150 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. three years; and Frederick Beck, in place of Lisle, or for the short term of one year 1871, Beck resigned March 10, and J. P. Bruck was appointed to fill the vacancy, and was elected in October for the long term; 1872, Adin G. Hibbs, elected in place of Renick. The present county commissioners are: Wm. Cooper, J. P. Bruck, and Adin G. Hibbs. COUNTY AUDITORS.-Prior to 1824, county auditors were elected annually, and since, biennially. Joseph Grate, who had held the office of auditor of Franklin county for the two preceding years, was in 1824 re-elected for two years. In 1826 he was again re-elected, but died a few days after the election, and John C. Brodrick was appointed to the office, to which he was elected in 1827, and was continued in it by successive re-elections until 1839, when Frederick Cole was elected and held the office till 1845. The succeeding auditors were: Smithson E. Wright, elected in 1845, two terms; Holdemond Crary, elected in 1849, two terms; John M. Pugh, elected in 1853, two terms; John Phillips, elected in 1857, two terms-dying shortly before the expiration of his second term; Matthias Martin, 1861, two terms. Thomas Arnold was elected in 1865, and having resigned in the fall of 1866, Dennis B. Strait was appointed in his place. In 1867, Samuel E. Kile was elected to the office, and re-elected in 1869. There was no election of auditors in 1871, owing to some charge or attempted charge in the law, and Kile continued to hold the office. In 1872 he wa.s re-elected auditor for two years. COUNTY TREASURERS.-County treasurers were first appointed by the associate judges, and then by the county commissioners, until 1827, when the Legislature passed an act requiring the treasurers to be elected biennially by the voters of the county. Jacob Grubb was the first treasurer of Franklin county, and was continued in the office by successive reappointments until in June, 1827, when Christian Heyl was appointed to the office by the commissioners, to which he was elected in October of that year, and re-elected in 1831. George McCormick, elected in 1833, held the office one term; William Long, in 1835, three terms; Joseph McElvain, in 1841, two terms; Joseph Leiby, in 1845, three terms; 0. P. Hines, in 1.851, two terms; James H. COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICES - 151 Stauring, in 1855, two terms; John G. Thompson, in 1859, two terms; Jos. F alkenbach, 1863, two terms. Aaron C. Hadley, elected in 1867, having resigned, Jas. E. Wright was appointed August 6, 1869, in his place, and in October of that year, James II. Stauring was elected, but died July 17, 1870, before entering upon the duties of the office. J. E. Wright continued to act as treasurer by appointment until he was succeeded by Lorenzo English, elected in October, 1870. Jas. E. Wright was elected to the office in 1872. COUNTY RECORDERS-The office of country recorder was filled by appointment of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas until 1831, and since then, by triennial elections. Until that year. Abraham J. McDowell, appointed in 1817, was continued in the office by successive appointments. In 1831, William T. Martin was elected and successively re-elected until 1846, when -Nathan Colo, the present recorder, was first elected, and has been since kept in the office by repeated re-elections-his last re-election having taken place in 1870. COUNTY SURVEYORS.-The Court of Conimon Pleas made the appointments of county surveyor, until a law was passed in March, 1831, requiring their election triennially by the people. The first surveyor for this county, was Joseph Vance, appointed in 1803, and continued in the office by successive reappointments until 1824. In that year, Richard Howe was appointed surveyor, but discharged the duties of the office in person only for a short time, as his deputy, General McLene filled the office until 1827. In 1827, Jeremiah McLene was appointed county surveyor, and continued as such until Lyne Starling, Jr., was elected in 1832. The latter resigned in April, 1833, and Mease Smith was appointed to fill the vacancy. In October, 1833, Frederic Cole was elected and served three years; William Johnston, in 1836, one term; Uriah Lathrop, 1839, one term; John Graham, 1842, one term William Johnston, 1845, one term; Jesse Cortright, 1845, two terms; W. W. Pollard, 1854, one term; Daniel Hess, elected in 1860, resigned, and his deputy, W. W. Pollard, discharged the duties of the office. C. C. Walcutt, elected in 1860, also resigned, and Uriah Lathrop was appointed in his place. 152 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. The latter was elected to the office in October, 1862; W. P. Brown in 1865, and re-elected in 1868; Josiah Kinnear, the present incumbent, was elected in October, 1871. THE COURT-HOUSE.—Dr. M. B. Wright, then of Columbus, but afterward of Cincinnati, and Mary Ti,, his wife, by deed dated October 20, 1837, in consideration of the commissioners of Franklin county agreeing to erect a court-house and county buildings on the premises, conveyed by warranty deed to Robt. Lysle, James Bryden, and R. W. Cowles, then commissioners of the county, and their successors in office, "for the use of the county, for the purpose of being occupied as a location for a court-house, county offices, and jail, and for no other purpose,” in-lots 358 and 359, situated on the southeast corner of High and Mound streets. The court-house was afterward erected on these two lots, but it was early discovered that they would not suffice for the purposes intended. The commissioners therefore purchased a third lot adjoining the other two on the south, numbered 360, and bounded on the south by Strawberry alley, running east and west.. This lot was originally owned by Dr. Wright, but at the time of its purchase by the county, the ownership was vested in seven different persons—Jas. Bryden, Adin G. Hibbs, Nehemiah Gregory, John Patterson. and Jesse Stone, each owning one undivided ninth part, and Dwight Woodbury. and William Miner, each owning two undivided ninth parts. These several interests were extinguished by deeds of conveyance in fee simple to the county, without conditions, from all the owners of fractional parts. These deeds were executed at various times, chiefly in 1839 and 1840—the last one, however, which was from Wnl. Miner and wife, was not executed until August 24,1847. From the consideration named in each deed, seven parts out of the nine, each cost the county $222.22. In the deed from William Miner for two-ninths, the consideration named is only $50. According to these statements in the deeds, the lot cost the county $1,556.04. The purchase of this third lot made the county the owner of the whole block or square of about two acres and a half. The court-house was so far completed that the courts, as else- COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICES - 153 where noted, were held in it in the summer of 1840. The main building, which fronts on High street, has two small wings—one on the north for the clerk's office, and still appropriated to that use, and one on the south for offices for the county auditor and treasurer, but now occupied by the county surveyor and the trustees of Montgomery township, within whose original limits Columbus was formerly wholly, and still is chiefly, included. Originally, the basement of the main building was used for the jail, and the first story above for the sheriff's residence. In the second story is the large court-room, with the usual appendages. As the city and county grew, judicial and other official business increased, and the inadequacy of the accommodations provided became more and more apparent. In 1852 and 1853, the commissioners erected another building a few feet south of the court-house and fronting on High street, with a large hall and wide stairway in the center, on each side of which are—on the north the auditor's, and the south the treasurer's office. The upper story was appropriated to the Probate Court, but is now used as Room No. 2 of the Court of Common Pleas, as such is often the pressure of business in that court that it is found necessary to have two judges and sometimes two traverse juries at work in different rooms at the same time. Between the upper stories of the main and the south buildings, there has been constructed a level passage-way, so as to give direct and easy communication between the two court-rooms. The lower story of the main building was so remodeled as to afford rooms for the probate judge's office on the north, and for the recorder's office on the south of a hall running east and west through the building. Into these rooms, those offices were removed in February, 1869, where they still remain. THE JAILS.-The first building used for a jail, after Columbus became the county-seat in 1824, was a brick structure on the south side of Gay street, between High and Third streets. The building is still standing and wears the dingy appearance of a veritable prison. After the court-house was built, its basement was used for a jail. But it proved a very insecure prison, and escapes were frequent. A new jail, in the rear or east of the court-house, was com- COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICES - 155 menced in 1864 and finished in May, 1866. The builders were J. C. Auld & Co. It is built of brick and stone, two stories high. The front part is of brick and the rear of stone. The brick structure, fronting on Mound street, comprises the sheriff's office and residence. The rear part or prison proper consists of massive stone walls, within which are the cells, forty or fifty in number, for the safe-keeping of prisoners. These are made entirely of iron. They are in two tiers, and stand in the center, at least ten feet from the outer wall. The prison is well lighted and ventilated, THE COUNTY INFIRMARY. County infirmaries, in Ohio, were at first designated as “poorhouses." The legislature, on the 8th of March, 1831, passed an act to authorize the establishment of a poor-house in any county of the State at the discretion of the county commissioners. By authority of this act, the commissioners of Franklin county, in 1832, bought a farm on the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, about three miles from Columbus. By the 1st of February following, a building was erected and ready for the reception of paupers. The directors of poor-houses were at that time appointed by the county commissioners. Our commissioners appointed Jacob Grubb, Ralph Osborn, and P. B. Wilcox, the first board of directors for the Franklin county poor-house. The directors appointed Captain Robert Cloud, superintendent, and Dr. William M. Awl, physician to the institution. The superintendent occupied part, of the building, and had the use of the farm, which he cultivated with his own teams and utensils. The directors paid him a specified sum per week for boarding each pauper. Captain Cloud resigned his position at the expiration of his first year, and was succeeded by William King. The latter continued in charge of the institution upon the same terms as Captain Cloud, until October, 1837. Mr. King, in his report to the directors, under date of January, 1837, gives the names, ages, etc., of all the inmates—nine in number—among whom was "Mary Sours, aged ninety-three years." She remained in the institution until her death in 156 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. 1849, when, according to the report, she must have been one hundred and five years old. In October, 1837. the directors, consisting of James Waleutt, George B. Harvey, and fir. T. Martin, concluded to change the plan of managing the institution, by stocking the farm and paying the superintendent a fixed salary for carrying it on and taking care of the house and its inmates. John R. Wright, a practical farmer, was engaged at a moderate salary. He continued to act as farmer and superintendent until the spring of 1840. At that time William Domigan had succeeded George B. Harvey as director. Improvements being needed at the institution, the directors and county commissioners concluded upon a change of location, as it was too far from Columbus, which furnished, so states one of the directors, more than three-fourths of the paupers. The conveyance of infirm and sick persons to the institution was both inconvenient and expensive. There had been for a time a rickety wooden bridge across the Scioto above the mouth of the Olentangy, but it lasted only a few years. Situated between the two rivers, the poor-house was quite inaccessible in time of high water. A five-acre lot, the site of the present county infirmary, was purchased by the commissioners in 1839, and a building erected thereon. The old poor-house farm was sold, and the live stock and farming utensils disposed of at public venduc in November, 1839. On the first of May following, the paupers were removed to their new abode, and were placed under the care of Edward Redden, superintendent, and Dr. P. Sisson, physician. The Legislature, at the session of 1841-42, passed an act. requiring poor-house directors to be elected by popular vote, in the same manner as other county officers. Directors were first elected at the annual State election in 1842. Until then, Messrs. Walcutt, Martin, and Domigan had filled the office. DIRECTORS.—The first directors elected were George Frankenberg, for one year; Augustus S. Decker, for two years, and Robert Riorden, for three years. In 1843, Frankenberg was re-elected for the full term of three years. 1844, A. S. Decker re-elected; Robert Riorden, in 1845; George Frankenberg, in 1846; and A. S. Decker, in 1847. In 1848, John Walton was elected in place of COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICES - 157 Riarden ; in 1849. S. D. Preston, in place of Frankenburg ; and Arthur O`Harra. f'or two years, to fill the vacancy occasioned by Walton's removal froin the county. In 1850, Decker was re-elected, and O'Harra in 1851. In 1852, Amos L. Ramsey was elected in place of Preston; 1853, Rufus Main, in place of Decker; 1854, Orin Backus, in place of O'Harra; 1855, L. J. Moeller, in place of Ramsey; 1856, John Lisle, in place of' Main, and in 1857, William Aston, in place of Backus 1858, Moeller re-elected; 1859, James Legg, in place of Lisle. In March, 1860, Moeller resigned, and John Greenleaf was appointed to fill the vacancy. At the October election of that year, Newton Gibbons was elected in place of Aston, and Philemon Hess, for the short term of one year, and in 1861 the latter was elected for the long term. Li 1862, Frederick Beck was elected in place of Legg. Gibbons was re-elected in 1863; Hess, in 1864; Beck, in 1865, and Gibbons, for a third term, in 1866. Jacob Grau was elected in 1867, in place of Hess; Frederick Fornoff, in 1868, in place of' Beck; Henry L. Siebert, in 1869, in place of Gibbons; W. H. Gayer, in 1870, in place of Grau; John Schneider, in 1871, in place of Fornoff, and John H. Earhart, in 1872, in place of Siebert. SUPERINTENDENTS.—Edward Hedden was retained in his position of superintendent until the fall of 1844, when Dr. C. F. Schenck was appointed. The following is a list of the succeeding superintendents, with the time of their appointment: Joseph MeElvain, 1851; Charles Jucksch, 1852; Joseph McElvain, 1853; Daniel Evans, 1854; Dr. L. J. Moeller, 1857; S. P. MeElvain, 1860; J. J. Funston, 1869, and S. P. lMcElvain, the present superintendent, re-appointed January 1, 1871. PHYSICIANS.—The following is a list of the physicians to the infirmary, appointed since Dr. P. Sisson, so far as the names could be obtained: Drs. C. F. Schenck, — Short, L. J. Moeller, C. E. Denig, C. E. Boyle, Norman Gay, Starling Loving, John Dawson, C. H. W. Mahlmann, Van S. Seltzer, and W. H. Drury, the present physician. By an act of the Legislature, passed March, 1850, the name of 158 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. County Poor-houses " was changed to that of “County Infirmaries." The county commissioners, in 1844, added b purchase an adjoining tract of six acres to the infirmary lot, thus making the latter to consist of eleven aci̊es. On the new purchase the city council erected a city hospital for the reception of persons infected with contagious diseases. It was, however, placed under the care and management of the superintendent of the infirmary. Near this hospital, and fbr a similar purpose, the county commissioners caused to be erected, early in 1872, a frame building costing $1,800. Various improvements, alterations, and additions were made from time to time to the original poor-house building erected in 1839. The most important of the additions was made in 1865, by the erection of the north wing, 37 by 86 feet, under the superintendence of' Samuel Streng, architect. As the county commissioners have purchased a new site, and are erecting thereon a model infirmary building, a more detailed description of' the old site and building would be out of place. INFIRMARY STATISTICS.—The annual report of the infirmaryydirectors for the year ending May 31, 1872, shows that there were in the institution on the 1st of Jane, 1871,171 inmates, and that there had been received during the year 717, making a total of 888. Of this number 39 had died, and 647 had been discharged, leaving 202 in the infirmary on the 1st of June, 1872. Of this latter number, 64 were sane and 19 insane men ; 80 were sane and 28 insane women, and 11 were children. Outside of the infirmary, 257 families, numbering 1,028 inmates, had been relieved. The average number of inmates in the institution during the year was 227, and the average number of' families relieved was 45. All this ha.d been done at an expense of $25,077.21, or an average per week for each one assisted of $1.78. By an act passed April 26, 1872, the directors of an infirmary are required to report to the county commissioners, on the first Monday of March and September in each year, the condition of the infirmary. In compliance with this statute, the directors of our county infirmary made a report on the 1st of September, 1872, for the quarter ending the day preceding. COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICES - 159 By this last report it appears that there were received into the institution during the quarter 115 inmates. This number added to the 202 remaining on the 1st of June, 1872, makes a total of 317. Of this number 3 had died, and 143 had been discharged, leaving 171 remaining September 1, 1872. Of this last number, 30 were insane and 55 sane men; 37 were sane and 37 insane women, and 12 were children. The cost of sustaining the infirmary during the quarter had been $3,656.15. PURCHASE OF A NEW SITE.—On the 1st day of December, 1869, the county commissioners entered an order confirming the purchase from William Neil, for $17,250, of a tract known as the "Flenniken farm," containing one hundred and fifteen acres, for a county infirmary site. It is situated northwest of the city, on the west side of the Olentangy river, at the west end of King avenue, two miles north of the state-house, one mile west of High street, adjoining the corporate limits of the city, and southwest of the Ohio Agricultural College farm. The land is second bottom, sloping eastward. The engraving of the new infirmary in this work is taken from the drawings made by architect Kelly and accepted by the county commissioners. The contract for the erection of the new building has been made with Fornoff, Hess & Miller for $189,279.48. The building is so arranged as to form three different main departments. The first department, which is intended for the administration building, will be fifty feet square, and will contain a main office and other necessary rooms for the officers and the household of the superintendent of the institution. The rooms for the inmates will be found in the second part of the building, accessible from the administration building by proper connections. This structure is three hundred and sixteen feet long, fifty-five feet wide, and has a basement story, eight feet seven inches high, and three stories above, each twelve feet in height. This building is divided into two distinct parts, one to be occupied by the male and the other by the female inmates. These two divisions are entirely separated from each other, so that no communication can be had between them, except through 160 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO the superintendent's office. In connection with the infirmary building will be the necessary outbuildings, conveniently located. The floors of the entire structure are fire-proof, made so by putting in iron joists and brick arches. The two departments occupied by the inmates will have fire-proof stairways, constructed of iron and stone, extending entirely through the three stories, and providing the inmates in the emergency of fire ample access to the outside of the building. The center part of the building, or that part to be occupied by the inmates, will be connected by proper approaches with the chapel building. The third, or chapel building, will be connected by proper approaches with the center part of the building, or that to be occupied by the inmates, and will contain the necessary cellars of' the infirmary. The kitchen, sculleries, bake-room, flour-room, and bread-room will be located in the basement. The kitchen will be thirty by forty-one feet and twelve feet high in the clear. The second story is divided into two dining-rooms, each fifty-five feet in length by nineteen feet six inches in width, and thirteen feet in height in the clear. Connected with the dining-rooms are closets and -wash-rooms. The kitchen is also connected by proper dumb-waiters. The third floor contains the chapel proper, with a gallery and a raised ceiling, showing the construction of the roof. It gives ample room for all the inmates, the floor being sixty-three feet nine inches long by forty feet six inches wide. It will also be used for school purposes on secular days. The entire building will be covered with slate roofing. The architect has exercised special care to have each and every room of the building thoroughly ventilated, for which purpose four large ventilating stacks will be put in the different buildings, and all rooms and halls will have connecting flues with these ventilators. The entire building will be heated by steam, and very probably lighted by gas, which will be manufactured on the premises. ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL. CHAPTER X. CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES. DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS. THIS Catholic diocese, established in March, 1868, comprises that part of the State of Ohio south of north latitude 40̊ 41', and between the Ohio river on the east and the Scioto river on the west, together with the counties of Franklin, Delaware, and Morrow." The Right Reverend Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, D. D., con- 162 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. secrated March 25, 1862, Bishop of Pompeiopolis in partibus infidelium. and Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio was transferred to this city, March 3, 1868, and became the first bishop of the diocese of Columbus. The Vicar-General of the diocese is Very Reverend John Bernard IIemsteger, and the Chancellor, Reverend George Henry Ahrens. There are in the diocese fifty-two churches, twenty-three chapels and stations, forty-six priests, twenty-two clerical Students, one male and four female religious institutions, two female academies, twenty-three parochial schools, and one hospital. The Catholic population of the diocese is 60,000, and of Columbus, its metropolis, 8,000. The following are the chapels in the metropolitan city: Chapel of St, Francis Hospital, located on the southeast corner of Sixth and State streets ; Rev. Bernard Hildebrand, Pastor. Chapel at the Sisters of Notre Dame, located on Rich street, between Fifth and Sixth streets ; attended from Holy Cross Clarch. Chapel of the Academy of St. diary's of the Springs; Rev. O. P. Clarkson, O. P., Pastor. Chapel of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, located near the rest end of Broad street; attended from St. Aloysius Seminary. CATHOLIC CHURCHES. Prior to the year 1833, there was no regular organization of the Catholic Church in Columbus. Services were conducted, at long intervals, by members of the Dominican Convent at Somerset, Perry county. The congregation consisted of laborers on theNational Road,which was in the process of construction, and a few German residents and f'a.rmers living in the vicinity. Word was sent to Catholic families whenever a clergyman of their faith happened to visit the town, and the news was always joyfully received, as a gracious relief' from the religious isolation in which they lived. Services were held, at first, in it hall in the Paul Pry House, on Water street; subsequently they were held at the house of George Studer, on Canal street, between Friend street and Cherry alley. The three buildings CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 163 then used are still standing, and have been handsomely photographed. The small frame was sufficient to accommodate the worshipers at first, but the congregation increased so that it became necessary to use the brick building, and afterward the two-story frame. Services were also held, for a few Sundays, at the residence of John Burke, on South street, between High and Third streets. and at the residence of John McCurtney, on Friend street, between High and Third streets. While the small frame building was occupied, the following persons comprised, according to the data now in existence, the entire congregregation. They constituted the pioneer Catholic fitmilies of' Columbus Michael Reinhard and wife, George Studer and wife, Andrew Murphy and wife, Owen Tierney and wife, J. D. Clarke and wife. Cornelius Jacobs and wife. John Jacobs and with, and the Russell family. The following addition to the congregation rendered necessary the use of the larger building.: John Ender and wife, Clemens Bear and wife, Mr. Sherringer and wife, Mr. Zehnaeher and wife, Joseph Miller and wife, Esedor Frey and wife. John Burke and wife, Mr. Midelwood and wife, Francis Buss and wife, P. Kelly and wife, Mr. Zettler and wife, Mr. Zafiringer and wife, Peter Swartz and wife Henry Lutz and wife. Laurenz Beek and wife, the two Woelfel brothers and their wives, C. Kuhn and wife, and John Ury and wife. During the pastoral care of the Dominican Fathers, the lot on the northeast corner of Rich and Fifth streets, being No. 961 in Samuel Crosby's addition to Columbus, was donated to them in trust by Otis, Phoebe W., Samuel, and Margaret Crosby, and Nathaniel and Caroline E. Medbury, in consideration of"a desire to promote religion and toleration, and the improvement of the town." The condition of the grant or donation was that a. church was " required to be built " on the premises, `,and sufficiently furnished for occupancy, within five years from the date of the deed." The deed was dated May 15, 1833, and was witnessed by Robert Milton and W. T. Martin. Soon after the execution of the deed, the Catholics of Colum- 164 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO bus came under the care of the Right Reverend Bishop John B. Purcell, D. D., now the venerable and worthy Archbishop of Cincinnati. He visited the city in June, 183G, stopping at the National Hotel, kept by Colonel John Noble, where the Neil House now stands. During, his stay Bishop Purcell consulted with the Catholics here as to the building of a church in Columbus. Mr. Stafford, the superintendent of the masonry on the new penitentiary, just then completed. made proposals for building a church of fair dimensions, for the time, of rough limestone. His propositions were accepted, and English and Gorman subscription lists were immediately opened for raising the necessary funds. The following are the names on the first list, dated June, 1836: George Studer, Adam Dick, Adam Luckhaupt, Benedict Huber, John Niebling, Franz Hahn, Jacob Fischer, John Adelsberger, Clemens Bähr, Cornelius Jacobs, Bernhard Burk, William Gröblinghoff, John Kress, Henry Möller. Jacob Schöringer. Franz Fischer, Fidel Kistner, Joseph Satler, George Schaefer, Ludwig Frey, Ignaz Baker, Jacob Wetzel. John Koch, Michael Reinhard, John Reitz, George Moller, Michael J. Reinhard, John D. Briggeman, Adam Zender, Franz Carl Bacher, Mauriz Bissig Stephen Kälin Peter Paul Kählin John Jacobs, Adam Weisbacker, Mauriz Gartner, Ignaz Jörger, Conrad Spang, Joseph Hainss, Joseph Woelfel, John Will, Saver Mattelholz, John L. Slyd, Adam Wagner, Adolph Herman, Francis Buss John Ender, Laurenz Beck, C. Kuhn, John Ury, Owen Turney, J. D. Clark. The names on the second subscription list, dated August, 1836, were these: Augustin Sifert, Herman Steinke, Jakob Vogel, Benedict Lotz, Thadeu, Mittelholz, Joseph Frey, Henry Schlitt, Henry Lotz, John Weaver. MichaeI Buchart, Henry Nadenbonsh, Charles Cross, Brice Helmick, Richard H. Jones. B. McGinness, Joseph Weitgenand. Andrew Volz (or Fols). Margareth Schlumberger, George Stehie. McKnally (probably McAnally). Simon Gutteman. Frederick Heiman. Joseph Müller. Peter Schwartz, Mrs. Russell. Fridolin Schumacher. Wendel Rodel, Philipp Frey, Antoni Werle, Fridolin Mutter. J. B. Backer, Catharine CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 165 Lotz, Mrs. Silley, Joseph Becherer, Widow Schlitt, Joseph Rosenfeld, Dannis Roberts. The Archbishop appointed a building committee, consisting of Cornelius Jacobs, George Studer, Jacob Schoeringer, Charles Cross, and Martin Stafford. The committee organized by electing Mr. Stafford, president; Mr. Cross. secretary, and Mr. Jacobs, treasurer. The stone for the prospective church edifice were furnished by Henry Nadenbusch, at $1.25 per perch. By consent of James Phelan, sand was taken from his bank on the east side of the Scioto river, and hauled by Joseph and Zirach Woeifel. It was not long, however, before the building committee became aware of the fact that the funds at command were insufficient for building a large church. They paid all bills and suspended operations for the present. During the years in which religious services were held at. Mr. Studer's, there was an occasional change to the hall of the House of Representatives, in the old state-house, to the court-house, or to one of the eight buildings on Town street, whenever Bishop Purcell made his visitations. Rev. Fathers Martin, Stahlsmidt, Hoffman; Thienpont, of Logan, Ohio, now the oldest Catholic priest of the diocese; the learned Archbishop Allemane, of San Francisco, and Bishop Henni, of Milwaukee, occasionally visited the city. By order of the Bishop, Rev. Father H. D. Juncker, afterward Bishop of Alton, Illinois, came, in August, 1837, to take the charge here, and build the church, the five yours' limitation named in the deed donating the lot having nearly expired. The good father displayed a commendable energy, and by the aid of' the building committee already appointed, soon had matters in shape for active building operations. All took hold with a will, and a prominent building of rough limestone, fifty feet long by thirty wide, and eighteen feet in height from the ground, with an interior gallery, was, with the exception of the pews, plastering, and painting, completed on the 20th of April, 1838. On the, 29th of the same month, Father Juncker celebrated the first high mass in the new church, assisted by the Rev. Father Badin, a venerable French priest, who preached an English sermon after vespers. 166 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. The plastering, putting in of pews, and the painting of the church were done during the summer of 1838. Church services were then held more frequently than before. By appointment of the bishop, in 1839, Rev. Father J. M. Young, a convert and recently ordained priest, was ordered to take charge of the Columbus church as its pastor, and also to visit Lancaster, Logan, Chillicothe, Circleville, and Waverly. As there was no pastoral residence in this city, he made his headquarters at Lancaster, Father Young died Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, September, 1866. On the 8th of December, 1839, the Most Reverend Archbishop Purcell held, in the new church, the first confirmation in the city, and in the evening delivered a sermon in the Senate chamber in the old state-house. In December, 1840, robbers broke into the church, destroying the crucifix on the altar, and stealing four silver-plated candlesticks, the vestments, a linen cloth and black coat belonging to Father Young. Two years after this robbery, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary confessed that he and his confederates had broken into the church, and that some of the stolen articles were hidden in a hollow tree in the woods, near Alum creek bridge, on the Broad street road. Messrs. Vance, McElvain, and others went in seach of the tree, and, after spending the greater part of a day, they found it, with nearly all the missing articles in an old saddle. Commencing on Sunday, November 21, 1841, and continuing every evening during the following week, Archbishop Purcell delivered lectures in the United States court-house, an engraving of which is in this work, then standing on High street, nearly opposite the site of the present Neil House building. On the 28th of the same month, Father Henni preached in German at the same place. Services were held in the fall and winter of 1842 by Fathers Wertz and GalIinger. Father Young, in 1842, proposed to locate in Columbus, if the congregation would provide him a small house on the south side of the church. This was done at once. Rev. Father William Schonat, on the 25th of February, 1843, CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 167 by order of the bishop, came here to remain during the season of Lent., having just arrived from Silesia, in Germany. After Easter. he announced the approach of the time for his departure from Columbus. The congregation were very desirous that he should remain and become their permanent pastor, as Father Young's work was entirely too heavy, They joined in a petition to the bishop, asking that Father Schonat might remain here as the pastor of the church. Henry Moore, of the stage-line firm of Neil, Moore & Co., sent a private letter to the bishop in support of the petition. In a. few days Mr. Moore received a reply from the bishop, stating that the prayer of the petitioners was granted. So Father William Schonat became the first resident pastor of the Columbus church, and, on the 10th of play, 1843, moved into the house originally built for Father Young. The congregation, even while congratulating themselves on their good fortune, became aware that the church was too small, as their number was rapidly increasing. The result was that in April, 1844, Father Schonat announced the necessity of building a larger church, one that would not in a few years become too small, as the increase of Catholics in Columbus plainly showed the need of providing for the future a large house of worship. Meetings of the congregation were held, and the subject was discussed. In the meantime, November 10, 1845, additional ground was purchased from M. J. and L. T. Gilbert, being lot No. 760, for $600. Besides, on the 8th of June, 1849, a piece of ground, twenty-three feet east and west, and eighteen feet north and south, was bought of A. S. Chew, administrator of the estate of Edward' N. Gregory, for $137. These purchases gave the church lot 125 feet front on Rich street. At a meeting, on the 8th of December, 1844, Father Schonat presiding, the congregation decided to build in the Gothic style of architecture, with a thick stone foundation and a wall of well-burned brick, a plain but substantial church edifice, 115 feet long and 62 wide, exclusive of' the buttresses, and 40 feet in height from the floor to the ceiling; the walls to be supported with cut-stone, and the building to be finished without unnecessary ornamental work. A building committee was appointed, consisting 168 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. of Horace McGuire, John Duffee, Jacob Schoeringer, F. Mutter, Anton Rolling, C. Jacobs, Jacob Sattler, Peter LJry, John F. Zimmer, and George Bnterd. The committee were instructed to cause a plan to be made and submitted to a subsequent meeting of the congregation. This was done, and the plan reported by the committee was adopted. The result was the erection of the present church edifice on the corner of Rich and Fifth streets, known as HOLY CROSS CHURCH. The timber used for the roof of the building was donated by John F. Zimmer and Benedict Luts. As the timber was to be taken off the land of the donors, men offered to do the chopping, and farmers offered their horses and wagons for the hauling. A day was agreed upon, on which to start out at two o'clock in the morning, cut down and hew the timber, and haul it to town in the evening. The day came, the plan was carried out, and the timber brought in at evening was piled on Fifth street. The architect of the new building was Cornelius Jacobs. The masonry and carpenter-work were done by men employed by the day—the foreman of the masons being Joseph Sattler, and of the carpenters, J. Schoeringer and F. Mutter. The building contains 800,000 brick, and its first or original cost was $10,000. Father William Schonat, who is still living in Germany, continued pastor of the congregation until the new church was completed. He was succeeded by Rev. C. H. Borgess, now Bishop of Detroit, who remained about ten years. During his pastorate, the steeple was placed on the church at a cost of about $7,000, and improvements made in the interior of the building, such as painting the walls, a new pulpit, a new St. Mary's altar, and a new organ, which cost $1,400, and the church bells, which cost $1,500. The present worthy pastor. the Very Reverend J. B. Hemsteger, V. G., by order of Archbishop Purcell, took charge of the congregation May 5, 1859. Since that (late, a splendid school-house and a fine pastoral residence have been erected on the church premises. The church is also to have a new main altar very soon. CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 169 The present value of the church property is $95,000. The number of members is 2,100. The following reverend fathers have assisted the present pastor: Francis Karrel, Casper Weise, Jacob Roswiz, Bernard Seling; F. X. Specht, and Chancellor G. H. Ahrens. The officers of the church are: Bro. Peter Daekus, sexton; Cornelius Lang. secretary, and Henry Theado, treasurer. Professor H. J. Nothnagel is the organist for the church. ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH. An organization for the purpose of building the present St. Patrick's Church was formed by Rev. John Furlong, the first regular Irish priest stationed at Columbus. He remained about one year, and was succeeded by Rev. James Meagher, who, through John D. Clark, purchased of Robert Neil, for one thousand dollars, a lot, 187 feet square, on the northeast corner of Seventh and Naghten streets. On this lot, St. Patrick's Church was built by Messrs. Clark & Harding. The corner-stone was laid September 5, 1852, and the church was dedicated September 25, 1853, by Archbishop Purcell. The church edifice has it front 52 feet wide, and a depth of 125 feet. It is built of brick and is Norman in the style of' its architecture. It will comfortably seat a congregation of 800 persons. It contains three neat altars, and has a good organ, with 78 stops. In the rear of the church, and connected with it, is a good substantial brick dwelling, 36 by 43. feet, containing ten rooms, and having large halls, basement, and cellar. It is at present the bishop's house. Father Meagher, assisted by Rev. Edmund D. Flahery, continued pastor of' St. Patrick's congregation till 1857, when he was succeeded by Rev. Edward M. Fitzgerald. The latter was pastor for ten years, or till 1867, when he was created Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was assisted during his pastorate by the following priests in succession: Rev. John Murray, now pastor of St. Mary's, Chillicothe, Ohio; Rev. Joseph Fitzgerald, at present stationed at Lowville, New York; and Rev. F. C. Mallon, now at St. Martin's, Brown county, Ohio. 170 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. Immediately after Bishop Fitzgerald's departure for Little Rock, Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, D. D., consecrated, March 25, 1862, Bishop of Pompeiopolis in partibus inftdeliu?n, and Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, took charge of St. Patrick's congregation as its pastor, and continued as such, for a brief period, until the Diocese of Columbus was established, March 3, 1868, of which he was created the first bishop. He was assisted by Rev. George H. Ahrens, at present chancellor of the diocese, who was succeeded by Father Gouesse, Rev. James Daly, who afterward died in charge of a congregation at Bellaire, Ohio, and Rev. N. A. Gallagher, now president of St. Aloysius Seminary, also assisted for some time. Rev. J. A. Murray is now pastor of the congregation. The number of members is 2,000. The church choir is under the direction of Mr. Pining. The sexton is James O'Donnel. The church property is valued at $40,000. Three important missions have been held in the church since its erection, at each of which over three thousand persons partook of the Holy Communion. ST. MARY'S CHURCH. In the spring of 1865, at a meeting of Holy Cross congregation to consider the propriety of building a Catholic church in the southern part of the city, it was decided to proceed in the first place with the erection of a school-house. The first building committee consisted of Louis Zettler, Peter Hintershidt, John Ranft, Fred. Weber, Frank Wagner, Peter Boehm, and Cornelius Lang. The school-house and improvements cost $9,000. In 1866, the present St. Mary's Church was commenced and the foundations laid. Rev. Father F. X. Specht, who had come to the city to assist at Holy Cross Church, and afterward, if found necessary, to build a new church, was placed in charge of the supervision and management of the new structure. In 1867 the building was put under roof, and was completed the year following at a cost of about $40,000. The new church was dedicated on the 28th of November, 1868. The Right Reverend Bishop Rosecrans officiated, assisted by CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 171 clergymen of adjoining parishes. There were present three societies from Dayton, one from Zanesville, and one from Newark, besides the societies from Holy Cross and St. Patrick's Churches of this city. The church edifice is 62 ½ by 140 feet; 75 feet in height. 60 in the clear, with a gallery, and four convenient rooms in the rear portion. The fresco painting cost $1,925, and was done by Wenzclaus Then and William Lamprecht, of Cincinnati. The main altar is 45 feet high and 20 feet wide. It is of a very beautiful Gothic design and finish, and is the workmanship of Allard Klooter. It cost $2,500. The pulpit and confessional, by the same artist, cost $1,170. They are built of white walnut. The church now seats an audience of 700, and can be made to seat one of 1,000. Father Specht, the present pastor of St. Mary's congregation, was appointed to that office in 1868, by Bishop Rosecrans, at the request of a large number of the members of the congregation. A fine new pastoral residence was built in 1872, at a cost of $6,000. It stands on a lot of 75 feet front, making a total f'on tage of 156 feet on Third street for the church grounds, which extend back to Fourth street. The total value of the church property is $75,000. The number of members is 1,500. The officers of the church are Peter Hintershidt, secretary; Peter Boehm, treasurer; John Berbrich, sexton; and Francis Lauber, organist. The style of the church architecture is Gothic. The architects were Messrs. Blackburn and Koehler. A chime of three bells, procured from Mr. Meneely, of West Troy, New York, was put up in 1870, at a cost of $2,200. . Connected with the church is a school, containing about 120 boys and 110 girls. The principal is John Berhich, and the assistant teachers are Ba.uirs and Bertha Lauber. The school building is of brick, and consists of four rooms, each 60 by 32 feet. CATHEDRAL CHAPEL, Naghten Hall, located on the east side of High street; between State and Town streets, was used, commencing 172 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. in the year 1870, as a chapel for a temporary congregation intending future worship in St. Joseph's Cathedral, then in process of construction on Broad street. It could seat about 500 persons. Connected with the chapel was a small-sized, but finely tuned organ, and a good choir, under the direction of Michael Fahey, who has been connected with choirs in the Catholic churches of the city during the last twenty years. Soon after the organization of the chapel, Father Rocheford assumed its entire charge, and so continued until the spring of 1872, when he became connected with the St. Vincent Ferrers Church, in New York city. The Chapel, until within a few months ago, was in the care of Bishop Rosecrans, assisted by Rev. N. A. Gallagher. The congregation of the Cathedral Chapel are now worshiping at the St. Joseph's Cathedral. ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL. Next to the State-house, the most substantial and imposing edifice in the capital of Ohio is St. Joseph's Cathedral. It is a vast and noble structure, alike creditable to Catholic enterprise and devotion, as well as ornamental to the city. The Cathedral stands on the northwest corner of Broad and Fifth streets. Its site consists of two lots, making a frontage of one hundred and twenty feet on Broad street, with a depth of two hundred feet on Fifth street. These lots were purchased in April, 1866, for thirteen thousand dollars, by Rev. Edward M. Fitzgerald, them pastor of St.. Patrick's Church in this city, now Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas. Plans for a church, one hundred and ninety-three by ninety feet, were drawn by Michael Harding, of this city. A subscription list was opened and liberally signed. Excavations for the foundations were made during the summer of 1866. The corner-stone was laid, with much pomp, on the 11th of November following, the Right Reverend Bishop Rosecrans, then coadjutor to the Most Reverend J. B. Purcell, D. D., Archbishop of Cincinnati, officiating. On this occasion, the Catholic clergy of the city, and of Delaware and Newark, were present. The societies of the churches of Holy Cross and St. Patrick's, with the children of the schools CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 173 and sodalities, with music and banners, made the day one of joyous festivity. In 1867 no work was dome upon the building, Rev. E. H. Fitzgerald, pastor of St. Patrick's, having been called by the lioly Sec to the large diocese of Little Rock. Arkansas. His place here was supplied by the coadjutor bishop to the Most Reverend Dr. Purcell. Papal bulls having arrived in March, 1868, making Columbus an Episcopal See, it was decided that the proposed new church should be the Cathedral, and that it should be built of stone instead of brick, making such changes only in the plan as the change of material might suggest. One. of these changes was the tearing up of the foundation walls, and the laying of one deeper and more solid. Another was the planning of the tower and baptistry on the southwest corner. The main idea in the original plan has, however, been substantially preserved. The chiseling of the sandstone, outside, was suggested by J. G. Hartman, while superintending the workmen on the building, in answer to the bishop's wish for some means of relieving the deadness of a yellow stone wall. The arching of the windows, and the supports of the clear story, carry out the directions of General W. S. Rosecrans, who, in the summer of 1870, spent several days with his brother, the bishop, aiding in the details of the work. Rev. J. A. Murray, now pastor of St. Patrick's, entered fully into the ideas of General Rosecrans, carrying them out with such modifications as the actual construction showed to be necessary. Michael Fahey, of this city, has been, for the last two years, superintendent of the work, which has rapidly progressed under his supervision. The Cathedral is Gothic in the style of its architecture, and the outside work is known as the brouched ashlar. The material of the walls is sandstone, of the kind which, instead of disintegrating, becomes hardened by exposure to the atmosphere. It will last for many hundred years. The stone has been brought from different, quarries, principally from Ila.nover and Clay Lick, in Licking county, a portion from Lancaster, and some from Haydenville, Hocking county. The dimensions of the building are ninety-two feet, fronting 174 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. on Broad street, by one hundred and eighty-five feet on Fifth street. Its capacity, when finished, will be sufficient to seat two thousand two hundred people. There are three main entrances on Broad street, and one on Fifth street. A stairway at the rear, on Fifth street, winds through the turret, to the place for the sacristies. The outside wal]s are forty-two feet in height from the ground level, and thirty-four feet from the floor-line of the building. They are ornamented, at intervals, with stone crosses. The inside, or clear story walls, have an altitude of seventy feet from the ground, and sixty-two feet from the floor. The main walls are between two and three feet in thickness. The inside walls, thirty-six in number, rest on clusters of Gothic columns, placed six in a group, and are surmounted by cornices of white freestone. The windows are cased in freestone. mostly obtained at Lithopolis, Pickaway county. The brackets are cut from Columbus limestone. This is about the only stone in the structure procured at home. Light is thrown into the audience-room from stained glass windows in the lower outside walls, and above the first roof on each side, by similar windows in the clear floor walls. The interior will be finished with grained arches, and the effect can not but be excellent, so far as architectural design and light are concerned. The cost of the edifice, when completed, it is estimated, will not be less than a quarter million of dollars. The massive spire will be two hundred and fifty feet in height, and will, when completed, have ample room for a clock and a chime of bells, with which it is to be furnished. It is a matter of no little surprise and gratification to the Catholics of the city that the building of this splendid cathedral has progressed for the last four years without suspension. The funds have been supplied by subscription, fairs, donations from private persons outside the diocese, collections throughout the diocese, and loans, CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 175 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES. Rev. Philander Chase, afterward Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, about 1817, resigned the position of rector of a parish in Connecticut, and came to Ohio for the purpose of forming churches here, fixing his residence on a farm between Columbus and Worthington. He preached in the Buckeye House, on Broad street, in the then borough or town of Columbus, on the 3d of May, 1817, and performed divine service according to the liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. TRINITY CHURCH, Located east of Capitol Square. Rev. Philander Chase preached in Columbus the second time, on Wednesday, May 7, 1817, After service, an instrument was signed by thirty persons, associating themselves as the " Parish of Trinity Church, Columbus, State of Ohio, in connection with the Protestant Episcopal Church of the.United States of America." The signers were: Orris Parish, Joel Buttles, Benjamin Gardiner, Alfred Upson, Philo H. Olmsted, John Kilbourn, John Warner, Thomas Johnson, John Webster, George W. Williams, Cyrus Fay, Charles V. Hickox, John Callitt, Amasa Delano, Silas Williams, Christopher Ripley, Austin Goodrich, Daniel Smith, Josiah Sabin, Cyrus Allen, Abner Lord, James K. Cary, John C. Brodrick, James Pearce, K. Matthews, Wm. K. Lampson, Cyrus Parker, William Rockwell, A. J. McDowell, Jr., L. Starling. On the 11th of the same month, after preaching and service by the Rev. Mr. Chase, the constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States having been read, was adopted by the parish of Trinity Church. Orris Parish and Benjamin Gardiner were appointed wardens; John Kilbourn and Joel Buttles, vestry-men, and Benjamin Gardiner and Joel But-tics, delegates to a diocesean convention, to be held at Columbus, on the first Monday of January, 1818. The services of the church were subsequently held in several different buildings. Bishop Chase conducted services at Worthington and also at Columbus, when his other duties would permit. Occasionally the assistance of other clergymen was 176 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS OHIO. obtained. Members of the congregation, appointed for the purpose, officiated at times. It is recorded that, on the 16th of September, 1819. Benjamin Gardiner and Cyrus Fad- were appointed ''lay-readers to read the service of the church on each and every Sunday;" and also that, on the 10th of' September, 182,5, Matthew Matthews was appointed ''lay-reader,'' Rev. William Preston was the first regular rector of the parish of Trinity Church. He took charge on Easter Sunday, 1829. in connection with the parish of 8t. John's Church, at Worthington. After the expiration of two years. he took up his residence in Columbus, devoting himself to the care of' the parish exclusively. At the commencement of' his labors here, there were in the parish seventeen communicants and eleven families, The congregation worshiped in a small frame building on a lot on Third street, upon which the Universalist Church now stands. During Rev. Mr. Preston's connection with the parish, the stone church on Broad street was erected on the site now occupied by Peter Hayden's elegant business block. The lot was purchased, in 1830, for $1,000, and the building, which was erected in 1833, cost $10,000. The number of communicants increased in the meantime to 110, and the number of' families to 70. The first record of confirmation bears date September 15, 1830. Of the class of fourteen persons confirmed at that time by the Right Reverend Philander Chase were the following: Justin Morrison; P. B. Wilcox, Abram McDowell, Mrs. McDowell, and Mrs. Wm. Neil. The second confirmation services in the parish were held by the Right Rev. Charles P. Mcllvaine, on the 30th of August, 1833. Among the persons then confirmed were John C. Broderick, John A. Lazelle, Mrs. C. Matthews, Mrs. A. Brooks, and Mrs. Kirby. The first marriage of record in the parish is that of Justin Morrison and Melissa Boardman, solemnized October 20,1831, by Rev. Wm. Preston. The following is a list of the several pastors of the parish to the present time : Rev. William Preston, from 1829 to 1841 ; CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES -177 Rev. Charles Fox, 1841 to 1842; Rev. Alexander F. Dobb, 1842 to 1846; Rev. Dudley A. Tyng, 1847 to 1850; Rev. Wm. Preston, 1850 to 1854; Rev. Charles Reynolds, 1855 to 1858; Rev. G. H. Horton, 1858 to 1859; Rey. Wm. D. Hanson, 1859 to 1860; Rev. Julius B. Grammer, 1861 to 1864; Rev. C. A. L. Richards, 1865 to 1869 ; Rev. Rufus W. Clark, from September 1, 1871, to date. It may be interesting to note the salaries paid some of the rectors. The yearly salary of the Rev. Charles Fox was $600; Rev. A. F. Dobb, $700; Rev. D. A. Tyng, $1,000; Rev. Charles Reynolds, $1,500; Rev. G. H. Norton, $1,600; Rev. J. B. Grammer, same; Rev. C. A. Richards, $2,000. Much apprehension was felt, in 1854, on account of the decayed state of some of the timbers on the spire of' the stone church, and the vestry appointed John Burr and S. B. Fay to make an examination. The result was the removal of the spire, and the sale of the bell to the school board. The bell was placed on the high-school building on State street, where, after being in use for some time, it was cracked and its beautiful tone ruined. The first attempt to build a church in place of the stone edifice, on Broad street, was made in 1853 with but little success. The second attempt was made in 1855, when the "Work lot," on the southeast corner of Broad and Sixth streets, was purchased for $8,000. The lot had a front of 99 feet on Broad street, and extended south to Oak street. The foundation for a church superstructure was laid on this lot in 1856; but at that point the work was suspended. In 1859, 200 feet in depth off the north or front side of the lot was sold to the Columbus board of education for $8,820. On this ground the board subsequently erected the present high-school building. The remainder of the "Work lot" was sold, in November, 1862, for $2,500, to Governor Dennison, of whom was purchased, for $7,500, the lot, 75 by 187½ feet, on the southeast corner of Broad and Third streets. Dr. John Andrews purchased, in 1863, for $10,000, the Broad street stone church, ' around which had clustered so many pleasant recollections." The foundation of the present beautiful church edifice, on the corner of Broad and Third streets, was laid in 1866, under the 178 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. direction of Wm. A. Platt, Francis Collins, and Win. G. Deshler, building committee; Gardner W. Lloyd, of Detroit, architect, and Wm. Fish, superintendent. In the spring of 1867, Messrs, Platt, Collins, and Deshler having resigned, Charles J. Wetmore, James G. Mitchell, and Samuel McClelland were appointed the building committee. Commencing with the foundation, they prosecuted the work to its completion. The chapel will seat about 250 persons, and the audience-room of the church about 800. The cost of the lot and building was about $70,000. The new building is Gothic in its style of architecture, and is in the shape of a cross. It is built of sandstone brought from the vicinity of Newark. It is finished inside with white walnut and ash, in a chaste and beautiful manner, and furnished in modern style. The building is completed, with the exception of the tower and spire, and even now presents a handsome appearance. When fully completed, it will be one of the most admired and imposing church edifices in the West. The tower and spire will probably cost from $10,000 to $12,000. Divine service was held in the chapel for the first time on the first Sunday in December, 1867, and the congregation took possession of the main building about the 1st of April following. The following are the present officers of the parish: Rev. Rufus W. Clark, Rector; Rev. Charles M. Sturgis, AssistantMinister; H. P. Smythe, Senior Warden ; Aug. N. Whiting, Junior Warden ; James A. Wilcox, Secretary; Charles J. Hardy, Treasurer. The Vestrymen are: John W. Andrew's, Wm. Dennison, W. G. Deshler, E. L. Hinman, Joseph R. Swan, Charles J. Wetmore, James A. Wilcox, and P. Collins. The number of families in the parish is 300; communicants, 290 ; Sunday-school pupils and teachers, 300, Superintendent of Sunday-school, Capt. Robert S. Smith ; secretary of same, J. Finley Brown. ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The erection of the edifice of this church, on the southeast corner of Mound and Third streets, was commenced in the fall of 1841, by laying the foundation. Three years afterward the entire building was finished and occupied. CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 179 Articles of association for the formation of a parish of the Protestant: Episcopal Church in the southern part of the city of Columbus having been signed. a meeting of the signers was held on the first day of December. 1812, at which Rev. H. L. Richards presided, and F. J. Matthews officiated as secretary. The name of the church for such parish was fixed as St. Paul's Church. The following officers were then elected : A. Buttles, Senior Warden ; J. N. Whiting, Junior Warden ; Henry Matthews, Moses Altman, John Burr, and Herman M. Hubbard, vestrymen. The church edifice having been inclosed, the basement finished, and the parish organized, Rev. Henry L. Richards, the first rector of the parish, commenced the services of the church on the first Sunday in Advent, 1842. The parish record states that at a meeting of the parish, at the church, on Easter Monday, April 24, 1848, a communication from the Rev. H. L. Richards, resigning the charge of the parish, was read by Dr. Case, and, on motion, was laid on the table, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Case, McDowell, and Gilbert, was appointed, to make certain inquiries respecting it, and report at the next meeting of the vestry, to be held at the house of Mr. Whiting on the Thursday evening following. The record contains nothing further on the subject. The Rev. H. L. Richards was succeeded, in July, 1848, by the Rev. Alfred M. Loutrel, and the latter, in 1851, by the Rev. Thomas V. Tyler, who remained only a few months. The Rev. W. Norman Irish became rector of the parish, and entered upon service as such on the 1st of September, 1852. He resigned in the summer of 1855, and the Rev. E. B. Kellogg officiated in the church for some months. The Rev. I. A. M. La Tourette, having been elected rector, Commenced service in 1856, on the first Sunday after Ascension Day. He was succeeded in March, 1858, by the Rev. James L. Grover, who continued rector until June 25, 1862. The Rev. George Seabury, the next rector, commenced service, September 20, 1864, and resigned in January, 1867. He was succeeded in September, 1867, by the Rev. C. C. Tate, who continued rector until the latter part of Novem- 180 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. ber, 1872, when he removed to the diocese of Indiana. The Rev. C. If. Kellogg is at present rector of the church. TRIAL OF REV. COLIN C. TATE. An ecclesiastical court, for the trial of Rev. Colin C. Tate, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in this city, convened at Trinity Church, October 20. 1860. The court was composed of Rev. Lewis Burton, D. D., of Cleveland ; Rev. J. Maxwell, of Youngstown ; R.ev. William Bowen. of Newark ; Rev. E. C Benson, of Gambier; and Rev. N. R. High, of Toledo. The charges against Mr. Tate were, in brief, that he had a choir of boys, dressed in white surplices, whom he permitted to sing while coming into and going out of the church. The prosecution was represented by Rev. Samuel Clemens, church advocate; Judge J. R. Swan, of Columbus; Judge Jones. of Delaware ; and General Mitchell, of Columbus. The defense was represented by Rev. Dr. Thrall, of Massachusetts ; Rev. A. H. Washburne, of Cleveland ; Judge Otis, of Chicago ; and Thomas Sparrow, of Columbus. The defense entered a plea to the jurisdiction of the court. The question was elaborately argued on both sides. On the fourth day of the session, the president announced that the court was equally divided on the plea to the jurisdiction, but that he should sustain the plea by his casting vote. So the court was dissolved in the same manner as a preceding one had been, which was convened for the same purpose. The officers of the parish arc: R. G. Hanford, Senior Warden; L. G. Kilbourne, Junior Warden; L. Kilbourne, W. T. Williams, and F. J. Williams, Vestrymen. The leaders of the Sunday-school are: R. G. Hanford and L. G. Kilbourne. There are about eighty members connected with this church. Sunday-school pupils and teachers, fifty. GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH, Located northeast corner of Third and Russell streets. The Church of the Good Shepherd has been organized but a few years; it is a mission of' the Trinity Episcopal congregation. The building is of brick and cost $5,300, including the cost of CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 181 the lot. The style of architecture is Gothic; the capacity of the church is for two hundred and fifty persons. The Sunday-school numbers one hundred and sixty-five pupils, with twenty-two teachers. Rev. Charles M. Sturges, assistant rector of Trinity Church, has charge of the mission; Augustus N. Whiting is superintendent of the Sunday-school. Officers of the church, the vestry of Trinity Church. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHES. From the "Records of the Methodist Church, in the town of Columbus, Franklin county, State of Ohio," we learn that at "a meeting of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the 20th day of December, 1813—present the Rev. Samuel West, assistant preacher on the Delaware circuit—George McCormick, Peter Grubb, Jacob Grubb, John Brickle, and George B. Harvey were duly appointed 'Trustees for the Methodist Church in this town.'" On Friday, January 22, 1814, the trustees elected George McCormick, president; Jacob Grubb, secretary, and John Brickle, treasurer. It was about this time that the first Methodist Church or class was formed in Columbus, by the Rev. Samuel West. The class at first consisted of only four members—George McCormick, George B. Harvey, Mrs. George McCormick, and Miss Jane Armstrong, who soon afterward became Mrs. George B. Harvey. The next member admitted was Moses Freeman, a colored man, who left some eight or ten years afterward for Liberia, in Africa, where, it was reported, he died not long after his arrival. The original proprietors of Columbus, in 1814, donated and conveyed the lot on which the Town Street Church now stands, to George McCormick, Peter Grubb, Jacob Grubb, John Brick-ell, and George B. Harvey, trustees, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Church of Columbus. At a meeting of the trustees, June 26, 1814, 11 it was recommended to draw a subscription paper for the purpose of building a meeting-house on the lot." At another meeting, July 8, 1815, " bills for materials for the meeting-house were examined, amounting to $157.532." This house was a small hewed-log building. We find the trustees, September 29, 1817, appointing 182 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. George McCormick and John Cutler a committee 'to have the meeting-house chinked, daubed, and underpinned, and to appoint a suitable person to keep it in order." The building was used for some years as a school-house, as well as a place of worship. Here William T. Martin, long and familiarly known as "Esquire Martin," taught his first school in Columbus, beginning in 1815. The trustees, on the 14th of April, 1818, appointed “Jacob Grubb and John Martin a committee to draw up a subscription paper and receive the money subscribed," to enlarge the meeting-house. On the 18th of May following, George McCormick was appointed to superintend the enlargement, and have it completed as soon as possible, "by cutting out one side of the old house and adding a frame of 30 feet, making the whole building 50 feet, and have the whole weather-boarded, and finished inside." September 7,1818, Michael Patton presented to the trustees his bill for $360, for finishing the meeting-house, which was allowed. Some time about 1823, the colored members of the Town Street society, separated from their white brethren, and formed a society of their own. They met for wors hip in rented rooms, until 1839 or 1840, when they erected a brick church on Long street. Jacob Grubb, Nathaniel McLean, and Henry Matthews having been I appointed by the quarterly conference a committee to procure subscriptions to build a new meeting-house in Columbus, presented the same" to the trustees, April 13, 1825, with $1,300 subscribed. The trustees then ' resolved that it was expedient to build the house of brick, 60 feet long and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient height to admit of a gallery." Joseph Booth and George McCormick were appointed to superintend the building of the house. The old wooden structures were removed from the lot on Town street, and a good brick building erected on the same site. The new edifice was not, however, finished for several years, though it was constantly used as a house of worship. The following is a list of the circuit preachers who officiated in Columbus prior to 1831, with the years in which they were severally appointed: CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 183 1814, Samuel West; 1815, Isaac Pavey; 1816, Jacob Hooper; 1817, William Swayze and Simon Peters; 1818, William Swayze and Lemuel Lane; 1819, John Tevis and Leroy Swormsted; 1820, John Tevis and Peter Stevens; 1821, Russell Bigelow and Horace Brown; 1822, Russell Bigelow and Thomas McCleary; 1823, Charles Waddle and H. S. Fernandes; 1824, Charles Waddle and Alfred Lorain; 1825, Leroy Swormsted and Joseph Carper; 1826, Joseph Carper and John H. Power; 1827, Samuel Hamilton and Jacob Young; 1828, Samuel Hamilton and Jesse F. Wixom; 1829, Leroy Swormsted and G. Blue; 1830, John W. Clark and Adam Poe. TOWN STREET CHURCH. The Town Street Church was organized as a station in 1830. Rev. Thomas A. Morris, afterward Bishop Morris, was appointed to its charge. During the year of his service, a great revival took place, in which Rev. Joseph M. Trimble, then on the Chillicothe circuit, assisted. In five or six days about ninety were added to the church. The membership was doubled during the year. At its close, the number of members was reported at three hundred and twenty. At this time the church building was unfinished. The walls were not plastered; square pieces of timber were placed on the floor, with boards laid across for seats. Rev. Robert O. Spencer was appointed to the station in 1831, and Rev. Russell Bigelow in 1832. Mr. Bigelow is remembered as an eloquent and remarkable man. Bigelow Chapel was subsequently named as a memorial of him. At the end of his year, he reported the number of members at three hundred and twenty-four. After leaving the station, he became chaplain of the Penitentiary. Edmund W. Sehon was appointed to the station in 1834 and 1835, with Rev. L. L. Hamlin; Rev. Joseph Carper, in 1836; Rev. Joseph A. Waterman, in 1837; Rev. Wi1lidm Herr, in 1838 and 1839, and Rev. Joseph M. Trimble, in 1840 and in 1841. There was a remarkable revival during Mr. Trimble's term, at the end of which lie reported a membership of four hundred and fifty. Rev. David Whitcomb was appointed in 184 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. 1842; Revs. John Miley and Abram B. Wambaugh, in 1843; Rev. John Miley, in 1844, and Rev. Granville Moody, in 1845 and 1846. At the end of his term Mr. Moody reported six hundred members. At this time Wesley Chapel, the first outgrowth of the parent stem on Town street, was formed. Rev. Cyrus Brooks was appointed to the Town Street station in 1847 and in 1848; Rev. Duval Warnock, in 1849 and 1850 ; Rev. Clinton W. Sears, in 1851, and Rev. Joseph A. Brown, in 1852 and 1853. During Mr. Brown's term, the present Town Street Church edifice was commenced and nearly completed. Bigelow Chapel Society was organized during the same period, taking a goodly colony from the Town Street organization. While the new church building was in progress, the audience-room being the largest then in the city, was used for a great "anti-Nebraska" meeting. As the immense crowd was rushing out of the building, the stairs gave way, causing a great panic, and seriously injuring one man, a State Senator from Belmont county. Rev. John W. White was appointed to the station in 1854 and in 1855 ; Rev. James M. Jamison, in 1856 and in 1857; Rev. B. N. Spahr, in 1858 and 1859 ; and Rev. Joseph M. Trimble, in 1860 and 1861. Christie Chapel Church was organized at this period, chiefly by members of the Town Street Church. The Town Street Church edifice was now finished, and, after undergoing a cloud of financial embarrassment, the debt of the society was canceled. Rev. Daniel D. Mather was appointed to the Town Street charge in 1862 and in 1863; Rev, C. A. Van Anda, in 1864, 1865, and 1866; Rev. W. H. Scott, in 1867; Rev. Earl Cranston, in 1868; Rev. B. N. Spahr, the present presiding elder, in 1869 and 1870, and Rev. C. A. Van Anda, the present preacher in charge, in 1871 and in 1872. The present local preachers are Revs. George Weaver and Philip Polley. The Town Street Church property includes a comfortable CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 185 parsonage and a substantial and attractive church edifice, embracing the modern conveniences. This church has supplied the basis of membership of nearly all the Methodist churches in the city. The trustees of the Town Street Church are: George Bellows, C. C. Bellows, T. W. Carpenter, M. W. Bliss, C. S. Glenn, J. C. S. Miller, O. S. Reed, P. E. Twigg, Lewis Walton. Rev. C. A. Van Anda is ex-officio chairman of the board; M. W. Bliss, secretary, and C. S. Glenn, treasurer. The board of stewarts are: J. M. Shade, Charles Bellows, George Bellows, M. W. Bliss, Henry Louis, Homer C. Lewis, Lewis Walton, and Joseph Fitzwater. The Sunday-school connected with the Town Street Methodist Episcopal Church numbers three hundred pupils. Lewis Walton is the superintendent. WESLEY M. E. CHURCH. Location, on High, between Gay and Long streets. This society was organized in 1848, by it division of the Town Street M. E. Church, the Rev. George C.',Crum taking with him, for the purpose of forming a new organization, to be called the Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, one hundred and ninety members. The society erected their new church building the same year, under the supervision of the Rev. Granville Moody, then pastor of the Town Street M. E. Church. The church was dedicated in the fall of 1848, during the session of the Ohio annual conference, by Bishop E. S. Janes. Wesley Chapel M. E. Church has been served by the following pastors, in the order given: Revs. George C. Crum, William Lander, John W. Weakley, John Leavith, J. L. Grover, John Frazer, William Porlen, George Brush, George Mather, J. M. Trimble, C. E. Felton, J. Crook, D. H. Moore, and S. A. Keene, pastor now in charge, who was appointed October, 1872. This church has also been served by the presiding elders, in the order given: Revs. Robert Spencer, John T. Clark, L. Con- 186 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. nell, J. M. Trimble, D. D., George Brush, C. A. Van Anda, and B. N. Spahr. During the pastorate of Rev. C. E. Felton, the church edifice was greatly improved at a. cost of $28,000, and during the pastorate of Rev. D. H. Moore, the church membership was very much increased. The church membership numbers at present four hundred and fifty, and the Sunday-school pupils number three hundred and fifty, with forty officers and teachers. The value of the church property is $58,000. STEWARDS.—Jonas Rudisill, J. F. Kelley, H. F. Booth, M. Gooding, Emory Huff, J. F. Bartlitt, Geo. W. Manypenny, Andrew Gardner, Jr., and Chester Mattoon. TRUSTEES.—Ezra Booth, Thomas Walker, L. J. Critchfield, James A. Aston, A. D. Huff, T. W. Tallmadge, J. R. Webster, and D. S. Gray. W. C. Tremain and W. R. Walker, superintendents of the Sunday-school. BIGELOW M. E. CIIURCIi. In May, 1853, an M. E. Mission Sunday-school was organized in a room over Wm. F. Knoderer's wagon-shop, on the corner of Fourth and Friend streets, of which Joseph Fitzwater was chosen superintendent. The teachers and pupils at the opening numbered thirty-five. It was organized by the M. E. Quarterly Conference, held at the M. E. Town Street Church. Preaching was instituted in the Sunday-school room, Rev. J. A. Bruner, pastor of the Town Street Church, and his assistant, a young man, Rev. A. B. Mabee, preaching alternately at that room and at the City Hall, over the market-house. The last quarterly conference, at the Town Street Church, for 1853, asked the Ohio Conference, held at Lancaster, to station a missionary at the point where the Sunday-school above named was in operation. This request was granted, and Rev. A. B. Mabee was appointed to the work. In November, 1853, the organization of a church was effected. Elijah Grover, A. Cooper, N. Gibbons, M. Hulm, J. Fell, J. Whitzell, and B. Barnes were chosen trustees, and Joseph Fitzwater, superintendent of the Sunday-school CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 187 Measures were immediately taken to raise by subscription the necessary funds for building a chapel. This was effected in the following spring, and in July, 1854, Bishop Morris dedicated a neat little frame building, on the corner of Friend street and Straight alley, as a chapel. The building cost about $3,000, and the site $1,200. The society grew, and in the fall of 1859, found their house of worship too small. The Second Presbyterian congregation being about to remove their place of worship, from their church edifice on the west side of Third street, between Rich and Friend streets, to their new building on east side of Third, between State and Town streets, an exchange was made—the_ Methodists worshiping in the frame chapel taking the church building the Presbyterians were about to leave, and agreeing to give the latter five thousand dollars, and the chapel property, which was considered worth another five thousand, making the cost of the Presbyterian building and site ten thousand dollars. In November, 1859, the Bigelow Chapel society entered upon the occupation of the property purchased. The society continued to prosper, and in 1864 numbered about four hundred members. But on the 9th of November, 1869, the church edifice was unfortunately destroyed by fire. It was, however, immediately rebuilt. The basement and lecture-room were occupied the following February. December 18, 1870, the building having been finished, was dedicated by Dr. Reed, of Chicago. The reconstructed edifice cost nearly thirteen thousand dollars. It was built under the supervision of George Bellows, as architect. It will comfortably seat about six hundred persons. As a neat plain church, it is one of the best in the city. It stands on a lot having a front of ninety feet on Third street, and a depth of one hundred feet. The building and lot are valued at $25,000. The society, in 1869, built a parsonage on an adjoining lot.. This building and lot cost $3,500. It is proper to add that the society is now free from debt.. The following is a list of'the successive pastors of the society: Rev. C. Mabee, for one year; J. H. Creighton, one year; T. Lee, two years ; L. Taft, two years ; T. H. Phillips, two years; A. B. Lee, two years; A. G. Byers, fourteen months; D. H. Moore, 188 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. ten months; J. T. Miller, one year; D. Harlocker, two years; J. W. White, three years. Rev. J. H. Gardner, the present pastor, is serving his second year. The present officers of the, society are: Trustees, G. S. Innis, A. Cooper, Wm. F. Knoderer, D. R. Rockey, L. H. Wood, E. H. Link, Louis Siebert. Board of Stewards: Henry O'Kane, S. Bevelheimer, E. H. Link, Jacob Kilzer, John Britel, Henry Shornton, W. H. Slack, Wm. F. Knoderer. The leader of the choir is Henry O'Kane, who is also superintendent of the Sunday-school, assisted by E. H. Link. The number in attendance at the school is three hundred. GERMAN M. E. CHURCH. This society dates its organization as far back as 1843. at which time services were held for about one year in the old engine-house belonging to the city, located at that time on the south side of Mound street, where the new county jail now stands. During this time, the congregation were laboring very energetically to complete a good-sized brick building located where the present beautiful new church stands. In the year 1844, they took possession of their new building, in which they continued up to 1871, when the society found it very necessary, owing to the increase of membership, to have a larger church building. Several attempts to build a new church had been previously made by pastors in charge of the society, which failed to meet with success. The present pastor, Rev. L. Allinger, soon after he took charge of the congregation, in 1871, made an effort in the same direction, and with success, for which he deserves great credit, The erection of the new church was commenced in April, 1871, and dedicated on Sunday, September 8, 1872. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Pershing, president of the Pittsburg Female College. In the afternoon, Rev. Dr. Nast, author of Nast's Commentaries, preached in both German and English. The evening services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Lobenstein, of Berea College. The interior of the building is neatly finished, and will conviently accommodate five or six hundred persons. The congre- CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 189 gation has had a neat tower erected on the building, in which they have placed a bell. The style of the church is Romanesque. Dimensions, 75 by 45 feet. The size of the main audience-room is 63 by 41 feet, with a gallery entered from the vestibule. The society membership numbers 125, and the Sunday-school numbers 130 pupils. The officers of the church at present are : Rev. L. Allinger, pastor ; Christian Eilber, superintendent of Sunday-school. TRUSTEES.—Daniel Weir, Charles Frank, John Lauterbach, Christian Eilber, John Beuerle, August Young, and Ernst Reinkens. STEWARDS.—Charles Frank, John Lauterbach, Jacob Rapp, Christian Eilber, John Beuerle, August Seel, Joseph Kohn, and Ernst Reinkens. CHRISTIE M. E. CHAPEL. This society was originally organized in the fall of 1860, under the ministration of Rev. E. W. Kirkham, by members principally from the Town Street 31. F. Church. The new society met for worship in a small school-house on John street, near Hunt's Corners. In 1861, the present brick church edifice was erected on Cleveland avenue or Eighth street, at or near the intersection of Spring street extended. Rev. T. W. Stanley was pastor of the congregation at the time the church building was erected, and retained that position two years. The successive pastors were: Revs. Ancil Brooks, for two years; J. F. King, one year; E. H. Heagler, three years ; J. M. Jamison, two years. The present pastor is the Rev. G. W. Burns, who took the oversight of the society in the fall of 1871. Christie Chapel was at first organized as a mission. It is now on the mission list, but is not so largely aided as in the first years of its existence. In the spring of 1871, under the administration of the present pastor, the church edifice was repaired and papered, so as to give the interior a new and inviting appearance. The building will comfortably seat about two hundred persons. The society of Christie Chapel consists of about one hundred members. There is a Sunday-school connected with the society 190 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. of about one hundred pupils. Thomas F. Griffin isthe superintendent of the school. BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—John Matthews, Matt. Roland, F. S. Keller, J. Evans, John V incoe, Reuben McClary, Evan Fennel. BOARD OF STEWARDS.—S. G. Tracy, Fred. Weaden, Jonathan Fennel, J. Evans, Wm. Davis, T. F. Griffin, THIRD AVENUE M. E. CHURCH. The Third Avenue M. E. Church is an outgrowth from a Sabbath-school organized by R. P. Woodruff. in a school-house on Second avenue, in the Fear 1865 or 1866. The first preaching Was in 1867, by Rev. A. G. Byers, while chaplain at the Ohio Penitentiary. The first pastor appointed by the conference was Rev. L. Taft, in the fall of 1868. The society then had a membership of seventeen ; and the Methodist Missionary Society of the city had bought a fine site for a church on the corner of Third avenue and High streets, on the rear part of which the present church was erected in the fall of 1868, at an expense of about $2,500. In the fall of 1870, the number of members was eighty, when Rev. J. B. Bradrick was appointed pastor. During his pastorate the church lot was cleared of debt, and in the fall of 1871, Rev. H. K. Foster became pastor, whose service was brief, the Rev. J. L. Grover filling out the year. In the fall of 1872, Rev. R. H. Wallace, the present pastor, was appointed by the conference. The present membership is one hundred and fifteen, with Sabbath-school numbering one hundred and sixty pupils, the pastor acting as superintendent. Trustees: Luther Hiliary, president; J. R. Hughs, treasurer, and C. D. Firestone, secretary. THE WELCH CALVINISTIC METHODIST, OR WELCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This church, worshiping on the southwest corner of Long and Fifth streets, was organized in 1849, by Rev. John T. Williams, of Pomeroy', Ohio. At its origin the number of members was twenty-eight. Their minister was Rev. William Parry, of CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 191 Granville, Ohio. The first officers of the church were Edward Herbert and Evan Reynolds. The first meetings were held in a small frame building, on the lot on the northwest corner of Long and Fourth streets, on which now stands the residence of Dr. J. W. Hamilton. Among the members of the church in its early history, were William Benbow, Daniel S. Jones, Royer Reynolds, Noah Bowen, and Thomas Rowland. The church was received, May 30, 1850, into the Presbytery, at Newark, Ohio. During that year, the church edifice, on the southwest corner of Long and Fifth streets, was built. In this enterprise, the congregation was greatly assisted, among others, by Richard Jones, druggist, and David Price. It was not till 1855 that the church had a stated minister. Rev. David Williams then became the pastor, and remained till 1858, when he was succeeded by Rev. William Parry, of Granville ; Joseph E. Davis, of Newark; Hugh Roberts, of Radnor, Delaware county, Ohio, and Evan R. Jones, who is still a local preacher in the church. Rev. R. H. Evans was called to the pastorate in October, 1860, and remained until March; 1869. At the latter date the church numbered eighty-five members, and the building had been considerably enlarged. After Mr. Evans left, the pulpit was supplied for about a year by ministers from neighboring churches. December 21, 1869, a unanimous call was given to the present pastor, Rev. David Harries, of Ironton, Ohio, who accepted the call, and entered upon his pastoral labors on the first Sabbath of March 1870. On the 11th of that month lie was duly installed. The charge to the church was given by Rev. E. T. Evans, of Newark; and that to the pastor, by Rev. Howell Powell, of Cincinnati, now of New York. The church, at the time the call was extended to its present pastor; numbered eighty-seven members; it now, December, 1872, numbers one hundred and for-seven. It has a Sabbath-school of two hundred, and a Band of Hope " (temperance) including one hundred and fifty-six members. The present officers of the church are: Rev. David Harries, pastor; Evan R. Jones, local preacher; R. C. Williams, secretary; D. S. Jones, treasurer. The deacons are: David S. Jones, 192 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. Thomas H. Jones, Maurice R. Williams, Daniel S. Morgan, R. i. Williams. The trustees are: Maurice R. Williams, D. S. Jones, Thomas R. Jones, D. J. Benbow, John W. Hughes. Superintendent of Sabbath-school, D. J. Benbow; secretary of same, Thomas Williams. NEIL M. E. CHAPEL. The society worshiping at Neil Chapel was organized in November, 1871, by four persons—Ephraim Webb, John Walker, George Loop, and Lydia Walker—assembled in a small room in Joseph Walker's house. During the next month, this room becoming too small, the society obtained from John Walker the use of a barn, thirty-two feet square. It was fitted up and made to accommodate the congregation, which worshiped in it from the 20th of December, 1871, till the latter part of last October. During this time, about eighty members were added to the church. Two lots, valued at $1,600, having been donated to the society by Robert E. Neil, the erection of a brick church edifice, 40 by 65 feet, and two stories high, was commenced last June, estimated to be worth, when completed, $9,000. By the 1st of last November, the lecture-room and two class-rooms, in the lower story, had been finished and dedicated. The society is now in a flourishing condition; having about eighty members, and a Sunday-school of one hundred and thirty children and youth.. Thus, in one short year, this society grew up, and a good church building was erected under the patronage and superintendence of Rev. E. Horlocker. It bids fair to become one of the prominent M. E. charges of the city. TRUSTEES.—John F. Bartlitt, Ephraim Webb, J. M. Walker, John Loop, Geo. W. Loop, and John Walker, Jr. STEWARDS.—John M. Walker, Ephraim Webb, David Mulholland, T. E. Taylor, and Edward Fisher. ST. PAUL'S A. M. F. CHURCH. This church is the successor of the Bethel M. E. Church, or rather, it is the same society with the name changed. About the year 1823, the colored members of the Town Street M. E. congregation separated from the whites, and formed a society of their own. They held their meetings in private room CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 193 until a frame building for their use was erected on Straight alley. This was occupied until 1844, when a brick church edifice was built on East Long, near Fourth street. The first board of trustees of Bethel Church were Richard Butcher, Sen., Richard Butcher, Jr., Joseph Harris, James Bland, Hanson Johnson, Allen Brown, and Edward Smith. The first stewards were Anthony Barrett, B. J. Roberts, and A. M. Taylor. Of all these, Hanson Johnson is the only survivor. The old Bethel Church building having become the property of the Shiloh Baptist Church, the new St. Paul's African M. E. Church edifice was erected, in 1871-72, on a lot, 62½ by 187½ feet, on the north side of Long street, and nearly opposite the old Bethel Church building. It is one hundred feet long by fifty-four wide. The first story is occupied by the Sunday-school. One of the rooms, at the side of the alcove, is fitted up for the pastor's study. The audience-room above is of the full size of the building, and will comfortably seat from seven to eight hundred persons. The total cost of the church property was a little over twenty thousand dollars. It is estimated to be worth a third more. The church edifice was dedicated on Sunday, July 21, 1872, Bishop Payne officiating, assisted by Rev. Philip Tolliver, of Chillicothe. The bishop preached the dedicatory sermon, taking his text from 1 Kings, ix: 3. A sermon was delivered in the church in the afternoon by Rev. R. A. Johnson, of Cincinnati, and a discourse in the evening by Rev. C. A. Van Anda, of Town Street M. E. Church, in this city. The Sunday-school connected with the church numbers one hundred and twenty pupils and has eighteen teachers. The superintendent is David Stanton. The school library contains six hundred volumes. The church has an organ, and a choir led by Alfred Roberts. Rev. J. P. Underwood is pastor of the church. There are at present connected with the church 276 members. The trustees of the church are James S. Waring, C. A. Woodward, Jabez Jones, Alexander Broadis, Richard Upthegrove, T. J. Washington, J. S. Tyler, Richard M. Scott, and Thos. J. Williamson. BOARD OF STEWARDS.—Walker Ewing, Anderson Ewing, J. 194 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. B. Stewart (recording secretary,) Alfred Roberts, Samuel Monmouth, Robert Day, Jr., and Jefferson T. Williams. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES. THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This church originated in Franklinton. Its first pastor was the Rev. James Hoge, afterward known as Dr. Hoge. He was born in Hardy county, Virginia, July 4, 1784, and, on the 17th of April, 1805, was licensed to preach by the Lexington Presbytery of Virginia. Having obtained from the Presbyterian General Assembly an appointment as itinerant missionary in Ohio, Mr. Hoge arrived in Franklinton, November, 1805, in company with the supreme judges who were about to open in that town the first term of the Supreme Court ever held in Franklin county. The court was held in a room in the house of John Overdier, a two-story frame building, which stood about two hundred yards north of the site of the county courthouse erected in 1807-8. The judges tendered Mr. Hoge the use of the court-room for preaching, and adjourned court to hear his sermon. Mr. Hoge continued his missionary labors, and, on the 8th of February, 1806, a Presbyterian church was organized in Franklinton. On the Sunday following, the sacrament of the Lord's supper was administered to thirteen members. The congregation, September 25, 1807, extended to Mr. Hoge a formal call to become their pastor. It was in the handwriting of Lucas Sullivant, and was signed by Robert Culbertson and William Reed, as elders, and by Joseph Dixon, John Dill, David Nelson, William Domigan, Joseph Hunter, and Lucas Sullivant, as trustees. In that document the young pastor was promised an annual salary of three hundred dollars, in half-yearly payments for three-fourths of his time, until the congregation should find itself able to compensate him at the same rate for his whole time. Principally through the instrumentality of Lucas Sullivant, a plain one-story brick building was erected, in 1812, for a place of public worship; but before its completion, it was taken possession of by the military stationed in the town. During it violent tornado, in March, 1813, it was blown down. CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 195 In 1815, another brick building was erected on the bank of the river, for the use of the congregation. In the spring of 1814, a log cabin, twenty-five by thirty feet, was built for religious services, on a lot belonging to Mr. Hoge, near the present intersection of Third and Spring streets, in Columbus. Until 1818, the meetings of the congregation were held, from time to time, both in Franklinton and Columbus, though principally in the former place. As the greater portion of the congregation resided on the Columbus side of the Scioto, a frame meeting-house was erected, in the spring of 1818, on a lot donated for the purpose, at the junction of Town and Front streets. It was afterward known as the " Trinity in Unity," being composed of three structures capable of being separated. The sale of seats amounted to $1,796.50, the highest priced pew selling for forty dollars. In 1821, the congregation was regularly organized as the First Presbyterian Congregation of Columbus. The salary of the pastor, Mr. Hoge, was increased, in 1823, to eight hundred dollars. The present church building, on the southwest corner of State and Third streets, was erected in 1830. Two years afterward, Dr. loge's salary was increased to one thousand dollars. Extensive alterations were made in the church building, about twenty years after its erection, by which it was greatly improved. The cost of these improvements was at first estimated at four thousand dollars; but when the work was done, it had cost twenty thousand. The church and congregation, February 8, 1856, held a semi-centennial celebration of their first organization in Franklinton. The venerable Dr. Hoge, who had been, during the preceding eight or ten years, assisted in his ministerial labors by various clergymen, preached his farewell sermon, June 25, 1857, in which lie resigned his pastoral charge to Rev. Edgar Woods, of Wheeling, who was duly installed on the 30th of the same month. The church building was again remodeled in 1859, and assumed the appearance it now wears. Mr. Woods resigned the pastorate in February, 1862, and was succeeded by Rev. William C. Roberts, of Wilmington, Delaware; installed, November 11, 1862. At the close of 1864, Mr. Roberts retired from the pas- 196 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO. toral charge, which was committed to Rev. Dr. W. R. Marshall, who resigned it December 20,1869. The pastoral office remained vacant until May, 1871, when Rev. Robert Laidlaw, of Milton, Ontario (Canada), the present pastor, was unanimously chosen to fill the vacancy. The First Presbyterian Church building, on the corner of Third and State streets, is a fine model of architectural taste. On the south wall of the auditorium, is placed a marble tablet in memory of Dr. Hoge. The church property is valued at forty thousand dollars. The officers of the church at present are Pastor—Rev. J. Laidlaw; Trustees—Charles Summers, Amos Layman, A. D. Rodgers, H. A. Lanman, and John L. Gill; Charles Summers is president of the board of trustees ; Amos Layman, secretary, and H. A. Lanman, treasurer; Elders—W. M. Awl, James S. Abbott, Isaac Dalton, and Alfred Thomas. THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This church was organized in 1839, on the first Sunday in March. It consisted at first of thirty-one persons, the greater part of whom had been connected with the First Presbyterian Church. For some time prior to the organization of the church, the members held their meetings for public worship in a room near the corner of Rich and High streets. They were incorporated in April, 1839, by an act of the legislature, and measures were taken for the erection of a house of worship. The congregation, early in the following year, assembled for worship in the basement of the church edifice, then in the course of erection, on the west side of Third street, between Rich and Friend streets. This structure was completed during the ensuing fall. From the time of their organization, in March, 1839, until the next October, the congregation had the services of Rev. Mr. Topliff. Rev. George L. Boardman then supplied the pulpit till May, 1840. It was at this time that the Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock, D. D., having received a unanimous call to the pastorate, began his ministrations in the church. He was regularly installed as pastor on the 24th of November, 1841, and continued CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 197 in this relation to the church until August 1, 1855, when he became president of the Western Reserve College. Rev. Edward D. Morris, of Auburn. N. Y., accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate left vacant by the retirement of Dr. Hitchcock. Mr. Morris began his ministerial labors with the congregation on the first Sunday in December, 1855, and on the 2d of January following, was duly installed pastor. Owing to the increasing size of the congregation after the old church building had been enlarged, a new one was erected in 1860. D. T. Woodbury, one of' the leading merchants of the city in 1856, presented to the congregation for the site of a church edifice, a lot 62 feet front by 145 deep, estimated at that time to be worth four thousand dollars, and situated on the east side of Third street, between State and Town streets, about half' a square south of the First Presbyterian Church, but on the opposite side of Third street. On this lot a fine house of worship was erected in 1860, which is still occupied by the congregation. It is Norman in its architecture. The building is 146 feet in length, by 76 in width ; the height of the gables is 76 feet; the height of the northwest tower, including the spire, is 200 feet; the height of' the southwest tower is 109 feet, and the height of the four pinnacles of the transept is 65 feet. The interior is divided into audience-room, chapel, conference-room, a session-room, pastor's study, vestibules, and basement. The audience-room is 97 feet by 60, and 48 feet high. There are 158 pews on the main floor, 36 in the side galleries, and accommodations in the orchestra for the organ and forty singers. The aisles are spacious, and the pews are without doors, and uniformly upholstered. The pulpit is finely carved, and finished in imitation of rosewood. Rev. John F. Kendall succeeded Mr. Morris in 1868, and in April, 1872, the present pastor, Rev. Wm. E. Moore, was duly installed. The church has a membership numbering 280. The Sabbath-school pupils number 225 ; superintendent, E. H. Cook. Value of the church property at present, $75,000. ELDERS.—Ebenezer McDonald, Chauncey N. Olds, Raymond 198 - STUDER'S COLUMBUS, OHIO Burr, G. L. Smead, John J. Ferson, Alfred Ritson, and David E. Putnam. TRUSTEES.—Charles Baker, Nathan B. Marple, Alexander Houston, Alfred Ritson. and L. S. Ayres. WESTMINSTER CHURCH. This church was organized June 1, 1854, by a colony from the First Presbyterian Church. The congregation for about three years, and during the time of the erection of their church edifice, held services in the lecture-room of Starling Medical College. The church edifice was dedicated August 23, 1857. It cost, with the exception of the tower, $16,000. The architect of the building was Mr. Hamilton, of Cincinnati the stone-work was done by John Stoddard, and the carpenter work by John Clark. The building is calculated to seat about five hundred persons. Rev. Josiah D. Smith, D. D., was installed August5, 1854, as the first pastor of the church. He died May 29,1863. Revs. Henry McCracken and H. M. Robertson were after that event successive pastors. The present pastor is the Rev. Rob Roy McNulty. The first elders of the church were William Blynn and John Y. Cowhick, installed June 14, 1854. Since then, the following elders have been installed : R. N. Barr, May 5, 1855 ; J. R. Paul, September 5, 1857; Samuel Galloway, February 5, 1859 ; David Taylor. May 5, 1860 ; William Jamison, April 15, 1866, and Gordon Moodie, April 15, 1866. Of these elders two, William Blynn and Samuel Galloway, have died ; and three, John F. Cowhick, R. N. Barr, and J. B. Paul, have removed from the city. The present elders are David Taylor, William Jamison, and Gordon Moodie. The trustees of the congregation at present are: W. H. H. Shinn, Alfred Kelly, George J. Atkinson, L. Backus, Noah Bowen, and John Stothert. The number of church-members is thirty. There is a Sabbath-school connected with the church, with about one hundred pupils. Gordon Moodie is the superintendent. It meets at half-past nine o'clock every Sunday morning. CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES - 199 THE HOGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. This mission church, the youngest offspring of the oldest among the sisterhood of Presbyterian churches in Columbus, commenced its career on the 22d of January, 1870, with twenty members. The congregation is fast increasing in it rapidly growing part of the city. The pleasant church building on (Park street, in the northwest part of the city, is generally known as " Hoge Chapel." Rev. J. C. Tidball had charge of the church for about a year after its organization, when lie resigned on account of ill-health. Rev. D. Kingery succeeded him for about another year, when the present pastor, Rev. J. M. Richmond, was called to fill the office. The present number of members is ninety, and the Sunday-school attendance averages one hundred and sixty-five; William Sackett, superintendent. ELDERS.—Dr. G. F. Guerin, Samuel Garwood, J. A. F. Cellar, and William Sackett. TRUSTEES.—William Sackett, William D. Barnett, John L. Vincent, Samuel Garwood, J. A. F. Cellar, and James Mickel. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. On the 29th of September, 1852, the Third Presbyterian Church was organized, composed of forty-two members, sent out from the Second Presbyterian Church for that purpose. The new church adopted rules of government, partly Presbyterian and partly Congregational, identical with those of the church from which they came. It continued under that name and style, enjoying the services, as pastor, of Rev. William H. Marble, over three years, and of Rev. Anson Smyth, as stated supply, about eight months. The officers were: ELDERS.—Warren Jenkins, M. B. Bateham, J. W. Hamilton, L. L. Rice. TRUSTEES OF THE SOCIETY.—T. S. Baldwin, L. L. Rice, F. C. sessions. On the 3d day of November, 1856, by unanimous vote of the