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 of ^ctD gotfe Citp, ilcto |9orfe 
 from 1808 to 1908 
 
 together with an account of its 
 
 Centennial annibergarp 
 Celebration 
 
 December 18—23, 1908 
 
 Prepared by Henry W. Jessup 
 An Elder of the Chiirch 
 
 Under direction of the 
 Centennial Committee 
 
 1909 
 
Centennial Committee 
 Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D.D. — Ex Officio 
 
 SILAS B. BROWNELL, EDGAR S. AUCHINCLOSS 
 
 HENRY B. BARNES ROBERT W. STUART 
 
 JOHN W. AUCHINCLOSS DR. SILAS F. HALLOCK 
 
 ROBERT E. BONNER ALFRED B. VONDERMHULL. 
 
 JOHN J. MoCOOK H. EDWARDS ROWLAND 
 
 WARNER M. VAN NORDEN CHARLES P. BRITTON 
 
 GEORGE B. AGNEW A. GIFPORD AGNEW 
 
 JAMES TALCOTT GEORGE F. VIETOR 
 
 GEORGE TAYLOR CHARLES B. ALEXANDER 
 
 EDWIN J. GILLIES JAMES ANDERSON HAWES 
 
 Chairman:— ^\j^t<.S B. Brownell 
 
 Secretary:— Jk'mbs Anderson Hawes 
 
 Treasurer:— A. Gifford Agnew 
 
 Sub Committee on Arrangements 
 
 Chairman:— 'E'D-vns J. Gillies 
 George B. Agnew 
 George Taylor 
 
 Sub Committee on History and Publication. 
 Chairman: — Henry B. Barnes 
 
 Charles B. Alexander 
 James Anderson Hawes 
 
 Sub Committee on Finance 
 
 Chairman:— James Talcott 
 A. G. Agnew 
 Charles P. Britton 
 
 Copyright, 1909, By 
 
 FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 New York, New York 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 In 1907, a Committee, consisting of the Pastor and 
 Clerk, with power to select and appoint a General Com- 
 mittee from the congregation, was appointed by the Ses- 
 sion to prepare for a suitable Centennial Celebration of 
 the founding of this Church. 
 
 On the 28th day of May, 1908, at a meeting of the 
 General Committee, the members of which are named 
 on another page, Silas B. Brownell was elected Chair- 
 man. 
 
 The following resolution was adopted : 
 
 "That the Chairman be authorized to appoint a com- 
 mittee, consisting of himself and five other members, to 
 determine and report the organization of this Committee, 
 the mode and form of celebration, and to appoint Com- 
 mittees of arrangement, of finance, and of history, and 
 to enlarge this Committee by adding members." 
 
 Acting under the above resolution, the sub-committee 
 reported, at a later meeting, the following recommenda- 
 tions : 
 
 1. That the Centennial Celebration be held on Sunday, 
 December 20th, 1908 (if the way be clear), and on one 
 or more week days following. 
 
 2. That the public exercises shall include The Com- 
 munion, which shall be observed on the afternoon of De- 
 cember 20th, a,ppropriate preaching services in the morn- 
 ing and evening of December 20th, and such exercises on 
 one or more ensuing days as may be determined by the 
 Committee of Arrangement. 
 
 3. That a historical memorial account of the century 
 of the Church life and its activities and of the celebra- 
 tion be published. 
 
 3 
 
4- That three standing Committees be appointed to 
 carry these recommendations into effect, each Committee 
 to consist of three members, with power to add to their 
 numbers, and that the Rev. Dr. Stevenson and Chairman 
 Silas B. Brownell be members of each Committee, ex 
 officio. 
 
 5. That a permanent Secretary of the Centennial Com- 
 mittee be appointed, also a Treasurer. 
 
 In accordance with these recommendations, which 
 were approved and adopted, the exercises were held as 
 related in the program and published in this book. 
 
Historical Sketch and Centennial 
 
 Celebration of the 
 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 
 
 Insert on pages noted 
 
 Page 90 
 
 ELDERS 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 April 22, 1896 — 
 Alexander Maitland 
 John Inglis 
 James R. Jksstjp 
 Edward F. Hyde 
 
 Page 91 
 
 DEACONS 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 April 22, 1896— 
 
 William Irwin 
 
 William Sloane 
 
 Samuel S. Auchincloss 
 April I, 1906 — 
 
 Henry R. Danner 
 
 Page 96 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 February 14, 1898 — 
 James Talcott 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Historical Sketch 
 
 Calendar of Church and Mission Activities 
 Preaching and Teaching Force 
 Pastors and Officers, 1808-1908 
 Reports of Societies and Missions — 
 
 Home Bible School 
 
 Duane Street Mission . 
 
 Alexander Chapel .... 
 
 Seventh Avenue Chapel 
 
 Young People's Association . 
 
 John Hall Memorial Chapel . 
 
 Junior Missionary Society 
 
 Young Women's Missionary Society 
 
 The Men's Society 
 
 The Seaside Home 
 
 Ladies' Auxiliary .... 
 
 The Princeton Seminary Association 
 
 Chinese Sunday School 
 
 Woman's Employment Society 
 
 Loan Relief Association 
 
 Romeyn Chapel .... 
 Program and Exercises 
 Addresses — • 
 
 Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D. 
 
 J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. 
 
 A. F. Schauffler, D. D. . 
 
 Charles L. Thompson, D. D. 
 
 Mr. Robert E. Speer . 
 
 Baxter P. Fullerton, D. D. . 
 
 John F. Carson, D. D. 
 
 George Alexander, D. D. . 
 
 Francis L. Patton, D. D., LL. D. . 
 
 Maitland Alexander, D. D. . 
 
 Henry S. Coffin, D. D. . 
 A Deliverance on Personal Sanctification 
 
 5 
 
 142, 
 
 Page 
 
 7 
 84 
 87 
 
 104 
 105 
 108 
 109 
 114 
 
 "5 
 117 
 118 
 120 
 123 
 127 
 129 
 
 131 
 132 
 132 
 136 
 
 137 
 50. 153 
 162 
 170 
 177 
 186 
 189 
 193 
 195 
 201 
 206 
 213 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Portraits of Pastors. 
 John Hall, D. D., LL. D. (in 1897) . Frontispiece 
 
 John B. Romeyn, D. D face 18 
 
 Cyrus Mason "26 
 
 George Potts, D. D "32 
 
 James W. Alexander, D. D. . . . " 36 
 
 Nathan L. Rice, D. D "48 
 
 John Hall, D. D., LL. D. (in 1878) . " 52 
 
 George T. Purves, D. D., LL. D. . . " 62 
 
 J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. . . . " 68 
 
 Church Buildings. 
 
 Cedar Street Church . . . . "10 
 
 Duane Street Church .... "28 
 
 Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street Church " 42 
 
 Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street Church " 50 
 
 Alexander Chapel " 104 
 
 Young People's Association House . . " no 
 
 John Hall Memorial Chapel . . . "114 
 
 Sunbeam Day Nursery . . . . "122 
 
 Romeyn Chapel . . . . , "132 
 
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 iFifti) atienue pte$Iiptetian Cijutc^ 
 
 Name: 
 
 This Oiurch has had four names, each in turn gov- 
 erned by its location. Originally incorporated in 1808, 
 under the name of "The Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
 Street"; its name was changed by a special act (Laws 
 1835, Chapter 53) to "The Presbyterian Church in Du- 
 ane Street." Again the name was changed by a special 
 act (Laws 1852, Chapter 408) to the "Fifth Avenue 
 Church, corner of Nineteenth Street." Finally, upon its 
 removal to the present site, in 1875, it assumed its pres- 
 ent name, "The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church," un- 
 der an order of the Court of Common Pleas. 
 
 Scope of this Sketch: 
 
 The examination of the history of this organization 
 has involved a study of records of the Church itself, of 
 the Presbytery of New York, of the General Assembly, 
 besides numerous books of biography and of church 
 history. As will appear below, the growth and develop- 
 ment of this Church and its increase in usefulness in the 
 Church at large has been extraordinary, whether viewed 
 from the standpoint of its temporalities, increasing in 
 value from less than $50,000 in 1808 to nearly $2,000,000 
 in 1908; or from that of its benevolences, from a few 
 hundred dollars, in its early years, to upwards of $360,- 
 000 in the last church year, or from that of its spiritual 
 strength and of its influence in the community. The 
 task has been an inspiring one. At every stage of its 
 history its pastors and its leading men and women have 
 been identified with the great missionary and beneficent 
 activities of the community, as well as of the Church at 
 large. Represented to-day on the Boards of a score of 
 
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8 Centennial CeleOtation of tije 
 
 charitable societies and civic organizations, it has also 
 members on several Boards of the Church, on the 
 Women's Boards, on the Permanent Judicial Commis- 
 sion, or Supreme Court of the Presbyterian Church, and 
 on Synodical and Presbyterial Committees. 
 
 So from its first years of life its activities were wide- 
 spread. Its first pastor was first Secretary of the New 
 York Bible Society, of which such members of our 
 Church as Divie Bethune, Zechariah Lewis and Elisha 
 Coit were managers. 
 
 Again, when the American Bible Society was organ- 
 ized, May 8, 1816, Dr. Romeyn and Dr. Lyman Beecher 
 were elected its secretaries, and William C. Mulligan was 
 a charter member. And the third annual report, in 
 1817, records the gratification of the managers that "a 
 number of females of the Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
 Street, New York, have made the Rev. Dr. Romeyn 
 director for life." And among the life members, sub- 
 scribers of thirty dollars and upwards, are named 
 Hugh Auchincloss, Divie Bethune, Archibald Grade, 
 Thomas Masters, Elisha Coit,.C. G. Smedburg, as well 
 as a number of the women of the church, as Mrs. Hugh 
 Auchincloss, Mrs. Margaret Beers. 
 
 So the New York City Mission and Tract Society, 
 founded in 1827, has numbered on its Board, not to go 
 back to the early days, Dr. John Hall and Dr. Steven- 
 son, and such men as John Sinclair, Constant A. An- 
 drews, John W. Auchincloss and Alexander Maitland. 
 
 As to Princeton Seminary, it is doubtful whether this 
 Church has ever been without a representative among 
 either its directors or its trustees. It would prolong this 
 note indefinitely if we should enumerate our represen- 
 tatives on the Boards of the American Seamen's Friend 
 Society, the Boards of the Church, the Hospitals of the 
 city, in some of which we maintain free beds, or the 
 various civic philanthrophies of this great city. 
 
Jfifti) atjenue presfiptetian Cftutcl) 9 
 
 Origin of the Presbyterian' Church in New York City: 
 
 This Church was organized as one of the last acts of 
 the old Presbytery of New York, in the year before the 
 readjustment of the new Presbytery as constituted by 
 Synod, October 5, 1809. Prior to the organization of 
 our Church, the church in New York City was collegiate 
 in form, and had three buildings, in Wall Street, Beek- 
 man Street and Rutgers Street. Presbyterian Church 
 history in New York City dates back to 1707, when the 
 Rev. Mr. McKemie, from Virginia, preached the first 
 sermon and baptized a child at the house of Mr. William 
 Jackson, in Pearl Street, near the Battery. His exercise 
 of ecclesiastical authority and power was the occasion of 
 his being at once proceeded against, as was pointed out 
 at the Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the Reformed 
 Protestant Dutch Church in November, 1878. Dr. 
 Howard Crosby, speaking for Presbyterianism, re- 
 marked : 
 
 "We boast of being the only church in the City of 
 New York that began its career amid the storm of 
 persecution," and then he told the story of Mr. Mc- 
 Kemie's arrest at the instance of the Established Church, 
 by the Colonial Governor, Lord Cornbury, who was an 
 own cousin to Queen Anne. 
 
 But less than ten years later the first Presbyterian 
 minister was settled in New York. He was the Rev. 
 Mr. Anderson, who preached for three years in the City 
 Hall, after which time the church in Wall Street was 
 erected, contributions being secured locally, and also in 
 Connecticut and in Scotland. 
 
 Dr. Gillette, in his history of the Presbyterian Church, 
 records that Dr. Rodgers, the chief minister of this col- 
 legiate Church, re-entered the city the day after the 
 British evacuation, and found both his Churches ruined. 
 The "Brick" Church had been used as a prison, and was- 
 unspeakably foul and unfit for use, and the interior of 
 
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 the "Wall Street" Church, which had been converted 
 into a British hospital, was completely destroyed. 
 
 In sharp contrast to the hostile attitude of the "Estab- 
 lishment" so many years before, the Presbyterians were 
 lioused temporarily by the Diocese of New York, who 
 permitted them to use the Chapels of St. Paul and St. 
 George until their churches should be rebuilt. This is 
 noted here because many years later this very Church, 
 whose history we are recording, purchased St. George's 
 Chapel, so called, and turned it into the Romeyn Mis- 
 sion, which was so long maintained on Fourteenth 
 Street. 
 
 But there was a strong party in this collegiate church 
 which was dissatisfied with the use of Watts' Psalms and 
 Hymns, and, moreover, the buildings in existence were 
 not quite adequate to accommodate all who desired to 
 worship in the Presbyterian manner, and they had es- 
 tablished themselves in Cedar Street, where they settled 
 the Rev. John Mason, from Scotland, as their pastor, 
 and were known as the Scotch Presbyterian Church in 
 Cedar Street. They were for a time ministered to by 
 Jonathan Edwards, then a young man newly ordained, 
 later a Boanerges of our denomination. 
 
 In the year 1806, a number of those connected with 
 the collegiate church, dissatisfied with the system of co- 
 pastors, decided, with the approval of the venerable Dr. 
 Rodgers, to erect a new church and organize a new con- 
 gregation. 
 
 Origin of our Church: 
 
 There has been providentially preserved the record of 
 our Church's life, both on the part of the Session and 
 of the Trustees, in spite of the great conflagration of 
 December 16, 1835, in which some of the records of the 
 •Church were consumed by fire. Mr. Thomas Masters, 
 -^then the Stated Clerk, had fortunately preserved his du- 
 
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 plicate memoranda, from which, under the supervision 
 of a special committee, the records were reconstructed. 
 These early minutes, both of the Session and of the 
 Trustees, are full of indications of the earnest, faithful 
 efforts on the part of the Church officers to establish 
 and maintain a church "according to the Constitution of 
 the Presbyterian Church," and this laid no small burden 
 of responsibility and labor on the shoulders of the early 
 officers, as will shortly be illustrated. The earliest record 
 reads as follows : 
 
 "The Presbytery of New York, at their session 
 the 28th day of June, 1808, in the City of New 
 York, received under their care a new congregation 
 in said city, who contemplated worshiping in Cedar 
 Street, and permitted them to prosecute a call on the 
 Rev. John B. Romeyn, of the Presbytery of Albany. 
 He having; accepted of said call and being installed 
 pastor of this New Congregation, on the 9th day of 
 November, same year, called a Meeting of the Com- 
 municants of said Congregation together on the 13th 
 of December following. The Meeting was opened 
 with prayer, after which the Certificates of the Com- 
 municants were read. The question was then put, 
 whether they were willing to receive each other as 
 Brethren and Sisters in the Lord and to walk with 
 each other in the fellowship of the Gospel, under the 
 government and discipline of the Presbyterian 
 Church in this Country, which was unanimously an- 
 swered in the affirmative. The following are the 
 names of the persons who thus covenanted with each 
 other, viz. : Hugh Auchincloss, William Cleveland, 
 Samuel Darling, Thomas Darling, Elisha Ely, 
 George Fitch, William Hall, Jonathan W. Kellogg, 
 Zechariah Lewis, Eliakim Raymond, Daniel Smith, 
 Solomon Williams, Oliver Wolcott, Mary Carring- 
 top, Betsey Coit, Nancy Darling, Ehza Lewis, Ann 
 
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 Manwaring, Hannah Mudge, Hannah Neilson, 
 Nancy Otis, Lydia Richards, Harriet Romeyn, Anna 
 Todd, Mary Watson, Betsey Jackson. The Meet- 
 ing was concluded with prayer." 
 
 This action of the Presbytery had been preceded by 
 the practical work of securing and erecting a church 
 building. 
 
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jfiftl) atjenue ptesfiptetian C&urci) 13 
 
 As early as the fifth day of January, 1807, a number 
 of persons, "attached to each other by various affinities," 
 and convinced that a new Presbyterian Church might be 
 sustained in this city, had opened a subscription for that 
 purpose, and appointed a building committee, with full 
 powers to erect a house at their discretion, in Cedar 
 Street, between Nassau and William Streets, and sell 
 the pews at auction (subject to a yearly assessment for 
 the support of the Gospel), to reimburse the subscribers. 
 
 In the autumn of 1808 the pews in the church were 
 sold at auction for a sum exceeding the cost of the house 
 and grounds, and the subscribers were paid, with in- 
 terest. 
 
 The first corporate meeting was held December 19th, 
 at the house of worship, at which the pew-holders or- 
 ganized under the State law and elected trustees of the 
 temporalities. On the 21st of December the male com- 
 municants from the list above given met and elected 
 elders and deacons. Zechariah Lewis and William Cleve- 
 land were elected elders, and George Fitch deacon, and 
 they were duly "set apart" to their sacred offices on Jan- 
 uary 1st, 1809, and met as a session January 3d, at the 
 call of the Moderator for their first meeting. It is in- 
 teresting to note that the male communicants alone were 
 allowed to vote at the parish meetings, and the male 
 members and pew-holders at the Church Corporate meet- 
 ings, for a long period of our history, and it is signifi- 
 cant that the Presbyterian digest contains no deliverance 
 of the Assembly on the right of women to vote prior 
 to the minutes of 1879, when it was decided that all 
 members of the Church in full communion have the right 
 to vote in the election of pastor, and, in 1897, that all 
 communicants in good standing, of whatever age or sex, 
 are thus entitled. At the installation of Dr. Romeyn it 
 appears from the records of the Presbytery that Dr. 
 Millerdoller preached the sermon from the text, "Unto 
 the Jews a stumbling block." 
 
14 Centennial Cele&tation of ti)e 
 
 Gabriel P. Disosway, A. M., Corresponding Member 
 of the New York Historical Society, has an interesting- 
 account in his "The Earliest Churches of New York and 
 Its Vicinity," from which we take the liberty of quoting : 
 
 "A colony from the Wall Street and Brick Presby- 
 terian Churches in 1807 founded the Cedar Street 
 Church, Dr. Rodgers laying the corner-stone; and he 
 delivered the opening sermon. A subscription toward 
 the new undertaking had been commenced in sums from 
 one hundred to twelve hundred dollars, and soon 
 amounted to forty thousand, with which the lots were 
 purchased and the edifice erected. It was deemed expe- 
 dient to organize this congregation independent of the 
 three other Collegiate Presbyterian Churches then in 
 New York. The movement was, in fact, one of New 
 England men. Elisha Coit and Selah Strong were the 
 committee, with the call for Dr. Romeyn to take charge 
 of the newly formed Church. Mr. John Stoutenberg 
 also carried an invitation to the same gentleman, for 
 him to accept the pulpits of the Reformed Collegiate 
 Dutch Churches; but Dr. Romeyn accepted the Presby- 
 terian. On the eighth of November, 1808, the congre- 
 gation was organized, with twenty-eight members; and 
 on the same day the Rev. John B. Romeyn, D.D., was 
 installed its pastor. A large society soon collected, and 
 he continued his labors until his death, February 22, 
 1825, in the forty-eighth year of his age. . . . 
 
 "There are many delightful associations connected with 
 the 'Old Cedar Street Church.' Perhaps no congrega- 
 tion in the city contained more useful and zealous mem- 
 bers. Zechariah Lewis, so long connected with the 
 Commercial Advertiser, and William Cleveland, were its 
 first ruling elders ; and later, Elisha Coit, William Hall, 
 
 Solomon Williams, Wilson, with Rufus Nevins, 
 
 were deacons. We find also the names of Jonathan 
 Little, Ives, Fitch, J. E. Caldwell, and Divie Bethune, 
 Markoe, Masters, Hugh Auchincloss and Cyrenius Beers 
 
jFiftI) auenue pte$6ptetian Cfiutcij 15 
 
 among the elders. Few churches exhibited so many 
 venerable faces in its aisles and pews as Old Cedar 
 Street presented. General Ebenezer Stevens, with a 
 family of six sons. Colonel Loomis, Colonel Varick, 
 Archibald Grade, Mr. Walcott, afterwards the governor 
 of Connecticut, Benjamin Strong, Amasa Jackson, James 
 and William Lovett, William Codman, Derling, Irvings, 
 Griswolds, Robert Halliday, Stephen Whitney, John B. . 
 Murray, William Halsted, Hubbard, Gordon Buck, Levi 
 Coit, that most excellent and useful citizen, Mr. Aspin- 
 wall, &c. There was quite a party for calling Mr. Hol- 
 ley, afterward a distinguished preacher among the Uni- 
 tarians. Dr. Romeyn manifested a great interest in: 
 the spiritual welfare of children, and secured their aflfec- 
 tion by his familiar manner of calling them all by name,. 
 His catechetical exercises were esteemed among his most 
 useful, often nearly two hundred attending the classes,, 
 from five and six years of age to eighteen^ In hearing 
 the recitations he would be assisted by the elders, then, 
 adding such explanations and remarks as were profitable 
 to all. Dr. Romeyn's ministry was owned and blessed 
 by the great Head of the Church, and many heads of 
 families among our prominent citizens professed faith 
 in Christ during his Christian labors. For a long time 
 from twelve to sixteen persons were added to the con- 
 gregation every communion day. Many came by let- 
 ters from other churches; and among such the excellent 
 and pious Mrs. Isabella Graham, Divie Bethune and 
 wife, and Colonel Richard Varick, &c. Of the sixty- 
 seven persons who united originally in the subscriptions 
 for building the Cedar Street Church, only one is known 
 to be living. This is the esteemed and venerable Williami 
 Hall, now in his eightieth year, and residing at Cleveland, 
 Ohio. He has been greatly blessed in his earthly pilgri- 
 mage, having two sons in the sacred office and one- 
 daughter the wife of a minister. Of the twenty-eight 
 who founded this church, only two were living a few 
 
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 months ago, Peletiah Perit and Mr. Hall; fcut the 
 former, that excellent citizen and faithful Christian, has 
 recently gone to his heavenly mansion and rewards, and 
 the venerable Mr. Hall alone is left. In speaking of 
 this fact himself, he says: 'Our fathers, where are 
 they? And the prophets, do they live forever?'" 
 
 In another sketch it is recorded in connection with Dr. 
 Romeyn's installation, as pastor : 
 
 "The Cedar Street Church was a new enterprise, al- 
 most all men of high social position in various walks of 
 life, many of them New England men; and I have an 
 idea that its origin was in some way connected with 
 politics, as I recollect it used to be called 'The Federal 
 Church,' although Dr. Romeyn was never a political 
 preacher." 
 
 It may seem a small thing that a congregation should 
 thus secede because of the form in which God was wor- 
 shiped in song in the sanctuary. It is significant, 
 therefore, to note in the life of John Mitchell Mason, 
 D.D., who was the pastor of the Murray Street Church, 
 that while his church was building "the infant congre- 
 gation to which he ministered held their meetings for 
 public worship in the Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
 Street But though this arrangement was ex- 
 ceedingly pleasant to him, it was an occasion of some 
 subsequent annoyance, as he suffered it to bring him 
 into more intimate relations with Dr. Romeyn's Church 
 than were thought by some of his brethren to consist 
 with his obligations to his own denomination (namely, 
 the Associate Reformed Church), not only joining with 
 them in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, but using 
 what, with the Associate Reformed Church, was an un- 
 authorized version of the Psalms," and the biographer 
 goes on to show that this alleged delinquency of Dr. 
 Mason came up as a matter of formal investigation be- 
 fore their Synod in 1811, and some conciliatory resolu- 
 tion on the part of the Synod was made the subject of 
 
jrmij atjenue l^rcsfiptetian Cfjutcft 17, 
 
 severe animadversion in the Reformed Church, espe- 
 cially by ministers and churches out West. 
 The First Pastorate: 
 
 John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D. (born in 1777, died 
 1825), was a remarkable man. His life is fully re- 
 corded in Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," 
 volume 4, page 215. He was originally destined, we 
 see from another source, to the bar, and perhaps his 
 legalistic bent not only accounts for much in the history 
 of his pastorate, but also was of the highest value to 
 him and to his people in the establishment of a new 
 church under a form of government still in many re- 
 spects in the developmental stage. He studied in the 
 academy which developed into Union College; was ad- 
 mitted at the age of seventeen to the senior class in 
 Columbia College, and studied theology under his own 
 venerable father and John H. Livingston, D.D. Li- 
 censed to preach in 1798, at the age of 21, he served 
 pastorates in Rhinebeck and in Albany before being 
 called to New York. He was a man of great brilliancy, 
 and, though his health was feeble, his energy was pro- 
 digious. From his private diary the following note is 
 taken, showing his attitude with regard to the call from 
 the Cedar Street Church : 
 
 "I discouraged the idea; but they made out the call, 
 and prosecuted it, notwithstanding that discouragement. 
 It was offered to me because they knew I was not in 
 good health, and a change might be of service. The 
 Cedar Street Church bids fair to be large and respect- 
 able; and, from the character of the subscribers, a 
 Gospel ministry, if successful among them, will have 
 the most salutary effects upon a large portion of the 
 inhabitants of the city. The members are unanimous in 
 the call made on me. My wife's health will, I believe, 
 be benefited by sea air. My mother and sister approve 
 of a removal. These considerations, added to my health, 
 seem to make it my duty to remove." 
 
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 The year after he came to New York, Princeton gave 
 him the degree of D.D., and the following year he was 
 elected Moderator of the General Assembly of 1810, and 
 we find in the minutes of that Assembly record of a 
 great revival in the city. 
 
 The following description of Dr. Romeyn is taken 
 from a letter from Rev. Thomas E. Vermilye, D.D., 
 written December 8, 1856 : 
 
 "In person. Dr. Romeyn was about the medium height, 
 of a compact, well-proportioned frame, rather spare 
 habit, and of a very nervous temperament, which showed 
 itself in the animation of his fine, intelligent eye and 
 expressive countenance, in ready utterance, and in grace- 
 ful but rapid and decisive motions of the body. This 
 ran through everything he did. There was nothing un- 
 certain or vacillating in his manner; no hesitation ap- 
 parently in his mind; nothing sluggish or slow in his 
 composition. His opinions were clearly conceived and 
 boldly expressed. His purposes were promptly formed 
 and executed with energy. He seemed to enter with 
 heart, and soul, and mind, and strength into whatever 
 he undertook: literally, what he found to do he did 
 with all his might. This was so in and out of the pulpit. 
 I suppose a stranger would not be long in his company 
 without saying to himself: 'This man has all his facul- 
 ties about him and is all awake.' And yet he was not a 
 bustler, but most efficient in forming and executing his 
 plans. He was a cheerful companion, frank and unre- 
 served, and very genial with the young. Yet there was 
 no frivolity or want of proper dignity. I do not re- 
 call a single jest or witticism ascribed to him. But I 
 remember him, at the period of his greatest success, as 
 earnest and even intense in the performance of his ap- 
 propriate duties, seeming to feel deeply his responsi- 
 bilities, and, as much as any man I ever knew, to aim 
 at making full proof of his ministry. His quick step, 
 downcast eye, and deeply serious, absorbed air, as he 
 
JOHN B. ROMEYN, D.D. 
 
JFiftf) atienue presfipterian Cftutcft 19 
 
 passed up the broad aisle and took his position in the 
 pulpit, and prepared for the service, illustrate this remark 
 very well, and were perfectly characteristic of the 
 man .... 
 
 "Dr. Romeyn was made, however, for the pulpit. All 
 his natural tastes and mental training seemed to have 
 peculiar reference to that sphere. As a preacher, you 
 know, he stood eminent — in some respects 'primus inter 
 fares,' among the great lights our city could boast at 
 that day. And in Mason, McLeod, Millerdorfer, and 
 others, it then enjoyed a ministry rarely equaled, and 
 perhaps never surpassed. The substance of his preach- 
 ing was sound, edifying Gospel truth; although he was 
 very apt to seize on passing events, and turn them with 
 very great effect to a spiritual use. His sermons were 
 usually well arranged and well expressed, as was requi- 
 site to suit the taste of one of the most intelligent and 
 refined congregations in the country. But there was no 
 subtle process of reasoning: and what was singular, 
 when you consider the marked effects of his minis- 
 trations, he dealt very sparingly in figures of speech or 
 fine writing. There were few delicate touches of fancy, 
 or bold flights of imagination: there was no splendid 
 diction nor carefully wrought and sustained rhetoric. 
 In fact, he was very little of a rhetorican. But there 
 was most momentous truth, and there was life and 
 vivacity, pathos and downright energy, and perfect 
 naturalness and sincerity, which gave the preacher the 
 victory, and made him, what he was, for several years, 
 to say the least, not inferior in popularity and success to 
 any of his compeers. His ordinary animation and his 
 sweet, full, flexible voice, though managed with no art, 
 were always pleasant. But at times every line of his 
 face, even his whole frame, became instinct with pas- 
 sion, and then the eye kindled or tearful — the very soul 
 speaking through the body that trembled with emotion 
 or erected itself to an attitude of authority — the torrent 
 
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 of feeling often subdued and carried away his hearers 
 with responding emotion. I can hardly tell why — ^but 
 Dr. Romeyn and young Spencer, of Liverpool, have al- 
 ways been associated in my mind, as having strong points 
 of resemblance. Certainly I think that, so far as the 
 pulpit is concerned, Dr. Romeyn, in his prime, was en- 
 titled to be called one of the very first preachers of his 
 day. 
 
 "His success corresponded with this description .... 
 for years this house overflowed. Prayer meetings and 
 evening lectures were well sustained. He was aided by 
 a most efficient board of elders ; and the accessions to the 
 church were numerous at almost every Communion sea- 
 son. Especially were his labors blessed among the 
 young. His catechetical classes on Wednesday after- 
 noons were crowded. He threw such attraction around 
 them that we longed for the day : and among this class, 
 and through this instrumentality, very much of his use- 
 ful labor was performed. Of a very large Bible class 
 of young ladies, every one, I think he told me, became a 
 professor of religion. More young men became minis- 
 ters from his congregation than from any other. And 
 the churches in the city from that day to this have drawn 
 a large proportion of elders and deacons, and our be- 
 nevolent societies many of their most active members 
 and officers, from among the men who were trained 
 under him." 
 
 The following is the tablet now in the vestibule of 
 the present church : 
 
 "In Memory 
 
 of 
 
 John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D., 
 
 The First Pastor of this Church; 
 
 A Faithful and Persuasive Preacher; 
 
 The Supporter of Public Institutions; 
 
 The Patron of indigent merit, and 
 
iTiftft atienue presfiptetian Cfiutci) 21. 
 
 A Father to the young. 
 
 A liberal and polite Scholar; 
 
 A Fearless Advocate of truth, 
 
 And a warm and true friend. 
 
 His faithfulness is recorded on high; 
 
 His success in the hearts of his people. 
 
 He was born Nov. 8, 1777; 
 
 And entered into rest 
 
 22nd Feb., 1825 ; 
 
 In the 48th year of his age, 
 
 The 26th of his ministry and the 
 
 17th of his pastoral care of 
 
 This Church. 
 
 Also of his wife, 
 
 Harriet Bleecker, 
 
 Who died 22nd October, 1825; 
 
 In the 45 th year of her age 
 
 Eminent for her piety and 
 
 Christian virtues. 
 
 They Sleep in Jesus." 
 
 First Session: 
 
 Under the leadership of such a man it was reasonable 
 to expect that the spiritual work of the church would be 
 well organized, and this is certainly manifest from the 
 records of the Session of those days. It is a quaint old 
 volume, the handwriting is cramped, but clear; it con- 
 tains the signatures of men of note as Moderator of 
 Presbytery from time to time by whom the records were 
 approved, and it pictures forth sometimes by what its 
 records, and sometimes between the lines, the burdens 
 carried, the problems solved, and the joys and comforts 
 experienced by these faithful men. 
 
 The position of Elder in the Cedar Street Church was 
 no sinecure. Dr. Romeyn not only believed in the cove- 
 nant obligations of his church members, but he saw to 
 
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 It by personal oversight, being an "episcopos" in the 
 original New Testament sense, that his parishioners 
 lived up to these obligations. He divided his Session as 
 soon as it was increased in number into four divisions, 
 and set each as a committee in charge of an equal part 
 of the church, and they were directed to engage in con- 
 stant visitation and to report statedly at the Session 
 meetings. Every dereliction of Christian duty was, if 
 we may use the word, "pounced" upon, whether the 
 offense, or "crime," as it was usually denominated in 
 the record, was that of intemperance, or of engaging in 
 bursts of profanity, or of engaging in personal quar- 
 rels, as some of the colored communicants seemed to 
 be unfortunate enough to do, or of entertaining unor- 
 thodox views on the subject of baptism, or of absenting 
 themselves from the Lord's Supper, or, in a particular 
 case, of marriage with a deceased wife's- sister: these 
 cases, whether reported directly to the Session, or com- 
 ing to their ears on the wings of rumor, or, as the 
 records have it, "fama clamosa," the first step was al- 
 most always to appoint one or more of the Elders to 
 visit the offender, and endeavor to bring them to con- 
 fession and to a condition of penitence. If this failed, 
 the machinery of the Form of Government and the 
 Book of Discipline was at once set in operation, and 
 while there are few cases of the extreme penalty of 
 the church, there are many beautiful instances of words 
 of comfort and admonition recorded at length in the 
 minutes addressed to those who, when labored with in 
 this friendly and affectionate manner were restored to 
 their full church privileges. 
 
 There was one interesting and obstinate case of a 
 member who came to have doubts as to the validity of 
 his own baptism. The Baptist Church at that time seems 
 to have been active, and infant baptism was a disputed 
 and mooted theological point so far as they were con- 
 cerned. The brother in question was labored with for 
 
Jfiftl) atienue presOptetian Cijutcfj 23 
 
 many months by the Session, and when at last it ap- 
 peared that his doubts were not being resolved he was 
 notified that he must come to a knowledge of the truth 
 within a certain time, or take the consequences. It was 
 much like the incident narrated of Dr. Jowett of Baliol 
 College, who is said to have stated to a conceited student, 
 who solemnly informed him that after mature considera- 
 tion he had come to the conclusion that there was no 
 God, "Young man, unless you come to the conclusion 
 that there is a God by noon to-morrow, you may leave 
 this college." 
 
 This "doubting Thomas" of Cedar Street Church was 
 finally dismissed by letter to the Baptist Church by a cer- 
 tificate which closed as follows, as did nearly all their let- 
 ters to Baptist Churches: 
 
 "In giving this dismission the Session deem it to be 
 their duty to state that while they respect liberty of con- 
 science, they cannot but consider their Baptist brethren 
 as in an error on the subject of baptism." 
 
 This letter was granted on condition that he should 
 take his dismissal before being rebaptized, and was ac- 
 companied by a resolution addressed to him, commenting 
 on his instability of mind, his being "tossed to and fro 
 and carried about with every wind of doctrine," and 
 enjoining him not to think of himself more highly than 
 he ought to think, and containing a further protest 
 against the "error of the Baptist brethren in re-baptizing 
 those who have been baptized according to the law of 
 Christ's house." 
 
 The colored membership of the early church was a 
 very fruitful source of process under the book of disci- 
 pline, and their frequent suspension may explain an in- 
 teresting note in the private pastoral diary of Dr. James 
 W. Alexander, of November 9, 1845 '• 
 
 "I find from our register that there have been twenty- 
 nine black communicants in the church from the begin- 
 ning. I do not think we have one to-day." 
 
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 Care of the Children: 
 
 One of the earliest deliberations of the Session was 
 on the subject of infant baptism, and the duty of parents 
 "to fulfil the solemn obligations which the baptism of 
 children has imposed upon them," and it was 
 
 "Resolved, that on this important subject the tenor and 
 spirit of the Confession of Faith, the Longer and Shorter 
 Catechism, and the Directory of the Presbyterian Church 
 be rigidly observed and enforced by this Session." 
 
 As already noted of Dr. Romeyn, the children of the 
 church were carefully looked after, the Elders were as- 
 signed in rotation to assist the pastor in catechizing them, 
 and the catechetical class was for a long time kept up 
 with great fidelity, so that in the same private record of 
 Dr. Alexander, nearly thirty years later, we find the roll 
 of the children, one of whom, Adolphus Smedburg, still 
 lives as a member of the church, in constant and faith- 
 ful attendance. But the Elders seem to have fallen off 
 a little in their work of assistance, and Dr. Alexander 
 was only able to secure the help of ladies, so that he has 
 a note, June 3, 1848, with a large hand and index finger 
 pointing to it: 
 
 "To consider next year (D. V.) whether the incon- 
 veniences of having aid only from ladies may not make 
 it desirable to give up this mode of instruction altogether 
 in this shape." 
 
 We are fortunate in having from Mr. Henry M. Hall, 
 of Lyme, Connecticut, a most interesting letter from his 
 brother. Rev. John E. Hall, D.D., who died in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, about six years ago, at the age of 83. Dr. 
 Hall was one of the first children baptized in the Cedar 
 Street Church. His father had been a charter member 
 and Elder of the West Church, then in Carmine Street, 
 and was a charter member of our church. We quote the 
 letter nearly in full, though in part somewhat repetitious 
 of facts already noted. 
 
JFiftI) atoenue prestjptetian Ci)utc|) 25 
 
 "Aside from what was then distinctively known as the 
 "Scotch" Presbyterian Churches, Dr. John Hall's present 
 church was the fourth in the order of time in the city, 
 the Wall Street, the "Brick Meeting" and the Rutgers 
 Street being the prior ones. It was in 1807 that the 
 nucleus of the new congregation made its appearance, in 
 the subscription of sixty-five gentlemen and one lady 
 (Mary Watson) to build a Presbyterian house of wor- 
 ship "on Cedar Street, between Nassau and William." 
 A very large proportion of these subscribers were from 
 the "Brick Meeting," whose pastor was the Rev. Dr. 
 Gardiner Spring, himself a son of a New England pas- 
 tor. At that period there was no separate congregational 
 church of orthodox affinities in the city, so that orthodox 
 Congregationalists coming into the city fell quietly and 
 cordially into the ranks of the Presbyterians. A few, 
 however, of the subscribers were apparently of Scotch 
 extraction, such as Archibald Gracie, John Patrick, and 
 four or five others. ... 
 
 "A life-size portrait of this excellent man has of late 
 been presented to the Fifth Avenue Church, and there, 
 by courtesy of Dr. Hall four years since, I was shown 
 it as it hung on the walls of the vestry ; and with all the 
 more gratification did I gaze as I thought of the fact 
 that it was from his consecrated hands that I received 
 the water of baptism in infancy, my father having been 
 one of the original subscribers for the new building, and 
 also one of the two chosen deacons of the church. 
 
 "The main aisle of this Cedar Street house had a hand- 
 some tessellated pavement, which was so much prized, 
 at least by one of the congregation (Mr. Griswold), that 
 he rescued it from the debris of the demolished edifice 
 and relaid it in the rural church in his own native town, 
 Lyme, Connecticut. On that sacred mosaic, while it was 
 yet in the Cedar Street Church, there once fell prostrate 
 a man under the following very extraordinary circum- 
 stances: So near as I recall, Rev. John M. Mason was 
 
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 the temporary occupant of the pulpit, when in the midst 
 of the sermon a gentlemanly stranger stepped from one 
 of the pews, and, standing erect in the aisle, broke out 
 into these impressive lines of Cowper: 
 
 "There stands the messenger of truth; there stands 
 
 The legate of the skies ! His theme divine. 
 
 His office sacred, his credentials clear." 
 And then immediately collapsed to the floor. Of course, 
 the astonishment of the congregation was unbounded, 
 and all were agape. The unfortunate gentleman, how- 
 ever, was soon tenderly removed and the services pro- 
 ceeded. 
 
 This original Cedar Street house boasted of no organ, 
 the precentor occupying a chair directly in front of the 
 pulpit, from which he arose when he pitched his pipe. 
 The occupant of that conspicuous seat was, in my boy- 
 hood, Mr. Ezekiel W. Morse, a very good man, a school- 
 teacher, and who enjoyed a long uninterrupted reign 
 over the Sabbath tunes of the congregation. On com- 
 munion days the Lord's table was a literal exhibit, as it 
 stretched down the broad aisle from the pulpit to the 
 entry door, being filled by successive relays of communi- 
 cants. And it was at that table, as I emotionally remem- 
 ber, that I took my first communion. How apostolic 
 our pastor looked as he stood at the head of it." 
 
 It was during the pastorate of Dr. Romeyn that one 
 of the earliest and longest lived societies of the church 
 was founded. This was the Princeton Seminary Asso- 
 ciation, an account of which, by Mrs. Alexander, is print- 
 ed on another page. 
 
 The Second Pastorate: 
 
 After the death of Dr. Romeyn there was an inter- 
 regnum of about two years. The records of the Presby- 
 tery show that on October 13, 1826, Cyrus Mason was 
 licensed to preach, and at the same meeting Messrs. 
 Hugh Auchincloss and Oliver Willcox appeared in the 
 
CYRUS MASON 
 
iFiftl) auenue preslipterian Cljutci) 27^ 
 
 Presbytery as Commissioners from the Cedar Street 
 Church, with a call for the Rev. Thomas DeWitt, of the 
 Qassis of Poughkeepsie, but he did not accept the call. 
 The Rev. Dr. Payson and the Rev. Dr. Sprague had also 
 been considered, but declined, so that in December of 
 1826, shortly after his being licensed, Cyrus Mason was 
 called and ordained pastor, and continued until 1835. 
 There is no extended record of his life, but the church 
 kept on growing, so much so that it became necessary 
 to seek enlarged quarters. Mr. Disosway records in his 
 history above quoted that 
 
 "During his ministry this congregation removed its 
 place of worship to the new elegant marble church on 
 Duane Street. The old lots were sold for $75,000 in 
 1834, the congregation worshiping in the lecture room 
 of the Brick Church until their new edifice was finished, 
 in 1835. This cost about $40,000 without the lot; and 
 here the congregation removed on the first Sabbath of 
 the new year 1836, assuming the name of the Duane 
 Street Church." 
 
 The real cause of the removal was the proposed action 
 of the City to widen Cedar Street. The minutes of the 
 Trustees show in 1833 that in spite of their protests, the 
 proposed widening was determined on, and would prove 
 so injurious to their property as a place of worship that 
 it was resolved to move. The first site selected was four 
 lots of ground at the southeast corner of Chambers and 
 Chapel Streets. For these the Committee made a con- 
 tract with the Corporation of Trinity Church for $40,000. 
 No sooner had the contract been signed, however, than 
 the City took proceedings to widen Chapel Street as well. 
 Whether the vendors knew of this proposed action or 
 not does not appear, except that when the Cedar Street 
 Church Committee, finding that this widening would 
 make the lots inadequate for their proposed building, 
 purchased instead a plot fronting 100 feet on Duane 
 Street and 116 feet on Church Street for $30,000, they 
 
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 requested the Corporation of Trinity Church to release 
 them from their proposed purchase. On the minutes of 
 the Trustees for March 20, 1834, it is noted that they 
 had received a letter from the Comptroller of Trinity 
 Corporation, "informing the Committee that payment for 
 the lots will be expected agreeably to the contract." The 
 Committee were subsequently able to get rid of their 
 contract without substantial loss. The Dimne Street 
 Church adjoined the New York Hospital. 
 
 It appears that in those days the Church had the right, 
 for they exercised it, to stop traffic during Divine service 
 along the street in front of the church. There is a min- 
 ute July 8, 1829, of the appointment of a Committee 
 
 "To take the necessary measures for causing a chain to 
 be suspended across the street opposite the church dur- 
 ing the hours of service on the Sabbath." 
 
 In addition to the little unpleasantness with Trinity 
 Corporation, the Trustees had another experience of the 
 uncertainties of the law. They had been authorized to 
 execute a warranty deed of the Cedar Street property 
 when they moved. Many years later there is an entry in 
 an old leather-bound receipt book of the Treasurer, re- 
 garding the payment of a substantial sum in full of dower 
 rights to quiet litigation by a widow of one of the 
 grantors to the church, who had not joined in the original 
 deeds. 
 
 This receipt book records, by the way, many suggestive 
 incidents. In it appears the autograph of every one 
 under salary from the church. The beautiful autograph 
 of James W. Alexander is as frequent as the quarter 
 days on which his salary was paid. In fact, it is gratify- 
 ing to see with what absolute punctuality the church 
 payments were made. Almost every receipt closes with 
 the words "This day due," and in fact there is but one 
 which contains, underscored, the words "which was due 
 yesterday," and this punctiliousness in paying the serv- 
 ants of the Lord is emphasized by the fact that the con- 
 
ififtl) atjenue presfipterian Cljurcl) 29 
 
 temporaneous minutes of the Board show that at times 
 the Treasurer was authorized to borrow at the banks in 
 order to make these salary payments. It is believed that 
 this punctuality in meeting pastoral obligations has con- 
 tinued without a break throughout the history of the 
 church. 
 
 Upon the removal to Duane Street, the Corporation 
 adopted a new seal "having a representation of a dove, 
 bearing an olive branch in its beak, surrounded by the 
 words 'Presbyterian Church in Duane Street.' In the 
 impression of the seal that remains, the dove appears to 
 be a little out of drawing. 
 
 Dr. Mason's first wife was a Miss Markoe, a sister of 
 the late Dr. Thomas M. Markoe, whose father, Francis 
 Markoe, was an Elder in the Cedar Street Church. The 
 mother of Mr. James H. Young, a present member of 
 our church, was Miss Anne Mason, a sister of Dr. 
 Mason. Mr. Young writes : 
 
 "The infancy and childhood of the four surviving chil- 
 dren were spent mostly in the Cedar Street Church. Of 
 these, three — myself and two sisters — still survive." 
 
 He also calls attention to the fact that the doctor was 
 instrumental in the founding of the New York Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Dr. Mason was forced to resign by reason of a condi- 
 tion of health that disabled him from pulpit work, and 
 soon after the time of the removal to the Duane Street 
 Church he resigned, accepting an employment from the 
 Beneficent Congregational Church and Society in Provi- 
 dence, R. I. 
 
 The following appreciation of Dr. Mason appears in 
 the minutes of September 9, 1835; of a congregational 
 meeting attended "by a large number of male members 
 and pewholders" : 
 
 "In view of the Solemn Nature of the Connection of 
 Pastor & People, which is now about to be dissolved be- 
 twixt this Church & Congregation and the Rev'd Cyrus 
 
30 Centennial Celebration ot tt)e 
 
 Mason who, for Nine Years, has discharged his arduous 
 and important ministerial duties to the general Accept- 
 ance of the People, & whose labors have been blessed of 
 God in seasons that are past by great harmony amongst 
 ourselves and by frequent Additions to this Church, out 
 of which very many, from time to time, have gone forth 
 to aid in building up & sustaining other Churches, or to 
 become Ministers themselves: And whereas, under his 
 Ministry this Church and Congregation have continued 
 to be prompt & efficient promoters of the great Works 
 of benevolence & Christian enterprise, which abound in 
 and characterize this Community and Age; therefore. 
 Resolved, that we sincerely regret the existence of any 
 circumstances connected with the call from the Congre- 
 gational Church in Providence, which in the Opinion of 
 the Rev'd Mr. Mason make it his duty to ask of Pres- 
 bytery that his pastoral connection with the Church and 
 Congregation be now dissolved. 
 
 "Resolved, that in compliance with his request we 
 hereby unite in this application & that Certificate in ac- 
 cordance be granted by the Chairman & Secretary of this 
 Meeting. 
 
 "Resolved, Under the circumstaiKes in which Mr. Ma- 
 son is about to leave us, that the Board of Trustees be 
 directed to account to him for one year's salary beyond 
 the time that his services with us shall be continued ; 
 
 "Resolved, that we affectionately tender to Mr. Mason 
 the expression of our heartfelt wishes & prayer to God, 
 that his usefulness may be long continued : That he may 
 be abundantly prospered in his Public & in his private 
 life, and that when that day which comes to all shall come 
 to him, that he may render an acceptable account to the 
 Almighty Judge and be assigned by our Heavenly Father 
 a mansion not made with hands. Eternal in the Heavens ; 
 
 "On motion Resolved, that a copy of the foregoing 
 Preamble & Resolutions be attested by the Chairman & 
 
JFiftft atienue presfiptetian Cljutcl) 31 
 
 Secretary & furnished to the Rev'd Mr. Mason, The 
 Church Session and the Board of Trustees ; 
 
 "The Rev'd Mr. Mason having upon Invitation re- 
 turned to the Meeting, the Preamble & Resolutions which 
 had been adopted were read to him, whereupon he made 
 some brief remarks expressing his entire appreciation of 
 the proceedings. Adjourned." 
 The Third Pastorate: 
 
 On the 17th of May, 1836, Messrs. Thomas Masters, 
 John W. Leavitt and Hugh Auchincloss appeared in 
 Presbytery to prosecute the call of the Duane Street 
 Church to the Rev. George Potts, of Mississippi. 
 
 It was in the preceding December that the great con- 
 flagration occurred in New York City, in which the rec- 
 ords of the Session had been consumed by fire. In the 
 minutes of December 31, 1835, the action of the Trustees 
 is noted in reinsuring certain insurance "in companies 
 which have been rendered insolvent by the recent ap- 
 palling conflagration with which our City has been vis- 
 ited," and subsequently the minutes show that the Sab- 
 bath School rooms belonging to the church were rented 
 during the week to Public School No. 10 for the accom- 
 modation of 120 girls in that school "while repairs ne- 
 cessitated by the conflagration were being made." 
 
 Dr. Potts was a Philadelphian and came to New York 
 from the Presbytery of Mississippi. At his installation 
 the Rev. Mr. Krebs preached the sermon from I. Cor., 
 9:27. Mr. Crane, the Moderator of Presbytery, pre- 
 sided and proposed the constitutional questions. Mr. 
 Smith gave the charge to the pastor, and Mr. Spence 
 gave the charge to the people. The business of the 
 church under his pastorate was uneventful. The min- 
 utes show that a Calendar of Stated offerings had been 
 established : 
 
 The Bible Society in the month of November. 
 
 Domestic Missions in the month of December. 
 
 Education Cause in the month of January. 
 
32 Centennial Celebration of tj^e 
 
 Sabbath Schools in the month of February. 
 
 Foreign Missions in the month of March. 
 
 Tract Distribution in the month of April. 
 But the resolution of Session providing for these offer- 
 ings shows an interesting feature of the method then in 
 vogue : 
 
 "That the pastor on the first Sabbath of each month 
 designated as above, and on such other occasions during 
 the same month as may be convenient to himself, shall 
 preach upon the general subject without reference to 
 particular organizations, and that it shall be the duty of 
 the Qerk of Session to notify the Agents of the several 
 Associations to whom it may appertain that they solicit 
 the subscriptions of the congregation during those 
 months in which particular attention has been called to 
 each of the several objects." 
 
 The growth of the church giving is alluded to under 
 the general discussion of benevolences and in connection 
 with the reports to the General Assembly in another 
 place. There is an interesting note in the minutes of 
 December 5, 1837, where a committee was organized in 
 the congregation under one of the Elders to take charge 
 of and actively distribute tracts in the city. During the 
 pastorate of Dr. Potts we find the first suggestion of an 
 assistant pastor, which was brought up on the recom- 
 mendation of his physician. The Session resolved that 
 "it would be inexpedient to associate an assistant with 
 the Pastor," and that in lieu thereof 
 "he omit the resumption of the Tuesday evening lectures, 
 the Bible class and catechetical instructions and only 
 prepare and deliver from the pulpit two discourses on the 
 Sabbath until he shall by this means discover whether his 
 health may be established." 
 
 Mr. Smedberg recalls that in these days, when his 
 family were living near St. John's Park, the sessions of 
 the Sunday School were on Saturday, and that some 
 diligence was required on the part of older members of 
 
GEORGE POTTS, D.D. 
 
JFiftft aijenue ptesfipterian Cl)utc|) 33 
 
 the family to secure the attendance of the children on 
 this their holiday. The minutes of the session show] 
 that the Sunday School was appointed to be held on Sat- 
 urday, "in the morning and in the afternoon, one and a 
 half hours each." It was for some time the custom for 
 the children who were not communicants to gather in 
 the gallery on communion Sundays, but being under no 
 supervision or control of older people, the Superintend- 
 ents of the Sabbath School were required by Session 
 "to cause the younger children of the School to go to 
 their homes and not on that particular occasion to be 
 brought into the church as usual, so that the pastor and 
 the congregation may be spared the serious disturbance 
 •which heretofore has been experienced from them, even 
 with the best care that could be given." 
 
 It was in the month of March, 1844, that the active 
 meetings for the organization of the University Place 
 Church were being held, as noted in a commemorative 
 book of the Fiftieth Anniversary of such church, pub- 
 lished in November, 1895. Many of its charter mem- 
 bers were originally members of the Duane Street 
 Church, and, living up-town, found it inconvenient to at- 
 tend the services so far away, and the following letters 
 were received by the Session and Trustees of the Duane 
 Street Church, which explain themselves : 
 
 "New York, March 12, 1844. 
 "To the Session and Trustees 
 
 of the Duane Street Church. 
 
 "Gentlemen: It is Known to You that a Number of 
 the Members of the Duane Street Church and Congre- 
 gation in connection with some other persons residing 
 in the upper part of the City have had it in contempla- 
 tion for a considerable time to erect a Church and estab- 
 lish a Congregation under the care of the Presbytery of 
 New York for the convenience of themselves and their 
 families and of other persons who wish to have such a 
 place of worship within their reach. This plan is now 
 
34 Centennial Celelitation of tfie 
 
 matured and we have come to the conclusion that the 
 Rev'd Dr. Potts shall he invited to assume the Pastoral 
 Charge. We have given him this invitation and have 
 received from him his assent. We deem it due to our 
 past relations to You to say that in selecting Dr. Potts 
 we are actuated by a belief that there is in the part of 
 the City referred to a wide sphere of usefulness which 
 he is qualified to fill. When the increase of the popula- 
 tion and the fact that many families are continually re- 
 moving and the great distance of the Church in Duane 
 Street are duly considered we trust that you will not 
 consider our step as hasty or unreasonable. 
 
 "We take the liberty of addressing you at this time for 
 the purpose of setting at rest certain rumors which have 
 been afloat as to the purpose upon our part of disturbing 
 and breaking up the Duane Street Congregation. On 
 the contrary it is our sincere wish that the Congregation 
 may be sustained efficiently. 
 
 "With sentiments of respect, Gentlemen 
 
 SILAS BROWN, 
 WILLIAM H. SMITH, 
 RUFUS LEAVITT, 
 JOHN GIHON, 
 WM. M. HALSTEAD, 
 JAMES BROWN, 
 GEO. GRISWOLD, 
 JNO. C. GREEN, 
 G. G. ROWLAND, 
 EDMUND COFFIN." 
 
 "New York, March 14, 1844. 
 "To the Session & Trustees 
 
 of the Duane Street Church. 
 
 "Gentlemen. Within the last few days I have received 
 
 a formal invitation to take the spiritual Charge of an 
 
 enterprise which has been for some time in agitation. I 
 
 allude to the establishment of a Church and Congrega- 
 
Jfiftt) atjenue ptesfipterian Cfiurcf) 35 
 
 tion to be located in the growing part of the City. This 
 enterprise has been as you know long talked of by that 
 portion of the Duane Street congregation who are resi- 
 dents in that region. 
 
 "After consultation with judicious and disinterested 
 friends who advise the step, but especially after having 
 sought sincerely the Divine direction, I have come to the 
 conclusion with much painful reluctance to announce to 
 you my consent to accept of the above invitation. 
 
 "I have sought to be guided by views of duty only, 
 and trust you will do me the justice to believe that 
 Nothing else would have decided me to take a step one 
 effect of which will be to separate me from numerous 
 and truly beloved friends, with whom I have lived in 
 habits of affectionate intercourse for several years. 
 
 "I have been induced to believe that in the sphere of 
 labor upon which I propose to enter, with your permis- 
 sion and the permission of my Presbytery, I may be 
 more useful to the cause of the Redeemer and of our 
 Church, than if I continued in my present position. 
 
 "Be assured, gentlemen, that it is with feelings of un- 
 abated regard, and unaffected gratitude, for your kind- 
 ness that I now request that You will unite with me in 
 asking from the Presbytery a dissolution of the Pastoral 
 connection. 
 
 "I will not now pretend to utter all my feelings. Re- 
 serving that for another occasion, I beg you, one and all, 
 to receive the sincere assurance of my Affectionate de- 
 sire for your continued welfare as individuals and as a 
 Congregation, and hope that you will continue to me 
 your regard which I shall always esteem highly. I am 
 gentlemen, 
 
 "Your friend & Pastor, 
 
 "GEORGE POTTS." 
 
 The Presbytery's records show that his resignation 
 was acted upon April i6, 1844. 
 
36 Centennial CeIe6tation of ttje 
 
 The Fourth Pastorate: 
 
 The fourth pastor, twice installed, of our Church was 
 the Rev. James W. Alexander, D.D., one of the princes 
 of Presbyterianism, whether as a teacher, or as a preach- 
 er, or as a pastor. 
 
 During the interval between Dr. Potts' resignation and 
 the call to Dr. Alexander, an event of some interest oc- 
 curred. 
 
 In April, 1844, the Session recorded the sale of the 
 Presbyterian Church in Wall Street, and its removal to 
 Fifth Avenue, where "the Old First" now stands. The 
 vaults were removed at the same time, and the minutes 
 record an agreement with the Wall Street Church for 
 the removal "of the remains of our highly venerated 
 Pastor, Rev'd Dr. Romeyn, and his wife." These re- 
 mains were removed under the personal supervision of 
 a special committee after being re-enclosed in a new 
 casket, for which it is noted the committee "disbursed the 
 sum of $34" ! 
 
 With reference to the pastorate of Dr. Alexander, as 
 well as that of Dr. John Hall subsequently, the difficulty 
 lies in the wealth of material available. Mr. William 
 Alexander placed at the disposal of the committee ma- 
 terial in his possession for which our appreciative thanks 
 are recorded. 
 
 The minutes of Presbytery record its proceedings in 
 regard to his installation on the 3rd of October, 1844. 
 His own personal records as Pastor commence with a 
 reference to his installation. 
 
 "Pastoral Records of my connexion with the Duane 
 Street Church, New York: 
 I was installed by the Presbytery of N York, on 
 
 Thursday, October 3d, 1844, in the evening. The 
 
 Rev. Mr Greenleaf, Md. presided. My honoured 
 
 father preached, from 2 Tim. 2 :i5. 'Study to shew 
 
 thyself &c.' Dr Phillips offered the opening prayer. 
 
JAMES W. ALEXANDER, D.D. 
 
iFiftft atjenue presfipterian Cl)urc[) 37 
 
 Dr Potts delivered the charge to me: Dr Krebs to 
 the people. Dr Spring made the closing prayer. , 
 The choir began with a voluntary: 'Hark! what 
 mean those holy voices.' They sang also Ps. 132. 
 CM. v. 4-8. 'Arise, O King of grace, arise' ; Select 
 Hymns, 428, 'We bid thee welcome'; and 442. 
 'Jerusalem, my happy home.' (Worcester's Watts.) 
 After which, I went into the pulpit, and blessed the 
 people. The congregation, in large numbers, came 
 forward, and gave me the right hand. 
 
 Ebenezer. 
 Elders, October, 1844. 
 
 Hugh Auchincloss, chosen Aug. i, 1819. 
 Thomas Masters, ib. 
 Cyrenius Beers, chosen Nov. i, 1829. 
 Horace Hinsdale, ib. 
 Deacon. 
 
 William Walker, Nov. i, 1829. 
 Salary offered, $3,000." 
 His pastoral diary presented by his family to the 
 church in October, 1904, is in many ways too beautifully 
 intimate to quote from in detail. It records particularly 
 his dealings with the catechetical class and the substance 
 of his Communion talks and some of his visits to those 
 who were sick or in trouble. 
 
 When Dr. Alexander came, Mr. Stephen Whitney was 
 President of the Board of Trustees. He was reported 
 the second richest man in New York, and Mr. Smedberg 
 recalls that he used to drive up from his house on the 
 Battery to the Duane Street Church. 
 
 The General Assembly, which then had large powers 
 over the Princeton Seminary, in June, 1849, sent Com- 
 missioners Dr. Williams W. Phillips and Nicholas Mur- 
 ray to announce to him that he had been elected by the 
 Assembly to be Professor of Ecclesiastical History and 
 Church Government in Princeton Seminary. 
 
38 Centennial Celefitation of tfte 
 
 The forty years' "Familiar Letters" of Dr. Alexander 
 .edited by John Hall, D.D., of Trenton, published by 
 Scribner in 1870, present a very full picture of his life. 
 He records in a letter written about this time that as to 
 the comparative importance of the two posts, namely, 
 that of Professor in the Seminary and that of Pastor, 
 
 "I have never had any question that (to one com- 
 petent) the teaching place was equal in importance to 
 any ten of the other." 
 
 He also records : 
 
 "I have seen clearly that the Duane Street Church 
 could live only by moving up-town and thither I wished 
 not to move. I have seen as clearly that my powers 
 were taxed to a tension which must soon be fatal, while 
 in the steadier routine of teaching I might last a season." 
 
 But he was reluctant — very. He writes : 
 
 "To know that I might remain here would be a joy 
 unspeakable. No dreams of mine respecting the social 
 happiness of the pastoral relation have failed to be real- 
 ized. In this I compare it to marriage." 
 
 The following tablet may be seen in the vestibule of 
 our present church: 
 
 In Memory of 
 James Waddel Alexander, D.D. 
 
 For 13 years 
 
 The Beloved and Revered pastor 
 
 of this Church 
 
 Whose Singular Natural gifts 
 
 Ripened by generous Culture, 
 
 Were successfully given 
 
 To his sacred work 
 
 And who by his Fervent piety, 
 
 Pure life. 
 
 Tender Affections, large Benevolence, 
 
 And unsparing labor. 
 
 So endeared himself to his people 
 
jFiftI) auenue presfipterian Cijurcft 39 
 
 That they Mourn, 
 As for a dear brother and beloved friend. 
 He was born March 13th, 1804 
 He died July 31st, 1859 
 Declaring 
 As the Sum of His faith and hope 
 "I know whom I have believed, 
 And am persuaded that, he is 
 Able to keep that which I 
 Have committed to him. 
 
 Against that day." 
 
 And there is a further tablet in the Chapel of the 
 Theological Seminary of Princeton, unveiled on the 29th 
 of April, 1859, the addresses at which time were pub- 
 lished in book form. The address relating to Dr. James 
 W. Alexander was by Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. Some 
 of his pithy sentences may be reproduced. 
 
 "His name represents three generations of devout 
 pulpit eloquence, for the blood of the blind preacher of 
 Virginia mingled with the blood of the patriarch of this 
 Seminary in the veins of James Waddel Alexander." 
 
 He "lived on earth fifty-five years, every one of them 
 busy to the brim." 
 
 He alludes to his own student life under him in Prince- 
 ton College when he was Professor of Latin and Eng- 
 lish Literature. He comments on his habits of scrupu- 
 lous personal neatness, and to his preaching the Gospel 
 of Jesus gratuitously while a Professor "down in 
 Witherspoon Street Negro Chapel to the children of 
 God carved in ebony." 
 
 Dr. Cuyler says that his five years in the Seminary 
 were "the most uneventful episode of his noble life." 
 He "hungered to get back to the pulpit which was his 
 throne, and to his empire, the people's hearts." 
 
 "The pulpit of New York has had more thrilling 
 orators and more brilliant pyrotechnists, but it never held 
 
40 Centennial Celetitation of tfie 
 
 a more symmetric, scholarly and satisfying minister of 
 Jesus Christ than James W. Alexander. The word to 
 describe him is satisfying. He satisfied the intellect, he 
 satisfied the purest taste, he satisfied the conscience, he 
 fed the innermost soul of the devout believer, and it is 
 no ordinary achievement to have eqtially satisfied the 
 culture of Fifth Avenue and the company of humble 
 negroes who clung to him in the Witherspoon Street 
 Chapel." 
 
 Dr. Alexander was also a prolific writer. Dr. Cuyler 
 says he 
 
 "put more thoughts into type than any man who has ever 
 lived in Princeton." 
 
 He wrote 35 Sunday School books for children, and 
 left several volumes of discourses. His friend says of 
 him that while he sometimes suffered from fits of phys- 
 ical depression, yet 
 
 "when the sunshine of cheerfulness burst forth, he was 
 as sweet as summer." 
 
 He speaks of his sportive humor and flow of merri- 
 ment, and relates the following personal incident: 
 
 "As he was then studying hymnology, I showed him a 
 queer old Methodist Camp Meeting Hymn Book, which 
 contained this remarkable couplet : 
 
 'When I was blind and could not see 
 The Calvinists deceived me.' 
 
 Dr. Alexander laughed until the tears ran down his face,, 
 and he begged the loan of the book, which proved to be 
 permanent." 
 
 The sermons preached before the congregation at the 
 funeral services on October 9, 1859, by Charles Hodge, 
 D.D., and John Hall, D.D., of Trenton, were published 
 by Anson D. F. Randolph. 
 
 These men, so well qualified to judge of his pulpit 
 powers, place a very high estimate upon his gifts. From 
 their two addresses we read : 
 
irmi) atjenuc presligterian Cftutcl) 41 
 
 "No minister in our church was a more accomplished 
 scholar. He was familiar with Greek, Latin, French, 
 German, Italian and Spanish, not merely as a philologist 
 but for the treasures of knowledge and taste which they 
 contained," 
 
 to which Dr. Hodge attributed the abundance of his lit- 
 erary allusions, his curious felicity of expression and the 
 variety of his imagery. "He was an erudite theologian. 
 No one ever heard of his saying or doing an unseemly 
 or unkind thing. . . . The great charm of his preach- 
 ing, that to which more than to anything else his effi- 
 ciency is to be referred, was his power over the religious 
 affections." 
 
 Dr. Alexander "was a man of sorrows, frequent family 
 bereavements; repeated attacks of illness, some of them 
 attended by great bodily agony, a shattered nervous con- 
 stitution, caused him a degree of suffering protracted 
 through many years." 
 
 Dr. Cuyler and Dr. John Hall both refer to the "Let- 
 ters to Workingmen," written under the pseudonym of 
 "Charles Quill," which "have the simplicity and pith of 
 Benjamin Franklin." It commended honest labor, as- 
 serted the rights of mechanics but unveiled the deformity 
 of the "leveling system." 
 
 Dr. Alexander was during his pastorate much exer- 
 cised over the system of pew tenure. He writes from 
 Princeton in 1849: 
 
 "My poor congregation in New York is in a bad way. 
 The two or three old Hunkers — who can't see that the- 
 earth has gone round any since Dr. Romeyn died — 
 would never believe (what is undeniable) that the church- 
 cannot be maintained where it is, except as a free church. 
 This I perceived two years ago and discovered six 
 months ago that five-sixths of the people were ready to> 
 move, but the plan was quashed by the Conservatives, 
 and I fear they will be left alone unless they instant er- 
 remove. The house is almost embedded in places of" 
 
42 Centennial Celefiration of tfte 
 
 disreputable resort. Its real supporters live far above it. 
 I say these things to them freely now, because they can- 
 not charge me with any worldly lust of a better locale, 
 which they constructively did while I was with them. I 
 said to Mr. Auchincloss that two years hence there can- 
 not by possibility be a Presbyterian Church at that cor- 
 ner. Lower New York is in no proper sense other than 
 as a warehouse compared with a dwelling." 
 
 When his congregation became converted to this 
 theory of his as to removal and recalled him in 185 1, 
 they had circulated a subscription list conditioned upon 
 his return, on which $38,000 was pledged and they had 
 an offer of $32,000 for the Duane Street premises. He 
 was strongly moved by the recall to pastoral work, and 
 he comments on the success he had while a pastor in 
 drawing young men around him, whereas in the Semi- 
 nary "all my efforts have failed with the students pri- 
 vately and socially." 
 
 He comments in one letter on the giving out of 
 Watts' Catechism, since when, he says, "we have had no 
 syllabus of Bible history to give children and young 
 people. Such a book, going over the whole narrative, 
 without much remark, would sell by thousands." 
 
 His letters during the last years of his life give a 
 delightful picture of New York. At that day the par- 
 sonage was 22 West Nineteenth Street. He says he 
 finds "a good smart walk, from here to Trinity Church, 
 quite tonical." He refers to dropping into old Trinity, 
 "Dr. Hodges on the organ and their choir of boys I 
 found transcendent, the Benedicite was chanted so as to 
 meet every demand of my feelings." 
 
 He notes, as any pastor to-day might equally record : 
 
 "My mind works incessantly on such themes as these : 
 The abounding misery, the unreached masses ; the waste 
 of church energy on the rich, its small operation on the 
 poor; emigrant wretchedness; our boy population; our 
 bopeless prostitutes ; our 4,000 grog shops ; the absence 
 
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 ERECTED 1852 
 
jFifti) aiJenuc presliptetian Cfeurci) 43 
 
 of the poor from Presbyterian Churches; the farce of 
 our church alms; confinement of our church efforts to 
 pew-holders; the do-nothing life of our Christian pro- 
 fessors in regard to the masses; our copying the Priest 
 and Levite in the parable; our need of a Christian Lord 
 Bacon to produce a 'Novum Organum' of philan- 
 thropy; our dread of innovation, our luxury and pride. 
 Since I saw the drinking customs of Britain I am almost 
 a teetotaler and half disposed to go for a Maine law 
 against vendors of drink." 
 
 While he was getting settled he notes : 
 
 "Furnace, gas and Croton pipes have almost literally 
 employed almost every day since our flitting, pipes, fur- 
 naces, gas meter ditto. My rent is $900, in a very nar- 
 row, tawdry, shelly, ambitious, half-done house, the 
 neighborhood, however, is as quiet as a country village." 
 
 Christmas Day, 185 1, he says: 
 
 "Saw me in nine churches: St. Francis Xavier's, St. 
 Patrick's Cathedral, St. Joseph's, St. Vincent de Paul, 
 St. Somebody's (German), Bellows', Grace, Calvary, and 
 Muhlenberg's Little Gothic Free Seat Chapel." 
 
 Suggestive of the present work among the foreigners 
 of New York City is another note of Dr. Alexander's. 
 
 "My young men are about to employ a man who 
 speaks the Irish and has labored 20 years in Connaught, 
 to look up the strangers scattered abroad in this city. 
 My late church is occupied by several hundred emigrant 
 families." 
 
 In 1852 he records an interdenominational meeting for 
 prayer at St. George's Episcopal Church, at which Dr. 
 Spring made an address and Dr. Potts offered prayer. 
 He records going to hear Ralph Waldo Emerson preach 
 a "disjointed series of good things; audience not large, 
 apparently New England residents, ladies, uppish clerks, 
 &c." 
 
 On December 24, 1852, he records an exciting week 
 in regard to the new church. The debt was canceled, 
 
44 Centennial Celetitation of tfie 
 
 the sale of pews equaling the entire cost of ground and 
 buildings. 
 
 "All the very high priced pews are taken; about 95 
 remain unsold. It is my wish that the sales should stop 
 and that the remaining pews should be rented at low 
 rates." 
 
 At the same time he notes that Peter Cooper was then 
 building the Institute just below the new Bible House, 
 which is just celebrating its semicentennial. A little 
 later he notes that the "jy pews that remained unsold 
 finally were all rented except seven below and three in 
 the gallery. 
 
 "I wish I could turn out about twenty pews of rich 
 folks and fill them with poor. ... I never was 
 stronger in my opinion that all church sittings ought to 
 be free, yet we can't reach this without endowment. 
 
 "Even in the popish churches in Paris I calculated 
 that at one sou a chair, the common price, people of reg- 
 ular attendance would pay $2 a year, which is just the 
 price of a cheap sitting in our church." 
 
 There were many interesting questions agitating the 
 church public in those days. 
 
 "The question of riding in street cars on Sundays is 
 agitating our community. I have not been able to de- 
 cide it." 
 
 And he records his perplexities on the questions of 
 preaching extreme Sabbatarianism. He says: 
 
 "My good father used to say, 'be very strict yourself, 
 be very lenient in judging your neighbor.' " 
 
 He says that he has always taken milk (on Sunday) 
 without scruple, "which is an offense to hundreds of good 
 people among us." "Some men have qualms about Sun- 
 day gas, but on inquiry they found that the labor which 
 produced it fell on Thursday or Friday." He also notes 
 the "Presbyterian Liturgies" published in 1855 and his 
 own preference for the Church of England's prayers. 
 
JFiftij atienue prestiptetian djutclj 45 
 
 He comments on the removal of the Brick Church, 
 whose supporters he says have long been up-town: 
 
 "Free churches must be established for the class re- 
 maining below." 
 
 In another place, after a walk up Avenue A through 
 the German quarters, he states : 
 
 "I cannot get any other churches to agree with me in 
 a favorite scheme for a great and inviting building, 
 erected far down-town with a striking preacher, seats 
 free and no treasurer required ;" 
 
 but he says "our folks are clearly ripe for a mission 
 church," but he says "I do not mean it shall be down- 
 town." (It was shortly after opened in Twentieth 
 Street, near Seventh Avenue), and he comments on the 
 institutional work of Dr. Muhlenberg's Church. 
 
 His passion for music appears throughout his letters. 
 In a letter of November, 1853, he says : 
 
 "We are in an odd state as to music. Lowell Mason 
 is our leader, but since his return from Europe he is so 
 bent on severe, plain tunes and congregational singing, 
 that while I am tickled immensely, the people are disap- 
 pointed;" but he says "his success in making the people 
 sing has been marvelous," and he adds that "there is no 
 church in the city where so many join in the singing." 
 
 Mr. Mason himself has recorded that he hardly ever 
 met the Doctor that this was not the leading subject of 
 conversation, and that the Doctor once told him, when 
 it was suggested that there might be danger of a return 
 to choir singing, that he would not remain pastor of a 
 church where the singing was exclusively in the hands of 
 a choir. 
 
 In 1854 the congregation voted to increase his salary 
 to $5,000, which he refused positively. His refusal was 
 obviated by provisions subsequently made for the benefit 
 of his family at his death. 
 
 In 1858 he records the achievement of his "Opera 
 House Service." The Academy of Music had been se- 
 
46 Centennial Celelitation of t|)e 
 
 cured and although it was a rainy night there were three 
 thousand in attendance. He says : 
 
 "Numbers sat in the lobbies and saloons, of the very 
 class who are never seen in church, the collection cov- 
 ered the whole expense with 15 per cent, over." 
 
 Reference has been repeatedly made to the pew sys- 
 tem of the church and to the desire that increased ac- 
 commodation might be provided for those unable to 
 meet the cost and annual charges of pew ownership. 
 
 Dr. Alexander's desire, oft expressed, may have had 
 something to do with the generous gift of Mr. John 
 Sinclair at the time of the removal to the present site, 
 by which he established a fund in the hands of the 
 Trustees for the purpose of making available at reason- 
 able rentals such pews as might revert to the church for 
 whatever reason from the individual owners. , 
 
 In the record of members at the end of this book it 
 will be of interest to read the names of members subse- 
 quently active in this or other churches who came into 
 our communion during the various pastorates. Under 
 Dr. Alexander's leadership we find admitted by profes- 
 sion of faith such persons as William Irwin, William 
 Paton, Fanny C. Bunker (Mrs. John Sinclair), whose 
 grandmother, Mrs. Henry Coit, was one of the early 
 members, and had much to do with the King Street Mis- 
 sion in its beginnings ; Robert P. Haines, Emily Auchin- 
 closs Maxwell, Henry B. Auchincloss, James Fraser, 
 Cornelius R. Agnew, Wm. H. Beers and his wife, A. 
 Gifford Agnew, Adolphus Smedberg and his wife, James 
 R. Jesup, Charles Lanier, James W. Alexander, Jr., 
 Theodore Oilman, James H. Young, Thomas Cochran; 
 and by letter, to name but a few, William Sloane, Wm. 
 A. Wheelock, Chas. Scribner and his wife, Wm. Libbey, 
 Josiah S. Leverett, Susan M. Alexander, Wilson Phra- 
 ner, William Walker,- Lowell Mason, Robert L. Stuart 
 and his wife, Henry Day, Henry G. Marquand, John 
 Paton, Henry M. Alexander, Robert L. Maitland, Alex- 
 
JFift!) avenue Pre06pterian C|)urcft 47 
 
 ander Van Renssalaer and his wife, Hooper C. Van 
 Vorst — names suggestive of service, faithful, zealous and 
 in some cases still continued. 
 
 Mr. Adolphus Smedberg, still a member of the 
 church, has many delightful reminiscences of the church 
 life during Dr. Alexander's pastorate. Mr. Smedberg's 
 grandmother was Mrs. Renwick, who was Jean Jeffrey, 
 one of the heroines often named in Robert Burns' poems. 
 She was daughter and granddaughter of Scotch Pres- 
 byterian ministers. One of her daughters married Ad- 
 miral Charles Wilkes, who was the captor of Mason and 
 Slidell and commander of the United States Exploring 
 Expedition, whose son also married Mr. Smedberg's 
 sister. Mrs. Renwick's son, James, was a distinguished 
 professor of Columbia College, and was a member of 
 the committee to fix boundaries under the Ashburton 
 Treaty. Mr. Smedberg recalls William Forrest, his old 
 Preceptor, who in his school probably educated more 
 business men in New York than any other one man, 
 and his son, who was also a member of the church, also 
 named William, as characterized irreverently by the 
 boys, because of the color of his hair, as Billy Rufus, 
 while his father was called Billy the Conqueror. In 
 those days, the New Year's Day's reception was still a 
 prominent feature of New York's social life, and Dr. 
 Alexander always received on that day, at which time 
 Old Peter, the Church Sexton, and the immediate prede- 
 cessor of Mr. Culyer, our Sexton for over fifty years, 
 used to act as butler at the receptions at his house on 
 those days. Old Peter also seems to have acted as 
 beadle at the church services and to have kept a vigilant 
 eye upon the young people in the galleries. To this 
 New Year Day function Mr. Culyer himself succeeded, 
 and was later relieved by Mr. Burton, his assistant. 
 
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 The Fifth Pastorate: 
 
 The pastorate of Dr. Alexander had been a fruitful one. 
 The church was strong, prosperous, and increased in its 
 benevolences. It was difficult to find a successor for him 
 and a period of nearly eighteen months elapsed between 
 the death of Dr. Alexander and the installation of the 
 .fifth Pastor. 
 
 Dr. Nathan L. Rice, of the Presbytery of Chicago, 
 was duly called and installed April 26, 1861. Dr. Gard- 
 ner Spring preached the sermon and Dr. Potts, the for- 
 mer pastor of the church, was appointed to give the 
 charge to the church, but being detained, the Rev. Mr. 
 Rankin took his place. Dr. Rice was a Kentuckian. 
 He worked on a farm until he was sixteen, and earned 
 money by teaching school to go to Center College. He 
 studied theology under Dr. Gideon Blackburn, and then 
 went to Princeton for two years. He took part in a 
 great public debate in Kentucky on the subject of Bap- 
 tism, which excited the whole Western country at that 
 time, which debate was published and widely circulated. 
 In 1855 he had become so prominent in the church that 
 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly meet- 
 ing at Nashville. As a Southerner preaching in a New 
 York pulpit during the Civil War, he occupied a very 
 delicate position. 
 
 In the life of Dr. John Hall, by his son, there is an 
 incidental cornment on the failing health of Dr. Rice and 
 on his supposed Southern sympathies as preventing his 
 undoubted worth and ability being fully recognized 
 But "on the whole, by a discreet avoidance of all po- 
 litical topics, he maintained the affection and esteem of 
 "his people," and in the only sketch of his life to which 
 we have had access, we read Dr. Rice "was truly a great 
 man. He impressed all who heard him preach, the most 
 -cultured and the most cultivated, with the sense of his 
 power. He was great in intellect, in labor, in goodness. 
 His most characteristic mental feature was the logical 
 
NATHAN L. RICE, D. D. 
 
ififtl) atjenue ptesfipterian C|)utcf) 49 
 
 faculty; closely connected with this was his well-nigh 
 unrivaled power of analysis. He knew men and how to 
 reach their hearts. He was large-hearted, generous, 
 fervent." 
 
 It must be noted that there had been a very strong 
 party in the church in favor of calling Dr. Shedd, of 
 Andover. The call to Dr. Shedd, however, was not 
 unanimous, and was declined by him. 
 
 A call had also been sent to the Rev. Dr. B. M. 
 Palmer, of New Orleans, who also had declined. 
 
 There were few matters of interest to note during Dr. 
 Rice's pastorate. There was a selection of a parsonage; 
 the creation of a "permanent fund in the hands of the 
 Trustees"; the provision of an additional pew to ac- 
 commodate the Pastor's family. There was some little 
 friction in regard to the church music; the faithful sup- 
 port of the Seventh Avenue Mission ; an increase of the 
 assessment on the pews in order to meet the increasing 
 expenses of administration; the addition to the Pastor's 
 salary of his house rent ; the organization of the Seventh 
 Avenue Mission into a separate church; the purchase of 
 the Alexander Mission property on King Street in order 
 to its permanent location. 
 
 At this time, namely, the termination of Dr. Rice's 
 pastorate, which may be said to end the first half of the 
 church's history, the balance sheet of the Trustees 
 showed the annual receipt and disbursement of less than 
 $20,000, including all charges. 
 
 Before passing to the pastorate of John Hall, which 
 marked a great step forward in the development of the 
 church, it may be noted in summary of this first period 
 that the church had been a power in respect of its mem- 
 bership, of its pulpit message, and of its benevolence 
 locally and through the church bounds. The founda- 
 tions laid by Dr. Romeyn and his faithful elders had 
 stood firm. 
 
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 Its pastors were public men, initiating or forwarding 
 measures of civic and social reform. Its members were 
 men of influence in affairs, and loyal to their denomina- 
 tion. The only discord or seeming rift within the lute 
 is in occasional connection with the subject of church 
 music — Watts' Psalms or Hymns, chanting vs. harmony. 
 Precentor, female chorister, alto assistant, male quartets, 
 violoncello, organ, whether trustees or session should 
 control selection of the choir, are some of the heads. 
 But to each topic was given earnest, prayerful considera- 
 tion in order to the better service of God's house. Dr. 
 Alexander on one occasion pointed out the provision 
 in the Directory of Worship "where the sermon is com- 
 pared with the more important duties of prayer and 
 praise" ! This illuminates the matter, and shows how 
 important it was rightly deemed to be. 
 
 It is a pleasure to record that the general participa- 
 tion by the congregation in public praise is still a feature 
 of our worship, and universally commented upon by 
 those who visit its services. 
 
 Dr. Rice's resignation was acted on by the Presbytery 
 April 1 6, 1867, and the pulpit was declared vacant by 
 Samuel D. Alexander, D.D. 
 
 During Dr. Rice's brief pastorate the church roll re- 
 ceived substantial reinforcement. Among those received 
 on confession during the war period we find recorded 
 Mrs. Mary C. Auchincloss, Charles B. Alexander, Mary 
 J. Sloane, Alexander Maitland, Edgar S. Auchincloss, 
 Ewen Mclntyre, Lockwood De Forest, William H. 
 Sturges; and there were attracted from sister churches 
 such members as James Patch, William C. Noyes, Har- 
 vey Fisk, John Sinclair and John A. Stewart. 
 The Sixth Pastorate: 
 
 With the installation of John Hall, the church entered 
 upon a new era of development, prosperity and influence. 
 Removing soon after his coming and for causes similar 
 to those that had compelled its prior migrations "up- 
 
THE PRESENT CHURCH 
 
 AT FIFTH AVENUE AND FIFTY-FIFTH STREET 
 
 ERECTED J87S 
 
ififti) aticnue pre0lipterian C|)urc|) si 
 
 town," it entered upon the present building in 1875, 
 which became known far and wide, not so much as the 
 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, to which its name 
 was legally changed, as "Dr. Hall's Church." His life 
 is so recent and has been so sympathetically recorded by 
 his son, Thomas C. Hall, D.D., of Union Theological 
 Seminary, that the following concise statement may be 
 deemed all that is appropriate in the circumstances. He 
 was born on the 31st day of July, 1829, in County 
 Armagh in the north of Ireland, and died September 17, 
 1898. He was of Scotch-Irish antecedents, "and the en- 
 vironment in which he grew up was stoutly Protestant 
 and Presbyterian." From the village school he went to 
 a small classical school, thence to Belfast, where he went 
 on recommendation of the Presbytery to prepare for the 
 ministry. His progress was steady and the personal 
 piety resulting from family influences was reinforced 
 by the active influences of the Evangelical movement 
 then recently reaching its climax and particularly domi- 
 nant in the work of the College of Belfast. At the age 
 of sixteen he entered the theological college, and upon 
 graduating he went into the home mission work in the 
 West of Ireland, after an examination before the Pres- 
 bytery, the only adverse comment having been upon his 
 shyness while preaching his trial sermon. His biog- 
 rapher records the form of the criticism of one of the 
 fathers and brethren who told the young preacher "He 
 would get more help looking into the eyes of those he 
 was speaking to than by trying to bore a hole in the 
 roof with his eye." In a couple of years, while home on 
 a vacation, he supplied the pulpit at his birthplace, with 
 the result that a unanimous call was extended to him 
 to become Pastor. A few months later he married Mrs. 
 Irwin, the widow of John Irwin, Esq., who for so many 
 years shared as helpmate and sympathetic co-worker in 
 his wonderful pastoral life. The character of his parish 
 doubtless developed the simplicity of the style which al- 
 
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 ways characterized his preaching; direct, forcible, prac- 
 tical. In substance, edifying and stimulating to thought- 
 ful and highly educated minds, yet simple and lucid 
 enough in form for the meanest understanding. With- 
 out dwelling on the details of his life in Ireland, he was 
 selected as one of the delegates from the church in Ire- 
 land to the General Assembly of the Northern Presby- 
 terian Church in the United States. This delegation 
 was formally accredited to the Old and New School 
 Assemblies, to the Synod of the Reformed Church and 
 to the Synod of the Covenanters. He was in the country 
 for eight weeks, during which time he spoke daily and 
 in nearly all the Eastern and many of the Western cities. 
 The impression made by the young Irishman was pro- 
 found; such a journal as Harper's Weekly noted: "His 
 eloquent speech on the occasion of his reception will 
 never be forgotten by any who heard it." On his return 
 to the East he preached in the Fifth Avenue Church, 
 with the result that he was approached tentatively by 
 the Session on the subject of filling their vacant pulpit, 
 and upon his return to Ireland he received a cable ap- 
 prising him of the unanimous call extended to him to 
 accept the pastorate of that church, which call he ac- 
 cepted. In Ireland he was an outspoken Liberal. He 
 stood for disestablishment; was working for secular and 
 undenominational education. It is curious to note in 
 his biography by his son apropos of our church music 
 that while he had "no objection to either organ or hymns 
 in the church," that these were "burning questions" in 
 the Church in Ireland at that time. It is clear that it 
 was a wrench for him to come to this country, but once 
 his decision had been made he threw himself into the 
 work in a new land with the same zeal and untiring 
 energy that had characterized his Irish ministry, with 
 the result that he soon took that position of influence 
 in the community and in the American Presbyterian 
 Church which nearly every Pastor of our church has 
 
JOHN HALL, D.D., LLD. 
 
 IN 1878 
 
JFiftI) auenuc ptestiptetian Cljurcl) S3 
 
 held. The estimate of his services as Pastor on the 
 other side is printed in full in his life by his son. We 
 quote one or two of the sentences merely to show how 
 unchanged in character he remained throughout his life. 
 
 "The pulpit was the throne of his power." "He 
 preached as he talked, with a fine conversational freedom 
 and naturalness." "He was the Goldsmith and Franklin 
 in one of the Irish pulpit." "He always exhibited in 
 debate a high-bred Christian, courtesy." "He has been 
 conspicuous in the ranks of his brethren not merely for 
 great eloquence and great force in character, but of a 
 man of unblemished integrity, of tried courage and 
 benevolent, unaffected piety — a man whose views were 
 always tolerant and liberal, his convictions deep and 
 hearty, with few antipathies and many sympathies." 
 
 The records of the Presbytery of New York, follow- 
 ing the dissolution of the pastoral relation of Dr. Rice 
 at the April meeting in 1867, show that the credentials 
 of the Rev. John Hall, D.D., from the Presbytery of 
 Dublin, Ireland, were presented on October 28, 1867. 
 The call from the church at Fifth Avenue and Nine- 
 teenth Street was forthwith put into his hands, and, 
 being accepted by him, it was arranged to install him 
 on the 3rd of November; Dr. William M. Paxton to 
 preach the sermon, Dr. John Thomson to deliver the 
 charge to the Pastor, and Dr. Samuel D. Alexander to 
 deliver the charge to the people. 
 
 The next entry by Presbytery was his death, thirty- 
 one years later, after a pastorate in which the church 
 had passed through one of the most interesting and 
 fruitful periods of its existence. The differences be- 
 tween the Old and New Schools are little known to the 
 church members of to-day. When the church moved to 
 Nineteenth Street, under Dr. Alexander, there were men 
 of both schools in the congregation. Dr. Hall was not 
 identified with either side in the dispute, but was an 
 earnest advocate of that reunion which took place in 
 
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 1869. His preaching soon crowded the building at 
 Nineteenth Street so that camp chairs were placed down 
 every aisle. Henry Ward Beecher called him "the young 
 Irishman of the golden tongue." More perhaps than any 
 other pastor in New York City he systematized the work 
 of pastoral visitation. Every home, even every office, of 
 members of his congregation saw and knew his face. It 
 has been stated that he had no time for social engage- 
 ments, but he always had time for his pastoral work. 
 Even when in failing physical health, he would overtax 
 his strength by climbing the stairs of some building high 
 up in which some needy member of his flock lay in need 
 of his ministrations. He had around him a wonderful set 
 of officers, elders, deacons and trustees. Take at random 
 one of the year books published during his pastorate, 
 that of 1882, and the following list of names is an in- 
 spiration : 
 
 ELDERS. 
 
 William Walker Cornelius R. Agnew 
 
 James M. Halstead John Sinclair 
 
 Henry G. DeForest John Paton 
 
 Henry Day Malcolm Graham 
 
 Jacob D. Vermilye John H. Mortimer 
 
 William L. Skidmose William Campbell 
 
 James Eraser Hooper C. Van Vorst 
 Robert Bliss 
 
 DEACONS. 
 
 Frederick W. WnrrrEMORE Edgar S. Auchincloss 
 
 Alexander Maitland Ewen McIntyre 
 
 John Sloane 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Robert L. Stuart, President Charles Lanier 
 
 John H. Mortimer, Treasurer Henry A. Hurlbut 
 
 Robert Bliss, Stated Clerk Birdseye Blakeman 
 
 Robert L. Stuart John A. Litingston 
 
 Parker Handy John S. Kennedy 
 
 Willlam D. Sloane Jacob Campbell 
 
iFifti) auenue ptesljpterian Cljurci) ss 
 
 It was soon manifest that the building at Nineteenth 
 Street was inadequate, and Mr. Robert Bonner and Mr. 
 Robert L. Stuart were perhaps the prime movers in the 
 movement which was intended to secure a new building, 
 which "in extent and character should be worthy of 
 Presbyterianism in the Metropolitan City of the East." 
 The financial problem undertaken and solved far exceed- 
 ed in magnitude any of the previous operations of the 
 church as a corporation. Prior to entering the new 
 church, there was subscribed $328,996.09; $520,000 was 
 secured on the sale of 191 pews, and by the energy of 
 the wheel-horses of the church, it was not long before 
 the entire debt was canceled, and the property held free 
 and clear. There is a minute in the records of the 
 Board of Trustees commenting upon the gifts of Mr. 
 Robert Bonner toward the erection of the church, as 
 being the largest then known gifts for church extension 
 in the history of the American Church. In a personal 
 note of 1877, printed in the life of Dr. Hall, the total 
 of Mr. Bonner's gifts is placed at $131,000. The old 
 church, by the generosity of certain of the Trustees and 
 Col. Elliott F. Shepard, then a member of the Central 
 Church, was removed and re-erected on West Fifty- 
 seventh Street, where it still stands with but slight altera- 
 tion of appearance. Mr. Wm. Rutherford Mead, of 
 McKim Mead & White, recalls that this was his own 
 first important architectural work. 
 
 The outside activities of Dr. Hall are still matters of 
 common knowledge. His services to the church at large, 
 as president of the Board of Home Missions, need no re- 
 hearsal. To the City of New York his services as Chan- 
 cellor of the New York University have been adequately 
 commemorated. In the Union Seminary before the pe- 
 riod of misunderstanding with the General Assembly he 
 served faithfully as director. He also gave to his duties 
 as Director of Princeton Seminary and as Trustee of 
 Princeton College painstaking attention, and had much to 
 
56 Centennial Celefitation of tbt 
 
 do with securing James McCosh for the Presidency of 
 that institution. In the Presbytery of New York he was 
 faithful in attendance, always dignified in his forensic du- 
 ties, and while apt to lose advantage in debate by over- 
 looking the technicalities of parliamentary law it in- 
 creased the affection of his brethren that this was always 
 due to his keeping his mind and attention primarily 
 fastened on what to him was the chief object of Presby- 
 terial importance, namely, the advancement of the spirit- 
 ual interest of the churches in the city. 
 
 The Warszawiak case, with its numerous appeals, re- 
 sulted, as an ecclesiastical cause celebre, in a situation 
 where it would have puzzled Solomon himself to decide 
 whether the last deliverance of the Assembly restored 
 this excommunicated Hebrew to any of his privileges in 
 the church. 
 
 It was toward the end of Dr. Hall's pastorate that this 
 celebrated case arose. In his son's biography of Dr. 
 Hall there are a number of little side-lights thrown on 
 the doctor's interest in the conversion of the Jews to 
 Christianity, which was a darling wish of his mother, 
 and the fulfillment of which she seemed to have thought 
 rendered more likely by his acceptance of a call to the 
 United States. So for many years the doctor had been 
 interested in the work of the city missions for the Jews. 
 At the time this case arose Warszawiak had applied to 
 the New York Presbytery to be taken under its care as 
 a candidate for the Gospel ministry. He was a man of 
 brilliant parts and apparently of persuasive eloquence, 
 and preached to crowded houses of Hebrews, and it was 
 supposed that he was producing great results in the con- 
 version of those who attended his services. The charge 
 against him before the Session of the Fifth Avenue 
 Church was practically that of hypocrisy, in that while 
 seeking to be taken under the care of Presbytery as a 
 candidate for the Gospel Ministry he was leading an 
 immoral and un-Christian life. 
 
JFiftt) aijenue presfiptetian Cfturclj 57: 
 
 Dr. Hall's faith in the young man was of that loyal 
 kind that hostile evidence fails to shake, and it is prob- 
 ably true that he never believed in the justice of his con- 
 viction by the Session, which was affirmed by the Pres- 
 bytery, while the Synod and Assembly, after first order- 
 ing a new trial, finally decided the matter had lasted long 
 enough and declared it at an end. 
 
 Dr. Hall's health failed during the last few years of 
 his life. He was troubled with some heart weakness. 
 But he would not give in, nor diminish his pastoral 
 activity. It was proposed to secure an assistant for him ;. 
 but the proposition seems to have been more of a shock 
 to him than an occasion of relief, for it led to his offer- 
 ing his resignation, in which, however, his people, upon 
 whose affections he had so strong a hold, refused to 
 acquiesce. 
 
 Still, while he withdrew the resignation, he was com- 
 pelled to relax his efforts, and to take what was hoped 
 would be but a vacation for recuperation. 
 
 The communion service of May, 1898, was the last 
 at which he was able to preside. He went abroad in 
 June, longing to revisit his birthplace and the sisters 
 who still survived. This desire was gratified only so 
 far as his reaching Ireland was concerned. He was 
 unable to get as far as Ballygorman, and died at Craw- 
 fordsbum Road on the 17th day of September, 1898, 
 There were simple funeral services in Bangor. The fol- 
 lowing pages from his son's biography seem appropriate 
 for quotation: 
 
 "The funeral services in New York were on the morn- 
 ing of October the 4th, 1898, in the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
 byterian Church, into which so much of my father's life 
 had been built. Dr. John Mcintosh of Philadelphia, Dr. 
 Wm. M. Paxton of Princeton and the moderator of 
 the General Assembly of that year, the Rev. Dr. Rad- 
 diffe took charge of the services, and paid tributes to 
 , the worth and services of him whom God had taken. On 
 
58 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 Wednesday morning the remains were taken to Wood- 
 lawn and laid to rest beside the beloved nephew, the 
 Rev. John Magowan, and near his stepson, Major John 
 Irwin. The final arrangements have not yet been made, 
 and only a simple head-stone, with a reference to Daniel 
 12 :3, marks the place where lies the sacred dust. 
 
 "Great was the outburst of real sorrow when the news 
 spread that the great preacher and faithful pastor was 
 to be seen and heard no more on earth. In London, 
 Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, as well as all the 
 principal cities of the United States, memorial sermons 
 were preached, and memorial services were held. 
 
 "Great numbers of ecclesiastical bodies on both sides 
 of the water, Methodists, Baptists, Congregational, 
 Episcopalian and others, joined in tributes of esteem and 
 sorrow. Nearly all the English written press on both 
 sides of the Atlantic and many foreign journals con- 
 tained estimates of the power and value of the life that 
 had passed away. The London Times paid a warm trib- 
 ute to the influence of the life that was closed ; and what 
 marked nearly all these estimates was the prominence 
 given to the directness and simplicity of the life and 
 work. It was agreed that the elements that went to 
 make up my father's character were not unduly com- 
 plex, yet poise, industry, strength of conviction and mas- 
 terly control of all those elements gave extraordinary 
 force to the life." 
 
 The following tablet was erected to his memory by his 
 congregation : 
 
 Rev. John Hall, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Bom County Armagh, Ireland, 
 
 July 31, 1829. 
 
 Died County Down, Ireland, 
 
 September 17, 1898. 
 
 For Forty-nine Years 
 
 A Presbyterian Minister. 
 
 Pastor of this Church 
 
iFiftt) atienue ptestiptettan C{)utc|) 59 
 
 From November 3, 1867, to September 17, 1898. 
 
 "There remaineth therefore a rest 
 
 to the people of God." 
 
 The list of accessions during his pastorate is very 
 large, and too many would have to be the citations to 
 warrant any separate enumeration. Our own and sev- 
 eral of our sister churches still enjoy the services of 
 men and women converted by the Gospel preaching of 
 John Hall or drawn into activity here from churches all 
 over the land. Few Presbyterian pastorates have ex- 
 ceeded his in accumulating "parish power" and in lib- 
 erating it in the channels of church work or of church 
 Jiving. 
 
 Some of the events of parish interest during Dr. Hall's 
 pastorate are briefly as follows: 
 
 In October, 1877, there was a resolution for the sys- 
 tematic visitation of the parish by the Elders, which was 
 particularly commended by the Presbytery in reviewing 
 the minutes of the church. 
 
 In 1878 a committee was appointed which ultimately 
 acquired St. George's Chapel for the Fourteenth Street 
 Mission. 
 
 In January, 1879, attention was called to the long 
 service of William Walker, who had joined the church 
 in 1829 and had been an Elder since 1853. At his re- 
 quest a separate Treasurer of Session was appointed, 
 namely, John Sloane, who was succeeded later by James 
 R. Jesup, and he in turn by our present Treasurer, H. 
 Edwards Rowland. 
 
 In December, 1882, it was decided to increase the Ses- 
 sion to twenty. 
 
 In January, 1883, the name of the "King Street Mis- 
 sion" was changed to the "Alexander Mission in King 
 Street"; and a resolution was adopted with regard to 
 the missions of the church that the ministry in charge 
 should seek to train persons for the offices of elders, 
 deacons and teachers, with a view to their separate or- 
 
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 ganization as independent and separate churches, a pol- 
 icy constantly reiterated by the Session from time to time 
 but very difficult to achieve, because of the constant 
 change in the personnel in attendance on the services, 
 who drift from place to place as their circumstances re- 
 quire. 
 
 There were several attempts made to modify and im- 
 prove the singing of the church. Thus in February, 
 1883, there was a joint resolution to improve the singing 
 "by having four voices sit (sic.) in the body of the 
 church trained in singing psalmody to assist in leading 
 the congregation under the direction of the precentor." 
 
 Shortly afterward there was a resolution that Elders 
 Day, Fraser, Sinclair and Graham, and Deacon Sloane 
 be "a committee on the services of song with a view to 
 their conferring with members endowed with musical 
 gifts and so organize them as to contribute to greater 
 unanimity, harmony and spirit in the praises of the serv- 
 ice." (The report of the committee, however, was not 
 accepted.) 
 
 March 6, 1890, it was resolved to engage several per- 
 sons to assist in the singing. 
 
 June 4, 1885, an Annual Year Book was decided up- 
 on, the idea being that it should be published every year 
 with the addition of the names of those who had joined 
 during the year, with their addresses. 
 
 That same year authority was given to procure suita- 
 ble accommodations for the Chinese Sunday School, 20 
 West Fifty-ninth Street, and October of that year it was 
 ordered that thereafter it should be "one of the mission 
 schools of the church." 
 
 In March, 1887, it was decided to discontinue the 
 Seventh Avenue Mission. It was afterward organized 
 into a separate church. 
 
 At this same time a committee was appointed to see 
 where a Sunday School might be organized "where the 
 
Jfiftt) atjcnue ptesftptetian C|)urc!) 6i 
 
 younger members of the congregation should be in- 
 vited to work as teachers," and it was the labors of this 
 committee which subsequently blossomed out into the 
 organization of the Young People's Association, to 
 which the church is so deeply indebted for so much of 
 activity and for so great accomplishment of practical 
 good in the Sixty-third Street neighborhood. 
 
 At about this same time there was a collection or- 
 dered to help defray the expenses of Evangelical services 
 in Cooper Institute on Sabbath evenings during the 
 Winter. 
 
 In January of 1888 a committee was appointed to 
 "devise methods of providing fresh air relief for those 
 attending at the various missions." 
 
 On May 31, 1888, the venerable William Walker hav- 
 ing died, Mr. Silas B. Brownell was elected to succeed 
 him in the office of Stated Qerk, the responsible and 
 onerous duties of which he has since continuously and 
 faithfully discharged. 
 
 In November, 1891, the Session recorded the opening 
 of the Young People's Association House, at the corner 
 of First Avenue and Sixty-first Street. 
 
 January 6, 1896, it was ordered, at the request of the 
 Young People's Association, that the sacraments be 
 statedly administered at Sixty-third Street. While there 
 was repeated talk from time to time of an assistant to 
 the pastor, it was not until after Dr. Hall's death and in 
 September 27, 1900, that one was actually engaged. It 
 was at that time that the Rev. Ernest F. Hall was em- 
 ployed as assistant, and about two years later, upon his 
 entering the foreign mission service, December 16, 1902, 
 Rev. George H. Trull succeeded him, and when Mr. 
 Trull was chosen as Secretary of the Foreign Board for 
 Young People's Work, the Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, 
 D.D., was called from Binghamton and continues to be 
 associated with our pastor in the parish work. 
 
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 The Seventh Pastorate: 
 
 To succeed such a pastor as John Hall, and over so 
 great a church, it was a very serious task to find a new 
 leader* It was not until May, 1900, that he was se- 
 cured. 
 
 In the meantime there was naturally some disintegra- 
 tion — many took letters to sister churches. It seemed 
 unlikely that a man could be found who would satisfy 
 the various requirements of a congregation that was 
 necessarily heterogeneous. 
 
 The Lord raised up the man in George Tybout 
 Purves, then at Princeton, who gave the last year of his 
 marvelous powers, while suflfering almost daily physical 
 agonies, to a concentrated and loving pastoral service 
 that held the church together, healed what wounds there 
 were, re-enlisted the workers in activity, and at the same 
 time gave to our pulpit a new hold on the ear and heart 
 of the public by the delivery of sermons of the like of 
 which few pulpits in this or any country have been the 
 source. 
 
 We take the liberty of adopting, nearly unchanged, 
 the sketch of his life prepared by Dr. J. H. Dulles for 
 the Princeton University Bulletin of December, 1901. 
 
 George Tybout Purves was born in Philadelphia, Sep- 
 tember 27, 1852, his parents being William and Anna 
 (Kennedy) Purves. He was of Scotch descent, and the 
 name, Purves, may be seen any year on the rolls of the 
 ministry of the Scotch and the Irish Presbyterian 
 Churches. He received his preparatory education in the 
 school established, and for many years successfully con- 
 ducted, by John W. Paries, D.D., who belonged to the 
 older regime of schoolmasters, exerting a personal in- 
 fluence over their pupils scarcely possible in the more 
 fully organized and more highly developed secondary 
 schools of the present day. Very great industry and 
 more than average ability marked the school career of 
 young Purves. The religious tone of his home training: 
 
GEORGE T. PURVES, D.D., LL.D. 
 
jFtttt) avenue ptesftptctian Cljurcl) 63 
 
 is sufficiently indicated by the fact that at the early age 
 of fourteen he made a public profession of his Christian 
 faith, uniting with the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Philadelphia, just before the close of the pastorate of 
 the Rev. Albert Barnes. 
 
 Entering the University of Pennsylvania, he gradu- 
 ated from that institution in 1872. As a student he took 
 special interest in the philosophical and linguistic depart- 
 ments of the curriculum, exhibiting at the same time a 
 special aptitude for public speech. His college career 
 foreshadowed his later attainments as a public orator. 
 After his graduation he spent a year at home in the 
 further prosecution of his study of various languages, 
 particularly Greek, and of general literature. It was not 
 until the fall of this year, 1872, that he finally decided to 
 enter the ministry. 
 
 He entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton in 
 1873, graduating three years later. He was soon noted 
 as one of the most cheerful as well as most studious of 
 the young men gathered in the Seminary, and early se- 
 cured the esteem of his instructors and the love of his 
 fellow students. In the same class with him was Prof. 
 Warfield, afterward his colleague in the Seminary fac- 
 ulty. He was one of those young men with a bright in- 
 tellect, a warm heart and an engaging manner, for whom 
 it was easy to predict a life of distinguished usefulness. 
 His companions of that period had no other expectation, 
 an expectation abundantly verified. He returned to the 
 Seminary for a fourth year of post-graduate study of 
 Biblical Theology and New Testament Exegesis, under 
 Professors William Henry Green and Caspar Wistar 
 Hodge. The influence of the latter over him was very 
 great and did much to determine the trend of his later 
 studies. 
 
 He left Princeton in April, 1877, was ordained on the 
 27th of that month, and at the same time installed pastor 
 of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, near Philadelphia. 
 
64 Centennial Celefiration ot tfte 
 
 After three years of successful work in this relatively 
 small field, he was called to the Boundary Avenue 
 Church of Baltimore, which he served for six years, 
 when the summons came to enter a still wider sphere 
 of activity in the city of Pittsburgh. He was pastor of 
 the First Church of that city from 1886 to 1892. He 
 was eminently successful in these pastorates. Each re- 
 quired a higher development of his powers than its 
 predecessor and he more than met the requirement, until 
 in the last he had gained an established reputation as 
 one of the foremost preachers and most useful pastors of 
 the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Dr. Purves had, meanwhile, steadily pursued a course 
 of special study in apostolic and patristric literature. 
 This was due to his scholarly tastes, which could not be 
 satisfied fully in the ordinary duties of a pastor. One 
 result of these studies is seen in his first book, "The 
 Testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity," con- 
 taining the Stone Lectures delivered before Princeton 
 Seminary in 1888. The chair of Church History in this 
 Seminary being vacant at this time. Dr. Purves was 
 called to fill it, but declined the call. He had been but 
 two years in his Pittsburgh parish, and did not feel 
 justified in leaving it, strongly as he felt the claims of 
 his alma mater upon his services. During the year 1891- 
 92 he was the acting professor of theology in the West- 
 em Theological Seminary in Allegheny, adding this duty 
 to his pastoral labors. 
 
 In the fall of 1891 Prof. Caspar Wistar Hodge, who 
 for thirty-one years had filled the chair of New Testa- 
 ment Literature and Exegesis, died, lamented by a host 
 of Princeton students, who owed much of their interest 
 in the study of the New Testament to his guidance and 
 instruction. The eyes of the Directors and friends of 
 Princeton Seminary turned at once to the Pittsburgh 
 pastor. He was duly elected to the vacant chair. Every 
 pressure was brought to bear on him by his attached 
 
iTiftt) aiienue pre0liptetian Cfturcii 65 
 
 congregation to induce him to remain with them; but 
 the call was too urgent and he accepted it. It was to a 
 branch of biblical study that had always had a special 
 fascination for him, to which he had devoted much time 
 amid the pressing cares of his pastoral work; a call to 
 sit in the chair left vacant by the death of hig most 
 loved instructor, and a call uttered in much distress by 
 the institution in whose welfare he was profoundly in- 
 terested and whose, prosperity he deemed of the utmost 
 importance to the church and to the cause of truth. 
 
 Some of his friends thought he had made a mistake 
 to bury his pulpit powers, or even to subordinate them 
 to any other line of activity. Bury his ten talents he 
 could not. Indeed, he preached little less often after 
 coming to Princeton than he had done as a pastor in 
 Pittsburgh. He was at once engaged by the University 
 to occupy the pulpit in Marquand Chapel about once a 
 month during the academic year. This he did for a 
 while. Later a series of special evening services in the 
 Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton were arranged 
 with Dr. Purves as the preacher, with the design of 
 awakening a religious interest among the people of the 
 town as well as among the students of the University. 
 In this they were reasonably successful, if not as much 
 so as full congregations and their eager attention might 
 bave led one to expect. 
 
 In 1896, the pulpit of the First Qiurch of Princeton 
 becoming vacant. Dr. Purves acceded to the request of 
 the congregation to become their acting pastor, and three 
 years later he was elected and installed pastor of the 
 church. This relation was to be of brief duration, for 
 early in the following year, 1900, he was called to the 
 pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of 
 New York City, that had not yet secured a successor to 
 Dr. John Hall. He was persuaded that it was his duty 
 to accept this call, in view of the condition of that par- 
 ticular church and of the Presbyterian Church in New 
 
66 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 York. He entered upon his new duties with his usual 
 hopefulness and ardor. [He was installed May 22; 
 President Francis L. Patton preached the sermon; Rob- 
 ert Russell Booth, D.D., gave the charge to the Pastor; 
 Wilton Merle Smith, D.D., gave the charge to the peo- 
 ple.] It was not to be a long service. Disease had laid 
 hold of him before he left Princeton. Its inroads were 
 slow but steady. Yet there was no alarming indication 
 until almost at the end. He died of heart failure on 
 Wednesday, September 24, igoi. A funeral service was 
 held in his church, whence the body was brought to 
 Princeton, and, after a brief service in the First Church, 
 was interred in the Princeton cemetery. Dr. Purves was 
 a Director of Princeton Seminary from 1883 to 1892, 
 when called to its faculty, and was made a Director 
 again on going to New York. At the time of his death 
 he was a Trustee of Princeton University, as well as of 
 Lincoln University, Pa. He was also Moderator of the 
 Presbytery of New York. He received the degree of 
 D.D. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888, 
 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894, and 
 the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College in 1895. 
 Beside the volume mentioned above, he published in 
 igoo a work entitled, "Christianity in the Apostolic Age," 
 one of the hand-books in the Historical Series for Bible 
 Students, issued by the Scribners. He also published 
 numerous addresses and articles in the religious period- 
 icals of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 It cannot be doubted that Dr. Purves had gifts of a 
 high order and that he had extraordinary ability to use 
 these gifts. His energy was unbounded. He was restive 
 under a load of labor that would fully occupy most men. 
 It is not always that the minister of the Word of God 
 makes the impression on his hearers that he enjoys ex- 
 ercising that function of his holy office. Dr. Purves 
 made this impression. He could scarcely help being con- 
 scious that he was heard gladly, yet this never lessened 
 
iTiftf) atjenue pte06ptetian C|)utc|) 67 
 
 his sense of the solemnity of speaking to men on the 
 vital concerns of their souls. No one could be more 
 jovial than he out of the pulpit, and no one more serious 
 in it. His career in the pulpit justifies the judgment 
 that he was a great preacher. The style of his sermons 
 was so well adapted to the universal need of men that 
 he was heard with equal pleasure and profit, whether he 
 spoke in the Seminary Chapel, the University Chapel or 
 the First Church. 
 
 The high character of Dr. Purves' endowments was 
 manifest in his work as a teacher, as it was in his pulpit 
 ministrations. He was peculiarly well equipped for suc- 
 cessful teaching. He had a clear, strong mind. He 
 loved study, especially the study of the New Testament. 
 He was deeply interested in young men, particularly in 
 young men who had devoted themselves to the ministry. 
 To an unusual degree he secured their affection. He 
 was a living example of what a minister ought to be. 
 He readily gained friends. A great host of them, from 
 all intellectual and social classes, mourned his loss. He 
 did a great work. He finished his work. His life was 
 too intense to last through the three score and ten years 
 of our allotted pilgrimage; but into less than two score 
 and ten he compressed a long life of labor and love, of 
 unselfish service for his Divine Master and his fellow- 
 men." 
 
 The following tablet was erected in the vestibule of 
 the church: 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 George Tybout Purves, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Bom Philadelphia, September 27, 1852. 
 
 Ordained to the Gospel Ministry 
 
 April 27th, 1877. 
 
 Professor of 
 
 New Testament Literature and Exegesis, 
 
 Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 
 Installed Pastor of this Church 
 
68 Centennial Celebration of tbt 
 
 May 22, 1900. 
 
 Died New York, September 24, 1901. 
 
 "A Servant of God and of the Lord 
 
 Jesus Christ." 
 
 The Eighth (and Present) Pastorate: 
 
 So quickly did the candle of Dr. Purves' life burn out 
 that it is noted in the report of the Session's Committee 
 on the Summer services of that year that the day after 
 they had heard from him that he would be in the pulpit 
 September 22nd they learned of his death. 
 
 So sweet had been his influence, so healing his min- 
 istry, that the choice of his successor was made without 
 division of sentiment and with remarkable expedition. 
 The unanimous call of the church, dated January 15, 
 1902, was extended to J. Ross Stevenson, D.D., Pro- 
 fessor of Church History in McCormick Theological 
 Seminary in Chicago. 
 
 The Committee had resorted to the plan of addressing 
 to about one hundred leading ministers of our denomina- 
 tion in this country, in Canada and in Great Britain the 
 following letter: 
 
 "Dear Sir: Knowing the kind interest which you 
 have in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and be- 
 lieving that you earnestly desire that it shall continue 
 to be one of the centers for religious teaching, and one 
 of the foremost churches in the denomination, . . . 
 we would welcome from you, whatever names it may 
 occur to you that it would be well for us to receive. Any 
 communication which you might be willing to send on 
 this subject, we would consider strictly confidential. 
 May we not ask your prayers, that we shall be divinely 
 led in the choice of a Pastor, who shall carry on the 
 work which Drs. Hall and Purves have so recently been 
 called away from." 
 
 They were astounded at the degree to which these 
 replies focussed on Dr. Stevenson. Providentially in- 
 
J. ROSS STEVENSON, D.D. 
 
JFiftt) avenue Presfipterian C|)utc|) 69 
 
 dicated, unanimously called and universally loved, he is 
 now the Centennial Pastor of our church. 
 
 It is essential to complete this historical sketch that 
 his life and pastorate be included, without infringing 
 the delicate rules that restrict the friendly biographer 
 of one still living. 
 
 J. Ross Stevenson was born at Ligonier, Pa., March 
 the 1st, 1866. His father, the Rev. Ross Stevenson, 
 D.D., was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, and came 
 over here as a youth, and through the influence of Chris- 
 tian friends was educated for the ministry, and labored 
 with all the intensity and eagerness of his Scotch-Irish 
 nature for fifty years in the ministry of the Word among 
 the people of Western Pennsylvania. His mother, Mar- 
 tha Harbison, belonged to that splendid old Western 
 Pennsylvania stock which has developed such a sturdy 
 race of people and such earnest and stanch Presbyteri- 
 ans. Ross was next to the youngest in a family of six 
 sons and one daughter. He grew up among the inter- 
 ests and privileges of a country minister's home life. Of 
 the brothers, three studied for the ministry. His pre- 
 paratory course was taken at the old Canonsburg Acad- 
 emy, the former seat of Washington and Jefferson Col- 
 lege. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson in 
 1886. This college conferred the degree of D.D. on 
 three of our pastors. Dr. James W. Alexander, Dr. John 
 Hall and Dr. Purves. It is said that he never missed a 
 single recitation in all his school or college life from ill- 
 ness, and was never tardy to any school appointment. 
 He lived at home during all his college life, and neigh- 
 bors have testified that his starting for school was so 
 regular and exact an event that they reckoned the time 
 by it. He graduated from McCormick Theological Sem- 
 inary in 1889, and studied in the University of Berlin 
 through the next year. Upon his return he was called 
 to the Broadway Presbyterian Church of Sedalia, Mo., 
 where he remained for three years. During that time 
 
70 Centennial Celelitation of ttje 
 
 he was called to various larger churches, but in every 
 case, after prolonged prayer, decided to stay in the field 
 to which he was first called and among the people whom 
 he dearly loved, until the call came to go back to the 
 Seminary among the professors who had been such an 
 inspiration to him during his theological course. Just 
 at this time he ofiFered himself to the Foreign Board and 
 was eager to go to India, but as he was an officer in the 
 Student Volunteer Movement, those who stood in the 
 position of confidential advisers to him urged him to 
 accept the call to the Seminary and to help among the 
 students to develop missionary interest. 
 
 His work at Chicago had been successful in the largest 
 and inspirational sense. His influence upon young men 
 was marked. Repeatedly he was called to important 
 pulpits; but none of these calls dominated his judg- 
 ment and will so as to recall him to active pastoral work 
 as finally did the one from New York. 
 
 From the letters to the Committee referring to him it 
 would be improper to quote. They combined to picture 
 to the church a man of quickly ripening powers, with 
 the energy and enthusiasm of vigorous young manhood, 
 highly cultured, devoted to music, of genial and winning 
 personality, loving and loved by young men, talented 
 and persuasive in the pulpit and full of the gospel spirit 
 and purpose. 
 
 He was installed April 30th, 1902. Wilton Merle- 
 Smith, D.D., as Moderator, propounded the constitu- 
 tional questions; Howard Duffield, D.D., preached the 
 sermon ; Robert Russell Booth, D.D., offered the prayer 
 of installation, and Rev. Thos. J. Stevenson, a brother, 
 gave the charge to the Pastor. 
 
 The new Pastor had before him a task nearly as diffi- 
 cult as that which confronted Dr. Purves. Perhaps in 
 some ways greater, because he was a younger man, and 
 the memory of John Hall's and of George T. Purves' 
 preaching could not but handicap their so immediate 
 
jfiftf) atienue presfiptetian Cl)utci) 71 
 
 successor, but his earnest, direct, powerful presentation 
 of the Gospel, his winning personal presence, his mani- 
 fest devotion to every department of his parish duty so 
 endeared him and commended him to his congregation 
 as to unite them enthusiastically in response to the calls 
 which his quiet but energetic leadership soon began to 
 make. 
 
 When he came the church roll had not been revised 
 or purged of "deadwood" for years. The last year of 
 Dr. Hall's pastorate it numbered 2669. When Dr. 
 Stevenson came it was 2682. The work of revising it 
 was at once begun, and the report to the Assembly of 
 1903 showed over 900 names removed for death, or dis- 
 appearance, or other causes. This brought the actual 
 membership to 1775. During his pastorate 313 names 
 have been marked off under the column marked "de- 
 ceased," many more of course by reason of the con- 
 tinued revision, while there have been added on confes- 
 sion 482 and by letter 441, so that the present number 
 is 2,081. 
 
 The following recent article from one of the religious 
 weeklies is suggestive: 
 
 "During the past year the Fifth Avenue Church, the 
 Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, pastor, contributed to the 
 various benevolences of the church and to local expenses 
 the handsome sum of $352,000, an average of above $164 
 per member. Last year this church received 78 on con- 
 fession of faith and 89 by letter. The present member- 
 ship is 2,081. The sum of $52,093 was given to Home 
 Missions and $30,250 to Foreign Missions, a total of 
 $83,343. During the same time the fifteen synods of 
 Alabama, Atlantic, Canadian, Catawba, East Tennessee, 
 Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, 
 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and 
 West Virginia, with a membership of 120,144, gave 
 $46,957 to Home Missions and $35,694 to Foreign Mis- 
 sions, a total of $82,651, about 68 cents a member. Dur- 
 
12 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 ing the year the synods mentioned above received 8,510 
 on confession of faith." 
 
 This article, whatever the purpose of its pubHcation, 
 is very significant, as it throws into sharp relief the posi- 
 tion which the great city church occupies in contrast to 
 the churches in the missionary Synods. It is not expect- 
 ed of the home mission church that it shall give great 
 sums to the treasuries of the Boards. Its work is pri- 
 marily that of increasing the membership of the chhrch 
 by conversions, but the great Benevolent Boards of the 
 church and the great philanthropies of the country make 
 steady, constant and large appeals upon those who be- 
 long to the large city churches. Moreover, if those 
 churches are crowded and their pews are full, the min- 
 ister will usually be preaching to a congregation com- 
 posed almost entirely of church members, and, therefore, 
 the reports of the large city church of additions on con- 
 fession will usually, when analyzed, be found to refer 
 chiefly to the results in that direction secured in the mis- 
 sionary schools and chapels maintained by that church,, 
 and the additions on confession in the main church rep- 
 resent the normal admissions of children of church fami- 
 lies growing up into the church life. While it is, there- 
 fore, a source of regret that so great a church reports: 
 so small a percentage of additions annually, as noted in 
 this article, it is a source of pleasure that the conse- 
 crated spirit of its members is such as to in part com- 
 pensate by its contributions to the maintenance of the 
 general work of the church at large. It is satisfactory 
 also to note that since Dr. Stevenson's installation the 
 church has gone steadily forward every year increasing 
 the total of its gifts reported to the General Assembly. 
 Even during the recent financial stringency its benefac- 
 tions maintained this increase, and the examination of the 
 statements as to the condition of its various organizations 
 and parish societies shows in what a healthy and growing 
 condition most of them are. But to avoid any misunder- 
 
Mt\t atienue prestipterian Cljurci) 73 
 
 standing, it is proper to note what is the rule of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly with regard to reporting gifts in and 
 through the various churches. In 1906 the General As- 
 sembly adopted a very clear series of directions to 
 churches with regard to what should be included in these 
 reports of funds contributed. (See minutes of 1906, 
 pages 218 to 220 inc.) After directing what should be 
 credited to the various specific objects mentioned in the 
 printed blank, there are two headings, named "Miscel- 
 laneous" and "Individual Gifts." 
 
 Under "Miscellaneous," churches are directed "To in- 
 clude all moneys paid to tract societies. Christian En- 
 deavor, Y. M. C. A., hospitals and general benevolences." 
 
 Under "Individual Gifts," the Assembly directs: "If 
 the donors do not object, the direct gifts of individuals 
 to any of the Boards or to the causes they represent 
 should be reported with other gifts under the proper 
 head. Individual gifts for religious and charitable causes 
 not included in the regular schedule should be placed, 
 under the head "Miscellaneous." 
 
 Development of the Church Benevolences. 
 
 The Stated Qerk of the General Assembly, Rev. Will- 
 iam H. Roberts, D.D., LL.D., has prepared for the Com- 
 mittee at considerable trouble a summary of all its sta- 
 tistics reported to the General Assembly for the one hun- 
 dred years of our existence. These were only partial at 
 the outset, or rather the requirements of the Assembly 
 were not so detailed as they now are, but these statistics 
 will repay careful study. It will be noted, first, that 
 the contributions for home and foreign missions were 
 not separated until 1839, and second, that contributions 
 for the Boards did not reach the present total of eight 
 until 1884. Following the suggestion in one of the 
 former manuals of the church, these contributions have- 
 been totalled under the diflferent pastorates and averaged' 
 by the number of years of such pastorate, and' while they- 
 
74 Centennial Celetiration of tfje 
 
 are not satisfactory as to the early pastorates, when 
 congregational expenses and miscellaneous charities were 
 not reported, they are interesting and suggestive after 
 the beginning of the pastorate of James W. Alexander, 
 D.D. Thus, the totals reported during the 
 
 First pastorate of Dr. Romeyn, from 1809 to 1827, 
 19 years, are $3,731, or an average of $196.36 per year. 
 
 Second pastorate of Dr. Mason, from 1828 to 1836, 
 9 years, are $13,656, or an average of $1,517.33 per year. 
 
 Third pastorate of Dr. Potts, from 1837 to 1844, 8 
 years, are $18,361, or an average of $2,295.12 per year. 
 
 Fourth pastorate of Dr. Alexander, from 1845 to 
 i860, 16 years, are $424,472, or an average of $26,529.50 
 per year. 
 
 Fifth pastorate of Dr. Rice, from 1861 to 1867, 7 
 years, are $371,164, or an average of $53,023.42 per 
 year. 
 
 Sixth pastorate of Dr. Hall, from 1868 to 1899, 32 
 years, are $4,227,345.10, or an average of $132,104.53 
 per year. 
 
 Seventh pastorate of Dr. Purves, from 1900 to 1901, 
 2 years, are $274,381, or an average of $137,190.50 per 
 year. 
 
 Eighth and last pastorate of Dr. Stevenson, from 1902 
 to 1908, 7 years, are $2,267,775.88, or an average of 
 $323,967.98 per year. 
 
 An analysis of the collections and gifts discloses one 
 important and very gratifying fact, and that is that more 
 people are giving to the various causes than used to be 
 the case. The gifts of the large givers are not with- 
 held or diminished, while those of the smaller givers are 
 multiplying and increasing. 
 
 The Forward Movement. 
 
 Underlying the appeal made by Dr. Stevenson to his 
 people since his advent has been the constant expression 
 of his desire that the great inheritance which this church 
 is now enjoying as the result of the generosity and self- 
 

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jFiftI) atjcnue ptesfipterian C|)utcij 75 
 
 sacrifice of previcvus generations in the congregation 
 should not be selfishly enjoyed, but that this great plant 
 should produce constant instruction and spiritual delight 
 to the community in the center of which we are sit- 
 uated. It may interest many to know that to that end 
 the Session has resolved that the church be open daily 
 for meditation and prayer, which resolution awaits for 
 its going into operation the provision of sufficient funds 
 for the purpose in the hands of the Trustees. In the 
 meantime the so-called Forward Movement was inaugu- 
 rated for the purpose of providing from the pulpit of 
 this church such presentation of the Evangelistic mes- 
 sage and such teaching of the truth as would appeal to 
 the general public and draw them in where they might 
 be influenced for good. On the teaching side, during the 
 past Winter of 1907 to 1908, the course of addresses of 
 Hugh Black and Francis L. Patton on certain great 
 teachings of the Bible were wonderfully successful and 
 profitable to the crowds who were in attendance at the 
 afternoon services. On the other hand the Evangelistic 
 service at the third services on Sunday evenings, appeal- 
 ing to an entirely different class, were also extremely 
 profitable and encouraging. They were under the charge 
 of the Associate Minister, Dr. Hallenbeck, and under the 
 auspices of the Young People. It was announced in 
 advance that there would be no attempt made to measure 
 the success of these meetings by any count of attendance 
 nor by any record of conversions claimed to be directly 
 traceable thereto. The object was to provide the mes- 
 sage without any attempt to keep a spiritual debit and 
 credit account thereof. In spite of the fact that there 
 were three services every Sabbath, the attendance at any 
 of the services was better and more encouraging than 
 had been the attendance at either of the services when 
 there were but two. 
 We can only note, without comment, the recent won- 
 
76 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 derful and inspiring services under "Gipsy Smith" in 
 which neighboring churches loyally cooperated. 
 
 Of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, Samuel B. 
 Capen writes : 
 
 "On November 13th and 14th, 1906, there was 
 held in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in 
 New York City an interdenominational meeting in 
 commemoration of the centennial of the Haystack 
 Prayer Meeting. 
 
 "On the afternoon and evening following, a com- 
 pany of laymen met in the chapel, of the same 
 church, the invitation to this meeting being in the 
 form of a 'Call to Prayer.' As a result of that meet- 
 ing the Laymen's Missionary Movement was organ- 
 ized." 
 
 Two other facts in this last pastorate should also be 
 recorded. The one was the death of Mr. Richard Bur- 
 ton, the assistant sexton for so many years, whose in- 
 terest in the church work was so intense and constant. 
 He was so particularly interested in the work of the 
 Board of Ministerial Relief that a memorial gift to that 
 board was given after his death by friends in the congre- 
 gation. 
 
 The other fact is that Mr. Culyer, the sexton of the 
 church, has passed his half century of service by nearly 
 five years, linking the present administration to that of 
 the first half century of the church's life. Moreover, to 
 the joy of all who knew him, after setting the Lord's 
 table with his own hands for so many years, he at last sat 
 down himself at that table on profession of his faith in 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 The Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church is a mem- 
 ber of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. 
 A., of the Board of Foreign Missions, of the Council 
 of the New York University, is one of the Directors 
 of Princeton Seminary, and has to do his share of 
 committee work in the important Presbyterial activi- 
 ties, such as the Church Extension Committee and 
 others, and at the same time he is confronted with an 
 
jfifti) atjenue ptesfiptcrian Cburcl) 77 
 
 increasingly difficult task, if this privilege can be called 
 a task, to wit : of pastoral visitation. The families of the 
 church are widely far apart. There is less permanence 
 in the homes of people residing in a city, and changes 
 in address are frequent, and yet he has been able to deal 
 with remarkable success with this problem. He is great- 
 ly blessed by the earnest and constant desire of the young 
 people of the church to engage in active work. There 
 are few churches in which the young people are ac- 
 ■complishing so much and so important work as in ours, 
 where the finely organized form which the young peo- 
 ple's association has taken in regard to the mission and 
 institutional work of the church has necessitated their 
 incorporation under the membership laws of the church. 
 Two other important steps have recently been taken by 
 the session that are little known yet. The one is to 
 authorize the Deacons to administer the elements at the 
 communion services held in the chapels; another is the 
 authority to procure a new hymn book for our services 
 as soon as the necessary funds can be provided by the 
 Trustees. 
 
 Work of the Official Boards. 
 
 The Session. 
 
 In spite of the strength of Presbyterianism as a de- 
 nomination, it is rather remarkable that its general mem- 
 bership have very vague ideas as to the functions of the 
 Church Session and have little conception of the magni- 
 tude of the duties which they have to perform. 
 
 "The Church Session consists of the Pastor or Pastors 
 and Ruling Elders of a particular congregation." (Form 
 of Government, Chap. 9, Art. I.) 
 
 "The Church Session is charged with maintaining the 
 spiritual government of the congregation ; for which pur- 
 pose they have power to inquire into the knowledge and 
 Christian conduct of the members of the church, to call 
 before them offenders and witnesses being members of 
 
78 Centennial Celefiration of tfie 
 
 their own congregation, and to introduce other witnesses 
 where it may be necessary to bring the process to issue 
 and when they can be procured to attend; to receive 
 members into the church; to admonish, to rebuke, to 
 suspend or exclude from the sacraments those who are 
 found to deserve censure; to concert the best measures 
 for promoting the spiritual interest of the congregation, 
 and to appoint delegates to the higher judicatories of the 
 church." (Id. Art. VI.) 
 
 The words italicized describe, in a healthy, hard-work- 
 ing church, the chief activities of the Session. It has 
 been necessary in recent years to continually increase the 
 membership of the Session in order that the various 
 kinds of work to be done may be distributed more fairly, 
 so that the individual members shall not be overworked. 
 It is sometimes not fully realized that the members of 
 one of our large city churches have to serve as members 
 of the boards of the church and on important Presbytery 
 and Synod committees, and are also directors on the 
 various hospital and charitable boards having headquar- 
 ters in New York ; and, therefore, the burden of the local 
 parish work must either fall entirely on a paid ministerial 
 force or there must be a large Session to divide the labor. 
 Some idea of the amount of work that has to be done 
 can be gathered from the various committees of the Ses- 
 sion. There are standing committees on the Home Sun- 
 day School, on the John Hall Memorial Chapel, on the 
 Alexander Chapel, on the Chinese Sabbath School, on 
 finance -and benevolence, on music and public worship. 
 There are special committees on hospitality, on forward 
 movement, and on such special subjects as come up from 
 time to time in the nature of emergency work or of new 
 developing activities. Some of these committees have 
 a close relation to the work of the Trustees ; for example, 
 the Committee on Music and Public Worship. The Ses- 
 sion has control of the character of the service, and could, 
 of course, veto the rendering of music in the church by 
 
jfifti) atjenue ptesfipterian Cftutcf) 79 
 
 persons objectionable on spiritual grounds, but the Trus- 
 tees are the only body who can bind the church by con- 
 tract, and, therefore, the Trustees make the musical con- 
 tracts, employ the organist and the singers, and, at this 
 point, the harmonious co-operation of the two bodies is 
 specially emphasized. The disciplinary function of the 
 Session is fortunately, nowadays, little invoked or called 
 into action, but the oversight of the congregation is an 
 important matter. There are sub-committees of the Ses- 
 sion over the whole congregation, who are expected to 
 note the attendance of church members ; their prolonged 
 absence is noted and inquired into, and often cases of 
 sickness not reported directly to the pastor come to his 
 attention in this way. The meetings of the Session are 
 frequent and often prolonged. As a church judicatory 
 its meetings are solemnly convened and closed with 
 prayer. There is a free interchange of opinion on mat- 
 ters of current interest. The rule of the Presbyterian 
 Church warrants action by a majority, but it is delightful 
 to note how infrequently in recent years there has been 
 any divided vote in the Session of our church. The con- 
 sideration of appeals for our benevolent help, and the 
 preparation of the annual calendar of offerings, and the 
 fixing of the annual budget for the chapels and schools 
 is a most serious task, and the Committee on Finance and 
 Benevolence meets statedly and reports regularly. The 
 distribution of the elements at the Lord's Supper in 
 many churches committed to the Deacons is in our church 
 a privilege of the Session. Members of the Session are 
 elected for life, while in some churches with the approval 
 of the General Assembly they are elected on the rotary 
 system for specific terms. Every Sunday morning before 
 the first services the Session meets statedly and engages 
 in prayer for the service of the day and for those who 
 are to present the Gospel Message from the pulpit. Per- 
 haps one of the most precious memories that any Pastor 
 of this church can preserve is that of the earnest, simple 
 
8o Centennial Celefiiation ot tfie 
 
 prayers at Session meetings of such a man, to name but 
 one, as the late John Sinclair, whose dying prayer on be- 
 half of his fellow Elders was not only a proof of the 
 earnest interest he had in their work, but proved a won- 
 derful incentive to them all to emulate his own devo- 
 tion and fidelity of service. 
 The Trustees. 
 
 The work of the Trustees of the church considered 
 as a corporation is also little appreciated by the average 
 pew-holder or communicant. The Trustees of the Fifth 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church do not merely act as the 
 rentors of sittings in the church and the collectors of pew 
 rents ; they hold in trust for the church all its temporali- 
 ties, aggregating in value nearly two millions of dollars. 
 Through the house committee they attend to the repairs 
 and insurance of its buildings. Those who were inti- 
 mately acquainted with the late Francis Forbes are 
 aware of his almost daily attendance to the important 
 duties of this particular committee. The Trustees repre- 
 sent the church in the community. They have to observe 
 the regulations of the fire department, insurance depart- 
 ment, building department, and sometimes of the health 
 department. In the records of the Board during the last 
 one hundred years, we find recorded the names of some 
 of the most prominent lawyers and judges of New York 
 City: Mr. Lord, Mr. De Forest, Mr. Day, Mr. Nash, 
 Judge Davis, Judge Van Vorst, to mention no others; 
 and questions often arose during these years on which 
 these men rendered without charge laborious, complete 
 and voluminous opinions on matters of the church and 
 civil law, some of which might well be reproduced and 
 preserved for general information. In our various pur- 
 chases and transfers of church property the very best 
 service of trained legal minds has been constantly re- 
 quired. The Committee on Church Music has a most 
 important relation to the spiritual interest of the church. 
 The House Committee is the housekeeper of the church. 
 
fUtti atienue Ptes6ptetian Cijurcf) 8i 
 
 and sets the house in order and keeps it clean and always 
 fit for the worship of God. Its Finance Committe deals 
 with larger amounts and more important interests than 
 many Boards of Directors of business corporations. It 
 is a quiet service, little heralded, little appreciated, but 
 constant in its demands upon the self-denying spirit of 
 those who thus serve the church. 
 The Deacons. 
 
 The Deacons' Board, which is composed of nine mem- 
 bers, holds regular meetings bi-monthly and special meet- 
 ings as often as is required by circumstances; the April 
 meeting being the Annual Meeting, when a report of the 
 work done during the year is presented. 
 
 The church being large and having two mission chap- 
 els there are necessarily many members of the church 
 and congregation who look to the Board for assistance 
 and guidance. 
 
 While the Deacons are expected "to take care of the 
 poor and to distribute among them the collections which 
 may be raised for their use," they also do many things 
 not usually considered a part of their work. Members 
 of the Board visit the sick and see that proper medical 
 treatment is procured for them in their homes or that 
 admission to hospitals is secured when that is necessary ; 
 convalescent care is arranged for in Convalescent Homes 
 or in private boarding places in the country when the 
 person is sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital, but 
 not well enough to resume his usual vocation. The 
 Board arranges for the admission of the superannuated 
 into homes for the aged. This is at times very difficult, 
 as most of the homes for the aged are full, with long 
 waiting lists. Sometimes, after waiting for years, when 
 an opportunity comes, the person has changed his mind 
 and will not enter. Members of the Church who have 
 come from other places and who have friends or rela- 
 tives able and willing to care for them are sent back to 
 their old homes. During the past year one woman was 
 
82 Centennial Celebration of tbc 
 
 sent back to Scotland, one man to Texas, and one mem- 
 ber, becoming insane, was sent to an asylum. One mem- 
 ber who became stranded in England was brought back 
 to New York and placed in a home. Boarding places 
 must be found, and frequently the person becoming dis- 
 satisfied without sufficient cause refused to remain, and 
 another place must be found. Many other things of a 
 minor character must be done to satisfy all those de- 
 pendent upon us. 
 
 There are at the present time eighteen regular pen- 
 sioners under our care, and there are many others who 
 are helped from time to time. The Board spends in the 
 care of the dependent between $2,500 ir-} $3,000 each 
 year. 
 
 The Board also assists the Session at the communion 
 services at both the John Hall Memorial and Alexander 
 Chapels; meets at times with the other Boards of the 
 church to consider plans for carrying on the great work 
 of the entire church; and does such other work as may 
 be assigned to it by either the Pastor or Session. The 
 Board is always ready to do its part in special evangel- 
 istic services or any other way in which it may help to 
 advance the Kingdom of Christ. 
 Conclusion. 
 
 The reading of this sketch, for that is all that it can 
 be called, fragmentary though it be, will satisfy any one 
 that the problems before us as a great city church are 
 very little different, except in degree, from those so 
 pathetically recorded by Dr. James W. Alexander and 
 above quoted. How to reach the unchurched masses? 
 How to minister to the physical needs of the poor and 
 suffering? Is endowment necessary for downtown 
 work? Can our mission churches be set on their feet 
 with independent boards and with some hope of self- 
 support? Are we at the center of our own parish work? 
 How can our great church plant produce the largest 
 spiritual dividends? How can the midweek prayer 
 
Siltit atienue ptesOptetian Ctjurcj) 83 
 
 meetings be increased in efficiency and profit? How can 
 the competing attractions of social life on Wednesday 
 evening and on the Sabbath day be more effectively 
 counteracted and the deteriorating influence of disregard 
 of the ordinances of the church be avoided or remedied ? 
 These problems should stimulate and not discourage us, 
 and it is hoped that this review of our one hundred 
 years of life and activity will show that, so long as the 
 Gospel Message and appeal to Qiristian living issue 
 from the pulpit each Lord's day, and just so long as 
 the influence of Christian living emanates from our 
 congregation as a center, the church must and will con- 
 tinue to do its evangelizing and benevolent work with 
 increasing efficiency as it has been doing now for one 
 hundred years. 
 
84 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 CALENDAR OF CHURCH AND MISSION 
 ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK CITY. 
 
 SUNDAY 
 
 At Fifty-fifth Street. 
 
 Public Worship at ii A- M., 4 P. M. (and 8 P. M. from 
 November till April). 
 
 Bible School and Adults' Bible Classes, 9 130 A. M. 
 
 Devotional Meeting of Young People's Association, first 
 and third Sundays of each month, after the evening 
 service. 
 
 The Lord's Supper is administered on the second Sun- 
 days of October, December, February, April, and on 
 the last Sunday in May, at 4 o'ch.ick. 
 
 Baptism of Infants at the Morning Service on Com- 
 munion Sundays. 
 
 At Alexander Chapel. 
 
 Public Worship, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 
 
 Sunday School, 10 A. M. and 2 :i5 P. M. 
 
 The Young People's Forward Movement Society, 7:15 
 P. M. 
 
 The Lord's Supper is administered on the third Sundays 
 of October, December, February, April and June, at 
 7:45 P. M. 
 
 At Chinese Sunday School. 
 
 Chinese Prayer Meeting, 7:15 P. M. 
 
 Service of Song, Chinese and English, 7 45 P. M. 
 
 Sunday School, 8 P. M. 
 
 Teachers' Prayer Meeting, second Sunday in each month, 
 7:30 P. M. 
 
 At John Hcdl Memorial Chapel. 
 
 Public Worship, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 
 
 Intermediate Christian Endeavor, 10 130 A. M. 
 
 Y. P. S. C. E., 7 P. M. 
 
 The Lord's Supper is administered on the third Sundays 
 in October, December, February, April and June, 
 8 P. M. 
 
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 MONDAY 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
 Boys' Printing Class, 8 130 P. M. 
 
 TUESDAY 
 At Fifty-fifth Street. 
 Women's Employment Society, in the room over the 
 
 Chapel, 10 A. M. 
 Women's Prayer Meeting, at noon, in the Minister's 
 
 Room. 
 Trustees meet on 3rd Tuesdays of February, April, May 
 
 and October, and on the 4th Tuesday of December. 
 At Alexander Chapel. 
 Boys' Half-Hour Society, 4 P. M. 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
 Mid-week Prayer and Praise Service, 8 P. M. 
 Boys' Club Praise Meeting, 7:30 P. M. 
 Communicants' Bible Class for girls, 3 45 P. M. 
 
 WEDNESDAY 
 At Fifty-Hfth Street. 
 
 Mid-week Sei-vice in the Lecture Room, 8:15 P. M. 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
 Women's Bible Qass, 2 130 P. M. 
 Junior Girls' Gymnasium Class, 7 P. M. 
 Senior Girls' Gymnasium Class, 8 P. M. 
 Drill of John Hall Memorial Cadets, 7 -.30 P. M. 
 Men's Club Meeting, 8 P. M. 
 
 THURSDAY 
 At Fifty-fifth Street. 
 
 Stated Meeting of Session at 8:15, the Thursday even- 
 ing before the second Sunday of the month. 
 At Alexander Chapel. 
 Prayer Meeting, 8 P. M. 
 Choir Rehearsal, 9 to 9:40 P. M. 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. ' 
 
 Workers' Devotional Meeting, 9:30 A. M. 
 
86 Centennial Celefitation of tftc 
 
 Girls' Club Social Night, 8 P. M. 
 Boys' Club Hammock Class, 8 P. M. 
 Senior Boys' Qub Night, 8 P. M. 
 
 FRIDAY 
 
 At Fifty-fifth Street. 
 
 Ladies' Auxiliary Missionary Meeting in the Lecture 
 Room on the last Friday of each month, 1 1 A. M. 
 
 Young Ladies' Missionary Meeting in the Lecture Room 
 on the last Friday of each month, 3 P. M. 
 
 Junior Missionary Society on the first and third Fridays 
 of each month, at 3 145 P. M. 
 
 Preparatory Service on the Fridays previous to the Com- 
 munion, 8:15 P. M. 
 
 At Alexander Chapel. 
 
 Children's Hour, 4 P. M. 
 
 Junior Endeavor Society, 7 P. M. 
 
 Pastor's Aid Society, 8 P. M. 
 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
 
 Girls' Cooking Class, 8 P. M. 
 
 Girls' Millinery Qass, 8 P. M. 
 
 Boys' and Girls' Mission Band, 3 45 P. M. 
 
 Boys' Gymnasium Qass, 7 130 P. M. 
 
 At Alexander Chapel. 
 
 Sewing School, 10 130 A. M. 
 
 Church Sociable, second Tuesday in each month, 8 P. M. 
 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel. 
 
 Sewing School (November to May), 10:30 A. M. 
 
 EVERY EVENING 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel and Association House, 
 except Sunday and Tuesday, Qubs, Classes, Baths, 
 Reading Room and Gymnasium, open to members. 
 
 EVERY WEEK-DAY 
 At John Hall Memorial Chapel and Association House, 
 Day Nursery and Kindergarten, 1147 First Avenue. 
 
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 PREACHING, TEACHING AND WORKING 
 
 FORCE EMPLOYED BY THE CHURCH 
 
 OR ITS SOCIETIES. 
 
 Rzv. J. Ross Stevenson, D.D., Pastor, 19 East 66th Street. 
 Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D.D., Associate Minister, 7 West 
 
 SSth Street. 
 Mr. George C. Hood, Assistant, 7 West SSth Street. 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONARIES (associate ministers abroad). 
 Rev. Charles C. Sawtell, Seoul, Corea. 
 Guy W. Hamilton, M.D., Shuntefu, China. 
 Mrs. Hamilton, Shuntefu, China. 
 Rev. Edwin C. Hawley, Shuntefu, China. 
 Mrs. Hawley, Shuntefu, China. 
 Rev. J. A. Miller, Shuntefu, China. 
 Mrs. Miller, Shuntefu, China. 
 Miss Emma Hicks, Shuntefu, China. 
 
 Mrs. James W. Hawkes (Ladies' Auxiliary), Hamadan, 
 Persia. 
 
 HOME MISSIONARIES, outside New York City. 
 Martin B. Lewis, Minnesota. 
 Mr. John A. Sellers, Menau, Idaho. 
 
 Mr. R. G. Long (Ladies Auxiliary), Asheville Farm School. 
 Rev. S. R. Spriggs (Ladies' Auxiliary), Point Barrow, Alaska. 
 Rev. a. Grant Evans (^ Ladies' Auxiliary), Muskegee, I. T. 
 Miss Mathes (J^ Ladies' Auxiliary), Old D wight Mission, 
 
 I. T. 
 Farmer Sam (Ladies' Auxiliary), Old Dwight Mission, I. T. 
 
 The Ladies also provide for 
 Medical work in Hospital and Dispensary at Sitka. 
 Partial Support of Magyar Bible Reader. 
 Partial Support of Freedman's School, Mayersville, S. C. 
 Ten scholarships in Home Mission Schools. 
 
 CITY MISSIONARIES. 
 
 Rev. Hugh Pritchard at Alexander Chapel, 117 Waverly 
 
 Place. 
 Rev. Albert L. Evans at John Hall Memorial Chapel, 342 
 
 East 63d Street. 
 Rev. Paul R. Abbott at John Hall Memorial Chapel, 342 
 
 East 63d Street. 
 
88 Centennial Celebration of tbe 
 
 PAID WORKERS AT HOME CHURCH. 
 Secretary: 
 
 Miss Eugenia Torrence, 7 West 5Sth Street. 
 Sexton: 
 
 Mr. William Culyer, 7 West ssth Street. 
 Assistant Sexton: 
 
 Mr. Nathaniel Morrow, 7 West S5th Street. 
 
 Choir. 
 
 Organist: 
 
 Mr. Frank L. Sealy, 344 Park Avenue, Newark, N. J. 
 Soprano : 
 
 Mrs. Hissem K. DeMoss, 106 West 90th Street. 
 Contralto: 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Leonard, 40 Gramercy Park. 
 Tenor: 
 
 Mr. Edward W. Strong, 7 West pad Street. 
 Baritone: 
 
 Mr. Frederick Martin, 142 West 91st Street. 
 
 PAID WORKERS AT 63RD STREET. 
 Visitor: 
 
 Mrs. Agnes Philips, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Visitor: 
 
 Miss Elise Hoffman, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Organist and Chorister: 
 
 Mr. George E. Knowles, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Chorister: 
 
 William T. Randolph, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Pianist: 
 
 Emil Kohout, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Gymnasium Instructor: 
 
 Mr. James W. Mustor, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Stenographer: 
 
 Miss Jeannette Stark, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Matron of Day Nursery: 
 
 Mrs. C. M. McEvoy, 342 East 63d Street. 
 (Also three nurses, laundress and cook.) 
 Kindergartner: 
 
 Miss Margaret Penman, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Supt. of Men's Club: 
 
 Philip Hoefer, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Supt. of Girls' Club: 
 
 Six instructors for industrial classes who have not been se- 
 lected for this year's work. 
 
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 House Cleaner: 
 
 Mrs. Amelia Howell, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Janitor: 
 
 Mr. Paul Dahlman, 342 East 63d Street. 
 Ass't Janitor: 
 
 Mr. John Ryan, 342 East 63d Street. 
 
 PAID WORKERS AT ALEXANDER CHAPEL. 
 Organist: 
 
 Mr. W. F. Sherman. 
 Visitor: 
 
 Miss Mary Hawkshurst. 
 Sewing School Supervisor: 
 
 Mrs. Hyde. 
 Janitress: 
 
 Mrs. George Buixwinkle. 
 
 PASTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH, 
 1808-1908. 
 
 PASTORS. 
 
 1. John Brodhead Romeyn, D.D. 
 
 Served — November 9th, 1808, to February 22d, 1825. 
 Relation dissolved by death. 
 
 2. Cyrus Mason. 
 
 Served — December 7th, 1826, to September Sth, 1835. 
 Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 
 
 3. George Potts, D.D. 
 
 Served— May 17th, 1836, to April i6th, 1844. 
 Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 
 
 4. James W. Alexander, D.D. 
 
 Served— October 3d, 1844, to June 2Sth, 1849. 
 
 Relation dissolved by Presbytery in obedience to Gen- 
 eral Assembly's assignment of him to Princeton 
 Theological Seminary. 
 
 Reinstalled and served November 12th, 1851, to Octo- 
 ber nth, 1859. 
 
 Relation dissolved by death. 
 
 5. Nathan L. Rice, D.D. 
 
 Served— April 28th, 1861, to April l6th, 1867. 
 Relation dissolved by Presbytery. 
 
 6. John Hall, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Served — November 3d, 1867, to September 17th, 1898. 
 Relation dissolved by death. 
 
90 
 
 Centennial Celeticatton of ti)e 
 
 7. George T. Purves, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Served — May 22d, 1900, to September 24th, 1901. 
 Relation dissolved by death. 
 
 8. J. Ross Stevenson, D.D. 
 
 Serving from April 30th, 1902. 
 
 ELDERS. 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 Jan. I, 1809 — 
 Zechariah Lewis 
 WnxiAM Clevbxand 
 
 Oct. 31, 1809— 
 Elisha Coit 
 Solomon Williams 
 
 Dec. 27, 1810 — 
 Isaac Ives 
 John E. Caldwell 
 Samuel Whiting 
 George Fitch 
 DiviE Bethune 
 
 Aug. I, 1819— 
 Benjamin Strong 
 Oliver Wilcox 
 Hugh Auchincloss 
 Thomas Masters 
 
 Mar. 9, 1827 — 
 Francis Markoe 
 
 Nov. I, 1829 — 
 Joseph Otis 
 Horace Hinsdale 
 Cyrenius Beers 
 John W. Carrington 
 Henry Young 
 
 Dec. 13, 1831— 
 Simeon Hyde 
 
 Apr. 13, 184s— 
 William Walker 
 Nathan T. Jennings 
 George M. McLean 
 
 Apr. II, 1853— 
 Joseph Hyde 
 Thomas U. Smith 
 J. J. Gkeenough 
 James M. Halsted 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 Feb. 16, 1862— 
 David Hoadley 
 David Irwin 
 Henry Day 
 Henry G. DeForest 
 Jeremiah Baker 
 
 Nov. 22, 1869 — 
 Jacob D. Vermilye 
 Wm. L. Skidmore 
 James Fraser 
 Robert Bliss 
 Cornelius R. Agnew 
 
 Mar. 8, ,1877— 
 John Sinclair 
 John Paton 
 Malcolm Graham 
 John H. Mortimer 
 William Campbell 
 Hooper C. Van Vorst 
 William Sloane 
 
 Mar. 12, 1882 — 
 John Sloane 
 John N. Ewell 
 George Hunter Brown 
 Birdseye Blakeman 
 Ewen McIntyre 
 Silas B. Brownell 
 
 Apr. 12, 1891 — 
 Robert Beggs 
 Henry L. Smith 
 John J. McCook 
 H. Edwards Rowland 
 William Dulles, Jr. 
 Henry B. Barnes 
 
 May 22, 1898 — 
 James A, Frame 
 
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 913 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 Wm. Irwin 
 
 Samuel B. Schieffelin 
 James Talcott 
 Dec. 14, 1902 — 
 George Taylor 
 James M. Stuart 
 Samuel S. Auchincloss 
 
 CHOSEN 
 
 Edwin J. Gillies 
 Henky W. Jessup 
 Apr. I, 1906 — 
 D wight H. Day 
 Charles F. Darlington 
 Henry B. Barnes ( reinstalled) 
 Fred'k a. Wallis 
 
 DEACONS. 
 
 chosen 
 
 Jan. I, 1809 — 
 George Fitch 
 
 Dec. 27, 1810 — 
 William Hau, 
 OuvER Wilcox 
 Hugh Auchincloss 
 
 Aug. I, 1819 — 
 Charles Richards 
 Cyrenius Beers 
 Horace Hinsdale 
 
 Dec. 18, 1821— 
 Knowles Taylor 
 Marcus Wilbur 
 
 Nov. I, 1829 — 
 Dennis Davenport 
 Alfred C. Post 
 William Walker 
 
 Apr. 13, 184s— 
 Thomas U. Smith 
 
 GURDON BuRCHAKD 
 
 J. J. Greenough 
 
 Apr. II, 1853— 
 Henry Day 
 Henry G. DeForest 
 
 Feb. 16, 1862— 
 JosiAH S. Leverett 
 William L. Skidmore 
 Horace J. Fairchild 
 
 Nov. 22, 1869— 
 
 chosen 
 
 John H. Mortimer 
 
 Frederick W. Whittemore 
 Mar. 8, 1877— 
 
 Alexander Maitland 
 
 John Sloane 
 
 Edgar S. Auchincloss 
 
 EwEN McIntyre 
 Mar. 12, 1882 — 
 
 Henry L. Smith 
 
 George G. Wheelock, M. D. 
 
 David Magie, M. D. 
 
 Robert Beggs 
 Apr. 12, 1891— 
 
 John Inglis 
 
 James A. Frame 
 
 James R. Jesuf, Jr. 
 May 22, 1898 — 
 
 Francis Forbes 
 
 Joel W. Thorne 
 
 Alfred Vondermuhl 
 Dec. 14, ig02 — 
 
 Silas E. Hallock, M. D. 
 
 Matthew C. Fleming 
 
 Warner M. Van Norden 
 Apr. I, 1906 — 
 
 Henry B. Barnes, Jr. 
 
 Thomas Savage Clay 
 
 James A. Hawes 
 
 John Nicolson 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 The following were members of the Board of Trus- 
 tees. To ascertain who were the nine serving at any 
 
92 
 
 Centennial Celeliration of tfte 
 
 given date after 1829, read in the names for the two 
 preceding years also. Our Trustees are elected three 
 every year, to serve three years, and are not immediately 
 eligible for reelection. 
 
 Mar. 2, 1827 — 
 
 Thomas Darling 
 
 Robert Buloid 
 
 Geo. W. Talbot 
 
 RuFus Davenport 
 
 Wm. H. Halsted 
 
 Ralph Olmsted 
 
 Wm. W. Chester 
 
 Heman Averill 
 Dec. 22, 1827 — 
 
 Joel Post 
 
 Rufus Davenport 
 
 Wm. W. Chester 
 
 Rufus L. Nevins 
 
 Geo. W. Talbot 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 
 John A. Stevens 
 
 Silas Brown 
 Feb. 20, 1828— 
 
 John A. Stevens 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 
 Rufus L. Nevins 
 Dec. 8, 1828— 
 
 Geo. Griswold 
 
 (Resigned Dec. 14, 1829) 
 
 Silas Brown 
 
 John C. Johnson 
 Dec. 14, 1829 — 
 
 John Taylor 
 
 (Resigned Dec, 1830) 
 
 Wm. Howard 
 
 Charles Squire 
 
 Wm. C. Mulligan 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec 13, 1830 — 
 
 Seth p. Staples 
 
 Barzillai Deming 
 
 Wm. p. Stuart 
 (Deceased 183 1) 
 
 Thomas Darling 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 Dec. 12, 183 1— 
 
 GuRDON Buck 
 
 Caleb O. Halsted 
 
 David Codwise 
 
 R. H. McCuRDY 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 24, 1832— 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 
 Najah Taylor 
 
 Joel Post 
 
 (Deceased 1835) 
 Dec. 9, 1833— 
 
 Wm. Howard 
 
 Samuel Stevens 
 (Declined) 
 
 Heman Averill 
 
 (Deceased 1835) 
 Dec 8, 1834— 
 
 Robert Buloid 
 
 GuRDON Buck, Jr. 
 Dec 9, 1839— 
 
 Gardiner G. Howland 
 
 Benj. L. Swan 
 (Declined) 
 
 David Lee 
 Dec. 14, 1840 — 
 
 Robert Buloid 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 
 Silas Brown 
 
 Wm. H. Smith 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 13, 1841 — 
 
 Wm. Howard 
 
 James N. Cobb 
 
 Henry W. Olcott 
 
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 93 
 
 Dec. 12, 1842— 
 Wm. M. Halsted 
 
 (Resigned 1844) 
 John C. Green 
 
 (Declined) 
 John A. Underwood 
 
 (Resigned Apr., 1843) 
 Dec. II, 1843— 
 Stephen Whitney 
 Seth Grosvenot 
 
 (Declined) 
 Henry Andrews 
 RuFus Leavttt 
 
 (Resigned 1844) 
 Harvey Weed 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 (Resigned 1844) 
 Wm. M. Halsted 
 David Lee 
 
 (Declined) 
 John A. Stevens 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 Feb. 16, 1835— 
 
 Morris Ketchum 
 
 James N. Cobb 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 14, 183s— 
 
 Gordon Buck 
 
 Thomas Darling 
 
 RuFus Davenport 
 Dec. 12, 1836 — 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 
 John G. Nelson 
 
 Barzillai Deming 
 Dec. II, 1837— 
 
 William Howard 
 
 James N. Cobb 
 
 Henry W. Olcott 
 Dec. 10, 183S— 
 
 Wm. M. Halsted 
 
 John A, Stevens 
 Dec. 16, 1844— 
 
 Robert Buloid 
 
 Geo. Ireland 
 
 Seth Grosvenor 
 Joseph Gerard 
 John Auchincloss 
 
 Dec. IS, 184s— 
 James N. Cobb 
 Nathaniel Halsted 
 Thomas A. Cummins 
 
 Dec. 21, 1846 — 
 Thomas Hugh Smith 
 Joseph Girard 
 John Auchincloss 
 James N. Cobb 
 
 Dec. 27, 1847 — 
 Rufus Davenport 
 Edward Field 
 Charles St. John 
 
 Dec. 18, 1848— 
 George Ireland 
 William Scott 
 Henry G. De Forest 
 
 Dec. 18, 1849— 
 Stephen Whitney 
 James N. Cobb 
 Thomas A. Cummins 
 
 Dec. 16, 1850— 
 John Auchincloss 
 Thomas Scott 
 Thomas Hugh Smith 
 Stephen Whitney 
 
 Dec. IS, 1851— 
 Rufus Davenport 
 Edmund Penfold 
 Horatio S. Brown 
 
 Dec. 20, 1852 — 
 Richard Irwin 
 Henry S. Terbell 
 Henry G. De Forest 
 Rufus Davenport 
 
 Jan. 16, i8S4— 
 Wm. Scott 
 James N. Cobb 
 Wm. Whitewright, Jr. 
 
 Dec. 19, 1854— 
 Robert L. Stuart 
 
94 
 
 Centennial Cele&tation of tbt 
 
 Wm. G. Lambert 
 G. Talbot Olyphant 
 
 Jan. 21, 1856— 
 Peter McMartin 
 Edmund Penpold 
 Thomas A. Cummins 
 
 Feb. 18, 1857— 
 Charles F. Park 
 Henry S. Terbell 
 Moses A. Hoppock 
 
 Dec. 30. i8S7— 
 William Scott 
 James N. Cobb 
 Henry G. De Forest 
 
 Dec. 27, 1858— 
 Geo. Talbot Olyphant 
 Thos. S. Young 
 James Low. 
 
 Jan. 16, i860 — 
 Lucius Hopkins 
 James Barnes 
 Henry M. Alexander 
 
 Jan. 26, 1861 — 
 Moses G. Baldwin 
 Moses A. Hoppock 
 Peter McMartin 
 
 Jan. 13, 1862 — 
 Edward H. Owen 
 Edward S. Clark 
 Robert Girsen 
 
 Jan. 31, 1863— 
 William Paton 
 G. Talbot Olyphant 
 James Fraser 
 
 Jan. 20, 1864 — 
 Thomas A. Cummins 
 
 (For two years) 
 Henry M. Alexander 
 Oliver Harriman 
 Jacob Van Wagenen 
 
 Dec. 29, 1865 — 
 Robert L. Stuart 
 Robert Gordon 
 
 (Resigned 1867) 
 
 Lucius Hopkins 
 
 Jan. 5, 1867— 
 William Paton 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 E. H. Owen 
 Harvey Fisk 
 James Eraser 
 
 Jan. 8, 1868— 
 John H. Mortimer 
 Parker Handy 
 Jacob Van Wagenen 
 
 Jan. II, 1869 — 
 John A. Stewart 
 Moses G. Baldwin 
 D. Edwin Hawley 
 
 Dec. 31, 1869— 
 Robert S. Stuart 
 William Paton 
 Oliver Harriman 
 
 Dec. 21, 1870 — 
 Robert Bonner 
 James R. Jesup 
 James W. Alexander 
 
 Dec. 22, 1871 — 
 W. K. Major 
 Charles Lanier 
 Jacob Van Wagenen 
 
 Dec. 20, 1872 — 
 John A. Stewart 
 Moses G. Baldwin 
 D. Edwin Hawley 
 
 Dec 19, 1873— 
 Robert L. Stuart 
 William Sloane 
 John S. Kennedy 
 
 Dec. 28, 1874 — 
 James Low 
 Robert Bonner 
 Henry B. Hyde 
 
 Dec. 28, 187s — 
 Hooper C. Van Vorst- 
 Henry A. Hurlbut 
 Henry M. Alexander 
 
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 95 
 
 Dec. 26, 1876— 
 John A. Stewart 
 William Libbey 
 Harvey Fisk 
 
 (Resigned 1878) 
 
 Dec. 26, 1877— 
 Robert L. Stewart 
 John S. Kennedy 
 Oliver Harriman 
 
 Dec 23, 1878— 
 Robert Bonner 
 Noah Davis 
 Robert Hoe 
 
 BiRDSEYE BlAKEMAN 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 23, 1879— 
 
 Wm. D. Sloane 
 
 Parker Handy 
 
 Charles Lanier 
 Dec. 28, 1880— 
 
 BiRDSEYE BlAKEMAN 
 
 Henry A. Hurlbut 
 
 John A. Livingston 
 
 (Deceased 1882) 
 
 Dec. 27, 1881— 
 Robert L. Stuart 
 John S. Kennedy 
 Jacob Campbell 
 
 Dec. 26, 1882— 
 Robert Bonner 
 Thomas C. Sloane 
 Robert W. De Forest 
 
 Dec. 24, 1883— 
 Parker Handy 
 Oliver Harriman 
 John W. AuchinojOSS 
 Samuel Thorne 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 Dec. 23, 1884— 
 Henry A. Hurlbut 
 Fred Sturges 
 A. G. Agnew 
 
 Dec. 22, 1885— 
 John S. Kennedy 
 
 Wm. D. Sloane 
 
 Samuel Thorne 
 Dec. 28, 1886— 
 
 Robert Bonner 
 
 Robert W. De Forest 
 
 John H. Inman 
 Dec. 27, 1887— 
 
 Oliver Harriman 
 
 John W. Auchincloss 
 
 Constance A. Andrews 
 Dec. 18, 1888— 
 
 Henry A. Hurlbut 
 
 Thos. C. Sloane 
 
 Frederic Sturges 
 Dec. 24, 1889— 
 
 John S. Kennedy 
 
 Wm. a. Wheelock 
 
 James O. Sheldon 
 Dec. 23, i8go— 
 
 Robert Bonner 
 
 Robert W. De Forest 
 
 James R. Jesup 
 Dec. 22, 1891 — 
 
 Oliver Harriman 
 
 Wm. D. Sloane 
 
 John W. Auchincloss 
 (Resigned 1892) 
 Dec. 27, 1892 — 
 
 Frederic Sturges 
 
 John P. Duncan 
 
 Horace E. Garth 
 
 Hugh D. Auchincloss 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 26, 1893 — 
 
 John S. Kennedy 
 
 James O. Sheldon 
 
 James Frazer 
 Dec. 27, 1894 — 
 
 Robert Bonner 
 
 Robert W. De Forest 
 
 James R. Jesup 
 Dec. 17, 189s— 
 
 R Francis Hyde 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 
96 
 
 Centennial Celebration of tfie 
 
 Robert H. Robertson 
 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 Francis Forbes 
 Dec. 22, 1896 — 
 John P. Duncan 
 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 Horace R Garth 
 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 Geo. G. Wheelock 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 Dec. 28, 1897-r 
 John S. Kennedy 
 
 (Resigned 1898) 
 James O. Sheldon 
 James Fraser 
 
 (Deceased 1898) 
 Feb. 14, 1898— 
 Samuel Thomas 
 Robert W. Stuart 
 Geo. F. Vietor 
 John W. Auchincloss 
 Charles P. Britton 
 Geo. B. Agnew 
 
 (To fill vacancies) 
 Dec. 27, 1898— 
 Robert Bonner 
 
 (Deceased 1899) 
 A. G. Agnew 
 Horace S. Ely 
 Dec. 26, 1899 — 
 Charles P. Britton 
 Wm. C. McGibbon 
 Alfred Vondermuhl 
 Francis Forbes 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 Dec. 25, 1900— 
 Robert W. Stuart 
 Geo. F. Vietor 
 Noah C. Rogers 
 
 Dec. 17, 1901 — 
 
 Geo. B. Agnew 
 
 James M. Edwards 
 
 Geo. Taylor 
 Dec. 23, 1902 — 
 
 Francis Forbes 
 
 (Deceased 1904) 
 
 Stuart Duncan 
 
 Edgar S. Auchincloss 
 Dec. 22, 1903 — 
 
 Charles P. Britton 
 
 Horace S. Ely 
 
 Alfred Vondermuhl 
 Dec. 27, 1904 — 
 
 A. G. Agnew 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 Geo. F. Vietor 
 
 Noah C. Rogers 
 (Resigned 1906) 
 
 James H. Schmelzel 
 Dec. 4, 190S— 
 
 G. B. Agnew 
 
 James M. Edwards 
 
 Geo. Taylor 
 Dec. 3, 1906 — 
 
 John Stewart 
 
 (To fill vacancy) 
 
 Hugh Getty 
 
 John V. Irwin 
 
 Wm. H. Woodin 
 Dec. 2, 1907 — 
 
 C. R. Agnew 
 
 E. S. Auchincloss 
 
 M. C. Fleming 
 Dec. 7, 1908 — 
 
 Alfred Vondermuhll 
 
 James H. Schmelzel 
 
 C. B. Alexander 
 
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 PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD. 
 
 FROM 1827 TO DATE. 
 
 ELECTED 
 
 Joel Post 1827 
 
 RuFus Davenport 1828, 1852, 1853 
 
 Wm. Howard . . 1830, 1831, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1839 
 
 Najah Taylor 1832, 1833 
 
 Robert Buloid 1837, 1840, 1841, 1842 
 
 Stephen Whitney . . . 1843, 1844, 1845, 1850, 1851 
 
 James N. Cobb 1846, i8s8, 1859, i860 
 
 Geo. Ireland 1848, 1849 
 
 Richard Irvin 1854, 1855 
 
 William Scott i8s6 
 
 Peter McMartin 1857, 1863, 1864, 1863 
 
 Moses A. Hoppock 1861 
 
 James Barnes 1862 
 
 Edw. H. Owen 1867 
 
 William Paton 1868 
 
 Moses G. Baldwin 1869, 1874 
 
 Parker Handy 1869, 1880 
 
 Robert L. Stuart . . . 1870, 187s, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 
 
 Oliver Harriman . . ■ 1871 
 
 John A. Stewart 1872, 1873 
 
 Robert Bonner . 1876, 1883, 1884, 1887, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1896 
 
 Henry A. Hurlbut 1882 
 
 John S. Kennedy . . 1885, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1897 
 
 Thomas C. Sloane 1888 
 
 Horace E. Garth 1893 
 
 James O. Sheldon 1898, 1899 
 
 A. G. Agnew 1900 
 
 Alfred Vondermuhl 1901, 1904, 190S 
 
 Robert W. Stuart 1902 
 
 Geo. B. Agnew 1903, 1907 
 
 Geo. F. Vietor 1906 
 
 James H. Schmelzel 1908 
 
 SECRETARIES. 
 
 Heman Averill 
 
 RuFus L. Nevins 
 
 Caleb O. Halsted 1833 
 
 John Worthington 1844 
 
 Thomas Hugh Smith 1849 
 
 Robert Bliss 1874 
 
 John W. Auchincloss 1885 
 
98 Centennial otelefttation of tfie 
 
 Henry B. Barnes 1892 
 
 R Francis Hyde 1896 
 
 Francis Forbes 1898 
 
 EIdgar S. Auchincloss 1904 
 
 TREASURERS. 
 
 Heman Averill 
 
 RuFus L. Nevins 
 
 Caleb O. Halsted 1833 
 
 John Worthington 1844 
 
 Thomas Hugh Smith 1849 
 
 D. Edwin Hawley 1869 
 
 William Sloane 1875 
 
 John H. Mortimer 1879 
 
 James Frazer 1883 
 
 John P. Duncan 1897 
 
 John W. Auchincloss 1898 
 
 William C. McGibbon 1899 
 
 Noah C Rogers 1903 
 
 C. R. Agnew 1906 
 
 REPORT AS TO WORK AND CONDITION OF 
 
 VARIOUS SOCIETIES AND MISSIONS 
 
 OF OUR CHURCH. 
 
 In a centennial year-book it is not only necessary to 
 review the past, but to give some account of existing 
 activities in order that the complete record may serve 
 as a starting point hereafter for future historians of the 
 church. The following statements are concise and up 
 to date, and have been separately prepared by members 
 or officers of the various organizations whose work is 
 thus presented. 
 
 THE HOME BIBLE SCHOOL. 
 
 If our Bible School were to be judged solely by its 
 numbers it would not stand so well at present as we 
 might wish. During the ten years immediately follow- 
 ing the moving of the church from Nineteenth Street 
 to its present location in 1875, the school was the largest 
 
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 numerically that it has been in its history, the attendance 
 ranging from 300 to 375. To the certain knowledge of 
 many of the people of our church, however, the condi- 
 tions which the school has to meet to-day are very dif- 
 ferent from what they were in the seventies and eighties. 
 As early as 1897, when Mr. H. Edwards Rowland first 
 became superintendent of the school, upon the death of 
 Mr. James Frazer, who had acted in that capacity for 
 twenty-five years, it was noted that the average attend- 
 ance had fallen to 133, while the total enrollment was 
 193. Numerous methods were adopted at that time to 
 build up the attendance of the school. In 1899 a lady 
 visitor was employed, but though she visited over 1,200 
 families in the vicinity of the church she found com- 
 paratively few children available for our school, and the 
 attendance was not increased. A similar effort was made 
 in 1902, when about 250 families were visited, with 
 about the same results. The enrollment then was 131, 
 with an average attendance of about 86. This past year 
 the enrollment, including officers and the Men's Bible 
 Class as was done in previous years, was 249, with an 
 average attendance of about 107. A careful examina- 
 tion of the causes of the decrease shows that, as com- 
 pared with former years, there are less children in the 
 congregation, and fewer who live near enough to the 
 church to conveniently attend the Bible School. It is 
 safe to say, however, that the school is serving com- 
 paratively as large a proportion of the available children 
 of our congregation as in previous years. 
 
 Numbers alone, however, are not the sole nor even 
 the best test. It is the work which is and has been ac- 
 complished by the school that brings us encouragement. 
 "Quality not quantity" is our motto. The spirit of in- 
 tense earnestness, of unselfish devotion and of tireless 
 effort on the part of the teachers is worthy of special 
 note. It is often commented upon by those who come 
 in contact with the school. Every Sunday morning dur- 
 
loo Centennial Celefitation of t|)e 
 
 ing the session the teachers meet together in the min- 
 ister's room for a short prayer meeting before the school 
 opens at 9 :30, and it is there .that the warm pulse of the 
 school may be felt. This spirit necessarily finds its 
 counterpart in the work which is accomplished by the 
 scholars themselves. As a general rule, they are deeply 
 interested and do a very considerable amount of work 
 at home. 
 
 Although monthly teachers' meetings were begun in 
 1899, they do not seem to have been regularly kept up 
 until Rev. Geo. H. Trull, the then Assistant Minister of 
 our church, became the Superintendent in 1903. The 
 same year the school was moved from the old Sunday- 
 school room down to the lecture room on the ground 
 floor and the name "Bible School" was substituted for 
 "Sunday School." The most important development of 
 recent years, however, has been the adoption of a course 
 of graded supplemental work in systematic Bible study. 
 This course, which was prepared by Mr. Trull, was 
 formally approved by the Session October 12th, 1905, 
 and adopted by the teachers October 15th, 1905. Some 
 of the courses were used by the School in 1904. It is 
 the purpose of this course to furnish systematic training 
 in such subjects as should be familiar to every intelligent 
 Christian. It was felt that this could not be accomplished 
 by the use of the International Lessons alone. The 
 school is graded into Beginners, Primary, Junior, Inter- 
 mediate and Senior Departments. Fifteen minutes each 
 Sunday are devoted to this supplemental work and thirty 
 minutes to the study of the International Lesson. We 
 thus use a combination of the two systems. In the Be- 
 ginners' Department the lessons arranged by the Inter- 
 national Lesson Committee are used. In the Primary 
 Department the supplemental work consists entirely of 
 memorizing important scripture texts and hymns. The 
 work for the other grades is as follows : 
 
Jfiftf) auenue presfiptctian Cl)Utc|) loi 
 
 Junior Department. 
 
 1st year — ^The Books of the Bible. 
 
 2nd year — Bible Geography. 
 
 3rd year — Old Testament History. 
 
 4th year — New Testament History. 
 Intermediate Depcurtment. 
 
 1st year — The Bible : Its Origin and Contents. 
 
 2nd year — Bible History. 
 
 3rd year — God's Plan of Redemption. 
 
 4th year — Church History. 
 Senior Department. 
 
 1st year — Presbyterianism. 
 
 2nd year — Bible Doctrines. 
 
 3rd year — Bible Ceremonials and Customs. 
 
 The memorizing of the catechism and certain impor- 
 tant hymns is also distributed through the four years of 
 the Junior Department. The text book for the fourth 
 year of the Intermediate Department, entitled "A Short 
 Course in Bible History," was prepared by one of the 
 teachers, and has been used not only by our own but by 
 other schools. One of the most important features of 
 the course is the study of missions. Ten Sundays of 
 each year are set aside for the study of missions in the 
 fifteen minute supplemental work period. The first mis- 
 sionary committee was appointed December 6th, 1903, 
 and consisted of Miss Eleanor O. Brownell, Miss Mary 
 L. Moorehead, and Miss Marie Winkhaus. The work 
 of this and subsequent missionary committees has been 
 most effective. Three series of text books on missions 
 for junior and senior grades were edited by Mr. Trull 
 in three successive years during his connection with the 
 church and were used by the school. These books have 
 been widely used by other schools and other denomina- 
 tions. Last year a series of papers on China were pre- 
 pared by the teachers for use in the classes. Missionary 
 scrap-books, a missionary bulletin board, special collec- 
 tions, and other devices have greatly stimulated the in- 
 
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 terest of the school in world-wide missions. The school 
 has continued its yearly contribution of $250 to the sup- 
 port of Mr. Martin B. Lewis, who for so many years 
 has been engaged in the establishment of Sunday Schools 
 in the far West. The whole of the collections is de- 
 voted to benevolence, the expenses of the school being 
 provided for by an annual appropriation of $300 by the 
 trustees of the church. 
 
 Two important changes should be here noted. The 
 Junior Missionary Society, which had been an independ- 
 ent organization, was taken under the jurisdiction of the 
 Bible School on April 9th, 1904. The officers of this 
 organization are now annually elected by the teachers 
 of the Bible School. The other change relates to the 
 Men's Bible Qass. For thirty-five years, from 1871 to 
 1906, Col. John J. McCook had taught a Bible Class of 
 young men in the Home Sunday School. In December, 
 1906, as the result of a meeting of the men of the church, 
 called by the pastor. Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, a more 
 general Men's Bible Qass was orgMiized. This class 
 was placed under the jurisdiction of the Men's Society 
 and Dr. Stevenson was its leader for the first year. In 
 December, 1907, Dr. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, our Asso- 
 ciate Minister, became its leader. Into this class Col. Mc- 
 Cook merged his class. An effort was also made to 
 merge a class of young men taught by Mr. Dwight H. 
 Day, but without success, and this class has since been 
 taught by Mr. Chas. F. Darlington. Thus while the 
 present Men's Bible Class is technically under the juris- 
 diction of the Men's Society, it is logically a part of the 
 Bible School. It absorbed the oldest and one of the 
 most successful classes of the main school ; its attendance 
 is regularly reported, and its collections pass through the 
 treasurer of the main school, and its leader regularly at- 
 tends the monthly teachers' meetings. 
 
 The school felt keenly the loss of Mr. Trull, who was 
 called last year to the larger work of the Secretaryship 
 
jFfftI) avienue presljpterian Cijutci) 103 
 
 of the Sunday School Department of the Board of For- 
 eign Missions. His influence in introducing a systematic 
 course of study into the school, in implanting a deep 
 and active interest in the great subject of missions, and 
 in many others ways, will long be felt. In the fall of 
 1907, in the absence of a regular superintendent, Mr. 
 Henry W. Jessup, as chairman of the Session's Commit- 
 tee on the Bible School, served as Superintendent for 
 a while until the present acting superintendent was ap- 
 pointed by the teachers. 
 
 Just a word as to the future. A strong Sunday School 
 in a church is always a healthy sign. A small, weak 
 Sunday School portends a struggle for the church in the 
 days to come. Here is not only where the children and 
 young people of our congregation are trained in things 
 spiritual, but it is here that the ties of attachment for 
 the house and work of our Master are fastened around 
 their young hearts. If we do not train our young people 
 to love our own home church and to take an interest in 
 its activities, our own home church will lose them when 
 they are most needed. The great majority of the mem- 
 bers of our Bible School accept the Faith and join the 
 church. The great majority of the active workers in 
 our church have come from the Sunday School. The 
 inference is plain. But not only must the Bible School 
 aim to train the children of the families of our own con- 
 gregation. It must reach out after the children of avail- 
 able families in our own neighborhood who are not al- 
 ready connected with any church. The Fifth Avenue 
 Church has a special mission, and it is a great mission. 
 In no field of church activity will a given amount of 
 effort be so effective in enabling us to fulfill that mission 
 as in bringing the children of families, for which the 
 Fifth Avenue Church is primarily responsible, into the 
 Bible School and in training them up in an intelligent 
 and affectionate love for the Christian Faith and for the 
 Christian Church. The influence of our church in the 
 
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 future is largely dependent upon the effectiveness of our 
 work of to-day. If the Bible School fulfills its full mis- 
 sion in the present there is strong hope that the church 
 will fulfill its full mission in the future. The Christmas 
 (1908) report shows the roll of the main school to be 
 43% larger than in 1907. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 Mr. J. Ard Haughwout, Superintendent, 343 West s6th Street. 
 Mr. George C. Hood, Asst. Superintendent, 7 West ssth Street. 
 Mr. Alfred Geery, Treasurer, 203 West S4th Street. 
 Miss Ethel Thompson, Secretary, 30 East ssth Street. 
 Mrs. Alfred Geery, Pianist, 203 West S4th Street. 
 Mr. Walter H. Merritt, Librarian. 
 
 TEACHERS 
 Miss Marian G. Bradford Mrs. John Sinclair 
 
 Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson Miss Marie H. Winkhaus 
 
 Mrs. Edwin F. Hallenbeck Miss Adele Forbes 
 
 Mrs. James H. Schmelzel Miss Helene Magnus 
 
 Miss S. Katherine B. Eckerson Miss Harriet Chidester 
 Miss Ruth G. Winant Dr. Charles E. McPeek 
 
 Miss Grace Brownell Mr. Charles F. Darlington 
 
 Miss Marjorie T. Sinclair Mr. John Stewart " 
 
 Miss Ida T. Hawkins Miss Edith L. Shearer 
 
 Mr. George C. Hood 
 
 DUANE STREET MISSION. 
 
 When the Fifth Avenue Church was located at Duane 
 Street, the Duane Street Mission was organized, under 
 the leadership of the pastor. Dr. James W. Alexander, 
 for whom it was subsequently named. 
 
 In the year 1852, when the congregation hitherto wor- 
 shiping there had foimd it necessary, because of the rapid 
 encroachment of business in down-town districts, to 
 erect another building at the corner of Nineteenth Street 
 and Fifth Avenue, the Mission itself for similar reasons 
 was transferred to Canal Street, near Varick, where a 
 splendid and extensive service was rendered. 
 
 In 1863 it was removed to 7 and 9 King Street. As 
 it had increased much during these years in strength and 
 
ALEXANDER CHAPEL 
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jFiftI) aiienue l^resfipterian Cljutcl) 105 
 
 numbers, it was decided to raze these buildings, whicli 
 were old and greatly out of repair, and to erect the 
 present chapel on their site. This was done in 1872. 
 
 The first chapel minister was the Rev. Samuel Curtis, 
 installed in 1870, who, after a successful pastorate of 
 three years, resigned in order to accept a professorship 
 in the Congregational Theological Seminary of Chicago. 
 He was succeeded by the Rev. H. A. Davenport, who 
 did a valiant service, resigning in 1878 to accept a call 
 to the First Presbyterian Church of Bridgeport, Con- 
 necticut. In 1880, the Rev. Hugh Pritchard was or- 
 dained and installed pastor. Mr. Pritchard, who stilk 
 remains in charge, by faithful and efficient endeavors, 
 has proven a potent factor in the fruitfulness and per- 
 manency of the work. 
 
 ALEXANDER CHAPEL. 
 
 The early records of Alexander Mission are so incom- 
 plete that the precise date of its organization can only- 
 be conjectured as above stated. It is evident, however, 
 that its semi-centennial might have been celebrated some 
 years ago, from the following entry in Dr. James W. 
 Alexander's Familiar Letters: "Decem'ber 25th, 1855, 
 three hundred and fifty urchins and urchinesses were 
 present at our cake and candy fete at the Mission. Our 
 two industrial schools promise well — the lower one on 
 Duane Street numbers two hundred." 
 
 Owing to the encroachments of business and the move- 
 ment of the population northward, the Mission was re- 
 moved in the fall of 1859 from Duane Street to a build- 
 ing situated near the corner of Canal and Varick Streets, 
 and in an old loft heretofore used for the storage of 
 furniture the work was carried on for some years, being 
 marked by steady growth and increasing usefulness. 
 While the Mission was yet located on Duane Street, it 
 had enlisted the sympathy and support of Mr. Thomas 
 S. Adams, who for thirty years devoted much of his. 
 
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 time to visiting and gathering neglected children into 
 the Sunday School. 
 
 In 1863, owing to inadequate accommodation, and the 
 need of a more central location, two frame baiildings, 
 situated on lots 7 and 9, King Street, were bought and 
 refitted for the end designed. During its occupancy of 
 these buildings, the Mission grew mightily. 
 
 Following the advent of Dr. John Hall into the pas- 
 torate of the home church, preaching services on alter- 
 nate Sunday evenings became a feature of the work — 
 attendance increased, workers multiplied, and many were 
 added to the church on profession of faith. The need of 
 a building adapted to the growing needs of the work 
 became so apparent, that in 1872, through the generous 
 support of Messrs. Bonner, Alexander, and Day, the 
 present commodious and substantial edifice was erected. 
 
 The first minister in charge was the Rev. Samuel Cur- 
 tis, who, after three years of fruitful service, reUnquished 
 his pastorate for a professorship in the Congregational 
 Theological Seminary, Chicago. He was succeeded by 
 the Rev. Henry A. Davenport. From the records, it ap- 
 pears that during his pastorate the congregation had an 
 enrollment of 150, the Sunday School 450, the Industrial 
 School 310, and 80 were received into the fellowship of 
 the church. He resigned in 1879, having accepted a call 
 to the First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeport, Conn. In 
 the year 1880, the present pastor was ordained and in- 
 stalled. The results attained and the work accomplished 
 during his pastorate cannot fairly be estimated by the 
 present membership of the chapel. Immigration has 
 brought into the field a mixed and migratory popula- 
 tion — churches once strong and influential have removed 
 northward, while others have become extinct; scores of 
 families who gave us yeoman service in the work have 
 moved into the outlying districts; foreigners are crowd- 
 ing into the field who can only be reached by mission- 
 aries speaking their own tongue, and the day is not very 
 
jfiftl) auenue prestipterian Cljutct) 107 
 
 remote when existing methods of chapel work will have 
 to be readjusted to new conditions; yet, notwithstanding 
 these drawbacks, the work up to date is full of inspira- 
 tion and encouragement. The Sunday services have an 
 average attendance of more than a hundred; the prayer 
 meetings are edifying and energizing to church life, from 
 60 to 70 in attendance; the several agencies relating to 
 the young people and the children (with a total mem- 
 bership of 175) are in successful operation, while at the 
 last two communions 25 were added to the church. The 
 number of communicants at the present time is 224, and 
 membership of Sunday School is 310. 
 
 Among those prominently identified at different peri- 
 ods with work of the Sunday School might be men- 
 tioned Mr. L. A. Bradley, Mr. W. A. Ferguson, Mr. N. 
 A. McBride, Mr. W. A. Tucker, and Mr. Henry B. 
 Barnes, Jr. ; and among those who have made for them- 
 selves a record of devotion and efficiency in connection 
 -with the Sewing School are Mrs. S. Baker Shaufiier, 
 Mrs. C. A. Remick, Mrs. Jane Thompson, Miss Maria 
 E. Eckerson, Mrs. Francis Forbes, Miss Augusta A. 
 Smith, and Mrs. M. L. Allison. 
 
 A special measure of gratitude is owing to those now 
 on the field, whose faithful services have contributed to 
 the prosperity of the work : Mr. James Marshall Stuart, 
 Mr. James A, Frame, Dr. S. F. Hallock, and Mr. 
 Thomas S. Clay. 
 
 Others deserving grateful remembrance, and who have 
 gone to their reward, are Miss Jennie McKay, for twen- 
 ty-five years in charge of the Young Women's Bible 
 Class; Mr. Edgar S. Auchincloss, a generous supporter 
 of the Mission, and Mr. William Irwin, whose services 
 were an inspiration and encouragement to both pastor 
 and people. 
 
 For over half a century the Alexander Mission has 
 been sowing the good seed and nurturing the precious 
 grain, while sister churches have reaped and gathered in 
 
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 the harvest, helping an exceeding great army of neg- 
 lected children to unfold to noble manhood and win- 
 some womanhood, training and sending forth young men 
 who have attained to eminence and usefulness as judges, 
 physicians, authors, and preachers of the gospel, while 
 hundreds of men and women who were outside the pale 
 of the church have found in its ministrations an impulse 
 to holy living and an open pathway to spiritual freedom. 
 
 THE SEVENTH AVENUE CHAPEL. 
 
 About the year 1862 members of the Nineteenth Street 
 Church, so as to extend their influence to the West Side, 
 purchased land on Seventh Avenue, between Eighteenth 
 and Nineteenth Streets, and erected the Seventh Avenue 
 Mission, in which the young people of the Home Church 
 could take part as teachers and be brought into touch 
 with churchless people of the poorer district. 
 
 October 26th, 1883, the chapel was incorporated under 
 the laws of the State of New York and the following 
 Board of Trustees was elected : John Paton, Thomas C. 
 Sloane, Morris W. Lyon, W. L. Wakefield, John W. 
 Auchincloss, William Alexander, and Francis Forbes. 
 Mr. Thomas C. Sloane was elected President; John W. 
 Auchincloss, Treasurer; and Francis Forbes, Secretary. 
 The property was leased to the new Trustees by the 
 Fifth Avenue Church at a nominal rental, and the annual 
 contribution of about $3,600 was continued by the same 
 church. 
 
 Rev. W. D. Buchanan was minister at the time of the 
 incorporation, and continued to preach at the Chapel 
 until October, 1887, when he was succeeded by Mr. L. 
 H. Davis, at a salary of $1,500 a year. Mr. Davis re- 
 tired in February, 1888, and Mr. W. D. Buchanan was 
 invited to resume the pastorate, which invitation he 
 accepted, requesting that the salary be $2,000, at which 
 sum it was fixed. 
 
JFifti) atjenue ptesfipterian Cljurcl) 109 
 
 In May, 1889, the Seventh Avenue Chapel was organ- 
 ized and incorporated as the Chalmers Presbyterian 
 Church, vifith Rev. Mr. Buchanan as pastor, and the Fifth 
 Avenue Church contributed to its support. The annual 
 sum of $3,900 was for two years and three months paid 
 while it worshiped in the Seventh Avenue Chapel. The 
 Chalmers Church in 1892 united with the Thirteenth 
 Street Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Buchanan be- 
 came pastor. The Seventh Avenue property was sold for 
 the. sum of $30,000. The work accomplished by the 
 Seventh Avenue Mission was similar in character to 
 that now going on at King Street. It had its own 
 pastor and admitted members on profession of faith or 
 by letter. When there was a possibility of its becom- 
 ing self-supporting it was aided in that direction. 
 
 YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION. 
 The Young People's Association owes its existence to 
 two boys, James A. Hawes and William Sloane, who in 
 the autumn of 1889 organized a small informal meeting 
 of some of the members of the Sabbath School Class of 
 Mrs. Lewis Colford Jones. This idea was approved by 
 several ladies who aided in carrying the movement to 
 success. It was decided to make an arrangement with 
 the Men's Missionary Society (the successor of an or- 
 ganization founded in 1848 by Dr. Alexander), which, 
 with the waning years, had become somewhat inert. Half 
 a dozen remaining members of this Society in November 
 of the same year met at the residence of Mr. Fruauf, 
 at which time this old missionary society, with several 
 members of Mrs. Jones' class, were merged into the 
 Young People's Christian Association. In this way it 
 became the direct successor of the first organization of 
 the kind in the country, and has therefore a longer period 
 of history than any other young people's society. The 
 Association grew in numbers and enthusiasm, and within 
 a few months it was thought practicable to announce the 
 
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 plan throughout the church, and it was decided to hold 
 a general opening meeting for organization. The first 
 regular meeting of the Association was a social one held 
 at the residence of Mrs. John P. Duncan, on January 
 25th, 1890, It had been called by the following ladies, 
 who acted as an Advisory Board : Mrs. Henry M. Alex- 
 ander, Mrs. John P. Duncan, Mrs. Granville P. Hawes, 
 Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, Mrs. Edmund Coffin, Mrs. Lewis 
 C. Jones, Mrs. John Sloane, Mrs. John Sinclair, Mrs. 
 C. B. Alexander, Mrs. A. G. Agnew, and Mrs. David 
 Magie. The occasion was a decided success, and the 
 Association was then and there effected, with Mr. Will- 
 iam Dulles, Jr., as President. Wilbur Fisk, James A. 
 Hawes, William Sloane, and William Dulles, Jr., ex- 
 officio, constituted the first Devotional Committee. The 
 next meeting, held two weeks later, was religious in 
 character, and similar ones have been held regularly since 
 that time. Until within the last few years the social 
 meetings constituted a large part of the Association's 
 activities. Recently, however, it has been thought no 
 longer necessary to hold such gatherings, as they had 
 accomplished the purpose for which they were instituted, 
 that of bringing the young people of the church to- 
 gether. 
 
 The mission work of the Association, which during the 
 past years has been of such wide-reaching influence, was 
 first undertaken early in the year 1891, when Messrs. 
 John Sloane and John S. Kennedy leased and paid rent 
 for three years of the five-story building at the corner 
 of First Avenue and Sixty-third Street for the use of 
 the Association. The Boys' Club was first organized, 
 then the Day Nursery, the Sewing School, and Men's 
 Qub. 
 
 The distinctly religious work at Sixty-third Street be- 
 gan in 1892 with the Sabbath School, the sessions of 
 which were held in a small one-story building on the op- 
 posite corner of Sixty-third Street and First Avenue. 
 

 iijlSBiraa'tfiiif"'"'""'"^'^"" 
 
 YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION HOUSE 
 
 EREC'I'ED 1894 
 
JTiftft atjenue prcsfiptetian CDutcfj m 
 
 In the winter of 1891-1892 the revision of the Consti- 
 tution was effected, and also the organization of the 
 Board of Workers as now constituted, in the place of 
 the former joint meetings of the Officers and the Ladies' 
 Advisory Cqmmittee, which until then had conducted all 
 the affairs of the Association. The organization of the 
 Board brought all the different branches of the mission 
 work in close connection with one another and laid a 
 strong working basis for future development. Mr. A. G. 
 Agnew was at that time elected Treasurer, and has faith- 
 fully served in that capacity ever since. About the same 
 time, an arrangement was made by which a member of 
 the Session of the church proper should be elected Chair- 
 man of the Board for the purpose of acting as a connect- 
 ing link between the two bodies. Later it became evident 
 that for the best interests of the church and Association, 
 all the property of the latter should be transferred to the 
 trustees of the church, and that the raising of funds 
 especially designated for the work carried on by the 
 Young People's Association should be given up in favor 
 of unrestricted contributions by all to the general funds 
 of the church. The Session retained supervision over 
 the election of officers and the Board of Workers, but 
 allowed a liberal scope to the Association and its Board 
 of Workers. 
 
 Additional branches of the work were undertaken one 
 by one, and on April the 27th, 1894, the new mission 
 building constructed for the Association work was for- 
 mally opened. 
 
 In 1893 the first ordained minister, the Rev. George W. 
 Mead, was called. At this time, meetings were held in 
 a room on the first floor of the old building. Mr. Mead 
 was succeeded the following year by Mr. John Mc- 
 Dowell, former General Secretary of the Princeton Y. 
 M. C. A., who also remained in charge one year. In 
 1895, the Rev. Charles I. Junkin took charge of the 
 work, and during his term of service did much toward 
 
112 Centennial Celefitation of tjje 
 
 its further organization and development. In 1897, the 
 Rev. I. H. Polhemus succeeded Mr. Junkin, and by his 
 efficient service aided greatly toward the present suc- 
 cessful condition of the work. Owing to ill health, Mr. 
 Polhemus resigned in 1901, and was followed by the 
 Rev. Frank B. Everitt, during whose pastorate the work 
 increased in nearly every particular, and it became evi- 
 dent that it would soon be necessary to erect a regular 
 church building. Steps were then taken by the Board 
 of Workers to effect this end. In 1903 Mr. Everitt re- 
 signed because of ill health, and was succeeded by the 
 Rev. Willard F. Ottarson, under whose care the work, 
 especially in its religious phase, developed most en- 
 couragingly. Mr. Ottarson resigned in the early part of 
 1907, to be followed in the pastorate by the Rev. A. L. 
 Evans as Minister in Charge, and the Rev. Paul R. Ab- 
 bott as Associate Minister. 
 
 The John Hall Memorial Chapel was dedicated in the 
 spring of 1904 with fitting ceremony before a congrega- 
 tion of more than five hundred persons. The church 
 building cost about $60,000, and as the two buildings 
 of the Association cost in the neighborhood of $150,000, 
 the Young People's Association and its Board of Work- 
 ers have presented to the Trustees of the Fifth Avenue 
 Church property costing approximately $210,000, free 
 and clear of debt. 
 
 During the nineteen years of its history, the Associa- 
 tion has not only maintained devotional meetings at the 
 Home Church, welcoming all young people to them, but 
 has helped to keep alive among its members an earnest 
 interest in all departments of the church work. 
 
 Mr. Dulles, the first President of the Association, was 
 succeeded in 1894 by Mr. Samuel S. Auchincloss, who 
 in turn was succeeded by Mr. William Sloane. In 1898 
 Mr. Sloane was followed in office by Mr. James A. 
 Hawes, his fellow founder in the work. In 1900 Mr. 
 "George B. Agnew was elected President, and in 1901 
 
jFiftI) atienue ptesliptetian Cftutcij 113 
 
 Mr. Thomas S. Clay. Mr. Clay held the office for one 
 year, and was followed by Mr. H. R. Banner, who 
 served two years. He was succeeded by Mr. John L. 
 Rogers, who held the office for one year, and whose un- 
 timely death was a great loss not only to the Association 
 but to the entire church. Mr. Dwight H. Day was 
 elected President in 1905, and Mr. James A. Edwards, 
 who succeeded him in 1906. 
 
 The institutional work of the Association as at present 
 maintained includes the following departments : A Men's 
 Qub, a Boys' Club, a Girls' Club, a Gymnasium, a Sew- 
 ing School, a Day Nursery, and Fresh Air Work. 
 
 The Association has recently become incorporated un- 
 der the laws of the State of New York, in order to better 
 carry out the varied religious, institutional and social 
 lines of work in which it is engaged. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 Mr. Russell S. Tucker, President. 
 
 Mr. Alfred E. Vondermuhl, First Vice-President. 
 
 Mr. Lindon W. Bates, Jr., Second Vice-President. 
 
 Miss Katherine McCook, Secretary. 
 
 Mr. J. Roy Robbins, Treasurer. 
 
 Sunday School .... Mr. F. A. Wallis 
 Religious Work .... Mr. Edwin J. Gillies 
 Sewing School . . . Miss Amy Lea Duncan 
 
 Boys' Club Mr. Corwin Black 
 
 Girls' Club .... Miss Emily L. Charles 
 
 Men's Club Mr. Chas. W. Barnes 
 
 Gymnasium .... Mr. William F. Irwin 
 
 Relief Mrs. John Sinclair 
 
 Day Nursery Mrs. Geo. F. Vietor 
 
 House Miss Ethel Thompson 
 
 Entertainment .... Mrs. DeWitt C. Blair 
 
 Property Mr. Hugh Getty 
 
 Finance Mr. James A. Edwards 
 
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 THE WORK AT THE JOHN HALL MEMORIAL 
 CHAPEL AND ASSOCIATION HOUSE. 
 
 The aim is religious, the method institutional. A place 
 and activities are provided for the development of body, 
 mind and spirit under the best influences. 
 
 An ample gymnasium with bathing facilities and under 
 competent instructors is a constant attraction. This is 
 for members of the three clubs. 
 
 The Men's Club is a self-governing, elective body of 
 
 nearly one hundred members. They have comfortable 
 rooms for social intercourse, reading, music, bowling, 
 and other amusements. 
 
 The Boys' Club is divided into sub-clubs. These have 
 as pursuits debating, amateur theatricals, astronomy, 
 government, geography, printing, basket-ball, etc. A 
 Cadet Corps is very successful. 
 
 The Girls' Club offers cooking, dressmaking, milli- 
 nery and literary classes. 
 
 The Sewing School, numbering over four hundred 
 girls in three departments, is manned by more than fifty 
 efficient teachers, and gives a thorough course of in- 
 struction. 
 
 The House contains a Penny Provident Bank, a 
 Branch of the New. York Public Library, free baths, and 
 provides a free Lecture Course. 
 
 A most satisfactory agent of charity is the Sunbeam 
 Day Nursery. From fifty to sixty children are cared for 
 daily. A Kindergarten is connected with the Nursery. 
 
 The work draws extensively from Bohemian, German 
 and Italian nationalities. These are largely in the Sun- 
 day School, which numbers over one thousand. Services 
 are held for Italian speaking people three times each 
 week. Sunday sees the regular church services. 
 
 Summer outings for four hundred and fifty children 
 are provided. Mothers are sent to the country, young 
 people to Northfield. 
 
JOHN HALL MEMORIAL CHAPEL 
 ERECTED 1904 
 
ififtl) atjenue l^te0bptetian Cijurcl) 115 
 
 The aim is to reach all classes in some way, to min- 
 ister to the people from the cradle to the grave. 
 
 Rev. Albert L. Evans, 
 
 Rev. Paul R. Abbott, 
 
 Ministers in Charge. 
 
 Charles F. Darlington, 
 President Board of Workers. 
 
 James Anderson Hawes, 
 Secretary Board of Workers. 
 
 THE JUNIOR MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 Twenty-two years ago the need was felt for an organi- 
 zation for the boys and girls of the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
 byterian Church. Its aim to be their own growth in 
 grace, the opportunity for helping those less fortunate 
 than themselves to whom the glad news of Jesus and His 
 love had never come, and, thirdly, to promote a friendly 
 spirit among the children of the church. 
 
 With this threefold end in view, the King's Children 
 Mission Band was organized in November, 1886, and 
 continued for twelve years. Meetings were held on 
 alternate Saturdays from November to May, these meet- 
 ings being of a missionary character. The Band sup- 
 ported scholarship pupils in several mission schools, sent 
 Christmas boxes to two Home Missionary Institutions 
 each year, and paid for a large number of Christmas 
 dinners for poor families in the city. 
 
 From 1898 to 1900 there was no Society for the chil- 
 dren, but in 1900 the King's Children Mission Band re- 
 organized, changing its name to the Children's Mission- 
 ary Society, which name was changed in 1901 to the 
 Junior Missionary Society. This was undertaken by 
 members of the Society for benevolent and mission- 
 ary purposes, and the expenses of administration de- 
 volved upon an advisory committee then in charge of 
 the Society. 
 
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 It might be well to stop here to give an idea of the 
 character of this Society and its meetings. 
 
 The Society is composed of boys and girls of the 
 church between the ages of six and sixteen years. It is 
 controlled by six officers and three chairmen of commit- 
 tees. The officers are a President, Vice-President, a Sec- 
 retary, Treasurer, a Magazine Secretary, and Treasurer 
 and Secretary of the Little Light Bearers, a branch of 
 the Junior Missionary Society for children under six 
 years of age, who, by payment of an annual subscription 
 and "mite boxes," contribute to the cause of missions. 
 The officers are nominated by the Society and elected 
 with the approval of the Sunday School under whose 
 jurisdiction the Junior Missionary Society has been since 
 1904. 
 
 The meetings of the Society are held twice a month, 
 and addressed by missionaries or persons qualified to 
 speak on missionary subjects. Occasional social meet- 
 ings are held. 
 
 In 1903 a small missionary library was donated to the 
 Society, and its eighteen books have been read many 
 times by its members. Later a curio cabinet was added, 
 but discontinued because we had no place to keep the 
 curios. 
 
 In 1905 it was decided to study one Home and one 
 Foreign Mission subject each year, and since then Japan, 
 Africa, India and China have been the Foreign, and the 
 Indians, the immigrants and Mexicans the Home Mis- 
 sionary topics. , 
 
 Two or three years ago the Society was divided into 
 two sections, graded according to age, and manual work 
 meetings held alternating with the regular missionary 
 address meetings. 
 
 In 1 907- 1 908 the Society was again divided and its 
 name changed to "The Boys' and Girls' Missionary 
 Clubs." The meetings of the boys and the girls were 
 held at different times, save for the social meetings when 
 
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 the two met together. This plan was not found prac- 
 tical, and in April, 1908, the Society adopted again their 
 former name. Junior Missionary Society, and will hold 
 their first meeting in November, under the following 
 officers : 
 
 President, Miss Elizabeth Pitkin ; Vice-President, Mrs. 
 Henry B. Britton; Secretary, Miss Sylvia DeMurias; 
 Treasurer, Miss Isabelle A. Murtland; Magazine Secre- 
 tary, Master Philip Jessup; Secretary and Treasurer of 
 "Little Light Bearers," Miss Caroline Auchincloss. 
 
 YOUNG WOMEN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 This Society was organized on November 30th, 1883, 
 under the name of The Young Ladies' Branch of Home 
 and Foreign Missions. The first President was Miss 
 Julia J. Stimson, who held the office until 1893, when 
 Mrs. William J. Schieffelin took her place. 
 
 Since the resignation of Mrs. Schieffelin, in 1899, three 
 ladies have held the office of President — Miss Clara R. 
 Bradford, Miss Jeanie B. Duncan, and Miss Marie H. 
 Winkhaus. 
 
 The average membership during the twenty-five years 
 of the life of the Society has been 84. 
 
 The Society has always been equally interested in 
 home and foreign missions. Six regular monthly meet- 
 ings are held each year, three" of which are devoted to 
 the consideration and study of foreign missions and 
 three to home missions. 
 
 In 1895 a new constitution was adopted, and the name 
 of the society was changed to the Young Women's Mis- 
 sionary Society. The number of officers has varied from 
 time to time, but since the adoption of the last constitu- 
 tion, in 1903, there have been six officers. Those hold- 
 ing office at the present time are: 
 
 President — Miss Marie H. Winkhaus. 
 
 Vice-Presidents — Miss Amy L. Duncan and Miss Ethel 
 Thompson. 
 
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 Recording Secretary — Miss Emily L. Charles. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. George E. Duns- 
 combe. 
 
 Treasurer — Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis. 
 
 The work of the Society has always been carried on 
 through the voluntary annual subscriptions of the mem- 
 bers. For many years a Bible reader was supported in 
 India and a lady missionary in China, and in our home 
 land a number of scholarships were held. 
 
 At the present time the Young Women's Missionary 
 Society pays the salary of Miss Florence Stephenson, 
 principal of the Home Industrial School, Asheville, N. 
 C, and has one scholarship at Wasatch Academy, Mt. 
 Pleasant, Utah ; one at Industrial Training School, Sitka, 
 Alaska ; one at Indian Training School, Tucson, Arizona ; 
 one at Goodwill Mission, Sissiton Agency, South Dakota ; 
 and two at Scotia Seminary, Concord, North Carolina; 
 also a special scholarship at Allison School, Santa Fe, 
 New Mexico. 
 
 On the foreign field it pays the salary of Miss Reubena 
 Cuthbertson, a missionary and trained nurse at Funnka- 
 bad Mission, Fategark, India. 
 
 THE MEN'S SOCIETY. 
 
 The Men's Society is the present form into which de- 
 veloped the Young Men's Social and Benevolent Society 
 of the Duane Street Church and Congregation, which 
 was organized Sabbath evening, March 27, 1842, with 
 a brief constitution, which was, however, in 1845, re- 
 placed by a preamble and constitution of which the origi- 
 nal, in the handwriting of James W. Alexander, is said 
 to have been the pattern on which the constitution of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association in this country 
 was established. It is interesting to note in the min- 
 utes of this society in the year of its organization that 
 it received overtures from the Ladies' Foreign Evan- 
 gelical Society of the church with a view to combining 
 
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 in the support of an Evangelist in France. The annual 
 reports of the society make most interesting reading, and 
 their monthly meeting has a decided devotional as well 
 as social tone, and many phases of church work and of 
 Bible study were discussed by the members. The late 
 Charles Scribner was for a time its Secretary, and short- 
 ly after the war the society undertook the management 
 and the raising of money for the mission schools of the 
 church, which at that time were on Eighteenth Street 
 and Seventh Avenue. The Society fell on sleep for a 
 time in the late seventies. The activity in mission work 
 which the society had manifested was taken up by the 
 Young People's Association some eight or ten years 
 later, while the social and devotional side of its work 
 strictly among the men was revived at the time of its 
 reorganization after Dr. Stevenson's installation. The 
 society has held important and interesting public meet- 
 ings in the church parlors frequently during each year, 
 and has organized and maintained with the assistance 
 of the pastor and of his associate a men's Bible class on 
 Sunday mornings. 
 
 In 1882, while the Men's Society was at a low ebb, 
 several of the younger men felt the need of reviving the 
 work and were instrumental in starting the Young Peo- 
 ple's Association. The names of Thomas C. Sloane, 
 Henry L. Smith, and William Dulles may be mentioned. 
 
 The Young People's Association took up the work 
 of missions and erected the Sixty-third Street building, 
 where now a large religious and institutional work is 
 done. 
 
 When Dr. J. Ross Stevenson began his pastorate — 
 1903 — he foresaw the value of the Men's Society as 
 an auxiliary in the work of the Church, and succeeded 
 in reviving it. Nearly all of the men of the Church 
 and Congregation are members, and monthly meetings 
 are held in the chapel during the winter and spring, 
 with a dinner at the close of the season. Speakers of 
 
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 note are present by invitation, and timely topics are 
 considered, such as the Russian Revolution, by Abram 
 Cahan ; the Labrador Mission, by Dr. Wm. F. Grenfell ; 
 the Alaska Mission, by Ex-Gov. Brady ; the Presbyterian 
 Brotherhood, by Ralph Connor. 
 
 OFFICERS, 1908-9. 
 
 Warner M. Van Norden, President. 
 
 Charles W. Barnes, Vice-President. 
 
 Dr. Andrew J. Perry, Secretary. 
 
 John Nicholson, Treasurer. 
 
 Presidents of the Society from the beginning are: 
 
 H. G. Deforest George H. Petbie 
 
 J. H. Davis Robt. McCarter, Jr. 
 
 R. P. Harris, M.D. H. C. Van Vorst 
 
 J. A. Stewart James Fraser 
 
 Robert Bliss John S. Kennedy 
 
 William L. Skidmore John Paton 
 
 Robt. McCartee, Jr. John J. McCook 
 
 C. R. Agnew, M.D. John Sinclair 
 
 John Stevens, Jr. L. J. Armstrong 
 
 Horace J. Fakchiuj Henry W. Jessup, 1905-6 
 
 John Sloane Henry B. Barnes, 1906-8 
 
 J. A. Ewell W. M. Van Norden, 1908 
 
 THE SEASIDE HOME. 
 
 Its purpose is to provide a summer outing for the 
 destitute children of the missions connected with the 
 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. A place that, while 
 gaining physical health and enjoyment, they may have 
 the great advantage of Christian family influence. 
 
 So far as is known, this institution is the first of this 
 kind established in connection with any church. Many 
 others have followed. It was about the year 1888 that 
 the Rev. Franklin B. Dwight, who had charge of one 
 of the missions, began the summer fresh air work. 
 
 A house was rented on the Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
 A man and his wife were employed to keep the house. 
 But the Rev. Mr. Dwight collected the children together 
 
JTiftft 3tJenue presftptetian otfturci) 121 
 
 and brought them down to the Home, and began the 
 work. There were at this time three missions connected 
 with the Fifth Avenue Church — Fourteenth Street Mis- 
 sion, Seventh Avenue Mission, King Street Mission. 
 
 Members of the Session and others soon came for- 
 ward to establish and encourage the work. The names 
 of the late John Paton, John Sloane, Malcolm Graham, 
 Edgar S. Auchincloss, Robert Beggs, and later John P. 
 Duncan will always be associated with the Seaside 
 Home. Their liberality made possible the new site at 
 Branch Port in 1891. Six acres were purchased, with a 
 fine house, orchard, garden, and lawn. The situation is 
 perfect. Directly on the Shrewsbury River, which fur- 
 nishes fine bathing, fishing and boating, it is near enough 
 to the ocean to enjoy the cool breezes. A two hours' sail 
 brings ninety children down on the "Patton Line." They 
 have ten days' outing, and as they return another com- 
 pany comes. Five companies of ninety children can be 
 accommodated, making in all four hundred and fifty 
 children during the two months that the Home is open. 
 The Home was kept open for two weeks longer than 
 usual, on September 23, after the children had gone. 
 The boys' brigade, numbering twenty-five, with their 
 captain and one of the Missionaries, spent a week at 
 the Home. The boys are hard-working boys, and sel- 
 dom have a holiday. They were a fine set of fellows 
 and had a thoroughly good time. After they left, a 
 company of twenty-two mothers came for a week's rest 
 and enjoyment, bringing their babies and children wha 
 they could not leave behind. It was indeed delightful 
 to see how they enjoyed it. Good Mrs. Phillips, from 
 Sixty-third Street, came with them. 
 
 It is hoped that the Home can be more and more used 
 for those who need it. 
 
 After the opening of the Branchport Home, the work 
 made wonderful advance and improvement, chiefly 
 through the personal interest and earnest work of Mr., 
 
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 and Mrs. John P. Dancan, and to them chiefly the Home 
 owes the prosperity of to-day. 
 
 The chapel and girls' dormitory was erected in 1896, 
 by Mr. John P. Duncan. The chapel was dedicated in 
 July, 1896. Rev. Maitland Alexander, then pastor of the 
 Long Branch Presbyterian Church, conducted the ser- 
 vice, which was most interesting. One hundred children 
 and a number of neighbors and those interested were 
 present. 
 
 So the Home entered on a new era of prosperity and 
 usefulness. 
 
 Mr. Duncan established the religious services, to which 
 he gave personal supervision. Morning and evening 
 prayer, a Sunday School on Sunday morning, were con- 
 ducted by the Matron and her assistants. 
 
 The four o'clock service on Sunday afternoon was 
 conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Duncan and their daughters. 
 They came over from their Sea Bright home every Sun- 
 day afternoon. 
 
 Mr. Duncan secured, through Mr. William Campbell, 
 preaching from clergymen from the Churches at Long 
 Branch, and paid for these pulpit supplies. People 
 from the neighborhood were invited to attend these 
 services, which they seemed glad to do. Since the death 
 of Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Duncan most generously carries on 
 this work. Each child that comes to the Home is pre- 
 sented by Mrs. Duncan with a Bible. 
 
 In 1896 a Ladies' Auxiliary was formed in the in- 
 terest of the Sea Side Home. There are seventy-five 
 members, each giving an annual subscription, the whole 
 amounting to $1,700. This sum, in addition to the an- 
 nual collection in the church and some additional dona- 
 tions, has met the current expenses of the Home. The 
 cost of the maintenance is $3,000. 
 
SUNBEAM DAY NURSERY 
 ERECTED 1894 
 
jFifti) atjenue Pre06gtetian CJiutcl) 123 
 
 The administration of the Home: 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 William Campbell, Chairman 
 Edwin J. Gillies, Treasurer 
 Hugh Getty, Treasurer 
 EwEN McIntyee Geo. F. Vietor 
 
 S. S. AucHiNcxoss John J. McCook 
 
 LADIES' AUXILIARY COMMITTEE 
 
 Mrs. H. M. Alexander, Chairman 
 
 Mrs. G. S. Vietok, Secretary 
 Miss McIntyre, Assistant Secretary 
 Mrs. John P. Duncan, Treasurer 
 
 Mrs. Logan C. Murray Mrs. H. S. Wilson 
 
 Mrs. Rudolph Erboloh Mrs. Frederick Dwight 
 
 Mrs. Ewen McIntyre Mrs. Carl Baker 
 
 Mrs. C. S. Baylis 
 
 THE LADIES' AUXILIARY OF THE BOARDS OF 
 HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Boards of Home and 
 Foreign Missions, which has become one of the powerful 
 and efficient agencies of this Church, though started at a 
 late period of its history and under the fear which an 
 untried organization would naturally occasion, has vin- 
 4icated the wisdom and confidence of its founders, as 
 shown in the splendid record of its benevolence and 
 labor. Some opposed the formation of the society, lest 
 it might divert funds from the regular collections, but 
 when Mrs. Theodore Cuyler came from Philadelphia, 
 where she had been a member of Woman's Board of 
 Foreign Missions, she, with others anxious to do this 
 work, overcame these fears, and the society was started 
 on a tentative basis. But it soon passed the experi- 
 mental stage. 
 
 The first meeting was held in December, 1883. Mrs. 
 Theodore Cuyler presiding, and at a subsequent meet- 
 
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 ing the constitution was formulated, and the following- 
 officers elected members of the Executive Committee: 
 
 President, 
 
 Mrs. Theodore Cuyler. 
 
 Vice-President, 
 
 Mrs. Lewis C. Jones. 
 
 Secretary for Home Missions, 
 
 Mrs. Henry Day. 
 
 Secretary for Foreign Missions, 
 
 Miss Sheldon (Mrs. A. H. Smith) 
 
 Treasurer for Home Missions, 
 
 Miss Julia Baker (Mrs. A. F. Schauffler) 
 
 Treasurer for Foreign Missions, 
 
 Mrs. a. Gifford Agnew. 
 
 For nine years Mrs. Cuyler served the Society with 
 untiring zeal and devotion, until her death, in 1892,. 
 when Mrs. Theodore Weston was chosen to succeed her, 
 under whose wise and able administration the Auxiliary 
 endeavors by prayer, contributions and the spread of 
 information to advance the work of Home and Foreign 
 Missions. 
 
 The Society sustained a great loss in the death of 
 Mrs. Agnew, who for fifteen years, from the organiza- 
 tion of the Auxiliary until within a year of her death, 
 so faithfully discharged the duties of treasurer. She 
 left to her fellow laborers a bright example in her will- 
 ing service, her generosity and her devotion to the cause 
 of missions. 
 
 The total of annual subscriptions and special donations 
 amounts to $229,189, of which $145,046 has been paid 
 to the treasurer of the Woman's Executive Committee of 
 Home Missions and $84,143 to the treasurer of the 
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 The work of this society has not been confined to a 
 few objects, nor within narrow limits. It has included 
 large gifts to the General Fund, aided in the erection of 
 churches, chapels, schools and hospitals both at home and 
 
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 abroad. Among which may be mentioned the assistance 
 given in the building of the Native Church at Yokohama, 
 Japan, a Chapel in Guatemala, the large interest it has 
 in the Sara Seward Hospital, Allahabad, and in the work 
 at Hamadan, Persia. 
 
 The missionary work in Alaska owes much to the 
 very generous support of one of the members of the 
 Society. Here hospitals and schools have been founded 
 and far-reaching influences started, which promises a 
 rich harvest in the future, as does the very encouraging 
 work among the full-blood Cherokee Indians at Old 
 Dwight Mission, and among the mountaineers of the 
 South; also in the various Home Industrial Schools, 
 where the endeavor is to hold the children gathered in 
 for God and their country. 
 
 The value of the boxes sent each year to needy Home 
 Missionaries can hardly be estimated. These boxes sup- 
 plement meager salaries and often relieve cases of dis- 
 tress and sore need. An average of six has been sent 
 annually. 
 
 One of the newer features of the work has been the 
 formation of the Hospitality Committee. This Com- 
 mittee makes from fifty to seventy-five visits during the 
 season on strangers, the sick and sorrowing, besides 
 sending notes and flowers. 
 
 The Society closes the twenty-fifth year of its life with 
 thankfulness to the Lord for the share it has been 
 permitted to take in the work of this great Church. 
 Inspired by the record of the past, may it go forward 
 with new zeal and consecration in the work of the 
 future. 
 
 The Society as now organized has for its oncers: 
 
 Mrs. Theodore Weston, President, 
 
 14 West 48th Street. 
 
 Vice-Presidents: 
 
 Mrs. C, D. Van Wagenen, Mrs. E. S. Auchincloss, 
 
 302 West 78th Street. 24 East 48th Street. 
 
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 Mrs. J. H. Young, Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson, 
 
 71 East g6th Street. 19 East 66th Street. 
 
 Mrs. J. N. Ewell, Mrs. Geo. C. McMurtry, 
 
 47 East 74th Street. 812 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Mrs. John Sinclair, 16 East 66th Street. 
 Secretary for Home Missions. Treasurer for Home Missions. 
 
 Mrs. E. S. Auchincloss, Mrs. A. Vondermuhl, 
 
 24 East 48th Street. 25 West 71st Street. 
 
 Secretary for Foreign Missions. Treasurer for Foreign Missions.. 
 Miss M. G. Janeway, Miss Edith Agnew, 
 
 441 Park Avenue. 
 Committee on Literature. Box Committee. 
 
 Miss M. Clark, Mrs. Wm. Brookfield, 
 
 17s Madison Avenue. 516 Madison Avenue. 
 
 Hospitality Committee. Committee on Missionary Corresp'ce^ 
 
 Mrs. a. H. Smith, Mrs. S. B. Brownell, 
 
 Geneva, N. Y. 322 West s6th Street. 
 
 Nominating Committee. 
 Mrs. John Sinclair, 16 East 66th Street. 
 Hospitality Committee. 
 
 Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, Chairman Geneva, N. Y.. 
 
 Mrs. Francis Forbes, Secretary 8 West 56 Street 
 
 Mrs. C. p. Britton, Registrar 253 West 7Sth Street 
 
 Mrs. James H. Schmelzel, Treasurer 18 West s6th Street 
 
 * Mrs. Lewis C. Jones 707 Fifth Avenue 
 
 Miss M. Sandford 29 West s6th Street 
 
 * Mrs. H. Maunsell Schieffelin 665 Fifth Avenue 
 
 Mrs. John Sinclair 16 East 66th Street. 
 
 Mrs. Russell Stebbins i West 83d Street 
 
 * Mrs. James Talbot 7 West 57th Street 
 
 Mrs. James H. Young 71 East 96th Street 
 
 Mrs. James T. Murray The Buckingham 
 
 Mrs. Alfred Vondermuhl 25 West 71st Street 
 
 ♦Associate Members. 
 
 LADIES' AUXILIARY— EVENING BRANCH. 
 
 The Evening Branch of the Ladies' Auxiliary was 
 organized in the winter of '06- '07, with a view to en- 
 listing in missionary interest and service those whose 
 duties during the day would prevent their attendance 
 upon the regular sessions of the Auxiliary. 
 
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 The meetings occur once a month, and consist of de- 
 votional exercises, consideration of missionary problems 
 both at home and abroad, and to making garments for 
 the destitute immigrants at Ellis Island. The President 
 of the Society is Miss Harriet Chichester. 
 
 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Mrs. Alexander prepared the following account of this 
 society : 
 
 This is the oldest benevolent society of this Church. 
 It was organized in 1810, while the congregation met in 
 Cedar Street, and the Rev. Dr. Romeyn was its pastor. 
 
 The object of the Association was to aid young men 
 who were studying for the ministry. These were in 
 many instances sons of ministers and missionaries. It 
 is often by great self-denial that these fathers give an 
 education to their sons. The help given by this Asso- 
 ciation has been essential to the ordinary comforts of 
 the students. 
 
 The work originated with a band of ladies — a "Dorcas 
 Society" — who met at the different houses of its mem- 
 bers to make garments. Boxes of clothing were sent 
 every year and a piece of black broadcloth given, so 
 that each member of the graduating class should have 
 a preaching suit. The late Mrs. William Walker was 
 President at this time, and, with the assistance of Mrs. 
 Edwards Hall, through much hard work and great dis- 
 couragements, held the Association together. 
 
 During the next thirty years the association changed 
 and, in some respects, enlarged and extended its work 
 and methods of giving. 
 
 Owing to Mrs. William Walker's ill health and the 
 infirmities of age, she was obliged to resign her position 
 as President, and Mrs. Henry M. Alexander was ap- 
 pointed in her place. There was fresh organization and 
 a more formal arrangement. 
 
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 Officers were appointed: Mrs. H. M. Alexander, 
 President; Mrs. Edwards Hall, Vice-President; Mrs. 
 James H. Young, Treasurer; Mrs. A. G. Agnew, Sec- 
 retary. Fifty-four members were added to the Associa- 
 tion and the number of subscriptions greatly increased. 
 
 The gifts of clothing were discontinued, and work was 
 undertaken to improve the condition of the students' 
 rooms in the dormitories. Seventy-eight rooms in one 
 dormitory and sixty in another were done over and re- 
 furnished. Two large parlors were furnished for the 
 use and comfort of the students. New baths and fresh 
 plumbing were provided, and many other things to im- 
 prove the dormitories. 
 
 A missionary library was furnished. Three scholar- 
 ships were taken. The good done in a quiet way by 
 this Association can hardly be estimated in its moral 
 effect upon the students. 
 
 The time came when it was thought best to incor- 
 porate this Society, which was formally and legally done 
 in December, 1892. 
 
 A legacy of $3,376.49 was given to the Princeton 
 Seminary Association by Mary A. Monahan. This was 
 deposited by the Association and $1,000 paid to the 
 Rev. William M. Paxton, D. D. The entire funds of 
 the society were put in a loan relief fund for the benefit 
 of the students to be loaned in small sums to meet their 
 immediate needs. This fund was also put in the care 
 of Prof. William M. Paxton, D. D., and at his death 
 into the hands of the Rev. Dr. Purves. It is at this time 
 in the charge of Prof. Wilson. 
 
 The time had come when the Ladies' Princeton As- 
 sociation (as such) laid down its work and died a tri- 
 umphant death, after a life of eighty years, having fin- 
 ished the work which God had given it to do. 
 
 From the early days of the Church the interest of the 
 congregation has been centered in Princeton Seminary. 
 Of its pastors there have been those who have come 
 
jFiftI) auenue ptcsfiptetian Cljutci) 129 
 
 from the seminary's professional chairs. From its pul- 
 pit and pastorate the Church has in turn given men to 
 teach in Princeton. It is fitting, for this r-eason, that 
 there should be not only this link of interest between 
 the oldest seminary and the most important church of 
 our great denomination, as well because the teaching of 
 the Fifth Avenue Church from its pulpit and the teach- 
 ings of the seminary by its professors have been iden- 
 tical with and loyal to the standards of the denomination 
 to which they belong. 
 
 CHINESE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 
 
 The Chinese Sunday School was opened by Rev. Dr. 
 John Hall, Sunday evening, March 22, 1885, in the 
 Lecture Room of the Church, with eighty-five Chinese, 
 twenty-two teachers, and many visitors. 
 
 The following October rooms were rented at 20 West 
 Fifty-ninth Street, and later at 9 East Fifty-ninth Street, 
 where the School has convened until now. On October 
 18, 1908, the School held its first session in the new 
 and permanent home, "The Chinese Mission House of 
 New York," 223 and 225 East Thirty-first Street. 
 
 Many hundreds of Chinese have thus come under 
 Christian influence. Thirty-nine have been received into 
 the fellowship of our church, where most of them were 
 baptized. Our School is known as "The Home of the 
 Chu Family," because most of its Chinese belong to that 
 royal Clan of Ha Lo', Sun Ui, Canton Province. 
 
 Fourteen of our Communicants and other Christian 
 Chinese, and many who have attended the school, have 
 returned to remain in China. These have taught and 
 preached in their market town. Goo Jeng, where this 
 year has been dedicated a new, commodious, self-sup- 
 porting church. At Ha Lo' will soon be laid the corner- 
 stone "of the Church in our village to commemorate the 
 beautiful name of our beloved Dr. John Hall." 
 
 As a tribute of grateful love to their glorified Pastor, 
 
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 the Chinese and their friends gave "The Dr. John Hall 
 Memorial Scholarship, in perpetuity," to The Christian 
 College. 
 
 Our Christians at home, with the help of our school 
 here, organized and maintain a flourishing Day School 
 and Sunday Bible School for Women and Girls. The 
 Girls' School, taught by Miss Chu Shu Fay, is strong 
 in Christian influence and full of promise. 
 
 Our Christians there have organized a Y. M. C. A., 
 and every evening they gather the youth of the village, 
 teaching them English- and mathematics, closing with a 
 Gospel service. We have also supported a Bible Woman 
 in Ha Lo'. 
 
 Prayer, the Christian's vital breath, has been the life 
 of our School. The Chinese Prayer Meetings and Ser- 
 vice of Song, held before school, are Gospel Meetings, 
 and a means of training our Christians for Evangelistic 
 work. The Teachers' Prayer Meetings, led by the Su- 
 perintendent, have been full of spiritual power. 
 
 Mr. William Campbell was appointed in charge of the 
 Chinese work, October, 1885. Since then he has con- 
 ducted the School with untiring devotion, in the spirit 
 of the Master. The workers have been apt to teach, 
 prayerful, zealous for souls. The School is grateful to 
 God for the cordial sympathy and support of pastors 
 and people, and for the new facilities for greater useful- 
 ness. 
 
 The Chinese Sunday School, begun and extended by 
 the Lord, will, by His grace, continue to save souls 
 until it has accomplished its part, in His plan of eternal 
 love, for the redemption of the world, "and to His name 
 be the praise." 
 
 (Miss) Charlotte C. Hall, Assistant Supt. 
 
 Committee of Session. 
 
 Mr. William Campbell, Supt. 
 
 Mr. James Talcott Mr. James A. Frame 
 
jfiftl) auenue piesftpterian Cfiutcft 131 
 
 Teachers. 
 
 Miss Helen S. Bergmann 
 
 Mrs. Henry W. Bookstaver 
 
 Miss Juua R. Congdon 
 
 Miss Charlotte S. Fruauf 
 
 Miss Margaret Cooper 
 
 Mr. George L. Fruauf 
 
 Mrs. S. W. Lincoln 
 
 Mr. James A. Frame 
 
 Mr. Morris Schiffert 
 
 Miss Grace Meeker 
 
 Mrs. Morris Schiffert 
 
 Mrs. Wilbur McBride 
 
 Mr. Edward J. Brown 
 
 Miss Florence Thurber 
 
 Miss Florence White 
 
 Miss C. C. Hall 
 
 Missionary Visitor, Mrs. 
 
 Jessie G. Schiffert. 
 
 Communicants. 
 
 Mr. Chu Hom ^ 
 
 Mr. Chu Sing 
 
 Mr. Chu Een Chor \ 
 
 Mr. Chu Soo Gyp. 
 
 Mr. Chu Ball* 
 
 Mr. Chu Soo Yon 
 
 Mr. Lem Ling FoNGf 
 
 Mr. Chu Ah Saam f 
 
 Mr. Chu Ah Chew f 
 
 Mr. Choy Ching 
 
 Mr. Chu B. Wong 
 
 Mr. Chu Mowf 
 
 Mr. Chu B. LuNGf 
 
 Mr. Chu Bing Fai 
 
 Mr. Chu Chee 
 
 Mr. Chu DoNf 
 
 Mr. Chu Gain 
 
 Mr. Chu FooKf 
 
 Mr. Chu Foon Ki 
 
 Mr. Chu Homm 
 
 Mr. Chu Fung 
 
 Mr. Chu Hong Haw 
 
 Mr. Chu Yen f 
 
 Mr. Chu Hong Yu f 
 
 Mr. Lem Doo 
 
 Mr. Chu Jim f 
 
 (Henry Lum) 
 
 Mr. Jung Luke * 
 
 Mr. Chu M. Seung 
 
 Mr. Chu Lit 
 
 Mr. Chu Kew Hong* 
 
 Mr. Ng Band Sheck 
 
 Mr. Chu Nim-|- 
 
 Mr. Nie Woo Soon 
 
 Mr. Chu Poo Wah 
 
 Mr. Chu Faie Loong 
 
 Mr. Chu Sam Toy 
 
 Mr. Chu Kee 
 
 Mr. Chu Shir 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
 Mr. Chu S. YEONCf 
 
 •|- In China. 
 
 WOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY. 
 
 This helpful woman's work for woman has been car- 
 ried on by the ladies of the congregation for nearly 
 half a century. The records go back to 1867. Mrs. 
 Edwards Hall, of the Distributing Committee, has given 
 out to date 52,156 garments. Between eighty and one 
 hundred women are thus employed each season. Miss 
 
132 Centennial CeleOration of tfje 
 
 Harriet Edwards has been the Almoner of the Lord's 
 spiritual bounty to the women while they wait for their 
 work. 
 
 The bond of Christian sympathy and mutual helpful- 
 ness, expressed in many kindly and practical ways, make 
 these Tuesday mornings at the Church such as savor 
 of the perfume of the breaking of the Alabaster box. 
 OFFICERS 
 
 Mrs. Wiluam Irwin, First Directress. 
 
 Mrs. H. Edwards Rowland, Second Directress. 
 
 Mrs. Richard J. Thompson, Third Directress. 
 
 Mrs. Gustav Bauman, Treasurer. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte C. Hall, Secretary. 
 
 THE LOAN RELIEF ASSOCIATION. 
 
 This Society was incorporated Nov. 6, 1878. It grew 
 out of the needs of Mrs. Paddock's (nee Miss Sarah 
 Sands) and Miss Avery's, of blessed memory, large 
 Sabbath evening Bible Class at The Seventh Avenue 
 Mission. It has created a system of assisting the worthy 
 poor and needy. It was the first institution of the kind 
 in this great Union. Information was constantly sought 
 and Loan Relief Associations organized in many places, 
 even across the Atlantic. Relief by loans is one of the 
 best ways to be charitable, for it helps the worthy poor 
 to become self-sustaining. Dr. John Hall considered it 
 one of the best and wisest for Christian benevolent work 
 in the Church. There were many helpful agencies con- 
 nected with the Association, to meet the manifold needs 
 of the poor in times of sickness and trial. 
 
 The Loan Relief is now continued in connection with 
 The Woman's Employment Society, on Tuesday morn- 
 ings, under the care of Mrs. Frederick L. Bradley. 
 
 ROMEYN CHAPEL. 
 The work was inaugurated by the efforts of a number 
 of Christian people connected with the Presbyterian 
 

 ROMEYN CHAPEL 
 FOURTEENTH STREET 
 
Jfifti) atienue l^tcsftptetian Ct)urc|) 133 
 
 Church who organized a Sabbath School in the spring 
 of 1858 in a loft over at blacksmith's shop at 416 East 
 Fourteenth Street. During the first four years its mem- 
 bership so greatly increased that it became necessary to 
 secure a larger room, and permission was granted to 
 move into the audience room of the public school build- 
 ing on Fourteenth Street. Here the numbers grew un- 
 til, in the year 1864, over eight hundred children were 
 in attendance. During this period, many friends from 
 neighboring churches became teachers in the school. 
 
 The sessions were first held in a part of the city greatly 
 neglected by Christian workers, and one found many dif- 
 ficulties with which to combat. During the first year 
 every window in the building was broken, but by the aid 
 of the police, the school was continued, and, in the course 
 of time the neighborhood changed for the better. The 
 first superintendent was Mr. J. M. Cowperthwaite. 
 After about seven years he removed from the city, and 
 for one year Mr. Robert McCartee was the superin- 
 tendent. In 1866, the Mission was under the care of Mr. 
 Samuel D. Davis, who continued the superintendency un- 
 til the year 1878, when succeeded by Mr. John Sinclair. 
 
 In 1866, the Rev. U. G. Wenner, at the time a student 
 in Union Theological Seminary, was engaged as the first 
 paid visitor. Soon thereafter the people desired a church 
 organization, and, with its consent, Mr. Wenner, who 
 was connected with the Lutheran Synod, withdrew from 
 the school and rented the church building on Avenue B. 
 and Sixth Street, and with the majority of members 
 commenced services at that place. In the autumn of 
 1878, the building at 240 East Fourteenth Street was 
 purchased from St. George's Church, and on February 
 the loth, 1879, the school removed to that place, and the 
 chapel was incorporated under the title of Romeyn 
 Chapel of the City of New York. The incorporators 
 were Sam'l D. Davis, C. R. Agnew. Wm. Campbell, 
 
134 Centennial Celetiration of tfte 
 
 Ewen Mclntyre, John Sinclair, D. M. Walbridga, J. V. 
 Van Santvoord, Alex. Maitland, Robert Hoe, Robt. S. 
 Maitland, H. G. De Forrest. 
 
 In the spring of 1879, the Rev. E. L. Mapes was 
 called to the pastorate and superintendency of the school. 
 He continued to labor there for about a year, being suc- 
 ceeded in May, 1880, by the Rev. George Van Deurs, 
 who was followed in January, 1883, by the Rev. Frank- 
 lin Dwight, who remained in charge until February, 
 1886, when he resigned and was succeded by the Rev. 
 A. H. McKinney. The Rev. Thomas Attenson was 
 stated supply from November 30th, 1887, to November 
 1st, 1885. In February, 1889, the Rev. Herbert M. An- 
 dres was called to the pastorate. He was followed in 
 May, 1890, by the Rev. Thomas Douglass, who was suc- 
 ceeded in 1897 by the Rev. J. P. Dawson. In the au- 
 tumn of 1898, the Rev. J. Campbell Neil succeeded Mr. 
 Douglass, and in May, 1900, the Rev. W. A. McKenzie 
 was called to the pastorate, remaining in the charge until 
 1904, when the work was merged into that of the Four- 
 teenth Street Presbyterian Church. The chapel was sold, 
 owing to the fact that near-by churches had planted so 
 large a number of chapels in the district that opportuni- 
 ties for service had become greatly curtailed, and the 
 care of the people was assumed by the Fourteenth Street 
 Church a few blocks away. 
 
 The interest on the fund, or proceeds, of the sale was 
 used partly to assist the Fourteenth Street Church in car- 
 rying on the work and partly for our other chapels and 
 schools. 
 
 From a personal letter of S. D. Davis we extract the 
 following items, showing some of the "fruit" and its 
 character : 
 
 "In the course of time, some influences of the Mission 
 have incidentally come to my knowledge. The Rev. John 
 G. Dyer, now a pastor of a Baptist Church in this State, 
 
jFiftI) atjenue ptesfiptetian Cfiurclj 13s 
 
 has written saying that in 1862 he attended the school. 
 He was a very poor boy, living on Avenue A. He writes 
 that he has been a pastor for forty years." 
 
 "A boy named Davis attended the school. He after- 
 wards joined the army, and for a number of years was 
 in active service. He afterwards became a Baptist min- 
 ister. After thirty-eight years of good work, he became 
 paralyzed, and is now in a home in Germantown. He 
 (Rev. J. L. Davis) is said to have rendered unusual 
 service." 
 
 "Another boy, Charles Fischer, became a Methodist 
 pastor of a church on Long Island. I saw him about 
 fifteen years since, but do not know his address now." 
 
136 Centennial Celebration of tije 
 
 Ctie l^togram anQ C£erci0e0 
 
 of m 
 
 Centennial Celebtation 
 
 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 The actual services of the celebration began with the 
 preparatory service in the chapel on December i8, and 
 continued, as shown by the program, through the Wednes- 
 day evening service of December 23. 
 
 In the sermons and addresses that follow, many fugi- 
 tive facts are amberized that were omitted from the frag- 
 mentary history that precedes. References to persons 
 and to deeds — to great movements and philanthropies — 
 identified with or related to our church contained in the 
 formal addresses, are in contrast with the eloquent, ap- 
 preciative or suggestive remarks made at the delightful 
 social reception at Mrs. Alexander's. 
 
 Some of these suggestions may bear fruit. Some of 
 this fruit may ripen but slowly. To what extent our 
 church may be "cathedralized," as one speaker suggested,, 
 is not clear. To what extent the new school of sartorial 
 homiletics, also described by this speaker, will invade our 
 theological seminaries and create a class of pulpit special- 
 ists it will be interesting to observe. 
 
 The spiritual influences of the Gipsy Smith services 
 that preceded our centennial, deepened by the communion 
 with which that centennial opened, together with the 
 stimulating effect of the review of the past and the clarion 
 call to wider ser-vice in the future, must combine to 
 strengthen our church life and avert any disposition to 
 reactionary indolence. 
 
 If so, we shall be constantly and increasingly grateful 
 to the 
 
 "God of our fathers, from whose hand 
 The centuries fall like grains of sand." 
 
JFiftlj atienue presfiptetian Cl)urc|) 137 
 
 The addresses follow in chronological order without 
 further preface or comment. 
 
 AT THE PREPARATORY SERVICE the address 
 was delivered by Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D., Associate 
 Pastor, on the text : "Who knoweth whether thou art come 
 to the kingdom for such a time as this." — Esther IV : 4. 
 
 One of the most fascinating incidents in Bible history, 
 one of the most dramatic, one of the rarest in its lessons 
 for life, is the story of this Jewish maiden who was 
 brought near to the throne of Ahasuerus that she might 
 turn the destinies of her people and save them from a 
 cruel fate. * * * 
 
 Mordecai is laying bare Esther's obligation to God- 
 He insists that such goodness demands recognition, that 
 to turn aside from its just appeal would be basest in- 
 gratitude. Surely we dare not be dull to this considera- 
 tion in these anniversary days. The first note to be 
 struck to-night is the note of praise. One hundred years 
 of Divine mercy. Five thousand Sabbaths each one of 
 them rich in the favor of God. Men noble and true have 
 stood in this pulpit to proclaim the unsearchable riches 
 of Christ and point lost souls to the Lamb of God that 
 taketh away the sin of the world. Men consecrated and 
 courageous have borne before this people the vessels of 
 the Lord. If it were possible to sum up the blessings of 
 these years. what a deluge of grace would pour in upon 
 us. Who shall tell the noble aspirations that have been 
 kindled, the holy impulses that have been awakened, the 
 tears of contrition that have flowed from eyes that caught 
 their first vision of the Saviour's face. Who shall num- 
 ber the hearts that have been renewed, the lives that; 
 have been transformed, the homes that have been glad- 
 dened with light from the throne. Where is the historian 
 who can pen a record of the influences which have gone 
 out from this church into the city, throughout the land 
 and unto the ends of the earth. Let the doxologies be 
 loosed to-night, let the hosannas of God: leap from lip. 
 
138 Centennial Celebration of tlje 
 
 to lip as we call upon all that is within us to magnify 
 the precious Name. 
 
 But we cannot pay this obligation in words alone. The 
 Psalmist's question should find a place on every tongue, 
 "What shall I render unto the Lord, for all his benefits ?" 
 and if we shall honestly seek to know the will of God, 
 the summons of my text will force itself upon us. "Thou 
 art come to the Kingdom for such a time as this." The 
 past is peculiarly rich, but the past is gone. The days 
 through which we have come are only the preparation 
 for this day. Every event in the history of these ten 
 decades has been moving in solemn procession toward 
 this hour. Here is the focal point. We must find the 
 meaning of the past in the opportunity of the present. 
 The gifts we have received, the victories we have won, 
 the lessons we have learned, the discipline we have en- 
 dured, the losses we have suffered, the prayers and tears 
 and sacrifices and toils all press their shining fingers upon 
 the spot where we stand to-night. Listen, oh ye people 
 of God, listen, as these influences of a century each takes 
 to itself a voice and you will hear them say, "Thou art 
 come to the Kingdom for such a time as this." * * * 
 
 Great problems are pressing upon us. Some of them 
 great enough to threaten our national honor, some of 
 them strong enough to strike at the very heart of the in- 
 stitutions we cherish. The saloon goes with its vile 
 traffic, dealing in heartaches and tears and human blood. 
 Divorce threatens to loosen the foundation stones of 
 the American home. Sabbath desecration stalks abroad 
 gaining new vantage ground with every year until our 
 dreams of the future are darkened with the hideous 
 nightmare of a Continental Sunday. The chasm be- 
 tween capital and labor has not been bridged. Multitudes 
 are drifting away from the church. This is a time for 
 brain power and moral muscle and spiritual gianthood. 
 
 A paralyzing indifference has fallen upon the church. 
 Her machinery is splendid, her treasury has never been 
 
jrmi) atienue ptes&ptetian Cf)utc|) 139 
 
 so full, her numbers have never been so large, her society 
 has never been so select. She has all that is needed for 
 her comfort. She is tempted to be at ease. This means 
 to close her eyes to the vision of human distress. 
 
 Yet this is the day of God's power. He is working 
 marvels among the sons of men. The nations of the 
 •earth are like chessmen in His hands, He moves them 
 wheresoe'er He will. He reaches from His throne, and 
 opens doors for the entrance of His gospel. The forces 
 of nature are revealing their secrets and offering their 
 resources. In the spiritual realm, God is inspiringly 
 active. He is calling His people to a richer experience. 
 He is giving them glimpses of a life of power. He is 
 showing them the dishonor of offering Him less than a 
 whole-hearted service. He is taking possession of humble 
 souls and through them working miracles of grace. By 
 means of the heroism and martyrdom of His heralds. He 
 is putting to shame the accursed selfishness of a worldly 
 •church. * * * 
 
 These are some of the conditions we must face, and 
 God has brought us as a church to this hour that we 
 may help to meet them. 
 
 We are to have part in making the church a vita 
 force in the world. Jesus said of her : She is the salt of 
 the earth, and the mission of salt is to sweeten, to 
 purify. He also called her the light of the world, and the 
 business of light is to shine away the darkness. The 
 church should touch and beautify every relation of life. 
 Its influence ought to permeate business and statecraft 
 and social affairs. The church should be a guarantee 
 that great moral questions in the community will be set- 
 tled as they should, that great wrongs will be righted, 
 that great needs will be supplied. And each member of 
 the church is to make his contribution to this vital, ener- 
 gizing force. Some one has said membership in the 
 Church of Christ should be a certificate of Godly char- 
 acter, a certificate that will pass at its face value among 
 
I40 dTcntennial Cele&ration of tfje 
 
 the sons of men. Alas, how often it has no value. Be 
 sure of this : If it means little to you, it will mean little 
 to others. It will count for as much as it costs, no more. 
 If it stands for sacrifice and devotion to you, it will stand 
 for life and blessing to the world. 
 
 John Fisk, the historian, tells us that in the continental 
 congress, after the members had signed the new constitu- 
 tion, a silence like death filled the room. Now that the 
 stupendous work was finished, these men, who for months 
 had given to it their minds and their hearts, were over- 
 whelmed with its meaning. The face of Washington 
 was buried in his hands, he seemed to be engaged in 
 prayer. On the back of his chair was emblazoned a half- 
 sun brilliant with gilded rays. Benjamin Franklin arose 
 to his feet, and pointing to the emblem said, with deep 
 emotion : "During these weeks I have ^looked at yonder 
 sun and wondered whether it was rising or setting. Now 
 I know it is a rising sun." * * * 
 
 God expects this church to be an irresistible soul-win- 
 ning agency. Let us not be unmindful of the passion for 
 souls that has flamed in many a heart in this Zion, let 
 us not forget the money that has been turned into con- 
 secrated manhood and womanhood and enlisted in the 
 work of redemption. Let us not overlook the persistent 
 zeal that is laboring to-day for the coming of the King- 
 dom. * * * 
 
 Years ago a poor English artist sat one day before his 
 canvas. He was painting the picture of a lost woman. 
 He became deeply absorbed in the tragedy as it grew 
 upon the canvas. It was a pathetic scene ; a bleak winter 
 night, darkness and tempest only broken by a flickering 
 light here and there. A woman thinly clad with a babe 
 pressed against her breast was wandering through the 
 streets. Every door was closed against her. As he 
 went on to portray the agony of that wretched soul, he 
 could no longer control his feelings. Throwing down 
 his pencils, he cried: "If souls are lost, how can I be 
 
ififtl) aiienue Pre06pterian Cijutci) 141 
 
 content with painting pictures of their distress? My 
 business is to save them." From that hour this became 
 his passion. He went to Oxford, then down into the 
 5lums, then on into the heart of Africa. We know him 
 to-day as Bishop Tucker, one of the noblest saints of his 
 ■century. * * * 
 
 We are overwhelmed at the thought of the possibilities 
 in this work if each member of the church were dedicated 
 to the task. 
 
 Once more, God is asking us to hasten the coming re- 
 vival. It is coming, for thus is it written, "I will pour 
 out my spirit upon all flesh," and God's word cannot fail. 
 We have seen a moving at the tops of the mulberry trees. 
 Over against the horizon is a cloud about the size of a 
 man's hand. O for a faith that will make these movings 
 a tempest of grace. O for a voice of prayer that will 
 bring the little cloud closer until it fills the sky, and pours 
 its floods of blessing upon us. This is the day of out 
 opportunity. We may help to bring in the morning of 
 power. God is offering Himself to His People. We 
 may have Him in the fullness of His might if we will. 
 We can afford to lose sight of all else in our agony for 
 a deep and widespread revival. We can afford to plow 
 and harrow and sow in tears ; we can afford to plead and 
 toil by day and by night. It is our supreme need. Every 
 other need is swallowed up in this. We need leaders. 
 We need money. We need pure doctrine, and pure devo- 
 tion. We need a power that will keep the wheels of 
 activity in motion. We need people to fill the vacant 
 places within the walls of the sanctuary; but the need 
 of needs, the blessing that will wipe out our lesser needs, 
 is a deep and far-reaching experience of the quickening 
 power of God. This will bring to the front leaders with 
 tongues of fire and nerves of steel. This will give us a 
 mastery over the problems we face. This will blot out 
 theological controversies. This will loosen the purse- 
 strings of the redeemed until the treasuries of the church 
 
142 Centennial Celebtation of tije 
 
 overflow, and multitudes will come pressing into the 
 Kingdom like doves to their windows. * * * 
 
 As we take our places about The Holy Table for this 
 anniversary communion, a century of blessing behind us,, 
 untold possibilities before us, let us consecrate our all to 
 the sublime task of bringing in the Day of His Kingdom. 
 
 MORNING SERVICE, DECEMBER 20, 11 A. M. 
 
 Organ Prelude — First Sonata Mendelssohn 
 
 Doxology 
 
 Invocation 
 
 Anthem — "Except the Lord Build the House" Faning 
 
 First Scripture Lesson, Psalm XLVIII 
 
 Hymn 138 
 
 Second Scripture Lesson, Matthew V: 1-20 
 
 Prayer 
 
 Hymn 418 
 
 Offering for Chapels and Schools 
 
 Anthem — "Round Jerusalem stand the Mountains" 
 
 HiLLER 
 
 Anniversary Sermon by the Pastor 
 
 Dr. Stevenson preached from the text: 
 
 "Holding forth the word of life."— Phil. II : 16. 
 
 The first Protestant missionary society was the "Cor- 
 poration for the Propagation of the Gospel in New Eng- 
 land." It was organized by Oliver Cromwell and the 
 Long Parliament, and in 1661 it adopted a very interest- 
 ing seal. This seal represents a North American Indian 
 holding in his left hand a large closed Bible to which he 
 is pointing with his right hand, and above his head are 
 written the words, "Come over and help us." To such 
 an appeal the church is everywhere and always to respond. 
 An appropriate seal for the true Christian church would 
 be an angel of light holding in his hand the word of life 
 and offering it to the generations of mankind who furnish 
 the dark background, and overhead could be written the 
 words, "Freely ye have received, freely give." The 
 
Jfifti) atienue l^tesfiptcrian Cljurcft 143 
 
 church is not merely a sacred institution with creed, gov- 
 ernment, ordinances and forms of worship. It is a body, 
 a living organism, holy in character, brought into being, 
 nourished and controlled by the truth of God and kept 
 strong and reproduced by missionary endeavor. This 
 was the Apostolic conception of the church. Every or- 
 ganization of believers was expected to bear witness to 
 the truth and to propagate it. Our own church has been, 
 we believe, true to this conception, and may be described 
 as a witness-bearing church, and on this account entitled 
 to a place along with all the others throughout the world 
 who hold forth the word of life. 
 
 I. The idea of a living church is herein embodied. It 
 is not a soulless corporation, but a body with faculties 
 and powers, able to receive and assimilate truth and com- 
 municate it to others. The church at Philippi had a per- 
 sonal history, a birth, a growth, a self-conscious existence 
 and a life-giving influence. This has been the experience 
 of our church during the past century. 
 
 The living word called into existence the Fifth Avenue 
 Church just one hundred years ago. At that time there 
 were scarcely ninety thousand people all told in this city. 
 There were no steamboats nor steam ferries, and the only 
 means of transportation was on horseback or by stage 
 coach. The mails were slowly carried from place to 
 place at frequent intervals, and the postage varied ac- 
 cording to the distance, twenty-five cents for more than 
 four hundred miles. There were two or three daily 
 papers in the city, a larger number of weeklies, but no re- 
 ligious journals at all. Though the Presbyterian Church 
 had been in existence in this country for more than one 
 hundred and fifty years, there were at that time about 
 three hundred ministers in the whole church and 21,270 
 communicants. There were but four Presbyterian 
 churches in the city, though there were a goodly number 
 in the vicinity, constituting a Presbytery. The total 
 benevolent gifts of all these churches in the Presbytery 
 
144 Centennial Celetiration oC tlje 
 
 for that year amounted to $1,392. When our church was 
 organized in 1808, there were twenty-six members. 
 Zechariah Lewis and William Qeveland were the two 
 ruling elders, and George Fitch was named the first dea- 
 con. The Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D., the son of a 
 Dutch Reformed minister, and whose first parishes had 
 been in the Dutch Qiurch, was the first pastor, and served 
 until his death, that is for seventeen years. From these 
 ^simple beginnings our church has grown. 
 
 We have had four church homes, the first at Cedar 
 Street, costing a little more than forty thousand dollars ; 
 the second on Duane Street; the third on the corner of 
 Nineteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, and the fourth in 
 the present location. Eight ministers have served the 
 church, and the longest as well as most fruitful pastorate 
 was that of Dr. Hall, from 1867 to 1898, or a term of 
 thirty-one years. The church has had sixty-eight ruling 
 elders and forty-three deacons ; and, while I do not know 
 the exact number of trustees, there appear on the list the 
 names of some of the most prominent and influential 
 business men of the city. There have been enrolled in 
 the church approximately ten thousand members, with a 
 present total membership to-day, including those in the 
 chapels, of over two thousand. 
 
 But these cold statistics give us little idea of the amount 
 of life that has been poured into the church, and has is- 
 sued from it. The variety of life that has been repre- 
 sented is rather surprising. Its ministers have come not 
 only from across the sea, but from the North and South, 
 from the East and West. Originally, its membership was 
 drawn largely from New England, and for a while it was 
 called the Federal Church. But two of her pastors were 
 of Southern birth, and during the war she was accused 
 of having some sympathy with secession. While the 
 Scotch and Scotch-Irish elements have been strong in 
 her life, Dutch, Swiss, German and French names appear 
 on the roll, where can also be found the names of Japa- 
 
Mtb atienue ptesijpterian Cliurcl) 145 
 
 nese and Chinese, though the predominating influences 
 have been American. It has not been the church of any- 
 one class of society, but has aimed to be a fold concerning 
 which it may be said, "The rich and the poor meet to- 
 gether, the Lord is the maker of them all." There has 
 been a continuity of life down through three generations. 
 The son of one of the charter members and first deacons, 
 William Hall, is still living, Mr. H. M. Hall of Pitts- 
 burg, Pennsylvania. Most of the original families have 
 died out or have moved away, but there are still in the 
 church the grandchildren of one of the charter members, 
 Hugh Auchincloss. 
 
 The church has passed through many vicissitudes. It 
 has witnessed no less than four great national wars. It 
 has seen controversy, disruption and reunion in the Pres- 
 byterian Church, and at times has been depleted in num- 
 bers and strength by the formation of new churches ; as, 
 for example, when the University Place Church was 
 founded by a colony of nearly two hundred members 
 from the Duane Street Church. And yet, in the main, 
 her course has been one of almost uninterrupted progress. 
 There has been all along steady and substantial growth, 
 the sure evidence of healthful and vigorous life. Our 
 church has surely been a living witness. 
 
 II. The Apostle expected the Philippian church to be 
 Biblical, "holding forth the word of life." 
 
 We belong to a great body of Christians called evan- 
 gelical because of their belief in those fundamental truths 
 of redemption which constitute a living evangel. This 
 gospel of Christ, which presents him as a divine, atoning 
 Saviour and a risen, living Lord, saves men from sin, 
 builds them up in character, inspires them to a Christlike 
 life, and gives promise of a noble, eternal destiny. The 
 church which holds this word of Ufe is sometimes called 
 evangelistic, by reason of her endeavors to bring people 
 under the power of this gospel, and enlist them in Chris- 
 tian discipleship. It is not an evangel of abstract truth. 
 
146 Centennial Celeliration of tfte 
 
 of antequated principles and unpractical theories, but a 
 word of life that brings life and has to do with the rela- 
 tions and activities of every-day life. After the lamented 
 death of your beloved pastor. Dr. Purves, seven years 
 ago, a memorial volume of his sermons was published, 
 entitled "Faith and Life." In those discourses, so full 
 of profound thought, practical truth and spiritual fervor, 
 the gospel is proclaimed as he had verified it in his own 
 experiences and as it fitted the needs of common life. 
 Such preaching was characteristic of all who preceded 
 him. There have come into my possession the two vol- 
 umes of sermons published by Dr. Romeyn in 1816. In 
 reading the preface, I was interested in learning that he 
 selected these discourses to afford a specimen of the man- 
 ner in which Calvinistic principles can be applied to the 
 illustration and enforcement of the duties belonging to the 
 various relations of life. As you peruse those discourses 
 and see their application to the life of the individual, of 
 the church, of the community and of the nation, you are 
 convinced that the gospel was to him a real and practical 
 thing. And from the beginning, this vital word entered 
 into the very life of the church and by the power of the 
 Spirit was the one strong pervasive influence of growth, 
 efficiency and usefulness. This gospel and the sacred 
 Scriptures containing it have always been dearly loved 
 by our people, as the very food of the soul. 
 
 Moreover, the Bible has been the only text book which 
 our church has used down through her history. Every 
 preacher and teacher of our church would stand with 
 Principal Forsyth on the ground he has taken: "The 
 Bible is the one Enchiridion of the preacher still, the 
 one manual of eternal life, the one page that glows as 
 all life grows dark, and the one book whose wealth re- 
 bukes us more the older we grow because we knew and 
 loved it so late." I only wish that there were time to in- 
 dicate the place which the Bible has held in this pulpit, in 
 our Bible School, and in the homes of our people. And 
 
jTiftl) anenue presfiptetian Cijutcfj 147 
 
 our deep regret is that it has not been an even strcwiger 
 factor in our life and work. It is interesting to note, in 
 passing, that soon after our church came into existence, 
 the need of a training school for ministers of the word 
 of life was felt, and this church took the leading part in 
 the inauguration of that enterprise. Dr. Romeyn was 
 chairman of the Assembly's Committee to prepare a plan 
 for a theological seminary, and, as a result, Princeton 
 Seminary was founded. And not only did our church 
 contribute generously to the new institution, but our ladies 
 organized themselves into a Dorcas Society, with the pur- 
 pose of aiding worthy students who were preparing for 
 the ministry of the Word. More than this, when the 
 New York Bible Society was organized in 1809, the 
 pastor of this church was its first secretary, and three of 
 its elders were managers. This same pastor, Dr. Romeyn, 
 took an active part in the organization of the American 
 Bible Society in 1816, and was its first secretary for do- 
 mestic correspondence. In these agencies our church has 
 always taken an active and generous interest. Holding 
 the Word of Life firmly, it has been our business to hold 
 it forth to others, that its light may everywhere shine in 
 all divine splendor. 
 
 III. The missionary apostle assumed that a living 
 church to whom has been committed the priceless heritage 
 of the truth would be missionary in her character and 
 purpose. 
 
 Although the territorial expansion of our country dur- 
 ing the past one hundred years has been wonderful, even 
 more resistless, significant and inspiring has been the 
 steady expansion of the missionary enterprise at home 
 and abroad. In 1808 there was very little Home Mission 
 work being done, and there was no agency this side of 
 England for foreign work. There was need of pioneers 
 to blaze the way and turn the forces of the church in 
 the right direction. Such a pioneer was to be found in 
 Dr. Romeyn. He was eminent as a preacher, beloved as 
 
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 a pastor, but in addition, a man of affairs, who interested 
 himself in the great projects of the kingdom and proved 
 himself to be a statesmanlike Christian leader. In almost 
 every religious enterprise inaugurated in his time, he took 
 some part, and he gathered about him as officers in the 
 church broad-minded laymen who caught the vision of a 
 world-wide mission. Hence, in the beginnings of the 
 word of both the Home and Foreign Boards, appear con- 
 spicuously the names of Dr. Romeyn and Elders Zecha- 
 riah Lewis, Divie Bethune, and Hugh Auchincloss. A 
 high missionary standard was thus set before our church 
 was ten years old, and ever since then there has never 
 been a time when our church has not been represented on 
 the boards of these and kindred agencies by prominent 
 laymen and by every pastor with the exception of the 
 Rev. Cyrus Mason. 
 
 There has been held before us constantly a high stand- 
 ard, both as to the missionary character of the church and 
 the actual service which may be rendered. Your atten- 
 tion will doubtless be called to-morrow evening to the 
 classic definition of Dr. James W. Alexander, when, in 
 1847, he declared : "The Presbyterian Church is a mis- 
 sionary society, the object of which is to aid in the con- 
 version of the world, and every member of the church is 
 a member for life of said society and bound to do all 
 in his power for the accomplishment of this object." This 
 was the missionary ideal held before our fathers from 
 the beginning, and it is somewhat surprising to learn that 
 during the ministry of Dr. Potts, in 1836, the Session, in 
 order to have a more systematic plan for beneficence, set 
 apart certain months for particular causes (and there 
 were six of them all told), and then took this action: 
 "The pastor, on the first Sabbath of each month desig- 
 nated and on such other occasions during the same month 
 as may be convenient to himself, shall preach upon the 
 general subject ; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of 
 Session to notify the agents of the several associations to 
 
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 whom it may appertain, that they solicit the subscriptions 
 of the congregation during their respective months." 
 Such action would be regarded as rather advanced and 
 idealistic for our time. Few churches to-day would sub- 
 mit to a sermon on some religious benevolence once a 
 month if not oftener and to having for each one a sub- 
 scription list passed instead of a collection plate. But it 
 was by that effective means our predecessors endeavored 
 to hold forth the Word of Life, and because of this burn- 
 ing missionary spirit manifest in pastor, officers and peo- 
 ple from the beginning, our church has earned a well-de- 
 served renown for her generous support of missionary 
 agencies. By making her light shine afar, its lustre has 
 not been dimmed at home. When the rapid growth of the 
 city and the congestion of population demanded mission 
 work near at hand, it was immediately taken up, and it 
 has ever since been carried on with increasing interest, 
 devotion and self-sacrifice, so that to-day we can point to 
 our chapels and schools as being the most fruitful depart- 
 ments of our work. 
 
 The conclusion of the whole matter is that our beloved 
 church for one hundred years has occupied a position of 
 strategic importance, the center of the growing life of a 
 metropolitan city. All the rich and varied life repre- 
 sented in her has been used to fulfill the function of a 
 true Christian church that is to receive and assimilate 
 the truth of the gospel and then hold it forth as the one 
 true light that all may discover the way of life. A rich 
 heritage has been bequeathed to us, not only in the same 
 word of life committed to our trust and for which the 
 world is appealing, not only in a strong body of believers 
 that far outnumbers the little 'band of a hundred years 
 ago, but in the equipment and position that has been left 
 us. Here we have a beautiful and commodious church 
 home without any encumbrance of debt or mortgage, with 
 well-furnished buildings in the city for our mission work. 
 No one will question the leading place of influence which 
 
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 the city is taking and will long continue to take in the 
 aflfairs of the world and of the divine kingdom. And 
 God has placed us in the very heart of the city, near the 
 exact geographic center of Manhattan; and more than 
 this. He has given this church a position of influence, a 
 high place from which she may accomplish wonders for 
 the world's redemption. And all this is ours in a sense. 
 It is God's, for he only doeth wondrous things. It is 
 theirs, our fathers', for it represents their toil, their devo- 
 tion, their prayers, and their tears. But it is ours to 
 squander and lose, or to hold securely and carry on to a 
 yet more glorious consummation. We may by indiffer- 
 ence and ingratitude, by ease and neglect, permit to be 
 written over the portals of our church, "Ichabod, her 
 glory is departed," or we may, by living trust in God, by 
 prayer, by wise determination, by self-sacrificing endeav- 
 or, make our inheritance to be but the foundation of a 
 temple of truth that will outlive the centuries and remain 
 until every knee shall bow to him and every tongue shall 
 confess him as Lord, and He will come to rule over all. 
 Prayer 
 
 Hymn (Anniversary) 
 Benediction 
 Organ Postlude — Tocatta in F Bach 
 
 COMMUNION SERVICE, AT 4 O'CLOCK P. M. 
 
 Organ Prelude — Matthew Passion Bach 
 
 Anthem — "How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair" Spohr 
 The words of the anthem are a paraphrase of 
 Psalm LXXXIV. 
 
 Invocation Rev. Albert L. Evans 
 
 Hymn 298 
 Scripture Lesson 
 
 Address Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D. D. 
 
 The pastor spoke in his communion address from the 
 text: 
 
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 "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy 
 
 great goodness." — Psalm CXLV: 7- 
 
 There are two thoughts here most appropriate for this 
 centennial and sacramental day, and I mention them not 
 so much to explain or urge them as to suggest a fruitful 
 line of meditation during this communion hour. They are 
 these: Past mercies and devout thanksgiving, precious 
 memories and grateful praise. 
 
 I. A flood of recollections pour in upon us as we as- 
 semble here in our church home to-day. 
 
 This memorial feast and these memorial services in 
 which we are engaged turn our thoughts back over the 
 years that are gone to faces that we have loved long since 
 and lost a while, to scenes that shine out in all their 
 brightness and joy and to associations that have brought 
 blessing and foregleams of heaven's glory. Some can 
 recall the old family pew and the household that sat to- 
 gether as in heavenly places, or the class in the Sunday 
 School and the honest efforts that were made to under- 
 stand the Book Divine; or it may be the day when you 
 publicly confessed Christ and for the first time partook of 
 the Holy Supper. You can recall great communion occa- 
 sions at a time of wonderful spiritual refreshment when 
 such a man of God as Dr. James W. Alexander, with all 
 the sanctity of his consecrated life, or such a majestic 
 Christian personality as Dr. John Hall, with all the sim- 
 plicity, gentleness and grandeur of his strong manhood in 
 Christ, stood before you and distributed the bread and 
 the cup; and the Master himself drew nigh. But these 
 first affections, these deep experiences apparelled in ce- 
 lestial light, which seem to us the fountain light of all 
 our day, the master light of all our seeing, are but the 
 dim reflections of that one stupendous event at the be- 
 ginning of the Christian era, of which this supper is to 
 be the perpetual reminder. He that spared not his own 
 Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not 
 
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 with him freely give us all things ! All things have been 
 ours since we are Christ's, and Christ is God's. 
 
 And this carries us back to the fountain-head of all 
 blessing, the great goodness of God. It is only goodness 
 that we care to remember. Evil, too, often dwells in 
 our minds, poisons our aflfections, and prevents well- 
 doing, and we would give anything to blot it all out of 
 our past. Christ's blood alone can do that, and as we 
 sit at this feast, we may well contemplate the goodness of 
 God in overcoming evil, in setting right the things that 
 have been wrong in our career, in our relation with 
 others, in our membership in the church of God. But 
 whether we recall the joy of sin forgiven, the place of 
 reconciliation, the comfort that sorrow has made sweet, 
 the strength which trial has developed, or the gifts of 
 health and home and friends and delightful associations, 
 profitable co-operation, and an inspiring service, it is the 
 simple goodness of God that we love to think about and 
 which brings us the greatest happiness and profit in the 
 contemplation. The bliss of heaven gathers around the 
 sublime discovery that God alone is worthy to receive 
 glory and honor, dominion and power. If there are any 
 here to-day dejected, discouraged, "Oh, taste and see that 
 the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him." 
 
 II. There is a flood of memories which stream in upon 
 us when we think of the goodness, the unmerited favor of 
 God; and the Psalmist has also in mind here the flood 
 of praise which is sure to issue forth. Abundantly utter 
 is the same thing as to pour out. 
 
 There are often precious recollections which we keep 
 bound up within our hearts. Dull apprehension, thought- 
 less ingratitude, the hardening influences of the world 
 which is too much with us, the selfish desire for greater 
 benefits than others can know or have, these impressions 
 cover over the fountains of praise, make such a thick 
 crust of formality and proud self-consciousness that we 
 are not as thankful as we ought to be, nor as jubilant as 
 
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 God expects us to be. But an occasion such as this is 
 ordained of the Lord to break the hardest cement of in- 
 difference and thanklessness, so that praise may flow 
 forth in one great stream, just as streams of mercy, never 
 ceasing, call for loudest songs of praise. 
 
 He who gives the maximum of blessing desires the 
 maximum of gratitude. And I do wish that on this beau- 
 tiful anniversary day, which means so much to the church, 
 to many of our families, to our own individual hearts, we 
 might simply forget ourselves, at least our lower selves, 
 all that would drag us down and hold us back, that we 
 may lose ourselves in the memory of his great goodness, 
 and lose ourselves in the joy and praise of this sacra- 
 mental Sabbath, and then our song will be : 
 
 "I yield my powers to thy command, 
 To thee I consecrate my days: 
 
 Perpetual blessings from thy hand. 
 Demand perpetual songs of praise." 
 Reception of New Members 
 Hymn 992 
 
 Administration of the Bread Rev. Hugh Pritchard 
 Administration of the Cup 
 
 Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D. 
 Prayer Rev. Paul R. Abbott 
 
 Hymn 959 
 Benediction 
 Organ Postlude 
 
 SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE, AT 8 O'CLOCK.. 
 Opening Service of Song 
 Scripture Lesson and Prayer 
 
 Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, D. D.. 
 Hymn 515 
 Address— "Our Indebtedness to Great Religious 
 
 Movements" Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, D. D- 
 
 The address was based upon the thought embodied in 
 the text: 
 
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 "Others have labored, and ye are entered into 
 
 their labor."— John IV : 38. 
 
 No man lives and labors independently. For what he 
 is and has and does, he is indebted to the service of other 
 people. A rude barbarian, when he has outgrown the 
 fostering care of parents, may subsist alone in his sav- 
 agery, but it is impossible for any one to do this in civ- 
 ilized society. When we pass from simplicity to com- 
 plexity, life becomes more and more involved, more and 
 more interdependent in its relations, and more and more 
 co-operative in its service. This is true of a particular 
 •church. Though there are churches which call them- 
 selves independent, strictly speaking, there are no inde- 
 pendent churches. As a true church, each is part of a 
 great religious movement, and it receives in order to give. 
 Our own church has reaped much where others have 
 sown. In some enterprises, we have been pioneers, and 
 great causes have looked to us constantly for substantial 
 support. Yet from the beginning, we have freely re- 
 ceived and have shared in the blessing of great religious 
 movements. We do well to remind ourselves on this an- 
 niversary occasion of our indebtedness to great religious 
 movements. 
 
 In the progress of the kingdom during the past cen- 
 tury, there have been great spiritual awakenings, fol- 
 lowed by the establishment of great philanthropic enter- 
 prises, these in turn followed by organized endeavors on 
 the part of churches. 
 
 I. We owe much "every way" to the great revivals 
 which affected the Christian life of the nineteenth century. 
 
 The revival of 1800 had much to do with the planting 
 and early growth of our church. At the close of the 
 Revolutionary War, religion and morality had fallen to 
 the lowest water mark of the lowest ebb tide ever reached 
 in our country. French infidelity was everywhere ram- 
 pant, and the leading statesmen were unbelievers. In- 
 temperance was so general and the demand for distilled 
 
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 liquor so great that the attempt of the Government to 
 levy a tax led to the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794. The 
 whole church was in such a deplorable condition that in 
 1798 the General Assembly issued a pastoral letter calling 
 upon the people to observe a special day of humiliation, 
 fasting and prayer, so great was the prevailing impiety 
 and contempt for the laws and institutions of religion, 
 the abounding infidelity and the advancing profligacy and 
 corruption of public morals. In answer to prayer, there 
 was a special and very general outpouring of the Holy 
 Spirit which quickened into newness of life not only the 
 churches of New England and of the East, but the 
 churches of the South and West. The results in the in- 
 crease of membership in the churches and in the quicken- 
 ing of religious interest and activity were so marked that 
 the General Assembly in 1803 declared, after scrupulous 
 inquiry, that nothing had ever occurred in this country so 
 favorable and so gratifying to the friends of truth and 
 piety. It was not a short-lived experience. Wave after 
 wave of deep inflowing religious life continued to pour 
 over the churches at frequent intervals for a whole gen- 
 eration. There was a long period of abundant life which 
 enlarged and strengthened and multiplied the churches 
 and equipped them for the stupendous tasks of the past 
 century. It was during this period of revived Christian 
 life that our church came into existence. The natural 
 growth of the city had much to do with the increase of 
 the churches. But it was the religious interest of the 
 time which made existing church buildings inadequate to 
 accommodate the people and necessitated the organization 
 of new congregations. There were in existence at the 
 time the First Collegiate Presbyterian Church (including 
 the Wall Street Church, the Brick Church in Beeckman 
 Street, the Rutgers Church on Henry Street) and the 
 First Associate Presbyterian Church on Nassau Street, 
 near Maiden Lane ; and because these were overcrowded. 
 Dr. Rodgers, who was the leading Presbyterian minister 
 
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 at that time, advocated the erection of a new church in 
 Cedar Street. In all probability, a large number of the 
 charter members of our church in 1808 felt the impulse 
 of that spiritual awakening. Two years later, when the 
 pastor, Dr. Romeyn, was moderator of the General As- 
 sembly, he commented on the evidence of the Spirit's 
 work in the churches and on the visible results of a great 
 religious movement. For fifteen or twenty years after 
 the organization of our church, there were, as Dr. Gard- 
 ner Spring testified, an uninterrupted series of celestial 
 visitations, and as late as 1828-29 there was an extraor- 
 dinary awakening of the New York churches, in the bene- 
 fits of which the Cedar Street Church, with Cyrus Mason 
 then as pastor, shared. During this early period of our 
 history there were additions on confession of faith at 
 every communion service, and the growth of the church 
 was not only constant, but rapid. But this, we must 
 remember, was in connection with a great religious move- 
 ment. We were carried along by the general advance 
 which the church was everywhere making. 
 
 The revival of 1857 brought great fruitfulness to our 
 church. This spiritual awakening, like the recent move- 
 ment in Wales, was pre-eminently a revival of prayer. 
 The human agent, in so far as any human agent could 
 be recognized, who inaugurated this divine enterprise was 
 Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier. In July, 1857, he became a 
 lay missionary of the North Dutch Reformed Church. 
 It is interesting to note that for eight or nine years pre- 
 ceding this he had been a member of our church and 
 had come under the spiritual ministry of the praying 
 pastor. Dr. James W. Alexander. As Mr. Lanphier 
 walked the streets in the performance of his missionary 
 duties, the idea occurred to him that an hour of prayer 
 from twelve to one o'clock would be beneficial to business 
 men, an hour in which they might sing, pray, relate their 
 religious experiences and come and go as their engage- 
 ments or inclinations might dictate. On the 23d day of 
 
iTiftl) atJenue pte0ljpterian Cljutci) 157 
 
 September, 1857, the lecture room of the North Church 
 on Fulton Street was thrown open for this purpose. Dur- 
 ing the first half hour Mr. Lanphier prayed alone — ^no 
 one came. But at 12 130 the step of a solitary individual 
 was heard. Soon another came in, and then another, un- 
 til six people made up the whole company. That was 
 the beginning of that wonderful series of business men's 
 prayer-meetings, which increased with such power and 
 blessing that no one building adequate to accommodate 
 the crowds could be procured, and it became necessary to 
 arrange for such meetings all over the city. The en- 
 thusiasm for prayer filled the city and spread throughout 
 the country. Synchronous with it was a great awakening 
 in North Ireland, in which Dr. John Hall participated 
 while pastor at Armagh, and which has been chronicled, 
 in Dr. William Gibson's book, "The Year of Grace in 
 Ulster." Numbers are often misleading, but it gives us 
 some conception of the sweep of this movement to be 
 told that throughout the United States no less than one 
 million persons were turned to Christ, and that in New 
 York alone as many as ten thousand people united with 
 the churches. In the year 1858 to 1859, our own church 
 received a larger number of accessions than in any pre- 
 ceding year. In one communion. May, 1858, there were 
 no less than fifty-seven additions on confession of faith. 
 The hearts of pastor and people were greatly rejoiced, 
 and Dr. Alexander's interest in the movement and con- 
 viction of its wide-reaching value found expression in 
 a wonderfully suggestive and stimulating book, "The Re- 
 vival and Its Lessons." 
 
 The records of the church show that the most fruitful 
 year in all her history was in 1875 and 1876. During that 
 ecclesiastical year, no less than two hundred and seventy- 
 one persons were received into the church on confession. 
 This was the natural harvest of blessed years of toil in 
 Dr. Hall's faithful pastorate. It was also coincident with 
 the removal of the church up-town and the dedication 
 
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 of the present edifice. But is it not significant that at 
 that very time Brooklyn and New York were profoundly 
 stirred by the meetings conducted by Dwight L. Mcxjdy. 
 I can remember as a lad how my father, a minister, was 
 impressed and encouraged by the accounts of those gath- 
 erings, the like of which had not been seen since 1857. 
 This display of God's power in our city had its natural 
 effect upon our church and its life, calling men and wom- 
 en to earnest thought and impelling the undecided to an 
 open confession. 
 
 It is conceivable that our church might have lived and 
 thrived independently of these extensive spiritual move- 
 ments, but it accords better with God's method of work- 
 ing to believe that our church has been receptive to in- 
 fluences affecting the whole kingdom, and has stood ready 
 to profit by the example and labor of others. I can only 
 mention one other fact which clearly indicates how much 
 we have been helped from the outside. A large propor- 
 tion of the ten thousand members that have been enrolled, 
 surely one-half, have been received by letter from sister 
 churches. 
 
 II. There are great philanthropic enterprises which 
 have exerted a strong reflex influence upon the life and 
 work of our beloved church. It would be interesting to 
 show, if the time permitted, how spiritual awakenings 
 have been followed by earnest endeavors to give the gos- 
 pel to every creature and uplift mankind. For example, 
 the great evangelical revival of the Eighteenth Century 
 led directly to the abolition of the slave trade in England,, 
 the organization of the Religious Tract Society, the Brit- 
 ish and Foreign Bible Society, the London and the 
 Church Missionary Societies. Just so the revivals of the 
 past century, more notably the one in 1800 and the fol- 
 lowing years, gave a decided impulse to missionary and 
 philanthropic effort. 
 
 When our church had its beginnings, the population 
 was not congested in the cities as it is now, but was dis- 
 
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 tributed throughout the country. There were no large 
 cities, and hence many of the problems so familiar to us 
 were not known by the fathers. The tasks of the church, 
 outside its own parish, were related to the two great en- 
 terprises of Domestic and Foreign Missions. These great 
 fields of service were brought to the attention of the 
 church by the great spiritual awakenings of which I have 
 spoken. Both of these agencies of the church can be 
 traced back to the revival of 1800, and, connected with 
 them, other important forms of service were brought into, 
 existence; the means of educating ministers, culminating 
 in the establishment of Princeton Theological Seminary; 
 the circulation of the Scriptures and the formation of 
 the New York Bible Society and the American Bible So- 
 ciety ; the distribution of good literature, and the organi- 
 zation of the American Tract Society. It was also found 
 necessary to establish schools and missions in our own 
 city, as well as elsewhere, and the American Sunday 
 School Union and the New York City Mission and Tract 
 Society were the result. These religious activities were 
 not only the result of apparent needs, but of a quickened 
 religious consciousness which it requires a real spiritual" 
 awakening to bestow. 
 
 We have already learned by this morning's study what 
 the vital relation of our church to all these organizations 
 or societies has been. Among their founders, directors", 
 trustees and chief benefactors have been placed the pas- 
 tors and influential laymen of our church. Our people 
 have contributed constantly and generously and have been 
 a substantial help. This has meant much to these agen- 
 cies, as will be duly pointed out, but let us not overlook 
 nor forget what it has meant to us. We honor the men 
 whose names are conspicuous in the life and work of the 
 church, and let us also give praise for the occasions which 
 challenged them, called out the best that was in them and 
 developed their gifts to the highest point of usefulness.. 
 By these agencies we have been preserved from narrow- 
 
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 ness, provincialism, selfishness and death. We have as a 
 church had the means for broadening the vision, enlarging 
 the sympathy, inspiring the best service and promoting 
 a life not self-contained, but overflowing in blessing and 
 distributing itself throughout the world. 
 
 III. There have been also great organized endeavors 
 from which our church has derived profit. Spiritual 
 awakenings prompting benevolent enterprises necessitated 
 systematic effort so that the forces of the church might 
 be most advantageously utilized. After great missionary 
 societies had been organized, it was found desirable to 
 plant societies in the individual churches. In this direc- 
 tion there have been four great movements, the enlist- 
 ment of young men, the enlistment of women, the enlist- 
 ment of young people, and the enlistment of men. 
 
 It is worthy of note that the Young Men's Social and 
 Benevolent Society of our church, which for years did 
 a splendid service by way of enlisting and training young 
 men, was organized in 1842, two years before George 
 Williams founded the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion in England, and nine years before the Association 
 idea was introduced into America. But unquestionably 
 this Association movement which swept over the country 
 strengthened the work in our own church, magnified the 
 importance of this particular enterprise, and gave our men 
 such training as naturally fitted them for positions of 
 leadership in the great undertaking of "work for young 
 men by young men." 
 
 So also have the women of our church profited by the 
 movement in the whole church. As early as 1810 a 
 Dorcas Society was organized in our church to aid the 
 students of Princeton Seminary. Prior to this there had 
 been several "Cent a Week" and other similar organiza- 
 tions formed in New England. But so far as we have 
 any record, ours was the first women's society west of 
 Massachusetts. This developed into the Princeton Sem- 
 inary Association of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
 
ififtl) atjenue ptestipterian Cfiutcb i6i 
 
 Church. In the pastorate of Dr. Alexander there was a 
 Ladies' Foreign Evangelical Society, which co-operated 
 with the young men in the support of an evangelist in 
 France. But it was not until after the organization of 
 the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Boards arid 
 the establishment of auxiliary societies in the various 
 churches that the Auxiliary Society and Young Women's 
 Missionary Society of our church were formed. 
 
 The Young People's Association took up the work of 
 the Young Men's Social and Benevolent Society, adapted 
 it to changing conditions, and, apart from aflBliation with 
 any general movement, has done a splendid and perma- 
 nent work. And yet the atmosphere created by the 
 sychronous interest of young people throughout the whole 
 church has no doubt proved a greater inspiration to us 
 than we can realize. The movement which characterizes 
 the present-day life of the churches is that which has to 
 do with the men, and which in our own denomination has 
 crystallized into the Presbyterian Brotherhood. From 
 this in turn we have derived benefit in the vision given 
 as to the possibilities of Bible study, of individual work 
 and of missionary interest and support. 
 
 These influences may seem to some far-fetched and a 
 very small value may be placed upon them, just as we 
 often fail to appreciate the influences which have made 
 us personally what we are. But no man liveth unto him- 
 self, or by himself. The Christian must work out his 
 own salvation, but he is not asked to do it in solitary 
 confinement. He may lead some kind of a religious life 
 outside the church and isolated from his fellow Chris- 
 tians, but all experience goes to show that he will grow 
 faster, become stronger and prove more useful when he 
 alligns himself with the whole company of believers. God 
 setteth the solitary in families. The Apostolic method of 
 establishing the kingdom was not merely to organize 
 local churches, but to keep them in touch with each other 
 that they might be mutually helpful. The society, the 
 
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 church which grows most is the one most susceptible to 
 the best influences from every quarter. Even in the posi- 
 tion of leadership, it gets suggestion and inspiration from 
 the rank and file. This is the method by which the Spirit 
 of God has been working down through the centuries, 
 and, while we thank him for the part he has given us in 
 great religious movements, we will not forget to thank 
 him for the place he has given us in them where we 
 might receive the most, so as to give the best. 
 
 Here we are at the close of a century of glorious his- 
 tory, and all the best influences of a hundred years have 
 not only been received, they have been assimilated, puri- 
 fied, energized, and handed down to us, that we might 
 transmit them to others. Others have labored, and we 
 are entered into their labor. And they look down upon 
 us to see if by us their tasks may be carried forward to 
 completion, since they without us are not made perfect, 
 "Therefore, let us also, seeing we are compassed about 
 with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight 
 and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run 
 with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto 
 Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith." 
 Prayer 
 Hymn 554 
 Benediction. 
 
 AT THE MISSIONARY SERVICE, held Monday, 
 December 21, 8 P. M., the following addresses were 
 delivered. 
 "Our Church and City Missions" 
 
 Rev. a. F. Schauffler, D. D. 
 
 The local church has a work of its own within its walls. 
 If there, however, its work ceases, sooner or later that 
 church dies. The local church must work in wider and 
 ever widening circles to maintain its own life and power. 
 
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 The first of these widening circles that presents itself 
 to any urban church is the city in which the church is 
 located. The second field, still wider, is the land in which 
 the city is located, and the last and widest field is the 
 world in which the land finds its habitation. 
 
 We are to begin to-night with the smaller of these cir- 
 cles, widening out to home missions and broadening still 
 further to the foreign missionary work which this church 
 has blessed and by which this church itself has been 
 blessed. 
 
 One hundred years from eighteen hundred and eight, 
 to nineteen hundred and eight, is a far cry. In this hun- 
 dred years many things have happened within and with- 
 out the church, within and without the city, and the land 
 and the world, revolutions on revolutions, advances and 
 retrograde movement. On the whole, advance. The 
 story of the last hundred years is a story unsurpassed 
 by any hundred years in this world's history. 
 
 My part of the story of the activity of this church per- 
 tains chiefly to this city of ours, and when I say this city 
 I mean pre-eminently Manhattan and the Bronx, for that 
 is the older New York City. This church has been living 
 now for one hundred years, and the society which I rep- 
 resent before you this evening has been living for eighty 
 years, for the New York City Mission was founded in 
 1828. Singularly enough, and happily, from that time 
 to this never has this church had a pastor — with one sin- 
 gle exception — which pastor was not also a member of 
 the Board of the New York City Mission and Tract So- 
 ciety. In 1828, I find from the record, from that time 
 to 1836, the Rev. Dr. Mason was pastor of the church 
 and also director of our City Mission Society. The same 
 was true of the Rev. Dr. George Potts, who was pastor 
 here from 1836 to 1844. He was followed by Dr. J. W. 
 Alexander, in whose pastorate here there was a short 
 interregnum when he attempted to withdraw from the 
 pastorate, and then was called back again. He ministered 
 
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 from 1844 to 1859, and was also one of the directors of 
 our society. Then came the Rev. Dr. N. L. Rice, from 
 1859 to 1869, and he followed in the footsteps of his 
 predecessors in this one particular. Then began the im- 
 mortal pastorate of the Rev. Dr. John Hall, from 1869, 
 and from that time to the day of being gathered to his 
 fathers and his rest and his reward Dr. John Hall was 
 one of the directors of our society. Then came the one 
 short inteiTegnum, when, for not quite two years. Dr. 
 Purvis was pastor here, and he was not a member of our 
 board. He was followed by your present pastor, whom 
 we rejoice also to number among those who are with us 
 in the board of the New York City Mission and Tract 
 Society. 
 
 So that you see, for fourscore years, with the brief in- 
 terruption of not quite two years, the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
 byterian Church and the New York City Mission and 
 Tract Society have been fast friends, and as we have 
 possibly in some ways helped the pastors, so they certain- 
 ly in large ways have helped the work which we repre- 
 sent. 
 
 When you come to the financial side, we can see much 
 of the debt which our society owes to this church as a 
 corporate body, and to the members of this church as 
 individuals. Always during the earlier history of the 
 society, before we employed any paid agents and while 
 we were practically a voluntary society, distributing tracts 
 and holding neighborhood prayer-meetings; I say from 
 that time down to the present day there has probably not 
 been any year when the financial hand of this church has 
 not been stretched out in sympathy and aid to the society 
 that I represent. 
 
 If I should try to gather up all the statements with 
 regard to this financial aid that has come to us from 
 your church and your members, it would amount to a 
 vast sum, and when I say a vast sum I mean it would 
 amount to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dol- 
 
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 lars, for 'there have been large givers, members of this 
 congregation who have given to us outside of the regular 
 church offering, like Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, of sacred mem- 
 ory. There have been those who have left to our society 
 bequests like one which came to us of over eighty thou- 
 sand dollars, from a former member of this church. We 
 have had gifts from the living, and gifts from those who 
 have passed away. Always large, always liberal, and 
 always exceedingly regular. 
 
 One of the former members of this congregation and 
 church donated to our city mission a complete church, he 
 paying every dollar for the complete outfit of the church, 
 from the beginning to the end, and then he passed it over 
 to us, and before he went to his rest partially endowed 
 the same. Another former member of this church gave 
 to our society its permanent home in the United Chari- 
 ties Building, on the corner of Twenty-second Street and 
 Fourth Avenue, where comfortably and without expense 
 the society finds its permanent abiding place in this great 
 city of ours. 
 
 So we could go on and illustrate the vital connection 
 and the most helpful connection between this congrega- 
 tion and church and the society, which is doing work ex- 
 clusively among the tenement house population of our 
 city. There be those who have been members of this 
 church, who have supported entirely by themselves cer- 
 tain women missionaries and trained nurses ; for our so- 
 ciety was the first that put trained nurses into the homes 
 of the tenement house population. There are those here 
 to-day who are supporting individual missionaries, send- 
 ing them as proxies, so to speak, going where they them- 
 selves could not go, administering to others in their stead 
 and in the Saviour's blessed name. 
 
 It would not do for me to sit down without referring 
 to another form of activity in which the society has been 
 brought in vital connection with the Fifth Avenue Presby- 
 terian Church. Some four years ago a movement was 
 
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 started in this city, called the Evangelistic Tent Move- 
 ment. The intent was to send out evangelists in the 
 heated term, during the summer, to preach in open tents 
 God's truth to those who would not and could not go 
 inside of the church walls. From the very first of that 
 Evangelistic Tent Movement, with which I have the priv- 
 ilege of being associated, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
 Church has stood as one of the large-hearted and loyal 
 friends. Only one other church in this city can in any 
 way match itself with this Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 
 Church in its support of the Evangelistic Tent Movement, 
 and that is the Brick Presbyterian Church, which stands 
 well alongside of this one in its large-hearted giving, 
 that to those thousands, tens of thousands — yes, scores 
 of thousands — who gather in the open tents, the glad 
 news of God's love in Christ may be brought. 
 
 Time would fail if we were to try to weave together 
 in warp and woof the complete pattern, showing all the 
 activities of individual members of this church in this 
 great city of ours. Indeed, there is need that there should 
 be such activity, not on the part of this church only, but 
 on the part of all believers everywhere. 
 
 It has been my privilege to be, for thirty-five years, a 
 worker in city missions in New York, and that is more 
 than one-third of the life of this church. I remember the 
 day when, twenty-five years ago, we said that the great 
 East Side was so crowded that it could not be any more 
 crowded; it had reached its maximum. We were mis- 
 taken. The great East Side had not, and the great East 
 Side has not, reached its maximum. Always we were 
 hoping for deliverance from the overcrowded tenement 
 district in its terrible congestion. First came the ele- 
 vated, and then we thought, "Now, they will flow north." 
 They did, but more flowed in. Then came the electric 
 cars and bridges, and then we thought, "Now, they will 
 flow out," and they did, but they flowed in faster. Then 
 came the subway, and we said, "Now, they will go," and 
 
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 they did, but they came faster. And, by and by, we 
 shall get tunnels from Jersey and to Long Island, and 
 then we will say, "Now, they will go" ; and so they will, 
 but they will come faster! 
 
 So the problem remains for the church, and for the in- 
 dividual members of the church, a problem accentuated; 
 for there are more people living south of Fourth Street 
 and east of Fifth Ayenue than ever before, and ten years 
 from now there will be still more. This is being made 
 possible by modern appliances, and never shall I forget 
 when I saw with trepidation the establishment of the first 
 elevator in a tenement house. I thought to myself, "Five 
 stories has been the maximum of the tenement house, 
 because people will not climb more than four flights of 
 stairs, but with the elevator they will go up forty." And 
 when the elevator comes in the tenement house, as it has 
 begun to come, then the overcrowding problem assumes 
 new, vaster and more momentous proportions. 
 
 Permit me to say that there are many streets in New 
 York, which I frequently traverse, where, if all the popu- 
 lation on either side came out on the street at the same 
 moment, there would not be standing-room for them 
 from wall to wall. 
 
 That being the situation, the call for church service, 
 for city mission work, for individual activity, never 
 ceases; for, with the massing of the population, there 
 mass also other problems grave and difficult of solution. 
 In the solving of these problems, members of this church 
 have achieved wonderful success. 
 
 I am not able to give you even a list of those activities 
 in which the members of this church have been peculiarly 
 blessed and peculiarly a blessing to the city. I have 
 jotted down some of them. Take, for example, the 
 Museum of Natural History, owing a boundless debt of 
 gratitude to one of the former members of this church 
 now passed to his rest. Take the Presbyterian Hospital, 
 owing also a debt of gratitude to this church, centering 
 
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 within these walls practically. Then there is the Eye and 
 Ear Hospital, and the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, and the Young Women's Christian Association, the 
 Five Points House of Industry, and the Children's Aid 
 Society, and I know not how many of these organizations 
 into whose life-blood has poured the faith and the pur- 
 pose and the money of those who at present, or who in 
 former days, have been members of the Fifth Avenue 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 I honestly believe that there is no church on Manhat- 
 tan Island whose activities on the whole, during all these 
 years, up to the very present moment, will surpass that 
 of this church along every line of the purifying, of the 
 elevating, and of the Christianizing of the community on 
 the island on which we dwell. 
 
 Yesterday I went to see the Tuberculosis Exhibit, 
 thinking it a fitting thing to do on the Lord's day, be- 
 cause much of the Lord's work there is exhibited through 
 the hands of his disciples, and when I saw that truly 
 wondrous exhibit, I blessed God that we were on the 
 edge of conquering that great white plague that has 
 wrought such havoc throughout the length and breadth 
 of our land ; and then I began to think and say, "Right is 
 all this ; blessed work is all this ; but a man may be cured 
 of tuberculosis and remain a thief; he may be cured of 
 the white plague and remain himself a black plague on 
 society." When we have cured the man's body we have 
 gone only skin-deep, as it were. That is grand work, 
 and God speed the men who are doing work of this kind ; 
 but we have also that work, plus a larger, more abiding, 
 more important, more imperative work than the mere 
 curing of the body. The church of Christ comes to this 
 world for the curing of the soul. In that, in itself, and 
 through other organizations, I know of no church that 
 has done grander work than the church whose hundredth 
 anniversary we are now celebrating. 
 
 And now to close. The multiform activities of the 
 
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 church are never really ultimately realized. There lies- 
 always the beyond of a larger possibility. I want to say 
 that for one humble resident of Manhattan Island I have 
 been cheered and comforted by the attitude that this 
 church has taken of late years along two lines ; within its 
 own walls, I mean. One is the providing here in the 
 summer time, for those who remain in the city and who 
 come to the city of necessity for the summer, of preach- 
 ing and divine worship of the very highest grade. Time 
 was when this was not always the case with the churches 
 in this town, but when the management of this church is 
 of such an intelligent nature that they place in this pulpit 
 men of national and international reputation during June, 
 July and August, so that these pews and galleries are 
 full, never mind what the thermometer says, that is a 
 benediction to this great town of ours; that is letting 
 your light so shine that men see your good works, and 
 glorify your Father who is in Heaven, and the gathering 
 here, the securing here, not during the summer season 
 only, but at times during the regular season, of men like 
 "Gypsy" Smith, and other men we can mention — Camp- 
 bell Morgan and Hugh Black and the like — the gathering 
 of these men is something for which the city ought to be 
 thankful, and of which this church has just reason to 
 be sanctifiedly proud. 
 
 On behalf of many who come here, who are not mem- 
 bers of this church, to whom you have thus ministered, I 
 desire to bring a token of gratitude, and to render in their 
 behalf to this church and its pastor and elders, thanks for 
 this careful ministry to the wants of the great spiritual' 
 public. 
 
 A hundred years have closed, and another hundred 
 years are just opening. God grant that those hundred 
 years that lie before us may be as marked in their prog- 
 ress and as engrossed in their activity as the hundred' 
 years that lie behind us have steadfastly been from decade; 
 to decade. 
 
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 In behalf of that society that I represent, let me close 
 by saying sincerely : We thank you for your co-operation, 
 for your sympathy, and for your substantial aid. 
 
 "Our Qiurch and Home Missions" 
 
 Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D. D. 
 
 "Spiritual strategy demands that the evangelization of 
 America should be kept in advance of every other move- 
 ment for the conversion of the world." So wrote that 
 great advocate of home and foreign missions. Professor 
 Austin Phelps. His statement is in line with the Master's 
 command — ^to compass the evangelization of the world 
 by an orderly advance from established centers. He rep- 
 resents missions as a movement. It is not an institution — 
 much less a doctrine. It is a march — ^a march that must 
 not rest till the world has been brought under the power 
 of the principles of Jesus; a march that moves outward 
 like rays of light from a radiating center. Light never 
 jumps. Its line is continuous and unbroken. And history 
 shows that that missionary advenlure is mightiest and 
 most conquering when it conquers as it goes. 
 
 What a magnificent and victorious wedge of gospel 
 light is that which, starting from Jerusalem, cleaves the 
 darkness of Asia Minor, crosses into southeastern Europe, 
 rises over the Alps, breaks through the darkness of Ger- 
 man forests, crosses over into the druidic night of the 
 British Isles, and then, as by the energy of all its con- 
 quests, leaps over an ocean to light up a new continent. 
 Here it could not rest. Already by accumulations of radi- 
 ating power it has streamed over the Pacific and is touch- 
 ing with first pencils of sunrise the mountainous pagan- 
 ism of a final continent. 
 
 This church has had the vision of a strategist. It has 
 taken the command of Christ in its broadest sweep and 
 in its most philosophic order. For generations it has 
 been a missionary church — ^not in spots, not for sections. 
 
jFiftft 3i)cnue ptesfipterian Cljutcl) 171 
 
 It has striven for the Kingdom, whether by the term was 
 meant Manhattan Island, or America, or the world. Re- 
 fusing to parcel out the great commission to this section 
 or that, to this race or that, it has wrought for the re- 
 demption of man. 
 
 I am to speak to you of what it has done in a century 
 for that part of the Kingdom which for economic reasons 
 is called home missions. Missions is missions, the same 
 in principles and obligations. One command covers it all. 
 But for convenience or economy it has two great divi- 
 sions, no more to be distinguished as to essential char- 
 acter or motives than two divisions of an army fighting 
 the same battle. What now has this church done for that 
 part of the battle whose lines are under the national flag? 
 
 I am unable to give the figures of a hundred years. 
 Much of the first half of the century is lost in the dust of 
 years. But in general terms it may be said a mighty mis- 
 sionary character was stamped on its very beginnings. 
 It could not be otherwise. This church was born in the 
 first enthusiasm for modern missions. In foreign mis- 
 sions the thrill of the "haystack prayer-meeting" was still 
 on the church. In home missions the beginning of the 
 last century marked the first great advance. It was then 
 that Christian pioneers pierced the forests of the Empire 
 State and swung their thin lines over the AUeghenies. It 
 was then that the first settlements were being made in 
 the old Northwest, and missionaries, with commissions 
 covering a state, were hurried forward. A vision of 
 the West — restricted indeed compared to that which since 
 has rolled on the eyes of the church, but romantic and 
 thrilling — came; over the consciousness of the church. 
 This church could scarce fail to feel the pulse of that 
 mighty movement and to respond to its power. 
 
 The history of this church in home missions can be di- 
 vided into three parts : First, the personnel of the church 
 in the Board of Home Missions; second, the contribu- 
 tions ; and, third, the interest in special fields. 
 
172 Centennial Celebration of tbe 
 
 First, as to the personnel. The Board of Home Mis- 
 sions was organized as a Committee of Home Missions in 
 1803, and as a Home Mission Board in 1816. The very 
 next year, namely, 1817, the Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D., 
 pastor of the church, and Elders Bethune and Lewis were 
 members of the board. Dr. Romeyn was at that time 
 president of the board. In 1827 Zechariah Lewis was 
 elected by the General Assembly, and in 1829 two mem- 
 bers of the session, Cyrenius Beers and Hugh Auchin- 
 closs, were members of the board. Dr. George Potts was 
 made a member of the board in 1839, Dr. James W. Al- 
 exander in 1846, Dr. N. L. Rice in 1862, Dr. John Hall 
 in 1869, and after his death in 1898 he was succeeded by 
 Dr. George Purves, whose sudden and early death is still 
 mourned by this church and by the Board of Home Mis- 
 sions in whose service so much usefulness was promised. 
 Robert L. Stuart, who for a number of years was leading 
 trustee in our church, is named as a member of the board 
 in 1 85 1. His name appears again in 1867. Following 
 him was Jacob C. Vermilye, who was one of the incor- 
 porators of the present board, and who continued in 
 service from 1871 to 1892. He was succeeded by John 
 S. Kennedy in 1892. Mr. H. Edwards Rowland was 
 made a member of the board in 1893. Mr. D. B. Ivison, 
 who subsequently united with our church, was a membet 
 of the board in 1894, and Mr. Henry W. Jessup and Mr. 
 Rowland represent the church at the present time. 
 
 Dr. John Hall, so long the honored and beloved pastor 
 of this church, became president of the board in 1881, 
 and so continued until his death. Punctual in his at- 
 tendance at the meetings of the board, devoted to all its 
 interests from the larger scope of it to the smallest de- 
 tails at the board meetings, wise in counsel, always 
 courteous, he endeared himself to the entire membership 
 of the board and its officers. His appeals for the cause 
 before general assemblies from year to year will long 
 be remembered. 
 
jFiftI) anenue preslipteifatt Cljurcft 173 
 
 Second, contributions. As early as 1836 a committee 
 of the session prepared a systematic plan of beneficence 
 for this church and recommended that the attention of 
 the people be directed to the following religious benev- 
 olences: The Bible Society in the month of November; 
 Domestic Missions, December; Education Cause, Janu- 
 ary; Sabbath Schools, February; Foreign Missions, 
 March; Tract Distribution, April. 
 
 It thus appears that very early in its history this church 
 made definite plans for that benevolent work which has 
 grown to such conspicuous dimensions. Our church is 
 just beginning to realize the value and importance of sys- 
 tematic ways of giving, and in making plans, as plans 
 are now being made, for the adoption of definite system 
 in benevolent contributions, this church may proudly point 
 to the example it set more than seventy years ago. 
 
 I am unable to give the record of the gifts of this 
 church to the Board of Home Missions for any date 
 earlier than 1845. ^^ that year the contribution was $763. 
 That was about the average of contributions up to 1853, 
 when there was a sudden rising in the offering, which 
 amounted that year to $3,779. It continued at an average 
 of about that figure for the next seven years. In 1862 it 
 rose to $8,500. That level, however, was not reached 
 again until 1869, when it rose to $19,769. From then on 
 for a period of many years the gifts of this church — 
 leading all the other churches of the denomination — ad- 
 vanced rapidly, reaching the high-water mark in 1886, 
 when the enormous contribution of over $50,000 is re- 
 corded. The total sum contributed during the past sixty- 
 three years reached the generous aggregate of $953,973. 
 There are undoubtedly special gifts by individuals for 
 our work that are not listed by the General Assembly 
 in the contributions of the church which would bring the 
 aggregate up far beyond a million dollars. It should be 
 said of this sum $187,000 is the gift of the women's or- 
 ganizations to the Woman's Board of Home Missions. 
 
174 Centennial Celebration of tfte 
 
 One of the most conspicuous and useful directions in 
 which the Fifth Avenue Church has given itself to home 
 mission work is in the Home Missionary Society, which, 
 through the Woman's Board c* Home Missions, has been 
 instrumental in doing work for the exceptional popula- 
 tions in a great many directions. In all the departments 
 of that widely extended work the influence of this society 
 has been potent — among the Indians, the Mormons, the 
 Mexicans, the Mountaineers, the Alaskans and the 
 Islanders. 
 
 In two directions especially has their work been per- 
 sistently good and fruitful — ^that among the Indians of 
 the Indian Territory and among the Eskimos of Alaska. 
 .[At this point the speaker reviewed with dramatic 
 power the history of the work among the Indians. He 
 continued :] 
 
 When the history of Indian missions is written there 
 is no chapter that will be of more dramatic interest than 
 that of the origin, migrations, trials and victories of the 
 Cherokees, and no body of helpers will be more gratefully 
 remembered as having contributed to the salvation of 
 these neglected people than the Home Missionary Society 
 of the Fifth Avenue Church. 
 
 Another direction in which the liberality and devotion 
 of this church has been manifest is in that farthest and 
 saddest of all our stations, far within the Arctic Circle 
 and only a few hundred miles this side of the North 
 Pole. It has been called the loneliest station in the world. 
 Until recently it has shared that distinction with St. Law- 
 rence Island, in Behring Sea, because it could be reached 
 by mail only once a year, and then rather precariously, 
 for sometimes the government steamer was unable to 
 force its way through the ice and has had to turn back 
 without delivering its cargo. Now, however, thanks to 
 the reindeer service initiated by Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 
 there is mail along the coast to Point Barrow two or three 
 times in the course of the year. 
 
ififtl) atjcnue presfipterian Cljurci) 175 
 
 That station was opened by Dr. Jackson in 1890. It 
 was during that year that he made a direct appeal to 
 liberal givers in this church, with the result that the salary 
 of a missionary was provided. The Rev. Mr. Stevenson 
 was the first missionary. He has been followed by two- 
 others — Dr. Marsh and the Rev. S. R. Spriggs — each 
 holding the field for a number of years. 
 
 The conditions they have had to face have been hard 
 in the extreme. Not only the isolation and the sense of 
 solitude, the absolute impossibility of securing help in 
 the case of any serious accident or illness, the rigors of 
 a terrific climate, the white light of the long day with the 
 sun hanging on the horizon, and the equally long night 
 when for three months the work must be carried on and 
 the life must be lived in almost unbroken darkness; but 
 also the stolidity, degradation, sickness and sufferings of 
 the natives — all these things conspire to make it a field of 
 the utmost difficulty, and which could be manned only 
 by rare heroism. 
 
 To these difficulties must be added the yet more serious 
 one of the evil influence of fishermen and other occa- 
 sional travelers whose only dealings with the natives are 
 for their demoralization and destruction. 
 
 This church has kept that light burning for now eight- 
 een years. Not the least of the fruits of that mission has 
 been the heroism which the missionaries have displayed,, 
 and which has testified to the church and the world that 
 the days of apostolic zeal and devotion have not wholly 
 passed away. 
 
 Last year the Rev. S. R. Spriggs felt obliged to retire 
 from the service. He had had not only the hardships of 
 the climate and the ordinary obstacles to the work, but 
 also he was obliged to suffer persecution from white men 
 who were the enemies of missionary work for the Eski- 
 mos. It was unfortunate that some of the unjustifiable 
 attacks which were made upon his conduct were made by 
 an agent of the Government, an inspector of school work 
 
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 and Alaskan conditions. But the persecutions which he 
 thus suffered were the occasion of bringing to us vindica- 
 tions of his character and his service from a source which 
 was so unexpected as to make the information all the 
 more beautiful. 
 
 A few years ago a Swedish explorer, bound on chart- 
 ing some of the lands of the Polar Sea — his boat having 
 been wrecked and he having been obliged to come out on 
 foot from three hundred miles east of Point Barrow — 
 providentially fell in with our missionary on reaching that 
 station. Staying with him for a week he became so con- 
 vinced of his integrity and usefulness as a missionary 
 that, though not a religious man himself, nor an Ameri- 
 can, on coming to New York he sought us out for the 
 purpose of expressing to us his conviction of the good 
 our missionary was doing and of the unfounded character 
 of the reports which had been circulated concerning him. 
 
 On the retirement of Mr. Spriggs we sent out a call for 
 a missionary to take his place. It fell under the eye of 
 Dr. Marsh, who had been Mr. Spriggs' predecessor. Al- 
 though then comfortably pursuing his profession in an 
 Illinois town, the call of the Eskimos so pulled upon him 
 that he offered himself for a renewal of his service. In 
 his letter of application he said a trial for lunacy might 
 be necessary first, for his parents were sure that he must 
 be going crazy. But he knew his friends in the Arctic 
 Circle would welcome him and he wanted to go back and 
 serve them with his medical skill and missionary zeal. He 
 is there now in the darkness of the Polar winter. 
 
 But the manifestation of these qualities of heroism and 
 of the fact that God's men and women are still ready to 
 endure hardness for the Master's sake, are not the only 
 evidences of the value of that mission. A church has 
 been organized which has now a total membership of 
 about two hundred, and they are trying among their stern 
 surroundings to live lives of Christian faith and service. 
 That they are backing up their profession by their deeds 
 
ififtft auenue l^restiptetian Cljutcl) 177 
 
 is manifest from the fact that since the first of April of 
 this year there have been received from the Ootkiavik 
 Church (that is the name of the organization at Point 
 Barrow) two remittances of, respectively, $i6o and $128. 
 These have been forwarded by a Seattle fur company to 
 whom furs were consigned with the request that the pro- 
 ceeds be forwarded to the treasurer of the Home Board. 
 They have no money to give, but out over the frozen sea 
 or land they pursue the wild animals whose skins are 
 their gifts for extending the gospel in other regions. If 
 the churches generally gave according to the measure of 
 the liberality of the Ootkiavik Church, treasuries of mis- 
 sions would verily overflow. 
 
 It is a far cry from Alaska to Porto Rico, but in that 
 beautiful Island the women of this church also have their 
 memorial — not only in gifts to schools and to the Pres- 
 byterian Hospital at San Juan, but especially later in the 
 large gift of one of the ladies of this church of about 
 sixteen thousand dollars for the purchase and rebuilding 
 of a beautiful property for the use of the Presbyterian 
 Church there and of the school under the care of the 
 Woman's Board. 
 
 This is part of the story of the century past. What 
 about the century before us? This at least: Down its 
 swift-coming years the cause for which you have stood 
 so grandly will go forward to its consummatioa This 
 land shall come under the sway of the gospel of Christ. 
 And through this land — according to the measure of its 
 responsibility — the world shall be evangelized. And this 
 church in the generations to come will be true to its his- 
 tory, its country, and its God. 
 
 "Our Church and Foreign Missions" 
 
 Mr. Robert E. Speer 
 I do not propose to attempt any record of the achieve- 
 ments of this church in the work of foreign missions dur- 
 
178 Centennial Celefiratlon of tfje 
 
 ing the past century. I do not know them; no man 
 knows them. It would be a comparatively easy thing 
 to estimate the gifts of the church, as a church, to 
 foreign missions during the past century, aggregating, 
 I suppose, including legacies, not less than a million 
 and a half dollars. It would be an easy thing to point 
 out, here and there in the world, investments that this 
 church has made in the missionary enterprise; the sta- 
 tion at Shun Te Fu, in Northern China, which this 
 church established and maintains; here and there, in 
 many lands, buildings which represent the generous 
 interest of the people of this congregation; but even 
 after we have made a list of all the achievements of 
 which we know, we should be sure that there was 
 more of which we did not know, things of which no 
 record has been made, generous expressions of inter- 
 est, the chief beauty of which was that they were done 
 with no human eye to mark them. And even if we 
 did know all this record, we should have no time here 
 this evening to review it all. It is crowded full, we may 
 be sure, of a great multitude of small services which we 
 never could find time even to remind one another of, if 
 we had the record complete. 
 
 Dr. Stevenson gave me, the other day, a copy of a let- 
 ter of James W. Alexander's, written in the early years, 
 illustrative, I have no doubt, of a great deal that coxdd 
 be dug out of the early records of the church. "At no 
 time," he wrote before the Civil War, "have we had a 
 greater concurrence of good news from foreign missions, 
 and an accession of converts in almost all. Their work 
 is going on with great energy. We to-day contributed 
 another thousand dollars for another chapel at Ningpo, 
 and had notice of an equal gift from an individual, for the 
 same purpose. Our foreign board is at length incor- 
 porated, under the recent law of this State." It is a 
 rather interesting fact that the young member of the legis- 
 lature whose energy brought about that incorporation 
 
jFiftf) aiienue presOptetian Cfturcft 179 
 
 was, I believe, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew. I presume 
 in the early history of the church there could be found 
 a great many records of this kind, indicative of the in- 
 terest of this church in small missionary enterprises all 
 over the world. There must be hundreds of them, but 
 even if we knew them all, and had time to review them 
 all, we could not estimate here this evening, or at any 
 time, their real values. The things that we should re- 
 gard as greatest, time would probably show to have been 
 among the least important, and many deeds of very little 
 consequence in the judgment of those who did them 
 will doubtless turn out, in the end, to have been among 
 the great and memorable achievements of the church. 
 
 These things are of little consequence to recall. What 
 things we did it is not worth while remembering for their 
 own sake. The past is only valuable as it enables men 
 to go on to a better future, and the things which fill the 
 past are of no interest to us, save as they embody those 
 great principles by which we may guide ourselves in the 
 years that are to come. And I wish to speak very briefly 
 of three great missionary principles, illustrative of the 
 interest of this church in the work of foreign missions. 
 
 In the first place, this church has borne testimony to 
 the real end and business of the church. 
 
 It conceived from the very beginning of the church as 
 a force for human service. I was looking, this aft'ernoon, 
 at the old constitution of the Young Men's Social and 
 Benevolent Society of the church, in the introduction of 
 which the needs of the young men of the church in the 
 city were first set forth, and it was then stated that the 
 best way to meet these needs was to associate young men 
 together in "united benevolent action." From the very 
 beginning the church understood that to be her mission ; 
 that she was not a society for the spiritual cultivation 
 of her members, that she was a gathering together of 
 men and women in order that by their combined activity 
 
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 they might exert themselves more helpfully for their fel- 
 lows. 
 
 And the church perceived from the begiiming that this 
 service, which was to be her business, was to be wide as 
 all human need. I was interested when Dr. Thompson 
 was recalling this great list of names, to recall also 
 how those same names, for the most part, had been 
 identified with the foreign missionary activities of the 
 church. From the very dawn of the foreign mission- 
 ary enterprise of our church this organization has been 
 related to it. There has never wanted, I believe, a 
 year, from the day when the first foreign missionary 
 organization in the Presbyterian Church was estab- 
 lished, in which this church has not been represented 
 on the governing board. For almost half this century 
 pastors of this church have been members of the Board 
 of Foreign Missions. In the year 1817 two mem- 
 bers of this church, the pastor and one of the elders, 
 were members of the committee for organizing a for- 
 eign missionary society, a society in which the Presby- 
 terian Church, and the Dutch Reformed Church, and the 
 Associated Reformed Church united to carry on foreign 
 missionary work. Three members of this church became 
 members of that new board, which was in existence for 
 ten years. In 1826 it was proposed to consolidate that 
 united missionary organization with the American Board 
 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and Zechariah 
 Lewis was on the committee having in charge the meas- 
 ures of consolidation. When the consolidation was ef- 
 fected, and the Presbyterian Church had no longer any 
 foreign missionary society of its own, the home mis- 
 sionary organization was authorized to undertake, if it 
 desired, foreign missonary work. It was feared, how- 
 ever, that that might lead to some misunderstanding as 
 between our own church and the American Board, and 
 there was no further organized foreign missionary ac- 
 tivity on the part of the church as a whole until the year 
 
jrmi) atjenue ptesftptetian Cljutcl) iSi 
 
 1837. The conscience of the church, however, was not 
 easy under that situation. There were men who beHeved 
 that it was not right for a great Christian organization 
 not to carry on foreign missionary activities in its own 
 name, and in its own character, as an ecclesiastical organ- 
 ization. 
 
 Out in Pennsylvania, in the year 183 1, there was organ- 
 ized what was called the Western Foreign Missionary 
 Society, which was intended to redeem the Presbyterian 
 Church from what those who founded it deemed the dis- 
 grace of having no authorized foreign missionary organi- 
 zation of its own. In the Assembly of 1835 the ques- 
 tion came up as to whether this Western Foreign Mis- 
 sionary Society should be taken over by the Presby- 
 terian Church. I have no doubt with the influence 
 of those who were strong in the councils of this organ- 
 ization, the General Assembly of that year resolved to 
 undertake measures looking to the consolidation of the 
 Western Foreign Missionary Society with the growing 
 spread of foreign missions throughout the church as a 
 whole. The Assembly of 1836 reversed that action by a 
 very narrow majority, but the Assembly of the following 
 year reversed that reversal and set up our foreign mis- 
 sionary board, which has been in existence from that year 
 down to this. 
 
 Dr. Potts and Hugh Auchincloss were made members 
 of that board. Of the seven or eight members of the first 
 executive committee of that board, Dr. Potts and Mr. 
 Auchincloss were two. From that day down to this that 
 board or committee has never lacked representatives from 
 this church. Dr. Potts was succeeded by Dr. Alexander 
 and Dr. Alexander by Dr. Rice. Mr. Auchincloss was 
 succeeded by Robert L. Stuart and he by Hooper C. 
 Van Vorst, and he by Alexander Maitland and War* 
 ner Van Norden, and now Dr. Stevenson closes the 
 long roll of the century that binds the organization 
 work of foreign missions of our church to the life of 
 
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 this individual organization; and best of all, it was out 
 of this church, through the voice of Dr. James W. 
 Alexander, that there came the very noblest and most 
 classic expression of what the character, the real char- 
 acter, of the church as a missionary organization must be. 
 There was a great controversy that went on in those early 
 days between Jeremiah Evarts, championing one side 
 (the father of Senator William M. Evarts, and the first 
 treasurer and the second secretary of the American Board 
 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), and Elijah P. 
 Swift and Walter Lowrie championing the other side. 
 The contention of Mr. Evarts was that the ideal of for- 
 eign missionary administration was for all ecclesiastical 
 organizations of America to sink their individual char- 
 acter to unite in those elements that were common to 
 them all, and carry on their foreign missionary activities 
 under the one great common organization. It was the 
 contention, on the other hand, of Elijah P. Swift and 
 Walter Lowrie that the work of foreign missions could 
 not be entrusted to a voluntary organization with 
 which men might or might not associate themselves; 
 that the foreign missionary responsibility was inherent 
 in the character of the church, and that the church must 
 in her own corporate capacity undertake her foreign mis- 
 sionary responsibilities and that she dare not concede, or 
 let her members assume, that the missionary obligation 
 was optional with them ; that she must contend that by the 
 very virtue of the fact they were members of the church 
 they were also bound to all the missionary obligations of 
 the gospel. 
 
 It was in the Assembly of 1847 that Dr. James W. 
 Alexander gave expression to that great conception. 
 "Those who have gone," he said, "admitted the claim 
 of Christ's cause on us as a church; one of them espe- 
 cially has left us his testimony. Consider, reverend 
 brethren, these words, of date March 4, 1831, words sug- 
 gested to this court of Jesus Christ by Dr. Rice, 'In the 
 
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 judgment of this General Assembly, one of the principal 
 objects of the institution of the church by Jesus Christ 
 was not so much the salvation of individual members — 
 for whosoever believeth shall be saved — as the communi- 
 cation of the blessings of the gospel to the destitute with 
 the efficiency of united effort ;' " and then, speaking fof 
 himself. Dr. Alexander went on: "The Presbyterian 
 Church is a missionary society, the object of which is to 
 aid in the conversion of the world, and every member of 
 the church is a member for life of said society, and bound 
 to do all in his power for the accomplishment of this 
 object." 
 
 Dr. Alexander gave us in those words, I think, the 
 noblest statement we have of the real missionary charac- 
 ter of the church. From that day down to this we have 
 steadily resisted all ideas of organization which rested 
 on the assumption that only those men and women in our 
 church passed under the missionary obligation who vol- 
 untarily did so. We have repudiated the idea that the 
 missionary obligation was a matter of individual choice. 
 We have contended, as this church has contended in all 
 its history, that the whole organization is a missionary 
 organization, and that every man and woman and child 
 who passes into that organization becomes by that very 
 fact a member of the great missionary society, not re- 
 quiring any additional enlistment, nor open to say that 
 the missionary enterprise makes no appeal to him or to 
 her, but bound by the very fact of church membership to 
 an obligation to share the gospel, which has come in and 
 through the church, with the whole great world. 
 
 During the century of her history, this church has stood 
 for that great principle. 
 
 In the second place, the church has demonstrated that 
 fidelity to the main end and business of the church is the 
 secret of spiritual vitality and success. 
 
 Now, one might have pardoned this church almost if. 
 
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 in those early days, it had felt that the task of foreign 
 missions must be postponed until some future time. The 
 city was all raw and crude, everything needed to be done 
 for home development; its resources were as yet un- 
 sealed. A very strong argument might have been made 
 out for the position that there were no resources to be 
 spared for enterprises in distant lands ; that all the capital 
 the church could command was required by the exigencies 
 of her situation at home, and there were not wanting in 
 the organization those that took that view. Indeed, there 
 was almost fear for a while that the Church of Scotland 
 would entirely go over to that view. In one Assembly 
 there was a great argument on that proposition, and the 
 leaders of the Moderate Party in the Church of Scotland 
 steadily resisted the whole missionary idea. Men must 
 wait until the church at home was settled more securely on 
 her own foundation, until her own home resources were 
 more developed, before she ventured out into more distant 
 countries. This church realized the true law of spiritual 
 blessing. She realized, as Dr. Thompsoh has said, that 
 light goes not by leaps and bounds, but steadily, and that 
 what was shining far away would not have shone there, if 
 it had not shone all along its route to the ends of the 
 earth ; that what was to be done could not be done there 
 if it were not springing forth here all the time with a 
 force powerful enough to carry clear from the home lands 
 to the uttermost parts of the earth. 
 
 The church realized clearly that the only way that the 
 light could shine pure and undimmed here at home; that 
 the only way she could develop power enough to deal 
 with the great problems that confronted her here, was by 
 kindling a light that would shine to the ends of the earth, 
 and creating a power so strong that no national boundary 
 could define it, so generous that it must go out as 
 far as there was a human heart needing Christ's gos- 
 pel. And the history of the church shows how clear 
 the church's vision was of this fundamental Christian 
 
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 principle. Was she impoverished by what she did for 
 distant lands? This noble record of what she has done 
 at home was only made possible by her fidelity to the law 
 of spiritual life and power. She realized in her own ex- 
 perience that fidelity to the great universal purpose of 
 God was the one road to blessing and power in all her 
 home activities. 
 
 And, thirdly, there was one other blessing that the cen- 
 tury has taught us. I speak just in a word of that. What 
 a noble thing it is when men and women give themselves, 
 what they are, and what they have, to noble catcses! 
 
 There rise up before our memories to-night many great 
 lives which we thank God it was our privilege in little 
 or in larger measure to know, made noble and glorious- 
 by the largeness of their sentiments, by the far-ranging 
 love with which they served mankind, by the depth of 
 their devotion to the great character transforming pur- 
 pose of the Saviour. 
 
 You do not breed the great character in petty activities ; 
 you do not lead out to the larger life through narrow and 
 constricted growths. The best character is developed 
 where men and women lend themselves, nay, give them- 
 selves away, to the largest and most unselfish causes, and 
 many a voice calls to us out of these past years to act, to< 
 rise up out of our own smallness of growth, our own nar- 
 row ranges of action, our own petty and provincial out- 
 look and light, to take the same clear vision which thejr 
 took, and to enter into the same great character trans- 
 forming powers that wrought upon them; for, after all^ 
 that is the purpose of the past. The purpose of the past 
 is not to be recalled to be gloried in, not to be recalled ta 
 be gloated over. That past to which men tie themselves 
 is a past to which men are false and untrue. Only those 
 men are really true and loyal to the past who move away 
 from it ; who see that it is there to be left behind, farther 
 and ever farther behind ; who realize that its great pur- 
 pose was simply to show men the way to a better and a. 
 
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 larger future. And all these great achievements of the last 
 one hundred years in the foreign missionary enterprise, 
 and the clear discernment of the church's end and busi- 
 ness, and the personal experience of the blessing that 
 comes only through fidelity to that end and business, and 
 the glory of character only to be reached by the devotion 
 of life to great causes ; all these are only the summons and 
 appeal of the past to us, to move up into a larger and a 
 greater and a more completely universal service in the 
 years that come. 
 
 AT THE CENTENNIAL RECEPTION, held Tues- 
 day, December 22, 8:30 to 10:30 P. M., through the 
 courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, at their 
 home, 4 West Fifty-eighth Street, the following informal 
 addresses were made by : ' 
 
 Rev. Baxter P. Fullerton, D. D. 
 
 (Moderator of the General Assembly) 
 Rev. John F. Carson, D. D. 
 
 (Moderator of the Synod of New York) 
 Rev. George Alexander, D. D. 
 
 (Moderator of the Presbytery of New York) 
 Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 (President of Princeton Theological Seminary) 
 
 Rev. Baxter P. Fullerton, D. D., Moderator of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, having been appropriately presented by 
 the pastor, spoke as follows : 
 
 It is my pleasing duty to bear to you the greeting of the 
 One Hundred and Twentieth General Assembly of the 
 Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It 
 is worth while to come, even from Oklahoma, and in a 
 stage-coach, if necessary, to be the messenger from such 
 a body to such a child. The meeting of the Assembly, 
 the last meeting, was a very important one, because 
 of the fact that it met in what was the Western outpost 
 of missionary effort of the Presbyterian Church for many 
 years, in a city that had been made sacred to Presbyteri- 
 
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 ans because of the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Timothy 
 Hill, that apostle of Presbyterianism. 
 
 The city stands on the border of the great prohibition 
 State of Kansas. It is just inside of the western boundary 
 of the greater State of Missouri. (I may speak it with 
 pardonable pride, as a native of the soil.) The Assembly 
 was a great assembly also because of the number of peo- 
 ple that were in it, when one thinks of the Assembly over 
 which the pastor of this church was moderator at one 
 time, and the last Assembly, comparing numbers with 
 numbers. 
 
 At the last Assembly there were eight hundred and six 
 commissioners, not counting the ten advisory members — 
 and it is always wise to have advisory members in an As- 
 sembly — ^and sixteen corresponding members, making a 
 total of eight hundred and thirty-two. 
 
 There were old men present that showed the signs of 
 war. There were young men that had caught the sound 
 of battle, and were anxious for the fray, but they were 
 Presbyterians of the same kind. They represented thirty- 
 six synods, two hundred and seventy-nine Presbyteries, 
 and a constituency of one million three hundred thousand 
 three hundred and twenty-nine. 
 
 It was a great Assembly, because of its national char- 
 acter, by reason of the recent union of the two churches.' 
 The Presbyterian Church is now a national church. The 
 line separating between north and south has been wiped 
 out by the Presbyterian Church, and the hand of the 
 North and the hand of the South are clasped over the 
 chasm that an unfortunate war made. 
 
 If the time ever was when the Presbyterian Church, of 
 which we are members, could be called a provincial 
 church, that day, thank God, has gone, and we now 
 stretch from the frigid climate of Alaska to the palm 
 groves of Porto Rico and Cuba, and from the coast of 
 Maine to the Golden Gate, and we are all Presbyterians, 
 American Presbyterians. 
 
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 It was also a great Assembly, because it was an inter- 
 national Assembly. Members were there from Qiili and 
 China and Cuba, and Northern and Western India, Japan, 
 and Korea and Laos and Syria, all Presbyterians, and 
 they came in order that they might plan for larger things 
 yet in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 It is this body, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentle- 
 men, whose greetings I bring to the Fifth Avenue Church, 
 and whose greetings I am proud to bear to you. 
 
 We congratulate you, first of all, that you are a link 
 in a chain that has already a hundred, and we congratu- 
 late you that the strongest link in that chain, we believe, 
 is the present. We congratulate you on the heritage you 
 have in the men and women who have gone before you. 
 They were noble sires and matrons of noble sons and 
 daughters, and we thank God that you have caught the 
 spirit which was so clearly manifest in them, and have 
 taken the banner which they carried and have planted it 
 nearer the rampart of the enemy. We congratulate you 
 also, on the men who have been and the men who are 
 now in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church. If you 
 have prided yourself on the fact that they belong to you, 
 let me puncture that bubble of your pride, because they 
 were greater than any one church; they were greater 
 than any synod; they are the heritage of the Presby- 
 terian Church in the United States of America, and the 
 Presbyterian Church the world around. And may I go 
 further to say, they are the heritage of Christendom, and 
 have made their impress upon it in a very marked way. 
 
 And we congratulate you on this fact, that for your 
 present pastor you went toward the West — we have 
 plenty more out there when you are through with this 
 one. 
 
 We congratulate you also upon the fact that in the 
 providence of God, and because of his great blessings 
 to you, and your wide use of these blessings, you take 
 front rank in this great church in its benevolent work. 
 
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 That is both a cause of congratulation and it is a cause of 
 humble pride. 
 
 It is worth while for a man as moderator of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly to come half across the continent to bear 
 greetings to a church that,, during the last fiscal year, laid 
 upon the altar of God one thousand dollars a week for 
 the pushing of the Kingdom of God at home, and twenty- 
 five hundred dollars a month for the pushing of the King- 
 dom of God abroad. 
 
 It is worth while, indeed, for the moderator to stop in 
 a busy life and come half way across the continent, and 
 say, in the name of the General Assembly, which has put 
 upon me the highest honor it can put upon any man, 
 "God bless you and God speed you and your work." 
 
 Now, my closing remark, ladies and gentlemen, is this : 
 I am sure that I voice the sentiments of the General As- 
 sembly, and the great church of which you are a dis- 
 tinguished member, when I say we pray that the splendid 
 history which is back of you may be dimmed only by the 
 more splendid history which you are to make in the im- 
 mediate future and th^ days to come. 
 
 Never was there a time when the influence of the Chris- 
 tian church meant more for the betterment of mankind 
 than at this present time. Never was there a time when 
 influences started in the United States of America were 
 more potent, all about the world, than they are to-day; 
 and, Mr. Pastor and members of the Fifth Avenue 
 Church, I congratulate you that you stand in the very 
 front ranks of the great church which to-day, about the 
 world, is holding forth with no uncertain sound the word 
 of God, and is pushing forward with a mighty movement 
 in favor of the evangelization of the world. 
 
 In the name of the Assembly, which has honored me 
 with this office, and in the name of the whole church, I 
 bid you Godspeed and wish you God's blessing. 
 
 Rev. John F. Carson, D. D., Moderator of the Synod 
 
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 of New York, spoke for that body, for Brooklyn, and for 
 himself as a friend of our church and its work : 
 
 I assure you that it is a very great pleasure to respond 
 to the threefold announcement. I bring a personal greet- 
 ing. I bring a greeting from the churches of Brooklyn, 
 the pious end of the bridge; and I bring also greetings 
 from the Synod of New York. 
 
 I do not know much about the Synod. This moderator- 
 ship is rather an unusual thing for me. If some of the 
 gentlemen whom I see present here to-night were to 
 speak for the Synod (I do not know how many times 
 some of them have been moderators in one capacity or 
 another), they would be able to tell you something about 
 the Synod, but I know very little about it. By some ac- 
 cident or another, I was elected moderator of the Synod 
 of New York, and I assure you it is a great joy to me 
 that the term of my ofSce covers the period of the cele- 
 bration of the hundredth anniversary of this great church. 
 
 I bring you, however, as moderator, I am confident, the 
 hearty greeting and felicitation of every Presbyterian 
 church, of every Presbyterian minister, and every Presby- 
 terian church member throughout the State of New York 
 and New England. 
 
 The relation of the Fifth Avenue Church to the work 
 of the Synod of New York is so well known that I need 
 not attempt to repeat the story. If I did, it would mean 
 the repetition of statistics, and I am not very good at 
 doing that. I remember a story, if it would not break the 
 dignity of this splendid occasion to tell a story, that is 
 told about a little girl in Brooklyn. (Of course, I have 
 to go to Brooklyn for good things, you know, in the story 
 line.) We have a custom in Brooklyn of charging half 
 fare for children under twelve years of age who ride on 
 our cars. This little girl was riding one day, and handed 
 her three cents to the conductor. He looked at her and 
 said, "The fare is five cents." She looked up at him, and 
 
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 she said, "I never paid anything but three cents." And, 
 looking very earnestly at her for a moment, he said, 
 "How old are you?" And the little girl cast an indignant 
 look into the face of the conductor, opened her little purse, 
 handed out her nickel, and said, "There, sir, I will pay my 
 fare, and I will keep my statistics to myself." 
 
 Well, I fancy I would rather keep these statistics to 
 myself to-night; but I assure you that the great Fifth 
 Avenue Church has been a potent factor and has been 
 a dominant force in the Presbyterianism, not of New 
 York State alone, but of this entire country, and as we 
 look for a reason for this, I think that we can find it in 
 the attitude of the church, and in the attitude of the pul- 
 pit of the Fifth Avenue Church. That pulpit has ever 
 been strong and true and steadfast in the maintenance of 
 those fundamental principles which give sufficient war- 
 rant for the church's existence, and those basic truths in 
 which repose the faith and the hope of the ages, and of 
 humanity. 
 
 In face of the changing thoughts of men, in these swirl- 
 ing eddies of speculation, and of the development so 
 called of new phases of truth, the pulpit of the Fifth 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church has never vacillated, and, in 
 its steadfast adherence to the faith, once for all delivered 
 to the saints in the first century and sufficient to meet the 
 intellectual and spiritual needs of the saints of the twen- 
 tieth century, in adhering to that old faith and that old 
 gospel, the Fifth Avenue Church has become a force for 
 God in this country that it never could have been if its 
 pulpit had been vacillating and uncertain in its adherence 
 to divine truth and the proclamation of that truth. 
 
 My friends, I think I can say this confidently, that the 
 pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church has been a blessing 
 to the churches and the ministers of America. It has told 
 our ministers that a man can hold and preach the old 
 truths and continue to preach them, and his church, under 
 his administration, will be strong and influential and at- 
 
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 tractive. There has been no following of these popular 
 fads and isms; there has been no bowing down to the 
 vagaries of thought or of method in your great church, 
 and I believe God has blessed it for its fidelity to truth, 
 and for its advocacy of the great principles of our faith. 
 
 Your adherence to an evangelical and evangelistical, to 
 a conservative and aggressive Christianity under God, has 
 been the secret of your prosperity through these hundred 
 years. 
 
 From the very beginning, the Fifth Avenue Church 
 has been an important force in the life of our church, and 
 in the lives of the churches of Christ of every name. 
 
 I congratulate you. I congratulate you, not only on 
 what has been, but on what is at the present time. You 
 have had great men in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue 
 Church, and I rejoice with you to-night that in the holy 
 succession of these apostles you have J. Ross Stevenson 
 as your minister to-day. 
 
 We sometimes cannot say before a man's face what we 
 do say behind his back, but I think I will not violate any 
 of the proprieties of this occasion if I voice what I know 
 to be the sentiments of the ministers of our church, and 
 especially of the younger men of the church, with whom 
 I have come more or less into touch as a father in Israel, 
 that these men prize and honor this man of God who is 
 your pastor, because he stands four-square against every 
 form and phase of destructive thought, and that he stands 
 as the aggressive leader of every forward movement in 
 our Presbyterian Church, and we rejoice that in a church 
 that is so influential in giving tone and direction to many 
 of the tendencies of our Presbyterian Church life, we 
 have one whose ministry rings ever true. And I rejoice 
 that associated with him is Dr. Hallenbeck, whose work 
 in Brooklyn and whose work in Buffalo is being repeated 
 in New York, in its impress upon our evangelization. 
 
 My friends, the great work of the Fifth Avenue Church 
 is extending far beyond your own walls ; it is touching the 
 
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 life of all our church, and helping ministers and churches. 
 
 Let me close by expressing once more my greeting to 
 you. My deep rejoioing I know is joined in by ministers 
 everywhere, that this great church comes to the end of 
 these hundred years of honored history and stands forth 
 with as fair and fine a front to her work, with as fresh 
 and fervent enthusiasm for her work, with as various 
 and vigorous an equipment of thought and resources of 
 spirit, with as sane and strong a leadership in its min- 
 isters and in its officials as the Fifth Avenue Church ever 
 had in any period of its history. 
 
 May God grant that under this leadership, and with 
 this equipment, and through this inspiration, and en- 
 thusiasm, you may be able to accomplish even greater 
 things until He comes to whose will we all bow, and 
 whom we serve. 
 
 Rev. George Alexander, D. D., then spoke as Mod- 
 erator of the Presbytery of New York : 
 
 Kind friends of the Fifth Avenue Church, I accidentally 
 encountered your pastor last evening, and he made a 
 statement which, for the moment, staggered me. He put 
 forward the claim that he was my father-in-law, and went 
 on to prove it to his own satisfaction and to mine. It 
 is no longer possible to conceal the fact. I now frankly 
 confess that having posed all these years as a celibate, I 
 have, for a quarter of a century, been happily wedded to 
 a daughter of this church, the gracious daughter of a 
 gracious mother ! Therefore, I pay such respects to my 
 new father-in-law as is due to one who has so recently 
 married into the family, but my real tribute of gratitude 
 and respect I reserve to lay at the feet of my blessed and 
 benignant one-hundred-year-old mother-in-law. 
 
 Having these filial relations, I consider it a peculiar 
 privilege that I am permitted, as presiding officer of the 
 Presbytery of New York, for the time being, to voice 
 the congratulations of her one hundred and eighty Pres- 
 
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 byterian ministers, and her more than thirty thousand 
 Presl^erian people. 
 
 Adequately to voiee those congratulations would re- 
 quire the gift of tongues, for on each Lord's Day, under 
 the auspices of the Presbytery of New York, the gospel 
 is proclaimed to Presbyterian congregations, not only in 
 Elnglish and French and German, but in Italian and Bo- 
 hemian and Chinese, for the new world greets the old 
 world thronging all its streets. 
 
 The Presbytery of New York is the successor of the 
 Presbytery which installed Dr. Romeyn, when he came 
 down from Schenectady. It installed him in April, 1809. 
 Meanwhile that Presbytery has become far less extensive 
 and far more intensive. Then, it included quite a large 
 section of New Jersey and of Long Island and east of 
 the Hudson a region extending almost halfway to Al- 
 bany. Now, it is restricted to the boroughs of Manhattan 
 and The Bronx and Richmond, but within those bounda- 
 ries it includes about seventy churches and chapels and 
 f missions, not one of which has failed to feel the throb 
 of this church's corporate life, and to be quickened by it. 
 
 We rejoice in your past. We glory in the achieve- 
 ments of this church and count them as in a certain sense 
 our own. But I am not going to indulge in compliments, 
 either to this church or to her pastor. Probably you have 
 had as many compliments during the last few days as are 
 good for you. I desire rather to say that we shall look 
 to this church for leadership in the coming days, for there 
 are serious days before us. The City of New York pre- 
 sents to the church of New York an aspect that is at once 
 inspiring and appalling. Great perils oinf ront us ; great 
 opportunities are beckoning us. We are feeling the thrust 
 of forces which our fathers never dreamed of. We need 
 to cast ourselves afresh on the merit and mercy of our 
 Saviour and upon the strong arm of our God and in that 
 strength to go forward. We need a broader vision. We 
 need a keener sympathy with Christ. We need a larger. 
 
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 fuller, stronger, more triumphant faith in the God of our 
 fathers — 
 
 "Our fathers' God, from out whose hand, 
 The centuries fall like grains of sand !" 
 
 The closing address was by Rev. Francis L. Patton, 
 D. D., LL. D., President of Princeton Theological Semi- 
 nary, who spoke, in substance, as follows : 
 
 It is a great pleasure and a great privilege to me to be 
 here to-night, and both the privilege and the pleasure are 
 greatly enhanced by the opportunity that is afforded me 
 of speaking. Dr. Stevenson has, I think somewhat with- 
 out warrant, intimated that my speech is prepared. I 
 think I ought to say, however, that prepared or not, it is 
 to be given under the strict delimitation of territory in 
 respect to which I received very definite instruction. 
 What I have to say will, so far as within me lies, be 
 within the limit of the inhospitable boundaries that were 
 assigned me. 
 
 I have always regarded the dinner party as the bright 
 and sunny flower of our social civilization, but I am in- 
 clined to think that it must divide the honors hereafter 
 at least with the afternoon tea and the church sociable. 
 I have always had an idea as to what the principle should 
 be that should underlie and be the controlling element in 
 the making of a speech at such functions. This principle 
 has been violated, in my judgment, by the speeches that 
 have been delivered to-night. I shall endeavor to adhere 
 strictly to what I regard as the true formula of speeches 
 of this nature; that formula being three drops of pure 
 thought diluted with two ounces of distilled rhetoric. 
 
 Of course, I realize that I am here, not by virtue of any 
 personal right to be here, but I am here in a representa- 
 tive capacity, and yet, if I feel a certain sense of personal 
 relationship to this meeting, aside from my representative 
 position, you must take the entire blame to yourselves, 
 and explain it on the ground of your kindness to me. 
 
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 It is a long time since I sat for the first time in the 
 pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Church. Of course, in the 
 early days, when I was in the habit of preaching in the 
 Fifth Avenue Church, my preaching was in the summer- 
 time, when everybody belonging to the church was away, 
 but I have since then procured for myself a good seat, 
 and I am allowed to come in occasionally in the winter- 
 time. I see before me faces (or I would see if I were 
 not subject to suffering from defective vision) that are 
 very familiar to me. 
 
 Now, it is to me a matter of very great gratification 
 that in the cathedralizing processes that have been going 
 on during the past two or three years I have sustained 
 to you the relation of canon residentiary during the period 
 of a month, and, what is more surprising still, I have 
 the prospect of a renewed incumbency during the coming 
 year. I make that remark, however, coupled with the 
 further remark that I am fully aware of the unwritten 
 law with respect to "third terms," and will govern myself 
 accordingly. 
 
 It has occurred to me more than once, and long before 
 this church entered upon this sort of work, that the par- 
 ticular work to which I refer is a work that ought to be 
 done, and that there ought to be one great church with 
 this cathedralizing tendency in every great city, and that 
 there is no denomination so well fitted to do this work as 
 the denomination to which we have the honor to belong ; 
 for it seems to me that there are three things at least that 
 ought to be done by those churches that have the capacity 
 for doing it. There is, of course, the great congregation 
 of families, who worship on Sunday morning in the 
 church, who wish, and very properly wish, to hear their 
 own minister — and to hear nobody else — so his ministra- 
 tion will be directed very largely by the exigencies that 
 are known to him, as they are known to nobody else, as 
 they emerge in the lives of those committed to his charge. 
 It is a very well understood thing— and I fully appreciate 
 
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 the feeling on the part of those who entertain this feeling 
 — ^that the Sunday morning sermon is no occasion for the 
 exploiting of recent heresy, or the discussion of minute 
 points in metaphysics or history or theology, even though 
 it be true that you have had four pastors who have been 
 professors of theology, and that your present pastor is 
 himself a learned professor of church history ; but at the 
 same time there are, outside of the congregation, and per- 
 haps there may be some inside — but there are, in a great 
 city like this, people belonging to all the churches to whom 
 questions of interest appeal, and in respect to whom it 
 can be said, I think, that it would be an interesting thing 
 to hear some of these issues in modern thought, as they 
 bear upon the speculative life, as well as the Christian 
 life, to have these things discussed. Then there is a large 
 class of people who do not belong to the church, and of 
 whom it can be said that it is a matter of great moment 
 that they should be brought into relationship with the 
 church. Therefore, when that evening service is devoted 
 to specifically evangelistic work, it seems to me that, for 
 a part of the year at least, you have distributed the work 
 of the church as well as it could be very well distributed 
 in the three respects to which I have referred. And I do 
 not hesitate to say that with the multifarious duties with 
 which every minister is charged, it is simply asking the 
 impossible to ask any one man to do all this work. 
 
 Now I think I know something about the difficulties of 
 preaching. I think that any man who has been preaching 
 forty years knows something about the difficulties of 
 preaching. And I have sometimes thought that the peo- 
 ple do not; that is,- I mean, a great many. In that re- 
 spect, perhaps, I cannot see things from their point of 
 view, but, as I see them, it seems to me as though preach- 
 ing were never so difficult as it is to-day. The tact, the 
 insight, the breadth of horizon, the variety of knowledge, 
 the charm of expression, the subtlety of thought that an 
 ordinary congregation expect and have, in a great church 
 
198 Centennial Celeliration of t|)e 
 
 every Sunday morning, is something of which I venture 
 to say the fathers knew little or nothing, comparatively. 
 
 I say that I can understand the difficulty under which 
 the minister of to-day is laboring. I do not experience 
 those difficulties. I know preaching is easy to me. But 
 everybody is not like me. I will tell you why it is easy 
 for me. The minister of a congregation cuts out his 
 sermon on Thursday, let us say; pastes it together on 
 Friday, fixes it up on Saturday, and rain or shine, no 
 matter what happens, has to deliver the goods on Sunday 
 morning. 
 
 Now, it is quite otherwise with me. I have no obliga- 
 tions of that sort. When I get ready to preach a sermon, 
 I simply send notice, put it in the paper, serve notice on 
 the congregation that that sermon is ready, and that they 
 will please come to-morrow morning and be fitted. And 
 when they come, why, I alter the sermon, after I have 
 tried it on them ; fix up the sleeve, take it up in the collar, 
 take a little off the length (they generally ask that). 
 When I have done that four or five times, the sermon is 
 a fairly good sermon, and I go around and preach it, and 
 by the time I have preached it fifty times, you can wake 
 me up in the night and I can deliver it. That is the way 
 to preach. But the pastor has no sinecure now, as I 
 say. 
 
 I realize I am here to-night in my representative ca- 
 pacity, and I bring you the very cordial greetings of the 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, and I bring with those 
 greetings the very grateful recognition of the large place 
 that Princeton Seminary has had in the thought of the 
 Fifth Avenue Church, of the great help the Fifth Avenue 
 Church has been to the Princeton Seminary. These rela- 
 tions, of course, as you have already heard, have been 
 very close and very intimate. You are one hundred years 
 old. Princeton Seminary is ninety-seven years old. Dur- 
 ing all the ninety-seven years of her history she has been 
 in very close touch with the Fifth Avenue Church. We 
 
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 have given you two ministers out of our faculty. We 
 sent to you Dr. James W. Alexander, the prince of 
 preachers, a distinguished man in a distinguished family, 
 and we sent to you later on Dr. Purves, great as a preach- 
 er, great also as a New Testament scholar; equally dis- 
 tinguished in both spheres. 
 
 We have to-day in the directorate of Princeton Semi- 
 nary two sons of the Fifth Avenue Church, Dr. William 
 Irwin and Dr. Maitland Alexander. We had, as long 
 as he lived, a devoted trustee in Mr. Sinclair. We have 
 in the directorship of Princeton Seminary to-day three 
 members of this church, three connected with this church, 
 and Dr. Stevenson, the minister, for we always regard 
 the minister of the Fifth Avenue Church as ex-officio a 
 member of Princeton Seminary; and we tried to get one 
 of the sons of this church to take a professorship at 
 Princeton Seminary. We labored hard, and we hoped 
 for the best; but after laboring as long as we thought it 
 was kind to him to labor, we desisted, and Dr. Maitland 
 Alexander declined our call. 
 
 My heart regrets, but my reason cannot disapprove, 
 when I remember the splendid work which he is doing 
 in Pittsburg, and possibly (I do not know; he did not say 
 this to me) I have sometimes thought that it may be that 
 his mind went back to his uncle, who did come back from 
 a pastorate to a professorship, and then went back to 
 the pastorate. This was his feeling, I dare say, and if 
 that was the feeling, I could not gainsay it, for, after all, 
 the pulpit is "the minister's throne," and there is no place 
 where a man can do so much good, if he can preach, as in 
 the pulpit. Dr. Alexander is doing that great work in 
 Pittsburg. 
 
 Now, of course, as we had communicated to you of our 
 spiritual things, it was but meet that you should com- 
 municate to us of your carnal things, and you have done 
 so, and with great liberality. I do not pretend to know 
 just how all the endowments of Princeton Seminary came, 
 
200 Centennial Celefiratfon of tl)e 
 
 but I will say this, that if you should take out of the treas- 
 ury of the Princeton Seminary all the money that came- 
 from the First Church through Mr. Lenox and Mrs. 
 Winthrop, and all the money that came from the Fifth 
 Avenue Church from Messrs. R. L. and A. Stuart and 
 others, it would be a very meager endowment left. 
 
 Now, I want to say that I appreciate everything that 
 has been said here to-night, with respect to the splendid 
 work which this church has done, not only in evangelism,, 
 but also in the position she has taken of steadfast devo- 
 tion to sound doctrine. I do not mean by sound doctrine 
 all the shibboleths that have passed for such in the doc- 
 trinal discussions of a hundred years; for one hundred 
 years ago, and even to a date well nigh within the borders 
 of the present century, we were ready for controversy 
 on almost anything, and it seems to me that a very great 
 change has come over the spirit of our dream. 
 
 Then, so it was a controversy, we did not care. Now, 
 no matter what the controversy is, and how big a dis- 
 cussion, we do not seem to care, and indifference is be- 
 ginning to take the place of that lively interest in theology 
 that put every one in the attitude of one spoiling for a 
 fight. 
 
 Now, I am frank to say that the time never existed 
 when the issues before the church, issues that underlie all 
 Christianity, not talking about Presbyterians, not talking 
 about Episcopalians, not even talking about the differences 
 that separate the Roman Catholic from the Protestant 
 Church — I am saying that the issues are issues that un- 
 derlie our spiritual life; that this Christmas I am quite 
 willing to stake the whole controversy upon this single 
 question as to whether we are here under the gospel of 
 Christ, or whether we have simply a gospel of good na- 
 ture ; whether the mystery of the incarnation is to be re- 
 solved into the myth of Santa Claus ! Whether we im- 
 peach supreme divinity or not, it would be besmirching 
 the real humanity. Three hundred years ago, and a little 
 
jriftf) auenue pte06pterian Cfturcft 201 
 
 less, John Milton stated the whole issue in a wonderful 
 line, "Of wedded maid and virgin mother born," and to 
 dispute either premise in that sentence is to destroy the 
 incarnation. 
 
 So I congratulate you as you stand upon the threshold 
 of another century of the ecclesiastical life. And I trust 
 that since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and 
 forever, this church, for one hundred years to come, will 
 be found bearing the same testimony that it has been 
 bearing these one hundred years agone, in the faith which 
 was once for all delivered to the saints ! 
 
 On Wednesday evening, in the Lecture Room, the clo- 
 sing exercises of the celebration were held, consisting of 
 singing and prayer, with brief addresses by two sons 
 of the church who have gone into the ministry. "The 
 Church and the Winning of Souls" was the topic given 
 to Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa. 
 "The Church and the Winning of Souls" 
 
 Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D. 
 
 I am sure you all recognize the fact there are certain 
 things in life which make an indelible impression on the- 
 individual life; that there are many things that are ab- 
 sorbed into a man's life, rather than talked in, and that 
 there are certain demonstrations of power which he sees 
 from time to time, which leave their effect, which effect 
 he never gets over, no matter where he goes or what he 
 does. It is very rarely that a man has an opportunity, 
 such as that just afforded me here this evening, of coming 
 back under the influence of a church that has done so 
 much for him, to express in a very feeble way how great 
 that debt is. 
 
 We talk a great deal to-day about what we could 
 do with society if the home could be made ideal; and I 
 believe that the same results which are accomplished on 
 the young life in a good home are accomplished on the; 
 
202 Centennial Celeli ration of tfte 
 
 young life in a good church. And as I have gone out 
 from the walls of this church, and entered upon my own 
 responsibilities and my own duties, and my own cares in 
 the various work to which I have been called, I can say 
 with the greatest honesty, and with the deepest sincerity, 
 that the influence of my training in this church in every 
 way has been to me an ideal which I have tried to live 
 tip to and follow, taking my inspiration from those things 
 which have made this church great. 
 
 Some men, when they go away and come to their own 
 work, make comparisons between their church and the 
 church in which they have been reared ; and in many in- 
 stances I think men say that their work and the way they 
 do their work is better than the way in which it was done 
 in their old home church. 
 
 It has been always a source of great gratification to me 
 that I could look back to this church that carried out a 
 policy, that presented a gospel, and that was characterized 
 by an efficiency which would always be to me the summit 
 of my ambition, rather than something that I might im- 
 prove upon, and when I think back, as I often do, to the 
 days when I went here to church, under the ministry of 
 Dr. Hall, I gained from him the things that have always 
 been to me the best equipment that I have ever had of 
 any kind. 
 
 When I realize how much inspiration comes to me to- 
 day from the breadth of the vision of this church, and 
 its splendid conception of what it is called to do; when 
 I think about the influence of its pulpit and the great re- 
 sults achieved in the men that have served as its min- 
 isters; in conversions that have resulted from that min- 
 istry, and, above all, in the splendid conservative con- 
 struction of character which has been made possible 
 through its ministry ; I am glad and proud that I can look 
 back and say to myself that I was trained in this church, 
 that I was received into its membership, that I shared in 
 its work, and, above all, that I sat under the instruction 
 
jTiftJ) atjenue ptesfiptetian Cijutcft 203 
 
 of a man like Dr. Hall, who, to me, has ever been the 
 epitome of strength and power and grace and effective- 
 ness in the American pulpit. 
 
 I have been assigned the subject, "The Church and the 
 Winning of Souls," and I feel in the few minutes I have 
 to stay to-night I would like to speak of that subject as 
 illustrating the way in which this church has ever been 
 a soul-winning church. For my own part, I believe that 
 a church can only carry out that great and primary work 
 which has been committed to it, through the effective 
 presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ from its pulpit, 
 and I think that the moment that the pulpit gives way 
 to anything else, in the form of organized work, or any 
 other things, it weakens its powers and it weakens its 
 efficiency in the conversion of men. 
 
 If you will pardon just a word, I do not believe that 
 any one who ever listened to some of the sermons that 
 were preached in this church when I attended it could 
 ever doubt for a moment that that kind of preaching of 
 that kind of truth, and that kind of presentation, is the 
 best and most efficient method in the world of winning 
 men to Jesus Christ. 
 
 I do not doubt that some of you who are listening to 
 me here could remember the sermons I have thought of 
 from time to time, that I have heard preached here, the 
 text and analysis of which have never left me. When 
 Dr. Hall preached on themes like this, there was no man 
 or woman that ever left that church without having 
 impressed upon them the great fundamental truths by 
 which men were made to see Jesus Christ and compelled 
 to ally themselves to him there, forever, by reason of the 
 constraining power of the Christ. I do not ever remem- 
 ber in my life hearing Dr. Hall preach a sermon on what 
 we call to-day modem church work. I do not know 
 whether any of you ever heard him do it. I do not think 
 I ever did, but I realize this fact as I never realized it be- 
 fore, and I have demonstrated it again and again to my 
 
204 Centennial Celefiration of t|)e 
 
 own satisfaction, that when a man preaches the gospel of 
 Christ to men, earnestly, efficiently, sympathetically, but 
 honestly, there is not any need to preach these other 
 things. They follow in the train of these great funda- 
 mental things that belong to the Kingdom, and so I say 
 you may have everything in the world in connection with 
 your church, and every kind of organization (the church 
 which I serve to-day I suppose is thoroughly organized 
 along the lines of what we might call institutional church 
 work, and has a great cosmopolitan crowd that is allied 
 to it; men of every grade, men of every strata of educa- 
 tion, men of every social position, a mixed multitude, and 
 we try to provide for them everything that we can pro- 
 vide to bring them into the fellowship and interest of the 
 church) ; but you can have every sort of organization in 
 the world, and they will pass it by and never touch it, but 
 the one thing that draws men, that produces (if you 
 choose to call it) a crowd, is the presentation of the sim- 
 ple gospel of Christ in its fundamental character, and 
 when you preach it, men come to hear it, and they do not 
 come for any other thing that I know of in heaven and 
 in earth. 
 
 This church has been characterized by that preaching, 
 and is characterized by that kind of preaching to-day. It 
 has always been. It is the one thing that this church has 
 stood for more than any other, namely, the power of its 
 pulpit, and for the power of that pulpit I stand here to- 
 night, and if I was to bear my testimony to the eificiency 
 of this church, it would be this : I have tried with all my 
 might to carry out the things committed to me and laid 
 to my charge again and again as a Christian man and a 
 Christian minister by him under whose pastorate I live, 
 and I bear witness to-day that any results that have ever 
 come from any ministry that I may have had to the glory 
 of God have come through the application of these great 
 fundamental instructions. So I stand to-day, to witness 
 for this thing, and to say to you here to-night, that if this 
 
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 church shall proceed along these lines, as I hope and pray 
 it may, that I believe it holds the secret to the great 
 evangelical movement by which the world is to be re- 
 deemed. 
 
 And one thing more: I believe that this church has 
 been characterized in its preaching by another 'thing which 
 makes for the salvation of men through the individual 
 work of others; namely, the upbuilding of the spiritual 
 life of Christians, to such an extent that the power of that 
 spiritual life constrains them to do the things for Christ's 
 sake that they will not do for any other reason in the 
 world. How shall we make men, individual men, lay- 
 men and women, winners of the souls of other men? 
 Shall we urge upon them the necessity of going out and 
 bringing in those that are without the church? Well, 
 you may urge, but it will do very little good. Shall we 
 talk about Christian activities and the development of our 
 Christian forces? You may, but I doubt if it makes a 
 lasting impression. I believe the only way that that can 
 be done is by laying upon the consciences of men their 
 relationship to God, and when that relationship by the 
 Holy Spirit has been made a vital relationship, there 
 will be no need any longer to talk about the activi- 
 ties of the various church agencies or the necessity 
 for doing personal work for Christ's sake, because, 
 when a man stands in that relation to the Lord Jesus 
 Christ that the early disciples stood to him; when they 
 have come and seen the things which he has provided 
 for their spiritual growth; when they have entered into 
 that mystical fellowship with him that comes from the 
 surrender of heart and life to him, there will be no need 
 for any more of that kind of preaching, but, like Andrew 
 and Philip and the other disciples, they will be bringing 
 those to see him whom they have come to know, and, 
 knowing aright, have life eternal through him. 
 
 Might I wish this church Godspeed in the years that 
 are to come; that the same measure of blessings may 
 
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 come to you in the future that has crowned this church 
 in the past. And may I say to you here to-night, as I say 
 sometimes to my own people, that this is the kind of a 
 church that ought to send its sons into the ministry, and 
 this is the kind of a church that furnishes the atmosphere 
 for ministers who will be acceptable to the churches whom 
 they serve, and for the greater work, the greatest work 
 of the world, is the winning of souls, and the greatest 
 work in the winning of souls for this church might be in 
 the presentation of many men given, sent forth with its 
 inspiration and blessed with the experiences that every 
 member of this church enjoys. 
 
 "The Church and the Purification of Society" 
 
 Rev. Henry S. Coffin, D. D. 
 
 I am sure I can say amen to every word that Dr. Alex- 
 ander has said, and said so eloquently here, to-night. I 
 was thinking, as I looked forward to this meeting, what 
 were the things that I could recall for which I was most 
 indebted to this church, and when I began to think of 
 them, I simply could never finish the list, but it seems to 
 me that four things stood out with especial clearness. 
 
 The first was that here I had the great privilege of 
 being reared and trained under a ministry that was not 
 only persuasive, as Dr. Alexander has said, but was also 
 in the truest sense of the word educational ; how true this 
 is those of us who remember Dr. Hall well know. Dr. 
 Hall thought he had never even properly started a ser- 
 mon until he had not only given us the text, but had ex- 
 plained the context, that we might enter into the man's 
 mind and might know the situation of the hearer. So 
 that our knowledge of the Bible grew from Sunday to 
 Sunday, as we came and listened to what he had to say. 
 
 I remembered to-night, as I can;ie along here, how fre- 
 quently Dr. Hall, in one of his splendid sermons, would 
 stop and say, "In order that I may make this clear to the 
 
jFifti) atjenue ptestigtetian Cfturcft 207 
 
 youngest hearers here, let me use an illustration." One 
 time I recall he quoted the line, "See that you walk cir- 
 cumspectly." It occurred to me to-night as I came along. 
 He said, "You boys and girls know how, when ice is^ 
 forming on the sidewalk in the cold weather, when you. 
 go along, you have to see where you are putting your feet, 
 lest you slip. Now, that is exactly what the apostle meant 
 when he said, 'See that you walk circumspectly.' " That 
 has stuck in my mind until this time. 
 
 In the second place, we had in this congregation a 
 magnificent training school for Christian service. I can- 
 not be too grateful for the lessons given me in the Young 
 People's Association in this church. I very well remem- 
 ber when, as a young boy of fourteen, I was asked to take 
 part in a meeting which was to be led by one of your 
 present leaders, Mr. Gillies, and I demurred; I did not 
 know what I should say and how I should say it, and 
 one of those to whom I owe personally a large debt of 
 gratitude, and who is here present to-night, Mrs. Henry 
 M. Alexander, took me to her home and had me stand 
 up at one end of her library, and say over to her what I 
 intended to say the following Sunday morning. That 
 was my first lesson in homiletics, and if I have any value 
 in teaching homiletics to-day, I owe it in no small part 
 to the lessons given me in this church. 
 
 In the third place, we who had our minds turned at all 
 toward the ministry had incarnated before us in Dr. John 
 Hall, as Dr. Alexander has just said, the beau ideal of all 
 we wanted to be. I remember reading a few weeks ago„ 
 in one of James Russell Lowell's letters, written as a 
 young fellow when he was a student at a law school in 
 Cambridge, the statement that he had gotten sick of the 
 study of law, and determined to stop it and go into the 
 study of something else, and he passed by the court- 
 house in Boston one day, went in and heard Daniel Web- 
 ster speaking, and this was the entry he made in his 
 journal, "I had not been there above half an hour before. 
 
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 I determined to go back to my books, and study as hard 
 as I could." It was a calling incarnated in a devotee that 
 cast its spell over him. Sometimes, as I go about trying 
 to do my work in this city to-day, I simply think with 
 amazement of Dr. John Hall, the amount of work that 
 he carried on single-handed in this place, the number of 
 Boards he served, the number of prominent institutions 
 he represented, the work outside, simply numberless calls 
 upon his time and attention ; and then to think how week 
 "by week he went from the one end of Manhattan Island 
 to another, calling on all the members of his congregation, 
 announcing to you, as you remember so well, that on 
 Tuesday next, God willing, he would call on all of his 
 families in East Thirty-seventh Street, for instance. You 
 remember how persistent a ministry that was. How he 
 did it, and kept the pulpit of this church the blessing and 
 power it was, is to me simply a miracle, nothing less. 
 Then I think also how embodied in him we had the dig- 
 nity of the ministry. James Russell Lowell said some- 
 where, "And where you go, men shall think they walk 
 in holy cathedrals." That was the atmosphere, as you 
 and I know, that Dr. Hall carried with him. One felt the 
 church was there when Dr. Hall was there. It was his 
 presence. And then one thing more: we were meeting 
 in this church under a ministry, as Dr. Alexander said, 
 where personal evangelization was kept to the fore all the 
 time. How well I remember in the years before, as each 
 succeeding communion set came, Mr. Fraser, our Sunday 
 School superintendent, would plead with us boys and girls 
 to give our lives, consecrate them to the cause of Jesus 
 Christ, and you remember so well there, at the Lord's 
 Table, how, after the communion had been served, Dr. 
 Hall was never satisfied until he had turned to those 
 young" people in the gallery, around about, and made an 
 appeal to us. We had seen what Christ's followers were 
 doing, we had heard the solemn vows of dedication and 
 consecration that all that assembly made in this act. Now, 
 
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 •were we going to place our lives in the hands of Him 
 whom they loved ? And the verses he used to use at the 
 Communion Table; how they abide in my memory to- 
 day. I always connect one verse of St. Paul with Dr. 
 Hall, in particular, "Whether we live, we live unto the 
 Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Wheth- 
 er, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord's." It was 
 the inspiration of his love; it was the contagion of his 
 personality. 
 
 Now you have assigned me to-night a theme which I 
 believe first was assigned to one who is far better fitted 
 to speak on it than I am, "The Church and the Purifica- 
 tion of Society." 
 
 The God-head is to be brought into the world in two 
 ways. Men are to be reached from the inside out, and 
 from the outside in. When there is a typhoid epidemic, 
 there are two things to be done; first, the individual pa- 
 tients are to be cared for one by one, through the hospital 
 nurse and doctor, and that is the mission of the church 
 as a soul-saver; but fhere is something further to be 
 done. There is an investigation to be made into the drain- 
 age system of the city, its milk supply and its water sup- 
 ply are to be tested, and if possible the source of the 
 disease found and eradicated. 
 
 The city of humanity is sin-sick and selfishness-sick, 
 and there are two things for the church of Jesus Christ 
 to do ; winning individuals one by one, curing their mala- 
 dies, and placing within them the spirit of Jesus Christ ; 
 but that is but one part of the church's mission. 
 
 The church's mission is to transform society so that 
 there shall be less opportunity for sin, less contacts of 
 selfishness upon the humble life. We know very well to 
 have a patient taken under medical care, and then put out 
 to drink the contaminated water again and the contami- 
 nated milk, might be only to cause a reinfection by the 
 disease. 
 
 Boys and girls come forward to the Lord's table and 
 
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 consecrate themselves to Jesus Christ, and are told that 
 they are to live no longer unto themselves, but unto him ; 
 like the son of man, they are to go out and minister their 
 lives in the spirit of sympathy and service. They go out 
 in the business world, and what this business world is to- 
 day we very well know. The business world of to-day is 
 founded upon greed first of all, cutthroat competition; in 
 the business world we are to push others back, and push 
 ourselves forward, and in the second place in the business 
 world you are to work for what comes to you; your 
 profits, your wage, whatever that might be. In the third 
 place, selfish ownership; whatever you control is yours 
 to do with as you please, provided you do not break the 
 somewhat elastic laws of society. 
 
 A boy goes forward and consecrates himself to Jesus 
 Christ as a Christian. He goes out into the political life 
 of to-day, and what does he find? He finds two great 
 parties debating, for instance, the tariff question; one 
 party advancing the cause of protection on the ground 
 that it is to the best interests of American workingmea 
 and American manufacturers; the other party possibly 
 advancing free trade for the same reason; neither party 
 saying one word about what is to the advantage of the 
 merchants and workingmen of other countries. The in- 
 dividual is to love his neighbor as himself, but we have 
 not yet got to the place where we hold up the statement 
 that the nations shall love their neighbors as themselves, 
 and any tariff that is in the faintest degree a Christian 
 tariff must be a tariff framed with regard to the working- 
 men of other nations as truly as our own. 
 
 The Bible looks upon life as being transformed from 
 two points of view. We have the message put in this 
 way, "You must be born again ;" one by one, that is, by a 
 personal act of consecration to Jesus Christ. Yet you 
 must be born again. And then social birth. "I, John, 
 saw the holy city coming down from God out of heaven, 
 made ready as a bride adorned for her husband," and 
 
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 211 
 
 we have a saying that if the holy city were to be brought 
 in here and New York become a new New York, we 
 would not have the same difficulty with the children of 
 another generation that we have had with the children of 
 the past in bringing them under the spell of the spirit of 
 Jesus Christ ; and so the church of Jesus Christ has not 
 only its message for the individual, but it has its message 
 for society. 
 
 Business must not stand for cutthroat competition, but 
 for co-operation with Jesus Christ; never pushing your 
 neighbor down, but working with him and for brother- 
 hood, working for the joy of service. 
 
 First say, "Thy will be done, my Father," and then, 
 "Give me this day my daily bread ;" and instead of selfish 
 ownership, stewardship for the whole brotherhood of 
 God's children, of all that comes within one's control. 
 
 The nation can hold up the ideal service just as truly 
 as any individual, and political parties could seek votes 
 on the basis of which party is holding up the business of 
 the Kingdom; which party promises to take our nation 
 and transform it into the mightiest engine to bring in 
 the kingdom of justice and kindness and faithfulness in 
 this earth, for which Jesus Christ laid down his life. It 
 is the church's duty to-day not merely to hold up Jesus 
 Christ as the Saviour of the individual, but to hold up to 
 the nation Christ's own greatness, the Kingdom of God, 
 the social salvation which he came to proclaim; that all 
 men collectively, not merely individuals, may be born 
 again of the life of love, of service, and of brotherhood. 
 
 The characteristic book of the individualistic type of 
 piety is "The Pilgrim's Progress," where one individual 
 sets out from the city of destruction and goes through 
 all its perilous journey, until at last he finds himself safely 
 in the celestial city. 
 
 The characteristic message of the Kingdom of God as 
 Jesus conceived it was quite different from that. It was 
 that this city of destruction should itself be taken and 
 
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 transformed by the communicating of the life of the ce- 
 lestial city, until there was a celestial city at both ends 
 of the line; the celestial city below duplicating the celes- 
 tial city above, and a new earth no less than a new 
 heaven. 
 
 At this Christmas season you and I remember the in- 
 carnation in one life of, the man Jesus, but that was not a 
 unique event ; Jesus Christ was merely to be the first bom 
 among the brethren and his was the duty of priority ; in 
 him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily ; not that 
 he might possess it as a monopoly, but that in him we 
 might be made free, and the incarnation to which we 
 look forward to-day is the social incarnation, when God 
 who was once in one human life shall be, as St. Paul puts 
 it in his remarks of the fifteenth of the first Corinthians, 
 "When God shall be all in all." And so the message I 
 would bring to-night is this : That while the church of to- 
 day must, with all the zeal and persuasiveness of the 
 church of yesterday, strive to bring individuals one by 
 one to Jesus Christ, it must simultaneously proclaim the 
 social evangel of Jesus Christ, the gospel of justice, the 
 gospel of kindness and fidelity, to the earth, until cor- 
 porations are no longer spoken of as soulless, because 
 the church has put the consciousness of soul into them; 
 and when our collective activities have consciousnesses — 
 our nations souls, and the collective activities of men, no 
 less than individuals, consciousnesses, then will the eter- 
 nal life of the Father be manifested, for it is of Christ 
 Jesus, our Lord. 
 
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 2 Five thousand Sabbaths has God's holy word, 
 And Gospel Message been by thousands heard; 
 To thousands more has Christian service given 
 Help, comfort, healing, with sweet hope of heaven. 
 
 3 Shall we enjoy what others richly gave 
 In self-denial, loving, true and brave. 
 And to ourselves our heritage confine 
 
 When for its blessings thousands near us pine ? 
 
 4 Freely have we received, as freely then 
 Must we our heritage dispense again ; 
 Duty and privilege in our service blend, 
 That our rich blessings may to all extend. 
 
 5 Oh, Thou! in whose calm sight a thousand years 
 But as one short day of our life appears; 
 
 Bless all the service of the century past. 
 And help us serve Thee faithful to the last. 
 
JFiftI) atienuc l^teslipterian C&urcft 213 
 
 ^DDenDa 
 
 3 Delftierance on 
 Pet0onal ^anctification 
 
 MINUTES OF SESSION— Tuesday, January 6th, 1835. 
 
 Tuesday evening 6" January 1835. The Session met at the 
 Call of the Moderator. 
 
 Present, Rev. Cyrus Mason, modr 
 Elders: Hugh Auchincloss Cyrenius Beers 
 
 Thomas Masters Horace Hinsdale 
 
 Francis Markoe John W. Carrington 
 
 Deacon, William Walker 
 
 Absent Elisha Coit, Joseph Otis. 
 
 Opened with prayer. 
 
 The minutes of the last meeting of Session were read and 
 approved. 
 
 The Session record the death of Heman Averill which took 
 place on the 31st December last. 
 
 It was on motion Resolved that the paper reported to the last 
 meeting be reconsidered. Whereupon the Session proceeded to 
 the reconsideration of the same, and having made several amend- 
 ments therein, it was unanimously adopted and being ordered to 
 be recorded is as follows, viz. 
 
 1st. That this Session do most cordially unite in deploring the 
 existence of errors in doctrine and practice, in the presbyterian 
 Church, as set forth in the paper called the act and Testimony. 
 2nd. That this Session do most strenuously object to the prac- 
 tice of admissions in our denomination of any who are not 
 united with us in adopting the Confession of Faith and Cate- 
 chisms of our church, as their standard of faith and practice 
 without reservations or substractions from any part or parts 
 thereof; and while they do not hesitate to allow every man 
 the exercise of his own free and uncontrolled opinions in mat- 
 ters of religion, they pronounce it a breach of common honesty, 
 for any to enter the church or to remain in it, who hold opinions 
 in it contrary to the standards thereof in their plain and intel- 
 ligible meaning and according to their obvious and accepted 
 sense. 
 
 3rd. That while the Session do protest most solemnly against 
 the errors in doctrine and practice above stated — they believe 
 that these errors have crept into the church from a common 
 
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 cause wherein all must more or less bear the charge of guilt, 
 which cause is fhe forgetfulness of God the Saviour as King in 
 Zion, and as Head over his own body the Church, which he 
 hath purchased with his own blood, and by whom all things 
 consist; whereby the Holy Spirit has been grieved, and his 
 influences in a great measure withdrawn from us. It is then no 
 surprising thing, that many inventions have been sought out, 
 and that men left to themselves, have trusted in their own 
 wisdom, which is folly, and their own strength which is weak- 
 ness. A general laxity of discipline has prevailed in the churches 
 for a long time past — ^her institutions have been undervalued — 
 the judicatories have not been attended seriously, punctually and 
 prayerfully under a deep and solemn impression of obligation to 
 duty and dependence upon the Holy Spirit for guidance and 
 direction, and an awful sense of accountability to act in the fear 
 of God, according to his holy will and for the salvation of souls. 
 
 As a further consequence oiir standards and book of discipline 
 have been lightly esteemed and it is to be feared many have 
 been admitted through haste and inadvertence to the holy office 
 of the ministry, imperfectly educated in theology, and the knowl- 
 edge of the Holy Scriptures and without those decided evidences 
 of evangelical experimental piety, so indispensable to the building 
 up a spiritual church and the conversion of the souls of men — 
 and thereby may it not be, that "'grievous wolves have entered 
 "in among us not sparing the flock of Christ, and of our own- 
 "selves have men arisen, speaking perverse things, to draw away 
 "disciples after them." 
 
 This Session mourn over a departure from the simple doc- 
 trines of "Christ Jesus and him crucified" in the preaching of 
 the present day and the substitution of vain, visionary and con- 
 fused theories or mere ethics — having a direct tendency to delude 
 the souls of men, and bind them up in worldliness until their 
 feet stumble upon the dark mountains of death. 
 4th. That these evils prevailing in our church, being consequent 
 upon a departure from God, a speedy return to the selfdenying 
 and exemplary duties of a blameless and holy life is the only 
 efficient remedy. Instead then of measures which in their 
 tendency will inevitably lead to "debates, envyings, strife, wraths, 
 backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults," let us seek for indi- 
 vidual personal sanctification, which in its combinations will 
 produce a sanctified and holy church, let us "follow after the 
 "things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may 
 "edify another" let us "follow peace with all men and holiness, 
 "without which no man shall see the Lord." Let us do our 
 
jFiftft aijenue presfiptcrian Cljurct) 215 
 
 duty in our station and in the judicatories of the church, as God 
 may enlighten us when called there — and by an humble devoted 
 waiting upon God, be instrumental in drawing down upon the 
 church, the blessings of his grace. Jesus is the Lord and Shep-' 
 herd of his people the government is upon his shoulder — he is 
 alone and emphatically, the truth— and his Holy Spirit must and 
 will guide his people into all truth "My sheep hear my voice, 
 "and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them 
 "eternal life and they shall never perish, and none shall pluck 
 "them out of my hand." 
 
 5th. That this Session do warmly approve the sentiments ex- 
 pressed in the pastoral letter recently issued to their churches, 
 from the presbytery of New York, and do bless God for those 
 evidences of enlightened piety and christian love and watchful- 
 ness which have dictated the same. It comes like a refreshing 
 shower on a dry and thirsty land. The Session receive its ex- 
 hortations with thankfulness and with prayer, that its admoni- 
 tions may be sanctified to their souls, and to those of the flock 
 under their charge. 
 
 The Session in due consideration of the several matters now 
 suggested adopt the following resolutions 
 
 1st. Resolved that the members of this Session do bear solemn 
 and unequivocal testimony against the errors in doctrine set forth 
 in the paper called the act and Testimony, and declare the same 
 to be dangerous, heretical, delusive to the souls of men, contrary 
 to the Gospel of Christ, and subversive of the standards of the 
 church, our only "Bond of denominational Union." 
 and. Resolved, that in admissions to the priviledges of this 
 church, whether by confession of faith or by certificates from 
 other churches — the applicants shall be required to acknowledge 
 and receive without reservations, the Westminster confession of 
 Faith and Catechisms of the Presbyterian Church in the United 
 States, and' that they shall enter into covenant before the church, 
 recognizing the standards of the presbyterian Church as their 
 rule of faith and practice and christian obedience. 
 3rd. Resolved That this Session in consistency with their ordina- 
 tion vows will more than ever study the peace and unity and 
 purity of the church and "so let their light shine before men, 
 that others may see their good works and glorify their father 
 who is in heaven." 
 
 4th. Resolved, That this Session will individually and unitedly 
 humble themselves before God, in view of the evils which arc 
 spread over the church in general, as well as for those existing, 
 in their own in particular and confessing their Sins before the 
 
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 Lord, will seek through a Saviour's blood, forgiveness thereof, 
 in order to that gracious return of spiritual influences, so freely 
 promised in the words "Come and let us return unto the Lord 
 for he hath torn and he will heal us, he hath smitten and he 
 will bind us up; after two days he will revive us, in the third 
 day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." 
 5th. Resolved, That a copy of this minute signed by the Mod- 
 erator and Stated Clerk be laid before the Presbytery of New 
 York at its next meeting and that a copy be likewise transmitted 
 to the Editor of the presbyterian in Philadelphia, as an expression 
 of the views of this Session upon the paper called the Act and 
 Testimony. 
 Concluded with prayer. 
 
iFiftft auenue Ptestiptetian C!)uici) 
 
 217 
 
 S@em6ers of ttje 
 
 JfiftI) atienuc Ptes6ptetian Cftutclj 
 
 for Dne l^unDteD gears 
 
 X7tfc. ij« i£o8. 
 
 CHAKTSR MCUBSHS. 
 
 Hugh Auchincloss 
 William Cleveland 
 Samuel Darling 
 Thos. Darling 
 Elisha Ely 
 George Fitch 
 William Hall 
 Jonathan W. Kellogg 
 Zechariah Lewis 
 Eliakim Raymond 
 Daniel Smith 
 Solomon WilliamB 
 Oliver Wolcott 
 Mary Carrington 
 Betsey Coit 
 Nancy Darling 
 Eliza Lewis 
 Ann Manwairing 
 Hannah Mudge 
 Hannah Neilson 
 Nancy Otis 
 Lydia Richards 
 Harriet Romeyn 
 Anna Todd 
 Mary Wataon 
 Betsey Jackson 
 
 Dec. 21, 1808. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Archibald Grade 
 Ester Gracie (Mrs. A.) 
 Pelatiah Perrit 
 Jane Reid 
 
 Sarah Brown Elizabeth Post 
 
 Isaac Ives (Mrs. Joel) 
 
 George Gosman Sarah Williams 
 
 John Sayre Martha Lloyd 
 
 Henry King admitted by certiMCats 
 ADMITTED BY certificats Samucl Whiting 
 
 William Gibson Hannah Whiting 
 
 Sarah Gibson (Mrs. W.) (Mrs. S.) 
 
 Peter Hatterick 
 Freelove Brittain 
 Oliver Wilcox 
 Hannah Porter 
 Charlotte Porter 
 
 Clarissa Townsend 
 (Mrs. Eben) 
 Mrs. Scribner 
 Frederick S. Thomas 
 
 May II, 1809. 
 
 Nov. 13, 1809. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Julia Wattles (Mrs. Geo.) 
 ^I'liri^ff ^^°^^^^'°" Charlotte Strong 
 Sarah Fanning 
 John E. Caldwell 
 Jesse Scofield 
 
 Joseph Otis 
 Wm. S. Chapman 
 Hezekiah H. Williams 
 Charles Richards 
 Amory Gammage 
 Elisha Compstock 
 Lydia Coit 
 Mary Fowler 
 Margaret Strong 
 Philetta Havens 
 Rachel Brown 
 Margaret Ann Todd 
 Amelia Ives 
 Mary Jackson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Jerusha Perrit 
 
 (Mrs. Pelatiah) 
 Ann Brewster 
 
 (Mrs. Chas. A.) 
 Martha Murray 
 
 (Mrs. John B.) 
 
 Nov, ly, 180Q. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Blair 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Chas. A. Brewster 
 Eleazar Lord 
 Sally Smith 
 Mary McNeil 
 Ann King 
 
 Jan. 12, 1809. 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION E;iizabeth'Sayre 
 Elisha Coit 
 Peter Morrison 
 Robert Weir 
 
 Joseph Ogden 
 Mehitabel Ogden 
 
 (Mrs. Joseph) 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Horace Hinsdale 
 
 Mrs. Lena Post 
 David Ely 
 Susannah Darling 
 
 Sarah Hinsdale 
 
 (Mrs. Horace) 
 
 Hannah Caldwell 
 
 (Mrs. John E.) 
 Samuel Penny 
 Jemima Penny (Mrs. S.) 
 
 Jan. 8, 1810. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Abigail Johnson Riggs 
 
 (Mrs. C. S.) 
 Sally Hall (Mrs. Wm.) 
 Wm. R. De Witt 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Julia Tober 
 
 (Mrs. Hagh K.) 
 
 Mar. 16, 1809. J^h ^3. ^809. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Catharine Murphy 
 Harriet Mumford Sophia Lewis Horace Bull 
 
 (Mrs. Benj. M.) (Mrs. Zech.) Mary Bull (Mrs. Horace) 
 
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 Eunice Bull July lo, iSio. March ii, iBii. 
 
 Isaac Baldwin admitted on professioh admitted on profession 
 
 William Callender Margaret Beers 
 
 ._"• 'I' _"■_, Thomas Masters (Mrs. C. P.) 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Selby Rufus L. Nevins 
 
 Mrs. Mary Vermilyea Nancy A. King 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Irving Elizabeth Rogers 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEETIEICATE ,,, wu \ T «J:, W., *: .^ ■ 
 
 r, . __ (Mrs. Ebenezer) I^ydia Huntington 
 
 Rebecca Maver t j. t» • ^ c i. c^^ 
 
 ,„ - , Lydia Farnngton Sarah Strong 
 
 (.Mrs. J as.; ^^^^^ ^ Schieffelin Mary Lang 
 
 March iz, iSio. admitted by cERTifiCATS admitted by cEkTimcats 
 
 ADMITTED ON PEOEESSION Isabella Masters Jno Bulckley 
 
 Anna L. Bruce (Mrs. Thos.) Mrs. Huldah Foot 
 
 (Mrs. Robert) Martha Freeman Mrs. Clara Porter 
 Eliza Smith 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Mix 
 Ezra Pratt 
 
 Joseph Hanmore j^^^^ jgjg 
 
 Gilbert Smith 
 
 Mary Stewart Barr r„i,, ,, ,s,„ ,, ^ „ 
 
 J , / , . ■'"'y "■ '<!">■ May 6, iSii. 
 
 i,eDDens i^oomis admitted by cEetii-icats admitted on professiow 
 
 Eliza Loomis ,3;^;^ Bethune William Cook Mulligan 
 
 T u /■• Y ^""^^ J°^"°* Bethune Noah Wetmore 
 
 Jonathan Little (m„. Diyie) Daniel Corwin 
 
 David S. Lyon Mrs. Isabella Graham John Leach 
 
 ^."' ^°" Dorcas Marsh James Hamilton 
 
 ^""^ H^y^" Harriet Whitney 
 
 (Mrs. Stephen) 
 admitted on profession Betsey Jelf Bliss 
 ADMITTED BY certificate Archibald Henderson (Mrs B E) 
 
 Mrs. Rachel McCready Wm. W. Vermilye Winnifred Weimore 
 Joseph Marce Hannah Deming (Mrs. Noah) 
 
 Heman Averill (jjrs. Barzillai) Mary Corwin 
 
 March 14, iSio. ^\^- Joanna Heard (Mrs. Daniel) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE f ''^* ^""^^ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Jonathan Mix Nancy Halsey j^^^j^ y^^j^j^ 
 
 Elizabeth Mary Mix Sophia Wyckoff (jj^.^ Richard) 
 
 (Mrs. J.) Rebecca Birch 
 
 Barzillai Deming „, „ 
 
 May 7, iSio. Brown King .„„„f "^ '' '*''• 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Tnhn Church ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Christian Zabriska >-nurcn Ebenezer Stevens 
 
 Cyrenius P Beers admitted by certificate Peter Simonson 
 
 Alexander Phoenix ^^"i" Burroughs Beza E. Bliss 
 
 Margery Parker Catharine Burroughs Helen Smith 
 
 Eliza Durham „ ^^"^^V'H ^"^""^ ^^"^ 
 
 Helen Cunningham ?!"■ ^5^7 "• ^""*'°'' Margaret Covert 
 
 Kii,. T,„i. Mrs. Lois Peck 
 
 Uliza i,amD ADMITTED by CERTIFICAT* 
 
 Rhoda Smith (Mrs. Matt.) Mrs. Maria Baldwin 
 Nancy Jones ^'"'- '^- ^'"• 
 
 Betsy Scofield rT'^xf/" ''f^"'"'' /„/. „ jgii 
 
 ,T^ -T ^ John Wadsworth ■'"'J' ''• ""■ 
 
 ... „ p ,"• ■'"'7, Alfred Huntington admitted on profession 
 
 Alice Golden Willet t,, . r> u- Joel Post 
 
 M- . » Tj J Phoebe Robinson 1 , „ 
 
 Margaret Bogardus ^^ John Gray 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS ' Margaret Gray 
 
 Mrs. Patty Smith admitted by cebtificatB (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 Samuel Stephens James Morgan Catharine Schuyler 
 
 Harriett B. Williams Pamelia Redfield Elizabeth Nelson 
 
 (Mrs. Solomon) (Mrs. Jno.) (Mrs. Joseph) 
 
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 219 
 
 Nov. 18, 1811. 
 
 Jane Zabriskie (Mrs. C.) 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Fanny Chapman 
 
 Benjamin Strong 
 Alexander Neilson 
 Frederick W. Wray 
 Andrew Sallig 
 Paschal N. Strong 
 John Carpenter 
 
 Elizabeth Uvers 
 Sarah Gardinier 
 
 (Mrs. Bavent) 
 Ursula Moore 
 
 Jan. 14, 2813. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PEOFESSIOIT 
 
 Josias H. Coggeshall 
 Mary Whitney 
 Mary Hattrick 
 
 (Mrs. Peter) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Olivia Munroe Richard Varick 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps Joseph Neilson 
 Mrs. Mary Watson Richard Freeman Eunice Goodrich 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Bartlett Mary Freeman (Mrs. R.) Sarah M. Goodrich 
 Rebecca Haynes Mrs. Beulah Whittlesey 
 
 /Tij c n\ March 18, 1813. 
 
 (Mrs. Sam 1) -^ 
 
 ,, o^ XT ,t /TIT Tir N ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
 
 Mary T. Hall (Mrs. Wm.) j^^y ,^^ ^^12. Anthony Dey 
 
 Jan. 13, i8i2. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Y,zT3. C. Woodhull 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION JO"ri E. Hyde Wm. A. Prince 
 
 Roswell Iv. Colt M.^T\3. Hyde Lemuel Brewster 
 
 George Duffield (Jr.) (^^^s- J^o. E.) Selah Covel 
 
 John Taylor Rebecca Coit 
 
 Mary Taylor (Mrs. Jno.) (Mrs. EUsha) 
 
 Hannah Selleg 
 
 (Mrs. Andrew) 
 Martha Le Roy 
 
 (Mrs. Jacob) 
 Rhoda Tunis (Mrs.) 
 Hannah Gamage 
 
 (Mrs. Amory) 
 Eliza Murray 
 Oliver Murray 
 
 Robert Robinson 
 Mary Robinson 
 
 (Mrs. Robt.) 
 Rachel Leavenworth 
 
 (Mrs. Elisha) 
 Eunice Stebbins 
 
 (Mrs. Simon) 
 
 Frederick King 
 Joshua E. R. Birch 
 Henry Hill 
 Caleb O. Halsted 
 Eliza Havens 
 Frances Pratt 
 Mary Weston 
 Patty Codwise 
 March 12, 1812. Ann June 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION PoUy Rose 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary Hinman 
 
 Ashael Hathaway 
 Charles Mclntire 
 John W. Carrington 
 Rachel Birch 
 
 (Mrs. J. E. R.) 
 Rhoda Gorham 
 
 (Mrs. Stephen) 
 Maria McClelland 
 Gitty Sparling 
 Sarah Cable 
 Philip Ludlow 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Gertrude Green 
 Esther Miller 
 Abigail Fisher 
 
 Jessy G. Bethune 
 Mary Ann Coit 
 Isabella G. Bethune 
 Hannah McClure 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 William Keese 
 Betsey Scribner 
 Thomas Godard 
 Daniel B. Hempstead 
 Grace Hempstead 
 
 (Mrs. D. B.) 
 Nancy Deforest 
 
 (Mrs. Philo) 
 Hannah Chandler 
 
 James Kelso 
 Catharine Dey 
 
 (Mrs. Tunis) 
 Ezekiel W. Morse 
 
 JvXy 15, T813. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William S. Root 
 Marcus Wilber 
 Rufus Davenport 
 Hetty Ogden 
 
 Gerald Lathrop 
 Mary Lathrop 
 
 (Mrs. Gerald) j^ov. iz, i8j2. 
 
 Levcritt T. I, Huntington admitted on profession Rhoda Ward 
 Mrs. Sarah Malcolm Amasa Jackson Winifred Post 
 
 Margaret Malcolm Jotham Post (Jr.) 
 
 May 14, 1812. Susan Johnson 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Catharine B. Malcolm 
 William Johnson ^^"^ Clisby ^ xm -^ u 
 
 Julius L. Dunning admitted by certificate ^^^' ^^- Jo^"son 
 
 Martha Dunning Sarah Baker admitted by certificate 
 
 (Mrs. J. L.) Mille Philips James Olmstead 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Young 
 Eliza Young 
 Martha M. Coit 
 Thankful W. Gibbs 
 
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 Centennial Celebration of tfje 
 
 Cornelia Sands 
 
 (Mrs. Comfort) 
 Joanna Lett 
 Jennette Godard 
 
 (Mrs. Thos. H.) 
 Mrs. Anna McThinne 
 
 Nov. 34, 1813. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Harriet Bishop 
 
 (Mrs. Warren) 
 Daniel Wurtz 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 Elizabeth Tracey 
 
 (Mrs. Barton) 
 
 Jan, 13, 1814. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Margaret W. Goodman 
 
 (Mrs. John K.) 
 Wm. T. Manning 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Reuben Smith 
 
 March x6, 1814. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maria Metcalfe 
 
 May 12, 1814. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Ivucretia Felter 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 Knowles Taylor 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliphalet Stratton 
 July II, 1814. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Augustus spencer 
 Hannah Spencer 
 
 (Mrs. Augustus) 
 Clarissa Evarts 
 Neven I^ee 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Jane B. Delaplaine 
 Nov. jy, 1814. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 James O. Gaither 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Jane Nevins 
 
 (Mrs. Rufus L.) 
 Robert Steel 
 
 Jan. II, 1815. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles Watts 
 
 Julia Ufford 
 
 (Mrs. Hezekiah) 
 Elizabeth H. Baldwin 
 
 (Mrs. Isaac) 
 Helen S. Ogden 
 Phebe Wurtz 
 
 (Mrs. Daniel) 
 Sally Wilcox 
 
 (Mrs. Oliver) 
 Mrs. Hoe 
 Harriet B. Wilson 
 
 (Mrs. Jas. R.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Peter Stuyvesant, Jr. 
 Eliphalet Gillett 
 Helena Gillett (Mrs. E.) 
 Agnes Watson 
 
 (Mrs. Joseph) 
 Alexander Duncan 
 Mary Duncan 
 
 (Mrs. Alex.) 
 
 March 16, 1815. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Isabella Steele 
 
 (Mrs. Robt. M.) 
 Ann Maine (Mrs. Geo.) 
 Mary C. Todd 
 Mrs, Mary Frazier 
 Eliza Little 
 Elizabeth Graham 
 
 (Mrs. Robt.) 
 Frances Jessup 
 
 (Mrs. Tarbel) 
 Ashbel Bulcfcley 
 Curtis Clark 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Julia Gamage 
 
 (Mrs. Sam'l) 
 
 Rebecca Clark 
 
 (Mrs. Curtis) 
 
 Archibald Bulckley 
 
 May II, 1815. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Lewis Ward 
 
 Horace Seymour Manley 
 Elizabeth Ward 
 Sarah Austin 
 
 (Mrs. Daniel) 
 Lucina Graham 
 Rebecca Washburne 
 Mrs. Oliver Trowbridge 
 Mrs. Margaret Kidney 
 Tarbel Jessup 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Geo. F. Vanpell 
 
 Sarah Vanpell 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Helm 
 Mrs. Sarah Layton 
 Abigail Taylor 
 
 (Mrs. (^eo.) 
 Jared Mead 
 
 J^h 13, ^815. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Robert Graham 
 Charles Rollinson 
 Wakeman Burritt 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Thomas Masters 
 Isabella Masters 
 
 (Mrs. Thos.) 
 Mary Wallace 
 Susan Stuyvesant 
 
 (Mrs. Peter) 
 Mrs. Fanny Chapman 
 
 Nov. 16, 1815. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Samuel M. Blatchford 
 Abby Johnson 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. C.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Charlotte Wilbur 
 
 (Mrs. Rodney) 
 
 Jan. 18, 1816. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Joseph Graham 
 Ann Ogden 
 
 (Mrs. David S.) 
 Grace Burritt 
 
 (Mrs. Wakeman) 
 Charles Coggeshall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 James BHss 
 
 Mrs. Anna Beach 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Lanman 
 
 March 13, 1816. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Peter H. Shaw 
 
 Jerusha Deanes 
 
 Maria Rollinson 
 
 Lucy Evarts 
 
 Sa^ah Owens 
 
 Margaret Baldwin 
 
 Asa Taylor 
 
 Abby Taylor (Mrs, Asa) 
 
iTifti) atienue ptestptetian Cfturcf) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CgRTIFICATE JameS B. Taylof ADMITTED BY CERTIFICA 
 
 Charles Hyde Eliza Ann Graham Susan Fardon 
 
 Wealthy Ann Bulckley Joanna Jacobs Mary Hall (Mrs. Jos.] 
 
 (Mrs. Archibald) Maria Talbot 
 James Morgan (Mrs. (Jeo. W.) ' 
 
 ■' ADMITTED ON PROFESSI 
 
 June 5, 1816. ADMITTED BY CERTiEiCATB William Bostwick 
 
 ADMITTED OK PROFESSION ^urelia Carrington 
 Israel Foot (Mrs. Jno. W.) ^o"- '5. 'S'S. 
 
 _, ,,0 ADMITTED ON PROFESSI 
 
 Thomas M. Strong ^„^_ ,^_ jSi6. Archibald Bogue 
 
 Thomas E. Vermilye admitted on profession 
 
 Roderick Sedgwick John Ogden Dey ,'t'""T° ^^r^l'^f If 
 
 Margaret Sedgwick Isaac Newton Cande ^"^ f "° WoodhuU 
 
 (Mrs. R.) (Mrs. Ezra C.) 
 
 Silas T. Baldwin ^<^^- '^' '^'7- Mrs. Margaret Leffingx 
 
 William' E Noyes admitted on profession Avatus Kent 
 
 Elizabeth Mctcalf Najah Taylor James Baber 
 
 Nancy Fanning Susan Taylor Mrs. Sophia Gibbs 
 
 Elizabeth Lawrence (Mrs. Najah) ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 (Mrs. Jonathan) Susan Codman ;ii,m„ted on professi 
 
 Daniel L. Bishop (Mrs. Wm.> William Cairns 
 
 Joseph Watson admitted by certificatB Henry Havens 
 
 Hannah Watson Joseph Sanford j^jj^y Ann Strong 
 
 (Mrs. Joseph) Lucy Bishop Margaret S. Ten Broe 
 
 Thomas L. Ely (Mrs. Daniel) jirs. Hester Sickles 
 
 Jane Cheetham March n 1817 Harriet Hotchkiss 
 
 Maria Stebbins admitted on 'profession Mrs. Nancy White 
 
 Esther McCormick Elizabeth Hubbell Hannah Lee 
 
 (Mrs. Hugh) (Mrs. A.) Phjllis Deniston 
 
 admitted by certificate Elizabeth Dubois Mary Elsworth 
 
 William Little admitted by certificate admitted by certific 
 
 Maria Leavitt jj^^^y Ledyard Walter Monteith 
 
 (Mrs. David) -^ Ledyard Elizabeth Armstrong 
 
 Nancy Sistare (Mrs. Jos.) (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 William L. Cande ^^y »' '^'7- 
 
 Charles Starr admitted on profession j^^y it, 181S. 
 
 Nancy Starr George Munro admitted on profess 
 
 (Mrs Chas) ■*"" Jenkinson Catharine Maria Tou: 
 
 Ann B. Griswold ' J^°^ Jenkinson _ jane Taylor 
 
 (Mrs. N. L.) '^^^''^ ■'^"" Squire Elizabeth Braiden 
 
 /:- Jane Braiden 
 July 18, 1816. Margaret Kelso 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Diademia Wheeler 
 Abraham Kidney ^„,^ ^^^ ^^^^_ 
 
 Wm. P. Stewart admitted on profession July 16, 1S18. 
 
 Ruth Walton William Piatt Buffett admitted on profess 
 
 Walter K. Penny Solomon M. Smith Elizabeth Doughty 
 
 Sophia Brewster jj^^y Cheetham 
 
 admitted by certificate Elizabeth Cheetham ^'"'- "■ '^'^■ 
 
 Frederick Kinz _ ADMITTED BY CERTIFIC 
 
 Mrs Abbv Leeds admitted by certificatS p^^;^, ^aterbury 
 
 Mrs. Abby Leeds Thomas W. Blatchford 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Saltonstall „ „ r, b.s 
 
 Oct. 21, 1817. Dec. 10, 1818. 
 
 Sept. 12, 1816. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFIC 
 
 admitted'on'profession Frederick Evarts Mabel Marquand 
 
 Wm. A. Cook Sarah Sands (Mrs. Isaac) 
 
 admitted by certific 
 Elouisa Ely 
 
 (Mrs. Elisha) 
 
222 Centennial Celefttation of the 
 
 Rebecca Norwood Nov. ii, 1819. Oct. s, iSio. 
 
 (Mrs. Andrew) admitted on profession admitted on profession 
 
 Ruth Tucker Giles N. Whitney William Douglass Cairns 
 
 (Mrs. Isaac) George A. Perkins Susan Brewster 
 
 Betsey Peterson Deborah Allen (Mrs. Joseph) 
 admitted by certificate admitted by certificate J^^"^ Walmsley 
 
 Wilhelmina Johnston Catharine Wilbur Hannah Thompson 
 
 Keziah Murden (Mrs. Marcus) admitted by certificats 
 
 Mary O. F. Davison Mrs. Sarah I^enington ^liza S. Gardiner 
 
 Peggy Thompson (Mrs. N.) 
 
 Lenah Rankin Dec. 9, i8ig. Nicholas Aldridge 
 
 Theophilus Parvin admitted on profession Cynthia Aldridge 
 Andrew S. Norwood (Mrs. N.) 
 
 Peb. 11, iSip. Helen Kissam jj^^ , jg^^ 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PHOFSSSIOH 
 
 Wm. H. Whitney Feb. 10, 1S20. Joanna M. Vermilyee 
 
 Helen W. Hutchins admitted on profession Margaret L. Vermilyee 
 
 Ann M. Huck Gilbert Tenant Snowden Elizabeth Earl 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^''^^beth Malcolm ^„«i„g„ ,^ CERTIFICATE 
 
 Thomas TurnbuU admitted by certificate Maria Smith 
 
 Jacob Poinier Mehitable Smith (Mrs Sol M ) 
 
 Jane Poinier (Mrs. J.) Mrs. Anne Halsted ' 
 
 Henry M. Brittin -^i""' 6, 1S20. ^^ g ^ 
 
 Benj. C. Smith admitted on profession ^^ Blatchford 
 
 William H. Williams Ehza A^^Baiky^^ ^^^ Frederick Blatchford 
 
 April S, iSig. Sophia Rhodes Feb. 17, iSii. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Eliza Hubley ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Stephen B. Hutchings admitted by CERTIFICATE Edward Calkin 
 George M. Wilson Thadeus Sherman Martha Vandewater 
 
 Louisa Howland (Mrs. A.) 
 
 (Mrs. Gardiner) June S, 1820. Margaret Calhoun 
 
 Olivia Brown (Mrs. R.) admitted on profession Diana Dubois 
 Nancy Billard Cornelia Ann Whitney admitted by CERTIFICATE 
 
 (Mrs. Giles M.) Harvey Fisk 
 June 10, leig. 
 admitted on profession June p, 1820. April 4, 1821. 
 
 John Taylor admitted on profession admitted on profession 
 
 Julia Elmer Sally Francis Eliza Callender 
 
 Mary Clark admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE David G. Hubbard Wm. P. Curry 
 
 Lucy Jackson Sarah L. Coit 
 
 (Mrs. Luther) '^"S- 9' '^"■ 
 
 Louisa Caldwell ^^e- 10, 1S20. *''""^S° "^ profession 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Sally Stewart 
 Aug. s, 1819. John Aspinwall (Mrs. Wm. P.) 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Susan Howland Aspinwall q^( jj jg^j 
 
 Theodore Keese (Mrs. J.) admitted' on' profession 
 
 Rebecca Keese Elisha D. Hulbert Abigail Fountain 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) Nathaniel S. Penny QAts. Isaac) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^aria Callendar Lothena Frost 
 
 Mrs. Rhoda Keese Dinah Johnson Charles B. Brientnall 
 
 Caleb O. Halstead admitted by certificate Adeline Curtis 
 
 John Napier Elizabeth Hower Robert Birch 
 
JTiftl) atJenue Pre06pteriatt Cijurcb 223 
 
 Dec. 6, I82I. ADMITTgD BY CERTIMCATS Aug. 4, 1I24. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Horatio N. Brinsmade admitted on profession 
 Wm. Allen James H. Woodhull 
 
 ■Catharine M. Strong '^"- -5' "^3- .„.„,,,„ „„ „^ ^ , „ .. 
 
 Caroline Amelia Smith ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Caroline Ameha Smith j;iiza D. Woodhull 
 
 Betiv CuSr !"=-«'• Wilbur (Mrs. Jas. H.) 
 
 Betsey Curtis ^^^^^^^^ ^ !,;„„, Mead 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ,,, rr.^ , 
 
 Margaret Pitt ^^J"" 7''°'-^ ^ec. S, iSh- 
 
 Eliza b. I,ewis admitted on profession 
 
 Feb. 7, 'Sii. Sophia M. Lewis ^jiaj b. Watrous 
 
 admitted on profession ^„j,„ted by certificate Sarah Taylor 
 Joseph Brewster jj^j_ jy-^^^i^^ Watrous 
 
 Maria Curtis j^^^ ^nn Watrous °''- 7' '^'S- 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Stephen Peck March 2&, 1823- ^^^ ■^°° ^'""^ 
 
 Ann Peck (Mrs. S.) admitted on profession /„(^ ^ jg^g 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Woolley Wm. M. Ross admitted on' profession 
 
 Jenny Bloodgood Margaret Dayton TerrillAifred Charles Post 
 
 Jude Wyncoop Ross (Mrs. W. M.) 
 
 Oct. 4. iS!6. 
 April IS, iS23. April 9, 1S23. admitted on profession 
 
 admitted on profession ^„j,itted on profession Jane Ellis 
 Lydia Sherman Olcott j;,;^^ Rutins „ „ . , 
 
 Phoebe Curtis (Mrs. Ashbel W.) °"'- *' '^'^- 
 
 -r, , r ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 June 20, 1822. Betsey Jones ^^^^ ^^^^^ 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION (Mrs. Ezekiel W.) 
 
 Daniel Austin '*"^- -5' "'3- 
 
 Elisha Averill admitted on profession admitted by certificate 
 
 Joseph Rowland Coit Elizabeth Hoe Francis Markoe 
 
 TT r h Sarah Lanman Sarah Markoe 
 
 /TIT /^ iir \ (Mrs. Francis) 
 
 M r W t?'°; Oct.7.a23. Martha C. Markoe 
 
 mary c. MattncK admitted on profession Sally Markoe 
 
 Mary H L,anman ^mos Savage Mary M. Caldwell 
 
 Margaret Marsh ,,. . 
 
 Henrietta M. Ten Brock JJec. lo, 182J. . -r 
 
 T?f T^ T.1 1 'J Ann Lewis 
 
 Ehza D. Phelps admitted on profession M„y Ann Blatchford. 
 
 admitted, BY certificate I<ucretia Steven 
 Polly Mead (Mrs.Merbin) (Mrs. Eben.) p^j^ ^ jg„ 
 
 Aug. 8, 1822. ADMITTED BY certificate ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Sarah Scribner John Wheelwright 
 
 David M. Hubbard Gurdon S. Buck 
 
 Wm. B. Phelps ^P'^ii 7, 1824. Ralph Otasted 
 
 Abby T. I^anman admitted by certificate Mary Olmsted 
 
 Emeline Penny Catharine Nelson (Mrs. R.) 
 
 Dec. 5, 1822. ^, <,^^=- 1°'-^ Harriet Coit 
 
 •" Edmund Hyatt 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION -. . ,^ -^ r. -.i ADMITTgD BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 ,, _r Maria Coit Perntt ,. xi • .... nr »■ 
 
 Mary Hoe Mrs. Henrietta Martin 
 
 Emeline Hoe j„„^ p^ ^g^^^ William Walker 
 
 Cynthia Smith admitted by certificate -^''" Wheelwright 
 
 Harriet Cable Mary McEvers (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 Antoinette Cable George Munroe 
 
 Martha C. Masters June 11, 1824. Richard C. Morse 
 
 Sarah Masters admitted on profession Wm. G. Watrous 
 
 Jane I,. Auchincloss Robert Buloid Samuel M. Blatchford 
 
224 Centennial Celefitation of t&e 
 
 Betsey Blatchford Stephen Keeler admitted by certificate 
 
 (Mrs. S. M.) Amos Thornton Eliza A. Robbins 
 
 Ann Hall Elizabeth Thornton 
 
 , ., . (Mrs. Amos) -^"^^ 7- ^«^*- 
 
 Afrit 4, iSlJ. ADMITTED ON FSOFESSIOH 
 
 ADMITTED ON FioFESSiOH Q^ „^ jg„. Sarah Lang 
 
 William W. Chester admitted on profession Elizabeth Markoe 
 
 Hannah M. Chester Mrs. Eliza Dart Wm. Henry Hoopla 
 
 (Mrs. W. W.) Cornelia Halstead rir, n tD^ 
 
 Mary Bill (Mrs Caleb O ) '' 
 
 r-.,,„i;„. c*..i. ^ ' admitted on profession- 
 
 Caroline Steele Betsey Kellogg j^.^ph Alden 
 
 Emma Beers (Mrs. Timothy) Maryette Morse 
 
 Harriet Beers Elizabeth Hubbard I,ucy Hubbard 
 
 Cornelia Battelle Martha Hubbard Frances Jessup 
 
 Rebecca Shaddock Mary Spencer 
 
 ADMITTRn BV CBHTISICATS ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT8 
 
 ADMITTED BY CBRTIFICATB ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT8 Julina MasOn 
 
 Dennis Davenport Sophia Havens Ann Mason 
 
 Catharine Davenport (Mrs. Hy.) Perses Lee 
 
 (Mrs. Dennis) James N. Cobb Philo. F. Phelps 
 
 Henry Young _ , ^^ ,, „ . 
 
 , , , V n z o John R. McDowel 
 
 Mary L. Young Dec. 6. IS^?. R,,ph R. Finch 
 
 (Mrs. Hy.) admitted on profession 
 
 Joseph E. Marshall Theressa King Dec. 3, 182S. 
 
 Lucretia Richards admitted by certificatB 
 
 admitted" ™' PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE JjO^^ Thompson 
 
 Nathaniel Gardiner R^oda Walker William Wilby 
 
 Henry B. Hinsdale H«n°»b Estie Sybil Wilby 
 
 Henry Butler Wm. R. Swift John Simonson 
 
 Henry C. Mudge „ . _ ^"^ Simonson 
 
 Hellen Kent (Mrs. Wm.) ^°- ^' '"^- Dec. 10 iSsS 
 
 T?i- V iU TJ ^ 11 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ' ' 
 
 Elizabeth Battelle g^j ^-^^^^^^ admitted on profession 
 
 Martha Hinsdale Wm. M. Halsted R.chard M Hoe 
 
 Laura Clark - ^^^ Wright ^^"^ Mauley 
 
 Ann Maria Hyde Mary S. John 
 
 Louisa Buloid ADMITTED BY CESTIFICATS ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Maria Halstead Lorenza Stevens Hannah Whitney 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. M.) Norman White 
 
 Sarah Eldridge I°" ^''^avitt /a». 30, 1819. 
 
 Elizabeth Haines admitted on profession 
 
 Martha White ^?"' ", 'S^S- Frederick Stanley 
 
 Mary R Crosby admitted on profession J°"" l-owzens 
 
 Amelia A. Taylor Mary Ann Gray Sarah Deming 
 
 Martha Jackson Eliza M. Steel MaryEldredge 
 
 Sally Edwards 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE AOMtTTBD BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Jonathan L. Hyde Mary Leavitt admitted by CERTIFICATE 
 
 Laura E. Hyde Newton Hayes Jno. Briggs 
 
 (Mrs. J. L.) Massalen Briggs 
 
 Ezekiel W. Morse ■'"»« 5, iSiS. Andrew Thompson 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Sarah Thompson 
 
 July !5, iSir- Woodbridge S. Olmsted Mary A. White 
 
 ADMITTED OH PROFESSION Newton St. John J"lia A. Montague 
 
 Abby Harington Edward Field Eliza Doremus 
 
 Orvin Thompson Grace E. Burritt April 3, 1S39. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Jane Miller admitted on PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Hardy Isabella Field Edwin I. Brown 
 
JFiftft atjenue ptesfiptetian Cftutcb 225 
 
 James M. Halstead Jan. 7, 1830, Martha Beatty 
 
 John H. Morrison admitted on peofsssioh admitted by cEKTincATB 
 
 Chas. A. Brewster Wm. Hall. Jr. Mary McCormick 
 
 Robt. R. Kellogg - Frances M. Mason 
 
 Elbert J. Rosevelt Nancy Johnson •'^*°' ^^' "^'' 
 
 _j T> ^ 1 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Homer Kamsaaie admitted by ceetificatb jang b Sterrett 
 
 Charles Mudge Ambrose S. Ludlow (Mrs Beni ) 
 
 Caroline H.Dey Stillman S. Clapp Margaret Wilsey ' 
 
 Mary Dimond /-iv«--» t \ 
 
 Achsah Smith Feb. 5. '830. ,.Jf "•/•', 
 
 Ant. I,. Taylor admitted by certificate I.o"ng Andrews 
 
 Co^.>i, T Pno= Catharine Wales 
 
 Sarah 1^. Koss „ ,. • c ■ ^f "' ', 'S31. 
 
 n.rcntinB •^r^rtnn Catharine Staples '^ ' ^ 
 
 uerentine sexton /^ ,.1. o r' jj j admitted on professioh 
 
 Emily Steel Cath. S. Goddard ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
 Wm. Henry Smith t> -j tt ji 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE w„„ p ct„rt.P= °^'"° Hoadley 
 
 William Hall ^^ ' **"'^ses j^^^^^ ^ Earnham 
 
 Mary J. Hall April i, 1S30. Simeon P. Hyde, Jr. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Amasa Jackson 
 
 July 7, 1S29. Elizabeth Dimond Hartman Markoe 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charlotte Ivudlow Samuel C. Masters 
 
 John Ely Abigail D. Sturges Henry Wyckoff Olcott 
 
 William Taylor Merlin Mead Joseph Parker Spencer 
 
 Richard Catlin Lorenzo Lee James R. Westcott 
 
 Clarissa Catlin Charles St. John Ebenezer Russel 
 
 Eliz. H. Green Chas. A. Marvin Whittlesey 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Allen M. Jerome Atamson Trask 
 
 Solomon E. Moore John Hall Francis Burritt 
 
 Elizabeth Helme admitted by certificate J"^'^'' Salisbury Breese 
 
 Sarah Layton Charlotte O. Risley Thomas Archibald 
 
 Cummins 
 
 Oct. 8, iS2g. July 5, 1830. William Edwards Mead 
 
 admitted on profession admitted ON profession James Jay O'Kill 
 Henry S. St. John AngeHne Ludlow Hannah Scribner 
 
 Lewis Tappan Julia Hinsdale (Mrs. Elizah P.) 
 
 Susan A. Tappan Frederick A. Burke Mary W. Butler 
 
 Rachel Dimond George W. Ives (Mrs. Silas, Jr.) 
 
 admitted by certificate admitted by certificate Phoebe Cobb 
 John Wright John Gallaher (Mrs. Jas. N.) 
 
 Richard J. Thorne Sarah Gallaher Mary Hoadley 
 
 Nancy S. St. John Mary Gallaher (Mrs. David) 
 
 Catharine Duffy Esther McCormick Charlotte Smith 
 
 Hetty A. McCormick (Mrs. Wm. H.) 
 
 Dec. 10, 182Q. Caroline Sophia Lowery 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION '^^*'- ^^' "^°- (Mrs. Jho.) 
 
 Angeline Ketchum. admitted by certificate n^^n^h ^imira Batis 
 
 Frances Staples J"!"" M^=°" (Mrs. Calvin) 
 
 Caroline Drake Qct. 7, 1830. Jane Baker 
 
 ADMITTED by certificate ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Martha Caldwell 
 Rhoda Smith David Codwise Ann Eliza Doremus 
 
 Nancy Day Rufus Leavitt Ann Frances Darling 
 
 Sarah M. Mease Amos S. Cook Anna Freeman 
 
 Sarah W. Gurchy James S. Brown Sarah Hall 
 
 Andrew Mills Edward Jones Ann Knight 
 
 Lucy S. Mills Mary Decamp Caroline Powell 
 
226 
 
 Centennial CeleOtation of tjje 
 
 (Mrs. C. C.) 
 
 Mary Seely Sliza Sumner 
 
 Harriet Hannah Thome Charles C. Darling 
 
 Louisa Caroline Thome Adeline Darling 
 
 Cornelia Miller Thorne 
 
 Jemima Terboss 
 
 Ann Kmmons 
 
 Caroline Kmmeline Hoe 
 
 Mary Evans 
 
 Laura Louisa Johnson 
 
 Cornelia Johnson 
 
 Mary f)lizabeth Nevins 
 
 Helen Augusta Nevins 
 
 Elizabeth Huntington Otis^,"""*"-^** T-'^^^t 
 ««■ -oi, 1 /->! ^. J Thomas Darlmg, Jr. 
 
 Mary Phelps Olmsted 
 
 Josephine S. Ross 
 
 Charles C. Young 
 John Wright 
 Sarah Marquand 
 Letty Marie Schofield 
 Hannah Johnson 
 
 July 10, 1831. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFgSSION ADMITTED BY CSRTIMCATS 
 
 Frederick Marquand Mary S. Peck 
 
 Josiah Penfield Marquand Ann Thorne 
 
 Cornelius Paulding 
 
 Marquand 
 Samuel B. Haight 
 Edward M. Price 
 
 Sarah Burr White 
 Julia Ann Olcott 
 Maria Sheffield White 
 Ann Eliza Goddard 
 Jane Eliza Gamage 
 Rachel Hoe 
 
 Hetty Marquand 
 
 (Mrs. Fred.) 
 
 Sept. 30, 1S31. 
 
 Lavinia Thorne 
 Mary Ann Patrick 
 
 June 5, 1831. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 David Buck 
 David N. Demarest 
 Hannah Demarest 
 Sarah Thompson 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Evelina Thompson 
 
 Edward Buck 
 
 Frances Mills 
 
 (Mrs. Cephas 
 
 Frances EMzabeth Sistare Mary Spencer White 
 Sarah Lord Sistare (Mrs. Cephas) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Sheldon Graham 
 Cynthia F. Davis Mary Post 
 
 Jane Graham 
 April 5, 1831. Caroline Kirkland 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Maria Scribner 
 Benjamin B. Coit 
 
 William Haines, Jr. 
 
 Margaret C. Doremus 
 
 Sarah Buck 
 
 Ann Hoe 
 
 Francis Maria Hayes 
 
 June 9, 1831, 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John W. Leavitt 
 George D, Phelps 
 Theodore L. Mason 
 William Callender, Jr. 
 William C. Frink 
 John Jeseaume Delatour 
 Cecilia K. Leavitt 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. W.) 
 Alma Post (Mrs. Joel) 
 Eliza Jane Travis 
 Emily Brown 
 Catharine Davenport 
 Hannah Haines 
 Eliza Jane Kelso 
 Lucretia Marquand 
 Matilda Scribner 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Stephen P. Leeds 
 John M. Seely 
 Mrs. Fanny Burnet 
 Elizabeth Mathilda 
 
 Farnham 
 Sarah Amanda Lucas 
 
 Dec. 13, 1831. 
 
 Julia Burr 
 Charity Burr 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Jane L. Jackson 
 Mary Tingle 
 Phoebe Crozier 
 
 Oct. 6, 1832. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Buckridge 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Martha Martin Lucas 
 (Mrs. Paul) 
 
 Dec. i, 1832. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Barr Auchincloss 
 Pardon Davenport Davis 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFgSSION Charles Crosby 
 Gurdon Buck Cordelia C. Crosby 
 
 Susanna Buck (Mrs. G.) p^^ ^ ^j 
 
 Elbert Knight admitted "on profession 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Ann Brewster 
 Samuel N. Burrill 
 
 Betsey Maria Burrill 
 (Mrs. S. M.) 
 
 Pe\j. 7, 1832. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Esther Storrs 
 
 (Mrs. Hy. R.) 
 
 April 2, 1833. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Castle 
 Maria Hayes 
 
 (Mrs. Newton) 
 March 31, 1832. 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Rachel Morgan 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Cephas Mills (Mrs. David) 
 
 Palmer Sumner John Gill Nelson Sarah Boyd 
 
 Martha Wurts 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary Smith Simonson 
 (Mrs. John) 
 
jfjftf) avenue Prestipterian Cljutcf) 227 
 
 June 4, 1833. Harriet Candee Jane Roberts 
 
 ADMITTED ON FEOFSSSiON (Mrs. M. I<.) James P. Swain 
 
 Martha Gibson Eliza Johnes Araminta Swain 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE (Mrs. Aaron P.) (Mrs. J. P.) 
 
 Anna Halsted Emily Chapman Hubbard 
 Nathaniel N. Halsted ^""^ "• "^^- (Mrs. J. B.) 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROWSSION g^^^j^ p^^,^^ 
 
 August 6, ^33. ^^'''^■^f'^^'' I,oui,a Lynch 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE " ""^■" iVlulUgan Sarah Maria Vann..It 
 
 Esther O.Macomber f%'-R-f°- E^abe^h Willon' " 
 
 Iv. a. Mead ., ^., , ^^ „ 
 
 Oct m iS,, Matilda Kellogg 
 
 UCt. 10, IIS33- ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Elizabeth KelloKK 
 
 T^nrM^Mnrir""*''"" ^°''"* ^' ^^^^ Bmmelina Mccormick 
 
 John M. Morgan Eleanor Bolton James Bayles 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE . . . Julia H. Bayles 
 
 Francis G. Turner '^"^- °' ^*^^- .^r/ T„„.=i 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Vlvxrs. james; 
 
 Uov. !9, 1S33. Malsey Maria Edwards ^''^^ H. Miller 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Elizabeth Tucker q^ ^ ^g^^ 
 
 William Wurts Mary Wanton Dennis admitted on profession 
 
 Elizabeth Ewjng Wurts Benajah F. Leonard Lucinda Barley 
 
 (Mrs. W.) admitted by certificate ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Caroline Wurts Hannah F. Leonard Mary Mercein 
 
 Ellizabeth W. Neil Charles F. Park (j^^s Thos R ) 
 
 Willis Lord April 6. 1836. James Case' 
 
 7on. 31, 1834. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION J°h" ". Crane 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Anabella M. Taylor jj^^ ^^ jj^^j 
 
 Wm. D. Waterman Senna Hoe admitted by certificate 
 
 Benajah Smith admitted by certificate Mrs. Eunice Stebbins 
 
 . Joseph Giraud Maria Stebbins 
 
 Apm J, 1834- s^^jijj ]^3j.i3 Giraud Elizabeth Malcolm 
 
 admitted by certificate ,-r,^ T \ /^ ii. • 11^ 1 
 
 R !«■ T • H (Mrs. Jos.) Catharine Malcom 
 
 William S. Williams James H. Sayre 
 
 Oct. 1, 1834. , 00^ Hannah Sayre 
 
 /««« 8, 1836. ,.,'„. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ,„_„„. (Mrs. J. H.) 
 
 £, „ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE c I TI » 1.1 • 
 
 Susan Coursen _,. . ^, ^.^ , Samuel Hotchkiss 
 
 c I. Tjr- I Ehzabeth Steward ,,,.,,. „ 
 
 Stephen Wickes _ . „» i,t j William Seymour 
 
 T^ -j-itr, •. Enoch M. Mead t a c/ 
 
 David White _,. , ., , , , Jane Ann Seymour 
 Elizabeth Mead ,_ . ,,, . 
 
 „ „ . /»«- -c- »«• \ (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 Oct. 8, 1834. (Mrs. E. M.) 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Robert p. Williams p^j, y^ jj^^_ 
 
 Nathaniel L. Griswold j^iy ^^ ^g^f, admitted on profession 
 
 Ann Knowles admitted on profession John Newton Stickney 
 
 n., rn ruti Charlottc Hamilton admitted by certificatS 
 
 admitted on profession admitted by certificate Richard Cole 
 Charles Buck Nathaniel T. Jennings Jane Cole (Mrs. R.) 
 
 Hiram Barney Maria Jennings James Harper 
 
 (Mrs. N. T.) Elizabeth Harper 
 
 admitted BY certificate ^„„^ m. Jennings (Mrs. Jas.) 
 
 '^ /m % mT Charlotte B.Jennings Alfred M. Coffin 
 
 (Mrs. b. N.) Catharine L Jennings Frederick Somers 
 
 Edward Boynton -^^^^^ g^jj j.^^^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 April g. 1S35. Harriet C. Hall Henrietta Buck 
 
 admitted by certificate (Mrs. Joshua) (Mrs. Dr. Gurdon) 
 
 Morgan L. Candee Catharine Mulligan Elizabeth L Field 
 
228 
 
 Centennial Celebration of tbe 
 
 Franklin Knight 
 Annabella !S. Rowland 
 Abby W. Rowland 
 Anna Bloomfield 
 
 Dec. 5, 1837- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Sarah Lang 
 Elizabeth Davis 
 
 Maria Field 
 Mary Clark 
 
 April 6, i8s7' 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Dr. Horace Green 
 Eli Mygatt, Jr. 
 Nathaniel WoodhuU 
 
 Howell, Jr. 
 John V. Brower 
 Mary Broomfield Brower 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 Olivia Brown 
 
 (Mrs. Silas) 
 Emily M. Brown 
 Allen H. Brown 
 Eunice Ripley Nelson 
 
 (Mrs. John G.) 
 Abby Whitehorn 
 
 June 14, 1837. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Jane Jewett (Mrs. N. H.) Alfred Mulligan 
 
 June 7, 1838. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Caroline Lydia Griffen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 George Griffen 
 Ivydia Griffen 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) 
 
 Oct. 12, 1838. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Nancy Shepherd 
 Mary Avery 
 Isabella Smith 
 Edward B. Pease 
 Elizabeth C. Cooper 
 Mary S. Cooper 
 Clara Pierson 
 Caroline Wakeman 
 
 Feb. 7, 1838. 
 
 John Selby 
 
 Sarah Selby (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 Catharine Ann Hanna 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 Charles H. Kellogg 
 Harriet Kellogg 
 
 (Mrs. Chas. H.) 
 Ivorenzo Snow 
 Geo. W. Snow 
 
 Feb. 7, 1839. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Samuel D. GfCen 
 
 Martin W. Emmons 
 Caroline Ann Emmons 
 
 (Mrs. M. W.) 
 Orren Thompson 
 Love Thompson 
 
 (Mrs. Orren) 
 Catharine P. Brown 
 James J. Tracey 
 Charlotte Niven 
 Abraham Van Duyn 
 
 Aug. 10, 1837. 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Albert Beach 
 
 J. Howard Williams 
 Jesse Connor 
 Jeremiah I. Grenough 
 Benjamin L- Swan 
 Mary Childs Swan 
 (Mrs. B. L.) 
 Josephine Robinson Shall 
 Nancy W. Nee 
 Marshall Bronson Blake 
 
 April 5, 1838. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Nancy Holmes 
 Nancy King 
 
 (Mrs. Hy. H.) 
 Mary Henderson 
 
 April II, 1839. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Ann D. Lee 
 
 (Mrs. David) 
 
 Nathan H. Jewett 
 Francis Robert Masters 
 
 Oct. 4, 1837. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 David Johnson Halsted 
 Ann Burnst 
 Louisa M. Howland 
 
 (Mrs. G.) 
 Eliza Jane Niven 
 Caroline E. Doremus 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Nancy Wade Halsted 
 (Mrs. N. M.) 
 
 Gilbert Mollison 
 Peter Parkson 
 Sarah Ann Hudson 
 
 (Mrs. L.) 
 Jennette G. Green 
 
 (Mrs. J. W.) 
 Adeline Divine 
 Mary Ann Havens 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Bartholemew Brown 
 Lucy P. Trowbridge 
 Maria Brower Whitney 
 
 June 5, 1839. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Myron Crafts 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE L. W. Hall 
 
 Jno. p. Lester 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Wm. R. Murphy 
 Dr. Vernor Cuyler Jeremiah Wilbur 
 
 Caroline Culyer (Mrs, V.) Sarah R. Wilbur 
 
 Dr. Charles E. Pierson 
 Ann M. Pierson 
 
 (Mrs. E. E.) 
 Nathaniel Wilson 
 Sarah Ann Wilson 
 
 (Mrs. N.) 
 
 (Mrs. J.) 
 Mrs. Agnes K. Stuart 
 Ellen Anderson 
 Sarah H. Lambdin 
 Frances Bosworth 
 James Matthews 
 
 Jared W. Tracey 
 
 Aug. 2, 1839. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 David L. Moore 
 John S. Moore 
 John W. McWilliams 
 Ebenezer Beadleston 
 Mary Beadleston 
 (Mrs. E.) 
 
Jfiftf) aiienuc presbpterian Ci)urci) 
 
 229 
 
 Oct. 10, 1839. I^ucretia G. Hustace 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB (Mrs. D.) 
 
 Mrs. Mary Brower 
 
 Mann 
 Mrs. Jane Taylor 
 
 Dec. II, 1839. 
 
 Ann Maria Callender 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 Elizabeth Auchincloss 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 Rebecca Buck 
 
 ADMITTED BY cErtificatb Sarah Griswold 
 
 Daniel Church, Jr, 
 George Douglass 
 Mary Douglass 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) 
 Elizabeth Douglass 
 Jane M. Douglass 
 James P. Wallace 
 Emmeline V. W. Snow 
 
 (Mrs. Geo. W.) 
 Mary Davenport 
 Sarah C Howell Mulligans;™"-^;^- 
 
 (Mrs. H. S.) 
 
 Jane Phyf e 
 
 Jeannette Phyfe 
 
 Anna Auchincloss Masters' 
 
 Isabella Brown 
 
 Giles F. Ward 
 Ivucy B. Ward 
 
 Charles Smith 
 Sophia Mygatt 
 
 (Mrs. Eli) 
 Elizabeth H. Miller 
 
 April 8, 1841. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Bronson 
 Margaret E. Beers 
 Catharine H. I^ambdin 
 
 Ann Mclntyre 
 Jane Thompson 
 
 July 24, 1840. 
 
 Feb. 5, 1840. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Samuel T. Bull 
 
 Juliet E. Snow Benjamin H. Bodwell 
 
 (Mrs. Lorenzo) Abraham Richards 
 
 . ,, „ Sarah Richards 
 
 Apr,l 7. 1840. ^J^^ ^ ) 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFgsSlo» _^„„^ Crawford 
 Charles N. Fearing 
 
 Mary Ann Brown 
 Catharine f^liza 
 
 Cowenhoven June 10, 1841. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John D. Vermeule Francis H. Amraindon 
 
 Drusilla D. Beach ^^^ Ammindon 
 
 (Mrs. F. H.) 
 Gurdon Burchard 
 
 Mary Fearing 
 
 (Mrs. C. N.) 
 Augustus W. Saxton 
 James Wilde, Jr. 
 Linson D. F. Jennings 
 Thos. F. R. Marcein 
 Caroline A. Edwards 
 Mary Hunting 
 Caroline Matilda Burrill 
 Sarah Ann Potts 
 F^liza A. IvUdlow 
 Hannah Marshall 
 Mary Elizabeth Brown 
 Emily Robb 
 Catharine H. Beers 
 Frances M. Doremus 
 Cecila K. Leavitt 
 Eliza S. Leavitt 
 
 Oct. 5, 1840. 
 
 Samuel W. SelDy 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 George McKenzie 
 Jane McKenzie 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) 
 
 Aug. 5, 1841. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Dr. John G. Cumming 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Thomas Sellby 
 
 Harriet Reeves 
 Ann Henry 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Dr. James Kennedy 
 Julia Kennedy (Mrs. J.) 
 
 William Ivibbey 
 Emily Keese Bailey 
 Mary Deming 
 Elizabeth Ely Mulligan 
 Elizabeth Hinsdale 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE WilBam Scribner 
 John Phyfe Mary Ann Burbridge Coit 
 
 Jane Phyfe (Mrs. J.) (Mrs. Gurdon) 
 
 l^ydia M. Coffin 
 
 Dec. 8, 1841. 
 
 Dec. 10, 1840. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Sarah Bailey (Mrs. Wm.) 
 Frederick W Wolcott ^„^,„g„ 3^ CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary P. Andrew j^^^^ McBrair 
 
 Matilda Auchincloss g^^^y gtarr, Jr. 
 
 Catharine Mitchell jjj^j^^^^ (,^j^ 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE David L. Moore 
 
 Henry K. Bull 
 Ann S. Libbey 
 
 Henry Andrew 
 Catharine Andrew 
 (Mrs. Henry) 
 June II, 1840. Ann B. Andrew 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Catharine E. Andrew 
 JohnWurts Eleanor P. Andrew 
 
 Alexander A. Meldrum A. T. Hicks 
 William Hinsdale Frederick S. Agate 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Thompson 
 Julia Ann Ley 
 
 Feb. n, 1841. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Ann Coit (Mrs. Henry) 
 Frances R. Coit 
 Elizabeth M. Coit 
 
230 
 
 Centennial Celefiration of tlje 
 
 William Chauncey 
 Julia Ann Chauncey 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) Ralph Rawdon 
 
 Ann Bolton (Mrs. Curtis) Susan Rawdon 
 Mary Mulligan (Mrs. Ralph) 
 
 H. J. Raymond Lucy Ann Kellogg 
 
 Evelyn Caspar Sarah Ann Phelps 
 
 Catharine Payne 
 April 7, jS4!. Louisa Hality 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Hugh Smith Carpenter 
 John S. Jenkins Thomas Rowell 
 
 Robert Ayres 
 
 AzeliaGiraud -Dec. 7. 1841. 
 
 Jane Ranton 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEETIJICATB 
 
 Agnes Galdey 
 Ann Eliza Dolson 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 Elizabeth Ruton 
 Mary Requa 
 Maria Elizabeth Kerr 
 
 Richards (Mrs. Jas.) 
 Fanny Hewlett 
 
 (Mrs. Thomas) 
 William R. Waller 
 Watson E. Case 
 Alfred Cobb 
 Juliet Wallace 
 
 (Mrs. Jas. P.) 
 
 Oct. 7, 1841. George Morgan 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Thomas H. Field 
 George H. Brown 
 Lewis W. Seaver 
 Elias Brown 
 Anastasius Nicols 
 Jane Black 
 Adeline Phyfe 
 Caroline Noyes 
 Mary Stewart 
 Elizabeth Vorhees 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mary Comerville 
 
 Lucinetta Halsted . 
 
 Aug. II, 1843. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PR0FESSI0» 
 
 David Reynolds H. William A. Atwater 
 
 Sutherland John Griswold 
 
 Charles Heath Isabella Nicholson 
 Pamela Heath 
 
 Feb. 7, 1S43. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION i 
 
 Elizabeth Field 
 Jane Roderick 
 
 June 9, 1843. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION -^*''* Haight 
 
 Jane Floyd (Mrs. Jas.) 
 
 Oct. 5, 1843. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE. 
 
 Louisa Anna Brown 
 
 (Mrs. Elias) 
 
 Henrietta C. Brown 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Joanna Bethune Dec. 7, 1843. 
 
 (Mrs. Divie) admitted on profession 
 
 Julia Ann Wetmore Robert Mclntyre 
 
 Frances Staples ComstockAmos Johnson, D. D. 
 Luke Borland George H. Jennings 
 
 admitted BY certificate 
 April 6, 1843. Henry B. Atkins 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION George M. McLean, M.D. 
 Nancy Brown Oliver B. Strong John H. Sherman 
 
 (Mrs. Allen) Margaret Strong 
 
 Harriet Green (Mrs. O. B.) 
 
 (Mrs. Horace) Benjamin A. Norrell 
 
 Dr. George Harrall Horatio Brown 
 
 Charlotte Harrall J- A- F. Douglass 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) Caroline Louise Dayton 
 
 Nathaniel B. Boyd Mary Ann Kerr 
 
 Thomas F. Welch admitted by CERTIFICATE admitted by certificaie 
 
 Maria Louisa Rowland Nancy R. Selby 
 Lydia Ann Lee (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 Juliette Raymond 
 (Mrs. H. J.) 
 
 Thomas Hunt Shafer 
 George Seely 
 David Townsend 
 
 Feb. 5, 1844. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry C. Sheldon 
 
 Aug. 13, 1842. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mandlebert Canfield 
 Anna W. Canfield 
 (Mrs. M.) 
 Samuel A. Beekman 
 
 ADMITTED by CERTIFICATE EHza Kceler (Mrs. J.) 
 Hannah Ireland Elizabeth Haggerty 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) (Mrs. Michael) 
 
 Eliza Dick Ann Mclntyre 
 
 James E. Goddard (Mrs. Robt.) 
 
 June 8, 1843. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas M. Smith 
 Mary Ann Smith 
 
 (Mrs. T. M.) 
 
 April 10, 1S44. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 J. Orville Taylor 
 William Murray 
 
 June 5, 1844. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Thomas G. Wall 
 
S^iltf) SUenuc Ptes&ptetian Ct)urc|) 
 
 231 
 
 Aug. S, 1844. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 James M. Prescott 
 Ann R. Prescott 
 
 (Mrs. J. M.) 
 Catharine E. Swain 
 
 (Mrs. J. P.) 
 Ellen M. Prescott 
 
 Nov.- 6, 1844. 
 
 ADUITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Margaret Cosgrove 
 
 (Mrs. F.) 
 John Drummond 
 I^ucy Ann Drummond 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Samuel F. Greenleaf 
 William H. Dayton 
 Emily Dayton 
 
 (Mrs. W. H.) 
 Helen F. Field 
 
 (Mrs. Edward) 
 Edward W. Coleman 
 Elizabeth C. Alexander 
 
 (Mrs. James A.) 
 Edward Wall 
 Edwin R. McGregor 
 
 Jan. 9, 184s. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Daniel S. Briant 
 Eliza R. Briant 
 Charlotte W. Edgerton 
 
 (Mrs. L.) 
 Margaret Watson 
 
 (Mrs. A.) 
 Margaret J. Watson 
 Marrianne Watson 
 William H. H. Moore 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Samuel W. Selby 
 Ann E. Selby 
 
 (Mrs. S. W.) 
 Ann Calender 
 
 (Mrs. Thos.) 
 Jane Renwick 
 Isabella Smedberg 
 
 (Mrs. Chas. S.) 
 Jane Renwick Smedberg 
 David Stevens 
 Mary I. Stevens 
 
 (Mrs. David) 
 Edgar W. Woods 
 Thomas Hunt Shaf er 
 
 Henrietta Farlass 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 Catharine Pierson 
 James S. Polhemus 
 Ann Eliza Polhemus 
 
 (Mrs. J. S.) 
 
 March 6, 1845. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas Wood 
 James Henry Pooley 
 Henry A. Underwood 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Joseph W. Pierson 
 May 7, 1845. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry Ward I^aw 
 James Forest 
 Margaret Forrest 
 Agnes A. Cooper 
 
 (Mrs. J. W.) 
 Thomas Walker 
 Susan Walker 
 
 (Mrs. Thos.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Robert I. Brown 
 Ann C. Brown 
 
 (Mrs. R. J.) 
 Marian C. Brown 
 Martha W. Stewart 
 Herman B. Sears 
 Maria Van Volkenburgh 
 
 July II, 1845. 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Scott 
 Elizabeth Scott 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 William Forrest 
 Eliza Oakley Forrest 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 Emil Forrest 
 Eliza Debow Forrest 
 William Sloane 
 Euphemia (Mrs. Wm.) 
 William O. I^amson 
 Robert M. I<eckie 
 Ann Robison 
 David Patterson 
 Elizabeth Patterson 
 
 (Mrs. D.) 
 Oct. 31, 1845. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Robert I. Brown 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Kay 
 Henry G. DeForest 
 William I. Stedman 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wikoff 
 Mrs. Clara Wakeman 
 Mary Rea 
 Eucy S. Mills 
 Thomas C. Chalmers 
 Margaret Chalmers 
 
 (Mrs. Thos. C.) 
 
 Jan. 8, 1846. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Anna S. Galley 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 George E. Hawes 
 Mrs. Ellen Keith 
 Mary Ann McGrah 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAIS 
 
 Adelim Smith 
 
 (Mrs. Jas. Y.) 
 William Bannard 
 Mrs. Frances M. 
 
 Denniston 
 Mrs. Emily W. St. John 
 Miss Amelia Ketchum 
 William Forest, Jr. 
 Robert W. Mead 
 Mrs. R. W. Mead 
 Clarissa Mead 
 Samuel Jewett 
 Mrs. S. Jewett 
 Elizabeth Jewett 
 Isaac Otis 
 Tryphenia Otis 
 Henry W. Mead 
 James Von Beuren 
 Mrs. J. Von Beuren 
 Mary E. Von Beuren 
 
 March 5, 1846. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOS 
 
 Barbara G. Cumming 
 Grace G. Cumming 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT8 
 
 William C. Hickok, M.D. 
 Eaura A. Hickok 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. C.) 
 Mrs. Anna Halsted 
 Mary Ann Wray 
 William A. Wheelock 
 Elizabeth Libby 
 Mrs. Isabella Cumming 
 Marshall Cumming 
 
232 
 
 Centennial Celetitation of tt)e 
 
 John I. Wilson 
 Elizabeth Wilson 
 Elizabeth A. Hawes 
 
 (Mrs. Geo. E.) 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Mott 
 
 May 6, 1846. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Harriet Romeyn 
 
 Auchincloss 
 Julia Beers 
 Amelia Morgan 
 Anna Jewett 
 Catherine Stewart 
 Mary S. Briant 
 Matilda Bailey 
 Deborah Ann Stine 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 A. U. Littlejohn 
 Birdseye Blakeman 
 Benjamin Blakeman 
 William C. VanHorn 
 Catharine VanHorn 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. C.) 
 Clarissa C. Holman 
 Phillip W. Roberts 
 Horatio Smith 
 Mrs. Sarah I^ouisa 
 
 Bennett 
 Nathan Lane 
 Emma Lane (Mrs. N.) 
 Charles Scribner 
 Aaron Brown 
 Dudley Babcock 
 Mrs. Ann Babcock 
 Mrs. Frances A. Stanton 
 Harriet M. Babcock 
 
 July 10, 1846. 
 
 Ann Robertson Hall 
 Elias Osborn 
 Eliza Weeks Osborn 
 (Mrs. E.) 
 
 Catherine M. Ensworth 
 Mary B. Ensworth 
 
 Sept. p. 1846. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Caroline G. BurriU ^^^^^ ^^ ^g^^^ 
 
 Margaret Kaylor admitted on profession 
 
 Nov. 5, 2846. Joseph R. Mann 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE William Bannard 
 Mrs. Jerusha A. Scott Thompson Rowell 
 
 Norman Boardman 
 Minor H. Fowler 
 Anna Y. Boardman 
 Mrs. Sarah C. Still 
 
 Jan. 7, J84/. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 
 
 R. D. Lathrop 
 Mrs. R. D. Lathrop 
 
 Nov. II, 1847. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROFESSIOH 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Isabella Tunison 
 John Thomas Mrs. Eleanor A. Scott 
 
 Joseph A. McDougall admitted by certificate 
 
 Francis Speir Delilu Shafer 
 
 admitted by CERTIFICATE Catherine E. Shafer 
 
 Charles Stewart 
 Mary Stewart 
 
 (Mrs. Chas.) 
 Daniel D. Sahler 
 Clara P. Riley 
 Mrs. Sarah Grenleaf 
 admitted by certificate Elizabeth Berry 
 
 Josiah S. Leveritt 
 Sarah Blunt 
 
 (Mrs. Samuel) 
 
 March 11, 1847. 
 Maria VanDoren 
 
 Sarah Gray 
 Sarah Maria Ellett 
 
 May 6, 1847. 
 admitted by certificate 
 James Henderson 
 Edward D. Fitch 
 Thomas J. Ford 
 Jane Ford (Mrs. Thos.) 
 Sarah Ann Beers 
 
 July 8, 1847. 
 
 Robert M. Oliphant 
 Mary Sophia V. 
 
 Olyphant 
 Benjamin Douglass 
 Elizabeth Douglass 
 
 (Mrs. Benj.) 
 Mrs. Mary S. Ball 
 
 Jan. 6, 1848. 
 admitted on profession 
 JosephWamock 
 admitted by certificate 
 
 admitted on profession admitted on profession Martha Ann Townsend 
 
 Jane L- Bailey 
 Jonathan G. Little 
 William Berwick 
 Ellen Duncan Farmer 
 
 John Welsh Mrs. Marion Hewitt 
 
 admitted by certificate Sophia (1 Freeman 
 Ann Montgomery 
 
 Thompson 
 Sarah Crane 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. T.) 
 Josiah B. Mann 
 Mary Whitney Mann 
 
 (Mrs. Jos. B.) 
 Joseph R. Mann 
 William S. Libbey 
 Elizabeth Libbey 
 
 (Mrs. W. S.) 
 Mary Virginia Libbey 
 Ann Etisworth 
 
 Isabella A. McWilliams- 
 At water (Mrs. 
 Wm. L. Atwater) 
 
 Mary Ann Johnson 1 
 
 Margaret Ferguson 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Voorhees 
 
 ADMITTED by CERTIFICATE ■^"' Sarah Ann Lindsay 
 PaulWerth 
 Luke B. Case 
 
 Mary A. Case 
 
 (Mrs. Luke B.) 
 T. D. Lander 
 Justine V. Lander 
 
 (Mrs. T. D.) 
 Harriet A. Lander 
 
 Thomas Miller Nimmo 
 March 9, 1848. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Abram Wakeman 
 Mary Wakeman 
 (Mrs. A.) 
 David Edwards 
 Eliza Mulligan 
 
ifiCtl) auenue prestjpterian CI)urc|) 233 
 
 ADMiTTSD BY cSrxiKCaM Anna Davidson admitted by CERTincATg 
 
 Kachel S. Wright (Mrs. John) Mrs. Margaret McKay 
 
 (Mrs. Ellis) John Sequier, Jr. 
 
 Henry N. Beach 
 
 May 7, 1850, 
 
 May 10, 184S. T,. ^f ,,, _ , ADMITTBD ON PROFESSION 
 
 ■^ ' ^ Martha W. Beach y, • i xi i 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Daniel Halsey 
 
 Mary Ann Holt Jan. n, 1849. admitted by certificate 
 
 (Mrs. Henry) admitted on profession Anna Eliza Halsey 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Falconer Cornelia Sherman (Mrs. Daniel) 
 
 William Howard Francis P. Colton 
 
 July 14, 1850, 
 admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 
 
 Samuel L.Morrell Mrs. Esther W. Airey admitted by CERTIFICATE 
 
 -, . „ . 1,, T,i • A m 1 Mrs. Susan M. Eastmond 
 
 Mary Ann Cuming Mrs. Maria A. Taylor 
 
 _ . Jasper W. McGregor Nov. 8, 1850. 
 
 'P . 7, *o' Cornelius Rendall admitted on profession 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION g^^^^ Alexander Elizabeth Libbey 
 
 Edgar Crapo (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 Mary Jane Gordon Mar. g, 1849. 
 
 Colin E. Sheldon admitted on profession March 6, 1851. 
 
 ADMITTED by CERTIFICATE ^^'"^ ^^'"^ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Robert McFarlan '^^° Eyck Sutphen Harriet E. Wheelock 
 
 Elizabeth McFarlan admitted by certificate (Mrs. Wm. A.) 
 
 Jane Gerry Robert Gillan jf^y p ^gjj 
 
 Elizabeth Bishop Smith S. W. Neal admitted on profession 
 
 Susan M. SmUh ^^ ^"^ "' ^^^S-- Newton Ammerman 
 
 i!f"" '^ vL ' ' ' admitted on profession admitted by certificate 
 
 7m Tr^ SarahJ.Doremus Mrs. Elizabeth R. 
 
 w "^41^' Catherine Falconer Raymond 
 
 Henry W. Alden Isabella Falconer Mrs. Mary E. Edwards 
 
 GurdonB.Hotchkin Mrs. Jane Hutchinson 
 
 Samuel C. I^ogan Tane Wiley ''"'^ "' '^^'■ 
 
 John Ryers admitted by certificate 
 
 Mary Woods admitted by certificate Mrs. Sarah H. Wier 
 
 Mrs. Minerva Hall Wilson Phraner Nov 7 1851. 
 
 Samuel M. Fasselt j„iy ^, JS49. admitted by'certificate 
 
 Wm. B. DeForest, M.D. admitted on profession Mrs. Elizabeth Austin 
 
 Mary L. DeForest Washington Frothingham Mary A. Austin 
 
 ,5 '^"' ^" ^'' ADMITTED by CERTIFICATE Eli Benedict 
 
 Ezra M. Kingsley j^^^^ g^^^j^ 2^;^,!^ Phoebe Benedict 
 
 Elmira W. Kingsley (Mrs. E.) 
 
 Anna Graham Sept. 5, 1849. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Dec. II, I851. 
 
 Nov. 9, 1848. Thaddeus B. Wakeman admitted by certificate 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION WinthroD S Gilman 
 
 Winiam J. Hannington ^dmitted^y certificate ^-'^g^-P^tf^'""^" 
 Elizabeth W. Hannington "^■^y ^- •""" ( jj„ ^ g j 
 
 (Mrs. W.J.) „ . . 
 
 Mary Jane McBirnie admitted by certificate J'^n. 8, 185^. 
 
 ^ .. . .,,, T^ 7 L '=='"''*''^™ ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE John A. Stewart ^^j^^ 
 
 Joseph N.Sutphin William H Scott George T. Olyphant 
 
 Joseph Holmes Davis Ann Jane Scott 
 
 Emma E. Scribner (Mrs. W. H.) admitted by certificate 
 
 (Mrs. Chas.) David Codwise 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Sutphen Jan. 11, 1850. Martha Codwise 
 
 I. S. Jenkins admitted on profession (Mrs. D.) 
 
 John Davidson Lydia Palmer (Mrs. B.) Joseph Hyde 
 
234 
 
 Centennial Celefitation of t|)C 
 
 Catharine Maria Hyde 
 
 (Mrs. J.) 
 Charles McEwen Hyde 
 Catharine Maria Hyde 
 William Walker 
 Caroline L,- Walker 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 Mary Haines 
 Julia I. Blake 
 Agnes Snell 
 Eliza Downer 
 Edward S. Clarke 
 David Beattie 
 Elizabeth C. Alexander 
 Anna M. Young 
 
 March ii, 185s. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Louisa Jay Bruen 
 William Irwin 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIMCATS 
 
 James M. Halsted 
 Catharine C. Halsted 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 Cecelia Patterson 
 Alexander M. Bruen 
 
 May 6, iSss. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Helen Phyfe 
 George Buckham 
 William Paton 
 Robert P. Haines 
 Mary Irvin 
 Jessie Allen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte E. M. 
 
 Smith 
 Lowell Mason 
 Maria L- Mason 
 
 (Mrs. Lowell) 
 James A. Webb 
 Phebe Webb (Mrs. J. A.) 
 Mary Webb 
 Jeremiah Baker 
 Elizabeth C. Baker 
 
 (Mrs. Jer.) 
 Mrs. Margaretta Webb 
 
 luly 10, iSsi. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATIS 
 
 Walter D. Stewart 
 Emily Stewart 
 
 (Mrs. W. D.) 
 Martha VanDien 
 Ferdinand Baker 
 
 John G. Parker 
 Jane Parker 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. G.) 
 Julia E. Parker 
 James Struthers 
 Mary Struthers 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 William H. Adamg 
 Jennett Adams 
 Janette Brown 
 
 Nov. II, 1851. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Amelia 
 
 Murray 
 Ellen Louisa Lambert 
 Eliza Downer Forbes 
 Fidelia W. Leverett 
 Georgiana Buckham 
 Jeremiah C. Lanphier 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Edward Hall, M.D. 
 Mrs. Margaret Hall 
 Robert Bliss 
 Mary Stitt 
 Henry B. Hyde 
 Charlotte B. Crapo 
 Mrs. Lockwood DeForest 
 E. Fitch Smith 
 Elizabeth Smith 
 
 (Mrs. E. F.) 
 Elizabeth E. Smith 
 Robert L. Stuart 
 Mary Stuart 
 
 (Mrs. R. L.) 
 Alexander Stuart 
 Alexander W. Murray 
 George Sloan 
 Matilda Sloan 
 
 (Mrs. Geo.) 
 Hannah Sloan 
 Martha Sloan 
 
 Jan. 6, 185s. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 James T. Maxwell 
 Emily Auchincloss Max- 
 well (Mrs. J. T.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Michael Young 
 Sarah Ann Young 
 
 (Mrs. M.) 
 Mrs. Joanna W. P. Peck 
 Mrs. Agnes M. Gibson 
 Janet F. Gibson 
 Henry Day 
 
 Phebe L. Day (Mrs.Hy.) 
 Edward Field 
 Mrs. Harriet J. McMartin 
 William G. Lambert 
 Sarah Lambert 
 
 (Mrs. W. G.) 
 Maurice Wurts 
 Robert Gordon 
 Melancthon Jackson 
 William H. Scott 
 Ann Jane Scott 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. H.) 
 Benjamin Douglass 
 Elizabeth Douglass 
 
 (Mrs. Benj.) 
 David Olyphant 
 Harriet T. Olyphant 
 
 (Mrs. David) 
 I. H. Field 
 
 March 10, 1853. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Bertram Harrison 
 Mrs. Jane P. W. Chester 
 Benjamin W. Whitlock 
 Amelia M. Whitlock 
 (Mrs. B. W.) 
 Helen Ruth Downer 
 Caleb T. Smith 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Anne S. Paton 
 
 Mrs. Albertine M. 
 Harrison 
 
 Mary Dunkin 
 
 Matilda Dunkin 
 
 Isabella Dunkin 
 
 George F. Chester 
 
 Caroline Hurry 
 
 Thomas S. Young 
 
 Mary E. Young 
 
 (Mrs. Thos. S.) 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Cowles 
 
 Mrs. VanDusen 
 
 Silas P. Downer 
 
 Sophia Downer 
 
 (Mrs. Silas P.) 
 
 Henry G. Marquand 
 
 Elizabeth Ellen Mar- 
 quand (Mrs. H. G.) 
 
 William A. Cummings 
 
 Louisa Cummings 
 (Mrs. W. A.) 
 
 William Dodd 
 
 Elizabeth Ann Dodd 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
Jfifti) aticnue Piestigterian Cfturci) 
 
 235 
 
 Mrs. Mary N. Oliver 
 Henry Young 
 Ann M. Young 
 David Sloane 
 Charles F. Park 
 Caroline E. Park 
 
 (Mrs. C. F.) 
 Frederick W. Macy 
 Emily Macy (Mrs. F. W.) 
 Andrew Comstock 
 Julia M. Comstock 
 
 (Mrs. A.) 
 
 ■Wojf 5, 1853- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Harris 
 Isabella Stal McCulloh 
 George Baylis 
 Mrs. Sarah Jane Case 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John Paton 
 Oliver S. Strong 
 William D. Simonton 
 Sarah M. Simonton 
 
 (Mrs. W. D.) 
 Mrs. Matilda Heath 
 Peter Nelson 
 Catherine Nelson 
 
 (Mrs. Peter) 
 Horace Hall 
 Thomas Gardiner 
 Mrs. Thomas Gardiner 
 Francis Gross 
 Mrs. F. Gross 
 Daniel S. Briant 
 Elizabeth R. Briant 
 
 (Mrs. D. S.) 
 Sarah Baldwin 
 James O. Forrest 
 Moses Allen Hoppock 
 Ellen Ivouise Hoppock 
 
 (Mrs. M. A.) 
 
 July 7. 1853. 
 
 ADUITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Catherine E. Renfold 
 Martha H. Andrew 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Dr. Alfred ;Freeman 
 Eliza Freeman 
 
 (Mrs. Alfred) 
 John D, Merriellies 
 Jane Merrillics 
 
 (Mrs. J. D.) 
 William Hurry 
 
 Adeline Hurry 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 Nov. 10, 1853. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Winslow Corning 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Margaret H. Dye 
 Mrs. Ann M. Gray 
 Mrs. Ruth Terbell 
 Henry M. Alexander 
 Susan Mary Alexander 
 Charles F. Porter 
 Harriet M. Porter 
 
 (Mrs. C. F.) 
 Franklin Chamberlin 
 Mary W. Chamberlin 
 
 (Mrs. F.) 
 Robert McCarter 
 
 Jan. 5, 1854. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry Carrington 
 Alexander 
 Henry Buck Auchincloss 
 Ellen Fairley 
 Anna W. McMartin 
 Mrs. Agnes Heglett 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Eliza W. Nevins 
 Eliza C. Winslow Robert 
 Jane R. Robert 
 Beriah Palmer 
 Emily Duncan 
 Margaret McBride 
 Mrs. Ann Mitchill 
 Eliza D, Delavan 
 Hannah Detavan 
 Mrs. Rebecca Smallwood 
 
 March g, 1854. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Y. Stewart 
 Margaret Gordon 
 Elizabeth McMartin 
 James Fraser 
 Gilbert h. Hall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Robert L- Maitland 
 Mary Maitland 
 
 (Mrs. Robt. r,.) 
 
 May II, 1854. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Emma Augusta Hoppock 
 Helen Smith 
 
 Martha Young 
 Mary McFarlan 
 Mary Emma Farwell 
 
 July 7, 1854. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mercedes Glenton 
 Mary Amelia Hyatt 
 Emma Hyatt 
 Emily Ferguson Mann 
 Margaret Ogilvie Mann 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Charles Stoughton 
 Mrs. Aaelia Giraud Wood- 
 hull 
 
 Sept. 7, 1854- 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Jane P. Bowie 
 Nov. 8, 1854. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Sarah Cleland 
 
 Winthrop S, Gilman, Jr, 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Jane C. Work 
 Jan. II, 1855. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John S. Ivawrence 
 Isaac O. Ogden 
 Sarah Downer 
 Mary Elizabeth Whitaker 
 Elizabeth Moffat 
 Frederick Wm. Downer 
 Harriet Josephine Hyde 
 Ellen Fleming 
 
 (Mrs. James) 
 Catherine Winslow 
 
 Downer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. EHzabeth B. 
 
 Townsend 
 Elizabeth Fairley 
 Andrew Mason 
 
 March 8, 1855. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Moses G. Baldwin 
 Mrs. Mary K. Roberts 
 Wm. Henry Richards 
 Willett Bronson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Margaret Coolidge 
 (Mrs. Hy.) 
 Henry Oothout 
 
236 
 
 Centennial Celeliration of tlje 
 
 Josephine Oothout 
 
 (Mrs. Hy.) 
 Samuel D. Davis 
 Edward H. Owen 
 William L- Skidmore 
 Charlotte H. Freeman 
 Skidmore (Mrs. 
 W. L.) 
 Isabella Thompson 
 Alexander VanRenssalaer 
 Mary Rowland VanRens- 
 salaer (Mrs. Alex.) 
 
 May JO, 1855. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Margaret Jane Scott 
 Mary Adams 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATE 
 
 Silas R. Selden 
 
 Irad Hawley 
 
 Sarah Hawley (Mrs. I.) 
 
 Dwight Baker 
 
 Jonathan W. Roberts 
 
 Cornel A. Doolittle 
 
 Harriet W. Bell 
 
 July 6, 1855. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Klisee Charlier 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Little 
 Edward W. Lambert 
 William Callender 
 Maria Callender 
 
 (Mrs. Wm.) 
 James Harrall 
 Mrs. Jas. Harrall 
 William Vardell 
 Susan Vardell 
 
 Nov. 8, 1855. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Cornelius R. Agnew 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alfred Edwards 
 Sophia M. Edwards 
 
 (Mrs. A.) 
 John Baird 
 
 Agnes Baird (Mrs. Jno.) 
 Jane MuUiner 
 George W. Clarke 
 Mary I. Clarke 
 Mrs. Arietta A. Kelly 
 Alfred Carhart 
 Mrs. Jane Anderson 
 Wm. H. Ludlum 
 
 Julia B. Ludlum 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. H.) 
 
 Jan. 10, 1856. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles C. Wilcox 
 Mary May 
 Henry S. Terbell 
 Hannah Dyer Terbell 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Michael Young 
 Ann Young (Mrs. M.) 
 Mrs. Julia Ann Blatchford' 
 Miss S. E. Blatchford 
 Mrs. Julia A. Douglas 
 Cyrus Augustus Smith 
 Lucius Hopkins 
 Nancy M. Hopkins 
 
 (Mrs. L.) 
 James Bayiles 
 Julia H. Bayles 
 
 (Mrs. James) 
 Thomas S. Adams 
 
 Mar. 6. X856. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Frederick G. De Graw 
 John J. Crane 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Mary C. Andrus 
 Isabella Todd 
 Mrs, Eliza S. Holmes 
 Mrs. Sarah Markoe 
 Mrs. Charlotte A. Markoe 
 James Wright 
 Sarah M. Wright 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 Francis Markoe Wright 
 Mary Nelson Wright 
 
 May 8, 1856. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Daniel Henry Smith 
 Mary Frances Smith 
 Elizabeth Moore 
 William Philip Heslog 
 Lizzie L- Mehaffey 
 Helen Dunkin 
 Arthur Gilman 
 George Elias Hawes 
 Annie Hawes 
 William H. Beers 
 Ethelin E. Beers 
 
 (Mrs. Wm. H.) 
 Sarah Agnes Sloane 
 Catherine Sloane 
 
 Lewis Baylis 
 Alexander Proudfit Irvin 
 Mary Clark 
 Anna Heyer Clark 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Hannah M. Hall 
 
 George Baylis 
 
 Charles Mathews 
 
 Mrs. Virginia R. Osborne 
 
 Edward W. French 
 
 James Scrymser 
 
 Anna Scrymser 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) 
 
 July II, 1856. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Nash Agnew 
 
 (Mrs. C. R.) 
 
 Samuel L. Mitchill 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Sarah W. Perrine 
 Louisa Carrington 
 Osborne 
 
 Sept. II, 1856. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 David Irwin 
 
 Jane Irwin (Mrs. David) 
 
 Matilda Warnock 
 
 Nov. 7. 1856. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maria Banks 
 Mrs. Agnes S. Halsey 
 Catherine Nash 
 Mrs. Sarah Owen 
 Jane Augusta Owen 
 Mrs. Mary Louisa 
 Halsted 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alice Mcllwaine 
 Mrs. Julia M. Butler 
 Margaret Turner 
 William S. Soutter 
 Mrs. Phebe C. Black 
 Mrs. Mary Jessup 
 Henry M. Halsey 
 Jane B. Pickett 
 Frances E- Wright 
 Ebenezer H. Burger 
 Sophia Burger 
 Mary Burger 
 
 (Mrs. E. H.) 
 Andrew D. Lillie 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. 
 
 Rowell 
 
jFifti) atsenue presfipterian Ci)utc|) 237 
 
 Jan. 8, iSsT- Margaret Muir Kirk- John Nelson Low 
 
 ADMITTED ON PRGSESSiow wood (Mrs. Jno.) William J. Nevina 
 
 John Penfold William R. Moore (Jr.) Catharine Anna Nevins 
 
 Harriet Josephine Caryl Mrs. Mary E. Howe Ann Maria Mitchill 
 Maria Mollard Mary Louisa Mitchill 
 
 Ester Russell Waterman ^"^^ * "^'' Margaret Mitchill 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ■.t„,„„„ Tur„„„„ •R„1,„_ 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATE Alice Young ^''^°°" ^""^ ^°^^^ . 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Gourlie M. Caroline McCorm.ck 
 
 Jacob H. Patton Jf'^^rS' ^1 =S^"*'"^« Sarah Ann Leverich 
 
 Caroline D. Patton ?,""^ f°^^% „ Anna Park 
 
 (Mrs J H) Elizabeth C. Hoadley Henry W. Peck 
 
 Jabes Hazard " ' ,, 2^'% "^"''^ Mrs. Phebe Ann Penfold 
 
 M=,„=,.. TT T r..A Alice Hoadley Mrs. Hetty Brown 
 
 Margaret H. Lord ^.^.^^^^y^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 Mar. 5, 1857. Jan. 7, 1858. J^!°^^ ^''"^ . 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION ADMITTED ON PROEESSION Elizabeth White 
 
 Elizabeth I. Irwin ^n^n Paddon (^rs. Jas.) 
 
 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adolphus Smedburg Lucretia Rachel Mott 
 
 Oakley garah Fraser Stevenson Charles Day Cowles 
 
 Frances Gordon (Mrs. Jas. S.) P'*^"' McMartin 
 
 (Mrs R ) Jane McMartin 
 Dorinda Austin ^^^^ZZtTZT ^^^rR^Le^erett 
 
 ^ ::aruis" Hazard !,-- ^^'-'^^ An'nt h" llT" 
 
 , , ,, °""'? J' Mrs. Maria Woolsey 
 
 ADMITTED BY cerTiEicaTE Patrick Allen ^^^.^^ Baylor 
 
 Edsall Ferrier Mrs. Mary Floyd Mary Taylor 
 
 Howard Crosby Norwood ,,; „ ,,, , 
 
 Mrs. Margaret E. Crosby ^^ , (Mrs. Wm.) 
 
 Mrs. Helen Ashton Mar. 11. 185S. Charles Lamer 
 Mrs. Sophia Smith admitted on proeession f °^"',^ S'""' ^^^"^ 
 
 Mrs. Burger Henriette Bayles Mary Young ^ 
 
 Margaretta I. Day Mrs. Laura G. Graham 
 
 May 7. 1S57. Olive Harriman Elizabeth Fenton 
 
 admitted on proeession Laura Harriman Sarah Lee 
 
 Mrs. Emeline Low (Mrs. O.) Horace I. Fairchild 
 
 Lucy Baldwin Hyde James R. Jesup ^0*'='"' W. Halsted 
 
 Sarah Augusta Burger John Stevens William A. Halsted 
 
 Andrew Giflord Agnew Elizabeth Nevins ^™^^ ^- Alexander, Jr. 
 
 Robert McCormick Stephen Rich Struthers 
 KoDert MC>_ormicK admitted by cERTIEicaTE « „„.. struthers 
 
 Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Margaretta H. Lord ^^ ^ LiXg,ton 
 
 Mrs. Susanna Reynolds --m^; f^- , Mrs. Ann Eliza 
 
 ^'^^ ^:^^z. Maryr^r^' 
 
 r Mc=^'"^ ™<^;^Hs W.) S:,-- an 
 
 Jane Maivame j ^^^^^^ j^ ^^.^.^ 
 
 Horace' Howen' «'"'^" ^^ ^^" ^°"* Mrs. Caroline Townsend 
 
 Mrs. Christina McDonald if^j 6, 1858. Mrs. Mary Ann 
 
 Miss Eliza Barnaby admitted on proeession Monahan 
 
 John Haines phillis Penny Mrs. Ann Jane 
 
 John TwibiU Fanny Tracy Williamson 
 
 i/r- T-,„» wrv,iHn<-t William Isaac Townsend 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Jane Whitlock ^^^ McCalluin 
 
 John Kirkwood James Low 
 
238 
 
 Centennial Celebration oC t|)e 
 
 Jane Annie Scrymser 
 Clarissa Eliza Brown 
 Daniel R. Noyes, Jr. 
 Mrs. Mary E. Hyatt Maurice Marks 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^^^ I/Sggatt 
 
 L. Amanda Williams ^^^'^ ^^ Merseman 
 Mrs. Sarah E. Lanier 
 Mrs. Mary Louisa 
 Fairchild 
 
 Mrs. Christiana Richard Moore 
 
 Rutherford Eliza Hall 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Kennedy Mrs. Maria H. Gassner 
 Mary Jane Woodburn 
 Mary Jane Ferguson 
 
 July 8, 1858. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Norwood 
 Elbert Stewart 
 William M. Cummings 
 William J. Nevins, Jr. 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Stead 
 Emily Norwood 
 Helen Stewart 
 Richard Burton 
 Helen Abia Gilman 
 Edward L. Owen 
 Edith N. Macy 
 Sarah Richards Beers 
 James H. Young 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Gurdon Burchard 
 Mrs. Emily C. Corwin Simon d'Visser (Sr.) 
 Simon d'Visser (Jr.) 
 Sept. 9. i8s8. g^pi^i^ ^,y.^^^^ 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henrietta Louisa Scott 
 
 Edward Sturgis Jan. 6, 1859. 
 
 Henry Haywood admitted on profession 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^ebecca Matilda 
 Charles B. Smith Edwards 
 
 Mrs. Emeline Misner 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Mary Jane 
 Robinson 
 Jane Grant 
 
 Mar. 10, 1859. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Robert Smith 
 Margaret Smith 
 
 (Mrs. R.) 
 John Quincey 
 Mary Ann Quincey 
 
 (Mrs Jno.) 
 Mrs. Catharine McLagan William Stuart 
 
 Auchincloss 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE „ .. TJ KK M 11' 
 
 Mrs. Mary McFarlane _ ,. .._ 
 
 Julia Hyatt 
 
 Nov, II, 1858. Rebecca Long 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Harriet Louisa Edwards ^j-s. Martha A. Leavitt 
 Cornelius Heyer Clark Mrs. Margaret Barbour 
 Susan W. Irvin Margaret S. Barbour 
 
 Thaddeus J. Whitlock ^j-s. Elizabeth B. 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Huntington 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Teefair Charles A. SiUiman 
 
 Wm. G. Turner James Johnstone 
 
 Mrs. Martha W. Lambert 
 Israel Minor 
 Mrs. Charlotte Louisa 
 Minor 
 (Mrs. Simon, Jr.) John C. Minor 
 Henry Heath 
 Mrs. Frances E. Heath 
 Christiana Bradner 
 George S. Woodman 
 Mrs. Jane L. Woodman 
 
 Oct. 8, 1858. 
 
 John S. Pierson 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Thomas D Urmston 
 ADMITTED ^ON PROFESSION ^^^j^.^^j^ gherrand * * ^''"''°'' 
 
 May 5, 1859. 
 Feb. 9, 1859. 
 
 David Killock 
 Joseph Taylor 
 Anna Bella Taylor 
 
 (Mrs. Jos.) 
 Mrs. Eliza Kelly 
 Mrs. J. Black 
 Wm. Baelz 
 
 Mary Baelz (Mrs. Wm.) 
 David Young 
 Elizabeth Young 
 
 (Mrs. David) 
 Hendrick Constantine 
 
 Frerichs 
 Henrietta Wilhelmina 
 
 Frerichs (Mrs. 
 
 H. C.) 
 Thomas Simpson 
 Mrs. Sarah McNally 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION James Bevcridge 
 
 George Anderson 
 Sarah Ann Anderson 
 Mathew W. Sampy 
 Mary Sampy 
 
 (Mrs. M. W.) 
 William Muir 
 Mrs. Mary Robinson 
 Mrs. Margaret Lucas 
 Mrs. Marion Warner 
 Joseph Williamson 
 Thomas Ross 
 Mrs. Sarah McConnell 
 Mrs. Esther Nelson 
 
 Thomas Cochran 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Henry C. Whitmarsh 
 Leonard A. Bradley 
 John Kennedy 
 Mrs. Jane Hutchinson 
 Mary A. Hutchinson 
 
 June 15, X859. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Twibill 
 Mrs. Christiana Briands 
 John Sterling 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Williamson Janet Sterling 
 
 Mrs. Ann Atkinson 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 
JFiftt) atenue Presbpterian Cfiutclj 239 
 
 Amelia Starr Jan. lo, 1861. Dr. Isaac E. Taylor 
 
 Letitla Crawford admitted on profsssion Mrs. M. J. Taylor 
 
 David Gassner Oscar Smedberg Willianx Piatt, Jr. 
 
 Elizabeth Gall 
 Nov. i, 1859. Oct. 9, 1861. 
 
 ADMITTSD ON PHOFESSIOH f (.ft. (,_ jgdl. ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Adeline Hawkins admitted on profession Martha J. Danforth 
 
 John Atherton John Inglis Catherine L. Campbell 
 
 Mary Ann Atherton Agnis Inglis Allan Stirling 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) I<etitia A. Rutherford 
 
 mr T ' D \ ADMITTED By CERTIFICAT* 
 
 ADMITTED BVCERTIFICAT8 (Mrs. Jas. R.) Samuel Cockbum 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth G. Eliza Heslop Jan« Cockburn (Mrs. S.) 
 
 Nairne (Mrs. Wm. P.) ^ 
 
 John Alexander Perry Mrs. Catharine R. tfov. 7 1S61. 
 
 Agnes Perry (Mrs. J. A.) Masters admitted on' profession 
 
 James Massie Mrs. Abigail R. Olmsted gmma Galbraith 
 
 Ann W. Massie Mrs. Nancy Leonard Mary Ann Kelly 
 
 (Mrs. Jas.) admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 
 
 Nov. 10, JS59. J°'*" Forsyth Herman B. Sears 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^™'^ E" Fo^syth jjrs. Catharine Nash 
 
 Mrs. Catharine B. <**"; J"°-) Mary Augusta Sears 
 
 I<ockwood William Keith Mrs. Annie B. Jessup 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB March 6, 1861. Jan. g, 1862. 
 
 Mrs. Jennet F. R. Bliss ^omitted on profession emitted on profession 
 
 Pth. 8, 1860. Robert I,. Smith wm. Vernon, Jr. 
 
 admitted on profsmiom admitted by certificate Fanny Nott 
 John Thompson Alice Smedberg admitted by certificate 
 
 Stewart Shirley (Mrs. Oscar) Mary G. Fowler 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) May 10, 1861. Virginia Penny 
 
 John Shirley admitted on profession Anthony Arnoux 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Kidd James H. Walker Clementine W. Arnoux 
 
 Moore John F. Aiken 
 
 admitted by cERTiFiCAt, jJ^^/yTHur^bur""" A-^"^"- J- H""^'' 
 D. Olyphant Vail Susan R.Hurlbut ;,,,,. 5, ,^s,. 
 
 Mar. 7, i860. (Mrs. H. A.) admitted ok profession 
 
 admitted by certificate Mrs. Anna D. Thomson jp^n Thomas Stanley 
 Margaret E. Baird Mrs. Ophelin Sayre Andrew Knox 
 
 May 10, i860. Emily A. Sayre Edward Roe 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Elizabeth H. Sayre Eleanor Moore 
 
 Elizabeth W. Wheelock J"''" Seaman Isabella McLeod 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. W.) ^rs. Jno. Seaman 
 Elizabeth Hoppock /„„j j_ jj^j. Catharine taird 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Irwin Williami Collins March 6. 1861. 
 
 June 6 i860 Catharine Collins admitted on profession 
 
 ' _ cMr= Wm ^ Theodore M. Nevins 
 
 admitted on profession (Mrs. Wm.J 
 
 Mrs. Sophia Herring Thomas A. Reynolds ^"''1'™', , 
 
 -, T,, ■ ^ Mrs. Sarah Ann Levencn 
 
 Mrs. Mavia Jones admitted by certificate ^^ ^aria I<everich 
 
 Forrest Mrs. Isabelle Stewart 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Harris admitted by certificate 
 
 Edward Pinner July u, 1861. Parker Handy 
 
 David McCormick admitted by certificate Cornelia S. Handy 
 
 James Rutherford Chas. P. Noyes (Mrs. P.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
240 
 
 Centennial Celetitation of tlje 
 
 Susan Marie Bliss 
 (Mrs. Robt.) 
 
 Mrs. Maria C. Sloan 
 
 John T. Gilchrist, Jr. 
 
 Anna C. Gilchrist 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. T.) 
 
 Mrs. Catharine P. Rice 
 
 Lizzie G. Rice 
 
 Mrs. Jane Swift 
 
 Loring Andrews 
 
 Blandina B. Andrews 
 (Mrs. I,.) 
 
 Mary A. Hayward 
 
 Oct. 8, 1862. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Catherine B. Laurie 
 Mrs. Margaret 
 
 Henderson 
 Mrs. Margaret Hewitt 
 Ellen Leonard 
 
 Nov. 6, J862. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Peter Rowe 
 Margaret Stevenson 
 
 Rowe (Mrs. P.) 
 Henry E- Hawley 
 May 9, 1862. Elizabeth J. Lockwood- 
 
 ADMiTTED ON PROFESSION Hawley 
 
 Mrs. Eliza I. Swift Thomas Sinclair 
 
 Mrs. Mary C. Auchinclossjvirs. Sophia S. Buck 
 Charles B. Alexander James Cowper Lord 
 Archibald McMartin Thomas Sinclair 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Homer Morgan 
 Esther S. Leveritt 
 Mrs. J. E. F. Ban 
 Carrie E. Stansberry 
 John T. Lawrence 
 ErviUa Lawrence 
 (Mrs. J. T.) 
 Thomas W. Hughes 
 July 10, 1862. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Ezra White 
 
 Jan. 8, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Jas. Henry Work 
 Thomas Forrest 
 Mrs. Hester Strang 
 Josephine Young 
 Mrs. Virginia M. Hook 
 Harriet Dewitt Mitchill 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Christiana 
 
 McNaughton 
 Mrs. Janet Stewart 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson 
 Constant A. Andrews 
 Mary Jane Sloane 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Disbrow 
 
 Nancy Ann White 
 (Mrs. Ezra) 
 William W. Wakeman 
 Geo. Trull 
 
 Feb. 4, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED BY 
 
 Gilbert Thompson 
 Isaac S. Barrett 
 Jeanie H. Barrett 
 
 (Mrs. I. S.) 
 Mrs. Harriet N. Burgy 
 Sept. II, 1862. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Olivia iloadley 
 
 CERTIFICATE ^^^' ^^^y J^"^ VMYyis 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Kellock 
 Robert Robinson 
 Jane Robinson 
 
 (Mrs. Robert) 
 Alexander Campbell 
 Alexander Whitehill 
 
 March 5, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE t ^ t? "d • J 
 
 r«v,- XT -K^^-xr:^ Janet F. Baird 
 
 John H. McKie 
 Louisa R. McKie 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 George H. Petrie 
 Emma F. Petrie 
 Mrs. Mary J. Houghton 
 Sarah Ann Moore 
 
 G. Livingston Morse 
 Mrs. Ella Fraser 
 George A. St. John 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Theodore H. Conger 
 James Paton 
 
 May J, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles Davis 
 Zachariah L- Edwards 
 Ella H. Butler 
 Elizabeth Ellen 
 
 Auchincloss 
 Eliza Maitland 
 Alexander Maitland 
 Henrietta Hawes 
 John B. Hawes 
 Caroline L- R. Rice 
 Louise Mitchill 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Elizabeth Chesney 
 June 10, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth H. McCart 
 Janet L. Killock 
 Elizabeth Killock 
 Mary Miles (Mrs. J.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Gordon 
 Isabella B. Gordon 
 Mrs. Mary Baker 
 Mrs. Maria Wilson 
 
 July g, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Norris 
 
 Oct. 8, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Ann Wray 
 Cornelia S. Wray 
 Margaret Norris 
 James Alexander Baird 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Frederick Hosford 
 Mrs. Jane Taylor 
 Wm. E- Morris 
 Mary Morris 
 Thos. B. Morris 
 
 Oct. 14, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Janet Moore 
 
 Dec. 10, 1863. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Edgar S> Auchincloss 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Elizabeth Sterling 
 
 James B. Thomson 
 
 Mary C. Thomson 
 
 (Mrs. J. E.) 
 
ififtl) ^toenue Pre06ptetian C|)urc|) 
 
 241 
 
 Mary G. Thomson 
 Archibald A. Stevenson 
 Mrs. Ann Brown 
 Mary Jane Thompson 
 
 Feb. 11, 1864. 
 
 ADMITTED BY C^RTIFICATB ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 June 15, 1864. Feb. p, 1865. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 
 
 Jessie Ann Ferguson Ann Buckhaw 
 Mary Stirling (Mrs. Geo. B.) 
 
 Catharine Roome Mrs. Rebecca Susan 
 
 Burkholder 
 
 William C. Noyes 
 Mr^ Jane R. Noyes 
 Fannie I*. Noyes 
 James W. Noyes 
 Brodnax Atkinson 
 Vernon C. Jarboe 
 
 Feb. 17, 1864. 
 
 Richard Hall Brown 
 Mary Cameron Brown 
 
 (Mrs. R. H.) 
 Mary Hamilton 
 Margaret I^ongstreet 
 
 (Mrs. S.) 
 
 Oct. 6, 1864. 
 
 Mary Caroline Barnes 
 (Mrs. Hy W.) 
 
 John H. Mortimer 
 
 Ewen Mclntyre 
 
 Amelia Mclntyre 
 
 (Mrs. Ewen.) 
 
 Ida Bristol 
 
 John James Irvin 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. I^avinia C. Van 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Morrow 
 John Sterling 
 Ellen Sterling 
 
 (Mrs. Jno.) 
 Mrs. Catharine Minor 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Louisa 
 
 Jackson 
 Eliza Jane McKinty 
 Mitilda J. Pearson 
 Susan Connor 
 Margaret A. Reynolds 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Craig 
 Mary L- Steward 
 Mary Wildbort 
 Anna Eliza McClure 
 Mary A. McNatty 
 James Hayes 
 James Miles 
 James Fleming 
 
 Charlotte How Markoe 
 Girard Graham 
 Caroline Eouisa Gross 
 Edward F. Walker 
 Mary Augusta Smith 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Charles Rogers Scribner 
 James C. Nightingalje 
 
 Oct. J2, 1864. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Sophia Holzberger 
 Reuben John Atherton 
 David Morris Gassner 
 Maria Amanda Gassner 
 Margaret Cassadey 
 James Cassadey 
 
 Embery 
 Obed Daw 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John A. Stewart 
 Sarah Y. Stewart 
 
 (Mrs. Jno. A.) 
 Wm. A. W. Stewart 
 Joseph Gamble 
 Edward K. Norris 
 Eliza Mills 
 
 (Mrs. Andrew M.) 
 Mrs. Sarah Z,. Bright 
 Martha Moorehead 
 
 Feb. 13, J865. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Eliza McCurdy 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder 
 
 ADMITTED BY MRTIFICATB jjii^^b^th Connor 
 
 James Boothwick 
 ADMITTED BY CBRTIFICATB Jesse Boothwick 
 Mrs. Margaret Mawhinny (Mrs. Jas.) 
 
 Sarah Clelland James Rutherford 
 
 Letitia A. Rutherford 
 April J, J864. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PEOEESSIOH Dec. 8, 1864. 
 
 Sarah Lord Day ^■'""W"^ <=S«"Ficate 3^,^^ B_ A^l,j„„ 
 
 Charles Elhs Morris HarveyF.sk Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield 
 
 Charles Sargent Louisa Fisk (Mrs. H.) _, ., . „ „ 
 
 ,, ^ ■ T, -.I ^. Mrs. Almira R. Sears 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTIFICATS Mrs. Francis B. Mortimer 
 
 Mrs. Helen Aurelia 
 
 Ellen Smith 
 
 Mrs. Matilda Wood 
 
 April 6, 1865. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Work 
 Fannie C. Bunker 
 
 Bernard Paine 
 
 John R. Smith 
 Roswell Graves 
 June p, 1864. Eliza Annette Graves 
 
 ADMITTED ON PEOEESSIOM (Mrs. R.) 
 
 Harriet F. Kelly Mary Hobart Graves 
 
 Catharine M. Ashton Eliza Schuyler Graves 
 
 Thomas C. Sloane Wilison B. Shaw 
 ADMITTED BY CERTinCATS Margaret E. Shaw 
 Wilhelm Jung (Mrs. W. B.) 
 
 T. Benton Taylor Robert A. C. Shaw 
 
 Ellen M. Taylor John Sinclair 
 
 • Viele 
 June 8, 1865. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Archibald Barklie • 
 Oct. 5, 1865. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 George H. Sloane 
 Elizabeth Cochran 
 
242 Centennial CeleOtation of tbe 
 
 ADMITTED BY CBMiMCATB Oct. 1?, jS66. Sarah B. Phillips 
 
 John C. Maxwell admitted by csrtificaTS Edith Phillips 
 
 Frederick Driggs Mrs. Caroline M. Wilde Augusta Van Winkle 
 
 Elizabeth h. Gregory Mrs. Cordelia R. Badean Lucinda VanWinkle 
 
 iMac A. Crane „ , . , tucinda Bailey 
 
 Sarah J. Crane °"'^- *' "°°- Matilda Bailey 
 
 ,„ T A \ ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH ■!,,._ -ri m„,ii 
 
 (Mrs. I. A.) ,, _,. , ^, ,, Ellen H. Trull 
 
 r »T T- .. Mrs. Elizabeth M. n « o -cl 
 
 I. N. Ewell „ ^. Henry A. Swift 
 
 Crowther -. AS 'ft 
 
 _ , Frederick L. Auchincloss ... to -r^ 
 
 Dec. 6, 1865. John Hewitt f^^JlSwift 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Lockwood DcForest J^""' ^ ^"y"°"^' 
 
 Anna Fitch Hyde Tjr-„- t , ■ Eussel Kennedy 
 
 (Mrs.HyB.) wiUUmA^Ho^yt Wm. Fleming Smith 
 
 Charles Francis Park ' Helen McGraw Smith 
 
 W. W. Wakeman (Jr.) admitted by cektimcatb 
 
 Mrs. Nancy P. Wheelock «!>■ 5, 1S67. 
 
 admitted by cestimcat* jy-j.^ gjj^^ Redrow admitted on profession 
 
 Henry Rawls David Bingham Francis Rogers 
 
 Juha R. Rawls Emily Stewart 
 
 (Mrs. Hy) p^^ ^^ ^^,57 Mary L,. Hall 
 
 J. Dickinson Condict admitted on profession Sherman J. Bacon 
 
 Emma A. Terbell Mary C. Bacon 
 
 Feb. 8, 1866. Adelaide Hoadley Johnston McCullough 
 
 admitted on profession Blanche Andrews Kate Norris 
 
 Adrian S. Clark William J. Pate John Holmes 
 
 admitted by certificate Richard M. Blatchford Fanny Kimball 
 Sarah A. Watson 
 
 admitted by certificate admitted by certificate 
 
 Geo. LeCrosier David Irwin 
 
 Mary I. Walker Jane Irwin 
 
 Catharine Jackson Eliza Wakeman 
 
 Joseph Patterson 
 
 Atril ? 1866 '^^"' "' '^'^^' ^"^"^ ^- McKnight 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION '"""'TZ "^ '^°'^'"°'' S^rah N. Davis 
 Susie Brown ^r"^ t!'"" t, Frances J. Hazelhurst 
 
 Euphemia Sloan Ehza Skinner Day Delia M. Baker 
 
 Emma P. Young Julia K Butler Elizabeth Ogburn 
 
 Grace Davison Lord i*""'w«°^ Helen B. VanZandt 
 
 Susan DeForest Lord ?," ^■^°"^'^^, J- B- McLeod 
 
 Caroline H. Park inomasb. young, Jr. admitted by certificate 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Hopkins fj.'"'' ^- |r*' Louisa Ferris 
 
 Sn,ith William H. Sturges James Duff 
 
 Thomas P. Gilman Dec. 5, 1867. Charles Dunlop 
 
 admitted by certificate admitted on profession ^*""'%^: ^"^f" 
 Mrs. Kate M.Motley Jo^'Ph Morehead. M.D. f^-^"^^°^ 
 Charlotte Chambers Hall J- M. BnsboU 
 June 7, 1866. Janetta W. Alexander Nina Fravey 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Archibald Alexander Carrie T. Green 
 
 William Henry Clark Thomas Emberson Ivanna W. P. Peck 
 
 Isabella Cochran J. O. Taylor Mary H. Agnew 
 
 Hugh B. Jackson 
 Elizabeth I. Jackson 
 (Mrs. H. B.) 
 James Cochran 
 
 Helen Cochran Julia B. DeForest Afiril 7 1867 
 
 Anna T. Mortimer admitted by certificate admitted on profession 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary Jane Morehead Jane Peel 
 
 Jaroes Hyde Young Frederick W. Whittemore John L. Gross 
 
 W. E. Childs Owen W. Whittemore Margaret Demarest 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Childs Howard C. Phillips Jane A. Demarest 
 
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 Mary T. Crane 
 Henry Sloane 
 Wm. D. Sloane 
 Susan VanWagenen 
 Christiana VanWagenen 
 
 April 7, 1868. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Wm. K. Major 
 Mary I^. Major 
 George S. Dana 
 Sarah Hawkins 
 IJdward Arnold 
 Isabella S. Marbury 
 Ella Bristol! 
 
 June 10, 1868. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Albert B. Boardman 
 Margaret B. Monahan 
 Adeline M. Irwin 
 Susan Taylor 
 Mary C. Scott 
 Charlotte A. Scott 
 D. Edwin Hawley 
 Annie Gass 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary Matson 
 Emily C. Macy 
 Charles K. Ludlum, M.D. 
 Jennie White I^udlum 
 John Phyfe 
 James Smith 
 Alex. Ferguson 
 Albert Phillips 
 William Campbell 
 Jane E. Campbell 
 Emma Campbell 
 Robert Bonner 
 Jane Bonner 
 
 Oct. 7, j868. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Abbott 
 Charlotte C. Leland 
 Louisa Taylor 
 James Taylor 
 Margaret Flight 
 Charles W. White 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Malcolm McMartin 
 Isabella McPherson 
 Mary R. Struthers 
 Stephen R. Struthers 
 Agnes Struthers 
 
 Anne Struthers 
 Alex. J. Howell 
 A. Howell 
 Alex. Murray 
 Catharine Murray 
 Marion Murray 
 Robert A. Murray 
 George Murray- 
 James Bingham 
 Samuel J. Curtis, Jr. 
 James H. Young 
 Sophia D. Young 
 Adolphus Smedborg 
 Mary E- Smedborg 
 Catharine W. Juny 
 Gertrude Juny 
 Jenny Moffitt 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Hampden Osborne 
 Margaret Skinner 
 Donald Campbell 
 M. E- Dandridge 
 Aam Bride 
 Agnes Henry 
 George D. Phelps 
 Harriet A. Phelps 
 David Perry 
 
 Dec. 10, 1868. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Fitzgerald O'Connor 
 Jane Matchett 
 Elizabeth H. Carlton 
 Johil E- Gross 
 Julia Bartlett 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Martha Perry 
 Jacob D. Vermilye 
 Mary C. Vermilye 
 
 Feb. II, 1869. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Sarah Jane Bradford 
 Persis M. Olney 
 Eveline Van Winkle 
 S. J. Armstrong 
 Wm. Alex. Ferguson 
 Margaret Lord 
 Mary S. Sheffield 
 Maria L. Belshaw 
 Catharine Nelson 
 Matilda A. Ferguson 
 Mary N. Nancy 
 Robert E. Maitland, Jr. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 
 
 A. H. McKenzie 
 
 E. H. Sherrer 
 Catherine McCloskry 
 Mary Read 
 Charles F. Stoll 
 Matilda Perry 
 Emeline C. Sherwood 
 
 F. S. Bradford, M.D. 
 James E- Bishop 
 
 R. E. Morrell 
 Frances E- Orcutt 
 Hampden Waldron 
 Charies D. Miller 
 John H. Eockwood 
 
 April 8, 1869. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry Demarest 
 Dudley M. Ferguson 
 Elliot McCormick 
 Alex. Guthrie McCosh 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Hanna Whitton 
 Mary Munro 
 Joseph A. Welch 
 Mary A. Welch 
 Caroline V. Ferguson 
 Donald McGregor 
 John J. Crane, M.D. 
 Adeline M. Post 
 Anna C. Jones 
 John L. Stryker 
 Margaret Mundell 
 Mary Ann Houston 
 E. DeCockerille 
 Eliza Atkinson 
 Henry H. Wilson 
 Annie N. Armstrong 
 George Mo wen 
 David Patterson 
 Annie E- Wilson 
 Miss Crowe 
 
 June 10, 1869. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Jane Augusta Kasbrouck 
 Sarah B. Eeverett 
 Chas. W. McClelland 
 Mary Henrietta Avery 
 Robert Hoe 
 Thyrza Hoe 
 Susan T. Irvin 
 Esther Smith 
 Amelia M. Rogers 
 
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 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles S. Orr 
 Sarah T. Sands 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Cornelius R. Agnew 
 Mary Nash Agnew 
 Emily Hall 
 Mary A. Herrington. 
 
 Dec. g, i86q. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Ivinda Marquand 
 Margaret DeCockerille 
 John Van Santvoord 
 Sarah E. Wilson 
 Jacob VanWagenen 
 James McKennal 
 Henry King 
 Laura Hoe 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Bartholomew Brown 
 Ann R. Brown 
 Lidia W. Brown 
 Sarah W. Brown 
 Sarah Hoyt Lee 
 Elizabeth Patterson 
 Sarah Pattison 
 Charles B. Soutter 
 Maria E. Upton 
 Charles W. Carpenter 
 Horace Durne 
 Ividia G. Jarvis 
 Milicent Jarvis 
 Horace W. Robbing, Jr. 
 Mary A. Robbins 
 Sarah Turner 
 Stephen Dodge, M.D. 
 Feb. 10, 1870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Sarah J. Rossbrough 
 George E- Hodge 
 Thomas Balmer 
 Anna S. Maxwell 
 Sepbimus E. Swift 
 Annie M. Sloan 
 Adelaide Branan 
 Sarah McCartney 
 Wm. George Marshall 
 George St. John Sheffield 
 William Kelley 
 Rosa Murray 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Maria S. Huberty 
 
 Mary Prince 
 George R. Aitken 
 Mary Jane Adams 
 Wm. H. Braman 
 John ly- Brower 
 Margaret Dow 
 William Alexander 
 John Parton 
 Amelia Allen 
 
 April 8, 1870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thos. Hall Failc 
 Caroline Murray 
 Sarah Holmes 
 Bleecker N. Mitchell 
 Marcus Walker 
 Daniel P. Hathaway 
 Frank M. Bonta 
 Wm. O. Brewster 
 Wm. Bi. Darrah 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary Douglass 
 Harriet G. Walker 
 Caroline G. Tappan 
 George D. Phelps, Jr. 
 John Leeper 
 Charles E. Cochran 
 Eveline Cannon 
 
 May 14, 2870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry Hopkins 
 Mary Hopkins 
 Jeannette Torrcy 
 Thomas S wanton 
 Catherine Jordan 
 James Jordan 
 Jane McCarton 
 Mariah Phillips 
 Margaret Campbell 
 Ann Jane Anderson 
 Margaret Doherty 
 Rebecca White 
 Crawford Lynn 
 Mary Ann Lynn 
 James McCullough 
 Emily Ebbets 
 Sarah Ebbets 
 Jane Gardiner 
 Elenor Rowe 
 Elizabeth Martin 
 Emily Phillips 
 Rachel Anderson 
 
 June g, 1870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Francis B. Thurber 
 Robert McAlester 
 Sarah Hawley 
 Robert W. Hall 
 Annie Blagden 
 Duncan M. G. Crerar 
 Emma Barnes 
 Wm. Lewis Wakefield 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Laura W. Curtis 
 Jeanette Thurber 
 Mary L. Hal'pted 
 Frances M. Wells 
 Sarah E. Welch 
 Samuel P. Blagden 
 Mrs. Carrier 
 Miss Carrier 
 
 Oct. 6, 1870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maria Halsted 
 James Moorhead 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mason Thompson 
 Mary Ann Thompson 
 Jessie Campbell Crerar 
 Ann Vint 
 
 Albert W. VanWinkle 
 VanAUen Pugsley 
 
 Dec. 8, 1870. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Campbell 
 Margaret Campbell 
 D. McMartin Niven 
 Joseph M. Ginn 
 John Murray 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Morris K. Jesup 
 Maria DeWitt Jesup 
 Abby S. Jesup 
 Franklin C. Davis 
 John Redpath 
 Margaret Mercer 
 Samuel Beach Jones, Jr- 
 Isabella G. Paton 
 Samuel Kingham 
 
 Feb. % 1871. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Karl Rudolphe Heike 
 Lucas L* VanAllen 
 Isabella E. McCormick 
 
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 Isabella F. McCormick 
 Isabella McNaughton 
 Jenny W. Olcott 
 Mary P. Warner 
 Charles M. Jesup 
 Allen Marguand 
 Catherine S. 
 Margaret Fraser 
 Elmer Perilson 
 Wm. H. Dyckman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alice Williams 
 Thos. Hall Rutherford 
 Harrison Downes 
 Frances C. Melton 
 Jennie Melton 
 Thomas Borland 
 Robert Cushman 
 Edgar A. Hamilton 
 Eliza Clark 
 Elizabeth Robertson 
 Robert H. Robertson 
 Fanny Clark 
 
 April 4, 1871. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Jane Brennan 
 Elizabeth Hopkins 
 Margaret McCuUough 
 Jeannie Semon 
 Mary Jordan 
 Florence Wingrove 
 Harriet King 
 Sarah Hobley 
 M. Neill 
 James Watson 
 William Roe 
 James Wingrove 
 Hester Win^ove 
 Anna M. Stugard 
 Maria Enright 
 Margaret Doyle 
 Isabella Watson 
 Margaret Nichol 
 Isabella DeVoe 
 Catherine DuBoyce 
 Rebecca Rookliff 
 Wm. F. Moller 
 Caroline P. Whitlock 
 Wm. A. F. Henningsen 
 Jeannie T. Kenyon 
 Richard H. Hall 
 Caroline P. T. Crawford 
 Alice D. Pegran 
 Fredk- Augustus Dwight 
 
 Margaret Dowey 
 William A. Paton 
 
 Jane G. Griffin 
 Adelaide L- Whitlock 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Magdelana Schrel 
 Jeannie McKay 
 Mary Ann P. Swift 
 Kate M. Bennott 
 Margaret Watson 
 Joseph A. Barron 
 Lewis Randolph Smith 
 Caroline Mary S. Smith 
 Fanny F. Avery 
 Mary A, Averry 
 Mary J. McKennell 
 Mary Breeton 
 Benj. R. Pegram 
 Effia J. Scott 
 Geo. C. Ewen 
 Anne A. McEwen 
 Jane A. Miller 
 
 June 8, 1871. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Emily Auchincloss 
 
 Maxwell 
 Elizabeth Mason 
 Harriet M. Kelley 
 Bolton Hall 
 Annie Burbank 
 Helen Andrews Marvin 
 
 Henry L. Bernstein 
 Calvin Keyser 
 E. C. Hood 
 Franke S. Williams 
 Alexander White 
 Margaret Martin 
 William A. Harris 
 Catherine M. Butler 
 Florence 
 
 Thomas H. Butler 
 William Millar 
 John T. Wilson 
 Anne Wilson 
 Charlotte E. Wilson 
 Thomas Kussell 
 Mrs. Russell 
 
 Nov. 9, 1871. 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 Ijuther Barton 
 
 Dec. 5, 187 1. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Marion Gray Tod 
 Gertrude E. Moran 
 Charles M. McBride 
 Alwin H. Dodd 
 Catherine Pape 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Blanche M. Crichton 
 
 Sarah B. Clark 
 Nannette B. Clark 
 Bessie B. Clark 
 Nathan G. Samson 
 Ellen Fay Samson 
 John N. Bradley 
 Mary W. Bradley 
 Mary W. Bradley 
 Helen W. Bradley 
 Elizabeth N. Bradley 
 B. Blakeman 
 Anna M. T. Blakeman 
 Marianna Blakeman 
 George W. Perkins 
 Agnes NicoU 
 
 Oct. 5, 1S71. 
 
 Mary Ann McKennal 
 Ella Beardslee 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Saada Gregory 
 George Borgfelt 
 Harriet Carson 
 Archibald Thompson 
 Sarah B. Vernon 
 William Smith 
 John D. Borbner 
 Jane Rich 
 George Gall 
 Mrs. Gall 
 E. Otto Rudert 
 
 Feb. 8, 1872. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION William A. Fraser 
 
 Robert W. Hamilton 
 Eliza Lewis Smith 
 Augusta A. Smith 
 Allen D. Grant 
 Mary D. Breckenridge 
 Fanny B. Marshall 
 
 Minnie W. Whitlock 
 Chas. P. Leverich 
 Ellen McNally 
 John J. McCook 
 Emily M. Blois 
 William Irwin 
 
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 Delia Rich 
 Thomas Scott 
 Arthur McDaniel 
 
 ADMITTED BY CSRTIFICATB 
 
 Amelia M. Whitlock 
 Henry S. Whittemore 
 Mary G. Borden 
 Julia A. Whittemore 
 Lucy G. Whittemore 
 Newton Amerman 
 Mary F. Amerman 
 Sarah Taylor 
 George Taylor 
 Agnes McNaught 
 William Shear 
 Margaretta M. Shear 
 Duncan G. Turner 
 Mrs. Turner 
 Robert S. Sinclair 
 John Sinclair 
 Fanny C. Sinclair 
 Matilda M. I,enn 
 Alexander White, Jr. 
 Anastasia V. Boise 
 Lucinda Richardson 
 
 April II, iSy2. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Frederick Nash Owen 
 Mary Pittfield Griffin 
 Gertrude Horton 
 Agnes Hewitt 
 Marion Isabella Hewitt 
 Henry St. Clair Hewitt 
 Alfred D. Hewitt 
 Rosina Borland 
 Emeline Harriman 
 Julia Louise Smith 
 Alice Cochran 
 Frederick A. Marquand 
 Israel Newton Terry 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT8 
 
 Isabel Dunkin 
 Mary A. Broome 
 Hugh McGuire 
 Anna H. Rogers 
 Wm. J. Mclntyre 
 Hattie A. Scribner 
 William Wilson 
 E. F. Lindeman 
 Alexander Lang 
 
 June 6, 1872. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 
 
 Robert McCormac 
 Joseph Rogers 
 
 Arthur F. Hawes 
 James Henry Leverich 
 
 Charlotte Isabel Peck 
 Rosa Scott 
 
 Fanny Hasel hurst Ryer 
 Martha Laird 
 James Mc Vicar 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza McCormac 
 Elizabeth M. McClellan 
 Mary R. Hotchkin 
 Kate Baker 
 H. F. Jantson 
 Eugenie Menut 
 Wm. M. Reynolds, M.D. 
 David J. Garth 
 Susan C. Garth 
 Anna Halsted Terbell 
 Alex. M. Proudfit 
 Maria M. Proudfit 
 
 Oct. 10, 1872. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Wm. Strong Warner 
 Laura Hamilton Paton 
 Albert Van Winkle 
 Charles Albert Wiley 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Henrietta L. Warner 
 Richard J. Thompson 
 Helen A. Soffe 
 Wm. Libbey, Jr. 
 Jonas M. Libbey 
 C. E. Jones 
 Agnes Sinclair 
 Hans Meier 
 Mary Howland 
 Arthur Ritchie 
 John J. Wilson 
 Ann Taylor Wilson 
 J. Varnum Mott, M. D, 
 Thos. McBride 
 
 Dec. 5, 1872. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Harold Morgan Smith 
 Samuel Alexander 
 Jeremiah Skidmore 
 Christina Murray 
 Edith Fairfax Smith 
 Edward H. Miller 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Catherine Atkinson 
 Ada Jaffray 
 Florence Jaffray 
 
 Lucie Parmly 
 Kenneth Junor 
 D. L. Mecluire 
 Isabella Barr 
 Phebe Ann Baker 
 Julia Baker 
 Jane Ruthven 
 Jane A. Ruthven 
 Edward A. Jones 
 Maria E. Jones 
 R. M. Reynolds 
 Sarah L. Reynolds 
 Joseph B. Morrison 
 
 Feb. 4. 1873- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOK 
 
 Clement R. Thomson 
 Richard Irvin, Jr. 
 William Barr 
 Andrew W. Knox 
 Susie P. Lilienthal 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Sarah A. Whitney 
 John Herron 
 Mrs. Herron 
 Henry L. Smith 
 Jane N. Smith 
 Martha C. McNulty 
 Edna Jennie Barger 
 Caroline B. Wilson 
 George D. Parmly 
 Emily P. A. Woolsey 
 John Cleve Henderson, Jr^ 
 Hiram W. Warner 
 Charlotte M. Warner 
 Harriet B. Bokee 
 Thomas Kerr 
 
 April 10, 1B73. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOir 
 
 Fannie A. Higgins 
 James A. Maxwell 
 Alfred W. Fisher 
 Harriet McMartin 
 Abby W. Merrill 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE- 
 
 Sophronia Breckrenridge 
 
 Margaret Hazel 
 
 David Wilkins 
 
 Mary F. Dexter 
 
 J. E. Colton 
 
 Mrs. Colton 
 
 James A. Gerhard 
 
 Eliza Clark 
 
 Harriet R. Smedberg, 
 
 Samuel L- Mitchill 
 
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 Jemtnia McCuUough 
 Jane McElroy 
 Jennie Martin 
 Mary Groengor 
 Charlotte Welsh 
 Pauline A. Disnoe 
 Helen Jane Brown 
 John Frasor 
 
 Henry D. Prince 
 George Hamilton 
 Fannie S. Hamilton 
 Robert H. Wilkinson 
 
 June 5, :SJ3. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Josie M. Whitlock 
 Sylvene Miller 
 Robert N. Bruce 
 Isaac Glassey 
 Mary Humphrey 
 John A. Stewart, Jr. 
 Emily Mclntyre 
 Jeannette Prosser 
 James Stewart 
 Frederick A. Libbey 
 Thos. C. Hall 
 ADMITTED BY CEMIEICATE John Henry Benedict 
 H. Doolittle 
 L. C. Doolittle 
 Joseph Doolittle 
 Helen MacKensie 
 F. W. Litten 
 Edwin B. Miller 
 Rebecca C. Miller 
 
 James Gumming Murray 
 Kate L. Cook 
 Ida Mclntyre 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEETIKICATX 
 
 James T. Ford 
 William Leeper 
 Robert Beggs 
 Mary Ann Beggs 
 
 ADMITTED BY CSRTiEiCATE Walter S. Pierce 
 
 Mary Frasor 
 Elizabeth Moir 
 Elizabeth H. Earle 
 
 Feb. 5, 1S74. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Cassie J. Hamilton 
 Alice M. Paton 
 Maggie Adair Bulkley 
 
 Alfred Nichols 
 Eliza Henry 
 Ann Cummings 
 Mary E. Cummings 
 Eleanor K. Major 
 
 June II, 1S74. 
 
 ADMITTED OH PROFESSIOH 
 
 Mary Sheitlin 
 Elvina Sheitlin 
 Florence A. Cordis 
 Nellie Russel Cordis 
 Catherine Murray 
 
 I/izzie Henderson 
 
 Oct. 10, 1S73. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PKOFSSSIOH 
 
 Isabella Andrews 
 
 Anna Harriman 
 Sarah Jane Kirk 
 Harriet Gross 
 
 Herman E. K. M. SchauSThomas Sloane 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Walter H. Sloane 
 Alex, McGregir Crerar Walbridge Bulkley 
 Elizabeth Irwin Hepsy H. Wilcox 
 
 Alexander G. VanCleve 
 Albert Remick 
 Carrie A. Remick 
 
 Feb. 26, 1874. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 lyanier Dunn 
 Eliza Beggs 
 Elizabeth Beggs 
 
 Maria I^. G. Auchindoss 
 Mary Ann Reckless 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charles O. H. Smith 
 
 John G. Mairs Francina Umber 
 
 Samuel Laughlin Arthur Neill 
 
 Elizabeth A. Laughlin William Stewart 
 
 Josephine Ross Ann Sutton Oliver 
 
 Sarah Hunt Elizabeth Ann Kerridge 
 M. Stevenson 
 
 Dec. II, 1873. 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mathew Drysdale 
 Isabella Crothers 
 
 Oct. S, 1S74. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary W. Steele 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mary F. McKensie 
 Sarah E. Dennis George G. Wheelock 
 
 Emily C. Hall 
 Katie C. Ryer, 
 E. Josephine Peck 
 Annie Mack 
 Mary A. Wheelock 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 April g, 1874. Margaret Bussini 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION William Bluett 
 
 Jeannette Ruthven 
 Parker D. Handy 
 Annie Everitt Swift 
 Augusta H. Taintor 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Martha W. Prescott 
 Alex. C. Stewart 
 
 Ann McKenzie Bruce 
 Edward Seymour 
 Sarah J. Seymour 
 Mugger Kreeconian 
 
 Jan. S, 1874. 
 
 Sallie C. Mar 
 James L,. Harriman 
 Henry Marquand 
 Martha Y. Barnes 
 Henry D. Bristol 
 Eleanor Agnew 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Caroline L. Morgan 
 Henrietta Parsons Daniel Murray 
 
 Mary E. Pierce 
 
 Dec. 10, 1874. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Carrie A. Boardman 
 Thos. W. Gerard 
 Margaret Gerard 
 Charles J. Smock 
 John E. Parmley 
 John S. Wilde 
 Sarah Richards 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Charles M. Taintor 
 
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 Thomas A. Nelson 
 Annie E. Dodge 
 Susan S. Francklyn 
 James Swanzie 
 Catherine A. Swanzie 
 Frank L. Janeway 
 Jennie B. Parmelee 
 Sarah J. Struthers 
 Charles Phipps 
 Kate Lintz 
 
 Feb. 10, 1875. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Johnston 
 Jane Eliza McNealey 
 Thomas Iv. Seymour 
 Mary S. Gilraore 
 James H. Belcher 
 William Sloane 
 Alice Hall 
 
 Geo. DeForest L. Day 
 Mary Jane Miller 
 William Brinker 
 Emma B. Todd 
 Charles F. Abbot 
 Alice E. Abbot 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 E. D. McDonald 
 Adelina A. Harper 
 Daniel C. Mclntyre 
 Sarah Bunker 
 Rachel Blair 
 Mary H. Bruce 
 Florence Bragg 
 Q. A. Gilmore 
 M. J. Westbury 
 Warren C. Bevan 
 Virginia B. Bevan 
 
 April 8, 1875. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Ellen McElwrath 
 Elizabeth W. Whitlock 
 B. Morris Whitlock 
 Fielding L. Marshall 
 Charles F. Parmlee 
 Edith Thomson 
 Samuel Smith 
 Susan Bull 
 Harvey E. Fisk 
 Sidney A. Smith 
 I^ucy N. Barnes 
 James Black 
 Mary N. Black 
 Catherine Black 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Matilda Burton 
 
 Mary Johnston 
 Wainwright Bradley 
 Mary A. Pope 
 James Kingan 
 John C. Angell 
 James Davison 
 Matilda Hunt 
 
 June 10, 187$. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Silliman Blagdon 
 Mina Rudolph 
 Jennie A. Tarleton 
 Helen D. Morris 
 Thomas Humphries 
 Willis VanWinkle 
 Mary F. Garth 
 Anna H. Wilde 
 Paulina S. Pearsall 
 Alexander Mills 
 Mary A. Mills 
 Cecelia Cabrow 
 Annie Cleave 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 R. T. Wilson 
 M. C. Wilson 
 Charles P. Britton 
 Caroline Britton 
 Henry Campman 
 Helen D. Campman 
 John A. Livingstone 
 Jane G. Livingstone 
 Jane P. Livingstone 
 Mary Craig 
 Elliot F. Shepard 
 Margaret S. V. Shepard 
 Anna H. Bolton 
 Peter Amerman 
 Mary W. F. Amerman 
 Sidney M. Stray 
 E. C. Graham 
 Louisa B. Graham 
 Frederick H. Wolcott 
 Alice Wolcott 
 Edward F. Brown 
 Eleanor R. Brown 
 Silas B. Brownell 
 Sarah S. Brownell 
 Emily V. Sloane 
 Anna E. Mortimer 
 Wm. C. Dornin 
 Mary J. Dornin 
 Marion Strang 
 Josephine A. VanVorat 
 
 Dorothea Pfandor 
 Sarah Lord 
 George Lord 
 
 Oct. 7, 1875- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFES 
 
 iM. Honamieson Ahak 
 Emma J. Bonner 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTlFIi 
 
 Catherine T. Thompst 
 Mary T. Wescott 
 Annie Montgomery 
 Samuel Lemon 
 Margaret Lemon 
 Edward W. Coleman 
 Catherine Coleman 
 Wm. B. Taylor 
 Gertrude B. Taylor 
 John Inglis 
 Wm. Inglis 
 John R. Inglis 
 Agnes Ingles 
 Samuel Montgomery 
 Eliza Montgomery 
 Samuel J. Montgomcr; 
 Loranie W. Montgom* 
 Margaret Dunlop 
 John Jennings 
 Margaret J, Jennings 
 Margaret J. McKilvey 
 Annie E. McKilvey 
 Frank W. Giffin 
 Hugh Stokes 
 William Lintz 
 Maria Lintz 
 John H. Inman 
 Margaret C. Inman 
 George Sanderson 
 Sarah M. Sanderson 
 Margaret Rollo 
 Marion A, Rollo 
 Maggie L. Rollo 
 Nanette B. Beneded 
 Ruth Glass 
 Eliza J. Glass 
 E. J. O'Brien 
 Thomas Nelson 
 
 Dec. 9, 1875. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROFESS 
 
 James F. D. Lanier, 
 
 George Prescott 
 Mary Emily Donalds( 
 Alice A. Post 
 Sally R. Post 
 
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 John D. Pultz 
 Edith E. Jaffray 
 Annie H. Bruce 
 Josephine Mendham 
 Anna K. Fraser 
 Charles J. Fisk 
 Alice G. Amerman 
 Julia Sperry 
 John Walker 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIJICATB 
 
 William Pf ander 
 Charles F. Cutter 
 Edgar A. Enos 
 Helen A. Pultz 
 Ann Neil 
 John Alex. Scott 
 Lizzie H. McBride 
 C. E. Perkins 
 Sarah E. Crawford 
 John M. Simpson 
 E. M. Stephenson 
 Melanie B. Durfee 
 Rosaline A. Smith 
 Margaret J. White 
 Isabella McCuUagh 
 Anna McCaulay 
 Martha E- Piepers 
 Mary Forsyth Wickes 
 Edward A. Wickes 
 Sarah W. Prescott 
 David A. Hedges, M.D. 
 E. W. Beardslee 
 Anna E. Beach 
 Caroline H. Johnson 
 Catherine A. Taylor 
 Elizabeth A. Irwin 
 Lizzie Powell 
 John W. Dowling, M.D. 
 Frances E- Dowling 
 John M. Harlow 
 Sarah M. Harlow 
 Frederick Bruce 
 Charlotte A. Bruce 
 Mary Annie Bruce 
 Daniel M. Walbridge 
 Mary E. Walbridge 
 Anna Stuart 
 Margaret Stuart 
 John P. Duncan 
 Susan W. Duncan 
 David Duncan 
 Ellen Duncan 
 William White 
 Margaret White 
 
 Henrietta White 
 Cornelius Winant 
 Sarah M. Winant 
 Wm. H. Beadleston 
 Susan A. Beadleston 
 Catherine C. Giles 
 Margaret Wallace 
 Maria Darlington 
 
 Feb. 10, 1S76. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOM 
 
 Emma McNamara 
 Mary Ann McCracken 
 Eliza Whitford 
 Jacob W. Young 
 John W. Auchincloss 
 Margaret Graham 
 Frederick S. Bragg 
 Marietta Sanford 
 Eliza Duke 
 C. Stockton Halsted 
 Sarah Ann Halsted 
 Meredith Howl and 
 Henry A. Smedberg 
 Edmond M. Smedberg 
 Pliny Fisk 
 Alexander G. Fisk 
 Francis Thoman 
 Elizabeth W. Coats 
 Anna M. Coats 
 Fanny Gerard 
 Bessie Hyatt 
 Ellen Wheeler 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 S, B. Merrill 
 Bertha M. Kohlsaat 
 Jennie R. Stevenson 
 Catherine McKeown 
 Agnes McKeown 
 Peter McFadden 
 Eliza Jane McFadden 
 Phebe T. Magie 
 Robert Stenhouse 
 Mary Stenhouse 
 C. C. Lancaster 
 Adela B. Sloane 
 Ellen Davis 
 Samuel Kilpatrick 
 Betty J. Kilpatrick 
 Charles T. Raynolds 
 Adelaide A. Raynolds 
 Robert T. Meeks 
 Sarah E. Meeks 
 M. Burton 
 J. McFarland 
 Russell Raymond 
 
 Helen Raymond 
 George P. Slade 
 Cornelia W. Slade 
 Mary Anderson 
 Sarah P. Cabus 
 Bridget Burke 
 Catherine Irvine 
 Georgiana Irvine 
 Martin S. McNamara 
 
 April 6, 1876. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROESSSION 
 
 Jamea T. Murray 
 Mary A. B. Murray 
 Jennie E. Thayer 
 Albert W. Greene 
 Catherine F. Campbell 
 Leeming W. Campbell 
 Thomas Harrington 
 Henry A. Alexander 
 Margaret I. Jennings 
 Francis J. Paton 
 Agnes M. CofHn 
 Margaret Bruyn 
 Amelia DePan Fowler 
 Meta Oliver Fowler 
 Aimee C. Toler 
 E. Judson Hawley 
 Leil^ B. Trowbridge 
 Francis H. Markoe 
 Alfred N. Beadleston 
 Margaret McConnoU 
 Eliza Q. Harrison 
 John S. Cunningham 
 John Herron, Jr. 
 Robert E. Bonner 
 S. Walter Rollo 
 S. W. Beekman, Jr. 
 Mary Thorpe 
 (k-ace Mortimer 
 Joseph T, Thompson 
 Mary Monroe 
 George Fait 
 Sarah E. Adams 
 John Forbes Warner 
 Laura Agnew 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTinCATS 
 
 Adelia H. Brown 
 Jane M. Coffin 
 Mary M. Donaldson 
 D. G. Watts 
 R. H. Sloan, M.D. 
 Jennie M. Sloan 
 Edward S. Jaffray 
 Anna F, Jaffray 
 
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 Fanny H. Roorback 
 Wm. King Hicks 
 John A. Wilson 
 Laura A. Peck 
 William Wetmore 
 Sophia J. Torrance 
 Alexander Dongaa 
 Priscilla P. Sloane 
 W. Whitewright Stuart 
 Matilda D. Leverich 
 Martha A. Colton 
 Joseph E. lyord 
 Cornelia A. Beekman 
 Charles Meyer 
 David Magie, M.D. 
 Margaret S. Magie 
 Ernst Lencke 
 
 June 8, 1876. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Katie S. Keane 
 Sophia Mencke 
 Margaret T. Chapelle 
 Harriet Godefroy 
 Mary Miller 
 Annie Miller 
 Ada Knight 
 Agnes Becket 
 Isabella R. McCoon 
 James Henry 
 Eliza Henry 
 Laura Miller 
 Helen Miller 
 Christiana Boiling 
 Helen Gillespie 
 Mary A. Morrison 
 Walter J. Becket 
 Edmond Roe 
 Henry L. Davis 
 Joseph Hoff 
 Annie A. Tucker 
 Helen P. Anderson 
 Adelaide Howland 
 Mary Carr Hardie 
 Robert Chambers 
 Joseph Whittemore 
 Edward E- Terbell 
 Elijean Terbell 
 Mary G. McFarland 
 Russell R. Brown 
 William A. Johnston 
 Charles W. Barnes 
 Maggie P. French 
 Sarah H. Bokee 
 Emil Bang 
 
 John B. Anderson 
 George G. Lincoln 
 Clarissa Giles 
 Frank H. Piatt 
 S. Gertrude Mortimer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Edward G. Clarke 
 
 Sarah Clelland 
 
 Mary F. H- Shears 
 
 Thos. J. C. Guy 
 
 E. M. French 
 
 Mary Brown 
 
 David Q. Maclean 
 
 James C. Knox 
 
 Mary L. Knox 
 
 Jane W. McKee 
 
 Harriet Van Deventer 
 
 Elizabeth Van Deventer ^- ^- ^^^t, M.D. 
 
 Josephine Van D. Smith^^*^ ^^^^ 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATA 
 
 Mary Jane Ormsby 
 James Campbell 
 Josephine E. Carpenter 
 Arthur A, Barrows, 
 
 M.D. 
 Annie Carroll 
 George E. Dodge 
 M. Beadleston 
 Wm. B. Cragin 
 Louisa M. Howland 
 Maria Louisa Brown 
 Mary Elizabeth Ames 
 George W. Thornton 
 Lawrence D. Alexander 
 Orline St. John 
 
 Alexander 
 
 Hattie B. Potter 
 Charles H. Potter 
 Matilda M. Potter 
 Cora A. Bulkley 
 
 Oct. 5, 1876. 
 
 Mary Belle Nichols 
 Abram A. Smith, M.D. 
 Sue Smith 
 
 Dec. 7, 1876. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Cornelia L- Martin(Mrs.> 
 George S. McKibbin Cornelia L. Martin 
 
 Jane Louisa Turner 
 Mary Bunney 
 Robert Parker Bliss 
 Sarah Prescott 
 Melvin C. Haskell 
 Laura E. Prescott 
 
 Margaret Ann Glass 
 Feb. 8. 1877. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Bodle 
 Isabella BuUman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Anne Harrison 
 
 Isabella Walker 
 Jannette M. Crichton 
 Isabella Calvert 
 Wm, St. George Elliot 
 Annie R. Elliot 
 Elizabeth C. McKibbin 
 
 Dec. 5, 1876. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Lindsay 
 Matilda Jane Lemon 
 George C. Magoun 
 Adelaide L. Magoun 
 Lucy A. Johnson 
 Mary Graham 
 Cornelius Van W. 
 
 Demarest 
 Mary Tyler Moore 
 Annie C. Moore 
 Mary Douglass Graham 
 Lizzie La forge 
 
 James Phillips 
 Jane Phillips 
 Thos. A. Mclntyre 
 Emma Louisa Ames 
 Frederick C. Beach 
 John R. Wilde 
 Stephen Wray 
 Oliver Harriman, Jr. 
 Hampton Johnston 
 James L- Perry, M.D. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Dinah Armour 
 
 Apr. 5, 1877. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESpIOM 
 
 Susan Russel Baker 
 Lizzie Henry 
 Lizzie R. Munro 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 George M. Baker 
 
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 Dan'l E. Van 
 
 Valkenburg 
 Alida S. Van 
 
 Valkenburg 
 Anna Van Valkenburg 
 Edelbert Jeanrenaud 
 John H. Weber 
 Catherine E. Smock 
 Jennings J. McComb 
 Mary H. McComb 
 D. Eveline F. Hascall 
 Mary N. Perkins 
 Malcolm Graham 
 Samuel Iv- Stiver 
 Elizabeth H. Merchant 
 James Hasley 
 Arthur T. Muzzy 
 Wm. J. Gibson 
 Wm. H. Dornin 
 Phebe G. Dornin 
 Sarah F. Gardner 
 J. O. Averill 
 Edwin F. Hatfield, Jr. 
 Henry C. Meyer 
 Charlotte E. Meyer 
 Frances L. Baker 
 Horace Maxwell 
 Cornelia S. M. Moore 
 Rensen Schenck 
 Minnie T. Schenck 
 Anna Henderson 
 Amelia Wade 
 
 Apr. 8, iH77' 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William Howgill 
 Wm. Walcott Knight 
 John C. Rosch 
 Martha Rosch 
 Madeline Finck 
 Sabina Weitzel 
 Sophia Brown 
 David White 
 Charles McGrath 
 Pamela Stratton 
 Alexander Thompson 
 Mary E. Murray 
 Lizzie S. Haines 
 Anna M. Smith 
 John S. Howell 
 Helen S. Mitchell 
 Augusta Pierce 
 Emma Durant 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 Francis Forbes 
 Amelia H. Armstrong 
 
 Jennie Hey wood 
 H. R. Palmer 
 Mary Jane Hall 
 Elizabeth S. Corne 
 Amelia McDonald 
 Jacob Campbell 
 Margaret F. Campbell 
 Wilson S. Scott 
 Thomas H. Stout 
 Sarah C. Stout 
 Grace M. Whittemore 
 Sarah A. Garth 
 Margaret ly. Mead 
 R. Douglass Grant 
 May 31, 1877. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Eliza Bullman 
 
 Andrew Sime 
 
 Rachel Brown 
 
 Jane Birrell 
 
 Joseph Cabus 
 
 Sarah Cabus 
 
 Henry Winant 
 
 J. Leverett Moore 
 
 Asahel Raymond 
 
 John Alex. Blackwood 
 
 John Knox Burton 
 
 Anna M, Stanley 
 
 Thos. H. Skinner, M.D. 
 
 Robert J. Sharpe 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Rose Brown 
 James Alcohrn 
 Margaret Alcohrn 
 Martha Dillon 
 Samuel R. Adams 
 Theresa Adams 
 James Brown 
 E. S. Butler 
 John H. Tallman 
 Anna V. Tallman 
 Gertrude Skinner 
 Anna F. Schenck 
 Mary M. Schenck 
 Wm. Walton Schenck 
 Mary E- Cook 
 Josephine Stanley 
 Maria Frame 
 Katherine Karr 
 Thomas V. Powell 
 Henry Barbels 
 Christina Barbels 
 
 Oct. II, 1877. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Robert W. McCracken 
 
 Martha Sutten 
 Icanna A. Hengstenberg 
 Alexander Trimble 
 William Sepp 
 Emma Sepp 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza A. Livingston 
 Mary Campbell 
 C. L. Campbell 
 Eva A. Schoonmaker 
 Matthew Frame 
 Ann Frame 
 John M. Amweg, Jr. 
 Dora Barbels 
 Martha Man waring 
 William Leys 
 Jennie M. Leys 
 James A. Frame 
 J. B. Galloway 
 Emma F. Richmond 
 Charlotte A. Marshall 
 
 Dec. 5, 1877- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth M. Thomson 
 Louisa Beebe 
 William C. Clopton 
 Corinne Roosevelt 
 John D. Locke 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Joel D. Hunter 
 Mary F. Hunter 
 Fanny H. Hunter 
 David M. Hunter 
 Waltor L. Hunter 
 Susan E. Davis 
 Abbie Jennie Wilds 
 Lillian Minnie Wilds 
 Josephine D. Taylor 
 Herbert Charles Taylor 
 Russell H. Hoadley 
 Alice H. Hoadley 
 James B. Gemmill 
 Andrew Wright 
 Cornelia B. Strong 
 Kate R. Wright 
 Kate H. Meigs 
 
 Peh. 7, 1878. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Agnes J. Murray 
 Annie Donaldson 
 Henry A. Fagnani 
 S. Kitty Owen 
 Maud Howland 
 Mabel Marquand 
 
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 Elizabeth L. Marguand 
 Frances L. VanVechten 
 Marie Louise Case 
 Mary Alice McComb 
 Louisa Hengstenberg 
 Robert Walter, Jr, 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Minnie EJ. Thompson 
 Annie H. Thompson 
 Isabella Hoff 
 Caroline G. Hoff 
 i;dward D. Bettins 
 Stenhouse Bong 
 Sarah E- Jewett 
 Charlotte A. > Armour 
 Henry Ivison 
 Harriet Ivison 
 James A. Parsons 
 Kate J. Parsons 
 Maria L. Luqueer 
 Amelia Mott Luqueer 
 Simeon Phillips 
 Mrs. Phillips 
 Ellen L. Hopkins 
 Albert Phillips 
 
 May 9, J87B. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Annie M. McCron 
 Magdelin Gray 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John McCron 
 
 May 30, 1878. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Forbes 
 Mary A. Forbes 
 Lucretia Buck 
 Augustine L. Smith 
 Annie Thompson 
 Edwin Mclntyre, Jr. 
 Robert Watson Spear 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Archibald A. Bill 
 Henry C. Stimson 
 Julia A. Stimson 
 Julia J. Stimson 
 Mary A. Stimson 
 Catherine Stimson Wes- 
 ton 
 Fanny Mclntyre 
 W. E. Emery 
 Elizabeth Emery 
 Mary Borland 
 Maggie Borland 
 Charles Kellogg 
 Ellen P. Kellogg 
 Elias MoUison 
 Jennie M. P. Stuart 
 
 April II, J878. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Louisa M. Eerger 
 
 Amandus Berger 
 
 Cornelia H. Scharfenberg! 
 
 Susan Spring Paton 
 
 George Douglass Young 
 
 Mary Alice Townsend q^ jq jg^g 
 
 Edith Mitchell ADMITTED on' PROFESSION 
 
 Joseph McC. Leiper jTHza Dewherst 
 
 Marie Louisa VanVorst Elizabeth T. Thompson 
 Wm. G. Conklin Chichester Brown 
 
 Elvira B. Bonney john Thomas Buckwell 
 
 John Strain gliza Carson 
 
 Allen VanValkenberg Matilda Drysdale 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Bertha Donaldson 
 George H, Sibley Thomas Donaldson 
 
 Margaretta W. Campbell William Davidson 
 Martha M. Creagh Sarah Ebbits 
 
 Samuel H. Van Cleve Lucy Evans 
 
 Edward H. Tobey 
 Bessie H. Tobey 
 Anna M. Hawley 
 M. A. Monahan 
 Lizzie Loran 
 Nancy Struble 
 Xantha Bartlett 
 R. E. Morrell 
 
 Sarah Godefroy 
 Aimee Rose Godefroy 
 Jenny Geonon 
 Annie Gleave 
 Adolph Gubner 
 Alexander Henry 
 Annie Keene 
 Harriet King 
 
 Anne Laville 
 William Moir 
 O. Ho F. Mittag 
 Joanna Mittag 
 Elizabeth Moore 
 Louis Meader 
 Sarah J. Mugge 
 Rosa Newcomb 
 Margaret Phillips 
 Adam Roeder 
 Abigail Seaman 
 Almoria Seaman 
 Eliza Thompson 
 Rebecca S. White 
 Charles L- Weithaupt 
 Banryena Strack 
 Frederica Strack 
 Lizzie Marshall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Robert Mitchell 
 Mary A. Mitchell 
 Clara P. Brown 
 Kersey S. Blake 
 Allan Sterling 
 Maggie A. Sterling 
 Caroline Dewherst 
 Adelaide J. Alcott 
 Catherine M. Jones 
 C. P. L. Butler, Jr. 
 Wm. Lawson 
 L. M. Davenport 
 John Davidson 
 Mary C. Davidson 
 
 Nov. 6, 1878. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Harriet Stoll 
 Elizabeth Decker 
 Sarah Jane McGill 
 Mary Ann Dougan 
 Sarah Jane Wilson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary Stevenright 
 Sarah Cook 
 John B. Morrison 
 
 Dec. 5, 1878. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Susan DeForest Day 
 Agnes C. Moen 
 Lena T. Crawford 
 Jennie M. Havemeyer 
 Margaret HoUenback 
 James R. Jesup, Jr. 
 Annie T. Morgan 
 
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 Louisa £!. Japy 
 Henry D. Anderson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIPICATB 
 
 Edward A. Moen 
 Mary C. Moen 
 Isabella Thompson 
 Margaret McCarrol 
 Robert P. McBride 
 Eliza E. lyindor 
 Caroline M. Robinson 
 Thomas A. Patterson 
 Mary Jones 
 Lizzie R. Jones 
 Robert Davie 
 Walter D. Buchanan 
 Jane D. Buchanan 
 Thomas Kerr 
 Mrs. Kerr 
 
 Feb. g, 1S79. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSIOH 
 
 Mahlon D. Stamback 
 John L T. Luqueer 
 Thomas E. Turner 
 Herbert B. Smith 
 Annie J. Duncan 
 Laura L- Cochrane 
 Annie C. A. Smith 
 S. Barton French 
 Zelie Matti 
 Mary E- Haines 
 Martha Eager 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTIEICATE 
 
 James C. Sheldon 
 Jane M. Sheldon 
 Jeannie Sheldon 
 Emmeline B. Webb 
 Rebecca M. Biggam 
 Eliza Cinnamon 
 F. D. Winston 
 W. McDowell Halaey 
 Wm. Donaldson 
 Thomas B. Stewart 
 Marietta C. Stewart 
 Elizabeth M. Stewart 
 Perez M. Stewart 
 Candace L Sheperd 
 E. Gwynne 
 James F. Brodie 
 B. Howard Bent 
 H. H. Henry 
 J, L. Adams 
 Helen D. Adams 
 J. L. Adams, Jr. 
 K. Smith Blake 
 
 April 10, iSyg. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 James Trimble 
 Martha Trimble 
 Margaret T. Donaldson, 
 Maggie Stratton 
 Cornelia M. Cunningham 
 Marie Louise Campman 
 Marie Scott Boyd 
 Jane O. Thompson 
 Cordelia Burt Abbey 
 Z. Parish Wheeler 
 Eliza Ann Campbell 
 Wm. Van S. Thorne 
 Nellie J. Paton 
 Mary M. Knecht 
 Kate L. Evans 
 Joanna Evans 
 Hannah S. Dillon 
 Cora D. Wyckoff 
 Katie E. Inglis 
 Adam Bruce 
 Damaso Mazaret 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTiEICATE 
 
 Mary Ann Thompson 
 Margaret Shafer 
 Sarah A. Boyd 
 Julia C. Clark 
 Julia G. Clark 
 Samuel Thorne 
 Edwin Thorne 
 Margaret B. Thorne 
 John A. Scribner 
 C. Matilda Strang 
 Henry M. Schiefflin 
 Sarah M. Schiefflin 
 Fanny K. Schiefflin 
 Mary B. Schiefflin 
 J. H. Howard 
 Mary Howard 
 Wm. H. Katzenback 
 Julia E' Katzenback 
 Edwin Langdon 
 Thomas Barclay 
 Eliza Barclay 
 
 May g, iS/g. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Gowdie 
 
 May 2Q, 1879. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
 
 Albertina Niedling 
 Catherine Blackwood 
 Anna H. Kohlsatt 
 Maggie A. Burton 
 
 Jennie McKee 
 Margaret L- Miller 
 Louis L- Jackson 
 Mary L. Chedeayne 
 Caroline D. Chedeayne 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATE 
 
 Langdon C. Easton 
 Elizabeth M. Easton 
 Joseph J. Easton 
 Langdon C. Easton, Jr. 
 Anna L- Stevenson 
 Henry B. Barnes 
 Elizabeth D. Barnes 
 Eugene L- Mapes 
 
 Oct. g, i87g. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSIOH 
 
 John Hutton 
 Enoch Dutcher 
 Agnes Cochrane 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Cora V. Hutton 
 Fanny O. Dutcher 
 Wm. V. Brokaw 
 Elizabeth Brokaw 
 George Munro 
 Catherine F. Munro 
 Nicholas Gwynne 
 James Irvine Beatty 
 Mary P. Adam 
 Maria L. Adam 
 W. G. Boal 
 Edward Gardner 
 Frederick I. Stimson 
 John W. Stimson 
 
 Nov. 6, 1879. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Isabella C. Simpson 
 Thos. C. Donaldson 
 
 Dec. II, i87g. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION" 
 
 Julia B. Tod 
 J. Borden Harriman 
 Elizabeth M. Ford 
 Fanny A. LaForge 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Richard Brown 
 Robert Bruce 
 Ann Bruce 
 Francis H. Leggett 
 Flora Remington 
 John Borland Franklin 
 John K. Tod 
 James Eckerson 
 
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 John E. Eckerson 
 Sarah C. Eckerson 
 Maria E. Eckerson 
 Anna E. Reynolds 
 Ivucy B. Jaudon 
 Daniel B. Hatch 
 Mary E. Hatch 
 Clara B. Hatch 
 
 Feb. 5, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Sarah Blauvelt 
 Lizzie Roder 
 Robert W. DeForest 
 George A. Weber 
 John C. Weber 
 Charles B. Coffin 
 
 ADMITTED BY CRRTlFlCATlt 
 
 Sophia McCready 
 Helen Kilpatrick 
 Frank E- Stewart 
 Caroline B. Alexander 
 Emily J. DeForest 
 Sarah C. Neal 
 Joseph Thomson 
 Jane E. Thomson 
 Catherine Colquhoon 
 
 April 8, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 George S. Bartlett 
 Maitland Alexander 
 Bessie T. Agnew 
 Jessie Reynolds 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Joseph Eabaree 
 Amelia D. Sheffield 
 Annie Murray 
 Wm. B. Jaudon 
 Kate K. Jaudon 
 Eucy A. Jaudon 
 A. Cameron 
 Elizabeth Cameron 
 Robert E. Boyd 
 James Rankine 
 
 ^031 6, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Julia Kenne 
 Mary Brown 
 
 Mamie NicoII 
 
 June 3, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Constance Anerswild 
 
 Lydia E. Sanford 
 Carrie E. Livingston 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Samuel White 
 James Talcott 
 Henrietta E. Talcott 
 Arthur L. Hay 
 Selma E. L. VanDeurs 
 Henry M. VanDeura 
 Micco VanDeurs 
 Eva H. VanDeurs 
 Martha H. VanDeurs 
 Minna Pfeiffer 
 
 Oct. 7, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Isabel Eandreth 
 Emily McCall Sheldon 
 Wm. H. Wallace 
 Louisa HofE 
 Sarah Pearson 
 Charles Kinne 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Edmond Mosher 
 Mary Mosher 
 Casper Baker 
 Emily Dayton 
 Abraham H. Dayton 
 Frederick W. Dayton 
 Mary Alicia Dayton 
 Emily Louisa Dayton 
 
 Dec, 9, 1880. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Fanny J. Young 
 Alice H. Roosevelt 
 Mary Baldwin Hyde 
 Jonathan Sturgea 
 James D. Eakin 
 Lilly Pirie 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Nathaniel Gordon, Jr. 
 John Porter 
 Lizzie Bell 
 Mary T. Lord 
 Mrs. Richard 
 E. H. Amerman 
 Emmeline Esdaile 
 E. A. Stebbins 
 Harry G. Hoff 
 Frederika B. Beales 
 Mary A. Watts 
 C. Amelia Huntoon 
 
 Jan. 6, 1881. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROFESSIOH 
 
 Laura Fisher 
 Margaret Doyle 
 Robert McGregor 
 Annie Glasken 
 Elizabeth Dillon 
 William Ferris 
 William Cook 
 Ule Jensen 
 Eliza Jenson 
 Catherine Voltz 
 Clara M. Standerman 
 Annie Becker 
 Magdalene Bietch 
 Mary Heffe 
 Isabella McHenry 
 Catherine Fentulent 
 Dora Troshurtz 
 John Ahem 
 Ellen Ahern 
 Helmina Sherm 
 Henry White 
 Mary Ann White 
 Frederica Schmidt 
 August Berger 
 Carrie R. Berger 
 Louise Tepp 
 Catherine Koeler 
 Catherine Dietrick 
 Mary F. Dietrick 
 Margaret Metzler 
 Annie Mack 
 Louise Schmidt 
 Daniel Bietch 
 Mary Peterkin 
 Henry Drussa 
 Henry Hammel 
 Theresa Hammel 
 Matilda Betcher 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Kate Elizabeth Watson 
 Feb. 10, 1881. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Rosina Fry 
 Paul Stecker 
 Johanna Stecker 
 John Arnold 
 Margaret Arnold 
 Louisa Bauer 
 Dorothea Batzimaum 
 Dorothea Sierichs 
 Margaret Zeiber 
 Alice Zeiber 
 
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 Margaret Koberich 
 Margaret Metzler 
 Alexander Peterkin 
 Henry J. Wendlekin 
 Slizabeth McAlister 
 Stewart Paton 
 ^liza Brown Lord 
 Alice Jeannette Bliss 
 David J. Jackson 
 Grace Green 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTinCATg 
 
 Agnes McNab 
 Jeannette M. Wheelock 
 Joseph A. Wheelock 
 James Thomas 
 Mrs. Thomas 
 Catherine S. Gilmer 
 Sarah A. Gilmer 
 Martha M. Gilmer 
 David J. Garth 
 Susan C. Garth 
 Albert M. Bigelow 
 Robert J. Carlisle 
 Wm. E. Dodge 
 Frank Ferguson 
 Alexander Pirie 
 Ann Moore 
 ■Catherine McAlister 
 Martha McAlister 
 Abbie Wagenhals 
 
 March lo, iSSi. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROmSIOM 
 
 William Hodgins 
 Maria F. Hodgins 
 Mary Diehl 
 Dora C. Ash 
 Jane Hoey 
 Julia Yeager 
 Francezi Roberts 
 Elizabeth McKee 
 James Davis 
 Catherine Davis 
 Wm. Edwin Davis 
 Martha W. Burton 
 Mary Rice 
 Louisa Euler 
 Caroline Helbert 
 Ann Brown 
 Charlotte Douglas 
 Mary Ann Douglas 
 Catherine A. Clark 
 Mary Oakley 
 Alfred Ranagan 
 Elizabeth Birrell 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza Barnaby 
 Catherine Stoddard 
 Mary E- McKinney 
 Robert McKee 
 James Anderson 
 Rachel B. Anderson 
 Holmes Conk 
 Margaret Burns 
 
 April 7, iS8l. 
 
 ADMITTED OH FROfESSIOH 
 
 James H. Salmon 
 Robert C. Mann 
 Bessie Alexander 
 Augustus R. Moen 
 Horace S. Ely 
 Amelia D. Gorman 
 Fanny R. McComb 
 Adelaide C. Dickinson 
 Frederick B. Ames 
 Francis P. Magoun 
 Mary Alice Smith 
 Wm. J. Wallace 
 Mary Steen 
 Kate E. Macy 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Morton V. Brokaw 
 Fanny R. G. Ely 
 Cornelia H. Coffin 
 Clemina f£. Hamilton 
 Martha J. Sterling 
 June z, 1881. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Henry Wagner 
 Louise Wagner 
 Sophia Loveday 
 Ogaretha E. Goddard 
 Loucia O. Benedict 
 Robert Wilson 
 Mary J. Laville 
 Julia A. Campbell 
 Anna May Shafer 
 Mary Teodoroike 
 Ellen Scott 
 Jennie Scott 
 Elizabeth Fellgraph 
 Eliza McCusdy 
 Catherine Mangold 
 Mary Stephen Rennee 
 Margaret M. Roberts 
 Clara Campmann 
 Otis W. Randall 
 Mary Pettigrew 
 Margaret McElroy 
 Benjamin Parr 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATI 
 
 Jane Ray 
 Joseph Loveday 
 Lydia H. Dunn 
 Walter L. McCorkle 
 Elizabeth Pringle 
 Harriet A. Lee 
 Ellie R. P. C. Randall 
 Theodore D. Bradford 
 Margaret D. Leverich 
 J. Seymour Scott 
 
 Oct. I, :S8i. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Louisa Green 
 Charlotte E. Brown 
 Lizzie C. Sodtzer 
 Edward Y. Weber 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Andrew Reid 
 Sidney E. Sinclair 
 Mary Jane Maitland 
 
 Nov. 10, 1881. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas N. Morrison 
 James K. Scott 
 Andrew Newhall 
 Augustus Phlager 
 Margarette Rubsamon 
 James Sebaugh 
 Christina Koberich 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Isabella McCron 
 Robert Baxter 
 Mrs. Baxter 
 
 Dec. 8, 1881. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John Lorimer Graham 
 Florence Carleton 
 Nannie Gordon French 
 Louis Hallock Schultz 
 Ward Beecker Rowland 
 Frederick D. Winant 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Laura Schultz 
 Rebecca McCarroIl 
 Juliet McCarroU 
 Agnes L. Thompson 
 Annie H, Vermilye 
 
 Jan. s, i88i. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 
 
 Martha Kennedy 
 Emma Geary 
 Herman Hahn 
 
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 Kmma Hahn 
 John Mangold 
 R. F. Adams 
 Ellen S. Adams 
 F. W. Gueist 
 Caroline Mirkall 
 Sophy Harbeck 
 Maria I^. Boppart 
 Eliza VonAesh 
 
 ADMITTED BY C]eRTlFlCATB 
 
 John T. McCann 
 Teresa McCann 
 
 Peh. 9, 1882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Fanny L,. Miller 
 John Jay Barger 
 George B. French 
 Bernard Tucker 
 Wilhilmina M. Tucker 
 Augusta Guerin 
 Minnie Spingler 
 William SoUperon 
 Emma Joyce 
 William H. Moeller 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Lewis A. Hyde 
 Annie Carson Bruce 
 Cordie G. Hammell 
 E. C. Gaffield 
 Margaret Gaffield 
 Annan Sterling 
 Mary A. Sterling 
 Alice Sterling 
 Emma Bishop 
 Henrietta Baker 
 Eleanor L* Blakeman 
 Henry Hammell 
 Theresa Hammell 
 Daniel Winter 
 Hannah Winter 
 Sarah Ann Winter 
 
 March p, 1882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSIOH 
 
 Margaret Meyer 
 Mary Gat el y 
 John Cain 
 Frederick Green 
 Robert Donaldson 
 Edward D. Farrell 
 Frederick Burkhardt 
 Hanna Burkhardt 
 Leonard Zencada 
 George Faulkner 
 
 Lizzie Faulkner 
 Margaret Raven 
 Lawrence Heer 
 Addie Heer 
 Barbora Baxter 
 Charles B. St. Clair 
 Philip Schefer 
 Augusta Surhoff 
 Frederick Surhoff 
 Louisa Rubsamen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza S. Berkeley 
 Robert Duncan 
 Elizabeth Duncan 
 Wm. A. McKinny 
 Eliza J. Wiley 
 Sarah Maclay 
 
 April 6, 1882, 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Helen C. Reed 
 Charles E. Cloud 
 Sophy D. Young 
 Sarah E. Donaldson 
 Sophia L- White 
 James E. Matheson 
 Rudolph G. Berger 
 Eliza Howden 
 Ellen Jane Frazier 
 William S. Inglis 
 Edward D. Smith 
 Mary J. Smith 
 Corinna Smith 
 Sarah O. Agnew 
 Peter Townsend 
 Kinsley Magoun 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Charles B, Jaudon 
 Hannah C. Thompson 
 Christy Ann Campbell 
 Mary D. Van Winkle 
 George P. Hinckey 
 Eliza J. Hinckey 
 Paul Hinckey 
 Mary Hinckey 
 William A. Copp 
 Emily M. Copp 
 Mary Ann B. Sterling 
 Jennie T. Bellups 
 
 May u, 1882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas Guest 
 Alice S. Guest 
 Louisa Harbeck 
 Katie Harbeck 
 
 Julia Howgill 
 Annie McElath 
 Emma Evans 
 Margaret Laidlaw 
 Catherine Waldman 
 Annie Wildey 
 Lena Reinhard 
 Anne Miller 
 Augusta Breul 
 Theresa Greische 
 Eliza Rothe 
 Ida Rothe 
 Philip F. Schefer 
 Jennie Pritchard 
 Louise A. Stock 
 Elizabeth Gueoin 
 Charlotte Muhlberger 
 Wilhelmina Sollheim 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Nancy Orr 
 Ellen Bell 
 John King 
 Ann King 
 
 June I, 1882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOlf 
 
 Helen D. Winant 
 Agnes Carpenter 
 Elzy Burkham 
 Robert J. Hunter 
 Genevieve P. Robbins 
 John H. Giffen, Jr. 
 Maggie L. Giffen 
 Horace E. Garth 
 Lena Garth 
 Jeannie McMahan 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John M. McMahan 
 Mary J. McElroy 
 Cyrus F. Woods 
 Josephine K. Woods 
 Henrietta C. Tubble 
 Alice D. Garth 
 Edward A. Jones 
 William S. Lines 
 Jenny Lines 
 Mabel Lines 
 Mrs. Barger 
 
 Oct. 5, J882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William E. Stevenson 
 Florence McKee 
 Amelia Lambeart 
 George Merchol 
 Lewis Randolph Smith 
 
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 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alice H. Gory 
 
 Bee. 7, 1882. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 
 
 William M. Cowan 
 Anna M. Cowan 
 Maggie Worthington 
 lyena W. Hilbert 
 Rachel Goodwin 
 Hannah Thoman 
 Kliza Pierce 
 Jane Pritchard 
 Maria Anderson 
 Thos. Herbert Williams 
 Anton VonSpengler 
 Catherine Schmidt 
 Minnie Hilser 
 Charles Sollheim 
 Catherine Gruen 
 William Beyer 
 William Scullion 
 Margaret J. Scullion 
 Isabella Wilson 
 Hattie A. Robinson 
 Seth B. Robinson 
 I^izzie B. Zshock 
 Klizabeth G. Munn 
 Annie M. Pultz 
 Jennie K. Fraser 
 I. Q. A. Gilmore 
 Mary L- Walker 
 Catherine E. Walker 
 Stephen O. Todd 
 Edith P. Stratton 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATE 
 
 Wariah I. Davenport 
 William Cochran 
 Margaret I. Cochran 
 John McDonald 
 Mary H. Bogles 
 Kate Koontz 
 Kitty O. K. Smith 
 Alfred I,. Edwards 
 Arabella S. Edwards 
 Anna May Palmer 
 Katy Ha£f 
 William Stevens 
 Robert Dobson 
 
 Feb. 8, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
 
 Gertrude B. Tefft 
 Maggie Mclntyre 
 I^ouis Smith 
 Edwin Augustus Richard 
 
 Edgar M. Smith 
 Arthur Irving Taylor 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Kate Murchison 
 Jeannie E. Murchison 
 Frank W. Taf t 
 Mary Abigail Mellick 
 
 March 8, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Lillie Kennedy 
 Margaret Dickinson 
 Mary Jane Campbell 
 Emma E- Scott 
 John Schefer 
 Alfred Nelson 
 Grace Nelson 
 Maggie I. Andrews 
 William Granger 
 Catherine D. Robinson 
 Julia Crawford 
 Audrey T. Crawford 
 Jessie A. Sloane 
 Isaac A. Edmonds 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John Brown 
 Lizzie Brown 
 Adolphus N. Tucker - 
 Elizabeth McColl 
 Mary Nicol 
 Mary Riley 
 Emily Lauderbach 
 Ettie Lauderbach 
 George M. Grant 
 Ella W. Grant 
 
 May 31, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Anderson 
 Margaret Worthington 
 Susie Day 
 Mary Teodovski 
 Maxaraillian Teodovski 
 Henry Raven 
 Minnie Burton 
 Ella B. A. Tucker 
 Josephine A. Thomson 
 Nancy McHravy 
 Margaret Berrian 
 lyuola Murchison 
 Frank M. Hurlbut 
 Albert E. Seibert 
 Kate Morgan Brookfield 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 James Eadie 
 
 J. Mackensie Eadie 
 Mary K. McLauchlin 
 Susanna L. W. Marshall 
 Charles Hamilton 
 Rachel A. Hamilton 
 George Oliver 
 Sarah J. Olicer 
 Nettie Smith 
 John H. Magowan 
 
 Oct. II, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 lyizetta Maria Bahr 
 Ida Berger 
 Annette Berger 
 Sarah 1^. Meeks 
 James Hall 
 Josephine Treat 
 Mary Valentine 
 Martha H. Meyers 
 Edwin H. Burgess 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 
 
 Edward A. Treat 
 Alice Paterson 
 Augusta A. Thomas 
 Charles M. Jesup 
 Catherine Jesup 
 Charles S. Campbell 
 
 Nov. 8, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Richard Blauvelt 
 Margaret Blauvelt 
 Frances R. Hamilton 
 Eouisa Guyer 
 Mary Rose 
 
 Dec. 6, 1883. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Albert Bechtold 
 
 Sarah Jane Griffin 
 
 August Leiler 
 
 Flora Leiler 
 
 Bernard Joseph Tucker 
 
 Jane White 
 
 Mary Elizabeth White 
 
 John White 
 
 Jane Elizabeth Smith 
 
 Letitia Young 
 
 Eliza Jane McKinty 
 
 Elizabeth Mank 
 
 Christina Stroud 
 
 Robert G. Stroud 
 
 Thomas A. Campbell 
 
 Katy Day 
 
 Archibald Bishop 
 
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 Elias Burton Hart, Jr. 
 Charles I. Hart 
 Henry W. Hetherington 
 Susie L. Duncan 
 Louise It. Fraker 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTlFlCATfi 
 
 Julia E- Cragin 
 Rebecca I^adew 
 Elisha R. Wheelock 
 Frankie M. Wheelock 
 Nathan Henry Sabin 
 Mrs. Sabin 
 George B. Sterling 
 Annie Smith 
 E. Burton Hart 
 Harriet A. Hart 
 Lee Canfield Hart 
 Henry H. Benedict 
 Maria Benedict 
 John McFeeters 
 James McFeeters 
 George Hunter Brown 
 Rachel B, Brown 
 James Brown 
 Maria Murray Brown 
 George Hunter Brown, Jr. 
 Danl. Wheeler Brown 
 Margaret M. Hotchkiss 
 Sarah H. Porter 
 Cornelia B. Hotchkiss 
 Myra R. Hotchkiss 
 H. h. Ladew 
 J, H. Ladew 
 
 Jan. 10, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Samuel Flannigan 
 Charles Cretty 
 
 Jan. 22, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary McGronan 
 Pauline Gravenich 
 Sarah Lang 
 George H. Devine 
 Margaret Schuhmacker 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Edwin F. Stanley 
 Feb. 6, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Annie C. Rinner 
 John Hogg 
 Jeanet Hogg 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTIPICATE 
 
 Jane Anderson 
 
 William Main 
 Annie Main 
 Stephen K. Crowell 
 Mary A. Crowell 
 David Burns 
 Mrs. Burns 
 Daniel S. Remsen 
 
 April 10, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOIT 
 
 Eliza Schmalz 
 Ivanna Hoef ele 
 Matilda Marx 
 Henrietta Maurer 
 William Martin 
 
 Louise Townsend RerasonLauncelot Sleigh 
 Joseph F. Freibley 
 Feb. 7, 1884. Lilliam Gwynne 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Henry A. Wisewood 
 
 Mary J. Andresen 
 H. Caroline Andresen 
 Robert S. Morris, M.D. 
 Jane A. Moorhead 
 Barbora F. Munro 
 Richard M. Laimbeor 
 Douglas Ewell 
 Carrie Ewell 
 David D. Schenck 
 Katherine Kaltinbeck 
 Edith W. Carpenter 
 Gertrude H. Abbey 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary M. Stewart 
 Louisa Darche 
 Francis H. Amidon 
 Ann Amidon 
 Marian B. Arms 
 Maria Chalmers 
 Kate Chalmers 
 Mary Snively 
 Edward Lapsley 
 William L. Miller 
 Olivia M. Brice 
 
 March 8, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maggie Margaret 
 Donaldson 
 Maggie Irons 
 Alexander Roy 
 Kate Roy 
 Matilda Barton 
 Margaret Cartwright 
 Sarah Rafferty 
 Barbara Glimmenschmidt 
 
 Edith Agnew 
 Catherine Nash Agnew 
 Louisa H. Southwick 
 Agnes C. Inglis 
 Grace L- Houghton 
 Louisa Sheffield Brownell 
 Henry Ivison Parsons 
 Francis Edgar Talcott 
 Arthur Whiting Talcott 
 Nathan W. Horton 
 Effie Penniman 
 Jessie P. Andresen 
 Eudora Symington 
 William H. Frame 
 Edward C. Moen 
 Charles Counon 
 Mary B. Glenn 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Sarah C. Sloane 
 William Smith 
 John Smith 
 
 J. Gardner Hammer, Jr. 
 Anna B. McClelland 
 Nannie M. Grinnell 
 Frank Cazenove Jones 
 Emily Mullholland 
 
 May 8, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maggie Wilson 
 Katherine E. WooUey 
 Lottie Berkeley 
 James Donaldson 
 Carrie Burchart 
 Arthur Pierce 
 Thomas Reid 
 William Patterson 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Henry Cleavy 
 Robert Young John Stephenson 
 
 Peter Bruce Maria C. Stephenson 
 
 James Bruce Martha McClellan 
 
 Mary Craig Bella LeMount 
 
 Jane M. Craig Bella S. Pine 
 
 Ann Smith Samuel McCartney 
 
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 ADMITTED BY CBRTiFicaTS ADMITTED BY CERTiJicaTB Sarah p. Dixon 
 Robert Brown Adeline S. Martin James Reynolds 
 
 Charles C. McCarty 
 S. H. Russell 
 Guide Bossard 
 Kmily Charles 
 C. J. Hanson 
 Frank Hall Wright 
 Annie S. Barrett 
 
 Annie Brown 
 James Miller 
 Anna Kinley 
 lyizzie Wright 
 Jennie Hunter 
 John Parker Cassidy 
 
 May 29, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROf^SSIOH 
 
 Maria Jane Schafer 
 Caroline Mahl 
 ijmma L. Leistner 
 Sarah L. Jather 
 Anna Weir 
 Ivizzie Muhlberger 
 Ivouisa Bechtoldt 
 Anna Benhard 
 William Seiwert 
 Maria Ivouisa Shepard 
 Mary Adelaide Ulman 
 Helen Warren Ulman 
 Ida Baldwin Carleton 
 Fielding Gwynn 
 Sarah A. Symington 
 
 Nov. 6, 1884. 
 
 Mrs. Reynolds 
 
 S. M. Blakeley 
 
 Samuel M. Woodbridge 
 
 Elizabeth B: Woodbridge 
 
 E. A. Perkins 
 
 Sarah Hall 
 
 S. Edwina Brown 
 
 Robert K. Wick 
 
 Ivan P. Balabanoff 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Charles Davy 
 
 Minnie D. Bunker 
 Katie Roese 
 Catherine M. layman 
 Lizzie Miller 
 Edith S. H. Hahn 
 Mary Dixon Karr 
 Jane Mclven 
 Edward Gumbart 
 Robert Hunter 
 Jane Ann Calhoon 
 Sadie Wilson Fallgroff 
 Emily P. Hoepner 
 Maggie Miller 
 James Ackerson 
 
 Evelyn Susan Thompson Theresa Trossi 
 
 Samuel Semmes 
 Jane Renan 
 
 Jan. 8, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROT'ESSIOIT 
 
 Pauline Departi 
 Margaret A. Reid 
 Mary Hammell 
 George McCartney 
 George Waldman 
 William Birrell 
 Annie A. Powell 
 Alice Salt 
 Lena Muhlberger 
 Kate Bechtoldt 
 
 Agnes Helen Davis 
 Charles F. Frothingham 
 Mary M. Frothingham 
 John W. Dowling, Jr. 
 George B. Dowling 
 George A. Dixon, M.D. 
 George Bliss Agnew 
 Cornelius R. Agnew, Jr. 
 Harriet A. Eckerson 
 Grace E. Bliss 
 David C. McBride 
 
 Eliza McCartney ^ , „„ 
 
 Feb. 5, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John Greeve 
 James Haughey 
 Maria Haughey 
 Eliza Haughey 
 Violet Haughey 
 Mary Dick 
 Mary E. Renner 
 
 Dec. II, 1884. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Augusta C. Winkhaus 
 Harold W. Armstrong 
 Bessie Symington 
 Janet B. Campbell 
 Emma J. Frame 
 A. H. Eipsett 
 Henrietta M. E« Kimber 
 Maria B. Kimber 
 Louisa VanRensselaer 
 
 John K. Moore Joanna Reclilin 
 
 Elizabeth Moore Thomas Martin 
 
 Anna Duncan Sarah Ann Irwin 
 
 Thomas Davidson Henry Lewis Stimson 
 
 Maggie E. Doig Candace C. Stimson 
 
 Julia C. Fowler Wesley Fisk Smith 
 
 Jennie P. Brown Caroline L. Gorman 
 
 Anna Knox Mclntyre John G. Hurmuze 
 
 P. McCombie Edith Sinclair 
 
 Harriet F. Kelley Ernest H. Lines 
 
 Elizabeth Hopkins Ada Gwynne 
 
 Oct. g, 1884. ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE MarcH 12, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frances Mary Chapin admitted on proFESSIOK 
 
 Arthur Evans Dornin Charlotte Judson Blake Margaret Gray 
 
 Sarah Cecil Henrietta Blake Emilie Hand 
 
 Mary Campbell Frances Blake Annie Shaw Ackerson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATB 
 
 Gustave Burkle 
 Maggie Campbell 
 Percy L- Klock 
 Joanna R. Auchincloss 
 Titus K. Smith 
 Mrs. Vanghan 
 James R. Hatmaker 
 Anna A. Brace 
 Franklin W. Carlisle 
 Dorothea E. Ltindahl 
 
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 Centennial Celebration of tlje 
 
 Katie K* Ackerson 
 William Meigh 
 Matilda Meigh 
 James Karr 
 Minnie Gumbart 
 Robert Boyd 
 Etta Barton 
 Fanny Mends 
 Ellen Cameron 
 Jane Wright 
 Katie Ellis 
 Margaret Barton 
 John McKenzie Scott 
 
 April 9, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary A. Bottsford 
 Rhoda A. Brannigan 
 Adelaide Makin 
 Kate Bortfeldt 
 Howard C. Phillips, Jr. 
 Andrew J. Garvey 
 Isabella Garvey 
 George T. Slade 
 Henry V. D. Black 
 Howard W. Charles 
 Mabel VanRensselaer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza Westervelt 
 H. M. Alford 
 Constant A. Andrews 
 Mrs, Andrews 
 Andrew McCosh, M.D. 
 Hartune S. Jenanyan 
 Agnes Mason 
 Catherine McCoU 
 Christina McCoU 
 
 May 7, 2885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 David Henry Miller 
 Mary A. Murray 
 Alta Myra Jost 
 Lizzie Cunningham 
 Lizzie Merkell 
 John Aird 
 P. J. Bolton 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary S. Rannie 
 Peter Gait 
 Eliza Gait 
 Lena W<ber 
 
 June 4, 188!,, 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Akin 
 
 Wilhelmina Busse 
 Elizabeth Frische 
 Josephine Fallei 
 Ellen J. McHenry 
 Margaret A. Lena 
 Cora Cutter 
 Jennie Logan Dills 
 Adele DeBourgeois 
 
 Chapin 
 Sarah D. Raymond 
 William A. Britton 
 Sidney Dillon 
 William D. Stewart 
 John H. Franklin 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Garret F. Wortendyke 
 Emily F. Wortendyke 
 Isaac Adviance 
 Thomas Newell 
 Teresa C. Webster 
 D. R. Rodgers 
 Elizabeth VanZellor 
 
 Oct. 8, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Wittie C. Johnson 
 Alexander Cunningham 
 Annie Birrell 
 Meta F. Labaree 
 Sarah Frances Hall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 I. C. Martin 
 J. E. Ducle 
 John L- Penman 
 Mary DeWitt Cuyler 
 Cornelius C. Cuyler 
 Eleanor D. G. Cuyler 
 John L- Fruauf 
 Justine D. Fruauf 
 
 Nov. 5, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas H. Gray 
 Susan Gray 
 
 John Henry W. Giesche 
 Jeanet Stewart Aird 
 Annie Argo Gibson 
 Prudence Amxwell 
 Alexander Stewart 
 Elizabeth Stewart 
 William Pierson 
 Augusta Pierson 
 Margaret Reincke 
 Julia Loelbrich 
 Mary E. Steinbacker 
 Susie Martin 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTXPICATS 
 
 John McLean 
 E. McLean 
 William B. Smith 
 Robert Stewart 
 Robert Graham 
 Susan Graham 
 
 Dec. JO, 1885. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FR0FS5SION 
 
 Eliza Whinton 
 Katie G. Bang 
 
 Adele Weber 
 John P. Sheridan 
 Elizabeth W. Duncan 
 Mary Wilson 
 Mary Faller Sturgcs 
 Louis H. Blakeman 
 Alice Brown Lee 
 Marion Lee 
 Joel Wolfe Thorne 
 Samuel Thorne 
 Emma Pauline Wild* 
 George C. Burgeois 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alfred Von der Muhll 
 Anna Von der Muhll 
 Corinne Flint 
 William Dulles, Jr. 
 Alice E. R- Carrington 
 Sarah W. Mott- 
 W. A. Tucker 
 Addie Tucker 
 Jacob Fruauf 
 Emilie Fruauf 
 George J. Fruauf 
 Charlotte S. Fruauf 
 Philip W. Fruauf 
 William E. Wheelock 
 Henry E. Rowland 
 Ella L. Rowland 
 Sarah T. Fuller 
 Dwight B. Hunt, M. D. 
 Fanny H. Hunt 
 Mary L- Francis 
 
 Jan. 7, 1886. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mary Seltzer 
 Mary Lyon 
 Mary Buckhardt 
 Maggie Humphrey 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATK 
 
 Edward E. Williams 
 Jenny McComb Greer 
 Mary O'Brien 
 Emma Humphrey 
 
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 I^eh. II, 1886. Margaret Morrison Caroline Muller 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION David Morrison, Jr. Mary Kurz 
 
 James McClurg Janet E. Hutchison Marian G. Bradford 
 
 Gertrude Tod Harry B. Guyton 
 
 Fanny R, Perkins ' * Robert M. Beggs 
 
 #^ ■»«- T. X ADMITTED ON PROEESSION „ , /~» t» ■ 
 
 George M. Paton v ^ -o ^ ■ Helen O. Brice 
 
 «„. ,, » t K.ate Bernstein -,,,.,,. n, ,, ^ 
 
 Effie M. Andresen , - -„■ William M. McGaw 
 
 Poultney Bigelow MaryHassmger William W. Hall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTIFICAT8 ■''""^ 3, iSS6. Helen W. Eulkley 
 
 Hester Crispell admittsd on profession Margaret A. Inglis 
 
 John M. Bopp Eliza Richard Alice T. Crawford 
 
 Margaret H. Bopp Caroline D. Morrison Emily V. Sloane 
 
 Ivouisa L. Williams ^^'^ Smedberg Alice V. Shepard 
 
 Susannah W. Hibbard Adele L. French John H. VanVorst 
 
 Sarah E Tucker Samuel S. Skinner Clarence A. Cameron 
 
 John D. Ivocke ^- Alice Beggs admitted by certificats 
 
 Eugene Stieger Stuart Duncan Charles Rutherford 
 
 Mary J. Powell Susan E. Hall Harry B. Tolles 
 
 Emma J. Powell ^'^^"^ Sylvie Fowler Mary D. Carbee 
 
 Anna N. Powell admitted by certificate ^- ^- ^ritton 
 
 Flora R. Brown Jardine Wallace K. Dickinson Jewett 
 
 Gertrude Brown Mary Davidson ^lise S. Jewett 
 
 Anna R. Brown Agnes P. Brown Nydie Dockey 
 
 Agnes M. Brown Jennie P. Black 
 
 March ll, 1886. Charles G. Barrett 
 
 admitted on peofeSSIOS Oct. 7, 1SS6. Ann l^. Barrett 
 
 Frances Green admitted on profession Mary J. Skidraore 
 
 Gustie Rose Lizzie Graham Agnes Robertson 
 
 Katie Merkell Mary McKinley Adolph Obrig 
 
 Mary Mane Annie Hassinger Qara Obrig 
 
 Hans Johnston 
 
 April 8, 1S86. j^^^jg^ gi„„gy Jan. 6, 1887- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION JJ^fj] JJ^ ^ BrOWnell ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth P. Brookes Augustus luttman Florence MoUan 
 
 May Armour Donald M. Shearer 
 
 Florence Adele Sloane admitted by CERTIFICATE jj^^y ^^^,^^ 
 
 Henriette Eyonette °^^^^ ,,1 Christine St. Clair 
 
 Edith Shepard ?^^'l ^^,t" , Margaret Speck 
 
 Bertha A Punke Josephine Wheeler 
 
 win;. V q Punke Charles W. Meloney admitted by ceetificatB 
 
 Emilie F. S. Pupke Antionette B Tavlor ^"^^ ^- Glenn 
 
 Annie P. Walker , * ? , ,, „ i 
 
 Jessie L.Murchison I. B. Adger Mullally p^^ ^^^ ^^g^_ 
 
 Mary D. Campman f^oy_ jj^ jgg^. admitted on profession 
 
 Josephine M. Cook admitted on profession Charles Schultze 
 
 Henry K. Pryor Alexander Donaldson Catherine B. Moeller 
 
 admitted by CERTIFICATE William James Frost Charlotte Weiss 
 
 Wiley I. Canfield William Haughey Minnie l^. Weber 
 
 Jennie S. Cruikshank Edward Bottenus Emma T. Weber 
 
 Agnes Whiting admitted by certificate Nellie L. Sheridan 
 
 Alexander Cameron Edward McMullan Emma Gallup 
 
 Jennie Cameron Mary McMullan ^ary Metzler 
 
 Jessie M. Cameron Samuel Graham P*"""= ^- Heieleman 
 
 Mary A. Smith Bertha Piepenburg 
 
 Annie C. M. Hillsnan Dec. 9, 1886. Martha Wenz 
 
 David Morrison admitted on profession Sarah E. Armstrong 
 
 Elizabeth J. Morrison John Muller Hana G. Armstrong 
 
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 Annie K. Katzenbach 
 William C. Dornin, Jr. 
 Harriet V. Crocker 
 Alexes B. Garretsoa 
 
 Maud Irving 
 James A. Macaulay 
 Thomas R. A. Hall 
 Henry T. Hotchkiss 
 Maria J. Gulbraudsen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEKTI^lCATa 
 
 Eliza A. Blake 
 Harriet C. Blake 
 Annie Blake 
 Sarah Hall 
 Harvey E. Fisk 
 Mary I*. Fisk 
 Jane A. Havens 
 Susan M. Havens 
 Clarence L, I^ewis^Jr. 
 
 March 10, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROEESSZON 
 
 Mary Anderson 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Thomas Scott 
 
 April 7, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 William McCullough 
 Clara Kisprish 
 James I^. Washburn 
 Alfred C. Cameron 
 George E- Grover 
 Sarah M. Mitchell 
 Eleanor O. Brownell 
 Elizabeth W. Barnes 
 Henry B. Barnes, Jr. 
 Lillian A. Hall 
 Wm. B. Lauderback 
 Douglass Knox 
 Mary D. Knox 
 Jane McClelland 
 Frederick B. Fainton 
 Maltus I. Newman 
 Jacob M. Newman 
 W. S. Eauderback 
 Josephine Hall 
 Albert W. Lilienthall 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICATB 
 
 Sarah Reid 
 S. E. McCombie 
 Oliver Prentice 
 E. H. Sniffer 
 Maggie Ingram 
 
 May 4, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 George A. Duncan 
 James Clelland 
 Henry Clelland 
 Ann McFeat 
 Annie Webb 
 Alexander McFadden 
 Catherine McFadden 
 Hugh McCutchin 
 Nellie Graham 
 Emilie Rosch 
 Susan Flanigan 
 E. D. Robertson 
 Emma Holmes 
 Katie Burn side 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Eliza Black 
 
 June 2, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Julius J, Herriman 
 
 Mary Thomson 
 Russel H. Stebbins 
 Samuel S. Stebbins 
 Florence R. Carey 
 Emily A. Wilson 
 May Mclntyre 
 Malcolm Graham, Jr. 
 William A. Richmond 
 Eydia Hutchinson 
 Lizzie McMuUan 
 Mary J. McMullan 
 Margaret C. Kurz 
 Mamie E. Reineke 
 Thomas Hudson 
 Lillian Lees 
 Mary Proudfit Irvin 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mary J. Graham 
 Alice S. Stebbins 
 Elizabeth W. Simmons 
 Sarah Hudson 
 Jeanette H. Judd 
 Mrs. Samuel McCIure 
 
 Nov, JO, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 David Cunningham 
 Edward Charles Lane 
 
 Dec. 8, 1887. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Anna Maria Stehli 
 Anne S. Agnew 
 Maud Anna Earger 
 
 Edna Barger 
 Reuben Ross 
 Henry C. Meyer, Jr. 
 Robert Irwin. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS. 
 
 Emile Stepli 
 Josephine W. Miller 
 Samuel Goeise 
 Samuel Milliken, Jr. 
 Hattie F. Milliken 
 Edward F. Milliken 
 Foster Milliken 
 Carie F. Milliken 
 Hannah E. Dixon 
 Dorothea E. Lundahl 
 Oliver P. Lewis 
 
 Jan. 5, 1S88. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Lizzie Yost 
 
 Feb. g, 1888. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth C. LeBourgeois 
 Samuel M. Blakely 
 Caroline Emanuel 
 William Sloane 
 Alexander A. Richmond 
 John D. Ormsby 
 Edgar S. Auchincloss, Jr. 
 Lilly Whinton 
 Daniel McFadden 
 Christian Shue 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE' 
 
 Mary L. Morris 
 Susanna Potter 
 Mariana M. Lynke 
 Mary McKinnon 
 Lizzie Shields 
 Lizzie Madill 
 Emma Ormsby 
 Eliza Montgomery 
 Frank E. Hoskins 
 Nathaniel M. Bennett 
 Malcolm C. Thompson 
 McL. P. Stevenson 
 
 March 8, 1888, 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Michael Mantel 
 Wm. Cunningham 
 Mamie Andrews 
 
 ■^pril 5, 1888. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Maggie McNab 
 Robert McNab 
 
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 Frances Rice 
 Chu Hum 
 
 Minnie P. C. Meyer 
 Elizabeth O. Brower 
 Isabella £^. lycech 
 William A. Campbell 
 Ida C. Alcott 
 Mary B. Green 
 Nellie Mclntyre 
 Samuel S. Auchincloss 
 William R. Wright 
 Martha M. Hall 
 Agnes H. Hall 
 Archibald D. Davis 
 Mary E- Davis 
 David H, Taylor 
 Camille T. G. Hientze 
 Alexander McNichol 
 Frances Steele 
 
 Oct. IX, 1888. Lewis Ross 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Isabella Ross 
 
 Frank I^avery 
 Augusta Wintermeyer 
 Mamie Fintolet 
 Elizabeth Byle 
 Francis Loveday 
 Edward Raid 
 John Herndon French 
 Sarah Ann Spies 
 Cochrane 
 Horace Porter, Jr. 
 Jennie F. Inman 
 Willie I^ee Inman 
 Margaret Grace Inman 
 
 ADMITTED BY C^RTlfZCATS 
 
 Robert Fisher 
 Mrs. Fisher 
 Wesley F. Smith 
 
 ADMITTED BY certiJICats Nettie Smith 
 
 William H. Law 
 Anna C. Eee 
 Irvin M. Landis 
 Isaac Sluth 
 Laura Ellinwood 
 Mary G. Ellinwood 
 Laura H. Ellinwood 
 Carrie H. Lines 
 
 May 31, 1888. 
 
 admitted on profession 
 James Notton 
 Emma Notton 
 Sarah Louisa Notton 
 William Notton 
 Mary Jane Perpenbring 
 Eliza I. Ott 
 Louis Salzman 
 William Stewart McNab 
 Matilda Stephenson 
 Jennie G. E. Andresen 
 Elizabeth Hawxhurst 
 
 Crawford 
 Emma J. Foster 
 John Stuart White 
 Annie Smith Carey 
 Grace Brett Carey 
 
 admitted by certificate 
 Gustavus Gutbub 
 Joseph Corbit 
 Ellen Corbit 
 Choo Took 
 Harriet C. Robinson 
 Mary L- Robinson 
 Amanda M. Skinner 
 
 Elizabeth O'Neill 
 Hilah Cronk 
 Fred John Cage 
 Lizzie Cage 
 
 William Morrison 
 
 Dec. 6, 2888, 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSXOK 
 
 Emily Page 
 Eloise Stevenson 
 Matilda Ormsby 
 Clara Richmond 
 
 Brandford 
 Samuel Morris Pentland 
 Henry M. Andresen 
 Mary A. Doherty 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIEICAT8 
 
 Jane Jackson 
 R, McBratney 
 Howard Payson Wilds 
 Judson Boardman Wilds 
 James Muir 
 Margaret Farmer Muir 
 Isabella Ross Muir 
 Margaret I. Muir 
 M. McGinniss 
 Halda L. Labaree 
 Maria Moreland 
 Agnes Robertson 
 
 Peb. 7, 1889. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Ida Guerin 
 Katie Loez 
 James Morrison 
 James Clark 
 Mamie Irons 
 Lizzie Roebeck 
 Charles Roebeck 
 William MacGregor 
 Margaret Ann Irwin 
 Jung Look 
 Henry C. Adams 
 Letitia Laughlan 
 Annie Doscher 
 Louis Gross Smith 
 Johnston DeForest 
 Thomas H. Burton 
 Maria Morrison 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 W. J. Green Alexander Weir 
 
 Hannah Jane McComb Mary Weir 
 
 Green Maria Haughey 
 
 Marion Murray Cash 
 Agnes Black 
 Mrs. Martin 
 William Henry Stuart 
 James McAdoo Wilson 
 Frances Christie 
 
 McCormack 
 Isabella McCormack 
 Annie Shaw Frazer 
 Janie Anstell Swann 
 
 Nov. 7, 1888. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOH 
 
 Anne Morrison 
 Lena Gardner 
 Carrie Murphy 
 Mary M. Duncan 
 Margaret Richmond 
 Maggie Thoman 
 George W. Wylie 
 Bertha Bachtold 
 Ida I. Burton 
 Sarah Burnie 
 Maggie McLean 
 Washington I. Moore 
 Emma L- Moore 
 William I. McKenzie 
 
 Shearer 
 Annie Smith 
 Mary Mettal 
 Nettie Handt 
 
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 Eliza Haughey 
 
 Violet Hughes 
 Maggie Haughey 
 James E. Haughey 
 John Brown 
 Elizabeth Brown 
 Mary Rice 
 Wilhelmina Buttle 
 Robert Hillis 
 John Miller 
 Mary E- Corbit 
 Margaret Gair 
 Sophia Gilmour 
 Bella Watson 
 James H. Schmelzel 
 Annie lyouise Schmelzel 
 Mary Norman 
 
 Mary McGay 
 Oliver G. Prescott 
 I. C. Marshall 
 Isabella Gardiner 
 Nancy Irwin 
 Hariman Slingerland 
 Annie Margareth Victor 
 
 May 15, 1889. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PttOPESSION 
 
 I^izzie Walgner 
 Louise Burkardt 
 Agnes Iv. Ramppen 
 Florence Spoule 
 P. William Gatt 
 Louise Pfluger 
 Katie Euler 
 Gussie Giesche 
 Martha Burton 
 Dors Zander 
 Dors Roebeck 
 Clara Failes 
 Lizzie Mebin 
 ADMITTED BY CSRTI«CAT8 ^^^j^ McCartney 
 
 f"-^'" ^ M.F. Pfluger 
 
 Joseph Dunbar 
 
 Peter Grant i^^y 30, 1SS9. 
 
 ADMITTSD ON PROFESSION 
 
 April II, 1SS9. Henry S. Thompson 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frank Joseph Bristol 
 
 March 8, 1SS9. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Peter Euler 
 Mary Chatterton 
 
 Rose Merkall 
 Arthur Scholl 
 August Gahrmann 
 Minnie Gahrmann 
 Mamie Aitken 
 Augusta Reineke 
 George F. Vietor 
 Emma C. VanBoskerck 
 
 I t 11 /^ 1. -K/r V ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Isabella Graham Marbury ^^^^.^ ^.^^.^^^ 
 
 Archer Coit Sinclair 
 Miss Lulu Woodville 
 
 Cragin 
 Mrs. Rosa Hellen Koster 
 Miss Meta Rosa Koster 
 Miss Lillie Forecamp 
 Minnie Cochrane 
 
 Elizabeth A. Fraser 
 Emily Madill 
 William H. Brown 
 Marie Louise Mott 
 Margaret Elliott 
 Arthur Herbert Bliss 
 Magdalena Heintze 
 James Green Carson 
 
 Miss Sarah I. Walsh 
 Miss Sarah McPhail 
 Miss Emma C. Jenkins 
 John Thomas Trimble 
 Christina McKenzie 
 
 Oct. 10, J88g. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 West Montgomery CarsonMiss Susannah Preston 
 Lizzie Evelyn Beggs i^egg 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Mabel Hedges 
 Edward Munro 
 Bridget Munro 
 
 Catherine McDonald 
 Chu Jim 
 D. Milton Fish 
 James McGay 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Ackerman 
 James Turner Ackerman 
 Allen Barr 
 
 Miss Laura Withington 
 David H. Irwin 
 
 Warner VanNorden 
 
 Mrs. Martha P. 
 
 VanNorden 
 
 Miss Emma P. Van- 
 Norden 
 
 Warner VanNorden, Jr. 
 
 Theodore L- VanNorden 
 
 Miss Margaret Currie 
 
 Miss Maggie Cooper 
 
 Joseph Baillie 
 
 Mrs. Agnes Galway 
 
 Mrs. Maria Donnelly 
 
 Nov. 7, 1889. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Lena Smith 
 Miss Magdelen Freyer 
 Miss Elsie Schorm 
 
 Dec. 5, 1889. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Jane Lynn 
 
 Benjamin W. B. Brown 
 
 Chu Ahr Chew 
 
 James Anderson Hawes 
 
 Mary Eliza Irwin 
 
 Miss Alice Warner Work 
 
 Miss Sallie Duncan Work 
 
 Miss Mabel W. Work 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Thomas Gwin 
 Granville Ryan Smith 
 Mrs. Annie Dickinson 
 
 Smith 
 Mrs. Ellen C. McLain 
 Miss May C. McLain 
 Charles I. McLain 
 Ralph McLain 
 James Cunningham 
 Mrs. NicoU 
 George Irvine 
 Mrs. Annie Hopper 
 John A. Brown 
 
 Peb. 6, 1890. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Thomas Kerr 
 John Morgan 
 Thomas Grey 
 Albert S. Flannigan 
 Miss Ollie H. 
 
 LaChappelle 
 Miss Augusta E. 
 
 Mandelton 
 Miss Mary E. Bailey 
 Mrs. Katie Loos 
 Mrs. Mary Stevert 
 
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 Miss I^ouisa Lechte 
 
 Mrs. Bertha I^onicke Mrs. Mary Townson 
 
 Frederick Thor Sheldon 
 
 I^ouis Siebert Colin lyivingstone 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Hanische Miss Mary Ann Devany 
 
 Daniel Henry Rohrabaughjohn Newbold 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Newbold 
 Frederick Notton 
 Mrs. Annie Rice 
 
 Charles Magnus 
 
 Mrs. Amanda Geisel 
 Mrs. Mary M. 
 
 Featherstonc 
 Miss Dora Cecilia 
 
 Sievert 
 Miss Catherine Mercer 
 
 Glassy 
 Miss Helen Slls Homans 
 Neill MacNeill 
 
 James Cunningham 
 John C. Martin 
 Mrs. Kmily D. Martin 
 Mrs. Annie C. Spencer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Brookz 
 Miss Catherine Clara 
 Brookz 
 May ?2, 1890. ^^^^ ^^'"^ ^- Douglas 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^°'^^ Heron 
 Walter Dunn ^^S' Marietta P. Smith 
 
 Mrs. Martha Mana Dunn Nov. 6 1800. 
 
 Miss LilHe Adams admitted on proeession 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE William Gardinier Mrs Joanna Benge 
 
 Mrs. Sarah C. Andrews Miss Elizabeth I. GiUespiechauncey Chadwick 
 Miss Blanche %. Roscoe Elliott F. Shepardjr. Mrs. Elizabeth Chadwick 
 
 H. A. Underwood jesse P. Whiton Miss I^ucy Green 
 
 Dr. Samuel Alexander d^. Edwin R. ChadbourneMiss Annie Rosch 
 James A. VanWagenen Miss Katie Rosch 
 Miss Alice Maud Taintor admitted by certificate 
 admitted by certificate Samuel Fisher 
 Augustus W. Pfluger 
 Mrs. Ada Rothe Pfluger 
 Miss Mar]orie Elhnwoodp^^.^j wm^m Trimble 
 Miss Jeannie Ellmwood j^^^ ^^^^^ j^ ^ 
 Miss Ivucy Eninwcod 
 Mrs. Almira D. Sherwood 
 
 Samuel B. Schiefielin 
 Mrs. Lucretia Hazard 
 
 Schieffelin 
 Miss Jessie Asher 
 Mrs. Josephine Buroonz 
 
 Conkling 
 ■^Mrs. Delia M. Conkling 
 March 6, 1890. Moller 
 
 admitted on profession D. Paul Borleigh 
 
 George Riley 
 William Bierman 
 
 Conkling 
 Miss Natalie Burleigh 
 
 Conkling 
 Miss Edith Wylde 
 
 April JO, 1890. 
 admitted on profession 
 Miss Ivouise Delaplaine 
 
 Rowland 
 Winthrop Bliss 
 Miss Cora Louise 
 
 VanNorden 
 William Wirt. Phillips 
 Miss Ethel Copp 
 James Mcl^ain 
 Miss Marion Pierce 
 
 Champlin 
 Miss Ettie Amelia Jordan Miss lyizzie Kramer 
 Mrs. Anna Louise Albert Guerin 
 
 Livingstone Thomas Reineke 
 
 Mrs. Estelle Chamberlain John Miller 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE John HolHngS 
 
 Mrs. Mary G. Janeway Charles M. Grevning 
 
 0-ct. 9, i8go. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles Graham 
 Miss Lizzie Waldman 
 Miss Susie Gardner 
 Miss Ella Meyer 
 Miss Martha Henning 
 Mrs. Sophia Sievert 
 Miss Minnie Gutbub 
 Miss Francis Forecamp 
 
 Mrs. Jane Wilkie 
 Miss Annie Wilkie 
 Herman Warzawiak 
 Miss Maggie McCreery 
 
 Mrs. Mary Breitfield 
 Mrs. Catharine Henser 
 Charles Kramer 
 Adam McMullen 
 
 Dec. II, 1890. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Gesine Heidrick 
 Miss Lizzie Phillips 
 Miss Carrie Bietsch 
 Mrs. Mary Graham 
 Miss Clar^ Schade 
 John Gilliland 
 Addison Atwater 
 Mrs. Amelia Atwater 
 Ferdinanda de Chiara 
 Miss Elizabeth D. Young 
 Phillips Smalley 
 James Alexander Beggs 
 William John Hall Beggs 
 Mrs. Gertrude P. 
 
 Gemmell 
 F. C. H. Wendell 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Miss Lncinda F. McKee 
 Miss Florence H. Gilmor 
 Miss Addie M. 
 
 Chadbourne 
 Edwin J. Gillies 
 Miss Florence A. Gillies 
 James F. Hunt 
 Miss Annie M. Galbraith 
 
 M.D. 
 Mrs. E- I. Bacon 
 
 Jan. 8, 1891. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Elizabeth KoflF 
 
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 Miss Emma Burkhardt Miss Catherine Andrews 
 Bruno Schmidt C. Dodge 
 
 Otto Strewe Miss Mary Emiliana 
 
 Harold Brooks Schiessler 
 
 Alexander Aitken Joseph Hay 
 
 ADMITTED BY C8RTISICATB Walter Kirkpatrick 
 Miss Florence MoUan Bryce 
 
 Miss I. Bell Duncan 
 Feb. 5, mi. Richard Hall Burton 
 
 ADMITTED ON ^^°^^^^^°^ Alh^tt AiM 
 
 James B. Wilson 
 Henry Lockwood 
 
 DeForest 
 Henry Sloane Coffin 
 Edward Russel Thomas 
 Lawrence Thornton 
 
 Bliss 
 Miss Mary Lowry 
 
 Moorhead 
 Henry Berry Britton 
 E. Delafield Smith 
 Murray Brown 
 Miss Sophia Johnston 
 Mrs. Carrie Richards 
 
 Wright 
 Miss Carrie Bell 
 
 Ainsworth 
 Louisa Bretsch 
 Martha Kerchner 
 Mrs. Hannah Stassing 
 Miss Martha Stassing 
 Mrs. Mary Zempleman 
 John Zempleman 
 ADMITTED BY cERTij»iCATS Mrs. Emily Wendel 
 
 Louis Bruckle 
 Katie Flanigan 
 Alma Lundstrong 
 Minnie McCann 
 Julia Rosch 
 Francis Harbeck 
 Bernard Golde 
 George Kurtz 
 Mrs. Clara Grass 
 John Seibert 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTI^ICATS 
 
 Willard C. Reid 
 Miss Isabella Hall 
 Miss Armavenie W. 
 
 Ishkanian 
 Dr. James B. Woods 
 George Georgeson 
 Miss Christina Campbell 
 
 May 27, iSgi. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Anna Costello 
 Ropes 
 
 Mrs. Sophea Rhea 
 
 Dulles 
 Elizabeth Anderson 
 Miss Maggie Thoman 
 Miss Matilda 
 
 Wegerbacher 
 Wilbur C. Fisk 
 Alexander G. Fisk 
 Mrs. Louisa Fisk 
 Miss Mary Louisa Fisk 
 
 April 10, 1S91. 
 Miss Ida Maria Frame 
 Miss Florence Robena 
 
 Frame 
 Miss Priscilla Dixon 
 
 Barnes 
 Mrs. Edith Williams 
 
 Dowling 
 Chu Een Chow 
 Forsyth Wickes 
 
 Mrs. Maria Curtiss 
 Frederick Sturges, Jr. 
 Edward Payson Beach 
 Chu Bell 
 
 Miss Ada Muller 
 Jeannette D. Mason 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICAT* 
 
 Mrs. Addison H. Deane 
 Mrs. Annie Trimble 
 Miss Caroline Kopf 
 Miss Mamie Kopf 
 Miss Jennie Birrell 
 Hugh McKinnon 
 Robert Fraser 
 Catharine A. Fraser 
 J. Aspinwall Hodge, Jr. 
 Genevieve Karr Hodge 
 William Guthrie 
 
 Dec. 10, iSgi. 
 
 Miss Louise Isabel Fisk 
 
 Miss Bertha Fisk 
 
 Miss Evelyn Louise Fisk 
 
 Miss Catharine Gardiner 
 
 Leon Ling Jong 
 
 Miss Edith Earle 
 
 David Magie, Jr. 
 
 Robert Dun Westcote 
 
 Charles F. Sanborn 
 
 Miss Katherine Thomp- 
 son Westcote 
 
 Miss Mary Robbins 
 
 Miss Margaret Smitli 
 
 Miss Catherine Sanford 
 Agnew 
 
 Miss Ida A. Gahrman 
 
 Miss Nellie King 
 
 Miss Johanna Kirdiner 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIJICATg 
 
 Miss Bessie MacKenzie 
 Mrs. Isabella Ray 
 Miss Jane Lindsay 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE j^j^^ jj^j^^ Broadfoot 
 
 Alexander Daletty 
 Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff 
 Mrs. Sarah Beach 
 John Burnside 
 Miss Mary Graham 
 
 Oct. 8, iSgi. 
 
 Miss Margaretta R. 
 
 Anthony 
 Richard A. Anthony 
 Cornelia B. Newcombe 
 
 Baulmier 
 George R. Fiske 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Louisa M. Fiske 
 
 William Henry Vogel 
 John Werner 
 Mary Werner 
 Miss Dors Tucker 
 George Grimm 
 John Weinsdoffer 
 Mrs. Therese Johannas 
 Miss Kate Herman 
 
 Dr. George Woolsey 
 Mrs. Clara N. Earle 
 Isaac Piatt 
 Edmund M. Morris 
 Hugh Getty 
 Martha Jane Getty 
 Mrs. Emma Brown 
 John C. Graham 
 
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 Mrs. Graham 
 Frank Graham 
 Muss Maria Potter 
 Miss Catharine Bates 
 
 Feb, II, 1892. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Helen Isabella 
 
 Munro 
 Miss Emily 1^. Janeway 
 Miss Ivouise Bank 
 George Alfred Schastey, 
 
 Jr. 
 Hugh Martin Inman 
 Emory Hawes 
 John Vosburgh Irwin 
 Miss Ethel de Forest 
 William Hawkhurst 
 
 Wheelock 
 Miss lyydia Anne 
 
 Thorne 
 Chu Hoy 
 Robert Glassey 
 Miss Emily I^eslie 
 
 Charles 
 Paul Albert Seyerle 
 Albert Seyerle 
 Jacob J. Schuttinger 
 William B. 
 
 Schmidtkiencey 
 Emil Arnold 
 Charles P, Faller 
 Henry William 
 
 McMullen 
 Robi Roefs 
 Henry Stein 
 Miss Susie Schott 
 Herman Geo. Bahr 
 Hugh R. MacMullen 
 Henry W. Miller 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATS 
 
 Robert Pettigrew 
 William V. Martin 
 Mrs. Anna MacBratney 
 Euphemia Anderson 
 
 Vose Hawes 
 William Thorne 
 Annie Thompson 
 Warren A. Mayon 
 Miss Susan Potter 
 Mrs. Barbora F. 
 
 Schureman 
 
 Apr. 7, 1892. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
 
 Julius Gahrman 
 
 Miss Annie ly. Vaubel 
 Miss Katie A. Bullser 
 Miss Emma Eisberg 
 Miss Katie Eisberg 
 Miss Susan Alexander 
 
 McCook 
 Miss Anna Von der 
 
 Muhll 
 James Wright 
 James I^eishman 
 Miss Florence Dillon 
 
 Wyckoff 
 Miss Katharine Homans 
 Miss Frances Elsie 
 
 Hemans 
 Miss Elizabeth Ellen 
 
 Auchincloss 
 Hugh Auchincloss 
 Mrs. Margery 
 
 Kernaghan 
 Henry Rowland 
 
 James Graham Parsons Richard Wilson 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. Carrie Wilson 
 
 Miss Mary Margaret 
 
 Disch 
 John Burns * 
 
 Annie Burns 
 Miss Henriette 
 
 Borchardt 
 J. Franklin Burdett 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 William Disch 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Disch 
 
 George W. Disch 
 
 Oct. 6, 1892. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Wm. H. Hayden Miller, 
 
 Jr. 
 Mrs. Mary Eva Baur 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 R. E. Maynard 
 
 Dec. 8, 1892. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 J. Harry Hall 
 Maxwell P. Johnstone 
 Eillie Johnstone 
 Charles Kernaghan 
 Edward G. Cone 
 Sarah W. Cone 
 Miss M. Caroline Cone 
 Miss Eizzie M. Cone 
 Mrs. Annie Fary 
 Mrs. Kate Gilderson 
 Mrs. Frances E. 
 
 Homans 
 Miss Annie Brown 
 
 May 22, 1892. 
 
 William Ribiero 
 Mrs, Anna Ribiero 
 Mrs. Carrie Wagner 
 John Taylor 
 Miss Susan C. Beach 
 Mrs. Catharine 
 
 Wynsoffer 
 William Madtis 
 Miss Mary Agnes Clink 
 Charles Wayne Wenz 
 Miss Eulu Vanderbilt 
 
 Sloane 
 Miss Marguerite 
 
 Shepard 
 Charles E. Jones 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Evelyn Sloane 
 Robert Robertson Miss Grace Talcott 
 
 Wolcott Phelps Robbins admitted by certificate- 
 Thomas Carby Webster Mrs. Augusta Clarisse 
 Miss Bertha Baur Winkhaus 
 
 Miss Martha A. Dawley Robert B. Mcllvain 
 John Scott Boyle Miss Jennie Gilmore 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^^* Mary D. Jones 
 A. Donald Robertson Jo^" C. Angell 
 Chu Son Yon Miss Armon Harman 
 
 E. Francis Hyde ^o^h C. Rogers 
 
 Martha E. Hyde ^^s. Annie S. Rogers 
 
 Mrs. Fannie C. Burnham^^^^ Catharine H. 
 McGregor 
 June, 1892. Donald Cameron 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Anna M. Harkness 
 William Disch, Jr. Miss Florence Harkness 
 
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 Frederick A. Brush Chu Lung 
 
 Franklin M. Parlett Chu Seng 
 
 Miss Frances Russell 
 Peh. 9, i393. Taintor 
 
 ABMIWED ON PROFESSION ^^ j^^„ y^j^^ g^^^y 
 
 Miss Ella F. M, 
 
 Wiegland 
 Miss Ida Boffinger 
 William L. F. Mickley 
 James Hazen Hyde 
 Miss Edith Charlotte 
 
 Talcott 
 
 Henry Arthur Kimber 
 
 Norman Peck 
 
 Arthur Nelson Peck 
 
 Raymond Boyd Thomson _, 
 
 , ,/ , . , . Henry Fagan 
 
 Miss Janetta Alexander ^.^^ f,^„-,„.„ 
 
 McCook 
 
 Miss Jean Sharon Work admitted by certificate 
 Miss Harriet Wilmot Mrs. Jane Wiley 
 
 Leverich ■'^"- E™'''^ Pritchard 
 
 James H. Campbell 
 
 ^ADMITTED BY CERTIEICAT, j^_.^_ jj^^^.^^ ^^(,^^_^ 
 
 Alonzo E;. Austin, Jr. 
 Mrs. Frances L. 
 
 William McGoun 
 Charles Prentice 
 
 Kellogg 
 Edwards Pierrepont 
 
 Rowland 
 Wm. Patrich Ormsby 
 Miss lyizzie Augusta 
 
 Thayer 
 John Andrews 
 William Osterlee 
 
 Miss Christine Zeller 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Stephen 
 
 Mickley 
 Theodor F. I^ozier 
 Miss Mary McCallion 
 John H. Person 
 Alexander J. Bruen 
 Mrs. Laura A. Ball 
 
 Pinkus 
 Miss Margaret A. 
 
 Sinclair 
 Miss Sophie C. Morris 
 Joseph Moorhead 
 John M. Moorhead 
 John I. Moorhead 
 Samuel Hutchinson 
 Mrs. Margaret 
 ' McClean 
 Mrs. Mary F. Roberts 
 Miss Mary S. Roberts 
 William H. Roberts 
 
 Taintor 
 Mrs. Caroline M. Smith 
 Miss Mary A. Smith 
 Hopeton D. Smith 
 Holmes S. Smith 
 Joseph S. Bosworth 
 Mrs. Ivizzie C. Sypher 
 Mrs. Frances M. H. 
 
 Paton 
 
 May 25, 1893. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Charles Crook 
 
 Auchincloss 
 Miss Ellen M. Jansen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Annie Carr 
 Mrs. Mary Mahon 
 Fred. Townsend 
 
 Dec, 1892. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION James S. Cookcy 
 Miss Mamie Lyman Miss Mary Mcllvain 
 
 Feb. 19, 1893. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Tempie E. Phillips 
 Cornelius Bournes 
 Gustave Berge 
 James Graham 
 
 Apr. 6, J893. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Sarah Coffin 
 
 Oct. 5, J893. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Emma Kunz 
 Frederick Zittel 
 Mrs. Katie Zittel 
 Miss Alice Looz 
 Henry C. F. Bruhl 
 James M. Wilson 
 Miss Annie M. Adams 
 
 Mrs. Annie Warner 
 Handy 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Daniel E. Kimball 
 Mrs. M. A. McComb 
 James Brandon 
 Alexander Frazer 
 Mrs. Esther Frazer 
 John Michie 
 
 Nov. 10, 1893. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Lillie F. Rettig 
 Miss Fernand DeSavis 
 Miss Minnie Granger 
 
 Dec. 7, 1893- 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John Karl 
 
 Miss Emma E. Brahl 
 
 Miss Dora M. Salzmann 
 
 William Wilson 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 Rosenhammer 
 Miss Amy Lee Duncan 
 Amidon Thompson 
 Norman Sloane Bliss 
 August Stein 
 Miss Annie Duttweiler 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Robert Alex. Bailey 
 Frederick J. Looz 
 George Murray 
 Miss Agnes Miller 
 Edward S. Harkness 
 Miss Jane Thompson 
 Miss Mary Jane Stuart 
 Malcolm Stuart 
 Cornelia Evelyn 
 
 Paulmier 
 Miss Charlotte Hamilton 
 Miss Jane Gordon ' 
 Miss Manah Irwin 
 John I. Sinclair 
 Mrs. Mary Jane Sinclair 
 Miss Grace M. Sinclair 
 Herbert M, Rogers 
 Miss Margaret R. 
 
 McKenzie 
 
 Peb. 9, 1894. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Mary Adelaide 
 
 Campbell 
 Miss Effie Grace Cone 
 
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 May 24, i8q4. William Stahl 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROifEssiON Mrs. Anna Winsted 
 Miss Gracie Rampfen Mrs. I^izzie Morris 
 
 Miss Mary Granzer 
 George Gardjier 
 James S. Alder dice 
 Miss Fannie Griswold 
 
 Ely 
 Arthur I. Slade 
 Miss Cecelia Bornie 
 Max Weil 
 Mrs. f^lizabeth Back 
 
 Miss Sarah Palmer 
 
 Barnes 
 Miss Ethel Thompson 
 Henry John Stelhi 
 Edward S. Black 
 Richard Gries 
 Miss Minnie W. 
 
 Bofinger 
 Miss Pauline Beissner 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Moir 
 Mrs. Ann M. Blaker 
 Miss Maggie Henry 
 Miss Alice Andrews 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Mary C. Colby 
 Miss Alice Edwards 
 
 Colby 
 Thornwell Mullally 
 Mrs. Carrie Strall 
 Chu M. Senng 
 Dr. I, A. Neal 
 William S. Bennett 
 Miss Maggie Bell 
 Mrs. Julia B. Bosworth '^^°^- H^^^y ^- Todd 
 Matthew C. Fleming M"' Murian Gilman 
 Mrs. Angie W. Fleming '^^^^ 
 
 Mrs. Letitia Orr q^^^ jj^ jgg^^ 
 
 Miss Grace A. Orr admitted on profession 
 
 Julius F. P. Vonlyinden 
 
 Apr. 5, 1894. John Einsel 
 
 admitted on profession Mrs. Selma Einsel 
 
 Michael Murphy 
 Mrs. Alva Winchester 
 Miss Charlotte Freely 
 Miss Alice Blaker 
 Miss Clara May 
 Kussmand 
 Archibald H. McNeil 
 Miss Annie UUmer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 ADMiTTED.BY CERTIFICATE WilUam C. McBridc 
 
 Charles F. Balch Mrs. Mary J. McBride 
 
 Mrs. Annie Balch Mrs. Alice McBride 
 
 Miss Ellen Wood Hall 
 
 Archibald M. Stewart Mrs. Margaret Mary 
 
 Mrs. Agnes O. Stewart Munro 
 
 Miss Marguerite Taylor Mrs. EiHie McComb 
 
 Miss Ella S. Murdock Garth 
 
 Miss Henrietta D. Miss Isabella 
 
 Elliott 
 Horace Ward 
 
 Abett Ruinello 
 Paul Marx 
 Mrs. lyUcy Marx 
 Christian G. Muller 
 Mrs. Barbara Walter 
 Miss Mary Zimpleman 
 John Prentice Kellogg 
 Miss Lucy Inman 
 Miss Edith Beadleston 
 
 Montgomery 
 Frank P. Johnson 
 George Douglas Young 
 John B. Johnson 
 William C. McGibbon 
 Mrs. Jennie McGibbon 
 Miss Mary Gray 
 Miss Adelia B. Althause 
 Mrs. Helen E. Eee 
 Miss Catherine Campbell 
 Frank W. Miller 
 Mrs. Berrie I. Miller 
 Miss Frank Miller 
 
 Miss 
 
 Hayden 
 
 Miss Adelaide Mahnken 
 Miss Margaret E. Rice 
 Miss Alma E- Wangler 
 Miss Eizzie Shaurer 
 Miss Annie EHz Tubman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE peh. f, 1895. 
 
 Mrs. Sherley C. Watkins admitted on profession 
 
 Harriette 
 Miller 
 
 Mrs. Jane Henry 
 
 Mrs. Eillie L- P. Garth 
 
 William Schuyler Smith Horace D. Sherrill 
 
 Mrs. Eillie E- Sherrill 
 Miss Charlotte F. 
 
 Sherrill 
 Miss Sarah Margaret 
 
 Sherrill 
 John C. Perry 
 ADMiTTSD BY CBRTlFlCATg j^n^jhan Acheson 
 
 H. Alexander Smith 
 E- Emery Katzenbach 
 John Andresen Kimber 
 Miss Carlotte Clark 
 Simmons 
 
 Miss Anna Downing 
 
 Mrs. Mary Riggs Hatch Dec. 6, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. Phebe E. Darragh admitted on profession ^ 
 
 Charles Raymond Walter Edward Keys 
 
 Miss Christine Lawson Granville W. Garth admitted by certificate 
 
 Miss M. Adele Chivis Mrs. Grace Hyer Miss Elizabeth Hunter 
 
 Mrs. Mary F. Gregory 
 Mrs. Jessie C. McBride 
 Miss Anna 'Eliza Keen 
 Edward H. McCray 
 Miss Annie Rippel 
 Chu Don 
 Miss Jeanette Frances 
 
 Dowling 
 Miss Barbara Eyre 
 Noah Swan Davis 
 Miss Isabella Clark 
 
 Gibson 
 Miss Martha McCook 
 
270 Centennial Celeiiration of tfje 
 
 Miss Margaret Anderson admitted by CERTIFICATE Miss Anna B. Lawrence 
 Charles Beatly Hallock Mrs. Sarah J. Warner James C. Mitchell 
 Miss Sophia j^ „ W. A. Alexander 
 
 Morgenthater ^.^ Mary Marland ^"- En-ily Grace 
 
 Miss Julie Mane Victor j^^^^^jj ^^^^^ gjj^^ ^^auman 
 
 Sherman I. Bacon ^^^_ ^^^^^^^^ gj^^^^ Mrs. Augie Kinsley 
 
 Mrs. Harriet A. Bacon „ , James H. Edwards 
 
 Seth Wellington Johnsonj^.^^ Mamie'^Coffin JJ"" ^,^"1 ^ Edwards 
 
 Miss Louise W. Johnson - Miss Elizabeth Edwards 
 
 Miss Ella F. Johnson James A. Edwards 
 
 Mrs. May Etta Young admitted by certificate Alien F. Edwards 
 
 Mrs. Matilda A. Sloane m„, g^^^i, McCahon 
 Aprtl 11, 1895. Miss Margaret Cobban 
 
 admitted on profession John Downey ^«6. 6, 1896. 
 
 Miss Mary Stimson Miss Clara Agnes admitted on professiow 
 
 Weston Downey Alfred Emanuel 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Woerner j^rs. Adelaide E. ^"^ ^^^ muhll 
 
 Mrs. Mary H. Bates Hastings Samuel Thomas 
 
 Miss Alice Gifford Earnest Frey Miss Eleanor Nancy 
 
 Agnew Mrs. Margaret Frey Thomas 
 
 Hugh Hamilton Getty Mrs. Kate Moore Baker Ewin Cameron Mclntyre 
 Miss Alice Ball Pinkus Miss Grace Baker Joseph Varnum Mott 
 
 William James Glassey Miss Emily Baker Miss Annie Sass 
 
 Miss Marie Warner Miss Isabella Munro Miss Eliza Asher 
 
 Work Mrs. Marion McCoU Alexander Hamilton 
 
 David Jennings Dunn 
 
 Culpepper Oct. 10. 1895. Mrs. Eliza Dunn 
 
 Miss F1i?aheth Kerr ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 M::: ^:S^.'''" Mrs. Mary Hanley ^^T ZZZ'''^' 
 
 Duttweiller admitted by CERTIFICATE Miss Katie C. Steele 
 
 Miss Josephine Mag- Mrs. Nellie Aitken Miss Emma E. Davis 
 
 delene Wessbecher Mrs. Catherine E. Frederick W. Menzies 
 
 Miss Jennie Louise Cheeseman Conrad Bluhm 
 
 Flanagan Miss Eliza Hamilton 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE E- J" ^^ird ^Pr. 9. I896. 
 
 T A HT 1 ADMITT:ED ON PROFESSION 
 
 James A Macauley Dec. 5, 1S95. Miss Ruth Mary Sabin 
 Mrs Katie E. Macauley admitted on profession Miss Eleanor Marian 
 
 J. Sinclair Armstrong Miss Jennie Jemison Brown 
 
 Mrs. Lizzie H. McBridc Miss Bertha E. Shefer 
 
 AK ,, TT^^» ^''' Ruth Kirker Miss Elsie M. Sheter 
 
 Abraham J Brandt McBride William Sloane Coffin 
 
 Mrs. Brandt Miss Beatrice Clark Miss Helen G. Moorhead 
 
 Duncan McCoU McBride t u u t t 
 
 ,, „ ivii-jjiiuc jgijj, g_ Inman, Jr. 
 
 McGregor Miss Edith Blanche q^^^ j^^^ 
 
 Mrs. Grace L. Stevens McGibbon j^^n Leggett Pultz 
 
 James Fahey Mrs. Matilda Burnett Mrs. Ada S. Elsworth 
 
 Mrs. Caroline C. _,. tt • t . 
 
 ■^ . ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Henrietta Joenim 
 
 _, ,. Ti » Benjamin F. Wotkyns Miss Madeline Wensted 
 
 E. Lawrence Hunt _, ,,,.,,. _ „. ,. . -_ 
 
 HT -uru-i. Dr. William D. Miss Maggie Harvey 
 
 Mrs. White _ .^, ,^. , . _ ' 
 
 Frenwith Miss Annie Freese 
 
 May 9, 189}. M. Clark McEwen Miss Louisa Steekler 
 
 admitted on profession Miss Sarah A. Stratton Miss Emma Kanke 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Graham Mrs. Sarah B. LawrenceMiss Ella VanDuzer 
 
 James Thomas Heeney Miss Louisa F. Miss Louisa Bonella 
 
 Albert Waldraan Lawrence Miss Mary Knoff 
 
jFiftb auenue ptesfigterian Cfturcft 271 
 
 Miss Annie Lockman admitted by csriificaT? John Newfold 
 Miss Elizabeth Franklin Leonard Henry Blumberger 
 
 Duttweiler Mrs. Sarah S. Leonard admittsd by certwicats 
 
 Miss Mamie Schweizer William Barbour Miss Alice Rutherford 
 
 Miss Lillian Mary Simpson m^s. gjj^a Jane Buskey 
 
 Flanagan Mrs. Margaret Georgina ^iss Fannie Ellen 
 
 ADMITTED BY CSHTIEICATE Simpson Wright 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Manch Miss Alice Walker Karl Louis Victor 
 
 Frederick H. Schaufler Simpson jirs. Marianna C. Cobb 
 
 John T. Mills, Jr. John Anderson Simpson d^. Silas F. Hallock 
 
 William B. Brokaw Miss Marie Agnes SpearMfg. g^rah Hallock 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Brokaw Miss Florence Spear Henry R. Danner 
 William Brokaw Thomas H. Allison jjiss Caroline Halsted 
 
 Miss Florence L. William Leslie Thomas Savage Clay 
 
 Brokaw q^^ g ^g^ Mrs. Mary W. Shearer 
 
 George D. Brechenridge ^omitted 'on professioh Miss Mary Young 
 Mrs. Laura Stechler David Morrison Coffin Shearer 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Scott Miss Elizabeth E. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Johnson ,*!!"™°^^ «""""''« Shearer 
 
 Miss Edith L. Shearer 
 Leander H. Shearer 
 Miss Annie Lawson 
 James E. Mitchell 
 Nov. 5, 1896. Mrs. Mary R. Wright 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Elizabeth J. 
 ' Walter Buxton Wright 
 
 Miss Jessie Lambe 
 June, 1895. Henry Rosch 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Frank Morterville 
 
 Mrs. Sarah L. 
 Dec, 1894. Heuvelman 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION John O. Mott 
 Henry Leehr Mrs. Mary E. Corbit 
 
 Miss J. Moyene 
 McSorley 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE , 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Proudiit ^ _^^ .„„„ . ,„„. 
 
 Jan. 7, 1897. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ,,. . ,. -.^Tij T-r, William C. Courtenay 
 
 Miss Amelia M. Bender Holmes ,_. _ ... 
 
 .j^, -J „ . , Miss Josephine Arenza 
 
 Miss Ida timitn admitted by certificate Miss Rliza Chebon 
 
 Oct., 1895. Miss Mary Mahon 
 
 admitted on PROFESSION Alexander Manson ^«6. ii, 1S97. 
 
 TT T h ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 ,,,^r,™ _ ... Dec. 10, 1896. Mrs. Lillian Clarke 
 
 William Fritz ' ■»«■ a tt c 
 
 _,.,_, , . T ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Agnes K. Spear 
 
 Frederick Barckart, Jr. ^.^^ ^^.^^ p.,j HarknessAlfred W. Spear 
 
 Dec, 1895. Miss Phebe Ijord Theodore Meineche 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION McCormick Mrs. Louisa Meineche 
 
 Mrs. Martha Rogers Charles Clifford Sloane Mrs. Gertrude 
 
 Albert Kuhn Henry Wilkes Sherrill Weishardt 
 
 Chu Hong John Ivohman 
 
 Chu Seung Miss Minnie Miller 
 
 Chu Wong Miss Katie Renker 
 
 Conway Wing Shearer Miss Clara Asher 
 
 Victor Edwin Palmer Thomas Aiken 
 
 Henry Edwin Hall admitted by ceRTiEicaT? 
 
 ^ Mrs. Juliana Armour Miss Elizabeth Moore 
 
 Ferguson Miss Ellen Irwin 
 _ Hjalmar Irving PetersonPhilip W. Fruauf 
 
 Mrs. Key Gustav W. A. Reichel Mrs. Estella Gertrude 
 
 Mrs. Kate Koy ^^.^^ j^.j^.^ ^^^_^ ^^^^ Fruauf 
 
 May 28, 1896. Mrs. Henrietta Sturm Miss Annie Eetham 
 
 admitted on profession Mrs. Carrie Lendermer Mrs. Florence J. Blair 
 Miss Gertrude J. Snook Mrs. Pauline Bauman Miss Mary Alsop Dwight 
 
 Feb., 1896. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION , 
 
 Miss Julia Kisnaul 
 Miss Eillian Flanagan 
 Miss Mamie Shweizer 
 Miss Eizzie Duttweiler 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Alexander Roy 
 
2/2 
 
 Centennial Celefiration of tbc 
 
 Mar. II, 1897. Nov. 11, 1897, Jan. 6, 1898. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Miss Mary H. Holmes George Richard Kafe J°^^ '^^ Trimble 
 Miss Clara Wiley Frederick Becher ^"* -Alice Trimble 
 
 Mrs. Rose Becher ^^^s Eva Bontems 
 
 Ivouis Schoenewolf 
 
 Mrs. Annie Buchner 
 
 Otto Golde 
 
 Oscar Loos 
 
 Miss Helen M. N. 
 Wilson 
 
 Miss Ivouisa Koehler 
 
 Mrs. Mary Brosang 
 
 Alexander Sievewright 
 
 Christopher Rosch 
 
 Apr. 8, 1897. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 
 
 Mrs. Nannie Barclay 
 
 Seer 
 Miss May Emery 
 Miss Ethel Musier 
 
 Taintor 
 Graham Brush 
 Thomas Markoe 
 
 Robertson 
 Martin W. Kellogg 
 Edward W. Ropes 
 Chu Sheol Jung 
 Lem Doo 
 Harry Grimm 
 Peter Anderson 
 
 Feb. 10, 1898. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Virginia. Campbell 
 
 Randall 
 Walter Eovett Randall 
 Edward Stuart Peck 
 Finley I. B. Weller 
 Miss Marie Henrietta 
 
 Winkhaus 
 Ogden Dutcher 
 
 Dec. 9, 1897. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE *^^" Shea 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 M. J. Finley Weller 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION n^. r'l, i « o ■ 
 
 r., , T3 11 Thomas Chalmers Raine 
 
 Charles Russell t 1 -xt- , 
 
 John Nicolson, Jr. 
 
 William T. Stuchell 
 
 Auchincloss 
 
 William J. Helfs 
 Mrs. Maggie Darling 
 
 Helfs 
 George Alexander 
 
 McDonald 
 Mrs. James T. BoUes 
 
 Miss Elizabeth 
 
 Auchincloss 
 
 Peh. 24. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Eva Walcott Peck Miss Annetta Desibia 
 Miss Abba C. Blaffer Charles Munz 
 
 Miss Graciebel Bolles 
 James C. Auchincloss 
 Gordon Auchincloss 
 June 3, 1^97. Mrs. Theresa Karl 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION j^j^^ j^^ j^^^j 
 
 Miss Anna Mclntyre ^j^^ j^^^.^ kittle 
 
 Mrs. Catherme Tobey ^.^^ ^^^^.^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Williams j^^j^^ Charlotte Catherine Weishardt 
 
 Tobey Seckler ^^s. Lizzie Voigt 
 
 Miss Florence White Henry Somers 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Redling admitted by certificate 
 
 Mrs. Ottellia Weishardt George E. Stedman 
 
 Joseph Borstemps 
 
 Apr. 7, 1898. 
 admitted on profession 
 Ja,mes McCosh Magie 
 Anton Henry Schaeflfer 
 Miss Elizabeth 
 
 Orville Hunt Tobey 
 Miss Stephen Karl 
 Miss Annie Buchner 
 Miss Etoile Elliot 
 Miss Mary E- Bauer 
 Miss Bertha Dich 
 Miss Ida Knauth 
 admitted by certificate 
 Dr. Frank Matthews 
 Mrs. Sarah H. Polhemus- 
 Miss Cornelia Polhemus 
 Miss Sarah Polhemus 
 Oct. 7, 2897. 
 
 Mrs. Jessie Starke 
 Mrs. Eliza Espenheim 
 Mrs. Annie Erickson 
 Mrs. Sophia Rohn 
 Mrs. Mary Eichler 
 Miss Lena Eichler 
 Mrs. Barbara Schmitt 
 Mrs. Caroline Kopka 
 Mrs. Kate Bird 
 Miss Alice Mary Heyd 
 
 Mrs. Stedman 
 
 May 5, 1898. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 John O'Brien 
 Lawrence Bonadeo 
 Morris Adam Stuttzbach 
 Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 Stuttzbach 
 Mrs. Annie Schaeffer 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Christina Elizabeth^**^^^^^ Fisher 
 Mrs. Josephine KrofF Drautz Mrs. Bertha Peborsky 
 
 James Alexander Frame.^iuiam Aury Blauvelt ■'^^^' ^^te Smith 
 Jr. Mrs. Mary Smith 
 
 Miss Ethel May Kimber admitted by certificate Mrs. Annie Smith 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Mrs. M. A. Blair Miss Annie C. Barth 
 
 Henry E. Prentice Miss Johanna Ross Peter Campbell 
 
 John C. Ranscher Miss Agnes Frazer George Wagner 
 
ififtl) atjenue pres&pterian Cfjutctj 273 
 
 Mrs. Ellen E. Bownes Charles Oelschlager May 25, i8gp. 
 
 Miss Annie Wildey George Reincke admitted on frofsssion 
 
 Mrs. Conway Miss Hannah M. Grimm Russell Stuart Tucker 
 
 ADMITTBD BY CgRTIMCATS GuStav LoOS ^^^ ^ ^^^^ 
 
 Thomas Conway f ""''e^""' „ admittsd on professioh 
 
 Miss Sophie Brewer p r P 
 May 26, 1898. Miss Margaret Loveday %^" 
 
 ADMITTBD ON pROFSSSiON Philip Newbold StoltzenUerg 
 
 Miss Marjorie Tallman -^{^ Mary Steieshoffer admitted by ceetificats 
 
 Sinclair Mjsg Louise Bazniski ^'■^- Barbara Chase 
 
 Joseph Howland Miss Annie Bazniski jj^^ ^ ^gra 
 
 p K .^w'l^"''"''.;. Miss Sophie Hein admitted on profession 
 
 Robert William Stewart Miss Julie Hein Miss Victoria Fivey 
 
 Cortlandt Dixon Barnes r^,, . t., .^ t^-\ , 
 admitted BY certieicaTE ^"^*^^ Mauritz Sjobeek 
 
 admitted BY CERTIFICATE j^jj^^ ^y^.^ q g^[j Mrs. Augusta Josephine 
 Mrs. Carrie S. Leighton ^^^_ q" ^^^^ gjobeek 
 
 ^."■^''T'k^'^T" Miss Mary I. Mott «"• Katie Metzel 
 
 ^"■f; p °,f Miss Augusta Mott Mrs. Wilhelmina l,oais9 
 
 Mrs. Mary Powell ^.^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ Traub 
 
 David I. McComb j^.^^ ^_ lantha Mrs. Ellen Barrie 
 
 Oct. 6, 1898. Slaughter Mrs. Margaret Neumiller 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ff."""! ^^^"^^A 
 
 Miss Adele Forbes Peh. 9, 1899- ?? '^^ ^"^^^ °"'"*" 
 
 Francis Bonner Forbes admitted on profession ^°="''^* Wessbeeker 
 Mrs. Sophie Somers Henry H. Mott Andrew Arganza 
 
 Frank Kaiser f^ft. j_ jpoo 
 
 Miss Elsie Lipp Mar. 9, 1899. admitted on profession 
 
 Miss Minnie Mattera admitted on profession Miss Grace Stanley 
 Miss Eouise Baiste William Otto Munz Brownell 
 
 admitted BY certificate ^"■^- '^^'"^'^^^ E. William Fletcher Irwin 
 
 Robert Dixon Hiccenbothen Miss Annie Petrolina 
 
 Mrs. Jessie Dixon Mrs. Henrietta Olschlager Pavlis 
 
 Miss Ethel Scott Dixon Mrs. Annie Baker Miss Annie Petrolina 
 
 Mrs. Adelphena Wolf Paukner 
 
 Nov. 10, 1898. admitted BY certificate Miss Mary Kralish 
 
 admitted on profession j^^^_ ^^„j^ j^^^ p Albinus Netzel 
 
 Miss Clara Mary Fulda j^^^_ ^ Miss Florence Gilmore 
 
 w*,?""' ^'^f ''"^° Mrs. Joanna A. E. Newbo.d 
 
 y^J r ^ T\ Hengstenberg Miss Minnie Keller 
 
 Charles Murdock ^^^_ ^^^^^ Ramppan Mrs. Minnie Fox 
 
 DaTid Graham Frederick Albes Miss Rose Schoenwolff 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Joseph Schoenwolff 
 
 J. Henry M. Pryde ^^^ g^ j^pp Philip Kuskunna 
 
 Dec 8 189S ADMITTED ON PROFESSION William F. Goldine 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Agnes Hughes Miss Olga Miller 
 Miss Matilda Harriet Miss Ehza Anderson p^^^ ^ 
 
 Brau Miss Florence Raymond ^„„j„g„ „„' profession 
 
 Eugene Hohl Miss Ruth Gunther Miss Caroline Alexander 
 
 Samuel Johnston Wmant McCook 
 
 William E. Wernan Mrs. Lena Durath Miss Mary Knecht 
 
 James Voigt Miss Lena Durath ^obey 
 
 Joseph McDermott Miss Katie Dicke admitted by certificate 
 
 Miss Loretta Louise admitted by certificate Miss Catherine Priest 
 
 Aberle Albert I. Edwards Crane 
 
274 
 
 Centennial Celefitation of t|)e 
 
 Henry Herschel Adams George Ambridge Taylor 
 Mrs. Helen Redington Mrs. Ellen E. 
 
 Adams Pickenback 
 
 Elzey E. Meacham admitted by CERTiFiCATB 
 
 Mrs. Ivulu G. Meacham j^hn Vimont Lyle 
 Malcolm L. Meacham 
 
 May 24, igoo. 
 
 Mar. 8, 1900. admitted on profession 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION Miss Marian Edwards 
 Miss Katie Knox Mjgs Maria W. G. Ely 
 
 Miss Rosie Knox Frank Luwood Eealy 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Montgomery DeF. 
 Frank Cassera IvaRoche 
 
 Charles Slade Inman 
 
 Apr. 5. 1900. j^jgg Florence Bolles 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSION 
 
 Miss Janet Drummond admitted by CERTIFICATE 
 
 Morrison 
 Frederick Clark Inman 
 Miss Edna Florence 
 
 Brown 
 Miss Ellen Rowena 
 
 Meyer 
 Chu Homm 
 Chu Sam 
 Chu Fung 
 Chu Gain 
 Chu Chee 
 Chu Yen 
 Chu Nion 
 Henry Walter 
 Miss Gertrude Weishardt admitted on profession 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Clifford Vail Brokaw 
 Miss Anna A. Ponder Donald Bunker Sinclair 
 Mrs. Sarah Ann HalstedJoye Joseph 
 
 Mrs. Jmogene H. Lyle 
 Mrs. Emma Grace Sealy 
 Eli Baldwin 
 Mrs. Abba Louisa 
 
 Baldwin 
 Mrs. Margaret P. 
 
 Mathes 
 Harry A. Smith 
 
 June ly, 1900. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 James Henry Byron 
 Mrs. Jane Byron 
 
 Oct. II, 1900. 
 
 Elliott Danforth 
 Miss Laura Goertz 
 John Stewart 
 Miss Dorothea Allison 
 
 Apr. 8, 1899. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Cross 
 Mrs. Sarah Minall 
 Mrs. Sophie Huggins 
 Miss Anna Foester 
 Miss Anna Stephan 
 Mrs. Barbora W. Kolb 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Frieda Voyt 
 
 Miss Antonia Link 
 August Metzler 
 John Conrad Kloss 
 Walter Hahne 
 Emil MuUer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Vasclav H. C. Ziegler 
 Mrs. Amanda A. Varroy 
 
 Miss Margaret Barrie 
 Mrs. Tillie Proper 
 John Apgar 
 Mrs. Helen Margaret 
 Apgar 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Arthur King Wood 
 Wilfred Post 
 May 9, 1900. Mrs. Rebekah B. Purves 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Miss Eleanor K. Purves 
 Mrs. Sophie E. Zeller Miss Rebekah S. Purves 
 Miss Bertha Annie HavaMrs. Mary Campbell 
 Miss Louise Barzmaier House 
 
 Miss May Goetz Miss Elizabeth House 
 
 Otto G. Smith 
 
 Mrs. Lettie H. Smith 
 
 Robert A. Lindner 
 
 Nov. 9, 1900. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Iriohn 
 Arthur Ludwig Esche 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 John M. Palm 
 Mrs. Kelley Johnson 
 
 Dec. 6, 1900. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Philip W. Henry 
 Mrs. Julia E- Matthews 
 James Marshall Stuart 
 Mrs. Jessie Coe Stuart 
 Mrs. Faith M. Eckhout 
 George Albert 
 
 Von der Muhll 
 Mandeville MuUaly 
 Mrs. Jermian Stoddard 
 
 Duncan 
 Dr. Geo. Houston Bell 
 Gustavus A. Mooney 
 Geo. E. Dunscomb 
 
 Jan, 10, 1901. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Annie Shilhan 
 Miss Annie H. Kouba 
 Miss Bertha Harabes 
 Miss Mary Valda 
 Joseph James Schaffer 
 William White 
 George Washington 
 
 Bowne 
 Charles DeSavis 
 
 Feb. 7, 1901. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Helen M. Delong 
 Miss Emma Yates 
 J. Marshall Stuart, Jr. 
 Lewis W. Hornblower 
 Geo. S. Hornblower 
 Miss Mildred M. Purves 
 Mrs. Margaret Stohlman 
 Miss Minnie Smith 
 Miss Minnie Johnston 
 Miss Christien 
 
 DeHennings 
 George Siederman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 David Stewart 
 
 A. Gordon Murray 
 
Mrs. I,illian W. Charles 
 
 jFiftb ^tienue presfipterian Cljurcf) 275 
 
 Mrs. Anna StilJ admitted by cektiJicatB admitted by certificate 
 
 J. A. Haughwout Miss I<uella Murkland Miss Catherine Amard 
 
 Henry R. Sutphen Mrs. Helena Dyke Woobel 
 
 Miss Annette K. Hall Everitt 
 
 Feb. 6, igoi. 
 
 Mar. 7, 1901. 0^t. 10, 1901. admitted on profession 
 
 admitted on peofsssich admitted on professiok Miss Janetta Alexander 
 William I^ehr Euthymois Lambrides _ „ „ ... 
 
 William Graham t.,- t n j i-a ADMITTED BY CEKTIFICaTB 
 
 »yiiiiam oranam Miss Jane Eadchff ■■ . - o .„ 
 
 Miss Rose Marie Johnson Kirkman ;° T.,.? " 
 
 Apr. IX, 1901. James Lamoreaux 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Gladwyn Mar. 6, igoi. 
 
 Miss Harriet Harris Miss Frances Elizabeth admitted on profession 
 
 Sabin Bernard Thomas J. Macdonald 
 
 Miss Johanna Mattheu admitted by certificate William Walz 
 Frederick Ball Pinkus jjiss Ivoulie Redus Albert I,enhert 
 
 Walter DeVereaux Kirkman *'■'" Augusta Fuhrman 
 
 Pinkus jjnie, m. Thomas ., 
 
 Miss Josephine Hall pjo^a Thomas '*"'• "' ""■ 
 
 Charles Volz william Thomas chu'lirG°iD """""'"' 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Miss Mary Barnett Shaw,,. .. c-„„ 
 Charles E. Moles Henry W Jessuo t, ^ . „ ,„ s. 
 
 Mrs. Helen Dodge Marin TessuD "'"'■'' ^'"^"'" ^"^ 
 
 Moles xJ ^^'J T-,r Matthew Griswold Ely 
 
 Miss Uura Cox ^"^ ^sta'^er ^ ?°"« ^i^^f' ^'^ 
 
 Mrs. Anna E. Gillie. ^ Lorenzo Todd Getty 
 
 Miss Phinnie Brunner Nov. 7, 1901. Miss Emma Forbes 
 
 Samuel Derichson admitted on profession Miss Evelyn Anastaisia 
 
 Susan T. Derichaon Miss Tillie Deorn Hess 
 
 Miss Hattie P. DerichsonFred Rehberg Augustus John Mulhnger 
 
 Miss Sue Derichson Thomas McMuUen Miss Elizabeth Williams 
 
 n/r;.= If,,, n»:..v,.nn Misa Marie Schultingor 
 
 Miss May Derichson ^„. ^_ ,^„. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
 May 13, 1901. admitted on profession Frederick Mattem 
 
 admitted ok profession Siegfried Schultz Harry Williams 
 
 Wm. L. McAllister Miss Anna Wurth jj;,, jj^^;^ j^y,, 
 
 William A. Matthews John I,eyh Joseph Wiley 
 
 Maud Craig Matthews Miss Martha Davis admitted by cbrtificatb 
 
 Ma-o to IQOI J"*"" ^^''^ Wassman jjrs. Florence D. 
 
 «oy 30, 1901. Johanna Elizabeth Stevenson 
 
 admitted on profession -oj-t Btevenson 
 
 Miss Anna Dudley Hart "^'"* Miss Alexandra Bjering 
 
 Miss Maud Stanbridge admitted by certificate Mrs. Mabel Potter 
 
 May ^"- ^'•*"<=«s W. Thompson 
 
 Mrs. Mary Louisa Goller„ , .'^f™^' Mrs. Bertha Thayer 
 
 Miss Anna Roth Frederick A. Downes Morris 
 
 Miss Marian Kraft i°»?''' T-, ^"- ^^"^ '^"''*"" 
 
 Miss Rosa Carolyn B"''*" ^^^^"^ Patterson 
 
 Bradish Jan, 9, 190Z. Miss Lavinia B. 
 
 Mrs. Haldion Smith admitted on profession Patterson 
 
 Herman Charles Llewelyn D. Pritchard Vasclav H. C. Ziegler 
 
 Fuhrman Miss Caroline Leehr Mrs. Florence Monteith 
 
 Mrs. Annie A. Burchart Miss Alice G. Hutler Mrs. Sarah McBurney 
 Miss Lena L. Leehr Mrs. Anna Lommer Miss Ella Marie 
 
 Miss Etta A. Handte Mrs. Emma W. Maybeck Whittenblecker 
 
 Miss Sophie M. Miss Josephine SchremerMiss Louise Elizabeth 
 
 Habermann Miss Pauline' Braxmaier Neuheisel 
 
276 
 
 Centennial Celeliration of tfje 
 
 May S9, igo2. Nov. 6, igoz. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PttOFESSIOK ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Arthur A, Anderson Mrs. l,ouisc Westing 
 Mrs. Sarah Joseph George Rohn 
 
 ADMITTED BY CEaTl*ICAT<**i" ^^^^'^^ ^*"* 
 
 James Gilleland ^^^^^ 
 
 James R. Magoffin admitted by ceRTiFicaTS 
 
 Mrs. Maria S. Wells 
 Oct. 16, 1902. Mrs. Ida S. Wells 
 
 admitted on profession Mrs. Mary Ann Tait 
 Harold Coc Stuart Miss Mary Jane Tait 
 
 Mrs. Apolonia Debusck Mrs. Grace W. Berry 
 
 Miss Clara Weisman 
 John Battger 
 William John Miller 
 Christian N. Grimm 
 Mrs. Celestea Snow 
 George Hutter 
 Miss Emily Augusta 
 
 Kspenhain 
 Frederick Chas. I^oerscb 
 William Hamburg Manek admitted by certificate 
 Adolph Dorn ^^^**^ Barclay Kirby 
 
 Henry Reichman Mrs. Emily Rees Kirby 
 
 Mrs. Nellie Elizabeth Albert Remick 
 
 Dec. II, igo2. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Edward Karl 
 Miss Katie I^ipp 
 Miss Rosa Jude 
 Clarence Schmelzel 
 Miss Annie Firbell 
 Miss Isabel Alexander 
 
 Lynch 
 Mrs. Monica Siewert 
 Mrs. Anna Hubert 
 Mrs. I^izzie A. 
 
 Livingstone 
 Miss Louise Jeannette 
 
 Hubbell 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTinCATS 
 
 Henry W. Bolles 
 Waiter P. Bolles 
 David B. Ivison 
 Mrs. Emeline M. Ivison 
 Miss Sarah B. Ivison 
 Miss Rebecca Brown 
 
 Bull 
 Mrs. Rebecca Jane 
 
 Layton 
 Samuel Wylie 
 Mrs. Annie Wylie 
 Miss Margaret Wylie 
 James Mennie 
 Mrs. Joanna Mennie 
 Mrs. Eliza Amelia Ives 
 Robert Coburn 
 Mrs. Letetia Coburn 
 David Scott 
 
 Oct. ly, igo2. 
 
 Mrs. Carrie A. Remick 
 Miss Elizabeth McCand- 
 
 less Crawford 
 Miss Olga Lund 
 Adam McDowell 
 
 Matheson 
 A. Scott Matheson 
 Mrs. Sarah P. Matheson 
 Joseph Roy RobbJns 
 Miss Marian Halleday 
 Miss Christina McEwcn 
 Paul McElroy 
 Charles C. Nucheuer 
 Mrs. Margaret Reed 
 
 Nucheuer 
 Edward D. Terbell 
 Mrs. Elyean Terbell 
 
 Dec. 17, 1902. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Leonora Van 
 
 Schenck Tomey 
 
 Jan. 8, 1903. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Edward Charles Robert 
 
 Rohr 
 George Apgar 
 Albert Arthur Keer 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Gcorgc Alexander 
 Burton Judson Berry Graham 
 
 Frank John Lehnert 
 William Clark 
 Miss Laura Kussmaul 
 Miss Maria Cogswell 
 
 Bliss 
 Miss Alice Vivienne 
 
 Farrington * 
 Emil P. Gebhard 
 George Taylor, Jr. 
 John Taylor, Jr. 
 Antoinette Taylor 
 
 ADMITTED BV CERTIEICATX 
 
 Charles Walter Artz 
 Daniel Morgan Dunham. 
 Miss Nannie Wells 
 
 Goodman 
 Miss Ellen T. Gould 
 
 Peh. 5, 1903. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Mamie Walters 
 Miss Christina Stolliman 
 Miss Ida Schultze 
 Percival Jane Mcintosh 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Hugh Clare Kendell 
 
 Hester 
 Harvey P. Miller 
 Mrs, Elizabeth Miller 
 Harvey Haydock Miller 
 Mrs. Elizabeth S. 
 
 McCulloh 
 James Nicolson 
 Mrs. Mary G. Nicolson 
 Miss Jane Marlin 
 Miss Margaret Russell 
 James Thompson 
 Francis I. Pursell 
 Mrs. Bernice Pursell 
 Miss Edith Norman 
 
 White 
 Mrs. Agnes McMulIcn 
 Mrs. Ethel Florida 
 
 Mcintosh 
 
 Mar. 5, 1903. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Miss Jennie Burchart 
 Miss Susan M. Flanagan 
 MisB Carrie T. Lynch 
 
 Apr. 12, 1903. 
 Reginald LaGrange 
 
 Auchincloss 
 Chu Poo Wah 
 Chu Sam Toy 
 
JTiftf) Wamixt ptesbptetian Ci)urc|) 
 
 277 
 
 Frank Stuart Hunt 
 Philip Bevan I^aRoche 
 Henry Herbert Jessup 
 Theodore Carrington 
 
 Jessup 
 Misa Helen Gertrude 
 
 Kernaghan 
 Miss Olive Maude 
 
 Stafford 
 Frederick Winkhaus 
 Miss Annie Svoboda 
 Mrs. lyillie Anderson 
 Miss Annie Echstem 
 Miss Mary Kessler 
 Hector Joseph Martin 
 Mrs. Gertrude Metzler 
 Mrs. Fannie Reichart 
 Mrs. Nellie Brown 
 I*eo Alfonse Rice 
 Andrew Winstedt 
 George Emil Winstedt 
 
 Ethel E. Schilling 
 Leonard Leidemer 
 Hattie Neas 
 Pauline Schuhriemen 
 Joseph Schuhriemen 
 Thomas Westing 
 Mrs. Mary Boyce 
 William Kaufman 
 Thomas Chase 
 Henry WoUeman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTlPlCATB 
 
 George Elliott Fleming Agnes Bryce 
 Henry Alfred Ha worth 
 Mrs. Sarah Hunter 
 
 Haworth 
 Mrs. Mary L,. Miller 
 
 George Cunningham 
 Mrs. Catherine Ivehnert 
 Miss Josephine Bejeck 
 Miss Agnes M. Dobias 
 Miss Antionette Nohynek 
 Bernard Pavlis 
 Miss Eva If. Schacf 
 Miss Emma Zimffer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICArt 
 
 Charles Rose 
 Thomas Bryce 
 
 Dec. 10, xgo3. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSIOH 
 
 Harry F. Hart j en 
 John Jones 
 
 Mrs. Mary Munroe Albert U McKean 
 
 Mrs. Mary D. Townaendjiiss Caroline Hanisch 
 
 Frederick A. Wallis Miss Minnie Klaeman 
 
 Charles Klingel 
 Oct. 8. J903. jj^^ jj^,^^ j^ K,i„g^i 
 
 ADMITTSD BY CSITIFICAT* ADMIRED ON PROFMSION Q^ g^Jth 
 
 Dwight H. Day Edward Dobias 
 
 Miss Ida T. Hawkins ^^'^°^ Hack 
 
 E. Hicks Herrick 
 
 Frank Shaffer 
 
 Mrs. Adelaide I. Herrick^ustave Bergenhoir 
 Mrs. Starrich Cochrane ^enry Ziska 
 
 jjmj^ Leonard Raumco 
 
 Charles T. Lark Stephanie Bartunek 
 
 Miss Glida Day Rogers Louise Bejeck 
 Heinrich Ernest Stephanie Vojech 
 
 Schniewind J«"°'« ^"8^^ 
 
 Mrs. Helen G. J""* Nohynek 
 
 Schniewind 
 
 Amelia Fahrback 
 
 Miss Prudence H. Welchpeor8^«_.^"'^i"^e 
 William H. Woodin 
 Mrs. Annie Jessup 
 
 Woodin 
 Albert N. Stevenson 
 
 May 28, 1903. 
 
 Mrs. Wilhelmina Ebner 
 
 Bui winkle 
 Nellie Klementina Wurth^ 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSiON Newell H. Stewart 
 
 Eleanor Butler 
 
 Alexander 
 Alexander Macauley 
 
 Christie 
 Mrs. Anna Clemme 
 Adele Cragin 
 Isabelle D. Morrison 
 Charles Fred Pabst 
 Irene M. Brenton 
 Gertrude E. Dunn 
 
 Mrs. Anna M. HerrmannMiss Louise Benson 
 Jennie McElroy Miss Harriet F. 
 
 Florence I. Rice Alexander 
 
 Miss Mary Watt 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 William Edgar Caldwell 
 Miss Martha I. Cook 
 Charles F. Darlington 
 Mrs. Lelitia Craig 
 
 Darlington 
 Andrew L. Gardiner 
 Miss Dorothea E. Lewis 
 Miss 'Anna Louise 
 
 Lindguist 
 Miss M. Cary 
 
 Mac Conn ell 
 Miss Christina MacLeod 
 Mrs. Mary Maswell 
 Mrs. Caroline O'Neill 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^^ j p 
 
 Mrs. Donna Irvine 
 
 Trull 
 Miss Rosa A. Tweed 
 Kiliaen VanRensselaer 
 Miss Rachel B. 
 
 Worrall 
 John GilHland 
 Miss Lizzie McMullen 
 
 GilHland 
 Miss Annie Norris 
 Mrs. Mary Sussman 
 
 Jan. 7, 1904. 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROEESSIOir 
 
 John Henry Lewis 
 Knapp Sewell 
 
 Mrs. Sarah H. Polhemus! 
 Sarah H. Polhemus 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Stewart 
 Nov. 5, 1903. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Wallace Campbell 
 Miss Carrie Mehnken 
 Chu Foon Ki 
 John McRae Manck 
 George Leicht 
 George Henry Rose 
 
278 Centennial Celefitation of tlje 
 
 Frederick Gottelieb Josephine SchaflFer admitted by certificate 
 
 Handle John H. Maybach Mrs. Slizabeth Janet 
 
 Miss I^aura Brown Myrtle White Elmore 
 
 Edward Aims Mrs. Alice TuUy Elizabeth Mortimer 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTISICATS ADMITTED BY CEETDPICATS Elmore 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Mrs. Magdalene W. Ti3.Tiy H. Harkey 
 
 Palm Froschl 
 
 Miss Leila Ada Mrs. Wilhelmina Oct. 13, 1904- 
 
 Chapman McHardy ADMITTED ON PROFESSIOW 
 
 Mrs. Isabel Betz Mrs. Johanna Beyer 
 
 Feb. 14, 1904- Florence Shepard Rogers 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ^^^. 7^ jpo^. Jean Whiting 
 
 Miss Emma Dinger admitted on profession Mary Louise Woodin 
 
 Miss Susan Seldon chu Dot Douglas Campbell 
 
 Drisdale cij„ j^^n May Charles Julius Froener 
 
 Miss Fanny Schilz cj^ jjo^ Margaret Froener 
 
 Miss Lizzie Schilz Riujiro Ishimuna Elizabeth Homburger 
 
 Miss Mary Wirtz jj^fug Leighton Anna Keen Malony 
 
 P^h 7 7 Tnn^ MacDufSe 
 
 rea. 11, 1904. t 1. r • ■ ^ t>- n admitted by CERTIFICATS 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION ■'°''" Livingstone Bissell gii^j,,^^^ Barber 
 Herbert I. Hinley Emma Jeannette Bissell -^^^ j 
 
 Adelbert Wm. John 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Tfl k 
 
 Jesiah Williamson „ ^ . . „, . Dec. 8, 1904. 
 
 ,, ,-. . ,_ ,- Mrs. Lizzie Blanche 
 
 Mrs. Miriam Martha . admitted on profession 
 
 Danner t v n i» c ^v 1. J°^^ Flynn 
 
 T -r^ . -«, TN Isabelle M. Frothingham t ^x- o • 
 
 James Ewmg, M.D. s 1 " A d M Lottie Spring 
 
 Mrs. Fannie S. Gardner ^ ' ^tj... Gladys Munroe Brown 
 
 D. Rice Kempner " -fjr^c \\ \\ John Bowie Martin 
 
 Mrs. Anna C. Kenpner . -r r^ Vivian Elise Pabst 
 
 Mrs. Agnes Paul Kat^herinrida ^Ihulz '^''"'" °^^'" ^"^''^'^ 
 George A. Schastey Grace Burnhara Rogers 
 
 Mrs. Alice Beggs admitted by certificate ijva Rich Wardell 
 
 Schastey Mrs. Violetta Hawthorne 
 Otto J. Schneider Bissell admitted by certificate 
 
 Mrs. Esther M. Schwab Corwin Black J^-"" Allen 
 
 Elizabeth R. SmiUie Mrs. Jane Frazer Black Margaret Allen 
 
 Jessie B Smillie Mrs. Marion McCosh Ja™'^ Allen, Jr. 
 
 Daniel M. Thomas Edmund L. Dow, M.D. Esther Allen 
 Herbert R. Fullenwider William Allen 
 
 Jlfar. 10, 1904. Elias J. Herrick Mrs. Annie Allen 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Margaret L. Sarah Chambers 
 
 Edwin F. Marshall Herrick Mary Clark 
 
 Elizabeth Spring b_ Raymond Hoobler Estelle M. Clark 
 
 Alice Reich Jzraei Sears McCulloh Allen Carrington 
 
 Rose Gosker Charles Samson Hutcheson 
 
 Gracie Brosang Annie G. Stabb Mrs. Marie C. Hall 
 
 Robert Bryce Mcllivanie Knight 
 
 Louisa Link Apr. 17, 1904, Ida May Knight 
 
 Mrs. Hermina Dittrich admitted on PROFESSION John Horton Lee 
 
 Ernest Reichman Anna F. Kopke Maria Lagie 
 
 J. Horner Nelson Anna M. Simunek Clara L. McMurtry 
 
 Mrs. Mary Homburger Florence E. Matheson 
 
 Henrietta C. Notzelmsn May sj, 1904. John T. Nubel 
 
 William M. G. Witte admitted on profession Elizabeth M. Thompson 
 
 John W. Reicbart Margaret Agnes JohnstonMiriam T. Wilson 
 
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 Jan. s, 1905. Apr. 7, 1905. Mary Arganza 
 
 ADMITTED ON PEOFEssiOK ADMITTED ON pRo^essiON Linden Wallac« Bates, 
 Harry C C. Burgess Joanna Russell Jr. 
 
 Auchincloss Gertrude Eleanor 
 
 Mrs. Edna Loew Brokaw Fraenkel 
 
 John S. Eggleston Caroline Eee Mills 
 
 Agnes Masher Margaret Juliet Shearer 
 
 Anna Boardman Randall Mrs. Mabel Stone 
 George Mulford Randall John H. Van Culin 
 
 Henry Hermann 
 Herman Rasch 
 Mary Haas 
 Margaret Linke 
 Anna Helen Bradae 
 Philip Clague 
 Charles Fox 
 Charles Benedict Adler 
 Mary Adler 
 
 Feb. 10, 1905. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Mrs. Emily M. Jewell 
 Thomas Sloane Barnes Christina Nelson 
 Charles B. Gunn Helen Neypher 
 
 Helaine Magnus Ruby Rees 
 
 Jesse McConnell John K. Fatosian 
 
 Sarah Mildred McCulloh John Tonnele 
 Margaretta Williams Kathrina Tonnele 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Alice Widney Traver 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Anna Cowdery Sophia Carr 
 
 Howard C. Brokaw Mehran Chakmakjian 
 
 Hugh Hamilton Getty James W. Harle 
 Mrs. Florence May GcttyMrs. Julia Coffin Harle 
 
 James W. Harle, Jr. 
 
 Jennie Maud McKee 
 
 William T. Brown 
 Annie T. Brown 
 Samuel A. Bulloch 
 Annie Darner 
 Clara Douglas 
 Mrs. Sophia P. Gunn 
 Mrs. Susette McWalty 
 
 Harley 
 William Sloane Inglis 
 Sarah L* Meeks Inglis 
 Herman Walter Kurz 
 Esther M. Moore 
 Edwin C. McWalty 
 Walter G. Owen 
 Dagmar H. Owen 
 Albert J. Pitkin 
 Annie Clarke Pitkin 
 Elizabeth Bancroft PitkinJo^^ W. Blood 
 Albertina Lane Pitkin M"- Minnie Blood 
 John Stewart 
 
 Guido Henri VonRossum 
 May II, 1905. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Valentione 
 
 Hengstenbergh 
 Lusey T. Burkart 
 Adele Brown 
 William Staubach 
 Emily R. Pritchard 
 Christopher Hansen 
 Anna Haubert 
 Robert Manck 
 Felix Witte 
 Mana Stfoka 
 May Kozesnik 
 Elizabeth Miller 
 
 Jane E. Stewart 
 Dr. James P. Tuttle 
 
 Mar. 9, 1905. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Edward J. Klagisa 
 John Pavlis 
 
 Henry Kohla 
 Oscar Veib 
 John C. Rassbad 
 
 May Nory 
 
 Benjamin P. Moore 
 Mrs. Mary Varnum Mott 
 Harriet Taylor 
 
 Oct. 12, 1905. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Ida Zimmerman 
 Martin Paulson 
 Wm. Fred. Henry Ralf 
 Mrs. Emma H. C. A. 
 
 Ralf 
 Charles Ireland Stark 
 Jeannette Stark 
 Catherine Walter 
 May Josephine Wellech 
 Elsie H, Schoenborn 
 Louise Ama Roth 
 Walter Averill 
 Charlotte Hamilton 
 
 Fullarton 
 Marie Louise Inglis 
 Evelyn Sloane Inglis 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Frances Griffiths 
 James Aitken Harrar 
 Claries Herman 
 Walter Graham 
 
 Nov. 9, 1905. 
 
 ADMITTED OH PROFESSION 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^"^" Harrison 
 Lizzie Jones Albert August William 
 
 Frank M. McNaught Oetgen 
 
 Mrs. Dora C. McNaught Catherine Eyers 
 
 Alfred Schmidt 
 
 Mrs. Mary Schaefer 
 
 Charles Louis Wissman 
 Mrs. Emily Pauline 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE May 25, 1905. Mansfield 
 
 May A. Murray admitted on profession admitted by certificate 
 
 Hannah Cadwalader Albert Beier Phoebe E. Marshall 
 
28o Centennial Celefitation of tlje 
 
 Mrs. Louisa M. Wissman admitted by certificate Hannah Bolz 
 
 Albert Oetgen Clementine Bonne Lillie Roth 
 
 Mrs. Augusta Oetgen Thomas H. Burton William John Crozier 
 
 Wilhelmina Oetgen Annie Jane Curran Albert Rice 
 
 Herman Oetgen Elmer C. Griffith Robert Thistle 
 
 Mrs. Lucy S. Griffith Edward J. M. Froehner 
 
 Dec. 8, 1905. Q^^^ J jj^^j Hannah Getzein 
 
 ADMITTED ON P^OJSSSION ^^^_ ^^^^ Heiseman George J. Schmitt, Jr. 
 
 FrfncU J C £^f ^' Mrs. Abby C. Hewitt George J. Schmitt 
 
 * Oliver Humphrey Louis Megvog 
 
 Emma L. Ross ^ _^_ Stavely Margaret McGiegan 
 
 John T. Winkhaus 
 Dr. Harold S. Vaughan Peb. 18, 1906. May ^5, ipo6. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ADMITTED ON PEOFgSSIOH ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Sara C. Vaughan Mrs. Margaret Holden Anna L. Stolzenburg 
 
 M. E. Beall Mrs. Annie Graham admitted by certificate 
 
 Mary S. Conover Charles Duttweiler m. Louise Beaty 
 
 Jennie DeLacy Mrs. Margaret C. Bensonoavid Bell 
 
 Minnie English Mrs. Ida Camph Robert Bell 
 
 Rudolph Erbsloh O''^ Winchester Gustave H. Brevillier 
 
 Mrs. Fannie E. Erbsloh Mabel Wiley Williams Dunlop 
 
 Jannie Hemline Louise Benson jjrs. EHza Kuhl Hughe. 
 
 Margaret C. Mahon j)^g^_ g^ jgg^_ Mary Asenath Jones 
 
 Dr. Samuel Murtland admitted on' profession Nathaniel Morrow 
 
 Mrs. Anna A. Murtland |,jj5_ Anna Haubert Mrs. A. Annie Morrow 
 
 Dr. Alfred Schek jjj^j Mamie Leehr Elizabeth Bassett Wilson 
 
 Lizzie Taylor August Wm. Winters ^i^t „ ,„r.^ 
 
 Harriet Thrall John Boyce ' " 
 
 juiili Duytc ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Dec. S4, 1905. Clement John Koukol William Henry Clark 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Charles Link jj^y Brucker 
 
 Matthew J. Caldwell '^^^" Kessler Richard Dittrich 
 
 Ferdinand L. Bulscher Henry Rudolf 
 Jan. XI, 1906. _ , . 
 
 __ ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Esstenheim 
 
 ADMITTED BY cSRTiriCAXEg^^j^^^^ Bernvose Clara Habetta 
 
 James Fleming , . xt „ 
 
 . „ , Annie Haller 
 
 Feb. 8, 1906. ^J""- "■ '^""^ Robert William Kramek 
 
 „ ADMITTED ON PROFESSION „ _ , "'"""=•■ 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION c^^^^^n^ AuchincloSS "^''^ J^"'' ^^^' 
 
 Elsie Krauz ^^^ j^.^ Margaret Clemmens 
 
 Anna M. Neu j^^^ ^^^^^ g^^^^^^ Schmitt 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE gdgar Eginton Stewart , "" Walker 
 
 John H. Scheu Frederick C. Wacheron ^""'^ J*=="P Woodin 
 
 Mrs. Eva T. Scheu admitted by certificate ^'"'^^ ^""^^^ ^""""^ 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Wade T)r. Fergus F. Carr admitted by certificate 
 
 Jessie Wade Harris James Forrett 
 
 Edward Wade Walter F. Diack Charles Taylor 
 
 Peb. 9, :9o6. {"W^l'"'" ^ ^ Dec. 6, 1906. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION '^f'P" ,, „ " , "«°'' ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Elizabeth Mary Brown Eleanor M. Pendleton Evelyn Loretta Carroll 
 
 Carrie Carll Xanthe S. Parker Margaret Elizabeth 
 
 John Trail Mrs. Camilla H. jjanch 
 
 Gerhart C. Hesseman Stewart Edwin H. Manch 
 
 John Butler Jessup Apr. 15, J906. Caroline Schmitt 
 
 Annie C. Thompson admitted on profession Frederika J. Winters 
 
 Jennie Lyle McKinney Irene Flynn Charles William Hyer 
 
ififtt) atjcnue ptesljpterfan Cfiurcij 
 
 281 
 
 George H. Schmick 
 Agnes Jane Brodie 
 Jeannie Glen Keith 
 Jean Miller 
 Isabella Alexander 
 Murtland 
 
 Dr. J. A. Tonner 
 Bertha Gray Webster 
 Ida M. Wharton 
 Ella H. White 
 Helen White 
 Wilbert W. White, 
 
 Bessie Lindsay Stormont E- Bright Wilson 
 Mary Jane Mitchell 
 
 Jr. 
 
 Orin C. Baker 
 Alice F. Baker 
 Esther Griffin Ely 
 Adelaide E. Grant 
 Martin L,. Lee 
 
 Mar, y, igoy. 
 
 ADMITTSD BV CSRTINCAT8 
 
 Osborn M. Billings 
 Harriet R. Billings 
 James W. Cairns 
 Ida R. Cairns 
 Emma L. Curtis 
 Margaret Lockhart 
 Eliza Mae Herlie 
 Cyprian Preston 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Martha Stewart 
 Mrs. Amelia M. RosberyAlexander M. Stewart 
 
 Rose Olga Slanar 
 Emma Caroline Slanar 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE ^'^''y ^°^^^'^ P»"l 
 
 Mrs. Mary Jane Mitchell Mayback 
 
 Elizabeth M. Mitchell 
 
 Margaret M. Mitchell 
 
 Marion Beveridge Lee 
 
 Thomas McKay 
 
 Alma Durant Nicolson 
 
 George E. Provost 
 
 Emily Elizabeth Stewart 
 Elizabeth Sturrock 
 William Vosburgh 
 Mary S. Woodward 
 
 April 12, jgoy. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 C. Stockton Halsted 
 Katherine McCook 
 
 Brainard Rorison 
 Mary V. Rorison 
 Arda Bates Rorison 
 Marabel Rorison 
 Mary Thomson 
 Adam Valentine 
 Mrs. Clara K. Powell 
 
 Dec. 7, igoi. 
 
 Elizabeth Holt Clark 
 John Cooper 
 Winifred M. Forsyth 
 Elise Hoffman 
 Rosa Belle Holt 
 Thomas Lyons 
 Agnes Melrose 
 DeWitt C. Parshall 
 Addie Patterson 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION -^^^ j^j^^ Patterson 
 
 June 6, 1907. 
 
 ADMITTED OH PROFESSIOM 
 
 John Dunn 
 William Flanagan 
 John Flanagan 
 ADMiTTED^BY CERTIFICATE Minnie Langhorst 
 Mildred Xylander 
 Eva Staubacb 
 Florence Victre 
 Alvena Hermann 
 
 Leslie A. Gillette 
 Jan. JO, 190T. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Mrs. Millie Burgess 
 Louise Cooper Getzein 
 
 Ella F. Schmitt 
 Bertha R. Smith 
 
 May 23, 1907. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Margaret Lertha Foester Dorothea Booker 
 
 Mabel Grover Paul 
 
 Philip Maas 
 
 Robert Watson Main 
 
 Feb. 7, 1907. 
 
 Oct. 10, 1907. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PKOFESSZOM' 
 
 Norma M. Ferguson 
 Gilbert Forbes 
 Anna Cobb Hallock 
 Florence May Thurber 
 Lillie Bayer 
 Christian Halsey 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIMCATB 
 
 Horace R. Baker 
 
 Edwin F. Eadie 
 
 Sarah Bingham Ferguson 
 
 Lucinda Hamilton 
 
 Madge Libbey Hoobler 
 
 Carl P. Lawrence 
 
 Wilber McBride 
 
 Bertha Booker 
 
 Emily J. W. 
 
 MacCambridge 
 
 John Mengler 
 
 Mary Paukner 
 ADMITTED ON pROFSS-iON Richard Henry C. Ritter ^ora McDowell 
 Ellen Stuart Helen Lila Ritter Wm. Jay Mersereau, 
 
 William Culyer Josephine Schiffert M.D. 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Frank Smolak Jf^ni^ M. Perine 
 
 Caroline Burford DannerLillian Buchart Endora Symington 
 
 T :n: r'«.w-.« Morris Edward Farber 
 
 Lillian Lowan admitted by certificate ■. ,. 01. iir ■ 
 
 Adelaide Brown Fitch r-„i- T„.„ki„. H,„t...,-'"''"^ Shaw Wemgart 
 
 Caroline J. Howell 
 Solomon W. Johnson 
 Christina McEwan 
 Elizabeth Patterson 
 Annie Rea 
 Mary Rea 
 
 Carrie Josephine Haubert^^.^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^.^^ 
 
 May 24, 1907. Malcolm L. Wishart 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Dec. 5, igoj. 
 
 Alice Emden admitted on profession 
 
 David Morrison. Jr. Robert H. Burns 
 
 Ottomar H. VanNorden Schreiner Cunier 
 
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 Centennial Cele&ration of tbt 
 
 Antoinette Julien 
 William Kuntz 
 Annie Miller 
 John Ryan 
 Carl Steen 
 Pearl Cleveland 
 Walter Kerr 
 Irene M. Lehn 
 Adelaide Morningstar 
 
 Annie Catherine Johnson 
 Walter Henry Merritt 
 Andrew McCutcheon 
 Elsie Pabst 
 Ni Wah Soon 
 Charlotte Spooner 
 Annie West 
 William Wagner 
 Conrad Wagner 
 Ernest Atthaus 
 
 Beatrice Alexandra 
 
 Fosburgh 
 Augusta Girod 
 Christine Koerner 
 Ellen McGee 
 Mary Miller 
 Joseph Schaeffer 
 Adam S. Turnbull 
 Elsie Eagan 
 
 Florence Knickol admitted by certipicat* 
 
 Theresa Mackay Richard Davis Anderson Charles Knoblock 
 
 ADMITTED BY CSRTIFICATS Dr. Walter R. Bruyere Charlotte Rettig 
 Robert L. Fosburgh Louis N. Bruyere Elizabeth Luhrs 
 
 Esther Fosburgh Mrs. Grace Ward Diack Sophie Carlson 
 
 Esther L. Fosburgh Paul Gerhard Lillian Barnes 
 
 James B. A. Fosburgh Elsie Elderkin Gallaudet Pauline L. Williams 
 Harvey G. Furbay, M.D.Margaret E. Hallenbeck Mrs. Margaret Bird 
 William Gordon, M.D. Wilbur Chapman 
 Mary Wallace Gordon Hallenbeck 
 
 Edith Virginia Keistcr Jennie Henry 
 Kenneth McCaskill Walter S. Huffman 
 
 Helen Howell Moorhead Annie Jenkins 
 Lindsay Russell Stella Edna Johnston 
 
 Mrs. Nettie Townsend 
 
 ADUITTSD BY CEKTIFICATV 
 
 Stanley A. Allen 
 Edward E. Marriott 
 Mrs. Matilda Marriott 
 Chu Faie Long 
 
 Wm. L. Hope Simpson Dr. Charles E. McPeek Charles S. Pearson 
 James C. Stewart Wilbert B. Smith Mrs. Mary Mae Dougall 
 
 Amelia C. Stewart Walter W. Wood Scott 
 
 Fannibell Stewart Elizabeth J. Wood W. John Strain 
 
 James B. Stewart May C. Wood John G. Thome 
 
 Eugenia Torrence 
 
 Bessie Abbott W. Everitt Van Wert 
 
 Leo Evans Mrs. Maude Cleveland 
 
 Mary Graham Van Wert 
 
 Van Ogden Vogt 
 
 Mar. 5, 190S. Irving E. Ziegler 
 
 ADMITTED ON FROEESSION 
 ADMITTED ON PROEESSIOK p,_^^^^_,^ j^ U^nioO ^"^ ^«' '903. 
 
 Mary Crocker Alexander ^3^;^],^ j p^^ admitted on profession 
 
 Henry Edward Gaham ^,.^^^^^^ g^^.^_j,^_. Jo==Ph Cabus 
 
 r. ,^ u „ ,, K Mildred A. Hubert ^"- ^*" "^^ C^l<^m,in 
 
 Faye Campbell Furbay ^ t...j ti t5..,.u..j. Cecil 
 
 Mabel Adams Thompson Walter W. Wood, Jr. 
 Bettie Yoakum 
 Katheryne Yoakum 
 Bessie Yoakum 
 
 Feb. 6, 190S. 
 
 Elizabeth Schindler 
 
 Mildred A. Hubert 
 
 XT . t>i u -^ t. Leonhard H. Barkhardt _ ^ . , _ 
 
 Helen Blanche Furbay ^^^_ ^.^^^ ^ ^ Frederick Leopold Lyon 
 
 Lillian Porter ^^°'^' ^^l" 
 
 Martha Neubauer ^"^f^""', ^'"" 
 
 Phillip Block 
 
 Mrs. Minnie Fee Budd 
 
 Minnie Dittrich 
 
 Alfred Geery 
 Elizabeth Irving Geery 
 Philip Caryl Jessup 
 Mary Mackay 
 Harriet McCook 
 Livingston Piatt 
 Saleem G. Tabet 
 Florence Emily 
 
 Underwood 
 Elizabeth Bell 
 Paul Dahlman 
 Martha Dahlman 
 Harry Hayden 
 Philip Hofer 
 Elsie Heubner 
 
 Inga Margaret Paulson 
 Annie Louise Knoblock 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Elsie Kobstedt 
 
 Jeanette Dobias 
 
 Mrs. H. Agnes Phillips {^^^ Edwards 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte Kott 
 
 Antonia Elian 
 Josephine Espenhain 
 Henry Froehner 
 
 Apr. p, iQoS. 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Jacob Goetz 
 Annie Marguerite BrownErnest Graepel 
 Mary Alice Brown MoUie Hajeck 
 
 Choy Ching Mamie Handwerker 
 
 Martha Jane English Otto Van Howe 
 
Sitth auenue Ptesliptetian Cljurci) 
 
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 Lawrence Jiminer Virginia Barnett 
 
 Mrs. Annie Kuklia Ethel Edwards 
 
 Anna Belle Ivivingstone Henry Bartunek 
 
 Florence Margaret 
 
 Miroude 
 Pauline Novak 
 Frederick Wm. Oetgen 
 Pauline PavUs 
 Richard Zimmerman 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIPICATW 
 
 William R. Williams 
 Mrs. Carrie Canta 
 
 Burton 
 William Rabb Craig 
 Minnie McEIroy 
 Minnie Fraser 
 George S. Hart 
 Mrs. Frances Wheeler 
 
 Hart 
 J. Frederick Lockwood 
 Frank Eatham McKee 
 J. Myrta Newbury 
 Christian Bock 
 
 Frank Chaka 
 Emil Fillipec 
 Frederick Goetz 
 Arthur Hess 
 Rose Koerner 
 Mrs. Louis Hofer 
 Pauline Hofer 
 Henrietta Hofer 
 Helen Schaaf 
 Fred. Wrobel 
 Rose Wrobel 
 George E. Bolz 
 Margaret Bolz ' 
 
 Gustave W. Euhrs 
 George Rice 
 Minnie Roth 
 Florence Standinger 
 
 Nov. 8, 1908. 
 
 ADMITTi^D ON PROFESSION 
 
 Paul Neubauer 
 Eouis Boda 
 
 Oct. 8, 1908, 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE Alfred Favor 
 Dora Martha Anderson Mary Rose 
 
 Marian Childs 
 Elizabeth Connolly 
 Roy Elton Fonts 
 Hattie A. Gurney 
 H. R. Klopp 
 Andrew Milligan 
 James Blanden 
 Catherine Blanden 
 Kitty Blanden 
 
 Emma Bormer 
 Eena Brunette 
 Rose Charvat 
 Mary Charvat 
 Margaret Carton 
 Daniel Girod 
 Marion Girod 
 FreHericka Mclndoo 
 Henry Millar 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION Elizabeth Meloun 
 Hugh Clelland Emma Meloun 
 
 Ida Miroude 
 Mary PavHs 
 John Rendall 
 Rose Schaffef 
 Camilla Slanar 
 Anna Smolak 
 
 Dec. 28, 1908. 
 
 ADMITTED ON PROFESSION 
 
 Olive Star Alexander 
 Aristotle Herbert 
 
 Alexander 
 Henrietta Rolason 
 Miles Fleetwood Gordon 
 Elfrida F. Bauman 
 Mary J. Bell 
 Josephine M. Gleason 
 
 (Mrs. William) 
 William Kenneth 
 
 Gilderson 
 Jennie McCullough 
 John Maul 
 Angus Duncan 
 
 Robertson 
 Aline M. Wilson 
 
 (Mrs. W. H.) 
 
 ADMITTED BY CERTIFICATE 
 
 Mrs. Salvina Bossi 
 Robert Arthur Bryant 
 George S. Bruyere 
 Margaret Gillis 
 Zophar L. Howell 
 Anna Belle C. Howell 
 
 (Mrs. Z. L.) 
 Mrs. Margaret Hyslop 
 Henrietta Hyslop 
 Blanche G. Eark 
 
 (Mrs. Charles T.) 
 
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