Anniversary Celebration I85I~I95I

This book is sincerely dedicated to the memory and the achievements of those earnest and devout souls who founded this parish, who have sustained it through the one hundred years of its history, and who have enabled it to serve God in this community and beyond.

Trinity Episcopal Church Portland, Oregon

CALIFORNIA STATE L.1E3RAR.Y

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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The Right Reverend The Right Reverend The Right Reverend The Right Reverend THOMAS FIELDING SCOTT BENJAMIN WIST AR MonR1s CHARLES ScADDING WALTER TAYLOR SUMNER First Bishop of Oregon Second Bishop of Oregon Third Bishop of Oregon Fourth Bishop of Oregon 1854-1867 1868-1906 1906-1914 1915-1935

The Right Reverend BENJAMIN D. DAGWELL, D.D. Fifth Bishop of Oregon 1936-

ST. MICHAEL FACKLER WILLIAM RICHMOND Missionary Missionary to Oregon Came to Oregon in 1847 Organized Trinity Church May 18, 1851

JOHN D. McCARTY First Rector

History of Trinity Episcopal Church

MMIGRANTS were pouring over the Oregon the hardships endured by the missionaries at that Trail in the year of our Lord 1847, and time may be gathered from a letter written by Mr. among the newcomers was a clergyman, Richmond shortly after his arrival in Portland. He the Reverend St. Michael Fackler from says in part - Lexington, Missouri. He was a graduate "I occupy a shanty, merely clapboards, of the Theological Seminary in Virginia. Mr. quite open to the air, with a rough, unplaned, Fackler's health was not good and he had made ungrooved floor, no carpets and no plastering, the long trip in the hope of finding a more bene­ and no ceiling. For this I pay twelve dollars a ficial climate. month. The price was fifteen dollars, but three Although the Roman Catholic, Methodist and dollars was deducted on account of my mis­ Congregational Churches were represented in the sion. I also do my own cooking and gather my Oregon Country by their ministers, and were soon own wood out of the forest behind my shanty; to build churches, some of the retired officials of the yet my expenses will be as great as in a good Hudson's Bay Company, formerly of the Church boarding house in New York City." of England, were glad to see a clergyman of the l\tlr. Richmond describes one of his early serv­ Anglican Communion. For four years, Mr. Fackler ices in Portland as follows: (This was written on was the only Anglican clergyman in this vast area June 29, 1851, when the congregation had been now comprising the States of Oregon, Washington granted the use of a school house for services.) and Idaho with parts of Utah and Montana. He "We had services in the Public School House married the daughter of a pioneer Methodist this morning. There was one female present, missionary and was given permission to hold and her little daughter, and about twenty men. services according to the Prayer Book occasionally The services at night were attended by about in their Church. thirty men, no females. Most of the few men On May 11, 1851, the first missionary appointed who will attend our services here are without by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, their families, or are single men. There is a the Reverend William Richmond, arrived by Pan­ constant change in the population and I sup­ ama at the recently established town of Portland, pose in the congregations. The Methodist Oregon. The decision to send a missionary to Ore­ clergyman has about fifty communicants, and gon was taken at a meeting held at St. Bartholo­ the Congregationalists whose house of wor­ mew's Church, New York City, in the spring of ship has just been completed and opened for 1851. It was not known at that time by the Mis­ two Sundays have ten communicants." sionary Society of the Church that the Reverend In January, 1853, the Reverend John D. McCarty Mr. Fackler was in Oregon. arrived in Portland as a missionary. Mr. McCarty On Sunday, May 18th, the Reverend Mr. Rich­ assumed charge of Trinity Church, Portland, and mond together with Mr. Fackler held an Episcopal became its first permanent rector. service in the Methodist House of Worship in Port­ In October, 1853, the Reverend Thomas Field­ land. At the close of this first service in Portland, ing Scott of the Diocese of Georgia was elected on May 18, 1851, Mr. Richmond organized Trinity Missionary Bishop of Oregon and Washington and parish. It was the first parish organized in the arrived in Portland in April, 1854, to begin his whole Northwest Territory. Therefore, Trinity is new work. Bishop Scott held his first services in the the mother parish in the whole Northwest. Most school house which served Trinity's congregation prominent among its earliest laymen and vestry­ as its Church. During that summer, the first build­ men were: Dr. R. B. Wilson, Benjamin Stark ( after­ ing for Trinity Church was erected at Second and wards United States Senator from Oregon), John Oak Streets, the site of the present police station. McCracken, General Hamilton, John M. Breck, The property had been given to Trinity by Ben­ Knute Peterson and Mr. Ogden. At the time Trinity jamin Stark who came to Oregon in 1845 and was organized, there were only two or three fami­ became interested in the townsite of Portland. In lies actually connected with the Church. January of 1853, the congregation consisted of 25 Some ideas of the newness of the country and of persons, 4 of whom were communicants. The Reverend DR. A. A. MORRISON, Ph.D. Rector, Trinity Church 1899-1929

DR. and MRs. A. A. MORRISON on the occasion of Dr. Morrison's celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as Rector. THE FIRST TRINITY CHURCH

This first Trinity Church building was conse­ crated by Bishop Scott on September 24, 1854. At the time of the consecration service, Bishop Scott confirmed three persons. The first little Church was the first Episcopal Church north of San Francisco, and west of Fort Dearborn, Ill. This little building served Trinity's congregation until 1872. In the year 1871, the congregation of the parish averaged about 200 persons, eighty of whom were communicants. In the year 1867, in April, the congregation had THE SECOND TRINITY CHURCH purchased a half block on the corner of Sixth and Oak Streets £or the sum of $3000. On this site they planned to build a church, and in 1872 they built it at an estimated cost, including furniture and organ, of $25,000 of which they had $20,000 in cash and subscriptions. The Vestry also voted that the Chancel window of the Church was to be a memorial to the memory of Bishop Scott, the first Bishop of Oregon; and the Ladies Society of the parish had received contributions £or that purpose amounting to $500.00. That window in memory of Bishop Scott is now in the East wall of the present Church. This second Trinity Church was consecrated in 1873 by Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris. The Rector at that time was the Reverend George Bur­ ton, and the following were the men1bers of the Vestry: Robert B. Wilson, Senior Warden; Syl­ vester Pennoyer, Junior '\Varden; Cicero H. Lewis, INTERIOR OF THE SECOND TRINITY CHURCH George H. Flanders, Lloyd Brooke, John McCrack­ en, Rodney Glisan, Matthew P. Deady. There are presented to the new Church by the Honorable memorials in our Church today to three of these Benjamin Stark. In this matter, we quote the vestrymen. The pulpit is in memory of Robert B. Oregonian of February 27, 1873: Wilson; the candelabra on each side of the altar "It turns out that the metal from which the are a memorial to Sylvester Pennoyer; and the hell presented by the Honorable Benjamin lectern is given in memory of Cicero H. Lewis. Stark to the Episcopal Congregation of this In connection with that second Trinity Church, city to he used in their new Church was cast a word must he said about the Bell which was possesses historic associations. The great The Reverend FRANCIS H. BALL Rector, Trinity Church 1929-1936

The Reverend LANSING E. KEMPTON, D.D. Rector, Trinity Church 1937- THE BELL PRESENTED TO TRINITY CHURCH

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scarcity of copper in New York, and the con­ sequent adyance in price, has induced the shipment of large quantities of metal from CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT TRINITY CHURCH foreign countries. "Last summer ( 1872) several shiploads of copper were brought from Mexico to New York. Included in the cargoes were twelve large copper cannons taken from Vera Cruz, having been long condemned by the govern­ ment officials, and where they had laid for years in a dismantled condition about the fortifications. "On examination, it was discovered that these cannons were cast originally in Seville, Spain, in the year 1746 and bore the coat of arms of Philip the V. "This old condemned ordnance was pur­ chased by Messrs. Meneely and Son of New York for bell metal. "On subjecting the metal to analysis, it was found to be composed of 94.8% copper and THE PRESENT TRINITY CHURCH 5.2% tin. In order to raise it to the stand­ AS IT LOOKED UPON COMPLETION ard required for bell metal, the copper was reduced and tin added, making it 78% copper DAVID C. LEWIS WAS THE ARCHITECT and 22% tin. It is of this alloy that Trinity Church Bell is composed. The Bell weighs Church was under construction. The corner stone over 2000 pounds." was laid in 1904 by Bishop Morris and the build- The bell is still in use in the present Trinity ing was consecrated in 1906 by the Right Reverend Church. However, this bell is not to be confused Charles Scadding. The members of the vestry with ~h~ chimes. The c?imes were _given b~ ..ia11rtil,s (\ . who took par~ in the consecration we~e: John ~c­ Morns 1n memory of Bishop Morns. ~ t \....~ J,, Cracken, Senior Warden ; James Laidlaw, J un1or We also have in the present Church the b!afttiful Warden; Rodney L. Glisan, Francis Sealy, George bells which are played from the pipe organ and H. Williams, W. J. Burns, A. Tucker, J. Frank which were the gift of Mrs. C. S. Jackson in mem- Watson~ and J. N. Teal. ory of her grandson, Charles Samuel Jackson, Jr. Dr. A. A.1\1:orrison was Rector of Trinity parish The stained glass in the windows in the second from 1899 to 1929 and Rector Emeritus from 1929 Trinity Church were made in Munich. They were until his death in 1931. Dr. Morrison's rectorship very lovely but were lost in the fire which des- is the longest single rectorship in the history of troyed this second Trinity Church in 1902. This Trinity Church. A memorial tablet in the sane- fire occurred shortly after the Reverend Dr. A. A. tuary just above the communion rail commemo- Morrison began his rectorship. rates that fact. Under Dr. Morrison's leadership, The congregation then worshipped for a while in the present Trinity Church was built, furnished, the armory of the old Bishop Scott Academy which and paid for, as was also the Rectory, and the was located on the site of our present parish house, Parish increased greatly in numbers. and which was torn down to make way for the Mrs. Morrison, a gracious and lovely lady is still parish house. living and n1aintains a deep interest in the Church While the congregation was using the old which she and her husband served for so many armory for worship, the third and present Trinity years. ' . '., ,. H • / •,>• :--• './,\~~-~~~;;::~(~ ·········.;····.~~'f•~~~~-~-... .

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DR. ROBERT B. WILSON RODNEY L. GLISAN ARTHUR L. FIELDS First Senior Warden of Vestryman from 1894 to 1932 Present Senior Warden Trinity Church and sometime Senior Warden ANDREW JOHANSEN Groundbreaking ceremony Sexton for over thirty years for the Parish House-1938 Dr. Morrison was succeeded in the rectorship of Altar Guild working sacristy. Trinity Church by the Reverend Francis H. Ball About this time, the Vestry entered into an agree­ who guided the destinies of the parish through the ment with the Charles J. Connick Studios of Boston difficult and trying years of the depression. Under for the planning and execution of new windows for Mr. Ball's leadership, a number of young men the Church. Thesewindows, which arefineexamples became interested in the parish. One of these, of stained glass, are all memorials and greatly add Jack Stipe, has gone into the ministry, and another, to the beauty and warmth of the Church building. Bernard F. Young, is our lay reader and Sunday A new pipe organ was installed in 1948 at a cost School teacher. In the lives of these young men of over $40,000. This organ is the work of the whom Mr. Ball inspired, his work goes on in ever­ Moller Pipe Organ Company and is a very large increasing effectiveness. Mr. Ball served the parish and fine instrument. In addition to the pipe organ, until 1936. new choir pews were installed, new organ screens In that same year, the Very Reverend Benjamin and a new canopy above the altar, new carpet and D. Dagwell, Dean of St. John's Cathedral, Denver, new lighting in the Church. Mr. John L. Schetky was consecrated Bishop of Oregon in Trinity acted as Chairman of the Building Committee dur­ Church. Following the Rectorship of the Reverend ing all of this construction and is still Chairman of Mr. Ball, Bishop Dagwell officiated for some this Con1mittee. Mr. C.H. Watzek and Mr. Horace months as Rector. In January 1937, the Reverend Mecklem played a great part in raising the money Lansing E. Kempton came to Trinity Church as for these building projects and in retiring the Vicar, and in April of that same year was elected mortgages which were incurred. The windows, of Rector, upon the resignation of Bishop Dagwell. course were all outright gifts from devoted mem­ Thus, the Reverend Dr. Kempton has served the bers of the parish. parish as Rector since 1937 and is the present Rector. The replacement value of the present Church During this time, Dr. Kempton was assisted for a -property is estimated in excess of $800,000, exclu­ period of three years by the Reverend L. Franklin sive of the real property upon which the Church Evenson who is now the Rector of St. Barnabas' stands. Church, McMinnville. In addition to the buildings, the Church and In Septen1ber 1938, ground was broken for the parish house, much love, thought and expense have present parish house which was completed in Octo­ gone into the lovely memorials with which the ber 1939 with the exception of the office wing Church has been blessed down through these one which was finished in 1941. The parish house hundred years. represented a total expenditure of about $110,000 Among the memorials are all the candlesticks, which was a considerable sum in 1938 and 1939. altar crosses, communion service silver, commun­ At the same time that the parish house was built, a ion rails, the lectern, processional crosses, the new heating plant was installed in the Church. vases, the altar book or missal, the altar, the cre­ This plant was made ample enough to heat all the dence table, the litany desk, the panels in the buildings. A few years after the building of the chancel, the memorial tablet to Dr. Morrison, the parish house, the sacristy and choir rooms of the picture of Dr. Morrison in the parish hall and the Church were remodelled at an expenditure of memorial tablet to those who served in the First $6500. This, in order to give more ample accom­ World War, the window in the South vestibule in modations to the choirs for vesting rooms and memory of the Reverend St. Michael Fackler, the more efficient and commodious quarters for the first missionary to Oregon, the lawn sprinkling Three views of the Children's Chapel which was given by l\frs. C. S. Jackson in memory of her mother, Mrs. Mary Boyd Clopton. In this Chapel, services are held each Sunday for the kindergarten and primary departments of the Church School. Other classes of the Church School attend serv­ ices in the Church. Classes in the Parish House follow the Church service. The Church School is graded in the same manner as the public schools. l\1r ..Philip H. Hulley is Superintendent of the Church School. system, the shrubbery, the children's chapel. the served as a vestryman in Trinity Church, was for font in the Church vestibule, the font in the chil­ many years Chancellor of the Diocese, and was dren's chapel, service books, the furnishings in founder of St. Philip's Episcopal Church. the Stearns Room, the chapel altar and hangings, Another man who served Trinity Church as the Rector's study, and the chapel organ. All these vestryman and Chancellor of the Diocese is the are memorials to dear ones who have gone be£ ore; Honorable J. Hunt Hendrickson. Judge and Mrs. who have labored and sacrificed for this Church Hendrickson gave sacrificially and unstintingly and whose love has consecrated it far above our of their time and efforts to Trinity Church for poor power to add or detract. We wish space per­ many years. mitted mentioning each of these memorials indi­ In addition to recording all of the material vidually, and saying a word or two of love and developments of the parish and the meir..orials, let appreciation for those in whose memory they have us recall that an Endowment Fund has been started been placed. at Trinity Church and as we begin the second one One of the loveliest memorials in the entire hundred years of our history, let us hope and pray Church building is the Children's Chapel in the that many of our people will remember this great parish house which was given by Mrs. C. S. Jack­ parish in their wills and help us build up this son in loving memory of her mother, Mrs. Mary Endowment Fund in order that we may make sure Boyd Clopton. that Trinity Church will be adequately supported Another memorial which should be mentioned as a downtown church even though new suburban is the organ in the Chapel of the Church. It was parishes may be built, and are being built, which given in memory of the late Blaine B. Coles who in some measure may draw support from this old

~ii~,, Church. We never expect completely to support 1907 and 1929. We think of the social upheavals, the Trinity Church through this Endowment Fund, economic upheavals and the political upheavals. but we can ensure its continued effectiveness and We recall the Jeremiah's and the Cassandra's of expanding program in that way. those various eras, who prophesied the death of Thus we see that in one hundred years Trinity religion, the collapse of freed om, and the end of parish has grown f ro1n a parish of three or four everything, including the world. And yet, the families and no property to a parish of over two Church has lived and grown. Religion has sur­ thousand communicants and a Church and parish vived, and become more vital, sane, and helpful. house valued at $800,000. It is not only one of the Let us remember that we have a duty and a leading Episcopal Churches in the west, but is one responsibility to carry on the work so nobly of the very large parishes in the country. advanced by our forebears and that we also face We are part of a great tradition here at Trinity, the challenge of a future filled with great oppor­ and the recipients of a noble heritage. As we think tunities and great obligations for extending the back over these one hundred years, we remember Kingdom of God in Portland-in Oregon-and in all those whose lives, whose sacrifice, whose vision our Country. May it be said of us that we kept have established, maintained and developed this faith with the past, met the challenge of the present, Church. We think of the changes that have taken and planned for the future, and that in it all "We place in that period. The Civil War, the Spanish took sweet counsel together and walked in the American \Var, the First World War, the Second House of God as friends." World War, the Panics of 1873 and 1893, and of

BISHOPS OF THE DIOCESE OF OREGON THE RIGHT REVEREND THOMAS FIELDING SCOTT, 1854-1867 THE RIGHT REVERAND BENJAMIN WISTAR MORRIS, 1868-1906 THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES SCADDING, 1906-1914. THE RIGHT REVEREND WALTER TAYLOR SUMNER, 1915-1935 THE RIGHT REVEREND BENJAMIN D. DAGWELL, 1936- First Missionaries in the Oregon Territory 1847-51 ST. MICHAEL FACKLER 1851 WILLIAM RICHMOND

RECTORS OF TRINITY CHURCH

1853-54 THE REVEREND JoHN D. McCARTY, First Rector of Trinity Church 1854-60 THE REVEREND JOHN SELL WOOD 1860-61 THE REVEREND CARLTON P. MAPLES 1861-66 THE REVEREND PETER E. HYLAND 1866-71 THE REVEREND WILLIAM H. STOY 1871-72 THE REVEREND GEORGE BURTON 1872-73 THE REVEREND R. D. NEVIUS 1873-76 THE REVEREND GEORGE ~TON 1876-85 THE REVEREND GEORGE ~LUMMER 1885-89 THE REVEREND GEORGE w. FOOTE 1889-97 THE REVEREND THOMAS L. COLE 1897-99 THE REVEREND D. CLAIBORNE GARRETT 1899-1929 THE REVEREND DR. A. A. MORRISON 1929-36 THE REVEREND FRANCIS H. BALL 1936-37 THE RIGHT REVEREND BENJAMIN D. DAGWELL 1937- THE REVEREND LANSING E. KEMPTON The Honorable J. HuNT HENDRICKSON Vestryman of Trinity Church and sometime Chancellor of the Diocese of Oregon

The Honorable BLAINE B. COLES Vestryman of Trinity Church and sometime Chancellor of the Diocese of Oregon

INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR VIEWS OF THE PARISH HOUSE WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN 1938-1939. Mr. Fred Aandahl of the Architectural firm of Sutton, Whitney and Aandahl was the architect. Trinity Parish I95I The Reverend LANSING E. KEMPTON, D.D., Rector

♦ VESTRY ARTHUR L. FIELDS, Senior Warden EDWARD J. KoLAR, Junior Warden MERWIN RANKIN, Clerk

WILSON L. BECKER HILLMAN LUEDDEMANN M1Lo K. Mel VER RALPH H. KING HERBERT MALARKEY THOMAS E. SALT C. T. KRONENBERG, Treasurer STAFF JAMES L. STRACHAN, MUS.M., VIRGINIA RUBLE, Organist and Choirmaster Of/ice Assistant ]ESSIE M. WooDHOUSE, LILLIAN A. WILKINSON, Secretary Parisli Visitor and Young Peoples' Worker ANDREW JOHANSEN, Sexton

Vestrymen who have served Trinity Church in recent years are - DAVID ALRUTZ MALCOLM L. GILBERT C. C. LOW JACK STIPE EARLE F. BERNARD L. RAPHAEL GEISLER STEWART J. MOORE DONALD J. STERLING W. J. BURNS ALVA R. GROUT WALTER W.R. MAY WILLIAM C. SCHUPPEL JOHN C. BEATTY EDMUND HAYES HAROLD F. MURCH JOHN L. SCHETKY WILLARD BOND DONALD P. HEMINGWAY DR. H. MINOR NICHOLS DR. RICHARD H. WELLINGTON BLAINE B. COLES J. HUNT HENDRICKSON FRED A. NITCHY SIDNEY F. WOODBURY RUSSELL M. COL WELL HAROLD C. JONES RALPH C. PARKER GEORGE E. A. WALKER DONALD M. DRAKE DR. WILSON JOHNSTON ROBERT R. RANKIN C.H. WATZEK DR. A. B. DYKMAN J. WILSON .JOHNSTON JAMES L. RENTON FRANK J. WALTER ROBERT EDMISTON R.A.KRONENBERG EDWARD K. ROTH BERNARD F. YOUNG

ORGANIZATIONS MEN'S CLUB YOUNG PEOPLES' FELLOWSHIP YOUNG ADULTS SENIOR CHOIR BOYS' CHOIR GIRLS' CHOIR PRIMARY CHOIR CHURCH SCHOOL ALTAR BOYS Trinity Council of Women *WOMAN'S AUXILIARY ALTAR GUILD TRINITY WOMAN'S GUILD MARY AND MARTHA EVENING GUILD *The Junior Guild, formerly a Parish organization, is now merged with the Woman's Auxiliary. A new organization to succeed the Junior Guild is in the process of formation. + Past Presidents of the Trinity Council of Women

1939-1940 MRs. WILSON JOHNSTON 194,5-1946 MRs. WoRTH W. CALDWELL 1940-1941 Miss ANNE MuLHERON 1946-1947 l\1Rs. RUPERT V. HAUSER 1941-1942 MRs. GEORGE F. NEWLANDS 1947-1948 MRs. STEWART J. MooRE 1942-1943 MRs. MORTON M. TAUBMAN 1948-1949 MRs. E.G. AusPLUND 1943-1944 MRS. BLAINE B. COLES 1949-1950 MRS. DAVID B. CHARLTON 1944-1945 MRs. WALLACE B. CAUFIELD 1950-1951 Mns. FRANK J. WALTER As this Brochure goes to press Mrs. Alva R. Grout is President-elect for 1951-1952.

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