*** Source: Trinity Church, San Jose, California: Advent, 1860, to Easter, 1903. San Jose, Calif.: Trinity Parish Guild, 1903. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 21--- In April, 1899, having served as rector of the parish for nearly fifteen years, Rev. John B. Wakefield tendered his resignation, to take effect on September the first of the same year. As a token of affectionate regard, and in appreciation of his long service, the vestry conferred upon him the title of Rector Emeritus. Just at the time when the parish was without a rector and wholly dependent upon its vestry, a real loss was felt in the death of two tried and trusted vestrymen, Judge A. S. Kittredge and Edward Williams. After the resignation of Rev. John B. Wakefield, Rev. Burr Miller Weeden responded to a call from the vestry and entered upon his duties as rector of the parish in October, 1899. As the church was again becoming over-crowded at the Sunday services, it seemed wise to look for more space for building purposes. The lot adjoining the church property on St. John Street was secured for the sum of twenty-eight hundred dollars. Trinity Parish Guild, composed of women of the parish, and incorporated with full power to act in legal transactions, undertook the responsibility of paying for the lot, and had paid, up to Easter, 1903, all but five hundred and fifty dollars of the required sum. The growing work of the parish called for an assistant for the rector, and the reestablishment of a system of pledged offerings made it possible to engage the services of a curate. In October, 1900, the men of the Parish organized as "Trinity Brotherhood." The object of the Brotherhood, as defined in the constitution then adopted, was to "pro- mote the interests and quicken the activities of Trinity Church by interesting men in its energies, thereby increas- ing its virility and extending its power in the community." In November, the Very Rev. F. B. A. Lewis, Dean of the Convocation of San Jose, who had been for many *** end ***