Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-10-07
,r,r ,,or,sr OF BISHOPS.

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'' IN. RI lev. Thomas Church Brownell
y y /. l.. H., Bishop of Connecticut, ant
a.. ;.i;nc officer of the House OF bishops, borI
4, Wc>trrpcr;, Mass, Oct. 18th, 1879; enter
I ed Brown University, but was graduated =
/ Union College, 1904 became tutor, then
proresso. there from 1906 to 1878: ordere'
! Deacon 1916, and priest in 1917; removed u
/ New York in ISIS, as Assistant-ninister 0
Trinity Church; YVES consecrated IN TRINITY
Church, New Haven, Oct ~, 1919: lie \
now Chancellor Of Trinity College, Hartford
%, which he was the founder and first Presi
dent. He became Senior Bishop and Presiding
officer or the American Church. in 1852, OF
the death OF Bishop Chase Of Illinois: INT
documentary on the Prayer Book is from hi
, Tie RI Rev. VIM. Meade, D. D., Bishop
of Virginia, was born in Frederick county, Va
abou, the year !7s9; was graduated at Prince
ION in 1905; ordered Deacon February n, Isl /
Priest in lSl2; and became Rector of Christ
Churcl.. Alexandria. lie was candidate IL
49,, for the Coad;utor EpiScopate OF PennSyi
wanna, when Bishop II. L. Onderdonk was pre-
,crr,d; Was afterwards elected 10 preside oven
MS native diocese, and was conSccrated August
10 1922 As assistant 20 Bishop L. I. Moore,
ON whose Death, in 1871, Bishop Meade became
Diocesan.
3. The r.. Rev. John Henry Hopkins ID. d.,
Ii. D., Bishop Of Vermont, was born III Dub
lin. Ireland. January 80, 1872; ordered Deacon
1924, Priest in lS2J, before which te had prac'
tiscd law III p!!tsburg; and after which he be-
came Rector OF Trinity Church in that city
In 1881 he removed to Trinity Church, Boston,
whence both nc and Bishop Doane were subSe'
oucntly called to the Episcopate. lie was Con
.ccrated in St Paul's Chapel, New York, octo'
Der 81. 1882 lie is the most volumhnous au
thor among our American Bishops, having given
TO the world some poetry; work on Gothic
architecture. Of which be was one OF the po
ne4rs in this country; works also on The evi
dcuces, the Creed, the Primitive Church, the
pacai Supremacy, the English Reformation
letters Oh the Novelties that Disturb our Peace
the History of the Confessional, and other valu
able Jhs-partcnlarly the End Of Con,ro
versv Controycriea The Bishop Of Vermont
alone among oar Prelates possesses the print
tive veto power orCr the acts OF his Conren
ton.
!. Tho Ri Rev Benjamin B9sworth Smith
DID, Bishop Of kcntucky, was bora OF Con
c-cca;ionalist parc,ts, ut Bristol, Rhode Island
Jlt.c 10, / i't, wa S.!HauatSt ~ b'0"" ~
yersitr in 1916; studied theology under The
venerable Dr.. Croker and Bishop Grlswod
YVES ordered Deacon April l., 1917, aud Priest
in 1918; and coLsecrated October ii, 1857
with DR.. Hopkins. Before his removal TO Ken
lucky he WAS in 1872, editor Of the Episcopal
Register" Of Vermont; and or the Standing
Committee: was rector in MiddicSury, Yer
mont, in ISIS. and afterwards i'll Massachusetts
Virginia. AID Pennsylvania In 1929 he was
rector of Grace church, Philadelphia, and cd:
tor of the Episcopal Recorder" from whence
he removed in 1890 to Lexington, Kentucky
g. The Ri. Rev. Charles Petit Mcilvane, d.
D., Del (Oxon.) and LID. (Cantab.), Bish
Oh of Ohio. was born in Burlington, New Jer
scv, in January, 1893; was graduated at Prince
ton College IN 1916; and became . student il
lis Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A.tcl
his ordination hc was Chaplain and Professor
of Ethics in the United States Military Acadc
NY at West Point New YUik, in 1927. lie
was called 10 OHIO and conSecrated u the same
time and place with the two preceding Bishops
havin. previously succeeded bishop ii. |. On
dcrdonk rs rector of ST. AIMS church, Brook
lvn. Bishop Mcllvaine' book OIL the Evidences
is well known and valuable.
o. The Rt. Rev James llcrvcy Otey, DID.
LID, Bishop Of Tennessee, was born Of dis
senting parents in Liberty, Va, January eth
1900; was schoolmaster in Virginia, and grad
uated in 1870 at the University of North Caro-
lima. ordered Ueacon. October IL, 1925, ant
was the first clergyman settled in Tennessee
He had Il tinc school under his charge for seve
ral years, and some Of his pupils have risen tt
cminence Hewas consecrated in Christ church
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, Jan. II, 1884.
:. The Ri Rev. jackson kemper, ID, LII
D.. Bishop OF Wisconsin, and for many years
. Missionary Bishop Of the Northwest. was Dorr
in Pleasant Valley, Duchess county, New York
December II, i.S9; was graduated ut Coumbi;
College in 1909; ordered Deacon in 1911, anC
Priest il 1872. The first twenty years OF HI:
ministry were spent in Philadelphia. He was
cousecra,cd in S., Peters church, Philadeiphia
Oh Friday, September 10Th, 1880.
:. The RI Rev. Salnuc! Allen McCOskry, D,
D., D. {. L. (Oxon), Bishop Of Michigan, wa>
born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about 1904; is
eradicate OF Dickinson College, o! the class
Of 1923, and Of Ia. United States Military
Academy. in 1925; was ordered DEACON about
the wear 1928; became rector OF St. Paul'>
chrrcl,, Pnllai> plia, in which lie was conse-
Grated on Thursday, July :, 1886
G. The II. Rev Lconidas Polk, D. D., Bishop
crLouisiana, was born ut Raleigh, North Caro-
lira, in 1906 lie, Ike the preceding, WAS in
tended for the army, and was graduated at the
Military Academy IN 1927; served as Sergeant
Major and Aiiutant to Cadet corps, resigned
his commissions IS second Lieutenant in ls2I
studied theology in the Virginia Theological
Seminary. was ordered Deacon in 1880, anu
Priest in 1881 in 1858 was consecra,ed Mis-
siorary Bishop in the Southwest; and became
Diocesan Of Louisiana alone 10 1871.
10. The RI Rev. William Hesthcotc Dcl.an'
cay, ID. D., LID, and DEL. (OXon.) Bishop
Of Western New York, was born in 1897, AT
Mamaronrck, Westchester county, y. J.; was
graduated ut Yale in 1917; ordered Deacon
about 1919. Priest in 1899; became Provost and
Professor OF Moral Philosophy in University OF
pennS y!varia in 1888; Assistant Minister oil ST.
Peters church, Philadelphia, in 1888, rector in
1886: and was consccrated in ST. Peters church,
Auburn, Nay Q, 1889.
II. The RI. Rev. William Robinson Whit
tingham, D. d., Bishop of Maryland, was bcIi,
in New York city, December ., 1906; was
graduated ut the General Theological Seminary
in ls25; ordered Deacon, March /, 1927, Priest
in lS2e, in which year he was Principal 0!
of Cheshire Episcopal Academy Connecticut
became Rector OF ST. Luke's church, New York,
in 1881; Professor Of Ecclesiastical History in
the General Theological Seminary in 1885; and
was consecrated at Baltimore, Sept. II, 1910.
lie has edited the Fatally Visitor ChildTen's
Magazine and tic Churchman. At All early
age he was associated with Rev. Dr. Turner in
trar>la;ias and editing Johns Introduction to
the Old Testament, besides which he has edited
4 y. l. L., a
H. The Right Rev. Stephen Elliott, D. D.,
Bishop OF Georgia was born at Beaufort, 5. c.,
in lSV6; practiced Law some; ordered Deacon
in 1880, and Priest in 1896; was Professor OF
the Evidences Of Natural and Revealed Religion
in the South Carolina College; and upon his
election WAS made Dishep Feb. %, lSil.
IL. The RI Rev. Alfred Lee, y. d., Bishop
of Delaware, was born at Cambridge, Mass,
Sept. ., 1907; is graduate OF Harvard III 49,;
and Of the General Theological Seminary in
1877. was Rector Of Calvary Church Rock