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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. 312 words

Peter and St. John. On the east side of the transept and almost immediately over the font, is a memorial window, erected to Oswald Cammann, representing St. John baptizing our blessed Saviour in the river Jordan. All the before mentioned windows were manufactured at the royal stained glass manufactory at Munich, Bavaria. In the transept are also memorial vriudows to .Miles Standish Davidson and Kate Miles Davidson ;^lineal descendants of the celebrated soldier Miles Standish

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ihe first captain of the settlers at Plymouth, New England, who was honx ill England in 1584, and came to America with the pilgrim fathers w. ibio, and died 1656), children of the late Colonel M. O. Davidson, a cis'il engineer of distinction, representing the infant Jesus bearing the orb of empire; and also St. Catharine leaning upon the wheel, an emblem of t!ie tortures to which she was exposed. The wheel window in the gable end of the transept is a memorial to the late Mrs. jNIary Bailey Woolsey, wife of Theodore B. Woolsey, and daughter of Nathaniel P. Bailey, Esq., representing cross, anchor and flowers, among the latter the simple Marguerites'^ or Daisies predomionate, her chosen favorite. Another window on the west side of the transept is a memorial to Catharine and Eliza Howell, and represents one of Era Angelico's winged seraphs or angels, and Jesus bearing the lamb. In tlie south aisle of the nave is a memorial window to Oswald Cammann, Sen., one of the benefactors of the church and founder of the well known Banking house of Cammann & Co., of New York city, depicting in one compartment the Chalice, or sacramental cup, signifying faith ; in the other a crown of thorns, emblematic of suffering and victory. The north-west window in the nave is a memorial to Cliarles Drake, M.D., erected by his sister, Mrs.