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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 '-1 THOU,, who nrt pnsmt in tvey pl.a«/ &jum wh.ost 0JJ love neither space nordfstnncc cansq,amtt us= give w; to know tlutt those who n~ ahsatt-Jnmt each other an:, J>rescnr with Tutt,; and _gmnt that,,, thou.gh uq,atuttd/ we, lt1"9 renlfzc our communion with aJtt another In the_Jtllowship ~ Th,Y savftt,,, hue t5' nlwll!JS/ thr0l\9h .Je5us Onist'/ ourLml • .Amat . .... \,. ..... .. ·• ·.·•~ jr-~ifi~j-i&Q.-"""~~N.#¥~i'S'WM•~#•i<k"'-'~ , ·· •• . ~-,.· ' : . -~....... ·,;.:--·:t:s:h·4t:-£':f..:~~~~:--:~:-- . ~-: ~~~J.)j;_>?-J$...,~-: ·/4:t}t;i!:<, ~-:::. ,;~ •. ·_ ·,,·. +.. ; .· 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 BY THE HONORABLE BENJAMIN STARK ... :(-,,:~·-·,.f', . 1~. :,;j;~~~ ..... ,.. _; :•", ·: 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.