- Consuming 65 acres downtown, the Great Boston Fire killed 12 firefighters and several dozen residents. On Summer Street it destroyed Trinity Church, which the congregation rebuilt 5 years later on Copley Square, several blocks from Emmanuel. Above is John Adams Whipple‘s panorama of the damage looking east from Washington St. at Bromfield Street.
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Parishioner and founder of Jordan Marsh Co., Eben Dyer Marsh and five others founded the Boston Globe. See also this 1890 biographical sketch by John C. Rand.