... When on April 10 a meeting was held, there had been added to the list of members the names of John Thorning, Augustus Hitchings, Henry Locke, Seward Dodge, Robert Hollingsworth, Eben S. Harmon, and Joseph Elliot . It was at this meeting,—less than two months from the date of the organization of the parish,—that it was voted That the Rev. George H. Emerson be and hereby is invited to the pastoral...