Son of William Ernest & Elizabeth Barbara Cook-Toy
News Story-Buffalo News 6/24/1924
The Rev E.C.Toy pastor of Ripley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, who has completed 25 years service in the Methodist churches of Buffalo and vicinity will leave tomorrow for a trip to Europe and Palestine which is being given him by the church members and other friends in Buffalo.
Mr. Toy was born in this city and educated in local schools and Genesee Wesleyan seminary. His first pastorate was the Kensington Methodist Episcopal church, which he had previously served as Sunday school superintendent and Epworth league president. Other churches whose pastorates he has held are Epworth Mission, Northampton Street church, Seneca Street church, Grace church, Tonawanda and Ripley church Memeorial church.
Since the beginning of his work in Buffalo Mr. Toy has been a chaplain of the Erie County home and hospital. He has been active in Epworth league and young peoples work in the Buffalo area of the methodist church, and has taught classes at Silver Lake and other church institutes.
AMHERST BEE-March 12th., 1914-St Patrick Day Lecture
A humorous lecture on Ireland with illustrated stereopticon views by Rev. Edward C. Toy will be held at the Methodist Church Monday evening, March 16th. Rev. Toy has traveled extensively through Ireland and is well known in Buffalo as a lecturer of great ability. There will be special Irish music and songs by the choir. Tickets 15 cents. Everyone welcome. Tickets for sale at Postoffice or at door and by members of Epworth League.
Buffalo Courier Express-Obituary-July 12th., 1934
DEATH CLOSES ACTIVE CAREER OF CLERGYMAN
The Rev. Edward C. Toy long chaplin of Erie County Home and Erie County Jail
The Rev. Edward C. Toy, Methodist minister for 40 years, chaplain of the Erie County Home for 35 years and of the Erie County Jail for 35 years, died yesterday at the home of his niece, Mrs. Alexander Corrigal, 21 Berwyn Avenue. The Rev. Mr. Toy was 69 years old and had been in poor health four months.
Funeral Services will be held at the Kensington M.E. Church, Leroy and Marigold avenues at 2 p.m. Saturday. His body will lie in state in this church, which he served for many years from 11 a.m. Saturday until the funeral service. The Rev. William H. Burley, present pastor of the Kensington Church will officiate.
At County Home and Jail
The Rev. Mr. Toy spent most of his time working for his own parishioners, but many of his religious deeds were done for the aged members of the Erie County Home and for the convicts at the county jail. At the jail, for instance, he conducted the chapel services once a month for a quarter of a century. During these services all inmates were brought into a central room where for an hour the Rev. Mr. Toy led them in prayer and song and then preached a sermon.
In these sermons the minister stressed the point that although convicted for the time being by society, the prisoners still had a chance to redeem themselves after serving their terms. He always considered this work had not been done in vain because of the great numbers of convicts he had preached to who " had turned over a new leaf" after leaving their cells.
One case in particular was recalled last night by relatives. In this instance, one of the prisoners to whom the pastor had been preaching for several years finally finished his long term as a mail robber. Soon after leaving the jail this man married and with a steady job became a law-abiding citizen. The former convict and his mother often wrote the Rev. Mr. Toy expressing their appreciation of his kindly preaching while conducting the jail services. The mother said it was his influence that made her son go straight.
The Rev. Mr. Toy began his work with the county home when it was located on the present Main Street site of the University of Buffalo. He held regular services throughout the year at this institution, but it was always on the important holidays that affection for the minister reached its height, for then it was that he spread food delicacies before the aged men and women in the home and regaled them through most of the day with stories. he is said never to have failed in these ministerings except when he was ill or away from the city, and even in these circumstances he saw to it the inmates had the food delicaces, if not his stories,
Several Pastorates
The Rev. Mr. Toy was born in Buffalo June 5, 1865 and educated in the city's public grammer schools and at Central High School, now Hutchinson-Central High School. Later he went to Wesleyan Seminary. While he was studing in this school to be a minister he took, at different times, the pastorates of small churches in Collins Center, Morton Corners. Pittsford and Henrietta, all rural communities in Western New York.
His first appointment in Buffalo was to the pulpit of the Kensington Church, where he succeeded Dr. C. B. Sparrow. He served this church for six years as minister, Sunday school superintendent and the first president of the Epworth League.
After the kensington church pastorate he was appointed pastor of the Epworth Church at Gray and Cayuga Streets and then of the Northampton M. E. Church at Northampton Street and Masten Avenue. He spent three years at the Epworth Church and then five years at the Northampton Church before the two merged. The Northampton Church was destroyed in the 106th armory fire and then rebuilt into the Scandanavian Church.
The Rev. Mr. Toy's ministerial career then took him to the Seneca Street M. E. Church, where he remained eight years. This church was demolished by fire and rebuilt under the Rev. Mr. Toy's guidance. After the Seneca Street Church he spent a year as pastor of Grace Church, Tonawanda, and then a short time as minister in charge of the denomination at Depew and Bowmansville.
His eyesight failed him shortly after entering the service in these two towns and he retired from ministry to live with his niece in Berwyn Avenue.
Besides Mrs. Corrigal he is survived by two brothers, William E. and Albert G. Toy, and a sister, Mrs Arthur J. Ricketts.
Following info is form Collins Center M. E. Church since its beginning as a Methodist Society about 1823-By Catlotta Wood and Nora Johnson Brown October 16, 1936-Contributed by Marilyn Bobseine.
EDWARD C. TOY
William DuBois followed in 1891 and in 1892 came Edward C. Toy, a young man who had renounced a business career to become a minister. Untrained in his new vocation, he soon demonstrated in this, his first appointment, that without any gift of oratory, he possessed qualities that would insure sucess in any field. After an apprenticeship of two and one half years in Collins center and Morton Corners, he left in 1895 to become a student in Genessee Wesleyan Seminary, graduating in 1899. Henceforth, his work lay in the city and the suburbs, beginning with Kensington, followed by six years in his old home church, thence to the Epworth Mission which he organized into a church; eight years in Seneca street, where he rebuilt a church destroyed by fire; one year in Tonawanda; five years at Riply memorial Church and three years in Depew. A European vacation was granted him in the 20's. Failing eyesight evenually forced his retirement and he died in 1934 after 40 years of self-sacrificing labor in a beloved cause.
News Story-Buffalo News 6/24/1924
The Rev E.C.Toy pastor of Ripley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, who has completed 25 years service in the Methodist churches of Buffalo and vicinity will leave tomorrow for a trip to Europe and Palestine which is being given him by the church members and other friends in Buffalo.
Mr. Toy was born in this city and educated in local schools and Genesee Wesleyan seminary. His first pastorate was the Kensington Methodist Episcopal church, which he had previously served as Sunday school superintendent and Epworth league president. Other churches whose pastorates he has held are Epworth Mission, Northampton Street church, Seneca Street church, Grace church, Tonawanda and Ripley church Memeorial church.
Since the beginning of his work in Buffalo Mr. Toy has been a chaplain of the Erie County home and hospital. He has been active in Epworth league and young peoples work in the Buffalo area of the methodist church, and has taught classes at Silver Lake and other church institutes.
AMHERST BEE-March 12th., 1914-St Patrick Day Lecture
A humorous lecture on Ireland with illustrated stereopticon views by Rev. Edward C. Toy will be held at the Methodist Church Monday evening, March 16th. Rev. Toy has traveled extensively through Ireland and is well known in Buffalo as a lecturer of great ability. There will be special Irish music and songs by the choir. Tickets 15 cents. Everyone welcome. Tickets for sale at Postoffice or at door and by members of Epworth League.
Buffalo Courier Express-Obituary-July 12th., 1934
DEATH CLOSES ACTIVE CAREER OF CLERGYMAN
The Rev. Edward C. Toy long chaplin of Erie County Home and Erie County Jail
The Rev. Edward C. Toy, Methodist minister for 40 years, chaplain of the Erie County Home for 35 years and of the Erie County Jail for 35 years, died yesterday at the home of his niece, Mrs. Alexander Corrigal, 21 Berwyn Avenue. The Rev. Mr. Toy was 69 years old and had been in poor health four months.
Funeral Services will be held at the Kensington M.E. Church, Leroy and Marigold avenues at 2 p.m. Saturday. His body will lie in state in this church, which he served for many years from 11 a.m. Saturday until the funeral service. The Rev. William H. Burley, present pastor of the Kensington Church will officiate.
At County Home and Jail
The Rev. Mr. Toy spent most of his time working for his own parishioners, but many of his religious deeds were done for the aged members of the Erie County Home and for the convicts at the county jail. At the jail, for instance, he conducted the chapel services once a month for a quarter of a century. During these services all inmates were brought into a central room where for an hour the Rev. Mr. Toy led them in prayer and song and then preached a sermon.
In these sermons the minister stressed the point that although convicted for the time being by society, the prisoners still had a chance to redeem themselves after serving their terms. He always considered this work had not been done in vain because of the great numbers of convicts he had preached to who " had turned over a new leaf" after leaving their cells.
One case in particular was recalled last night by relatives. In this instance, one of the prisoners to whom the pastor had been preaching for several years finally finished his long term as a mail robber. Soon after leaving the jail this man married and with a steady job became a law-abiding citizen. The former convict and his mother often wrote the Rev. Mr. Toy expressing their appreciation of his kindly preaching while conducting the jail services. The mother said it was his influence that made her son go straight.
The Rev. Mr. Toy began his work with the county home when it was located on the present Main Street site of the University of Buffalo. He held regular services throughout the year at this institution, but it was always on the important holidays that affection for the minister reached its height, for then it was that he spread food delicacies before the aged men and women in the home and regaled them through most of the day with stories. he is said never to have failed in these ministerings except when he was ill or away from the city, and even in these circumstances he saw to it the inmates had the food delicaces, if not his stories,
Several Pastorates
The Rev. Mr. Toy was born in Buffalo June 5, 1865 and educated in the city's public grammer schools and at Central High School, now Hutchinson-Central High School. Later he went to Wesleyan Seminary. While he was studing in this school to be a minister he took, at different times, the pastorates of small churches in Collins Center, Morton Corners. Pittsford and Henrietta, all rural communities in Western New York.
His first appointment in Buffalo was to the pulpit of the Kensington Church, where he succeeded Dr. C. B. Sparrow. He served this church for six years as minister, Sunday school superintendent and the first president of the Epworth League.
After the kensington church pastorate he was appointed pastor of the Epworth Church at Gray and Cayuga Streets and then of the Northampton M. E. Church at Northampton Street and Masten Avenue. He spent three years at the Epworth Church and then five years at the Northampton Church before the two merged. The Northampton Church was destroyed in the 106th armory fire and then rebuilt into the Scandanavian Church.
The Rev. Mr. Toy's ministerial career then took him to the Seneca Street M. E. Church, where he remained eight years. This church was demolished by fire and rebuilt under the Rev. Mr. Toy's guidance. After the Seneca Street Church he spent a year as pastor of Grace Church, Tonawanda, and then a short time as minister in charge of the denomination at Depew and Bowmansville.
His eyesight failed him shortly after entering the service in these two towns and he retired from ministry to live with his niece in Berwyn Avenue.
Besides Mrs. Corrigal he is survived by two brothers, William E. and Albert G. Toy, and a sister, Mrs Arthur J. Ricketts.
Following info is form Collins Center M. E. Church since its beginning as a Methodist Society about 1823-By Catlotta Wood and Nora Johnson Brown October 16, 1936-Contributed by Marilyn Bobseine.
EDWARD C. TOY
William DuBois followed in 1891 and in 1892 came Edward C. Toy, a young man who had renounced a business career to become a minister. Untrained in his new vocation, he soon demonstrated in this, his first appointment, that without any gift of oratory, he possessed qualities that would insure sucess in any field. After an apprenticeship of two and one half years in Collins center and Morton Corners, he left in 1895 to become a student in Genessee Wesleyan Seminary, graduating in 1899. Henceforth, his work lay in the city and the suburbs, beginning with Kensington, followed by six years in his old home church, thence to the Epworth Mission which he organized into a church; eight years in Seneca street, where he rebuilt a church destroyed by fire; one year in Tonawanda; five years at Riply memorial Church and three years in Depew. A European vacation was granted him in the 20's. Failing eyesight evenually forced his retirement and he died in 1934 after 40 years of self-sacrificing labor in a beloved cause.
Son of William Ernest & Elizabeth Barbara Cook-Toy
News Story-Buffalo News 6/24/1924
The Rev E.C.Toy pastor of Ripley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, who has completed 25 years service in the Methodist churches of Buffalo and vicinity will leave tomorrow for a trip to Europe and Palestine which is being given him by the church members and other friends in Buffalo.
Mr. Toy was born in this city and educated in local schools and Genesee Wesleyan seminary. His first pastorate was the Kensington Methodist Episcopal church, which he had previously served as Sunday school superintendent and Epworth league president. Other churches whose pastorates he has held are Epworth Mission, Northampton Street church, Seneca Street church, Grace church, Tonawanda and Ripley church Memeorial church.
Since the beginning of his work in Buffalo Mr. Toy has been a chaplain of the Erie County home and hospital. He has been active in Epworth league and young peoples work in the Buffalo area of the methodist church, and has taught classes at Silver Lake and other church institutes.
AMHERST BEE-March 12th., 1914-St Patrick Day Lecture
A humorous lecture on Ireland with illustrated stereopticon views by Rev. Edward C. Toy will be held at the Methodist Church Monday evening, March 16th. Rev. Toy has traveled extensively through Ireland and is well known in Buffalo as a lecturer of great ability. There will be special Irish music and songs by the choir. Tickets 15 cents. Everyone welcome. Tickets for sale at Postoffice or at door and by members of Epworth League.
Buffalo Courier Express-Obituary-July 12th., 1934
DEATH CLOSES ACTIVE CAREER OF CLERGYMAN
The Rev. Edward C. Toy long chaplin of Erie County Home and Erie County Jail
The Rev. Edward C. Toy, Methodist minister for 40 years, chaplain of the Erie County Home for 35 years and of the Erie County Jail for 35 years, died yesterday at the home of his niece, Mrs. Alexander Corrigal, 21 Berwyn Avenue. The Rev. Mr. Toy was 69 years old and had been in poor health four months.
Funeral Services will be held at the Kensington M.E. Church, Leroy and Marigold avenues at 2 p.m. Saturday. His body will lie in state in this church, which he served for many years from 11 a.m. Saturday until the funeral service. The Rev. William H. Burley, present pastor of the Kensington Church will officiate.
At County Home and Jail
The Rev. Mr. Toy spent most of his time working for his own parishioners, but many of his religious deeds were done for the aged members of the Erie County Home and for the convicts at the county jail. At the jail, for instance, he conducted the chapel services once a month for a quarter of a century. During these services all inmates were brought into a central room where for an hour the Rev. Mr. Toy led them in prayer and song and then preached a sermon.
In these sermons the minister stressed the point that although convicted for the time being by society, the prisoners still had a chance to redeem themselves after serving their terms. He always considered this work had not been done in vain because of the great numbers of convicts he had preached to who " had turned over a new leaf" after leaving their cells.
One case in particular was recalled last night by relatives. In this instance, one of the prisoners to whom the pastor had been preaching for several years finally finished his long term as a mail robber. Soon after leaving the jail this man married and with a steady job became a law-abiding citizen. The former convict and his mother often wrote the Rev. Mr. Toy expressing their appreciation of his kindly preaching while conducting the jail services. The mother said it was his influence that made her son go straight.
The Rev. Mr. Toy began his work with the county home when it was located on the present Main Street site of the University of Buffalo. He held regular services throughout the year at this institution, but it was always on the important holidays that affection for the minister reached its height, for then it was that he spread food delicacies before the aged men and women in the home and regaled them through most of the day with stories. he is said never to have failed in these ministerings except when he was ill or away from the city, and even in these circumstances he saw to it the inmates had the food delicaces, if not his stories,
Several Pastorates
The Rev. Mr. Toy was born in Buffalo June 5, 1865 and educated in the city's public grammer schools and at Central High School, now Hutchinson-Central High School. Later he went to Wesleyan Seminary. While he was studing in this school to be a minister he took, at different times, the pastorates of small churches in Collins Center, Morton Corners. Pittsford and Henrietta, all rural communities in Western New York.
His first appointment in Buffalo was to the pulpit of the Kensington Church, where he succeeded Dr. C. B. Sparrow. He served this church for six years as minister, Sunday school superintendent and the first president of the Epworth League.
After the kensington church pastorate he was appointed pastor of the Epworth Church at Gray and Cayuga Streets and then of the Northampton M. E. Church at Northampton Street and Masten Avenue. He spent three years at the Epworth Church and then five years at the Northampton Church before the two merged. The Northampton Church was destroyed in the 106th armory fire and then rebuilt into the Scandanavian Church.
The Rev. Mr. Toy's ministerial career then took him to the Seneca Street M. E. Church, where he remained eight years. This church was demolished by fire and rebuilt under the Rev. Mr. Toy's guidance. After the Seneca Street Church he spent a year as pastor of Grace Church, Tonawanda, and then a short time as minister in charge of the denomination at Depew and Bowmansville.
His eyesight failed him shortly after entering the service in these two towns and he retired from ministry to live with his niece in Berwyn Avenue.
Besides Mrs. Corrigal he is survived by two brothers, William E. and Albert G. Toy, and a sister, Mrs Arthur J. Ricketts.
Following info is form Collins Center M. E. Church since its beginning as a Methodist Society about 1823-By Catlotta Wood and Nora Johnson Brown October 16, 1936-Contributed by Marilyn Bobseine.
EDWARD C. TOY
William DuBois followed in 1891 and in 1892 came Edward C. Toy, a young man who had renounced a business career to become a minister. Untrained in his new vocation, he soon demonstrated in this, his first appointment, that without any gift of oratory, he possessed qualities that would insure sucess in any field. After an apprenticeship of two and one half years in Collins center and Morton Corners, he left in 1895 to become a student in Genessee Wesleyan Seminary, graduating in 1899. Henceforth, his work lay in the city and the suburbs, beginning with Kensington, followed by six years in his old home church, thence to the Epworth Mission which he organized into a church; eight years in Seneca street, where he rebuilt a church destroyed by fire; one year in Tonawanda; five years at Riply memorial Church and three years in Depew. A European vacation was granted him in the 20's. Failing eyesight evenually forced his retirement and he died in 1934 after 40 years of self-sacrificing labor in a beloved cause.
News Story-Buffalo News 6/24/1924
The Rev E.C.Toy pastor of Ripley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, who has completed 25 years service in the Methodist churches of Buffalo and vicinity will leave tomorrow for a trip to Europe and Palestine which is being given him by the church members and other friends in Buffalo.
Mr. Toy was born in this city and educated in local schools and Genesee Wesleyan seminary. His first pastorate was the Kensington Methodist Episcopal church, which he had previously served as Sunday school superintendent and Epworth league president. Other churches whose pastorates he has held are Epworth Mission, Northampton Street church, Seneca Street church, Grace church, Tonawanda and Ripley church Memeorial church.
Since the beginning of his work in Buffalo Mr. Toy has been a chaplain of the Erie County home and hospital. He has been active in Epworth league and young peoples work in the Buffalo area of the methodist church, and has taught classes at Silver Lake and other church institutes.
AMHERST BEE-March 12th., 1914-St Patrick Day Lecture
A humorous lecture on Ireland with illustrated stereopticon views by Rev. Edward C. Toy will be held at the Methodist Church Monday evening, March 16th. Rev. Toy has traveled extensively through Ireland and is well known in Buffalo as a lecturer of great ability. There will be special Irish music and songs by the choir. Tickets 15 cents. Everyone welcome. Tickets for sale at Postoffice or at door and by members of Epworth League.
Buffalo Courier Express-Obituary-July 12th., 1934
DEATH CLOSES ACTIVE CAREER OF CLERGYMAN
The Rev. Edward C. Toy long chaplin of Erie County Home and Erie County Jail
The Rev. Edward C. Toy, Methodist minister for 40 years, chaplain of the Erie County Home for 35 years and of the Erie County Jail for 35 years, died yesterday at the home of his niece, Mrs. Alexander Corrigal, 21 Berwyn Avenue. The Rev. Mr. Toy was 69 years old and had been in poor health four months.
Funeral Services will be held at the Kensington M.E. Church, Leroy and Marigold avenues at 2 p.m. Saturday. His body will lie in state in this church, which he served for many years from 11 a.m. Saturday until the funeral service. The Rev. William H. Burley, present pastor of the Kensington Church will officiate.
At County Home and Jail
The Rev. Mr. Toy spent most of his time working for his own parishioners, but many of his religious deeds were done for the aged members of the Erie County Home and for the convicts at the county jail. At the jail, for instance, he conducted the chapel services once a month for a quarter of a century. During these services all inmates were brought into a central room where for an hour the Rev. Mr. Toy led them in prayer and song and then preached a sermon.
In these sermons the minister stressed the point that although convicted for the time being by society, the prisoners still had a chance to redeem themselves after serving their terms. He always considered this work had not been done in vain because of the great numbers of convicts he had preached to who " had turned over a new leaf" after leaving their cells.
One case in particular was recalled last night by relatives. In this instance, one of the prisoners to whom the pastor had been preaching for several years finally finished his long term as a mail robber. Soon after leaving the jail this man married and with a steady job became a law-abiding citizen. The former convict and his mother often wrote the Rev. Mr. Toy expressing their appreciation of his kindly preaching while conducting the jail services. The mother said it was his influence that made her son go straight.
The Rev. Mr. Toy began his work with the county home when it was located on the present Main Street site of the University of Buffalo. He held regular services throughout the year at this institution, but it was always on the important holidays that affection for the minister reached its height, for then it was that he spread food delicacies before the aged men and women in the home and regaled them through most of the day with stories. he is said never to have failed in these ministerings except when he was ill or away from the city, and even in these circumstances he saw to it the inmates had the food delicaces, if not his stories,
Several Pastorates
The Rev. Mr. Toy was born in Buffalo June 5, 1865 and educated in the city's public grammer schools and at Central High School, now Hutchinson-Central High School. Later he went to Wesleyan Seminary. While he was studing in this school to be a minister he took, at different times, the pastorates of small churches in Collins Center, Morton Corners. Pittsford and Henrietta, all rural communities in Western New York.
His first appointment in Buffalo was to the pulpit of the Kensington Church, where he succeeded Dr. C. B. Sparrow. He served this church for six years as minister, Sunday school superintendent and the first president of the Epworth League.
After the kensington church pastorate he was appointed pastor of the Epworth Church at Gray and Cayuga Streets and then of the Northampton M. E. Church at Northampton Street and Masten Avenue. He spent three years at the Epworth Church and then five years at the Northampton Church before the two merged. The Northampton Church was destroyed in the 106th armory fire and then rebuilt into the Scandanavian Church.
The Rev. Mr. Toy's ministerial career then took him to the Seneca Street M. E. Church, where he remained eight years. This church was demolished by fire and rebuilt under the Rev. Mr. Toy's guidance. After the Seneca Street Church he spent a year as pastor of Grace Church, Tonawanda, and then a short time as minister in charge of the denomination at Depew and Bowmansville.
His eyesight failed him shortly after entering the service in these two towns and he retired from ministry to live with his niece in Berwyn Avenue.
Besides Mrs. Corrigal he is survived by two brothers, William E. and Albert G. Toy, and a sister, Mrs Arthur J. Ricketts.
Following info is form Collins Center M. E. Church since its beginning as a Methodist Society about 1823-By Catlotta Wood and Nora Johnson Brown October 16, 1936-Contributed by Marilyn Bobseine.
EDWARD C. TOY
William DuBois followed in 1891 and in 1892 came Edward C. Toy, a young man who had renounced a business career to become a minister. Untrained in his new vocation, he soon demonstrated in this, his first appointment, that without any gift of oratory, he possessed qualities that would insure sucess in any field. After an apprenticeship of two and one half years in Collins center and Morton Corners, he left in 1895 to become a student in Genessee Wesleyan Seminary, graduating in 1899. Henceforth, his work lay in the city and the suburbs, beginning with Kensington, followed by six years in his old home church, thence to the Epworth Mission which he organized into a church; eight years in Seneca street, where he rebuilt a church destroyed by fire; one year in Tonawanda; five years at Riply memorial Church and three years in Depew. A European vacation was granted him in the 20's. Failing eyesight evenually forced his retirement and he died in 1934 after 40 years of self-sacrificing labor in a beloved cause.
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