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The Journals of Reverend Lewis Wheeler Wells THE JOURNALS OF THE REVEREND LEWIS WHEELER WELLS, RECTOR OF ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, A.No THE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF LEILA PARK.ER BURTON lIARTHACK OF MILLSBORO, DELAWARE A Look at Turn-of-the-Century Sussex County, as seen through the Journal ofan Episcopal clergyman and the Photograph Album of a Young Lady from a Prominent Millsboro Family: A Selection Edited and Annotated By Richard B. Carter PUBLISHED BY THE DELAWARE HERITAGE PRESS, 2009 - ······•······Delaware ============================== A Delaware Heritage Press Monograph ...... •...... ~Rnt Published by the Delaware Heritage Press 121 Duke ofYork Street Dover, DE 19901 Copyright 2009 by The Delaware Heritage Press All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any infor­ mation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the pub­ lisher. 2 THE JOURNALS OF THE REVEREND LEWIS WHEELER WELLS OF MILLSBORO, DELAWARE Turn-of the-Century Sussex County through the eyes ofan Episcopal clergyman A Selection Edited and Annotated By Richard B. Carter INTRODUCTION glimpse into the world of late 19th century Sus­ ton in Eastern Sussex and Milford in Northern Sussex A sex County, Delaware, is presented in the fol­ were well-established shipbuilding centers. Tourism, lowing pages in the form of excerpts from the which was to be of such importance in the next cen­ journals of the Rev. Lewis Wheeler Wells, an Episcopal tury, was still in its infancy. Rehoboth Beach, founded minister and rector of St. Mark's, Millsboro, from 1888 some years before as a summertime Methodist camp until his death in 1923. Wells's tum-of-the-century meeting, was growing in popularity and had ·a number world is shown to be richer and more complex than the of large hotels and boarding houses. Lewes also had sometimes two-dimensional view of the period which several hotels and was a popular destination for winter­ has come down to us. time waterfowl hunters. Its economy centered around Lewis Wells was born into an upper middle class its protected harbor at the Mouth of the Delaware Bay. family in the town of Stratford, Connecticut, on July The town valued its status as the first port of call for 20, 1855. He apparently paid his first visit to southern vessels entering the Delaware and its bay and river pi­ Delaware in 1885 to see a friend who was then serv- lots, customs officials and the medical staff of the U.S. ing as rector of St. Paul's, Georgetown. He returned government quarantine station near Cape Henlopen to Sussex in 1887 as a supply priest and then, in 1888, were among the leading citizens of the town. accepted a call as rector of St. Mark's, whose longtime Millsboro, some 12 or 14 miles inland and situated priest had recently passed away. He served the small at the head of navigation of the Indian River, was a vil­ parish and an even smaller country chapel at the head lage of about 350 persons in the l 880's and l 890's. It of Long Neck some ten miles away until his death in was the largest town in southeastern Sussex County 1923 at the age of 68. In all, Wells spent more than half south of the county seat at Georgetown. The town was his life and the great majority of his ministry in Sussex the commercial and railroad center for a large outlying County. region extending from Long Neck in the northeast to The Sussex to which he came in the middle years of the farming hamlets of Whitesville and Gumboro some the l 880's was still almost entirely rural and agrarian. 10 miles to the south-southwest, close by the Maryland It's economy was still based overwhelmingly on farm­ State Line. ing and various industries related to the county's vast The Millsboro area had been the site of an early stands of forest, and to a lesser extent on harvesting the Indian reservation established soon after 1700 by the rich bounty of bay and ocean. Towns situated on the Maryland colonial assembly. At that time and until county's tidal rivers and the old town of Lewes at the 1775, everything south of the Indian River and gener­ mouth of the Delaware Bay carried on a thriving mari­ ally west of the center of present-day Sussex was a part time industry. Much of Sussex County's produce and of colonial Maryland. The first inhabitants of English forest products were still routinely transported to mar­ origin settled in the area in the late 1600's. They had, ket by sailing vessels. Bethel in Western Sussex, Mil- for the most part, moved from earlier settled areas in the Maryland and Virginia sections of the Delmarva penin­ Note: This article was first published in substantially different form in sula, which were already filling with settlers by 1690. the Fall-Winter, 1985-1986 issue of "The Archeolog," the now-defunct The village proper had grown up in the late 1700's and journal ofthe late, lamented Sussex Society ofArcheology and History. It early l 800's around grist and saw mills and a thriving was revised and the annotation expanded considerably in 1999 and now yet again. - R.B.C., September, 2009. bog iron furnace at the head of the Indian River. 3 Lewis and Sallie Wells Soon after their 1888 marriage. The Wells Home - At the corner of State and Ellis Streets in Millsboro, was originally built by the Rev. William Ellis. It was situated next door to the church. Rev. and Mrs. Wells bought the house from Rev. Ellis s family and later substantially enlarged it with a rear wing which they used as a kind of parish house. The Wellses had no children. After the death ofRev. Wells in 1923, his heirs gave the home to St. Marks Episcopal Church for use as a church rectory, which it remained until it was demolished in the 1990s. 4 Lewis Wells's journals make it abundantly clear that in this last generation before the ad­ vent of the automobile age railroads were at the center of the region's economy, and were almost equally important in the community's social and cultural life. Wells was very much interested in trains. He frequently listed in his journal the serial numbers of the engines passing through town and the size and nature of the trains they pulled - excursion trains to Ocean City, Maryland, were a common occur­ ance during the summer, for example. The several-times-daily trains were the town's pri­ mary link with the outside world. It is surpris­ ing how much of that outside world passed ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL-INDlAN RIVER HUNDRED through Millsboro in the form of visitors, trav­ This venerable 18th century brick church was one of the two active Episco• elling salesmen, medicine shows, politicians, pal churches within 15 miles of Millsboro, the other one being St. Paul's­ Georgetown. After a hiatus, St. George's is once more an active congregation the U.S. Mail, itinerent tradesmen and even a today (Burton family album). visiting rabbi who came down from Wilming­ ton on occasion to attend to the needs of the liam H. Williams has referred to the Delmarva Peninsu- town's prominent Ableman family. la as "the Garden ofAmerican Methodism" and Sussex The Episcopal church, while probably the oldest County was certainly a flourishing comer of that gar­ established church on Delmarva, had long since ceded den. Even so, the Episcopalians remained a visible and whatever position of dominance it might once have en- influential presence in the larger Sussex County com­ joyed to the Methodists. The Delaware historian Wil- munities. The Millsboro waterfront-A view ofthe old iron foundry wharfat the head ofthe Indian River.I The area is now Millsboro~ Cupola Park 5 St. Mark's, the primary focus of Wells's efforts, had the southwest of Millsboro was St. John's, Little Hill been established in 1848 during a burst of Episcopal (also known as "Greenville"), located between Lowe's missionary activity in southern Delaware following the Crossroads and Pepperbox. This chapel was also most­ election in 1841 of Delaware's first Episcopal bishop, ly inactive by 1890. the Right Reverend Alfred Lee. The church at Mills­ Most of these churches had been served at one time boro served as a kind of successor to the old Anglican or another by Wells's predecessor at Millsboro, the Rev. parish of Prince George's Chapel in Dagsboro. Prince William R. Ellis, a Little Creek Hundred native who George's, one of the founding churches of the Diocese was a mainstay of the Episcopal Church in Sussex from of Delaware in 1786, was itself erected in 1755 as a the late 1860's until his death in 1887. Some years "chapel-of-ease" for the Anglican Worcester Parish. At before he died, Ellis bought a lot next to St. Mark's that time, some 20 years before the final settlement of and built thereon the original part of the house Lewis . the Maryland-Delaware boundary dispute, everything Wells and his wife later occupied. They first rented the in Sussex County south and west of the Indian River house from the Ellis family, then purchased it in the late was still considered part of Maryland. 1890's. Rev. Ellis's son, Gardiner, was became one of The congregation of Prince George's had dwindled Wells's closest friends. to only a few active members by the early 1840's, the Lewis Wells was the son of Leonard and Elizabeth center of population having shifted northward toward Dougall Ford Wells of Stratford, Connecticut, a suburb Millsboro.
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