vestryman
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He’d been a Columbia College trustee, a Trinity Church vestryman, president of the Philharmonic Society, co-founder of the Union League Club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
At various points in his life, he was an architect, a builder, a planter, a farmer, a church vestryman, a court justice, a sheriff, a county official and an innkeeper.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2018
He was a former vestryman at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Washington.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2016
Shaw's opinions on municipal politics and public health at the turn of the century were formed and sharpened by his years as a vestryman and borough councillor for the St Pancras district of London.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
The vestryman of the small village in the Venn felt somewhat surprised and embarrassed when such a fine lady and gentleman drove up to his house and wished to speak to him.
From The Son of His Mother by Viebig, Clara
In the early 1850s, three vestrymen from Christ Church founded the chapel, where services were led by lay members and volunteer students from Virginia Theological Seminary.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts.
From Time Magazine Archive
As middle-class neighborhoods decayed into slums, vestrymen and clergy often gave up, sold their empty churches to Pentecostal sects or parking lot operators.
From Time Magazine Archive
But before he left Detroit Dean Johnson had a final fling at vestrymen and congregation, made a final plea for the freedom of the pulpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was a very ticklish question with the pious vestrymen of Trinity, as it was generally suspected that they were commingling business and piety in a way that might, if known, cause them some trouble.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers
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