[Magdalen] A Note Re CofE and TEC History

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jim,
You might be interested in a book on the history of TEC in that era. It's "The Power of Their Glory." Everybody who was anybody in those days belonged to the Episcopal Church: Morgans, Astors, Roosevelts, etc., etc.

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
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>> In this area I recall seeing all of these tiny TECs that were barely
>> functioning, and I suspect today a lot of them were knocked down or fell
>> down.  Probably associated with some family settlement, long since no
> 
> Morgan again. When disgruntled vestry members and mover/shaker lay people came to him to complain about the Rector or something their local parish was doing of which they disapproved, he'd build them another church -- sometimes down the street from the other one. This was true all over the Diocese of NY and maybe Albany.
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> Some of these were always marginal, or made both churches marginal (even in the Post WWII heyday of religious participation) -- leading to closings and demolition.
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> Morgan couldn’t see why anyone would join any church other than TEC <g>.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim