Avenue Church of Christ in 1893. Tliese
are some of the iironiinent church bnildinys
of the pcridd. 'flu'v are nienliniied in a
group to show the rapid growth of the time,
when every denomination in Minneapolis
was making great strides in membership,
wealth and aggressive church and mission
work.
An im])ortant phase of the development
of church matters at this time was the estab-
lishment of many churches of the Scandi-
navian denominations. Previous to 1880.
the Scandinavian ijopnlation, though rap-
idly increasing in numbers, bad maik- no
\cr\ marked impression on the clinrcli life
of the cits.
It is ipiite imiK.issible to mention all the
names associated with Minneapolis pulpits
at this |)eriod. .\i its opening ISishop
Knickerbacker was finishing his long rec-
torship at Gethsemane Episcopal church.
In 1883 he was elected bishop ol' Indiana,
llishop Mc(iolrick was still jiastoi- of the
( bnrcb of the hnmaculale Conception. Tlie
i\ev. Dr. Robert !•'. Sample completed an
eighteen years' ])astorate at Westminster
I'resbyterian church in 1 8Sri ; ilic Rev. Dr.
Charles F. Thwing, now president of NVest-
riRST r..\PTisT cnuncH op iscs.
This Ijnilillug Kloiiit III Finli mill Ui'miophi on llii> slli' iif tlio
I.iiriihiT IO.\i'Ii]iliKt'.
Ki:\. iiiii'.ioK'r 1'. s.sNU'r.E, n. n,
ern Reserve LTniversity, Cleveland, received
(>S2 niendjers into Plymouth Congregational
church in a four years' pastorate ending in
1890; the Rev. Dr. Wayland Ployt began
his notable pastorate of the First Baptist
church : Pishop Cyrus D. F'oss was resident
bishop of the Methodist church until 1888;
the l\r\-. I )r. J. F. Chaftee, who hail first been
stationed in St. Anthony in 1S57, became
])aslor of the new TTennepin avemie M. E.
Church in 1879 and tliree years later was
made presiding elder; the Rev. Dr. David J.
Iltn-rell occupied Westminster Presbyterian
pulpit for four years; in 1888 f\ev. Dr. C. J.
Petri ln-gan a long pastorate at Augustana
.Swedisli Luther;ni church; the l\ev. Edwin
Sydney Williams conijdeted in 1883 an eight
_\-ears" pastorate at the Park Avenue Congre-
gational Chin-cb (then the "Second") and
for some years thereafter ilevoted himself to
city mission work with great success; the
Rev. Dr. T. R. Wells for a decade was the
notable rector of St. Mark's Episcopal
church; the Rev. h'ather Tissot in 1888
ended a long service at .St. Anthony of
CHURCHES AND PHILANTHROPIES
73
Padua; the Rev. Lars J. Jerdee has filled
the pulpit of the Immanuel Norwegian
Lutheran church ever since 1889; the Rev.
G. H. Trabert began in 1883 a pastorate at
the St. Jolms Enghsh Lutheran church
which has continued to the present: tlic
Rev. E. A. Skogsbergh was pastor of the
Swedish Mission Tabernacle and is still at
the head of this great church; the Rev. Dr.
Tuttle was still in the pulpit of the Church
of the Redeemer — and so this list might be
prolonged to great length. It was a time of
brilliant service and masterly labors and
accomplishments.
The city grew so rapidly at this period
of its history that the responsibilities of the
church people were felt very heavily. The
obligation to furnish religious teaching and
church services to the newcomers caused an
activity in establishing Sunday schools,
missions and chapels never equalled before
or since. Each denomination had its church
extension organization. The spirit of the
Iti:V. JAMK.S 1'. CIIAFFEE.
i;i;v. i;iiwi.\ siii.nhy williajis.
times entered into this work; the word
"hustle," so well understood (jn the streets
of Minneapolis in the eighties, became a
part of the churchman's terminology. Some-
one has said that the phrase "Churches
built while you wait" would also have been
appropriate at that time. One instance is
\'ouche(l for. The committee of one denom-
ination, deciding at a certain meeting that
a church was needed in a particular locality,
witliin fifteen days h.id a lot purchased, a
church building erected, a congregation in-
stalleil therein and a minister in charge.
The growing importance of the city as a
religious center naturally led to its selec-
tion as the meeting place of many im-
portant conventions and gatherings. In
the middle eighties the general assembly of
the Presbyterian Church met here; in 1892
the National Council of the Congregational
churches; in 1895 the general Convention of
the Episcopal Church. The CHiristian En-
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A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
r.HV. .lAMKS II. TiTTi.i:. I), n.
(leavor convt'iitidii of icSiji was one of the
largest religious gatherings of the time.
J'he more prominent denominations have
from time to time entertained their great
national associatitJiis of a missionary char-
acter, 'i'hese meetings have brought to the
city the leaders in the religious life of the
country.
THE ciiLiu:iii-;.s oi- todav.
After the financial troubles of 93 the
churches of Minnea|)olis were for a time
obliged to retrench as severely as the busi-
ness houses. Some temporarily lost mem-
bership and building projects were largelv
held in abeyance. These conditions rajiidly
I)asscd away and during the decade past the
religious aiTairs of the city have been in a
most prosperous condition. The building
activity of the eighties has been duplicated
with a more pronounced tendency to per-
manence and advanced ideas in church
architecture. Westminster Presbyterian
church lost its beautiful building at Seventh
and Nicollet by fire and in i8()X occupied its
present structure at Twelfth and Nicollet —
one of the largest and finest churches in the
West. Plymouth Congregational church and
St. Marks Episcopal church sold their down-
town property to build most beautiful spec-
imens of church architecture further out.
The Second Church of Christ, Scientist,
erected a handsome church at Second av-
enue south and Eleventh street — the largest
of a group of churches testifying to the
rapid growth and importance of this de-
nomination in the past decade. In 1908 the
corner stone of a Pro-Cathedral was laid by
the Catholics of the city. This will succeed
the present Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception. It will be a magnificent structure
of solid granite. The main nave will exceed
in size those of the cathedrals of Europe,
except that of St. Peter's at Rome wdiich is
exactl}- the same width, and there will be
seats for 2.500 people. The people of Fowl-
er Methodist church comiileted their hand-
some building in 1907 and many lesser
structures all over the city have testified
in late years to the devotion, prosperity and
enterprise of the church people of Minne-
apolis. There are now about two hundred
church buildings, including missions and
chapels, in the city and the membership
approximates 75,000.
\\'ith the rounding of the half century of
Minneapolis the early churches have begun
to celebrate their golden anniversaries.
These occasions have been of great inter-
est. Notable among them have been the
celebrations of Gethsemane Episcopal
church in 1906 and Plymouth Congrega-
tional and \\'estminster Presbyterian in
ic>o7.
.\LI,IED 0RG.\XIZ.\TIO\S.
The building nf churches, the maintenance
of services and the internal life of the
churches generally, has been but a part of
the acti\ities of the church people of the
city. Outside of regular church organiza-
tion every class of religious, charitable and
l)hilantiiro])ic organization which would
tend to give ijractical force to the principles
of Christianity, has been heartily supported.
The Young Men's Christian Association
of the city of Minneajiolis was organized in
1866. I'i)r many years it occupied rented
CHURCHES AND PHILANTHROPIES
?S
THE CHURCH OF THE RRDEEMIcn.
quarters which gave place about 1892 to the
handsome building at Tenth street and
Mary place, now free of debt and valued at
$175,000. The building is fully diuipped for
the religious, social, educational and phys-
ical culture work of the organization. Its
night school is attended by from 700 to 800
young men and boys. Its ofificers in iyo8
are, president, J. S. Porteous ; vice presi-
dents, E. W. Decker and E. L. Carpenter ;
recording secretary, G. A. Grunian ; treasur-
er, J. M. Martin, and general sccrctarv, S.
Wirt Wiley.
Not less interesting and successful is the
Young Women's Christian Association,
founded in 1891 and growing more and
more rapidly until it has a membership of
3,400 and is the second largest Y. W. C. A.
in the United States. It owns at 87 South
Seventh street a building and lot valued at
over $125,000, equipped with all that is nec-
essary for the maintenance of a lunch room,
reading room, gymnasium, rest rooms, class
rooms and a hall for entertainments and lec-
tures. A branch lunch room is maintained
in the wholesale district and at the two
])laces about 750 young women lunch daily.
Almost as many are enrolled in the edu-
cational and Bible classes. With the Wom-
an's Christian Association the Y. W. C. A.
sustains a Travelers Aid work and a Tran-
sient Home for Girls and Women is main-
tained — the two forming one of the most
practical philanthropic undertakings in the
city. The general secretary is ;\Iiss M. Belle
Jeiifery.
The Woman's Christian Association was
founded in 1866 as the Ladies' Aid Society
and took its present name in 1868. For
forty years it has been an active charitable
and philanthro])ic force, doing a wide range
of work, including personal visitation and
relief of the poor, and the maintenance of
the Woman's Boarding Home at 52 South
Tenth street and the Pillsbury Home at 819
Second avenue south. The association also
manages the Jones-Harrison Home for the
care of aged women and aged ministers and
their wives and joins with the Y. W. C. A.
in the Travelers Aid work. The president is
Mrs. E. M. La Penotiere.
Iln.MlCS AND .\SYLU]\IS.
The \\'ashburn Memorial Orphan Asylum
was founded in 1886 under a bequest of
$375,000 from the late Governor C. C. Wash-
burn of Wisconsin as a memorial to his
mother, (ien. \\'. D. \Vashburn of Alinnc-
apolis, brother to Governor Washburn, who
has always been at the head of the board of
trustees, gave twenty-five acres of land at
Nicollet avenue and Fort} - ninth street on
which was erected a building costing $75,-
000, the remainder of the bequest constitut-
ing a permanent endowment. C. E. Faulk-
ner is superintendent.
The Catholic Orphan Asylum at Chicago
a\enue and Forty-sixth street was erected
some twenty years ago to care for the or-
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A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
phans of the denomination. It is an effi-
cient institution and wril Mippi nicil.
The Home for CliilihTii ami .\i.;(_'il W'c mi-
en was foiiiidcd ill iSSi, and inslalled in
its present buildiui;' in ]iS86. It has been
the sjiccial care of some of the lienevolent
ladies of the city and has recei\e<l generous
financial sup]H)rt as well as personal service.
iJelluun- Hcune, the Home for the Atred, and
as a memorial to their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Pillsbury, and is admirably
e(|ui])ped for social settlement work. Henry
]"". Hurt is head resident. Unity House, 1616
North \Vashington avenue, developed from
work undertaken b}- members of the Church
of the Redeemer, but is now a co-operative
settlement devoting itself largely to reach-
ing the children with helpful agencies. Miss
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wi.li. .\ivliilc,l.
the .Sheltering .\rnis arc all well established
and etYective. The Minnesota Soldiers
Home, while not maintained by the people
of the city, is one (if the institutions in
which much interest is felt, fts grounds
are u])on the Mississippi river bluffs adjoin-
ing Minnehaha park — one uf the most beau-
tiful spots in Miimesota.
.Settlement work has been imderlaken in
the city at three centers. Pillsbury Ifouse,
320 Sixteenth avenue south, grew out of the
work of Bethel nu'ssion, established 1)y
I'lymouth Congregational church in the
early eighties. The beautiful Imihling was
the gift uf Charles .S. and John .S. i'illsbmv
Caroline M. Crosby is head resident. In
the autumn of igo8 Wells Alemorial House
at iiC> Nfjrth Eleventh street was opened
under the ans|)ices of St. j\Iarks Episcopal
church.
The .Associated Charities of .Minneapolis
was organized in 18S4, largidx- tln-ough the
instrumentality of George A. llrackett, wdi<i
remained its president for many years. The
plan of work is similar to that of such asso-
ciations everywhere — the principles of en-
couragement to thrift and self sup])ort and
intelligent co-operation among the charit-
able being prominent, h'rank I>. McA^ey is
prt'sident and I'aigene T. I .ies secretary.
CHURCHES AND PHILANTHROPIES
77
V01\(( JIEN'S CIIUISTIAX AKSOCI ATIIIX r.lll.DI \(;.
('has. S. ScdKwU'li, ArcliUfcl.
The Board of Charities and Corrections
I if the City of Minneapolis is composed of
fi\e Cdniniissioners, of whom the mayor is
one and is charged with the care of the
poor department, the workhouse and the
city hospital. I'iichard Tattersfield is sec-
retary of the board.
In a city so well ors^anized for charital)le
and ])hilanthropic work it is of course, (juite
impossible to mention every organization,
In fact each church has its society ; each
lodge its committee. In the same way mis-
sion work is beyond individual treatment.
'Jdie first large work was that undertaken
by the City Mission of 1883 on South Wash-
ington avenue, of which the Rev. Edwin S.
Williams was superintendent. In 1895 the
Union City Mission was organized as an
undeiKjminatii iiial institution. In 1902 it
occupied its present (piarters in the St.
James Hotel building at Washington and
Second avenues south, where are maintained
a hotel, Iiidging house, mission hall, employ-
ment bureau, baths and laundry. T. E.
Hughes has been for years the president
and C. M. .Stocking, suiicrintendent.
V(H Nii WO.MEX'S CHRISTIAN AS.SOCIATION lUILDi.N'G.
Will, rii.innintr Wliitney, .\cchitcct
Manv of the hospitals of the city are of
a cliaritable character, but as their work is
largely professional they arc mentioned in
the cha])ter on the Medical Profession.
pn.LSBum iioisi:
Bcrtrand & Cluiiiiliiiliii, .VirliUccts.
r.USHNELL, Rev. John Edward, pastor of
Westminster Presbyterian Chureh, Alinneapolis,
.md a leading exponent of Prcsbyterianism in ilin-
ne.sota, was born in Old .Saybrook, Connecticut,
()cto])er 21, 1858, snn <if Julni !•'. Bushnell of that
place. He attended llu- \illage schools and pre-
pared for college al llie .Mm-gan School of Clin-
lon, Coimccticut, and .graduated at Yale College
in 1880. .'\fter taking liis theological course at
Yale Theological Seminary, he took a post grad-
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A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
REV. JOHN n. r.fSIIXEI.l,, 11. 1>.
ualr ciiursc in critical .studies. Ho received his
first call to a pastorate from the CongregatioMal
cluirch of Fairfield, Connecticut, where he re-
mained four years, going in 1888 to the I'resliy-
terian Church at Rye, New York, of which lie was
pastor for six years. This was followed hy a
pastorate of six years at the Phillips Presbyteri.ui
Church, of New York City, wdien he was called to
the Westminster Church, of ^liniu-apolis. tin-
largest and most important church mI" thnt <\v-
nomination in the city. Under IJr. Bushmll.
Westminster is organized for effective work and
its influence is both dynamic and pervasive. It
is a church which does things and the great
structure which the congregation erected in place
fif the one destroyed by fire about ten years ago.
is strongly suggestive of enduring strength and
achievement. During Dr. Bushnell's pastorate
the church lias greatly increased in membership
and holds a position as one of the leading or-
ganizations of the denomination in the country.
Dr. Bushnell received the degree of "D. D." from
New York University in 1898. lie is a member
of various collegiate and clerical societies and
literary organizations. Tn June, 1887, Dr. Bush-
nell was married to Florence A. Ellsworth, of
Brooklyn, New York, and to them have been
born three sons, — Ellsworth, J.ilin Horace and
I'aul Palmer.
Cf.EARY, kev. James AL, for many years in
cliargc of St. Charles Catholic Church. Minneap-
olis, was born in Boston. September 8, 1849, the
>un of Thomas and Julia Cleary. He came to
the Northwest with his parents while a child and
w.is cducaleil in the public schools of Walworth
iMunty, Wisconsin, St. Francis Seminary and Col-
lege. Milwaukee, and at St. Lawrence College.
Calvary, Wisconsin. He entered the priesthood
July 8. 1872. He has been widely known as a
public lecturer and has taken a prominent part in
temperance work, being for many years president
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer-
ica and vice-president of the .\nti-Saloon League
of America. He lias been the president of the
Minneapolis Home Protection League, and is a
member of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin.
Catholic Order of Foresters, and the Knights of
Columbus. While in Minneapolis he has taken a
prominent part in the discussion of all civi.-
i|uestions and is always to be found nn the side
of temperance, saloon restriction and all ]irac-
tical .good government mnvements. He is a
nieinlier nf the C'oninurcial and Six O'Clock
Clubs,
bWULKXlCR. Charles Edward, superinten-
dent of the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum
at .Minneapolis, is descended from a long line of
alKâ– e-â– ^t(Jrs among whom were men prominent in
the coliiiiial period. Patrick Falconer of Edin-
bur.gh whip emu- to .America late in the seven-
teenth centuiy was born in 1859 and the records
show tli.Ll he w.is married Octolier 2. 1689, at
New lla\en to Hannah, daughter of Deputy
(;o\ernor William Jones of New Haven and
ffranddanghter of Governor Theophilus Eaton of
Xew Haven Cohmy. Patrick Falconer was a
citizen of Newark, Xew Jersey, member of First
Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey, and
llie records of his will showed that when he died,
ill KiiiJ, he Kfi esfensive properties in New York
and New Jersey. In course of time the orthog-
rajihy of the faniil\' n.'inie w.is chan.ged. Ed-
ward haiilkiier. f.itlur ol Charles E., was a mer-
chant al ICarlville. .Madison county, New York,
;it ihe time of his son's birth. July 12, 1844. His
wife was .Abigail Uoolittle Beach. She was de-
scended from John Beach who lived in New
Haven, Connecticut, as early as 1643, and who
signed the W;illini;ford Covenant and received
allotment of land under this document. Mr.
Faulkner's grandfather was the Rev. Lyman
Tieacli who served in the war of i8ij. I)uring
his early boyhood the family moved to Alanslicld,
Pennsylvania, where Charles attended school at
Manslield Classical Seminary until the breaking
I'Uf nf iln- Civil war, wdien he at once enlisted
under tin- first call of President Lincoln in .April,
CHURCHES AND PHILANTHROPIES
79
1861. While serving on the Peninsula he was
taken prisoner, June 30, 1862, and confined in
Pemberton Warehouse and on Belle Island. Af-
ter the expiration of his enlistment two years
later, he served in the commissary department
until the close of the war. On June 27, 1867, he
was appointed a registration officer under the
reconstruction acts and served in Virginia during
the most interesting portion of the reconstruction
period. Mr. Faulkner next went to Kansas, es-
tablishing himself at Saliny in April, 1869. He
at once entered actively into public affairs,
served as deputy county treasurer three years
and as county treasurer four years, was a mem-
ber of the legislature for two terms, and from
1876 to 1887 was a member of the board of trus-
tees of the Kansas Senate Charitable Institutions.
His interest in charitable and philanthropic in-
stitutional work brought him the appointment in
1887 of superintendent of the Soldier's Orphan
Home at Atchison. After filling this post for
ten years he was called to the superintendency
of the Washburn Home which he has managed
with ability for the past decade. He was pres-
ident of the National Conference of Charities
and Corrections at Topeka in 1900 and in 1902
president at tlic Minnesota State Conference of
Charities and Corrections at Rochester. Mr.
Faulkner on September 6, 1871, married Clemen-
tina A. Coryell, daughter of Rev. Vincent M.
Coryell, at Waverly, New York. Like her hus-
band, Mrs. Faulkner is descended from a long
line of forebears. Her grandfather, Emanuel
Coryell, served in the Revolution and her great-
grandfather of the same name was the owner
of Coryell's ferry across the Delaware under a
patent from George II. ^Ir. and Mrs. Faulkner
have two sons. Dr. Coryell Faulkner and Charles
E. Faulkner, both living in Minneapolis. Mr.
Faulkner is a republican in political affiliation.
HALLOCK, Leavitt H., the pastor of Ply-
mouth Congregational church, Minneapolis, from
1898 to 1907, was descended from the best early
New England ancestry on both sides, and was
born at Plainfield, Massachusetts, August 15, 1842.
He was the youngest son of Elizabeth Porter Snell
Hallock, lineal descendent of John .â– Mden and
cousin to William Cullen Bryant. His earliest
paternal ancestor in America was Peter Hallock
who landed at Hallock's Neck, Long Island, in
1640, the source of all the Hallocks in this coun-
try.
Dr. Hallock's grandfather was Moses Hal-
lock, for forty-five years the pastor of the only
church in Plainfield, Z^Iassachusetts, where he edu-
cated more than three hundred students for col-
lege, many of whom became noted men in tlie
land, fifty of them ministers of the gospel and
seven foreign missionaries.
Dr. Hallock's father, Leavitt Hallock, served
his town and state in several capacities of public
trust, with honor and fidelity, and Dr. Hallock
has justified his honorable ancestry by his own
record.
Graduated from Williston Seminary, and from
.•\mherst college in 1863, at the age of twentj'-onc,
he took his theological course at East Windsor
Hill and at Hartford, closing his fourth year in
1867. From his graduation until 1892 he held
successive pastorates in Connecticut and in
Maine, preaching for sixteen years in the former
state and ten years as pastor of Williston Church,
Portland, Maine, and in Waterville. Thence he
was called to the First Church of Tacoma, Wash-
ington, which he served for more than three
years, and then became preacher and instructor
at Mills College, California, until called to Ply-
mouth church, Minneapolis.
Politically, Dr. Hallock iK-longs to the con-
servative branch of the repulilican party. He
has always been active in moral reform and to
his efficient work for temperance western Con-
necticut was greatly indebted during his ten
years successful pastorate in West Winsted.
Dr. Hallock has been honored by the degree
of "Doctor of Divinity." conferred by Whitman
College, Washington, in 1893: election as cor-
porate member of the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions in the same
year, which position he still holds: membership
in both international councils of. the Congrega-
cil.\ur-r:s k. faulic.nur.
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A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
tioiiiil body, lu-W rcspcctivoly in Linulon, Eng-
land, in rSgi, and in Boston, in 1899.
Dr. Hallock was married in Juno, 1867, to
Martha R. lUitler, of Urooklyn, Xew York, who
died in October, 1873, and was the mother of his
two children, Harry I'.utlcr llallock, a business
man of Cincinnati, and Lillian Huntington, wife of
Geo. R. Campliell, M. 1)., of .Xugusta, Maine.
On the .-^d of October, 1888, Dr. liall..ck mar-
ried Miss IClIen M. Webster, of Portland, Maine,
who was associated witli liini in tlie wnrk nf
Plymouth church.
JKRUEI^, Rev. Lars J., jKi^-tiir uf Ininianuel
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Min-
neapolis, was born in Lek.anger, Norway, on
January 2, 1859. His father, who was .1 farmer,
migrated to America in iSfii and the family
lived in Dane county, Wisconsin, for some years,
Lars attending the public schools and a Norweg-
ian churcli school in the vicinity. When seven-
Dccorah, Iowa, and graduated in 1882 with the
degree of B. A. He had determined to become a
teen years of age he entered Luther College at
clergyman and entering Luther .Seminary at Madi-
son, Wisconsin, to pursue his theological studies,
completed the course and graduated in 1885. In
the same year he was ordained and entered upon
his ministerial work in I'olk county, Minnesota,