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Church of the Holy Innocents stands on Sixth Street,
between Willow Avenue and Clinton Streets, and has a
seating capacity of about 400. It has a tine stained glass window,
a memorial of Martha B. Stevens, founder of the church.
It also has a memorial of Peter Lee, a servant for his whole life
of nearly 100 years in the Stevens family. On the wall of the
lady chapel there is a painting of the Blessed Virgin, said to be
by Guido.
The cost of the buildings was about $130,000. The church
has an endowment, consisting mainly of a row of houses on Garden
Street, and some securities. The title is vested in a Board
of Trustees, which is a self-perpetuating body. There is also an
executive committee of the parish charged with the disbursal of
the money raised by the congregation.
The church was begun in 1874. In 1895 the tower and nave,
with the sacristy and choir rooms, were added. The older part
of the church was, designed by Potter, the newer by Vaughan.
In 1885 the parish building on Clinton Street was added and in
1888 the rectory. These buildings were designed by NV. Halsey
Wood.
The parish was founded and endowed by Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens
as a memorial of her slaughter, Julia Augusta, who died in
Rome, Italy, in 1870.
The work was at first carried oil as a mission of St. Paul's
Church. A separate organization was subsequently effected and
a board of trustees was incorporated by special statute. This
church has therefore the rare distinction of working under a
special charter. Services were first held at the corner of Willow
Avenue and Newark Street and subsequently in the basement of
the Martha Institute. There arc no pews ill the church, chairs
being used instead; these are and always have been free to all
comers.
The first priest in charge of the work was the Rev. Henry F.
Hartman. He was succeeded by the first rector, the Rev. C.C.
Parsons, who resigned in 1876, and who subsequently died at his
post during the Memphis yellow fever epidemic of 1878. The
Rev. J.B. Wetherell was in charge in 1876 to 1877. The Rev.
John Sword was called as rector in 1877 and resigned in 1885.
He was followed by the Rev. G.H. Moffett, 1885-1892, the Rev.
E. A. Webber, 1894-189. The present rector, the Rev. G.E.
Magill, was called in 1896.
The Rev. Louis Schuyler, a curate of this parish in 1878 took
the place of the Rev. C.C.Parsons at the latter's death, and
likewise fell a victim to yellow fever.
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