Columbia and the Church  of the Heavenly REsr
 

was soon successful in building up the new
parish, and in recognition of his accomplish¬
ments he was awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity by Columbia in 1863.

Clearly, Dr. Howland had a forward-
looking spirit, and he realized that the time was
right for the founding of another parish, in an
emerging neighborhood that was to become a
residential center of the city. The new church
grew out of services that were held in the
chapel of the Rutgers Female Institute, a
respected college founded in 1838, located at
the southeast corner of 42nd Street and Fifth
Avenue, in the castle4ike, block4ong "House of
Mansions" (ca. 1856) designed by Alexander
Jackson Davis. Across the street was the Croton
Reservoir (present site of the New York Public
Library). Almost from the very beginning,
arottnd 1867, the new church was a .success. It
was formally organized on 18 May 1868. The
distinctive name of the Church of the Heavenly
Rest was adopted as a memorial to those who
had died in the Civil War, and as a symbol of
peace and resurrection. The church's feast day
is All Saints Day.

The first building of the Chtirch of the
Heavenly Rest was opened in October 1868. It
stood at 551 Fifth Avenue, near 45th Street,
and with its ornate portico over the entrance,
and figures of trumpet-blowing angels at the
four corners of its tower, the church was a
conspicuous neighborhood landmark. The
architect was Edward Tuckerman Potter,
brother of Henry Codman Potter, bishop of
 

New York, under whose leadership the
construction of the Cathedral Church of St.
John the Divine was begun.

From its inception, the Church of the
Heavenly Rest was known not only for the civic
leaders among its parishioners, but also for its
social-service and educational programs amid
a diverse neighborliood, where mansions on
Fifth Avenue were only a short distance from
crowded tenements that filled the area east of
Park Avenue. These outreach programs were
energetically carried on by the Reverend David
Parker Morgan (1843-1915), an Oxonian
(B.A., Magdalen Hall, 1866) who, after serving
at posts in Wales, came to the Heavenly Rest in
1881 as an assistant. After the death of Dr.
Howland on 1 February 1887, Dr. Morgan
served as the church's rector until his retire¬
ment in 1907. About that time began the
Columbia association that is most specifically
commemorated in the Seal in the Herbert
Shipman Memorial Window of the present
church.

Herbert Shipman, who succeeded Dr.
Morgan as rector of the Church of the
Heavenly Rest, was born in Lexington,
Kentticky, on 3 August 1868. When he was
eight years old, his father, a clergyman, was
called to Christ Church, in New York, where
Shipman attended schocjl and entered
Columbia College. According to the junior
cla,ss bcjok. The Columbiad '90, Shipman was a
director of the Athletic Association, as well as
an excellent short-distance runner. In a track