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266 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
gelist, Bellefontaine, Ohio, and Clifford P. Wilson, Akron, Ohio, there
have been forty-eight accessions to the church.
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
On the fiftieth anniversary of Grace Church, May 30, 1885, the
Register contained a very full historical article by William P. Chapman
and Rice Harper, from Avhich the following article is taken:
"The first move to organize Grace Church was in the winter of
1834-35 at the residence of Josiah W. Hollister when the subject of
building a church Avas introduced by Mrs. John G. Camp and a proposition
to circulate subscription papers for a building was made. In March,
1835, a parish Avas organized at the residence of Oran Follett. Shortly
after this a contract Avas made by the vestry Avith Ogden Mallory to
build a church of the size of 45 ft. by 90 ft. on the ground which is still
a part of the present building, for the contract price of $6,758.11, and a
contract Avas also made with Bedortha & Mary to do a certain amount of
carpenter Avork and furnish materials for the sum of $2,100.00, all of
which became a debt against the Parish, Avhich together with the debt
OAving to the Bank of Sandusky made a large indebtedness which remained
for some years and until the charter was amended, giving poAver to
mortgage the church property so that the building could be finished and
the pews sold. The cornerstone was laid July 28, 1835. In December,
1843, the pews AAXTC sold at auction, from AA'hich sale a sufficient sum Avas
realized to reimburse Messrs. Hubbard, Hollister and Durbin for finish-ing
the church, $1,745.72, and to pay the Bank of Sandusky $400.00 and
John G. Camp $207.50 and other claims to the amount of $287.00, so
that the church was free from debt except a small balance on the bell
and organ, which AVIIS soon cancelled.
"From the time that Rev. Launsbury came, in December, 1843, the
Parish has always had a rector. The first vestry Avas composed of Abner
Rott, Senior Warden; Zenas M. Barker, Junior Warden; John G. Camp,
John M. Sloane, Ogden Mallory, Eleuthros Cooke, T. Neill, John Kinney,
James Hollister and W. M. Chapman."
The building AVIIS enlarged in 1852 by the addition of a transept at a
cost equal to the original expenditure, $8,000. In 1857 tAvo towers Avere
added and the front othenvise improved at an additional expense of
$8,000.
Under the pastorate of Dr. S. A. Bronson and Rev. W. Farr the
church enjoyed great prosperity for a quarter of a century. During this
time St. .Mary's Chapel in the Western Liberties, and St. Ann's in Camp'
Town, and later St. John's in the Liberties and Calvary Church in Camp
Town, which took the place oE St. Ann's, Avere erected, and in 1875 the
Good Samaritan Hospital Avasty'gun. During the pastorate of the Rev.
L. S. Osborne the present chapj'l of St. Lukes AVIIS built in 1878. The
present rector of Grace Chureli! is Edmund G. Mapes.