May 21, 1909 Friday

May 21 Friday — At 10 a.m. Sam was a pallbearer at the funeral of Henry Huttleston Rogers, at the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, Park Ave. and 34th Street, NYC. Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer conducted the services, aided by the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, the church’s current pastor. The body was taken for burial by train to Fairhaven, arriving in the evening [NY Times, May 22, p. 16, “Simple Funeral for H.H. Rogers”’].

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.   

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