A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . e Rev. Walter H. .Mc* owatt, acting as minister incharge. The Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott entered ujion his ministry asdean of the cathedral in Sei)tcmber, 1914. The Presbyterians The Presbyterians and Congregationalists established themselves ata very early day within the present limits of Cleveland. Sume of the 600 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXXIIl societies organized as Presbjteriau became Congregational, and viceversa. In the latter class was the society organized at the villa<^e ofEuclid (
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . e Rev. Walter H. .Mc* owatt, acting as minister incharge. The Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott entered ujion his ministry asdean of the cathedral in Sei)tcmber, 1914. The Presbyterians The Presbyterians and Congregationalists established themselves ata very early day within the present limits of Cleveland. Sume of the 600 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXXIIl societies organized as Presbjteriau became Congregational, and viceversa. In the latter class was the society organized at the villa<^e ofEuclid (afterward East Cleveland) by the Connecticut Congrega-tional ilissionary Society in 1807. The first Presbyterian, known asthe Old Stone church,* was the outgrowth of a Union Sunday schoolestablished in 1820 with Elisha-Taylor as superintendent. It was in-corporated in 1827. After occupying rented quarters for more than adozen years, the society erected its house of worship on the was opened in 1833 and in the following year came its first residentpastor, the Rev. Samuel C. The Rev. S. C. Aiken The Second Presbyterian cluii-cli was an offshoot of the Old Stonesociety and was founded in 1S44. Ilic only ircsbyterian church ofsubstance which did not spring from the Old Stone organization wasthe Miles Park church, which was founded in 1832 in what was thenthe village of Newburg. Dr. Hiram C. Haydn was for many years foremost in Presbyterianactivities in Cleveland and nortliern Ohio. He assumed the pastorateof the Old Stone church in 1872, became of a Congrega-tional missionary society in 1880, and returned to the pastorate of thechurch in 1884, which he continued to srrvc for more than a score ofyears. Dr. Haydns death occurred in July, 1913. It was mainlythrough his work and influence that the Presbyterian Union wasformed for the extension of denominational activities in Cleveland. Seo picturo on page 128. 1819-1918J KELIUIOUS, ETC. tiOl Tin: C()A\iiiii
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