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Identifier: cityoftroyitsvic00weis (find matches)
Title: The city of Troy and its vicinity
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Weise, Arthur James, 1838-1910 or 11
Subjects: Troy (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Troy, E. Green
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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xcellent one fromHanks foundry, and is swinging inthe tower, weighs 22 cwt. A neatstaircase behind the pulpit leadsdown to a spacious vestry room inthe basement, into which there is alsoa door in the rear wall. The courtis paved all around the church withbroad flags, and the whole is enclosedby a neat fence with balusters. Thelots and the building cost $40,368 66.The organ, built by Henry Erben, ofNew York, had 18 slops and 865pipes. On August iB, one hundredpews in the church were sold for$38,000. Some years laver, the fenceon the west and south sides of thebuilding was removed. The erectionof the present rectory was undertakenin 1865. The Erben organ was displaced in1854 by a much larger one, the gift ofMrs. Martha C. Warren, the widow ofStephen Warren. Another, made byC. & G. G. Hook & Hastings of Bos-ton, and connected with the formerby pneumatic trackers to play the twoat the same time, was placed in thegallery on the north side of thechancel, in 1881. On the first Sunday
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ST PAULS CHURCH, Ib28 Ill in January, 1879, ^ boys choir, organ-ized by E. Coleman Webb, deceased,choirmaster and organist, succeededthe quartette choir previousiy singingin the church. Among the rich memorial gifts inthe building is an elaborate brass lec-tern, presented Easter, 18S0, by Mrs.Walter P. Warren, in memory of herbrother, Edward Ingersoll Warren,born July 18, 1858, died April 8,1878 ; a brass, triple corona, for light-ing the chancel, the gift of the Hon.James Forsyth, in 1880; a number offinely illuminated panels on the sidesof the chancel, painted and given byMrs. E. Warren Paine, in 1880; acommunion service, the gift of Mrs.John L. Thompson, in memory of herdeceased husband, in 1881; whitemarble altar steps, given in 1883, byWilliam E. Hagan and family, inmemory of Frank Covell Hagan, whodied December 19, 1882 ; a beautifulCaen marble reredos, English alabas-ter panels, Tennessee marble columnsand shelf, given at Easter, 188C, inmemory of Mrs. Phebe Warren Tay-loe, bor

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