The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29

with New Haveners as a man of strict integrity of principle. MT. Thomas was for some time superintendent of the Sunday school of St. Paul's chapel, and one of the vestrymen of St. Paul's church. from 1S45 to 1S4S.
 l MT. Thomas died Sunday, February | 5, 1865, suddenly. So sudden was his death ttsst ms pupils had prepared fol him am elegant silver mounted cane which was to be presented to him the next day.
 Stephen D. Pardee was born in New Haven, october 5, 1903. In early life he was an errand boy for Benjamin Sher- man, senior, who kept a store on Chap el street, became his clerk and finally a partner, He carried on the business for time after Mir. Sherman's death, but the business was distasteful to him and he soon turned his attention to book keeping. On May 14, 1882, he was ap- pointed book-keeper for the City bank then newly organized, lon trial for thirty days" The trial seemed to be satisfactory, for on the 9th of October, 1886, he was chosen cashier.
 MT. Pardee was connected with the City bank as clerk, cashier or director till the day ot his death. He was one of the original incorporators of the New Haven Savings bank, and was chosen treasurer of the bank October IF, 1850, and held the office while he lived. Two or three years before his death, on &C., count of infirmities, he resigned the off, flee of treasurer. The directors refused to accept hls resignation, and appointed John F. Futile assistant treasurer to re- lieve him, but the salary was continued to MT. Pardee till his death. In 1866 MT. Pardee removed to Westville, and gave up much of his time to the culti- vation of his farm and the raising of fruit being an enthusiastic pomologist and horticulturist. He was @ member of the vestry from 1S45 to 1S49. He died July 29, 1878.
 A committee was also appointed to ascertain what repairs, if any, were necessary on the church edifice, the ex- pense of purchasing and hanging a bell for the church, of weight not less than sixteen hundred pounds, provided re- quisite funds could be procured by sub scription. As nothing more is reported about a bell for the church, the project was probably abandoned, because the tower was found insufficient to support the weight of bell
 May ?, 1S45, the committee on repairs were instructed to remove or cover the painting over the pulpit in St. Paurs church. This was a large painting of the crucifXion of our Saviour, present. ed to Trinity church in 1888 by Lieuten- ant William c. Crany, which had once occupied a prominent place in the Church of San Francisco, at Cadiz, Spain. This picture was probably of considerable value. What disposition was made of 1t never knew.
 The wardens and vestry, on the 10th of May S145, appointed w. H Elliott, James F. Babcock and William M. Smith a committee to confer with the Rev. Joshua Peterkin, of Frederick town. Md, father of the Bishop of West Virginia, with reference to a call to the rectorship of the parish of St. Paul's.
 The owners of the stock debt for building the chapel signed an agree ment releasing Trinity church from all obligations to them. Those subscribers to the stock who were not willing to sign the agreement were paid for their stock in full; and on the 10th of May, 1s45, the Society of Trinity Church con- veyed by deed to the Society of St. Paul's Church the lot and building which had been known till this time as St. Paul's chapel, thus completing the of the new parish and the transfer to them of the church edifice.
 St. Paurs church was admitted into
 
 and the lay delegates, Nathan Smith and Stephen D. Pardee, reported the probable number of families as one hundred and forty, communicants two and fifty, Sunday school teach CTS twenty-five, scholars one hundred and fifty.
 The population of the city was at this time about twenty thousand, having nearly doubled in fifteen years.
 In speaking of the admission of St. Pauls church into un1on with the con- vention in 1S45, Dr. Beardsley, in his History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, says: "Dr. Croswell, the rector of Trinity parish, did not take the same view about permitting St. PauPs chapel to separate from the InOlIleF CuuICIly WHlCl WdS 6nI6Tldlt1eu by the majority of his parishioners. He the movement as a Suicidal and would have preferred that those who advocated it the most strongly should unite in new organi- zation and proceed to the erection of another house of worship. It was the natural feeling of an aged pastor. He desired to retain his cure unbroken to the last; and those who joined him in opposition to the proposed scheme were governed more by a regard to his wish es than a conviction that the time had not yet come for seDaration.'
 The last time pr. Croswell preached In St. Paul's church he took for his text these words: 70 Israel thou hast destroyed myself, but in Me Is thy help"
 One of the first acts of the new parish was to appropriate from the monthly offerings fifty dollars for the new Epis- ,opal church in Wallingford, and this too before a settled rector had been se- cured, starting with the true idea that by helping others they helped them selves. The new parish started at once upon ] career of vigorous prosperity, not be- ng under the necessity of waiting to gather a congregation, and to become ! and self-reliant.