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Popular Southern Preachers Attract New York Congregations
Special correspondence surveys Southern clergy who shifted New York pulits in recent years. Rev W C Bitting of Mount Morris Baptist leads a Virginia heritage line, with his Harlem church drawing Northern converts. Dr William W Page of New York Presbyterian in Harlem advances English Gothic architecture and strong Northern Republican support. The notes profile young Rev Thomas Dixon Jr of Raleigh and the veteran Dr Charles F Deems of Church of the Strangers, plus other Southern ministers enriching New York's religious scene with eloquence and cross‑regional ties.
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New York
Sone
Gotham
South
W.C. Bitting
Virginia
Bitting
127Th Street
Mr. Bitting
Catskills
Harlem
William W. Page
New York Presbyterian Church
128Th Street
7Th Avenue
R. E. Lee
Appomattox
Page
Princeton Theological Seminary
Rutger
Houston Street
Thos. Dixon, Jr
Cleveland County
North Carolina
Mr. Dixon, Jr
Wake Forrest College
Johns Hopkins University
New York City
Raleigh
Boston
Dudley Street
Twenty- Third Street
Chas. F. Deems
Church of the Strangers
University
Washington Square
Deems
Crawford
Mobile
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Commodore
Mercer Street
Dr. Deems
St. ‘Thomas’ Episcopal Church
John Wesley Brown
Maryland
Baltimore
Dickinson Seminary
Williameport
Whittingham
Episcopal Church
Emmanuel Church
Sehneck
Clerc
Eas