The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-01-10
OHIEUAIaE,

Rev. Gilbert Haven, D. D., Bishop Of the |
Methodist Episcopal Church, died on Satur.
day evening, at his mothers residence in
Maiden, Mass, aged SO years. He has been
i'll for several weeks, and much anxiety has |
been felt throughout the entire denomina- |
ton in regard to his condition. Several |
times strong hopes for his recovery were held
out, but his system was entirely broken
down, and he gradually sank to his death.
He was a very genial, good-natured man,
very little restrained by the conventional
ties of his cloth, and was general personal
favorite, being almost universally known
among his equals and associates in the min
istry as "Gl" Haven. lie was born at NAL
den, Mass, September 10, 1921, of the same
Puritan family of which Chancellor E. 0.
Haven, Prof Joseph Haven and Samuel F.
Haven, were conspicuous members. He
graduated at the Wesleyan University, Mid
dletowu, Conn, in 1916, was for two years
teacher of Latin and Greek in Armenia
Seminary, New York, and in 1S4S became
principal of that institution. In lS49 he
was refused admission as preacher to the
Philadelphia Conference on account of the
vigor of his abolition ideas, but in 1851 he
found no difficulty in being admitted TO the
New England Conference. For several years
he was stationed in important Massachusetts,
towns, including Northampton, Wilbraham,
WestGeld, Roxbury and Cambridge. At the
outbreak of the civil war he volunteered his
services in the Eighth Massachusetts Regi-
ment (Butler's command), and his COM
mission as chaplain, bearing date April Is
1861, was the first issued during the war
In the following year, 1862, he made tour
in Europe, and on his return, occupied fol
two years the pulpit Of an important Boston
church. In 1868 he was appointed super
visor of destitute freedmen and whites in the
State OF Mississippi, and in 1867 was made
editor of Zion's Herald, the leading organ o
his Church in New England. lie had long
been known as a vigorous writer, but the
strength Of his radicalism on many subject,
prevented his becoming an exponent of hi
denomination in its authorized press unit
after the close of the civil war. He achieved
a great success with Zion's Herald and mad,
it an organ of the most advanced theolog
cal radicalism consistent with thorough or
thodoxy on doctrinal points. On May %
1862, he was elected Bishop by the Genera
Conference held at the Academy of Mus
in New York city, almost simultaneous,
with Bishops Bowman, Harris, Foster, Wiley
Merrill, Andrews, aud Peck. Bishop Have
was assigned to the Gulf States, and too
up his episcopal residence at Atlanta, Ga
He spent the winter of 1928 in Mexio
experimenting the Methodist missions i
that Republic, and returned homeward over
land via Guauajuato, San Luis Potosi, Mon
tcrey and Texas Bishop Haycn was
warm personal friend and admirer of Ger
Grant, and in December, 1873, he created
great sensation IN his denomination by hi
outspoken advocacy Of the election Of Graz
To a third term Of the Presidency. In lS7
. Bishop Haven went 10 Liberia, acCompauie
by a Loly Of freedmen, whose Interests i
looked after with great efficiency. He traV
ellud extensively in Liberia, and there col
Iracled tlle malarial disease which has no
resulted in his death. On his return la
wear he preached, iee;ured and wrote muc
upon Li6sriO. lie had published in lsG
the "Plgrim's Wallet" aud in 1874 "Ou
Next Door Ncighbor," being accounts of b
travc,s in Europe AMI McNioo. In 1859 |
issued volume of "Natiuual Ssrmons q
sl.yery aud It, War"