The Boston Globe recently reported data related to the widening gap in life expectancy between Boston’s Black residents and the city’s other racial and ethnic groups. Growing from 3.3 years to almost 7 years, it has doubled in the past decade according to new data from the Boston Public Health Commission. Continue reading
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1902
Vicar Arthur L. Bumpus reported that the Sunday School of our mission Church of the Ascension had on its books 500 children, of whom about 300 attended on a given Sunday. The Rev. Bumpus, who was born 1871 in Quincy MA, son of Judge Everett C. B., graduated Harvard College in 1891, and joined the Rev. Edward L. Atkinson at Ascension in 1899. He eventually became rector of Trinity Church on Long Island NY, where his funeral was held in 1926.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1852-1911), namesake and nephew of our second rector, became Bishop of Western Massachusetts.