Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-07
DR.. ]. N. MACRUDER
RESIGNS AS RECTOR
Gives Up St. Margaret's Church
to Accept Chaplaincy at
Camp Meade.
EFFECTIVE AFTER EASTER
Vestry of Westminster Parish Passes
Complimentary Resolutions Pre-
sented Rector Yesterday
Afternoon.


has accepted an appointment by
ing the Diocese of Maryland, to work
among the officers and men at Camp
Meade. and has resigned the Rector
ship of ST Margaret's, Westminster
Parish, across the Severn, where he
has held services for four years.
During that time not only has the
Parish made a new record in meet
ing all its expenses promptly, but al
so, in paying in full all missionary
pledges and appointments both dio-
cesan and general, as well as con-
tributing generously-to many worthy
objects beyond its borders.
At the invitation of the Rector
made addresses on religious and pa
triotic subjects at ST Margaret's dur
ing. DR.. Magruder's incumbency
Among these have been Governor
Phillips Lee Goldsborough; The Rev.
Lewis w Burton, Professors A. S.
Richardson and Geo. j. Schulz, of the
NJ. A. c.; Mr.. A. S. GoldsborOugh, of
Baltimore, Prof. Sidney S. Handy, of
Annapolis, and Doctor Thomas Fell,
President cf Saint Johns College.
About year ago, Doctor Magruder
as Rector of St Margaret's Church,
started a mission within the bounds
of his Parish at Pasadena on the An
napolis Short Line Railway. A very
desirable church has been purchased
at this point, and at the last visitation
of the Bishop to ST. Margaret's, the
Rector presented six candidates for
from this mission at
Pasadena.
The following resolution was pass
ed by the Vestry at a session held i'm
after services yesterday af-
ternoon:
"St. Margaret's, Westminster Parish,
March 6, 1918.
"The vestry of Saint Margaret's,
Westminster Parish, extend to our
retiring Rector, the Rev. James M.
d. D., our greatest appre-
citation and esteem for him and for
the valuable services that he has
given us, and for the good work that
he has done for the Church and the
Parish.
1--WE, also, wish him the greatest
success and happiness in the new field
of his activity.
BE it resolved, that copy of these
resolutions be presented to Doctor
Magruder and that they be inscribed
upon the minutes of this meeting q
(Signed)-etc.
In March, 1914, the Rev James M.
Magruder purchased part of the old
Dorsey estate, on the w, B. and A.
Electric Line about three miles out
from Annapolis, containing the orig
inal site of Hockey Hall, improving
the place very greatly and making it
his residence.
Before moving to Maryland, where
seven out of eight generations of his
family have lived since the earliest
planting of the Colony by Lord Bal
timore, Doctor Magruder was Rector
for five years of Trinity Church, Cow
ington, Kentucky. II has twice been
Deputy to the General Convention of
the Episcopal Church, was a Delegate
from South Carolina to the Pan-Amer-
ican Congress which met in London in
1908, and at the time of his removed
to Maryland with his family was
President of the Standing Committee
of the Diocese of Lexington and
Treasurer of the Cathedral Chapter
which administered the diocesan mis-
sionary funds.
DR. Magruder had not expected to
take any active duty for a while after
purchasing his home here. but accept
ed the Rectorship of st. Margaret's,
Westminster Parish, when the Vestry
consented TO his living in his own
home at Hockey Hall and going out
from there for services. He has re-
Gently purchased the Brashears prop
erty at 1S3-1S5 Duke of Gloucester
Street, which he has improved and
where he is spending the winter with
his family.