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RARE Billhead Receipt - New York Times OBITUARY 1909 Rev John Brainard Auburn NY:
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RARE Original Billhead Receipt

Funeral Home Receipt
NEW YORK TIMES
Obituary for Rev. Dr. John Brainard - Rector at St. Peter\'s, Auburn, NY
Time Square, New York, NY
1909

For offer, a very nice old Advertising color lithograph letter head / billhead! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOTa Reproduction - Guaranteed !!

This came directly from papers from the Tallman Funeral home in Auburn, NY. These were discovered last year, and have not seen the light of day in over a century. Dr. John Brainard was well known in the 19th century for his leadership as rector of St. Peter\'s Church in Auburn NY, and began his work there during the Civil War, in 1863. An unusual piece of ephemera. Pencil information written on back.In very good condition. Fold marks. NOTE: Will be sent partially folded up as found. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect19thcentury Americana advertisement ad history, United States of America printing, American manufacturing, industry, unusual, art, death / post mortem related, etc.this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple offer wins! 3068

Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census.[3] It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat,[4] and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.Selah Cornwell Tallman, Undertaker,
Son of John K. and Mary Cornwell Tallman, was born at Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, December 20, 1855. Educated in the public schools of Auburn and Auburn High School, he also studied shorthand and type writing and in 1878 went with C. Aultman & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, Canton, Ohio, where he was employed for about a year and a half, when he went to Syracuse as private secretary to William A. Sweet, and from there to Auburn, with Sheldon & Co., axle manufacturers, where he remained for two years. He was them appointed official stenographer of the County and Surrogate\'s Courts, and for fourteen years served in that capacity, and as extra reporter in the United States and Supreme Court of New York State. He also sold the Remington and Smith-Premier typewriters, and carried on an extensive portrait-copying establishment, in partnership with W. I. Bennett, under the name S. C. Tallman & Co. At the death of his father, J. K. Tallman, in May, 1893, took up the undertaking department of his extensive livery, coach, and undertaking business, in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of H. A. & S. C. Tallman. At the death of his brother, Humphrey A. Tallman, in April, 1898, purchased his interest in the business. He is now conducting this business, under his own name, at 17, 19, 21, 23, and 25 Dill Street, as well as at 20 Water Street, employing from twenty to twenty-five men and over forty horses. He was married in 1878 to Tillie C. Bradford, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has two sons students in Cornell University, J. Bradford Tallman and Carol Cornwell Tallman. He is a Director of the Business Men\'s Association, member of the Royal Arcanum, Historical Society, City Club, Syracuse Automobile Club, and honorary member of the Syracuse Undertaker\'s Association, also member of the New York State Undertaker\'s Association,. He is an officer of the Auburn Automobile Club.AS THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY approached, John Brainard, rector of St Peter\'s Church, was nearing seventy. His accomplishment in Auburn, New York was monumental: a parish with few financial problems, a magnificent cathedral-like church and chapel, and many, many of the fine families of Auburn in his congregation. His second wife, Cornelia, one year his senior, the widow of Waterloo manufacturer Levi Fatzinger, kept his household running in the old Federal-period rectory next to the church. She had raised his son John Morgan as if he were her own, and managed his home life as well as his late mother-in-law Mrs. Judson had done in her time.
A young Reverend John BrainardJohn Brainard in his Civil War uniform(parish archives)Few ministers in the Episcopal Church had heaped upon them the memorials and distinctions that John Brainard received in the long years since he came to Auburn in 1863. From the first day it had been an exhilarating experience. On the train from Syracuse he had been accompanied by parishioner William H. Seward, the US Secretary of State, traveling home from Washington to Auburn to visit his sick son. Met at the station by General John Chedell and a large crowd of leading citizens, the little family was conveyed grandly to their new home in the memorable rectory on Genesee Street, Hobart House, as Brainard would later dub it.
Brainard was a man to keep prominent track of his anniversaries, and he reveled in their accumulation. His tenth anniversary as rector would lead on to his glorious twenty-fifth Anniversary in 1888, with its memorial booklet and a grand solid silver Tiffany vase. To mark the close of his thirty-sixth year as rector in 1899, two white oak trees were planted in front of the church. He had known and buried and shared in the honors of two great statesmen, Seward and New York Governor Enos T. Throop. Brainard had been nominated for bishop several times, and while never elected, he enjoyed the distinction. His forte lay in his vocation as beloved parish pastor. He was President of the Standing Committee of the diocese and trusted counselor to his bishop. And he was a Morgan from Connecticut.
\'Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat\'. First Kings 1:1 Advancing age and the increasing burdens of parish work made Brainard long for assistance, clerical assistance. The time when he had prided himself on the number of services he could conduct on a Sunday was in the past.
Those days when he had taken three services on the Lord\'s Day, plus a baptism and several funerals—with possibly an evening service at St John\'s thrown in—all in great stride, seemed to be long gone by. His success was his undoing. The wealthy were content to have their weddings and funerals and baptisms on days during the week.
The Revd John Brainard, an older portraitAn older John Brainard(parish archives)They took the time out or off as they pleased. But the growing numbers of the middling and lesser sort who flocked to St Peter\'s because of the services and programs Brainard had helped put in place, these factory and day workers could not afford to take a weekday for their religious practices. They wanted their funerals and the like on Sunday, their day of rest and unemployment. Every year that went by, the journey to a home for a baptism or a funeral, or to the burial grounds of Fort Hill or Soule or North Street, in the rain or snow, felt harder and harder. The oak tree planted in his honor in the churchyard in 1899 grew stronger with each year, but the oak of a man from Connecticut grew weaker.
He began to look about for an assistant, perhaps even someone to take over near the end. There was no retirement as such possible. Even bishops served until they dropped. Bishops De Lancey and Coxe had soldiered on until their final breath, confirming and preaching even when too weak to stand, bishop to the end of life. Perhaps John Brainard could engage a rector co-adjutor, an assistant enticed with the right to succeed him in office?
Then appeared the Chaplain of the Triumph Hose Company No.1. One day in late July 1900 there appeared in Auburn the Reverend Leonard J. Christler, rector of Calvary Church, Homer, and a native son of Waterloo.[1] As Chaplain of the Triumph Hose Company No.1 of Homer, he was called upon to make the response to the address of welcome in the first day\'s proceedings of the annual Central New York Firemen\'s Convention.
At the same time Dr. Brainard\'s journal reads, July 20. Friday: Began morning service in chapel but was taken sick and fainted. July 22. 6th Sunday after Trinity, ill in bed.[2] The 24-year-old visiting fireman/priest was conveniently called in to take the Hutchinson-Guion wedding in emergency, in place of Dr. Brainard who was indisposed.[3] A month later it was announced that Christler had been called to act as assistant rector to Dr. Brainard. He began to help on August 12th, 1900.
A young Leonard ChristlerThe Revd Leonard Christler(undated newspaper clipping)As the years passed Brainard began to style the young assistant Rector Co-adjutor. Though there is no such title in common use, it certainly carried weight and seemed to secure Christler as the guaranteed legal successor to the old rector. Gradually Christler was taking more and more of the occasional services of baptisms, especially those that were in the home or in the hospital, or of adults. His sister Jessie kept house for him, in their various apartments at No. 16 or No. 4 James Street, where she often stood as witness for the weddings performed in their small parlor.
It is not fair to say that Christler completely took over, but by 1905-06 he was performing eight out of ten weddings, most of the baptisms, and in 1905, all of the funerals and interments. John Brainard was plainly and practically out of commission. When Brainard\'s wife Cornelia Kern Fatzinger died in 1905, it was Christler who read the burial office. And he also officiated at the 1905 funeral of 81-year-old David Wadsworth, father of David M. Wadsworth, Jr., and grandfather of a recent Wells College graduate, Miss Anna Wadsworth. The Wadsworths, with a fine large home at 186 Genesee Street, were the proprietors of the Wadsworth Scythe Factory on Wadsworth Street.
In April of 1906, Brainard, weaker, scarcely capable of public appearance, having made no entries in his clerical journal since early 1905, announced to the Vestry of St Peter\'s that he could no longer serve, and that he wished to give up his salary and retire to his lonely rectory. Yet somehow at this extreme, he managed to disengage Leonard Christler from the rectorship of St Peter\'s Church.
One principal source for understanding why this took place is the account given by the Rev. Arthur Byron-Curtiss in his Reminiscences written in 1950.[4] He describes Leonard Christler in the following unflattering passage.
A \'Rev. Christler\' had prepared for orders at St Andrew\'s Divinity School.[5] He came from a poor family of the village [of Waterloo], and I guess his success in entering professional life, together with a lack of grace, made the dear fellow awfully pompous, conceited and aggressive. He was assistant to Rev. Dr. Brainard—for a while. Dr. B was getting old and somewhat feeble, and Christler just rode over the old rector.[6]
How the break was achieved can be inferred from Brainard\'s letter in the vestry minutes of April 19, 1906:
Gentlemen, as you are already aware no doubt, the Rev. Leonard J. Christler, my assistant, has resigned, and that his resignation has been accepted, taking effect at the close of the service on Sunday last.
That Brainard had precipitated some crisis to force the young man out, without alienating him fully, is indicated by the subsequent assertion of Byron-Curtiss that the old rector found his dismissed rector co-adjutor a new position appropriate to Christler\'s talents:
The solution? Montana. In despair, Dr. Brainard appealed to the young man\'s old rector, Dr. Duff at Waterloo. Between them they got Christler to go to Montana to do missionary work under Bishop Brewer. Bishop Brewer had been rector of Trinity Church, Watertown, and Dr. Duff told the Bishop to call Christler Archdeacon and he would knuckle down and hustle the work. It worked out as they planned, and Christler even called himself by the usual flashy label, of Bishop of All Outdoors.
But before Mr. Christler could be fobbed off to Montana, his friends in Auburn put up a struggle. He had joined a variety of fraternal organizations, the Masons, the Elks, and the Firemen. He was in demand as a speaker for these and had circulated widely in Central New York. Immediately that his chute became known, a petition campaign was drummed up in the newspaper [7] and the vestry were troubled with petitions to keep him on, while Dr. Brainard was announcing the assistant\'s resignation.
Petitions presented on behalf of Mr. Christler were read and referred to the committee appointed to confer with Dr. Brainard, read the Vestry Minutes of April 19, 1906. They were dealt with at the meeting of May 2, 1906: The special committee to whom the petitions on behalf of Rev. L.J. Christler was referred returned them to the Vestry for consideration. Resolved, that it is the sense of the Vestry that the best interests of the Church made it inexpedient to comply with the requests of the petitioners.[8]
Newspaper clipping, Auburn Daily, 20 April 1906The Auburn Daily,20 April 1906\'Mr. Christler can not and must not leave the city\' So the reason for excluding Christler from the rectorship was, that active as he might have been, he had worn out his welcome with Brainard, had overreached himself, and was not acceptable to the upperclass professionals and manufacturers who constituted the Vestry of St Peter\'s, and who now found themselves solely responsible for choosing the next rector. Byron-Curtiss makes clear that the assertive mill hand\'s son from Waterloo did not know his place. A sure sign of the class conflict inherent in Christler\'s departure is the nature of his support. In addition to the fraternal organizations who \'say that Mr. Christler can not and must not leave the city, a delegation of laboring men visited Mr. Christler with a petition signed by two hundred laboring men\'. The laborers are stated to have offered him \'generous financial support if he would make up his mind to remain among the citizens of Auburn\'. \'All the parish societies\' are represented as having petitioned the Vestry on behalf of the young assistant, who visited the needy, ministered to the sick in the hospital, and played the Santa Claus to hundreds at Christmas time.[9] The smell of opposition and competition, if not insurrection, was plainly in the air.
But Leonard was wise enough to decline a public reception, \'offered as a mark of the esteem and appreciation in which he is held by the men and women and children in all walks of life\'.[10] And the Vestry held firm.
Thus Dr. Brainard was able to live out his years in the rectory until 1909, without having to contend with Leonard Christler\'s boorish ambition. Instead the vestry found the old rector another assistant in the person of the Reverend Norton T. Houser, rector of East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Mr. Houser arrived even before Mr. Christler was fully packed and proved himself diligent, professional, and sufficiently reserved to guard his circumstances. When Brainard finally passed away, Houser made it clear to the vestry that he did not feel entitled to become the rector automatically. The vestry elected him anyway.