Ellinwood, T. J. (Truman Jeremiah), 1830-1921

  1. Ellinwood, T. J. (Truman Jeremiah), 1830-1921
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1844 Church of the Pilgrims established 1847 Plymouth Church established; Henry Ward Beecher installed as pastor 1849 Fire destroys Plymouth Church (January) 1850 New church completed (June) 1872 Henry Ward Beecher's Silver Anniversary at Plymouth Church (October) 1887 Death of Beecher; Beecher's funeral at Plymouth Church (March) 1888 Lyman Abbott installed as pastor 1898 Lyman Abbott's resignation announced (Fall) 1899 Newell Dwight Hillis installed as pastor 1902 Henry Ward Beecher Memorial plan instituted 1914 Arbuckle Institute dedicated 1918 Arbuckle Institute renamed Plymouth Institute (December) 1920 Plymouth Church damaged by fire (November) 1922 Death of Lyman Abbott (October 22) 1924 Newell Dwight Hillis disabled by cerebral hemorrhage; resignation announced 1927 James Stanley Durkee installed at Plymouth Church (January 27) 1927 Rose Ward Hunt ("Pinky") returns to Plymouth Church on occasion of 80th anniversary of Beecher's first sermon at Plymouth Church (May 15) 1929 Death of Newell Dwight Hillis (February 25) 1934 Consolidation of Plymouth Church and Church of the Pilgrims (Spring) 1939 Plymouth Institute renamed Plymouth Church House (May) 1940 J. Stanley Durkee's resignation announced (October) 1940 Plymouth Rock Celebration (December 21-23) 1942 L. Wendell Fifield installed at Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (May 22) 1951 Death of J. Stanley Durkee (September) 1954 L. Wendell Fifield's resignation announced (October) 1955 L. Wendell Fifield leaves Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (July) 1961 Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims designated Historic Landmark 1964 Death of L. Wendell Fifield (July) 1813 Born, Litchfield, Connecticut; youngest child of Lyman and Roxana Beecher (June 24) 1830 Entered Amherst College 1834 Graduated Amherst College 1834 Began theological studies at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (July) 1837 Graduated Lane Seminary. Began first pastorate at First Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceberg, Indiana 1837 Married Eunice White Bullard of Massachusetts 1838 First daughter, Harriet Eliza, born (May 16) 1838 Ordained at First Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceberg, Indiana (November 9) 1839 Installed at Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana (July 31) 1841 Son, Henry Barton Beecher, born 1847 Resigned from Indianapolis pastorate (August 15) 1847 Accepted call to Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (August 19) 1847 Installed at Plymouth Church (November 11) 1848 First mock slave auction at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City (December 7) 1849 Plymouth Church destroyed by fire (January 13) 1850 Departed on first trip to Europe (July 9) 1850 New church completed according to Beecher's design (January) 1856 Slave girl, Sarah, sold for her freedom at Plymouth Church (June 1) 1856 Leave of absence taken from Plymouth to campaign for the election of John C. Fremont as President 1858 Great Revival at Plymouth Church 1859 Farm purchased in Peekskill, New York 1860 Enslaved girl Sally Maria Diggs, "Pinky," (a.k.a. Rose Ward) auctioned for freedom (February) 1861 Appointed editor of the New York Independent (December 19; until 1864) 1863 Death of Lyman Beecher in Brooklyn (January 10) 1863 Departed on second trip to Europe; delivered speeches in England in support of the Northern cause (June) 1864 Campaigned for Abraham Lincoln 1865 Delivered address at raising of flag over Fort Sumter at close of Civil War (April 14) 1865 Fall lecture tour on Reconstruction issues 1866 Published Cleveland Letters on Reconstruction (September) 1867 Novel Norwood published 1869 Elected president of the newly formed American Woman Suffrage Association 1870 Became editor of the Christian Union (October, until 1881) 1872 Week long ''Silver Wedding'' celebration at Plymouth for Beecher's twenty-fifth anniversary as pastor (October) 1875 Beecher-Tilton trial in Brooklyn (January-June) 1876 Summer/Fall Lecture tour 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes elected; Beecher's former defense lawyer, William Maxwell Evarts, appointed United States' Secretary of State 1878 Appointed Chaplain of 13th New York Regiment 1878 Completed construction of summer home, "Boscobel," Peekskill, N.Y. 1880 Cooper Institute speech for James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur presidential ticket (October) 1882 Resigned membership in New York Congregational Ministerial Association over position in support of the theory of evolution (October) 1883 Summer lecture tour on topic of evolution and religion 1883 Plymouth Church celebration of Beecher's 70th birthday (June) 1884 Speech in support of Grover Cleveland at the Brooklyn Rink (October 22) 1885 Delivered eulogy on death of Ulysses S. Grant (October 22) 1886 Sailed on the "Etruria" with Mrs. Beecher and agent, J.B. Pond, on last trip to Britain (June 19) 1886 Returned to New York (October 24) 1887 Preached last sermon, "I am Resolved What to Do" (February 27) 1887 Death of Henry Ward Beecher (March 8) 1887 Funeral Service at Plymouth Church (March 11) 1887 Buried at Green-Wood Cemetery (March 12)

Plymouth Church and Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims:

The Church of the Pilgrims, the first Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York, was established in 1844 at Henry and Remsen Streets. Richard Salter Storrs was installed as its first pastor in 1846. As the population of Brooklyn grew and the number of congregants at Church of the Pilgrims increased, three of its members, John T. Howard, Seth B. Hunt, and Henry C. Bowen, with the assistance of David Hale from the Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York City, saw the occasion to establish a second Congregational Church in Brooklyn Heights. In 1847, nine additional members of the Church of the Pilgrims asked to be dismissed to help found this second church. By June of that year, a religious society with the name "Plymouth Church" had been formed. A certificate of incorporation was recorded in the clerk's office of Kings County on September 27, 1847.

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