Trinity had in the meantime moved up to Brady and Seventh streets.  Here Mrs. Clarissa C. Cook had erected a fine stone building in memory of her husband, the Hon. Ebenezer Cook, who for thirty years was a vestryman of Trinity parish and its most devoted and unwearied friend. On the 26th of September, 1874, Bishop Lee passed to his rest.  He had worked hard and had seen the diocese make substantial growth in resources, numbers and in influence.  On May 30, 1876, in St. Paul's, Des Moines, the Rev. William Stevens Perry, D. D., of Geneva, N. Y., was elected bishop of Iowa.  Bishop Perry, already widely known through the important positions held in the church's general councils and in pastoral and collegiate relations, received a most hearty welcome throughout the entire diocese.  He labored faithfully until his death, May 13, 1898.  During his episcopate the diocese doubled in the number of its communicants, St. Katharine's school was founded, and St. Luke's hospital undertaken.  The diocese was most materially benefited by the bequests of a faithful communicant, who was one of the most efficient church workers in Iowa from the early days until her death - Mrs. Clarissa C. Cook, widow of the Hon. Ebenezer Cook, of Davenport.  Besides liberal gifts for the building and equipment of a public library and a home for the aged in Davenport, she gave to the Episcopal church in Iowa for various objects upward of $75,000.  These funds have been carefully invested and the income still helps the work of the church which she so greatly loved and for which she labored so unselfishly. During the episcopate of Bishop Perry the work of the Davenport parishes went on faithfully and successfully. On the 22d of February, 1899, the Rev. Theodore Nevin Morrison, D. D., rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Chicago, was consecrated the third Bishop of Iowa.  During his Episcopate it became apparent to every one that the best interests and the future growth of the Episcopal church in Davenport would be served by a union of Trinity and Grace Cathedral parishes.  In December, 1909, a movement was made looking to such a union, and it at once received the hearty support of all the members of both parishes.  The members of Grace Cathedral parish connected themselves with Trinity parish.  The service on Christmas day was held in Trinity church and on Sunday, Dec. 26th, the united congregation worshiped in the cathedral.  The corporation of Trinity parish was thus prepetuated and the cathedral is now known as Trinity cathedral.  Thus at last Bishop Lee's original purpose has been carried out, for in his annual address to the Diocesan convention of 1873, he said:  "My own desire had been to have a united parish, under some acceptable arrangement as a Diocesan or Cathedral church, and to give to the building the name of Trinity, as that of the original church."  The rectors of Trinity church have been: The Rev. Zachariah Goldsmith, 1841; the Rev. Alfred Louderback, 1849; the Rev. F. Emerson Judd, 1861; the Rev. A. H. Stubbs, 1865; the Rev. R. W. Boyd, D. D., 1869; the Rev. Willis H. Barris, 1870, minister in charge; the Rev. J. E. Goodhue, 1871; the Rev. Willis H. Bartis, 1877, minister in charge; the Rev. Philo W. Sprague, 1878, canon in charge; the Rev. D. C. Garrett, 1884; the Rev. Myron A. Johnson, D. D., 1891; the Rev. Clinton H. Weaver, S. T. D., 1894; the Rev. A. E. Montgomery, 1901; the Rev. Gasherie DeWitt Dowling, 1904. The rectors of St. Luke's were: the Rev. Horatio N. Powers, D. D., 1857-1865. The rectors of the Bishop's church were:  The Rt. Rev. Henry W. Lee, D. D., ex-officio; the Rev. Horatio N. Powers, D. D., assistant in charge, 1865-1869; the Rev. Hale Townsend, assistant in charge, 1865-1972; the Rev. R. D. Brooke, assistant in charge, 1869-1873; the Rev. Edward Lounsbery, assistant in charge, 1870-1874; the Rev. Joseph S. Jenckes, assistant in charge, 1875-1877. On April 1, 1877, the "Bishop's Church" gave way to a cathedral organization, and the Rev. W. H. Barris, D. D., became dean.  The canon in charge was the Rev. W. W. Silvester.  In 1882, the Rev. Harry Thompson was appointed canon in charge.  In 1884 the Rev. Charles H. Kellogg was appointed canon in charge.  The Rev. Charles R. Hale became dean in 1886; the Rev. Charles H. Seymour being canon in 1886.  In 1893, the Rev. William C. Rogers was appointed canon.  The Rev. Hamilton Schuyler became dean in 1896. In September, 1899, the cathedral organization was allowed to lapse and the congregation organized as Grace Cathedral parish.  The vestry called the Rev. Nassau S. Stephens, who took charge Oct. 1, 1899.  In 1905, the Rev. W. W. Love became the rector.  The Rev. Marmaduke Hare, M. D., accepted a call to the rectorship and entered on his duties Jan. 1, 1908.  The bishop has conferred upon Dr. Hare the honorary title of dean. Beside the Cathedral parish there is Christ church at the corner of Third and Pine streets.  Christ church is ministered to by the chaplain of St. Katharine's school.  There is a small frame church building and a substantial rectory. St. Katharine's school has been for some years under the care of the sisters of St. Mary.  It is in a most prosperous condition and has within the past few years added to its property the handsome house and five acres of ground known as "the Renwick property" which adjoined the school, giving an increased capacity and providing room for growth.  The school has a high reputation for scholarship and sends graduates yearly to the women's colleges of the east.  The home life has always been a feature of the school and year by year the number of pupils increases and come from a greater distance. 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