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Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church Noble Strong Elderkin Emily Susan Hartwell Ray Edward Phillips Herbert M. Irwin Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church Page 2 of 38 M. Zlonis, May 8, 2011 Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church1 Dedicated to the memory of Robert Eaton (1929-2009) who asked me to remember the name “Noble Elderkin” Everyone knew Pilgrim Congregational Church had a bright future when Rev. Charles Nicholas Thorp unexpectedly submitted his letter of resignation on September 14, 1919. Two years earlier he had conducted the first Sunday service in Pilgrim’s new building.2 Thorp was popular. Pilgrim was growing. Fifty-five new members had joined in 1918 and sixty-nine joined in 1919, bringing Pilgrim’s official membership to 556.3 In addition to a building as fine as one could imagine, free of all debt, Pilgrim had an involved congregation and an effective Board of Trustees. A positive sense of anticipation prevailed at Pilgrim. At the same time, this was a period of change and uncertainty. Pilgrim’s congregation had lived through anxiety and tragedy associated with the 1918 influenza epidemic and great fires in Northern Minnesota.4 World War I 1 This paper provides information about Noble Elderkin’s background and activities prior to his arrival at Pilgrim, with notes about organizations he supported and individuals associated with those organizations. It also supplies additional context for his selection, including brief biographies of some of Pilgrims previous ministers and other individuals the search committee consulted. More importantly, this paper attempts to provide information about interests and attitudes of Pilgrim members in the early 20th century in an attempt to understand why Pilgrim was so welcoming to Noble Elderkin. A sense of these interests and attitudes can be derived from the minutes of women’s organizations at Pilgrim (for the most part there were no corresponding men’s organizations) and the activities of missionaries Pilgrim chose to support. In all of this are clues to understanding Pilgrim’s unique heritage among Duluth churches today. 2 September 30, 1917 3 The difficulty of sustaining membership is apparent from the fact that Pilgrim’s membership in 1919 (556) was only 126 greater than it had been in 1912 (430) when Charles Thorp came to Pilgrim, despite the fact that an average of 48 new members joined Pilgrim every year during the seven years Thorp served as Pilgrim’s minister. It should be noted that for two years during Thorp’s tenure (September 1915 to September 1917) Pilgrim did not have a church building. 4 Neither event appeared to have resulted in the death of members of Pilgrim Church. Four Church members died in 1918; three had died in 1917 and five would die in 1919. However, the life of the Church was significantly impacted by both events. At the time of the epidemic, Health Department officials and the city government banned all sizable gatherings and Pilgrim Church did not hold services for six Sundays. Pilgrim Church used its facilities to shelter some of those injured or displaced by the fires. William McGonagle, a member of Pilgrim Church and President of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad, was in charge of all fire relief efforts in Northern Minnesota. Some members of Pilgrim spent Sundays helping to rebuild homes destroyed by the fire. The Pilgrim Ladies Union undertook a series of projects for the American Red Cross and the Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church Page 3 of 38 M. Zlonis, May 8, 2011 had just ended, leaving a host of troubling moral and social issues. On June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers5 were lynched at the corner of Second Avenue East and First Street in downtown Duluth. Although this event was erased from public memory for decades, it caused distress and controversy at the time.6 Great social and Fire Relief Commission, efforts which continued until March 1919 when they delivered 48 layettes (sets of clothing, linens and toiletries for a newborn child) to Cloquet fire sufferers. 5 Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie. 6 A man long associated with Pilgrim Church, Judge William A. Cant was at the center of the legal response to the lynchings. Judge Cant, joined by Judge Bert Fessler, confronted the mob early in the evening of June 15 in an attempt to stop the lynchings. William Cant, described (by Michael Fedo, The Lynchings in Duluth (St. Paul: The Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1970)) as “…a forceful, if not self-righteous man, used to being paid homage from his long years on the bench…” was able to get the attention of the mob. Leaving the scene after the mob seemed to become disorganized and quiet, Cant and Fessler attempted to contact Duluth Police Chief John Murphy who was thought to be in Virginia, Minnesota. Two days later, Judge Cant, a district court judge whose tenure on the bench had begun in 1896, convened a special grand jury investigation into events related to the lynchings. The grand jury was “…comprised of men with substantial influence within the community − businessmen, bankers, men of financial status, religious laymen, members of country clubs…Most of all, they were friends of Judge Cant…”. In his statement to the grand jury, William Cant said “…The most atrocious crime in all our history has been committed in the open defiance of authority, in disregard of law and attended by horrors such as will ineffaceably scar the minds and conscious of us all…The great wrong to the victims wholly beyond our power of estimation can never be undone. The laws of God and man have been defiled, set at naught. In our midst from this time forth, the laws of God will be held less sacred, life will be less safe, property less secure, and humanity itself of every character will be held more cheap…”. William Cant also presided at the trials of two of those accused of committing the lynchings. William Alexander Cant (1863-1933) was born in Westfield, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1885. He began a law practice in Duluth in 1886. He served as a state district court judge (1896-1923) and as a United States federal judge (1924-1933). As Duluth grew, William and Carrie Cant moved east with their children (Helen, Howard, Kenneth and Margaret), living at 219 East Fifth Street, 326 North Tenth Avenue East, 1231 East Third Street, eventually settling at 2015 Lakeview Drive. Carrie Cant joined Pilgrim Church in 1887. The Cant children went through confirmation and joined the church. William served as a Pilgrim trustee (1898-1904) and was an usher in the 1920’s. J. P. Johnson (see footnote 86), long-time St. Louis County Clerk of Court and a charter member of Pilgrim Church, signed many of the documents related to legal proceedings surrounding the lynchings. On the night of the lynching, John P. Nelson (1899-1989), an ambitious young man who would be for many years a member of Pilgrim Church, was attending a regular 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night drill of M Company of the Minnesota National Guard at the Armory (12th Avenue East and London Road). Nelson later recalled that when guardsmen came to the drill, they heard a rumor that a big crowd had gathered downtown around City Hall (Second Avenue East and Superior Street) which contained the city jail. The commanding officer of Company M, Captain L. J. Moerke, sent a messenger by Noble Elderkin Comes to Pilgrim Church Page 4 of 38 M. Zlonis, May 8, 2011 political movements were occurring. Labor was trying to organize politically.7 In the year following Thorp’s resignation (1920) women would finally be enfranchised in the United States, and a half-century long effort to improve social well-being would come to fruition when the National Prohibition Act went into effect. Charles Thorp had come to Pilgrim in 1912, promoted the planning and construction of a new church building and successfully worked to keep Pilgrim functioning well during the two years Pilgrim was without a building. “…But these are restless days and seven years constitutes a long pastorate…” , Thorp wrote in his resignation letter, saying it was time for “…a new leader with different gifts and fresh enthusiasm…”. Pilgrim would turn to a leader very much preoccupied with the great issues of the age. The Search Process, 1919-1920 The Trustees met with the Board of Deacons on October 7, 1919 and nominated a seven person committee to find a new minister. All of the nominees were men. Nearly all were late middle-aged to elderly and affluent. Two days later (October 9) the names of the seven nominees (Oscar Mitchell, Sr., William Hegardt, William McGonagle, Charles Duncan, Albert Baldwin, Samuel Matter and Brewer Mattocks, Jr.) were presented at a congregational meeting.8 Approval was not immediately given. Brewer Mattocks motorcycle to City Hall with an offer to help control the crowd. Although Captain Moerke was told at the time that the police apparently did not need help, he kept his men on alert at the Armory after the drill was completed. When mobilization orders came at 12:30 a.m., Moerke was able to immediately sent guardsman downtown, but, by that time, three men had already been lynched. John Nelson and his colleagues spent the next few days guarding the county jail (located east of Sixth Avenue East between Second and Third Streets) where prisoners were eventually transferred. John Nelson was born in Oslo, Norway to parents of Swedish ancestry. He came to Duluth as a young child and graduated from Central High School.
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