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 CENTENNIAL SKETCH 
 
 of the 
 
 HISTORY OF THE PRESBYTERY OF 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 By 
 JOHN FREDERICK LYONS 
 
UNIVERSITY OF 
 
 ILLINOIS LIBRARY 
 
 AT URBAN A-CHAMPAIGN 
 
 ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SURVEY 
 
Centennial Sketch of the 
 
 History of the Presbytery of 
 
 Chicago 
 
 By 
 
 JOHN FREDERICK LYONS 
 Librarian of McCormick Theological Seminary 
 
 Published by the Compiler 
 
 at 826 Belden Avenue 
 
 Chicago 
 
 1947 
 
Copyright 1947 
 By John Frederick Lyons 
 
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 Preface 
 
 The compilation of the following 
 historical sketch was undertaken 
 at the request of the Centennial 
 Committee of Chicago presbytery, 
 of which the Rev. Dr. Alvyn R. 
 Hickman, pastor of Third Church, 
 Chicago, was chairman. The writ- 
 er is indebted to him for wise 
 counsel and encouragement. 
 
 The one to whom the present 
 writer must make chief acknowl- 
 edgement is his former teacher, 
 friend, and colleague, the late Dr. 
 Andrew C. Zenos. Dr. Zenos was 
 for more than fifty years a mem- 
 ber of the presbytery and for 
 twenty-five years its stated clerk. 
 While still in that office he wrote, 
 in 1933, A Historical Sketch of 
 Presbyterianism in the Chicago 
 Area. This was not published. At 
 least two typewritten copies are 
 preserved, one in the library of the 
 Nettie Fowler McCormick Bio- 
 graphical Association, and the other 
 in the Virginia Library of Mc- 
 Cormick Theological Seminary. 
 Large use has been made of this 
 valuable record, especially the 
 part covering the period when Dr. 
 Zenos was an active participant 
 in the events recorded. 
 
 In addition there is a ledger in 
 Dr. Zenos's handwriting, preserved 
 in Virginia Library, in which he 
 tabulated many of the facts of 
 the record. These include lists of 
 the churches with brief historical 
 data, of ministers, moderators, etc. 
 This volume has been of inestim- 
 able value as a time saver in this 
 research. 
 
 Dr. Zenos's own records in the 
 Minutes of the presbytery are beau- 
 tifully kept. It is a pleasure to 
 consult them. 
 
 The suggestion for the compila- 
 tion of the list of churches in- 
 cluded in this brochure came from 
 the present capable stated clerk, 
 the Rev. William Mclnnes, pastor 
 of the Mayfair Church, Chicago. 
 He and his office have given high- 
 ly appreciated assistance. 
 
 Miss Virginia Roderick, librarian 
 of the Nettie Fowler McCormick 
 Biographical Association library, 
 and her staff have given much 
 help. Mrs. McCormick had the 
 useful habit of preserving much 
 fugitive material concerning in- 
 stitutions in which she was in- 
 terested. Consequently there is 
 to be found in this library much 
 not found elsewhere. Many of 
 the items listed in the Bibliogra- 
 phy were found there. 
 
 A day spent in the library of the 
 Presbyterian Historical Society, 
 Philadelphia, of which Dr. Charles 
 A. Anderson is curator was highly 
 rewarding. 
 
 Assistance was received also 
 from the Chicago Historical So- 
 ciety library. The Bibliography 
 lists, at least in part, the various 
 sources from which the present 
 account has been drawn. For the 
 mistakes and omissions, which will 
 undoubtedly be discovered, the 
 writer alone is responsible and he 
 craves the reader's indulgence. 
 
 J. F. L. 
 
 3 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Preface 3 
 
 Infancy 1847-1870 7-20 
 
 New School 8-16 
 
 Old School 17-20 
 
 Adolescence 1870-1906 21-25 
 
 Maturity 1906- 26-32 
 
 Moderators 32-33 
 
 Stated Clerks 34 
 
 Moderators of General Assembly 34 
 
 Churches of the Presbytery 35-47 
 
 Bibliography 48-51 
 
 Index 52-53 
 
Infancy, 1 847-1 870 
 
 In 1847 when the Presbytery of 
 Chicago had its beginning, Chi- 
 cago, too, was in its infancy, with 
 but 16,000 people. However, it 
 was growing rapidly. By 1850 the 
 census showed a population of 29,- 
 963. In 1847 the area of the city 
 was enlarged by three and one-half 
 square miles. When Abraham Lin- 
 coln, congressman-elect, first visited 
 the city in July of that year, as a 
 delegate to the River and Harbor 
 Convention, coming by stage, he 
 found the roads filled four and five 
 miles before the city was reached, 
 with an endless procession of giant 
 wagons laden with wheat, each 
 drawn by two yoke of oxen. In 
 
 1847 the McCormick reaper factory 
 opened in Chicago. The city as 
 yet had no railroad; that came next 
 year. So did the completion of the 
 Illinois Michigan canal. Gas did 
 not come until two years later. 
 When presbytery had its first meet- 
 ing, the Mexican War was still in 
 progress; James K. Polk was pres- 
 ident of the United States. Shortly 
 before the meeting, Albert Hale, 
 Presbyterian minister of Spring- 
 field, Illinois, had preached his 
 sermon, destined to be famous, in 
 opposition to the war. Thomas A. 
 Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, 
 and The Chicago Tribune had just 
 begun their careers. 
 
 The city was still visited by 
 periodic epidemics of cholera; in 
 
 1848 six hundred seventy-eight 
 people died of the scourge. It was 
 almost a decade later that George 
 M. Pullman pulled the city out of 
 
 the mud by lifting buildings sev- 
 eral feet to a new level, making 
 efficient drainage possible. 
 
 New School and Old School 
 
 For ten years previous to the 
 organization of Chicago presby- 
 tery, the Presbyterian Church had 
 been divided into what was known 
 as Old School and New School. 
 Both divisions, however, retained 
 the same legal name, "The Presby- 
 terian Church in the U. S. A." The 
 only means today of distinguishing 
 (from the title page) the Minutes 
 of the General Assembly of one 
 group from that of the other is 
 the place of publication: New York 
 was New School, and Philadelphia, 
 Old School. To the casual observer 
 the difference between the two 
 bodies was hard to see. In re- 
 sponce to an inquiry an elder's son 
 said: "Old School stands during 
 prayer, and sits during singing; 
 New School sits during prayer and 
 stands during singing." 
 
 The cause of the split may be 
 traced back to 1801, when a Plan 
 of Union (not organic) was adopt- 
 ed by the Presbyterian and Con- 
 gregational churches in order that 
 the two bodies might co-operate in 
 missionary work.. This brought 
 into the Presbyterian Church a 
 large number of pastors and 
 churches, especially in New York 
 state, which were more or less in 
 touch with the polity and doctrine 
 of Congregationalism. "It added 
 much" as has been said, "to the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 numerical strength of the church, 
 while detracting greatly from its 
 homogeneity." 
 
 This showed itself especially in 
 a difference of opinion with refer- 
 ence to what were later known as 
 Boards.' The party standing for 
 such denominational agencies and 
 opposed to the Plan of Union was 
 the Old School. That favoring 
 the continuance of the Plan of 
 Union was the New School. The 
 Old School, having a majority in 
 the General Assembly in 1837, 
 abrogated the Plan of Union and 
 exscinded the Synods of Utica, 
 Geneva, Genesee, and Western Re- 
 serve, and established the Presby- 
 terian Board of Foreign Missions. 
 In general the New School repre- 
 sented the New England element, 
 and the Old School, the Scotch- 
 Irish. The Old School was some- 
 what larger than the New School 
 at the time of the division, in the 
 ratio of 126,000 to 106,000. 
 
 The Presbytery of Chicago, that 
 was organized in 1847, was New 
 School. The Old School organi- 
 zation, bearing the same name, 
 came, as we shall see, a few years 
 later. Still a third Presbytery of 
 Chicago (Cumberland Presby- 
 terian) came several decades lat- 
 er. 
 
 The First Meeting 
 of New School Presbytery 
 
 The Presbytery of Chicago had 
 its beginning, not in the young, 
 boisterous, then malodorous, city 
 whose name it bears, but out in 
 the peaceful, quiet, countryside, in 
 a schoolhouse used by the DuPage 
 church. It was about five miles 
 southwest of Naperville in DuPage 
 Township of Will County, near the 
 
 east branch of the DuPage river. 
 This is the second oldest church in 
 the presbytery, having been or- 
 ganized in 1833 by Jeremiah Port- 
 er, only eighteen days after he 
 had started the First Church, Chi- 
 cago. DuPage is today the only 
 church of the presbytery in the 
 open country. It is still active. 
 Here the presbytery had its first 
 meeting, October 12 and 13, 1847. 
 
 At that time there were two New 
 School synods in Illinois: the 
 Synod of Illinois, covering the 
 southern and older part of the 
 state, and the Synod of Peoria, 
 including the northern and more 
 recently settled section. It was 
 the latter body that authorized in 
 June, 1847, the establishment of the 
 Presbytery of Chicago, in territory 
 formerly within the bounds of 
 Ottawa presbytery. 
 
 The Presbytery of Chicago at the 
 time of its organization did not 
 cover as large an area as it does 
 today. It was supposed to include 
 ministers and churches in Lake, 
 Cook, DuPage, and part of Will 
 counties. Actually the churches 
 were all in Cook and Will counties. 
 
 Churches of the Infant 
 Presbytery 
 
 The five churches in the presby- 
 tery, in addition to the DuPage 
 church, were the following: (1) The 
 First Church, Chicago, which had 
 been organized June 26, 1833. In 
 1847 it was in process of erecting 
 a new brick building, whose corner- 
 stone had just been laid at Wash- 
 ington and Clark, across from the 
 present Temple Building. Its 
 earliest location was up the street, 
 at Lake and Clark, the site be- 
 ing marked today by a bronze 
 plaque. This location was thought 
 
NEW SCHOOL 
 
 9 
 
 "too far out in the country, distant 
 from the mass of the population." 
 
 (2) The Second Church, around 
 the corner from the new site of 
 First Church, in the middle of the 
 block, on the south side of Ran- 
 dolph, between Clark and Dear- 
 born, had been organized in 1842 
 with a colony of 26 members from 
 First Church. In 1847 its building, 
 a rectangular, frame structure, had 
 been enlarged by the addition of 
 twelve feet to its length. It was 
 described by William Bross as, 
 "A one story balloon, shanty-like 
 structure that had been patched 
 out at one end to meet the wants 
 of the increasing congregation." 
 
 (3) The other Chicago church 
 in the new presbytery was the 
 Third, then only three months old, 
 which was organized on the west 
 side of the river July 1, 1847, with 
 35 members. 
 
 (4) Outside Chicago there was 
 in Homer township of Will County, 
 the Hadley Church which had been 
 founded by Jeremiah Porter, 
 August 17, 1833. Only a few 
 months after the organization of 
 the presbytery, however, this 
 church went over to the Congre- 
 gationalists. It is still active as 
 the Homer Congregational Church, 
 Lockport, R. F. D. 
 
 (5) The only other church of the 
 infant presbytery was Joliet (Cen- 
 tral) , which had been organized in 
 1844 by Jonathan G. Porter and 
 B. W. D wight with twenty-two 
 members. 
 
 The Ministers in Attendance 
 
 The nine ministers in attendance 
 were, for the most part, young men 
 from the East, fired with the mis- 
 sionary spirit. The oldest of these 
 
 was Hutchins Taylor, who, be- 
 cause of his age, 54, was elected 
 moderator. A native of Massa- 
 chusetts, he was a graduate of 
 Williams College, 1814, and And- 
 over Seminary, 1817. From 1844 
 to 1848, he was pastor in Joliet. 
 Some years later he became an Old 
 School minister and died, in 1868, 
 at Belvidere, Illinois. 
 
 The pastor of Chicago First 
 Church, Flavel Bascom, 43, who 
 had come to the field in 1839, be- 
 came the first stated clerk of the 
 presbytery. He had been a mem- 
 ber of the Yale Band, arriving in 
 Illinois in 1833, and had spent five 
 years in pioneer mission work, 
 mainly in Tazewell County. Born 
 in Connecticut, he graduated from 
 Yale in 1828, and was, for a time, 
 tutor in his Alma Mater. Shortly 
 after the organization of the pres- 
 bytery he returned to the Congre- 
 gationalist communion and became 
 one of the founders of Chicago 
 Theological Seminary, and also of 
 Beloit College. 
 
 Robert W. Patterson was in at- 
 tendance as pastor of Second 
 Church, Chicago, where he had 
 been since its organization in 1842, 
 and his ordination in the same 
 year. In 1847 he was 33 years old, 
 and, as we shall see, was destined 
 to have a pastorate of 32 years in 
 this one church. He, alone of the 
 group, was a product of the West. 
 Though born in Tennessee, he spent 
 his youth in Illinois, attended 
 Illinois College at Jacksonville, and 
 Lane Seminary. Since he exerted 
 so great an influence on Presby- 
 terianism in the Chicago area, we 
 shall have much more to say about 
 him later. 
 
 The temporary clerk of the first 
 meeting was Abner W. Henderson, 
 
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 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 35, who had come, four years 
 previously, to Chicago, where he 
 established a "female school" 
 which he conducted for some years. 
 A native of New York state he 
 graduated at the age of 17 from 
 Union College and studied theol- 
 ogy privately. Ill health prevented 
 his going as a foreign missionary. 
 He was ordained by the Presbytery 
 of Ottawa and did home mission 
 work in the presbytery. Later he 
 became a chaplain in the Northern 
 army in the Civil War and died at 
 the age of 60 in Chicago. 
 
 Among those who were mem- 
 bers of presbytery at its first 
 meeting but not pastors of church- 
 es, was William Ripley Downs, 
 then 37 years old, who was a home 
 missionary in northern Illinois 
 from 1845-1851. He had been or- 
 dained May 26, 1947, by Ottawa 
 presbytery. A native of New York 
 state, he was a graduate of Hamil- 
 ton College, 1842, and Auburn 
 Seminary, 1845. He lived in Chi- 
 cago from 1862 till his death in 
 1880. 
 
 Charles R. French was perhaps 
 the youngest member of presby- 
 tery, 29. Having finished Oberlin 
 in 1840 and Auburn Seminary three 
 years later, he was in home mis- 
 sion work in Illinois in 1847, hav- 
 ing been ordained by the Congre- 
 gationalists, shortly after his grad- 
 uation. At the time presbytery 
 met he was doubtless anticipating 
 his marriage, which occurred 
 Christmas day of that year in 
 Wilmington, Illinois. 
 
 The one member of presbytery 
 that was not a native American 
 and without either a Congregation- 
 al or Presbyterian background was 
 Jonathan G. Porter, not to be con- 
 fused with Jeremiah Porter. 
 
 Jonathan Porter was born in Eng- 
 land and grew up a Baptist. He 
 was, in 1847, 36 years of age. Wil- 
 mington, Joliet, Manteno, Lockport, 
 and DuPage churches were served 
 at various times by him. 
 
 B. B. Drake was present at this 
 meeting at which the stated clerk 
 was authorized to "give him a 
 letter recommending him to the 
 Fox River Union, if he shall apply 
 for it." 
 
 Orange Lyman, who arrived late 
 for the meeting, was evidently one 
 of the older men. We find him in 
 1819 as a Presbyterian minister in 
 Vernon, New York, in the Presby- 
 tery of Oneida. He died in 1851. 
 
 Relations with Congregationalists 
 
 It will be noted how large a 
 proportion of the ministers com- 
 posing the first presbytery came 
 out of Congregational colleges and 
 seminaries, and that some of them 
 returned to the church in which 
 they had been reared. We have 
 noted, also that the division be- 
 tween New School and Old School 
 was occasioned in large measure, 
 by the mixture of Congregational- 
 ism with Presbyterianism, through 
 the operation of the Plan of Union. 
 This even the New School was 
 to find a source of irritation, which 
 eventually led to the abrogation 
 of the Plan of Union, and paved the 
 way for reunion with the Old 
 School. 
 
 At presbytery's second meeting, 
 April, 1848, held at the Hadley 
 church, the following resolution 
 was adopted relative to the church 
 serving as host, which had recently 
 become Congregational: "Resolv- 
 ed, that we regard it as manifestly 
 beyond the province of an agent 
 
NEW SCHOOL 
 
 11 
 
 of the American Home Mission 
 Society to interfere in any manner 
 with the polity of the churches 
 which he may visit in the discharge 
 of his official duties." 
 
 The American Home Missionary 
 Society was organized in 1826 by 
 Congregational, Presbyterian Re- 
 formed, and Associate Reformed 
 Churches. As the cooperating 
 churches became strong they with- 
 drew from the federation to organ- 
 ize separate societies of their own. 
 
 Frederick Kuhns in Congregation- 
 al Church in Illinois (pp. 353ff) 
 lists fourteen Illinois Congrega- 
 tional churches that were founded 
 between 1830 and 1844 as Presby- 
 terian. 
 
 In 1842 there was an effort made 
 to unite Ottawa presbytery, the 
 parent organization of Chicago 
 presbytery, with the Rock River 
 Association (Congregational) . R. 
 W. Patterson, then only a licentiate, 
 and Rev. Charles Dickinson of 
 Peru, alone opposed the movement. 
 Chiefly through the effort of 
 Patterson, who was ordained in 
 the meantime, others were secured 
 to stand with them. The final 
 vote of presbytery was against 
 merging. 
 
 Although many Congregational- 
 ists came to Chicago in the earliest 
 years of its history, there was no 
 Congregational Church in the city 
 till 1851. The reason was that 
 those who came found it advisable 
 to unite with Presbyterian church- 
 es. The First Congregational 
 Church was organized from former 
 members of the Third Presbyterian 
 Church led by Philo Carpenter. 
 He had been the only Presbyterian 
 among the twenty-five charter 
 members of the First Presbyterian 
 Church; the others were Congre- 
 
 gationalists. In 1851, however, 
 having transferred his membership 
 to Third Church, he and a number 
 of other members of that church 
 seceded because they were "dis- 
 satisfied with the present condi- 
 tion of our General Assembly on 
 the subject of disciplining those 
 guilty of holding their fellow men 
 in bondage." 
 
 The following year, 1852, the 
 Plymouth Congregational Church 
 was organized with forty-eight 
 members from the First Presby- 
 terian Church. The reason for 
 their separation was the same as 
 in the case of the First Congrega- 
 tional Church — anti-slavery feel- 
 ing. 
 
 The Slavery Issue 
 
 As Herman R. Muelder says in 
 Congregational Church in Illinois 
 (p. 139) "Of all the major denomina- 
 tions, Congregationalism alone was 
 confined to the area north of the 
 Mason-Dixon line, and did not 
 have to deal with the sin of slavery 
 among its own communicants, and 
 could therefore well afford to be 
 more ruthless in its condemnation 
 of the evil." The claim of Con- 
 gregationalism, therefore, that 
 "its churches had no connection 
 with slavery" could not well be 
 denied, and had its appeal for those 
 with strong sentiments regarding 
 the subject. 
 
 The New School Presbytery of 
 Chicago, being composed mostly of 
 New England people was strongly 
 anti-slavery, though its members 
 varied in their outspokenness and 
 the vehemence of their opposition 
 to the institution. There was wide 
 difference of opinion as to the best 
 means of dealing with what all 
 
12 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 recognized as an evil. Many urged 
 the abolition of slavery in season 
 and out of season. Others, no less 
 loyal, to the principles of liberty, 
 regarded the means advised by the 
 more radical as harsh or unwise. 
 The term "abolitionist" was used 
 by some almost as an execration, 
 while those so characterized often 
 thought of those applying the 
 name as "pro-slavery." The Colon- 
 ization Plan of removing freed 
 Negroes to Liberia in West Africa 
 was advocated by many of the 
 more conservative. The First and 
 Third Churches, for example, were 
 radical in their opposition to 
 slavery, while the Second Church 
 was conservative. 
 
 The majority in the Third Church 
 characterized the action of the 
 New School General Assembly 
 (1850) at Detroit with reference 
 to slavery as a "vacillating policy 
 capable of representing black or 
 white, as suited the different sec- 
 tions of the church." The church 
 declared, accordingly, its "deter- 
 mination to stand aloof from all 
 meetings of presbytery, synod or 
 assembly" until the matter was 
 cleared to its satisfaction. This, 
 they were told by presbytery, they 
 could not do and remain Presby- 
 terian. The result, as we have 
 seen, was a division in the church. 
 
 Laymen did not hesitate to ex- 
 press themselves on the subject. 
 The officers of the churches in 
 Chicago sent a memorial to the 
 meeting of presbytery, May, 1850, 
 asking it to "instruct its commis- 
 sioners to use their influence to ob- 
 tain from that body an explicit and 
 positive expression of their views 
 and position in relation to the sin- 
 fulness of American slavery." 
 
 New Churches Organized 
 
 During the period of the separ- 
 ate existence of the New School 
 presbytery, (1847-1870), the city 
 had been having a phenomenal 
 growth. In the 23 years its 16,859 
 population in 1847 had increased to 
 298,977 in 1870, almost 18 fold. The 
 presbytery, too, had grown rap- 
 idly. The six churches with which 
 it had started in 1847 had increased 
 by 1870 to twenty-seven, its com- 
 municants from 721 to 3,516, and 
 the nine ministers to forty-seven 
 in addition to four licentiates and 
 five candidates. 
 
 The churches in Chicago con- 
 taining numerals as a part of their 
 names, in addition to the First, 
 Second, Third, with which the pres- 
 bytery started by 1870, had the 
 Seventh, Eighth and Ninth to keep 
 them company. The fourth, fifth, 
 and sixth were evidently repre- 
 sented by churches not called by 
 their numbers, such as the West- 
 minster, Calvary, Olivet, 31st Street 
 and South Side. Churches had 
 been started in suburbs which are 
 now in the city: Hyde Park, Nor- 
 wood Park, and Englewood. To 
 these were added churches in 
 Evanston, Lake Forest, Dunton 
 (Arlington Heights) and Wauke- 
 gan. Joliet had two churches, Cen- 
 tral and First. Rural churches 
 added were Wilmington, Will in 
 Will County near Monee, and 
 Thornton. 
 
 This growth had not come with- 
 out effort. At the very first meet- 
 ing of presbytery, a committee of 
 four, almost half the presbytery 
 was appointed "to explore the 
 destitute neighborhoods within our 
 bounds." Gross Point (now 
 Evanston) and Blue Island were 
 mentioned as among the "destitute 
 
NEW SCHOOL 
 
 13 
 
 fields" to which attention was 
 being given. 
 
 In May, 1850, the committee re- 
 ported having employed a home 
 missionary, Rev. Adam Johnston, 
 "to labour within our bounds," a 
 commission for him having been 
 secured from the American Home 
 Mission Society. 
 
 In 1851 it was resolved "that the 
 Home Mission Committee be in- 
 structed to take immediate meas- 
 ures for procuring one or two mis- 
 sionaries to labor in the southern 
 portion of Will County." 
 
 Some of the new churches re- 
 sulted from colonies from the older 
 churches, such as those from the 
 First and Second churches that 
 founded Westminster Church on 
 the North Side. Olivet Church 
 was the child of missionary effort 
 by members of Second Church, 
 and eventually united with it. 
 
 Evangelistic Methods 
 
 The presbytery had a committee 
 on Narrative on the state of reli- 
 gion. Some excerpts from its 
 reports indicate how the member- 
 ship of the churches was recruited. 
 In 1860 this committee reported, 
 among other things, "Joliet has 
 been visited by a revival. The 
 church has sustained daily evening 
 prayer meetings, through the 
 winter, and reports a greater de- 
 gree of religious interest than it 
 has ever before enjoyed." In the 
 same narrative is the following: 
 "The church at Lake Forest is in 
 a nourishing condition and has 
 been blessed with a revival. This 
 church is of unusual interest to 
 the presbytery on account of its 
 relation to Lind University, several 
 of the students of which are 
 numbered among the hopeful con- 
 
 verts." In 1866 part of the report 
 reads: "Most of the churches have 
 enjoyed gentle seasons of refresh- 
 ing from the presence of the Lord, 
 resulting in additions of over 200 by 
 confession and about the same 
 number by certificate." 
 
 Of the Second Church it is said 
 that "immediately after the organ- 
 ization of the society, a weekly 
 prayermeeting was established 
 which for a long time was attend- 
 ed by a number equal to the en- 
 tire membership of the church and 
 was evidently tributary to its suc- 
 cess." During the first twenty-five 
 years there were added to the 
 church 909 members, 339 of whom 
 were by profession of faith. 
 
 Robert W. Patterson 
 
 Of the ministers with which 
 presbytery started, Robert W. 
 Patterson, alone, remained through- 
 out the 23 years as pastor of the 
 church which he was serving at 
 the beginning of the period. Three 
 others were still on the roll in 1870. 
 They were: Jonathan G. Porter, 
 who had moved to the DuPage 
 church; Abner W. Henderson and 
 William R. Downs, both without 
 charges at the close of the period. 
 Patterson alone of the presbytery, 
 was honored by being elected to 
 the moderatorship of the General 
 Assembly. Though after leaving 
 the presbytery, Zephaniah M. 
 Humphrey, pastor of the First 
 Church, 1859-1868, became moder- 
 ator of the reunited General As- 
 sembly when it met in Chicago 
 in 1871. 
 
 Patterson's election to the mod- 
 eratorship occurred in 1859 at 
 Wilmington, Delaware, when he 
 was 45 years of age. At the time 
 of the reunion he is described as 
 
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 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 "the most influential representative 
 of the New School in the North- 
 west." He had much to do with 
 bringing about the reunion since 
 he was one of a committee of nine 
 ministers, and six elders appointed 
 by General Assembly in 1866 to 
 confer with a similar committee 
 from the Old School on reunion. 
 After the two churches were again 
 one, he became the representative 
 of the New School on the faculty 
 of the Old School theological 
 seminary, then known as the Pres- 
 byterian Theological Seminary of 
 the North West, now McCormick. 
 
 Patterson was largely responsi- 
 ble for the organization of Lake 
 Forest University. In 1856 he and 
 a group of Second Church men 
 started the Lake Forest Association 
 which raised $50,000 and purchased 
 2300 acres of land on the Mil- 
 waukee Railroad about 25 miles 
 north of Chicago. The purpose of 
 the association was to foster edu- 
 cational institutions — an academy, 
 a female seminary, and a college. 
 Though they were not able to 
 realize their ideal till after the lapse 
 of some twenty years, the college 
 opened in 1876, on a permanent 
 basis, with Dr. Patterson as its first 
 president. 
 
 Dr. Patterson and Dr. H. Curtis, 
 pastor of the First Church, were 
 members of the Board of Dear- 
 born Seminary. This was founded 
 in 1854 for girls and was originally 
 located on the present site of 
 Marshall Field's store on Wabash 
 Avenue, but was later moved to 
 Wabash and Twenty-Second Street. 
 In 1851 it erected a building cost- 
 ing $20,000. Mrs. Louise DeKoven 
 Bowen tells of attending the school 
 in her girlhood. 
 
 In the sphere of journalism Dr. 
 
 Patterson helped start, in 1846, 
 The Western Herald which is 
 described on its title page as "De- 
 voted to the promotion of Practical 
 Religion — the maintenance of es- 
 sential truth and the advancement 
 of the benevolent enterprises of the 
 age." Most of the financial support 
 of the venture is said to have come 
 from Second Church. For a time 
 Dr. Patterson and Dr. Curtis were 
 editors of the Chicago Evangelist 
 (1853-1855) which later merged 
 with the New York Evangelist, 
 One of Patterson's three sons, his 
 name-sake, Robert W. Patterson, 
 Jr., after an apprenticeship with 
 The Interior became connected with 
 the Chicago Tribune and served 
 many years as its editor-in-chief, 
 dying in 1910. 
 
 Moderators 
 
 The following is a list of the 
 moderators of presbytery, with 
 their positions as pastors, unless 
 otherwise stated, at the time they 
 were elected. 
 
 1847 Hutchins Taylor— Joliet. 
 
 1848 J. Wilcox— Without charge. 
 
 1848 James Shaw— Without charge. 
 
 1849 Ira M. Weed— District Secre- 
 tary, American Board of Com- 
 missioners for Foreign Mis- 
 sions. 
 
 1849 Jonathan G. Porter — Wil- 
 mington. 
 
 1850 Louis H. Loss — Joliet. 
 
 1850 Robert W. Patterson— Second, 
 Chicago. 
 
 1851 Harvey Curtis — First, Chica- 
 go. 
 
 1851 Ira M. Weed— District Sec- 
 retary, American Board Com- 
 missioners for Foreign Mis- 
 sions. 
 
 1852 Charles R. French — American 
 Home Missionary. 
 
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 1852 Luman C. Gilbert — American 
 Home Missionary. 
 
 1853 Louis H. Loss — Joliet. 
 
 1854 L. C. Bartlett— DuPage. 
 
 1855 Abner W. Henderson — Elgin. 
 
 1856 Ansel D. Eddy— Westminster, 
 Chicago. 
 
 1857 Asahel L. Brooks— Third, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 1858 Yates Hickey— Tract Mission- 
 ary. 
 
 1859 William H. Spencer— West- 
 minster, Chicago. 
 
 1860 George L. Little — Waukegan. 
 
 1861 Calvin Clark— District Secre- 
 tary. 
 
 1862 J. A. Wight— Olivet, Chicago. 
 
 1863 C. Rufus Clarke— Monee. 
 
 1864 Alfred Eddy— Olivet, Chica- 
 go. 
 
 1865 Edward A. Pierce— Westmin- 
 ster, Chicago. 
 
 1866 William C. Dickinson— Lake 
 Forest. 
 
 1867 Newton Barrett— Dunton. 
 
 1868 Alfred Eddy— Ninth, Chicago. 
 
 1869 George H. Coit— Wilmington. 
 
 1870 James H. Trowbridge— Dis- 
 trict Secretary. 
 
 It is to be noted above that in 
 the early years the presbytery 
 changed moderators twice a year. 
 The immediate successors of 
 Hutchins Taylor in 1848, Jairus 
 Wilcox and James Shaw, both 
 without charges, were probably 
 selected, as was Taylor, on the basis 
 of seniority. It will be noted, 
 also, that several men were twice 
 elected moderator. Among these 
 was Louis H. Loss, who began his 
 ministry in the presbytery as pas- 
 tor of Third Church and was later 
 at Joliet. Another was Ira M. 
 Weed, moderator in both 1849 and 
 1851, the district secretary of the 
 American Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions and later 
 
 (1856-1858) financial agent of Lind 
 University, later known as Lake 
 Forest. 
 
 Still a third who was twice 
 honored with the moderatorship 
 was Alfred Eddy, not to be con- 
 fused with Ansel D. Eddy who 
 preceded him in the office. Alfred 
 Eddy served as moderator in 1864 
 and 1868, having in the meantime 
 changed from Olivet to the Ninth 
 Church. 
 
 J. Ambrose Wight, moderator in 
 1862, served the interests of the 
 church some years as a layman 
 before he was ordained. For a 
 time he and William Bross edited 
 the Prairie Herald, which succeed- 
 ed the Western Herald. He was 
 for some years an elder and su- 
 perintendent of Sunday school in 
 Second Church, and after his 
 ordination was pastor of Olivet 
 Church. While still a ruling elder, 
 he wrote for presbytery an essay 
 on the Permanency of the Pastoral 
 Relation. This was published in 
 1854 by order of the presbytery. 
 
 Recruits 
 
 Securing recruits for the min- 
 istry was one of the earliest and 
 an ever-present concern of the pres- 
 bytery. 
 
 As early as 1850 the following 
 resolution was adopted: "that in 
 view of the wants of the church 
 in her operations at home and 
 abroad, it is highly important that 
 the attention of young men of 
 piety and talent be, and if need be, 
 aided in seeking preparation for 
 the service of God in the ministry 
 of reconciliation and that a com- 
 mittee be appointed to superintend 
 this object and bring it before the 
 churches in such ways as they may 
 deem best." The committee ap- 
 
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 pointed had Dr. Harvey Curtis, 
 pastor of First Church, as its chair- 
 man. Within two years (Septem- 
 ber, 1852) the committee was able 
 to report, "Three young men of 
 Second Church in a course of 
 study with a view to the ministry; 
 also two in First Church, Chicago; 
 and one in the church of Joliet in 
 the same course." 
 
 The very next month, J. T. Went- 
 worth, a graduate of Union Col- 
 lege, and member of Second 
 Church, presented himself as a 
 candidate, and was duly examined 
 and licensed. Somewhat later, 18- 
 
 55, came the examination, licensure 
 and ordination of J. Ambrose 
 Wight. 
 
 Early there was felt the need of 
 a theological seminary for the 
 training of ministers. For several 
 years presbytery appointed a rep- 
 resentative to the Board of the 
 North Western Theological Sem- 
 inary with a view to locating it in 
 Galena, which had offered $25,000 
 on the condition that the institu- 
 tion should be located in that city. 
 In 1859 a theological seminary was 
 planned as a part of Lind Uni- 
 versity (Lake Forest). 
 
The Old School Presbytery 
 
 Organization 
 
 As in the case of the New 
 School body bearing the name, the 
 Old School Presbytery of Chicago 
 was organized in the country, at 
 Marengo, now outside, but then 
 within, the limits of the presby- 
 tery. This organization was ef- 
 fected April 6, 1852. The presiding 
 minister and preacher at the open- 
 ing service was the Rev. John 
 Ustick. He was pastor of the 
 largest church of the new pres- 
 bytery, the rural, Willow Creek 
 church, in the neighborhood of 
 Rockford, where it is still active. 
 The presbytery grew out of Rock 
 River presbytery's request from 
 the Old School Synod of Illinois, 
 to set aside a group of churches and 
 ministers from the two presby- 
 teries of Rock River and Peoria as 
 a separate body. This was done 
 "with a view to forming a new 
 Synod." Eventually this was form- 
 ed and called the Synod of Chi- 
 cago, which included the area of 
 the state north of the Illinois 
 river, and consisted of the pres- 
 byteries of Schuyler, Rock River, 
 and Chicago. 
 
 Boundaries 
 
 As may be inferred from the 
 preceding, the Old School pres- 
 bytery extended far beyond the 
 limits of the Presbytery of Chicago, 
 as now constituted or as included 
 in the New School presbytery. The 
 boundaries as officially described, 
 were as follows: "west, the Third 
 Principal Meridian; from junc- 
 
 tion of Third Principal Meridian 
 with the Illinois River up the river 
 to the junction of the Illinois and 
 Bes Plaines Rivers, thence up the 
 Kankakee to the State line of 
 Illinois; east on the state line of 
 Indiana to Lake Michigan, thence 
 up Lake Michigan to the north 
 line of Illinois; north, the state 
 line of Illinois." 
 
 The Third Principal Meridian, 
 which constituted the western 
 boundary of the presbytery, was 
 the one from which most of the 
 state is surveyed. It lies about 
 eight miles west of the 89th 
 meridian which crosses the state 
 almost centrally. The automobile 
 route known as Meridian Road, 
 No. 51, parallels the Third Princi- 
 pal Meridian, as well as the 89th. 
 It runs from Beloit, Wisconsin, 
 through Rockford, Rochelle, and 
 LaSalle, clear to Cairo on the 
 south. An examination of the 
 map will indicate that in addition 
 to Lake, Cook, DuPage, Will, and 
 Kankakee counties, that now con- 
 stitute the presbytery, and in a 
 general way constituted the New 
 School presbytery, the following 
 counties were included, in whole 
 or in part, in the Old School 
 presbytery: McHenry, Boone, 
 Winnebago, Kane, DeKalb, Lee, 
 LaSalle, and Grundy. 
 
 Old School Presbyterianism 
 had been making its way north 
 from the southern part of the 
 state where it was strong. In time 
 it entered regions where there had 
 been New School churches for a 
 
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 number of years. This was the 
 case in Chicago where there were 
 three New School Presbyterian 
 churches, one of them 15 years old, 
 before North Church, the first of 
 the Old School churches, was or- 
 ganized. 
 
 Personnel 
 
 In addition to John Ustick the 
 other four ministers present at 
 the first meeting were: R. H. Rich- 
 ardson, pastor, North Church, Chi- 
 cago; R. K. Todd, pastor, Wood- 
 stock; George F. Goodhue, pastor; 
 Marengo, and E. F. Chester, col- 
 porteur. Those absent were: 
 Harry Chapin, Lynn-Hebron 
 church; John Fleming, domestic 
 missionary, and J. B. Plumstead, 
 colporteur. 
 
 R. K. Todd was elected moderat- 
 or of the first meeting. At that 
 time he was 38 years of age and 
 had been pastor at Woodstock 
 since 1848. A native of Massa- 
 chusetts, he was a graduate of both 
 Princeton University (1842) and 
 Princeton Theological Seminary 
 (1847). He was principal, 1863-'90, 
 of the academy at Woodstock, 
 where he died four years after his 
 retirement. 
 
 R. H. Richardson, the first 
 stated clerk, was at the time of 
 organization of the presbytery a 
 young man of 29, a recent graduate 
 of Princeton Theological Seminary 
 in the class of '48. He had come 
 to North Church immediately up- 
 on graduation, and his pastorate in 
 this church continued till 1855. 
 After a brief pastorate in Roches- 
 ter, New York, he returned to the 
 presbytery of Chicago, to Marengo. 
 His other pastorates were in the 
 east, where he died June 14, 1892, 
 at Bay Head, New Jersey. 
 
 George F. Goodhue, was also a 
 young (31 years old) Princeton 
 Seminary graduate in the class of 
 '49. A native of New Hampshire 
 and graduate of Dartmouth, '41, 
 he was for a time a lawyer in 
 Covington, Kentucky. As pastor 
 at Marengo he was host to the 
 presbytery at its initial meeting. 
 The name of E. F. Chester, the 
 remaining minister at presbytery 
 appears in the McCormick Sem- 
 inary General Catalog, as a mem- 
 ber of the class of 1844, when the 
 Seminary was then known as the 
 New Albany Theological Sem- 
 inary. In 1852 he was a colporteur 
 for the Board of Publication, living 
 at Kyte River. 
 
 As with the charter members of 
 the New School presbytery, the 
 ministerial members of the first 
 meeting of the Old School presby- 
 tery were generally young min- 
 isters from the East. These differ, 
 however, from the New School 
 men in their educational back- 
 ground. Princeton was the Alma 
 Mater of most of the Old School 
 men noted above. 
 
 Cyrus H. McCormick and the 
 Seminary 
 
 The outstanding leader in Chi- 
 cago Old School presbytery, cor- 
 responding in a measure to R. W. 
 Patterson in the New School, was 
 not a minister, but a layman, Cyrus 
 H. McCormick. There was no Old 
 School church in the city till af- 
 ter his arrival, and he had a share 
 in the organization of the one that 
 soon made its appearance. He had 
 much to do with the organization 
 of the additional Old School 
 churches, South and Central, that 
 in course of time came into exist- 
 ence in the city. 
 
OLD SCHOOL 
 
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 His chief contribution to the 
 standing of the denomination, 
 however, was his part in seeing 
 that the Seminary, that now bears 
 his name, was brought to Chi- 
 cago. It was his offer in 1859 of 
 $100,000 as an endowment for four 
 professorships that was chiefly in- 
 fluential in causing the institution 
 to come to Chicago. For almost 
 three decades this seminary had 
 had a precarious existence in 
 southern Indiana, at Hanover, and 
 later at New Albany. Its coming 
 was the occasion of notable addi- 
 tions to the roll of ministers of 
 the Old School presbytery. These 
 were the professors in the Sem- 
 inary, which for a quarter of a 
 century was to be known as the 
 Presbyterian Theological Seminary 
 of the North West. 
 
 The most noteworthy of the pro- 
 fessors was Dr. Nathan L. Rice, 
 who, through Mr. McCormick's 
 special efforts, was induced to 
 come from St. Louis to Chicago, 
 where he became pastor of North 
 Church as well as a professor in 
 the Seminary. In addition to 
 these two responsibilities, he edited 
 a magazine. The Presbyterian 
 Expositor. His stay in Chicago, 
 however, was short, due to his ac- 
 ceptance of a call from the Fifth 
 Avenue Church of New York City. 
 
 Churches 
 
 In the infant presbytery's first 
 report to the General Assembly it 
 listed the following eight churches: 
 Chicago, North; Woodstock, Salem; 
 Willow Creek; Marengo; Lynn 
 and Hebron; Roscoe; Jefferson 
 Grove; and Wilmington. 
 
 A glance at this list suggests its 
 rural character, in contrast to the 
 
 New School presbytery. The only 
 city church, the North, Chicago, 
 had only 59 members, while Willow 
 Creek, the largest, had 142. The 
 salaries paid by these churches 
 were small. The total amount re- 
 ported in 1852 as raised by all 
 eight churches for congregational 
 expenses was $4,028. About half 
 of this, $1937 was from the North 
 Church, Chicago. The amount for 
 each pastor can be guessed from 
 this. In the records it is stated 
 that a colporteur was recommend- 
 ed to the Board of Publication to 
 receive a salary of $400.00. 
 
 The churches were repeatedly re- 
 minded to keep salaries paid up, 
 and a resolution was passed in 
 1855, that "vacant churches be re- 
 quested to pay their supplies a 
 reasonable conpensation for their 
 services." The church of Wood- 
 stock in 1855 acknowledged "with 
 penitence their remissness in the 
 payment of their pastor's salary, 
 that the balance is now paid, and 
 that arrangements had been made 
 for avoiding a recurrence of the 
 same evil." 
 
 In the midst of this paucity of 
 contributions for self support, 
 benevolent objects were not wholly 
 forgotten. In 1852 some of the 
 churches had given a total of $93.00 
 for Domestic Missions, $167.00 for 
 Foreign Missions, and $110.00 for 
 Education. 
 
 The Slavery Issue 
 
 Everywhere in America, in this 
 period of its history, in both 
 church and state, the slavery issue 
 was dominant. The Old School- 
 Church as a denomination was 
 strong in the South. This temper- 
 ed the vigorousness of its opposi- 
 
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 tion to the institution, which all 
 recognized as an evil. The New 
 School, as we saw, had but few 
 churches in the South, while the 
 Congregationalists had none. In 
 Chicago, Mr. McCormick, Nathan 
 L. Rice, and other Old School lead- 
 ers had been born south of the 
 Mason and Dixon's line. Through- 
 out the period of the separate 
 existence of the Old School and 
 New School churches, differences 
 of attitude to the institution of 
 slavery was a constant source of 
 bad feeling and division. The sep- 
 aration of both the South and 
 Central churches, Chicago, from 
 the parent North Church, as well 
 as the retarded growth of the 
 Seminary, was occasioned bv this 
 troublesome question. 
 
 Growth 
 
 In spite of handicaps the Old 
 School presbytery made commend- 
 able growth through this troubled 
 period of separate existence. In 
 the eighteen years 1852-1870, the 
 eight churches with which it had 
 started grew to twenty-seven; the 
 ten ministers to thirty-eight with 
 fifteen licentiates. The 420 com- 
 municants of 1852 by 1870 had be- 
 come 2,573. The $4,028 contributed 
 m the earlier year for congrega- 
 tional expenses had by 1870 in- 
 creased more than ten fold to 
 $43,690. At the close of the period 
 however, the New School body 
 was still the stronger, with fortv- 
 seven ministers and four licentiates 
 and a communicant membership 
 of 3,516. 
 
 Moderators 
 
 1852 Richard K. Todd— Woodstock. 
 
 1852 John Fleming — Earlville. 
 
 1853 H. Chapin— W. Hebron, Lynn- 
 Hebron. 
 
 1853 Allen C. Miller, White Rock, 
 Jefferson Grove. 
 
 . 1854 Elisha F. Chester, Freeport. 
 
 1854 John McKinney, Oswego. 
 
 1855 G. F. Goodhue— Marengo. 
 
 1855 Richard H. Richardson- 
 North, Chicago. 
 
 1856 R. W. Henry— South, Chicago. 
 
 1856 Samuel Swan — Waverly. 
 
 1857 James S. Henderson— Men- 
 dota 
 
 1857 Robert G. Thompson— With- 
 out charge, Beloit. 
 
 1858 John McKinney — Oswego. 
 
 1858 John Ustick— Earlville. 
 
 1859 Robert G. Thompson— With- 
 out charge, Beloit. 
 
 1859 Nathan L. Rice— North, Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 1860 A. Hamilton — Aurora. 
 
 1860 Moses W. Staples— Kankakee 
 
 1861 John M. Faris— Rockford 
 
 1861 J. W. Ward— Lane Depot. 
 
 1862 John Fleming — Earlville, 
 Seneca and Wyoming. 
 
 1862 John H. Nesbit— Oswego. 
 
 1863 Lawrence M. Stevens Ma- 
 rengo. 
 
 1863 Willis Lord— Seminary. 
 
 1864 Fauntleroy Senour — Rock- 
 ford. 
 
 1864 John M. Faris— Agent for 
 Seminary. 
 
 1865 LeRoy J. Halsey— Seminary. 
 
 1865 Robert C. Colmery— Mendota 
 and Troy Grove. 
 
 1866 Henry B. Thayer-Kankakee, 
 lcbb John Ustick— Earlville. 
 
 1867 David C. Marquis— North, 
 Chicago. 
 
 1867 Robert G. Thompson— Willow 
 Creek, Kintyre. 
 
 1868 Charles Elliott— Seminary. 
 
 1868 Joseph S. Grimes— Rockford. 
 
 1869 Robert Patterson— Jefferson 
 Park, Chicago. 
 
 1869 William Campbell— Manteno. 
 
 1870 Loyal Y. Hays— Ottawa. 
 
Adolescence, 1879-1906 
 
 Reunion 
 
 As a result of the reunion of the 
 Old School and New School Gen- 
 eral Assemblies in May 1870, the 
 reunion of the presbyteries was 
 effected through enabling acts of 
 the synod. The present boundaries 
 of the presbytery were determined 
 by the Synod of Illinois, June 29, 
 1870, and the first meeting of the 
 united presbytery was held next 
 day, June 30, 1870, in the First 
 Church, Chicago. Wm. M. Black- 
 burn, a professor in the Semi- 
 nary and former stated clerk of the 
 Old School presbytery, was chosen 
 moderator, and David S. Johnson, 
 former stated clerk of the New 
 School presbytery, was made the 
 stated clerk and treasurer of the 
 new organization. 
 
 The most important action of the 
 new presbytery at its first meeting 
 was the appointment of a special 
 committee of ministers and lay- 
 men to supervise the raising of a 
 fund in commemoration of the 
 union of the assemblies, the pro- 
 ceeds to be devoted to the work 
 of the church in its several de- 
 partments. In this effort the Sem- 
 inary and Lake Forest University 
 were remembered, it being pro- 
 posed to raise $200,000 for the 
 former and $250,000 for the latter. 
 
 The most notable union, so far 
 as future history was concerned, 
 of local churches was that of the 
 former (New School) Westminster, 
 with the former (Old School) North 
 church, to form the Fourth Church. 
 
 Other unions resulting from the 
 reunion were: the 31st Street (Old 
 School) church, with the 28th Street 
 and South Scotch (New School) 
 churches, retaining the name of 
 the first named; and Olivet with 
 its parent the Second Church, 
 both former New School organiza- 
 tions. 
 
 The Chicago Fire 
 
 The great fire of October 9, 
 1871, had dire consequences for 
 Presbyterians as well as for other 
 people. One effect on presbytery 
 was the removal of its usual 
 place of meeting, the lecture room 
 of the Second Church. The build- 
 ing had been located on the north- 
 east corner of Wabash and Wash- 
 ington across the street from the 
 present site of Marshall Field's 
 store. 
 
 Along with the Second Church 
 were the First, the North, the 
 Westminster churches, and the Erie 
 Street mission, that were destroyed 
 by the fire. The fire crippled all 
 the city and suburban churches, 
 by rendering many of their mem- 
 bers penniless, destroying the in- 
 comes of others, scattering the 
 members and families of congrega- 
 gations, in some instances never 
 to return to the city, reducing the 
 number of houses of worship, and, 
 in a word, paralyzing for a time, 
 all church work in Chicago and 
 vicinity, except that of ministering 
 to the relief of the fire sufferers. 
 Some of the unburned church edi- 
 fices were used as hospitals for the 
 
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 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 sick and homes for the homeless 
 until other accommodations were 
 provided. 
 
 As was the case with other de- 
 nominations, it was found neces- 
 sary to appeal to Presbyterian 
 churches of other cities for aid in 
 carrying forward the work of re- 
 building church edifices and 
 supporting the ministers. After 
 careful examination of the facts 
 relating to the financial condition 
 of the churches a committee ap- 
 pointed for the purpose reported 
 $95,000 as the lowest estimate of 
 the sum needed for the immediate 
 relief of the churches and the 
 Seminary. Abbott E. Kittredge, 
 pastor of Third Church, Arthur 
 Mitchell of First Church, and 
 David Swing of Fourth Church, 
 were delegated by the presbytery 
 to visit the large cities of the East 
 and solicit relief. The appeals met 
 with a hearty and generous re- 
 sponse. The sympathy expressed 
 and the substantial aid freely be- 
 stowed, it was thought, were never 
 equalled in any previous similar 
 calamity. 
 
 The Swing Case 
 
 In 1874 occurred the case of 
 discipline in the presbytery, which 
 at the time attracted nation-wide 
 attention, not only within the 
 Presbyterian Church, but through- 
 out the whole religious world, as 
 one of the most famous heresy 
 trials in Presbyterian history. The 
 case involved the soundness in 
 doctrine of the preaching of the 
 Rev. David Swing, commonly 
 known as Professor Swing, since, 
 before coming to Chicago in 1866, 
 he had been for 12 years pro- 
 fessor of classic languages in 
 Miami University. Before the re- 
 
 union he was pastor of the West- 
 minster (New School) Church 
 and after the reunion of West- 
 minster and North in 1869, to 
 found Fourth Church, he was made 
 pastor of the united organization. 
 
 Professor Francis L. Patton, of 
 the Seminary, and also editor of 
 the Interior preferred the charges 
 and conducted the prosecution. Dr. 
 Arthur Mitchell, pastor of First 
 Church, Chicago, was the modera- 
 tor of presbytery. Dr. George C. 
 Noyes, pastor of First Church, Evans- 
 ton, was counsel for the defense 
 of Professor Swing. The result of 
 the trial was a decision by the pres- 
 bytery by a vote of 46 to 15 to dis- 
 miss the charges and thus acquit 
 Professor Swing. Upon appeal by 
 the prosecution to the Northern 
 Illinois Synod the accused with- 
 drew from the Presbyterian Church 
 and became pastor of the inde- 
 pendent, newly organized Central 
 Church, Chicago, which is still a 
 strong factor in the religious life 
 of the city. 
 
 The Presbyterian League 
 
 This organization was primarily 
 intended to supplement the work 
 of presbytery's Church Erection 
 Committee. The special pressure 
 for aggressive work began to be 
 felt about 1860 when the number 
 of new churches was growing with 
 unprecedented rapidity. Between 
 1833 and 1860, a period of 27 
 years, 17 churches were organized. 
 From 1860 to 1869, in nine years, 
 14 churches sprang up. To house 
 these churches was a bigger prob- 
 lem than the new organizations 
 could solve without outside aid. 
 Accordingly the New School pres- 
 bytery appointed a committee con- 
 sisting of the Revs. D. S. Johnson, 
 
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 L. H. Reid, David Swing, and 
 Elders D. R. Holt and J. S. Gould 
 to devise means for assisting 
 churches in erecting adequate 
 structures. 
 
 The task, however, proved too 
 difficult for this small committee. 
 So in 1869 a larger number of in- 
 fluential laymen was enlisted to 
 make the subject their care. These 
 were organized in the Presbyterian 
 League and obtained a charter from 
 the State. Unfortunately the early 
 records of the organization were 
 destroyed in the Great Fire of 
 1871. In 1895 it was said that up 
 to that time the League had ad- 
 ministered $120,000; $50,000 was 
 received from the bequest of John 
 Crerar. In 1902 its receipts were 
 $13,376 and disbursements $10,389. 
 
 Within the past few months (19- 
 47) a bequest of more than $400,000 
 from Forrest Waite, formerly of 
 the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 
 to the Presbyterian League, has 
 come to the Board of Church Ex- 
 tension, with which the League 
 was combined. 
 
 The Presbyterian Hospital 
 
 Rush Medical School, since its 
 founding in 1837, closely connect- 
 ed with Chicago Presbyterianism, 
 started in 1883 what is now the 
 Presbyterian Hospital. Soon after 
 it was taken over by a board 
 organized under the auspices of 
 the Presbyterian Church and the 
 leadership of Dr. Joseph P. Ross. 
 The meeting for the organization 
 of the board was held December 
 13, 1883, in the Grand Pacific Hotel. 
 
 Among those present at this 
 meeting were such well known 
 Presbyterians as the following: 
 Dr. John Henry Barrows, pastor 
 of the First Church, Chicago; Dr. 
 
 Willis G. Craig, professor in the 
 Seminary; Dr. Abbott E. Kittredge, 
 pastor of the Third Church; Dr. 
 Herrick Johnson, pastor of the 
 Fourth Church, later for many 
 years Professor of Homiletics in 
 the Seminary. Among the laymen 
 present were: Richard T. Crane; 
 John B. Drake; Tuthill King, and 
 Cyrus H. McCormick. 
 
 Since the first patient, the 17- 
 year-old Ulmer Parks, of Florence, 
 Wisconsin, was admitted, August 
 20, 1844, 451,950 (through 1946) 
 patients have been admitted. The 
 hospital has strictly adhered to 
 the principle of brotherhood in its 
 ministrations. It recognizes no 
 lines of distinction between men. 
 It cares for all victims of casualty 
 and disease irrespective of race, 
 color, or place of birth. 
 
 For 40 years, till 1942, it was serv- 
 ed by Asa S. Bacon as superintend- 
 ent. Others, including physicians, 
 nurses, ministers, women of the 
 auxiliary board have rendered, 
 through the years, service that has 
 given the hospital a deserved 
 reputation as second to none. It 
 is on the block on which the older 
 Carter Harrison family home was 
 located, 1860-'66. According to its 
 constitution the pastors of First, 
 Second, Third, and Fourth Presby- 
 terian Churches, Chicago, are 
 members of a Board of twenty- 
 eight managers. 
 
 The Growth of the Seminary 
 
 From the reunion of the Old 
 School and New School churches 
 in 1870, onward to 1883, the life 
 of the Seminary appeared to be 
 stationary. With 1884, however, a 
 new faculty drawn from the pas- 
 torate came to join Dr. LeRoy J. 
 Halsey. It consisted of Dr. Thomas 
 H. Skinner, from Cincinnati: Dr. 
 
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 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 Willis G. Craig, from Keokuk, 
 Iowa; Dr. David C. Marquis, of St. 
 Louis; and Dr. Herrick Johnson, 
 from the Fourth Church, Chicago. 
 Its growth in numbers was as if 
 by leaps and bounds. By 1890 it 
 had moved up, in point of numbers 
 among theological seminaries re- 
 porting to the General Assembly, 
 from eighth place in 1883, to third 
 place in 1890, second place in 1891, 
 and first place in 1892. From that 
 date on it has never fallen below 
 second place. 
 
 In 1886, in view of the fact that 
 its phenomenal growth up to that 
 date had been rendered possible 
 only by the munificent gifts of 
 Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, the name 
 of the institution was changed from 
 the Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
 inary of the North West to Mc- 
 Cormick Theological Seminary. Mr. 
 McCormick had died in 1884, but 
 his wife, Mrs. Nettie Fowler Mc- 
 Cormick, survived him almost half 
 a century and continued his 
 beneficence through her long life. 
 
 Polity 
 
 Questions relating to the polity 
 of the church occupied the atten- 
 tion of the presbytery at different 
 times. In the annual meeting of 
 1872 the presbytery sent an over- 
 ture to the General Assembly pro- 
 posing that the basis of representa- 
 tion in meetings of Synod and Gen- 
 eral Assembly be changed from 
 the minister roll to the communi- 
 cant members of the church. The 
 next year it sent another overture 
 asking for a change in the con- 
 stitution making it possible for 
 ministers to demit the ministry 
 upon the presentation of satis- 
 factory reasons for so doing. 
 
 This change was subsequently 
 
 made and the presbytery's prin- 
 ciple is now the rule of the church. 
 Upon the failure of its original 
 proposal that representation in 
 Synod and General Assembly be 
 on the basis of communicant mem- 
 bers, presbytery again overtured 
 the General Assembly in 1878 to 
 change the basis of representation 
 in General Assembly from the 
 presbytery roll to that of synod, 
 thus making synod the body repre- 
 sented, not presbytery. At that 
 time, as frequently since, there was 
 a widespread demand for reduc- 
 tion in the size of the Assembly 
 which was warmly supported by 
 the presbytery. In 1887 another 
 overture was sent asking the Gen- 
 eral Assembly to appoint a special 
 commission to consider carefully 
 the question of the best mode of 
 effecting changes in the constitu- 
 tion of the Presbyterian church. 
 
 Olivet Institute 
 
 Olivet Institute which was or- 
 ganized in this period became the 
 precursor of a whole group of 
 similar institutions developed later 
 and known as "neighborhood 
 houses." Central Church, under 
 the pastorate of Dr. David Swing, 
 was responsible for the beginning 
 of a mission Sunday School in 
 what was known as "Little Hell," 
 on the near North Side. Eventually 
 the work was turned over to Mc- 
 Cormick Seminary. Under the 
 leadership of Dr. Willis G. Craig, 
 a group of students reorganized 
 the enterprise along broader lines 
 into a Christian center, including 
 auxiliary ministries of an edu- 
 cational and philanthropic type. 
 
 William H. Hormel, of the class 
 of '91, in the Seminary, who had 
 before graduation been active in 
 
THE HOME MISSION COMMITTEE 
 
 25 
 
 the mission, became the first pastor 
 of the church which had been 
 organized in 1890 as the Olivet 
 Memorial. He was succeeded by 
 the Rev. N. B. Gallway, who, 
 three years later, gave place to 
 the Rev. Norman B. Barr, who 
 devoted his entire ministry of 40 
 years (1897-1937) in seeking to sup- 
 ply every need, in so far as pos- 
 sible and profitable, in the life of 
 the community. The organization 
 began as a part of the work of 
 presbytery's Home Mission Com- 
 mittee, but was later placed on 
 the basis of an independent enter- 
 prise, with the endorsement, the 
 moral and financial support of the 
 presbytery. 
 
 The Home Mission Committee 
 Incorporated 
 
 March 6, 1895, the Home Mis- 
 sion Committtee of the presbytery 
 was incorporated by the State "to 
 have the care and charge of 
 Home Mission work" within the 
 bounds of Chicago presbytery. 
 Previous to this time, all such 
 work was done in cooperation with 
 the Presbyterian Board of Home 
 Missions in New York City. It 
 was found, however, that the con- 
 tributions of the churches in the 
 presbytery to the treasurer of 
 Home Missions in New York had 
 reached the sum of $18,000 a 
 year, and that in that time there 
 had been drawn out of that treas- 
 ury about $14,000 to assist in 
 sustaining the 32 churches and 5 
 missions needing help. Previously 
 presbytery independence had been 
 
 considered, but was delayed on 
 account of synod looking toward 
 independence. 
 
 According to the new arrange- 
 ment a percentage of local offer- 
 ings was to be sent to the Board 
 in New York. The growth of this 
 work is indicated by the fact that 
 in 1901 the receipts were $22,980.88, 
 and the disbursements $16,852.79, 
 while in 1903, the receipts were 
 $27,546.11 and the disbursements 
 $18,551.09. The Reverend George 
 P. Williams was for 13 years, 1894 
 to 1907, the superintendent. 
 
 The Interior 
 
 Earlier ventures of Chicago 
 Presbyterians in the field of re- 
 ligious journalism may be noted 
 in the section on Periodicals in 
 the Bibliography. Special atten- 
 tion, however, is due the Interior, 
 whose name in time (1910) was 
 changed to the Continent. Cyrus 
 H. McCormick became the owner 
 soon after it was started in 1870, 
 saying as he did so, "I accepted 
 the responsibility solely for the 
 benefit of the Seminary and the 
 cause of Presbyterianism general- 
 ly." For more than half a century 
 he, and later Mrs. McCormick, 
 supported this publication. 
 
 Early in its history, William C. 
 Gray was made managing editor, 
 and owing to his business ability 
 and devotion to his task, the 
 Interior, within a decade, became 
 one of the most widely read re- 
 ligious journals in the land. Dr. 
 Gray was ably succeeded in the 
 editorship by Nolan R. Best. 
 
Maturity, 1906— 
 
 Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Reunion 
 
 The period of the history of the 
 presbytery, that includes the 
 present, was ushered in by the 
 reunion, in 1906, of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church with the 
 parent organization. The Cum- 
 berland Presbyterian Church as a 
 denomination began February 10, 
 1810, and ceased to exist as such 
 by an act of union and reunion 
 with the Presbyterian Church in 
 the U. S. A., May 24, 1906. It 
 originated in the revival which in 
 1797 began to develop, in what was 
 then known as the "Cumberland 
 country" in Kentucky and Ten- 
 nessee, under James McGready, 
 This created a demand for min- 
 isters greater than could be sup- 
 plied. Cumberland presbytery 
 ordained men who, in educational 
 preparation, fell below the re- 
 quirement of Presbyterian stand- 
 ards. The revision of its Con- 
 fession of Faith by the Presby- 
 terian Church in the U. S. A. in 
 1903 gave rise to the question of 
 reunion with the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterians, which was eventually 
 consummated. 
 
 The location of the records of 
 the Cumberland Presbytery of 
 Chicago are unknown to the pres- 
 ent writer. The presbytery ap- 
 pears in 1893 for the first time in 
 the Cumberland Minutes of the 
 General Assembly with the fol- 
 lowing churches and pastors: Chi- 
 cago, First Church, pastor, H. S. 
 Williams; Chicago, Second Church, 
 
 pastor, W. C. Logan; Chicago, 
 Third Church, pastor, A. H. 
 Stephens, and Alpine, pastor, W. 
 J. Caldwell. Twelve years later 
 just before the reunion the follow- 
 ing Chicago churches are reported: 
 Providence, with 258 members, of 
 which A. H. Stephens was pastor; 
 First, with J. W. Laughlin as pas- 
 tor, and 150 members. Memorial, 
 with 103 members, and C. J. Wil- 
 son, pastor. Drexel Park and Sec- 
 ond each had 63 members; the 
 former was served by A. C. Bergen 
 as pastor, and the latter by O. O. 
 Russell. The only other Chicago 
 church was Hope, with 44 mem- 
 bers, which at that time was with- 
 out a pastor. Outside the city the 
 presbytery included Grand Ridge 
 with a membership of 133, of which 
 W. H. Wilson was pastor. 
 
 Drexel Park, under the leader- 
 ship for the past 30 years of its 
 minister, Dr. C. C. Cox, has become 
 one of the strongest churches of the 
 presbytery, with more than 2000 
 members. Hope is still doing a good 
 work, and has grown to 157 mem- 
 bers. 
 
 The Board of Church Extension 
 
 The event that gave character to 
 the whole period was the organiza- 
 tion, April 8, 1907, of the Church 
 Extension Committee which in 1911 
 became the Board of Church Ex- 
 tension. The work of this commit- 
 tee and board had been antici- 
 pated, as we have seen, by the 
 Home Mission Committee, the 
 Church Erection Committee, and 
 
 26 
 
BOARD OF CHURCH EXTENSION 
 
 27 
 
 the Presbyterian League. Many 
 of the stronger churches also had 
 mission enterprises that they sup- 
 ported individually. First Church, 
 Chicago, had its Railroad Chapel; 
 Evanston, First, its Christopher 
 House; and the Lake Forest and 
 Hyde Park churches jointly the 
 Association House. At this time 
 business tended to concentrate. It 
 was found in every field of activity 
 that the combination of small con- 
 cerns in larger ones was proving 
 more satisfactory and efficient. 
 The church could not afford to 
 waste energy and means by multi- 
 plying its agencies. 
 
 Those composing the new com- 
 mittee were the following: Min- 
 isters: John Balcom Shaw, Sec- 
 ond Church, chairman; Edward H. 
 Curtis, First Church; vice chair- 
 man; W. Robson Notman, Fourth 
 Church; W. H. Wray Boyle, Lake 
 Forest; W. S. Plumer Bryan, 
 Church of the Covenant; William 
 P. Merrill, Sixth Church; George 
 N. Luccock, First Church, Oak 
 Park, and William C. Covert, 41st 
 Street Church. The laymen on the 
 committee were: E. A. Halsey, 
 Corydon A. Reed, Thomas A. Hall, 
 Thomas G. McCulloch, Frank S. 
 Shaw, Thomas Templeton, James 
 A. Janney, Charles S. Holt, and 
 Thomas E. D. Bradley. 
 
 One of the first tasks of the 
 committee was the selection of a 
 superintendent, since Dr. George 
 P. Williams, the executive of the 
 Home Missions Committee had 
 accepted another position and re- 
 moved to Philadelphia. The Rev. 
 George B. Safford, pastor of the 
 52nd Ave. Church, was secured as 
 the associate superintendent, and 
 later the search for the general 
 superintendent ended with the 
 
 election of the Rev. Dr. Edgar P. 
 Hill, professor of Homiletics in 
 McCormick Seminary. 
 
 Dr. Hill had served the Presby- 
 tery of Portland as chairman of 
 the Home Missions Committee and 
 had come to Chicago with a large 
 experience in the work of planting 
 and caring for new churches, and 
 as professor in the Seminary was 
 favorably situated to utilize stu- 
 dent service in the newer churches 
 of the city. He accepted the po- 
 sition as superintendent on con- 
 dition that he would so administer 
 the office as not to interfere with 
 his work in the Seminary. His 
 work with Church Extension be- 
 gan September 1, 1907. 
 
 Money was needed to liquidate 
 an indebtedness of $7,500 and 
 launch upon a program of expan- 
 sion. Accordingly a mass meeting 
 of Presbyterians was held in 
 Orchestra Hall. The result was 
 $25,000.00 pledged. 
 
 Naturally the central interest of 
 Church Extension continued to be 
 the organization and care of new 
 churches. From 1908 to 1925 twen- 
 ty-two new churches were added to 
 the roll of presbytery. Some situa- 
 tions were corrected by the merg- 
 ing of existing churches. Some 
 few churches were dissolved. In 
 addition to the dependent churches, 
 the foreign population demanded 
 attention. Under the leadership 
 of Seminary students work was 
 organized among the Assyrians, 
 the Italians, the Jews, and the 
 Chinese. Dr. Hill's leadership of 
 the Board lasted till 1918, when 
 he became secretary of the Pres- 
 byterian Board of Education with 
 headquarters in Philadelphia. 
 
 Dr. Henry Seymour Brown, 
 pastor of the Lake View Church 
 
28 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 was selected as the successor of 
 Dr. Hill. For 19 years (1918-1937) 
 Dr. Brown guided the destinies of 
 the Board with conspicuous suc- 
 cess. It was in his administration 
 that there was combined with the 
 office of superintendent of the 
 Board of Church Extension that of 
 executive secretary of presbytery, 
 a new office that was created in 
 1923. On Dr. Brown's resignation 
 to become vice president of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 Dr. Paul S. Johnson was called 
 from a pastorate in Scranton, 
 Pennsylvania, to succeed to both 
 the superintendence of the Board 
 and the executive secretaryship of 
 presbytery— offices which he con- 
 tinues to fill with distinction. 
 
 Presbyterian Headquarters 
 
 One of the early actions of the 
 Church Extension Committee was 
 in taking the leadership in estab- 
 lishing Presbyterian Headquarters. 
 This was accomplished in 1908 
 with the Ohio Building, 509 South 
 Wabash, as the center. Here the 
 Presbyterian Book Store, the Pres- 
 bytery of Chicago, The Church 
 Extension Committee of Presby- 
 tery, the Field Secretary of the 
 Presbyterian Board of Foreign 
 Missions, the Presbyterian Brother- 
 hood of America, the Presbyterian 
 Brotherhood of Chicago, the Wo- 
 men's Presbyterian Board of For- 
 eign Missions of the Northwest, 
 the Women's Presbyterian society 
 of Foreign Missions, the West- 
 minster Guild and the Chinese 
 Mission established their offices, 
 within easy reach for conference 
 with each other. Here, too, an 
 assembly hall was for a time rented 
 for use by any of them in their 
 more largely attended public 
 gatherings. 
 
 Later many of the offices moved 
 to the Temple building, 77 E. 
 Washington Street, where some 
 of them still remain. Several of- 
 fices have moved to 8 South Dear- 
 born Street, and the most recent 
 move of the Stated Clerk's office 
 and that of the Director of Chris- 
 tian Education has been to the 
 campus of the Seminary. 
 
 The Chicago Christian 
 Industrial League 
 
 Under the leadership of the 
 Board of Church Extension, there 
 came into existence some new 
 organizations on a semi-independ- 
 ent footing. One of these was the 
 Chicago Christian Industrial 
 League. Its object is to rescue 
 down and out men. It was un- 
 dertaken by George A. Kilbey, 
 afterward ordained to the min- 
 istry, and carried on by him for 
 twenty-two years. Starting as an 
 experiment, the undertaking has 
 commended itself as one of the 
 finest types of Christian service. 
 The capable successor of Dr. Kilbey 
 is the Rev. Dr. William Seath. 
 
 Westminster Hall 
 
 The latest of the presbytery's 
 ventures into the field of human- 
 itarian service is a home for neg- 
 lected or dependent children. 
 Under the leadership of Dr. R. 
 Worth Frank of the Seminary, it 
 has been authorized by presbytery 
 and a name, Westminster Hall, has 
 been given it. It is intended to 
 meet the needs of children of all 
 races. 
 
 The Presbyterian College 
 
 Dr. Alexander Patterson, for- 
 merly pastor at Morgan Park and 
 son of Dr. Robert Patterson, 
 
THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE 
 
 29 
 
 pastor at one time of the Jefferson 
 Park church, conceived the idea of 
 an institution for the training of 
 men and women for Christian and 
 philanthropic work. The institu- 
 tion was to be responsible to the 
 Church through the Presbytery of 
 Chicago. The presbytery delegated 
 this to the Church Extension Com- 
 mittee, which elected, October 14, 
 1908, Dr. Patterson as the first 
 president. He served in that ca- 
 pacity and did much of the teaching 
 until his death in 1912. He was 
 succeeded by Mr. Howard B. 
 McAfee (1912-18), Dr. Robert H. 
 Beattie, (1918-'20), and Mrs. Har- 
 riet D. Kerswill (1921-'26). In 
 1926, Dr. Robert Lee Sawyier, 
 became the president, in which 
 office he rendered a conspicuous 
 service during the following six- 
 teen years. In his administration 
 the curriculum, faculty, and stand- 
 ards were raised to that of a 
 college and the name was changed 
 in 1930 to the Presbyterian Col- 
 lege of Christian Education. It 
 won the approval and support of 
 the Board of Christian Education 
 of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In 1929 the institution bought 
 property at 815 Belden Avenue, 
 across the street from the Sem- 
 inary. Through the succeeding 
 years the relationship between 
 these two servants of the church 
 has been growing closer. In 1942 
 Dr. J. Harry Cotton, president of 
 the Seminary, was elected presi- 
 
 ; dent of the College and served in 
 that capacity till his resignation 
 in 1947 on account of ill health. 
 The two institutions, while not 
 completely merged, are almost so, 
 
 I using the same equipment and co- 
 operating in courses given. To 
 Dean J. S. Armentrout much 
 
 credit is due for the recent growth 
 and development of the college. 
 
 The Seminary Elects a President 
 
 Through three quarters of a 
 century the Seminary had never 
 had a president, until 1905. Previous 
 to that time each year the faculty 
 elected one of its own number as 
 chairman for the year. Following 
 the general trend in the churches 
 the Board created the office of 
 president and elected the Rev. 
 Dr. James G. K. McClure, pastor 
 of the Lake Forest church as the 
 first president. During his ad- 
 ministration, which lasted 23 years 
 till 1928, the Seminary had a not- 
 able growth in its endowment, 
 chiefly through the liberality of 
 the McCormick family. It was in 
 1917, also, that the Seminary 
 reached its peak in attendance — 
 216. 
 
 In 1928 Dr. John Timothy Stone, 
 who had been pastor since 1909 of 
 Fourth Church, Chicago, became 
 the second president. With his 
 coming, at the request of the McCor- 
 mick family, the name of the insti- 
 tution was changed to The Pres- 
 byterian Theological Seminary, 
 Chicago (founded by Cyrus H. 
 McCormick). A forward move- 
 ment including the practical re- 
 construction of its buildings was 
 inaugurated, but was stopped by 
 the depression, after two beauti- 
 ful new buildings had been com- 
 pleted — the Gymnasium and the 
 Commons. The Faculty was en- 
 larged and the educational stand- 
 ards were raised. In 1932 negotia- 
 tions for the merging of Lane 
 Seminary (founded in 1829 at Cin- 
 cinnati) with the Chicago institu- 
 tion were perfected and the tra- 
 ditions of the two seminaries were 
 combined into one. 
 
30 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 From 1940 till 1947, the Seminary 
 was under the presidency of the 
 Rev. Dr. J. Harry Cotton, who 
 came from the pastorate of the 
 Broad Street Presbyterian Church, 
 Columbus, Ohio. In his administra- 
 tion, as we have seen, the Presby- 
 terian College of Christian Educa- 
 tion was brought into closer rela- 
 tionship with the Seminary. Still 
 more, the alumni roll and income 
 of the Omaha Theological Sem- 
 inary, which had closed, were turn- 
 ed over, at least temporarily, to 
 McCormick. 
 
 Since the name "McCormick" 
 was the one by which it was gen- 
 erally known, even during the 
 years when its legal name was 
 changed, with the consent of the 
 McCormick family, the name was 
 formally resumed in 1943. Greatly 
 to the regret of friends of the 
 Seminary Dr. Cotton found it 
 necessary, for health reasons, to 
 resign in 1947 from the presidency. 
 Former Vice President Kenneth 
 G. Neigh is serving admirably as 
 acting president during the interim. 
 
 The Presbyterian Home 
 
 The thought of a home for the 
 aged, under Presbyterian auspices, 
 was entertained in the community 
 long before any efforts were made 
 to supply the need of it. A charter 
 for such an institution was secured 
 April 21, 1904. But the actual 
 task of supplying the need was 
 undertaken by Olivet Institute, 
 which set apart a small residence 
 in the neighborhood and gave a 
 home to a group of women who 
 found themselves, on account of 
 age and lack of means, depending 
 on others for their support. 
 
 It was not until November 13, 
 1913, that the Presbytery of Chi- 
 
 cago reorganized the movement, 
 with Dr. W. S. P. Bryan as pres- 
 ident of the board. A new incor- 
 poration was secured January 12, 
 1914. Temporary quarters were 
 secured for the Home at 324 E. 
 29th Place and opened May 13, 
 1914. Property in Evanston was 
 purchased March 13, 1915, as the 
 site for a permanent building. The 
 Home was reopened December 
 20, 1915, in Highland Park in the 
 building of the old North Western 
 Military Academy. Here it re- 
 mained for some years providing 
 a home for 25 aged people. 
 
 A campaign to raise $800,000 was 
 instituted, and the main part of 
 the present building in the north- 
 western section of Evanston, was 
 planned, completed, and dedicated, 
 December 22, 1922. The John G. 
 Shedd Memorial Wing was opened 
 April 1, 1930. The most recent 
 addition to the equipment is the 
 hospital building, constructed dur- 
 ing the war years. Perhaps no 
 benevolent institution has made a 
 stronger appeal to Presbyterians of 
 the Chicago area. In spite of its 
 comparative youth, it is one of the 
 best^ endowed institutions of the 
 presbytery. It cares for about 125 
 aged persons. 
 
 Religious Education Gets a 
 Director 
 
 June 5, 1922, presbytery approv- 
 ed the request of Robert Lee 
 Sawyier for the dissolution of the 
 pastoral relation between himself 
 and the Avondale Church. At 
 the same meeting it approved a 
 recommendation of the Executive 
 Council for the employment of a 
 Director of Religious Education, 
 and that Robert Lee Sawyier be 
 the new director. Dr. Sawyier 
 
THE PRESBYTERIAN UNION 
 
 resigned in 1923. His successor 
 was the Rev. George H. Fickes, 
 who directed the work till 1926. He, 
 in turn, was succeeded by Dr. 
 Ralph W. Owens (1926-1930). Then 
 came the nine year administration 
 (1930-1939) of Dr. Robert H. 
 Elliott. His successor was Dr. 
 Goodrich Gates, who was director 
 from 1940 till 1944 when the pres- 
 ent capable director, Mr. John W. 
 McCracken, took office. 
 
 The Presbyterian Union 
 
 The informal association, now 
 called by this name, consisting of 
 all Presbyterians in Chicago and 
 surrounding territory was origin- 
 ally organized March 10, 1884, 
 under the name Presbyterian 
 Social Union. Its object was better 
 mutual acquaintance and closer 
 social relations among Presby- 
 terians. One of its early meetings 
 was utilized for the purpose of pro- 
 moting the interests of the Presby- 
 terian Hospital. The Union con- 
 tinued its work with an uncertain 
 tenure of life, or as a report to the 
 Church Extension Committee in 
 1907 has it, developed "a fatal fa- 
 cility for dying," having perished 
 several times. 
 
 Under Dr. Edgar P. Hill's leader- 
 ship the organization was revived 
 June 7, 1909, at the Grand Pacific 
 Hotel. Mr. William Illsley in 1918 
 reformed the organization in such 
 a way as to enable it to continue its 
 work with marked success up to the 
 present time. It was at this time, 
 December 13, 1918, that the name 
 was changed to the Presbyterian 
 Union instead of Presbyterian 
 Social Union. A brief history of 
 the Union was compiled by James 
 L. Sayler in the year of his pres- 
 idency, 1933. 
 
 The Woman's Board of the 
 Northwest 
 
 No history of Chicago Presby- 
 terianism can afford to omit men- 
 tion of the Woman's Presbyterian 
 Board of Missions of the North- 
 west. This was started in 1868 
 under the leadership of Mrs. R. W. 
 Patterson in the Second Church. 
 At first, being a New School organ- 
 ization, both Congregational and 
 Presbyterian women were invited 
 to join what was organized October 
 27, 1868, as the "Woman's Board 
 of the Interior." After two years, 
 however, came the reunion of Old 
 School and New School Presby- 
 terians and it seemed best for 
 each denomination to have its 
 own organization. Accordingly the 
 Presbyterian Society was formed 
 December 17, 1870. Mrs. R. W. 
 Patterson was the first president. 
 In glancing down the list of her 
 successors one sees such familiar 
 names as Mrs. Herrick Johnson, 
 Mrs. John Balcom Shaw, and Mrs. 
 Oliver R. Williamson, whose hus- 
 band was editor of the Continent. 
 
 In the fifty years of the Board's 
 existence a total of $4,532,768.48 
 was contributed. 
 
 The Board is perhaps best re- 
 membered by "Room 48." That 
 was the number on the door of the 
 office of the Board in the McCor- 
 mick Block which was opened in 
 August, 1873. Though the office 
 was moved from time to time the 
 number was retained for more 
 than forty years, so that as one 
 member expressed it, "Forty- 
 eight is no longer with us a number 
 or sign, but a hallowed word." 
 
 Under this caption there appear- 
 ed in the Interior and its successor, 
 The Continent, a weekly page of 
 missionary information which 
 
32 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 came, at least in part, from the 
 Friday morning meetings held in 
 Room 48. 
 
 Eventually, December 31, 1920, 
 the work of the Board was termi- 
 
 nated when it and five other wo- 
 men's boards were united in The 
 Woman's Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions of the Presbyterian Church, 
 with offices in New York. 
 
 Moderators Since the Reunion 
 
 1870 William M. Blackburn— Sem- 
 inary 
 
 1870 David C. Marquis— Fourth, 
 Chicago 
 
 1871 George H. Coit— Wilmington 
 
 1871 J. H. Brown, 31st Street, Chi- 
 cago 
 
 1872 James H. Taylor, Lake Forest 
 
 1872 Robert Patterson, Jefferson 
 Park, Chicago 
 
 1873 Charles L. Thompson— Fifth, 
 Chicago 
 
 1873 Edwin L. Hurd— Highland 
 Park 
 
 1874 Arthur Mitchell— First, Chi- 
 cago 
 
 1874 Abbott E. Kittridge— Third, 
 Chicago 
 
 1875 Amos H. Dean— Central, Jo- 
 liet 
 
 1875 J. Monro Gibson— Second, 
 Chicago 
 
 1876 David J. Burrell— Westmin- 
 ster, Chicago 
 
 1876 Walter Forsythe— Englewood 
 
 1877 W. F. Wood— Peotone 
 
 1877 Hiram H. Kellogg— Evanston 
 
 1878 John H. Walker— Reunion, 
 Chicago 
 
 1878 William C. Young— Fullerton 
 Avenue, Chicago 
 
 1879 David Clark— Austin. 
 
 1879 William R. Brown— Lake 
 Forest 
 
 1880 James MacLaughlin — Scotch, 
 Chicago 
 
 1881 John B. L. Soule— Highland 
 Park 
 
 1882 Edward C. Ray— Hyde Park, 
 Chicago 
 
 1883 James Lewis — Central, Joliet 
 
 1884 Elder Samuel M. Moore 
 
 1885 John H. Worcester— Sixth, 
 Chicago 
 
 1886 James G. K. McClure— Lake 
 Forest 
 
 1887 Arthur J. Brown— First, Oak 
 Park 
 
 1888 Melancthon W. Stryker— 
 Fourth, Chicago 
 
 1889 John L. Withrow— Third, Chi- 
 cago 
 
 1890 Thomas D. Wallace— Eighth, 
 Chicago 
 
 1891 John P. Hale— Kenwood, Chi- 
 cago 
 
 1892 Howard H. Van Vranken— 
 Central Park, Chicago 
 
 1893 William M. Hindman— Nor- 
 mal Park, Chicago 
 
 1894 Charles A. Lippincott, First, 
 Joliet 
 
 1895 Andrew C. Zenos — Seminary 
 
 1896 Walter H. Reynolds— River 
 Forest 
 
 1897 Charles S. Hoyt— First Oak 
 Park 
 
 1898 Joseph N. Boyd— River Forest 
 
 1899 John H. Boyd— First, Evans- 
 ton 
 
 1900 Edward H. Curtis— Woodlawn 
 Park, Chicago 
 
 1901 William P. Merrill— Sixth, 
 Chicago 
 
 1902 Frank M. Carson— Lake View, 
 Chicago 
 
 1903 Joseph A. Vance— Hyde Park, 
 Chicago 
 
 1904 Augustus S. Carrier— Semi- 
 nary 
 
 1905 William W. Johnstone— River 
 Forest 
 
MODERATORS 33 
 
 1906 Stuart M. Campbell— Emerald 1926 Samuel W. Findley— Morgan 
 Ave, Chicago Park, Chicago 
 
 1907 W S Plumer Bryan— Cov- 1927 Ira W. Allen— La Grange 
 enant, Chicago 1928 Alva V. King— Roseland 
 
 1908 Robert H. Beattie— Austin, 1929 William J. Ohan— Bethany, 
 Chicago Chicago 
 
 1909 Louis P. Cain— Edgewater, 1930 W. Clyde Howard— Second, 
 Chicago Chicago 
 
 1910 John W. Nicely— Crerar, Chi- 1931 Roy H. Brown— Irving Park, 
 cago Chicago 
 
 1911 Robert D. Scott— Harvey 1932 H. Ray Berger— Christ, Chi- 
 
 1912 George N. Luccock— First, cago 
 
 Oak Park 1933 Bertram G. Jackson — Nor- 
 
 1913 Frederick L. Selden— Ravens- wood Park Church 
 
 wood, Chicago 1934 Harrison Ray Anderson — 
 
 1914 Andrew S. C. Clarke— Sec- Fourth, Chicago 
 
 ond, Evanston 1935 Paul S. Johnson — La Grange 
 
 1915 George K. Newell, Sixth, Chi- 1936 Alvin A. Smith— Rogers Park, 
 cago Chicago 
 
 1916 Frank A. Hosmer— Central 1937 Alvyn R. Hickman— Third, 
 Park, Chicago Chicago 
 
 1917 Oiin Mason Caward— Normal 1938 William Mclnnes — Mayfair, 
 Park, Chicago Chicago 
 
 1917 Elder H. H. Smitih— The 1939 Howard W. Johnston— Faith, 
 Continent Chicago 
 
 1918 H S. Brown — LakeView, 1940 James T. Veneklasen— Wil- 
 Chicago tt 
 
 1918 Albert J. McCartney— Ken- inyM ~ 4 A „ _ . 
 wood, Chicago 1841 g™^: Pa PP erman ~ Irvin g 
 
 1919 Ralph D. Kearns— Calvary, ^ arK ' cmca g° 
 
 Chicago 1942 Gilbert T. Bremicker— Ber- 
 
 1920 David Creighton — Christ, v/ >~ n 
 
 Chicago 1943 Paul Turner — Riverside 
 
 1921 Norman B. Barr— Olivet, Chi- 1944 Clarence N. Wright— Ravens- 
 ca &° wood, Chicago 
 
 S ?H rg T P n Magi1 !' ^T'k «* Herbert N. Broekway-Fair 
 
 1923 Robert Clements - Austin, Qak 0ak Park 
 
 Ljnic3 j?o 
 
 1924 Clyde R. Wheeland-Irving 1946 LoLlis W - Sherwin— Highland 
 Park, Chicago Park 
 
 1925 Asa J. Ferry— Edgewater, Chi- 1947 Clifford J. Earle— Second, Oak 
 cago Park 
 
STATED CLERKS 
 
 New School 
 
 Flavel Bascom, 1857-1850. 
 
 L. H. Loss, 1850-1861. 
 
 Edward Anderson, April 9, 1861- 
 
 September 10, 1861. 
 Ira M. Weed, September 10, 1861- 
 
 December 13, 1861. 
 A. L. Brooks, September 9, 1862- 
 
 July 11, 1865. 
 E. A. Pierce, 1865-1868. 
 D. S. Johnson, 1868-1870. 
 
 Old School 
 R. H. Richardson, 1852-1855. 
 George F. Goodhue, April 12, 1855- 
 
 November 9, 1858. 
 John M. Faris, 1859-1863. 
 W. W. Harsha, 1863-1869. 
 W. M. Blackburn, 1869-1870. 
 Since Reunion 
 
 D. S. Johnson, 1870-1881. 
 
 E. R. Davis, 1881-1891. 
 James Frothingham, 1891-1916. 
 Andrew C. Zenos, 1916-1942. 
 William Mclnnes, 1942- 
 
 MODERATORS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM 
 CHICAGO PRESBYTERY 
 
 1859, (New School) Robert W. Pat- 
 terson. 
 
 1878, Francis Landey Patton. 
 
 1882, Herrick Johnson. 
 
 1889, William Charles Roberts. 
 
 1896, John Lindsay Withrow. 
 1913, John Timothy Stone. 
 1929, Cleland Boyd^McAfee. 
 1934, William Chalmers Covert. 
 
 34 
 
Churches of the Presbytery 
 
 During the course of its history 
 the following churches have at 
 some time belonged to the Presby- 
 tery of Chicago. They are arrang- 
 ed under the names of the cities in 
 which they have been located or 
 in the case of rural churches, their 
 post office addresses. Cross refer- 
 ences are inserted to facilitate lo- 
 cating individual churches that 
 may have been known under 
 different names. It has been at- 
 tempted to give in connection with 
 the name of each church the date 
 of its organization and the number 
 of members with which it started. 
 If organized when the denomina- 
 tion was divided the particular 
 division with which it was con- 
 nected has been indicated; Old 
 School by the abbreviation O. S., 
 New School by N. S., and Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian by C. P. Where 
 street addresses or names of coun- 
 ties, if known, will help to identify 
 churches they are given. In many 
 cases, when known, the names of 
 men instrumental in organizing the 
 
 ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 
 
 September 24, 1856, N. S. 
 
 17 
 
 A. D. Eddy 
 
 Name formerly Dunton 
 AURORA 
 First 
 
 In General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1859, O. S. 
 AU SABLE GROVE 
 
 In General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1858, N. S. 
 
 different churches are given. Some 
 effort has been made to indicate 
 what has become of churches no 
 longer on the roll of the presby- 
 tery. In the case of churches out- 
 side the present bounds of the 
 presbytery no such attempt has 
 been made. 
 
 As to the sources from which the 
 information was gathered, perhaps 
 the greatest help has been a list 
 compiled by the late Stated Clerk, 
 Andrew C. Zenos, in his own 
 handwriting in a ledger now in the 
 Virginia Library. His list is ar- 
 ranged chronologically and extends 
 only to 1924. It attempts to ac- 
 count only for churches in the 
 presbytery in his time. The in- 
 formation furnished by Dr. Zenos 
 has been supplemented chiefly by 
 the manuscript records of presby- 
 tery, the printed reports of the 
 Board of Church Extension, and 
 the Minutes of the General As- 
 sembly. Many other sources of 
 information have given facts that 
 have been included. 
 
 BELLWOOD 
 June 8, 1930 
 45 
 
 BELVIDERE 
 
 September 29, 1857, O. S. 
 10 
 
 BERKELEY 
 (HiUside) 
 May 6, 1917 
 39 
 
 35 
 
36 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 BERWYN 
 
 October 23, 1894 
 
 30 
 
 T. C. Hall 
 BLOOM 
 
 See 
 
 Chicago Heights 
 BRAIDWOOD 
 
 June 16, 1872 
 
 29 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 BUCKINGHAM 
 
 October 13, 1898 
 
 16 
 
 Dropped from roll April 13, 
 
 1920 
 CABERY 
 Southwest of Kankakee 
 
 December 12, 1885 
 
 12 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 CHENOA 
 
 April 14, 1857, N. S. 
 
 8 
 
 Loss and Whittemore 
 
 CHERRY VALLEY 
 Winnebago County 
 June 14, 1855, O. S. 
 4 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 First 
 
 June 26, 1833, N. S. 
 
 25 
 
 Jeremiah Porter 
 Second 
 
 June 1, 1842, N. S. 
 
 26 
 
 Flavel Bascom 
 Second (C. P.) 
 
 See Marlboro 
 Third 
 
 July 1, 1847, N. S. 
 
 35 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 Fourth 
 
 February 6, 1871 
 
 351 
 
 Union of North and Westmin- 
 ster 
 Fifth 
 
 June 7, 1867, O. S. 
 
 5 
 
 George W. Mackie 
 
 South and 28th Street churches 
 
 added 1873 
 
 United with Kenwood 1898 
 
 Dissolved March 11, 1901 
 Sixth 
 
 1875 
 
 Union of Grace and Ninth 
 
 Merged in First Church, De- 
 cember 4, 1918 
 Seventh 
 
 1865, N. S. 
 
 Formerly Edwards Church, 
 
 Jackson and Peoria 
 
 Disbanded and existed for a 
 
 time as a mission of Third 
 
 Church 
 Seventh 
 86th Place and Sangamon 
 
 Anril 4, 1892 
 
 27 
 
 J. Weston 
 Eighth 
 Washington and Robey 
 
 December 20, 1864, N. S. 
 
 25 
 
 Z. M. Humphrey 
 
 See Central 
 New Eighth 
 
 See Central 
 Ninth 
 
 July 10, 1866, N. S. 
 
 Merged with Grace to form 
 
 Sixth 
 Ninth 
 
 Formerly Reunion 
 
 Name changed February 9, 1892 
 
 Dissolved June 27, 1927 
 Tenth 
 
 In 1875 General Assembly Min- 
 utes 
 
 Formerly Lake Church 
 
 Name changed 1890 
 
CHICAGO CHURCHES 
 
 37 
 
 Eleventh 
 
 May 10, 1894 
 
 70 
 
 T. D. Wallace 
 
 Dissolved October 14, 1918 
 Acacia Community 
 Oriole and Cullom 
 
 June 24, 1928 
 
 50 
 Albany Park 
 
 October 18, 1914 
 
 50 
 Archer Heights 
 Kedvale and 50th Avenues 
 
 April 16, 1922 
 
 30 
 Ashland Avenue 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1873 
 Austin 
 
 August 27, 1871 
 
 16 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 Austin Manor 
 Wabansia and Parkside 
 
 1927 
 
 89 
 Avondale 
 
 April 8, 1892 
 
 17 
 
 J. Weston 
 Belden Avenue 
 
 September 30, 1883 
 
 15 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 See Seminary Ave. Federated 
 Bethany 
 
 April 29, 1888 
 
 25 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Bethel 
 
 See Portage Park 
 Bethlehem 
 S. Wells and 52nd Streets 
 
 March 29, 1910 
 
 Organized out of Bethlehem 
 
 Chapel of 41st Street Church 
 Bohemian Settlement 
 
 See Howell Memorial 
 
 Brighton Park 
 
 Pershing Road at Francisco Ave. 
 
 April 16, 1893 
 
 39 
 
 John Weston 
 Brookline 
 Maryland Avenue and 73rd Street 
 
 May 19, 1887 
 
 22 
 Brown Memorial 
 61st and Indiana 
 
 September 28, 1930 
 
 110 
 
 Colored 
 Buena Memorial 
 
 January 6, 1905 
 
 65 
 
 G. P. Williams 
 Calvary 
 
 Indiana Avenue S. of Ringgold 
 Place 
 Indiana Avenue and 22nd Street 
 
 July 20, 1859 N. S. 
 
 30 
 
 Merged with First, November 
 
 8, 1871 
 Calvary 
 Jackson Blvd. and S. Keeler 
 
 October 8, 1891 
 
 15 
 
 John Weston 
 Campbell Park 
 717 S. Leavitt Street 
 
 April 30, 1880 
 
 28 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Carter Memorial 
 
 March 28, 1920 
 
 Assyrian 
 Central 
 Cass and Illinois 
 
 January 29, 1865, O. S. 
 
 23, mostly from North Church 
 
 After the fire, 1871, members 
 
 absorbed by other churches 
 Central 
 
 Sacramento Blvd. and Warren 
 Avenue 
 
 December 20, 1864 
 
38 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 Formerly the Eighth 
 
 Merged with Central Park 
 
 Church and called New Eighth, 
 
 April, 1918 
 
 Changed to Central, October 
 
 10, 1928 
 Central Park 
 
 June 19, 1887 
 
 75 
 
 Merged with Eighth Church, 
 
 called New Eighth, April, 1918 
 
 George C. Noyes 
 
 See Central 
 Chicago Lawn 
 
 April 26, 1892 
 
 J. P. Hale 
 
 27 
 
 died 
 
 New beginning May 17, 1908 
 
 60 
 Christ 
 2000 Orchard Street 
 
 February 8, 1900 
 
 190 
 
 W. R. Notman 
 
 Out of Christ Chapel, the 
 
 Fourth Church 
 Church of Christ 
 
 January 5, 1947 
 
 Meeting in Fourth Church 
 
 Japanese 
 Covenant 
 
 May 7, 1885 
 
 87 
 
 George C. Noyes 
 
 Name changed to Seminary 
 
 Jan. 14, 1929 
 
 Merged with Fullerton 
 Crerar (Old) 
 
 57th and Prairie 
 Crerar Memorial (New) 
 Calumet Ave. at 81st St. 
 
 December 2, 1928 
 Drexel Park 
 
 August, 1896 C. P. 
 
 Came into the presbytery with 
 
 the Cumberland union in 1907 
 
 Douglas Park 
 
 February 19, 1897 
 
 48 
 
 Died, 1908 
 Edgewater 
 Kenmore and Bryn Mawr 
 
 June 9, 1896 
 
 43 
 
 T. C. Hall 
 Edwards 
 Halsted and Harrison 
 
 1861, N. S. 
 
 Name changed to Seventh, 
 
 August, 1865 
 Emerald Avenue 
 Emerald Avenue and Marquette 
 Road 
 
 January 16, 1890 
 
 27 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Endeavor 
 
 Formerly Gross Park 
 Englewood 
 
 October 31, 1869 N. S. 
 
 12 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 Erie Chapel 
 1347 Erie Street 
 
 February 10, 1909 
 
 167 
 
 From mission of Third Church 
 Faith 
 
 June 8, 1902 
 
 70 
 
 T. D. Wallace 
 Fifty-Second Avenue 
 
 See Trinity 
 Forty-first Street 
 
 Februarv 14, 1875 
 
 32 
 
 Arthur Mitchell 
 
 Merged in First Church, March 
 
 27, 1912 
 Forty-Eighth Avenue 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1897 
 Fullerton Avenue 
 
 February 11, 1864, O. S. 
 
 11 
 
CHICAGO CHURCHES 
 
 39 
 
 Willis Lord 
 Fullerton-Covenant 
 
 Merger of Fullerton Ave. and 
 
 Covenant 
 Galilee 
 
 March 20, 1903 
 
 26 
 
 T. D. Wallace 
 
 Became Logan Square, 1905 
 
 Became Kelvyn Park, 1924 
 Garfield Blvd. 
 
 June 18, 1900 
 
 54 
 
 Dissolved, 1937 
 Garfield Ridge 
 
 Formerly St. James 
 German, First 
 
 March 10, 1873 
 
 28 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 Dissolved, 1899 
 Grace 
 Near Douglas Place 
 
 W. M. Blackburn 
 
 May 8, 1872 
 
 35 
 
 United with "Ninth" to form 
 
 Sixth 
 Grace 
 
 July 19, 1888 
 
 19 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 Colored 
 Granville Avenue 
 
 March 31, 1910 
 
 Mission of Edgewater 
 
 Gross Park 
 
 February 19, 1891 
 
 25 
 
 John Weston 
 
 Became Endeavor 
 
 Hebrew Christian First 
 4818 N. Troy 
 
 November 10, 1935 
 
 34 
 
 Holland 
 
 Noble and Erie 
 
 October 23, 1870 
 
 16 
 
 Emanuel Van Orden 
 
 Transferred to Reformed Clas- 
 
 sis, 1892 
 Hope 
 Loomis Blvd. and 61st Street 
 
 April, 1898, C. P. 
 
 Colored 
 Howell Memorial 
 1831 S. Racine 
 
 April 23, 1916 
 
 47 
 
 Name changed from Bohemian 
 
 Settlement, April 13, 1923 
 Hubbard Memorial 
 2520 S. Lawndale Avenue 
 
 March 28, 1920 
 
 60 
 
 Vaclav Vanek 
 
 Mission of Fourth Church 
 Hyde Park 
 
 April 29, 1860, N. S. 
 
 12 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 Immanuel 
 
 November 4, 1887 
 
 George C. Noyes 
 Irving Park 
 
 April 28, 1915 
 
 400 
 
 Came from Chicago Reformed 
 
 Classis 
 Italian First 
 
 April 17, 1892 
 
 54 
 
 John Weston 
 
 Merged with Samaritan to 
 
 form Waldensian, April 12, 
 
 1927 
 Jefferson Park 
 
 January 1, 1867, O. S. 
 
 123 
 
 Willis Lord 
 Kelvyn Park 
 2516 N. Kostner 
 
 May 13, 1925 
 
40 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 Kenwood 
 
 November 30, 1895 
 
 44 
 
 J. H. Barrows 
 
 United with Fifth Church, 1898 
 
 October 16, 1881 
 
 44 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 Name changed to Tenth 
 
 Church, 1890 
 
 Dissolved April 8, 1919 
 
 Lakeview 
 
 November 23, 1894 
 
 27 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 
 Logan Square 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1914 
 
 Formerly Galilee 
 Marlboro 
 S. Damen and 68th Street 
 
 June, 1893, C. P. 
 
 Originally 2nd Cumberland 
 
 Church 
 
 Name changed, 1907 
 Marquette Park 
 
 March 16, 1923 
 Mayfair 
 Kostner and Ainslie 
 
 March 16, 1922 
 
 Formerly Perseverance 
 
 Name changed Jan. 14, 1929 
 Mi: lard Avenue 
 
 October 13, 1896 
 
 50 
 
 T. C. Hall 
 Moreland 
 
 See Trinity 
 Morgan Park 
 
 January 25, 1890 
 
 31 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Normal Park 
 
 June 2, 1885 
 
 34 
 
 George C. Noyes 
 North 
 
 August 6, 1848, O. S. 
 
 Merged with Westminster to 
 
 form Fourth, 1871 
 Northtown 
 
 November 3, 1929 
 
 Merged with St. James Evan- 
 gelical Reformed 
 Norwood Park 
 
 N. S. 1870 
 
 Norwood Pk. 
 
 October 4, 1916 
 
 Formerly a Reformed Church 
 Olivet 
 Wabash and 14th Street 
 
 December 7, 1856, N. S. 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 
 United with Second Church 
 Olivet Memorial 
 
 October 16, 1890 
 
 49 
 Onv/ard 
 
 March 29, 1892 
 
 72 
 
 Dissolved April 12, 1927 
 
 Most of members formed nu- 
 cleus for Austin Manor 
 Perseverance 
 
 See Mayfair 
 Portage Park 
 Windsor and Menard 
 
 January 10, 1926 
 
 37 
 
 Name changed to Bethel, Sept. 
 
 13. 1926. Name restored April 
 
 10, 1928 
 Providence 
 
 May 12, 1893 C. P. 
 
 27 
 
 A. II . Stephens 
 
 Dissolved, 1913 
 Pullman 
 S. Park Blvd. and 110th Street 
 
 August 13, 1882 
 
 26 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Ravenswood 
 
 May 4, 1902 
 
 24 
 
 T. D. Wallace 
 
CHICAGO CHURCL 
 
 41 
 
 Redeemer. 
 
 April 10, 1935 
 
 94 
 Reunion 
 
 April 8, 1870 
 
 50 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 
 Name changed to Ninth 
 
 Church, February 9, 1892 
 Ridgeway Avenue 
 Hamlin Avenue and Huron Street 
 
 April 26, 1891 
 
 13 
 
 John Weston 
 Rogers Park 
 
 January 13, 1910 
 
 54 
 Roseland 
 
 February 6, 1898 
 
 40 
 
 Divided October 6, 1904 
 Roseland 
 
 November 17, 1909 
 
 247 
 
 Reunion of Roseland and 
 
 Roseland Central 
 Roseland Central 
 
 October 6, 1904 
 
 156 
 
 W. H. Matthews 
 
 Reunited with Roseland 
 
 Church 
 St. Andrew 
 
 Olcott and Balmoral 
 
 June 18, 1944 
 St. James 
 5550 S. Merrimac 
 
 July 25, 1926 
 
 35 
 
 Name changed Jan. 3, 1947 to 
 
 Garfield Ridge 
 St. James United 
 Rockwell and Albion 
 
 January 7, 1935 
 St. John 
 Harrison Street and Hoyne Ave. 
 
 December 31, 1922 
 
 54 
 
 St. Mark 
 
 September 18, 1927 
 
 115 
 St. Paul 
 127 N. Francisco Ave. 
 
 February 2, 1918 
 
 Colored 
 Samaritan 
 
 October 14, 1923 
 
 40 
 
 Merged April 12, 1927 with 
 
 First Italian 
 Scotch 
 Adams and Sangamon 
 
 46 
 
 Became Scotch Westminster, 
 
 1894 
 
 Organized as Canadian Pres- 
 byterian 
 
 Received into Chicago presby- 
 tery, November 9, 1874 
 Scotch Westminster 
 
 November 27, 1894 
 
 Union of Scotch and West- 
 minster 
 
 United with South Austin 
 
 Church, June, 1919 
 
 See Scotch 
 Seminary 
 
 January 14, 1929 
 
 Formerly Covenant 
 Seminary Avenue Federated 
 Seminary and Lill 
 
 Belden Avenue church in the 
 
 federation 
 60th Street 
 
 May 3, 1888 
 
 Dissolved 1900 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 South 
 
 Wabash and Congress 
 
 December 19, 1854, O. S. 
 
 Most of its members united 
 
 with 28th St. church, 1869, 
 South Austin 
 
 See Westminster 
 South Chicago 
 October 23, 1852 
 
 18 
 
42 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 Became United Church of 
 
 South Chicago 
 South Park 
 
 Formerly Railroad Mission 
 
 Dissolved October 14, 1918 
 South Shore 
 South Shore Drive and 76th St. 
 
 April 16, 1896 
 
 71 
 
 Organized as Windsor Park 
 
 Name changed February 5, 1923 
 South Side 
 
 1870, N. S. 
 
 United with 31st Street 
 
 Scotch 
 South Side Tabernacle 
 
 September 14, 1894 
 
 222 
 
 J. H. Barrows 
 31st Street 
 Wabash and 31st Street 
 
 January 15, 1868, N. S. 
 
 28th Street Church united with 
 
 it July, 1870 
 Trinity 
 
 Laramie Avenue and Fulton 
 Street 
 
 June 4, 1885 
 
 Formerly Moreland 
 28th Street 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1868, O. S. 
 
 Members from South Church 
 United Church of Hyde Park 
 Blackstone Avenue and 53rd St. 
 
 See Hyde Park 
 United Church of South Chicago 
 Exchange Avenue and 91st St. 
 
 See South Chicago 
 Unity 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1932 
 
 Colored 
 Waldensian 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1907 
 
 Merged in 1927 of Italian First 
 
 and Samaritan 
 
 West 
 
 April 13, 1858, O. S. 
 
 A. Nesbit 
 
 Formerly Associate Reformed 
 West Division 
 
 May 9, 1894 
 
 Became Laird Community 
 
 House 
 Westminster 
 
 July, 1855, N. S. 
 
 Merged with North in Fourth 
 
 Church, 1871 
 Westminster 
 
 1873 
 
 A. E. Kittridge 
 
 Joined Scotch, 1894 to form 
 
 Scotch-Westminster 
 Westminster 
 Lotus and Gladys 
 
 June, 1919 
 
 Union of Scotch-Westminster 
 
 with the South Austin church 
 Windsor Park 
 
 See South Shore 
 Woodlawn Park 
 
 January 19, 1885 
 
 39 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 United with First Presbyterian 
 
 CHICAGO HEIGHTS 
 Bloom 
 
 December 4, 1843, O. S. 
 
 25 
 
 John McMaster 
 
 Name changed April 16, 1894 
 
 to First 
 Our Savior 
 
 October 27, 1912 
 
 62 
 
 Italian 
 
 CHICAGO RIDGE 
 On S. W. Highway, 27 miles 
 from the Loop 
 
 May 8, 1932 
 
 26 
 
 CICERO 
 
 Clement 
 
 50th Court and 15th Street 
 
CHURCHES 
 
 43 
 
 November 2, 1919 
 52 
 
 P. W. Fischer 
 Warren Park 
 
 61st Court and 21st Street 
 
 June 26, 1927 
 
 52 
 
 CLARENDON HILLS 
 
 March 31, 1929 
 
 38 
 CLINTON CENTER 
 
 October 19, 1864, O. S. 
 
 COAL CITY 
 New Hope 
 
 November 15, 1885 
 
 24 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 CRETE 
 
 1859 N. S. 
 DEERFIELD 
 
 May 14, 1866 
 
 9 
 
 E. L. Hurd 
 DOWNERS GROVE 
 
 March 17, 1925 
 
 39 
 
 W. Clyde Smith 
 
 DU PAGE 
 
 See Plainfield 
 DUNDEE 
 
 1859, N. S. 
 DUNTON 
 
 See Arlington Heights 
 EARLVILLE 
 
 April 16, 1853, O. S. 
 ELGIN 
 
 February 8, 1853 N. S. 
 
 22 
 
 O. S. Church, 1868 
 ELMWOOD PARK 
 
 November 4, 1943 
 
 56 
 
 Robert L. Sawyier 
 
 ELWOOD 
 
 15 miles south of Joliet 
 April 29, 1879 
 19 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 EVANSTON 
 
 First 
 
 July 27, 1868, N. S. 
 
 38 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 Second 
 
 Formerly South Evanston 
 
 June 4, 1885 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 Northminster 
 
 January 28, 1923 
 
 57 
 South Evanston 
 
 See Evanston, Second 
 
 EVERGREEN PARK 
 April 20, 1947 
 
 FOREST PARK 
 
 Name formerly Pioneer 
 
 April 11, 1913 
 
 164 
 
 G. N. Luccock 
 
 From Pioneer Chapel of Oak 
 
 Park, First Church 
 
 FRANKFORT 
 1883 
 
 James Lewis 
 Dropped from roll, 1886 
 
 GARDNER 
 
 20 miles south of Joliet 
 September 5, 1857, N. S. 
 6 
 L. H. Loss 
 
 GENOA 
 
 1856, O. S. 
 73 
 
 GLEN ELLYN 
 
 May 16, 1926 
 
 47 
 
44 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 GLENWOOD 
 
 March 16, 1884 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 Dissolved 1895 
 HADLEY 
 Will County 
 
 August 17, 1833, N. S. 
 
 Jeremiah Porter 
 
 Became Congregational, 1849 
 
 Now Homer Congregational 
 
 Church 
 HALF DAY 
 
 April 24, 1870 
 
 22 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 HARVARD 
 
 1868, O. S. 
 HARVEY 
 
 March 17, 1892 
 
 James B. McClure 
 Federated 
 
 Presbyterian and Congrega- 
 tional 
 HEBRON 
 Linn and Hebron 
 
 1865, O. S. 
 HERSCHER 
 Pilot 
 
 September 14, 1879 
 
 23 
 
 Dissolved February 2, 1914 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 HIGHLAND PARK 
 
 June 2, 1871 
 
 33 
 
 William M. Blackburn 
 HINSDALE 
 
 June 18, 1889 
 
 23 
 
 Dissolved December, 1919 
 
 HOLLYWOOD 
 
 April 17, 1945 
 
 Formerly independent 
 HOMEWOOD 
 
 December 19, 1857, N. S. 
 
 10 
 
 A. W. Henderson 
 
 ITASCA 
 
 October 26, 1885 
 
 10 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 
 JOLIET 
 
 First 
 
 August 3, 1866, N. S. 
 
 28 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 Second 
 
 February 15, 1901 
 
 Formerly Hope 
 
 Name changed, 1902 
 Central 
 
 1844, N. S. 
 
 22 
 
 Jonathan G. Porter 
 Hope 
 
 February 15, 1901 
 
 T. D. Wallace 
 
 Became Joliet, Second, 1902 
 Willow Avenue 
 
 December 9, 1904 
 
 66 
 
 G. P. Williams 
 
 Formerly Kings Sons Chapel 
 
 KANKAKEE 
 First 
 
 September 26, 1854, N. S. 
 
 10 
 
 Lewis H. Loss 
 O. S. church, 1868 
 Second 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 
 1876 
 French 
 
 January 29, 1860, O. S. 
 
 Dropped, 1887 
 
 Charles Chiniquy 
 
 KENDALL 
 
 Kendall County 
 April 17, 1855, O. S. 
 Formerly Congregational 
 
 KYTE RIVER 
 
 Jefferson Grove, O. S. 
 
 From Presbytery of Rock Riv- 
 er, 1852 
 
CHURCHES 
 
 45 
 
 LA GRANGE 
 
 October 27, 1890 
 
 25 
 
 John Weston 
 
 LAKE FOREST 
 
 February 24, 1859, N. S. 
 
 Yates Hickey 
 LAKE STATION 
 
 1863, N. S. 
 
 LANE 
 
 September 23, 1854, O. S. 
 10 
 
 J. Ustick 
 Centre 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 1859, O. S. 
 
 LELAND 
 
 LaSalle County 
 
 1857, O. S. 
 
 LIBERTYVILLE 
 
 September 7, 1869, N. S. 
 
 26 
 
 J. H. Trowbridge 
 
 MANTENO 
 
 April 7, 1853, N. S. 
 
 7 
 
 Jonathan G. Porter 
 
 First at Rockville 
 
 Moved and name changed 
 
 April, 1855 
 
 MARENGO 
 O. S. 
 
 From Presbytery of Rock Riv- 
 er, 1852 
 
 MAYWOOD 
 
 October 15, 1872 
 
 13 
 
 R. W. Patterson 
 
 MENDOTA 
 
 August 26, 1855, O. S. 
 5 
 
 MOMENCE 
 
 1856, N. S. 
 MONEE: WILL 
 
 1858, N. S. 
 
 MORRIS CITY 
 
 November, 1856, O. S. 
 8 
 
 NILES CENTER 
 
 February 21, 1932 
 32 
 
 NORTHBROOK 
 
 September 24, 1922 
 
 Name changed from Shermer- 
 
 ville 
 
 NORTH CHICAGO 
 June 30, 1893 
 8 
 
 Formerly South Waukegan 
 Name changed, 1913 
 
 OAK PARK 
 First 
 
 September 30, 1883 
 
 32 
 
 E. R. Davis 
 Second 
 
 April 9, 1905 
 
 53 
 
 G. P. Williams 
 Fair Oaks 
 
 May 11, 1924 
 
 59 
 
 OSWEGO 
 
 April 15, 1854, O. S. 
 
 OTTAWA 
 
 General Assembly Minutes, 
 1869, O. S. 
 
 PALOS PARK 
 
 S. W. Highwav 
 Mav 1, 1921 
 13 
 
 PEOTONE 
 
 Mav 6, 1871 
 17 
 
 James H. Trowbridge 
 PLAINFJELD 
 Du Page 
 
 Julv 13, 1833, N. S. 
 
 12 
 
 Jeremiah Porter 
 
46 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 PONTIAC 
 
 April 20, 1856, N. S. 
 
 RIVER FOREST 
 July 29, 1887 
 D. R. Breed 
 
 RIVER PARK 
 
 November 24, 1874 
 
 13 
 
 Jacob Post 
 
 Dropped from roll, 1896 
 
 RIVERSIDE 
 
 December 15, 1872 
 
 17 
 
 J. H. Trowbridge 
 
 ROCKFORD 
 
 July 8, 1854, O. S. 
 
 36 
 
 G. F. Goodhue 
 
 ROCKVILLE 
 Kankakee County 
 April 7, 1853, N. S. 
 Changed to Manteno, April 17, 
 1855 
 
 ROSCOE 
 
 June 5, 1851, O. S. 
 
 From Rock River presbytery, 
 
 1852 
 
 ROSCOE 
 
 Genoa 
 April 16, 1853, O. S. 
 
 Willow Creek 
 O. S. 
 
 From Presbytery of Rock Riv- 
 er, 1852 
 
 SAINTE ANNE 
 First 
 
 March 21, 1861, O. S. 
 
 53 
 
 Alfred Hamilton 
 
 Second united April 30, 1888 
 Second 
 
 February 1, 1860, O. S. 
 
 Charles Chiniquy 
 
 French, united with First 
 
 Church 
 
 SANDWICH 
 
 1867, O. S. 
 
 German 
 SERENA 
 
 LaSalle County 
 1858, O. S. 
 
 Named with Wyoming G. A. 
 Minutes 
 
 SHARON 
 Queen Ann 
 
 1858, O. S. 
 
 SHERMERVILLE 
 See Northbrook 
 
 SKOKIE 
 Westminster 
 January 5, 1947 
 R. L. Sawyier 
 
 SOUTH WAUKEGAN 
 See North Chicago 
 
 SPRING FOREST 
 
 See Willow Springs 
 
 THORNTON STATION 
 
 1859, N. S. 
 
 TROY GROVE 
 
 October 18, 1854, O. S. 
 
 8 
 
 J. Fleming 
 
 VICTOR 
 
 DeKalb County 
 June 1, 1858, O. S. 
 
 WAUKEGAN 
 
 November 11, 1857, N. S. 
 
 50 
 
 Ira Weed 
 
 WAVERLY 
 
 March 30, 1856, O. S. 
 14 
 J. Fleming 
 
 WEST HEBRON 
 Lynn and Hebron 
 O. S. 
 
 From Presbytery of Rock Riv- 
 er, 1852 
 
CHURCHES 
 
 47 
 
 Congregational 
 
 WHEATON 
 
 April 20, 1909 
 
 50 
 
 From First 
 
 church 
 
 WHEELING 
 
 Zion (German) 
 
 November 2, 1864, O. S. 
 Transferred to Galena German 
 presbytery, May, 1908 
 
 Zion 
 June 18, 1922 
 
 Transferred to Chicago pres- 
 bytery by General Assembly 
 
 WHITE ROCK 
 Jefferson Grove 
 Ogle County 
 
 O. S. 
 
 Received from Rock River 
 
 presbytery, 1852 
 
 WILL 
 Will County 
 
 December 4, 1864 
 Dissolved, 1894 
 15 
 
 WILLOW SPRINGS 
 April 11, 1926 
 18 
 Spring Forest Church 
 
 WILMETTE 
 
 October 22, 1911 
 
 102 
 
 E. P. Hill 
 
 WILMINGTON 
 
 July 22, 1837, N. S. 
 
 11 
 
 Jonathan G. Porter 
 
 WILMINGTON 
 O. S. 
 
 Received from Presbytery of 
 Peoria, 1852 
 
 WOODSTOCK 
 Queen Ann 
 O. S. 
 
 German 
 Salem 
 
 1868, O. S. 
 
 Received from Presbytery of 
 Rock River, 1852 
 Name changed to First Pres- 
 byterian Church, 1853 
 
 WYOMING 
 
 Joined with Serena in General 
 Assembly Minutes 
 
 YORKFIELD 
 
 September 26, 1943 
 
 34 
 
 Walter Reid 
 
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INDEX 
 
 American Home Missionary 
 
 Society 11 
 
 Armentrout, J. S 29 
 
 Bacon, Asa S 23 
 
 Barr, Norman B 25 
 
 Bascom, Flavel 9 
 
 Bibliography 48 
 
 Blackburn, William M 21 
 
 Bowen, Louise DeKoven 14 
 
 Boyle, W. H. Wray 27 
 
 Brown, Henry Seymour 27 
 
 Bryan, W. S. P 30 
 
 Chester, E. F 18 
 
 Chicago 7 
 
 Chicago, Growth of 12 
 
 Chicago, Presbytery of New 
 
 School, First Meeting 8 
 
 Growth 12 
 
 Old School presbytery, 
 
 Organization 17 
 
 Chicago, Synod of 17 
 
 Christian Industrial League 28 
 
 Churches 35 
 
 Church Extension, Board of 26 
 
 Colonization Plan 12 
 
 Congregational Church, First 
 
 Chicago 11 
 
 Congregational Church, Plym- 
 outh, Chicago 11 
 
 Congregationalists, Relation 
 
 with 10 
 
 Continent, The 25 
 
 Cotton, J. Harry 29, 30 
 
 Craig, Willis G 24 
 
 Crerar, John 23 
 
 Cumberland Presbyterian 
 
 Church 8 
 
 Cumberland Presbyterian 
 
 Reunion 26 
 
 Curtis, Harvey 14 
 
 Dearborn Seminary 14 
 
 Downs, William R. 10 
 
 Drake, B. B 10 
 
 Drexel Park Church 26 
 
 52 
 
 DuPage Church 8 
 
 Elliott, Robert H 31 
 
 Evangelistic Methods 13 
 
 Fickes, George H 31 
 
 Fire, The Chicago 21 
 
 First Church, Chicago 8 
 
 Fourth Church, Chicago 21 
 
 French, Charles R 10 
 
 Galena Theological Seminary.... 16 
 
 Gates, Goodrich 31 
 
 General Assembly, Moder- 
 ators of 34 
 
 Goodhue, George F 18 
 
 Gray, W. C 25 
 
 Hadley Church 9 
 
 Halsey, L. J 23 
 
 Headquarters, Presbyterian 28 
 
 Henderson, Abner W 9 
 
 Hill, Edgar P 27, 31 
 
 Home Mission Committee 25 
 
 Hormel, William _ 24 
 
 Interior, The .... 25 
 
 Johnson, David S 21 
 
 Johnson, Herrick 24 
 
 Johnson, Paul S. 28 
 
 Kilbey, George A 28 
 
 Kittredge, Abbott E 22 
 
 Lake Forest University 21 
 
 Lane Seminary 29 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 7 
 
 Lind University 16 
 
 Lyman, Orange 10 
 
 McClure, James G. K 29 
 
 McCormick, Cyrus H 18 
 
 McCormick, Nettie Fowler 24 
 
 McCormick Theological Sem- 
 inary 24, 30 
 
 Marquis, David C 24 
 
 Mitchell, Arthur 22 
 
 Moderators, New School 14 
 
 Old School 20 
 
 Since the Reunion 32 
 
 New School and Old School 7 
 
 Notman, W. P 27 
 
INDEX 
 
 53 
 
 Noyes, George C 22 
 
 Olivet Institute 24 
 
 Omaha Theological Seminary.... 30 
 
 Ottawa Presbytery 8 
 
 Owens, Ralph W 31 
 
 Patterson, Alexander 28 
 
 Patterson, Robert W 9, 13 
 
 Patton, Francis L 22 
 
 Peoria, Synod of 8 
 
 Polity 24 
 
 Porter, Jeremiah 8 
 
 Porter, Jonathan G 10 
 
 Presbyterian College of 
 
 Christian education 28 
 
 Presbyterian Home 30 
 
 Presbyterian Hospital 23 
 
 Presbyterian Home 30 
 
 Presbyterian League 22 
 
 Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
 inary, Chicago 29 
 
 Presbyterian Theological Sem- 
 inary of the Northwest 19 
 
 Presbyterion Union, The 31 
 
 Recruits 15 
 
 Reunion 21 
 
 Rice, Nathan L 19 
 
 Richardson, R. H 18 
 
 "Room 48" 31 
 
 Safford, George B 27 
 
 Salaries, Ministers 19 
 
 Sawyier, Robert Lee 29,30 
 
 Seath, William 28 
 
 Second Church, Chicago 9 
 
 Skinner, Thomas H 23 
 
 Slavery Issue 11, 19 
 
 Stated Clerks 34 
 
 Stone, John Timothy 29 
 
 Swing, David 22 
 
 Taylor, Hutchins 9 
 
 Third Church, Chicago 9, 12 
 
 Todd, R. K 18 
 
 Ustick, John 18 
 
 Waite, Forrest 23 
 
 Westminster Hall 28 
 
 Williams, George P 27 
 
 Willow Creek Church 17, 19 
 
 Women's Board of Foreign 
 
 Missions 31 
 
 Zenos, Andrew C 3,35