Word: rainsford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, 52, rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, onetime assistant, later successor, of the Rev. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (longtime [1882-1906] rector of St. George's Church, Manhattan, worship-place of John Pierpont Morgan et al); in Newport...
Married. Dr. William S. Rainsford, 76, "outspoken" Manhattan clergyman, formerly rector of St. George's Church; to Miss Harriet Rogers, 46, granddaughter of the late famed Manhattan capitalist, Hamilton Fish...