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Brooklyn Standard Argus Jan 6, 1882. CLERGYMEN OF OLD BROOKLYN. Mr.A.D.MATTHEWS then read his paper entitled "A Few Recollections of the Clergymen of Old Brooklyn." At the commencement Mr.MATTHEWS spoke of Rev. Charles Pettit McILVAINE, whom he met in 1828 at old St.Ann's corner of Washington and Sands Streets. During the cholera epidemic of 1832 Mr. McILVAINE endeared himself to many by going
from house to house among the sick and comforting the bereaved.accompanying him were Captain HUDSON, George HALL and others. In 1833 he was elected Bishop of Ohio, and the Rev. Benjamin Clark CUTLER filled his place in Brooklyn for thirty years afterwards. Dr. CUTLER was described as one among a thousand, who for the last twenty-five years of his life was President of the City Mission and Tract Society,
which embraced pastors of all denomination. In those days there was a fraternity of feeling between the clergy as well as church members of various denominations, which one fails to see in later years. Coming next to Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson COXE, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Cranberry Street, the site of the present Plymouth Church
Lecture Room, Mr. MATTHEWS said he was a man of commanding presence, of great learning and of wonderful memory. During a visit paid to Rev. Dr. CHALMERS of Scotland, Dr.COXE rebuked him for having wine and brandy on his table. Dr. COXE lived a long time on Fulton Street, near Hanson
Place, and died recently at an advanced age. Rev. Ichabod S. SPENCER was am eminent minister of the Second resbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. George W. BETHUNE, of the Dutch Reformed Church, was a preacher of great power, a scholar and a poet, For many years his wife was an invalid. The Dr. and his wife sailed for Italy, and for about two years he occupied the pulpit of the American Church in Rome. Both died there. The Rev. Evan Malbone JOHNSON was long the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church,
He left a former charge at Newtown, Long Island, in 1827, and built that year, in Johnson Street, with his own means, and on his own land, the church known as St. John's. For many years the seats were free to all, and the minister was a most liberal distributor of blessings to the poor.
Loads of wood, baskets of groceries And other things were freely sent to widows and orphans. In the latter part of his ministry he fitted up an old market in High Street, now the site of Grace Mission Chapel, as a mission, which he kept up until age and infirmity compelled him to retire. He died in his house in PearlStreet lamented by thousands who had been blessed by his bounty. At the close Mr. MATTHEWS made a brief reference to Rev. Mr. CARROLL, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Cranberry Street, in 1828,
and for a few years later; also to Rev. Dr. BROADHEAD, Dr.DWIGHT, of the Dutch Reformed Church and the Rev. Nathan BANGS and Rev. Dr. LEVINGS, of the Sands Street Methodist Church. The thanks of the society were tendered to Mr. MATTHEWS, and after some remarks by S.M.OSTRANDER, John W. HUNTER, William E. SPRAGUE and others an adjournment took place. I am not related & have no other info.
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