Rev. Peterson Lays Cornerstone

New York, 1895

AMONG THE CHURCHES.

Doings of the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church of Middle Village, the Rev. D. W. Peterson, pastor, laid the cornerstone of a new school on Sunday. Addresses were made in the German language by The Rev. G. C. Berkemeier, and in English by the Rev. J. B. W. Haas.

Bishop Littlejohn will confirm a class in St. Ann's church, Sayville, the latter part of this month.

The new mission chapel at Lynbrook was dedicated Tuesday evening by the Rev. A. McNichol of Brooklyn.

H. W. Meyer, of Glendale, is about to erect a handsome church in that village in memory of his daughter, who died a short time ago. The building will cost $30,000.

The Rev. Walter Irving Steckel, in charge of St. Timothy's Episcopal church, Brooklyn, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Littlejohn at the Garden City Cathedral on Sunday morning.

At the annual meeting of St. George's church, Hempstead, Augustus Denton and Thomas H. Clowes were chosen wardens and B. Valentine Clowes, George W. Earle, Birdsall Post, Bergen R. Carman, J. W. B. Van De Water and J. H. Van Nostrand vestrymen.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 8.