MARSHALL EVENING CHRONICLE
MONDAY AUGUST 11, 1941
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H.C. Brooks Relates Religious History of Early Marshall

~Mr. Schuyler was born January 9th, 1814, in New York City, studied at Geneva (now Hobart) college and graduated from union college in 1834, turning to the study of law. In 1835 he came to Marshall to visit friends, and altho his intended destination was Ohio, he was impressed with the future possibilities of Marshall and obtained a position in the office of register of deeds in the newly formed County of Calhoun. In the summer of 1836 he engaged in the hardware business with David Wallingford. This business was carried on in the old Comstock Block on Exchange Street. Many today remember that old building which stood across the street from the home of the late Mrs. Belle Perrin. Built in 1836, it was the first brick business block in the village. Mr. Schuyler returned to Seneca county, New York, in September of that year, and was united in marriage with Sara Sandford.

~Shortly after being settled in Marshall, Mr. Schuyler started the first Episcopal Sunday school in his home. In this undertaking his young wife greatly aided, not only by gathering in the children, but by playing the piano and leading in the singing of the hymns.

~As time went on his early religious training constantly influenced his daily life and thot, and the urge to enter the ministry became more and more insistent. While in serious contemplation of such a step, a heavy sadness came in the loss of two baby daughters. This seemed to decide the ____, for shortly thereafter he sold out his interest in the hardware business to his partner, and, leaving his brother-in-law, George Woodruff, to close out his other business ventures, he returned with his wife to his old home on Seneca Lake, New York, and began to prepare himself for the work of the church.

~On May 27, 1841, soon after his ordination to the diaconate, he was extended a call to the rectorship of Trinity Parish, at a salary of $600 per annum. Thus he became the second rector of the very parish which head been organized mainly thru his efforts--a very unusual circumstance. In later years it amused him to relate the fact that on one of his missionary rounds in the neighborhood of Marshall he was introduced to the congregation as "The Reverend Montgomery Schuyler, of the well-known firm of Schuyler & Wallingford."

~On July 31, 1941, the only surviving child, a boy of four months, was taken from Sara and Montgomery Schuyler and buried beside his sisters in the little cemetery that overlooked the village. In September his devoted wife was stricken with the same malady which then swept thru the community, and after a brief illness was laid to rest beside her children. For a time Mr. Schuyler was stunned by these swift blows and took refuge in the old home in New York state with his mother and sisters. On his return to Marshall he delivered on November 7th, a sermon on the text: "For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us
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