The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-10-14
REVIEW PARISH HISTORY
Episcopal Church Has Long and Inter
esting Series Of Events Back Of It's
Present Prosperity and Development
Bishop Webb Will Attend Services.

When St Matthews Episcopal
church celebrates the seventy fifth an
adversary Of it's founding on Oct 81
by the dedication of it's recently CON-
pleted West Side mission, it will have
an enviable three quarters Of a century
of accomplishments to review.
1t has been seventy-fve years of
hard, patient work, Of narrowing the
ground and planting the seed," said
an elderly woman in speaking of the
event, "and now the results are com
ing that make the older members of
the parish realize that their early work
counts.
We never had any large egacies
left MS or any gifts of great value. The
communicates have put their shoulders
to the wheel and pushed the church to
its present position by dint of hard,
patient work
OF the many notable and valuable
things which the church has done since
its establishment there has been moth
ing more remarkable than it's creation
of the West Side mission and its man
ner of securing the building which
houses it and will be known by that
name.
Mems clubs are not unusual in
churches. In fact most city churches
Of Importance have men IS clubs IOWA.
days but ST. Matthews Men s club is
club Of action and not of words.
Other clubs get speakers to tell the
members things they ought to know
and let it so at that.
st. Matthews Men S club acts. IT
decided to have mission house and in
four days Whirlwind campaign the
club went out and raised tile necessary
$4,000 to Gnance the project, and now
they have shown their determination to
stand behind the present popular rector,
Father Ingley, in his intention of MAX
ing it the most valuable social agency
of the west side
The dedication of the building will be
an impressive event Bishop William
Walter webb Of Milwaukee will off
ciate in conjunction with Father Ingley
and the beautiful Episcopal dedicatory
service win be used.
The dedication will be in the after
noon and Bishop Webb will also be
present at the 1880 service of the
church III the morning when special
anniversary features will be introduc-
ed.
It is interesting in connection with
the anniversary to review the history
of the church.
1t was in 1910 that little band Of
Episcopalians met in Southport, Qater
Konosha) for the purpose of organic
ing an Anglican communion.
The Rev. Lemuel E. Hull, at that
time the missionary for st. Paul $
church, Milwaukee, presided The ar
ticles We're drawn up under the name
of st. Matthew's church and signed by
twenty-six persons OF whom none is
now alive.
Services were at first held in the
Academy building, later a part of DR..
Pennoyer Is hotel
The first rector of the church was
the Rev. William Allanson, an English
man, appointed by Bishop Kemper in
1S41. Under his supervision immediate
efforts toward building a church were
made. George Kimball presented the
members with lot. Mr.. Allanson went
east where he succeeded in raising a
few hundred dollars. The men Of the
congregation assembled in the woods
and cut and hewed the necessary tim
Der for the building. The result was
chapel 20x42 feet in size, afterward
moved, heightened and widened and de-
nominated "the old church =
The Rev. F. W. Hatch, formerly Of
Baltimore succeeded Mr.. Allanson and
during his encumbency an organ and
the bell now in use were procured. The
church was enlarged by seven feet adj
ditions ON each side. BY an interchange
of lots with Mrs. Fisk, moved to the
corner lot where it now stands.
In 1916 missionary aid vas with
drawn and the parish has been self
supporting since. Mr.. Hatch was given
salary Of 5000 per annum.
IT was in this year that the first
parsonage owned by the parish was
purchased for $1,000 with funds pro
cured by the Ladies Aid society
During the passionate Of the Rev. f.
"A. Bradley in 1870, an earnest effort
was made to get new church. The first
WORK was to get location approved
by majority of the CONGREGATION and