The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops . y ACorrigan, , , , PatrickDalton, , , Michael , , , , , , , , Peter. Goggin, Joseph , , , , , , James , Den
The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops . y ACorrigan, , , , PatrickDalton, , , Michael , , , , , , , , Peter. Goggin, Joseph , , , , , , James , Hughes, , , , , , , Carl , , , , Charles , , , , , William. McQuade, .Arthur , , , , Thomas , , James, , , , , , , , , Thomas , , , , James , Honora, , , , , Eliza, CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTV-FIRST STREET AND THIRD AVENUE, MELROSE. IN the year 1852, the Rev. Caspar Metzler, a Ger-man pi-iest, then recently added to the diocese,began, with the encouragement of the Most ReverendAi-clibishop, to collect his Catholic countrymen who hadsettled in what was then knoAvn as Melrose, a newtown in Westchester County. The parishioners wereneither numerous nor largely endowed with this w^orldsgoods; but, rejoicing to have a priest to minister tothem, they erected a little wooden church, and someyears later built a brick house for the residence of theirpastor. The chm-ch was dedicated May 29th, 1853, to theImmacvilate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mar}^, bythe reverend pastor, assisted by other
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