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- Feb. 12. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood was installed as our fifth rector. For information about him and his tenure, please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
- Nov. 23. Our former organist Lynnwood Farnam, who had become head of the Organ Department at the Curtis Institute of Music before his death in late 1930, bequeathed his papers to their library. Theodore Presser published in Philadelphia Farnum’s Toccata on “O Filii et Filiae“. Often played at Easter, the magnificent piece is employed to test organs.
- See his memorial plaque in the chancel behind the organ.
- Listen to a rendition of his Toccata by Diana Bish.
- See also 1913, 1917, and History of Music at Emmanuel.
- Charles Scribner’s Sons published The Rev. Elwood Worcester‘s autobiography Life’s Adventure: The Story of a Varied Career (OCLC# 1896075). For a description of his ministry based on it, please see our page and Wikipedia’s on the Emmanuel Movement
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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).
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.
1908
In response to a devastating fire in Chelsea, Emmanuel Church rented one of the few houses left standing to provide care for the homeless. The Emmanuel Relief Station offered food, clothing, and medical care for the wounded. The church arranged for medical personnel, instruments, and supplies. The house was also used for the care of women during and after childbirth.
Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders by Worcester, Samuel McComb and Isador A. Coriat, an early psychoanalyst, was published by Moffat, Yard.
Worcester published a series of six articles about the Emmanuel Movement in the Ladies Home Journal (Oct. 1908 – March 1909).
1876
Paphinia cristata var. Randi named for ES Rand, Jr. Painting by M. A Goossens, lithographed by P. De Pannemaeker. Lindenia – Iconographie des Orchidées (Ghent, 1887)
Edward Sprague Rand, Jr. published in New York Orchids: Description of the species and varieties grown at Glen Ridge. Lucien Linden and Emile Rodigas in their collection of plates of orchids Lindenia: Iconography of Orchids, ed. Jules Linden (Ghent, 1885-1906) named a variety of Paphinia cristata for him (randi).
See also 1873.