Our second rector, The Rev. Dr. A.H. Vinton, presided at the funeral of Benjamin Tyler Reed, a founder and early vestryman, who had served as warden from 1863-72. Pallbearers included John Cummings; founding vestryman and early warden Enoch Redington Mudge; our first senior warden, Edward Sprague Rand; Henry Winthrop Sargent; and Amos Adams Lawrence. Among the many in attendance were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josiah Quincy, and Robert Charles Winthrop. According to the April 3 Boston Evening Transcript, the cortege to Mount Auburn Cemetery comprised some twenty coaches.
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1868
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)
