December 11. The Rev. Al Kershaw officiated in Lindsey Chapel at our first same-sex wedding. Richard Bentley and Grahame Smith were joined in holy matrimony. Byrd Swift was subdeacon and Andrew Castiglione played organ.
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1942
10 August. Our benefactor Priscilla Rawson married Henry Melvin Young in Kent CT. They had known each other since he had attended Kent College there before going to Trinity College, Oxford. Known as Dinghy Young, he had been awarded Britain’s Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar. Killed returning from a 1943 RAF bombing raid on dams in the Ruhr Valley, Squadron Leader Young of was played by Richard Leech in the 1955 movie The Dam Busters. For a more technical description of 617 Squadron’s achievement, see this documentary, which mentions him at about 39 minutes. See also 1909, 1939, 1971, 1973, 1994 & 2000.
1918
Albert Williams Snow replaced Lynnwood Farnum as organist.
January 20. The Anthony Memorial Organ in the West Gallery was dedicated, honoring Silas Reed Anthony (1863-1914), who served as Parish Clerk (1887-1898), Vestryman (1898-1906), and Junior Warden (1906-1914). The organ was a gift of his widow, Harriet Weeks. who later became Mrs. Randolph Frothingham.
March 22. Bishop William Lawrence and Rector Elwood Worcester officiated at the funeral of Andrew Robeson Sargent, who at the age of 42 died in his sleep. After graduating from Harvard College in 1900, he had followed in his father Charles Sprague Sargent‘s footsteps and worked as a landscape architect with his brother-in-law Guy Lowell. His wife Maria de Acosta Sargent, daughter of the writer Mercedes de Acosta, had been painted by his third cousin John Singer Sargent. His mother Mary Robeson Sargent and sisters Henrietta, Molly, and Alice Sargent gave in his memory our hymn boards and the carved doors to leading from our sanctuary to the “Bride’s Lobby”.
See also:
- His letters to his father Charles Sprague Sargent in the archives of the Arnold Arboretum.
- “Andrew Robeson Sargent, Class of 1900.” The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, 1918.
- “Andrew Robeson Sargent Dies.” The New York Times, March 21, 1918.
- “Many Friends Mourn Andrew R. Sargent.” The Boston Daily Globe, March 23, 1918.
August 26. Col. Cranmore Nesmith Wallace, who had served on our vestry from 1896 until his death, died at the age of 74. His widow Eunice Sprague Wallace gave 2 lancets in our sanctuary (#18: Adoration of the Magi) in his memory
November 2. The Churchman (p. 518) reported that the Emmanuel Memorial House was serving as an emergency shelter for children made homeless by the influenza epidemic. Nurses and workers from the Children’s Aid Society and the (Episcopal) Church Home Society were supervising children housed in its “clubrooms” until they could be placed with families by “the usual placing-out services”.
Aimee Rotch Sargent (born 1852) died. She had married at Emmanuel in 1874 Winthrop Henry Sargent (1840-1916). In 1893 she had given funds to create our sanctuary’s reredos in memory of her parents Annie & Benjamin S. Rotch and her siblings Arthur and Edith Rotch.
1917
- President Theodore Roosevelt came to Emmanuel for his son Archie’s wedding. See a Library of Congress clip of their arrival on Newbury Street.
- Emmanuel organist Lynnwood Farnam designed and supervised the installation by Casavant Frères of a 137-stop pipe organ, which was the third-largest in N. America. See also Timeline entry 1918 about its dedication & 2007 about its sale and restoration.
1915
- April 21. Parishioner Leslie Lindsey and Stuart Mason married at Emmanuel. She is pictured below with her father, William Lindsey.
William & Leslie Hawthorne Lindsey on her wedding day at Emmanuel
- May 7. The Lusitania, upon which the newly weds left for the groom’s home in England, was sunk by a German U-boat. For more detail, please see our Lusitania Centennial.
1898
- Henrietta Sargent, daughter of our benefactor Mary Robeson Sargent (1847-1919) and Charles Sprague Sargent, married architect Guy Lowell at Emmanuel. CSS has a botanical legacy in the Professor Sargent camellia, which was released in 1908.
April 19. Francis R. Allen‘s plans were approved and work began on the expansion.
- Florence R. Rhodes rented a cottage on Sandy Pond in Lincoln MA as a summer camp for girls of Church of the Ascension, which was run by Deaconess Henrietta Goodwin and Helen E. Moulton, intern from the NY Training School for Deaconesses.
1888
- 17 November. Walter Cabot Baylies, Harvard Class of 1884, who became senior warden in 1907, married Charlotte (Lottie) Upham of 122 Beacon St., daughter of Emmanuel founder George Phineas and Sarah Sprague Upham. The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks presided at what the Boston Globe called a “brilliant Saturday wedding”, which filled the church with a “large and distinctly fashionable audience.”
1869
- 27 December. Caroline Maria (née Welch) Crowninshield at the age of 45 married at Emmanuel Howard Payson Arnold, a 39-year-old attorney from Cambridge MA. They came to reside nearby at 156 Beacon Street. See also her memorial window.
- Dr. Huntington became the first bishop of Central New York.
- The Rev. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Vinton became our second rector.
For biographical information on Dr. Vinton please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.
See also Timeline 1894.