 1894. For details please see an article in the Boston Daily Globe.

The family of the late Benjamin Smith Rotch endowed the Rotch Travelling Scholarship for architects.

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1872

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  • Consuming 65 acres downtown, the Great Boston Fire killed 12 firefighters and several dozen residents. On Summer Street it destroyed Trinity Church, which the congregation rebuilt 5 years later on Copley Square, several blocks from Emmanuel. Above is John Adams Whipple‘s panorama of the damage looking east from Washington St. at Bromfield Street.

  • Eben Dyer Jordan (1822-95). Credit: WikiCommons

    Parishioner and founder of Jordan Marsh Co., Eben Dyer Marsh and five others founded the Boston Globe.  See also this 1890 biographical sketch by John C. Rand.

1869

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  • 27 December.  Caroline Maria (née Welch) Crowninshield at the age of 45 married at Emmanuel Howard Payson Arnold, a 39-year-old attorney from Cambridge MA. They came to reside nearby at 156 Beacon Street. See also her memorial window.
  • 31 March. Dr. Huntington left to become the first bishop of Central New York.
  • The Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1807-1881) became our second rector.timeLineahvintonHead1

For biographical information on Dr. Vinton please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.

See also Timeline 1894.

1868

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This snapshot of a postwar vestry includes prominent Bostonians.

E.R. Mudge (1812-1881)

E.P. Dutton (1831-1923) Credit: WikiCommons

  • Sr. Warden:  Benjamin

    Geo. P. Denny (1826-85)

    Tyler Reed, Jr. (1864-72)

  • Jr. Warden:  Enoch Redington Mudge, (1865-72)
  • Treasurer: George Parkman Denny (1865-72)
  • Clerk: Robert Codman, Sr. (1865-70); father of Robert. Codman, Bishop of Maine
  • Vestrymen
    • Samuel Turner Dana (1868-71); merchant
    • E.P. Dutton (1862-63,1868-69); publisher
    • Jonathan French (1863-74)
    • Horace Gray, Jr. (1868-69), judge

      Horace Gray, Jr., Associate (1864-73) & Chief (1873-82) of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court; U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1882-1902). Credit: WikiCommons

    • S.J.M. Homer (1868-71); hardware merchant
    • B.F. Nourse (1865-68); author (with Mudge) of a report on cotton cultivation for the Paris International Exhibition
    • Thomas D. Townsend (1865-70)

1867

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Parishioner Benjamin Tyler Reed gave $100,000 for the establishment of a school of theology in Cambridge MA, which was incorporated as the Episcopal Theological School.  For its 50th anniversary in July 1917, John H. Wilson wrote a brief history on p. 4 of The Witness, which listed among its first board of trustees Emmanuelite Edward Sprague Rand.  Early trustees affiliated with Emmanuel included Gov. Alexander H. Rice, Clement Fay, and John H. Burnham.

See also 2021.

photo credit: WikiCommons

E.S. Rand Jr., Harvard College Class of 1855

C.K. Fay (1845-98)

Gov. A.H. Rice

1866

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Enoch Redington Mudge

Chapel of the Good Shepherd was consecrated as an independent corporation, the Free Church of the Good Shepherd at 8 Cortes St. in the South End. The mission had begun in 1862 with a Sunday school, which was held in rooms over a carpenter’s shop on Church St. in Bay Village.  Among its Emmanuelite founders were the Rev. William R. Huntington, warden John Davis Williams French, and Enoch R. Mudge.

See also:   1880

1862

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