Regular annual meeting of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church

02/06/1919 |

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The regular annual meeting of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church took place this evening in the parish house.

R. Eaton Phyfe presented a resolution on the death of John Voorhees.
Atwood Collins presented a resolution on the death of Joseph Twichell.
Martin Welles presented a resolution on the death of Howard Walter.
Samuel Prentice moved to authorize the appointment of a committee of fifteen for the hearing candidates for pastor.

The members of this committee would be appointed jointly by the standing committees of the church and the ecclesiastical society
The members would include at least three members of both bodies

Charles Blake suggested that a tablet be placed at Voorhees’s grave in Newburgh.

After some discussion, this suggestion was referred to the prudential committee with power

James Wyper reported that a memorial window or some other form of memorial in the church for Voorhees was already under discussion.
Elections for officers

Clerk: Charles Case
Treasurer: Charles C. Russ
Deacon: Martin Welles, for a term of six years, to succeed Samuel Prentice
Prudential committee: Anna Morris Perry and L. Belle Gorton
Auditor: Alfred T. Richards
Sunday School Superintendent: John Wetzel
Sunday School assistant superintendent and historian: Frederick C. Gustetter
Sunday school primary superintendent: Mrs. Martin Wells
Sunday school home department superintendent: Marguerite Colton
Sunday school secretary: Stanley Blake
Sunday school assistant secretary: Robert Hoskins
Sunday school treasurer: Josiah Woods
Sunday school auditor: Samuel G. Huntington
Sunday school pianist: Bertha Williams
Delegates to the City Mission Board: E. Sidney Berry, Mrs. Herbert S. Bullard, Frederick C. Gustetter, Ellen G. Means, and Charles F. School.
Delegates to the Hartford Federation of Churches: Charles Blake, Robert M. Brewster, William C. Holden, Edwin Knox Mitchell, and Frank H. Whipple.

Contributions for special objects were $9,097
Disbursements: $9,255 (deficit made up by cash on hand from beginning of the year)
Total receipts down from previous year

The Asylum Hill Congregational Society would meet on March 5, 1919, at which time they would approve a memorial window to John Voorhees.

The Asylum Hill Ecclesiastical Society confirmed Prentice’s motion in a meeting held immediately after the church’s meeting.
Charles Blake had represented the church at Voorhees’s burial in Newburgh, and so would have been familiar with Voorhees’s grave.

Unattributed, “Memorial tablet for Dr. Voorhees,” Hartford Courant, February 7, 1919, page 9.

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