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...judges of the competition were Eliot Wadsworth '98, president of the Board of Overseers; M. A. DeW. Howe, and Joseph Lee '83, both members of the Board of Overseers; the Reverend S. A. Eliot '84, pastor of the Arlington Street Church; and E. K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin in the University...
Several of the early dwellers on this spot were not content with their condition in the new land. Still more religious freedom than they enjoyed was their goal and they moved out with the first pastor. Thomas Hooker. More grazing territory for their cattle, and a plan of keeping the Dutch out of Connecticut was their excuse for moving to Hartford, but a more vital purpose lay within. Nevertheless, others moved in to fill the vacant places, and the houses on this particular area remained inhabited. These were, in turn, handed down in the family, sold to strangers...
When correspondents from nearby Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) hastened out to query the pastor, he exclaimed...
...preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...