Identifier: historyofqueensc00newy (find matches)
Title: History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Queens Co., N.Y Queens Co., N.Y
Publisher: New York W.W. Munsell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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about fourteen years. The congregation ofChrist church after a time became the possessors of theproperty of St. Matthews congregation and took thename of the latter organization. In pursuance of a re-solve to found a new church, Dr. Geissenhainer estab-lished St. Pauls, of which he was pastor until his death,June 2nd 1879. The first preaching was in a hall inEighth avenue. A church was built in 1842, at the cor-ner of Sixth avenue and Fifteenth street, chieflythrough the liberality of Dr. Geissenhainer himself. Itis a fine stone structure and the valuation of the propertynow reaches $80,000. Dr. Geissenhainer organized St.Pauls church with eleven poor families. The congrega-tion now has about 1,300 communicants and the Sunday-school has a membership of over 600 scholars. Through Dr. Geissenhainers efforts, and largely at hisown personal cost, the Lutheran Cemetery at Middle Vil-lage was established, it being his design to open a placeof sepulture where graves would be sold at such low
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