- 17 November. Walter Cabot Baylies, Harvard Class of 1884, who became senior warden in 1907, married Charlotte (Lottie) Upham of 122 Beacon St., daughter of Emmanuel founder George Phineas and Sarah Sprague Upham. The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks presided at what the Boston Globe called a “brilliant Saturday wedding”, which filled the church with a “large and distinctly fashionable audience.”
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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.
1882
Our first organist and music director, Silas Atkins Bancroft (1823-1886), retired after two decades of faithful service. He is buried in Lot 2607 on the Mistletoe Path of Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
B.S. Rotch (1817-1882) at time of our foundation. Photo courtesy of Boston Athenaeum.
Senior Warden Benjamin Smith Rotch died in office. A founding vestry member and warden since 1880, he was later memorialized with his wife Anne Bigelow Lawrence (1820-93) in our sanctuary’s reredos.
They are buried in Lot 3004 on Bellwort Path in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. His epitaph from Revelation 2:10 reads: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
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.
1874
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.
1873
Several famous botanists were connected with our church.
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Rhododendron “Edward S. Rand”. Photo credit: Tijs Huisman
When Benjamin Tyler Reed retired as senior warden, Edward Sprague Rand served again as warden until 1875. His son E.S. Rand, Jr. (actually III) wrote many botanical works. An orchid and a rhododendron are named for him (or perhaps his father).
- Henry Winthrop Sargent (1810-1882) became junior warden. In 1859 and 1875, he published supplements to Downing’s reference work, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841).
- Dec. 2. Winthrop Henry Sargent (1840-1916, son of H.W. & Caroline Olmsted S.) married Aimee Rotch, daughter of Emmanuel charter members Benjamin S. and Annie Bigelow Rotch. They lived at 207 Commonwealth Avenue. Winthrop served for 30 years as warden of St. Luke’s Chapel, Fishkill-on-Hudson, NY, where the Sargents summered. See also:
- Rotch Reredos
- Henry Winthrop Sargent and His Family
- Register of the Mass. Society of Colonial Dames of America: 1893-1905, (p. 83, #144) lists some of Aimee’s ancestors including Emmanuelites Amos & Nathaniel Lawrence.
- The Rev. Dr. A.H. Vinton officiated at the wedding of Mary Allen Robeson (1853-1918), daughter of charter members Andrew (1817-1874) and Mary Allen Robeson (1819-1903), and Charles Sprague Sargent (cousin of H.W. S.), who founded the Arnold Arboretum and wrote many botanical works. Andrew and his wife Mary Allen Robeson lived at Holm Lea across from Fairsted in Brookline. They were memorialized by their daughter Alice Robeson (Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer) Thayer in our windows depicting Simeon and Anna. See also:
- Register of the Mass. Society of Colonial Dames of America: 1893-1905, (p. 48, #41) lists Mary’s ancestors who served the Commonwealth.
- Register of the Mass. Society of Colonial Dames of America: 1893-1905, (p. 57, #66) lists even more of Alice’s ancestors.
Simeon (Andrew Robeson, 1817-1874) & Anna (Mary Allen Robeson, 1819-1903) by Harry Eldredge Goodhue
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)
1866
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
1860
- March 17. The first meeting held at William R. Lawrence’s house, 98 Beacon
The Rev. Dr. F. Dan Huntington
Street. A committee was formed to secure Dr. Frederic Dan Huntington (1819-1904) as rector, although he had yet to be ordained an Episcopalian priest. Richard Sullivan. Fay, Jr. (1833-1882) was chosen as Chairman of the Committee of Subscribers.
- April 9 (Easter Monday). At their foundation meeting the name Emmanuel Church was formally adopted and these officers elected:
- Edward Sprague Rand (1809-84), senior warden until 1864
- William Richards Lawrence (1812-1885), who had bought the land but declined the honor of being senior warden, served as junior warden until 1863.
- John B. Alley (1817-1896), clerk
- Jere E. Bridge, treasurer
- Sept 12. Dr. Huntington was ordained a deacon at Trinity Church, which was then on Summer Street.
- Sept 16. The first service was held at Mechanics Association Hall, at the intersection of Bedford and Chauncy streets.
- Proprietors of the Corporation were:
- Benjamin Franklin Burgess (1817-1909)
- Col. John Jeffries, Jr. (1823-1897)
- William Richards Lawrence (1812-1885)
- Edward Sprague Rand (1809-84)
- Henry Sigourney (1831-1873)
- Henry Timmins (1800-1863)
- George Phineas Upham (1826-1901)
- Foster Waterman (1805-1870)
- Arlington St. (Unitarian) Church, also built in 1860, was the first building in the Back Bay. Boston’s earlier Episcopal churches were considered to be liturgically different or inconvenient for residents of the newly-filled neighborhood.
- King’s Chapel, founded in 1686, had became Unitarian in 1785.
- Christ Church (Old North), 1723
- Trinity Church, 1740
- St. Paul’s Church, 1819
- Church of the Advent, 1844