- 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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Eben Dyer Jordan (1822-95). Credit: WikiCommons
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.
Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston
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