[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ton, who had " gone over to Rome" with Cardinal Newman, the late Archbishop Bayley and others, and who is now Monsignor Preston, vicar-general of the archdiocese, became pastor of the Catholic Church at Yonkers, and by him an effort was made to erect amission church for the Tarrytown portion of bis Hock. Like till beginnings, the effort met opposi-tion. Washington Irving headed the list of subscrib-ers with one hundred dollars. Father Preston's zeal, however, overcame the obstacles, and late in 1851 he purchased a piece of ground, one hundred by one hun-dred and twenty-five feet, on De Peyster Street, near Cortlandt, on which St. Teresa's Chur di now stands. In 1852 an imposing edifice, as the few parishioners then considered it, of fifty by thirty feet was erected. Hitherto Mass had been celebrated only once a month, and the rest of the time the congregation at-tended tit Sing Sing, but in 1852 Father Preston cele-brated Mass twice a month. The first resident pastor was the Rev. John Hack-ett who took charge in 1858. He died, however, in 18li3, anil was succeeded the same year by Father Mark Murphy, a fine scholar, who served only font teen months. During his pastorate the brick residence was purchased adjoining the church. The present pastor is the Hev. Patrick Fgan, who assumed the charge in August, 18(14, and has served continuously ever since. Under his good manage-