Church of the Holy Trinity collection 1851-1958

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Church of the Holy Trinity collection 1851-1958

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Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity was founded in 1840. After more than a century of serving as one of Brooklyn's most esteemed Episcopalian institutions, the Church was closed in 1957 over a controversy involving the supposed communist activities of its assistant rector, William Howard Melish. The Church of the Holy Trinity collection spans the period 1851 to 1959 and contains materials relating to the Church's administration, activities, and history. A small portion of the collection also pertains to the Melish controversy of the 1950s. Items include yearbooks, proceedings, issues of the Church's newsletter, and additional ephemeral literature.

1.68 Linear feet; in six manuscript boxes.

Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6329933

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Melish, William Howard, 1910-

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John Howard Melish was born in Milford, Ohio in 1874; attended the University of Cincinnati, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; became associate rector of Christ Church in Cincinnati in 1900; and came to Brooklyn to serve as the rector for the Church of the Holy Trinity in 1904. In 1915-16, he gained some fame within the church for his efforts to give women the right to vote in the annual parish meetings of the Episcopal Church. He was...

Church of the Holy Trinity (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Episcopal church founded in Brooklyn Heights in 1847. John Howard Melish was pastor of the church from 1904 until 1949 when he was ousted by the vestrymen because of his son's political activities. The son, William Howard Melish, who was associate pastor of Holy Trinity from 1939 to 1958, was a supporter of civil rights and controversial causes. The controversy involved the congregation in hearings before the diocese and appeals to the courts until the diocese declared t...

Benevolent Association of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).

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Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity was founded in 1840. Its distinct Gothic Revival building, designed by noted church architect Minard LeFevre, opened for worship in 1847 at the corner of Montague and Clinton Streets in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights. Over the course of the next century, the Church was regarded as one of Brooklyn's esteemed Episcopalian institutions. However, in the late 1940s, controversy erupted surrounding the Church's Head Rector, John Howard Melish, a...

Melish, John Howard, 1874-1969

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John Howard Melish was born in Milford, Ohio in 1874; attended the University of Cincinnati, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; became associate rector of Christ Church in Cincinnati in 1900; and came to Brooklyn to serve as the rector for the Church of the Holy Trinity in 1904. In 1915-16, he gained some fame within the church for his efforts to give women the right to vote in the annual parish meetings of the Episcopal Church. He was...