An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau.

  • Edward Livingston Trudeau
Date:
1916
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Credit: An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to time, and in the fall of 1876 I started a sub¬ scription list for a little log chapel. I also wrote to my old friend, Mrs. Louis Livingston, who I knew loved the place, and asked her to help. She responded by holding a fair in her parlors in New York, and sent me fourteen hundred dollars as the result of her efforts. The rest of the money came from appeals to the guests. This was the beginning of a lifetime of begging money from my friends, an occupation I have carried on unceasingly, and, thanks to the con¬ stancy of their friendship, rather successfully for forty years. Paul Smith gave the land and the logs—and what logs they were!—the finest of white pine, of full growth. Mrs. Rosman donated the chancel window; Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Low, an end window in memory of an old guide; the Reverend T. C. Norton, the bishop’s chair; Mrs. R. M. Townsend, the bell; the Reverend W. A. Leonard, the reading desk; Miss Rosman, the surplice; and the com¬ munion service was given by the Reverend and Mrs. John P. Lundy. Other gifts, such as a brass book-rest, linen, a font and an organ, were added as years passed. The little chapel was designed by Mr. Hathorne, a New York architect, who gave the plans. The exterior was of oiled logs with a shingled roof, almost square, with a chancel at the north end. The interior walls were stone-colored plaster, wainscoted with black walnut, and the roof a
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