Family attends New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, their church preference while in Washington. Dr. Phineas D. Gurley is pastor. Barton, Life of Lincoln, 2:42.

[John Hay is working as assistant to John G. Nicolay, detailed to full time White House service from clerkship in Dept. of Interior. Nicolay to Bates, 10 March 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]