The kirk on Rutgers farm . The Kirk on Rutgers Farm described as a. fashionable church in thearistocratic Seventh Ward. His son, Dr. John Ferris, spent muchof his earlier life with his father. Ferris died June 13, 1873. He wastall, broad shouldered and of commandingpresence. In 1841 the organ was ordered andfinally completed in 1844. It was built byHenry Erben, of New York, whose sonbecame admiral in the Navy. Expertstell of the amount of lead used in the con-struction of its pipes. It is still pumpedby hand as in the olden days. John Pyewas the first man to do this. GeorgeLyoder was
The kirk on Rutgers farm . The Kirk on Rutgers Farm described as a. fashionable church in thearistocratic Seventh Ward. His son, Dr. John Ferris, spent muchof his earlier life with his father. Ferris died June 13, 1873. He wastall, broad shouldered and of commandingpresence. In 1841 the organ was ordered andfinally completed in 1844. It was built byHenry Erben, of New York, whose sonbecame admiral in the Navy. Expertstell of the amount of lead used in the con-struction of its pipes. It is still pumpedby hand as in the olden days. John Pyewas the first man to do this. GeorgeLyoder was the first organist, and P. the first chorister. In 1843, on the land backof the church the Consis-tory Building was was a plain brick buildingwith a high stoop and heavywooden shutters The upper 29 Organ. The Kirk on Rutgers Farm floor was for the Sunday school and pro-vided with circular seats for classes. In analcove on one side and closed by glassdoors was the library railed off from therest of the school. On the main floor wasthe lecture room, the floor of which rosein the back. Between the stairways lead-ing to the next floor was a platform withtwo heavy Greek columns and a readingdesk between them. It was a bold boywho would run back there thru thedark when the infant class met in theroom. The columns were removed in theseventies and later on the rounded stiff. ^^,, seats went too. Then the floor had to be in Old Consistory leveled SO that the room could be put toBuilding general use. Before that it was possibleto reach most of the seats only by pass-ing between the leader and the audi-ence. In the base-ment in dingymEltSg«sniiK^S39saB quarters in the
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