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 First Presbyterian Church 
 
 (Easton, Pa. ) 
 Centennial history of the 
 
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 Centennial History 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 
 CHURCH 
 
 OF 
 
 Easton, Pennsylvania 
 
 1811-1911 
 
THE CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 Before beginning the story of our church life, I wish to say 
 that records are defective; data inaccessible and that very much 
 of the scanty material available antecedently to the fire at Mr. 
 T. McKeen Andrew's store Dec. 31, 1899, was lost irretrievably 
 in that calamity. Had it not been that our pastor in 1876 wrote 
 out a brief history of our church, to which I have had access, it 
 had been impossible for me to fill up the various gaps in detailing 
 our church life, made by the fire referred to, as well as by 
 the carelessness of those who had our records in charge. 
 
 From that only available source I have taken the liberty of 
 drawing od libitcm, interspersing the story with much known 
 to no other living being. My father was born and reared in 
 the Presbyterian congregation in Greenwich Twsp., Warren 
 Co., New Jersey. He came to Easton in early Hfe to make 
 Easton his home — united with the First Presbyterian Church 
 in its early years — was married by Mr. Bishop, our second stated 
 supply. Father and mother were great friends of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Bishop and from them I, in my early years, gathered much in- 
 teresting information. I mention this to account for and sub- 
 stantiate some matters of a personal character not probably 
 known to others now living. Who is there that can with facile 
 pen trace the workings of God's Providence and grace or follow 
 the silent and unseen growth of His Spirit in the hearts of His 
 children ? 
 
 For convenience in the treatment and to secure a clearer 
 and more easily followed story, I will divide what I have to say 
 into two parts — the Static and the Dynamic work of our church, 
 akin to the Physical and Spiritual work, which, though distinct, 
 necessarily closely intertwine as the years progress. 
 
 One hundred years ! a very minute fraction of the world's 
 life and yet in its incidents how potent a factor in the lives 
 of a multitude of God's children! We have met to recount the 
 
salient features in the life of our church during such a period. 
 Imagination fails to draw the picture of a man without the 
 gift of memory. If all had been so created, we had not been 
 men; for all progress had been impossible; the race 
 had been void of history — Hfe a mere vegetation with- 
 out variation or improvement. Without memory we had 
 not been enjoined to "Walk about Zion and go round 
 about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark well her bulwarks; 
 consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation 
 following." It is a pleasing thought that time, over which 
 memory spreads her protecting wings, is a potent magician 
 for conjuring up joy or sorrow, smoothing all asperities, recon- 
 ciling all incongruities, veiling all absurdities, softening every 
 harshness and salient angle with the haze of indistinctness. 
 'Tis a trite saying that distance lends enchantment to the view, 
 and equally true is it that distance tones down what notes of 
 music would be discordant and rasping to the ear nearby and 
 by blending them as the waves of sound advance, ultimately 
 produces most pleasant harmony. These reflections by way of 
 a foreword to a study of the genesis of the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Easton. This genesis is singular in this regard, that 
 it began not as the result of any ministerial endeavor, but was 
 purely, so far as we can ascertain, a springing up in a few indi- 
 vidual hearts under the silent agency of the Holy Spirit, of a 
 hungering and thirsting for the bread and the water of life. 
 In fact thirteen years before any formal step was taken to en- 
 list the agency of any eccleiastical body in the nourishing of 
 this nameless and fatherless infant, a body of men had met 
 and adopted a code of rules under which they met and worshiped 
 God. The rules provide for regular meetings to listen to an 
 explanation, in English, of the Bible as the only rule of faith 
 and practice. It cannot be ascertained how long these assem- 
 blies continued ; but a liberal interpretation of such a self- 
 suggested aspiration after a higher life, justifies the belief that 
 the spirits of the members of the Association fed by the Holy 
 Spirit with the sincere milk of the word, grew into a larger and 
 
In the Old Stone School House on Second Street, where now stands the High 
 
 School Building, the first English religious services were held. This was 
 
 the birthplace of the First Presbyterian Church in April, 1798. 
 
more mature life requiring stronger spiritual food. This is the 
 more probable when we think of the diverse nationalities that 
 composed our community at that early day; for not reckoning 
 the German element, who were provided with the ordinances as 
 administered in the Union Church, still on 3rd Street, and own- 
 ed at that time by the German Lutheran and German Reformed 
 congregations, there were men from Trenton, New Jersey, and 
 vicinity brought up in the Presbyterian faith — Irish and Scotch 
 from Scotland and the north of Ireland and descendants of 
 Huguenots, who had crossed over the lower part of New York 
 state from the Hudson, worked their way down the west bank 
 of the Delaware and thus reached the Forks. 
 
 Let us see if this action can be traced to a logical origin. 
 In 1744, just one hundred and sixty-seven years ago, a delicate 
 Hian, David Brainerd, all aflame with a religious fervor to 
 acquaint the untutored savages at the Forks of the Delaware 
 with the Word of Life, worked his weary way from Stock- 
 bridge, Massachusetts through Sharon, Connecticut, west to the 
 Hudson — thence to Goshen, New York, and so on by very dififi- 
 cult stages to a Scotch-Irish settlement about twelve miles from 
 the actual Forks as now understood ; but then a name applied 
 to a vast stretch of territory adjacent. He preached at this 
 settlement frequently; as well also at the old Greenwich Town- 
 ship log church about five miles from the spot that became 
 known as Easton about 1750. He had built his cabin near the 
 mouth of Martin's Creek in lower Mt. Bethel Township. He 
 itinerated through the surrounding country, preaching mostly to 
 the Indians but visiting whatever settlements lay along the route 
 of his travel from his cabin to his appointed rendevous, where 
 white and copper colored met for instruction. The date of 
 his arrival in this vicinity is given in his diary as May 21, 1744. 
 Though he left 2 years and 3 months later for Crosswicks, New 
 Jersey, without many, if any visible fruits of his labor here- 
 abouts, we dare not ignore the Divine promise in regard of him 
 that goeth forth bearing precious seed, weeping because of its 
 scarcity in a time of drought and famine : and rememberino- 
 
what Dr. Griffis tells us in his "History of the Mikado's Empire 
 in respect to the labor of Francis Xavier" in Japan, followed 
 by a slaughter intended to exterminate the many thousands of 
 converts two hundred and fifty years before Commodore Perry's 
 visit to Japan, when a small band was discovered who had all 
 along in that length of time, preserved in all its purity the doc- 
 trine of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, we cannot but believe 
 that a latent spark smoldered in the breasts of some few of those 
 taught by Brainerd, till in 1794 it broke out in a vital flame. We 
 read that for fifty years after Easton became a village the High 
 Dutch and Germans held full sway — they constituting the vast 
 majority of the inhabitants. By slow degrees the English speaking 
 and Irish and Scotch settlers grew in number; till in 1794 mainly 
 through their instrumentality the Union Academy on Second 
 (then Ferner) Street was incorporated. The academy building, 
 though small and uninviting to our eyes at a later day, afford- 
 ed an opportunity where services conducted in the English 
 language, could be held with regularity. The people eagerly 
 availed themselves of the privilege. A record in the minutes of 
 the trustees of the academy under date of July 21, 1798 reads 
 as follows ; Resolved that permission be given the present Eng- 
 lish teacher in the academy to hold meetings for the worship 
 of God in said house at any time which shall not interfere with 
 the schools ; he being responsible for the proper care of the 
 house on such occasions. 
 
 In the archives of our church there is a paper, yellow with 
 age, written in a free, fair, round hand which reads in this wise ; 
 The Constitution of the Easton Religious Society. 
 
 The people, frequenters to hear Divine worship, at Easton 
 Union Academy do, this 12th day of August 1798, form them- 
 selves into a Society to be called the Easton Religious Society 
 and do ordain and establish this Constitution for the good order 
 and government of the same. Article ist provides that meet- 
 ings be held in the Union Academy until March 25th, 1799. 
 
 Article 2nd that the Society meet twice on the Lord's day 
 and at such hours as may be intimated ; that the services of the 
 
day be neither too brief nor too prolix; to consist of singing 
 two or three psahns or hymns — a short prayer or two — a small 
 portion of scripture to be read, with a sermon twice a day; the 
 sermons that are read be such as set forth the doctrines of the 
 gospel in its utmost purity. 
 
 By article 3rd all persons, children excepted, who should 
 frequent the society four time in a year, should be esteemed mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Article 4th provides that Andrew Mein be requested to ac- 
 cept the appointment to officiate in the administration of the 
 Divine functions until the 25th 'day of March, 1799; with desire 
 and permission to request and employ any person to iiis assisLance 
 that he may approve of. 
 
 Articles 5th, 6th and 7th relate to the management of the 
 society, which was vested in seven persons and provide for their 
 election, for their meetings etc. 
 
 Article 8th declares that members of the society must pay 
 quarterly one quarter of a dollar to Andrew Mein, the treasurer 
 for the purchase of books and for other necessary purposes. 
 
 Mr. Andrew Mein was the aforesaid English teacher and 
 his religious society was without doubt the mother of our church. 
 I think we can read between the lines that Mr. Mein enjoyed 
 the full confidence of the trustees of the academy and that the 
 limiting, at the first, of the time during which the meetings 
 could be held was referable to a fear that Mr. Mein might not 
 be with them beyond the date March 25th of the following year, 
 for we find that when our first stated supply came to Easton, he 
 occupied the same room in the academy and taught therein an 
 English school. 
 
 Just how long Mr. Mein continued to hold services neither 
 too brief nor to prolix and to read sermons that set forth the 
 doctrines of the gospel in their utmost purity, no one knows, 
 for the record is lost. The official records of our church begin 
 with April, 181 1 — the first entry being as follows — A number of 
 the inhabitants of Easton having convened in said borou<3-h to 
 take into consideration the most eligible way of procunno- a 
 
Teacher for their children and a Teacher of the Word in the 
 EngHsh language, it was, after deliberation, thought most advisa- 
 ble to request the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J,, to 
 grant them supplies for the ensuing summer, out of which sup- 
 plies it was expected one might be selected for the purpose 
 aforesaid. There were forty-three names on the petition for 
 help sent to the Presbytery of New Brunswick, as follows, 
 Henry Brown, Joseph Burke, J. M. Burnside, John Cooper, 
 Moses Davis, Robert Depew, Samuel Depew, John Erb, John 
 A. Everett, John Ewing, Daniel Fields, Samuel R. Finley, Lewis 
 Gano, David Gosner, Enoch Green, Benjamin Green, John 
 Green, James Hackett, Adam Hawk, Peter Hawk, James Hays. 
 John Heartley, Benjamin Hinds, John Horn, Ezeck Howell, Eli- 
 jah P. Hunt, Hill Hutchison, William Innis, Charles Lambert, 
 Benjamin Mettler, Samuel McCarthy, Daniel Quigley, Absalom 
 Heeder, Nathan Roberts, Thomas J. Rodgers, Henry Seagraves, 
 Ira B. Shaw, John Slater, James Thompson, Ralph Tindall, 
 Amos Titus, George Boyd and Joseph Wallace. 
 
 Dr. John Cooper and Mr. John Ewing were appointed a 
 committee to present this request to the Presbytery of New 
 Brunswick. They appeared before that body in April, 1811. 
 The petition was granted and Mr. Stephen Boyer, a licentiate 
 of the Presbytery was appointed to teach and preach as a stat- 
 ed supply two years, to the English speaking citizens of the 
 Borough of Easton. The supplies sent the English inhabitants 
 of Easton in compliance with the petition to the Presbytery of 
 New Brunswick are as follows : 
 
 Mr. Shauer, ist Sabbath May, and at discretion. 
 
 Mr. G. A. Hunt, 2nd Sabbath May. 
 
 Mr. James Campbell, 4th Sabbath May. 
 
 Mr. John Boyd, ist Sabbath June. 
 
 Mr. J. V. Brown, 3rd Sabbath June. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Rice, 5th Sabbath June. 
 
 Mr. G. S. Woodhull, 2nd Sabbath July. 
 
 ]\Irs. B. Sloan. 3rd Sabbath July. 
 
Rev. Stephen Boyer 
 1811-1814 
 
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 After serving our infant church a Httle less than three years, 
 ■Rev. Boyer left for Columbia, Pa. He is described as stout, 
 full faced and cleanly shaven ; complexion dark with features 
 somewhat like an Indian. He is spoken of in the record as 
 a good, sound preacher, who was successful in his work. Dur- 
 ing his short stay there were about thirty (30) whose hearts 
 the Lord opened, so that they received the Word gladly and made 
 v. public confession of their faith in Christ, as the only Saviour 
 of sinners. Following the departure of Rev. Boyer the congre- 
 gation was supplied by Presbytery until the fall of 1816 when 
 application was made to Presbytery of New Brunswick for the 
 services of Mr. David Bishop, a licentiate of that Presbytery. 
 The request was favorably considered by the parties interested 
 and on November 13th, 1816 Mr. Bishop was ordained. As on 
 the former occasion, the ordination took place in the First Re- 
 formed Church — the presence of Drs. Alexander and Miller of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary indicating an occasion of un- 
 usual interest — they participating in the exercises. Mr. Bishop's 
 salary was fixed at Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars per year 
 payable half yearly. Amounts varying from Sixteen Dollars 
 to One Dollar were pledged for the salary ; in all 67 names. 
 The amount collected the first year was Two Hundred and 
 Thirty-Six Dollars. The second year the subscribers numbered 
 94 names and Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine Dollars collected, 
 showing healthy growth. Mr. Bishop supplemented his income 
 by teaching a classical school in the Union Academy on the 
 hill, as well as by preaching in Mt. Bethel and at Durham. Up 
 to that time, though fully organized ecclesiastically, the congre- 
 gation was not legally incorporated by an act of the state, 
 though it is evident from a carefully worded constitution in 
 Mr. Boyer's time that such act of incorporation was contemp- 
 lated. The constitution and by-laws that were not submitted 
 to legislative enactment are interesting because of the rigid and 
 precise terms that characterize elections and deliberations. 
 
 At a meeting held in the academy December 15th, 1817, Messrs. 
 McKeen, Kennedy and Burke \^ere appointed a committee to 
 
Rev. David Bishop 
 1816-1822 
 
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 draft a constitution. Messrs. Eseck Howell and Absolom Read- 
 er were added to said committee on January 3d, 1818. Said 
 committee reported a draft of a constitution on January 15th, 
 1818, which was adopted and ordered sent to Mr. Rogers our 
 senatorial delegate at Harrisburg for confirmation by the state 
 authority. On January 22nd Mr. Rogers in his place present- 
 ed Bill No. 76 on Senate file, and the Presbyterian Congrega- 
 tion of the Borough of Easton was erected into a body politic 
 and corporate in deed and in law. The first trustees under the 
 charter w^ere John Green, William Kennecy, Eseck Howell, 
 Robert Innis, Joseph Burke, Absolom Reeder, Benjamin Green, 
 Ralph Tindall and Jesse M. Howell. The charter empowered 
 the trustees to adopt a common seal with such device as to them 
 seemed suitable. The one adopted is of circular form having 
 within the rim the words — The First Presbyterian Congrega- 
 tion of the Borough of Easton. A little above the center is the 
 figure of a dove soaring heavenward — the clouds already en- 
 wrapping her and from her wings are radiating beams of light. 
 When Mr. Bishop entered upon his work in Easton, services 
 were still conducted in the Court House in the square ; but the 
 place not being adapted to religious services, and its occupancy 
 being very strongly objected to by some men of prominence 
 in the community, who were opposed to all religious services, 
 it was a plain case of necessity, that if the church was to thrive, 
 the congregation must have a house of worship of its own and 
 be absolutely independent of all favors. A move had been made 
 at least 5 years before, for on the 17th of July, 181 3 a letter 
 was presented to the trustees of the academy from IMessrs. 
 Reeder, Bullman and Benjamin Green, trustees of the English 
 Presbyterian Church, praying for a lot of ground at the corner 
 of Femer, now Second Street and Church Alley, on which to 
 build a meeting house. The trustees very sensibly declined by 
 resolving that it is inexpedient to grant any ground to the Eng- 
 lish Presbyterian Congregation. 
 
 Finding they must rely on themselves, on July 8th, 181 5 a 
 subscription was started for the purpose of purchasing a lot or 
 
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 lots in the Borough of Easton and erecting a church thereon; 
 and for a burying ground for said congregation within the 
 limits of said borough. The enterprise progressed steadily, 
 though not very speedily. On December 6th, 1817 a committee 
 composed of John Green, Hill Hutchison, Ralph Tindall and 
 Moses Davis, that had been previously appointed to report on 
 the cost of a brick meeting house, reported that a building 45 
 by 55 feet would cost $7,000.00 — one 45 by 50 feet $6,500.00 
 and one 40 by 50 feet $6,000.00. It was unanimously resolved 
 to build a house not less than 40 by 50 feet and larger if the 
 funds warranted. Several sites were offered at prices ranging 
 from $2,000.00 to $1,000.00 for a lot near the Lehigh and on 
 Bushkill Street west of Fourth Street, till finally after considera- 
 ble discussion the present location on the northwest corner of 
 Second or Ferner and Bushkill Streets was selected. On the 
 6th of March, 1818 Benjamin Green in consideration of Five 
 Hundred Dollars sold lot No. 288 on the town plot, being 55 
 feet front on Bushkill Street to the trustees, though on account 
 of the minority of some heirs, the deed was not formally execut- 
 ed till May 20th, 1829. On April 30th, 1818, Abraham Ealer 
 and Mary, his wife in consideration of Four Hundred Dollars 
 deeded to the trustees Lot No. 287 on town plot with a front- 
 age on Bushkill Street of 55 feet. Possessed of these two lots, 
 they proceeded to build : the original building committee was 
 John Green, Absolom Reeder, John Cooper, Ralph Tindall, 
 Moses Davis and Thomas McKeen. The cellar was dug by 
 the men of the congregation on a Saturday afternoon. John 
 Bowes was to burn the bricks. Hill Hutchison and Daniel 
 Quigley were to lay them. Ralph Tindall was to do the car- 
 penter work. Major Straub was to do the plastering, and 
 John and Louis Gano the painting. As finally agreed on the 
 building was to be 45 by 50 feet and the front was to stand 
 back from the building line on Bushkill Street 12 feet and 5 feet 
 from the line on Second or Ferner Street. The pulpit was 
 placed between the doors opening from Bushkill Street ; and 
 to the right and left of the doors after entering the small vesti- 
 
The Original First Presbyterian Church. Rear view from the 
 North West in 1846. 
 
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 bule, were closed stairways leading to the gallery that occupied 
 the east, west and north sides. On the north gallery was placed 
 a small organ. There were 44 pews on the main floor and 27 
 on the gallery, which with all other white pine woodwork, were 
 painted white — the total cost being $6,500. I omitted to say 
 that after passing through the doorways from the small vesti- 
 bule into the aisles, there was running east and west from the 
 respective aisles, a narrow aisle or passage admitting entrance 
 to a few pews running parallel to the main aisles. Thomas 
 McKeen, Joseph Burke and James Hays were a committee to 
 solicit subscriptions, which totaled $5,878.15 embracing 210 
 names — the amounts varying from $500.00 to $.50. Among the 
 contributors are to be found the names of Rev. Robert Finlay 
 and Rev. Thomas Pomp, Rev. Bishop, the state supply gave 
 $100.00, thus setting a good example of practical liberality and 
 above all a genuine self-sacrifice in Christ's cause. A Calvanist 
 of Wilkes-Barre gave $45.00, name not known. Thirty-four of 
 the subscribers were females — twenty-six persons paid their 
 subscriptions by hauling — three by labor — five proved insolvent. 
 Some others proved rather slow pay, though able to make good ; 
 and the trustees Resolved That Benjamin Green and Ralph 
 Tindall be a committee to put into the hands of Jacob Weygandt, 
 Esq. all the unpaid subscriptions made by men able to pay, but 
 careless and indifferent about keeping their promises. If willing 
 but unable to pay, Mr. Weygandt was to be lenient and accept 
 their notes at sixty days. It was hoped that the Law thus in- 
 voked would develop Grace. The church being completed, was 
 solemnly dedicated to the worship of God on August 22d, 18 19 — 
 Mr. Bishop preaching from the latter clause of Exodus 20th 
 chapter, 24th verse — "In all places where I have recorded my 
 name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." The trus- 
 tees put a valuation on the pews, rating them from 40 to 65 
 dollars in the gallery and from 90 to 120 dollars on the main 
 floor. On August 28th, 1819 they were sold to the highest 
 bidder, subject to the annual assessment for the support of the 
 stated supply. We may here note that when the pews were sold. 
 
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 it was with the reservation that the purchaser must pay for the 
 support of the church ordinances, and annual rental and thus the 
 ownership of the pew only anchored the owner in the occupancy 
 in priority or to the exclusion of all others so long as he paid 
 the rent. This calls to my mind the defeat of Elder McKeen, 
 who, when he became estranged from the college through the 
 boyish escapade of his nephew, that led to his suspension from 
 college, smote the floor of his pew with his cane and declared 
 he would invoke the sheriff's aid to keep out all who essayed 
 to enter it, if the church trustees should grant the use of the 
 church for holding the college commencement, as had always 
 been done theretofore. Reverting to the sale of the pews, ]\Ir. 
 William White, commonly known as Chippy White, in my early 
 days was the auctioneer. In the course of about 7 years the 
 house was too small to accommodate the would be hearers. Ac- 
 cordingly a subscription was started December 5th, 1825 to 
 raise funds to enlarge the church. $1531.00 were subscribed. 
 Work was commenced in the spring of 1826 and 20 feet were 
 added to the rear. Two doors were placed at that end of the 
 addition for the accommodation of those who shunned facing 
 the congregation from the front. The place where the addition 
 joined the old audience room was plainly marked by a step or 
 rise of 7 inches and those occupying the new pews could see over 
 the heads of those in front of them and all faced South, just 
 the reverse of what it is to-day. Twenty-eight pews were gain- 
 ed on the main floor, rated in value from 60 to 120 dollars. 
 During the enlargement worship was conducted in the 3rd 
 Street Reformed Church through the Christian courtesy of the 
 boards of the German Lutheran and German Reformed 
 churches, who owned the building conjointly. Here I may re- 
 mark that I have read in our archives the correspondence be- 
 tween the trustees of our church and the official boards of the 
 two congregations worshiping in the 3rd Street church : and it 
 is extremely gratifying to note the beautiful expressions of Chris- 
 tian fraternity that made our congregation welcome to occupy 
 their house for the worship of cur common Lord and Saviour. 
 
The Original Church. Front view from the South East 1846. 
 
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 This enlargement imposed on our congregation a debt, for 
 the extinguishment of which the trustees issued notes or certifi- 
 cates of indebtedness of the face value of $25.00 each, bearing 
 interest at rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Forty-eight of these 
 notes were sold, yielding $1200.00. 
 
 In 1846 the congregation was again found too large for the 
 building; and to make room the church was built out 12 feet to 
 the building line in front on Bushkill Street as at present. The 
 building committee consisted of Messrs. George W. Housel, 
 John Dickson, James McKeen and Joseph Dawes. $1,095.00 were 
 subscribed for the alteration. Twenty-one new pews were gain- 
 ed, of a value ranging from $95.00 to $125.00 each. During 
 the improvement worship was conducted in Christ's Lutheran 
 Church, corner 4th and Ferry Streets through the Christian 
 kindness of that church ; acknowledgment of which is embodied 
 in the minutes of our board of trustees. When completed and op- 
 ened again for worship. Dr. Gray preached from Haggai, second 
 chapter, seventh verse, "I will fill this house with glory, saith 
 the Lord of Hosts,'" on December 27th, 1846. 
 
 During the following week the new pews were all sold at a 
 premiuiT), in a few cases as high as $60.00 over their valuation. 
 
 On April ist, 1845 Philip H. ]\Iattes and wife, Catherine in 
 consideration of 1040 dollars deeded to the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Easton lots 285 and 286 on the town plot, beginning 
 21 feet east of vSitgreaves Street and extending easterly 89 
 feet, thus making out total frontage on Bushkill Street 199 feet. 
 When the church was enlarged in 1846, the congregation erected 
 on a portion of the lots last purchased a small brick session 
 room 30 by 40 feet one story high, for the use of the Sabbath 
 School and for midweek services, at a cost of 1400 dollars. In 
 appearance it was very plain indeed. The benches placed in it 
 were of the plainest, cheapest style. I can well recall the depres- 
 sing effect the general impression of the interior had on the 
 worshiper. A cheap cast iron cylinder stove with sheet iron 
 top. an utter stranger to blacking, stood on the east and west 
 
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 sides of the room, radiating an uncertain amount of heat on 
 the few people, mostly females, that clustered around them dur- 
 ing the service, cut short in righteousness many a time on a 
 cold night. In 1869 this small building was completely remod- 
 eled and enlarged — a second story added and the length in- 
 creased by about 30 feet. The width of the front was in- 
 creased by an addition of about 5 or 6 feet on each side for use 
 as a Sabbath School Library Room and for other purposes. A 
 furnace was placed in the cellar to heat the whole building — 
 the second story was partitioned off into 5 fine rooms in general 
 arrangement as seen to-day. New settees were placed in the 
 audience room for the use of the Sabbath School and Wednesday 
 night services — all at a cost of about $10,000.00 raised by sub- 
 scription. In 1907 modern methods of conducting Sabbath 
 Schools, embracing graded classes, as well as because a better 
 taste in architecture and a sanctified appreciation of the home 
 beautiful, seemed to call for a radical change in our session 
 house. Many conferences were held and plans presented in- 
 volving a large expenditure and the occupying of much of the 
 vacant ground between the church and the present site of the 
 session house ; when most fortunately it was decided to thor- 
 oughly remodel the old session house. The work was given in 
 large measure into the hands of a trustee, whose modesty for- 
 bids by naming him. He with the cooperation of the President 
 and the loyal assistance of a full working Board, hung the sec- 
 ond story on a roof truss, and removed the unsightly iron pil- 
 lars that should never have been put in, for they seemingly 
 divided the room in two parts, and were absolutely unnecessary. 
 Then dividing up the abnormally long and narrow room by 
 two pilasters on each side carrying beautifully modeled girders — 
 crowning all with most tastefully tinted side walls and all wood- 
 work painted ivory white, previously borrowing the conception 
 for the work framing the pulpit as a background, from the pul- 
 pit surroundings in the church as they were before the radical 
 change therein in 1879. 
 
 No talisman ever wrought a more magical change than was 
 
The Original Interior of the First Presbyterian Church as it appeared 
 before the alterations of 1876. 
 
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 designed and carried to completion under the exercise of that 
 trustee's taste. 
 
 Reverting to an earher date that we may gather up the loose 
 ends in the way of improvements of our church property, in 
 1852, Elder Thomas McKeen, who was a tower of strength in 
 our finances, proposed to give 4200 dollars, if the congregation 
 would supplement it with 650 dollars, for the purpose of erect- 
 ing a fine, large parsonage on the vacant lot adjacent to the ses- 
 sion house on the West. The offer was accepted and the par- 
 sonage built — pretty much as it now stands — the very best — 
 most stylish and roomy home for a pastor in Easton to-day. 
 Changes have been made in the building in some respects ; but 
 not always improvements. I remember it was always said that 
 the young unmarried men in the congregation paid for piping 
 the house for gas and for all the gas fixtures. 
 
 In 1879 this ever progressive people met and discussed furth- 
 er improvements. 1 had often noticed the dirty streaks on the 
 wall back of the pulpit that gave the church a very untidy ap- 
 pearance. Catechising the sexton, Mr. Weaver as to the proba- 
 ble cause of it, he said "Come in and I will show you." His 
 explanation was this — when once or twice a year he cleaned the 
 church, he turned the full force of the water through a hose on 
 to the white woodwork above and back of the pulpit to wash 
 off the accumulated dust, the dirty water ran down the wall and 
 streaked the paper. That was a sufficient explanation ; and 
 v.dien shortly after, the congregation was called together by the 
 trustees, to decide what, if any, changes should be made in the 
 interior of the building, and quite a number of our prominent 
 members favored retaining the galleries and repainting all the 
 woodwork in white, the hose incident furnished me with a 
 strong point that proved a powerful factor in framing the deci- 
 sion to reduce the quantity of white woodwork, that resulted 
 finally in the radical transformation of the whole interior. 
 
 It is convenient just here to tell in few words how nearly we 
 came to losing our dear old church by fire. This same Mr. 
 Weaver, our sexton, was also the night watchman at the Easton 
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 Bank. He assured me in the most positive manner that one 
 night about midnight when a terrific windstorm was raging, a 
 voice seemed to say to him "Go right down to the church or 
 it will soon be in ashes." Duty to the bank said "Don't go 
 away. You have no right to go. Your place is here." The 
 voice said repeatedly "Go to the church at once." He went 
 and as he opened the door to the Sabbath School room under 
 the north part of the building, he saw the wainscoting, just 
 c'.bove which the smoke pipe then red hot, passed through a parti- 
 tion on its way to the chimney, all in flames working rapidly 
 up and to right and left. He opened the door leading to the 
 furnace room and found as he said and firmly believed, that 
 the violent wind had drawn the upper door shut and the greatly 
 increased draft had overheated furnace and pipe. There were 
 no portable fire extinguishers in those days ; but with a few 
 buckets of water always kept ready for use, he soon succeeded 
 in quenching the blaze. He heeded the vision's voice and our 
 church building was saved and he was saved a charge of culpa- 
 ble forgetfulness in not opening the upper door of the furnace 
 before he went to the bank in the early evening. Reverting to 
 proposed improvements it was finally decided to award a con- 
 tract to Mr. George E. Seiple to tear out the galleries in fofo — • 
 cut the first and second tiers of windows into one, forming a 
 row of long and rather narrow windows in which were placed 
 colored panes as at present — one only, so far, being supplanted 
 by the beautiful representation of the Nativity — the gift of the 
 children of Mirs. Emma Raub Stout, long a faithful member 
 of this church, in memory of their sainted mother. I presume 
 many present to-day remember the beautiful green Venetian 
 blinds that in days previous to 1879, shaded the windows under 
 and over the galleries. The old white pine pews were remov- 
 ed — the floor was dropped to an incline northward of 3 feet, be- 
 ginning at the level of the vestibule floor and inclining to near 
 the pulpit on a regular grade. The position of the pulpit was 
 changed from the south to the north end of the church. Mr. 
 George E. Seiple told me not long since of a startling- inci- 
 
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 dent that occurred one very hot and sultry afternoon when they 
 were bringing the lowering of the church floor bodily to a 
 conclusion. The two tiers of side windows had been cut into 
 one tier — the galleries and pews had all been removed and the 
 whole structure had a very dilapidated look. The tall trestles 
 for work at the windows had been left standing on the floor 
 that was being lowered bodily. Mr. Seiple had had the inside 
 faces of the uncommonly thick and well laid foundation walls 
 on the east and west sides chipped off by masons by dint of much 
 time and toil and sloped to the required pitch northward. The 
 more than a dozen workmen were cautiously removing, by slow 
 stages, the props beneath the floor, when the cellar, in which 
 they were working at close quarters, became dark as pitch by 
 reason of the gathering thunder clouds — the darkness by times 
 relieved by the most vivid flashes of lightning imaginable — peal 
 after peal of rolling thunder shook the building fearfully; 
 when all at once, synchronously with a crowning commotion in 
 the elements, there was a crash in their midst, as though the 
 church had collapsed. The culminating crash was followed by 
 a succession of deafening sounds on the floo'r above them, pro- 
 ceeding, as they afterwards found, from the falling over of the 
 tall trestles — each striking its neighbor as it fell till all had fal- 
 len. When the atmosphere became clear of dust, each man 
 looked to his fellow like a ghost, so white had their faces be- 
 come from fright; but there was the floor, fallen to its desired 
 position, as it has stood ever since without a moment's adjust- 
 ment. Mr. Seiple said that what made the fright more terrific 
 was the fact that that very day some wiseacres were predicting 
 a collapse from the cutting out of the brickwork between the tiers 
 of windows on each side, which he had himself advocated as 
 safe beyond the shadow of a doubt. 
 
 Beautiful black walnut pews holding six persons each, were 
 installed. The organ was brought down from the gallery, and 
 was placed back of the pulpit and played through the use of 
 long trackers reaching to the keyboard in front of the pulpit — 
 the quartet choir sitting on a curved seat that encircled the or- 
 
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 ganist's stool and rising to a raised platform about 7 inches 
 high, stood facing the congregation while singing. The two 
 front doors were removed and one large central door put into 
 the front and opened through two large plate glass doors open- 
 ing right and left from a large stationary plate glass — all acting 
 as a protection from cold draughts of air and admitting abund- 
 ance of light into the vestibule that spanned the whole front of 
 the church. 
 
 From this vestibule there ascended in a square tower at its 
 eastern end a convenient stairway leading to the beautiful new 
 gallery spanning the south end and supplied with 34 black wal- 
 nut pews that seat 130 persons comfortably. This improvement 
 cost $8,000.00. In Rev. Carlile's pastorate, 1887 to 1890, an 
 addition of 30 feet in form of a true semi-circle, was placed to 
 the north end, beginning at the south side of the first north 
 window on each side of the building. The present two large 
 windows were installed in the north end. A contract was made 
 with Cole and Woodbury of Boston for the present three bank 
 organ for the sum of $3,500.00 and the old organ, which was 
 sold by their order to the Presbyterian Church of Bangor. Pa. 
 The new organ was placed between the two large northern 
 windows and ample space given the choir in front of the organ 
 and back of the pulpit platform. In the winter of 1890-91 the 
 entire front and tower of our church was ruined and fell out- 
 ward from being undermined by the breaking of a large water 
 pipe during the construction of a deep sewer in the middle of Bush- 
 kill Street. The reconstruction of the front in which were now 
 placed the present beautiful stained glass windows, and the ex- 
 tension of the front about 12 feet beyond its former width, 
 with a tower at each end and a wider and handsomer vestibule 
 with stained glass windows, involved an outlay of about $9,000.00 
 — no reimbursement being made to the corporation for the dam- 
 age sustained. Coincident with session room improvements that 
 were being made in 1907, there was being done on the outside 
 in our cemetery grounds a decided betterment in the filling up 
 and grading of the ground. This was accomplished by utiliz- 
 
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 ing the 5163 two-horse wagon loads of earth dug from the 
 cellar of the Northampton County National Bank, corner 4th 
 and Northampton Streets, that were given us without cost oth- 
 er than for the spreading and levelling. Previous to such fil- 
 ling in, an opportunity was given the relatives of those buried 
 there, to remove them to the cemetery. In cases where all rela- 
 tives were dead or the living objected to the removal of their 
 dead, a chart was carefully prepared indicating precisely the 
 relation of the coffins to certain fixed points or markers, so that 
 if at any time hereafter, removal is desired, there will be no 
 trouble to find the place of their interment. By spreading the 
 new earth at an average depth of 3 to 4 feet over our whole 
 lot including parsonage yard, we have secured a most beautiful 
 lawn that enhances greatly the value of our whole property. 
 
 I omitted to say, when describing our church edifice, that the 
 original building and the first addition to the north end, was 
 surmounted at that end by a substantial cupola or belfry and 
 the heavy timbers that supported it, were utilized by Mr. Seiple 
 when in 1888 he constructed the last northern semi-circular ex- 
 tension, by laying them in a fanlike form from a radiating 
 center as a basis for the roof at that place. 
 
 The first seats in the session room were brought from the 
 school room under the north half of the church, and were very 
 cheap and uncomfortable — were about 5 feet long and had 
 backs. These were followed by more expensive and more com- 
 fortable settees with reversible backs but with seats rather 
 narrow. Next came seats with backs and joined in sets of 
 two, three and four, and adjustable to form a figure around the 
 single seat of the teacher of the Sunday School class. These 
 were followed by chairs as at present. This concludes the his- 
 tory of the church property — what one may style the Static 
 work of the church. 
 
 As before remarked, the two classes of church work so 
 closely intertwine that we must guard against too violent separa- 
 tion of them for fear of doing injury to one or the other. Con- 
 veniently planned and artistic buildings do not make an eflfec- 
 
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 tive church. It is deep, bed-rock preaching that goes down to 
 the Calvanistic foundation of things spiritual, if it is a Presby- 
 terian congregation, and cements each superimposed layer with 
 the virtue of Christ's blood and spotless righteousness, that 
 brings results worth having. For the most part we have al- 
 ways had such preaching; and adults and children as well, have 
 been taught that the best of good works to the extent of render- 
 ing everyone about us happy in the usual, but wrong acceptation 
 of the word, will avail nothing and are effective and redound to 
 eternal life, only as they are the indices to the world, not to 
 God, of a consecrated heart and life. 
 
 Mr. Bishop continued to supply the church till his death on 
 May 19th, 1822, having labored five years and a half in Easton. 
 His remains were buried in the rear of our church ; but now 
 rest in our beautiful Easton cemetery. He was born at Ringoes, 
 New Jersey, and at his death was 31 years old. His paternal 
 parent and grandparent were of very worthy English stock of 
 Presbyterian faith. David Bishop, Sr., his father, married a 
 Miss Anna Schenck of Holland stock — ^\vas a colonel in our 
 Revolutionary war, and at its close settled at Ringoes, where 
 he built the Amwell Academy at his own expense. He was an 
 elder in the First Amwell Church. David Bishop, Jr., was the 
 youngest but one of nine children. Descended as he was from 
 Scotch Irish, English and Holland stock, who were all Pres- 
 byterians, his was truly the heritage of the righteous. He was 
 graduated at Princeton College in September, 1819, and had 
 as classmates a number of men who became distinguished in the 
 various walks of professional life, such as George M. Dallas 
 of Pennsylvania, Abel Upvhur of Virginia, Chancellor Johns 
 of Delaware and Chancellor Halstead of New Jersey. In iStt 
 he was appointed superintendent of the Trenton, N. J., Academy 
 and continued to teach there till 181 5 on a salary of $900.00 to 
 $1000.00 — a large salary for so young a man in those days. 
 He studied theology under Dr. Woodhall of Freehold, N. J.— 
 was licensed by the Presbytery at New Brunswick, and in 1815 
 became assistant to the Rev. J. F. Armstrong, pastor of the First 
 
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 Presbyterian Church at Trenton, N. J. In the fall of 1815 he 
 married Sarah Caroline Prall, daughter of John Frail, a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier of Prallsville, N. J. 
 
 When Mr. Bishop came to Easton in 1816, the field was alto- 
 gether uninviting, without any house of worship — in a town 
 whose reputation was far from savory — a town in which 
 drinking and Sabbath desecration and dancing at public 
 houses and card playing galore, justified the name of Sodoni, 
 as I myself heard it called at a later day in the city of brotherly 
 love. He occupied for a time the house at the northwest corner 
 of Second and Spring Garden Streets, later tenanted by Rev. 
 Thomas Pomp, D. D. The immoral status of Easton was 
 probably referable to the fact that there was at that early day 
 but one resident pastor in it. Rev. Pomp at that time lived in 
 one of his country parishes. The only pastor, a German, name 
 not known to me, was lax in discipline and was not by any 
 means a model Christian, for he allowed his fondness for his 
 violin to betray him into frivolous performances on it on his 
 front porch on Sunday afternoons. Seemingly forgetting that 
 things that are lawful may not be expedient, and if practised, 
 may do much harm. 
 
 Pious without austerity ]\Ir. Bishop united all the cheerful- 
 ness of the companion and the polish of the intelligent gentleman 
 with the simplicity of the Christian. Mr. Bishop being an ex- 
 cellent linguist, was well equipped for his supplementary work 
 of teaching, for he was a very scholarly man of fine presence 
 and in his classical school conducted in the academy on the hill 
 on Second Street, as I have heard my father say, he did ex- 
 cellent work in fitting young men thoroughly for Princeton 
 College. From him doubtless Dr. Jonh Vanderveer got those 
 ideas about teaching, when he was Mr. Bishop's assistant in 
 1817 and 1818, which rendered him so famous when ten years 
 later and six years after Mr. Bishop's death, he opened a Classi- 
 cal vSchool of his own in our borough. 
 
 Mr. Bishop's manner in the pulpit was solemn, impressive 
 and deeply earnest. His advent in Easton aroused what relig- 
 
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 ious element there was, to unwonted activity and surprised the 
 indifferent German element. Being a man of strong convic- 
 tions, he proclaimed vigorous doctrines without fear. It is said 
 of him that a neighboring minister somewhat lax in his theology 
 and "morals, remonstrated with Mr. Bishop, predicting that such 
 ''horrific preaching" would empty his church; but it proved to 
 have just the opposite effect, as it always does, when done in 
 the Spirit of the Gospel. Cowardly, inane, pointless, goody, 
 goody preaching is one of the surest ways of emptying a church 
 and disbanding a congregation. Mr. Bishop was by no means 
 a bigot, but was kindhearted and liberal, for he at times ex- 
 changed with the first Episcopal Rector in Easton, Rev. John 
 Rodney, Jr., with whom he was on particularly friendly terms — 
 so much so, that on a Christmas day they communed together 
 in celebrating Christ's undying love. To the poor and lowly 
 he was particularly attentive. The colored people who were 
 quite numerous in Easton, loved him dearly and filled the por- 
 tion of the gallery of the church set apart for them. He held 
 prayer meetings for their special benefit. Tunis Francis and 
 Betty, his wife, were colored people of consistent Christian 
 character, of whom I often heard words of praise from my 
 parents. My father always spoke of him as a very instructive 
 and interesting preacher — one of the best in Newton Presby- 
 tery, which could boast of many notable preachers, like Camp- 
 bell, Condit, Lowrie, Caudee, Hunt and Dr. Jacob Kirkpatrick, 
 grandfather of Ex- Judge Kirkpatrick, of our city. His manne- 
 was earnest, his sermons practical, yet spiritual in thought. 
 Mrs. Bishop, being a lady of refinement and of a vigorous and 
 cultivated intellect, was a valuable helpmeet to her husband in 
 the conduct of a female prayer meeting, assisted as she was by 
 a Mrs. Henrietta Arndt, a worthy Christian worker. Mr. 
 Bishop established the first Sunday School in Easton, assisted 
 by Miss Sophia Kemper and two ladies of a family of Friends 
 or Quakers — the Misses Hannah and Margaret Churchman, 
 and by Miss Elizabeth Long, who became the first wife of Col. 
 Thomas McKeen, one of our best known elders. 
 
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 Mr. Bishop's whole Hfe was an eloquent, impressive and in- 
 structive sermon to the people of his small charge. His death 
 was much deplored as all his parishioners loved him and had 
 felt that an assured future of usefulness was before him. His 
 death was followed by a large ingathering of men, who refer- 
 red their awakening to his work among and for them. Hence 
 his crown was not a starless one, but many gems are sparkling 
 there in glorious beauty. Mr. Bishop was a good temperance 
 man. A paper to which I have access quotes from one of his 
 sermons on the observance of the Sabbath, as an illustration 
 of his composition, as well as illustrative of the customs and 
 habits of his time. "Collecting at taverns and tippling houses 
 on this day is a shameful profanation of it. I should be very 
 sorry to think that any of you, my friends, would ever counte- 
 nance such a demoralizing and God provoking practice. But I 
 have reason to believe that such is the case with some of our 
 neighbors. Almost every Sabbath brings some of them by my 
 door. Oh ! how it pains my heart, when I think of the destruc- 
 tive nature of their errand. If there is no law to reach such 
 practices, Christians and the friends of morals and good order, 
 ought to take every occasion to speak of those things, to the 
 shame and disgrace of those guilty." Speaking of lounging 
 and sleeping on the Sabbath, he declares with pungency that 
 the Sabbath of mere physical rest is the Sabbath of brutes. He 
 was a tall, light-complexioned man with abundance of very 
 dark hair, giving him a handsome appearance; just such a look- 
 ing man as his son, Calvin, my classmate at the University of 
 Pennsylvania in medicine. He had one daughter, Amelia Ann, 
 who became the wife of Rev. Ninnian Bannatyne, a graduate 
 of Lafayette, settled at Washington, D. C, a splendid sermonizer 
 and eloquent preacher, whom I well remember. After Mr. 
 Bishop's death, his family continued to reside in Easton — his 
 widow suffering terrific headaches produced by her head coming 
 ii'. contact with a pump handle. An operation by trepanning 
 brought relief, so that her last days were passed in relief from 
 all suffering. 
 
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 His decided and beneficial influence lived after him and in 
 him was verified the scripture that says "Blessed are the dead 
 who die in the Lord, for their works follow." 
 
 After the death of Mr Bishop, the congregation was minister- 
 ed to by Presbyterial supplies until September of same year, 
 1822, when Mr. John Gray, a licentiate of the Associate Re- 
 formed Presbytery of New York, was invited to preach on trial, 
 and his ministrations proving acceptable, he was invited to serve 
 one year, as stated supply. The work thus begun in uncertainty 
 was prolonged 44 year, 7 months. Mr. Gray took up the work 
 so auspiciously begun by Rev. Bishop, and prosecuted it with, 
 in some respects, marvellous success. We want no better evi- 
 dence of such success than the two enlargements of the church 
 edifice to accomodate increasing audiences during his pastorate. 
 In the church archives we see that when in 1846 the congre- 
 gation met to plan for further enlargement of the building, a 
 vigorous move was made in favor of sending out a colony and 
 to help erect for them a church in another part of the town ; 
 but before the plan was perfected, a committee appointed to se- 
 cure plans for enlargement, reported a plausible plan for in- 
 creased accommodations and the suggested scheme for coloni- 
 zation with material help, was smothered efifectually for the 
 time being. 
 
 The movement for colonization in another church to be built 
 by aid of the FiriSt Church was, doubtless, started by the con- 
 scientious and pugnacious Dr. George Junkin, President of La- 
 fayette College, who had, when he first came to Easton in 
 1832 and for some years later, been very friendly with and 
 lielpful to Dr. Gray. Time and again have I seen Mr. Gray 
 walk from his house, then at Southeast corner Second and 
 Spring Garden Streets, to meet Dr. Junkin and family coming down 
 Spring Garden Street from his home, northeast corner 4tb 
 and Spring Garden Streets, and have seen him ask Dr. Junkin 
 to preach for him, for he was suffering from a cold; and the 
 doctor would give us a grand sermon full of spiritual meat, as 
 
Rev. John Gray, D. D. 
 1822-1867 
 
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 Go! may Jesus guide thy going. 
 May He be where'er thou art; 
 May His love forever flowing 
 Cheer, refresh and warm thy heart ! 
 May his presence 
 Never from thy soul depart ! 
 
 And where no farewell is spoken, 
 Where no tear the cheek shall stain. 
 Where we give no parting token, 
 There shall Christians meet again! 
 Yes, in heaven, 
 Saviour, let us meet again. 
 
 Does any one suppose that if the learned Doctors were at 
 serious estrangement, the wife of one of them would have 
 written such pleasant words respecting the other? I trow not. 
 
 Though not officially connected with this church, it may not 
 be out of place to state that in the painful controversy at the 
 college a resolution had been passed by the trustees, a majority 
 of whom resided hereabouts and were men of no experience 
 whatever in college educational methods, calling at times for 
 strict discipline, that gave to the students the right to appeal 
 in case of supposed grievances, from the action of the faculty to 
 the board of trustees. As Dr. Junkin on his return to Lafay- 
 ette from Miami in 1844, became the inciting factor in estab- 
 lishing the Second Presbyterian Church, it is but right to say 
 he would not return to the college till the ofifensive resolution 
 was rescinded and the deciding power of the faculty was re- 
 stored. For several years the doctor seeing the First Church 
 crowded to its full capacity, worked for the extension of Pres- 
 byterianism in this community, and wrote to the session of the 
 First Church that he proposed to preach in the Baptist Church 
 on Ferry Street on Sabbath afternoons, M^here he would en- 
 deavor to meet the demands for increased means of grace by a 
 series of lectures on Experimental Piety. He asked their 
 
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 consent and cooperation. The session gave its consent, but in 
 terms that indicated that the proposal was distasteful to them. 
 The lectures were given — were well attended and resulted in 
 good. As was anticipated, they led to a petition to Presbytery 
 for a second church, which, much to the surprise of most mem- 
 bers of Presbytery, was violently opposed by the session of the 
 First Church. Dr. Gray unfortunately looked upon the move- 
 ment as an attempt to drive him from Easton. It was then be 
 preached with unusual animation on the text "Touch not Mine 
 annointed and do My prophets no harm." No one felt hurt, 
 for no one felt that he was suffering from any attack, save in 
 his own imagination. Presbytery organized the second church, 
 but after a vain struggle against persistent opposition from this 
 church, it asked Presbytery to disband it. This was done and 
 most of its members applied to the Dutch Reformed Classis 
 of New Brunswick to organize a church of that denomination 
 here, which was done. Our congregation was a very strong 
 one in numbers and financially. No finer appearing body of 
 men and women was to be seen anywhere. The vast majority 
 of the leaders in professional life as well as the most prosper- 
 ous merchants and tradesmen in the community, worshiped at 
 the First Presbyterian Church. Clergymen from the cities of 
 New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington frequent- 
 ly remarked the attractive and intelligent looking congregation 
 that greeted them morning and evenings. The church was 
 proud of its choir, and we find that as early as 1826 John Stew- 
 art, Benjamin Hinds and James Wilson took turns in standing 
 before the pulpit and leading the congregation in singing. In 
 1847 an organ was purchased — 1830 the organ was pronounced 
 unequal to the high standard set for their church music. A new 
 and much finer organ was purchased. In 1832 a musical in- 
 structor was procured to meet the congregation statedly and 
 teach music. In the early forties by exchange of the instruument 
 purchased in 1830 and by the proceeds of a fair, a still better 
 organ was obtained that served till in 1888 the present organ 
 was installed. 
 
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 In 1832 the trustees discarded stoves in the church and puc 
 in a furnace — in same year Venetian bhnds were installed and 
 the aisles carpeted and benches with backs were put in the 
 Sunday School room under the north half of the church. In 
 1817 the opening meetings were held at early candlelight. 
 
 In 1829 a cast steel triangle and hammer were purchased for 
 $25.00, to call the people together. The triangle being knocked 
 to pieces by the hammer, a bell weighing 844 pounds, was pur- 
 chased through a Mr. J. D. Holbrook of New York City for 
 $323.15, which a little later for a reason not found on record, 
 but as gathered from the correspondence, probably a to harsh 
 sound, was exchanged for one weighing 572 pounds and cost- 
 ing $196.04; which is the one now in use. 
 
 Sperm candles were at first used for lighting. In 1850 the 
 trustees resolved thai only whale oil should be used for light- 
 ing the sanctuary. In 1851 gas was introduced and electricity 
 in 1888. 
 
 A few words in regard to Sabbath School work. To be ac- 
 curate, the church was born of the Sabbath School, for as said 
 before, a few yious men feeling a responsibility for the spiritual 
 training of their children, made their wishes known to Pres- 
 bytery of New Brunswick, and through it obtained an English 
 teacher, who gathered in the young and fed them for several 
 years till a church organization was perfected. After the com- 
 ing of Mr. Bishop the Sunday school was placed on a sub- 
 stantial basis in which the conspicuous feature of Presbyterian 
 oversight of the lambs of the flock was made prominent ; and it 
 has continued till this day. Then fit religious books as helps to 
 Bible study, were rare and expensive. Now the pendulum has 
 swung to the opposite extreme, and books written presumably 
 for enlightment in Bible study are legion ; but not always free 
 from the charge of trashy excitants of the youthful mind. 
 Down to 1828 the school was divided into two departments — 
 the male and female, each under a separate superintendent and 
 conducted in separate rooms or separated parts of the same 
 
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 room. In 1824 the expense was but $4.79. In 1825 there were 
 160 pupils and expense $39.47- 
 
 We must not omit to mention specifically and with emphasis 
 the assistance rendered Dr. Gray in the school by James Wilson 
 and Jesse M. Howell, elders deeply interested in Foreign Mis- 
 sions. Truly they were as Aarons and Hurs to the doctor. A 
 boy in a school in India supported by our Sabbath school, was 
 named after Mr. Wilson. At one time in 1845 three children 
 in India were supported by our school. In 1838 our sessional 
 record shows that it was the purpose of the session to have our 
 church support a Foreign Missionary of its own, but the board 
 of foreign missions did not favor the plan. We were 50 years 
 in advance of the Board. In 1843 Thomas Wilson, a colored 
 man, was, at a special meeting of Presbytery in our church, 
 ordained to the work of the ministry, to go as a missionary to 
 Africa. I remember he preached on the text "He is brought 
 as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is 
 dumb, so he openeth not His mouth." I recall distinctly his 
 personal appearance in our pulpit — a strong, well built man, and 
 that his sermon and prayers were thought to give promise of 
 much usefulness among his race in Africa. 
 
 In 1864 Mrs. Margaret E. Eckard, wife of Dr. I. R. Eckard, 
 and mother of Dr. L. W. Eckard, organized an infant school 
 in connection with our Sunday School, which has ever been an 
 interesting feature of our Sunday school work under most able 
 superintendents. The attendance of our larger school, though 
 drained by the establishment of three other schools as nuclei of 
 churches, has been uniformly good, though constantly crippled 
 in growth and usefulness by a lack of competent teachers. It 
 is a question in my mind whether the numerous lesson helps so 
 styled, are after all as good for making a thorough acquain- 
 tance Avith Bible facts and doctrines as the old fashioned study 
 of the ^Vord with searching, incisive questions by the teacher and 
 answers by the scholar, backed by his or her citation of scrip- 
 ture arrived at by diligent search. The school has not always 
 enjoyed that liberal support from the church financiallv that its 
 
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 importance in the training of young souls for life's trials and 
 temptations and for the future life, would justify it in expect- 
 ing. The time was when an ardent worker in the school 
 would personally solicit money for new books and thought his 
 work a success if, by dint of persistent solicitation he secured 
 JiJ25.oo and that perhaps once in three years. Now the session 
 recommends the payment to the treasurer of the school of 
 $225.00 annually. Later on we will gather together in one 
 grand total all the contributions to benevolences, using the word 
 in its ordinary sense, from the beginning of our church life. 
 In April, 1875 there was an average attendance of 200 scholars, 
 and the church gave for its support, $139.00, which was rather 
 below the average contributions. In the preceding year it was 
 $239.00. In April, 1812, the church reported 14 members to 
 the Presbytery of New Brunswick. In 1814 the name appears 
 for the first time on the minutes of the General Assembly, but 
 without report. In 181 5 the first benevolent contribution record- 
 ed was $38.65, given to Princeton Theological Seminary. In 
 1820 it gave $2.00 to Educational Fund and $2.50 to the Mis- 
 sionary Fund. In 1825 there were 96 communicants and total 
 benevolences $17.00. In 1849 the church reported 407 mem- 
 bers. In 1875 in Dr. Miller's pastorate, there were additions 
 of 84 members, the largest in any one year up to that date. 
 As Dr. Gray was so long the pastor of the church, being 
 identified with it almost from its organization, the history of 
 the church is to a great extent, the history of the man ; and 
 much that has been previously written concerning the develop- 
 ment of the congregation and its acquisition of property, now 
 so valuable, really belongs to his career, as it was accomplished 
 under his ministry. The doctor's style of sermon was what 
 might be called ornate with the frequent use of the alliterative 
 words "big, bright and beautiful" — being rather pathetic in 
 tone and delivered with calm dignity, utterly without passion 
 except on the one occasion I recall and to which I have already 
 adverted. Then he waxed very earnest. I recall two other 
 texts — one for a funeral sermon, "I was dumb and opened not 
 
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 my mouth for Thou didst it/' and the other — the basis of a 
 pungent and searching sermon, "Thou art the man." I know 
 of two souls that were that day born again under the convicting 
 power of the Spirit. Dr. Gray was tall and thin — very shapely 
 and well dressed in black. 
 
 I very distinctly recall hearing my parents speak of the 
 straits to which all on board the vessel, on which Rev. John 
 Gray and wife Jane embarked for New Brunswick, B. A., in 
 1820, were reduced by reason of the voyage being prolonged 
 by adverse winds and storms to many times the usual duration. 
 They were kept alive by soup of which tallow candles were 
 the only nutritive ingredients. It was then too, as I remember- 
 ed it told, that when even that meagre source of sustenance came 
 TO an end and despair of relief overwhelmed them all, resort 
 was had to a drawing by lot as to whose life must be forfeited 
 to save the lives of the others, and the lots fell on Mrs. Gray, 
 a season for prayer was observed and at its close, a vessel was 
 sighted, and all were rescued and landed safely at one of the 
 Bermuda Isles — so far had they been carried from their course. 
 This answer to prayer doubtless led to the opening of our church 
 at sunrise every morning for prayer in 1832 when the cholera 
 appeared in New York City and claimed many victims and 
 sporadic cases in Easton caused by Christians, who worshiped 
 God as not alone the God of Redemption, but of Providence 
 as well, to cry to Him for protection. 
 
 These sunrise prayer meetings were largely attended by all 
 classes and ages and without doubt led to calmness of mind and 
 indirectly to immunity from attack — so far as I can learn the 
 First Church was the only one opened for the purpose stated. 
 
 In his bearing there was a happy blending of dignity and ur- 
 banity. On the streets his step was slow and measured. Re- 
 garding his attitude on church extension in our vicinity, 
 though at the time I felt that he was entirely too conservative, 
 and that by reason of his being so, Presbyterianism did not ad- 
 vance as it should have done and would have done under one 
 not so self -centered, I am now inclined to think he was more 
 3 
 
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 than half right; for his course surely developed wonderfully the 
 static force of his church, whilst through such firm planting of 
 our church's own interests, its dynamic power made itself felt 
 in church extension in our vicinity, safely guarded by his conser- 
 vatism. It may make apparent the doctor's peculiar method of 
 reasoning conscientiously, to say that when on one occasion I 
 took to him a dividend from our fiiTn, of which he was a mem- 
 ber, he happened to use a steel pen to sign the receipt, he said 
 "Oh ! that is a pen for hard times" ; looking at me he added, 
 "Charles do you know that I pay the good Lord Twelve Hun- 
 dred Dollars a year for the privilege of preaching the Gospel?" 
 I replied "Why — no, how is that?" He said "It costs me just 
 that much more to live than I am paid in salary." Dr. Gray 
 was born in county Monegan, Ireland, in December, 1798 — was 
 educated at Glasgow University. In October, 1820, was licensed 
 to preach, and was married to Miss Jane Sewers, a lady of a 
 good deal of poetic talent. The abiding afifection of many of 
 his parishioners found expression in the beautiful bronze tab- 
 let, placed on the west wall of the auditorium in 1889 — the en- 
 compassing wreath of shamrock sweetly telling the land of his 
 nativity that he loved so dearly. He then came at once to the 
 province of New Brunswick, where he preached for 18 months, 
 and then came to New York, and finally in 1822, to Easton. 
 His salary was $350.00 the first year, in semi-annual payments. 
 In 1823 it was made $400.00. In 1824 it was $450.00. In 
 1828 it was $600.00. In 1829 it was $800.00. In 1843 it was 
 $900.00. In 1846 it was made $1,000.00. to which the parson- 
 age was added free of rent in 1853 : and so it continued till his 
 death. After serving as a stated supply six years, he was in- 
 stalled as pastor in 1828, thus becoming our first pastor. In 
 1866 his health failing, his son-in-law. Rev. Moses A. Depew, 
 was voted his assistant. After one year's service he removed 
 to Boston. Dr. Gray still failing in health, he ofifered his resigna- 
 tion, which was formally accepted April 15th, 1867. He preach- 
 ed for the last time on first Sabbath of April, that year, and 
 died in January, 1868. 
 
Rev. Moses Depue 
 Assistant 1866-1867 
 
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 Rev. William A. Kerr was called to the pastorate September 
 6th, 1867 — was ordained November 19th, — resigned in 1870, 
 and removed to Williamsport. 
 
 Rev. Franklin E. IMiller was called to succeed ^Mr. Keer, De- 
 cember 28th, 1870, was given charge of the church in February, 
 1871, and on May 1st, 1871, was installed. Dr. W. C. Cattell 
 preached the sermon. Dr. Jacob Belville delivered the charge 
 to the pastor, and Dr. C. Earle the charge to the people. Mr. 
 Miller, in a pastorate of 16 years, grew steadily in popularity — 
 was very successful in winning souls to the obedience of Christ. 
 He was instrumental in securing the thorough remodeling of 
 the church edifice in 1879. He was an excellent organizer — • 
 getting places for work in the church by the young men and then 
 working with them, he so wrought as to endear them to him in 
 loyal assistance. He was a forceful preacher that never falter- 
 ed in his duty to present, explain and drive home to the heart 
 and conscience of his people the Calvanistic doctrines of his 
 church, that as an ordained minister of the Presbyterian 
 Church, he was bound to enforce. He fully believed in and 
 worked for church extension, exalting the dynamic above the 
 static influence of his pastorate. Hence we find him planting 
 mission chapels in Seitzville, at Riverside up the Delaware riv- 
 er road, and at the corner of 12th and Northampton Streets. I 
 will never forget that one m.orning meeting Miss Harriet Por- 
 ter, she told me of a lot at that corner which her sister Eliza- 
 beth, then deceased, had always proposed giving to our church 
 to establish a mission thereon. She said "If you, after examin- 
 ing the lot and studying its relation to that part of the borough, 
 l^.ronounce it a good location, I will deed it to the church to 
 carry out my sister's wishes." Calling at once on Mr. IMiller, and 
 telling him of the offer, we lost no time in walking out to the 
 lot, studying its relations to that part of our growing borough, 
 and decided favorably on its fitness as a church center. I call- 
 ed on Miss Porter, told her of my opinion fortified by Mr. 
 Miller's. She then said that if I would quietly ascertain what 
 the house and lot adjoining her lot on the east, could be bought 
 
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 for, if the price was^not excessive, she would gladly buy it and 
 present it likewise to our church, so as to form with the last 
 named lot, one of ample dimensions. Through another party I 
 got the information sought for, and Miss Porter bought and con- 
 veyed it to our church — a noble act of a noble woman. I re- 
 member when Miss Porter was leaving town for Europe, as 
 the 'bus was backed up to the curb in front of the home of a 
 fellow traveller, she saw me passing — called to me to stop at 
 the door of her house and the servant would hand me an enve- 
 lope containing her contribution to our church benevolences for 
 that year. On opening it I found five new crisp one hundred 
 dollar bills for distribution among our boards as I thought best. 
 Her sister, Mrs. Mary Porter Davis, lovingly left, by will, a 
 substantial legacy to our church. 
 
 Resuming my account of Mr. Miller's work for the church, 
 he was always ' persevering, and if one favorite method of at- 
 taining his end did not work to his satisfaction, he tried an- 
 other, till success crowned his efforts. He was not petulant or 
 cross over an honest defeat — nor did he harbor any personal 
 feeling. Therein we saw the man. Well do I recall how when 
 just after he began work among tis, he found efforts were be- 
 ing made to dislodge him, he came to me as his friend, to con- 
 fer. He evidently was not a little discouraged. I begged of 
 him to keep straight on preaching a vigorous Gospel in love. 
 Though he said he believed it would take two generations to 
 live down the opposition and thwart the machinations of his 
 enemies, he said he would w^ork hard and do his level best. In 
 a few years he was the most poptilar, because the most logical 
 and instructive preacher in Easton. I myself heard one of his 
 most persistent opponents when he first came, and who had left 
 the church, say to him at the meeting of the Presbytery when 
 the pastoral relation was dissolved, "I have been twice sorry — 
 sorry when you came and remained stemming the tide against 
 you and now much more sorry that you are going to leave out- 
 town and Presbytery." Mr. Miller's methods were peculiar 
 1 feel it would not be irrelevant to tell how on a time when 
 
Rev. Wm. A. Kerr 
 1867-1871 
 
37 
 
 there was no morning preaching in the College Chapel, and 
 his strong and instructive preaching drew many students, who 
 fairly filled our gallery of 34 pews, he having repeatedly suf- 
 fered annoyance from a student stretching himself in a semi- 
 recumbent position, stopped short in his sermon — his head ner- 
 vously moving by rapid jerks, from side to side, betraying his 
 excitement ; he said "I want that young man who is lounging 
 in the gallery to sit up and remember that this is not the Col- 
 lege Chapel. Whether the sermon he hears is always worth 
 his wide awake attention or not, it is always worth while to be 
 a gentleman." Some of his fellow students felt aggrieved at 
 this caustic remark ; but no matter, Mr. Miller did not care a 
 straw for anyone's presence and patronage, if to get it, the 
 dignity of the service was to be compromised. In the same 
 spirit he rebuked the men who here and there in the audience, 
 put on their overcoats during the singing of the doxology ; say- 
 ing their dinners would not sufifer from the trifling delay. To 
 show that such rebukes did not diminish his audiences, I have 
 seen 90 per cent, of the seating capacity of the church filled 
 every Sunday, and the same proportion of our session room on 
 a Wednesday night service. Why was it? Not particularly be- 
 cause he was a pleasant or eloquent speaker ; but because the 
 people were paid for the coming by the high class spiritual food 
 they received. It was frequently so filled in Dr. Carlile's and Mr. 
 Haines' time ; for then Christians did not forsake the assembling 
 of themselves together to play bridge or 500, as the manner of 
 some now is. On January 23d, 1887 (Sunday), Mr. Miller 
 jireached his farewell sermon and moved to Paterson, N. J., 
 where after an aggressive and successful ministry of 17 years 
 and 9 months, he died on Wednesday, October 5th, 1904. He 
 was a graduate of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, in class 
 of 1864 — was a major in a colored regiment in the war of the 
 
 Rebellion. He completed his seminary course at Princeton 
 
 was settled as a pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Asbury, 
 
 N. J., whence he was called to Kaston. These three places 
 
 Asbury, Kaston and Paterson. were the only fields of his pas- 
 
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 toral work, which he did thoroughly in each place. While with 
 us his salary was $1,600.00 without parsonage — then $1,800.00 
 and $2,200.00 with parsonage. 
 
 He was followed by Dr. Allen Douglass Carlile, now of Brook- 
 lyn. He came from Brockton, Mass. — was installed May 5th, 
 1887 — was an able and successful preacher, who had the happy 
 faculty of blending philosophic sermonizing with instructive 
 and attractive presentation of the truths of the Gospel. Under 
 his purgent and persuasive preaching quite a large number 
 confessed Christ before the world and swelled the church roll 
 to 470 members. He was physically not a strong man, being 
 pale faced with dark hair; that gave him a scholarly look. His 
 pastoral relation was brought to a close February 21st, 1890. 
 
 On February 12th, 1891, Rev. Francis Stoddard Haines was 
 installed pastor. He was called from Canajohaine, New York, 
 by call of December 19th, 1890. The services of installation 
 were held in the Brainerd Union Church. His pastorate began 
 with services in our session house for several Sabbaths, when 
 we hired the opera house, till our church building could be re- 
 paired. Meetings there were very largely attended, and being 
 thus widely advertised, his hearers, well pleased and profited 
 by his sermons, followed him to our finished church, reopened 
 January, 19th, 1892, with sermon by Dr. Savage. In that year 
 we enjoyed one of the largest accessions the church ever had, 
 117 being added. High water mark was reached when in 1896 
 our roll was swelled to 673 members. Rev. Haines was a good 
 sound preacher of the Gospel and very successful in building up 
 the church in membership as well as in all its activities, as the 
 following record of his first ten years of service fully proves. 
 
 In 1892 the congregation contributed $13,320.00 to defray 
 expenses, including rebuilding of the church front. In that 
 first decade 232 members were dismissed to other churches, and 
 97 died. In April, 1891, the roll showed 421 ; 10 years later it 
 was 578. In the 10 years 593 new members were received — 
 342 on confession and 251 by certificate. He preached 234 fun- 
 eral sermons — married 70 couples — baptized 123 children and 
 
Rev. Franklin E. Miller 
 1871-1887 
 
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 73 adults. The Sunday school had 650 scholars, mcluding 
 Riverside and Seitzville schools. Total gifts to benevolences 
 $25,421.00. Total for all purposes $97,468.00, or an average of 
 $9,746.00 per year. Rev. Haines, after a pastorate of twelve 
 years and two months, resigned to accept a call from the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Goshen, New York. 
 
 Rev. Plato Tydvil Jones, of Mattewan, New York state, was 
 called, and was installed as pastor on February i6th, 1904, and 
 still occupies that position. It would not be decorous to com- 
 ment on the work of a present incumbent. Suffice it to say 
 that Mr. Jones is a good, faithful Christian worker and excel- 
 lent pastor, giving with unusual liberality to all the benevolences 
 of the church, and interested in every good work in the city and 
 church. The yearly accessions maintain a fair average and our 
 benevolences are well kept up. 
 
 It is but fair to say that as regards attendance on the ordi- 
 nances, many distracting influences 'are at work that did not 
 prevail twenty or even ten years ago. Sunday excursions and 
 automobiles are proving ruinous factors in the church life of 
 all denominations. The only remedy is constant and untiring 
 warfare against all such indulgences on the Sabbath. 
 
 Another instance of aflfectionate remembrance of our church 
 was found in the will of Mr. William Creveling, recently de- 
 ceased. 
 
 As likewise in the will of Mrs. Anna Carpenter, who be- 
 fore her departure to her abiding home on high, set her house 
 in order and provided for a continuance of the means of grace 
 for those who should come after her in her church home. Her 
 husband's gift to the church of this magnificent copy of the 
 Word of God, in her mem.ory, is highly appreciated. 
 
 Another beautiful expression of consecrated devotion to our 
 church is seen in the handsome Hymn Boards recently placed 
 in this auditorium, as well as in our Session House by a lady 
 member of the church, ever constant and loyal. 
 
 The total contributions of our church during the hitndred 
 years now ended, are to be considered in the light of a struggle 
 
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 against poverty for at least 25 years of our early life. They 
 total $443,737.15. Of this amount $300,725.00 was for con- 
 gregational work, or the static work of the church, and $143.- 
 012.15 was for benevolences, or the dynamic work of the church. 
 
 It is convenient here to note the status of our church in its 
 relation to sister churches of the same Caivanistic faith and 
 church government. For a triHe over a year after Mr. Bishop 
 became our second stated supply, we belonged to the Presbytery 
 of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Presbytery of Newton 
 was organized at Mansfield, now Washington, N. J., November 
 18th, 1817. Mr. Bishop was present on that occasion to partici- 
 pate as our representative in the organization, being one of the 
 twelve composing the new Presbytery — nine representatives be- 
 ing on the ground at the time of organization. 
 
 In 1851 the Presbytery of Newton overtured the General 
 Assembly to change the boundary of the Synod of New Jersey, 
 so as to place the churches in Pennsylvania South of Martin's 
 Creek in the Synod of Philadelphia. I presume it was done, as 
 I have heard intimated, to give Lafayette College the benefit of 
 a stronger financial backing in the churches of Pennsylvania. 
 
 On June 22d, 1870 the Presbytery of Lehigh was constituted 
 by the Synod of Philadelphia, and our church was thus trans- 
 ferred from the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia to the Pres- 
 bytery of Lehigh. 
 
 The Durham Church of Bucks County was the first church 
 organized out of this church, on March 23d, 1836. A nucleus 
 of a congregation had been ministered to by Rev. Bishop and 
 Rev. Gray. It enjoyed but a brief existence — Durham soil not 
 proving favorable to the growth of Caivanistic doctrines. 
 
 In 1876 Dr. Miller said 'T recognize among our communicants 
 38 ministers of the Gospel, and there are probably others with 
 whom I am not acquainted." In the list are the names of Prof. 
 William H. Green of Princeton, the eminent philologist, and 
 Prof. Charles Elliott, D. D. of Lafayette. To this list may be 
 added seven ministers sent out during Mr. Haine's pastorate. 
 
Rev. Douglass A. Carlile, D. D. 
 1887-1890 
 
41 
 
 and I can testify to the substantial assistance rendered by our 
 church to a number while struggling through the college. 
 
 List of Ministers. 
 
 I. 
 
 Barr, Andrew 
 
 2. 
 
 Beers, Robert 
 
 3- 
 
 Berg, William V. 
 
 4- 
 
 Bunstein, Henry L,. 
 
 5- 
 
 Callan, James 
 
 6. 
 
 Clifton, Samuel T. 
 
 7- 
 
 Davis, Luther 
 
 8. 
 
 Depui, Jacob 
 
 9- 
 
 Eckard, L. W. 
 
 lO. 
 
 Elliott, Charles 
 
 II. 
 
 Farquhar, John 
 
 12. 
 
 Ferrier, Edsall 
 
 13- 
 
 Gaston, Daniel 
 
 14. 
 
 Gra}^ Thomas M. 
 
 15- 
 
 Green, William Henry 
 
 16. 
 
 Grube, C. Howard 
 
 17- 
 
 Hall, Isaac 
 
 iS. 
 
 Hamlen, Harry 
 
 19- 
 
 Heckman, George C. 
 
 20. 
 
 Hervey, Peter B. 
 
 21. 
 
 Hunter, James 
 
 22. 
 
 Hutchison, S. G. 
 
 23- 
 
 Howell, Jesse L. 
 
 24. 
 
 Johnson, John 
 
 25- 
 
 Jones, Charles 
 
 26. 
 
 Keller, George T. 
 
 27. 
 
 Kolb, John B. 
 
 28. 
 
 L,ane, Cornelius 
 
 29. 
 
 Lowrie, John M. 
 
 30- 
 
 Loux, E. A. 
 
 31- 
 
 Markarian, Jacob 
 
 32. 
 
 McCool, Joseph 
 
 33- 
 
 Nassau, Joseph 
 
 34- 
 
 Noble, W. R. E. 
 
 35. 
 
 Pollock, George C. 
 
 36. 
 
 Porter, T. C. 
 
 37- 
 
 Prior, Azariah 
 
 38. 
 
 Ramsay, James 
 
 39- 
 
 Reimer, E. F. 
 
 40. 
 
 Riley, William 
 
 41. 
 
 Salmon, J. M. 
 
 42. 
 
 Sciple, C. Morton 
 
 43- 
 
 Shannon, T. B. 
 
 44- 
 
 Tulley, Andrew 
 
 45- 
 
 Tulley, David 
 
 46. 
 
 Weller, W. W. 
 
 47- 
 
 Worrell, Charles F. 
 
 48. 
 
 Worrell, Joseph 
 
 49- 
 
 Youngman, Robert Barber 
 
 As the congregation grew in local influence and importance, 
 manifesting the outworking of the forces latent in the various 
 nationalities composing it, it soon out-stripped the more phleg- 
 matic German element that entered all the other churches, till 
 the lively, earnest and enthusiastic Methodists forged to the 
 front in the 30 to 40 years that followed our genesis. As we 
 saw when speaking of the infancy of our church ( it was a 
 sincere desire for the edtication of the young that burned in 
 the hearts of our early fathers, and necessitated the establish- 
 ment of our church, and thank God, coincident with such de- 
 sire, a recognition of the fact that edtication without Divine 
 grace is often a curse instead of a blessing. 
 
 And now, behold on December 27th, 1824, a number of the 
 
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 members of our church, meetmg at the public house of Wihiam 
 White, a member of our church, and the grandfather of Dr. 
 Wihiam W. Cottingham, to deUberate on the feasibihty of estab- 
 lishing a college in our midst. I firmly believe that if ever on 
 earth the overshadowing influence of the Holy Spirit wrought 
 upon an assembly of men, that silently persuasive spirit entered 
 the hearts and controlled the minds of those men till Lafayette 
 College was quickened into life. Elder Thomas McKeen pre- 
 sided at the meeting, and was for many years the treasurer of 
 the college. Elder James M. Porter was Professor of Juris- 
 prudence and Political Economy, and for 25 years was Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trustees. Judge Joel Jones, a member, 
 was secretary of the board. Dr. Gray, our pastor, was for 13 
 years a trustee, and elder Jesse M. Howell was one of the origi- 
 nal trustees. Who can estimate the work done for the Master 
 during nearly 90 years by the graduates of the college, who 
 have planted the standard of the cross all over earth's broad 
 acres? 
 
 In 1848 a number were dismissed to form a second Presby- 
 terian Church, which was in 1851, disbanded, and most of its 
 members joined the American Reformed Church. March 5th, 
 1853 thirty-four members were dismissed to form the Brainerd 
 Church. On December nth, 1853 twenty were dismissed to 
 organize the First Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, N. J., 
 whose daughter is the Westminster Church of Phillipsburg, N. 
 J., organized in 1886. In 1881 the South Side Church was 
 organized. In 1896 the College Hill Church was organized, and 
 Olivet in 1899. Thus our First Church is the mother of one 
 college and five self-supporting churches, and grandmother of 
 a sixth, and still has two daughters as yet under mother's super- 
 vision, healthy and growing into beautiful symmetry. 
 
 Believing as all good Presbyterians certainly do, in the im- 
 mortality of the soul, and that at death the souls of believers do 
 immediately pass into glory, may we not tonight think of our 
 predecessors in the work of this church in days long past, as 
 interested spectators, looking down upon us from the battle- 
 
Rev. Frances S. Haines 
 1891-1903 
 
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 rnents of Heaven, and rejoicing with us over souls here ransom- 
 ed from the guilt and defilement of sin by Christ's redemptive 
 work, now clad in robes washed and made white in the blood 
 of the Lamb; and as educing sweetest, grandest music from 
 their golden harps that reverberates through all the mansions 
 of the blessed, while the accompanying angelic chorus sings "Of 
 Him, to Him and through Him, are all things — to Whom be 
 the glory forever and ever." 
 
 We have shown our deep interest in the genesis and early 
 years of Lafayette College, and are presumptuous enough to de- 
 sire a share in the pride she takes in some of her eminent alumni, 
 such as Rev. David Coulter of Missouri, Rev. J. B. Ram- 
 say, D. D. of Virginia, Rev. Prof. W. Henry Green of Prince- 
 ton, Rev. Ninian Bannatyne of Washington City, Hon. William 
 A. Porter of Philadelphia, Rev. John M. Lowrie, D. D. of Fort 
 Wayne, Ind., Rev. W. D. Howard of Pittsburg, Dr. Thomas C. 
 Porter and Dr. Charles Elliott of Lafayette faculty. Rev. Isadore 
 Loewenthal, the distinguished and erudite Israelite, who gave the 
 Bible, in their own tongue, to the people of Afghanistan, and 
 Rev. Robert Watts, D. D. of Belfast, Ireland, and hundreds of 
 others who have done life's work well, and have gone to their 
 reward. May the college ever continue to advance in numbers 
 and usefulness. May harmony and good fellowship abide among 
 our daughters and all co-workers together for the furtherance of 
 the faith of the Gospel ; and God in His mercy, grant that we, 
 as a church, may not be content to sit with folded hands and 
 smile with complacency at the good work done by others, but 
 the rather seek to strengthen the things that remain. Let us 
 not think too much of the past lOO years, but look forward with 
 steadfast faith combined with work, relying on all-sufficient 
 grace, to the time when our representatives shall in numbers, 
 join the multitudes of the host in Heaven, who are the antitypes 
 of those who on Mount Zion, prefiguring the entrance of Christ, 
 the King of Glory, into the heavenly Zion, shouted "Lift up 
 your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; 
 and the King of Glory shall come in." 
 
THE CENTENARY. 
 
 It is the hope that these Memorial commemoration services 
 will be transmitted to posterity as a grateful remembrance of 
 the unselfish purposes, the loyalty to high principles, and Church 
 patriotism, of the Founders of the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Easton, Penna. The exercises commemorating the hundreth 
 birthday of our church, commenced on Sunday morning, the 
 eighth of October 191 1, in the Auditorium. The order of wor- 
 ship will be seen, by consulting the pamphlet program found 
 stored in the archives of our church. Rev. Wm. H. Weller, 
 D. D., of Geneva, N. Y., preached the opening sermon. It was 
 a fine doctrinal discourse. He became a member of our church 
 in 1 88 1 and was ordained to preach in 1888. The anniversary 
 hymn on page seven is a very beautiful thought and is the real 
 expression of Christian praise and gratitude and justly appro- 
 priate to the occasion. It was composed by Charles Mclntire 
 M. D., one of the ruling Elders. It was sung by the large con- 
 gvregation wnth much fervor and animation. The afternoon ser- 
 vice was conducted by various ministers from other denomina- 
 tions. The greetings were very informal but apropos. The ex- 
 pressions were most cordial throughout. The evening service 
 was devoted to the Sunday School and Y. P S. C. E. Rev. 
 Charles L. Thomson, D.D. of New York City, preached a very 
 strong sermon and made a profound impression upon the large 
 audience. At all these services there was provided special 
 music of a high order. Every evening was occupied with some 
 timely historical address till the evening of the 12th. For sev- 
 eral weeks prior to the opening ceremonies, the session held 
 several meetings to devise appropriate methods for celebrating 
 this notable event and the trustees were not idle, for they too 
 held meetings to consider the best means of emphasizing in some 
 
Rev. Plato T. Jones 
 1903 
 
46 
 
 daily to enjoy, the pt)rtrait gallery, supplemented by the decora- 
 tions of prevailing green. People seemed to love to linger af- 
 ter each service, to scan the portraits even to very late in the 
 night. The warmth of the place, the refining tone and general 
 historical atmosphere was effectual in attracting many people 
 and a peculiar fascination seemed to possess the old church. 
 
 Mr. Charles Stewart, was the historian of the occasion and 
 the paper he read was listened to with rapt attention. After the 
 reading of the paper Mr. Stewart had shown upon a large can- 
 vas, a series of historical pictures, embracing all the pastors, who 
 officiated during the hundred years, and many pictures of timely 
 local interest, though of great historical value, showing the old 
 town as it looked 50, 80 and a hundred years ago. These pic- 
 tures and the explanations given by Mr. Stewart formed a most 
 instructive and profitable as well as pleasing part of the evening's 
 entertainment. 
 
 Tuesday evening the loth was devoted to reminiscent and his- 
 torical talks on "Presbyterianism at the Forks of the Delaware." 
 This theme was presented by different Presbyterian divines and 
 from entirely different view points. It was an evening to be 
 remembered as one, full of fresh knowledge and a new vision 
 of the growth and stability of our denomination in this com- 
 munity. Many of the sons returned to pay tribute to her past 
 and to tell of their experiences while with the mother church. 
 Many of her children, now men well advanced in years, answer- 
 ed the invitation to be present, among them, was the Rev. David 
 Tully, who was a member of our church in 1843. This venerable 
 man of God, was a marvel, a man of splendid parts. At the 
 great age of 94 years, he was still as fresh and nimble as a well 
 preserved man of 60 years. Tall and erect, with his mental 
 powers still intact he delivered an address that captivated his 
 audience. They were reluctant to have him close his brief talk, 
 which was entirely reminiscent. 
 
 Wednesday evening, the nth, was Roll Call ]\reeting, which 
 with our church is an annual affair. At this service tender refer- 
 ence was made to the members who were taken awav bv death 
 
The First Presbyterian Church 1911. 
 
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 during- the past year. INIusic and the address were of a charac- 
 ter befitting the occasion. Rev. Francis S. Haines, our former 
 pastor, presented a very beautiful, colored glass window to the 
 church, in behalf of the donors, Mrs. Emma S. Reynolds and 
 Mrs. Frederick E. Geiser, as a memorial to their mother Mrs. 
 Emma E. Stout, who was a most devoted member of the "Old 
 First." For many years she taught as principal of the primary 
 department of the Sunday School, and was greatly beloved by 
 all her associates in the work. Her gentle disposition and loving 
 thought of her Church, were ever present with her. The sub- 
 ject of the Memorial, "The Nativity," was well chosen, for it 
 typifies her faith to which she held so unfalteringly during her 
 entire life. 
 
 One of the very delightful services held during the week was 
 the meeting on Thursday night. It was a most appropriate 
 closing of the jubilee, which will become traditional. While it 
 was not on the program, it was generally understood that Mr. 
 Charles F. Chidsey would deliver an address. Mr. Chidsey, in 
 a very natural manner, unfolded the story of the portraits that 
 graced the walls of the church. Going into some detail in his 
 recital of who and what these men were, the audience was 
 breathless in their attention, following the speaker as he went 
 from portrait to portrait, drinking in every word of the talk, 
 for it was a very rare treat indeed. He had good material for 
 his address, and he possessed the gift to present to the people 
 there, facts and things they never knew before. He told in his 
 inimitable fashion, of the men who filled every walk of life, 
 who were the founders of our church, as well as those who were 
 identified with her in her early history and on down, this the 
 later years. Men of all professions, men who were distinguish- 
 ed in the affairs of our national and state governments, the 
 judiciary, medicine, art, science, industrial business life. These 
 men set a splendid pace for us of the present generation and those 
 who preceded as and to those who will follow us. Mr. Chidsey's 
 closing words were eloquent and well befitting the occasion. 
 He then invited the audience to the Chapel to take part in the 
 
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 social that was b^ing held there, and a large number responded. 
 The chapel was beautifully decorated with palms, ferns and 
 flowers, the entire arrangement was most tastefully executed. It 
 was a veritable elysium. A throng of friends of the congrega- 
 tion were profuse with congratulations and the exchange of 
 felicitations. This was a little temple of beauty, and good fel- 
 lowship prevailed. It was a fitting close of a memorable event. 
 In the near and far away future, it will always suggest a pleas- 
 ant retrospect. The record of the five days of this commemora- 
 tion will be a tradition that our future church can regard with 
 pride. 
 
 A Member of one of the Committees. 
 Easton, Penna., Nov. 13th, 191 1. 
 
 Anniversary Sermon. 
 
 W. W. Weller, D. D., 
 
 Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 It is with mingled feelings of trepidation and eagerness, that 
 I undertake the task before me to-day. I am fearful, for here 
 as a boy in yonder pew I worshipped or tried to, and when I 
 come back, the boyish feeling always returns, and I seem to 
 myself to be among the fathers. 
 
 I am eager, for the memory of privileges enjoyed here pro- 
 foundly moved me to promptly and gratefully accept the gra- 
 cious invitation to participate in this service. 
 
 My connection with this church covers a longer period, than 
 it is convenient for me to mention, and a longer time than it 
 would be altogether kind for me to mention on account of those 
 who have kept pace with me, as we passed swiftly through the 
 years. 
 
 My mood is reminiscent, but must be restrained for the his- 
 tory will come later. 
 
 This church has flourished one hundred years and enjoys to- 
 day the vigor of youth. It lives because it stands for some- 
 thing that is alive. It possesses a vital quality. Religion is a 
 living reality. Sometimes attacked by its enemies frequently 
 
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 misunderstood by its friends, interpreted in various ways, pre- 
 senting a different face to each succeeding age. Religion is a 
 living thing, and this suggests my text, i Peter, 2 Chapter, 
 5th verse. 
 
 "Ye also, as living stones are built up a spiritual house to be 
 a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to 
 God through Jesus Christ." (American Revision). 
 
 God's people are here represented as built up into a house. 
 A house may be beautiful, even palatial, but it is unfeeling and 
 lifeless. The apostle avoids the mechanical and artificial con- 
 ception of religion by calling the material living stones. The 
 stones are persons, the house is alive. 
 
 The figure of the edifice is presented to show the orderliness 
 of God's plan, and coordination of all its parts. The thought 
 i,^ that the religion of Jesus Christ has a vital element for a 
 noble purpose. 
 
 I. Christ's religion has always been misunderstood. There 
 has been the tendency to regard it as a system, high and holy 
 to be sure, but still a philosophy of hfe with Jesus of Nazareth 
 as the Founder. From this point of view, the Christian Scheme 
 appears much like the other philosophies ; the same in essence 
 but higher in degree. 
 
 For instance, Diogones, the Cynic, lived in a tub, carried a 
 lighted lantern at noon-day in his vain search for a man, em- 
 barassed and irritated his fellows with his saucy remarks, and 
 thus made his condimental not to say peppery contribution to 
 the world's philosophy. His school is unorganized but the 
 cynics are numerous. 
 
 Francis Bacon is loosely called the father of the inductive sys- 
 tem of philosophy ; of course this is a mistake, he merelv used 
 existing material and paved the way for the superior classifica- 
 tion of M. Comte, but the Inductive System flourishes to-day. 
 
 Jeremy Bentham is more justly styled the Founder of the 
 Utilitarian School, even though his favorite phrase, "the o-reat- 
 est happiness for the greatest number" was borrowed from 
 Priestly. 
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 All these are human devices, results of mental ingenuity, sys- 
 tems of thought with practical application and nothing more. 
 And yet men are still prone to the error, that the religion of 
 Christ is somewhat of this order. 
 
 Creeds and Confessions have been formulated. These are the 
 expressions of religious belief and indicate the intellectual con- 
 ceptions of the age that produced them. This is why the 
 Church is forever confronted with the task of revising Creeds, 
 Confessions, Canons and Codes, but it is never seriously called 
 upon to revise religion. Ecclesiastical Systems holding well 
 high universal sway have grown up, but these are merely the 
 frame work of the structure in which the spirit dwells. The 
 missionary propaganda has been strongly emphasized in recent 
 years ; the church has the world view to-day, but in the prosecu- 
 tion of this work, missions seem to be a great business enter- 
 prise. This opinion is quite in harmony with the natural inclina- 
 tion. 
 
 The underlying reason why men lag in Christian service, is 
 because they fail to appreciate the spirit of religion. They are 
 not quickened by its life, nor inflamed with its holy passion for 
 the souls of men. It must be conceded however, that Christian- 
 ity in its manifestation to the world, in its institutions and ma- 
 terial possessions does seem to be mechanical. Moreover regard- 
 ed as a system it is vulnerable, and this is what men are attack- 
 ing in the popular sense. Occasional assaults are made upon 
 speculations and doctrines, but these have always been confin- 
 ed to the few. The most ominous attacks upon religion are in 
 the muttered charges, misconceived it is true, but still significant, 
 that the church has no life corresponding to its expression and 
 that as a great religious machine, it has failed to do its work. 
 
 The accusation is freely brought that the Church no longer 
 possesses the spirit of its Founder and fails to represent His 
 attitude toward the world. When Jesus was here He rebuked 
 organized religion. The only people He ever condemned were 
 the Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites, and apparently it never did 
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 as a form and not a living reality. He never organized a society, 
 never wrote a book, never even delivered a lecture in the way 
 teachers of new doctrines do to-day. 
 
 The Sermon on the Mount and the discourse in the sixth of 
 John are the nearest approaches to this method, but even these 
 are dififerent, for the first of these sets forth the practical duties 
 of men, that is, the ethics of religion, and the second of these 
 presents Himself as the life of men, that is the inspiration of 
 religion. The church has systems and books and organizations 
 and machinery. These are valuable if used as means and not 
 mistaken for ends. Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson, the de- 
 lightful English writer claims that these have captured Chris- 
 tianity. He says, "We have to-day in consequence the amaz- 
 ing spectacle of a world religiously organized to an extent, that 
 negatives Christ utterly. He stands defeated." The statement 
 i? extreme but suggestive. It indicates the peril to which reli- 
 gion is exposed and illustrates our thought that religion in its 
 essence is misunderstood. 
 
 The edifice as a whole is beheld but the living stones that 
 enter into its structure are overlooked. The shell is worthless 
 and the kernel is unseen. In a secular and materialistic age 
 this peril arising from misunderstanding the spiritual nature of 
 religion is the greatest that menaces the Church. 
 
 H. On the other hand, this ability to grow and expand from 
 an organism and to build itself up into an organization is proof 
 of what John Fiske called the everlasting reality of religion, 
 and an indication of its origin, vitality and naturalness. 
 
 Instead therefore of denouncing the organization, let us re- 
 member, that we are living stones built up into a spiritual house. 
 The edifice in its architecture and in the material out of which 
 it is built must fully express its purpose. It is manifestly un- 
 fair to find fault with the development of anything that is 
 alive. This is incident to life. 
 
 We behold the evidences of advance everywhere. This is the 
 day of men : it has been called the age of wheels, because of 
 man's inventions. The Rev. Frederick Lynch in speakino- of 
 
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 the attendance at the Second Hague Conference, said all the 
 world was in one room, so complete was the representation of 
 the nations of the earth. Such marked and various progress in 
 communication has been niade in modern times, that in another 
 sense all the world lives in one room. The Paris Excelsior this 
 year sent a man around the world in thirty-nine days and twen- 
 ty hours, and since that achievement the New York Times 
 sent a commercial Telegram around the world in sixteen and 
 one-half minutes. An event occurs in New York, and they hear 
 of it in Chicago one hour by the clock before it happens. The 
 telephone is an absolute necessity when we have occasion to 
 speak to another, who is absent, but an unmitigated nuisance, 
 when the ring disturbs us. Wireless telegraphy is old and 
 scarcely arouses even passing interest. The areoplane is an 
 accomplished fact. The very week, that I heard one eminent 
 in one department of science prove to his satisfaction in a small 
 company of gentlemen, the impossibility of aerial navigation by 
 a heavier than air machine, the first successful flight was made. 
 That is to say, the spirit of progress is in the air, and the 
 statement and the methods of religion must advance in the same 
 way. This is a sign of life ; the living stones are to reveal, 
 not imprison the spirit within the house. The cry is some- 
 times heard, "Back to Christ", it proceeds from an honest 
 motive, but it is as pitiable as it is impossible. It is a demand 
 to transfer the habits of thought, the customs of life, in short 
 the oriental civilization of the first century over to us, to meet 
 the needs of the twentieth century. This entire movement rests 
 on the idea, that the essence of religion consists in its form and 
 not in its spirit. 
 
 It must be conceded however, that knowledge of secular af- 
 fairs of one kind does not disclose facts of another kind or lead 
 to a knowledge of God. Mr. Arthur H. Smith for many years 
 a missionary of the American Board in China says in his book. 
 "China and America To-day," "A Hindoo Astronomer who pre- 
 dicts eclipses ten years in advance without a blunder, believes 
 all the while, that the eclipse is caused by some supernatural 
 
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 dog swallowing the moon, and beats his drum to make the 
 celestial cur give up his lunar prize." And this also is done ac- 
 cording to orders published in the Peking Gazette, "The crew 
 of a foreign built man of war, armed with Krupp guns turn 
 out with drums, iron pans and any implement which will make 
 a din, to save the moon." This general forward movement in- 
 cludes a new philosophy of life in the endeavor to adjust man 
 to his conditions. Our problem is one in adaptation, to relate 
 man to his work, to his wealth, or poverty, to his luxuries, to 
 other men and to the world in general. The imperious duty is 
 not to abandon but to utilize. In setting herself to this task in 
 response to the demands of the times the religion of Christ 
 shows a sign of life, and an indication of never ceasing interest 
 in the welfare of humanity, as the spiritual temple constructed 
 of living stones slowly rises in its grace and beauty. 
 
 iMoreover the vitality is shown in the development of the doc- 
 trines that state the fundamental truths of Christianity. The 
 assertion is sometimes made that the Bible is a sufficient guide, 
 meaning that the assembling, correlating and condensing of 
 its teachings are superfluous and even arrogant, unmindful of 
 the fact, that form is inevitable as an expression of the spirits 
 activity. The sects making this claim are inevitably lead into 
 some form of religious extravagence such as painful pilgrimages 
 or degrading osculatory exercises or pedal ablutions or some 
 other equally shocking excess. A true theology is simply the 
 orderly arrangement of Scriptural Statements and Inferences 
 drawn therefrom with due regard to perspective and porpor- 
 tion. Changes in emphasis and application must come from age 
 to age. There is no error more subversive and pernicious than 
 the doctrine, that fails to keep pace in its form and statement 
 with intellectual and moral progress. The religion throbbing 
 with life, w^iose vital principle enters into the living stones of 
 the spiritual house has the power to adapt itself to the various 
 pnd varying conditions of men. 
 
 This is why Jesus gave no rule. The most flagrant misnomer 
 of which I have any knowledge is the name given to what is 
 
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 known as the Golden Rule, which the most casual consideration 
 sees is not at all but a principle of action. This we find in the 
 living word. i. The Commandments. These are requirements 
 lor specific and individual needs and touch those things that have 
 inherent moral quality. These are in particular the Decalogue 
 and the general summary given by Jesus together with all the 
 commandments, the violation of which degr,ades man and dis- 
 rupts society and the keeping of which exalts the individual and 
 saves the world. 2. The principles. These are general and 
 universal with ever changing adjustment, and constantly vary- 
 ing application. The principles are embodied in such state- 
 ments as these, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor," and "Lest 
 I make my brother to offend." 
 
 A religion of principle must be alive. The correct application 
 constitutes an interesting and important study. It is necessary 
 to look beneath the surface to find the real essence and to see 
 the vital elements that pervades Christianity. The popular 
 skepticism of our day arises from this superficial consideration 
 of religion ; and also too often the type of Faith presented by 
 Christian teachers is of a character that leads to this false con- 
 ception. Perhaps this illustration will make my meaning clear. 
 A learned Japanese who had heard the story of the earthly life 
 of Jesus and his divine power of creation said to his teacher as 
 he looked up at the serene and silent sky with its innumerable 
 pendant lamps, "Do you mean to tell me that a man who walked 
 the earth in Palestine made all these?" It is a staggering ques- 
 tion to any mind confused on the subject of the relation of 
 Divmity to humanity. On the other hand it is an impossible 
 question to those who perceive the moral element, the divine 
 principle entering into Jesus of Nazareth that made Him the 
 Christ God manifest in the flesh, the same principle entering in- 
 to the creation of the world. God hath at the end of these days 
 spoken unto us in his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all 
 things, through whom also he made the worlds. Heb. i :2. 
 The same clearness of vision is necessary for any presentation 
 of the atonement, that is at all adequate for the needs of a 
 
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 thinking mind. We must look beyond to the very heart of God 
 to see the significance of the Cross of Christ. With this view 
 Calvary becomes the temporal expression of an external fact, and 
 the eternal atonement is the eternal yearning of God for the re- 
 demption of humanity ; the Lamb slain from the foundation of 
 the world. This view of religion that delves beneath the sur- 
 face for the underlying element, this view beholds the living 
 stones entering into the construction of the house, silences 
 skepticism and wins adherents. About the only just criticism 
 that may be passed upon the Church is this, that it has not kept 
 this idea of life in the forefront, the living principle, that makes 
 religion enter Social, Political and Industrial affairs, sanctifying 
 every condition and sweetening every relation. The Church is 
 alive because it has a living head and a vital essence in its con- 
 stituency. We are the living parts of a great edifice. This 
 Venerable Church has stood for this type of religion. This was 
 the character of the ministry of Rev. Dr. Franklin E. Miller of 
 blessed memory whose preaching was the inspiration of my boy- 
 hood years, and whose influence was the mould-power in the 
 formative period of my life. His was the only pastorate- with 
 which I ever came in close touch, for it far more than covered 
 all my years in Easton. I am confident however, that it is typi- 
 cal of the labor of the faithful men who preceded him and who 
 followed him in service here. This church is the exponent of a 
 vital religion, that presents a living Saviour, who is to save the 
 individual and bless mankind. 
 
 Long may this historic church flourish, constantly renewing 
 lier youth, adapting message and ministry to the ever changing 
 conditions, and always holding forth the word of life, which He 
 who is the Way and the Truth and the Life taught and ex- 
 emplified. May the aim of this church be to exalt Him who is 
 ''the chiefest among ten thousand, and the one altogether love- 
 ly," "the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords." At the corona- 
 tion of George the Fifth last summer, the crown placed on the 
 head of the British Sovereign is of solid gold, studded with 
 precious gems of inestimable value. There were three thousand 
 
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 diamonds, three hundred pearls, and hundreds of rubies, em- 
 eralds and sapphires, that blazed and sparkled in the sunshine. 
 But the queen's crown contained the most precious jewel of 
 them all, the famous Kohinoor, the priceless gem of India, with 
 its legend of good fortune for its possessor, for it is said, who- 
 ever holds the Kohinoor holds India. So the most precious of 
 all the stones built into our structure is the stone that flashes 
 and glows and adds the beauty of its lustre to the whole build- 
 ing. "For we are built upon the foundation of the apostles and 
 the prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone, 
 in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth unto a 
 holy temple in the Lord ; in whom ye also are builded for a 
 habitation of God through the vSpirit." Ephesians 2:20, 21, 22. 
 
 Roll Call Sermon — The Demands of Our Heritage. 
 
 Ebenezer Flack, D. D., 
 Scranton, Pa. 
 
 One hundred years of the history of your church have been 
 recorded. They mark a cycle. They set ofif a period of time. 
 During this centennial celebration you have heard many voices 
 calling to you to review the past, to consider the course of 
 events, the trend of historical movements, the changes which have 
 taken place in thought, the advance or decline of institutions, 
 and "to garner in the harvest of instruction which experience 
 has been providing for all who have the sense to reap." The oc- 
 casion is indeed a provocation to you to inquire how far your 
 church has been faithful to her Lord, to search out everything 
 in the past calling for humble confession, sincere repentance, 
 prompt amendment ; everything calling for praise and thanks- 
 giving; everything fitted to confirm faith, to enliven hope, to 
 feed the spirit of prayer, and to encourage patience and zeal in 
 the service of Him who is the King of the ages, the same yes- 
 terday,, to-day and for ever. 
 
 It would indeed arrest the attention and emphasize the change 
 that the passing years have witnessed, if the Church members 
 of a century ago might walk down this aisle tonight and take 
 
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 part in this service. We would be as interesting to them as 
 they would be interesting to us. We would probably see men 
 dressed soberly in black, some of them with knee breeches, silk 
 stockings, and shoes with silver buckles, a cloak drawn round 
 the shoulders, a broad white collar round the neck, and a pecul- 
 iar hat in hand. I would not venture to describe the costume 
 of the ladies of the day. It would require but a few minutes to 
 show us that we were in the presence of the Puritan type of 
 Christians, sober, religious, not of the gay and worldly. It was 
 a different world that they looked out on from that of to-day. 
 
 There were few books then. Books to-day are cheap and com- 
 mon, and at small expense libraries of the best literature may 
 be built up in the humblest homes. The man of a hundred years 
 ago would be astonished at the multitude of books published to- 
 day and found on our book shelves. The house of a hundred 
 3'ears ago had not the comfort of our homes. We have better 
 houses for the poor. We build with many large windows, for 
 we have come to believe that light and air are essentials for 
 health. What would be his amazement to see street cars run 
 by electricity, automobiles, flying machines, streets lighted by 
 electricity, telephones, and cable and wireless telegraphic ser- 
 vice. And how well dressed the people of to-day as compar- 
 ed with that age. Looking at the streets of our city, he would 
 find sidewalks, and the street cleaning department at work to re- 
 move all dirt. No need of a Sir Walter Raleigh to spread out 
 his cloak on the street to save his good queen from stepping in 
 the mud. Illiteracy is no more. Thanks to our school system, 
 our children are taught to read : they have come into their 
 rights. We now regard them as the nation's greatest asse't, and 
 there has been established not only public schools for secular 
 education, but the wonderful modern developments in Sundav 
 School, Young Peoples Societies, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. 
 W. C. A. which are bidding fair to encircle the globe. The or- 
 ganization of societies for the propogation of the gospel is a 
 feature of church life to-day that was of interest to but a few a 
 century ago. The Bible is printed in cheap editions and has the 
 
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 largest circulation ol any book published. Denominational intol- 
 erance is not what it formerly was. Differences that separate 
 are less emphasized, and so great is the progress made toward 
 unity, that denominational rivalry is being entirely eliminated 
 on mission fields in foreign lands. 
 
 The man of a hundred years ago indeed lived in a different 
 world. He was full of ruggedness, a man of few ideas, per- 
 haps somewhat narrow in outlook and hardened in his 
 opinions, but he had a tremendous grip on God. Because he 
 had this, we have our churched, and Christian liberty, and the 
 blessing of a Christian civilization. Had he not been the rugged. 
 God-fearing man that he was, this would have been a different 
 world and yours a different city. 
 
 You to-day are richer by one hundred years of religious labor 
 than the first members of this church. You have all that they 
 had, and how much more also. You are the seed of the martyrs 
 who conquered the world by the blood of the Lamb ; the descend- 
 ents of the old settlers who taught and lived the Gospel of Jesus 
 Christ ; the sons of reformers who broke the cruel yoke of papal 
 supremacy and gave back religion to the common people ; the 
 sons and daughters of men who laid the foundations of all that 
 modern America has become in the industrial life of this gener- 
 ation. Your church was founded by men of intelligence and 
 profound piety, of truly heroic self denial and patience. 
 Through the century there has been a continued succession of 
 those who loved the church, prayed for it, worked for it, and 
 have made sacrifices for it. They have labored and their labors 
 have not been in vain. There has been expansion and growth 
 in these years. It is not possible however, to estimate the ser- 
 vice the church has rendered. Who can reckon the value of the 
 ministry of these more than five thousand Sabbaths, besides pray- 
 er meeting services. Sabbath School services, special services, 
 and missionary meetings ! Who can number the communicants 
 who have been at the Lord's table commemorating our Lord's 
 love for the world of sin ! Who can tell how many have been 
 
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 born again, how many have been helped through the Word, and 
 through the prayers and praises and sympathy which pulsed 
 through the congregation when the Spirit of God was in the 
 midst ! Who knows of all the "weary who have found rest in 
 casting their burden on the Lord, of broken hearts bound up 
 with healing consolations, of bereaved ones helped to believe in 
 the better resurrection and in the glory to be revealed beyond 
 tb grave, of the lonely who have found at least a friend, of the 
 tempted who have been rearmed for the conflict, of prisoners re- 
 leased from doubt, of weak knees strengthened, of drooping 
 hands uplifted, and erring pilgrims guided back into the King's 
 highway. I think also of the aged who have been prepared for 
 death, of the young prepared for life, of the many who have 
 gone out into the wider world, carrying with them sacred trea- 
 sures of truth and grace, to mingle in the world's business and 
 to serve God as pastors, missionaries, teachers and christian 
 workers, reinforcing the Sacramental host engaged in the holy 
 warfare elsewhere." 
 
 This centennial calls up names and faces and days and ser- 
 vices which can never be forgotten, which have influenced the 
 world; and in God's sight every one of them has been precious. 
 Every day of the century has been a day of harvest. It has also 
 been a Spring time for seed sowing. You to-day are reaping 
 the harvests that were sown by others, but you are also sow- 
 ing seed the harvest of which shall be reaped by others. I 
 would that I might lay this on your hearts and consciences, that 
 every company of God's servants bear this two fold character — • 
 sowers and reapers. You are reaping the fruits of labors of 
 those who have gone before. We are living in houses and 
 worshipping in churches that others have built. We are tilling 
 fields that our fathers rescued with their sweat and blood from 
 the waste and from the hard grip of nature. Our liberties 
 were bought by the toil and blood of others. We ought then to 
 look with gratitude on the labor that lies behind us, so that in 
 receiving our heritage we may pass it on, not only not diminish- 
 ed or tarnished, but increased and made more precious. For 
 
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 sad indeed is the sight when the heir of a noble heritage squan- 
 ders what was won by the toil and cares of others. 
 
 This then brings before you the question of how to attain the 
 highest efficiency in your work so that what has been gained 
 may not only be conserved, but that the power and influence of 
 the church may be such in the years to come as its past history 
 and the present equipment warrant. 
 
 A truly successful church must be in living relationship with 
 the risen Lord. There must be a constant and unbroken com- 
 munion with Him, a communion of mind, a communion of heart, 
 a communion of power. 
 
 There must be a real brotherhood among its members, the 
 brethren loving one another, honoring one another, and think- 
 ing and speaking the best of their fellowmen. Let there be love 
 and kindliness, a little of the art of looking sympathetically into 
 the face of others, an effort to help others bear their sorrows, 
 and you will find glow and warmth radiating from your church. 
 The atmosphere of love wins men to Christ. 
 
 Perhaps you will better understand my meaning by the dialo- 
 gue of the Axe, the Saw, the Hammer, and the Soft Flame. 
 
 "I'll master it," said the Axe, and his blows fell heavily on the 
 iron. But every blow made his edge more blunt till he ceased 
 to strike. 
 
 "Leave it to me," said the Saw, and with his relentless teeth 
 he worked backwards and forwards on its surface till they were 
 all worn down or broken. Then he fell aside. 
 
 "Ha! Ha!," said the Hammer, "I knew that you would not 
 succeed. I'll show you the way." But at the first stroke, off 
 flew his head and the iron remained as before. 
 
 "Shall I try," asked the soft flame. But they all despised 
 the flame ; but he curled gently round the iron and embraced it 
 and never left it until it melted under his irresistible influence. 
 In churches we have seen the axe policy at work, and its blows 
 fell heavily. We have seen the relentless teeth of the saw work- 
 ing backwards and forwards. We have seen the stroke of the 
 hammer. And we have also seen the soft flame of love curl 
 
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 g-ently around and do its sweet work. There is a cold chisel 
 way of getting at things ; but far easier is it to melt the cold 
 heart with the warmth of love. For effective work, if I may 
 change the figure, the machinery of a church must move under 
 the lubricant of love. "Where there is an abundance of love, 
 all the housekeeping goes easily, whether it be a little cottage, 
 or a great palace, or a church comprehending multitudinousness 
 of character, opinion, and force. "Knit together in love," that 
 is the phrase we want. "Love stands all weathers, goes through 
 all seasons, finds flowers in the desert and pools among the 
 rocks, sees virtues rather than vice, excellence rather than de- 
 fects and deformities." I have said all this that you may make 
 your church what it ought to be — a shadow from the heat, a 
 place of refuge, a covert from the storm and rain, the poor 
 man's house, the helpless man's asylum, the retreat to which all 
 may repair who are suffering under the burden and the disci- 
 pline of life. A church can be successful only as she thus 
 realizes her mission to the world. 
 
 Let the church put on her beautiful garments and be pure 
 and noble, seen as the angel of mercy and help and hope that 
 God meant her to be and all other things will settle into their 
 right courses and come to their right issues. Let there be real- 
 ity when she sings her songs and bows in the attitude of prayer. 
 Let there be one heart, one soul, loyalty to the Holy Spirit, and 
 it will impress the world. Give Jesus his right place in the 
 church. Take some share in its activities. Go into the work 
 of the Sabbath School and the young peoples organizations with 
 the love of Jesus in your heart ; tell the children and the young 
 people of Him, and lead them to Him. Be true to your con- 
 science, true to your covenants, true to the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and the future of your church will be glorious. It will be a 
 strong tower of the truth on which the smile of God shall rest 
 like the light of the morning. Let the church mean more to you 
 from this hour. Attend it; support it; pray for it; push it 
 that it may realize its true and proper function in the com- 
 munity. 
 
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 Greetings from Other Churches. 
 
 To the Officers and Members of the First Presbyterian Church, 
 Easton, Pa. 
 Greeting: — In behalf of the First Presbyterian Church of Pottsville, 
 Pa., we acknowledge the courteous invitation extended us to attend the 
 services to be held October eight to eleven, 1911, in connection with 
 the celebration of the Centennial anniversary of the organization of 
 your church. It cannot fail to be an occasion of the deepest interest, 
 and we rejoice with you over the hundred years of your history as a 
 church, now completed. 
 
 During all these years occupying a position at the "Forks of the 
 Delaware" of great historic interest and of strategic importance, your 
 church has been a centre of gospel light and power. Its influence has 
 been felt throughout our land and has reached countries far remote. 
 Inspired by the memories of the past, as you review the records of 
 the century, may you gird yourselves anew for the pressing work of the 
 present, and plan wisely and well for the service of the coming age in the 
 progress of God's Kingdom. 
 
 With cordial congratulations and praying that the coming years may 
 be even more fruitful than the past, we are, your brethren in Christ. 
 
 The Session of the first Presbyterian Church of Pottsville, Pa. 
 John H. Eastman, Moderator. 
 H. C. Frick, Clerk. 
 Pottsville, Pa., 
 
 October 8, 1911. 
 
 October 4th, 191 1. 
 To the Members of tlie Congregation, 
 
 The First Presbyterian Church, Boston, Pennsylvania. 
 Greeting : — My heart is with you in these happy days of historical 
 reminiscence, of deserved rejoicing, and of taking strength for the 
 future. I think of the Old First and I think of my Church Home: 
 where I made confession of faith in the peerless Jesus, where I went into 
 training in the Young People's Society for wider endeavor, and where 
 I found ideals for a lifetime. I congratulate you as a Church of many 
 memories and wide possibilities for the years which stretch before you, 
 and I felicitate myself in the thought that I, too, may be numbered 
 among your sons. 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 Edward Franklin Reimer. 
 
 To the Pastor, Session and Membership of the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Easton. 
 Dear Brethren : — The Pastor, Consistory and people of the First 
 Reformed Church beg to convey their sincerest felicitations to you in 
 
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 connection with your Centennial Anniversary. It can truly be deemed 
 an honor to be connected with an organization that has rounded out 
 one hundred years of such splendid service in this community, and it 
 is our prayer that God may use you ever more largely in the century 
 ahead. It is a pleasure to record that your congregation and ours have 
 been working almost side by side for a century in the spirit of mutual 
 goodwill and fraternal sympathy, and we trust that this relationship shall 
 grow even more intimate and helpful in the years to come. We re- 
 main, in the unity of the Spirit, 
 
 Your brethren in Christ, 
 
 Consistory of First Reformed Church, 
 
 Paul S. Leinbach, President. 
 Harry Vannatta, Secretary. 
 Easton, Pa., Oct. 7, 191 1. 
 
 Bethlehem, Pa., October 5, 1911, 
 To the Session and Members of the First Presbyterian Church, 
 Easton, Pa. 
 
 Dear Brethren : — The members of the session and church of the 
 First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem, Pa., accept with thanks your 
 gracious invitation to be present on the occasion of your centenary 
 celebration. 
 
 We heartily congratulate you on having rounded out a hundred years 
 of service for Christ and His church — years in which souls have been 
 born again, characters moulded after the image of Christ Himself, hopes 
 kindled anew, and the feet of many set in the way of God's com- 
 mandments. How many there are in the Church of the First Born who 
 worshipped and worked through your church ! How many members 
 you dismissed from the church militant to the church triumphant ! The 
 very thought of the possibilities of a century of church privileges and 
 opportunities makes us realize what our present privileges and oppor- 
 tunities mean, and how they shall influence, and what they shall tell, a 
 hundred years hence. 
 
 We rejoice with you in your success, and pray that, when another 
 century rolls around, and you have transferred your membership above, 
 a new generation will rise and call you blessed for your labor of love 
 and patience of faith. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Session and Congregation, 
 
 James Robinson, Pastor and Moderator. 
 Berwick, Pa., Oct. 5, 191 1. 
 
 Charles Mclntire, M. D., Easton, Pa. 
 
 My Dear Dr. McIntire : — I had hoped to he with you on Tuesday 
 evening but ministerial duties, local and Presbyterial, make it impossible 
 for me to attend the Centenary Celebration of the "Old First." 
 
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 Some of my most 4)leasant memories are associated with the life of 
 the First Church as, during my residence in Easton, 1 was privileged to 
 enjoy the ministry of two of her pastors and as, during that period and 
 in succeeding years, I have come into closer personal touch with many 
 of the members. 
 
 The backward look of a hundred years will doubtless reveal the life 
 of a church which has kept pace with the increasing population of the 
 city and the enlarged local and worldwide opportunities. Gratifying 
 as her own development has been, the Old First may enjoy a worthy 
 satisfaction in the far reaching influence which she has exerted in the 
 life of the city through her local Sabbath Schools and missions. 
 
 As a son of the church in the ministry my heart is with you in this 
 anniversary season. As you face the future may you be "conhdent of 
 this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will 
 perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." "Now unto him that is able 
 to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to 
 the power that worketh in us. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ 
 Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." 
 
 Fraternally yours, 
 
 Edward A. Loux. 
 307 West Second Street. 
 
 Coxsackie, New York, 
 
 October 9, 191 1. 
 Cliarles Mclntire, M. D., Clerk of the Session, First Presbyterian Churchy 
 Easton, Penna. 
 Dear Doctor McInTirE: — Your hearty invitation to attend the anni- 
 versary exercises of the "Old First" church came to hand several 
 weeks ago; and it was my earnest intention to be present in person on 
 that happy occasion and participate in the season of rejoicing with which 
 you are marking the looth birthday of the church we all love so much. 
 But an Installation service in one of our churches, which has been 
 arranged for to-morrow, makes my home-coming impossible. Please 
 give my most cordial greetings and congratulations to the First church 
 on its birthday anniversary. I have a peculiarly tender regard for her, 
 as I have a cordial recollection of many of her members, many of 
 whom are still living, and some other — faithful, devoted, zealous in 
 Christian work and discipleship — who have passed from the aisles into 
 the arches during the last fifteen years — all of whom, together with the 
 Pastor, the Rev. Francis S. Haines, were my spiritual teachers; and who 
 by their eminent Christian characters made me truly conscious of the 
 value of the religious and intellectual life. To them all I owe a debt 
 of gratitude which love only can repay. It is not strange, therefore, 
 that I have a peculiar love for the church, and an especial joy in all 
 its manifold labors which are now extended over one hundred years. I 
 
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 don't blame her for any feeling of pride she may have at her accomplish- 
 ments for the Kingdom at home and across the seas. It seems to me 
 that an organization, like an individual, has a perfect right to be glad — 
 proudly so — when one hundred years of its life and labors have passed 
 and become a part of the community life and of the world. 
 
 But you do not want to spend too much time reviewing the past. 
 The future is before you; and as Phillips Brooks says, "The only proper 
 use of the past is to get a good future out of it." Even so, may the 
 future of the First church be still more helpful and glorious than the 
 past. Victor Hugo says somewhere that ot a certain time in life every 
 man passes out of the old age of youth into the youth of old age. 
 So may it be with our church, — the last hundred years marking the old 
 age of its youth ; and may it now enter into the vigor and vision of the 
 youth of its mature age. 
 
 That God may richly endow with Divine grace your present Leader, 
 and that His spirit — the spirit of filial and fraternal love — may be 
 shed abroad in all your hearts, is my earnest wish and prayer. 
 
 Yours cordially and thankfully, 
 
 Samukl Tii^den Ci^ifton. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23, 1911. 
 Charles Mclntire, M. D., 52 North Fourth Street, Baston, Pa. 
 
 My dear Dr. MacIntire: — I have hoped against hope that I might be 
 at the great celebration, I was going to say of your, but I will 
 turn it into my church, as I believe I am still a member on your roll. 
 It would be a real pleasure to join with pastor and people on this happy 
 occasion, and listen to all the congratulations which you are sure to 
 receive from many quarters. The old "First" has always stood for 
 loyalty to truth and for that which pertains to the advancement of the 
 Master's Kingdom. In these days when faith is not in all quarters as 
 advanced as it should be, • and when unreality in life is too often ex- 
 hibited, we do well to rejoice over the stability of those who have firmly 
 maintained the position, and having done so, "still stand." firm in the 
 faith. 
 
 I find that positive engagements elsewhere call me away from Easton. 
 This is more pain to me personally than to anybody else, but I have to 
 go where my duty calls. Please understand that my heart at least is 
 with you and that my prayer will be that the congregation, now ad- 
 vanced in years, may yet be young in spirit, and achieve greater results 
 with Him whom you and I, and all of us. still love to call Lord and 
 Master. 
 
 In His name and for His sake, accept my heartiest greeting. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 Leighton W. Eckard. 
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 ^ Brandon, Vermont, October 9, 191 1. 
 
 Mr. Cliarles IV. Mclntire, Clerk, Boston, Penn. 
 
 My dear Mr. McIntire: — To Him in whose sight a thousand years 
 are but as one day, the brief century must be as a fleeting moment. But 
 to us who reckon time in seconds, and minutes, and hours, and days, 
 and weeks, and months, and years, the century is apt to assume the pro- 
 portions of a creature, with a head and a tail ! 
 
 I think we may be justified, from our human standpoint, in celebrating 
 a Century. It is a long time to have enjoyed the continued blessing and 
 favor of Almighty God. It leaves a goodly heritage of the labors of 
 other men into which this high anniversary occasion bids us enter. That 
 all the exercises may be blessed to this end, is the hearty wish of a 
 grateful friend of the old First Presbyterian Church of Easton. 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 William V. Berg. 
 
 30 Spalding Street, Norwich, Conn., Sept. 12, 1911. 
 
 My Dear Dr. McIntirE : — In reply to your invitation allow me to say 
 that nothing of which I now think would afford me greater pleasure 
 than to be with you at the coming celebration of the one hundredth anni 
 versary of the Organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Easton, 
 but though I shall be absent in body I will be present with j'ou in 
 spirit and hope later to have the pleasure of reading over the printed 
 reports of the whole exercises from the start to finish. 
 
 I think it was in 1857 that I became a member of your church the 
 same year when I entered Lafayette College. Dr. Gray was then its 
 pastor and in me from our first acquaintance he took a very deep interest, 
 for generations his family and ours worshipped together in the same 
 old Presbyterian Church in the North of Ireland and of his coming to 
 this country I had heard my father often speak when I was quite a 
 little chap. His brother's family were well known to me and on one of 
 my visits to my native land I was the bearer of some letters and 
 souvenirs to and from his brother. These facts together with many 
 others which I need not mention brought me into much closer relation 
 with the church and Dr. Gray than is common to an ordinary member, 
 perhaps there are not many men living who heard as I did the Doctor 
 preach the fortieth anniversary of his pastorate, in which he narrated 
 many interesting events of his ministry. And I still keep the funeral 
 sermon preached on the death of Col. McKeen who was so strongly 
 attached to his pastor and did so much toward the support of the 
 church from its organization until the time of his death. With the 
 elders of those times I was well acquainted and to them I was greatly 
 indebted for much that made my connection with the church pleasant, 
 and made me feel at home among them. Messrs. Sitgreaves, Ilenberger, 
 
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 Long, Billen, Dawes, Hensel, etc., all kind courteous gentlemen of the 
 old school, loyal to their pastor and particularly attentive to strangers 
 and students of the College who worshipped in the old Presbyterian 
 Church. 1 remember well how at weekly prayer meetings some of them 
 were accustomed to find their seats near to the stove and when it be- 
 came too hot instead of moving themselves they would open the stove 
 door and so made the rest of us in the back part of the room uncom- 
 fortable. In those days too when everything moved quietly along in 
 both the First and Brainard churches there was quite a well recognized 
 gulf between them, but if anything occurred in either to disturb its 
 harmony that gulf was in no sense impassable but was easily crossed 
 from the one side to the other. 
 
 We had a very prosperous Sabbath School of which Major Sitgraves 
 was superintendent and Mr. Hensal assistant. Dr. Gray usually came in 
 on great occasions to address the Sabbath School. When Mr. Youngman 
 graduated from College and was as we all thought about to leave he 
 made a very touching farewell address. Beginning "There is nothing 
 Changeless but Change," the address however was not all appropriate 
 for Yoimgman remained got married and has lived in Easton ever 
 since, though it was somewhat prophetic for he has I understand since 
 changed his church relations. 
 
 With most of your pastors since those days I was more or less 
 acquainted and Dr. Miller very intimately. Your present pastor I first 
 met in Minnesota where he labored for some time with much acceptance 
 and left greatly to the regret of the church he served and of the 
 ministers of the Synod who appreciated his worth. I hope you will take 
 good care of him and may he be a worthy successor to such men as I 
 have known as your pastors and may the old First Church always con- 
 tinue to prosper and the continuity of good men with which in its early 
 history it was so signally blessed, be preserved. 
 
 Ever your friend and brother, 
 
 Geo. C. Pollock. 
 
 Easton, Pa., Oct. 3, 191 1. 
 DE-ar P-astor PlaTo T. Jones : — The Ministerial Association of Easton 
 and Vicinity extends to you and your congregation congratulations and 
 hearty greetings on the f Icbration of the one hundredth anniversary of 
 the founding of your church. May your future be as glorious and 
 prosperous as has been your past. 
 
 Asking God's blessing upon your noble work, we remain, 
 
 Fraternally yours. 
 
 The Ministerial Association. 
 
 per L. S. Trump. Secretary. 
 
RECORD OF THE CHURCH FOR 100 YEARS. 
 
 Officers. 
 
 The Pastors 
 
 Stephen Boyer (Stated Supply), 1811-1814. 
 
 David Bishop (Stated Supply), 1716-1822.1 
 
 John Gray, D. D. (Stated Supply ), 1822-182S, Pastor 1828-1867. 
 
 Moses Ayres Depue, Assistant Pastor, 1866-1867. 
 
 William A. Kerr (Pastor), 1867- 1870. 
 
 Franklin E. Miller, D. D. (Pastor), 1871-1887. 
 
 Douglas A. Carlile (Pastor), 1887-1890. 
 
 Francis Stoddard Haines (Pastor), 1891-1903. 
 
 Plato Tydvil Jones (Pastor), 1904- 
 
 Th« 
 
 Thomas Bullman, 1812-1824. 
 Benjamin Hinds, 1812-1833. 
 Samuel R. Findley, 1812-1830. 
 Henry Brows, 1812-1823. 
 Thomas McKeen, 1823- 1858. 
 J. M. Howell, 1823-1837. 
 Enoch Green, 1S31-1856. 
 John Stewart, 1831-1853; 1870-1885. 
 James Wilson, 1831-1847. 
 Stewart Kennedy, 1S37-1847. 
 Charles Sitgreaves, 1847-1878. 
 Joseph Dawes, 1 853-1 861. 
 James M. Porter, 1853-1862. 
 George W. Housel, 1S53-1865. 
 James M. Long, 1853-1872. 
 Samuel Boileau, 1860-1872. 
 Peter F. Eilenberger, 1860-1874. 
 
 Elders 
 
 Matthew Hale Jones, 1867-1883. 
 James M. Andrews, 1867-1876. 
 Charles Stewart, 1870- 
 George G. Rambo, 1875-1911. 
 Traill Green, 1877-1897. 
 James V. Bull, 1877- 
 Daniel A. Tinsman, 1879-1893. 
 T. McKeen Andrews, 1889-1900. 
 Jacob Mann, 1886-1910. 
 Charles Mclntire, 1886- 
 William H. Dudley, 1901-1906. 
 John Edgar Fretz, 1901- 
 O. D. McConnell, 1901- 
 D. Halleck Day, 1908- 
 Lorenzo F. Heiberger, 1908-1911. 
 J. H. Wilking, 1908- 
 Henry Wysor, 1908- 
 
 Charles Sitgreaves, 1842-1847. 
 James McKeen, 1842-1853. 
 John I. Burke, 1842-1848. 
 John Pollock, 1842-1853. 
 Thomas McKeen, 1853-1868. 
 Benjamin Burwell, 1853-1853. 
 
 1 Died May 19, 1822. 
 
 2 Died Jan. 12, 1868. 
 
 The Deacons 
 
 Peter Eilenberger, 1854- 1860. 
 John Micke, 1854-1859. 
 Richard S. Bell, 1860-1878. 
 James M. Andrews, 1860-1867. 
 John Semple, i860- 1899. 
 James B. Wilson, 1860-1864. 
 
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 The Trustees 
 
 1812 — March 10, John Green, Absalom Reeder, Benjamin Green, Benjamin 
 Hinds, John Ewing, Samuel R. Finley and Joseph Burke were 
 elected to serve until November, 1812. 
 
 November 2, John Green, Absalom Reeder, Benjamin Green, Benja- 
 min Hinds, Samuel R. Finley, Ezeck Howell and Moses Dawes 
 were elected for one year. 
 1818 — January 6 (The next election lecorded). 
 
 Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall, Jesse M. Howell for one year. 
 
 Robert Innes, Joseph Burke, Absalom Reeder for two years. 
 
 John Green, William Kennedy, Ezeck Howell for three years. 
 
 This was the first election under the active incorporation and the first 
 annual meeting of the church as a corporate body. 
 
 At the subsequent annual meetings the following were elected : 
 1819 — Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall, Jesse M. Howell for three years. 
 1820 — Joseph Burke, Absalom Reeder, John Boas for three years. 
 1821 — John Green, William Kennedy, Ezeck Howell for three years. 
 1822— Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall, Jesse M. Howell for three years. 
 1823 — Joseph Burke, Absalom Reeder, John Boas for three years. 
 1824 — John Stewart for one year in place of Jesse M. Howell. 
 
 John Green, William Kennedy and Ezeck Howell for three years. 
 1825 — Hill Hutchinson two years in place of William Kennedy. 
 
 Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and John Stewart for three years. 
 1826 — John Boas, Absalom Reeder and Joseph Burke for three years. 
 1827 — John Green, Ezeck Howell and Hill Hutchinson for three years. 
 1828 — Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and John Stewart for three years. 
 1829 — John Boas, Absalom Reeder and Joseph Burke for three years. 
 1830 — John Green, Hill Hutchinson and James Wilson for three years. 
 1831— Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and John Stewart for three years. 
 1832 — Joseph Burke, John Boas and Absalom Reeder for three years. 
 1833 — John Green, James Wilson and Jesse M. Howell for three years. 
 1834 — Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and John Stewart for three years. 
 1835 — Joseph Burke, John Boas and Absalom Reeder for three years. 
 1836 — John Green, Jesse M. Howell and James Wilson for three years. 
 1837 — James McKeen and for two years in place of Jesse H. Howell. 
 
 Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and John Stewart for three years. 
 1838— Joseph Burke, John Boas and Absalom Reeder, for three years. 
 1839 — John Green, James McKeen and James M. Porter for three years. 
 1840 — John I. Burke, A. H. Reeder for one year in place of Absalom Reeder 
 and Joseph Burke. 
 
 Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall andC. Rodenbough for three years. 
 1841 — A. H. Reeder, John I. Burke and John Boas for three years. 
 1842 — John Green, James McKeen and James M. Porter for three years. 
 1843— Benjamin Green, Ralph Tindall and Charles Rodenbough for three 
 years. 
 
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 1844— A. H. Reeder, John I. Burke and John Boas for three years. 
 1845 — Richard Green one year m place of Benjamin Green. 
 
 Joseph Dawes two j-ears in place of John Boas. 
 
 John Green, James M. Porter and James McKeen for three years. 
 1846 — Ralph Tindall, Richard Green and James M. Wilson for three years. 
 1847 — George Housel two years in place of Richard Green. 
 
 A. H. Reeder, Joseph Dawes and John I. Burke for three years. 
 1848 — James M. Porter, James McKeen and E. F. Stewart for three years. 
 1849 — Ralph Tindall, James Dixon and G. W. Housel for three years. 
 1850 — A. H. Reeder, Joseph Dawes and John I. Burke for three years. 
 1851 — John W. Bell for one year in place of . 
 
 James McKeen, James M. Porter and E. F. Stewart for three years. 
 1852 — S. L. Rodenbough one year in place of . 
 
 Derrick Hulick for two years in place of . 
 
 John W. Bell, J. W. Long and Frekerick Wagener for three years. 
 1853 — A. H. Reeder, Joseph Dawes and Joseph Dawes for three years. 
 1854 — ^John Micke for one year in place of . 
 
 E. Quinn for two years in place of . 
 
 J. M. Porter, M. H. Jones and Charles Rodenbough for three years. 
 1855 — ^Jacob Abel, James W. Long and John Micke for three years. 
 1856 — Joseph Dawes, Edward Quinn and John T. Knight for three years. 
 1857 — ^J. M. Porter, Jr., M. H. Jones and G. W. Housel for three years. 
 1858 — Jacob Abel, J. W. Long and John Micke for three years. 
 1859 — Joseph Dawes, Edward Quinn and J. T. Knight for three years. 
 i860— Charles Rodenbough for one year in place of . 
 
 M. H. Jones, J. M. Porter, Jr. and G. W. Housel for three years. 
 1861 — Jacob Abel, Charles Rodenbough and J. W. Long for three years. 
 1862 — McEvers Forman, two years in place of E. Quinn, J. T. Knight and 
 
 Derrick Hulick for three years. 
 1863 — M. H. Jones, J. M. Porter, Jr., and Richard Bell for three years. 
 1864 — Charles Rodenbough, McEvers Forman and J. W. Long for three 
 
 years. 
 1865 — Edward Quinn, J. T. Knight and D. Hulick for three years. 
 1866 — John I. Kinsay for two years in place of E. Quinn. 
 
 M. H. Jones, J. M. Porter, Jr., and Richard Bell for three years. 
 1867 — Charles Rodenbough, J. \V. Long and McEvers Forman for three 
 
 years. 
 1868 — ^John T. Knight, D. Hulick and J. I. Kinsay for three j'ears. 
 1869 — M. H. Jones, J. M. Porter, Jr., and John Drake for three years. 
 1870 — John Stewart for two years in place of J. M. Porter, Jr. 
 
 Charles Rodenbough, J. W. Long and McEvers Forman for three 
 years. 
 1871 — John I. Kinsey, John T. Knight and W. S. Hulick for three years. 
 1872— John Stewart, Richard Bell and "William Young for three years. 
 
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 1S73 — McEvers Forman, J. S. Rodenbough and R. M. Shouse for three 
 
 years. 
 1874 — Matthew Hale Jones, John I. Kinsey and W. S. Hulick for three years. 
 1875— Charles Stewart, William Young and A. S. Deichnian for three years. 
 1876— McEvers Forman, Joseph S. Rodenbough and A. Sherrer for three 
 
 years. 
 1877— Matthew Hale Jones, John I. Kinsey and W. S. Hulick forthree years. 
 187S — Charles Stewart, William Young and A. S. Deichman for three years. 
 1879— McEvers Forman, J. S. Rodenbough and A. S. Sherrer for three years. 
 1880 — John R. Bennett, John I. Kinsey and W. S. Hulick for three years. 
 1S81 — Charles Stewart, A. S. Deichman and William Young for three years. 
 1882 — McEvers Forman, T. McKeen Andrews and A. Sherrer for three years. 
 1883— C. F. Chidsey, J. T. Knight, W. H. Hulick for three years. 
 1884 — Charles Stewart, A. S. Deichman and William Young for three years. 
 1885 — T. McKeen Andrews, A. Sherrer and Charles Dudley for three years. 
 1886— C. F. Chidsey, J. T. Knight and W. H. Hulick for three years. 
 1887 — Charles Stewart, D. J. Howell and N. A. Johnson for three years. 
 1888 — Abram Sherrer, Chas. Dudley and T. McKeen Andrews. 
 1889— John T. Knight, C. F. Chidsey and W. H. Hulick for three years. 
 1890 — Charles Stewart, N. A.Johnson and Fletcher H. Knight for three 
 
 years. 
 1891 — Abraham Sherrer, Charles Dudlej' and T. McKeen Andrews for three 
 
 years. 
 1892— W. H. Hulick, C. F. Chidsey and W. H. Keller for three years. 
 1893 — Charles Stewart, N. A. Johnson and F. H. Knight for three years, 
 1894 — E. M. Green, T. McKeen Andrews and W. W. Moon for three years. 
 1895 — W. H. Hulick, Frank W. Stewart and L. B. Hapgood for three years. 
 1896 — J. I. Kinsey, J. M, Porter, 3d, and F. H. Knight for three years. 
 1897— E. M. Green, T. McKeen Andrews and George P. Adamson for three - 
 
 years. 
 1898 — Allen Carpenter for two years in place of T. McKeen Andrews. 
 
 L. B. Hapgood, F. W. Stewart and W. H. Hulick for three years. 
 1899 — F. S. Bixler, J. I. Kinsey and J. M. Porter, 3d, for three years. 
 1500 — George P. Adamson, Allen Carpenter and E. M. Green for three years. 
 1901 — L. B. Hapgood, W. H. Hulick and F. W. Stewart for three years. 
 1902 — F. S. Bixler, John I. Kinsey and W. E. Howell for three years. 
 1903 — John McNeal, Jr., for one year in place of W. H. Hulick. 
 
 Allen Carpenter, E. M. Green and George P. Adamson for three years. 
 1904 — E. R. Armstrong for one year in place of John I. Kinsey. 
 
 J. Floyd Andrews for two years in place of G. P. Adamson. 
 F. W. Stewart, L. B. Hapgoad and John McNeal, Jr., for three years. 
 1905 — W. E. Howell, E. R. Armstrong and Floyd S. Bixler for three years. 
 1906 — Allen Carpenter, C. K. Williams and John M. Sherrerd for three 
 
 years. 
 1907 — F. W. Stewart, L. B. Hapgood and John McNeal, Jr., forthree years. 
 1908 — W. R. Francisco for two years in place of John McNeal, Jr. 
 
 W. E. Howell, F. S. Bixler and Charles P. Siegfried for three years. 
 1909 — John M. Sherrerd for one year in place of F. W. Stewart. 
 
 Allen Carpenter, C. K. Williams and E. M. Green for three years. 
 1910 — John M. Sherrerd, W. R. Francisco and T. E. Swan for three years. 
 1911— W. E. Howell, Charles P. Siegfried and F. S. Bixler for three years. 
 
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 List of Members of the First Presbyterian Church 
 from 1812 to Present Date 
 
 Note. — This list is an attempt to arrange all who have been members of the church 
 in the order of their admission. In the " I,ist of Communicants " the names are arranged 
 alphabetically, usually with the record of the date of admission. The names also should 
 appear in the minutes of the Session, thus furnishing duplicate sources of information. 
 Unfortunately, neither the names themselves nor the dates always correspond and there 
 may be some errors growing out of that fact. As the effort was made to tran.scribe liter- 
 ally, no attempt was made to edit the spelling of the names as giving in the records which 
 will account for the members of the same family having their names spelled in a differ- 
 ent way. 
 
 1812 
 
 Thotnas Bullman 
 Joseph Daws 
 Benjamin Hinds 
 Samuel R. Finley 
 Ingham Kinsey 
 Samuel Minton 
 Ralph Tindall 
 Henry Brows 
 Elizabeth Brows 
 Joseph Burke 
 Daniel Quigley 
 Margaret Quigley 
 Susan Burke 
 Rachel Minton 
 Elizabeth Hinds 
 Sally Lee 
 Cooper Staats 
 Sarah Staats 
 Martha McFarling 
 Sarah Hunt 
 Margaret Patterson 
 Mary Dean 
 Elizabeth Miller 
 
 1816 
 
 Jesse M. Howell 
 Margaret McElroy 
 Tunis Francis 
 1817 
 Mrs. Christiana Reeder 
 Mrs. Fling 
 Alexander Wilson 
 William Rogers 
 
 Eli Sherman 
 Margaret Sherman 
 Mrs. Margaret Evans 
 Thomas Babcock 
 William Kennedy 
 Jane Carr 
 
 Mrs. Mary Thompson 
 Sarah Kennedy 
 
 1818 
 Elizabeth Bidleman 
 Elizabeth Carter 
 
 1819 
 
 John Evans 
 Jane Evans 
 Henry Hill 
 Theodosia Hill 
 Henrietta Arndt 
 Elenor Shank 
 Ann Erb 
 Mary Reese 
 John Cawley 
 Mary Cawley 
 Ann Price 
 Mrs. Genther 
 Peter Snyder 
 Elizabeth Snyder 
 James Wilson 
 Dorothy Thompson 
 
 1820 
 Christiana Grey 
 Henry Chauncey 
 Jacobi Depui 
 John Gano 
 
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 Elizabeth Johnston 
 Elizabeth Vandyke 
 Deborah Howell 
 John Parsons 
 Elizabeth Logan 
 Margaret Long 
 Elizabeth Newberry 
 Mary Sterling 
 Lydia Green 
 Dinah Rhea 
 
 1821 
 
 Mrs. Ann Williamson 
 Rebecca Taylor 
 
 1822 
 
 Thomas McElroy 
 Jacob Kerr 
 Margaret Bidleman 
 Mrs. Plotts 
 Elizabeth Martin 
 Elizabeth Dingier 
 Margaret Beers 
 Mary Head 
 Maria Mott 
 Nancy Bullman 
 Thomas McKeen 
 Elizabeth McKeen 
 Mrs. John Gray 
 
 1823 
 
 Charles Beers 
 Anne Welsh 
 Mary C. Michler 
 John Stewart 
 Elizabeth Stewart 
 Mrs. Benjamin Green 
 Sarah Swick 
 Harriet P. Porter 
 Mrs. Stansbury 
 
 1824 
 
 Thomas Reese 
 Mary Reese 
 Mrs. Latimore 
 Rosanna Bidleman 
 Mrs. Bowes 
 
 Jane Ramsay 
 
 Mrs. Finley 
 
 Mrs. Rhoda Green 
 
 Sarah Vogel 
 
 Charlotte M. E. Vandervere 
 
 1825 
 Bathsheba Miller 
 Eve Burnside 
 Elizabeth Morgan 
 Sarah Schooley 
 Martha Abel 
 Wm. J. S. McHargh 
 Adam Ramsay 
 Ann Ramsay 
 Mary Maxwell 
 Hugh Toland 
 Mrs. Bellis 
 
 1826 
 
 Ann Hineline 
 Elizabeth Kessler 
 Mrs. Chauncey 
 Elizabeth Murray 
 Mary Shoemaker 
 Thomas Spinks 
 Hannah Toland 
 John Wilson 
 Marie Able 
 
 1827 
 
 Thomas Thompson 
 Jane L. Sitgreaves 
 Sarah Marts 
 Hugh Heinline 
 Abel Heinline 
 Rebecca Heinline 
 Eliza A. Wilson 
 Lydia Hoffman 
 Robert Innes 
 Catherine Innes 
 Catherine Miller 
 Jonathan Kinsay 
 William Long 
 Morgan Long 
 Sarah Thompson 
 Catharine Leidy 
 
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 1828 " 
 
 Philip Kinsay 
 Euphemia Deringer 
 Sarah Melic 
 Mrs. Julia Arnold 
 James McKeen 
 Stephen Henr}- 
 Mrs. Mary Arnold 
 Sarah George 
 Ann Francis 
 Elizabeth L,owry 
 Sarah Miller 
 Abby Ann Tindall 
 Jane Barnes 
 Simon Frantz 
 Sarah Frantz 
 William Hummel 
 Mary Winter 
 Caroline Tindall 
 
 1829 
 
 Charles Rodenbough 
 Maria Drinkhouse 
 Eliza Gould 
 Mary Hutcheson 
 Mary Tharp 
 Enoch Green 
 Richard Green 
 Charles Green 
 James M. Porter 
 Mrs. Charles Green 
 Elizabeth Able 
 Mrs. Richard Green 
 Mrs. Mary Long 
 Eliza Bennett 
 Mrs. Dusenberry 
 Joel Jones 
 Catherine Schooley 
 Elenor Tharp 
 Nancy Ihrie 
 Mary Ann Dawes 
 Samuel Long 
 1830 
 Matilda White 
 Mrs. Sibell Abott 
 
 Stewart Kennedy 
 Ann Kennedy 
 William Riley 
 Philip Larrue 
 Nancy Morris 
 Elizabeth Ferguson 
 Mathias Ferguson 
 Martha Long 
 Caroline Caster 
 James W. Long 
 Thomas S. Long 
 Sarah Shick 
 Mary Workman 
 
 1831 
 
 John Maxwell 
 Mrs. Maxwell 
 Mrs. Rockafellow 
 Mrs. Hause 
 Caleb Dusenberry 
 Rachel Houpt 
 Charles Innes 
 Mary M. Yard 
 Anna Hummel 
 Jane Sourpeck 
 Rebecca Tomer 
 Mary Gogan 
 Absalom Reeder 
 Hugh Ferguson 
 Maria Ferguson 
 Mary Moser 
 Sarah Donlevy 
 William Semple 
 Marion Semple 
 Thomas Evans 
 Elizabeth Evans 
 Jacob Smith 
 Elizabeth Smith 
 Mary Jane Abernethy 
 Sarah Ann Maxwell 
 James Ballentine 
 Mar}' Ann Beers 
 Sally Mutchler 
 Mrs. Sarah Mellick 
 Sarah Dile 
 
75 
 
 Caroline Gross 
 Sarah Keider 
 Catharine Kuntzman 
 Sarah Ann Hill 
 Mary M. Fry 
 Leonora Burnside 
 Daniel Pippinger 
 Abraham Hoaglaud 
 Hetty Hunt 
 Ellen M. Hunt 
 Matilda Innes 
 Anna Jacobi 
 Mary Rice 
 Esther P. Tillotson 
 Mary Daws 
 
 Ann Elizabeth Heckman 
 Elenora Bittenbender 
 Philip Bovee 
 Mary Carman 
 William Workman 
 John Johnston 
 1832 
 John Apple 
 Mrs. Mary Mixsell 
 Mrs. Maria Shick 
 Mrs. Sarah Jones 
 Hulda Herman 
 Jf-.ne Gaston 
 Eliza Ribble 
 Martha Moore 
 Benjamin Jones 
 Andrew Barr 
 Charles Ramsey 
 Mrs. Mary Moore 
 Mrs. Ann Ballantine 
 Mrs. Maria Seller 
 Ann Sterling 
 Eliza Closs 
 Nancy Ross 
 Eliza Hutcheson 
 Henrietta Hutcheson 
 Charles F. Worrell 
 Joseph Worrell 
 Mrs. Ann Worrell 
 Samuel Kinsey 
 
 Harriet Levan 
 Ellen Junkin 
 Catherine Overfield 
 Sarah Gross 
 Rachel Kroose 
 William Ridell 
 Sarah Ridell 
 Theresa Servils 
 Mrs. Fry 
 Daniel Gaston 
 Thomas Pollock 
 Susan Dawes 
 Samuel Thompson 
 Nancy Thompson 
 Russel S. Chidsey 
 Robert McClerland 
 Isabella Prior 
 Isaac Hall 
 James W. Long 
 Jane Rebecca Ridgway 
 Louisa Tindall 
 John Hoagland 
 
 1833 
 
 Sarah Gaines 
 Jane Francis 
 Charles Schooley 
 Lewis Evans 
 Thomas Sebring 
 Azariah Prior 
 Peter Batt 
 Andrew Tully 
 Sarah Ann Osborn 
 Leonora Heckman 
 Elizabeth Sigman 
 Mar}' Ann Ramsay 
 James Coon 
 Ellen Green 
 Mrs. Maria Clark 
 Mrs. Matilda Burke 
 Eliza Cole 
 Elizabeth Evans 
 Juliann Newell 
 Mrs. William Bixler 
 Rachel Warner 
 Rev. Joseph McCool 
 
76 
 
 Mrs. McCool " 
 
 Mrs. Frederick Wagener 
 
 Daniel Wagener 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Wagener 
 
 Maria Dusenberry 
 
 Mary Innes 
 
 John Bell 
 
 Mrs. Mary Harrison 
 
 IVCay Harrison 
 
 Sarah Harrison 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Smith 
 
 Margaret Schooley 
 
 Susan Depue 
 
 Mary Miller 
 
 Letitia Van Camp 
 
 John Conner 
 
 1834 
 
 George Adams 
 
 Richard Hagaman 
 
 Mrs. Connor 
 
 Margaret Gould 
 
 Mary Boulton 
 
 Barnibas Collins 
 
 Moses Sill 
 
 John Tenbrook 
 
 Joseph Farquhar 
 
 Christianna Farquhar 
 
 Charles Elliott 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Maxwell 
 
 Mary E. Maxwell 
 
 Mrs. Vannatta 
 
 Lydia Servey 
 
 Hetty Dusenberry 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Jones 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Cummins 
 Miss Priscilla Mallory 
 William Kennedy 
 Sarah Kennedy 
 Jane Kerr 
 Eliza Logan 
 William Kerr 
 Elizabeth Cummins 
 James Ramsay 
 Mrs. S. C. P. Bishop 
 Mrs. Margaret Able 
 
 Johnston Godown 
 Mrs. Godown 
 Johanna Dawes 
 Laurentia Osterstock 
 Mrs. Henry 
 Mrs. Sarah McCabe 
 
 1835 
 
 William C. Logan 
 Elizabeth Patterson 
 Sally Ann Toland 
 Isaac Randall 
 Eve Randall 
 Allexander Miller 
 Margaret Miller 
 Wanky Snyder 
 Mary Sine 
 Mary Heckman 
 Margaret Shaw 
 Martha Denny 
 Rebecca E. Galloway 
 Belinda Burnside 
 Hannah Gardner 
 Thomas Anderson 
 John Adams 
 Rachel Johnston 
 Eliza Yard 
 Benjamin Burwell 
 George W. Smith 
 
 1836 
 
 Sally Ann Brittain 
 Dixon Levers 
 Margaret Magawgey 
 Mrs. Margaret Smith 
 Mary Ann Ralston 
 Mrs. Brown 
 Angeline Everitt 
 Godfrey Kline 
 John Miller 
 Sarah Ann Beers 
 Mrs. Sarah Green 
 Darwin Cook 
 Mrs. Wellington 
 Mrs. John P. Roseberry 
 Mrs. Michael Roseberry 
 Isabella Semple 
 
77 
 
 Marion Semple 
 Harriet Tindall 
 Susan Lerch 
 Anna Gaston 
 Mrs. Lane Tindall 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Larrew 
 Mary Ann Leatherberry 
 Mary Ann Hoagland 
 Elizabeth Wilson 
 Amanda Hill 
 Elizabeth McKeen Kelly 
 Mary Gaston 
 John Gray 
 Mrs. Sophia Rogers 
 Mrs. John Heckman 
 Mrs. Nancy Dawes 
 Catherine Finley 
 Margaret Schooley 
 Charlotte Bell 
 Peter Winters 
 James Snodgrass 
 Rachel Vachter 
 Mrs. Mary Clemmens 
 Sarah Rice 
 William A. Porter 
 Thomas Porter 
 William Sturgeon 
 Traill Green 
 
 1837 
 
 William Rambo 
 Susanna Rambo 
 Mary Green 
 Charles Sitgreaves 
 David Moore 
 Juliann Leidy 
 Samuel De Puy 
 Eliza De Puy 
 Mrs. Roseberry 
 Susannah Lewers 
 George Shick 
 Francis Y. Dawes 
 Augusta Ritchie 
 David Reid 
 Isaac Randall 
 Eve Randall 
 
 Jesse McNeill 
 
 Samuel Depew 
 
 Mrs. Samuel Depew 
 
 Mrs. Phoebe Hartley 
 
 William L. Apple 
 
 William L. Hasbrouck 
 
 Nathan Solomon 
 
 Eliza Depew 
 
 Ezekiel Hill 
 
 John Farquhar 
 
 Mr. Henderson 
 
 Mrs. Mary Green 
 
 Mrs. Unangst 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wideman 
 
 Mr. Cunningham 
 
 Mrs. Cunningham 
 
 Mrs. Forman 
 
 Mrs. Mary L. Sigman 
 
 Jesse Brown 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Beers 
 
 Margaret Shurts 
 
 1838 
 
 Thomas Thomas 
 Elizabeth Semple 
 Isabella Gaston 
 Martha Lorrain 
 Mrs. Van Buren 
 Thomas Innes 
 Phoebe Innes 
 John Howell, Sr. 
 Jessie Farquhar 
 Ailse Farquhar 
 George Farquhar 
 Dorotha Farquhar 
 Ann Farquhar 
 Harriett E. Trevett 
 Abraham Bonnell 
 Lydia H. Bonnell 
 Catherine Bonnell 
 Rachel Bonnell 
 Lydia D. Maxwell 
 Mrs. Sherer 
 Mrs. Thomas Beers. 
 Charles Priest 
 Barbara Priest 
 
78 
 
 Peter B. Harvy " 
 Lewis Hopt 
 Samuel McCanagher 
 Andrew H. Reeder 
 Mary Mann 
 Benjamin Godshalk 
 John M. Lowrie 
 
 1839 
 
 Mrs. Jane De Mott 
 Mrs. Charlotte Emery 
 Mrs. Gordon 
 Mrs. Jane Lane 
 Mr. Vanburen 
 Mr. Bask in 
 John Pollock 
 John McMurray 
 Washington McCartney 
 Thomas L. Kollock 
 Ellen Struthers 
 JohnR. McMullin 
 Mrs. McMullin 
 Mrs. Dawes 
 
 1840 
 
 Mrs. Maria Metier 
 Sarah Sine 
 Elizabeth Sine 
 Ellen Junkin 
 Mr. Chapman 
 Thomas Jones Hoff 
 William Henry Green 
 Chauucey Rice 
 IMargaret Junkin 
 Susan Russell 
 Sarah Russell 
 Dr. McCulloch 
 Eliza A. Jeflfrys 
 Matthias Melic 
 Boyd Young 
 Elizabeth Hill 
 Ann Balliet 
 Mary Hill 
 Cornelius Lane 
 Nicholas Olmstead 
 Mrs. Mary McKeen 
 
 James S. Long 
 Mrs. Maria Kennedy 
 John I. Burke 
 James Wilson 
 Mrs. Jane Boyde 
 Mrs. Jessie McNeil 
 Mrs. Maria Lattimore 
 Mary Gress 
 John Mutchler 
 Sarah Mutchler 
 Aaron HoflF 
 Mrs. John Dickson 
 
 1841 
 
 Mrs. George Luckenbach 
 Johnston Godown 
 Mrs. Godown 
 Hugh H. Abernethy 
 Mary Jane Abernethy 
 Mrs. Salade 
 John Loder 
 Mrs. William Kerr 
 Mrs. Maria White 
 Mrs. Kelchner 
 William Fair 
 Sarah Wilson 
 Mrs. Thatcher 
 Abraham McLaine 
 Mrs. Letitia Swayze 
 
 1842 
 
 Mr. Thatcher 
 Mrs. Ann Housel 
 Mrs. Mary Able 
 Calvin S. Bishop 
 Amelia Ann Bishop 
 Mrs. William Green 
 Mrs. Nassau 
 Charles Jones 
 James Pollock 
 Janet Pollock 
 Henrietta Green 
 Mary Thompson 
 Elizabeth Dingier 
 Alfred Reading 
 Thomas Alexander, Jr. 
 
79 
 
 Mary Farquhar 
 Robert Innes 
 Mrs. Keturah Sloan 
 James Pollock, Jr. 
 Mrs. Jane King 
 Edward R. Bullock 
 Jesse M. Howell 
 Thomas G. Stewart 
 Christianna Stewart 
 Joseph Thompson 
 Margaret Chapin 
 
 1843 
 
 Frederick Waggener 
 Charlotte Bell 
 Richard S. Bell 
 Rebecca Bell 
 Courtland M. Bell 
 Serena Bell 
 Herster Bell 
 William David 
 W. W. Cottingham 
 John McNeill 
 Mrs. Phoebe Lewis 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Cowden 
 Mrs. Eliza Chidsey 
 Agnes Semple 
 Joseph Nassau 
 George Heckman 
 Edward F. Stewart 
 Mrs. Mary Cook 
 Mrs. Jane Hart 
 Prof. David Yeomans 
 Mrs. Ann Yoemans 
 James Callen 
 Reuben H. Crosby 
 Henry B. Duffin 
 George Housel 
 Isabella Nassau 
 Tamzen Dusenberry 
 Jeremiah Phillips 
 William Hagamau 
 Matthew Morrison 
 Mrs. Matthew Morrison 
 David Tully 
 Elizabeth Reese 
 
 Robert Ferguson 
 
 Mrs. Richard Hagaman 
 
 1844 
 
 Ezek Dewitt 
 Margaret Heckman 
 Mary Ellen Swazy 
 Margaret McMurtrie 
 John D. Haiman 
 Sarah Ann Haiman 
 M. S. Bainum 
 Mrs. Bainum 
 Robert G. Jacoby 
 John Semple 
 Mrs. Bnrwell 
 William Drake 
 Mrs. Rachel Drake 
 Mrs. Mary Hughes 
 Wm. Nathaniel Drake 
 Mary Randall 
 John Dickson 
 Christianna Reese 
 Mrs. Martha Opdyke 
 Samuel Depew 
 Mrs. Samuel Depew 
 Mrs. Rebecca Dewitt 
 
 1845 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Green 
 Mrs. Maria Meeker 
 Mrs. Matilda Heath 
 Mrs. Julia R. Junkin 
 Margaret Junkin 
 Ellen Junkin 
 Hannah Hartzell 
 Robert Ferguson, Jr. 
 Mrs. Ezek Howell 
 Joseph Howell 
 Sarah Howell 
 Margaret Welsh 
 Elijah P. Hunt 
 George Housel 
 Mrs. Ann Housel 
 A. Phillips 
 Henrietta Green 
 Mrs. Charity Searfoss 
 William Budd Smith. 
 
8o 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Smith 
 Rachel C. Smith 
 Mrs. Margaret C. Sherer 
 Sarah Howell 
 John Agnew 
 Agnes Agnew 
 Margaret Will 
 Jane Boyd 
 Mary Boyd 
 Mary Ann Hanna 
 Nancy Ferguson 
 Mary Ann Ferguson 
 Michael Miller 
 Ebenezer Junkin 
 Elizabeth Nassau 
 
 1846 
 Mrs. W. B. Smith 
 E. Thompson Baird 
 Samuel Holmes 
 Nancy Hunt 
 Wm. F. P. Noble 
 Helen Pollock 
 Lavinia Lattimore 
 Charles Wagner 
 John J. Allen 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Allen 
 Elizabeth Schofield 
 Mrs. Mary Steckle 
 Mary Wilson 
 Mrs. Margaret Leslie 
 Mrs. Caroline Phillips 
 Mrs. Margaret Nolen 
 Mary Jane Lava 
 
 1847 
 Samuel C. Brown 
 Mrs. Achsah Brown 
 Mrs. Rachel Kennedy 
 Alexander Wilson 
 Mary Cathcart Wilson 
 Elizabeth Able 
 Abigail HofT 
 Mrs. George Luckenbach 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Lane 
 Mrs. Jennetta Bacon 
 
 Mrs. Eliza H. Johnston 
 
 Mrs. Christina Smith 
 
 Almon Ticknor 
 
 Anna Mansfield Ticknor 
 
 Anna Semple 
 
 Mrs. Johnston 
 
 William J. Smith 
 
 Elizabeth E. Smith 
 
 S. A. Barnes 
 
 Mrs. Maria McCulloch 
 
 Edward Quinn 
 
 Mrs. Edward Quinn 
 
 Thomas McKeen 
 
 Edwin Young 
 
 Mrs. Romelia Taylor 
 
 Joseph McClintock 
 
 Amanda Hutcheson 
 
 Emily Hutcheson 
 
 1848 
 
 Levi Bennett 
 Leigh Rodenbough 
 Sarah D. Bennett 
 Mrs. Lavinia Darrand 
 Elizabeth Sturgeon 
 Keziah Hutcheson 
 John W. Johnston 
 Jesse M. Howell 
 John Duffin, Sr. 
 Jane Boyd Duffin 
 Adam Runkle 
 Sarah Runkle 
 Mrs. E. V. Davis 
 Eleanor Matilda Welsh 
 Anna Maria Hei'iltne 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell 
 Mrs. Harriet Hackett 
 Mary C. Gray 
 Margaret M. Gray 
 Mrs. Jane Lerch 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Merrick 
 Ellen Butz 
 Lsabella Crosbie 
 Mary Crosbie 
 Mrs. Sarah W. Wagner 
 
8i 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Randall 
 Mrs. Amanda Loderick 
 Charles F. Thurston 
 John I. Burke 
 Mrs. Matilda Burke 
 
 1849 
 
 William Stewart 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Stewart 
 
 Mrs. Mary Wells 
 
 Amelia Hutchinson 
 
 Mrs. Rachel Miller 
 
 Mary Holmes 
 
 John R. McMullin 
 
 Mrs. McMullin 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Hulick 
 
 Anna Maria McNeill 
 
 Matilda McNeill 
 
 Jane Agnew 
 
 Sophia Heckman 
 
 Sally J. McCoy 
 
 Jane Kennedy 
 
 Martha McMullin 
 
 Ellen Ferguson 
 
 Mary Ferguson 
 
 Elizabeth Stewart 
 
 Charles Stewart 
 
 Joseph Sykes 
 
 Dr. John P. B. Sloan 
 
 Samuel Holmes 
 
 Jane Wilson 
 
 Anna Wilson 
 
 Joseph Beggs 
 
 James A. Dunlap 
 
 James F. Randolph 
 
 Sarah F. Randolph 
 
 Julia F. Randolph 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Ferguson 
 
 Harrison W. Crosby 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte A. Crosby 
 
 Eliza Craig 
 
 Eliza McQuestion 
 
 Mary Ann McVelty 
 
 Eliza Larimer 
 
 6 
 
 xA-gnes Boyde 
 
 Isabelle Boyde 
 
 Mrs. Lucy H. Chidsey 
 
 Mrs. Serena B. Thurston 
 
 1850 
 
 Isaac N. Carpenter 
 Mrs. L N. Carpenter 
 Peter F. Eilenberger 
 Marietta C. Eilenberger 
 Mrs. Leonora Carroll 
 Henry A. WoodhuU 
 Sarah Kennedy 
 E. Dean Dow 
 Susanna L. Dow 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Gaston 
 Anna Maria Gaston 
 Margaret Peden 
 Eliza Duncan Peden 
 Mrs. Maria Davis 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Runyon 
 Robert Gardner 
 John McQuiston 
 Mrs. Mary McQuiston 
 Mary Jane McQuiston 
 Isabella McQuiston 
 James M. Andrews 
 Eliza Davis 
 
 1851 
 
 Daniel E. Philips 
 Caroline S. Philips 
 John Bennet 
 John Ried 
 Sally Maxwell 
 Mrs. Mary Hughes 
 Thomas McKeen Gray 
 John Bingham 
 Mrs. Simons 
 Mrs. C. Heckman 
 Francis Long 
 James Demster 
 Agnes Demster 
 Robert Demster 
 Christina Demster 
 
82 
 
 Mrs. J. H. Coffin 
 Mrs. E. B. MclTean 
 James H. Coffin 
 M. Hale Jones 
 
 1852 
 Elizabeth Boyde 
 Mrs. Matilda Burrowes 
 Mrs. Emily Johnson 
 Susan Sine 
 Serinda Snyder 
 Elizabeth Gilmore 
 Mrs. H. Lunger 
 James W. Long 
 Caroline Long 
 Dr. Charles O. Jennings 
 Mrs. Rachel Jennings 
 Joseph P. Chambers 
 Mrs. Lucy Chambers 
 Mrs. Schooley 
 Mrs. i\Iary Tindall 
 IVIrs. Agnes Bingham 
 Mrs. Catherina Carrell 
 William Beggs 
 John Micke 
 William Johnson 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson 
 Archibald X. Seniple 
 Alfred Apple 
 Thomas S. Francis 
 James M. Salmon 
 James McQueston 
 Mrs. Elizabeth McQueston 
 Robert McGhie 
 Mrs. Sophia McGhie 
 Agnes McQueston 
 E. L Young 
 Mrs. Mary Cook- 
 Amelia Reeder 
 Elizabeth Campbell 
 John Williams 
 Elizabeth Williams 
 James Boyde 
 Mary Boyde 
 Hannah Depew 
 
 John Lander 
 Mary Lander 
 Jane Hamilton 
 Samuel Maxwell 
 Edsall Ferrier 
 Elizabeth Aurelia Coffin 
 Mrs. Martha Kessler 
 Mrs. Mary Van Arsdale 
 Sarah Sherrerd Green 
 
 1853 
 
 Mary Thompson 
 Chapman Warner 
 Christina Warner 
 Benjamin Warner 
 James Hackett 
 Mrs. Margaret Evans 
 Elizabeth McMullin 
 Jane Peden 
 Sophia McGee 
 William McMullin 
 Anna McMullin 
 Fannie Jones 
 Sophia Gaston 
 Sarah Gaston 
 Mrs. Ann Carrol 
 Mrs. Mary Curry 
 Joseph Pettinger 
 Catherine Pettinger 
 Christina Carhart 
 Leonora Christie 
 Cyrus M. Hineline 
 Daniel Smith 
 William K. Woods 
 Frances T. Woods 
 Stewart K. Beers 
 Catherine P. Beers 
 Jane A. Carrel 
 Susan B. Heller 
 Mrs. Caroline E. Morrison 
 
 1854 
 
 William Craig 
 Maria Miller 
 Ann Wilson 
 
83 
 
 Sarah Boyde 
 
 Richard R. Edwards 
 
 Ann Edwards 
 
 Susan E. Hunt 
 
 Robert McKee 
 
 Mary McKee 
 
 William Young 
 
 Jane Young 
 
 Mrs. Mary Gillian 
 
 Mary Gardiner 
 
 Sarah Ann Watson 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Lowrie 
 
 Samuel Boileau 
 
 Eleanor Boileau 
 
 James R. Boileau 
 
 Mary Boileau 
 
 Mary Drake 
 
 Eliza Ann Drake 
 
 William Paul 
 
 Susan Paul 
 James Miller 
 
 Mr. Thatcher 
 Jane Plotts 
 Anna R. Godshalk 
 Mary Andrews 
 Rachel Boyde 
 Laura Davis 
 Catherine Drake 
 Margaret Ann Holmes 
 Rachel Barnet 
 John Bell 
 Charlotte Bell 
 Benjamin F. Riegel 
 Mrs. B. F. Riegel 
 James Johnson 
 Mrs. Charlotte Emery 
 Mrs. Harriet Ackerman 
 Mrs. Jacob Heller 
 Mrs. Ann Jane Case 
 Robert McAlister 
 Ellen McAlister 
 Christopher Carley 
 John Boyde 
 Nicholas Olmstead 
 
 Mrs. Esther P. Olmstead 
 Miss Sarah C. Day 
 
 1855 
 
 Sarah Young 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Fry 
 
 Mrs. Eizabeth Beaver 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Green 
 
 Mrs. Jane Pittinger 
 
 Mrs. Susan Patterson 
 
 J. Ogden Bell 
 
 Matilda Winter 
 
 Joseph Morrison 
 
 Mrs. Emma Morrison 
 
 James McMaster 
 
 Mrs. James McMaster 
 
 Mrs. Mary Dempster 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Creveling 
 
 Eliza Murray 
 
 Mary Ann Morrison 
 
 Mary Ann Wilson 
 
 Charles Mclntire 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Mclntire 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Sinclair 
 
 Ann Pittenger 
 
 Robert T. Lehman 
 
 Jane Wilson 
 
 Eugene H. Wood 
 
 Joseph Hickson 
 
 Daniel Pittenger 
 
 Mrs. Pittenger 
 
 Delinda A. Pittenger 
 
 Margaret Green 
 
 Andrew Cross Trippe 
 
 Mrs. Amelia Hazen 
 
 David Gillian 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Allen 
 
 Robert Boyde 
 
 William A. Howell 
 
 Mrs. William A. Howell 
 
 Edwin Sitgreaves 
 
 Mrs. Marietta Hutter 
 
 James Laughlin 
 
 Joseph Ellen 
 
84 
 
 1856 
 
 Hester Ayre 
 
 Jane Ross 
 
 Jane Young 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Drake 
 
 Mary Thompson 
 
 Mrs. Julia Arnold 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Hoffman 
 
 Jacob Abe 
 
 Charles Hertz 
 
 Mary E. Cottingham 
 
 1857 
 
 Sally S. Moon 
 Mrs. Sherer 
 John McM aster 
 Stafford Darrach 
 John Strain 
 Ellen Tharp 
 Mary Miller 
 Emma Johnson 
 Hannah McKee 
 Emma W. Porter 
 Eliza Hudson 
 Mrs. Harriet Simpson 
 Mrs. Abby Morgan 
 
 1858 
 
 Mrs. Jane Horner 
 
 Anna Horner 
 
 Jane W. Horner 
 
 Mrs. Valeria Able 
 
 Mrs. M. M. Schenck 
 
 Emily House! 
 
 George I. Porter 
 
 Mrs. Margaret B. Field 
 
 Anna G. Rambo 
 
 Henry Werle 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte Werle 
 
 W. W. Moon 
 
 L. D. Gray 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Gray 
 
 Samuel Apple 
 
 George C. Pollock 
 
 Mrs. Ann Boyd 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Beers 
 Mrs. Margaret Stiles 
 McEvans Forman 
 Mrs. Matilda Ballantine 
 
 1859 
 
 Mrs. Maria Correll 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Semple 
 
 Mrs. Kate Seitz 
 
 Mrs. Irene Drake 
 
 Ellen Hazen 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Williamson 
 
 Mrs. Edward Green 
 
 Mrs. Ann Kessler 
 
 Alice Hazen 
 
 Jennie L. Sitgreaves 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Strain 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Dodd 
 
 Mrs. Martha Dickson 
 
 Mrs. Sinclair 
 
 Joseph Bennett 
 
 Elizabeth F. Randolph 
 
 Margaret Cook 
 
 James F. Randolph 
 
 Eliza Young 
 
 R. B. Youngman 
 
 B. C. Youngman 
 
 Emma F. Randolph 
 
 Bell F. Randolph 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Clark 
 
 Elizabeth Armstrong 
 
 1860 
 
 Anthony Long 
 Eliza Ann Long 
 James Barnard Wilson 
 Henry B. Howell 
 Elizabeth H. Howell 
 Mrs. W. W. Cottingham 
 Emma Reeder 
 Richard S. Bell 
 Rebecca Bell 
 Susan M. Davis 
 Ann Depew 
 Mattie Wilson 
 
85 
 
 Jennie M. Quin 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Keller 
 Mrs. Annetta Howell 
 Mrs. Emma E. Stout 
 Mrs. Evan Thomas 
 James McCallen 
 John McCallen 
 E. A. Dewitt 
 Mrs. Dr. Ludlow 
 
 1861 
 
 Emily Depew 
 
 Allen Bell 
 
 Mrs. Elisha Allis 
 
 S. Cottingham 
 
 Harriet A. Davies 
 
 Eliza J. Dubois 
 
 Anna Housel 
 
 Margaret McMaster 
 
 Mary Ann Curry 
 
 Henry Semple 
 
 Mary Semple 
 
 Washington F. Dewitt 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Graham 
 
 Henry Weaver 
 
 Mrs. Marion Weaver 
 
 Anna Apple 
 
 Selena Apple 
 
 Anna Bell 
 
 Reuben Hilliard 
 
 Agnes Hilliard 
 
 1862 
 
 William Semple 
 
 Almon Ticknor 
 
 Anna Mansfield Ticknor 
 
 Chas. A. Voorhes, M.D. 
 
 Mrs. King 
 
 Anna Ihrie 
 
 Leonora Noll 
 
 Alice Dewitt 
 
 Semple 
 
 Sarah Semple 
 Elizabeth Hoff 
 Belle Quin 
 
 William N. Patterson 
 Mrs. Susan Patterson 
 Rose Moss 
 Mrs. John Howell 
 Catherine Drake 
 Jane De Mott 
 
 1863 
 
 W. Norval Applegate 
 Mary M. Boswell 
 Mary L Porter 
 A. S. Deichman 
 Mrs. Jane Coe 
 Charles Dudley 
 Lizzie M. Burke 
 Mrs. Emma Ross 
 Mary Strain 
 Rebecca Curry 
 George V. Wallace 
 Phoebe Wallace 
 Emma Wrighter 
 Minnie Moon 
 William Boileau 
 Mary Campbell 
 
 1864 
 
 L. S. Ross 
 
 SalHe Drake 
 
 Thomas Reynolds 
 
 Alfred Coe 
 
 Catherine Dockman 
 
 Mrs. John Snyder 
 
 Catherine Andrews 
 
 Anna Coe 
 
 Harriet Coe 
 
 Joseph Semple 
 
 Mrs. Margaret E. Eckard 
 
 Jane E. Eckard 
 
 Anna M. Eckard 
 
 Leighton W. Eckard 
 
 Mary Hertz 
 
 1865 
 
 David J. Howell 
 Christianna Howell 
 
86 
 
 Lewis Case 
 Jane Case 
 jNIargaret Allen 
 
 1866 
 
 George R. Coe 
 Mary Coe 
 Anna M. Carrel 
 Emily Hertz 
 Anna Louise Green 
 Susan D. Brown 
 Mary C. Green 
 Mary Parker 
 Anna P. Michler 
 W. S. Hulick 
 M. L. Boileau 
 
 1867 
 Mrs. James Ballantine, Jr. 
 Jane Wilson 
 
 1868 
 Moses Bush 
 Maria Bush 
 Emma E. Bush 
 ]Mary Agnes Bush 
 :\Irs. B. K. Swift 
 Mary E. Duncan 
 i\Iary Rundio 
 Lizzie H. Jones 
 George A. C. Loder 
 J. C. Bennett 
 Fannie Eilenberger 
 Emma Eilenberger 
 Mary Sherer 
 Thomas Atkinson 
 Samuel Allen 
 John M. Wallace 
 Nancy Wallace 
 Sidney Godshalk 
 Emma Weaver 
 Rose \ oung 
 W. H. Hulick 
 W. H. Keller 
 Xelson D. Hoyt 
 J. A. Pauli 
 
 Julia Pauli 
 May A. Pauli 
 j\Irs. Kate Youngman 
 Alice G. Deichman 
 Ellen Ballentine 
 Anna Dawes 
 W. H. Mann 
 J. J. Hardy 
 Oscar E. Boyd 
 Mary E. Boyd 
 Sophia Gray 
 George T. Keller 
 J. D. Stocksdale 
 B. F. Boyde 
 Harriet E. Hummer 
 John Stewart 
 Elizabeth Stewart 
 Charles Stewart 
 Anna C. Stewart 
 Mrs. Mary Wells 
 Eliza Barrington 
 Mary R. Lesher 
 
 1869 
 Annie E. Shields 
 Ed. H. Teel 
 Robert Shouse 
 Maria Shouse 
 Mary Shannon 
 Eliza Hartin 
 Sallie E. Page 
 Anna Chievers 
 Alice H. Cottingham 
 P. J. Hulshizer 
 J. A. ]\IcKnight 
 Abraham Garber 
 Abraham Sherer 
 W. \V. Sherer 
 Fred. Moon 
 Alice Bloombergh 
 A. E. Groover 
 Howard J. Reader 
 Helen Reeder 
 Joseph Kiefer 
 Mary C. Kiefer 
 
87 
 
 Levi H. Mann 
 Leonora Mann 
 Elisha Allis 
 
 1870 
 John Mutchler 
 Henrietta Stair 
 Harriet Porter 
 Caroline Steel 
 Elizabeth Able 
 Adelia Norwood 
 Frances A. Hoff 
 Helen Dewitt 
 Elizabeth Clarke 
 Henry L. Bunstein 
 Eliza Foster 
 1871 
 Anna R. Godshalk 
 Aaron S. Swartz 
 Catherine E. Kiefer 
 Thomas Atkinson 
 Eleanora B. Jennings 
 
 Sarah M. Miller 
 Jane G. F. Randolph 
 
 Minnie Rifemeath 
 
 1872 
 Mrs. Ann Gould 
 
 Whitfield H. Lance 
 
 Elizabeth Ann Lance 
 
 Emma Bishop Leighton 
 
 James V. Bull 
 
 John Lloyd 
 
 Martha A. Lloyd 
 1873 
 
 George G. Rambo 
 
 W. G. Ballantyne 
 
 Susan Steckel 
 
 Sydney Godshalk 
 
 Tillie C. Hammann 
 
 Anna F. Rockafellow 
 
 Mrs. Annie Allen Hunt 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Folkenson 
 
 John A. Weaver 
 
 William S. Semple 
 
 Annie Allen 
 Emma F. Kinsey 
 Sally A. Ott 
 Mary E. Welch 
 Susan A. Welch 
 William Welch 
 Henry E. Brown 
 Helen M. Brown 
 Kate S. King 
 
 1874 
 
 William R. Jones 
 Mrs. Jane Hess 
 John Hess 
 Hester Fine 
 Martha Fine 
 Anna Hess 
 Laura S. Bennett 
 Russel C. Stewart 
 Mrs. Matilda Burke 
 William K. Renshaw 
 Allen Carpenter 
 Anna J. Carpenter 
 William H. Maxwell 
 Anna Voorhies 
 Laura K. Bird 
 D. A. Tinsman 
 Emma F. Tinsman 
 Sophia Paul 
 Susan Worman 
 
 1875 
 
 Fannie White 
 Mrs. Hattie Hildebrand 
 Mary J. Hudson 
 Lizzie Keller 
 Edwin A. Webb 
 Eliza Bell 
 Jacob ^lann 
 Emma E. Alann 
 iMargaret B. Field 
 Sarah O. Lanterman 
 Theodore Kindt 
 Anna S. Wells 
 Evie Green 
 
88 
 
 Aggie Weaver ^ 
 Alice O. Yard 
 Mrs. Kate E. Sherer 
 James Hunter 
 Mary C. Miller 
 Annie Weaver 
 Laura S. Cottingham 
 Hannah E. Godshalk 
 
 1876 
 Joseph Morrison 
 Mary Rambo 
 Sarah J. Young 
 Thomas Hardcastle 
 Elizabeth Hardcastle 
 John James 
 Elizabeth B. Sickle 
 Mary E. Hulshizer 
 Mary F. Titus 
 Clifton Mayfield 
 Mary McNeal 
 J. M. Junkin 
 Julia J. Junkin 
 Stewart K. Beers 
 Catherine P. Beers 
 Ada Beers 
 Robert Beers 
 S. L. Fisler 
 Mary Fisler 
 Mrs. Sarah Pollock 
 Helen H. Pollock 
 Jesse H. Pollock 
 William Stewart 
 Mrs. Helen Stewart 
 Charles Mclntire 
 Mrs. Eliza Mclntire 
 Charles Mclntire, Jr. 
 T. McK. Andrews 
 Mary B. H. Andrews 
 Joseph W. Johnston 
 Jennie T. Johnson 
 Traill Green 
 Harriet Green 
 Fannie Green 
 Ella Green 
 
 Theodore Mixsell 
 Isabel Mixsell 
 Christa C. Pike 
 Mrs. Annie E. Young 
 William Ferguson 
 Matthew Orr 
 Susanna Orr 
 J. L. Middaugh 
 Amiie M. Ferrier 
 Mary E. McCartney 
 Joseph Watt, Jr. 
 Lena Peters 
 Catherine S. Hertz 
 Edwin James 
 Mary James 
 Jane Hannah 
 1877 
 John W. Hartung 
 Emma I. Bigelow 
 John Stewart, Jr. 
 Belle R. Titus 
 Sarah S. Jefferson 
 
 W. O. Semple 
 
 Elizabeth I. Bebler 
 
 Annie Stout 
 
 Laura Steckle 
 
 Abram S. Hulshizer 
 
 Eva Hulshizer 
 
 Jarvis Wauser 
 
 Albert J. Wauser 
 
 F. A. Wauser 
 
 Anna Hughes 
 
 Sarah A. Peters 
 
 Carrie L Pauli 
 
 E. M. Green 
 
 E. S. Wells 
 
 Margaret L Frace 
 
 Lousia Cramer 
 
 Maggie A. McNeal 
 
 William P. Anderson 
 
 Lydia D. Maxwell 
 
 Elizabeth Wauser 
 
 Isaac Jefferson 
 
 Oliver Dewitt 
 
89 
 
 Josephine Dewitt 
 William R. Francisco 
 Josephine Francisco 
 William N. Scott 
 Amelia Scott 
 A. Reeder Muller 
 Julia B. Semple 
 Catherine S. Hess 
 Julia T. Correll 
 Sarah E. Gould 
 Mary J. Gould 
 Jane J. Vanatta 
 Louisa Vanatta 
 Emma C. Keim 
 Ellen Ruth Harris 
 Mary Emily Howell 
 Elizabeth Ketchledge 
 Mary W. Keller 
 Rose Seitz 
 Frank W. Stewart 
 Lilly B. Stewart 
 George Johnson 
 Kate Maxwell 
 Hodi Take Yegawa 
 Rose Mary Keller 
 Mary J. Harris 
 George C. Bebler 
 Matilda Bebler 
 Hugh H. Abernethy 
 Robert H. Abernethy 
 Louisa N. Abernethy 
 Anna Abernethy 
 Magdalina Angel 
 Emily Seitz 
 Kate W. Steckle 
 Mary K. Dudley 
 Fannie R. Gray 
 John R. Bennett 
 Mary E. Bennett 
 Helen McCartney 
 
 1878 
 William G. Dinsmore 
 Anna M. Moser 
 Sarah McKee 
 
 Frank Maxwell 
 Alice Ball 
 Sarah Pollock 
 Anna A. Nicholas 
 Mary Ehler 
 Anna Clark 
 Elizabeth Bell 
 Mary A. Bull 
 
 Julia Hazard 
 Marietta T. Smith 
 Agnes Gillian 
 Sophia Brandt 
 L. H. Rockafellow 
 C. F. Chidsey 
 
 Kate A. Chidsey 
 James H. Buell 
 Esther Buell 
 Mary E. Buell 
 J. Frank Wilson 
 Ellen M. Snyder 
 Mary Fulmer 
 Charles Brandt 
 Emma Spence 
 Anna Strain 
 Mary McKee 
 Mary L. Rockafellow 
 Lizzie Ehler 
 
 1879 
 
 William Ehler 
 Elizabeth Ferguson 
 William Snyder 
 William Emory 
 Edwin L. Kennedy 
 Mary M. Hoagland 
 Leonora Carrol 
 Ann B. Opdyke 
 Minnie A. Connelly 
 Carrie E. Bruch 
 Eliza McQueston 
 Gamble Young 
 Mary C. Young 
 Eva F. Peters 
 Edward Brandt 
 William Young 
 
90 
 
 Annie E. Moser 
 Emily J. Moser 
 Isaac Moser 
 Harry S. Weaver 
 George M. Bebler 
 Rebecca H. Yohe 
 Elizabeth P. Porter 
 Anna Gaston 
 Mrs. Caroline Davis 
 Isabella Davis 
 Mary Heckman 
 Sophia Heckman 
 John Kutter 
 Sarah Shellenberger 
 Mary Kennedy 
 Sarah Carter 
 
 1880 
 
 Elizabeth R. Hall 
 Eunice M. Hall 
 William Hall 
 O. F. A. Fritchie 
 James P. Johnson 
 Mary C. Johnson 
 Amelia P. Semple 
 Anna M. Semple 
 Kate M. Semple 
 Hannah M. Semple 
 Anna Bennett 
 J. W. Nute 
 C. S. Melvin 
 William McKee 
 Lily Fritchie 
 L. H. Rockafellow 
 Lydia Stinson 
 Rachel S. Stackhouse 
 ^lartha Smith 
 Mary R. Able 
 Annie M. Hazard 
 Thankful Holcomb 
 Camilla Shick 
 Samuel Barnet 
 Mary A. Barnet 
 Mary A. White 
 
 F. S. Stem 
 Edward Burkhard 
 Elizabeth Burkhard 
 Josephine Burkhard 
 John B. Kolb 
 William A. Edwards 
 Sally A. Hoagland 
 Abigail Hoagland 
 Lizzie A. Banner 
 S. G. Hutchinson 
 Mary A. Mann 
 
 1881 
 Jesse R. Lerch 
 Julius T. Corbin 
 
 A. R. Weller 
 Thisbe B. Weller 
 S. Francis Weller 
 George M. Weller 
 William W. Weller 
 Cora Dudley 
 Annie E. Keim 
 Vestella L. Weaver 
 Sallie F. Barton 
 Elizabeth A. Scott 
 Elizabeth C. Maxwell 
 Frank E. Welch 
 Louis E. Spangenberg 
 Mary Ellen Moser 
 Jane W. Moser 
 Catherine Ellet 
 Depue S. M. Ellet 
 Isabella C. Bunting 
 Tillie Hess 
 Elizabeth Rainey 
 Emma Dillon 
 George Mershon 
 Henrietta Mershon 
 
 B. F. Siegert 
 Margaret Taylor 
 Titus A. Steiner 
 Elizabeth A. Atwood 
 Thomas B. Renn 
 Mary E. Renn 
 
 Alice A. V. Bloombergh 
 
91 
 
 1882 
 
 jNIartha Galloway 
 William A. Gather 
 George D. Hoagland 
 John E. Shull 
 Edwin H. Stewart 
 S. Y. Heller 
 Lizzie Hoagland 
 William Hawk 
 George Sciple 
 Carrie Sciple 
 Kate A. Nennig 
 N. A. Johnson 
 Augusta Johnson 
 George Johnson 
 Annie R. Rambo 
 Irvin J. Unangst 
 J\lary Bell 
 :Mary C. Meixell 
 Margaret Mixsell 
 Eldridge Robbins 
 Annie Robbins 
 Annie M. Hunt 
 
 1883 
 
 Abby Ida Berlin 
 A. Arthur Ackerman 
 Mary E. Ackerman 
 Samuel V. Able 
 Emma F. Kolb 
 Eliza Nute 
 Charles D. Robinson 
 William Kellogg 
 Ida Hoff 
 Carrie A. Nennig 
 Lizzie Bowman 
 Emily F. Hollinshead 
 George H. Nute 
 ]\Iinnie G. Osterstock 
 Barbara Memmert 
 Alargaret Kellogg 
 Arnae Sherer 
 Cornelia Middagh 
 Arabella Middagh 
 
 Nellie Wyckoff 
 Margaret Clark 
 Valeria Abel 
 Martha J. Armstrong 
 Mary A. Kutz 
 Anna E. Hart 
 Sophia Osterstock 
 Thomas Stewart 
 Miranda Conklin 
 Francis W. Lesher 
 Elizabeth Lehman 
 Charles K. Williams 
 William Heskett, Sr. 
 Sarah A. Titus 
 William I. Gaston 
 Adaline Gaston 
 Calvin J. Dull 
 Emma Dull 
 Abram Shellenberger 
 Henrietta S. Abel 
 Robert Davies 
 
 1884 
 
 Mary Johnson 
 Mary Butler 
 Mary E. Atkinson 
 Luke B. Hapgood 
 Ellen S. Hapgood 
 Alice Gulick 
 Mary Jane McEntee 
 S. Amanda Gulick 
 Robert J. Clark 
 Lottie Young 
 Samuel Barnet 
 Mary A. Barnet 
 Maggie Barnet 
 Robert Barnet 
 Elizabeth Bowers 
 Elizabeth Paris 
 Ella M. Connelly 
 John McEntee 
 Howard Green 
 Emma Green 
 Frederick Oliver 
 
92 
 
 Henry Carter , 
 
 Ira Mowery 
 
 Clara B. Mowery 
 
 Elizabeth S. Rulon 
 
 Caroline Bogert 
 
 Carrie H. Sciple 
 
 Mary E. Young 
 
 Elizabeth Wyckoff 
 
 William N. Rockafellow 
 
 Eliza J. Orr 
 
 Leonora Carroll 
 
 Mary Heckman 
 
 Sophia Heckman 
 
 Susan M. Baldwin 
 
 Josephine W. Marx 
 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Spayde 
 
 Sarah A. Davis 
 
 Mrs. Aletta Beats 
 
 Caroline Deats 
 
 Aletta Deats 
 1885 
 
 Levi Bennett Carpenter 
 
 M. Lizzie Kiefer 
 
 Jennie R. Sassaman 
 
 J. Morris Kiefer 
 
 Ella M. Litzinger 
 
 Amanda M. Resh 
 
 Amelia Brandt 
 
 Dixon Lewers 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Lewers 
 
 Anna Lewers 
 
 John G. Semple 
 Rachel M. Semple 
 Jasper H. Beeman 
 Sarah E. Resh 
 Ann C. Reiley 
 Emma B. Jenks 
 Bessie Jenks 
 Anna M. Manning 
 Frederick Yeomans 
 Mary C. McDonald 
 Mary M. Dalton 
 Annie E. Kugler 
 George P. Adamson 
 
 William F. Kennedy 
 John H. Fair 
 Samuel K. Green 
 George W. Geiser 
 Harry C. Luck 
 Frank E. Welch 
 Sarah Frances Luck 
 
 1886 
 
 Lillian B. Hulsizer 
 Clara B. Nennig 
 Izora Y. White 
 David* White 
 Russell W. Chidsey 
 Clark Hartung 
 Susie C. Hartung 
 Milton C. Bull 
 Rebecca Bull 
 Elizabeth Weller 
 Osiris D. McConnell 
 William E. Howell 
 Arthur A. Moon 
 Jacob Abel 
 Helen H. Abel 
 William G. Moser 
 Mary Moser 
 A. Isabella Rockafellow 
 John W. Hamlin 
 Emma Hamlin 
 Matilda Larimer 
 Sallie Larimer 
 Nari Kawn 
 Alice F. Hapgood 
 William H. Creveling 
 Catherine Creveling 
 Ellen M. Stewart 
 Lizzie Larimer 
 Josiah Rice 
 Rose Rice 
 
 James WaUer Phillips 
 Mattie M. Stewart 
 
 1887 
 
 Jennie Craig 
 J. M. Junkin 
 
93 
 
 Julia J. Junkin 
 Kate Hamilton 
 Anna B. Hamilton 
 Mrs. S. H. Deck 
 Ella May Yeomans 
 Laura M. Hildebrand 
 Ida M. Williams 
 Robert Graham 
 John McNeal, Jr 
 Minnie Galloway 
 Margaret Carlile 
 Suella Wallace 
 Sadie C. Bennett 
 Annie M. Lee 
 Clark Caskey 
 Mary Caskey 
 Samuel Caskey 
 Lizzie Jane Caskey 
 Mame Caskey 
 Robbins Flemming 
 Josephine Flemming 
 
 1888 
 Annie Andrews 
 Emily Chidsey 
 Kate Chidsey 
 Etta Orr 
 
 Marjorie Andrews 
 J. Floyd Andrews 
 Harry Fisler 
 Gray Hardy 
 Belle Beck 
 Daniel Drake 
 Amy Stair 
 Harry Hamlin 
 Edwin Bloombergh 
 Mrs. G. P. Adamson 
 W. Gertrude Hamilton 
 Mrs. Josephine Young 
 Etta Nyce 
 Adelaide Stewart 
 Grace Scott 
 
 Augustus O. Bloombergh 
 J. N. Hoff 
 Charles S. Howell 
 
 Robert A. Hamilton 
 
 Mattie Cooley 
 
 Anna Semple 
 
 Helen Stewart 
 
 Frank S. Nute 
 
 George D. Hapgood 
 
 Henry B. Semple, Jr 
 
 Jennie Depue 
 
 Nellie Semple 
 
 Mary Hazzard 
 
 Sarah Hazzard 
 
 Julia Hazzard 
 
 J. J. Hardy 
 
 Mary Hardy 
 
 Caroline M. Howard 
 
 Belle Heckman Myers 
 
 Endora Keller 
 
 Marie Lawall 
 
 Sarah Jean Dawes 
 
 Annie M. Mann 
 
 Hattie Mann 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Roehner 
 
 Frederick Seitz 
 
 A. J. Lockard 
 
 C. Howard Grube 
 
 Woodbridge O. Johnson 
 
 Mary Hunt 
 
 1889 
 
 C. R. Adam 
 William C. Nicholas 
 Ida Nicholas 
 Lizzie Loder 
 
 D. Do You 
 Stewart Croasdale 
 Margaret Fulton 
 Marion Marx 
 Luella M. Deats 
 Lizzie May Ellet 
 Mary J. H. Field 
 Arthur F. Nesbet 
 
 1890 
 
 George G. Gable 
 Ellen S. Gable 
 
94 
 
 Mrs. William Felver 
 Lewis Segreaves 
 Mrs. Sarah Segreaves 
 Christina Simonton 
 Geneva Simonton 
 Harry C. Snyder 
 Mrs. Minnie Rader 
 Mary Ann Barnes 
 Martha Moser 
 Mabel Siegert Moser 
 Lillie May Fulmer 
 Henrietta Green 
 
 1891 
 Fannie Stewart 
 Edith A. White 
 Mary Orr Haines 
 Frank D. Speer 
 B. LaRue Lanterman 
 Harry F. Howell 
 E. F. Reimer 
 Mrs. C. D. Speer 
 Mrs. Julia Little 
 Miss Frances Jessup 
 Luther Davis 
 Henry Laux 
 Mary Laux 
 Frank A. Hazzard 
 Adda Cline 
 Mrs. Eva Cline 
 Edward A. Loux 
 Emma E. Stout 
 Mrs. Sarah Pollock 
 Mrs. Mary B. Knight 
 Mary E. Hulsizer 
 Mathias B. Hulsizer 
 Sarah A. Pierson 
 Eleanor K. Andrews 
 Ethel Youngman 
 Emily Moon 
 Jennie B. Cottingham 
 Maud Stocker 
 Mrs. Lizzie H. McPherson 
 J. Wesley Scott 
 Marv B. Scott 
 
 Mrs. Edna B. Hess 
 
 Mrs. Sara A. Buss 
 
 Mrs. James Ballentyne, Jr. 
 
 George A. Ballantyne 
 
 Emily Ruth 
 
 Julia L. Johnson 
 
 Ruth I. Johnson 
 
 Mrs. Florence Ann Graham 
 
 Margaret M. Weidman 
 
 Leona E. Weidman 
 
 Catherine A. Thompson 
 
 Hattie D. Thompson 
 
 Mrs. Rosetta j\L Uhler 
 
 Mrs. Caroline M. Smith 
 
 James Thompson 
 
 Annie Thompson 
 
 Fannie Reimer 
 
 John I\L Hathaway 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. F. Johnson 
 
 Mrs. Susan Paxton 
 
 Thomas Russell 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Russell 
 
 Anna Russell 
 
 Mrs. Louise Love Ricker 
 
 Charles F. Chidsey, Jr 
 
 Evelyn Mattie Gould 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Werkheiser 
 
 F. H. Stair 
 
 Mrs. Mary Abel 
 
 Mrs. Mary Alice Pursell 
 
 Mrs. Anna Thume 
 
 Nellie Irene Thume 
 
 Viola Thume 
 
 W. E. Rooker 
 
 C. E. Fenstermacher 
 
 Nana Fulmer Hayden 
 
 Mrs. Matilda Loder 
 
 Frances Sophie Resh 
 
 Henry Ballentine 
 
 Mary Josephine Balliet 
 
 E. R. Mack 
 
 Lydia A. Harris 
 
 Mrs. Anna Souders 
 
 E. Stanley Bixler 
 
95 
 
 John C. Ellet 
 
 Mrs. Christian Resh 
 
 H. G. Tombler, Jr 
 
 Mrs. Nettie C. Thompson 
 
 May Thompson 
 
 Lewis Ross 
 
 Clara Ross 
 
 Frederick A. Sherer 
 
 John E. Mann 
 
 Daisy B. Mann 
 
 Emma T. Field 
 
 Ray W. Hildebrand 
 
 Elmer V. Santee 
 
 Mrs. Emma M. Stair 
 
 W. W. Cottingham, Jr. 
 
 Florence Hildebrand 
 
 Howard S. Kinney 
 
 Rebecca Galloway 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Moser 
 
 Mrs. Margaret F. Orr 
 
 Miss Margaret Orr 
 
 Katherine Orr 
 
 Daniel B. Milroy 
 
 Mary Milroy 
 
 Lovene Miller 
 
 Cora S. Miller 
 
 Frank D. Lantz 
 
 John Lantz 
 
 Carl G. Lidbeck 
 
 Mrs. Louise Reimer 
 
 William Steckel 
 
 1892 
 Douglass E. Bixler 
 Lewis Clyde Bixler 
 Caroline Hackett 
 Lela H. Felver 
 Mary Helen Orr 
 William Hughes 
 Annie Louise Rosser 
 Sarah J. Baker 
 Anna Baker 
 Emma Hughes 
 Mary J. Litzinger 
 Mrs. Hannah E. Weidman 
 
 Paul W. Miller 
 
 Gertrude N. Thompson 
 
 Edith Yohe 
 
 Mrs. Emma G. Snyder 
 
 Mrs. Margaret A. Walter 
 
 Albert O. Hay 
 
 F. B. Huston 
 
 John Price 
 
 John M. Stewart 
 
 Mrs. M. G. Williams 
 
 Ida Price 
 
 Flora M. Hofif 
 
 Mrs. Elmira Kelly 
 
 Minnie E. Armstrong 
 
 Mrs. Lizzie Patterson 
 
 Edith Fay Renn 
 
 Mary Florence Mershon 
 
 Mrs. Carrie B. Santee 
 
 Charles J. Ball 
 
 Jennie Ball 
 
 Hattie May Buss 
 
 Horace L Bloombergh 
 
 J. Burton Felver 
 
 Nathan Osterstock 
 
 Mrs. Annie F. Oyer 
 
 Nathan Thomas 
 
 Mrs. Kate M. Christman 
 
 Jennie C. Fulmer 
 
 Sarah A. Werkheiser 
 
 Elizabeth Boston 
 
 Elizabeth B. Holcomb 
 
 Philip F. Stier, Jr 
 
 Claud A. Brands 
 
 William Rice 
 
 Mrs. Annie Osterstock 
 
 Andrew J. Berry 
 
 Samuel P. Brown 
 
 Bessie Jenks Brown 
 
 Sarah K. Bleckly 
 
 Fannie H. Kutter 
 
 Laura Bell Kutter 
 
 Emma Hoff 
 
 Mrs. Irene Sigman 
 
 Annie A. Ernst 
 
96 
 
 Mrs. x\my Welch 
 Mrs. Alice C. Mutchler 
 Harrison R. Fehr 
 Ackshaw Fehr 
 Kate M. Hoff 
 Ellen M. Buss 
 Bessie C. Davis 
 Grace D. Reimer 
 Charles Davis 
 Lizzie Davis 
 Charles Day Davis 
 John R. Heil 
 Henry T. Cowell 
 Mrs. Kate P. Cowell 
 
 1893 
 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Halter 
 John D. Pierson 
 Blanche L. Weidman 
 Arthur A. Moon 
 J. Mackey Stocker 
 Catherine A. Trauger 
 Leah Rohn 
 Elizabeth May Smith 
 Kate Raener 
 Carrie Bruce 
 William D. Luckenbach 
 Mrs. Josephine Tinsman 
 Jennie Tinsman 
 Stewart M. Hohl 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Sigman 
 Belle Semple 
 Lizzie S. Hohl 
 Mrs. A. F. Miller 
 Lulu May Pursell 
 Mrs. Margaret Pollock 
 Mary Pollock 
 Emily Pollock 
 Mrs. Susan Hulshizer 
 Jennie B. Hulshizer 
 Mrs. Sarah Depew 
 Edwin M. Downing 
 Catherine Downing 
 Rose Mary Miller 
 Mrs. Grace E. Elder 
 
 1894 
 
 Helen F. Miller 
 
 Linda Miller 
 
 Edith Irene Weidman 
 
 Mark Danby 
 
 Emily L. Weaver 
 
 Maud Miller 
 
 Mrs. Carrie Arndt Chidsey 
 
 Elizabeth Knight 
 
 Ida R. Luther 
 
 Albert L. Miller 
 
 C. Morton Sciple 
 
 Frank C. Williams 
 
 Mrs. Susan Bush 
 
 Fannie C. Rockafellow 
 
 Mrs. Mattie C. Williams 
 
 O. F. Q. Fritchie 
 
 Mrs. Anna H. Rockafellow 
 
 Mrs. George Smith 
 
 Alice J. Kelly 
 
 Wood C. Wallace 
 
 Charles J. Brown 
 
 Anna W. Brown 
 
 Margaret B. Bull 
 
 Lizzie Edna Hess 
 
 Claud Gilbert Reimer 
 
 Elizabeth May Hester 
 
 Henry W. Leggett 
 
 Sarah Leggett 
 
 Charles B. Fry 
 
 Samuel T. Clifton 
 
 Carrie R. Nicholas 
 
 Mrs. Mary Rute 
 
 Ralph Reed 
 
 Sarah Reed 
 
 Peter J. Ott 
 
 Emma J. Ott 
 
 Hattie M. Ott 
 
 Margaret A. Holt 
 
 John L. Radcliff 
 
 Thomas B. Shannon 
 
 Charlotte Bennett 
 
 Nellie May Shupe 
 
 Mrs. Annie E. Kellogg 
 
97 
 
 Minnie Roberts 
 
 Einora Stocker 
 
 Linda M. Parlman 
 
 James G. Krieder 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth Krieder 
 
 Ida AI. Garber 
 
 Elmer R. Armstrong 
 
 Sadie B. Armstrong 
 
 Annie M. Worman 
 
 E. C. Lavers 
 
 Ellen E. Hartung 
 
 W. H. Dudley 
 
 Lillian T. Dudley 
 
 Daisy Coss 
 
 Lucy Ann Beam 
 
 Matilda C. Bennett 
 
 May G. Campbell 
 
 Thomas Keller 
 
 Mary Keller 
 
 Robert H. Kay 
 
 William Galloway 
 
 Alary Elizabeth Lee 
 
 1895 
 Jeanette Laughlin 
 Richard Arthur 
 Margaret Gregg Arthur 
 Kate Kirchoff 
 Harry H. Yeager 
 Lulu Stevens 
 Edward L. Osterstock 
 Lucy Ann Reed 
 Alary Elizabeth Lee 
 Alary Alice Callahan 
 Rosetta R. Bryan 
 Alaud L Pursell 
 Rosa Slack 
 Xettie Edna Stocker 
 Annie T. Keefe 
 Alary Alice Rohn 
 Howard Clarence Semple 
 Alary Ellen Semple 
 A. Josephine Patterson 
 Eleanor W. Patterson 
 Oliver F. Hilpot 
 
 Hannah E. Hilpot 
 George W. Reed 
 Jennie Wiley 
 John A. Lutz 
 Alary E. Lutz 
 Lizzie Alixsell 
 Alary B. Innes 
 Minnie W. Campbell 
 Samuel S. Yohe 
 Frank John Bell 
 Claudia Bleckley 
 Pearl A. K. Matthews 
 John Radclifife 
 Elizabeth AL Keifer 
 George AL Coss 
 Airs. Alartha S. Nicholas 
 Ida Unangst 
 Airs. Eve Francisco 
 Walter Hammann 
 Alary Hammann 
 John C. Pohl 
 Ida Pohl 
 Elizabeth S. Pohl 
 Ida Alay Pohl 
 John C. Pohl, Jr 
 Laura Bowers La Barre 
 Alargaret E. Lavers 
 Emma Gertrude Lavers 
 Lida A. Lavers 
 Earl R. Lavers 
 Flora Alay AlcCarthy 
 Kate Frances Beam 
 Francis B. Luce 
 Alary Catherine Luce 
 Dr. Levi S. Zeiner 
 Catherine Zeiner 
 Levi Weiss Balliet 
 Sadie Grey Titus 
 Jennie Grace Stocker 
 Leila AI. Zeiner 
 John P. Weaver 
 Oscar F. Stecker 
 James S. Downs 
 Lillie F. Downs 
 
98 
 
 Bertha B. Downs 
 Dr. Egbert D^ Doolittle 
 Kate R. Doolittle 
 Mrs. Jasper Wandle 
 Maggie McNeal 
 Chester Graham 
 Arabella Hackett 
 Charles R. Hofif 
 Hannah M. Wagner 
 Clara E. Sinclair 
 Josephine Hunt Mount 
 Sarah A. Crick 
 Sallie May Pope 
 J. Edward Able 
 Robert H. Abernethy 
 Mary Fisler Abernethy 
 Mary M. Abernethy 
 Elizabeth R. Abernethy 
 lyUcy Jackson Pope 
 Henrietta Brakeley 
 Nettie Brakeley 
 
 1896 
 C. E. Vogel 
 Henry V. Smith 
 Abbie C. Smith 
 Julia Merry Bixler 
 Floyd S. Bixler 
 Fannie May Eckert 
 Walter W. Leyrer 
 Emma Leyrer 
 Alice Zehner 
 Amanda Corwin 
 Lilly Corwin 
 George F. Corwin 
 John C. Miller 
 Alice May Hunt 
 Esther D. Bixler 
 W. H. Kuhn 
 Aronetta Kuhn 
 Eliza Bercaw 
 Frank R. Deichman 
 Elizabeth Thompson 
 Minnie O. Minnich 
 Margery A. Campbell 
 
 Carlotta S. Styres 
 Mrs. Annie Wolverton 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Smith 
 Mrs. Mary V. D. Porter 
 Walter B. Hulsizer 
 James M. Porter 
 James F. Kuhn 
 Jennie Arthur 
 Mrs. Annie A. Spear 
 R. Dewitt Hawk 
 Mary Elizabeth Hawk 
 Mrs. Clara Schlessman 
 
 1897 
 Edward Weaver 
 Ella Weaver 
 Mrs. Kate Lee 
 Clarence B. Lee 
 Mrs. Carrie D. Schilling 
 Thomas W. Wiley 
 Harry Wilson 
 Ellen M. Wilson 
 Laura M. Pittenger 
 Samuel Barnet 
 Ethel Nixon 
 Mrs. Agnes Hill 
 Agnes E. Draffin 
 John C. Dittler 
 Laura B. McKenney 
 Mrs. Mary Otto 
 Fred. E. Geiser 
 Mrs. Anna E. McCarty 
 Rita Weaver 
 Mrs. Gertrude K. Vail 
 Mrs. Catherine Vail 
 Lizzie Gollubsky 
 Lsaac N. Voorhies 
 Emma A. H. Voorhies 
 Mrs. Eva Wagner Hull 
 Natalie B. Todd 
 Margaret A. Hazzard 
 Martha W. Hazzard 
 Gertrude Hazzard 
 Victoria C. Hackman 
 Nellie Smith 
 
99 
 
 Abraham K. Gellock 
 John D. Clark 
 Mrs. Florence M. Davis 
 Charles I. Shick 
 Mary E. Shick 
 Sallie R. M. Howell 
 Sue Hunt Howell 
 George M. Weaver 
 Mary B. Weaver 
 Rose Moss 
 Susanna Arnold 
 Dr. J. E. Fretz 
 Harry I. Woods 
 Jennie M. Woods 
 Osiris D. McConnel 
 Miles G. Demorest 
 Celia M. Demorest 
 Thisbe B. Smith 
 
 1898 
 Mrs. J. M. Kiefer 
 Mary McCloughan 
 Mrs. Amelia Rockafellow 
 Kate M. Bitters 
 Mrs. Victoria L. Hackman 
 Mrs. Rebecca Titus 
 Annie Ricker 
 James L. Hill 
 Donald McLean 
 Isabel Dachrodt 
 Jennie O. Engler 
 Mrs. Ellen Haupt 
 Gertrude Seip 
 Ada Seip 
 
 Sallie Emma Leyrer 
 Amelia M. Leyrer 
 Frank E. Miller Nicholas 
 Frank. E. Christman 
 Robert E. Corby 
 Harry L. Bitters 
 John L Madden 
 Hagop Markarian 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton 
 Florence C. Bush 
 Laura J. Harris 
 
 Edward C. Lavers 
 
 Ida R. Luther 
 
 Matilda Wick 
 
 Minnie C. Harris 
 
 Victoria H. Wick 
 
 Elizabeth S. Heil 
 
 Mrs. Minerva S. Howell 
 
 Mrs. Delia M. Tomer 
 
 Emily C. Cressman 
 
 Edna I. Keller 
 
 Roy C. Kutzler 
 
 Lizzie Martin 
 
 Joseph Howell 
 
 Mrs. Mary I. Belcher 
 
 Mrs Jennie C. Mcx'\llister 
 
 Wilfred H. Yeomans 
 
 Minnie Yeomans 
 
 Mrs. Annie C. Snyder 
 
 Mrs. Ida Berkey 
 
 Mrs.. Mary B. Green 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Kocher 
 
 Bessie C. Creveling 
 
 John Semple 
 
 Edwin Young 
 
 Daniel Hayden 
 
 Sheldon Bush 
 
 Mrs. Sheldon Bush 
 
 Mrs. Minnie D. Deal 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Kachline 
 
 1899 
 Mrs. Margaret Zink 
 Kate Zink 
 Howard Sharp 
 Laura H. Sharp 
 Emma Gertrude Lavers 
 E. H. Chidsey 
 Jennie Chidsey 
 Mrs. Anna C. Dewitt 
 Sarah Pollock 
 Mrs. Mary A. Rockafeller 
 Helen George Lee 
 Edith M. Heller 
 Beulah M. Heller 
 Ella K. Kamho 
 
lOO 
 
 Sue M. Rambo 
 John R. Hess 
 Cassimir G. Pollock 
 Bertha Kachline 
 Anna Susan Reed 
 Sara J. McGinley 
 Lewis Souders 
 Russell Souders 
 John J. Hunt, Jr. 
 Norma E. Hazzard 
 Sarah F. Andrews 
 Florence G. Miller 
 Whitfield Barber 
 Mary H. Bachman 
 Katherine Bachman 
 Frances J. Wamsley 
 Lola B. Imlay 
 Sadie May Zulauf 
 Augustus T. Walter 
 William H. Rute 
 Edith E. Engle 
 Mrs Elizabeth Lincoln 
 Mrs. L. C. Davison 
 Thomas Harling 
 Ellen Harling 
 William J. Harling 
 Henry T. Harling 
 Edward B. Harling 
 Mrs. Carrie S. Andrews 
 Miller Raymond Wile 
 Donald Budd Armstrong 
 Elsie M. Cressman 
 Mrs. Caroline Bechmann 
 Robert E. Shaeffer 
 Mrs. Alice B. Hess 
 Ida G. Zulauf 
 Mrs. Mary A. Cooper 
 Ada Smith 
 
 Mrs. Lillie E. Christman 
 Mary Zoe White 
 Florence Cooper 
 Florence May Wetmore 
 Edward R. Lumsden 
 Mrs. Lina M. Lumsden 
 
 W. J. Cromie 
 
 Mrs. Gertrude Cromie 
 
 1900 
 Edith May Evans 
 John Martin White 
 Mrs. Lillian White 
 Nettie Kutzler 
 Anna K. Stewart 
 Edna Gray Titus 
 Mrs. Carrie P. Evans 
 D. HaTlack Day 
 Mrs. Mary S. Day 
 Nellie L Day 
 John H. Wilson 
 Wm. W. Williams 
 Angeline Wampole 
 Josephine Wampole 
 Carrie De Hart 
 Laura De Hart 
 Henry L. Randolph 
 Elsie A. Randolph 
 Lizzie A. Stute 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Reed 
 Bertha A. Aten 
 Mrs. Nettie Warner 
 Mrs. Dora B. Raub 
 Mrs. Margaret S. Frey 
 Mrs. Florence H. Seagreaves 
 Mrs. Mary H. Gibbs 
 Pluma Youndt 
 Anna Nightingale 
 Frances Titus Hayden 
 Edith Bixler 
 Alex. C. Wollmuth 
 Mrs. Mabel C. Wollmuth 
 C. Wollmouth 
 Mrs. Florence E. Shaefer 
 Cornelius Brunner 
 George W. Ruth 
 Sadie May Ruth 
 Mrs. Emma W. Ulmer 
 Alvin C. Werkheiser 
 Jennie A. Campell 
 James Tomer 
 
lOI 
 
 Mrs. Annie R. Davison 
 Mrs. Mary Randolph 
 Nellie Rapp 
 Evan H. Meyer 
 Charles Maddock 
 Mrs. Sarah E. Steckel 
 Anna C. Shawde 
 Alice Hester 
 Ethyl Smith 
 Julya Smith 
 Mildred M. Maddock 
 Amy McNeal 
 1901 
 Jesse R. Lerch 
 Mrs. Emily R. Lerch 
 Mrs. Emily J. Ruth 
 Mrs. Margaret A. Walter 
 Mrs. H. A. Roehner 
 Alice V. Barnes 
 Claudia K. Barnes 
 Grace Christman 
 Estelle Hulshizer 
 Ella Leyrer 
 Edna Louise Pursell 
 George D. Stem 
 Susan E. Steele 
 George D. Rambo 
 Isabelle K. Rambo 
 Milton H. Schmeckly 
 Anna E. Hart 
 Mrs. Caroline M. Rader 
 J. Howard Seal 
 Mrs. J. Howard Seal 
 Jennie L Schmeckly 
 Eliza West 
 Carrie May Bachman 
 C. Granville Rader 
 Eva May Zulauf 
 Beulah F. Stocker 
 Anna F. Ketchledge 
 John S. Ketchledge 
 Frances Sherrerd 
 John M. Sherrerd 
 Mrs. Carrie F. M. Sherrerd 
 
 1902 
 
 George Morris 
 
 Meda Mar Robbins 
 
 Florence Robbins 
 
 Mrs. Anne Hagerty 
 
 Harriet A. Cooley 
 
 George Cooley 
 
 Mrs. Estelle C. Cooley 
 
 Mrs. Alice Rockafellow 
 
 C. Lincoln Free 
 
 Laura May Short 
 
 Flora Day Short 
 
 Mrs. Hannah R. Smith 
 
 Mrs. Margaret R. Roden- 
 
 bough 
 Guy Elbert Lavers 
 Harold Ray Lavers 
 Edgar P. Morrison 
 Mrs. Ada F. LaBarre 
 Mrs. Rita McConachy 
 Jennie Lanterman 
 Charles Bishop 
 Mrs. Charles Bishop 
 Mrs. Nellie V. Aschenmeir 
 Willard R. Fair 
 Frank H. Hazzard 
 Roland Firth, Jr. 
 Elita Miller 
 Mrs. Mame C. Beck 
 Mrs. Rebecca Brittain 
 Mrs. Anna Fritts 
 Mrs. Eleanor K. Wunder 
 Mrs. Annie E. Morris 
 A. H. Stute 
 Mrs. Nellie B. Lehn 
 William V. Berg 
 
 1903 
 Augustus T. Walter 
 M. W. Hottenstein 
 Mrs. Mabel E. Hottenstein 
 Floyd C. Riey 
 Leslie H. Snyder 
 Mrs. Martha Heller 
 Robert T. Hartung 
 
I02 
 
 Margaret B. Beck 
 
 George B. M. Gerspach 
 
 Blanche Segreves 
 
 Charles L. Bryden 
 
 Anna May Bell 
 
 Otto Rother 
 
 Mrs. Charles Gardner 
 
 1904 
 Mrs. Grace Stute 
 Jennie Stute 
 Mrs. Mary Wilson 
 Louise K. Jones 
 Katherine Fulmer 
 Elizabeth Fulmer 
 
 Susan S. Fulmer 
 
 Mabel D. Cline 
 
 C. P. Siegfried 
 
 Sarah J. Siegfried 
 
 Samuel Barnes 
 
 George F. Walter 
 
 Barton J. Brown 
 
 Mrs. Jennie Hazzard 
 
 Salome Marion Hazzard 
 
 Anabel DeR. Runyon 
 
 Robert Quiri 
 
 Sara Jane Runyon 
 
 Anna L. Simons 
 
 Francis G. Saylor 
 
 Helen V. Saylor 
 
 Frederic J. Sartori 
 
 Emma L. Sartori 
 
 Charles A. Quiri 
 
 Georgiana C. Quiri 
 
 Margaret N. Fulton 
 
 Ralph Dodson 
 
 Anna J. Pomp 
 
 Dr. George R. Anderson 
 
 Evelyn Quiri 
 Elizabeth Zulauf 
 Agnes Campbell 
 Camilla T. Vandergrif 
 William B. Jones 
 Mrs. Ellen Morris 
 R. J. Morris 
 
 W. Leon Brown 
 Jonathan D. Craig 
 Anna R. Rambo 
 Emma J. Davis 
 Mrs. Sara F. Bixler 
 Josephine O'Neill 
 Bertram M. Hoover 
 Laura W. Hoover 
 A. Seely Hutchenson 
 Mrs. Mabel J. Taylor 
 Frank A. Hazzard 
 Norma E. Hazzard 
 
 1905 
 Helen M. Heiberger 
 Henry Wysor 
 Lorenzo Heiberger 
 Fannie Heiberger 
 T. A. George 
 Dr. J. J. Quiney 
 Pearl Norton 
 Mrs. Ella George 
 Emma Marsh 
 
 Ezra W. Witter 
 
 Mrs. Emma L. Robbins 
 
 Fannie B. Titus 
 
 Maud L. Segreves 
 
 George A. Depew 
 
 Isabella R. Depew 
 
 John R. Rosenberry 
 
 Ray W'. Dudley 
 
 Martha R. Barnes 
 
 Ellen Haytock 
 
 G. D. Strayer 
 
 Rose Strayer 
 
 Emily J. Petit 
 
 Harold Heiberger 
 
 John Nightingale 
 
 INIargaret B. White 
 
 C. Raymond Kiefer 
 
 Frank H. Irmschler 
 
 W. J. Fulton 
 
 Arabella F. Case 
 
 Emma B. White 
 
 Margaret R. Armstrong 
 
I03 
 
 Charles A. Kolb 
 Mrs. Sydney C. Barber 
 William J. Fetter 
 William Solleck 
 Edward Whitmore, Jr. 
 Jennie M. S. Whitmore 
 Dr. Tyrus E. Swan 
 William Draney 
 Catherine M. Kern 
 Helen Ridgway 
 Mrs. Rebecca Harbison 
 Elizabeth A. Harbison 
 Jessie H. Harbison 
 Mary R. M. Harbison 
 Schuyler A. Niper 
 E. I. Rogers 
 
 1906 
 
 George C. Kolb 
 William Jones, Jr. 
 Mary S. Jones 
 Mrs. J. V. Savercool 
 Sophy Xouri 
 Franklin W. Siegfried 
 George E. L. Kramer 
 Harry E. W. Hayden 
 Emma E. Hayden 
 Andrew Hulshizer 
 Percy E. Mebus 
 Rosa M. Myers 
 Mary Fritts 
 
 Leighton C. Weisenbach 
 Margaret Cooper 
 Gertrude Cooper 
 Alice Collins 
 Minola Wolverton 
 Gladys White 
 Corbet T. Arnold 
 Emily O. Dodd 
 George Sigman 
 Jennie Hefiferman 
 Depue T. Smith 
 Annie E. Smith 
 Emma R. Shape 
 Margaret Shupe 
 
 Grace Shupe 
 Virginia Savercool 
 Fannie H. Kramer 
 Frank T. Rader 
 Mrs. Frank T. Rader 
 Mrs. Charles Gardiner 
 C. S. Gardiner 
 Maud Heath 
 B. L. Laughlin 
 Edward L. Huf 
 Mrs. Maria Atwood 
 Mary Belle Wysor 
 
 1907 
 George E. E. Kramer 
 Fannie H. Kramer 
 Mary F. Eee 
 Isabelle I. Everitt 
 George P. Driesbach 
 Nellie A. Vandergrif 
 Frank M. Vanatta 
 Charles Collins 
 Grace I. Spettigue 
 Horace A. Bealer 
 Mary M. Bealer 
 Elizabeth H. Vanatta 
 Margaret S. Altemus 
 Frederick A. Sherer 
 Mary V. Sherer 
 Helen I. Hamlen 
 J. E. Smith 
 Mrs. J. E. Smith 
 George McCahon 
 E. R. Barnard 
 Ida Kutz 
 
 Rebecca Harbison Millen 
 Marie E. Kidd 
 S. D. Strayer 
 Rose Strayer 
 
 1908 
 J. F. Wilking 
 Mary F. Wilking 
 A. J. Markle 
 Mrs. Minnie Markle 
 Myra J. Williams 
 
I04 
 
 Jennie W. C. Leopold 
 
 Mrs. Clara C. Thomson 
 
 Mrs. Florence C. McCabe 
 
 William Frankenfield 
 
 Mrs. Mehala Frankenfield 
 
 Drake F. Conklin 
 
 Grace H. Conklin 
 
 Mrs. Arabelle Freeman 
 
 Charlotte Abel 
 
 Eva Herbert 
 
 Frederick Herbert 
 
 Helen M. Price 
 
 Rose Smith 
 
 Marjorie Wesley 
 
 Margaret Price 
 
 Wm. Hale Francisco 
 
 Nellie V. Faux 
 
 Lena M. Miller 
 
 Elsworth S. Thompson 
 
 Celeste Thompson 
 
 George Abel 
 
 Mrs. Martha 0. Heller 
 
 ]\Iatilda Larimer 
 
 Mrs. Flora Barron 
 
 Mary E. Leyrer 
 
 Mrs. Emma Carpenter 
 
 Amelia Hoffman 
 
 Christina Simonton 
 
 R. E. Reed 
 
 Samuel P. Reed 
 
 1909 
 Mrs. Carrie V, Smiili 
 Clara E. Zulauf 
 Florence Howell 
 Mrs. Edith A. Feit 
 Mrs. Ethel G. Hess 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Swek 
 Thomas Swek 
 Morris Swek 
 Charles A. Smith 
 i\Irs. Florence E. Shields 
 J. M. Sherrerd, Jr. 
 Henry R. Chidsey 
 George M. Hohl 
 
 Willis K. Jones 
 Ethel A. Feit 
 Margaret P. Jones 
 Gladys T. Jones 
 Edith M. Frankenfield 
 Helen W. Bitters 
 Frances R. Bell 
 Laurabelle Reed 
 Mrs. Martha L VanHorn 
 Mildred L Woodring 
 Elizabeth A. Nightingale 
 Emma Robbins 
 Mrs. Blowdin R. Miller 
 Mrs. Bessie A. Hartwell 
 Albert M. Lane 
 Mrs. Annie Holt 
 Sue E. Holt 
 1910 
 Calugero Amore 
 M. Franc Buongiomo 
 Joseph Califione 
 Bietro Dalano 
 Salvatore Giangiunto 
 Vincent Ribando 
 Libores Scalzadonna 
 Vincent Scalzadonna 
 William Sloan 
 Jennie L. Thomas 
 Mrs. Anna V. Welch 
 Jennie E. Welch 
 Leola B. Welch 
 Harry K. Johnson 
 Henrietta B. Johnson 
 Douglas E. Bixler 
 Mrs. Anna K. Bush 
 Mrs. Ella McKenney 
 Caroline Storm 
 Kenneth M. Bixler 
 Altha D. Bowie 
 Grace E. Bowie 
 William M. Werkheiser 
 Mrs. Anna L- Ruth 
 Russell S. Kramer 
 Meredith M. Petit 
 
I05 
 
 Lester B. Griffith 
 
 
 
 
 Harry ' 
 
 C. Kline 
 
 
 Jennie V. Ruth 
 
 
 
 
 Sedgwick C. Johnson 
 
 
 Bertha E. Roberts 
 
 
 
 
 Sarah E. Tomer 
 
 
 Florence L. Woodring 
 
 
 
 Julia L. 
 
 Hazzard 
 
 
 Carmella Capraro 
 
 
 
 
 Helen Sherrerd 
 
 
 Colugero lacono 
 
 
 
 
 Natalie 
 
 A. Bitters 
 
 
 Sebastian Mamano 
 
 
 
 
 Ella M 
 
 '.. Ballantyne 
 
 
 Mrs. Margaret E. 
 
 McCann 
 
 
 Amelia 
 
 S. Johnson 
 
 
 Joseph Cavallo 
 
 
 
 
 Edna H. Gellock 
 
 
 Dr. Rollo H. Hoey 
 
 
 
 Mary A. Butz 
 
 
 Lila A. Fretz 
 
 
 
 
 Joseph 
 
 lacano 
 
 
 Marguerite W. Fretz 
 
 
 
 William 
 
 T. Foster 
 
 
 Mrs. Jennie K. Quick 
 
 
 
 Henry 
 
 Ballantyne 
 
 
 Laura S. Dickie 
 
 
 
 
 lea Bell 
 
 
 Mrs. Violet Vreeland 
 
 
 
 Calogero Galante 
 
 
 1911 
 
 Jennie M. Howell 
 Carrie M. Howell 
 Lila M. Chidsey 
 Biagio Corriene 
 Antonino Simonette 
 Frances Mammana 
 Rosina Serio 
 Grazia Corriere 
 
 
 
 Salvatore Scalza 
 Angelo Amore 
 Mary Firth Lee 
 Paul Thomas 
 Mabel Barnes 
 Leon C. Wilhelm 
 Lille B. Ballantyne 
 Salvatore Gripa 
 
 Nunzia Gripa 
 
 
 Chas. McKenn Andrews 
 
 
 Stanley 
 
 B. Howell 
 
 
 James C. Johnson 
 
 
 
 
 Marie 
 
 Louise Stark 
 
 
 
 
 Additions. 
 
 
 
 1811 1S21 
 
 to to 
 
 1820 IS30 
 
 1S31 
 
 to 
 
 1840 
 
 1841 
 
 to 
 
 1850 
 
 I85I 
 
 to 
 
 i860 
 
 1861 1871 
 to to 
 
 1870 IS80 
 
 1881 1S91 1901 
 
 to to to 
 
 1890 1900 I9I0 
 
 Totals 
 
 Confession — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Male 17 29 
 
 80 
 
 50 
 
 51 
 
 28 49 
 
 52 92 77 
 
 525 
 
 Female 30 70 
 
 174 
 
 85 
 
 130 
 
 78 96 
 
 99 223 112 
 
 1,097 
 
 Total • • 47 99 
 
 254 
 
 135 
 
 181 
 
 106 145 
 
 151 315 189 
 
 1,622 
 
 Certificate- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Male 10 5 
 
 49 
 
 40 
 
 35 
 
 27 45 
 
 56 84 56 
 
 407 
 
 Female 16 12 
 
 61 
 
 78 
 
 66 
 
 40 81 
 
 105 172 107 
 
 738 
 
 Total 26 17 
 
 no 
 
 118 
 
 Id 
 
 67 126 
 
 161 256 163 
 
 1. 145 
 
 Grand total • • 73 116 
 
 364 
 
 253 
 
 282 
 
 173 271 
 
 312 571 352 
 
 2,767 
 
io6 
 
 Ordained — 
 
 Deaths — 
 
 Male I 
 
 Female 5 
 
 Total . • • 6 
 Dismissions — 
 
 Male o 
 
 Female i 
 
 Total .... I 
 Discipline. 
 
 Male o 
 
 Female o 
 
 Total o 
 
 Grand total • • 7 
 
 IvOSS. 
 
 iSii 
 to 
 1820 
 Infant- 
 Male 54 
 
 Female 40 
 
 Total 94 
 
 Of these after- 
 ward united with 
 the church — 
 
 Male 3 
 
 Female 8 
 
 Total II 
 
 Adult- 
 Male 12 
 
 Female 14 
 
 Total 26 
 
 Grand total — 
 
 Male 66 
 
 Female 54 
 
 Total 120 
 
 Losses. 
 16 I 4 
 
 8 
 20 
 
 29 41 
 
 15 
 25 
 
 19 
 
 40 
 
 20 
 42 
 
 33 
 68 
 
 53 
 
 28 51 62 40 59 62 
 
 75 
 
 17 
 24 
 
 47 56 67 
 72 85 121 
 
 18 
 
 24 
 54 
 
 50 83 56 
 85 169 120 
 
 15 
 30 
 
 39 
 
 18 
 36 
 
 2 
 9 
 II 121 
 
 44 
 77 
 
 34 
 60 
 
 I 12 14 45 119 54 II 121 94 
 
 51 162 222 296 229 194 213 478 347 
 Net Gain. 
 
 66 65 202 31 -14'— 56' 77 99 93 5 
 
 Baptisms. 
 
 1821 1831 1S41 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 
 
 to to to to to to to to to 
 
 1830 1840 1850 i860 1870 1880 1890 1900 I9I0 
 
 61 104 86 85 74 56 51 67 54 
 
 70 139 89 107 62 47 58 65 66 
 
 6 
 17 
 
 7 6 
 18 16 
 
 6 
 16 
 
 9 
 II 
 
 II 5 
 16 17 
 
 7 
 13 
 
 25 
 
 12 
 33 
 
 6 
 15 
 
 27 
 
 9 
 15 
 
 6 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 25 
 
 8 
 II 
 
 45 21 12 15 24 
 
 40 19 
 
 68 116 92 86 81 
 83 182 104 118 70 
 
 65 57 82 
 62 73 90 
 
 62 
 
 77 
 
 38 
 
 166 
 
 327 
 
 531 
 
 418 
 779 
 
 41 119 141 188 66 78 135 252 176 1,197 
 
 167 
 304 
 
 471 
 2,199 
 
 56S 
 
 692 
 
 743 
 
 131 243 175 192 136 103 109 132 120 1,435 
 
 62 
 124 
 
 J 86 
 
 S3 
 160 
 
 243 
 
 775 
 903 
 
 151 288 196 204 151 127 130 172 139 1,678 
 
I07 
 
 Marriages. 
 
 Years Total 
 
 1811-1820 35 
 
 1821-1830 98 
 
 1831-1840 151 
 
 1841-1850 86 
 
 1851-1860 145 
 
 1861-1870 62 
 
 1871-1880 91 
 
 1881-1890 1 15 
 
 1891-1900 77 
 
 1901-1910 88 
 
 Total 048 
 
 Both 
 members 
 
 Man 
 member 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 o 
 
 3 
 5 
 3 
 
 Woman 
 member 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 18 
 
 14 
 16 
 16 
 
 17 
 27 
 
 43 
 
 42 
 
 26 
 
 196 
 
 
 
 
 
 Funerals. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Male 
 
 
 
 Female 
 
 Gra 
 
 nd Total 
 
 Year 
 
 Total 
 
 Members 
 
 Total 
 
 Members 
 
 Total 
 
 Members 
 
 1811-1820.. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 1821-1830.. 
 
 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 1831-1840.. 
 
 7 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 25 
 
 1841-1850.. 
 
 17 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 37 
 
 37 
 
 1851-1860.. 
 
 20 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 36 
 
 36 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 
 1861-1870.. 
 
 II 
 
 
 ir 
 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 32 
 
 32 
 
 1871-1880.. 
 
 77 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 80 
 
 40 
 
 157 
 
 55 
 
 1881-1890.. 
 
 58 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 67 
 
 42 
 
 125 
 
 62 
 
 1891-1900. . 
 
 94 
 
 
 31 
 
 
 128 
 
 7^ 
 
 222 
 
 103 
 
 1901-1910. . 
 
 "3 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 129 
 
 69 
 
 242 
 
 95 
 
 Total 402 
 
 152 
 
 512 
 
 331 
 
 914 
 
 483 
 
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