Excerpt from History of St. Paul's Church, Buffalo, N. Y., 1817 to 1888: Edited, With Foot Notes, Occasional Additions in the d104, and a Continuation of the History From 1888 to 1903 Charles W. Evans died February 8, 1889, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, leaving the History referred to above in manuscript. The Dedication to the Rev. Dr. Shelton, the Preface and the full text of the History of St. Paul's Church, Buffalo, by Mr. Evans, from 1817 to 1888 (pages 7 to 159 in this volume) are given as he left them in manuscript. It was his expressed wish that the present editors should prepare this part of the book for the press. Footnotes havebeen added wherever the interest of the narrative seemed increased thereby. We have also thought best to add such paragraphs as might serve to fill out the details of the story for present-day readers, and have therefore inserted in Mr. Evans's text extracts from Dr. Shelton's first sermon in the new church in 1851 (p. And portions of the sermons by Bishop Coxe and the Rev. Dr. Brown on the death of Dr. Shelton (p. 150, also a description of the church, published in 1851 (p. Written by the Rev. Dr. Charles Wells Hayes, who was present at the consecration in that year. Further details have also been added in some of the obituary accounts of parishioners, and elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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