New Baptismal Font Dedicated at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

The baptismal font was installed yesterday.

“The congregation at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church was surprised yesterday to see standing on the platform to the left of the pulpit, an elegant baptismal font of marble which was put in place in the church Saturday.”

1. Porter Bourne Chase was 10-months old.
2. Porter was George L. Chase’s grandson, Charles E. Chase’s son, and Isabel Longley’s nephew.

Unattributed, “Elegant Baptismal Font,” Hartford Courant, April 19, 1897, page 8.