St. Peter's Church: Faith in Action for 250 Years

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INDEX Note: Page numbers followed by the letter f refer to photographs or illustrations. Abercrombie, James, 67 Acorn Club, 82 Affleck, ἀ omas, 35; communion table designed by, 11, 12f, 13f, 14 African Americans. See blacks African Episcopal Church of St. ἀ omas, 60, 61 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 61 All Saints Church, 108, 189 Allen, Richard, 32, 59, 60, 61; property owned by, 63 altar, 11, 14; frontal on, 80; reorientation of church toward, 80 Altar Guild, 186 American Anti-Slavery Society, 88–89 angels, carved by Rush, 4f, 5f Anglican Church: American version of (see Episcopal Church); blacks welcomed by, 56; outreach to Native Americans and slaves, 54; Oxford movement and, 95–97; petitioning for churches and, 20, 23–24; St. Paul’s independence from, 42 Annual Appeal, 175–176 anti-Catholic riots of 1844, 88, 89f Apautapea, 213 Archer, Colonel Samuel B., 232 arson, at St. Peter’s Church, 195f, 195–196 Asylum for Female Orphans, 218 Bacon, Edmund N., 169 Ballinger, Raymond A., 170, 193 banking: centralized system of, Jackson’s war on, 90, 92–93; Panic of 1837 and, 90 Bartlett, Bishop Allen, 193 Beck, Judith L. T., 240 Beecher, Henry Ward, 229 bell tower, 74–77; ball and cross on, 77, 84, 93, 94f; design for, 75–76; height of, 75; Strickland chosen to design, 74 bells, initiative to procure, 73–74 Benezet, Anthony, 55 Bernard, Nicholas, 34 Berry, Erica, 196 Bethel Church, 61 bicentennial of St. Peter’s Church, 177–178; celebration of, 182–183; preparations for, 179, 181 bicentennial of the United States, St. Peter’s Church restoration in anticipation of, 193 Biddle, Charles J., 232 Biddle, Cordelia, 199f, 240 Biddle, James, 75 Biddle, Corporal Julian Cornell, 232 Biddle, Nicholas, 17, 75, 208; Jackson’s feud with, 88, 90; Lippard’s attack on, 90 Bigigh Weautons, 213 Bingham, Hannah, 62 Bingham, Mary (Stamper), 62 Bingham, William, 26; stone marking burial site of, 62, 63f Bingham, Mrs. William, 30 Binney, Horace, Jr., 77f, 232; repairs proposed by, 77–78 Binney, Susan, 110 Bishop White Study (Sartain), 69f bishops: selection and consecration of, 49. See also specific bishops’ names bishop’s chair, 12f, 13f Bissell, Dr. Benjamin H., 170, 174 blacks: Anglican outreach to, 54; baptism of, 56; in choir, 178; Irish mob attack on, 96–97; minstrel shows and, 89; racial tension and, 88–89, 99–102; slavery and (see slavery). See also Jones, Absalom Blackwell, Hannah (Bingham), 62 Blackwell, Reverend Robert, 146, 232; death of, 62–63; house of, 146–147f, 173f; marriage of, 62 Blatz, Frederick William, 149, 224 Bowling Alone: ἀ e Collapse and Revival of American Community (Putnam), 125 box pews, 14–15f, 17, 28–30; assignment of, 25; declining number of rentals of, 68; holders of, 28–30; monitoring use of, 141–142, 186; plan of, 29f, 31f; removal by Roberts, 82, 83f, 84; rental rates for, 25, 28 Boyd’s Philadelphia Blue Book, 127 Bray Associates, 54–55 Bray Bible, 55f Bray Schools, 55–56 Brinton, Sharswood, 144, 146 British occupation, politics during, 30–32 Brooks, Phillips, 124 Browne, Elizabeth, 192, 199f Browne, Stanhope, 190, 192–193 Buell, Sally Lou, 194 building committee, 24–25 Bunting, Dorothy (Troyano), 63, 112, 143 Bunting, Horace, 63 248 Index burials, in churchyard, 62, 63f, 206–209, 209f, 211f, 211–214, 214f Burton, Rebecca, 110 Cadwalader, Elizabeth Lloyd, 207 Cadwalader, John, 28, 31, 207; house of, 40; slave ownership by, 32 Cadwalader, Margaret, 186 Cadwalader family, 30 Callahan, Charles, 164 Camp Wisawanik, 158–159f, 160 Carr, Benjamin, 75; memorial for, 213, 214f chancel, 4f; chairs in, 80; embellishments to, 80 Chapman, Allen B., 112, 141–142, 148 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 123 Chew, Benjamin, 30, 74, 208, 208f; politics of, 31; slave ownership by, 32 Chew, Samuel, IV, 232 Chew family, 30 Child, James, 25 children, presence in church, 239, 239f Christ Church, Philadelphia, 51f; growth of, 20; St. Peter’s Church as part of, 25, 26; start of, 20. See also United Churches Christ Church, Philadelphia (Gough), 67, 68 Church of the Holy Comforter, 108f, 123 churchyard, 202–203f, 203–215; burials in, 62, 63f, 206–209, 209f, 211f, 211–214, 214f; plantings in, 203, 204f, 205; Welcome Back Sunday picnic in, 212f Circumstance (Mitchell), 127 Ciucci, Anthony, 164 Civil War, 99–103; end of, 103; events leading to, 99–102; military hospitals and, 102 Clarkson, Dr. Gerardus, 232 Clarkson, Joseph, 218 Clay, Henry, 92 Clifford, Sarah. See Laughlin, Sarah (Clifford) clock, of William White, 68f Clymer, George, 28 Clymer...