History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . chran, William F. Law-rence, Edgar Logan, Stephen H. Thayer John Pen-treath, William M. Morgan, Frederick Von Storch,William H. Fisher. The prominent membership of St. Johns churchis effectively organized for various forms of parishand outside work. Among the institutions of Yonk-ers is St. Johns Riverside Hospital. This has en-listed the sympathy and care of St. Johns they are always doing a large amount of good in less observed ways, through th
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . chran, William F. Law-rence, Edgar Logan, Stephen H. Thayer John Pen-treath, William M. Morgan, Frederick Von Storch,William H. Fisher. The prominent membership of St. Johns churchis effectively organized for various forms of parishand outside work. Among the institutions of Yonk-ers is St. Johns Riverside Hospital. This has en-listed the sympathy and care of St. Johns they are always doing a large amount of good in less observed ways, through their teaching force andtheir charities. They have done much for the Ger-man population, though perhaps much of their workin this direction, if not all of it, has now been givenover to Christ Church and its rector, Rev. Mr. Ul-mann, a native German, who has been till recently,assistant minister of St. Johns, and lias for a long timedone the German work. And finally, the ladies ofSt. Johns have been very active among the poor andthe children, thus helping to meet a pervading needof the city, which calls for all the resources of all its. st. johxs episcopal church and rectory, 1886. churches and societies, and of its appropriate publicfunds besides for its supply. The other Churches and the Missions.—Having given so full an account of the oldest churchin the city, we shall now follow with the histories ofthe other churches, all but two of which originatedwithin the present century. We first give a list ofthem in the order of their dates of organization,without reference to denominations, and then treatthem under the headings of their various denomina-tions, arranging these respectively in the order of theiroldest churches. The list of the churches younger than St. Johns,on Broadway, in order of their organization, is as fol-1 lows: till HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. First Methodist Episcopal of Yonkers (at Tuckalioe) 1797 St. Johns Episcopal (at Tuckahoe) not a parish till 1853,
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