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This house was building at the time of the tornado; was entirely demolished, and had to be rebuilt.
Mr. Haskins resigned the rectorship February 18, 1852.
At that time the number of parishioners was | 84 |
Died or removed since the establishment of the parish | 64 |
Present number of communicants | 40 |
Whole number confirmed | 31 |
Whole number of baptisms | 60 |
Whole number of marriages | 10 |
Whole number of burials | 14 |
Mr. Haskins died in
Cambridge May 11, 1896.
He was succeeded in the rectorship by
the Rev. Justin Field, who became rector on the fourteenth of September, 1852, and remained until December, 1859.
During a portion of his ministry the parish was aided by an appropriation from the Diocesan Board of Missions.
A vacancy in the rectorship existed for a year succeeding
Mr. Field's resignation.
The Rev. A. C. Patterson of
Buffalo, New York, was invited, but circumstances prevented his assuming charge of the parish.
The Rev. George Augustus Strong became rector in January, 1861, and remained until May, 1863.
He was born in
Norwich, Conn., in 1832.
Mr. Strong writes:
The larger part of my early life before entering Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1847, was spent in Cincinnati.
The three years of my theological training in the Alexandria Seminary, Virginia, in the same class with my friend Phillips Brooks, closed in 1859, and I was ordained in the early summer of that year.
For less than two years after leaving the seminary, I was assistant to Bishop Lee of Delaware, and the Medford parish was my first full charge.
Mr. George Porter and his sister, with the family connections of Mrs. Dudley Hall, children and grandchildren, were the more prominent members of the parish and my constant supporters.
The young ladies of the church, Miss Nellie Wilde, Miss Caroline Train,