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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Main Street, with their grounds adjoining each other, are the elegant mansions of Henry Ward Beecher, the noted clergyman of Brooklyn, and of Moses S. Beach, son of the founder of the New York Smi and at one time its princip…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Drum Hill, on which is located one of the public schools of the village, derives its name from the curi-ous fact that the ground, when trodden or stamped upon in certain places, gives forth a sound as if it were hollow, and …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] First Prf.shyterian Chi im h.— The early history of Presbyterian ism in the town of Cortlandt is in-volved in a good deal of uncertainty. Probably the first Presbyterian minister to hold services within it was the Rev. Samue…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Presbyterian Church at Yorktown was the mother-church of many of the organizations of that faith in its vicinity, and the church in Peekskill was in a degree dependent on it. In the year 180(5 a di-vision arose in the Yo…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Some years after Mr. Brundage's departure the inlluence of a large Congregational element from Connecticut in the chinch gave dissatisfaction to
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Mahala Gilbert, Rebecca Hawes, Maria Jones, Jemi-ma Brown, Sarah Duscuberry, Mary Oakley, Rachel Bnakirk, Ann Bndd and Susan Shaw. Benjamin Illingworth and Daniel Merritt were elected elders. The church, in October of the sa…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1858 another enlargement was made by an extension of thirty feet, which included a lecture-room. The number of members at the close of Dr. Halliday's pastorate, October 20, 1867, was one hundred and
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Rev. John N. Freeman, a student in Princeton Theological Seminary, received and accepted a call to the pastorate, and was installed May 14, 18*58. In 1870 a parsonage was completed immediately oppo-site the church at a c…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The number of members in 1884 was one hundred and fifty-six, and of Sunday-school pupils one hun-dred and forty-eight. The Fikst Methodist Episcqpal Chltrch.1 — George Whitefield, a Calvinistic Methodist, who died in 1770, i…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In his journal occurs the following entry : " Friday, June 15, 1787, I preached to a listening multitude at Peekskill, and was alarming and closeon 'by grace ye are saved through faith.' I thought there were no people here o…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Jonathan Ferris was the leader, and the meetings were held at his house, which is now the cottage on the property of Henry Ward Beecher. An old record shows that Rachel Baden joined the class in 1788, Catharine Osborne in 17…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was forty-five feet front, sixty-five feet deep and twenty-two feet high, and contained a basement underneath the whole. It was repaired and enlarged in 1864 and in 1876. The cost upon the latter oc-casion was over nine t…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1872-73 T. W. Chadwick. 1874-76 B. H. Burch. 1877-79 H. H. Birkius. 1880-82 B. H. Burch. 1883-85 D. II. Hanaburgh. In 1832 the Methodists had no Sunday-school of their own in Peekskill, but a number of members of the denomin…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] superintendent. The board of trustees in 1884 was constituted as follows: William A. Hunt, Isaac Kipp, Isaac J. Baxter, S. D. Horton, George W. Bagley, George W. Robertson, W. Jordan, G. W. Denike. The stewards were William …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Broad Street, between Park and Brown. The church has had numerous pastors, but at present (1884) is without any. The number of members does not ex-ceed twenty-rive. The church is popularly referred to as the " Pond-Lily Chur…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — A society of Bap-tists existed in the town of Cortlandt at a very early date, as would appear from a document bearing date of December 17, 1772, in which Caleb Hall, Sr., Isaac Horton, Sr., Daniel Hall, Richard Williams, N…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The number of original members was ten. The congregation first met in a room hired of Aaron Travis, corner of South and Division Streets, and afterward in an upper room in a house on Divi-sion Street, hired of James Brown. T…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] May, 187d Rev. C. J. Page November, 1875 Rev. V. Osterhout August, 1877 Rev. J. B. Smith, D.D March, 1882 Rev. Charles Coleman February 1,1883 Rev. William I). Hedden Thk Society ok Friends. — An organization of the Society …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] A congregation of Episcopalians was formed in Peeks-kill as early as 1823, under the name of St. Paul's Church. In 1838 the glehe owned jointly hy St. Peter's Church, at Cortlandtville, and St. Philip's Church, of Putnam Cou…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] From 1876 to 1884 the Rev. Henry M. Torbert was assistant minister of the parish. The present officers of the church are as follows: Wardens, Hon. Owen T. Coffin and Calvin Frost; Vestrymen, Thomas Snowden, M.D., James H. Ro…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Under the terms of the consolidation, the pastor of the Verplanck's Church was to preach in the village church part of the time, but all the bap-tisms, marriages and the names of communicants were to be registered at Verplan…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. The number of members in the year 1884 was eighty-four, and of scholars enrolled in the Sunday -school.sixty-seven. Dr. J. B. Gregory is superintendent. The elders are Dr. J. B. Gregory, Samuel…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] in charge until 1873, when Rev. Win. P. Flannelly was appointed pastor. He continued to exercise the office until 1879, when Rev. Michael Callaghan was ap-pointed pastor, with Rev. T. A. McCabe as assistant. The church is a …
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] H< v Mirlincl i'iiIIiikIihh. • On UiU fin ill wit* tlir first landing for IhmCs nt Peekskill. dred and thirty persons. The large boys from the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue, New York, are sent thither and inst…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] lected towards buying back the church, which is valued at twenty-five hundred dollars. The number of members in 1884 was only six, but the average attendance each Sunday was forty or fifty. A rlour-ishinji Sundav-school in a…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 399 which resulted in a junction that was dissolved in a few months. In 1859 three and a half acres of ground were purchased on Drum Hill for fifteen hundred dollars, and a school-house was erected the same year for about se…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] stands in a large lot bounded by Abbey Street on the south, Hadden Street on the west, Paulding Street on the north and Decatur Street on the east. The cost of the lot was six thousand dollars, and of the building, complete,…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was followed in May, 1843, by Albert Wells, who held the position
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Colored Infantry. At the close of the war he was in command at Boonville, N. C, and was unceasing in his efforts to restore order in that section of the country. Receiving an honorable discharge from the army in December, 18…
J. Thomas Scharf (1886)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] terhood of St. Mary is an incorporated society be-longing to the Protestant Episcopal Church, whose members devote themselves to the education of young ladies. They have additional schools at No. 8 East Forty-sixth Street, N…