| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
Minuit Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [REFO1901] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[REFO1901] |
| Memorial details: |
Peter Minuit [INSCRIPTION, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901] |
| Donor: |
William Leverich Brower [REFO1901, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Date: |
Unveiled 2 Nov 1900 [NYTR1900A, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901] |
| Lancets: |
1 [PHOTO, REFO1901] |
| Inscription: |
TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY / OF / PETER MINUIT / FIRST DIRECTOR GENERAL OF NEW NETHERLAND, / A. D. 1626 / AND THE FIRST ELDER OF THE CHURCH, / A. D. 1628 / AN INTELLIGENT AND GOD-FEARING MAN, / WITH GREAT EXECUTIVE ABILITY AND, / ENTIRELY INCORRUPTIBLE, A MAN NOT / SURPASSED IN WISE ADMINISTRATION OF / AFFAIRS BY ANY OF THE LONG LINE OF / STATESMEN AND PATRIOTS WHO, FOR / THE GREATER PART OF THREE CENT- / URIES HAVE BEEN THE EXECUTIVES / OF THE EMPIRE STATE / "THE GLORY OF CHILDREN ARE THEIR / FATHERS." "THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN / FOR THE GENERATION TO COME." / "TELL YE YOUR CHILDREN OF IT, / AND LET YOUR CHILDREN TELL / THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN / ANOTHER GENERATION." / ERECTED A. D. 1900 / BY A SUCCESSOR IN HIS ECCLESIASTICAL / OFFICE, IN DEVOUT RECOGNITION / OF THE TRUTH THAT, "A GOOD / NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN / THAN GREAT RICHES." [REFO1901, PHOTO] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
Krol and Huyck Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [REFO1901] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[REFO1901] |
| Memorial details: |
Sebastian Jansen Krol (1595 - 14 Mar 1674) and Jan Huyck (d. 1657) [INSCRIPTION, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901, FINDAGRAVE, WIKI] |
| Donor: |
William Leverich Brower [REFO1901, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Date: |
Unveiled 2 Nov 1900 [NYTR1900A, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901] |
| Lancets: |
1 [PHOTO, REFO1901] |
| Inscription: |
IN MEMORY OF / THE KRANKENBEZOEKERS / SEBASTIAN JANSEN KROL / AND / JAN HUYCK / OFFICERS OF THE ESTABLISHED / CHURCH OF THE NETHERLANDS, / WHO, A. D. 1626, CAME HITHER, / IN ADVANCE OF THE FIRST MIN- / ISTER, TO PERFORM THEIR / SACRED OFFICE OF MINISTERING / TO THE PEOPLE AN CONSOLING / THE SICK. / "THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WIL- / DERNESS." / "BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH / TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE / WORLD." / "COMFORT YE, COMFORT YE MY / PEOPLE." / "I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME." / GRATEFULLY ERECTED BY ONE, / HIMSELF ORDAINED TO THE OF- / FICE OF RELIEVING THE POOR, / "NOT ONLY WITH EXTERNAL GIFTS, / BUT WITH COMFORTABLE WORDS / OF SCRIPTURE." A. D. 1900 [REFO1901, PHOTO] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
Michaëlius Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [REFO1901] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[REFO1901] |
| Memorial details: |
Rev. Jonas Michaëlius (1577 - after 1638) [INSCRIPTION, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901, WIKI] |
| Donor: |
William Leverich Brower [REFO1901, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Date: |
Unveiled 2 Nov 1900 [NYTR1900A, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901] |
| Lancets: |
1 [PHOTO, REFO1901] |
| Inscription: |
TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY OF / THE REVEREND JONAS MICHAËLIUS / THE FIRST MINISTER OF / THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA. / WHO, A. D. 1628, ORGANIZED, IN NEW / AMSTERDAM, THIS CHURCH, WHEN "FULL / FIFTY COMMUNICANTS RECEIVED THE LORD'S / SUPPER -- NOT WITHOUT JOY AND COMFORT / TO MANY." / FROM THIS "BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF / JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD." THIS CHURCH / HAS "CONTINUED STEADFASTLY IN THE / APOSTLES DOCTRINE AND FELLOWSHIP, AND IN BREAKING OF BREAD, AND IN PRAYERS." / "MID TOIL AND TRIBULATION / AND TUMULT OF HER WAR, / SHE WAITS THE CONSUMMATION / OF PEACE FOR EVERMORE, / TILL WITH THE VISION / GLORIOUS / HER LONGING EYES ARE BLEST, / AND THE GREAT CHURCH / VICTORIOUS, / SHALL BE THE CHURCH AT REST." / ERECTED A. D. 1900. [REFO1901, PHOTO] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
Lanphier Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [REFO1901] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[REFO1901] |
| Memorial details: |
Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier (3 Sep 1809 - 26 Dec 1898) [INSCRIPTION, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Donor: |
his friends [INSCRIPTION, REFO1901] |
| Date: |
Unveiled 2 Nov 1900 [NYTR1900A, NYTR1900B, NYT1900, REFO1901] |
| Lancets: |
1 [PHOTO, REFO1901] |
| Inscription: |
TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY / OF / 1809 JEREMIAH CALVIN LANPHIER 1898 / FOUNDER OF THE / FULTON STREET PRAYER-MEETING. / "A DEVOUT MAN, AND ONE THAT FEARED / GOD, WHICH GAVE MUCH ALMS TO THE / PEOPLE AND PRAYED TO GOD ALWAY." / "THY PRAYERS AND THINE ALMS ARE COME / UP FOR A MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD." / IN THIS CHURCH, WITHIN / WHOSE SACRED PRECINCTS HE / WORSHIPPED THROUGHOUT HIS / LATER YEARS, HIS FRIENDS HAVE / REVERENTLY PLACED THIS TABLET, / SO THAT THE POWER OF A LIFE / GIVEN "CONTINUALLY TO PRAYER" / MAY BE SILENTLY PROCLAIMED TO / SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS. / A. D. 1900. [REFO1901, PHOTO] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
General Slocum Steamboat Disaster Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [GCA1904, CI1904, REFO1905] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[GCA1904, MVDA1904, CI1904, REFO1905] |
| Designer: |
Caryl Coleman [MVDA1904] |
| Memorial details: |
General Slocum steamboat disaster victims (15 Jun 1904) [GCA1904, NYTR1904A, NYTR1904B, NYT1904, MVDA1904, CI1904, REFO1905] |
| Donor: |
William Leverich Brower [GCA1904, NYTR1904B, NYT1904, CI1904, REFO1905, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Date: |
Unveiled 1 Nov 1904 [GCA1904, NYTR1904A, NYTR1904B, NYT1904, MVDA1904, CI1904, REFO1905] |
| Lancets: |
3 [PHOTO, CI1904, REFO1905] |
| Inscription: |
TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER / THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST / AND IN LOVING MEMORY / OF THAT COMPANY OF CHILDREN / A PART OF CHRIST'S FLOCK HERE / WHO ON A RADIANT SUMMER DAY / WHICH BEGAN LIKE A GARLAND OF FLOWERS / BUT ENDED LIKE A CROWN OF THORNS / GAVE UP THEIR INNOCENT LIVES / IN FIRE AND IN FLOOD / PASSING WITHIN THE VEIL / ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, A. D. 1904 / BY THE BURNING OF THE STEAMBOAT / "GENERAL SLOCUM" / IN THE WATERS OF THE EAST RIVER. / ARTHUR BENTZ / LUCILLE BOZENHARDT / WILHELMINA CHRIST / ELSIE DIEHL / CATHARINA OPAULINA GOETZ / MARJORIE HARTMANN / LOUISA MARY KASTNER / HENRY MARSHALL / ELSIE MEYER / AMELIA H. OHL / ESTELLA AMELIA RAMMELKAMP / ANNA JOHANNA RICHTER / CAROLINA SOPHIA JEANETTE SCHIRMER / EVA SCHMIDT / EMMA SCHULTZ / ANNIE THERESA CORETTA SCHEELE // LAVINIA JOHANNA SCHEELE / CLARA AUGUSTA WILHELMINA SCHEELE / ANNA STEEGER / HEDWIG HELENE MARIE TIMM / HENRIETTA AMANDA WILHELMINE TIMM / GEORGE WILHELM ADOLF TIMM / ALBERT EMIL TROELL / OTTILLIE MARIA VAN DUZER / ROBERT CASPER WOHLFERT / CHARLOTTE MAY WOHLFERT / THEIR NAMES HAVE BEEN LINKED WITH / THE "NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS" AND / "ALMIGHTY GOD OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF / BABES AND SUCKLINGS HATH ORDAINED / STRENGTH AND HATH MADE INFANTS TO / GLORIFY HIM BY THEIR DEATHS." / ALSO IN TENDER MEMORY OF THAT / GREATER COMPANY OF CHILDREN AND / OF THOSE OF RIPER YEARS NOT OF THIS / FOLD WHO PERISHED WITH THEM. / WHEN THOU PASSEST THROUGH THE / WATERS, I WILL BE WITH THEE, FOR I AM THE / LORD THY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, / THY SAVIOUR. / WHAT ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED / IN WHITE ROBES. AND WHENCE DAME THEY. / THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF / GREAT TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED / THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN / THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. // THEREFORE ARE THEY BEFORE THE / THRONE OF GOD, AN SERVE HIM DAY AND / NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE. AND HE THAT SITTETH / ON THE THRONE SHALL DWELL AMONG THEM. / THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE, NEITHER / THIRST ANY MORE; NEITHER SHALL THE / SUN LIGHT ON THEM NOR ANY HEAT. FOR / THE LAMB WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE / THRONE SHALL FEED THEM, AND SHALL / LEAD THEM UNTO LIVING FOUNTAINS OF / WATERS; AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL / TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. / A NOBLE ARMY: MEN AND BOYS, / THE MATRON AND THE MAID, / AROUND THE SAVIOUR'S THRONE REJOICE / IN ROBES OF LIGHT ARRAYED. / THEY CLIMBED THE STEEP ASCENT OF HEAVEN / THROUGH PERIL, TOIL, AND PAIN. / O GOD, TO US MAY GRACE BE GIVEN / TO FOLLOW IN THEIR TRAIN. / AMEN. / REVERENTLY ERECTED / ON THIS ALL SAINTS DAY, A.D. 1904, BY ONE WHO CHERISHES A DEEP AFFECTION / FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD / AMONGST WHOM HIS YEARS HAVE BEEN / SPENT IN HELPING TO PROCLAIM THE / EVERLASTING GOSPEL, AND WITH PROFOUND / GRATITUDE TO ALMIGHT GOD WHO "HATH KNIT / TOGETHER HIS ELECT IN ONE COMMUNION / AND FELLOWSHIP, IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF / HIS SON CHRIST OUR LORD." [CI1904, REFO1905, PHOTO] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Memorial name: |
Markham Memorial Tablet |
| Description: |
glass mosaic tablet [DEDUCED] |
| Signature: |
|
| Documentation: |
[DEDUCED] |
| Memorial details: |
Frank Gordon Markham (4 Apr 1891 - 5 Jun 1905) [REFO1907] |
| Donor: |
his friends [REFO1907] |
| Date: |
Dedicated 25 Dec 1906 [REFO1907] |
| Lancets: |
1 [REFO1907, DEDUCED] |
| Inscription: |
TO THE GLORY OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR / AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF / FRANK GORDON MARKHAM / APRIL 4TH, 1891 JUNE 5TH, 1905 / "AND JESUS CALLED A LITTLE / CHILD UNTO HIM" / "AND THEY SHALL WALK WITH ME / IN WHITE, FOR THEY ARE WORTHY" / TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND, / IN SPARKLING RAIMENT BRIGHT, / THE ARMIES OF THE RANSOMED SAINTS / THRONG UP THE STEPS OF LIGHT; / 'TIS FINISHED! ALL IS FINISHED, / THEIR FIGHT WITH DEATH AND SIN;/ FLING OPEN WIDE THE GOLDEN GATES, / AND LET THE VICTORS IN. / IN THIS CHURCH, WHERE HE RECEIVED / "THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO / THE SAINTS," HIS FRIENDS HAVE PLACED THIS / MEMORIAL ON THE FEAST OF THE HOLY / NATIVITY. AND REJOICING IN THE COMMUNION / OF SAINTS, THEY MINGLE THEIR VOICES WITH / HIS IN ASCRIBING ALL GLORY TO OUR LORD / CHRIST, "WHO TO DELIVER MAN DID HUMBLE / HIMSELF TO BE BORN OF A VIRGIN." / CHRISTMAS DAY, A. D. 1906. [REFO1907] |
| A2Z2004: |
From Abyssinian to Zion, A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship, David W. Dunlap (2004, p. 145) |
| CI1904: |
The Christian Intelligencer (23 Nov 1904, p. 755) |
| DEDUCED: |
Deduced from other information |
| FINDAGRAVE: |
Findagrave.com, for deducing biographical or genealogical information |
| GCA1904: |
Globe and Commercial Advertiser (29 Oct 1904, p. 11) |
| INSCRIPTION: |
Inscription on item |
| MVDA1904: |
Mount Vernon Daily Argus (9 Nov 1904, p. 4) |
| NPR2020: |
National Public Radio (5 Dec 2020) |
| NYP2020: |
New York Post (5 Dec 2020) |
| NYT1900: |
New York Times (27 Oct 1900, p. 9) |
| NYT1904: |
New York Times (2 Nov 1904, p. 6) |
| NYT2020: |
New York Times (5 Dec 2020) |
| NYTR1900A: |
New York Daily Tribune (24 Oct 1900, p. 14) |
| NYTR1900B: |
New York Daily Tribune (27 Oct 1900, p. 12) |
| NYTR1904A: |
New York Daily Tribune (1 Nov 1904, p. 4) |
| NYTR1904B: |
New York Daily Tribune (2 Nov 1904, p. 2) |
| PHOTO: |
Photo of item |
| REFO1901: |
Year Book of the (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York (1901, p. 330-335) |
| REFO1905: |
Year Book of the (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York (1905, p. 30-31, 167-173) |
| REFO1907: |
Year Book of the (Collegiate) Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York (1907, p. 541-543) |
| VS2020: |
The Village Sun (5 Dec 2020) |
| WIKI: |
Wikipedia |
