The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-19
Obituarv:
LEVI SILLIMAN IVES.

L. Siliman Ives, D. D., LII. D., died of disease
of the heart, at his residence in Manhattanvlle,
yesterday, in the 71st year of his age. DR.. Ives
was born i'll Meriden, Conn.,, Sept. 1G, 1897 He
was brought up on a farm in Lewis County, in
this State, and, when Is years old, WAS sent to
the Louisville Academy. During the war of 1872
he served nearly year under Gen. Pike. He en-
tered Hamilton College in 1916, and began
course of preparation for the ministry of the
Presbyterian Church, which he joined in very
early life. Studious application injured his health
and he lett College before the close of his senior
year. In 1919 he joined the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He came to this city at the instance of
Bishop Hobart. studied theology under his direc-
ton, and received Dcacon's orders at his hands
in 1922 In 1925 he married Rebecca, daughter
of Bishop Hobart. His first services were at Ba-
tavia in this State, then missionary station. In
1928 he took charge Trinity Church, Philadelphia,
and was ordained to the Priesthood by Bishop
White. In S27 he took charge of Christ Church,
Lancaster, Pa, and at the end of the year became
the assistant minister of Christ Church, in this
city. Six months after, he was made the rector
ofSt. Luke's Church He served there until 1881,
when he was consecrated Bishop of North Caro-
lima. He was very able preacher, and admins
tered the affairs of his diocese with much skill and
Judgment, winning in a remarkable degree the
affection of his clergy. To promote the cause of
education in the Church, he established an insti-
tuition at Vale Crucis, among the mountains of
North Carolina, which finally exposed him to
great pecuniary loss. He manifested a deep SYM
pathy with the efforts then in progress for the
ligious training of the slaves, and prepared cate
chism adapted to their comprehension and spirit
! ol yrl;, h full iptyN Inv
him among the slaves on some of the large plan
tations. Beside various charges to the clergy,
and number of occasional sermons, he publish
ed volume of discourses on the Apostles
Doctrine and Fellowship and another on the
obedience of Faith" During the excitement
in the Episcopal Church caused by the Oxford
Tracts, he sided strongly with the Tractarian
movement Though his diocese was eminently
High Church, his language and acts touching this
movement excited distrust, and alienation was
the result. His mind had long been uncon-
sciously tending to the Roman Catholic view of
the questions under discussion, and at length he
was thoroughly convinced OF the supremacy of
the Pope. In 1852 he visited Rome, and was there
admitted into the Roman Catholic Church. He
afterward published a volume in yindcation of
his change offaith, entitled % The Trials ola Mind
! in its Progress to Catholicism" On his return
to this city he Was employed as Professor of Rhe-
toric in st. Joscph's Theological Seminary, and
as Lecturer on Rhetoric and the English Lam
guage in the Converts OF the Sacred Heart and
the Sisters of Charity. He has served as an
| tive President of Conference of st. Vincent de
Paul, and occasionally as public lecturerin some
of our large cities. The last years of his life were
devoted to the establishment of au institution at
Manhattanville for the protection of destitute
children. Through his untiring efforts buildings
are already erected for the accommodation of 700
children, and Others are being constructed capa-
bic of holding 700 more.