522 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



same. Oswald Cammann, Esq., in the Chair ; William Watson Waldron, 

 acting as Secretary. It was then and there, 



Resolved: "That the persons present do proceed to incorporate themselves as 

 a religious Society in Communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 

 United States of America ; and that the said Church and Congregation he known 

 in law, by the name and title of the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of St. 

 James' Church in the Manor of Fordham, town of West Farms, County of West- 

 chester. The meeting proceeded to choose two church-wardens and eight vestry- 

 men for the said church, when the following persons were elected : Lewis G. 

 Morris and William Alexander Smith, church-wardens ; Oswald Cammann, 

 Francis AlcFarlan, William Watson Waldron, George Bement Butler, Samuel R. 

 Trowbridge, Gulian Ludlow Dashwood, William Ogden Giles and Nathaniel 

 Piatt Bailey, vestrymen." 



In 1864 the vestry purchased two acres of land, near the village of 

 Fordham, adjoining to and fronting on the grand Central Avenue lead- 

 ing from New York to White Plains. Here the corner stone of the new 

 Church of St. James was laid May 28th, 1864. The building so auspici- 

 ously begun was completed the following year, and consecrated on All 

 Saints day (Nov. 1st) by the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of the Diocese; the 

 Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., rector of the Trinity church, New York, 

 preaching the sermon. The edifice which is constructed of native stone, 

 with red sand-stone trimmings, is in the early English style, consisting of 

 nave, southern transept and apsidal chancel ; to which it is proposed to 

 add in the future a tower over the south-west entrance. 



The four chancel windows, which are exceedingly rich both in tone 

 and color, represent the Evangelists, between which is depicted the 

 calling of the Apostle St. James the Great or the Elder (who was nearly 

 related to our Saviour) an angel in the back ground bearing a sword 

 emblematic of his martyrdom. The fourth in this beautiful group of 

 windows is a memorial one erected by the parishioners to the memory of 

 George P. Cammann, M.D., one of the founders of the church and the 

 inventor of the world renowned " Cammann's Stethescope" — a discovery 

 which this noble and humane individual presented gratis to the medical 

 profession — representing the healing of the lame man at the Beautiful Gate 

 by St. Peter and St. John. On the east side of the transept and almost 

 immediately over the font, is a memorial window, erected to Oswald 

 Cammann, representing St. John baptizing our blessed Saviour in the river 

 Jordan. All the before mentioned windows were manufactured at the 

 royal stained glass manufactory at Munich, Bavaria. In the transept 

 are also memorial windows to Miles Standish Davidson and Kate Miles 

 Davidson (lineal descendants of the celebrated soldier Miles Standish 



