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Chronicles of Christ Church Parish Williamsport, Pa. 1840-1896 Class Book Copyright}! - COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT; CHRIST CHURCH CHRONICLES OF Christ Church Parish WILLIAMSPORT, PA. I 840 -I 896 BY The Rev. Edward Henry Eckel, B. D. Rector 1896-1905 PUBLISHED BY DIRECTION OF THE VESTRY OF CHRIST CHURCH AND Brought Down to April, 1910 The Seventieth Anniversary of the First Episcopal Church Service held in Williamsport WILLIAMSPORT, PA.: Press of Gazette and Bulletin 1910 Copyright 1910 By the Rector, Churchwardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church WlLLIAMSPORT 'CI.A275558 ; FOREWORD. V During the summer of the present year a Committee, consisting of the Rector, the Wardens, and such others as they might associate with themselves in the undertaking, was ap- pointed by the Vestry to publish, under the editorial super- vision of the Registrar of the Parish, Mr. O. R. Howard Thomson, the "Chronicles of Christ Church Parish," pre- sented, in manuscript, to the corporation by the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel, some time rector of the parish. As the manuscript carried the history of the parish no farther than the commencement of the rectorship of Mr. Eckel, the Committee was instructed to continue the narrative to the present time. For the chapter covering the rectorship of Mr. Eckel the Committee is indebted to Miss Mary Smythe that dealing with the rectorship of Mr. Jones has been con- tributed by the Registrar. With the exception of these addi- tional chapters, a number of historical and biographical notes, inserted by the Registrar, and indicated by the abbreviation "Ed.," and the insertion of matter relating to the parish's his- tory subsequent to 1896, the "Chronicles" are printed exactly as written by Mr. Eckel. The Registrar desires to acknowledge the kindness of many members of the parish in furnishing information and answering questions, and particularly that of Miss Mary Elizabeth Crocker, in the tedious work of reading proofs, and in many other ways. November, 1910. PREFATORY NOTE. Most of the following historical sketch of Christ Church Parish, Williamsport, was written while I was yet rector of the parish, and is now completed when I am far from the records, documents, journals, and persons whom I would wish most to consult in order to give to its last pages the verification of data and accuracy of statement which I have aimed to secure throughout. I have the satisfaction of feel- ing, however, that where I am perhaps most liable to error, the mistakes and omissions can the more easily be corrected by parishioners familiar with the later history of the parish. I may say frankly that it has been no easy task to> prepare this little work, because it has involved the careful study of an extensive, fragmentary and largely ephemeral literature. I have been greatly indebted to the late Mrs. E. N. Lightner, of Danville, widow of the first rector, who most generously presented me with her husband's file of Diocesan Journals extending from 1839 to within a few years of my own time. This file I was able to complete from other sources, and upon leaving the Diocese I gave it as a ''permanent loan" to the Diocese of Harrisburg. It is now in the custody of the Registrar of the Diocese. I am also under very great obligation to the late Mr. J. J. Crocker, whose notes from the minutes of the Vestry from 1841 to 1896 have been of invaluable service to me. When near the end of my task, as I supposed, my own small, broken file of the parish papers published by two of my predecessors was splendidly reinforced by the fuller files collected, through appeals in the current "Christ Church Mes- senger," by Miss Mary Elizabeth Crocker for the local collec- tion of The James V. Brown Library, of Williamsport. The vi Chronicles of Christ Church Parish accession of this large mass of material necessitated a careful study of the new data, with the result of filling out the sketch to much larger proportions for the periods covered, and the rewriting of portions of the history already passed. This ad- ditional work, while it has given greater completeness to the narrative, has at the same time delayed its completion. These three, then, have been my chief sources of infor- mation, but I have been obliged to consult other documents and persons, and at every step to compare and verify state- ments, calculate figures, and make deductions according to the best judgment that I could command. In giving the dates of the beginning and ending of rectorships I have in some instances been obliged to adopt the date of record, which may vary by a few days or weeks from the actual date, of which no record can be found. The most difficult portion of the history for me to treat was that of the earliest years of the parish, when it was feeble, when rectorships were short, and records comparatively mea- gre. Yet to this period of the history I feel that I have been able to give a completeness which may possibly be lacking in some other parts, but which, if extended to the last quarter of a century, would have swelled this sketch to the dimen- sions of a much larger volume. Especially did I feel the im- possibility of doing full justice to the subject when I came to the rectorship of Dr. Hopkins. As his was the longest rec- torship in the history of the parish, so also, by reason of his versatile abilities and wonderful activity, was it the most eventful and most fruitful period of parochial development. The story of those years, with anything like an adequate esti- mate of the man himself, would be sufficient for a volume in itself. I need scarcely add that, while a few allusions to names and dates subsequent to the beginning of my own rec- torship will be found, I have not deemed it proper to attempt any account or estimate of the work of that period. I must be permitted to add that I can never cease to be thankful to the Divine Head of the Church for permitting me the privilege and happiness of serving Him and the Prefatory Note vii Church for several years as rector of a parish with such a long and creditable record for zeal and good works ; and it is, therefore, with a heart full of appreciation and gratitude that I dedicate this history of their parish to the dear people of Christ Church Parish, Williamsport, whom I shall never cease to love and admire as my friends and fellow-workers for the glory of God and the bringing in of His kingdom. Edward Henry Eckel. Conversion of St. Paul, 1910. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Foreword iii Prefatory Note v List of Illustrations xi Seventy Years Ago, 1840 1 Mr. Lightner's Rectorship, 1840-1842 7 Two Short Rectorships, 1842- 1844 13 Mr. Clark's Rectorship, 1846-185 1 17 Three More Short Rectorships, 1851-1855 21 Mr. Moore's Rectorship, 1855-1865 2y Mr. Wadleigh's Rectorship, 1866- 1869 31 Dr. Paret's Rectorship, 1869-1876 39 Dr. Hopkins's Rectorship, 1876- 1887 49 Mr. Graff's Rectorship, 1888-1896 61 Mr. Eckel's Rectorship, 1896-1905 71 Mr. Jones's Rectorship, 1905— 89 Summary Notes— The Parish Paper 105 The Bishops of the Diocese 109 List of the Clergy in Lay-Officers and Prominent Lay-Workers 113 Choir and Music 121 The Money Problem 129 Wadleigh (St. Mary's) Chapel 135 St. John's Chapel 139 Gifts, Memorials and Thankofrerings 143 The Parish in xALrchdeaconry and Diocese 153 Concluding Words 155 ' LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Christ Church Frontispiece The Rev. Edwin Nathaniel Lightner To face page 7 The Rev. John Baker Clemson 13' The Rev. Thomas Coffin Yarnall 15 The Rev. William James Clark 17 The Rev. John Henry Black 21 The Rev. Edward Purdon Wright 22' The Rev. Richard Channing Moore 27 The Rev. Albra Wadleigh 31 The Rt. Rev. William Paret 39 Christ Church : Interior 40 The Rev. John Henry Hopkins 49 The Rev. William Henry Graff 61 The Rev. Edward Henry Eckel 71 Mrs. Eliza Anna Christman, Deaconess 74 The Rev. William Northey Jones 89 Christ Church Parish House: Auditorium 91 Christ Church Parish House : Interiors 93 Christ Church Parish House : Interiors 95 St. John's Chapel : Interior 97 Vestrymen of Christ Church 113 Vestrymen of Christ Church 115 Vestrymen of Christ Church 117 Wadleigh (St. Mary's) Chapel 135 - St. John's Chapel 139 Chronicles of Christ Church Parish WILLIAMSPORT, PA. One soweth, and another reapeth. Others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.— St. John iv. 38. SEVENTY YEARS AGO. 1840. The Genesis of the Parish—The First Entry in the Parish Register. The services of the Episcopal Church were held in Wil- liamsport for the first time in April, 1840, by the Rev. Edwin Nathaniel Lightner, Rector of St. James's Church, Muncy, who continued coming thereafter every fortnight for some- what more than two years. The borough of Williamsport can hardly be considered as offering at that time a promising field for the efforts of a Church missionary. Mr. Lightner, in his report to the Bishop in 1843, writes : "When I commenced to officiate in Williamsport, the remark was made by one of the elders of a certain sect that I had no business there, as there was but one Churchman in the place, and that the ground was occupied ; that is, was theirs by right of posses- sion." 1 1 In Meginness' "History of Lycoming County," p. 397, the num- ber of communicants in the borough in 1840 is given as three.
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