Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

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Join us for Episcopal worship Sundays at 10:00am.

1896

Posted on February 27, 2013 by InTheEarlyDays

Leighton Parks rejected a call from a Brooklyn parish. The Vestry quickly began work on a larger church, which would add forty pews.
The Ascension Chapter (#1407) of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was organized by the Rev. Edward Atkinson.
Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, 1890, by John Singer Sargent. Credit: WikiCommons

Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and her cousin Minna B. Hall founded the Mass. Audubon Society. For some time they had fought against the slaughter of egrets and other birds for their plumes by organizing women to stop wearing feathered hats.

1893

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Elizabeth Richardson

Anne Bigelow Lawrence Rotch. Portrait by Chester Harding in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Anne Bigelow Lawrence Rotch died. The daughter of Katherine Bigelow and Abbott Lawrence, Annie had married Benjamin S. Rotch in 1846 . Their daughter Aimee (Mrs. Winthrop Henry) Sargent gave our sanctuary’s Rotch reredos in memory of her, her husband, and two of their children, Arthur & Edith. They are buried in a family plot (#3004) on Bellwort Path, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.