Rev. Almon A. Jaynes - 1905

Rev. Almon Andrus Jaynes

Acting Pastor of St. Paul's Church, Syracuse

Utica Saturday Globe, October 1905

 

Rev. Almon Andrus Jaynes

At a recent meeting of the vestry of St. Paul's Church at Syracuse, it was voted to invite Rev. Almon A. Jaynes, the assistant pastor under the late Dr. H.R. Lockwood, to take charge of the parish for the present.  Mr. Jaynes has accepted and has already assumed his duties. He is well qualified to take charge of the parish, as since he became assistant rector November 1, 1903, he has on several occasions assumed the responsibility when the prolonged illness of Dr. Lockwood made it impossible for him to attend to the duties of rector.  It is understood that after January 1, 1906, Mr. Jaynes will have an assistant.

 

St. Paul's parish is growing rapidly, the number of communicants last year having reached 604.  Since the removal of the old First Presbyterian Church, it has had the unique position of being the only church in the very heart of the city, and will be to Syracuse what old Trinity is to new York.  Many strangers are seen there every Sunday.  Dr. Lockwood had been the rector for many years, coming to the charge a young man of about the same age as his successor.  he had grown very closely into the daily lives of his parishioners and was greatly beloved

 

Rev. Mr. Jaynes is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary in New York, having previously graduated from Brown University  After his graduation he was given charge of missionary stations in Oriskany Falls, Holland Patent and Augusta.  He was afterward for a short time chaplain at St. John's military School at Manlius.  Mr. Jaynes is well known in Norwich, where his earlier education was acquired and where his mother and other members of the family still reside.  His evident appreciation by the people of the Syracuse parish is the source of gratification to his many Norwich relations and friends.

 

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Obituary

Syracuse Journal, May 8, 1935

 

 

Rev. Dr. Almon A. Jaynes

Archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York

 

Ven. Almon Andrus Jaynes, D.D., who was archdeacon of the Episcopal diocese of Central New York and who had attained particular prominence as a clergyman during the 17 years he served as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church here, died at St. Luke's Hospital, Utica [Oneida Co., NY], yesterday afternoon following an illness of nearly three weeks.  He was 58 years old.

 

Archdeacon Jaynes was ordained a deacon in 1903 and was made a priest the following year by the late Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington.  He had intended pursuing a medical career and matriculated at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons shortly after his graduation from Brown University in 1899.  He remained at Columbia only a year, however, and then entered the General Theological Seminary.

 

From 1909 until 1926, when he was named archdeacon of the diocese, Rev. Dr. Jaynes served as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church and was one of the leading forces in obtaining the new edifice for the parish.  During the period from 1913 until the close of the World War he acted as chaplain of the Third New York Infantry until it was made the nucleus of the One Hundred and Eighth United States Infantry.  His first war service was at Spartanburg, S.C., in April, 1917, and a month later he went abroad to serve in France and Belgian war zones.  He was senior chaplain of the Twenty-seventh division.

 

Previous to his appointment as rector of Trinity Church, Dr. Jaynes had served at Augusta, Oneida County and was later a missionary at Holland Patent, Oriskany Falls and Brookfield.  He became chaplain of Manlius School, then St. John's School, in 1903, and that same year became curate of St. Paul's Episcopal Church here [Syracuse, NY].  After the death of the rector, Rev. Dr. Henry R. Lockwood, he took temporary charge of the parish.  In 1907 he was made vicar of Christ Church, Newark, N.J., where he served until coming to Trinity.

 

As archdeacon, Dr. Jaynes had supervised missionary work of the 14 counties in Central New York diocese.  His residence was at New Hartford, Utica suburb. 

 

An active Mason, he was a member of Central City Lodge 205, Syracuse, and of Central City Chapter, R.A.M.; the Consistory, and Tigris Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.  He was first master of Sea and Field Lodge 2 of Syracuse while he was overseas.  For two years he was chaplain of the grand lodge of the state.  During his residence in Syracuse he had served as commander of an American Legion post and was a member of the Citizens Club and the Optimists Club.

 

Dr. Jaynes was wed to Miss Mildred Fish, director of religious education in Trinity Church, in May, 1932, the ceremony having been performed by Bishop Charles Fiske and Suffragan Bishop Edward  H. Coley.  His first wife, Mrs. Mabel V. Waite Jaynes, died in 1830.

 

Shocked by the death of the clergyman, Bishop Fiske declared last night:  "He was one of the most beloved of all clergy in the diocese, and as popular as beloved.  His death is a great loss to all of them."

 

Besides his wife,  he is survived by two sons, Dr. George W. Jaynes of Baltimore, and Edwin B. Jaynes of Plainfield, N.J.; a brother, Walter B. Jaynes of Greene, and a sister, Mrs. C.J. Smith of Norwich.