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A HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH PARISH,
MOUNT WASHINGTON, PITTSBURGH, PA.

PART III

209

CONFIRMATIONS

in

GRACE CHURCH, MOUNT WASHINGTON,
1853-1903,
As RECORDED IN THE PARISH REGISTER.

By the Rt. Rev. Alonza Potter, D. D., Bishop of
Pennsylvania. Rev. Richard Smith, Rector.

                                   September 14, 1854.
Thomas J. Bigham,   Margaret Lowen,   Maria Lowen,   Margaret A. Neely,
Robert Neely,   Ephriam Reese,   Ellen Stubbs   and   Rebecca Wilson.

                                          April 27, 1857.
                        Rev. Charles W. Quick, Rector.
George Chivers,   Olive Chivers,   Barbara Ditmore and   Kate Golding.

By the Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, D. D., Asst. Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Rev. Gustavus W. Mayer, Rector.

                                         August 1, 1862.
Mrs. Phebe A. McMillin,   John C. Shaler, Jr.,   and   Miss Augusta Shaler.

                                           May 17, 1864.
                            Dr. L. H. Harris, Lay Reader.
Joel L. Bigham,   Elizabeth Minsinger,   William Min-inger,   Emily Smith,
David Torrence   and   Mrs. Mary Torrence.
By Rt. Rev. John B. Kerfoot, D. D., First Bishop of Pittsburgh.
Rev. B. B. Killikelly D. D., Rector.

                                     September 30, 1866.
Mrs. Maria Adams,   Mrs. Susan Blanton,   Mrs. Phebe Craig,   Mrs. Mary Jane Campbell,
Mrs. Alice Hibbs,   Mrs. Agnes Hughes,   William Hughes,   Mrs. Sarah Goldthorp,
Julian G. Maddox,   Miss Theresa Shaeffer,   Miss Dorothy Trotter,   and
Mrs. Prudence R. Wilmot.

                                          July 18, 1869.
                         Rev. Robert John Coster, Rector.
Edward Bratt,   Nellie Ruth Bratt,   Miss Mary Lowen Goldthorp,   Miss Kate Goldthorp,
Miss Elizabeth Goldthorp,   Miss Amelia Shaeffer,   Miss Mary Rebecca Torrence,
and   Miss Sarah Ann Torrence.

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                         March 28, 1872—Passion Week, Wednesday, 7:30 P. M.
John C. Davitt,    Mrs. Nellie Davitt,   Miss Sarah Goldthorp,   Miss Anna Maria Jackson,
Miss Margaret Schaeffer,   Miss Mary Storer,   Miss Elizabeth Torrence and
Miss Henrietta Wilson.

                            December 27, 1873—Sunday after Christmas, 3 P. M.
Edward H. Dermitt,   Mrs. Mary Jane Ewens,   Mrs. Eliza A. Goehring,   Miss Lida A. Goehring,
Miss Margaret Goehring,   Mrs. Ann E. Milligan and   Melville L. Stout.

                                  May 31, 1874—Trinity Sunday morning.
Miss Mary Marland,   and   Charles Stein.

                                   March 21, 1875—Palm Sunday, 3 P. M.
Miss Ann Halpin,   Miss Mary Halpin,   Miss Margaret Jane Smith,   Robert Reed Torrence
and   Miss Elizabeth G. Zehfuss.

                              May 7, 1876—Third Sunday after Easter, 3 P. M.
William McKean Kurtz,   Miss Mary A. I. Wilmot,   Miss Prudence Theresa Wilmot
and Miss Annie Zehfuss.

                                                           June 10, 1877.
Miss Dode Goehring,   Miss Agnes Thomas   and   Miss Mary______________.

                                                            June 9, 1878.
A. P. Davis   and   Mrs. A. P. Davis.

                                                              March 2, 1879.
Miss Mary J. Bigham,   Henry James, Sr.,   Miss Fanny Wilmot   and   Miss Mary Zehfuss.

                                      May 9, 1880-Sunday after Ascension, A. M.
Miss Eliza Augusta Bigham,   Miss Minnie Lefferts   and   Mrs. Margaret Douglas Goldthorp.

               By Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D. D., second Bishop of Pittsburgh.
                                         Rev. Robert John Coster, Rector.

                      March 8, 1882—Third Wednesday in Lent, evening prayer.
Herbert Anthony Davis,   Miss Ann Green,   Miss Agnes Washington Hughes,
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Jackson,   Miss Ellen Lee Prosser,   Miss Mary Magdalene Stinson
and Robert Stinson.

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                               April 6, 1884—Palm Sunday, A. M
Thomas F. Ashford, Jr., and Frank Goehring,   Miss Lottie Marland   and
Miss Edith Milligan.

                March 25, 1885—Fifth Wednesday in Lent, at evening prayer.
Thomas Furber,   Miss Mary Elizabeth Kenah,   Miss Elmina McMillin,   Mrs. Lucy D.
Montgomery,   Miss Natalie Schank   and   Miss Edith Smithson.

                             March 21, 1886—Second Sunday in Lent, A. M.
Miss Ida Josephine Armiger,   George Edward List, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Smithson,
Miss Augusta Margaret Shaler,   Miss Edith Amelia Shaler,   Miss Mary Ann Thompson
and   Miss Emma Ann Torrence.

                                 March 27, 1887—Fifth Sunday in Lent, A. M.
Miss Georgina Ashford,   Miss Emily McMillin,   Miss Annie Halpin Hughes,
Edward Conway Shaler,   and   Miss Caroline A. Wilmot.

                            March 25, 1888—Palm Sunday, A. M. Twentieth year
                               of the rectorship of the Rev. Robert John Coster.
Mrs. Mary A. Ashford,   Mrs. Margaret Armiger,   Mrs. Alice Belle Bollman,   Robert Coster Bond,
Frank Speer Brunt,   Harry Lee Brunt,   Miss Nellie Lorena Brunt,   William Hamilton Brunt,
Mrs. Cornelia S. Chamberlain,   Walter Dixon,   Mrs. Selina Florence, Samuel Henry Kenah,
William P. Linhart,   Ernest Whitworth Marland,   Mrs. Margaret H. McKain,
Miss Caroline R. Naysmith,   Mrs. Sarah A. Naysmith,   Miss Isabella B. Naysmith,
Harry W. Neely,   Walter Clark Niven,   Mrs. Jane M. Niven,   Miss Catherine A. Price,
Mrs. Amanda A. Purkey,   Mrs. Lewis C. Purkey,   Lewis C. Purkey,   Edward C. Purkey,
Mrs. Margaret Reed,   Robert Wilson Revelvy,   Harry Gibson Shaler,   Harry Peterson Speer,
William Brunt Speer,   Mrs. Mary Stinson, wife of Robert,   and   Mrs. Mary Ann Storer.

                          May 19, 1889-Fourth Sunday after Easter, 3:30 P.M.
Frank S. Bond,   Mrs. William P. Linhart   and   Mrs. Clara Montreville.

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                                April 6, 1890—Easter Sunday evening.
Nellie Olive Ashford,   Maude Gertrude Burrows,   Miss Clara Ann Bowman,
John Cooper Bindley,   John Boyce,   Miss Helena Marie Dermitt,   Miss Matilda Sophia Henkler,
Miss Sadie Belle Linhart,   William Naysmith,   Miss Catherine Needham,   George Eynon Reed,
Orin W. Sadler, M. D.,   Miss Verona Jane Taylor Wilmot and   Miss Ida May Zehfuss.

                                 April 12, 1891—Second Sunday after Easter.
Miss Anna Brokaw Armiger,   Miss Sarah Harris Armstrong,   John Charles Herbert,
James Lewis McKain,   Miss Mabel Ruth Miller,   Robert George Naysmith,
Miss Maude Amelia Robertson, Miss Mabel Reta Stevens,   Miss Minnie Blanche White
and William Jay White.

                                       April 3, 1892—Fifth Sunday in Lent, P. M.
Miss Mary Florence Ashford,   Miss Cornelia Augusta Bowman,   Miss Emma May Heinrich,
William Kirkland Hughes,   Miss Josephine Ellen Needham,   Miss Elizabeth Torrence,
Robert Torrence,   Oscar Brashear Torrence   and   Miss Mary Alice Whaley.

                                   March 15, 1893—Fifth Wednesday in Lent, P. M.
Harry Butterfield,   Edward John Gould,   Albert Heinrich,   Samuel Marlow Pare,
Miss Harriett Reed   and   Miss Rachel Louise Wait.

                                             March 18, 1894--Palm Sunday, P. M.
Miss Margaret Elise Altstadt,   Miss Elizabeth Carter, George B. McClellan Hannam,
Mrs. Matilda Sophia Hannam,   Christ John Fred. Heinrich,   Miss Geraldine Annie Howes,
William Boisol Kenah,   Albert George Lowe,   Miss Harriett Elizabeth Lowe,
John Johnson Lowe,   Mildred Lee Phillips,   William Denning Shaler   and
Robert Clinton Woods.

                                            April 7, 1895—Palm Sunday, 7:30 P. M.
Agnes Chambers,   Lillian Goldthrop Dermitt,   Selina Alicia Florence,   Sadie Glaze,
Maude Amanda Hannam,   Jeannette R. Lewis McKain,   Agnes McRae,   Alberta Martel,
Annie Woods, Lynn Morris Thompson,    Stanley Fitton Wilmot,   William James Woods   and
Edward Minsinger Zehfuss.

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                       April 3, 1896—Good Friday, 7:30 o'clock, P. M.
Joseph Eichbaum Ashford,   Thomas James Bigham,   James Edgar Flinn,
Roland Lee Goldthorp,   Frederick Hugh Groves,   George Abraham Johnson,
Joseph NagIee Reeves,   George Frank Slocum,   William Kerr Thompson,   Catherine Flinn,
Fanny Charlotte Mason,   Mabel Lotus McCormick,   Florence Elizabeth Sellars   and
Clara Vincent Small.
The Bishop preached on the Atonement. No processional hymn, and no singing in the
service, except Hymn No. 100 before the sermon and No. 501 before the confirmation, and
the recessional, "Guide me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah."

                          April 4, 1897—Fifth Sunday in Lent, 4 P. M.
Samuel Harper Howarth,   Harry Minnus McCombe,   Harry Chesney M. McDonald,
Howard Floyd Small,    Catherine Francis Alstadt,   Alice Julia Silence Gould,
Matilda Eva Heinrich,   Caroline May Howarth,   Lillian Martel,   Harriett Deborah McCormick,
Edith Loretta Minsinger,   Sarah Caroline Minsinger,   and   Florence Emma Moyer.
   Music by the vested choir of 16 boys and 3 men, with Mr. W. H. Sweitzer at the organ. Solo
sung by Mr. Reed, of Trinity Church choir, during the offertory.

                   April 24, 1898—Second Sunday after Easter, 7:30 P. M.
Clarence George Brush,   Charles Wilmot Coward,   James Stewart Florence,
William Hoppman,   Harry James,   Wilfred Drabbel Lowe,   Albert Coster Turbett,
George Hobday Wilmot,   Edna Kane Cartwright,   Prudence Rebecca Coward,
Ella Margarite McKain,   Esther M. Moyer,   Florence Martha Schmidt,   Alice T. Torrence
and   Nellie Torrence.
   The rector read the service and the Bishop preached the sermon. Music by the vested choir,
with William H. Sweitzer at the organ.

                            March 26, 1899—Palm Sunday, at 3 P. M.
Annie Lenora Ashford,   Elizabeth Alice Purkey,   Florence Elizabeth Thorn   and
Charles Francis Adams Ritchie.
   Music by the vested choir. Solo sung during the offertory by George Howarth.

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                       March 11, 1900—Second Sunday in Lent, 3:30 P. M.
Harry Anderson,   William Alfred Bowman,   Albert Glaze,   William Thomas Higginson,
Ralph Reed Lewis, Joseph Niell, William,   John Niell,   Mary Ann Barnes,   Anna Gibson,
Mary Jane Gibson,   Margaret, Winifred Kemp   and   Viola Sarah Voigt.
    Music by vested choir of 6 boys and 6 men, with Henry W. Clark at the organ.

                            March 24, 1901-Fifth Sunday in Lent, 4 P. M.
Salina Beatrice Boyce,   Inez May Douthitt, Caro line May Flinn,   Charlotte Sophia Heinrich,
Alice Eden Kemp,   Alma Lillian Moyer,   Louise Helen Schmidt,   Maria Louise Stout   and
Mary Della Towse.
    The rector read the service and the Bishop preached the sermon. Music by the vested
choir of 6 men and 12 women. Solo sung by Mrs. T. J. Bigham during the offertory,
Henry W. Clark presiding at the organ.

                          March 9, 1902—Fourth Sunday in Lent, 3:30 P. M.
Frederick Bradley,   George Minsinger Howarth,   James Whitehead,   Mary Isabella Bowman,
Patience Virginia Brush,   Isabella Herbert Coward,   Violet Irene Coward,   Olive Virginia Mason,
Edith Elizabeth Minsinger,   Mary Blanche Minsinger,   Helen Stinson Neely, Nellie Niell
and Annie Whitehead.
    The Bishop read the lessons and prayers and preached. Music by vested choir. Solo sung by
Miss Eggers, with Henry W. Clark at the organ.

                           March 29, 1903—Fifth Sunday in Lent, 3:30 P. M.
Alice Stinson Ashford,    Margaret Blackmore Ashford,   Lillian Helen Boyce,   Gladys Elizabeth Crum,
Ethel Alice Gibson,   Lydia Clara Gilbert,   Mrs. Ida May Heinrich,   Edith Cameron Lowe,
Blanche Olivet Minsinger; Ada Wilhelmina Zehfuss,   Gertrude Matilda Zehfuss   and
Thomas George Purkey.
    The rector said evening prayer, Thomas J. Bigham reading the lessons. The Bishop addressed
the class. No sermon. Music by the vested choir of 5 men and 8 women, with Frederick W. Hall
at the organ.

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MARRIAGES
of
PARISHIONERS OF GRACE CHURCH,
MOUNT WASHINGTON, PITTSBURGH, 1860-1903.

The Parish Register does not contain any record of marriages prior to the year 1860.

                        July 4, 1860.
JEREMIAH JONES and CHARLOTTE JOYCE,
in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock A. M., by the Rev. Jubal Hodges, in the presence of the congregation.

                       April 14, 1867.
MELCHIOR VERNER and MATILDA C. McCLURG,
in Grace Church, at noon, by the Rev. B. B. Killikelly, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bigham
and others.

                         May 3, 1867.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL and MARY JANE KING,
at the residence of Thomas J. Bigham, Woodlawn, Mount Washington, by the Rev. B. B. Killikelly, D. D.,
rector, in the presence of the family and the vestry of Grace Church.

                     November 4, 1869.
JOHN C. SHALER, JR., son of John Conway Shaler, of Duquesne Heights, and grandson of
Judge Charles Shaler, of Pittsburgh, and ELLEN RUTH BRATT, daughter of Squire Edward Bratt,
in Grace Church, at 11 o'clock A. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of the
parents of the bride and groom and a large gathering of their friends.

                       October 5, 1871.
THOMAS W. STEELE and MARY GOLDTHORP,
daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah Lowen Goldthorp, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, at the
residence of the bride's parents, Wyoming street, near Sycamore, in the presence of her
father's family, her grandfather's (George Lowen's) family and other friends.

                     February 22, 1872.
ADAM A. MILLIGAN and NANNIE GOEHRING,
daughter of Charles Goehring, by the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, at 9 o'clock P. M., at the residence
of the bride's parents, Grandview avenue, near Stanwix street, in the presence of the family and
a large number of friends.

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                                 June 18, 1874.
EDWARD H. DERMITT and KATE GOLDTHORP,
daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah Lowen Goldthorp, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Joshua Goldthorp, brother of the bride,
and Sarah Dermitt, sister of the groom, witnesses of the marriage, and a large congregation
of the friends of the two families.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the rector, in behalf of the congregation, with a few words
of congratulation, presented to the bride and groom a handsome family Bible, as a token of their
love and good wishes and as an acknowledgment of the faithful and valuable services of both of
them as members of the choir of Grace Church.

                                 October 26, 1875.
JOHN BINDLEY and EMELINE HOUSTON,
daughter of Edward and Mary Houston, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman
Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 9:30 P. M., in the presence of Messrs. Edwin
and Albion Bindley, brothers of the groom, and Messrs. Edward F. and Charles W. Houston, brothers
of the bride, Mrs. Charles S. Black and a number of others.

                                   March 28, 1877.
TOM THOMAS EWENS and MARY ELIZABETH DAVIS,
by the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street,
at 8:30 P. M., in the presence of George Glass and Violet H. Swem, as witnesses.

                              September 27, 1877.
JOHN KINNEY and SARAH SMITH, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Marland by her first marriage, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of Mr, Alfred Marland, Southern avenue, the home of the bride,
at 8:30 P. M., in the presence of the family and a company of friends.

                                 October 25, 1877.
DAVID HENRY SMITH and ELIZABETH GRACE ZEHFUSS,
by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of
Mrs. E. H. Dermitt and the congregation.

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                                            November 13, 1879.
DAVID SMITH and EMMA PHILLISHODDY,
daughter of Dr. Phillishoddy, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M.,
in the presence of the congregation, friends of the bride and groom.

                                             January 27, 1880.
GEORGE ALFRED GLAZE and EMMA JAMES, daughter of Henry and Ann James, of Bigham street,
by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Penn avenue and
Fourth street, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Miss Amy Glaze and Mrs. R. J. Coster, as witnesses.

                                                April 13, 1880.
JOHN OAKLEY and IMOGEN BRASHEAR, by the Rev. R. J. Coster and Bishop Kerfoot,
in St. Andrew's Church, Pittsburgh, at 7:30 P. M., in the presence of a large congregation.

                                                April 28, 1880.
JAMES BENNETT BOGGS, son of the late Samuel Boggs, of Boggs avenue, and SARAH GOLDTHORP,
daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah Lowen Goldthorp, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence
of the bride's parents, Wyoming street, near Sycamore, at 1 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Lincoln Boggs,
brother of the groom, and Miss Julia Jenkins, as witnesses, and a large company of friends of the two families.
   The rector and his wife offered hearty congratulations to the young couple—to the bride as a loved graduate
of the Bishop Bowman Institute, and to the groom as an honored friend whom they had known from childhood.

                                           September 1, 1880.
CYRUS M. ROBINSON and LIDA ANN GOEHRING, daughter of Charles and Eliza A. Goehring, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 4:30 P. M.,
in the presence of the rector's family.

                                             November 8, 1880.
JOHN WILLIAM COWARD and MARY ANN WILMOT, daughter of George and Prudence R. Wilmot, by the
rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Prudence
Wilmot, sister of the bride, and William Krauslever, as witnesses.

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                                          March 25, 1881.
ALFRED MARLAND and SARAH SMITH, at their residence, Southern avenue, at 6 P. M., with
Kirk Q. Bigham as witness.

                                            April 19, 1881.
ROBERT REED TORRENCE and EMMA ANN COMAR, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 4 o'clock P. M., in the
presence of the rector's family.

                                         December 25, 1883.
CHARLES WALTER, JR., and MINNIE LEFFERTS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Lefferts,
by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of the bride's parents, Virginia Avenue, near
Bertha Street, in the presence of the parents of the bride and groom and a company of friends
of the two families.

                                             August 30, 1884.
WILLIAM HENRY JAMES and MARY ELIZABETH COSTELLO, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
at the Bishop Bowman Institute corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the
presence of Margaret Brown and Mrs. R. J. Coster, as witnesses.

                                             October 9, 1884.
ANDREW CUTHBERT and MRS. ANNA BELLE HAHN, at the residence of William Hamilton,
17 Lincoln avenue, Allegheny, at 8 P. M., in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton and
other friends.

                                             December 4, 1884.
EDWIN BINDLEY and MARY JANE MUSGROVE, daughter of James Musgrove, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of the bride's father, corner of Fifth and Aiken avenues, at
8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Mr. Musgrove and family and a company of friends.

                                                 April 7, 1885.
MELVILLE L. STOUT and MARY A. BIGHAM, daughter of Mrs. Maria L, and the late Thomas J. Bigham,
by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at Woodlawn, the residence of the bride's mother, Thirty-second
Ward, Mount Washington, in the presence of Kirk G. Bigham, the brother, and Eliza Bigham, the sister
of the bride, and Harry Stout, the brother of the groom, as witnesses.

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                                   January 19, 1886.
WILLIAM ANDERSON REESE and SARAH ISABELLA BOND, daughter of William L. and Anna M. Bond,
by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of the bride's parents, corner of Virginia avenue
and Oneida street, Duquesne Heights, in the evening, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Bond and
Benjamin Reese, brother of the groom, and a large company of friends.

                                      June 10, 1886.
CHARLES WILLIAM WEYGAND and HANNAH IRENE ROBINSON, daughter of James and
Mary A. Robinson, by the rector, the Rev. Robert J. Coster, at the bride's residence, Cowan street,
at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of the family and a number of friends of the bride and groom.

                                     October 7, 1886.
JOHN STANFORD TRUNICK and MARY BAILEY, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop
Bowman Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of
John Lewis and Fanny Cosgrove, as witnesses.

                                       July 11, 1887.
JAMES ROBINSON and MINNIE GOOD, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman
Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, in the presence of Charles C. Coster, son of the
rector, and George Jones, as witnesses.

                                   October 13, 1887.
ROBERT STINSON and MARY E. C. M. WILBERT, daughter of John Wilbert, by the rector, the
Rev. R. J. Coster, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of Oliver Stinson and
Stanley Neely, as witnesses, and a congregation of their friends.

                                      April 26, 1888.
MORRIS DALLETT and MARGARET B. MILLARD, by th Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of
Miss Mary Mc Clurg, South Thirty-third and Carson streets, city, in the presence of Miss Mary McClurg,
Mrs. Verner and Mrs. John B. Dunlevy, as witnesses.

                                   September 6, 1888.
HARRY W. NEELY and MARY MAGDALENE STINSON, daughter of Mrs. Ann Stinson, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., the presence of Alfred Auchinbaugh and
Sarah Halpin, cousins of the bride, as witnesses, and a congregation of friends.

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The ceremony was followed by a large reception at the bride's home, on Bailey avenue, where
the young couple received the congratulations of their numerous friends.

                                      September 13, 1888.
JACOB LICKEL and FRANCIS R. WILMOT, daughter of George and Prudence Wilmot, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of
Prudence Wilmot, sister of the bride, and the rector's wife.

                                          February 9, 1889.
STEPHEN LEEDHAM and MARY ANN HARRISON, by the rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the
residence of Edward Palmer, Southern avenue, at 6 o'clock P. M., Edward and Ann A. Palmer and
Archibald and Mary J. Kennedy being witnesses.

                                             June 5, 1889.
ALBION BINDLEY and SARAH L. SLOCUM, sister of Mrs. Dr. 0. W. Sadler, by the rector, the
Rev. R. J. Coster, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of a large congregation.
Adelaide Bindley, Edwin Bindley and Albion B. McMillin, the young niece and nephews of the groom,
and Lucy Sadler, the young niece of the bride, led the bridal procession and acted as witnesses of
the marriage.
After the ceremony a reception was held at Dr. 0. W. Sadler's, where the bride and groom received
the congratulations of their large circle of friends.

                                          January 30, 1890.
STANLEY L. NEELY and ELLA A. HARPER, daughter of the late Maj. Samuel Harper, by the rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Helen Harper, Grandview avenue,
at 8:30 P. M., in the presence of a large company of friends, Edwin Smith, a cousin of the bride, and
John Davies acting as witnesses.

                                           June 10, 1890.
JOHN CHARLES HERBERT and PRUDENCE T. WILMOT, daughter of George and Prudence R. Wilmot,
at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 1 o'clock P. M., by the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of the rector's family.

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                                             November 11, 1890.
JOHN MARLAND SMITH, son of Mrs. Alfred Marland by her first marriage, and AGNES E. DILWORTH,
daughter of Mr. Dilworth, of Beaver Falls, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, at the Bishop Bowman
Institute, at 4:30 P. M., in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Martell, brother-in-law and sister of the
groom, and Mr. and Mrs. Dilworth, parents of the bride.

                                                 March 25, 1891.
FRANK W. GORDON and CARRIE A. BOOTH, daughter of James J. Booth, at the residence of the
bride's parents,corner of Boquet and Wilmot streets, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, at 8 P. M., in the
presence of Mr. and Mrs. Booth and a company of friends of the bride and groom.

                                                   June 10, 1891.
PHILLIP KELLER and ELIZABETH McNALLY, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Penn
avenue and Fourth street, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, at 8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of
Thomas D. Keller, Rebecca W. L. Dalzell and the rector's family.

                                                    June 25, 1891.
OLIVER HALPIN STINSON and ANNA MARGUERITE HOSBACH, daughter of Mrs. Hosbach, of
Hazelwood, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M., by the Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D. D.,
Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, in the presence of Messrs. James Littell, Thomas F. Ashford, Jr.,
William Halpin, Jr., John Armstrong and John Johnston, as witnesses, and a large congregation.
In the absence of the rector the Bishop officiated; the vested choir, under Mr. D. D. Ezechiels organist,
rendered the music for the occasion, making this the first choral wedding, as well as one of the most
intereresting, ever held in the church.

                                                September 9, 1891.
WILLIAM H. MOFFAT and MAY J. HOPKINS, at the residence of the bride's brother, J. W. Hopkins,
Southern avenue, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins and
Miss Briggs.

                                                   October 8, 1891.
THOMAS F. ASHFORD, JR., eldest son of Thomas F. Ashford, Sr., of Virginia street, and HARRIETT J. BERRY,
daughter of Daniel Berry, of Wyoming street, in Grace Church, at 12 o'clock M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster,
rector, in the presence of Mr. George King, the parents of the bride and groom and a large congregation
of the friends of the two families.

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                                               October 29, 1891.
SAMUEL WASHBURNE HARPER, eldest son of the late Maj. Samuel Harper, and IGNATIA MARLAND,
second daughter of the Hon. Alfred Marland, in Grace Church, at 7:30 P. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster,
in the presence of Miss Charlotte Marland, the sister of the bride, Mrs. Lindsay and a large congregation.
After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Mr. Alfred Marland, Southern avenue,
where the young couple received the congratulations of their numerous friends.

                                               October 18, 1892.
WILLIAM H. NEWMEYER and ISABELLA B. NAYSMITH, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of
Penn avenue and Fourth street, at 3 o'clock P. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of
Miss Ida Armiger, the Misses Naysmith, sisters of the bride, and the rector's wife.

                                              December 28, 1892.
LEONARD RAU and AGNES W. HUGHES, daughter of Mrs. Annie Hughes, widow of the late
William Hughes, at the residence of the bride's mother, corner of Norton and Cowan streets, by the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of Mr. S. J. Creighton, Miss Annie Hughes, sister of the bride,
Mrs. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Rau, parents of the groom, and a large company of the friends of the young couple.

                                                  February 7, 1893.
THOMAS GOLDING BOND, eldest son of William L. Bond, and VIRGINIA LOWEN, eldest daughter of
John Lowen and granddaughter of the late George Lowen, one of the first vestrymen of Grace Church, at the
home of the bride's parents, Union Township, Allegheny County, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, at
8 o'clock P. M., in the presence of the bride's father and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Bond, parents of the
groom, and a large company of others, who after the ceremony offered their congratulations to the young couple.

                                                      April 25, 1893.
JAMES H. HAMNETT, of Wilkinsburg, and SARAH GOLDTHORP HALPIN, third daughter of William and
Maria Cowen Halpin, at the residence of the bride's parents, Virginia and Stanwix streets, by the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, at 7 o'clock P.M., in the presence of William Singer, William and Mary Halpin,
brother and sister of the bride, the parents of the bride and groom, and a number of others, relatives and
friends.
The young couple received the hearty congratulations of their friends and many handsome presents as
tokens of their love and best wishes.

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                                    January 4, 1894.
SAMUEL MARLOW PARE, son of William Pare and grandson of John Pare, and CATHERINE ANN PRICE,
daughter of John Price, at the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Penn avenue and Fourth street, at
3 o'clock P. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, in the presence of Caroline B. Naysmith and
William Naysmith, cousins of the groom.

                                      June 14, 1894.
ALLAN BEHAM ANGNEY and IDA SOPHIE REINEMAN, daughter of George Reineman, at the residence
of the bride's father, Troy Hill, Allegheny, at 6 P. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster, in the presence of the family
and a number of friends.

                                        April 2, 1895.
GEORGE WILLIAM DOVER, of Providence, Rhode Island, and MABEL OGARETA STEVENS, of Pittsburgh,
at the residence of William C. Stevens, the bride's father, 1107 Grandview avenue, by the bride's rector,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, in the presence of William C. Stevens, Delmar A. Stevens, Edna Johnson and a
number other friends.

                                     October 10, 1895.
ELMER ELLSWORTH BROSUIS and IRENE GERTRUDE WATSON, at the residence of the bride's family,
234 Washington street, Allegheny, Pa. Witnesses: Grace F. Watson, George W. Watson and Jessie A. Spence.
(License No. 1375, Series C.)

                                           May 6, 1896.
GEORGE FRANCIS SLOCUM and ARDELLA ARMSTRONG, in Grace Church, at 8 o'clock P. M.
Harry Shaler and Sarah Armstrong, sister of the bride, witnesses.
The choir of Trinity Church, with Walter E. Hall at the organ, furnished the music for the occasion.
(License No. 4902, Series C.)

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                                              June 10, 1896.
JAMES STILL McKEAN, of Pittsburgh, and ATHALIA HUDSON DALY, daughter of Thomas L. Daly,
of Belle Vernon, Pa., in Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, at 12 o'clock M., the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating,
assisted by the Rev. A. W. Arundel, D. D., rector of Trinity Church.
                                          September 8, 1896.
JAMES RUSSELL DODWORTH, of Allegheny, and MARY ELIZABETH KENAH, daughter of William L. and
Mary Kenah, of Bigham street, Thirty-second Ward, city, at the residence of the bride's parents.
Witnesses: William L. Kenah, Samuel Kenah and others.
(License No. 7077, Series C.)

                                                June 9, 1897.
GEORGE RUSSELL DAVIES, of Pittsburgh, and ETHEL MAY BOOTH, daughter of James J. Booth,
of Boquet street, city, in the parlor of the Bishop Bowman Institute, corner of Fifth evenue and
Dithridge street, at 8 P. M. Witnesses: Blanche Booth, sister of the bride, and Mrs. R. J. Coster, wife
of the officiating clergyman.
(License No. 11441, Series C.)

                                                June 16, 1897.
HENRY HEPBURN ANDERSON, a Scotchman by birth, and CAROLINE DAVIS, daughter of George Davis,
late of England, at the residence of the bride's father, Augusta street, Duquesne Heights, city,
at 6:30 P. M. Witnesses: The bride's father and Mr. and Mrs. George, of Pittsburgh.
(License No. 11608, Series C.)

                                            Same day, at 8 P. M.
JOHN L. RHODES MILLER, of Pittsburgh, and GEORGIANA ASHFORD, daughter of Thomas F. Ashford, Sr.,
at the residence of the bride's father, Bailey avenue, near Ruth Street, in the presence of the bride's family
and a large number of friends.
(License No. 11610, Series C.

                                                 July 22, 1897.
CLARENCE LINCOLN COOPER, of Allegheny, and EMMA VIRGINIA SCHMID, daughter of Prof. Francis Schmid,
at the residence of the bride's family, No. 6 Stockton avenue, Allegheny, Pa., in the presence of
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schmid and a company of friends.
(License No. 12197, Series C.)

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                                        October 21, 1897.
CHARLES GORVIN, of Kansas, and AGNES D. THOMPSON, daughter of the late Mrs. Mary Thompson,
of Wyoming street, Thirty-second Ward, and grandaughter of the late Squire Edward Bratt, at the
bride's residence, Wyoming street. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shaler, Harry G. Shaler and
Mrs. Emma Millingar, an aunt of the bride.
(License No. 13669, Series C.)

                                       February 10, 1898.
CHARLES H. DURHAM, of Pittsburgh, and EDITH AMELIA SHALER, daughter of Clarence ShALELR and
granddaughter of the late Judge Charles Shaler, in Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, at 5:30 P. M. presence
of Augusta Shaler, sister of the bride, Mr. Edwin G. Stout and other friends.
(License No. 15394, Series C.)

                                           June 21, 1898.
ALEXANDER ABBOTT and ELLEN JESSON, at the residence of Miss Mary Taylor, Shiloh street, near
Sycamore, Thirty-second Ward, city. Witnesses: Mary Taylor and Mrs. Palmer.
(License No. 17632, Series C.)

                                           July 20, 1898.
SAMUEL JAMES CREIGHTON, of Pittsburgh, ANNIE HALPIN HUGHES, daughter of Mrs. William Hughes,
at the bride's home, 87 Natchez street. Witnesses: Andrew, William and Margaret Hughes.
(License No. 18175, Series C.)

                                         October 5, 1898.
EDWARD STANLEY CORLETT, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and MARY MINERVA WAGGONER, daughter of
Andrew C. Waggoner, at the bride's residence, Grandview avenue, near Merrimac street, Thirty-second
at 7 o'clock P. M., in the presence of the family and the witnesses, Mr.________ Pierson and Miss________ Soffel.
(License No. 19389, Series C.)

                                        October 6, 1898.
HENRY FRANKLIN WIRTZ and MARY MARGARITE IRVING, in the parlor of the Bishop Bowman Institute,
4504 Fifth avenue, at 8 P. M. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Irving, the bride's brother and his wife.
(License No. 19456, Series C.)

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                                        December 1, 1898.
JEPTHA NEWKIRK, of Pittsburgh, and MARY DAVAGE ROWAND, daughter of A. T. Rowand, of this city,
at the bride's residence, 918 Ivy street, at 6 P. M. Witnesses: A. T. Rowand, Jr., and Lucy Rowand.
(License No. 20538, Series C.)

                                          January 24, 1899.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS RITCHIE, of Pittsburgh, and HARRIETT ELIZABETH LOWE, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Lowe, of Plymouth street, Duquesne Heights, in the parlor of the
Bishop Bowman Institute, No. 4504 Fifth avenue, at 1:30 P. M. Witnesses: Mrs. John J. Lowe,
Mrs. R. J. Coster and Miss________ Dermitt.
(License No. 21380, Series C.)

                                             June 27, 1899.
JAMES WHITEHEAD, of Pittsburgh, and ANNIE FLAHERTY, of the same place, in the parlor of the Bishop
Bowman Institute, No. 4504 Fifth avenue, at 7:30 P. M. Witnesses: Benjamin Reithel and Annie Orshman.
(License No. 24181, Series C.)

                                               July 11, 1899.
THOMAS JAMES BIGHAM, son of the late Joel L. and Sarah Bigham and grandson of the late Thomas J.
and Maria L. Bigham, and IDA NEWELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newell, of Virginia avenue,
Thirty-second Ward, in Grace Church, at 10:30 A. M., in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newell,
Kirk Q. Bigham, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Stout and others.
(License No. 24502, Series C.)

                                                July 12, 1899.
FRANK SKIDAMORE BOND, son of William L. and Annie M. Bond, of Virginia avenue, Duquesne Heights
and CORNELIA A. BOWMAN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bowman, of Maple Terrace, Stanwix street;
at the residence of the bride's parents, at 8 o'clock P. M. Witnesses, Robert C. Bond, John Bowman
and Harry Speer.
(License No. 24549, Series C.)

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                                        September 5, 1900.
GEORGE LUDWIG KING, son of GeorgeKing, of South Side, Pittsburgh, and NELLIE OLIVE ASHFORD,
daughter of Thomas F. and Mary Ashford, of Bailey avenue, in St. Peter's Church, Grant and Diamond streets,
Pittsburgh, at 6 P. M. Witnesses: William Shafer and Mary Ashford, a sister of the bride; the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D.,
officiating, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Ward, the rector of St. Peter's.
(License No. 8148, Series D.)

                                   On the same day at 8 P. M.:
ROBERT COSTER BOND, third son of William L. and Annie M. Bond, of Virginia avenue, Duquesne Heights,
and HARRIETT ELIZABETH A. BOWMAN, daughter of Joseph Bowman, of Maple Terrace, Stanwix street,
at the residence of the bride's parents, in the presence of the family and the witnesses, Mr. James M. Stone
and Miss May Neely.
(License No. 8133, Series D.)

                                          February 12, 1901.
SAMUEL WILSON DYER, of Pittsburgh, and CAROLINE MINSINGER HOWARTH, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Howarth, of Prospect street, Thirty-second Ward, at the residence of the bride's parents,
8 o'clock P. M. Witnesses: Mr. Hall and Miss Shilling.
(License No. 11971, Series D.)

                                                May 2, 1901.
BENJAMIN CLIBBENS and EMILY H. SMITH, at No. 239 Alpine avenue, Allegheny, Pa., at 3 o'clock P. M.
Witness: Edward Purkey.
(License No. 13557, Series D.)

                                                June 6, 1901.
CHARLES G. JEFFERY, of Pittsburgh, and SARAH H. ARMSTRONG, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Armstrong,
of Penn and Braddock avenues, at the home of the bride's mother, at 7 o'clock P. M. Witnesses: Miss Elberty,
Harry Jeffery and the family.

                                               August 14, 1901.
WILLIAM JOHN WHITE, of Pittsburgh, and CARRIE KENNEDY HAWK, at the bride's residence,
No. 6823 MacPherson street, at 7 o'clock P. M.
(License No. 15976, Series D.)

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                                         December 24, 1901.
JOHN JACKSON O'LEARY, of Ridge avenue, Allegheny, a broker by occupation, and ALBERTA HORTENSE LARE,
daughter of Edwin Lare, of Washington street, Allegheny, at the residence of the bride's family, at 7 o'clock P. M.
(License No. 19352, Series D.)

                                           January 27, 1902.
FLUELLEN L. FLUKER (colored) and FLORENCE LOWE (colored) at the residence of the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D.,
1064 Shady Avenue, at 9 o'clock P. M. Witnesses: Mrs. R. J. Coster and Mr. and Mrs. Burnett.
(License No. 20201, Series D.)

                                            February 5, 1902.
JOHN G. McCASKEY, a merchandise broker of Pittsburgh, and MARY F. ASHFORD, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Ashford, of Bailey avenue, at the residence of the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., No. 1064 Shady avenue,
at 3 P. M. Witnesses: Mrs. Mary Ashford, mother of the bride, and Mr. William McCaskey, brother of the groom.
(License No. 20570, Series D.)

                                              March 31, 1902.
FRED. JOHNSON, of Pittsburgh, and MARY J. GIBSON, daughter of William T. Gibson, of Kearsage street,
Thirty-second Ward, at the bride's residence 305 Kearsage street, at 8 P. M. Witnesses: William E. Johnson
and Anna C. Gibson, sister of the bride.
(License No. 21417, Series D.)

                                               April 30, 1902.
FRANKLIN R. KENNEY, lieutenant in the Regular Army of the United States, son of John P. and Sarah A. Kenney,
of Pittsburgh, and NELLIE TORRENCE, daughter of David R Torrence, of Baum Street, at the residence of the
bride's father, at 8 o'clock P. M. Witnesses: Lieutenant Mayback, Alice Torrence, the bride's sister, and
Miss Albertine Junkers.

                                                July 16, 1902.
JOHN HALL MUSGRAVE, an attorney of Minneapolis, and ELMINA McEWEN JOHNSTON, of Pittsburgh,
daughter of William E. and Elmina B. Johnston, at the residence of the bride's father, Centre avenue and
Francis street, at 8 P. M. Witnesses: Dr. Musgrave, a brother of the groom, and the bride's family.

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                                         September 24, 1902.
CARL FREDERICK SORG, of Pittsburgh, and BLANCHE OLIVE BOOTH, daughter of James J. Booth,
of Boquet street, at the residence of the Rev. R. J. Coster, D D., 1064 Shady avenue. Witnesses:
Daisy D. Shook and Mrs. Emmerling.
(License No. 1527, Series E.)

                                              October 8, 1902.
GEORGE ENOCH RICE, of Waynesburg, and EDNA JANE PHILLIPS, of West Brownsville, daughter of
James J. Phillips, at the residence of the bride's father, at 12 o'clock M. Witnesses; Thomas A. Bayard
and Sarah Phillips.
(License No. 10269, Washington County.)

                                             December 11, 1902.
WILLIAM EDWARD DuBARRY, of Pittsburgh, and ELIZABETH M. TORRENCE, daughter of David R. Torrence,
at the residence of the bride's father, 5604 Baum street, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. Witnesses: Mr. DuBarry,
the groom's brother, and Alice Torrence, the bride's sister.
(License No. 3957, Series E.)

                                               January 21, 1903.
HARRY STANLEY LAKE, doctor of medicine, of Portersville, Butler County, Pa., and Bessie Douglas Goldthorp,
daughter of Joshua R. and Bessie D. Goldthorp, of Wilkinsburg, at residence of bride's parents,
722 Whitney avenue, Wilkinsburg, at 6:30 P. M. Witnesses: Dr. Hill and Lillian Dermitt, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D.,
officiating.

                                                   July 1, 1903.
VICTOR C. BENBOW, of Pittsburgh, and ANNA B. ARMIGER, daughter of James B. Armiger, of Stanwix Street,
at the residence of the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., 1064 Shady avenue, at 2 o'clock P. M. Witness: Mrs. R. J. Coster.
(License No. 9888, Series E.)

                                               September 9, 1903.
JOSEPH GLASS NOBLE, doctor of medicine, of Pittsburgh, and DAISY DEAN SHOOK, daughter of Levi Shook,
of Boquet street; at the residence of the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., 1064 Shady avenue, at 7 o'clock P. M.
Witnesses: Mrs. Carl F. Sorg, Dr. Carson and Mrs. R. J. Coster.
(License No. 11823, Series E.)

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BURIALS, 1854-1903.

No burials recorded in Parish Register prior to 1854.

                                           September 22, 1854;
JOHN PARKER, in Mount Oliver Cemetery, aged 56 years.

                                            November 7, 1854:
JAMES VICTOR LESLIE, in Allegheny Cemetery, aged 2 years.

                                             February 27, 1857:
HUGH BLACKHURST, Allegheny Cemetery, aged 57 years.

                                                  July 8, 1858:
SAMUEL F. LESLIE, Allegheny Cemetery, aged 2 years.

                                              September 8, 1858:
THOMAS FREY, M. D., Allegheny Cemetery, aged 78 years.

                                              December 29, 1858:
HATTIE CHIVERS, Allegheny Cemetery, aged 1 year.

                                                January —, 1859:
ELLA LAURA CHIVERS, Allegheny Cemetery, aged 6 years.
These two children of Mr. and Mrs. George Chivers were first buried in the churchyard,
but in March, 1859, their remains were removed to the Allegheny Cemetery.

                                                September 30, 1860:
ANNA ELIZABETH LANGDON, Concord Cemetery, aged 14 months, Rev. Jubal Hodges officiating.

                                                     July 10. 1866:
PHEBE ANN McMILLIN, aged 50 years, wife of Capt. John S. McMillin, of Grandview avenue and
Bigham street. Service at the church, conducted by Dr. Killikelly, the rector, assisted by the
Rev. Dr. Page and the Rev. Mr. Snively, of the city. Buried in Allegheny Cemetery. "A devout
communicant of Grace Church, a most excellent Christian woman and a valuable member of the
church and of society."

                                                  November 9, 1866:
MRS. SUSAN BLANTON, wife of Charles Blanton, in Allegheny Cemetery, Rev. B. B. Killikelly, D. D.
rector, officiating.

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                                          February 3, 1867,
WILLIAM ADAMS, a native of England, aged 66 years, Allegheny Cemetery, by the
Rev. B. B. Killikelly, D.D., rector. A trustworthy mechanic, engaged for twenty-six years in
the Pittsburgh Gas Works. A devout communicant in the church of his forefathers.

                                           August 6, 1871:
MARY GOLDING, mother of Capt. Thomas H. Golding, Mount Washington, died at her home,
Grandview Avenue and Shiloh street, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. Dr. Page
officiating. Aged 80 years.

                                            April 15, 1872:
CAPT. THOMAS H. GOLDING, died at his residence, Grandview avenue and Shiloh street,
Saturday, 13th, after a long and painful illness, borne with great patience. Funeral service in
Church, Sixth avenue, and burial in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector of Grace Church,
officiating. Aged 50 years.

                                            July 24, 1872:
MARY ALBERTA TORRENCE, infant daughter of David R. and Margaret Torrence, aged 13 months;
in Concord Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                            April 27, 1873:
MRS. DOROTHY TROTTER WOODS, wife of John Woods and daughter of Robert and Dorothy Trotter,
of Mount Washington, aged 23 years. Service in Grace Church; burial in Hilldale Cemetery,
the rector officiating.

                                         January 7, 1874:
SAMUEL GOLDTHORP STEELE, infant son of Thomas W. and Mary Goldthorp Steele, aged 18 months,
in Hilldale Cemetery, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating.

                                          June 19, 1874:
MARY JANE EWENS, wife of Tom Thomas Ewens, aged 34 years. Died at her residence, No. 1 Pastor
street, after a long illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude; buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Allegheny.

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                                          July 24, 1874:
MRS.________ADDINGTON, mother of Mrs. Charles Goehring, aged 79 years, died at the residence
of her daughter, Grandview avenue, near Stanwix street, buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                        October 4, 1874:
JULIAN GEORGE BOND, eldest son of William L. and Annie M. Bond, aged 8 years and 6 months;
in Allegheny Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                          June 13, 1876:
JOHN BINDLEY McMILLIN, eldest son of John S. and Mary B. McMillin, aged 3 years, died at the family
residence Grandview avenue and Bigham street, buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                    September 16, 1877:
ZEBINA McMILLIN, eldest daughter of John S. and Mary B. McMillin, aged 7 years; in Allegheny Cemetery,
the rector officiating.

                                        October 4, 1877:
JOHN PARE, born in England, died at his residence, Garden street, Mount Washington, after a long illness,
borne with great patience and submission, and buried in Union Cemetery, Allegheny, after service in
Grace Church, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating.

                                        February 7, 1878:
MRS._________LINDSLEY, aged 65 years, died at her residence, Gray's Road, Mount Washington, and
buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                       February 10, 1878:
MR.__________ALKER, an Englishman, aged 76 years, died at his residence, Norton street, and buried
in the South Side Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                        January 2, 1879:
MRS. MARY LOWEN, wife of George Lowen, born in England, died at her residence, Union Township,
Allegheny County, aged 70 years, and buried in Chartiers cemetery, Mansfield Valley, the Rev. R. J. Coster
officiating. Raised a large family, was a devoted mother and a faithful, conscientious woman.
                ''The memory of the just is blessed."

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                                         January 11, 1879:
MRS. SARAH REESE, widow of the late David Reese and mother of Mrs. Mary E. Torrence, widow
of Robert, died at the residence of Mrs. Torrence, Mount Washington, aged 87 years, and buried in
Concord Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                            April 12, 1879:
MRS. MARIA ADAMS, widow of William, born in England, came to America in early womanhood, settled
in Pittsburgh, married and lived on Mount Washington, Virginia street, and was for nearly thirty years a
regular attendant on the services at Grace Church; died at the Home for Aged Women at the age of 78,
and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster and the Rev. J. P. Norman officiating.
In her will, of which she made Henry J. Lynch, of Pittsburgh, the executor, she left to Grace Church a
legacy of fifty dollars ($50), which sum was set apart by the rector and vestry as the beginning of an
endowment fund for Grace Church, called, in her memory, '"The Maria Adams Endowment Fund." By this
gift her name will be remembered and other devout souls be prompted to similar action.
              "Though dead she yet speaketh."

                                          January 20, 1880:
MISS MARGARET GOEHRING, eldest daughter of Charles and Eliza A. Goehring, after a long and painful
illness, died at the residence of her parents, on Grandview avenue near Stanwix street, in the thirty-fifth year
of her age, and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. She had a gentle
spirit, and was a devout, faithful woman. She bore her great suffering with remarkable patience and died in
full assurance of faith that God would give her peace and rest.

                                      February 6 and 22, 1880:
RALPH REVELVY, on the 6th inst, aged 4 years and 6 months, GRACE REVELVY, on the 22d inst, aged 7 years,
children of Paul and Mary Revelvy, in Hilidale Cemetery, Allegheny, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                              July 14, 1880:
JOHN WILLIAM JACKSON, died at his residence, Southern avenue, aged 55 years; buried in Mount Lebanon
Cemetery, the Rev. Robert J. Coster, rector, officiating.

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                                         December 27, 1881:
TIMOTHY SEIFERT, aged 30 years, in Hilldale Cemetery, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating.

                                              July 9, 1882:
DR. DAVID PALMER, died at the residence of his mother, aged 35 years. The rector officiated at
the house and the remains were taken to Windsor, Vermont, for interment in the family burying ground.

                                         December 24, 1882:
CHESTER REED, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Reed, aged 17 months; service at the parents'
residence by the rector, and the remains taken to Brownsville for interment, where the Rev. Mr. Day officiated.

                                            January 7, 1883:
MARY AMELIA BINDLEY, infant daughter of John and Emeline Bindley, aged 10 months, in Allegheny
Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                              March 22, 1883:
SARAH LOWEN GOLDTHORP, wife of Samuel H. Goldthorp and daughter of George Lowen, died at the
family residence, Wyoming street, near Sycamore, aged 53 years, and buried in Chartiers Cemtery,
Mansfield Valley, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. A noble and devout woman, a tender and devoted
wife and mother, and an earnest church worker, adorning every sphere in which she moved with a consistent,
gentle and beautiful Christian life.

                                          September 11, 1883:
MRS. RUTH REED, wife of Samuel G. Reed, aged 33 years. Services at her home by the Rev. R. J. Coster,
rector, and the remains taken to Brownsville and interred in the family burying ground.

                                            January 26, 1884:
MRS. JEMIMA ALKER, widow, aged 80 years, died at her residence, Norton street, Mount Washington;
buried in South Side Cemetery, the Rev, R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                             February 7, 1884
MRS. JANE BRATT, wife of Squire Edward Bratt, died at her home, Wyoming street, near Virginia avenue,
aged 77 years; buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. She was a regular
attendant of the service of Grace Church for nearly twenty years, a communicant and a faithful worker
in her Master's service. She departed in peace, looking for the rest that await the people of God.

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                                        March 21, 1884:
MRS. SARAH E. MINSINGER, wife of William Minsinger, daughter of Charles and Margaret Ream,
Mount Washington, aged 30 years; in Allegheny Cemetery, .the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                           May 19, 1884:
MRS. REED, daughter of George Lowen, from the residence of her brother, Seth Lowen, Virginia street;
in Chartiers Cemetery, Mansfield Valley, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                      November 11, 1884:
THOMAS J. BIGHAM, a vestryman and one of the founders of Grace Church, died at his residence,
Woodlawn, Mount Washington. Funeral service held in Trinity Church, Sixth avenue, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
assisted by the Rt. Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, Bishop of Pittsburgh, officiating. Buried in Allegheny Cemetery.
He was senior warden of the parish for many years, acted as lay reader and superintendent of the Sunday
School, and from the organization of, the parish in 1852 was one of its chief supporters. He was. a devout,
patient man, simple in his tastes, strong in his convictions and firm in his belief of the truths of the Gospel.
He finished his course in faith and now rests in hope.

                                        February 14, 1885:
GEORGE T. LOWEN, born in England, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Price, in Union township,
Allegheny County, at the age of 76 years; buried in Chartiers Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.
He was one of the members of the first vestry of Grace Church and active in its affairs while he lived on
Mount Washington; but after he moved to his farm beyond Saw Mill Run he seldom got to church, although
he maintained his interest in the parish to the last. He was an upright, reliable man, and left a large family of
married sons and daughters to revere his memory and imitate his integrity.

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                                             November 1, 1885:
EDWARD BRATT, SR., born in England, an iron worker, came to America and finally fixed his home on
Mount Washington and became a member of Grace Church; died at his residence, Wyoming street, near
Virginia avenue, aged 80 years. Funeral service in the church, at 2 o'clock P. M., on All Saints Day, and
buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. He was for many years a vestryman
and treasurer of Grace Church; he was a devout and regular attendent on public worship, faithful in all the
relations of life, and highly respected for his integrity.

                                         January 19 and 27, 1886:
RICHARD ROBINSON, on January 19, aged 19 years, and JOSEPH ROBINSON, on the 27th, aged 10 years;
brothers, sons of William and Margaret Robinson; in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                              January 31, 1886:
EMELINE BINDLEY, wife of John Bindley, a vestryman of Grace Church, in her thirty-third year; from her
residence, Boggs avenue, Mount Washington, laid to rest in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
rector, officiating.

                                              February 15, 1886:
MARY GOLDTHORP STEELE, widow of Thomas Steele and daughter of Samuel H. and Sarah L. Goldthorp,
aged 38 years; in Chartiers Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. A faithful and devout
Christian woman.

                                                  March 1, 1887:
MARY V. LOWE, infant daughter of John J. and Elizabeth C. Lowe, of Plymouth and Sycamore streets,
Duquesne Heights, aged 16 months; in Bellevue Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                                 March 25, 1887:
SARAH ISABELL REESE, wife of William A. Reese and daughter of William L. and Annie M. Bond, of
Virginia street, aged 24 years; in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating. Buried from her
home, in Etna borough.

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                                          April 13, 1887:
GEORGE MARLAND, brother of Alfred Marland, aged 35 years; from his home, on Duquesne Heights,
in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                          June 19, 1887:
ELIZABETH F. HOWE, wife of William Howe, of 247 Virginia avenue, aged 76 years; in South Side
Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                          August 26, 1887:
SAMUEL H. GOLDTHORP, of Wyoming street, aged 63 years; in Chartiers Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster,
rector, officiating. Several years he was vestryman of Grace Church.

                                          August 27, 1887:
HANNAH IRENE WEYGAND, wife of Charles William Weygand and daughter of James and Mary A.
Robinson, aged 29 years; in Chartiers Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating. A fair young life, full of
happiness in her married life, which ended with the birth of her first child. God doeth all things well.

                                       September 11, 1887:
ELMER DAVIS, daughter of Michael and Agnes Davis, aged 3 years; in South Side Cemetery, the rector
officiating.

                                          July 29, 1888:
ARTHUR PHILLIPS, stepson of H. R. Heppinstal, aged 16 years; in South Side Cemetery, the rector
officiating. Drowned on July 26, while bathing in the Monongahela River.

                                      October 16, 1888:
MARIA LOUISE BIGHAM, widow of the late Thomas J. Bigham, aged 70 years, died at Hill Home, Mount
Washington, her late residence. Funeral service in Grace Church, attended by a large congregation of
those among whom she so long lived and worked as a Sunday School teacher and a church member;
buried in Allegheny Cemetery beside her husband, the Rev. R. J. Coster, her rector, officiating. She was
the chief promoter of and contributor to the organization of Grace Church, and for forty years lived
among its people and shared their struggles in maintaining public worship and religious instruction for
the young. A noble, Christian woman, of great dignity of manner, of great strength of character, of
high refinement and culture, of strong faith and deep piety. She died in faith in her Lord, and now, life's
sorrows and disappointments over, she sleeps in peace.
                                      "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

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                                          October 23, 1888:
THOMAS JACKSON, born in England, raised in the Church, came to this country and settled in Pittsburgh
60 years ago; became an active member of St. Andrew's Church, moved to Mount Washington, and for a
number of years assisted in the Sunday School of Grace Church. Died at his residence, Prospect street,
near public schoolhouse, in the eighty-first year of his age; buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                          February 3, 1889:
EDITH N. FERGUSON, daughter of David B. and Katharine Ferguson and granddaughter of Charles and
Margaret Ream, died at her mother's residence, corner Woodville avenue and Merrimac street, aged 31 years.
Funeral service in Grace Church, attended by a large congregation of her friends; buried in Allegheny Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, her pastor, officiating.
An artist of great promise, a lady of fine literary taste, a devout communicant, and a woman of generous,
sympathetic nature, whose rare qualities of mind and heart won for her a large circle of devoted friends.

                                            April 16, 1890:
EVANGELINE HARDY, daughter of Charles C. and Cornelia E. Hardy, of Joel's Lane and Sycamore street,
aged 5 years; in Uniondale Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                            July 17, 1890:
SENA SHALER, wife of John C. Shaler, Sr., and mother of John C. Shaler, Jr., died at her residence,
Duquesne Heights, aged 66 years; buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.
A retiring, gentle woman and a devoted wife and mother.

                                         November 6, 1890:
HELEN JONES, wife of Thomas Jones, born in England, died at her home, Natchez and Cuthbert streets,
aged 35 years, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating.

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                                          December 2, 1890:
EMILY McMILLIN, third daughter of John S. and Mary B. McMillin, died Sunday, November 30,
aged 19 years, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. A devout
communicant, a gentle, lovable woman, full of faith in her Lord and of the hope of immortality.

                                           December 11, 1890:
HENRY YATES ROBINSON, son of James and Mary A. Robinson and grandson of George T. Lowen,
died at the home of his parents, on Oneida street, aged 18 years, and buried in Chartiers Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                              February 15, 1891:
WILLIAM M. HUGHES, died at his residence, Wyoming street, aged 55 years; buried in South Side
Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                               February 26, 1891:
JOHN CONWAY SHALER, SR., son of the late Judge Charles Shaler, died at his residence,
Sweetbrier street, Duquesne Heights, aged 75 years, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                                  March 31, 1891:
GEORGE ALBERT GOULD, infant son of Edward and Silence Gould, Wyoming near Sycamore street, aged
2 months; in South Side Cemetery, the rector officiating.

                                                    June 28, 1891:
NEVILLE SYDNEY MILLER, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Miller, aged 9 months; in South Side Cemetery,
the Rev. C. A. Bragdon officiating for the rector.

                                                     July 18, 1891:
LAWRENCE SMITH HUMBERT, only child of Charles and Josephine Humbert, aged 10 years. Service at
the parents' residence, corner of Grandview avenue and Bertha street, by the Rev. R. J. Coster, assisted
by the Rev. Mr. Farran. Interment in the Summit Cemetery, near Cresson, Pa.

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                                         November 15, 1891:
SAMUEL SPARKS WELTY, son of Frederick K. and Martha L. Welty, died at the home of his parents,
Grandview avenue and Shiloh street, aged 7 years. Service at the house by the Rev. R. J. Coster, and
interment in St. Paul's Cemetery, near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland County, Pa.

                                          November 29, 1891:
ELIZA AUGUSTA STOUT, second daughter of Melville L. and Mary J. Stout, and granddaughter of the
late Thomas J. and Maria L. Bigham, aged 3 years and 2 months; in Allegheny Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                            January 17, 1892:
MARY STOUT, third daughter of Melville L. and Mary J. Stout, aged 15 months; in Allegheny Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                            February 13, 1892:
JOEL LEWIS BIGHAM, eldest son of the late Thomas J. and Maria L. Bigham, aged 45 years,
died January 20, 1892, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, B. A. His remains were brought to Pittsburgh and interred
in the Allegheny Cemetery beside his father and mother.

                                                June 18, 1892:
ISABELLA GOLDING, only daughter of the late Thomas H. and Sarah M. Golding, died at a sanatarium
near Harrisburg, Pa. Remains brought to Pittsburgh and interred in Allegheny Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating. She was a great sufferer for several years with rheumatism, which rendered
her incapable of walking. She bore her great and trying affliction with fortitude and resignation, awaiting in
patience her final release.

                                                 June 20, 1892:
WILLIAM MINSINGER, aged 45 years. Service in Grace Church, in the presence of several societies of which
deceased was a member, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating. Interment in Allegheny Cemetery.

                                            September 23, 1892:
MARGARET ARMIGER, aged 53 years, wife of James B. Armiger; residence, corner Sycamore and Stanwix
streets. Service in Grace Church and interment in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.
A devout Christian woman, who departed in peace, full of resignation and hope.

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                                         October 12, 1892:
SARAH DAVIS BIGHAM, wife of the late Joel L. Bigham, aged 40 years; in Allegheny Cemetery,
the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.
                                           November 3, 1892:
MRS. ELIZABETH A. SMITHSON, aged 60 years. Service in Grace Church and interment in Allegheny
Cemetery. A great sufferer in her illness, but patient and submissive to the Divine Will. Her last communion
with the rector and her daughter Edith, Saturday, October 29. Departed in peace, in faith and hope.

                                            November 22, 1892:
ELIZABETH CHURCH SINGLETON, aged 90 years, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Louis H. Purkey,
Plymouth street, Duquesne Heights, and interred in Uniondale Cemetery.

                                             December 21, 1892:
ROBERT GARDNER, infant son of Robert and Elizabeth Jackson Gardner, Simms street, near
Southern avenue, aged 11 months; in Homewood Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.

                                              December 29, 1892:
WILLIAM DEXTER SADLER, father of Dr. O. W. Sadler, aged 75 years; died at his son's residence,
Grandview avenue and Bigham street, Service at the house on above date, and the remains taken to
Millburn, Lake County, Ill., for interment in the family burying ground.

                                                 January 8, 1893:
ALEXANDER MURRAY, son of Antony S. and the late Mary Nimick Murray, aged 17 years, died at the
Episcopal Academy, Alexandria, Va., on January 6. His remains brought to Pittsburgh and interred in
the Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating. A noble, generous boy, pure and true, whose
youth gave promise of a virtuous manhood. So gentle and winning was he that all who knew him loved him.
He was the most intimate companion of the rector's son Charles, whose first great sorrow was the death
of his young friend.

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                                         January 11, 1893:
GEORGE MARLAND, father of Mr. Alfred Marland, of Southern avenue, aged 77 years; born at
Ashton-under-Lyne, England, came a few years ago to Pittsburgh, and died at his son's residence.
Service at the house and interment in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating.

                                            March 14, 1893:
JOHN SMITH McMILLIN, aged 76 years. Service at the late residence of the deceased, Grandview avenue
and Bigham street, and interment in Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, his pastor and friend for
twenty-five years, officiating. A strong character, noted for his simplicity and integrity. (See obituary.)

                                               April 2, 1893:
MRS. JEMIMA CRAWFORD, aged 76 years, Service at the residence of her son-in-law, Edwin Wills,
No. 3 Edith street, and interment in South Side Cemetery, the Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, officiating.
Came from Toronto, Canada, with her son-in-law.

                                               June 5, 1893:
MARGARET REED, eldest daughter of Samuel G. Reed, aged 18 years, died at her father's home,
Boggs avenue. Funeral service at 8 P. M. on the 4th inst., and interment on Tuesday, 6th, in the cemetery
at Brownsville, Pa., the family burial place. A gentle, pure spirit; she now sleeps in peace.

                                          November 20, 1893:
JAMES BENNETT BOGGS, aged 39 years, son of the late Samuel Boggs, of Boggs avenue, Thirty-second
Ward; went in 1884 to Denver, Colorado, for the benefit of his health, then to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he
made his home for the last few years; returned to Pittsburgh in July this year in bad health; continued to
grow worse and died November 18, 1893, at the residence of his brother-in-law, Edwin H. Dermitt, Stanton
avenue, near Negley. Service at the house at 2:30 P. M., by the Rev. R. J. Coster, assisted by the
Rev. George Hodges, rector of Calvary Church; buried in Allegheny Cemetery at 4 P. M., the large number
of his relations and friends present indicating how highly he was esteemed for his noble traits of character.
A great sufferer, but "He giveth his beloved sleep."

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                                         April 12, 1894:
ANNIE MURRAY McELROY, daughter of the late James G. Murray, of Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pa.,
and wife of Robert N. McElroy, of Pittsburgh; died at her home, Lake and Turrett streets, Pittsburgh,
Monday, April 9, and buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery near Bridgeville, Pa., at 4 P. M., on above
date. A generous, self-denying soul, pure and true.

                                          May 27, 1894:
BERTHA MATILDA HAMBLETON, wife of E. W. Hambleton, of Pittsburgh, and sister of M. L. Stout, died
at her home, Belonda street, Friday, the 25th, and buried this day, the 27th, in South Side Cemetery.
Aged 39 years.

                                         October 7, 1894:
EDWIN WILLS, died at his home on Plymouth street, Duquesne Heights; buried in South Side Cemetery.
Aged about 50 years. A carpenter by trade, and late from Buffalo, N. Y.

                                          March 23, 1895:
MRS. SARAH SHAW BOGGS, daughter of the late Benjamin Bennett, and widow of the late
Samuel S. Boggs, of Boggs avenue, Pittsburgh; born March 11,1826, in Bellefonte, Pa.; married
Samuel S. Boggs, October 23, 1869; died March 20,1895, in the seventieth year of her age, after an
illness of two years, which she bore with great patience. Funeral service at her late residence,
Boggs avenue, Saturday, 2 P. M., above date; interred in Meadville, Sunday, March 24.
A noble woman, generous and faithful.

                                          April 8, 1895:
ADELINE MATILDA WHITTIER, daughter of John and Mellicent Stone Washburn, born September 16,
1812, at Lempster, New Hampshire; married Isaac Whittier, of the same place, November 1, 1836; came
to Pittsburgh the same year, where she spent the rest of her life; died April 6, 1895, 5 P. M., in the eighty-
third year of her age, at the residence of her widowed daughter, Mrs. Samuel Harper, Grandview avenue
and Bertha street, Mount Washington, where she had resided for nearly forty years. Formerly a member of
St. Andrew's Church, Pittsburgh, but for the last ten or more years a regular communicant of Grace Church,
Mount Washington. Funeral service at Grace Church, at 2 P.M., in which the rector was assisted by the
Rev. J. C. White, D.D., rector of St. Andrew's Church. Interred in Allegheny Cemetery.
A devout and faithful Christian woman.

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                                          April 30, 1895:
ELLIZABETH H. HARRISON, widow of William R. Harrison, of Meadville, and second daughter of
Benjamin Bennett; born in Bellefonte, Pa., August 28, 1823; married in 1841; died at the residence
of her sister, the late Sarah Shaw Boggs, Boggs avenue, Pittsburgh, Sunday April 28, 1895, in the
seventy-second year of her age. Funeral service at the house by the rector, Tuesday, April 30, at 8 P. M.;
interment at Meadville, Wednesday, May 1, the Rev. Messrs. Byllesby and Kirkus officiating.

                                          June 29, 1895:
MRS. MARGARET JANE WOODS, wife of Robert A. Woods, born in Ireland; came to Pittsburgh in 1892,
and lived on Plymouth street, Duquesne Heights; died of typhoid fever at the Homeopathic Hospital
on June 28th, in the thirty-seventh year of her age. Buried in the South Side Cemetery on the 29th,
the rector officiating at the house and at the grave. A faithful wife and mother.

                                          July 17, 1895:
MRS. ELIZABETH GOEHRING, widow of the late Charles Goehring, of Pittsburgh, nee Adlington; born in
New Orleans, La.; came to Pittsburgh when three years old, where the rest of her life was spent. She was
raised a Lutheran, but in 1873 she and three of her daughters were confirmed in Grace Church by
Bishop Kerfoot, and became regular communicants. She was living at that time on Grandview avenue near
Stanwix street. She died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Cyrus M. Robinson, on Bailey avenue,
on Tuesday, July 16, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Funeral service at 8 P. M., the 17th, the rector,
Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Jennings, a Presbyterian clergyman, and long an
intimate friend of the family. The body was cremated by direction of the deceased, and the ashes buried
in Allegheny Cemetery beside the remains of her late husband. She was a patient, devout woman, who
endured many reverses and privations. May she rest in peace.

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                                          July 31, 1895:
GEORGE E. REED, son of Samuel G. Reed and late Ruth Reed; died of consumption on Monday,
July 29th, at the home of his father, Boggs avenue, in the twentieth year of his age. Buried in the
Brownsville Cemetery, Fayette County, Pa., Wednesday, July 31, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, officiating
both at the house and at the cemetery, Brownsville, a number of the deceased's Sunday School friends
acting as pall-bearers.

                                         October 10, 1895:
MARGARET TORRENCE BURRELL, wife of Henry M. Burell and daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Torrence, of
Stanwix street, died at her home, Sycamore street, near Shiloh, Thirty-second Ward, on Tuesday, Oct 8th,
in the thirty-fifth year of her age; buried in Concord Cemetery, October 10th, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating
at the house and at the grave. During the service at the house, Herman Heisler, a member of Grace Church
choir, sang the Hymns " Jesus, lover of my soul," and "Rock of Ages, cleft for me."

                                             July 7, 1896:
MRS. MATILDA C. VERNER, nee McClurg, wife of late Melchior Verner, of Carson and Thirty-Third
streets,South Side. She was born at the McClurg homestead, Whitehall, Allegheny County; was married by
the Rev. Dr. Killikelly, in Grace Church, Mount Washington, April 14, 1867, and died at her late residence
on South Side, Pittsburgh, on Sunday, July 5, 1896 and buried in a mausoleum at Whitehall, Tuesday,
July 7th, beside the remains of her late husband. She was a devout communicant of St. Peter's Church
and an exemplary Christian woman.

                                            July 28, 1896:
OLIVER H. STINSON, Jr., only child of Robert and Mary Stinson, and nephew of Oliver H. Stinson, Sr.,
of Bailey avenue, died from the effects of a fall from a tricycle, in his seventh year, and was buried in
Uniondale Cemetery.

                                          August 7, 1896:
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, of McClurg avenue, Allegheny, Pa., an invalid for
fifteen years; died in Philadelphia, Tuesday, August 4th, in the forty-third year of his age, and buried
August 7th in the Uniondale Cemetery, in the family lot, the Rev. R. J. Coster officiating at the house and
at the grave.

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                                         October 4, 1896:
HENRY DENNY UTTING, an Englishman by birth and a stonecutter by occupation, died October 2,
at his home, on Sweetbrier street, Duquesne Heights, in the thirty-first year of his age; buried Sunday,
October 4, in South Side Cemetery, leaving only a wife.

                                      November 15, 1896:
DAVID LEWIS, an Englishman, died at his home, Sweetbrier and Sycamore streets, of pneumonia, Friday,
November 13th, in the forty-second year of his age, leaving a wife and 7 children; buried in South Side
Cemetery November 15th, his fellow-workmen acting as pall-bearers.

                                      November 21, 1896:
JAMES M. CHRISTY, born in Pittsburgh in 1818, died at 1613 Locust street, Pittsburgh, on Thursday,
November 19th, and buried Saturday, the 21st, in Allegheny Cemetery, aged 78 years, the Rev. R. J. Coster
officiating. A devout churchman, a member of St. Peter's congregation.

                                        December 1, 1896:
EDITH GROVES, daughter of Samuel and Maria Groves, of Duquesne Heights; buried in South Side Cemetery;
aged, three years.

                                        December 25, 1896:
WILLIAM MARKS SPEER. He and his family became members of Grace Church parish in 1872 and resided on
Wyoming street, in the parish, until April 1, 1892, when he moved to Ben Venue Place, East End, where he died
Wednesday, December 23d, aged, aged 60 years, and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery December 25,
Christmas Day, at 2 P. M. Service at the house and at the grave by the Rev. R. J. Coster.

                                         January 24, 1897:
JOHN CONWAY SHALER, son of John C. and Sena Shaler and grandson of the late Judge Charles Shaler of
Pittsburgh, born on Duquesne Heights, October 13, 1843; was baptized and confirmed in Grace Church; an
active parish worker all his life, as Sunday School superintendent, as vestryman and warden; died Friday,
January 22, 1897. Funeral service in Grace Church Sunday, January 24th, at 2 P.M., conducted by the
Rev. R. J. Coster, rector, assisted by the Rev. A. D. Brown; buried in Allegheny Cemetery, the following persons
acting as pall-bearers: Thomas F. Ashford, Sr., Oliver H. Stinson, George A. Johnson and Harry W. Neely,
vestrymen of Grace Church, and A. P. Linhart and William Reitz. an intensely cold day, the snow covering
everything. The deceased was a noble, pure, devout servant of God, faithful and untiring in his work for his
Master. "Though dead, he yet speaketh." __Dormiat bene. (See biographical sketch, page 269.)

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                                         February 14, 1897:
SIDNEY PENTON GROVES, infant son of Samuel and Maria Groves, of Oneida street, Duquesne Heights,
aged 14 months and 17 days; buried in South Side Cemetery.

                                        February 20, 1897:
REV. SAMUEL MAXWELL, D. D., formerly rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, late of the Diocese of Long Island;
buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating at the interment. Dr. Maxwell
was an earnest, successful parish priest, doing a noble work for his Master in the thirty years of his ministry.

                                           Augut 11, 1897:
MARGARET ELIZABETH SCHORNAGEL, aged 19 years and 6 months; buried in South Side Cemetery, the
Rev. W. L. H. Benton, assistant minister of Trinity Church, officiating.

                                           October 3, 1897:
MRS. MARY THOMPSON, daughter of the late Squire Edward Bratt, of Pittsburgh, long an invalid and for
several years confined to the house and tenderly cared for by her daughter Agnes and her sister,
Mrs. John C. Shaler, died at her home, the Bratt residence, Wyoming street, Friday, October 1, and buried in
Allegheny Cemetery Sunday October 3, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating at the house and at the grave.

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                                         November 10, 1897:
GEORGE FRANK SLOCUM; infant son of George F. and Ardella A. Slocum; buried in
Allegheny Cemetery; aged 8 months.

                                            January 7, 1898:
GEORGE WALFORD LOWEN, son of John Lowen, of West Liberty borough, Allegheny County, Pa.;
born on Second avenue, Pittsburgh, August 11, 1861; baptized by the Rev. Dr.Van Dusen, in St. Peter's
Church; died at his father's residence January 5 and buried in Chartiers Cemetery January 7, at 4 P. M.

                                             March 26, 1898:
B. HARRY RUBIE, born in Ireland in 1840; came to Pittsburgh in 1854; died at his home, 407 Liberty avenue,
Wednesday, March 23, and buried Saturday, March 26, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. A large number of
his friends present at the funeral, chiefly middle-aged men. Mr. Paul Hackie and Miss Annie Smith, with
whom he had lived for more than thirty years, were the chief mourners. He was the last of his family; a noble,
generous man, much loved for his honesty and sincerity.

                                          November 14, 1898:
MRS. MARIA LOWEN HALPIN, wife of William Halpin, of Mount Washington and daughter of George T. Lowen,
born in England; came to Pittsburgh and married William Halpin and lived on Virginia avenue,
Mount Washington, most of her life; was long a communicant and active worker in Grace Church; died at her
home, Virginia avenue, Saturday, November 12, and buried in Uniondale Cemetery, Allegheny, Pa., on Monday,
November 14, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating. A loveable, peaceful woman, faithful as wife and mother,
and exemplary in all her conduct.

                                          January 17, 1899:
THOMAS FRANCIS ASHFORD, Sr., son of Thomas F. and Georgiana Roberts Ashford, born in London,
December 14, 1840; came to the United States in 1865; married in Pittsburgh and moved to Mount Washington
in 1883; becane a vestryman of Grace Church at Easter, 1889, and continued to serve the parish in that
capacity until his death. Died of pneumonia Sunday, January 15, at his home on Bailey avenue, and was
buried in Chartiers Cemetery Tuesday, January 17; aged 58 years. Service at Grace Church and at the grave,
the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating. He was a generous soul, liberal to a fault, and loved by many friends.

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                                         March 21, 1899:
MRS. ELIZABETH H. TORRENCE, wife of David R. Torrence, of Bertha street, died at her home Saturday,
March 18, after an illness of two weeks, in the fifty-first year of her age; buried in Concord Cemetery,
South Side, Tuesday, the 21st, the rector officiating at the house and at the grave. A faithful wife and
mother and a devout, charitable woman.

                                             April 9, 1899:
WILLIAM JULIAN BOND, infant son of William L. and Ida B. Bond, Jr., buried in Allegheny Cemetery;
aged 8 months.

                                             July 16, 1899:
WILLIAM HOWE, born February 4, 1809, in Bristol, England, where he was raised and learned the trade of
coach building; came to America in 1830, and married October 2, 1835, in Toronto, Canada, Elizabeth Denny,
from the Isle of Heligoland; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., and conducted for some years the business of a
confectioner on Fifth avenue, where the opera house now stands; later moved to Washington,. Pa., and
worked at his trade; returned to Pittsburgh in 1877 and made his home on Virginia avenue, Mount Washington,
where he ended his days. His wife died in 1887, at the age of 76, and he died July 5, 1899, in his ninety-second
year; funeral service at the home of Robert McMillin, his son-in-law, and interment in South Side Cemetery. He
came of a vigorous English stock, and kept his faculties to the end. He was noted for his moderation and his
integrity ; and he died as he lived, full of the hope of immortality, and trusting alone in the merits of Christ,
his Saviour.

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                                         July 20, 1899:
ANNIE HIGGINSON, infant daughter of James and Eliza Higginson; buried in Allegheny Cemetery;
aged 7 weeks.

                                        August 8, 1899:
JOHN C. DAVITT, son of the late John C. and Mrs. Nettie Davitt, of Bellevue, Pa.; baptized in Grace Church
by the present rector January 21, 1872, his parents at that time residing on Mount Washington and being
members of Grace Church; died suddenly in Chicago, Thursday, August 3d, in his thirty-second year. His
remains brought to his mother's home, in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pa., and interred in the Allegheny
Cemetery on August 8th, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating.

                                       September 27, 1899
FRANK GLAZE, son of George A. and Emily Glaze, of Bigham street; died of typhoid fever Monday,
September 24, at his father's residence, aged 17 years and 3 months; buried Wednesday, September 27, in
the South Side Cemetery

                                         December 21, 1899:
MRS. MARY CRONER, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Marland by her first husband (Smith), moved to Passadena,
Cal., in 1886; came to Pittsburg to visit her friends in July last; died in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburg, in
her forty-fifth year, from an operation performed for the removal of tumor, and buried from the home of
her sister, Mrs. John Kinney, Knoxville, South Side, the service being held at 8 P. M. on December 21,
and the interment in the South Side Cemetery on the following day, December 22. She was a bright,
cheerful woman, devoted to her husband and daughter.

                                           December 28, 1899:
MRS. MARY MacDONALD, wife of Mathew MacDonald, of Oneida street, Duquesne Heights (nee Nelson) ,
died December 25 (Christmas Day), at 6:40 P. M., aged 53 years, and was buried in Homewood Ceme-
tery on December 28. She was a member of the Bishop Whitehead Guild of Grace Church, an earnest
worker, and a gentle, Christian woman.

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                                         April 13, 1900:
WILLIAM HALPIN, born in Dublin, Ireland; spent most of his life in Pittsburg, where he became a
successful business man; always an earnest churchman; died at his residence on Virginia avenue,
Thirty-second Ward, Wednesday, April 11, aged 70 years. Service at the house by the rector, and interment
in Uniondale Cemetery on April 13, at 4 P. M. (See biographical sketch, page 277.)

                                           June 2, 1900:
MARY ANN NEILL, wife of Harry Neill, member of St. Andrew's Church ; died at her home, in Cherry Alley
near Liberty Avenue, on Thursday, May 31, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and buried June 2 in
Allegheny Cemetery, the Rev. R. J.Coster, D.D.,officiating.

                                            July 28, 1900:
MRS. EMILY JAMES GLAIZE, wife of George Alfred Glaize and daughter of Harry James, Sr., died July 26,
at her home, West Elizabeth (to which place the family moved from Bigham street, Mount Washington, a
year ago), aged 40 years; buried in South Side Cemetery, the rector, Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating.
A faithful and devoted woman.

                                        September 6, 1900:
EDITH STEVENS, infant daughter of Isaiah and Eva Stevens, of Duquesne Heights; buried in
South Side Cemetery; aged 2 months.

                                           January 12, 1901:
HARRIETT RUTH REED, daughter and last child of Samuel G. Reed, of Boggs avenue; died of typhoid fever
at the Homeopathic Hospital, Wednesday, January 9, in the twenty-third year of her age. Funeral service at her
father's residence, Boggs avenue , Friday, January 11, at 8 P. M., and interment in the cemetery at
Brownsville, Pa., on Saturday, January 12, in the presence of about twenty friends who went up with the
remains from Pittsburgh, the Rev. R. J. Coster. D. D., officiating both at the house and at the cemetery.

                                           January 20, 1901:
LOUISE KEMP, died at her home on Duquesne Heights, Wednesday, January 16, in her twenty-first year,
and buried in Allegheny Cemetery January 20, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating.

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                                         January 23, 1901:
JULIAN GEORGE MADDOX, son of Cartwright and Hannah Maddox, born at Deerfield, Ohio; died at the
residence of William L. Bond, Sr., Virginia avenue and Oneida street, Monday, January 21, in the
sixty-ninth year of his age. Service at the house by the Rev. R. J. Coster, D.D. ; buried in Allegheny Cemetery,
the ceremonies at the grave conducted by the officers of the Dallas Lodge of the Masonic Fraternity, of
which the deceased was a member. A peaceful, faithful, honest man.

                                               July 2, 1901:
CARLESS MEAHL, infant son of Phillip and Rebecca Meahl, died Sunday, June 30, at their home,
404 Dewey street, Knoxville, Pa., aged 13 months and 20 days. Interred in the South Side Cemetery, July 2.

                                               July 27, 1901:
WILLIAM L. KENAH, born in Ireland August 11, 1823; came to the United States in early manhood, lived
for a time in Western Maryland, where he married; came to Pittsburg, where he spent the last twenty- five Years
of his life, and died at his home, on Bigham street, Thirty- second Ward, July 25, in the seventy-eighth year of
his age. Buried July 27 in Allegheny Cemetery. The rector, in an address at the funeral service, said :
"Mr. Kenah was a man peaceful in temper, unobtrusive in manner, retiring in disposition, gentle in act and
speech, conscientious in duty, and faithful to every obligation as a Christian and a citizen. He has left behind
him the record of a well-spent, pure, upright life. We honor him, therefore, for his worth; and we thank God for
the graces that, according to His mercy, adorned the character of His devout servant.
"Dormiat in pace."

                                           September 6, 1901
SEVERIN JOHN KONSTANZER, son of Severin and Kate Konstanzer, born May 21, 1886, drowned while
bathing in the Monongahela River, Wednesday, September 4. Service at the residence of his parents,
10 Oneida street, Duquesne Heights, and interment in Allegheny Cemetery on September 6; aged 15 years
3 months and 17 days.

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                                         October 4, 1901:
CLARENCE SHALER, son of the late Judge Charles Shaler, of Pittsburgh, and grandson of
Major Kirkpatrick. Spent all his life on Mount Washington, where he was born; studied law and served
as magistrate of his ward for many years ; lived a reserved and retired life; died at his home,
70 Olympia street, October 2, in the eighty-second year of his age, and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery
on October 4, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating.

                                         October 29, 1901:
JOHN P. KINNEY, son of Alexander and Nancy R. Kinney, born in Allegheny, Pa., in 1849, and lived on
Orchard street, Knoxville, Pa.; married Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Marland, September 27, 1877;
died in Wadestown, West Virginia, on Sunday, October 27, aged 52 years. His remains were brought to
Pittsburgh and the funeral service was held at his late home, and the interment took place October 29 in
the Uniondale Cemetery, Allegheny, the Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., officiating.

                                          November 10, 1901:
MRS. LIDA ANN ROBINSON, wife of Cyrus M. Robinson and daughter of Capt.Charles Goehring; lived with
her father's family a number of years on Grandview avenue, near Stanwix, and after her marriage on
Bailey avenue; confirmed December 28, 1873; died in Coraopolis, Friday, November 6. Funeral service at the
residence of Henry W. Sellers, Bailey avenue, on Tuesday, November 10, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery,
the rector officiating.

                                                  April 3, 1902:
LYNN M. THOMPSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Thompson, of Virginia avenue, died at his father's home,
Tuesday, April 1. Funeral service at the house, Wednesday, 8 P. M., and the interment in the
Brownsville Cemetery, at Brownsville, Pa., on Thursday, April 3, the rector officiating.
A lovely character, gentle and dutiful.

                                                   April 8, 1902:
OLIVER HALPIN STINSON, a vestryman and warden of Grace Church, run over by a traction car, at the
foot of Castle Shannon Incline Plane, Saturday, April 5, about 9:30 P.M.; taken to the South Side Hospital,
where he died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, April 6. Funeral service at his late residence, Bailey avenue,
Mount Washington, on Tuesday, April 8, at 1:30 P.M. and his interment at 4 P. M., in Uniondale Cemetery,
the rector officiating. A genial, popular man, successful in business and much loved by a wide circle of
friends. (See biographical sketch, page 280.)

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                                         June 22, 1902:
HENRY W. CLARK, organist and choir master of Grace Church since Easter, 1899; born in
London, England, July 9, 1867; came to Pittsbugh in 1884; died of typhoid fever, at his home on
Stanwix street, June 18, aged 35 years. Funeral service in Grace Church Sunday, June 22, at 2 P. M.,
conducted by the rector, the full choir of the church being present and singing the Hymns
"Asleep in Jesus" and "Lead, Kindly Light. " The Masons acted as pall-bearers and conducted the
ceremonies at the grave. Interment in Uniondale Cemetery. A Christian gentleman, true and noble.

                                           June 25, 1902:
AUGUST ELIZA BIGHAM, second daughter of the late Thomas J. and Maria L. Bigham, of Hill Home,
Woodville avenue; born January 31, 1857; spent her life at her ancestral home, on Mount Washington.
A devout communicant and efficient Sunday School teacher until physical infirmity compelled her to
relinquish the work; a clever, quick-witted, sympathetic, Christian woman; loved by children, whom her
command of clear, forcible language and her strong, accurate memory enabled her always to entertain.
Died at her home June 23, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and buried in Allegheny Cemetery. Eight young
men, members of her last Sunday School class, in accordance with her request, bore her remains to their
final resting place.

                                              July 17, 1902.
PHILIP FLINN ASHFORD, infant son of Thomas F., Jr., and Harriett J.Ashford; buried in Chartiers Cemetery;
aged two months.

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                                         October 1, 1902:
ARTHUR BERTRAM MARTIN, infant son of Harry and Amy Martin, of Mount Washington; buried
in the South Side Cemetery.

                                      December 21, 1902:
ANNIE MARIA BOND, wife of William L. Bond, Sr., of Virginia avenue and Oneida street, Duquesne Heights;
born September 1, 1837, died December 18, 1902, aged 65 years. Her whole life was passed in the limits of
Grace Church parish, of which she was a member from the time of its organization in 1851 . She was many
years teacher in the parish Sunday School and later in the Mission School, on Duquesne Heights, where
she continued to teach until deafness and failing sight obliged her to give up. She was long an active worker
in the Mite Society, and later for several years a member and also secretary of the Bishop Whitehead Guild
of Duquesne Heights, an auxiliary society of Grace Church parish. The last six months of her life she passed
in total blindness and great physical weakness, suffering at times intense pain; but under it all she was patient
and resigned, expressing the greatest confidence in God's mercy and goodness. She was a devout
communicant, a faithful wife and mother, a consistent Christian woman—truly a mother in Israel. The funeral
service was held in Grace Church, and her remains buried in Allegheny Cemetery.

                                          January 5, 1903:
MARY BRUCE ZEHFUSS, daughter of Phillip and Louisa Zehfuss; born December 6, 1894, died
January 3, 1903, at the residence of her parents, Kearsage street, near Sycamore, aged 8 years, and buried in
South Side Cemetery.

                                            March 18, 1903:
CHARLES HOWARD DURHAM, infant son of Charles H. and Edith S. Durham; born July 3, 1902, died
suddenly March 17, aged 8 months and 12 days. Funeral service by the rector, at the residence of his parents,
Plymouth street, Duquesne Heights, and the remains interred on the 19th at Rangoes, N. J.

                                             June 25, 1903:
ALBERT CLARENCE MARTIN, son of Albert Martin; drowned in the Monongahela River and buried in the
South Side Cemetery.

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July 19, 1903:
EMMA BENNETT, born in Bellefonte, Pa., June 16, 1832; lived some years in Meadville, then, about
thirty years ago, she came to Pittsburgh and made her home with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Boggs, of
Boggs avenue, until Mrs. Boggs' death, in 1895. She continued to live in her sister's late home, which
she inherited, where she died Friday, July 17. The funeral service was held at her late home Sunday,
the 19th, the rector officiating, at 5 P. M. The interment took place in Meadville, Monday, July 21, the
rector of Christ Church of that city officiating. A gentle, faithful woman; a consistent Christian, loved
and trusted by many friends.

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MARIA LOUISA BIGHAM,
THE CHIEF FOUNDER OF GRACE CHURCH, MOUNT
WASHINGTON.

    MRS. MARIA LOUISA BIGHAM, the daughter of Dr. Joel and Mary Ann Lewis, was born in Pittsburgh,
June 8, 1819. Her father, Dr. Joel Lewis, a prominent physician, was born in Christiana, Delaware, where
his ancestors, of Welsh extraction, originally settled; moved to Philadelphia, and finally, after graduating
at the Medical School of that city, settled in Pittsburgh and married Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, the youngest
daughter of Maj. Abraham Kirkpatrick, of the United States Army, whose home was on the Monongahela
River near where is now the corner of Water and Short streets. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis were members of old
Trinity Church, and here the subject of this sketch was baptized in infancy, and reared under the pastoral
care of the Rev. Dr. Hopkins. She was confirmed in the same church by Bishop Onderdonk in 1834.

    She was educated in the schools of the Rev. Dr. Lacey and Mr. Twining, two well-known educators of that
day, and afterwards spent several years in Philadelphia in the family of her paternal uncle, William. D. Lewis,
a leading banker of that city, in whose home she enjoyed many social and literary advantages. Returning to
Pittsburgh, she was married in Trinity Church, by the Rev. George Upfold, D. D., December 30, 1846, to
Thomas J. Bigham, a young attorney at the Pittsburgh bar, just then rising into prominence in the politics
of his native State.

    Soon after their marriage her husband built a handsome brick residence on Mount Washington, on his
wife's property, inherited from the estate of her grandfather, Major Kirkpatrick. They moved up to their new
home in 1850, and there, in a beautiful spot, surrounded by the primitive forest, they reared a family of five
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and passed in peace the rest of their days. Mrs. Bigham had an ardent attachment to her Hill Home.
She loved the stately trees and the beautiful wild flowers which grow in great profusion in the woods,
and nothing distressed her more than injury to her trees or wanton destruction of the flowers by chance
passers through the grounds. Soon as she was settled in her new home she began to form plans for the
religious benefit of the neighborhood, and it was chiefly through the efforts and influence of herself and
her husband that Grace Church congregation was formed and the present church building erected.

Mrs. Bigham was all her life a very active church-worker. She taught in the Sunday School for many years;
she played the organ and directed the singing for a time after the church was built, and always took a
leading part in the plans adopted for the support and improvement of the church.

Here we may mention a pleasing and somewhat unusual incident in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Bigham, in
which the rector was called upon to take part. Sunday, December 30, 1883, was the thirty-seventh anniversary
of their marriage, and they were desirous of publicly marking the day by special thanksgiving; so, at morning
prayer, immediately after the second lesson, the rector having stated that they desired the congregation to
unite with them in thanksgivings to God for His mercies to them during the past thirty-seven years of their
married life, and in invoking His special blessing for their remaining days, Mr. and Mrs. Bigham went up and
knelt at the chancel rail. The Lord's Prayer was said, followed by the Collects for the fourth Sunday after Trinity
and the fourth Sunday after Easter, a special thanksgiving and other selected prayers. The rector then closed
with the prayer and blessing from the Marriage Office. The mind shot quickly back to the time, thirty-seven years
before, when these same words were first said over this man and this woman. Each called up in memory the
hopes and the fears, the successes and the disappointments that had marked these slow gliding years, and
noted the unmistakable traces which they had left upon the now aged couple. In place of the bloom and
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receive this blessing there were now present all the signs of age. The hair was white, the cheeks pale,
and the step faltering. All felt, however, for these reasons, a more tender sympathy for man and wife going
on thus faithfully together, trusting in Him who had safely brought them through all these years, and firmly
hoping that the God of their fathers would be with them to the end; therefore, when that blessing was again
pronounced, there went up from the hearts of all present a most fervent "Amen!"

    This was their last marriage anniversary together. About ten months later Mr. Bigham was called to rest,
and Mrs. Bigham passed her remaining years in her Hill Home, where her sorrow and loneliness were
relieved by the devoted attentions of her son and her two daughters. She was still the same cheerful, hopeful
woman, devoted to her children, loving her wood-embowered home, and relying peacefully upon the mercy
and goodness of God.

    She lived four years after the departure of her husband, and died Sunday, October 14, 1888, in the seventieth
year of her age.

    Her remains were buried in Allegheny Cemetery beside those of her husband.

    Mrs. Bigham was a woman of strong character, full of energy and firm of purpose. She inherited from her
parents a fine physique and the instincts and traits of a well-bred lady. She was quiet and gentle in speech;
had great grace and dignity of manner, and possessed rare intelligence and a highly cultivated mind.
She was an earnest and devout churchwoman, as much from choice and conviction as from inheritance and
education. She was a regular and faithful attendant upon public worship, and found in the church ministrations
comfort and help in all times of trial and sorrow.

                          "For her we need not mourn. 'Tis we who stand
                               In need of pity for our grevious loss.
                            We miss the loving heart, the helping hand,
                               The faith that gloried in her Savior's cross.

                            "Among the blessed ones she finds her home,
                                  And converse holds with angels face to face;
                              And when they worship 'neath heaven's arching dome,
                                  With native courtesy she takes her place."

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    In the address made at her funeral the rector said:

                                                                                         * * *

    "Our departed sister had nearly filled out her three score years and ten, and retained in remarkable
vigor up to her last illness all the powers of mind and body. Her interest in life and her activity in its duties
continued to the last, and when stricken down her mind was full of plans for the furtherance of schemes
of religious and benevolent work, in which she always took a deep interest. I knew her intimately for twenty
years, and during these years saw much of her life, and knew much of her hopes and wishes. She gave me
unreservedly her confidence as her pastor, and her affection as a friend; and I found in her family much of
the encouragement and help which a pastor so greatly needs. I feel, therefore, that not only has our parish
lost an active, earnest worker, but that I and all of us have lost a kind and sympathetic friend.

                                                                                      * * *

    She valued very highly her privileges as a member of the Church. From her birth she had been accustomed
to the use of its beautiful liturgy and reverent worship, and as years went by she learned to love and value
these the more and in them to find her greatest spiritual help. Her high estimate of membership in Christ's
Church was shown in regular attendance upon public worship. You know how rarely she was absent, how
constantly she came to the Holy Communion, how devout and earnest she was in the service, and how
strictly in voice and manner she performed her part of the worship, acting throughout as if she felt that here
she was in God's presence, and that her only duty here was to honor His name and Word. Reared and
nurtured in the Church, she never knew any other spiritual guidance but that which it supplied, and she
found all her needs satisfied in its ministrations. She accepted in simple faith the great truths of Redemption
as presented by the Church. Knowing that she was the child of God by baptism, and trusting for salvation
through the merits of Christ, she calmly relied upon God's promises and submitted patiently to His will. As
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they seemed to soften and deepen the spiritual side of her nature and to strengthen her faith in
God's promises to His children.

                                                                             ***

    "I believe that God rewarded her faith with a comforting sense of His goodness that does not come to
us all. She died as she lived, trusting in her Savior, and we can therefore lay her to rest with the hope
that God will have her safe in His blessed keeping.

    "Let us, then, Beloved, honor her memory and emulate her example. Let us thank God for her simple
faith in His Word and her lifelong devotion to His service.

    "May a large measure of her devout spirit fall upon us all, and may God raise up here among us many
to serve Him in like earnestness.

                                                                                      * * *

    'Be faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.' "

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THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRST VESTRY OF
GRACE CHURCH, 1851.

Thomas J. Bigham.                                                        George T. Lowen.
A. Kirk Lewis.                                                                   Andrew Rowland.
William Adams.                                                                Benjamin White.
Richard Stubbs.

The writer succeeded in getting the pictures and the data for biographical sketches of only the first three.

HON. THOMAS JAMES BIGHAM.

    Thomas James Bigham, son of Thomas and Sarah Christy Bigham, was born in Westmoreland
County, February 12, 1810, at the home of his grandfather, James Christy. His father having
died before he was born, and his mother a few months after his birth, he was brought up by his
grandparents, who were Presbyterian Seceders, or Covenanters, of the strictest kind. He was
educated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, where he was graduated in 1834. On leaving college
he entered upon the study of law, and became a practitioner in the Allegheny County courts.

    He married Maria Louisa Lewis, daughter of Dr. Joel Lewis and Mary Ann Lewis, the youngest
daughter of Maj. Abraham Kirkpatrick, in Trinity Church, December 30, 1846. His wife was born in
Pittsburgh, June 8, 1819, and was raised in the Episcopal Church, her parents being members of
Trinity Church. In 1849, as he says in his sketch of the early history of Grace Church, Mr. Bigham
moved with his family to Mount Washington, and he and his wife at once took steps to organize a
Sunday School and church for the people of the vicinity; and this was the beginning of Grace
Church. Mr. Bigham was confirmed by Bishop Alonza Potter, in Grace Church, September 14, 1854,
and became and thereafter continued to be a regular communicant to the end of his days.

    Mr. Bigham was prominent in the political affairs of his State, even more than he was as a lawyer.
He was a member of the State Senate several terms, and afterwards held the position of State
Statistician, and gathered much valuable information concerning the industrial interests of Pennsylvania.

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    He was a member of the first vestry of Grace Church, elected at the organization of the parish in
1851, which position he held continuously (except for a short period of absence from the parish)
until his death. He was for many years the senior warden, and frequently acted as lay reader in
maintaining the services during vacancies in the rectorship of the parish. He often represented the
parish in the Diocesan Convention, of which body his legal attainments made him a valuable member.
He died November 9, 1884, having reached the ripe age of 74. He was buried from Trinity Church
November 11, and was laid to rest in Allegheny Cemetery.

    Mr. Bigham was one of the most widely known citizens of Pittsburgh. For many years he was a leader
in political matters, and his speeches, his voice, and his presence all combined to render him prominent
among the men of his day.

    In the address made at his funeral his pastor and friend, Rev. R. J. Coster, spoke as follows:

   * * *

    "The close of a noble life has brought us together here today. An aged servant of God, full of years, has
gone to his rest, and we are here to honor his memory. For many years he has been prominent in the
affairs of our city and State, and an active worker in the Church which he adopted from choice and loved
and reverenced from conviction. Honored for his integrity, respected for his ability, and admired for his
noble traits of character, he has ended a long and useful life, and now sleeps in peace. His life record is
before you.

                                                                              * * *

    Standing prominent among the leading men of our city for so many years, he was a man
well known amongst us. His public life is a part of the history of our city and State. As a learned lawyer and
a wise legislator he was better known to most of you than he was to me. Justice will be done to his memory
in these respects by others better fitted than I am to speak of his public career. But if you will bear with me
a few moments I will speak a word or two of him as the earnest churchman and the Christian gentleman.
It has been my privilege to be intimately associated with him for sixteen years as his pastor, and one of the
greatest pleasures of my ministry has been that of intercourse, in the retirement of his home, with a mind
and character such as he possessed.

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    "Always affable and courteous, one could not be long with him without feeling the sincerity and
nobleness of the man, while his stores of learning and his wonderful memory, combined with his
simple and unpretentious manner, gave a charm to his conversation that is rarely equaled.

                                                                                * * *

    "As a churchman he was zealous and faithful, giving liberally of his means and his time for the
interests of the Church. His face and his voice were long familiar in our Diocesan Convention, where
he took an active part in its legislation. He served his Church for many years as a vestryman and warden,
and as long as his duties and his health permitted he was a regular and efficient Sunday School teacher
and superintendent. It is rarely that men in his profession, burdened with public duties, think that they can
find time for Sunday School work. All honor, then, to those who, like our departed friend, can find it in their
hearts to make sacrifices of time and labor for the furtherance of the Gospel.

    "There is one special trait of our friend's character which I desire particularly to mention, namely, his
simple, child-like faith. Whatever gifts he had, and you know they were not a few, he seemed to lay them all
at the feet of Christ, and to say, like Samuel 'Speak Lord, for Thy servant heareth.' I long for the firm grasp
of the promises of God and the unfailing trust in His mercy that this venerable man had. Nothing doubting,
nothing questioning, he accepted the ministrations of the Church in their fullness and rested completely in
the promises of God made to his faithful children in His Church. Always in his place at public worship, and
regular in his attendance at Holy Communion, he showed to the world that his faith was indeed real and that
he was a true servant of his Divine Master."

                                                          GEORGE THOMAS LOWEN.

    George Thomas Terendo Wells Lowen, commonly called George, descended from that hardy race of seamen
to whom England owes her naval supremacy, was born in Middlesex, Southgate, Kent, England, on
November 20, 1809. He married Mary Cook (born in Margate, Kent, England, on April 26, 1807),

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in her native place, April 6, 1828. Six years later he left England for the United States, having set
sail from St. Catherine's Docks, London, on September 14, 1834, in the ship Allegheny, commanded
by Captain Michells, and landed, with his wife and five children, in Philadelphia on November 11 of the
same year. After spending one week in Philadelphia, he started for Pittsburgh in a stage coach, and
completed the rough journey in three days and three nights. He spent two years farming down at Beaver,
and then came to Pittsburgh and made his home at the corner of Fifth avenue and, Washington street.
The Pittsburgh Gas Works had just been completed at that time, and Mr. Lowen was engaged by the
company to do gas fitting, and managed the first gas-fitting establishment set up in Pittsburgh. A few
years later the gas company sold out the gas-fitting department, and appointed Mr. Lowen gas inspector,
which position he held until 1875, when he became so afflicted with rheumatism that he was forced to retire,
after spending forty years in the employ of the gas company.

    On his retiring the gas company presented to him the sum of $1,000 as a token of their appreciation of his
integrity and faithfulness during so many years of service.

    Mr. Lowen became a citizen of the United States, by naturalization, October 12, 1840.

    After the great fire in 1845 he sold his property at Fifth avenue and Washington street and moved to
Mount Washington and located on Virginia street, corner of Railroad. Here the family resided for about
eight years, and in 1854 he moved to a farm in Union Township, back of Mount Washington, where he ended
his days. After retiring from the gas works he devoted his attention to the management of his farm. He lived
here in comfort and contentment, surrounded by his children. He raised a large family of sons and daughters,
and has many decendants living in and near Pittsburgh. He was elected a member of the "first vestry of Grace
Church on the organization of the parish in 1851, and continued to hold that office for several years.

    He died February 12, 1885, in his seventy-sixth year, trusted and respected by all who knew him.

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ABRAHAM KIRKPATRICK LEWIS.

    A. Kirk. Lewis, son of Dr. Joel Lewis, the first graduate of medicine who practiced in Pittsburgh,
and Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, youngest daughter of Maj. Abraham Kirkpatrick, also of Pittsburgh, was
born in Pittsburgh August 24, 1815. He was baptized and confirmed in Trinity Church, Pittsburgh,
of which church his father and mother were members.

    He was educated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and graduated about 1836. After devoting a
short time to the study of medicine, he abandoned that as a profession and took up the study of law.
He was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar, where he practiced for a number of years. In the latter part of
his life he devoted much time and attention to the developement of the coal deposits underlying the
homestead property of the Kirkpatrick family on Mount Washington.

    Mr. Lewis was exceptionally well informed in Church doctrines and literature, and was an earnest,
devout churchman. During his whole life he took a very active part in Church work. He was one of the
founders of Grace Church, and was elected a member of the first vestry of that church on the organization
of the parish in 1851, and held that position continuously for a number of years. He was secretary of the
vestry, and all the earlier records of the parish are in his handwriting. He served also for a number of years
as vestryman of Trinity Church, the mother church of Pittsburgh.

    His wife, Mary Orth, of Steubenville, to whom he was married April 16, 1846, died December 18, 1853,
leaving four children, the youngest of whom died April 13, 1861. A son and two daughters are still
living.

    Mr. Lewis was a man of unfaltering principles, of manly spirit, of refined and cultivated tastes, and noble,
generous disposition. He possessed the chivalry of his grandfather, Major Kirkpatrick, and the high culture
of his father, Dr. Joel Lewis. He died in Pittsburgh, at his home on Mount Washington, November 10, 1860,
highly respected by a wide circle of devoted friends, and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery.

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MEMBERS OF THE VESTRY OF 1869, AT THE
TIME OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE
CHURCH.

Edward Bratt, senior warden; John C. Shaler, junior warden; Samuel H. Harper, treasurer;
Thomas J. Bigham, William L. Bond, John S. McMillin, William Halpin.

EDWARD BRATT, SENIOR WARDEN, VESTRYMAN AND
TREASURER OF GRACE CHURCH.

Edward Bratt, born November, 1805, in West Bromish, near Dudley Castle, England, was decended from
an old family of skilled iron workers. He learned in his native place his father's trade of iron refiner, and
early became a very skillful workman. He married Jane Richards, daughter, of Benjamin Richards, of
Wolverhampton, England, in October, 1827, in the parish church of West Bromish.

He left England in 1830, with his family, then consisting of his wife and two children, James and Mary,
and sailed for America, landing in New York -- —, after a stormy voyage of six weeks. He first settled in
Boonton, New Jersey, where he worked at his trade of iron refiner in the iron mills of that place. After seven
years spent in Boonton, he moved to Pittsburgh, in 1837, already at that time an important center of the iron
industry, and worked at his trade in the Kensington Mills. In 1843 he formed a co-operative partnership
with Messrs. Fuller, Cooper and Dangerfield, and with them established an iron manufactory in Franklin,
Venango County, Pa., to which place he moved with his family and spent three years. The business, owing
to the difficulty of transporting their products to market, was not satisfactorily successful, and in 1846 the
company sold their works to Henry B. Coulter, of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Bratt returned to Pittsburgh and
resumed his trade in the Kensington Mills, living meantime at the corner of Third avenue and Grant street.
In 1858 he purchased a large piece of ground on Mount Washington, at the corner of Wyoming and
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home on this ground, moved his family up on the Fourth of July of that year. Here he spent the remainder
of his life, known and respected by all the residents of the Hill district. He raised a family of seven children,
three sons and four daughters. Two of his sons became physicians, and a third served in the Army of the
West through the War of the Rebellion, and after participating in several engagements was severely
wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro.

    Mr. Bratt was justice of the peace for more than twenty years in the borough of Mount Washington,
afterwards the Thirty-second Ward, and was familiarly known as Squire Bratt. His official character was
unblemished and his integrity without reproach.

    He was confirmed by Bishop Kerfoot in Grace Church, July 18 ,1869, along with his daughter Nellie, and
at once became a devout and consistent comnunicant. He was elected a vestryman in 1868, and continued
to hold that office until his death. He was also made treasurer of the vestry at Easter, 1872, which position he
held for twelve years, and was relieved of his trust then only on his own urgent solicitation, because the
infirmities of age made him desire to be relieved of responsibility.

    Mr. Bratt met with an accident in his trade by which he lost his right leg below the knee. This loss, though in
part remedied by the use of an artificial limb, much hindered his getting about; and yet his punctuality in
keeping engagements and his regularity in attending public worship were remarkable, and showed what
determination of purpose and conscientiousness of life can accomplish, even when one is hindered by the
feebleness of age and impeded by the loss of a limb. He lost his faithful wife on the 5th of February, 1884,
after they had lived together fifty- seven years. Life now seemed to him a different thing without the
companionship of her who all these years had been his helper and counselor; and though he complained not,
yet he felt keenly the unwonted loneliness. The devotion and attention of his daughters soothed his
bereavement and mitigated his loneliness. In the following year his end came. He died October 30, 1885,
and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery on All Saints' Day, November 1.

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    In the address made at the church during the funeral service the rector ended by saying:

    "Our departed friend lived beyond the allotted time of man, having filled out four-score years, and,
loved and respected by all who knew him, ripe in the Christian graces of humility and faith, and full
of the hope for that better life which awaits the people of God, has gone to his rest in peace. Long
have we had before us his quiet, gentle, unassuming life; long have we known his truthfulness, his
faithfulness, his uprightness. In all the duties of life he was conscientious and truthful. As a husband
and father he was kind and affectionate; as a friend and neighbor he was generous and charitable;
as a citizen and churchman reliable and faithful.

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    "He was abstemious in all his habits and temperate in manner and speech. The marked traits of his
character, I should say, were truthfulness, honesty and gentleness, Christian graces of the highest order.
You felt these characteristics of the man in all your intercourse with him.

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    In his religious duties his fidelity and consistency were very marked. Notwithstanding the fact that he
walked with difficulty, his seat was rarely ever vacant in the church at the time of public worship. Sitting
there, just below me, I could not but observe that he was ever a devout and attentive worshiper. His
responses were steady and hearty, and he attentively followed the lessons with his Bible open before him.
He steadily went on in his quiet, devout manner, doing what he could, less by speech than by manner and
action, to aid the Church that he loved and to give honor to his Divine Master. He has now finished his
course and gone to his rest in the faith of his forefathers, and in the ripeness of a contented and peaceful
old age. Thank God, then, brethren, for the devout life, the good example of His faithful servant, and honor
his memory and emulate his virtues."

JOHN CONWAY SHALER, JR., JUNIOR WARDEN, 1869.

John Conway Shaler, Jr., only son of John C. and Sena Shaler, was born October 13, 1843, on his father's
farm on Coal Hill, South Side, in that part of the Hill now known as Duquesne Heights, in the Thirty fifth Ward
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Judge Charles Shaler, of Pittsburgh, and a great-grandson of Maj. Abraham Kirkpatrick, from whom
his family inherited the land on which he resided until his death. Up to his eighteenth year his life was
that of the average boy raised on a farm. He received the elementary part of his education at a country
school in the neighborhood of his home, and afterwards had the benefit of a two-years course of study
in the select school kept by the Rev. Richard S. Smith in the old Sunday School room of Trinity Church,
Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh.

He was baptized in Grace Church, by the Rev. J. S. Hodges, on September 28, 1856, and confirmed in
the same place, by the Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1862.
Soon after his confirmation in 1862, when nearly nineteen years of age, he enlisted in Hampton's Battery,
of Pittsburgh, a light artillery company, which gained high distincton for gallantry in the War of the
Rebellion. He served with this battery continuously from the time of his enlistment until the close of
hostilities in April, 1865.

After leaving the army he entered into mercantile pursuits in Pittsburgh, and also in Cincinnati and St. Louis,
for the most part in the employ of others, though, for ten years he conducted a glassware business in his
own name. He married November 4, 1869, Nellie Ruth Bratt, youngest daughter of the late Edward and
Jane Bratt, of Wyoming street, and has three sons, two of whom were baptized and all of whom have been
confirmed in Grace Church. Mr. Shaler was closely identified with Grace Church almost from its organization---
first as a Sunday School scholar, then as librarian of the Sunday School, then a teacher in the same, and then
for many years he was superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a vestryman of Grace Church for a
number of years, acting frequently as secretary of the vestry and warden of the church. He was several times
a deputy to the Diocesan Convention, and often acted as lay reader. He represented his ward (the 35th) in the
city council and for a number of years was a member of the Board of School Directors. His life, it may be seen,
therefore, was a very active and useful one, both as a churchman and as a citizen.

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In the midst of his usefulness, and while planning for the promoting of the Church's interests, he was
unexpectedly called away. Sunday, January 17, 1897, he was at church both in the morning and in the
evening, and after the evening service he walked with the rector to the Mount Washington Incline Plane,
where he stood a short time with the rector talking over some matters of church work which gave him
anxiety. The air was keen and rain was beginning to fall. They parted and Mr. Shaler walked hurriedly to
his home on Duquesne Heights, getting quite wet and heated in his walk. The next day, Monday, was ill,
and on Friday, almost before his friends knew of his illness, he died. He was buried from Grace Church
on Sunday afternoon, the 24th inst., the rector officiating, assisted by the Rev. A. D. Brown. Grace Church
has lost no other member whose death left such a gap in all its parochical activities.The rector, the vestry,
the Sunday School, all missed his inspiring presence, and knew not who would take his place. All still miss
him (1903) and remember with devout thankfulness his beautiful and useful life. He was a noble, pure,
devout servant of God, faithful and untiring in his work for the Blessed Master. It is a glory to the Church to
carry upon its records the name of such a worthy, true man. Though dead, his work and his example still
speak for his Master. "May I die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like his."

WILLIAM LUKE BOND.

William Luke Bond, son of Joseph and Sarah Bond, was born in the city of Gloucester, England,
June 18, 1830. His father was a nurseryman and florist, and he adopted his father's business. He was
baptized in St. Michael's Church, Gloucester, by the Rev. Charles Hardwick, who was for forty years rector
of St. Michael's, of which church his father, Joseph Bond, was for many years senior warden, and was holding
the position when he died. He and three hundred others from the different churches of the city were confirmed
on the same day, by Bishop Monk, in Gloucester Cathedral.

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He came to the United States in 1848 and went first with A. J. Downing to Washington, D. C, to
assist in improving the Capitol grounds, and then came to Pittsburgh in 1853 and engaged with
A. Kirk Lewis in the gardening and greenhouse business,on Mount Washington, and made his home
on Virginia avenue near Oneida street, now Thirty-second Ward of Pittsburgh.

He married Annie M. Golding, December 27, 1860, in St. Mark's Church, South Side, the Rev. Jubal Hodges
officiating. He was a member of, the vestry at the time of the consecration of Grace Church, in 1869, and
continued to hold this position for a number of years. He has five sons, all baptized and members
of Grace Church.

CAPT. JOHN SMITH MCMILLIN.

    John Smith McMillin, son of William and Catherine Smith McMillin, Scotch-Irish Covenanters, who settled in
Beaver County at the close of the last century, was born July 23, 1817, in Georgetown, Beaver County, Pa.,
where he spent his youth and received a common school education. He was the fourth child of a family of
thirteen children. When fifteen years old he engaged in keel-boating on the Ohio River; he next became a pilot
on a steamboat, and soon, by quickness and attention to business, he became a captain and was master and
owner of several fine boats, and ran regularly to Memphis, New Orleans and all points on the
Lower Mississippi River. During the Civil War he won for himself high reputation for bravery by fearlessly
running the blockade at Vicksburg in his boat, the Silver Wave, and carrying supplies to the army below the city.
He invented and put into successful use the well-known steam capstan, now a necessary part of the equipment
of every river steamboat.

    In April, 1853, he moved to Pittsburgh and built a home on Grandview avenue, corner of Bigham street,
Mount Washington, where he continued to reside until his death.

    He was married twice. His first wife was Phebe Ann Fry, daughter of Dr. Thomas Fry, of Rhode Island, who
moved with his family to Georgetown. They were married in Georgetown in December, 1846,

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and Mrs. McMillin died in Pittsburgh July 8, 1866, leaving no children. His second wife, Mary Bindley,
eldest daughter of John C. and Elmina Bindley, of Pittsburgh, he married August 7, 1867. She and
three children, one daughter and two sons, survive him. He was baptized by Dr. Killikelly, in Grace Church,
July 10, 1866, at the funeral of his first wife, beside the remains, and was confirmed by Bishop Kerfoot in
St. Peter's Church, Pittsburgh, April 14, 1867. He was a vestryman of Grace Church nearly thirty years ;
was several times senior warden ; six years treasurer of the church, and was frequently deputy of the same
church to the Annual Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He was a liberal contributor to the expense
of putting a basement schoolroom under the church in 1865, and also to the fund for finishing and
furnishing the church in 1869. He was a contributor to the support of the church from the time he moved
to Mount Washington and a communicant of the same for twenty-six years. He died March 11, 1893, in the
seventy-sixth year of his age.

The circumstances of his death were peculiar. On Saturday morning, March 11, 1893, he started as usual for
his place of business in the city, the Bindley Hardware Company. Near his gate he met Miss Elizabeth Kenah,
and they walked on together, the Captain being, as he often was, in a joking, playful mood. They were
proceeding along Grandview avenue going toward the Monongahela Incline Plane, and had just crossed
Stanwix street, when he threw his left hand up to his head with an exclamation of sudden pain, tottered, and
laid hold of the fence at the side of the street, sank down to the ground and in a few moments (before a
physician could reach him) was dead.

The funeral service was held at his late residence on Tuesday, March 14, 1893, at 2 P. M., in the presence of
a large gathering of his relations and friends, and he was buried the same afternoon in Allegheny Cemetery.
He was a well-known man, of strong character, noted for his simplicity, honesty and sincerity.

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    The Rev. R. J. Coster, in an address at his funeral, said:

    "God's providences sometimes touch our hearts with peculiar force and stir our feelings to their lowest
depths. Their suddenness and their pathetic surroundings point to God's immediate presence and tell us
that they are the work of His Hand. We cannot read the secret counsels of the Almighty; but this we know,
His ways are wise and merciful. He doeth all things well. His infinite wisdom precludes mistakes. In faith,
therefore, we bow to His Blessed Will, believing that His ordering is best. In times of sudden bereavement,
like this, the promises of God's Holy Word come to give us resignation and comfort. The Church of Christ,
the mother of all the believing, comes to us with her sacred ministrations; her lessons and her prayers
speak to us in Christ's name and bid us fear not, faint not.

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    "These thoughts harmonize well with the occasion that brings us together here today. Our friend and
fellow-servant of God, to whom His Master granted more than his three-score years and ten, has been
suddenly taken from our midst. So unexpected was the summons that we can hardly yet realize that we shall
no more meet him in his home; no more meet him in the church.

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We have been so long accustomed to
see his tall form and his striking features, so long accustomed to see his kindly smile and to hear cordial
welcome, that we shall sadly miss him many days. We had learned to look upon him almost as a permanent
part of this community. For forty years he had occupied this home and identified himself with the interests of
this section of the city. Most or all of those years he has been closely connected with Grace Church. For nearly
thirty years he was one of its vestrymen; he was several times senior warden, for many years treasurer, and
frequently he represented his parish in the Diocesan Convention All these years he and his family have been
members of Grace Church, and often have they come to its aid in times of need. Some of you have known our
departed friend longer than I have, but for nearly twenty-five years I have enjoyed his friendship and confidence.
His home was always open to me, and here I always met a kindly greeting and a

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cordial welcome. I constantly met him on terms of closest intimacy, and this intimacy only increased
my confidence and respect for the man. As one learned to know him well, and to understand his ways
and modes of expression, one could not fail to appreciate the sterling traits of his character, his simplicity,
his honesty, his sincerity. Like every man of strong character, he had his peculiarities, and these
peculiarities caused him sometimes to be misunderstood by those who imperfectly knew him. But to his
intimate friends these peculiarities only intensified his personality and made him the man that they love to
honor and remember. His sudden departure while still busy with his ordinary duties, the tragic termination
of his active life, will tend to prolong his memory and to deepen the keenness of our sense of loss. But let us
not sorrow for him as men without hope. He was a believer in Christ. He was a communicant of the Church.
He died in the faith; and although he was reserved in the expression of his religious convictions, as most
men of a like character are, yet he accepted the great truths of the Gospel and died trusting in his Lord. We
can, therefore, lay him to rest believing that God will deal mercifully with him for Christ's sake and give him
the rest and peace that shall be the portion of his faithful people."

MAJOR. SAMUEL HARPER.

Samuel Harper was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., August 8, 1837, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and was baptized
in infancy by the late Joseph Kerr, D. D., then pastor of the Associate Reformed Church, on Sixth avenue.
His father died when he was nine years old, leaving a large family. He was educated in the public schools of
Pittsburgh, and when seventeen years old entered the law office of John Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, as a clerk,
and soon after was registered as a law student. In December, 1855, he accompanied his preceptor,
John Hamilton, to Fort Madison, Iowa, and remained there until the death of Mr. Hamilton, in 1856. He then
returned to Pittsburgh and continued the study of law, and in October, 1858, was admitted to practice
in the courts of Allegheny County.

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    He married July 17, 1860, Helen Whittier, daughter of Isaac and Adeline M. Whittier, of Grandview
avenue, Mount Washington. He now became a member of the Episcopal Church, to which his wife
and her family belonged, and was confirmed by Bishop Stevens, in St. Andrew's Church,
Pittsburgh, in 1861.

    He was thoroughly loyal during our late Civil War (1861-65), and entered the Union Army in August, 1862,
and served to the close of the war as an officer in the 139th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.

    In May, 1867, he was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for his Congressional District, and continued to
hold this office until his death. He was a vestryman of Grace Church in 1868 and 1869, and it was largely
due to his efforts that the church was finished and furnished in the latter year and all the indebtedness paid
off, that the church might be consecrated. He held the position of vestryman in Grace Church for a number
of years successively, and then on the death of Mr. Isaac Whittier, his father-in-law, succeeded him as a
vestryman of St. Andrew's Church, and held that position until his death.

    Mr. Harper was a positive man, strong in his convictions and strict in the performance of duty. The bent
of early religious instructions influenced his opinions on Church matters to the end, and prevented him
from being in full sympathy with the doctrinal position and teachings of his adopted Church as expounded
by such sound and learned theologians as Bishops Whittingham and Kerfoot. And yet, while in favor of
giving to the laity wide latitude in interpreting the doctrinal standards of the Church, he thought that the
clergy should be held in all their teachings and ministrations strictly to the letter and spirit of the rubrics
and canons of the Church.

    Mr. Harper was very prominent as an officer of the Grand Army of the Republic, and spent much time and
labor in fostering the interests and purposes of that patriotic organization. He died May 16, 1889, aged 52 years,
greatly respected by a wide circle of friends, leaving a wife and five children, two sons and three daughters.

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WILLIAM HALPIN.

    William Halpin, son of William and Mary Halpin, was born in the village of Larganguen, County Louth,
Ireland, January 15, 1830. He was baptized in the village church in infancy and was confirmed by
Richard Wheatley, Archbishop of Dublin, in St. Peter's Church, Dublin, November 28, 1843, and received
his first communion at the same time and place.

    When about seventeen years old he emigrated to America, landing in New York June 15, 1847, and
arriving in Pittsburgh, his future home, July 3 of the same year.

    He was married in Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, by the Rev. T. B. Lyman, D. D., rector, June 18, 1857, to
Maria W. Lowen, daughter of George T. and Mary Lowen, of Pittsburgh, and in 1858 moved to
Mount Washington and made his home on Virginia street, now Thirty-second Ward, Pittsburgh, where he
spent the rest of his life. His business was plumbing and gas fitting, and he was for a number of years a
member of the firm of Jarvis & Halpin, and later the head of the firm of Halpin, Kennedy & Co.

    He was elected a member of the vestry of Grace Church in 1867, and held the position for more than
ten years, acting several times meanwhile as warden and deputy to the Diocesan Convention. He became
later a member of St. Peter's, Pittsburgh, and a vestryman of that church.

    Mr. Halpin took a very active part in finishing and refurnishing Grace Church in 1869; and in 1875, when
the church was newly ,frescoed and painted, he put in a stained-glass chancel window as a memorial to
his father and mother, who lie buried, the one in an unknown grave in Dublin, having died in a cholera
epidemic, the other in the sea, having died on the voyage to America.

    Mr. Halpin continued to attend St. Peter's Church until 1897, when, feeling somewhat increasing feebleness
from age, he left and again began to attend Grace Church. His strength failed rapidly from this time, and on
Good Friday, April 11, 1900, he died, in the seventy-first year of his age, outliving his wife

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not quite two years. All his life Mr. Halpin was an earnest churchman and regular attendant upon
public worship. He could be seen every Sunday morning going to church to take his place among
the worshipers. He was, too, a very devout and hearty worshiper, few entering more earnestly into the
service of the hour than he did. In this respect his life was truly exemplary, and we of today who are
less punctilious in regard to the sacred duty of public worship may take a wholesome lesson from
such a life as was that of our departed brother.

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VESTRY OF 1893.

Alfred Marland, senior warden; Oliver H. Stinson, junior warden ; Melville L. Stout, secretary ;
George A. Johnson, treasurer; Thomas S. Ashford, Sr., John C. Shaler, Orin W. Sadler, M. D.

ALFRED MARLAND, VESTRYMAN AND SENIOR WARDEN
OF GRACE CHURCH

Alfred Marland, son of George and__________ Marland,was born at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire,
England, March 12, 1837, and, according to the records of Ashton Parish Church (St. Michael's), he
was baptized on Sunday, April 9, 1837. He was confirmed in the same church September 4, 1852, by
the Bishop of Manchester, in whose diocese Ashton-under-Lyne is situated. His name was enrolled on
the Sunday School books from early childhood up to the time of his leaving England to take part in the
Russo- Turkish war. In 1854 he joined the Osmanli Horse Artillery and served two years in Asiatic Turkey
in and around Constantinople. At the close of the war he returned to England, and again joined the
Sunday School of his native parish and maintained his connection therewith until he left England, in 1863,
to come to the United States. He came to Pittsburgh in 1867, and two years later married Sarah Smith, and,
having finally made his home on Mount Washington, he and his family became members of Grace Church.
Having learned the trade of machinist and engineer in his native country, he followed this business for some
years after coming to Pittsburgh. In 1882 he established the firm of Marland, Neely & Co., for the manufacture
of nuts and bolts. He was a member of the city council from the Thirty-second Ward from 1878 to 1888, and
was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1889.

He is a churchman by birth and education, and therefore was a regular worshiper at Grace Church from the
time of his moving to Mount Washington and locating his home on Southern avenue.

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He was first elected a member of the vestry of Grace Church in 1873, and continuously took an active
interest in the affairs of the parish, and steadily did what he could to promote its welfare. He has one
son and two daughters. In 1897 he moved from the parish to a farm in West Virginia, where at this date
(1903) he continues to reside, still keeping his interest in the Church and her work and attending the
services whenever an opportunity offers.

OLIVER HALPIN STINSON.

    Oliver Halpin Stinson, eldest son of Robert and Ann Stinson, was born in Pittsburgh, March 13, 1858. His
parents came from Dublin, Ireland, and settled in Pittsburgh. They were members of the Anglican Church
and raised their children in the same faith.

    Oliver was baptized in Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, May 14, 1858, by the rector, the Rev. Theodore B. Lyman.
He was confirmed in the same church on Easter eve, March 31, 1877, by John Barrett Kerfoot, D. D., first
Bishop of Pittsburgh, and received his first communion on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1877, at the hands of the
Rev. William A. Hitchcock, then rector of Trinity Church.

    He received his elementary education in the public schools of Pittsburgh, then entered the Western
University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1877.

    He learned the plumbing and gas-fitting business and became a member of the firm of Halpin, Kennedy & Co.
In 18—, he moved to Mount Wahington and began to attend the services of Grace Church. At Easter, 1888,
he was elected a member of the vestry of Grace Church, and in 1889 he was made junior warden, and held this
position at his death. He was married in Grace Church, June 25, 1891, by Bishop Whitehead, to Anna Margaret
Hosbach, daughter of John and Margaret E. Hosbach, of Hazelwood, Pittsburgh, and went to live in his new
home, on Bailey avenue, Mount Washington, in a beautiful site overlooking the two rivers and the lower part
of the city.

    Mr. Stinson was a churchman by birth and education; he was a prudent counselor in all Church affairs, and
a citizen much respected for his integrity and courtesy.

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His sudden, unexpected death was a great shock to his friends. While on his way home Saturday
evening, April 5, 1902, he was run over by a street car at the foot of Castle Shannon Incline Plane,
and, being taken to the South Side Hospital, died at 6 o'clock the next morning. He was buried from
his home, on Bailey avenue, Tuesday, April 8, the rector officiating. He was a genial, popular man,
successful in business and much esteemed by a wide circle of friends. Taken away suddenly in the
prime of life, with so much before him to make life desirable, he was deeply mourned for by his family
and friends. We cannot always understand God's ways, but we know "He doeth all things well."

MELLVILLE L. STOUT.

Meliville L. Stout, son of John and Charlotte (nee Dager) Stout, was born at Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., June 2, 1849. His parents were Methodists, and his early religious instruction was received
in that body. His elementary education he received in the public schools of Norristown, and at a later
date he had a two years' course of instruction in the high school of the same place. He moved to Pittsburgh
in the fall of 1869, and became a pupil of Prof. Rohbuck on the organ and piano. On November 6, 1870
(Sunday), he took charge of the organ of Grace Church, and has, with the exception of one or two short
intervals, been closely identified with the music of the church ever since.

Soon after he began to play the organ of Grace Church he decided to become a member of the Episcopal
Church, and was confirmed by Bishop Kerfoot the Sunday after Christmas, December 28, 1873, and has
been a regular communicant ever since. He married April 7, 1885, Mary Jane Bigham, eldest daughter of the late
Thomas J. and Maria L. Bigham, of Woodville avenue, Mount Washington. He was elected a member of the
vestry in 1893, and is now secretary of that body. Mr. Stout is an expert stenographer, and is engaged as the
secretary of a large coal firm of the city. His musical ability and his active interest in all the affairs of the church
make him a very useful member of the congregation.

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GEORGE ABRAHAM JOHNSON.

    George Abraham Johnson, son of George and Sarah Richards Johnson, was born in Newark, N. J.,
November 19, 1846. His parents were members of the Episcopal Church, and all their children were
raised under its guidance and teaching, attending regularly the Sunday School and services.

    He received his education in the public schools of Newark, where his boyhood was spent. At the age
of sixteen he enlisted in the 26th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, and was sent to the front to take
part in the War of the Rebellion. He was engaged in the battles of Deep Run, Fredericksburg, and
Chancellorsville, coming out without any serious injury, and was honorably discharged June 27, 1863,
the end of the term for which he had enlisted. He returned to his home in Newark, and in March, 1864,
he moved thence to Worcester, Mass. and engaged in business. Here, on December 30, 1869, he was
married to Belle Augusta Hearn, daughter of Pierce Hearn, a native of Worcester, Mass. In August, 1885,
he left Worcester, Mass., and moved with his family (his wife, a son and a daughter) to Pittsburgh, and
made his home on Duquesne Heights, in the Thirty- fifth Ward.

    He commenced to attend Grace Church regularly in 1889, and to take an active part in all the efforts
made to promote its interests. He was one of the organizers of Grace Church Guild, and served several
years as a member of its executive committee, and afterwards became its president. He was one of the
promoters of our parish paper, "Grace Church Record," and actively maintained it as long as it was published.
At Easter, 1893, he was first elected a member of the vestry of Grace Church. This position he held several
years, having acted most of the time as treasurer of the vestry. Mr. Johnson's interest in the affairs of the
church and his prompt business habits made him a valuable member of the vestry, and won for him the
high appreciation of his co-laborers in the parish. He moved from the parish in 1897, making his home in
New Jersey, where he still is an active churchman.

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THOMAS FRANCIS ASHFORD, SR.

Thomas Francis Ashford, descended from an old English family, the son of Thomas Francis and
Georgiana Roberts Ashford, was born December 14, 1840, at 21 Tollington Park, Hornsey, London;
was baptized in St. John's Church, Hornsey, and confirmed at Camblewell, London, by the Bishop
of Winchester. He was educated at Rochester House, Camden Road, London, and was six years a
member of the Honorary Horse Artillery Company of London. He came to the United States
July 1, 1865, and after two years spent in Beaver County, Pa., settled in Pittsburgh in January, 1867,
and followed the business of an accountant. He married, September 10, 1867, Mary Ann McGowan,
of Pittsburgh, the Rev. William Preston, D. D., rector of St. Andrew's Church, officiating. He moved to
Mount Washington March 31, 1883, and fixed his home on Virginia avenue and Kearsage street, and
himself and family became members of Grace Church and regular worshipers at its services. He was
elected a vestryman of Grace Church at Easter, 1889, which position he continued to hold, until his death,
both himself and family being very active and helpful members of the parish. He died at his home,
Bailey avenue and Ruth street, Sunday, January 15, 1899, and was buried from Grace Church on the 17th,
his remains being interred in Chartiers Cemetery. He was a generous, noble soul, liberal to a fault, and was
greatly beloved by a large circle of friends. Dormiat bene.

DR. ORIN W. SADLER.

Orwin W. Sadler, M. D., son of William Dexter and Nancy Sadler, was born at Brewerton, Onondaga County, N. Y.,
January 2, 1843. When three years old his parents moved to Millburn, Lake County, Ill. where they lived until
the Doctor and his brother, Alphonso, grew up to manhood. When eighteen years of age he became a member of
the Disciple Church at Antioch, Ill., the religious body to which his parents belonged. He began th study of medicine
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of lectures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed his studies in the medical
department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, from which institution he graduated in 1868.
He married in 1867 Emma Josephine Slocum, daughter of George W. and Rhoda Mantor Slocum,
of Mantorville, Minn., whose father belonged to the family of Slocums of Providence, R. I. Mrs. Sadler,
the Doctor's wife, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, as she was born at Linesville, Crawford County, Pa.,
before her parents moved to Minnesota. She was raised a Congregationalist by her mother, but became
a communicant of the Episcopal Church at Mantorville under the ministrations of the Rev. Peter S. Ruth,
who also officiated at her wedding.

The Doctor, after practicing medicine two years in Dodge County, Minn., moved with his family to
Titusville, Pa., and devoted his attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

In 1874 he moved to Pittsburgh and continued to practice in his specialties. In 1881 he built a home on
Grandview avenue, Mount Washington, and he and his family became members of Grace Church. The Doctor
was confirmed in Grace Church by Bishop Whitehead April 6, 1890, and from that time was a regular
communicant. He was elected a vestryman of Grace Church at Easter, 1884, and held that position until he
removed from the parish, at Easter, 1894. He has four children, two sons and two daughters, all baptized into
the Church—Lucy Belle by the rector of St. Peter's, and Orin W., Samuel S. and Mary Josephine,by the rector
of Grace Church—all of whom are residing with him at his home in Florida.

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RECTOR AND VESTRY OF GRACE CHURCH,
1903—BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

Rev. R. J. Coster, D. D., rector; George H. Baker, senior warden; Thomas J. Bigham, treasurer;
John E. Boyce, Joseph William Bowman, George E. Brush, Edward C. Purkey; M. L. Stout, junior
warden and secretary.

REV. ROBERT JOHN COSTER, D. D., RECTOR OF
GRACE CHURCH, PITTSBURGH, PA.

The Rev. Robert John Coster, son of William and Jane Eliza (nee Wilkinson) Coster, was born near
St. Leonards, Calvert County, Md. ; was baptized and confirmed in Middleham Chapel, Calvert County,
by Bishop Whittingham; educated in the College of St. James, near Hagerstown, Md., under
Dr. John Barrett Kerfoot (afterward Bishop of Pittsburgh), receiving the degree A. B. in 1862; was made
deacon in 1863 and priest in 1866 by Bishop Whittingham; was principal of the Grammar School of the
College of St. James, 1862-64; taught a private school in Annapolis, Md., 1864-65, under the patronage
of Governor Bradford and the Hon. Judge Tuck; received the degree M. A. from Trinity College, Hartford,
in 1868, and the degree D. D. from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897. He was married in
St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, by the Rev. Milo Mahan, D. D., April 3, 1866, to Helena Marie Wardenburg,
daughter of William Augustus and Maria (Price) Wardenburg, of Baltimore; moved to Pittsburgh and
became the rector of the Bishop Bowman Institute in 1866, and the rector of Grace Church, Pittsburgh,
in 1868; was secretary of the Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1868-1888; he has been a member
of the Standing Committee of the Diocese since 1874, and president of the same since 1891. He spent the
summers of 1878 and 1881 in Europe, Mrs. Coster accompanying him on his second trip.

GEORGE H. BAKER, SENIOR WARDEN.

George H. Baker was born of English parents, in Mount Savage, Md., in 1856; was confirmed in
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was educated in the public schools of his native place; is by occupation a contractor for brick work.
He was married in Johnstown, Pa., in 1882, to Viola Barclay; came to Pittsburgh the same year and
united himself to St. Mark's Church, South Side, where he served for four years as vestryman and
treasurer of the church. In 1897 he moved to Mount Washington and became a member of Grace Church.
At Easter, 1900, he was elected a vestryman of Grace Church, and has served in that office continuously
since that time. He was a deputy to the Diocesan Convention in 1902, and again in 1903. He is at present
(1903) senior warden, and has been a Sunday School teacher and assistant superintendent of the
Sunday School for the last five years.

THOMAS J. BIGHAM, TREASURER.

Thomas James Bigham, son of Joel L. and Sarah Bigham and grandson of the late Hon. Thomas J. Bigham,
of Pittsburgh, was born in Pittsburgh March 23, 1875. He was baptized by the Rev. W. R. Mackay, in St. Peter's,
and confirmed in Grace Church by Bishop Whitehead on Good Friday, 1896. He was married July 11, 1899,
in Grace Church, by the Rev. Dr. Coster, to Ida, the daughter of Robert and Mary Newell. He was for several
years employed as a clerk in the city auditor's office, and at present is engaged as a special representative
in Pittsburgh of the American Finance and Securities Company of New York. He has been engaged in
Sunday School work about ten years, and has been superintendent of Grace Church Sunday School since
Advent, 1900. He was elected vestryman at Easter, 1897, and has served continuously since, having been
senior warden, 1902-03, and treasurer from 1897 to the present time.

JOHN E. BOYCE.

John E. Boyce was born of English parents, at Tipton, Staffordshire, England, April 16, 1866; was baptized
by the Rev. Mr. Hutton, in St. Paul's Church, Tipton. He attended St. Paul's Grammar School, Tipton, until he
was fourteen years old. His family then moved to London, where he sang for four years in the choir of
St. George's Church. In London he learned the business of window dressing, which occupation he still follows.
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1884 and was married in Trinity Church in 1885, New Castle, Pa., to Harriett Jane Whitehead,
by the Rev. J. D. Herron. He moved to Pittsburgh in 1889 made his home on Mount Washington,
and began to attend Grace Church, where he was confirmed by Bishop Whitehead in 1889. He
began to sing Grace Church choir the same year, and has served as a vestryman of the church
since Easter, 1901.

Mr. Boyce comes from an old family of English Church people, his parents, his grandparents and
his great-grandparents having all been baptized, confirmed and married in Dudley Lower Church,
in Worcestershire, England.

JOSEPH WILLIAM BOWMAN.

Joseph William Bowman was born of English parents, in Danville, Pa., November 24, 1859. He was
baptized by the Rev. Edwin Lightner, in the Episcopal Church in Danville, and at the age of sixteen
was confirmed in the same church by Bishop Stevens, of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. He received a
common school education, and learned the trade of iron worker in the mills in Danville. He was married
in his native town to Miss Clara A. Shepperson January 7 1882, and in 1889 moved to Pittsburgh and
made hi home on Mount Washington, and he and his family became members of Grace Church. He
worked in the iron mills of Pittsburgh for three years, and then in 1892, began the manufacture of iron
and steel articles, in which business he is engaged at the present time. Mr. Bowman became a vestryman
of Grace Church at Easter, 1903.

GEORGE E. BRUSH.

George E. Brush was born in Philadelphia, Pa. July 19, 1861. He received his education in the public schools
of that city, and afterwards took a course of instruction in Fewsmiths' Business College He attended
Sunday School at the Church of thi Good Shepherd, and at the age of eighteen was confirmed in the same
church, by Bishop Stevens. He was a member of the choir of the Good Shepherd for seven years, and also
taught a class of boys in the Sunday School. Through a change in the place of his residence, he connected
himself with St. Simeon's Mission, Philadelphia, where he sang in the choir for

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several years, and helped with his own hands to build the first church of the mission by working at
night. He came to Pittsburgh in 1889, and is engaged here in the business of pattern and model maker,
under the firm name of The Brush & Stevens Co. In the winter of 1902 he became a member of
Grace Church choir, and at Easter of the same year he was elected a vestryman of the church, to which
office he was re-elected in 1903.

EDWARD CHRISTOPHER PURKEY.

Edward Christopher Purkey was born in Allegheny City, Pa., December 14, 1863, and was baptized in
Christ Church, Allegheny, by the Rev. Dr. Crumpton. He received his education in the Fourth Ward public
school of his native place. He was married in Emmanuel Church, Allegheny, by the Rev. Marrison Byllesby,
April 24, 1884, to Miss Amanda McCush, and was confirmed in Grace Church, Pittsburgh, by
Bishop Whitehead, on Palm Sunday, March 25, 1888.

Mr. Purkey resides at 1302 Grandview avenue, Duquesne Heights, and is by occupation a worker in light
structural iron and metal lathing as applied to modern fireproof buildings. He has been a vestryman of
Grace Church since Easter, 1902.

MELVILLE L. STOUT, JUNIOR WARDEN AND SECRETARY OF VESTRY.

Melville L. Stout was born in Norristown, Pa., June 2, 1849. He received a common school education in his
native place. He moved to Pittsburgh in 1869 and became a music pupil of Prof. H. Rohbuck, who was at that
time one of the best instructors on the organ and piano in the city. In 1870 Mr. Stout became organist of
Grace Church, and soon thereafter moved to Mount Washington, where he has since resided. He was
confirmed in Grace Church, by Bishop Kerfoot, December 28, 1873, and has from that date been a regular
communicant. He was married April 7, 1885, to Mary J. Bigham, the eldest daughter of the Hon. Thomas J. Bigham,
of Pittsburgh. Mr. Stout is by occupation an accountant and secretary, and for a number of years has held an
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of the pictures used in illustrating this History of Grace Church. He has served several times as organist
of the church, the period of his combined services amounting to about fifteen years. Mr. Stout was elected
a vestryman in 1893, and is at present secretary of the vestry and junior warden of the parish.

HENRY WASHINGTON NEELY.

    For several years superintendent of the Sunday School and vestryman and warden of Grace Church.

    Henry Washington Neely, son of Robert and Jane Neely, was born on the South Side, Pittsburgh,
February 22, 1864. His parents moved to Mount Washington, Thirty-second Ward, the same year. He received
his education in the public schools of Pittsburgh, having attended for several years at the old frame schoolhouse
which stood on the corner of Sycamore and Stanwix streets until 1901, when it was torn down and the site
covered with dwelling houses. He was confirmed in Grace Church, by Bishop Whitehead on Palm Sunday,
March 25, 1888. He was married to Mary Magdalena Stinson, in Grace Church, by the Rev. R. J Coster,
on September 6, 1888.

    In the spring of 1897 Mr. Neely became superintendent of Grace Church Sunday School, as successor to the
late John C. Shaler, Jr., and filled the position with great acceptability to teachers and scholars. He thus became
a very useful worker in the Sunday School which he himself attended when a boy, and which his father and
mother also had attended in early life.

    He was elected vestryman in 1896; he served as junior warden for five years, 1897--1901, and was also deputy
to our Diocesan Convention for several years.

    Mr. Neely has been engaged in the dry goods business from his youth, and is at present vice-president and
general manager of the Pittsburgh Dry Goods Company, the largest house of its kind between New York and
Chicago. In March, 1902, Mr. Neely moved from Mount Washington to the East End, Pittsburgh, and thereby
severed his connection with Grace Church parish.

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GRACE CHURCH GUILD.

The first organization exclusively of laymen in the parish was the result of a meeting called by the
rector, the Rev. R. J. Coster, during the autumn of 1887. On the evening of November 14, the following
gentlemen met with the Rev. Mr. Coster in the Sunday School room of the church, namely:

Thomas F. Ashford, Jr.                        Julian Maddox.
       John Bindley.                                         Edward C. Purkey.
Thomas G. Bond.                                   Lewis C. Purkey.
William L. Bond.                                     John C. Shaler.
James Chamberlin.                               E. Conway Shaler.
Herbert A. Davis.                                    Oliver H. Stinson.
Thomas Jones.                                       M. L. Stout.
John Williams.

With the Rev. Mr. Coster in the chair, temporary organization was effected by electing John C. Shaler
president, James Chamberlin secretary, and Oliver H. Stinson treasurer. These officers, with the addition
of Mr. John Bindley, were named a committee to draft Canons for the government of the society.

A second meeting was held in the Sunday School room November 28. Mr. Coster presided, and the
following gentlemen were present:

Thomas F. Ashford, Sr.                         John J. Lowe.
Thomas F. Ashford, Jr.                         John S. McMillin.
John Bindley.                                          William Maltby.
Kirk Q. Bigham.                                       Lewis C. Purkey.
James Chamberlin.                                O. W. Sadler, M. D.
Herbert A. Davis.                                     John C. Shaler.
William Halpin, Jr.                                   Oliver H. Stinson.
Henry James.                                           William Singer.
Thomas Jones.                                        William Speer.
John Williams.

At this meeting the name Grace Church Guild was adopted, and Canons for the government of the guild
approved. The Canons provided for a vice-president in addition to the officers elected at the first meeting,
and for an executive committee of five members, to act and advise with said officers.

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O. W. Sadler, M. D., was elected first vice-president, and Albion Bindley, William P. Linhart,
Lewis C. Purkey, M. L. Stout and Thomas F. Ashford, Sr., were elected as executive committee.
A copy of the Canons is here inserted to show the aims of the Guild and the scope of its work.

CANONS OF GRACE CHURCH GUILD.
ADOPTED NOVEMBER 28, 1887.

CANON I.
Name.

The name of this society shall be GRACE CHURCH GUILD.

CANON II.
Principles.

SECTION 1. We declare our loyalty to the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

SEC. 2. We pledge ourselves to work for the Church, under the guidance and with the approval of our Rector.
SEC. 3. We unite together as a band of lay helpers, for the following objects:
           First. To promote public worship.
           Second. To encourage intercessary prayer.
           Third. For the purpose of Church work.

CANON III.
Worship.

SEC. 1. We will come regularly to public worship, and join heartily in the service.
SEC. 2. We will endeavor to induce others to attend church.

CANON IV.
Intercession.

SEC. 1. We will pray for our Rector and the work of the parish.
SEC. 2. We will pray for our Bishop and the work of the Diocese.
SEC. 3. We will pray for the extension of Christ's Kingdom among all men.

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CANON V.
Work.

SEC. 1. We will give for the support of the Gospel according to our ability.
SEC. 2. We will do some special work for Christ's sake, particularly such as shall be assigned to
us by the Guild.
SEC. 3. We will endeavor by precept and example to commend the Gospel to men and interest them
in Church work.

CANON VI.
Membership.

The membership shall consist of all males of the age of 15 years and upward who attend the services
of the Church.

CANON VII.
Officers.

SEC. 1. The Rector shall be ex officio chairman of the Guild, and may preside when he is present at
its meetings.
SEC. 2. There shall be elected annually a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and five
persons to act as an executive committee, who shall continue in office until their successors are elected.

CANON VIII.
Duties of Office's.

SEC. 1. The President shall preside at all meetings in the absence of the Rector and perform all other
duties pertaining to his office.
SEC. 2. The Vice-President, in the absence of the President, shall perform all the duties of the President.
SEC. 3. The Secretary shall keep correct minutes of the meetings and attend to all correspondence relating
to the business of the Guild; send out notices of meetings to the members; receive all dues and other moneys
belonging to the Guild and turn the same over to the Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor, and at the end of
his term surrender all books and papers in his possession, belonging to the Guild, to his successor in office.
SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall keep a correct account of all money that comes into his hands as Treasurer;
pay all warrants drawn by the President and counter-signed by the Secretary;

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render an account quarterly, and at the end of his term surrender all cash, books and papers in his
possession, belonging to the Guild, to his successor in office.
SEC. 5. The Executive Committee shall act as a council of advice to the Guild, and audit all accounts
of its officers, and, together with them, devise ways and means for carrying on the work of the Guild.

CANON IX.
Meetings and Dues.

SEC. 1. The regular meetings of the Guild shall be held on the second Monday of each month,
at 8 o'clock P. M., and the members present shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.
SEC. 2. The annual meeting, for hearing the reports of Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Committee,
and for the election of officers to serve for the ensuing year, shall be held at the first regular meeting in Advent.
SEC. 3 Each member of the Guild shall pay into the Treasury as dues at least one dollar per year, which shall
be due and payable quarterly in advance at the regular meetings in December, March, June and September.

CANON X
Provided for amendments to the Canons.

The Ladies Mite Society had been recognized for years as the promoter and leader of the parish energies;
therefore, the guild believed it should become a co-operating body, by undertaking that part of the parish
work that should naturally be assumed by the men. It kept in touch with the vestry and assisted with the
revenues ; it appointed from among its members persons to act as ushers; it sought out and invited boys
into the vested choir; it attended to extra seating and comfort of the large congregations incident to the
Bishop's visitations or special services; it became responsible for the annual picnic, excursions, etc., for
the Sunday School children and church people, and during several seasons provided courses of lectures.
One of the most important and valuable objects undertaken by the guild was the publication quarterly for
several years of the parish paper, "Grace Church Record."

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During 1892, by reason of removals and changes of employment, several of the leading members
withdrew from active participation in the business of the guild; meetings grew irregular and finally
ceased, and the publication of the "Record" was suspended. Later on most of the young men
assisted in the organization of another guild, the Coster Guild, having a membership made up of both
sexes, which largely took the place and performed the duties undertaken by the former guild. It is
cause for much regret that these failures in parish organization occur; but the experience is not
unusual in other parishes or among kindred organizations in other Christian bodies.

The offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer were filled during the life of the
guild as follows:

President,                             John C. Shaler,                1887-1890
                                                Thomas F.Ashford,Sr.,   1890-1891
                                                George A. Johnson,        1891-1892
Vice-President,                    0. W. Sadler,                      1887-1888
                                                Thomas F. Ashford, Sr,   1888-1890
                                                Thomas Jones,                 1890-1891
                                                William L. Bond,                1891-1892
                                                Percy G. Whaley,               1892—
                                                Percy G. Whaley,               1892-
Secretary,                            James Chamberlin,         * 1887-1888
                                               Edward C. Purkey,         ** 1888-1888
                                               A. Tilson Dalzell,                 1888-1890
                                               George A. Johnson,           1890-1891
                                               Robert W. Revelvy,             1891-1892
                                               Harry Bowman,                    1892-
Treasurer,                           Oliver W. Stinson,                1887-1888
                                              Joseph F. Bollman,              1888-1892
                                              Thomas F. Ashford, Jr.,       1892-
                   * From November, 1887, to April, 1888.
                 ** From April, 1888, to November, 1888.

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THE COSTER GUILD OF GRACE CHURCH.

    The Coster Guild was organized November 2, 1893, and largely took the place of the former guild, the
active life of which ceased in 1892. Grace Church Guild was composed of men only, while the
Coster Guild included also women among its members. The first officers of the Coster Guild were:

    President, G. P. Whaley; Vice-Presidents, Miss Ardella Armstrong and Miss Ida Newell;
Secretary, Ernest W. Marland, and Treasurer, Samuel H. Kenah.

    In 1895 the membership was as follows:

Miss Ardella Armstrong.                     Miss _____ Martel.
Miss Cora Bowman.                            Miss Mabel McCormick.
Mr. Victor Benbow.                              Mr. John McCaskey.
Miss Lida Bigham.                               Mr. Lewis McKain.
Mr. K. Q. Bigham.                                 Miss Ida Newell.
Mr. T. J. Bigham.                                   Mr. G. C. Park.
Mr. F. S. Bond.                                       Miss Mildred Phillips.
Miss Madge Florence.                         Mr. Joseph N. Reeves.
Mrs. I. Harper.                                        Miss Clara Small.
Mr. William Hoffman.                           Miss Florence Speer.
Mr. G. F. Johnson.                               Mr. William D. Shaler.
Miss Ethel Johnson.                           Mr. A. Speer.
Mr. Samuel H. Kenah.                         Mr. Frank Slocum.
Mr. William D. Kenah.                          Mrs. Frank Slocum.
Miss Lottie Marland.                            Mr. Robert Torrence.
Mr. Ernest W. Marland.                       Mr. Oliver Torrence.
Mr. Andrew Martell.                              Miss Elizabeth Torrence.
Mr. Tanner.

The officers in 1895, were:

President, Frank S. Bond; Vice-Presidents, Miss Ida Newell and Miss Clara Small;
Secretary, Thomas J. Bigham; Treasurer, Samuel H. Kenah.

The officers elected November 12, 1901, were:

President, Joseph N. Reeves; Vice-Presidents, William Thompson and Joseph E. Ashford;
Secretary, Thomas J. Bigham, Treasurer, George H. Baker.

After seven years of much usefulness in the parish, meetings were suspended December 10, 1901.

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HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING OF GRACE
CHURCH PARISH, MOUNT WASHINGTON.

By HON. THOMAS J. BIGHAM.
(Read before the Mite Society, October, 1883.)

About a year since the Rev. Richard Smith, registrar of this diocese, issued a circular to each clergyman
asking for a history of his church. The Rev. R. J. Coster, our rector, passed this over to me, asking me to fill
out answers to this circular. At a meeting of our own vestry, at which I was not present, action was had as
indicated by the following letter:

Pittsburgh, June 6, 1883.

DEAR MR. BIGHAM:

At the vestry meeting last evening the following resolution was adopted: "That the Hon. T. J. Bigham be
requested to write a detailed history of Grace Church and read same before the Mite Society at as early a date
as may be convenient, and that afterwards this history shall be filed with and become part of the archives of
the church."

We believe that such a paper will be of great interest to all the members of our congregation, and feel sure that
you are the only person among us who has the requisite information and access to the data, or that is
competent to prepare such a paper.

                                             Very respectfully, etc.,
                                                        JNO. C. SHALER, JR.,
                                                                                 Secretary.

And now I find, if ever I attempt to answer these calls, I must begin.

In the spring of 1849, thirty-four years ago, I had made a contract to build my present residence and otherwise
to improve my wife's property in what was then St. Clair Township, Allegheny County, now Thirty-second Ward,
city of Pittsburgh. In order to enable me to superintend these improvements, I engaged boarding for myself,
wife and son Joel, then some 18 months old, with George Chivers, on Virginia avenue.

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    Mrs. Bigham was very anxious to get up a Sunda School, as prior to that time no organization had
existed for the religious education of what are now the Hill wards of the South Side, city of Pittsburgh.
On consultation with the Rev. William Passavant a lifelong friend, he recommended a student of theology
in his own church, the Lutheran. Mrs. Bigham engaged to pay him a salary for one year to aid in
establishing a Sunday School. The German population of that day composed probably a still greater
percentage of the Hill residents than even now. Although accidental, this, therefore, was a wise selection.
I procured the use of the public schoolhouse, on the corner of Sycamore and Spring (now Stanwix) streets,
as a place of meeting.

    The first meeting was held on the afternoon of June 13, 1849, being, in church language, the first Sunday
after Trinity. The Sunday School continued to meet in that room for over four years, until Grace Church was
completed. Since it has been held in that building, the earlier part of the time in the body of the church, and
the later time in the basement, or what is known as the Sunday School room. This basement was not originally
finished as it now is, having been added very much later.

    The Sunday School during the first and second years of its existence was the only one on the Hill, and probably
was larger than it has been since. The population of the Thirty-second and Thirty-fifth Wards was certainly not
one-fifth, perhaps not one-tenth of what it now is, but then nearly all the children attended Sunday School. The
children of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans and even a large number of Roman Catholics,
attended, and I think it highly creditable to the liberal spirit of the school that I never heard of any children being
driven away by sectarian teaching.

    I will here explain one thing that may seem inconsistent with this last remark. The winter of 1851, the second
winter after the opening of the school, I was a member of the Legislature and Mrs. Bigham accompanied me to
Harrisburg during the session. I had been recognized as superintendent of the school. Mr. Cuthbert was
one of the teachers, and I was accustomed to invite him to talk to the children, even more frequently than I talked
to them myself.

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    Mrs. Bigham had the Bible class of young women, but before leaving procured Mr. Ringwalt to take
charge of her class during her absence.

    We had been using a liturgy for the opening and closing of school, and Mrs. Bigham probably
requested Mr. Ringwalt to see this used during our absence. Mr. Cuthbert was a Presbyterian, but as
he taught in the school, he had expected to act as superintendent himself and did not approve of this.
He objected to Mr. Ringwalt's insisting upon the use of the liturgy, and before our return had withdrawn
from the school. He opened a school in the spring of 1851 on the Presbyterian plan, without a liturgy, Had
I still continued to act as superintendent, the withdrawal would not probably have taken place just then. Yet
I am satisfied it was only a question of time. The Presbyterian bees would have swarmed ere long.

    This sketch of the Sunday School is only preliminary to the organization of Grace Church. We had
occasional services, as often as we could procure the attendance of an Episcopal clergyman, in the public
schoolhouse in 1849-50-51.

    On the 22d of October, 1851, in pursuance of public notice, a meeting was held at the schoolhouse, and after
church service the Rev. William H. Paddock, a missionary of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, who had been
giving occasional services, presided, A. Kirk Lewis acted as secretary, and a formal organization of a
congregation was made according to the regulations of the Episcopal Church. Seven persons were elected as
a vestry and two of them as wardens,namely, Thomas J. Bigham, senior warden; Alexander Row land, junior
warden; George Lowen, William Adams, Richard Stubbs, Benjamin Stubbs, A. Kirk Lewis, vestry; all of whom
are now gone except myself and George Lowen. A charter was adopted and an application to the Court of
Common Pleas of Allegheny County ordered to be made for the same,which was finally granted on the 26th
of April, 1852, and ordered to be recorded. (See proceedings recorded in Parish Register in handwriting of
A. Kirk Lewis, deceased, then clerk of the first vestry.)

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    My recollecton is that the vestry referred the naming of the churchto Mrs. Bigham, on the principle that
the mother has the best right to name the child, an she choose the name "Grace Church," which we adopted.
She in fact paid about three-fourths of the cost of the original church building.

    After the organization of the church, the Sunday School and church services continued as before, in the
schoolhouse, until in January, 1852, at which time the Rev. Joseph A. Stone, a missionary of the Diocese
of Pennsylvania, took charge and devoted his time primarily to Grace Church, although giving attention also
to the other infant congregations in the southern part of our county. I had made a deed to the vestry for
the lot, 84 feet in front by 200 feet in depth, at the corner of Sycamore and Bertha streets, on which the
church now stands.

    We had a contract for the erection of the present church building at a price named in the contract as $2,000,
but a number of things were not specifically provided for, and, as it turned out, these had to be paid for as
extras, so that the entire cost of the church building as completed in the fall of 1853 somewhat exceeded
$3,000. The corner stone had been laid April 3, 1852.

    Mr. Stone lived in my family and spent a good deal of his time during his 18 months' service with the
workmen at the church, and, as was alleged on final settlement, gave sundry directions in regard to the work
which it was claimed, gave the contractor the right to charge extra. The contractor filed a mechanic's lien
against the building for $2,600. A defense was made to the, claim for extras, and the matter was referred to two
mechanics, who finally allowed $2,242.78 and the costs, $63.22, making the whole amount paid $2,306. I will
at a later period give a more detailed statement of the cost and how it was paid. (See page 10.)

    Mr. Stone having resigned after 18 months' service, the Rev. John G. Furey, another missionary of the
diocese, took charge of this congregation on June 1, 1853, and remained for nearly a year. During his
pastorate the church building was finally completed, and the first service in it was held on the
18th of September, 1853, with a sermon by the Rev. N. E. Cornwell, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Pittsburgh.

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    The Sunday School was also removed and met in the body of the church, no basement then existing.
Mr. Furey was a married man; lived in the village, and mixed more with the people than his predecessor
had done. He resigned, however, in 1854, and returned to Philadelphia.

    The Rev. Richard Smith, an elderly man, was next called, and for two years had charge of the congregation.
He lived in town, and, as we then had no inclined plane to the Hill, he could not always attend during the winter
season. I took charge of the Sunday School, and in his absence we had lay reading. He resigned in the spring
of 1856 (April 24th), in consequence of general debility, and during the summer we had occasional clerical
services and in the intervals lay reading. (Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, assistant at Trinity Church at that time, gave
occasional services.)

    In December, 1856, the vestry called the Rev. Charles W. Quick, rector of St. Andrew's, Pittsburgh, and also
Superintendent of the Common Schools of Allegheny County. Mr. Quick could, of course, give us but one
service on Sunday, and this was generally in the evening. So far as preaching was concerned, he served us
faithfully, but he could scarcely be considered a representative clergyman of the Episcopal Church, as he
himself frankly admitted that hardly five per cent of his brother clergymen agreed with him fully in his doctrinal
system. In fact, he was accustomed to say that he did not believe a much larger percentage of his clerical
brethren recognized the Westminister Confession of faith as their standard and taught its doctrines from their
pulpits. Mr. Quick's belief in Calvanism was a little stronger than Bishop Berkly's, who, when interrogated on
the subject, replied: "Well, to give the devil his due, John Calvin was a great man." Our Church very wisely,
as I believe, tolerates almost any variety of sentiment on these subjects upon which exact uniformity cannot
be expected. Only a very small portion of her members, however, entertain what are recognized as Calvanistic
views. Mr. Quick has since withdrawn from our communion and joined the Reformed Episcopal Church. He
filled our pulpit for about two years and a half.

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    After a vacancy of a few months, the Rev. Jubal Hodges, of St. Mark's, Birmingham, took charge of
Grace Church and officiated once on each Sunday, usually in the afternoon.

    My recollecton does not serve as to the length of his pastorate; I think less than two years.
For about ten years after the church was built the main body of the building was occupied for the
Sunday School as well as for the church services. It was found that the pews occupied by the
Sunday School classes, especially in bad weather, were not in good condition for kneeling at church
services. Ladies, who generally composed a majority of our worshipers, being fastidious about their
dresses, as most ladies are, objected to kneeling at prayers. Mrs. E. M. Ebbs, a cousin of Mrs. Bigham,
a wealthy churchwoman and largely interested in real estate on the Hill, proposed to aid in providing a
separate building for the Sunday School. By excavating a basement and raising the church floor some
four feet, an excellent Sunday School room was obtained, rather larger than the original church building.
This has not only accommodated the Sunday School and general church meetings, but has also afforded
a comfortable room for church fairs and entertainments, hitherto indispensable to the revenues of the
church. The cost of this addition nearly doubled the original cost of the church, but greatly added to its
usefulness.

    During the period in which these improvements were going on the sessions of the Sunday School and
church services were suspended, and this was the only suspension of the Sunday School during the early
years. In later times we have followed the custom of city churches and adjourned in July and August,
but this was not the rule in our earlier days.

    The excitement of the Rebellion rendered it difficult to supply our pulpit during war times, and we accepted
the services of two missionaries appointed primarily for St. Luke's, Charters. The first of these was the
Rev. Gustavus William Mayer, a gentleman in deacon orders. We furnished him a horse and he attended to
both parishes. He was a German by birth and education and had not been accustomed to our ritual. He was,
however, a scholarly man and earnest in the discharge of his duties.

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    During his pastorate services were held in the German language at intervals, in addition to the
regular English service. After about two years he resigned and accepted an appointment from the
Committee on Domestic Missions to a station in the far West. I have seen his name in the church
paper, from time to time, and believe he is still on duty out there.

    The Pennsylvania Missionary Committee next sent a young gentleman with only a license as a
lay reader to St. Luke's, named Feltwell. His time was almost entirely given to that parish, but he read
service perhaps a dozen times at Grace Church. He was an active, earnest man; had been brought up
in the Methodist Church, and attached little importance to ordination to deacon's or priest's orders. He
consulted me once about the baptism of the children of two families in St. Luke's not heretofore
belonging to the Episcopal Church. I advised him that his license as lay reader did not warrant his
administering baptism, but to make arrangements for a weekday service and I would take out
Dr. Van Dusen, who had generously offered to go whenever called upon. I afterwards learned that
Mr. Feltwell had baptized these children. This was entirely irregular. Some clergymen would advise to
rebaptize in such a case, although others hold that subsequent confirmation by the Bishop cures
the irregularity.

    Mr. Feltwell was afterwards announced as a clergyman of our Church who had joined the Reformed
Episcopal Church. This was untrue. So far as ever I was informed, he never held anything but a license
from our Bishop as a lay reader. Bishop Cheney's organization, I apprehend, was very lax on the
subject of orders and admitted to the ranks of its clergy all applicants, however irregular, and
Mr. Feltwell in his new connection probably found his orders quite as regular as those of half his brethren.

    About the close of the Rebellion a new project was proposed that it was hoped would have afforded
a rector on a new and permanent basis. Dr. Killikelly, an aged clergyman of our Church, had two
daughters who were fully competent to take charge of a parish

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school and also to teach music, and it was proposed to have him and his family come and establish
a school in connection with the parish. I did not myself believe the scheme practicable, because we
had not scholars enough to support a parish school among our own people. The residents of the rural
districts were then crazy for magnificent schoolhouses, each to surpass those in the old city. They
wanted ten or fifteen rooms in which to classify the children. This improved education was the fashionable
topic then, and it was impossible to arouse any interest in private or parish schools. That project failed.
Dr. Killikelly did not remove his family to the parish, and was himself entirely too aged to undertake the
double duties of school-teacher and rector. He, however, took charge of the parish, labored among, us
for a year, and then resigned.

This brings us nearly to our present regime, with which you all are familiar, of course, and nearly finishes
my sketch, although only covering about half the period of Grace Church's existence. In 1866 the
Rev. R. J. Coster took charge, of the Bishop Bowman Institute in Pittsburgh, and at Easter of 1868, over
fifteen years since, he became our rector. The present arrangement is much the best we have ever had.
Not the best possible, if only we were able to employ Mr. Coster's full time and he had no school on hand.
This of course would be an improvement, but until that time comes we cannot be better served. Mr. Coster,
as you all know, gives us regular services every Sunday morning. He administers the communion regularly.
He also takes charge of the Sunday School, which was never done by any of our former rectors or
missionaries. He is always ready to baptize the children, marry the young people, attend upon the sick
and bury the dead. He cannot, of course, spend as much time in the congregation as if he had not his
school duties; yet in every emergency he has been ever ready to discharge all clerical duties, and has
always done far more than we have any right to expect for the meager salary we pay him.

And now, in conclusion, permit me to add a word of commendation for our rector. In the 15 years of his
service I have never heard him utter a word of complaint.

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    Your parish has never been so faithfully served. He is entirely unselfish. In all the relations
of life he has shown himself to be a perfect gentleman in its highest sense.

    I had intended to state my recollection of the cost of the church and its maintenance, and by whom paid,
in our earlier history, but refrain, fearful lest my recollecton might fail and injustice be done by omitting
some equally deserving as those mentioned.

    I have approximated in regard to the original cost and main improvement of the Sunday School room.
(See page 18.) In later times the Ladies' Mite Society, under the lead of Mrs. Coster, Mrs. McMillin, and
others, have been the active agents in defraying the expense of repairs to the church and procuring
an organ. I have not been personally cognizant of these, but believe the amounts approximate $1,500.
John C. Shaler, Jr., has recently made a report to the vestry which is better authority than any statement
I could give. Our rector makes an annual statement of church expenditures and contributions,
which are published in the Journal. The last one now before me shows an aggregate of $1,064.77.

    Mrs. Maria Adams, a member of the congregation, at her death, in 1879, left a small legacy of $50 to
the church. Mr. Marland,thinking that every congregation should have a reserve fund ,proposed to
treat this as the beginning and sort of nest-egg of a future endowment fund. This year we received a
distributive share of a legacy of George M. Jackson, deceased. These moneys are invested in the
Dollar Savings Bank, under the name of the Maria Adams Endowment Fund, and with additions amount
now to about $420. The vestry invite annual contributions on the first Sunday of Advent of each year, to
be added to this deposit, hoping that in the future it may become a source of revenue to the church.

Any member of the church may during his life or at his death make additions to this fund.

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INDEX.

Adams, Mrs. Maria ........................................... 26, 143, 233
Adams, William .........................................................134, 231
Address by Rev. R. J. Coster ........................................... 42
Admitted to Convention, Grace Church ............................. 9
AllSaints' Mission ..............................................................45
Altar Cross.. ........................................................................20
Angel, Rev. E. A..................................................................48
Anniversary, Twentieth ......................................................40
Annual Convention, Deputies.......................................... 140
Ashford, Mrs. Mary............................................................71
Ashford, Thomas F., Sr. ............ 96, 137, 138, 142, 248, 283

Baptisms ................................................................... 166-208
Bennett, Emma ................................................... 27,106, 256
Bible for Lectern ............................................................. 120
Bigham, Thomas J., Sr. ........................ 32, 36, 134, 235,262
Bigham, Joel L ................................................................. 240
Bigham, Eliza A.........................................................101, 254
Bigham, Mrs. Maria L ................ 49, 55, 123, 126, 237, 257
Bigham, Thomas J., Jr .............................138, 160, 226, 286
Bindley, Mrs. Emmeline.......................................... 216, 236
Bindley, John .............,.............................. 59, 136, 137, 216
Bishop's Chair .................................................................120
Bishop Alonzo Potter............................................................9
Bishop Kerfoot ...........................................20, 21, 24, 37,43
Bishop Whitehead............................................37, 70, 84, 95
Bishop Whittingham ................................................... 43, 46
Boggs, Mrs. Sarah .............................................. 81, 86, 243
Bond, Mrs. Annie M ................................................101, 255
Bond, William L., Sr .........................................134, 135, 271
BoyChoir............................................................. 33, 112, 119
Bratt, Edward ............................... 33, 37, 134, 145, 236, 267
Bratt, Mrs. Jane....................................................33, 37, 234
Burfoot, Richard ...................................................55, 60, 113
Burials........................................................................ 230-256

Carstensen, Rev. G. A. ..................................................... 49
Chair, Bishop's ..................................................................120
Chancel Window ........................................................ 25, 121
Charter of Church .............................................................130

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Choir..................................................................27, 33, 77,112
Choir, History of................................................................110
Choir, women admitted...................................................... 97
Christmas Service................................................... 67,74, 82
Church dressed with palms...............................................103
Clark, H. W.......................................................101, 117, 254
Confirmation Class...........................................20, 25, 37, 83
Confirmations.......................................................... 209-214
Congregational Meeting..................................... 72, 99, 103
Consecration of Church................................................... 21
Consecration, Sentence of ............................................. 23
Coster, Rev. R. J., eighth Rector.....................................18
         Lenten Pastoral........................................................ 28
         Twentieth Anniversary............................................ 38
         TripWest ................................................................. 71
          Lecture, "English Reformation" ......................... 78
          Summer at Cresson................................................. 79
          Thirtieth Anniversary.............................................. 91
          Reception for .......................................................... 95
          Children of, Baptized .............................................175
          Biographical Sketch of.......................................... 285
          Mr. T. J. Bigham's Estimate of............................. 303
Crumpton, Rev. Thomas, D. D. ....................................... 47

Dashiell, Rev. E. F............................................................ 43
Deputies to Diocesan Conventions................... 21, 140-142
Deed of Donation of Church............................................140
Dermitt, E. H ....................................... 34,111,135,150, 216
Digby, William ............................................................34,110
Dodworth, James................................................61, 114, 223

Easter Services.............................54, 71, 76, 85, 98,102,103
Endowment Fund........................................................... 27, 55
Ezechiels, Daniel D...............................................60, 113,114

Families, Easter, 1898.........................................................157
Ferguson, Edith N.........................................................50, 238
Financial Distress, 1893.......................................................75
Financial Reports.................................................. 56, 104,105
Font, Stone.....................................................................27, 122
Furey, Rev, J G ................................................................... 11

Gas Lights............................................................................. 95
Goldthorp, Samuel H ..................................................146, 237
Goldthorp, Mrs. Sarah.. ..........................................32, 36, 234

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Goldthorp, Mrs. Joshua................................................34,112,113
Goldthorp, Mr. Joshua............................................................... 59
Grace Church-------
          Location....... ........................................................................8
          Organization......................................................................... 8
          Laying Corner Stone ........................................................... 9
          Admitted to Convention....................................................... 9
          CharterGranted.................................................................... 9
          Opening New Church............................................................9
          Cost of Church and Lot ......................................................10
          Cost of Basement Room ....................................................18
          Refitted, 1869......................................................................20
          Reopened, 1869...................................................................20
          Consecrated.........................................................................21
          Consecration Sentence ...................................................... 23
          Building .............................................................. Frontispiece
          Frescoing, 1869....................................................................19
          Frescoing, 1875....................................................................25
          Frescoing, 1894................................................................... 79
          Frescoing, etc., 1900........................................................... 96
          Interior View of Church ....................................................... 9
          Semi-Centennial................................................................ 100
          Record, Parish Paper...........................................................51
          Gas Lights.............................................................................95
          Charter ................................................................................128
          Vestries ........................................................................134-139
Groves, William........................................................................ 74, 78
Guild, Coster..................................................................................295
Guild, Grace Church...................................................................... 290

Hall, Fred.........................................................................................119
Halpin, Mrs. Mary..........................................................................248
Halpin, William........................................................................251, 277
Harper, Maj. Samuel...................................................................... 275
Hodges, Rev. Jubal....................................................................12, 301
Howe, William .................................................................................249

Johnson, George A......................................................................... 282

Kerfoot, Bishop..........................................................20, 21, 24, 37, 43
Killikelly, Dr. B. B.......................................................................16, 17

Lectern, Carved Walnut ...........................................................36, 122
Lectures, Course of .......................................................................... 73
Lecture, " English Reformation" .................................................... 78
Lenten Pastoral...................................................................................28

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Lenten Services ..................................................... 31, 69, 75, 84, 103
Letters of Congratulation .....................................................47, 48, 49
Lewis, A. K.......................................................................................266
Lovelock, George...............................................................................25
Lowen, George T .....................................................................235, 264
Lowen, Mrs. Mary......................................................................26, 232

Marland, Alfred ................................................................................279
Marriages.................................................................................. 215-229
Martin, Miss Nellie...................................................................118, 119
Maxwell, Rev. Samuel................................................................49, 247
Mayer, Rev. G. W ......................................................... .13, 14,15, 301
McCandless, Rev. J. H .......................................................................48
McMillin, Emily.................................................................................... 58
McMillin, Capt. J. S ............................................................. 69, 242, 272
McMillin, Mrs. Mary B.........................................................................77
Memorial Windows.......................................................................... 36, 37
Mission, S. S., Duquesne Heights....................................... 66, 68, 75, 82
Mite Societ y ................................................................................37,80,81

Name of the Church .............................................................................299
Neely, H. W .............................................................................. 90, 99, 289

Organ........................................................................................27, 107, 109

Palms, Church dressed with .................................................................103
Parishioners, First List of . ...................................................................143
Parishioners, Second List of..................................................................144
Parishioners, Third List of ....................................................................148
Parishioners, October, 1903............................................................159-165
Paving Grandview Avenue ...................................................................... 88
Paving Bertha Street ............................................................................... 88
Paving Sycamore Street .......................................................................... 88
Paving, Cost of, to Church ....................................................................... 89
Prayer Books, etc., for Chancel .............................................................. 76
Prayer Desk.............................................................................................122
Prosser, George ........................................................................................37
Public School Built.. ...................................................................................88
Public School Gables blown out................................................................. 99

Quick, Rev. C. W ................................................................................12, 300

Reading Room, Mount Washington ........................................................125
Reception, Rector's 30th Anniversary ..................................................... 95
Record, Parish Paper ..................................................................... 51, 52, 53
Rector and Vestry, 1903........................................................................... 285

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Reed, Mrs. Ruth .....................................................................32, 234
Reese, Mrs. Sarah ..................................................................26, 233
Removals from Parish ................................................................... 97
Reports of Treasurer ............................................................104, 105

Sadler, Dr. O. W ............................................................................. 77
Saint Luke's Mission .......................................................................45
Shaler, John C., Jr.........................25, 41, 51, 61, 80, 89, 90, 246, 269
Smith, Edwin ....................................................................111, 112,129
Smith, Rev. Richard ..................................................................11,300
Smith, Rev. R. S.............................................................................. 47
Smithson, Mrs. E. A................................................................ 66, 241
Stinson, Oliver H ...................................................100, 221, 253, 280
Stone, Rev.Joseph A............................................................... 10, 299
Storm, Easter Sunday, 1902............................................................98
Stout, Melville L......................................35, 111, 115, 116, 281, 288
Sunday School .............................................................. 61, 62, 74, 83
Sunday Services .............................................................................57
Sweitzer, William H ..............................................................116, 117

Taylor, Miss Louise, Organist ...................................... 66, 114, 115
Thompson, Mrs. Mary .................................................................247
Torrence, David R., removal ........................................................ 99

Vacancy in Rectorship..............................................................12, 15
Vestry, 1851.......................................................................................8
Vestry, 1869 ....................................................................................19
Vestry, 1903 ..................................................................................285

Whaley, Percy G .........................................................................68, 80
Whitsunday Services ...........................................................78, 89, 106
Whittier, Mrs. Adeline Matilda ................................................86, 243
Williams, Samuel ......................................................................111, 112
Window, Chancel ..............................................................................121
Windows, Stained-Glass ............................................................. 36,123

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