Meeting of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society

03/05/1919 |

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The Asylum Hill Congregational Society met this evening in the parish house.

Samuel Prentice presided as chair.
The members in attendance voted unanimously to appoint a committee of 10 people to solicit funds and to arrange for a memorial to John Voorhees.
They also voted to extend Voorhees’s salary as well as use of the parsonage to Juliana Voorhees through July 1.
Hewett Coburn was added to the society’s committee for a term of five years.
Routine business was conducted, including the submission of the financial report.
$500 was voted to John Wetzel in addition to his salary as an appreciation of his work in the church and Sunday school since last September.
James Wyper read the report of the society’s committee.

The regular annual meeting of the church was held on February 6, 1919. John Wetzel was elected superintendent of the Sunday school at that meeting.

On March 22, 1919, the Courant would report that friends of the Voorheeses were helping Juliana Voorhees to purchase a new home in Hartford.
The church announced its intention to raise $1,500 for the memorial window to John Voorhees on June 10, 1919.

In today’s dollars, John Wetzel’s bonus was $7,893.
Frederick Small was retiring from the society.
The society did not move to nominate anyone for the committee of fifteen organized to consider candidates for the new pastor.

Unattributed, “Memorial window to Dr. Voorhees,” Hartford Courant, March 6, 1919, page 12.

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