expenses and plans had been made for enlarging the church fabric, and in other ways improving the property.
Mr. Littlejohn did not remain to see these changes completed, but accepted a call to St. Paul's Church, New Haven. He wrote, July 1, 1851: "Though I have not been long with you, yet many ties have been knit in that brief time, which it is painful for me to sever."
In 1860, he became rector of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New York, remaining there eight years. In 1868, he was elected Bishop of Central New York, but declined. In that year he was consecrated Bishop of Long Island. As a writer, he made many contributions to church and general literature. Bishop Littlejohn died in 1901.
In the Pre-Convention number of "The Church at Work," 1922, there is a composite picture of the House of Bishops of the General Convention, held in Boston in 1877. In this picture Bishop Littlejohn stands beside Bishop Alexander Burgess.
In 1926, his name appeared in the daily press. It was there recalled that Bishop Littlejohn with Bishop Potter and the Rev. Dr. John Welsey Brown officiated at the marriage of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough in St. Thomas's Church, New York City.
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