vestryman
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vestrymen
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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
Lynn held several offices in the Masonic lodge and served for years as vestryman of St. Paul's Church.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore
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
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
His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1932, after Dr. Cowles had treated several thousand patients in St. Mark's, the vestrymen told Dr. Cowles to clear out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The slump in finances by reason of removals created something akin to panic in the fearful and timid vestrymen, but because of some loyal and far-sighted women Christ Church was not disbanded.
From Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Warren Crocker Herrick
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