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1993.HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL
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AINTS,
ALBANY,
WITH SHORT SKETCHES OF
THE CHURCH HISTORY
IN THE
STATE AND DIOCESE.
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ALBANY, N. Y.fa Sfaptnj af % SirffaittaJ of %\\ jfcmrfs.
9jprHE Bishop the Rev. Wilford Lash Rohhins, Bean, the Rev.
Thomas B. Fulcher, Precentor, the Rev. Edgar T. Chapman.
Treasurer. The Chancellorship is vacant, the last priest who filled
it, the Rev. George W. Bean, having died two years ago. Honorary
Canons: The Rev. Edward Selkirk, the Rev. Frederick M. Gray,
the Rev. Richard Temple, the Rev. Edward Budley Tibbits.
Lay members: A. Bleecker Banks, Thomas Hun, M. B., Erastus
Corning, S. E. Marvin, Assistant Treasurer; Marcus T. Hun, Vice-
Chancellor; R. S. Oliver; the Rev. C. H. Hatheway, Minor Canon.
The first four have been members of the Chapter from the incor-
poration of the Cathedral, and the last two were elected in the stead
of Mr. Orlando Meads and Mr. George Evans, who have died.
The Treasurer of the Building Fund is Mr. James Moir, who has
faithfully filled this laborious place from the beginning of the
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PRESIDENT,
Mrs. Erastus Corning.
VICE-PRESIDENTS,
Mrs. James E. Craig,	Mrs. R. S. Oliver,
Mrs. A. Van Vechten,	Mrs. G. H. Bingham.
SECRETARIES,
Mrs. W. B. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. George Evans.
ASSOCIATE TREASURERS,
Mrs. James T. Gardiner, Miss Anne V. R. Russell.
EXECUTIVE
Mrs. Montgomery H. Throop,
Mrs. James Moir,
Mrs. Lewis M. Gray,
Mrs. Robert Lenox Banks,
Mrs. Edward Bowditch,
Mrs. W. C. Doane,
Mrs. George Evans,
Mrs. E. M. Holbrook,
Mrs. H. E. Sickels,
Mrs. O. L. IIascy,
Mrs. E. Corning, Jr.,
Mrs. G.
COMMITTEE,
Mrs. Isaac Vanderpoel,
Mrs. M. T. Hun,
Mrs. W. E. Rogers,
Mrs. A. B. Banks,
Miss Clarissa Bleakley,
Mrs. George Herbert,
Mrs. Luman H. Stewart,
Mrs. J. G. Farnsworth,
Mrs. Rufus II. King,
Mrs. II. G. Young,
Mrs. H. H. Bender,
W. Dean.
On the 8th of February, 1886, a number of the women of the
Cathedral congregation met together and formed a society, with
Mrs. Erastus Corning as President, to be known as “The Woman’s
Diocesan League,’* having for its first object the completion of the
new building. The organization was designed to extend through6
The Woman's Diocesan League.
the Diocese, and to include any persons beyond its limits who might
be moved to take an interest in the work. The success of the
League soon surpassed the hopes of its most ardent members. The
appeal of the Cathedral congregation was answered with generous
enthusiasm by the churchwomen of Troy, and of most of the larger
places in the Diocese, while an equally admirable spirit showed
itself in many of the small parishes.
In the three years of its existence, the League has raised more than
$30,000, and has carried upon its roll the names of 2,500 women;
not counting the numbers of other persons who have given their assist-
ance without formally joining the Association. As always happens
in such a work, the membership has been fluctuating, some remain-
ing connected with the League for a longer, some for a shorter time.
But, on the whole, a remarkable number of women have kept, and
still keep, an undiminished interest in the Cathedral, and a firm
purpose to do their full part, until the day which shall see the debt
entirely cancelled.d} Tfm "furk.
THE REV. E. M. COOKSOK.
?Ig HE history of the Church in the State of Hew York begins
H with the few families of Church of England settlers among
HI the Hutch of the Hew Hetherlands. In Virginia, Horth
Carolina and Maine, services were held as early as 1607, and in
other Colonies sooner than in the Hew Hetherlands.
In 1664, when the Hutch submitted to the English rule and
the Hew Hetherlands became Hew York and Hew Amsterdam
became the city of Hew York, and Fort Orange became the city of
Albany, a Chaplain to the English forces in the city of Hew York
ministered to the soldiers and citizens.
Chaplain succeeded Chaplain from 1664 until 1697, holding services
in the Hutch chapel within the fort, after the morning worship of the
Hutch Church was ended.
Here, as elsewhere in the colonies, all the work of the Church of
England was under the supervision of the Bishop of London, except
during a few intervals when the duty devolved upon the Archbishop
of Canterbury and other Bishops.
In 1694, an effort was made towards securing a settled minister for
Hew York. The freeholders of the city, “ dissenters and churchmen,
voted a tax of a hundred pounds a year for the support of such
minister,” and after much discussion as to whether he should be dis-
senter or churchman, Mr. William Vesey, a layman of the Church,
was elected. In 1696, Mr. Vesey sailed for England for his ordina-
tion. In the meanwhile Trinity Church, Hew York, was chartered,
with the Bishop of London as nominal Rector, and the vestry elected
Mr. Vesey to be their first minister. He accepted, and the first
Parish in the Colony was duly organized. Around this mother Parish
centred the little life of the Church of those days of feebleness.
In 1701, the gracious and memorable “ Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ” was organized in England, and its8
The Diocese of New York.
influence was soon felt here and in the other Colonies, in the aid it
extended by sending clergymen, money, books and appointments for
churches.
Yet the growth was slow in the uncongenial soil of the Dutch
Colony.
Feeling the need of mutual counsel and cooperation, the clergy of
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut met on March 21, 1766, and
formed what was the nucleus of the General Convention* There were
fourteen present.
During the troublous years of political agitation and discontent
preceding the Revolution, and while the war for independence raged,
the Church especially suffered. As the storm of war rolled away
the need of a new organization was felt deeply, and the want of resi-
dent Bishops. The inconvenience of crossing the sea for ordination
and the insufficiency of the government of the Church from a distance
made plain the absolute necessity for resident American Bishops.
The colonies were independent of England now, and could not
claim the ministration of her Bishops, even if the spirit of the people
had admitted of such a course.
The clear conviction that the Church could not perpetuate its min-
istry without a Bishop, and that no ordination was valid except at
the hands of those who were in the direct line of descent from the
Apostles, made the feeble Church determine that no sacrifice of any
nature was too great to secure a properly consecrated episcopate.
A number of clergy had met secretly in Connecticut, in 1783, and
recommended the Rev. Samuel Seabuiy for consecration as Bishop
of Connecticut.
On June 22, 1785, a Convention of the Church in the State of New
York was duly convened to consider the grave questions concerning
the Church in the State and the land. Delegates were elected to a
General Convention to be held in Philadelphia the following Autumn.
On May 22,1786, the Diocesan Convention again assembled in New
York, and at an adjourned meeting, on June 14th, the Rev. Samuel
Provoost, Rector of Trinity Church, New York, was chosen to be the
first Bishop of New York.
On September 14th of the same year, the Rev. William White, of
Philadelphia, was elected Bishop of Pennsylvania.
The two journeyed together to England the following November,
and on February 4,1787, were solemnly consecrated in the Chapel of
Lambeth Palace by Dr. John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
William Markham, Archbishop of York, Dr. Charles Moss, Bishop
of Bath and Wells, and John Hinchcliff, Bishop of Peterborough.The Diocese of New York.
9
With Bishop Seabury, who had previously obtained consecration
from the Bishops in Scotland, there were now three American
Bishops.
Dr. Provoost, the first Bishop of New York, was an ardent patriot
during the war for independence, and at one time went so far as to
join his neighbors in Dutchess county in taking up arms in pursuit
of a marauding band of British soldiers. When the Continental
Congress moved to New York he was chosen its Chaplain. He re-
ceived many other recognitions of his patriotism and worth.
After he became Bishop he was made Chaplain of the Senate of the
United States at its first session under the new Constitution, and
Washington, after, his inauguration as the first President of the Re-
public, proceeded with the whole assemblage on foot from the spot
now marked by his statue in Wall street to St. Paul’s Chapel, where,
in the presence of Yice-President Adams and many distinguished
citizens, Bishop Provoost read prayers appropriate to the occasion.
Prom these beginnings have grown the five great dioceses of the
State of New York.
After a faithful episcopate of something more than fourteen years
the Bishop desired to resign his office because of ill health, on Sep-
tember 3, 1801. The diocese refused to accept his resignation and
elected Dr. Benjamin Moore, Rector of Trinity Church, his assist-
ant. Dr. Moore was consecrated on September 11,1808, Bishop
Provoost died September 6, 1815, and on February 11, 1811, Bishop
Moore was attacked with paralysis. He called a special convention
for the election of an assistant Bishop. The Rev. Dr. John Henry
Hobart, Rector of Trinity Church, was chosen, and on May 29,
1811, was consecrated. On the death of Bishop Moore, February
27, 1816, Bishop Hobart succeeded to the jurisdiction. After a
distinguished career, he died September 10, 1830.
In the same year the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk,
was made Bishop of the Diocese.
It was under his episcopate, in 1828, that the necessity for dividing
the great work and territory of the Diocese was finally conceded, and
the Diocese of Western New York was organized.
In 1845, he was suspended from the exercise of his office and
ministry and after the long waiting of nearly seven years the Diocese
elected Dr. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright Provisional Bishop,
and he was consecrated November 10, 1852. In less than two years,
overworked, he died, on September 21, 1854.
On November 22, 1854, Dr. Horatio Potter, Rector of St. Peter’s,
Albany, was consecrated and became Provisional Bishop, and upon10
The Diocese of New York.
the death of Bishop Onderdonk, April 30, 1861, Bishop of the
Diocese. His long, faithful and wise episcopate is still fresh in the
hearts and minds of the Church.
During his administration of his office it was found expedient
to set apart the two Dioceses of Albany and Long Island. The divi-
sion was made in September, 1868. In the same year the Diocese of
Western New York set off the Diocese of Central New York out of
its jurisdiction.
The first Bishop of Western New York was the Rt. Rev. William
Heathcote De Lancey, D. D.
The second and present Bishop is the Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland
Coxe, D. D.
The first and present Bishop of Long Island is the Rt. Rev. A. N.
Littlejohn, D. D.
The first and present Bishop of Albany is the Rt. Rev. William
Croswell Doane, S. T. D,
The first and present Bishop of Central New York is the Rt. Rev.
Frederick D. Huntington, D. D.
On September 20,1883, Bishop Horatio Potter inf ormed the Stand-
ing Committee of his Diocese of his failing health and desire to be
relieved of the duties of his office. On September 27th, the Con-
vention elected his nephew, the Rev. Dr. Henry Codman Potter,
Rector of Grace Church, New York, his assistant.
The venerable Bishop of the Diocese passed away to his rest on
Sunday, January 2, 1887.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter is the present Bishop of the
Diocese of New York; the mother City, and the portion of the State
near it, retaining the original name of the Diocese which once com-
prised the territory now divided into five.
God has blessed the Church in the State of New York with a
wonderful prosperity, in gaining souls for Christ, in building up
Churches and Educational and Charitable Institutions of great ex-
tent and variety. May He prosper her still, heie and everywhere.BY THE KEY. CANON SELKIRK.
order to gain some just estimate of the Christian privi-
le£es which we, as a Church, possess and enjoy in this
^ear our ^ord 1888; and the time and labor (as
' well as something of the laborers), which have been
35 & employed to procure for us so rich an inheritance, we must
^9rr turn back the pages of history for at least two hundred
fla and fourteen years, to the time when the Rev. Nicholas
Yan Rensselaer, son of William Yan Rensselaer, the original
patroon of Rensselaerwick, came to the Province of New York,
in 1674. Although a Dutchman by birth and education, having
been born in Amsterdam, Holland, and educated at her Univer-
sities, he went to England and received holy orders in 1665, at the
hands of Dr. Earl, Lord Bishop of Salisbury. In 1674 he was com-
mended, by His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, then proprietor
of the Province of New York, to his Lieutenant-Governor of the
Province, Sir Edmund Andros, to be inducted into one of the Duteh
churches of New York or Albany when there should be a vacancy.
Governor Andros resolved to induct him into a living in the Dutch
Church at Albany, as a colleague of Dominie Schaets. Thereupon
he was chosen, inducted and appointed to officiate as a clergyman of
the Episcopal Church after the usual manner and constitution of the
Reformed Church, with the approbation and confirmation of the
magistrate and the governor. He thus became the first Episcopal
clergyman who preached the Gospel and administered the Sacra-
ments of the Church in the City of Albany.
Although kindly received by the people, there soon appeared a
disturbing element among his coadjutors, and after some two years
he resigned his position. Nothing was done by him for planting the
Episcopal Church in Albany.
For fourteen years after the death of the Rev. Mr. Yan Rensselaer1% The Early Planting of the Church in Albany.
there is not known to have been an Episcopal clergyman in Albany;
nor was anything done for the effectual and permanent planting of
the Church in the Province of New York. In 1688 William S.
May, by royal charter, constituted and appointed Benjamin Fletcher,
Esq., to be “ Captain General and Governor-in-Chief over the Pro-
vince of New York and the territories thereon depending in
America,” and the power and authority thus conferred upon him
related not only to things temporal, but also to things spiritual.
Hence he was charged “ to take especial care that God Almighty be
devoutly and duly served throughout the government, and the Book
of Common Prayer, as it is established, be read each Sunday and
Holy Day, and the Blessed Sacraments administered according to the
rites of the Church of England,” etc.
Thus, in 1692, an authoritative foundation was laid for establish-
ing and building up the Church throughout the entire Province of
New York, of which Albany, at that early day, and even before,
had been estimated as only second to the city of New York.
In order, therefore, to aid Governor Fletcher to carry out his in-
structions relative to things spiritual in the Province, on the 7th day
of March, 1692, the Rev. John Miller, A. M., received a royal com-
mission to be Chaplain of the forces in New York, and on the 9th
day of March, 1692, he received a license from Henry, Lord Bishop
of London, to discharge the duties of Chaplain. During his resi-
dence, for nearly three years, in the Fort at New York, besides dis-
charging his various duties as Chaplain, in obedience to orders, he
visited all the principal cities and towns in the province, taking
draughts not only of the cities and towns, but also of the forts and
Churches of any note within the same. During his journey he came
to Albany in 1698, at which time he held religious services in the Fort.
How long Mr. Miller remained in the city, is not known, and hence
his labor as the second Episcopal clergyman in Albany, relative to the
permanent establishing of the Church, would seem to have consisted
largely in the general knowledge, he obtained of the city and adjoining
towns, and of the feasibility and the best method of establishing the
Church in all the provinces; which, on his return to England in 1695,
he embodied in a manuscript report to his Ordinary, the Bishop of
London. In this report he outlines a unique plan for sending into
the provinces of America, Suffragan Bishops, consecrated by and
subject to the oversight and authority of the Bishop of London.
This, no doubt, had an important influence in hastening on the work
of the organization (June 10, 1701,) of the now venerable Society for
Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, by royal charter.The Early Planting of the Church in Albany. 13
Among the early acts of this Society was the election of the Rev.
George Keith as their missionary, and sending him to America on a
mission of observation. Sailing from Cowes, in one of the Queen’s
ships, the Centurion, on the 28th April, 1702, he landed in Boston
on the 11th of June following.
On shipboard he made the acquaintance of the Rev. John Talbot,
then chaplain, who offered himself to the Royal Society as an as-
sociate missionary to the Rev. Mr. Keith; was accepted by the
Society and became his companion in his missionary tour of personal
observation, traveling over British America and conducting reli-
gious services wherever they went. Having finished their tour of
observation, and kept up frequent correspondence with the secretary of
the Society, the Rev. Mr. Keith returned to England where he
ended his days. The Rev. Mr. Talbot remained in this country for
some years; during which time he visited Albany and conducted
service in the Fort, and was urged by the people to tarry with them,
but thought it not worth the while to stay, and returned to Burling-
ton, N. J.
In 1708 the Rev. Thoroughgood Moore was elected by the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel as their missionary to the
Mohawks, and arrived in New York in the fall of 1704, and at once
took up his residence in Albany, where he remained nearly one year,
officiating as chaplain in the Fort; when, becoming discouraged and
disheartened for want of success in the work of his mission, in 1705
he returned to New York, and thence to New Jersey, officiating
in Burlington and vicinity until the fall of 1707, when he took pas-
sage for England. The vessel was lost and all on board perished.
The following year, 1708, the Rev. Thomas Barclay was elected
Missionary by the S. P. G. and commissioned to act as Chaplain to the
garrison at Albany, and as Missionary in Albany and vicinity. He
soon organized St. Peter’s Parish and for seven years held services in
the Lutheran chapel with marked success as the first Rector of St.
Peter’s Church, besides acting as Chaplain and preaching at Schenec-
tady, until 1812, when the Rev. Mr. Andrews succeeded the Rev.
Mr. Moore as missionary to the Mohawks and was stationed at Fort
Hunter, Schenectady.
His Excellency, Robert Hunter, first Governor of the Province of
New York, on the 21st day of October, 1714, by letter patent, under
the board seal, did grant unto the Rev. Thomas Barclay, Peter
Matthews, Esq., and John Dunbar, Wardens, a certain piece of ground
thereon particulary described, to erect and build a church for public
worship, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Church ofIk The Early Planting of the Church in Albany.
England, as by law established. Having received this royal patent
for land, on which to build a church, and large gifts from the
Governor, from the garrison and the city, the work of building the
church, notwithstanding great opposition, went rapidly on to com-
pletion. It was opened for divine service November 25, 1716.
Writing to a friend in London, the Rector says of the church:
“ It is far the finest structure in America, at least on the continent,”
and of the result of his labors up to that time he says:	‘ ‘ Let it be
laid before the Society that I have above 40 black catechumens and 80
white children; 17 blacks I have baptized, and shall quickly form a
congregation alone of the slaves,” etc. He continued his faithful
and fruitful labors at Albany, and among the Indians, until 1720.
During his rectorship it was that Queen Anne (in 1711 or 1712) pre-
sented to the “ Indian Chapel of the Onandawgas,” a silver Com-
munion service, now in the possession of St. Peter’s Church. The
work of building on the foundation thus laid was next taken up by
the Rev. John Milne, appointed as commissioner and licensed as
Rector of St. Peter’s in 1728, who continued his faithful labors until
1739. During his rectorship, as worthy of note, was the establishing
of a parish school, under the instruction of Mr. John Beasly, which
continued its useful work for many years.
In 1734, the Rev. Henry Barclay, a native of Albany, son of the
Rev. Thomas Barclay, the first Rector of St. Peter’s Church, was
graduated at Yale college; received holy orders in England Jan-
uary, 1737, and was elected missionary of S. P. G.; received
his royal commission and license as missionary to Albany from
the Ordinary, and arrived in his native city in April, 1738. He
labored as rector of St. Peter’s until October, 1749, when he became
Rector of Trinity Church, New York. As Rector of St. Peter’s, he
reports to the S. P. G., in England, as follows: “Albany, August
21, 1740. I had the satisfaction, last Lord’s Day, to preach to a
number of the Six Nations, who came to this town to treat with the
Governor, who also was present, and has taken a great deal of paines
to countenance my designs. My Mohawk congregation behaved so
well that all the auditory were exceedingly delighted and the gover-
nor complimented them,” etc.
In 1748, John Ogilvie, born in New York and graduated at Yale,
was appointed chaplain and Missionary at Albany, having a knowl-
edge of the Dutch and Mohawk languages. He continued the good
work of his predecessors until 1760. During his rectorship the tower
of St. Peter’s was built and a clock and bell were procured from
England.The Early Planting of the Church in Albany.	15
He was succeeded by the Kev. Thomas Brown, born at Oxford,
England, ordained deacon by the Bishop of London in 1754, who
soon after came to America as chaplain of the 27th Regiment, with
which he served until 1761, and, returning to England, received the
order of priesthood, and was commissioned missionary to North
America and licensed by the Bishop of London in 1764; returned to
Albany and succeeded the Rev. Mr. Ogilvie as one of the colonial
Rector’s of St. Peter’s Church, discharging his duties faithfully until
1768.
He was succeeded by the Rev. Henry Munro, in 1768,
who served the congregation until 1773 or 1774. During his
rectorship the parish was increased and the church repaired.
July 13, 1768, St. Peter’s received its royal charter in the reign of
George the Third, at which time, after a period of nearly 100 years
from the time when the Rev. Nicholas Van Rensselaer arrived in
Albany, as the result of all the missionary labor up to that date, we
are told that the congregation of St. Peter’s consisted of not more
than thirty families', attendants, 156; communicants, 44. Mr. Munro
was the last rector up to the time of the Revolution.
After the Revolution, on the 1st of May, 1789, the Rev. Thomas
Ellison, A.M., of Cambridge, England, was the first Rector elected by
the vestry of the Parish, May 1, 1789, and continued to officiate until
1802, when the old church was demolished. He officiated at the last
service in the old church and died the same year.
The plans of the new church were by Philip Hooker, architect, of
Albany, and the church was finished in the summer of 1803, and the
Rev. Frederick Beasley, having been elected Rector in 1802, entered
upon his duties. The church was consecrated October 3, 1803, by
the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore.
After serving the Parish for two years the Rector reported
to the Convention October 1, 1805: “Baptisms, 70; marriages,
14; funerals, 15; a few communicants added since the last report,
when the number was 80.” He resigned his charge August, 1809.
The Rev. Timothy Clowes, of Long Island, was instituted Rector
as his successor in 1814, and his connection with the Parish
terminated in 1817.	The Rev. William B. Lacey, DD., was
called to St. Peter’s Church, Albany, at the time one of the
largest parishes in the Diocese outside of the city of New
York, and entered upon his duties July 1, 1818. The number of
communicants was 100. He, at an early day, established the first
regular Sunday-school in the parish, of which he became the superin-
tendent, and which proved a success. On the 5th of September, 1819,16 The Early Planting of the Church in Albany.
he was instituted Hector by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, on which
occasion he presented to the Bishop for confirmation a class of 130
candidates, and reported to the Convention the same year 130 com-
municants and a Sunday-School of 150 children.
Dr. Lacey served the Parish with distinguished success for thirteen
years, during which time there had been a gradual increase in par-
ishioners, baptisms and confirmations. In 1832 Dr. Lacey resigned
his charge of the parish, and was transferred by Bishop Hobart to
the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
In January, 1833, the Rev. Horatio Potter, Professor in Washing-
ton College, Hartford, Conn., accepted a call as Rector. During
his rectorship the present rectory, on the corner of Lodge street and
Maiden lane, was built and occupied. He continued to carry on the
work of the Parish successfully until 1854, when he was elected Pro-
visional Bishop of New York, and was consecrated in Trinity
Church, New York city, November 22, 1854.
In December, 1855, the Rev. Thomas C. Pitkin, of New Haven,
became Rector, and served the Parish acceptably to the people until
1862. During his rectorship in 1858 the church edifice was reported
insecure, owing to the settling of the foundation. The building
was demolished, and the present structure was erected on the same
site, after plans by Richard Upjohn, architect, and was consecrated
by Bishop Potter in 1861.
Dr. Pitkin was succeeded by the Rev. William Wilson, who was
elected Rector, and the Rev. William Tatlock, of North Adams, be-
came associate Rector. Both the Rector and his associate resigned
in 1867. The Parish had for the last twenty years gone on, gradually
increasing in numbers and ability for every good work, and in 1867
the Rev. William Croswell Doane, S. T. D., of Hartford, Conn.,
accepted the rectorship, which he retained until December 3, 1868,
when, at the primary Convention of the Diocese of Albany, he was
elected first Bishop of Albany. During his rectorship, in connec-
tion with the centenary services of the organization of the Parish, the
first steps were taken, and the first - money subscribed for the build-
ing of the Parish house, which was finished later on. After his con-
secration to the Episcopate he was asked by the vestry to continue as
Rector, but he felt constrained to decline, as he did also the offer of
the vestry to use the Church as his Cathedral, feeling that it was un-
wise to interfere with the independence of the Parish organization.
The Rev. William A. Snively succeeded to the rectorship and remained
four years, until he was called to the rectorship of Grace Church,
Brooklyn, and the Rev. Walton W. Battershall became the nextThe Early Planting of the Church in Albany.	17
Rector, and still fills the office. Yery large and beautiful alterations
have been made in the old church during his rectorship. The fine
tower, with a noble chime of bells, the gift of his family in memory
of John Tweddle, has been built, many very rich stained glass win-
dows have been given, the whole east end of the church has been
remodelled, with a new Altar and reredos, and stalls for the surpliced
choir of the church. A new organ and organ chamber and a hand-
some stone pulpit have been added. The Orphanage of St. Peter’s
Church has increased in its efficiency,- and removed to an admirable
building, which is its property, free from debt; and the parish
house has been completed.
The second* Parish in the city of Albany was that of St.
Paul’s, organized November 12, 1827. The Rev. Richard Bury was
the first Rector and Messrs. Edward A. L. Brereton and Thomas
Knowlson the first wardens. A committee was appointed at once to
secure lots for a site, and reported that they had purchased land on
the corner of Ferry and Dallius streets, where they erected their first
church. Bishop Hobart laid the corner stone June 11, 1828, and
consecrated the church July 24, 1829.
In 1830, March 22d, the Rev. Mr. Bury resigned and the Rev. Mr.
Keese succeeded him as Rector, and served the Parish for three years,
and, in 1834, the Rev. Mr. Price became Rector and resigned in 1837,
after a period of ten years from the organization; and reported 89
communicants; and in July, 1837, the Rev. Dr. Kip became Rector.
After serving the Parish two years the Rector reported to the vestry
“that it was expedient to sell the church and move up town.”
Accordingly, on the 4th of February, 1839, the church was sold to
the Roman Catholics, and a building, erected for a theatre, on South
Pearl street, was purchased and fitted up for a church, and, in
February, 1840, the church was consecrated by Bishop Onderdonk.
In 1841 the Rector reported 141 communicants, and continued to
serve the Parish until elected Missionary Bishop of California,
October 28, 1853.
In 1853 the Rev. T. A. Starkey became rector and served the
parish for five years, resigning in 1858. He was succeeded by the
Rev. Dr. Rudder as Rector in April, 1859. During his rectorship
the church on South Pearl street was sold, and a building in Lan-
caster street, erected for a Dutch Church, but never used as such,
was purchased in 1862. The necessary alterations were made, and
it was occupied by the congregation of St. Paul’s Parish in Septem-
ber following. In 1863 Dr. Rudder resigned.
218 The Early Planting of the Church in Albany.
In 1864 the Rev. J. Livingston Reese, D. D., became Rector of the
Parish. The Church was consecrated by the Right Rev. Horatio Pot-
ter, I). D., in December of the same year. On the 1st of January,
1870, the Rectory was completed. In 1868 the Parish established a
mission on Madison avenue, which was carried on until 1884, when
it was discontinued. In 1888 a large Parish House was added to
the Church property in Jay street.
St. Paul’s Parish is now one of the strongest and most efficient
Parishes in the Diocese, with 670 Communicants, 70 Sunday-school
teachers, 525 pupils and a large Bible class.
Trinity Church was the third Parish organization in the city of
Albany, and was incorporated September 4, 1839. The Rev. Isaac
Swart, of Troy, was the first Rector, services being held in a build-
ing known as the Cameronian Church. Mr. Swart resigned in 1841
and the Rev. John Dowdney became Rector and held service in a
public school-house, corner Ferry and Dallius street. In the sum-
mer of 1841 a lot was leased on the corner of Herkimer and Franklin
streets and a small wooden building erected thereon, and the Rev.
Edward Embury became Rector and resigned in 1843.
January 1, 1844, the Rev. Edward Selkirk became Rector, the
entire congregation at that time numbering about forty souls. The
corner stone was laid by the Rector May 10, 1848; the first service
was held in the Church January 1, 1849, and the Church was con-
secrated, by the Right Rev. Bishop Whittingham, administering Epis-
copal functions in the Diocese of Hew York, on the 10th day of
September, 1849.
The next work of importance was the purchase of a lot on the
north side of the Church in 1856, on which to build a rectory,
which was accomplished in 1869. In 1884, after a rectorship of
forty years, the Rector resigned his charge and was elected Rector
emeritus; having reported at the Convention of 1884, as on the
Parish register a list of 197 communicants. The Rev. C. H. Stock-
ing, D. D., succeeded him and filled the Rectorship for the next
three years, and in 1888 the Rev. Russell Woodman became
Rector.
In 1846 the fourth Parish was organized, by the Rev. Dr. M.
Yan Rensselaer, as Grace Church. The first service was held in an
upper room on the southeast corner of State and Lark streets. The
first Wardens were William R. Ford and Dr. H. D. Paine. Dr. Yan
Rensselaer, as Rector, continued the services in the upper room for
one year, when the trustees of the Spring street mission kindly offered
their building to the Parish for service, which was used until 1850.The Early Planting of the Church in Albany. 19
On the 11th of February, 1847, this Parish purchased a lot on the
corner of Washington avenue and Lark street, and on the 30th of
June following the Rector resigned. He was succeeded by the Rev.
John O. Spooner in October following; who resigned August 15,1848.
May 15, 1849, the Rev. J. R. Davenport became Rector, and May 12,
1850, the ground was broken for the church edifice. On the 9th of
September following the corner stone was laid by Bishop Whitting-
ham; the first service was held in the Church Christmas Day, 1850,
and it was consecrated by Bishop Wainwright, December 15, 1852.
Rev. Mr. Davenport resigned September 24, 1857, and the Rev.
Theodore Bishop took charge of the Parish in the November follow-
ing, and resigned in July, 1861 He was succeeded by the Rev.
Philander K. Cady as Rector November 26, 1862, and in 1863 the
Church was enlarged. Rev, Mr. Cady resigned April 30, 1865, and
was succeeded by the Rev. E. B. Russell on the 10th of June follow-
ing, who continued in charge of the parish until October 16, 1871.
Rev. James Hutchings Brown became Rector December 10, 1871>
and served the parish 17 months, resigning May 10, 1873. The same
year it was decided to move the Church edifice to the corner of Clin-
ton avenue and Robin streets. The building was safely removed to
its present site and opened for service on Advent Sunday, 1873, when
a new bell called the people together once more, and the Rev. T. A.
Snively had charge of the Parish until 1874: when the present
Rector, the Rev. D. L. Schwartz was elected and entered upon his
duty with great energy and perseverance, until now (in 1888) Grace
has become a strong Parish, with ample grounds and substantial
rectory; the Church enlarged to twice its original capacity; a fine
organ, surpliced choir, efficient Sunday-school of 340 scholars and.
38 teachers, and a list of 306 communicants.
The fifth parish is the Holy Innocents, organized February 15,.
1850. The corner stone was laid in 1850 and the church consecrated
September 3,1850, by Bishop Whittingham. The Church was built
by William H. Dewitt as a memorial to his children. The Rev.
Sylvanus Reed was the first Rector from 1850 to 1861. He was suc-
ceeded by the Rev. Wm. Ross Johnson, who served the Parish in 1862-3.
The Rev. Wm. S. Boardman became Rector in 1865 and resigned his
charge in 1865. The Rev. Royal Marshall became Rector in 1869, and
resigned in 1874. He was succeeded by the Rev. Samuel Smith in
1875, who served the Parish successfully until his death in 1882,
when the Rev. Ralph Kenyon became Rector in 1883, serving the
Parish until 1887. He was succeeded by the present Rector, the
Rev. Richmond Shreve, in 1888. The Parish property consistsgo
The Diocese of Albany,
not only of tlie beautiful Church, but of a very beautiful Sunday-
school building, the whole making a most picturesque group.
The city is thus provided for, in the centre by the Parishes of St.
Peter's and St. Paul’s and the Cathedral, in the north by Holy
Innocents, in the south by Trinity; and in the northwest by Grace
Church.
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BY THE REV. W. C. PROTJT, SECRETARY OF THE DIOCESE.
Diocese of Albany was organized, by authority
of the General Convention of 1868, out of what was then
the Diocese of New York. It comprises nineteen coun-
V	ties (Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, Frank-
!S S?' lin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery,
11 Otsego, Rensselaer, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady,
Schoharie, Warren and Washington), in the northern part ot
the State of New York, covering an area of 20,888 square
miles, and containing a population of 912,916 (according to the
United States census of 1880).
The primary Convention was held December 2 and 3, 1868, in St.
Peter’s Church, Albany, at which the Rev. William Croswell Doane,
S. T. D., Rector of St. Peter’s Church, was elected first Bishop of
the Diocese. The same Convention also selected the name of the
Diocese of Albany, made provision looking to a permanent Constitu-
tion and Canons, and completed the work of organization by the
election of Officers, the appointment of Trustees for the various trust
funds, and provision for the continuance and enlargement of the
work of Missions within the diocesan, limits.
The growth of the Diocese can, perhaps, best be seen from a com-
parison of the statistics embodied in the reports of the Parishes inThe Diocese of Albany.
these nineteen counties to the Convention of the Diocese of New
York in September, 1868 (immediately before the division of the
Diocese), with those of the parochial reports to the last Convention
of this Diocese, in November, 1887.
In 1868 there were reported 78 clergy, 185 Parishes and Missions,
11.600	free sittings, 50 rectories, 1,137 baptisms, 795 confirmations,
6,561 communicants, 915 S. S. teachers, 6,708 S. S. pupils, with a
total of offerings of $118,433.87-
In 1887 there were 126 clergy, 166 Parishes and Missions, 23,801
free sittings, 67 rectories, 1,723 baptisms, 1,296 confirmations, 15,702
communicants, 1,220 S. S. teachers, 10,324 S. S. pupils, total offer-
ings $332,756.85.
In twenty years the Bishop has ordained 87 deacons and 103
priests, consecrated 63 churches, laid 28 corner stones and confirmed
19.600	persons ; 33,275 have been baptized.
For the better management and supervision of the Missions, the
Diocese is divided into four Convocations.
The Bishop of the Diocese, ten members (five clergy and five lay),
chosen by the Convention, and the Archdeacons of the Convocations
constitute the Board of Missions. The work has had the best ener-
gies of the Bishop, seconded by the other members of the Board.
Large sums of money have been given, and it has increased from
47 stations and 34 missionaries, in 1868, to 81 stations and 51 mis-
sionaries, in 1887, notwithstanding the fact that a number of the
Stations have become independent Parishes.
The Institutions that have been founded and become strong are: St.
Agnes School, the Child's Hospital and St. Margaret's House—on
‘ ‘ the Corning foundation for Christian work in Albany ”—lying under
the shadow of the Cathedral, and under the charge of the Sisterhood of
the Holy Child Jesus; the Church Home in Troy; the Orphan House
of the Holy Saviour in Cooperstown; the St. Christina Home in Sara-
toga and the St. Christopher Home, East Line, offshoots of the
Child's Hospital.
The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of Albany and its
vicinity, an Institution of the Northern Convocation, before the
organization of die Diocese, has continued to make, annually, large
grants of Bibles, Prayer Books and hymnals to Parishes and Missions.
Other Institutions of more local character, very beneficent in their
work, are St. Paul's Hall (a church school for 40 boys), at Salem;
St. Peter's Orphanage, Albany, under the management of St. Peter's
Church; the Martha Memorial House, attached to St. Paul's Church,
Troy, and the Mary Warren Free Institute (a school for girls), underThe Diocese of Albany.
the spiritual charge of the Rector of the Church of the Holy Cross,
Troy
The great story of the founding and building of the Cathedral
Church of All Saints is told elsewhere in these pages; and it is in
teresting to see, from the following extracts from the early addresses
of the Bishop to his Convention in (1874 and 1875), how soon after
his consecration the purpose entered into his mind and heart; and to
how large a degree the hopes and aims have been realized both in
the work and in the Building.
“It was among the main purposes of my visit to England to see and
study, so far as I might, the Cathedral; not as a Building, but as an
Institution. * * *
I must say a single word of the material and visible side of this
matter. And I am not sorry to say it here. I have bid you welcome
to this Cathedral Chapel, not unmindful of its contrast with the
dignity and beauty of the Houses of God, in which we have gathered
before; and fresh myself from the majesty and glory of built Cathe-
drals. And I have done it, because, above all other places, this is all
yours and yours all, since it is mine; and because the idea and prin-
cipal of the Bishop’s Church, as the Church of every Clergyman and
Layman of the Diocese, as the focal point of all Ecclesiastical vigor;
as the place in which all Churchmen assemble and unite; as the radi-
ating centre of co-operative counsel and zeal; are so infinitely above
the reality of a magnificent building, that they inform and dignify,
even this meanness, into the decency and fitness of a Cathedral
Church. *	* *
Anything more striking than an English Cathedral town would be
difficult to find. As you approach it, the great old building catches
your eye. It stands with its venerable beauty crowning and conse-
crating the town that nestles at its feet, that gets close to it, that
looks up to it, that has often no other distinction, and sometimes no
other life than its Cathedral. It takes its time from the Cathedral
chimes. It is tuneful with the Cathedral choir. Its traditions have
nothing older, its expectations nothing lovelier than the Cathedral
itself; and as you go out of the place, up to the great building,
you are in an atmosphere that mingles all that is venerable in time,
with all that is celestial and eternal in feeling. The very building is
a petrified history. Biographies of men, great national events, the
progress of architecture, all are written in it ineffaceably; and
through all these, and underneath them all, is to be read a story of
religious devotion, the devotion of lives and fortunes to the glory of
God; so that if, in crypt and choir among the monuments, one is im-The Diocese of Albany.

pressed, first, with an intensely human feeling—a consciousness of
illustrated history—another step, another glance, another sound,
carries the soul up and out to the gathered company of worshippers in
the Paradise of God. * * *
The Cathedral service is the very highest ideal of the earthly worship
of Almighty God. The buildings seem so full of ages of song, that
the old echoes are wakened, to become the chorus to the anthems of
to-day. The carved Angelic corbels lean over the surpliced singers,
till one wonders whether they are listening to, or making, the music
of the services. ,The psalter, as they chant it, furnishes, in every
verse, with the thoughtful modulation and adaptation of organ and
voice, a comment on its meaning, as though a Seraph sang a sermon
on the words; and the ringing fulness of the Amens, or the pleading
entreaty of Confession or Litany answer, awaken and satisfy the
most intense idea of penitence or of praise. And this, I confess, I
hope to begin a reproduction of, here. Nay, I account this unat-
tractive building and this simple service the cradle of an American
Cathedral. * *	*
Of this, however, I have not set myself to talk. I did not go to
study buildings and get architectural plans. Our American building
would differ naturally from an English Cathedral. The Idea, which
the building incorporates and represents, is what I want to talk to
you about, and what I want you fully to understand. For just as
our childish idea of royalty represented a person who ate, drank and
slept in a golden crown, so the only thought, in many minds, of a
Cathedral, is of an imposing and magnificent building and nothing
else. It seems to me, taking the derivative meaning of the words,
that the Cathedral idea grows out of very common facts. The
Cathedral is the Bishop’s chair. It is under cover, and hence
the need of the Cathedral. It is stationary, for the Bishop is needed
at the centre sometimes, and is not to be always going around the
circumference. And it is simply the place, not in which he
rests, or which he fills, as an expensive and ornamental appendage,
on grand occasions, but the place from which he oversees, orders
and accomplishes his work
* * * * * * - * - * * *
The Cathedral, as a building, should be large, because it is
everybody’s Church, where all may come to worship; in which
the whole Diocese, by representation, can gather; to which may
centre, for the great acts of worship, all those concerned in, or
cared for, by the Institutions of learning and mercy that will gather
about it; and for the same reason it ought to be free, because everyu
The Diocese of Albany,
Child, and every man and woman, in the Diocese has a baptismal
right to worship in it. The only essentials are, that it be large, and
that it be free. * * * The history of all Cathedrals teaches one
lesson, about this matter of building, that we might well learn. We
Want, in America, to do everything to-day; and to finish instantly
Whatever we begin. The result is, poor Churches, badly built, cheaply
furnished; and lying, inside and out with stucco and staining. The
great Churches of the world are the growth of centuries, sometimes;
and the man who builds a tenth part of a Church well, leaves a truer
and better monument than he who builds it all, meanly. I had
rather put an unhewn pillar in, rough with scars of its splitting from
the virgin rock, and let a third generation shape the shaft and carve
the chapiter, till the faces on it speak and the flowers in it smell;
than shape, out of sanded wood or moulded plaster, the fairest lie
that ever seemed to support what would crush its unreality into
powder, if the weight rested on it. * * *
And this Cathedral idea implies secondly, that a Bishop is needed
in the heart and centre of his Diocese, as much as anywhere else, and
perhaps more.
I honestly believe that the best work, I have done for this Diocese,
has been in making more vigorous the beating of the heart of this
central city; till, in feelings and in acts of sympathy, it beats with
stronger and warmer pulse to the remotest mission in the jurisdic-
tion; in drawing together and drawing out the churchly feeling of
the cities of Albany and Troy; in founding St. Agnes’ School, and in
this very faint beginning of Cathedral work and Cathedral worship.
It has involved harder blows, struck and taken, and warmer fires
lighted and felt, than ever this old furnace knew. But the forging
has been good, as far as it has gone, and I have faith to believe that
strong arms will strike, and warm fires will kindle yet, to make more
shapely and enduring work than has yet been attained; to accomplish
larger and better plans and means, for the glory of God and the good
of men. I want you, my well-beloved of the clergy and laity, to
realize, that what the Bishop is doing here, and what he has been
helped to do by the generous confidence of a friend now at rest in
Paradise, and of living friends who have rallied about him, he is
doing, not for the advantage of the Churchmen of this city. They
feel it, of course, and they deserve some return for what it induoes
and incites them to do. But the work done here reacts sensibly,
practically and directly upon the Diocese at large. * * * The
true Cathedral is the Bishop’s Church, whose preaching he oversees
and in part discharges, and into which he gathers for ordinations,The Diocese of Albany.
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for Synods, for Conventions, for important meetings of Diocesan
interests, clergy and people. * * *
There is neither time nor need to impress upon you what is my
only reason for desiring the adaptation, and then the adoption, of
the Cathedral idea; not enhanced dignity, nor costly magnificence,
nor leisurely repose, hut a workshop for more and harder and more
telling work, whose blows, struck here, shall ring and reproduce
themselves through every nook and corner of the Diocese; along
its northern river bank, and through its central forests into its western
mountains and down the valleys of its Southern boundary. * * *
What we want is not transplantation, but indigenous growth.
For this American branch of the Holy Catholic Church must be not
a servile imitation even of its mother, but taking and owning all its
authority, and its rich inheritance of Faith and Orders and Worship,
we must make ourselves ’avTO%0ove$r, sons of the soil, in all details
of adaptation to the conditions of the time and place in which we live.
On the 14th day of January, A. D., 1874, I had the pleasure of
welcoming the Convention to the Cathedral Chapel.
Our little building was put to one of its legitimate uses as the
gathering place of the Church in the Diocese. It represents the
centring of people and work always; and it is always ready for
this practical demonstration of what it longs to be.
The organization of our Cathedral body has occupied a great deal
of time and thought this year. I have considered it one of those
things that could be safely left to grow, itself, into its material shape
of stone, in God’s good time. The desire to have a hand in this
part of the work, I confess, is very strong, but is, I trust, without
impatience. If God shall count me unworthy of it, and give that
privilege to my successor, I am quite content. All of it that is
material must be the work of time, and no man can more than begin to
do it. But the constitutional construction, and the spiritual upbuild-
ing, WO have fairly begun; These more important parts of the
whole organism cannot be left to grow by degrees. I am perfectly
aware that the easy and irresistible tendency on the part of in-
credulous people, is to mistrust so much on paper; and, also, that
the cheap tribute paid to all this labour, by unkindly and unsym-
pathetic prejudice, is the easy contempt of a sneer. To the latter
argument, pity for an uncomfortable temperament, chiefly painful
to its possessor, is the Only answer. To the incredulous and dis-
trustful, the single appeal is to the future on whose verdict we
patiently wait; and to the experience of the past, Within whose
dusty archives are the well-thumbed plans of the architects, consti-Story of the Cathedral.
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tutional and constructive, of other days—like Hugh Lupus at Chester
and Lanfranc at Canterbury. The plans and planners are forgotten
now, in the realities of the great corporate bodies and Cathedral
buildings of the world. And yet, but for the plans, and without
the planners, both visionary, I doubt not, in their age, the results
would not be now. I can only say for the Constitution and Statutes
that, without any servile imitation, we have sought to retain the
characteristic features of the Cathedral Chapter. We have intro-
duced the very important element of lay membership, with rotation
in office; and we have brought the Cathedral, through its General
Chapter, which is the electoral body, into constant contact with the
whole Diocese by its chosen representatives. * '*	*
Our life here has begun, as all life does, from the inside, to work
out, by degrees, and grow into its outer covering; in which, as when
the breaking kernel grows into the tree, shelter of leaf and fragrance
of flower and luscicusness of fruit shall witness to all men the power
that was in the seed.
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JMraijte Frum % ^jUtunj dj % datfpfrral”
[From the Cathedral Register.]
gteN the 2d of December, 1868, the primary Convention of
the newly formed Diocese of Albany, which had come
into existence on the 15th of November of that year, met
in St. Peter s Church, Albany, the venerable Bishop of
New York presiding and being the preacher. On the evening
of the second day, Thursday, the 8d of December, the Rev.
Dr. Doane, then the Rector of St. Peter’s Church, was elected
Bishop of the Diocese by the joint vote of the Clergy and Lay
delegates on the ninth ballot. The Bishop was consecrated in St.
Peter’s Church, Albany, on the feast of the Presentation, February
2. A. D. 1869.Story of the Cathedral.
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Entering upon the active administration of the Diocese, and con-
sidering in what way the Church could be best strengthened at its
centre, the Bishop determined to begin as soon as possible a Church
School for Girls, and St. Agnes School was opened in Columbia
Place in the autumn of 1870. Meanwhile, the committee who were
entrusted to find a proper Episcopal residence, selected the present
house in Elk street; and almost from the moment of his coming to
live in this house, the Bishop saw that the property lying on Elk
street above Hawk street, from its central and commanding position,
was admirably suited for the location of the School and other Insti-
tutions which might grow out of the Bishop’s office and work.
This property was bought by the late Mr. Erastus Corning and the
promise was given that it should be deeded to such Corporation as
the Bishop might form, when he succeeded in getting the necessary
money to put up the school building. The Corporation was char-
tered under the title of the “ Corning Foundation for Christian
Work, in the City and Diocese of Albany.”
During the winter the necessary money, $50,000, was by dint of
hard work secured, and on Easter Day, A. D., 1872, the Bishop
offered on the Altar of St. Peter’s Church the deed of the land, with
the subscriptions for the building of St. Agnes’ School.
On the 19th day of June, 1872, after the graduation of the first
class at St. Peter’s Church, Albany, the Bishop laid, with a special
service, the corner stone of the new building, which was ready for
use, and was actually taken possession of by the School, on the 1st
of November in that same year.
The question of a place of worship for the children had now to be
considered and decided upon. The decision reached involved the
deliberate laying out of the plan of a Cathedral organization.
On the corner of the piece of land (the Hawk and Elk streets cor-
ner) which Mr. Corning had given, there still stood the disused and
dilapidated remains of an old machine shop, a part of the great Iron
Foundry of the well-known Townsend Brothers’ firm which had
been established in Albany for many years. A proposition was,
therefore, made by the Bishop, to make this place available as an
immediate and temporary place of worship, until the whole idea and
scheme of the Cathedral, with its general Institutions of Education'
and Mercy, and its incorporation and organization, could be carefully
considered. There was little time lost in pulling down several of the
roofless stories, where swallows and bats had had undisturbed pos-
session for so long a time, and the building was roofed over at its
present height, floored, glazed, seated, and made usable, at so small88
Story of the Cathedral
expense as possible. The Churchly furnishing of the Choir and
Sanctuary were also as simple as they could well be—the Altar slab
designed by the Rev. J, H. H. Hopkins and made entirely of marbles
of the Diocese, being the only exception ; as the Bishop desired that
that should form a part of the Altar of the future Cathedral, and
should be the first thing given towards it. It was the gift of mem-
bers of the Ross family in Essex.
The Bishop meanwhile, acting under the advice and consent of
the Standing Committee of the Diocese, had addressed a letter to the
Clergy of the city of Albany, stating that he proposed to establish
and open this new place of worship in the Autumn—and adding, “I
have been led to this by the spiritual needs of the increased number
of children whom we expect to gather into the new building of St.
Agnes’ School, and secondly by the prospect of beginning a free
Church which shall grow hereafter into the Cathedral of the Diocese
and be a centre for its general Institutions of Education and Mercy.”
On the eve of All Saints Day, at five o’clock in the afternoon, the
household of the School left their quarters in the two rented houses
in Columbia Place, walked up Elk street, and entered All Saints
Cathedral Chapel for their evening Office, and from there went to the
school room of the new building The lighting of the fire on the
Hearth-stone of this Home for Christian Education was a dignified
and solemn ceremonial, with Prayers and Hymns and the singing of
the Doxology, followed by a few words from the Bishop of thank-
fulness for what had been accomplished and of hopefulness for all
that might be in the great future. This custom of the Fire-lighting
has been kept up on each recurring anniversary ever since, with ever
increasing thankfulness; and the hopefulness, in many ways, has been
realized. It has come to have a strong association and deep signifi-
cance to many women, and in every part of the country, on every
Hallow E’en, many hearts earnestly join in the simple service and
Bocial gathering, which they know is being held in the School room
of St. Agnes,
The next morning, All Saints Day, 1872, the Bishop formally
opened “All Saints Chapel” with the Litany, Sermon, and Celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion. And so the Cathedral project took its
first visible form and shape.
The Rev. C. W Knauff, who was one of the Clerical Staff of the
Cathedral in 1878, trained and made ready here the first Choir of
men and boys in the Diocese, and too much praise cannot be given to
his patience and pains, and to his musical zeal and ability. * *
In March, 1878, the Legislature of the State passed an Act incor-Story of the Cathedral.
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porating “ the Body known as the Cathedral of All Saints in the City
and Diocese of Albany, with powers to maintain and manage a
Cathedral Church and its appurtenances in the city of Albany, in
accordance with the Doctrine,Discipline and Worship of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States of America, together with such
other Cathedral Foundations, Schools, Faculties and other Religious
works as may be properly connected therewith, in and for the said
Diocese.” The act required that the Bishop should be President of the
Corporation and that five of the Trustees should be Laymen. It
provided, also, that it “ could enact its own Constitution and Statutes,
and that the seats for the worshippers in the Cathedral should be
forever free.”
It is a great satisfaction to realize, that as a matter of history, this
Diocese took the lead, not, of course, in the idea of having a
Cathedral, for it is believed that Bishop Armitage, of Wisconsin, was
the first promoter of the idea, and some few other Dioceses had taken
existing Parishes and turned them into Bishop’s Churches, but in
securing the legal corporation of the Cathedral upon true Cathedral
lines, in adopting the most complete Statutes that exist to-day in
the United States, and in giving to it real and due recognition in its
organic Constitution.
The first Chapter formed after the passing of the act of incorpora-
tion consisted of the Bishop, the Rev. John Townsend, Chancellor;
the Rev. E. T. Chapman, Treasurer; Orlando Meads, Vice-chancellor;
S. E. Marvin, Vice-treasurer; Erastus Corning, George Evans,
Thomas Hun and A. Bleecker Banks, Lay members.
The number of persons who enrolled themselves formally as mem-
bers of the Cathedral in the beginning was very small, not more
than thirty persons, besides the members of the School; so that no
Parish in the city was seriously weakened thereby. And the Bishop
predicted then, what has since been amply verified, that every
Parish in the city would be strengthened by the planting of a great
Church centre of work and influence.
The financial panic, which began in 1873, lasted for many years
and postponed the hope and possibility of even the first steps that
had been generously planned and purposed towards the building of
the future Cathedral.
Nevertheless, the little nucleus of the Cathedral congregation
was steadily added to, year by year; although it was always a surprise
to everyone when any new comers passed by the many dignified and
beautiful Churches of our own Communion, or of other bodies, and
became regular worshippers in the old foundry. But many did*,so
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and in 1878 it was found necessary to enlarge the “machine shop,”
(for it had been impossible ever to obliterate by paint or wash the
sign which it had borne for so many years, and the Bishop was
always secretly pleased that it refused to give up its old name and
purpose), to accommodate the congregation. * * *
The Bishop founded the Diocesan Sisterhood in 1878, and gave it
its name, “ The Sisterhood of the Holy Child Jesus,” to denote that
its work should be first and chiefly devoted to the care of children.
Some of its members began their work in the Sohool, but it soon
reached out in ministrations to sick and suffering children — and
from the care of one poor child has grown the whole great work of
the Child’s Hospital, with all its kindred houses.
The Child’s Hospital, for which money was begged and gathered
in various ways, accommodates seventy-five children, besides furnish-
ing a home for the Sisters. To this has been added St. John’s House,
for quarantine purposes, given by St. John’s Church, Troy. In 1883,
St. Margaret’s House was undertaken for the care of babies; in 1884,
St. Christina’s House at Saratoga for convalescent children in the
summer, and for the training of older girls in winter, was a special
gift to the work from two persons. St. Christopher’s House for
babies, and the work at St. Paul’s, Troy, in the Martha Memorial
House, show how the Sisterhood has increased in numbers and
earnestness; and what strength and growth this part of the
Cathedral organization has made in fifteen years. * * *
At first, it had been proposed that the Cathedral should be built
either upon the site of the present Chapel, or on the other end of the
School grounds, which land Mr. Corning had secured soon after the
completion of the school. But it was found that, from the nature of
the situation, any building of such weight would be very much more
expensive to build, because of the necessary foundations. Mr. Corning
had, therefore, purchased the land on the opposite corner of Elk and
Swan streets and was holding it for future needs. Unfortunately, it
had not been possible at that time to buy all the land that was desir-
able, and this fact added probably some years of delay to the begin-
ning of the Cathedral, for no steps could be taken till land enough
was secured.
The Bishop had already begun to get subscriptions. The
Lay members of the Chapter subscribed $1,500 each, payable
at stated times. Other members of the Cathedral congregation gave
the same sum, and many others gave in proportion.
The first great cheer in the matter of Diocesan interest in the
Cathedral, came to the Bishop from Troy. He called a meeting ofStory of the Cathedral.
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Laymen there, and though expressly stating that there was no inten-
tion of asking for money at that time, at the close of the meet-
ing several gentlemen came forward and pledged certain amounts;
and when the Bishop afterwards solicited individual subscriptions,
he was met in many cases with generous interest and gifts.
Slowly, for it was the work of only one man added to all his other
labors, but steadily, the amount grew, and, even with more work
and worry and wear, arrangements were at last made, by which the
additional land, which was held in small lots by many owners, was
bought.
It required the most careful and painstaking “ searchings ” and
laborious pursuit of every sort of legal technicality to bring this
about, all of which was most generously given by Mr. Marcus
T. Hun. And on the 30th day of June, 1882, at the close of a long
visitation, the Bishop received at Plattsburgh this telegram.
* 'Albany, N. Y., June 29, 1882,
“ To Rt. Rev. Wm. G. Doane :
“The conveyances of the Cathedral property have all been executed
and recorded. The title to the entire property is now in the Cathedral.
“Marcus T. Hun/’
The Te Deum of thanksgiving that went up from the Bishop’s
heart cannot be put into words. The telegram was framed in oak,
and has ever since been upon the Bishop’s library table, and one of
these days it will hang in the Chapter room of the Cathedral, as a bit
of its history.
These preliminary steps having been settled, the Chapter then
decided to put the plans for the building into the hands of two
architects for competition; Mr. Richardson and Mr. Gibson. Their
respective plans were carefully considered, and Mr. Gibson’s
was selected as being in all ways best adapted to the needs and
possibilities. Mr. Richardson’s plan wa3 grand and dignified,
but not suited to the circumstances of the case. Of Mr. Gibson’s
beautiful design partly carried out, and so effective even in its un-
finished condition, one does not need to speak, since it is before the
eyes of all.
The Chapter was unwilling to begin to build until at least $100,000
had been pledged, and the Bishop, after passing a summer of intense
sorrow through family bereavement, gave himself with renewed
effort to the work. * * *
To give evidence of the end which Cathedrals have served as39
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guardians of Civil and Ecclesiastical history, the idea of making the
pillars, Memorials of men who have been marked in the service of
the State and Church was suggested, and so readily appreciated,
that twenty-four pillars were soon given and assigned to this pur-
pose; and to the commemoration of others, both women and children,
associated with the Diocese or with the Cathedral.
By the early Spring the requisite sum was secured, and prepar-
ations for beginning the work and the laying of the corner stone were
speedily made. That event is of so comparatively recent a date that
one needs to say less about it. But this sketch is history, after a
fashion, and so we record that, ‘ ‘ on Whitsun-Tuesday, June 3, 1884,
the Corner-stone was laid by the Bishop,” and add, from the papers
of the day this paragraph.
“ The procession, headed by the Tenth Regiment Band, consisted
of the Albany Burgess Corps, the Governor, Adjutant-General
Farnsworth, the Mayor of the city, and members of the Common
Council, the Choir of the Cathedral, the Clergy of the Diocese,
visiting Clergy in surplices, and other clergymen of the city, the
Bishops of Springfield, Fond du Lac and Central New York; the
Bishop of Albany, the Chapter of the Cathedral, the Architect, the
Faculty and students of St. Stephen's College, Divinity students,
Wardens and Vestrymen of parishes, and officers of organized mis-
sions, and other invited guests, the Cathedral Guild, the men of the
Cathedral congregation. The procession left the Cathedral chapel
at 2:45 o'clock, the Choir and Clergy chanting Psalm 122, Lmtatus
sum. Arriving at the place, where a great concourse of people was
waiting, including the Governor (now President Cleveland), the
Mayor and other city officials, the members of St. Agnes School, the
students of the Boys' Academy and a host of others from near and
far, the service was completed. * * * '
The work of the Summer was the laying of the foundations
for the whole building, towers and all. This was covered in and
nothing more was done until 1885. In this year the Choir walls
were carried up and the foundations of the Pillars put in, and then
work stopped for lack of means. * * *
In February, 1886, the Bishop called a meeting of the women of
the Cathedral, at which was organized the Woman's Diocesan
League, and from that have come results far greater than even the
$30,000 which they have raised in two years. For it is not too much
to say that the determination of the Chapter, this last Autumn, to
finish the Cathedral by means of the mortgage which they felt it safe
and wise to put upon k, was largely due to the confidence which theStory of the Cathedral.
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women had inspired. During this long struggle there had been one
effort made which must have special mention here, because it was
on the same line of working. God put it into the heart of one
woman, Mrs. Abraham Van Vechten. to try “ to make bricks for the
Cathedral ” by getting her friends to pledge a small sum of money
monthly or annually, and to this effort of hers is due the gift of
$1,000, to which sum it had amounted in 1887, when it was paid over
to the Treasurer.
Under Mrs. Coming’s wise and1 energetic guidance as President,
led by her own generous and self-sacrificing devotion, and with able
and earnest assistance from the Vice-Presidents and other officers, the
tsLeague” has extended over the whole Diocese. It has made
the Cathedral known and understood by hundreds of people, who
neither knew nor cared about it before, and has accomplished just
the end which the Bishop so earnestly desired—the realization of the
idea, that the Cathedral is for the whole Diocese. * * *
Of course, the very idea of a Cathedral presupposes a Staff of
Clergy, each with his own separate and prescribed work and
duty—the Dean, the Precentor, the Chancellor, the Treasurer, Minor
Canons, Honorary Canons, etc. But with no endowments, and no
money except what came through the Offertory, it will be seen that
these offices could be filled only in part, and with such combinations
of work as were necessary and possible. The changes in the Clerical
Staff of the Cathedral have not been more numerous in proportion to
the places that have had to be filled, than they are in most parishes
in these days.
It is a period of fifteen years. During that time the office of Dean
has been held by two people, until just now, when the election of
Canon Robbins makes it three. The Bishop practically did the work
and duty of a Dean up to the time when the Rev. Mr. Haughton was
appointed the first Dean by the Chapter, in 1876. He remained until
1880, doing most faithful and excellent service; but both the climate
and the duty were more severe than his physical strength could bear
without injury, and a call coming to him from Yonkers he accepted
it, as a more centralized and lighter work. The Rev. Mr. Norton
was elected Dean in 1888, and held the position till 1885.
The office of Precentor has been filled three times, by the Rev.
Mr. Knauff, the Rev. Mr. Coan, and the Rev. Mr. Fulcher, the
present Precentor.
There have been two Chancellors, the Rev. Mr. Townsend, who
held the office without salary, while he was in Albany with-
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out parochial charge, and the Rev, Dr. Dean, who discharged the
active duties of the office with great ability and self-sacrificing de-
votion, both in his relation to St Agnes School and to the Divinity
students of the Diocese, up to the time of his greatly lamented
death. The Rev. Mr. Chapman has been the Treasurer from the
beginning of the work.
There has been much earnest work done by the women of the
Cathedral, who organized and carried on for many years the first
Industrial Society in the city. The first branch of the Woman’s
Auxiliary in the Diocese was started here by Mrs, Norton, and there
has been a great deal of work among the poor besides. The
Cathedral has supported its own work and services, and in the mat-
ter of giving, its record is certainly no mean one. From the begin-
ning, it led the whole Diocese in gifts to Diocesan Missions, averag.
ing a thousand or more dollars every year; and to every canonical
obligation and every charitable and Diocesan work it has always
given generously.
The Cathedral, in its provisional building, is, of course, utterly
unfinished. Its walls are only carried up to the Triforium, which
becomes for the time the clere-story, and it has only a temporary
wooden roof. The western front is finished only in brick, as are
also part of the transepts. The western tower and the central tower
are left to the future. None of the vestries or choir rooms, or
cloisters are to be built now nor the Chapter house. The space under-
ground will be utilized for the present for robing and choir rooms.
But all that is done permanently is most substantially done, and the
Cathedral already begins to be of great historical and personal
interest.
The chief thing lacking in the building is the adornment of the
East End, and the Chapter feel that its bald and bare appearance
needs excuse and explanation; for it ought, of course, to be the most
beautiful part of the Church. That it is not, is due to two facts.
The upper part of the east wall is temporary, being of brick outside
and inside. Below the window the brick work was meant to be
only the back ground for a Reredos, which was promised four
years ago, at the time of the laying of the corner stone. Too late to
make any effort to secure it by any other means, it was found that
the promise would not be fulfilled. It is the feature, most important
to the effect of the building, that remains to be provided.
The mullions of the east window are of wood and temporary, be-
cause part of the east wall is carried up in brick, and it was supposed
that the glass also must be temporary; but as the five lancets of thisStory of the Cathedral.
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window are identical in size and shape with the window of the
finished design, the stained glass can be given; and it is hoped that
it may be before long, to make this portion of the Cathedral more
seemly and beautiful, as becomes its dignity.
And now as the hour approaches when the Cathedral passes out
from the poor mean cradle, which might well have cramped and
dwarfed it hopelessly, but for God’s mercy and goodness, into the
larger room and atmosphere of the new and beautiful building,
stately and dignified even in its unfinished condition, let us humbly
thank God for past blessings, and enter into the work which lies
before us, with renewed courage and fuller consecration.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Apart from all the special gifts that have made the interior of the
Cathedral already so complete and beautiful, something must be said
of the character of the subscriptions toward the General Fund.
They have ranged in amount, from the $80,000 gift of the land, and
the single subscription of $10,000 (of which there was but one), to
gifts from children and poor^people of $1.00 and less, and they have
come not only from every part of our own country and Diocese, but:
from England and Italy and Australia, in many cases quite unsought
and unexpected.
THE WORKMEN.
The first work on the building was done by Messrs. Norcross &
Bros., in laying the foundations. Since that all the work has been
done in the most thorough way under the direction of Mr. John
Snaith, and under the careful and constant supervision of Mr. John
Pellett.
The makers of various articles of furniture having been mentioned
in this book, it is but right to say that the beautiful carving of the
capitals of the Pillars and of the Pulpit is due in great degree to the
real artistic feeling and interest in his work of Mr. Lewis Hinton.[From the Cathedral Register.]
i HE selected design was chosen as a beautiful rendering of
the early type of Gothic architecture, as well as an
eminently practical scheme for meeting immediate needs
in the provisional building. It is the one submitted by Mr.
R. W. Gibson, an architect, then residing in Albany, but now
of New York. His previous training and experience is in
some degree reflected in this work. The building is planned
upon the general lines of an English Gothic Cathedral, as
being the most natural and appropriate type. But there are several
important modifications made to meet the altered circumstances of
time and place and yitual. Most notable among them is the widening
of the central nave at the expense of the side aisles. Architects
have for some years been struggling with the problem how to retain
the pillars and arches, which constitute the chief glory of a Gothic
Church, without subjecting a large proportion of the congregation
to the discomfort of having to sit behind pillars which hinder
sight and sound. In some other experiments the pillars have been
shorn of almost all their strength and beauty, and attenuated to
mere posts with this object. In some modern churches the difficulty
is simply ignored.
The English School of Architects had made some experiments in
the direction of narrow aisles, and the architect of the Albany
Cathedral, with these experiments doubtless in view, has restored to
the main arcade and pillars all their old-time magnitude and solidity,
as being the most essential thing in Cathedral architecture.
The side aisles being required for passage ways only, their seclu-
sion by massive columns is an advantage rather than a detriment.38
The Cathedral—Architect''s View.
PRESENT NAVE, LOOKING EAST.
The pillars are, in the nave, seven feet across their greatest diameter
and the chief requisite in the design, dignity, is secured by imposing
size. The nave is 44 feet wide from centre to centre of columns,
and every person in it is seated in full view of the pulpit and Altar.
The transepts, with a width the same as that of the nave, are
restrained for similar reasons to a moderate depth, and have aisles on
their west sides only, and in these the pillars are so arranged that
the clear openings radiate from the position of the pulpit.
The nave and crossing together give a length of about 150
feet. The choir is about 90 feet long and a little narrower
than the nave. The porches of the front add 20 feet, and the
ambulatory and east walls about 10 feet, so that the total
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length of the building is 270 feet.
When it is remembered that most of
our Parish churches are only 90 or
100 feet long, it will be seen that
this is indeed a noble size. It is,
in fact, the maximum at which the
whole space is serviceable. Addi-
tional length would be advantageous
upon aesthetic grounds only. If ad-
ded to the nave the western end
would be beyond hearing. If put
on the choir, the Altar would be out
of sight. The height of the vaults
of the finished design will be about
70 feet; following the rule of propor-
tion, discovered in the most beautiful
ancient Gothic buildings. Besides
these primary dimensions, many sec-
ondary proportions are regulated by
a similar rule which is no doubt
founded upon those limiting physi-
cally the angle of convenient vision.
The provisional building is nearly
the same height internally, not hav-
ing the double roof with spaces
which will in future be built.
The interior has been first de-
scribed, because Gothic is essentially
an internal style. The inside of all
the magnificent structures of the
middle ages was carefully evolved
and studied, while the outside gen-
erally was designed to meet the
needs of the features within. And
this has been done at Albany. The windows, for example, are
placed and apportioned from within always. The buttresses have
to follow and serve the arched and vaulted ceilings, and, in
fact, exist only for them; and so on throughout the body of the
building. The tower and spires are external features simply, and
have little or no internal use.
All Saints' Cathedral is to have, at the west end, a pair of noble
towers, grouped with that old-time fitness, which proclaims the
NAVE AISLE.Ifi
The Cathedral—Architects View.
chief portal between them. They will rise from foundations of
unusual massiveness (each one more than 50 feet square), buttressed
by piers 12 feet square at each angle. Upwards they diminish in
studied proportion to the octagonal belfries and spires 210 feet high.
These, with the triple portals across their bases, form the most
elaborate parts of the external designs. The central doorway is SO
feet high to the main arch, and is surmounted by a gable with
carved cross 52 feet above the sidewalk. Behind this and over it
the main gable will rise to a height of 112 feet, ornamented by the
great traceried window 25
feet in diameter. The rest
of the design is less ornate,
the principal feature being
the central lantern cover-
ing and lighting the cross-
ing. This rises above the
roof in an imposing octa-
gon 46 feet across, with a
story of double windows,
surmounted by a steep
roof, not attempting spire-
like character, and not riv-
alling the western towers,
but about 175 feet from
the ground to the orna-
mental cross at the top.
The east end is square,
according to the preced-
ents of the ancient English
custom, with a large and
rich traceried window for
stained glass over the
Altar.
In style the building
belongs to the first period
of pointed or Gothic archi-
tecture. While this style
was, and is truly interna-
tional, each country shows
some variety of character
due to differences of cli-
mate and habits.The .Cathedral—Architect's Vieiv.
kt
A somewhat Spanish character has been adopted in this design for
various reasons. In the first place, the intense heat of the summer
and the cold of the winter are best met in a building of massive con-
struction with windows of moderate size; and, in the second place,
the necessity of economy pointed to a style where effect is obtained
by dignified masses of material, rather than in elaborate ornament
by high-priced skilled labor. And the Spanish is a very appropriate
and beautiful type of the early Gothic, nearly allied to the Roman-
esque which has become a modern national type in America. This
choice of style having been made, it was determined to concentrate
the exterior richness in certain places, each one a focus, so to speak.
For the exterior, this is at the west end, with an echo at the east or
sanctuary end. Within, the choir is richer than the nave and
transepts, with the same feeling; and in the choir all the ornament
leads up to the Altar and reredos with the grand traceried east
window.
The style permits of considerable richness in carved and moulded
work, while it does not absolutely demand them. Therefore it lent
itself readily to the scheme for building a provisional structure
which should be a part of the future complete edifice; that is in such
a way that very little would have to be taken down.
This requirement has been met as follows-
First, all the foundations were laid, including those for the
western towers. This was a considerable expense, as they are
necessarily proportioned for the complete structure. They are cal-
culated to carry a total load of 28,000 tons. Then the pillars and
arches of solid cut stone were built, and the wall surmounting them
up to the sill of the triforium.
The outside walls were all built to the same height; all these walls
ranging from 3 to 3£ feet thick, are designedvhollow, the outer por-
tion of stone, and the inner of brick, destined to have marble, or
mosaic or painted finish at some future day. Of the end walls of
nave, and transepts, only the inner or brick half is built, leaving
buttresses and bonding places for the future addition of the outside
stone. All of the western porches and towers were deferred. This
completed a large portion of the internal stone work and enclosed
the whole building with walls.
Then the outer half wall of the triforium was built (which is the
brick part to be eventually hidden by the aisle roofs), and the
temporary aisle roofs were put on below it instead of above, and
the triforium thus converted into a temporary clere-story of brick.
Above this a temporary roof is put over the whole with only a smallThe Cathedral—Architects View.
ri
PRESENT EXTERIOR, NORTH SIDE.
ventilating fleche or spirelet by way of ornament. But this fleche,
small as it looks, is, with the cross, 50 feet high above the roofs, and
the top is 131 feet from the ground.
The roof is of open timbers of simple but effective provisional con-
struction. The temporary floor is also of wood. In the choir, how-
ever, the permanent fireproof floor of steel beams and brick arches
with mosaic pavements is laid. The Altar is one large block of
Scotch stone 12 feet by 3£ feet by feet. The Altar pace and steps
are of Tennessee marble.
The seats are chairs of special design arranged in rows so
that crowding will be impossible. The building is heated by
two steam boilers in the basement. Other portions of the basement
are fitted for choir room, vestries, etc. The work of this, the last
contract, together with several special gifts, completes the provisional
building ready for divine service.
The rear stalls for the clergy in the choir are of beautiful
carved antique work brought from a Belgian Church and presented
to the Cathedral. The Hood screen is the finest that ever has been
made in this country. It is of iron and brass upon a Scotch stone
base. The height is 30 feet, with an ornamental cross rising to 40
feet above the floor.
The choir aisle windows are filled with stained glass. The
Nave aisle windows are filled in similar style, but the windows
in the ends of Nave and Transepts, instead of being the impos-
ing ones of the complete designs, are reduced in size because
of the lesser height of the walls, and so are not yet of proper pro-
portions. The east window over the Altar is so arranged that its glassThe Cathedral—Architect's View.
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THE SCREEN.
can be a part of tbe future and permanent window, so that stained
glass may be used and afterwards transferred to the stone mullions.
The seating accommodations are as follows: Stalls for clergy, 153;
stalls for choir, 50; seats for congregation, 1,500 permanent, with
possible increase for special needs to 2,300; total accommodation,
2,503. No galleries will be used.
There will be several buildings partly detached around the
eastern part of the Cathedral. The Chapter House and clergy and
choir room will be on opposite sides of a small cloister, and to the
south the treasury and Bishop’s vestry. These are not yet built,
and where they will be, there are blank brick walls. But it will be
seen that an enormous task has been accomplished in a very dignified
way at a very moderate expense; and the persevering energy which
has done this in the face of all difficulties, may be trusted to supply,
one by one, the things which are yet wanting, and to complete in
grandeur and beauty this noble House of God.1>^ jjmftthg mb it*
f HE first thing to be noted is the selection and securing of
the site for the building. One of the pillars in the
pfj| Cathedral, by direction of the Chapter, records the fact
that the land upon which the Cathedral of All Saints
stands is the gift of Erastus Corning, “in memory of his
Father and Mother.” This was the first great act of encourage-
ment, making possible everything else that has grown up.
Standing a little above and a little back of the Capitol, and
open entirely cn the north side, it commands, by its height, and crowns
the City. The western and southern sides are more shut in, and at
the eastern end there are two vacant lots, on which it is intended
some day to build the Choir rooms and Chapter house. It has the
great advantage of central situation, with sufficient withdrawal
from the business streets to be somewhat quiet; and is in immediate
connection with the School, the Sisters’ House and Hospital, and
not far from the Bishop’s residence.
THE CORNER STONE.
The corner stone is the gift of Margaret Condit, in the name of
Margaret Doane Gardiner. It rests under the northeast pillar of
the Sanctuary, and is seen from the ambulatory. On it are carved,
besides the inscription,-the cross and three Marguerites, represent-
ing three generations that have borne the name. The inscription
is as follows:
In the faith of tl^e Holy and undivided Trinity; Father, Son and
Holy Ghost. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty;
and in pious memory of all the faithful departed;
This Corner Stone is laid, June 3, A. D., 1884, of the Cathedral of
All Saints, in the city and Diocese of Albany.
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THE ALTAR.
The Altar is a solid block of Carlisle stone, 12 feet long by 3 feet
6 inches high, and 2 feet 6 inches in depth. It is the memorial gift of
the Sisters of the Diocesan Sisterhood, and
is to be carved by them as time goes on.
The Altar pace, also their gift, is of Ten-
nessee marble, and has cut on it the three
words, ‘‘agens, ardens, sapiens,” repre-
senting the initials and the meaning of the
name of the Sister whom this gift com-
memorates. On the end of the pace is
the date “Feast of the Epiphany, A. D.,
1877,” and the word “Alleluia.” The
Altar rests upon a separate, solid founda-
tion of stone built up from the ground.
Set into this solid stone is the Mensa,
which has been used in the Cathedral
Chapel from the beginning. It is a block
of Essex County marble six inches thick,
and inlaid with different colored stones
from the quarries on the shore of Lake
Champlain. It was designed by the Rev.
Dr. Hopkins and given by Mr. James B.
Ross in loving memory of his wife.
THE VESSELS.
The gilt Chalice and Paten and the large
Flagon are the gift, made fifteen years
ago by Mr. Erastus Corning, Jr., in mem-
ory of his Mother. They were made in
London by Barkenstein from designs by
Bodley, and are very beautiful. The
Chalice and Flagon are both quite richly
jewelled, the knob of the stem in the
Chalice being a single amethyst. The
inscriptions are in Latin; on the Paten,
“ O taste and see how gracious the
Lord is; ” on the Flagon, ‘ ‘Thou shalt give
them to drink of Thy pleasures as out of a river;” on the Chalice,
“ The Lord Himself is the portion of my cup.” The silver Flagon is
the gift of Miss S. W. Barnard. The inscription is, “In memory
of my mother, Catharine Walsh Barnard, All Saints, A. D., 1876,
AMBULATORY.Jfi
The Building and its Furnishings.
S.W.B. ‘They
shall hunger
no more, nei-
ther thirst
any more.”
The silver
Chalice was
given sixteen
years ago by
the first grad-
uating class of
DESIGN FOR REREDOS.
Saint Agnes
School, and
bears the in-
scription, “Ex
dono” primiti-
arum Sanctae
Agnetis Scho-
lae Almae Ma-
tris,” with the
legend, “The
Communion
of the Blood of Christ.” The Water Cruet, given by Mrs. E. H.
Dorigo, is of glass, set in and banded with silver, in which are in-
serted jewels, and on which are put, without alteration, some rings
given for the purpose. It is inscribed, “In memoriam, “Felice
Dorigo, C. S D., Beati Mundo Corde.”
*The Candlesticks are the gracious gift of English friends, made
from the same design as those recently given by Mr. Cavendish
Bentinck for the Altar of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Of the Altar cloths, the white is given by the Bishop and his
family in memory of Margaret Harrison Doane; the green by Mrs,
R. S. Oliver and Mrs. Edward Bowditch; the red by the Sanctuary
Committee, and the violet by Mrs. Legrand B. Strang, of Amster-
dam. Until provision is made for the permanent Reredos, a Dossal
will be hung against the east wall. The white and red Dossals are
the gift of the Sanctuary Committee; the green, made of old Floren-
tine Cinque Cento silk, with crowned lilies, is given by the Rev.
Canon Tibbits, and the violet by Miss Robbins' Bible Class.
The brass book-rest on the Altar was given by Mrs. Daniel D.
Barnard, and the large Altar service books by Miss E. W. Boyd.
The Credence Table is the gift of Mrs. Erastus Corning, Jr., with
the inscription: “In memory of Gertrude Tibbitts Corning: ‘Mel
chizedech, King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine.’” In its
first estate it is simply a shelf of solid stone, supported upon col-
umns. It is to be carved with more elaborate ornament.
The Altar Rail is the gift of Mr. George Foster Peabody and is of
wrought iron, made by Williams, of New York, from the Archi-
tect’s designs.
Full sets of Altar Linen have been given by Miss A. Y. R. Rus-
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sell and Miss Bleakley, and the silver box for the bread on the Cre-
dence Table is the gift of Mrs. Lewis Gray and Mrs. Bispham,
in memory of their father, Brigadier General Charles S. Russell.
The White Chalice Yeil is given by Dr. Trego and the Red by the
Misses Cotrell; the White Burse by Miss Janes and the Red by
Mr. and the Misses Monell, and the Violet Burse and Veil are given
without name. Two additional Altar vases are given, bearing the
inscription:	“A thank offering, S. W. B.; All Saints, A. D., 1888/'
The Bishop’s Sanctuary Chair is the gift of her children in memory
of Mrs. Joseph C. Y. Paige, one of the earliest and most devoted
members of the congregation. It bears her name with the text,
‘‘ They shall sit down and I will come forth and serve them.” It is
a reproduction of the chair in Truro Cathedral, copied by the kind
permission of the Bishop and the
architect, Mr. Pierson, and was
made by Mr. Christie, of London,
the material being oak and
heavily stamped leather.
Dr. Douglas Ayres has given
a large Alms Chest which bears,
as a memorial inscription, the
names of his father, Dr. Alexan-
der Ayres, and his mother, Mrs.
Harriet Conkling Ayres, in who
se memory the gift is made, and
the Rev. Dr. Tucker, pastor of
the Holy Cross, Troy, has given
another Alms Chest.	A sanctuary chair.
The capitol of a Pillar against
the East wall is carved, by the gift of Miss Post, of Paris.
The illustrations of this Hand-book have been under the direction
of the architect, who has given much pains and time to make them
complete, and they are, in part, his gift. They have been executed
by Hughson Hawley, Hew York.
THE CHOIR.
The Mosaic pavement of the Choir and Sanctuary is made by
Burke & Co., of Hew York and London, and is one of the most
beautiful features in the building. It is of small cubes of marble,
in gray and buff colors, with architectural patterns and borders.
The broad bit filling the middle of the Choir, contains, in quatre
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and Charity. The pavement in the upper part of the Choir, above
the stalls, is made with alternate crosses and crowns. The platform
before the Altar rail is a series of palm branches; while the vine,
with purple grapes, fills the broad platform near the Altar Pace,
in front, on the ends and behind; symbolizing the way, by which
the Saints pass, bearing the cross, through the crown and palm of
victory, to the full and satisfying fruition of Heaven.
The gift of this pavement was secured through a committee, ap-
pointed at a meeting of clergymen and laymen, while the Convention
of the Diocese was sitting in Troy last November, it being under-
stood that the money was given for the pavement, and that for each
$100 given, a Stall was to be assigned and marked for the Parish in
whose name it was given. The Committee consisted of Rev. Drs.
Battershall, Tucker and Morrison, Messrs. Ogden and McMillan,
Judge Sackett and Mr. J. W. Fuller. It was appointed and took
action entirely apart from the Convention, which, however, adopted
at its closing session the following resolution:
“Resolved, that the members of this Convention have heard, with
gratification, of the resolve to prosecute the work on All Saints
Cathedral so that it may be made ready for worship without delay,
and we hereby pledge our heartiest sympathy and support to the
Bishop in his earnest and noble work.
Resolved, that in harmony with the views expressed at an informal
meeting of the members of the Convention yesterday, the members
of the four Missionary Convocations will gladly undertake the work
of putting the 153 Stalls in the Cathedral.’'
The Bishop’s Throne was given “ In memory of Grace Parker by
her sisters,” and has been used in the Cathedral Chapel.
The Pastoral Staff is the same which was given by the late Mr.
Beresford Hope to the Bishop of New Jersey, the father of the
Bishop of Albany, and is made out of old oak, not less than 1,200
years old, from the beams of the refectory in St. Augustine’s
Canterbury.
Of the 153 Clergy Stalls in the Choir those which form the divi-
sion between the Choir aisles and the Choir on either side, are the
gift of the “ Father and Mother of Christina Nichols Trask, in
memory of her short and joyous life on earth. 1877-1888.” The
legend of the inscription being:	“O sing unto the Lord a new
song.” They are old oak carved work, and come from a Church
in Bruges, which was taken down many years ago; and the
date of the carving, which is very rich and quaint, is 1655.
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than these beautiful Stalls. The Clergy Stalls in front of these are new
and of harmonious but plain design, and are, together with the
stone mosaic pavement of the Choir and Sanctuary, the gift of in-
dividuals and congregations—many of them being memorials. They
are marked with the names of the Parishes and Missions, and are
arranged in the order of the date of the organization of the
churches. The number is symbolical, after the suggestion of the
second miraculous draft of fishes, of the perfected Saints. There
are forty Choir Stalls besides these.
X The Screen is very open wrought iron, with brass bands, sur-
mounted by a cross. It is the gift of her children “ in loving memory
of Mrs. Jane Russell Averell Carter,” of Cooperstown. It stands upon
a base of Carlisle sand-stone, with carved pillars, which is the gift
of a priest, “not of this Diocese.” Remembering that the Screen,
as the dividing line between the Nave and the Choir, represents the
separation between the Church millitant and the Church at rest, it
will not fail to tell the story of the thinness of the veil, since Christ
“entered into it,” which parts this earth from Paradise; and of the
close communion in which God has “ knit together His elect.”
The Processional Cross is the gift of Dr. J. Albert Jeffery.
The organ, being in the main what
has been in use in the old Chapel,
has been enlarged by the addition
of two of the most telling pipes,
the Bourdon and the 16-foot pipe;
and still further by the gift of the
other bank of keys, known as the
Choir Organ, by Dr. Nathan B.
Warren, of Troy.
The Eagle Lectern is made of
Riga oak, carved by Robinson, of
London, after the design of the
Rev. Mr. Baker, Rector of Har-
grave, Kimbolton, England. It
is a very noble bird, with most
defiant pose, broad breast and up-
lifted head and eye, the feather-
ing being carved with rare per-
fectness. It stands like the ever-
lasting Gospel, firm and strong,
and trampling under foot that
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old dragon, Satan. It is the gift of Mr. F. W. Famam, of Troy,
in memory of his wife, and has inscribed upon it her name, with the
legend, “ In the faith of Jesus Christ, who hath brought life and im-
mortality to light through the Gospel.”
The great Bible for the Lectern is from the University Press in
Oxford, bound in purple morocco, and is the gift of a Clergyman of
the Diocese whose initials, with the date, are stamped upon the
inside cover.
The Prayer Books for the Canons’ Stalls are the gift of Miss
Marion E. Peeke; and through the Rector of St. John’s Church,
Troy, the Clergy and Choir Stalls are provided with Prayer Books
from the “Mann bequest.”
It is to be noted also, most gratefully, that the Margaret Coffin
Bible and Prayer Book Society of Boston, and the New York Bible
and Prayer Book Society, have each given two hundred Prayer
Books for the Nave.
The Pulpit is a tribute to a most generous supporter of the
Cathedral, Mr. James E. Craig, and is given by his widow and
children. It is of Carlisle stone, richly carved, very large, supported
on seven various-
ly carved pillars,
like the “Douse
which Wisdom
hath builded,”
typifying the sev-
enfold gifts of the
Holy Ghost; and
bears the inscrip-
tion, with the text,
“Speak unto the
people all the
words of this
life.”
The Pont is a
large square bowl,
resting upon a
solid central pillar
whichstands,with
four pillars group
ed about it, upon
three stone steps,
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sept aisle, made
into a Baptistery.
The face of the
stone is covered
with carved foli-
age and the wav-
ing lines which
always stand for
water. On each
side in the panels
are carved four
Scriptural scenes,
representing the
“saving by wa-
ter;” two Old Tes-
tament types, the
Ark and the
cleansing of Naa-
man, and two
New Testament facts, the Lord’s baptism in Jordan, which “sane
titled the element of water,” and * the little children suffered “to
come unto Him,” and taken up in His arms and blessed. It is
“the gift of Mrs. Robert S. Oliver in the name of her children, John
Rathbone, Elizabeth Shaw, Cora Lyman, Marion Lucy, children of
Robert Shaw and Marion Rathbone Oliver. Deo Gmtias, M. R. O.,
All Saints, A. D., MDCCCLXXXII.”
The large Brass Ewer for the Font is the gift of Mr. and Mrs.
'William Pretyman. It is inscribed:	“ A thank offering for the gift
of their first-born child, Margaret Amelia Pretyman. W. P., J. R.
P. June 14, A. D., 1884.”
The women of the Cathedral, in addition to the larger gifts, have,
by dividing themselves into four large Committees, made provision
for the furnishing of all the minor details, which makes the Cathe-
dral complete in small but essential matters, and it is hardly too
much to say that there are none who have not had some share in the
work.
THE WINDOWS.
In the two Choir aisles the windows represent, in types and their
fulfilment, the leading events in our Lord’s life. It is intended to
fill the five lancets of the great East window, when they are given,
with subjects in the glorified Life of our Lord—the Resurrection,
the Commission, the Ascension, the Session in Glory and the52
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Mission of the
Holy Ghost. The
Choir aisle win-
dows are all from
the works of
Messrs. Clayton
& Bell, of Lon-
don, and the gen-
eral idea is the
presentation, side
by side, of type
and anti-type;
surmounted by
canopies of tab-
ernacle work, a
figure of a Proph
et in the base
and of an Apostle
in the canopy;
each Prophet
holding a scroll
with a legend of
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prophecy, and
each Apostle a
scroll with an
article from the
Apostle's Creed.
In the tracery
openings, Angels
bear inscribed
scrolls; the treat-
ment being after
the manner of
some early glass
in the transept of
the Cathedral at
Chartres. They
are all memorials,
and in this enu-
meration, num-
ber one is the
window in the
north Choir aisle,
nearest to the
Transept, and number four, the corresponding window in the south
Choir aisle.
Number one. In memoriam Mrs. Elizabeth Wadsworth Yan
Rensselaer, wife of Edward Burd Grubbe. Obiit, April 17, 1886.
Aet. xxxviii, “ I know in whom I have believed." The Annuncia-
tion Window: Subjects, the promise to Abraham of “the Seed,"
and the Annunciation to the blessed Virgin Mary. Prophets
Moses and Zechariah; with the texts, “I will put enmity between
thy seed and her seed," and, “I will bring forth my servant, the
Branch." The Apostles are St. Andrew and St. Peter, with the
first two clauses of the Creed; and the legend in the angel’s scroll,
“ Hail thou, that art highly favoured."
Number two. In memoriam Mrs. Caroline Leslie Standish Weed.
January, A. D., 1886. Aet. L, “Blessed are the pure in heart for
they shall see God." The Nativity Window: Subjects, Jacob’s Lad-
der and the Nativity. Prophets, Isaiah and Micah, with the texts,
“Behold a Virgin shall conceive," and “Thou Bethlehem Ephratah,
out of thee shall he come forth." The Apostles are St. Matthew and
St. James the Less, with the next two clauses of the Creed; and
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Number three. The gift of friends and relatives to “ keep the
memory of Amelia Amity Sage, who passed into the Light, Epiphany,
A. I)., 1877.” The Epiphany Window: Subjects, Balaam’s Prophecy
and the Epiphany. Prophets, Balaam and Hosea, with the texts,
“ There shall come a star out of Jacob,” and “ I will say unto them
that were not my people, thou art my people.” The Apostles are
St. Philip and St. Paul, with the next two clauses of the Creed, and
the legend on the scroll, “ Peace on earth, good will to men.”
Number four. To the dear memory of "William Bliss Baker.
November 20, A. D., 1886. Aet. xxvii, “Who loved in this life
whatsoever things are lovely, and entered early into the beauty of
the Life Eternal.” The Presentation Window: Subjects, Hannah
and the child Samuel in the Temple and the Presentation. Prophets,
Samuel and Malachi, with the texts, “My heart rejoiceth in the
Lord,” and “The Lord shall suddenly come to His Temple.” The
Apostles are St. Simon and St. Jude, with the next two clauses of
the Creed, and the legend on the angel’s scroll, “ Mine eyes have
seen Thy salvation.”
Number fire. To the dear memory of John Yan Schaick Lansing
Pruyn, who entered into Life November 21, 1877. Aet. lxvi. This
window is given by his surviving children, John Yan Schaick
Lansing, Harriet Langdon, Hibertie Lansing Pruyn. The Trans-
figuration Window: Prophets, David and Elijah, with the texts,
“The Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son,” and “Go forth
and stand upon the mount before the Lord.” The Apostles are
St. James and St. Bartholomew, with the next two clauses of the
Creed, and the legend on the angel’s scroll, “The glory as of the
only begotten of the Father.”
Number six. The gift of many friends, through Miss Mary H.
Seymour, in memory of George Washington Dean, Priest, first
Chancellor of the Cathedral. March 29, A. D., 1887. Aet. lxvi,
“They that be teachers shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament.” The Crucifixion Window: Prophets, Daniel and Jonah,
with the texts, “Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself,”
and “Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest me.”
The Apostles are St. John and St. Thomas, with the last two clauses
of the Creed, and the legend on the angel’s scroll, “ I, when I am
lifted up, willdraw all men unto me.”
Of the twelve remaining windows, which are really the final
windows of the future Cathedral, seven have been given; six in the
Nave, and one in the North Transept. The whole scheme of
these windows is to represent the various kinds of saints and ser-6k
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vants of the Lord; Angels, Apostles, Prophets, Martyrs, Bishops,
Priests, Deacons, Confessors, Doctors, Virgins, Holy Women
and Soldiers. The series begins in the first of the western windows in
the north Transept aisle, with the Angels' window, which is the gift
of Dr. E. M. Trego in
memory of his wife, and is
inscribed: Jessie Carpenter
Trego. Obiit, November
26, A. D., 1882. Aet. xxvii,
“ Asleep in Christ.”
This window contains the
figure of St. Gabriel and
two scenes of angelic min-
istry, one to our Lord in
the wilderness of the temp-
tation; and the other, angels
bearing a soul to Paradise.
The two other windows
in this Transept are to be,
the Apostle’s, St. John and
St. Paul; and the Prophet's,
St. John the Baptist. In
the south Transept the
three windows, also not yet
ordered, will be the Mar-
tyr's, St. Stephen; the Bish-
op’s, St. Aidan; the Priest's,
St. Columba.
The six windows in the
Nave are memorials of old
family names connected
with the history of Albany,
and in each case have been
given by direct descend-	choir aisle.
ants.
On the south side are the windows bearing the names of Pruyn,
Van Rensselaer and Hun; on the north side of Van Vechten,
Schuyler and Gansevoort.
The names of the families commemorated by the Nave windows
are cut into the stone sills.
Pruyn.—Frans. Jansen Pruyn, the ancestor of this family, set-
tled in Albany about 1665. He had six daughters and five sons. HeThe Building and its Furnishings.
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was a Roman Catholic, and refused to take the oath of allegiance to
"William of Orange, in 1699, then on the English Throne. Of the
five sons, Johannis was an Alderman of Albany and a Justice of the
Peace for Albany County. He took the oath of allegiance.
The family joined the Dutch Church among whose officers the name
appeared for generations. Samuel, also an Alderman of Albany, is
the ancestor of the Albany branch of the family.
Hun.—The date of the arrival of the family of Hun, in Albany, is
about 1645. The first ancestor was Harmese Thomas Hun, and three
generations of the family, in direct descent, are living in Albany now.
Yan Rensselaer.—The ancestor of this family, Killian Yan
Rensselaer, was a merchant of Amsterdam and a member of the
West India Company. He planted a colony in the New Netherlands
about 1630, and became the first Patroon. It is not certain that he
or his son, Johannis, ever came to Albany. Both his grandsons, the
sons of Johannis and Jeremiah, came; and it was through Killian,
the son of Jeremiah, that the family, in the line of his second son
Stephen, was established. The title of Patroon remained in the
family until 1889, when Stephen Yan Rensselaer, who held the title
at the time, broke the entail, and so became the last of the Patroons.
He was a man of conspicuous ability and public spirit, and was
Lieutenant-Governor, State Senator, Assemblyman, member of
Congress, and President of the Board of Canal Commissioners for
the State of New York; besides which he was Colonel of a State
Regiment of Cavalry in the war of 1812 and Chancellor of the Uni-
versity. His brother, Philip, was Mayor of Albany for fifteen years.
Yan Yechten.—Teunis Dircksen Yan Yechten came from Hol-
land, in the ship “Arms of Norway/’ with his wife and child and
two servants in 1638 and settled in Albany. Seven generations of
his descendants have continued to reside in Albany. Abram Yan
Yechten, who attained the most eminence, and was the best known
of the descendants of Teunis, was born in 1762, and was known as
the father of the New York Bar. He was at the head of the list of
counsellors admitted to practice in the courts of this State after the
Revolution. He was Attorney-General of New York at three dif-
ferent times, and was for many years a member of the State Senate,
and filled other honorable positions. His full-length portrait is in
the State Capitol, in the old-time dress which he always wore.
Schuyler.—Philip Pietersie Schuyler settled in Albany in 1647,
and was commissioner of Indian affairs from 1655, being greatly in-
terested in the Indians and their improvement in connection with the
Colonies. His eldest son Peter, who married for his second wife a
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matters concerning the Indians, and was highly esteemed in England,
where indeed he declined the offer of knighthood, after his return
from a mission in which he took over five Sachems of the Mohawks
to he presented at Court. He was the first mayor of Albany, when it
was incorporated as a city in 1686, and later on he was acting Gov-
ernor of the Colony, beside filling both military and judicial offices.
His grand nephew General Philip Schuyler served with great distinc-
tion during the war of the Revolution as major-general. He was a
member of the Board of Indian Affairs, in which he took a deep
interest, and was in the State Senate of New York, and twice in the
Senate of the United States. He married a Yan Rensselaer, and the
contributors to this window being the descendants of the Schuylers
bear not only the old name but the names of Hamilton, Hosack,
Martin, Crosby, Cooper, Biddle, Thompson; Church, Snively, Cham-
bers, Bolton and Seabury.
Gansevoort.—The Gansevoort family came from Friesland, in
North Holland. Of the family in that Country, John Wessel Ganse-
voort, educated as a Priest, became a noted reformer before Luther.
He was at one time a pupil, and always a friend of Thomas &
Kempis; and himself rose to great eminence as a theologian and
teacher. The name is, in the early history of Albany, prominently
identified with public affairs, both of the City and State. In the
Revolutionary war, it became illustrious through the defence of Fort
Stanwix by Col., afterwards Gen. Peter Gansevoort. For a gallant
determined and successful defence of this fort, which commanded
the approach to the head waters of the Mohawk River, Col. Ganse-
voort, then twenty-eight years of age, received the formal thanks of
Congress. Peter Gansevoort, his son, was a man of public spirit, and
in early life was the Private Secretary of Governor De Witt Clinton,
and Adjutant General upon his Staff. He served in both houses of
the State Legislature, and as Chief Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas. His son, Henry Sanford Gansevoort, U. S. A., was distin-
guished as a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, entered the service
at the earliest call to arms, as a private in the Seventh Regiment,
and remained in the army until his death, after the close of the war.
He quickly rose to the command of a regiment of cavalry, was brev-
etted Brigadier-General, and at the time of his death, held the rank
of Captain of Artillery in the regular service.
On the South side the subjects are as follows:
. The first is the Deacon’s window, representing St. Athanasius as a
deacon at the great Council of Nicea; and in the middle part of his
life, in the desert of Egypt, among the Hermits, writing nis great
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See of Alexandria. The legend is the great sentence for which he
contended, “ Of one substance with the Father.”
The second, the Confessor's window, contains a full length figure
of the Saint; and the first panel represents St. Gregory the Great
in the Roman market-place meeting the Saxon slave boys, for
whose conversion he sent afterward St. Augustine to England. And
the legend recalls the play on the Latin words in which he called
them angels and not Angles \ and turned the name by which they were
known in their Province Deira, to tell the purpose of St. Augustine’s
mission, namely, to save them from the wrath of God, “Non Angli
sed angeli,” “ Be ira Dei.” Another panel of the window represents
him in his great work of composing and arranging what are known,
from him, as the Gregorian Chants for the Psalms.
The third is the window of the Doctors, and is meant to tell the
story of the venerable Bede, the great historian of the Anglo-Saxon
Church. The first panel shows him as a boy studying in the
monastery at Wear mouth. The second is a picture of the famous
scene in his life, when, as he was about to die on the Ascension Day,
just as his translation of St. John’s Gospel into the Saxon language
was completing, the scribe said, “One sentence has even yet not
been written,” and, having dictated it, he said, “It is finished; turn
my face to the spot where I have been used to pray,” and then, re-
peating the Gloria Patri, he died. The lower panel contains the
conventional picture of the angel, filling in with the adjective
“ venerabilis,” the second line of the inscription which the Monks
had left upon the tomb in Durham Cathedral:
“ Hac sunt in fossa,
Bedae venerabilis ossa.”
The legends are, “It is finished,” and the “Gloria” in Latin.
On the north side, the first window is the Virgin’s window, and
tells the story of St. Agnes. In the upper part is a full length figure
of St. Agnes, with the Lamb by her side and the palm in her hand.
In the middle planel is a picture of the Saint, in the presence of the
Prefect of Rome, refusing to offer incense to Vesta, as was required
of her to do to renounce her faith, and to marry the Prefect’s son.
In the lower panel is the picture of her Martyrdom.
Next comes the window of the Holy Women, represented by St.
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, in the eleventh century. Her landing
in Scotland, with her mother and brother, who was the heir of
Edward the Confessor, and her welcome by King Malcolm Can-
more to his palace, at Dunfermline, form the first picture. Her
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the keeping of Lent and the observance of the Lord’s Day and the
reception of the Holy Communion, makes the second picture. In
the last is the touching story of her death, just as the news was
brought her of her husband’s death, when looking at the “Holy
Rood, ” and repeating the fifty-first Psalm, she committed her pure
soul to God.
The third window is the Soldiers’ window, commemorating the
story of St. Alban, the protomartyr of England. The full length figure
represents him in the dress of a Roman soldier. The middle panel is
the story of his heroic reception of the Monk, St. Amphibalus, who
was fleeing from the persecution of the barbarous heathen; while in the
lower panel is the picture of his death, in which, after the example
of his Master, he “laid down his life for his friends,” for, having
exchanged clothes with the Monk, he allowed him to escape, while
he himself suffered martyrdom instead.
It is an interesting fact in connection with the last two windows
that, by the gift of Mr. Robertson, the keeper of the Abbey
of Dunfermline, a bit of one of the old, carved pillars of the
original Abbey is inserted in the stone of the “Margaret Pillar,”
and by the gift of Lord Grimthorpe, the restorer of St. Alban’s
Abbey, an old bit of carved stone from St. Alban’s Abbey is inserted
in the wall near the St. Alban’s window.
The Litany Desk is the work of Mr. Alfred Robinson, of London,
and is the gift of Mrs. Clarence Corning, “to the glory of God and
in loving memory of her husband, Clarence Howard Corning.”
The idea represented in the Litany Desk is of supplication and inter-
cession. On the one side are two hands clasped tightly in the in-
tensity of prayer, and on the other is the upward looking Dove; while
in an open arch in the front is the figure of our Lord, kneeling in the
garden of the Agony. The legend is from the collect, “ Pardon and
Peace,” asked for by supplication, pleaded for, by the Passion of the
Redeemer, and by the Intercession of the Holy Spirit of God, with
“ groanings that cannot be uttered.”
THE STALLS.
The Stalls in the Choir of the Cathedral are 153 in number, 37 of
which are the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Trask. Of the rest more
than one hundred are the gifts of parishes, or of individual laymen
or women on behalf of parishes, and are designated by engraved
plates. Eight are devoted to the use of the Cathedral clergy. Four
are set apart for the Archdeacons of the four Convocations of the
Diocese. There is one special Stall—the Hobart College Stall—aThe Building and its Furnishings.
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memorial to Alon-
zo Potter, Bishop
o f Pennsylvania
1845-1865. The
following is a list
of the inscriptions •
on the Memorial
Stalls as far as they
have been taken.
The Stalls that are
not memorial are
designated simply
by the name of the
Parish:
St. John’s Chur-
ch, Troy. In me-
mory of Thomas
A. Tillinghast.
Church of the
Good Shepherd,
Cliestertown. I n
memory of Mrs.
Sarah Tibbits Rus-
sell.
Church of the
Messiah, Green-
bush. In memory
of John L. Yan
Yalkenburgh.
Trinity Church,
Windham. In
memory of Henry
Prout, Priest.
Trinity Church, Claverack. In memory of Francis Harison,
Priest.
St. Luke’s Church, Catskill. In memory of Mrs. Henry Hopkins.
Christ Church, Butternuts. In memory of John Y. Hughes,
Priest.
St. Mary’s Church, Luzerne. In memory of Benjamin C. Butler.
Free Church of the Ascension, Troy. In memory of Alfonzo
Bills.
St. Luke’s Church, Troy. In memory of F. A. Stow.
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St Paul’s Church, Franklin. In memory of Col. B. T. Cook and
Henry S. Edwards.
St. John’s Church, Delhi. In memory of Carleton H. Seeley and
Annie R. Wheeler.
Hobart College Stall. In memory of Alonzo Potter, Bishop.
Christ Church, Hudson. In memory of Mrs. Alice Freebome
Wheeler.
Trinity Church, Albany. In memory of George Cummings,
Warden.
St. John’s Church, Johnstown. A brother’s memorial to Henry
F. Yanney, M. D.
Grace Church, Canton. In memory of Champlin Harison.
St. John’s Church, Richfield Springs. In memory of William
Granger.
The Archdeacon of Albany. A tribute to William Payne, D. D.,
first Archdeacon.
St. John’s Church, Essex. In memory of Henry H. Ross.
St. Mark’s Church, Philmont. In memory of Kelson J. A ken.
Church of the Good Shepherd, Canajoharie. A grateful tribute
to Mrs. Marietta White.
Church of the Holy Cross, Fort Plain. In memory of ex-Judge
George Yost.
All Saints Church, Hudson. In loving memory of Joseph S.
Farrand, by his children.
Trinity Church, Granville. In memory of Louise Brown Warren.
Cancellarii. In memory of George W. Dean, Priest.
Thesaurarii. In memory of Mrs. Catharine Williams Gregory.
Zion Church, Sandy Hill. In memory of Samuel B. Bostwick,
Priest.
St. Stephen’s Church, Schuylerville.
Grace Church, Norway. In memory of David and Sarah Du
Bois and Ira and Elizabeth N. Coe.
St. Andrew’s Church, Schroon Lake. In memory of Bayard
Clark.
Trinity Church, Rensselaerville. In memory of Samuel Fuller,
Priest.
St. John’s Church, Conklingville. In memory of Mrs. Augusta
Isabella Thompson.
Trinity Church, Athens. In memory of Mrs. Louisa Hubbell.
St. Paul’s Church, Troy (II). In memory of Henrietta Cannon
Ogden.The Building and its Furnishings,
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Christ Church, Schenectady. In memory of John Rogers, Priest.
Trinity Church, Schaghticoke. In memory of Oliver Anson
Arnold.
Christ Church, Morristown. In memory of Mrs. Richard B.
Chapman.
St. Paul's Church, Waddington. In memory of Thomas Clemson,
Priest.
Christ Church, Troy. A thank offering.
Christ Church, Gloversville. In memory of Daniel Manning.
St. James' Church, Caldwell. In memory of Mrs. Sarah P. Tuttle.
Grace Mission, Louisville. In memory of the Rev. Canon Forest.
Trinity Church, West Troy. In memory of James and Thomas
Scarborough.
PARISHES GIVING STALLS.
The stall “to the honor of George H. Nieholls, D. D., Rector
Emeritus of St. Mark's, Hoosick Falls.
St. Paul's Church, Troy.
Church of the Holy Cross, Troy.
Bethesda Church, Saratoga Springs.
Church of the Messiah, Glens Falls.
Trinity Church, Whitehall.
Church of the Holy Cross, Warrensburgh.
Trinity Church, Potsdam.
St. John's Church, Ogdensburgh.
St. Peter's Church, Albany.
Grace Church, Albany.
St. Mark's Church, Malone.
Christ Church, Port Henry.
Grace Church, Cherry Valley.
St. Paul’s Church, Salem.
Free Church of the Epiphany, Bath.
Zion Church, Colton.
St. Luke's Church, Lisbon.
In Memory of Harry Sterling Dean.
Church of the Good Shepherd, Elizabethtown.
Zion Church, Morris.
Christ Church, Cooperstown.
St. Matthew's Church, Unadilla.
St. Paul's Church, Kinderhook.
Christ Church, Herkimer.
St. James' Church, Fort Edward.62
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Christ Church, Duanesburgh.
Trinity Church, Plattsburgh.
St. Paul’s Church, East Springfield.
St. James’ Church, Hogansburgh.
Church of the Holy Innocents, Albany.
St. Mark’s Church Hoosick Falls.
St. Mark’s Church, Green Island.
St. Peter’s Church, Ellenburgh.*
St. Luke’s Mission, Chatham.
St. Ann’s Church, Amsterdam.
Calvary Church, Burnt Hills.
Calvary Church, Cairo, f
St. George’s Church, Schenectady.
Praecentoris.
Canonici, I.
Canonici, II.	[- Cathedral Clergy.
Canonici Honorarii, I.
Canonici Honorarii, II. ^
Christ Church, Ballston Spa.
St. Luke’s Church, Cambridge.
St. John’s Church, Cohoes.
Immanuel Church, Little Falls.
Immanuel Church, Otego.
All Saints Church, Hoosac.
Emmanuel Church, Mineville.
St. Thomas’ Church, Lawrenceville.
St. Andrew’s Church, Norwood.
Trinity Church, Lansingburgh.
St. John’s Church, Massena.
Trinity Chapel, Morley.
Gloria Dei Church, Palenville.
St. John’s Church, Tannersville.
St. Paul’s Church, Albany.
St. James’ Church, Oneonta.
Christ Church, Walton.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Stockport.
Rev. John Brainard, D. D., Rector of St. Peter’s Church, Auburn,
N. Y.
*In memory of Martin Gorgus, the gift of his daughters.
+ Given by the “ Busy Bees ” Childrens’ Society of Bethesda, Saratoga.[HE Pillars in the Cathedral, with the exception of four not
yet appropriated, are all memorials. The four smaller Pil-
lars in the Sanctuary very fitly commemorate the names
and innocent lives of little children now in Paradise. Of
the twenty-eight in the Choir, Nave and Transepts, five are
inscribed with the names of former Governors of the State of
New York as follows: Enos T. Throop, John A. King,
Hamilton Pish, Horatio Seymour and John A. Dix; eleven are
in memory of churchmen and women in Albany: Orlando Meads,
LL.D., Mr. George Evans, Hon. Daniel Manning, Margaret H.
Doane, Mrs. Catharine W. Barnard, Mrs. Erastus Coming, Mr. and
Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, Mrs. Catharine D. Evans, Mrs. Lucinda
Chamberlain Gay, Mr. Harmon Pumpelly and Mr. William H. De
Witt. One is in memory of Mrs. Warren, of Troy; four are memorials
of faithful men and women in other parts of the Diocese, Mr. B. P.
Burhans, of Warrensburgh; Mr. H. N. Brush, of Brushton; Mr. and
Mrs T. S. Clarkson, of Potsdam, and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. N. Chad-
wick, of Cohoes. One is in memory of George W. Doane, second
Bishop of New Jersey, erected by graduates and former pupils of St.
Mary’s Hall, and one is a memorial of Mr. C. C. Trowbridge, of
Detroit, an Albanian by birth, and honorably known to the Church
throughout the country. Of three other Pillars, one is the St. Agnes'
Pillar, given by the graduates of St. Agnes School, another records
Mr. Coming’s gift of the land on which the Cathedral stands; while
the third tells the fact that Mrs. Abraham Yan Yechten secured
the first subscriptions to the Building Fund. The two massive
Pillars at the intersection of the Nave and Chancel, are the gift of
Mrs. Leland Stanford, in memory of her father and mother, Dyer
and Jane Lathrop, and of her husband’s father and mother, Josiah
and Elizabeth Stanford. The inscriptions on the Pillars follow in
order:The Pillars.
6b
Entering at the West door of
the Nave, and going up the
South aisle, the Pillars stand in
the following order:
I.	^he Buqhans #Ulaq.
To the memory of Benjamin
Peck Burhans, a faithful layman
of the Diocese, to whom are due
the establishment and the build-
ing of the Church in Warrens-
burgh. 1798-1875.
lirnivj Carving:	Oak Leaves and
Romanesque Foliage.
II.	?5he
A memorial to Thomas Streat-
field Clarkson and Elizabeth, his
wife, generous benefactors of the
Church, faithful members of
Trinity Church, Potsdam, where
their names and influence will
long live in grateful remem-
brance.
Carving:	Oak, Wheat and
Laurel.
III.	ffihe Hfyugn J?Ulat[.
To the glory of God and in
loving momory of John Van
Schaick Lansing Pruyn, LL. D.,
bom June 22, 1811; at rest No-
vember 21,1877; and of Harriet
Corning Turner, his wife, born
June 18,1822; at rest March 22,
1859. Both glorified God in lives
given to good works. The one,
a descendant of the early Dutch
settlers of this City and State,
was Senator of New York, 1861-1863; representative in the 38th and
40th Congresses of the United States; Regent of the University of
the State of New York, 1844-1877, and its Chancellor, 1862-1877.
A SANCTUARY PILLAR.The Pillars.
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The other, a descendant of the
early settlers of New England, was
a woman of rare beauty of person
and remarkable strength and love-
liness of character, D. 0. M.
Carving: Tulips, Martlet Birds
and Roses.
IT. fanning 3?illat[.
A daughter’s love makes this
memorial in the Cathedral Church
of his native city, of the public
services of Daniel Manning^ Sec-
retary of the Treasury of the United
States, 1885-1887.
Carving: Transitional Foliage.
Y. ?f>he (goveqnon
This pillar is erected in lov
ing memory of Enos Thompson
Throop, Governor of this State,
1829-1832.
Integer vitae, scelerisque purus.
Carving: Indian Corn, Pansies
and Laurel.
VI. <povet[nott Wxx
A memorial of John A. Dix,
Governor of the State of New
York, 1873-1875. Major-General
in the war for the Union, 1861-
1865. A servant of God.
Carving:	Laurel, Oak, and
Angel’s head in centre.	A pillar in the nave.
Reaching the South Transept, the Pillars here bear the following
inscriptions.
VII.	IHllaq,
A memorial of Charles Christopher Trowbridge, whose long life
begun in Albany, but lived chiefly in Detroit, brought him both love
566
The Pillars.
and honour in all its human relations, and highest esteem in the
Church of whose General Council he was a member for half a
Century. §
VIII.	^he	tfillaq.
This pillar records the loving efforts of Mrs. Abraham Yan Yech-
ten, who secured the first subscriptions for the Cathedral Building
Fund.
IX.	Bt[u$h 3?Ulat[.
To the mem-
ory of Henry
Nielson Brush,
a pioneer of the
Church in the
Northern part
of the Diocese,
and the founder
of St. Peter’s
Church, Brush
ton. 1810-1872.
Proceeding
from the South
Transept throu-
gh the South
Choir aisle, the
inscriptions, be-
ginning with the
great Pillar of
the Choir arch,
are.
X.	$ta*p
itfttlatt*
To Josiah and
Elizabeth Stan-
ford, in loving
memory, by
their daughter-
_ _____________ in-law, Jane
choir, north side.	Lathrop Stan-
ford. 1888.
Carving: Ivy, Romanesque Foliage, enriched angle facing West end.
§ See Addenda.The Pillars.
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XI.	f|>he War\t[zn iJ?ttlai{.
In loving memory of Mrs. Mary Warren, who founded the Mary
Warren Free Institute for girls, and the Mission Church of the Holy
Cross in Troy, A. D., 1844, thus advancing Christian education and
the worship of God in the beauty of holiness.
Carving* Chrysanthemums, Ivy and the seal of the Institute.
XII.	Evansl?iUat[.
This Pillar commemorates Mrs.
Catharine Brinckerhoff Evans, whose
long and lovely life adorned her hon-
ored lineage and name.
Carving: Heraldic fleur de lis and
Roses.
XIII.	tphe	Evans J?ittai[.
In memory of George Evans, from
the first a member of the Chapter of
this Cathedral, and to the last, loyal
and liberal to its best interests, in whom
“ patience had her perfect work.”
Carving: Heraldic fleur de lis and
Roses.
XIV.	jjfoatth Hfilla
George Lionel Snaith and Goldwin
Auberon Snaith, the dear children of
the builder of this Cathedral, who gives
and carves this pillar in their loving
memory.
Carving: Golden Rod, Lily of the
Valley and Cherubs.
XV.	(peoifae Mashington
Boane iffillafy
This pillar, in his son’s Cathedral, is A gANCTUART pillar.
a memorial to George Washington
Doane, Second Bishop of New Jersey, 1882-1859, the founder of St.
Mary's Hall; a token of reverent and grateful love from many
daughters for whom he worked and prayed that they might become
“ polished corners of the temple ” of God. “ Right onward ”
Carving: Angel, Ivy and Mitre.68
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XTI.
In loving memory of Hamilton Fish Rogers and Yiolet Mabel
Rogers. 44 Their Angels do always behold the face of my Father.”
Carving: Field and Michaelmas Daisies and Daffodils.
* Passing round the Ambulatory, behind the Altar, and coming
down the North Choir aisle, the inscriptions are:
XYII. ?|>ha itfinaq.
In memory of the short life on earth of Alanson Trask, 2d. 1875-
1880.
Carving: Carnations.
XVIII. tfShe ^angaijet Jfillaij.
To the dear name and
for faithful love of Mar-
garet Harrison Doane,
second daughter of the
first Bishop of Albany.
1858-1883. Aeterna fac
cum Sanctis Tuis Gloria
munerari.
Carving: Angel, Dai-
sies and shield of St
Margaret of Scotland.
XIX. Kinnetj
3?iUat[.
Thomas Talmadge
Kinney, 2nd, A. D.,
1872-1885, the second
son of Thomas Tal-
madge and Estelle C.
Kinney. A precious
name and memory com-
memorated here, in faith
and hope and tender
love.
Carving:	The An-
the margaret pillar.	nunciation Lily.
* See Addenda.The Pillars.
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XX.	?|>he !Pead$ itfiUatj.
To the honored memory of Orlando Meads, first Vice-Chancellor
of this Cathedral, to whose wise counsel, consecrated learning, con-
stant liberality and high example, the Cathedral, as well as the
Church in the Diocese, the State and the Country owes a grateful
debt.
Carving: Wheat, Oak Leaves and Ivy.
XXI.	(|>he Bat|nat[d itfillaq.
Her daughter’s loving memorial to Catharine Walsh Barnard,
whose forefathers were among the founders of the English Church
in this city, herself a faithful member of the Church, and of this
Cathedral congregation from its beginning.
Carving. Laurel and Oak Leaves.
XXII.	?f>he <Potjnin& HfiUaq.
This Pillar is erected to the beloved memory of Gertrude Tibbits
Corning, whose noble womanhood fulfilled with rare completeness
the graces of the Christian life. 1830-1869.
Carving: Passion Vine and Palm Branches.
XXIII.	(phe Lathtjop ftillaty
To Dyer and Jane Lathrop, in loving memory by their daughter,
Jane Lathrop Stanford. 1888.
Carving: Cherub, Romanesque Foliage, enriched angle facing
West end.
Turning into the North Transept, the inscriptions are.
XXIV.	?f>he (pay ^illatj
In loving memory of Lucinda Chamberlain Gay, 1811-1871, whose
unfailing love and self-forgetting crowned her true motherhood; a
daughter consecrates this Pillar. Spes et fides.
Carving: Calla Lily, Angel and Crown.
XXV.	tf>he (Joining iJfniatj u of the J^and.”
The land on which this Cathedral stands was given by Erastus
Corning in loving memory of his father and mother, Erastus Corn-
ing, December 14, 1794—April 8, 1872; Harriet Weld Corning,
July 81, 1793—May 26, 1883.70
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XXVI.	Be Mitt 3?ina^
A memorial to William Henry De Witt, a benefactor of the Church
and Diocese, who built and endowed the Church of the Holy Inno-
cents in this City. 1798—1872.
Carving; Oak Leaves and Wheat.
XXVII.	ff>he (poveqnot{ jjSeymotut itfUlaq.
This pillar commemorates the name and public services of Horatio
Seymour, twice Governor of the State of Hew York, 1853, i863.
XXVIII.	t$ha	filial].
This Pillar commemorates the public services of Hamilton Fish,
as United States Senator from Hew York, 1851-1857; as Governor of
the State of Hew York, 1849-1850; as Secretary of State for the
United States, 1869-1877.
Carving. Wheat and Oak Leaves.
XXIX.	<poir$n»oit King JfUlatt*
In memory of John Alsop King, Governor of the State of Hew
York, 1857-1858.
XXX.	Bumpellg ^Ulaq.
To the glory of God, and in loving memory of Harmon Pumpelly,
a man of faith and integrity; for many years Vestryman and Warden
of St. Peter’s Church, Albany; who filled with fidelity eminent
positions of public trust, and in his eighty-ninth year entered into
rest, September 28, A, D., 1882. This Pillar is erected by his wife,
Maria Brinckerhoff.
Carving; Palm Branches and Oak Leaves.
XXXI.	?f>he (fJhaduricb filial}.
A memorial to William Hewton Chadwick and Lucretia Ann, his
wife, loyal and devoted members of St. John’s Church in Cohoes,
whose best and highest interests were advanced by their gentle and
consistent lives.
XXXII.	Agues'
The St. Agnes’ Pillar, in grateful recognition of what many
daughters of St. Agnes’ School owe to the Cathedral of All Saints.Interior Finishing—To Cumplete the Cathedral. 71
The following list shows what is wanting for the interior finishing
of the Cathedral:
The Reredos.
*	The Altar Cross.
Five Windows in Transepts.
Five Lancets of the East Window.
*Rose Window, West end.
Four Pillars that can be appropriated as memorials and carved.
*	Wall Mosaic for Arches between Pillars in Sanctuary.
The carving of the Arches in the Nave, Choir and Sanctuary, and
of the interior door-ways.
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The following list shows what is needed to complete the Cathedral,
and the estimated costs of the different parts:
The West Front.........................................$15,000
The West Porches.................................. ...	10,000
The North Transept Front................................  12,500
The South Transept Front................................  12,500
The North Transept Portal...............................   2,500
The East Front............................................ 8,000
The Buttresses (each)...................................   1,500
To complete sides of Nave.............................. 20,000
To complete sides of Choir............................. 20,000
To complete sides of Transepts........................ 10,500
The Roof, Trusses, Ceiling and Covering........... . ...	50,000
The Lantern at Crossing................................   80,000
The Towers and Spire..................................... 70,000
The Pavement............................................  10,000
The Chapter House.....................................    10,000
The Cloisters............................................. 5,000
The Vestries.........................................     15,000
* Now given. See Addenda.ADDENDA.
—+—
Since the first edition of this' Guide, much has been done toward
the interior decoration of the Cathedral, chiefly in the matter of
carving. In the Sanctuary, the whole Altar front has been exquisitely
carved after a design of Mr. E. A. T. Newcomb, of Boston, in alter-
nate circles of grape vines with the fruit, and Passion flowers, sep-
arated by upright stalks of wheat; with a kneeling Angel at either
end. A new Mensa of Otter Creek granite has been put upon the
Altar, raising it six inches, and between it and the carved front, runs
the legend—“We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ,
the Righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins.” And a very
beautiful metal Cross, jewelled with crystals, amethysts and moon
stones, is the gift of Mrs. Perry of Troy, in memory of her son, and
bears its inscription.
The Altar book-rest is the gift of the Bishops of Lincoln, Salisbury
and Newcastle (England). It is decorated with the seals of these
three Bishops and of the Bishop of Albany in red and blue enamel
and is given in recollection of the Lambeth Conference, of whose
brotherly intercourse and warm personal relations, this is a beautiful
memorial.
Two wrought-iron hymn-boards hang on the pillars of the Choir
arch; one given by Mr. Paul Cushman, and the other in memory of
Joseph Gavit, long a member of the Cathedral Church, given by his
sister. Two of the panels of the Font have been carved, as part of
the original gift and design, representing the Baptism of our Lord,
and the “saving” of eight souls in the ark.
The mouldings of the four arches in the Choir and Sanctuary
have been beautifully carved; and the carving has been completed
on the Margaret pillar; on the Bishop George Washington Doane
pillar; and, in the nave, the capitals have been carved of the Gover-
nor King, the Governor Seymour, the Chadwick, and the Saint
Agnes’ pillars.
Two pillars in the angles of the Sanctuary have been given and
carved, in memory of Joseph Wiltsie Fuller and James Forsyth of
of Troy.
The pillar in the north transept aisle has been given in memory of
Mrs. Amasa J. Parker, Jun., carved on the capital with palmettoAddenda.
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branches. Two wall pillars in the north Choir aisle have been given,
carved, in the capitals, with angel heads and on the faces, the one
with palm branches, in memory of Mrs. Frederick O. Clark, and the
other, with the Annunciation lily, in memory of Miss Mary W. Stacey.
The inscriptions on the pillars are given below.
The great Rose window at the west end, has been given, the stone
mullions being put in, and the glass by La Farge, as the gracious
gift of the Misses Clarkson of Potsdam.
The window is wonderfully rich in its combination of colors, and
fills the nave at Even-song with the glory of a sunset glow.
The motive of the window is best described in the following sketch
from the New York Tribune:
“The impressive proportions of the Cathedral, the unusual breadth
of the nave, the size of its columns, the solid walls of the aisles,
pierced only by small openings, give architectural opportunity for a
rose window of large diameter, and throw it into strong relief. Its
position makes possible its treatment independent of the small side
windows, which are unseen in looking westward down the nave. In
this view the great rose window dominates. Simple stone mullions
divide it into a central circle and twelve radial panels, with outer
ends of trefoil form. The lines of the stone separate the panels, but
are too slender to break the window’s unity. So Mr. La Farge has
treated it; and made one picture with thirteen parts, each part com-
plete in itself, yet no more prominent or independent than the figures
in any important composition. Angels, aureole-crowned, fill the
panels of the circle; their wings seen in the. trefoils. The uplifted
heads, the shoulders and hands, are modelled as in a painting. The
faces glow with angelic worship. In the central circular panel are
two saints; one expressing the deep peace of pardon after penitence,
leans her head upon the other, whose upturned brow beams with the
purest trust in eternal joy. None of La Farge’s best figure work is
richer or in more beautiful hues than this; yet in this window the
sense of mere beauty of color is lost in the overpowering central
idea of uplifting worship. All colors, all the composition, blend in
this one purpose; and through and over all the intricacies and sub-
tleties of wonderful technique in glass and paint there reaches the
soul one strong impression, a picture of saints and angels hovering
in twilight between earth and heaven, their natures, each after its
kind, responding to the touch of the Holy Spirit.”
In addition to these already accomplished adornments, the order
has been sent for stone mosaic pictures to fill the tympana of the
four great arches in the Choir and Sancuary, in memory of Judgen
Addenda.
Amasa J. Parker and Mrs. Parker; the loving gift of their four
children.
The work is to be done by Messrs. Burke & Co., London and Chi-
cago; and the subject of the pictures are, the feeding with manna
and the feeding with the loaves in the wilderness; and the smiting
of the Rock, and the meeting of our Lord with the woman at the
well at Sychar, with the legend—“ Whosoever drinketh of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst.” The subjects have been
selected as types, from the old and new Testaments, of the conse-
crated Elements in the Holy Communion.
A larger and more beautiful processional cross than the one now
in use, is to be the gift of Dr. J. Albert Jeffery; and two Standard
Lights are to be given by Dr. Trego, and placed on the upper level
of the Sanctuary floor, at either end of the Altar steps.
The good work of the Woman’s Diocesan League has gone con-
stantly on, and the money which they have earned since February 1,
A. D., 1886, to February 1, A. D., 1890, is $48,122.65. The mort-
gage debt on the Cathedral by their efforts and by gifts to the Bishop
has been reduced to $40,000.
The Bishop prints, with the consent of the writer, this letter from
a well-known art-critic, written to a friend, an eloquent tribute to
impressiveness of the Cathedral:
“ The Cathedral (of All Saints, Albany), is tome among the most
remarkable buildings I have ever seen. To a degree I should not
have believed possible, it has already that air of almost venerable
sanctity, which I supposed nothing but centuries could give. Al-
most venerable I said, because the word venerable carries with it a
suggestion of great age; but after all there was no need of the almost.
“ The building is really venerable already, not for its own years of
course, but from the amazing way in which it embodies the spirit of
a thousand years of European, or rather of purely English Christi-
anity.
“ There is not a line in it I think, which does not somehow carry
one back to the old world, of which the charm and the value to us
are that its sins and follies are dead and gone; and its aspirations and
ideals are still alive to help us.
“ I found in your Cathedral, and find in my memories of it, senti-
ments which I thought I must cross the Atlantic to find.
“ Most sincerely yours,
“BARRETT WENDELL.
“Newcastle, N. H., July 8, 1890.”Addenda.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
Page 46.
The Sanctuary Rail.
In loving memory of Spencer Trask, Jr., April i5, 1888: “Before
the Throne,” This Sanctuary Rail is given by one of his Godfathers.
Page 46.
The Altar Lights.
* The inscriptions are: “ Lux in tenebris Lucet. S. Joh. I.—In Dei
Gloriam et in testimonium suae venerationis erga virum in Christo
bene dilectum Gulielmum Croswell Doane, S. T. D. Episcopum
Albaniensem. Haec duo Candelabra in ejusdem Ecclesia Cathedrali
die Consecrationis super Altare posita plures Anglicanae Ecclesiae
Eilii et Filiae Dederunt Dedicaverunt A. D. MDCCCLXXXVIII.—
'‘Crux Christi magnum candelabrum. S. Aug. Serin.”
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The Screen.
t The inscription is: Her children place this Screen in the Cathe
dral, whose building she furthered with her gifts and prayers, in
memory of Mrs. Jane Russell Averell Carter, who entered within
the vail January 31, A. D. 1888, and whose works do follow her.”
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§ Till. The Clemishire Pillar.
His wife records here her loving memory of John Clemishire,
A. D. 1816-1886, for many years a worshipper in the Chapel of this
Cathedral which he fitted for its sacred use: “A workman that
needed not to be ashamed.”
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The South Sanctuary Pillar.
A. D. M. G.
The name of Joseph Wiltsie Fuller of Troy is recorded here in
loving and lasting memory by his wife and children, to tell to the
generations to come how true and generous he was to the Church,
the Cathedral, the Diocese, and to every best interest of man, and
every highest service of God.
The two doors on either side of the main entrance to the north
transept, are also carved: the one, by his daughter, in memory of the
Rev. Michael Scofield, Priest, for many years Rector of St. Matthew’s
Church, Unadilla, in the Diocese of Albany; and the other, by some
of the graduates of St. Agnes School, in memory of Helen Minerva
Johnson, who was for nearly twenty.years a teacher in St. Agnes
School.76
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The North Sanctuary Pillar.
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A. D. M. G.
This Pillar fitly bears the name of James Forsyth of Troy, a gen-
erous benefactor of this Cathedral, loyal and helpful to his Bishop
and most useful and faithful to every interest of the Church which
he enriched with his learning, his liberality, and his love.
The North Transept Pillar.
To the Glory of God and the beloved remembrance of Cornelia
Kane Strong, wife of Amasa J. Parker, Jr., of Albany, N. Y.
Born December 4th, 1846. Died December 18th, 1888. Her dear
memory and her holy influence and example live on in the lives of her
children, “ who rise up and call her blessed.” Amasa J. Parker, 8d,
Lewis B. Parker, Louisa Parker, Grace Parker, Anna Parker, Har-
riet L. Parker. “ Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath
given me.”
The Wall Pillars in the North Choir Aisle.
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A.
Clara. Candida. Cara.
c i c : c i 4«
Perfect Through Suffering.
B.
To the glory of the Master whom she loved and served: and in
thankful remembrance of Mary Wyman Stacey, in whom and for
whom, love is stronger than death.
“Fecisti nos ad te,”
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The Altar Cross.
A. M. D. G. In Memoriam. Martin Lee Perry. 12 Nov. 1867.
28 March 1878. Agnus qui in medio throni est reget illos.
The Book Rest.
In * Honorem * Dni * nri * ihu * xri * et • in • usum • ecclie * Ca-
thedralis * omn / scorum * Albaniensis * D * D • Epi • tres * Lincolni-
ensis * Novocastriensis * Sarisburiensis • fraterni • colloquii * et • con-
uentus * memores • A * S • M * D * CCC * LXXX * VIII •Addenda.
77
The earnest wish of the friends of Bishop Doane to put in the
East window of the Cathedral of All Saints at Albany, as a tribute
of their love for him, and their appreciation of his work, has been
accomplished. Unknown to the Bishop, the necessary money was
contributed by willing hands and loving hearts, and on Satur-
day, the thirty-first of January, the good news was communicated
to him by means of the following letter:
Dearly Beloved Bishop*
We have collected a sum of money towards the erection of the
East window at All Saints Cathedral, and offer it to you as a token
of our affection, and as a slight recognition of the great work you
have done, not only at Albany, but everywhere you go. Already
we have had sent in more than Mr. Gibson thought necessary for the
glass, and are now accumulating towards the stone mullions of the
window. Long before you will need to draw on the fund, the
amount will be made up, but we wanted you to know of the under-
taking before going abroad, so as to be able to give the orders, and
see the designs in London before returning home. With very best
wishes for a prosperous journey, and speedy return to us,
Very truly yours,
ALICE C. MOIE, President.
ESTELLE De P. YAK VECHTEN, Treasurer.
ANNA M. TALCOTT, Secretary.
A book containing a list of the names of subscribers was given
the Bishop at the same time, and the great pleasure and gratification
experienced by him will be seen in his reply:
Dear Friends:
I ought by this time to be beyond surprise as to any gracious and
generous act to me, from the dear friends, whose list of names upon
the book of the givers, your names lead, and represent: names two
of which—dear Mrs. Varney’s and dear Edwin Sheldon’s—we can
only remember now at the altar of our Eucharistic commemoration;
names, all of which in this old home city, in the Parishes of the
Diocese, in the cities of my earlier and later friendships—Boston,
Philadelphia and New York, and in my beloved North East Har-
bour—stand for long, true and loyal love. I thought such people78
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could not surprise me with any kindness, for I am so used to it at
their hands. But I confess myself overcome and overwhelmed.
The loving words, the wide-spread embrace, the generous gift, the
gracious thought; the hope of all it means of added glory and beauty
to the dear Cathedral; the cheer with which it sends me off ; the
over-estimate of my own service, which would have come so far
short in its attainment but for the upholding of my hands by your
love, and gifts and prayers; and the wonderful quietness with which
you have accomplished this, and kept it even from my suspicions;
all these stir me to intense gratitude to God; to hearty thanks to you
all; to a deeper love for my beloved friends and people, and to a
higher hope and purpose of what we still may do for God’s glory
together.
I beg you to make known to all who have taken part in this last
token of affection, how I am helped, and humbled, and held up.
Tell them, and be sure yourselves, that my prayer is, that God will
abundantly bless and keep you all; and that I am, with renewed
assurance of my love,
Your most grateful and faithful Bishop and friend,
WI. CROSWELL DOANE.
Albany, January 31st, 1891.