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Jacob Sherred

SHERRED, Jacob, donor, born in Germany, 23 January, 1756; died in New York city, 30 March, 1821. He was a glazier and painter, and had an extensive business in New York city. Sherred was a vestryman of Trinity church, and a tablet to his memory has been placed in its monument-room. When it was proposed to remove the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church to New Jersey, he was induced by his wife to leave to it $60,000, provided it should locate permanently in New York. Through his efforts and those of others St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal church was built as a place of worship for colored people, and he contributed generously toward its support. He also left a large sum to the orphan asylum in New York city. In 1883 the first of the new buildings erected on Cheshire square for the Theological seminary was named Sherred hall (see vignette). The other buildings of more recent erection are Pintard hall, named after John Pintard, and Dehon hall, so called in honor of the bishop of South Carolina. through whose efforts the seminary was established.

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