Your TR Source
John M. Schick, pastor of Grace Reformed Church, acknowledges President Roosevelt’s check for 10 dollars, which he sent as a contribution to the $70,000 offering to Foreign Missions. The offering is being given to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foreign board.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-11
Pastor Schick acknowledges the kind note and President Roosevelt’s donation for a Christmas offering for the congregation’s poor fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-23
John M. Schick thanks President Roosevelt for a fifty dollar check and will divide it between missions and a widows fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-29
Reverend Schick of Grace Reformed Church in Washington, D.C., thanks President Roosevelt for an autographed photo he sent for inclusion in the church’s yearbook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-29
Reverend Schick of Grace Reformed Church in Washington, D.C., requests an autographed photo of President Roosevelt, and if possible, a brief message, for the church’s western yearbook. The book is published in Ohio, and the people there love the president “deeply.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-25
Reverend Schick thanks President Roosevelt for his generous donation in support of Grace Church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-19
Reverend Schick of Grace Reformed Church thanks President Roosevelt for his donation to the church’s Christmas poor fund. He also thanks Roosevelt for the sympathy message and wreath he sent to the funeral of Commodore William H. Shock, which was appreciated by Shock’s family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-20
Reverend Doctor Schick expresses gratitude for the gift of a rare wooden vase. The vase is made with wood taken from John Bunyan’s cottage in Elstow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-05
Reverend Schick expresses thanks for the President’s gifts of $50 to the Grace Church and $25 for its mission work in Japan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-14
Reverend Schick informs President Roosevelt that Roosevelt’s greetings to the Alliance of Reformed Churches were received enthusiastically by all those in attendance. Schick also reports that delegates at the meeting from all over the United States are supporting Roosevelt’s reelection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-01
Reverend Schick, pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Washington, D.C., congratulates President Roosevelt on receiving the nomination for president and relays a story about meeting Joseph Hodges Choate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-24
Reverend Schick offers to extend President Roosevelt’s greeting to the assembly of Reformed Ministers and Elders at the World’s Alliance of Reformed Churches, where he will be giving an address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-09
Reverend Schick relates a reported incident that occurred in the late 1870s. During the War of 1812, Admiral Hillyar of the HMS Phoebe captured the USS Essex. Several decades later, a subsequent American ship, also named Essex, visited Plymouth, England, and hosted Hillyar’s elderly widow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-19
Reverend Schick believes that President Roosevelt is doing more then his full share in support of Grace Reformed Church. The church appreciates Roosevelt’s help and will not ask him to do more.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-05
Upon receiving President Roosevelt’s $25.00 check for afflicted orphans, the Pastor of Grace Reformed Church asks permission to forward it to the orphanage, so that the orphans will know that the Chief Executive is thinking of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-08
Pastor John M. Schick sends thanks in receipt of President Roosevelt’s $25.00 donation to Grace Reformed Church’s Hungarian mission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-17
Reverend Schick thanks President Roosevelt for donating five dollars to the Ministerial Relief Fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-08
Reverend Schick was hoping to stop over and say goodbye before President Roosevelt leaves Washington, D.C., and wishes Roosevelt a restful vacation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-25
Reverend Schick wishes President Roosevelt a rapid recovery. There will be no service at Grace Reformed Church next Sunday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-14
Reverend Schick would like to publish President Roosevelt’s photograph and signature in a yearbook for 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-11