A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . l Convention of the dioceseheld June 7, 1826, Trinity Parish was designated as being in Cleave- 18161 A QUESTION OF PKIOIUTY 107 laud. In that year, tlie liev. Silas C. Freeiuaii beeaaie rector of Trin-ity Parish ou a salary of $500 per annum, with the understandingthat the eliureh of the .same denomination at Norwalk should employhim one-third or one-half of the time, paying their proportion of thefive hundred dollars. Under this arrangement, Trinity Parish reerossedthe river and services were held
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . l Convention of the dioceseheld June 7, 1826, Trinity Parish was designated as being in Cleave- 18161 A QUESTION OF PKIOIUTY 107 laud. In that year, tlie liev. Silas C. Freeiuaii beeaaie rector of Trin-ity Parish ou a salary of $500 per annum, with the understandingthat the eliureh of the .same denomination at Norwalk should employhim one-third or one-half of the time, paying their proportion of thefive hundred dollars. Under this arrangement, Trinity Parish reerossedthe river and services were held in the court-house. In 1827, Mr. Free-man succeeded in raising funds for a church. A lot was secured at thecorner of St. Clair and Seneca (West Third) streets, and a framechurch building, distinctly Gothic as to its details, was put upthereon at a cost of $3, which was consecrated the 12th ofAugust, 1829, and was the first house devoted to the worship of Godin the present City of Cleveland. In 1828 (August 12), TrinityParish of Cleveland was incorporated by special act of the general. St. Johns Ciiuecm, 1828-29 assembly, with Josiah Barber, Phineas Shepherd, Charles Taylor,Henry L. Xoble, Eeuben Champion, James S. Clark, Sherlock , Levi Sargeant, and John W. Allen as vestiymen and war-dens. The first named three of these had taken part in the meetingheld at Phineas Shepherds house in Brooklyn in November, 1816,and later, after Trinity was taken away from Brooklyn, were amongthe organizers of the still existing St. Johns parish. In December,1835, the Rev. Seth Davis became the first rector of St. Johns and,in 1836, a stone church was built at the corner of Church an*! Wallstreets, now known Church Avenue and West Twenty-sixthStreet. The old church is still occupied as a church by St. Johnsparish. In 1855, Trinity parish consecrated a large stone churchon Superior Street near Bond (East Sixth) Street which became thecathedral and, in its turn, gave way to the p
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