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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ifice: ST. MICHAELS CHURCH. St. Michaels Church was the outgrowth of an effort in 1858 to establish amission as the child of St. Lukes, calledThe Holy Cross. When the parishof Calvary Church was started, the minister in charge of the mission of theHoly Cross moved with its members to the number of about thirty farther liptown, and began services at St. Michaels Church in the hall now on Lafayettestreet, December 5,1858. The organization was effected in the house No. 5041,by the formation of a vestry and the election of the Rev. J. P. Hammond asrector. This house was afterwards leased to the parish for eight years as theresidence of the present rector. A lot of ground was offered and accepted fora church building, on High street, beyond Hancock. The donor was MissElizabeth C. Morris, to whom the altar window in the church was afterwardsa memorial. The condition of her gift was that the edifice to be erected onthe site should be forever a free seated church. It was 150 feet front by 125
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GERMANTOWN. 155 in depth. Therewas a small private burial lot upon it in a sad condition ofneglect, and the place was known in the neighborhood as Mount Misery.The first sod on the site of the new church was turned over by the rector,April, 18, 1859. Its corner stone was laid by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Bowman,Assistant of the Diocese, April 29, and five months after precisely, St. MichaelsDay, September 29,1859, it was opened for divine service. At that service theRev. T. Gardiner Littell, a nephew of the lady who had given the ground forthe church, was ordained deacon, and assumed for awhile the duties of anassistant minister. For nearlj two years it had a very prosperous history,daily services, frequent eucharists, and its bell was rung at the beginning, themiddle and the ending of each day. Mr. Littell left in April, 1861, and Mr.Hammond resigned the rectorship for a chaplaincy in the army, and a positionelsewhere on the 5th of August, 18G1. The Rev. Levi Ward Smith becamethe second re

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