Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-03
OBITUARY.
Rev. DIR. Theodore y. BARBER of Cnm-
bridge, Md.

bridge, Md.
Rev. Theodore p Barber, ID. D., whose
death was reported in the papers of last
week, as having occurred Jan. l, at Cam
bridge, Md, was one of the eminenty
worthy men whom Brattleboro has sent
out from time to time to do good work in
the world Some of the older families of
the town can best remember him as the
son of Deacon Arson and Mrs. Louisa
Barber, and so a brother of Augustus,
late merchant in West Townshend, and of
Miss Louisa, at one time teacher here, and
now Mrs Thomas Doane of Charlestown,
Mass. Theodore was born Jan. q, 1922.
The writer first knew him as a school-mate
at Brattleboro academy in the West village,
whittier, two miles away, he and half
dozen other young men, such as S. II. FL
lot and l.. E. Skies, were wont to go and
come day by day for two or three years, to
prepare for college under the distinguished
and beloved "Preceptor" Roswell Harris.
The writer knew him still better both as a
class-mate and a roommate in Yale col
lege, where he spent four years, favorite
with all who knew him, good scholar,
taking now and then prize, and gradual
ing with high honors in 1912.
In 1S43 he went South and became
tutor in Virginia. In 1914 he became
candidate for Holy orders in the Diocese of
Maryland by appointment of Bishop Whit
bingham, and pursued his theological studies
under DIR. Wyatt of Baltimore, teaching at
the same time in a private family near that
city. In 1916 he was ordained as a deacon
of the Protestant Episcopal church at Sal
isbury, Md, and sent to officiate as a mis-
sionary in Laurel Md, where he formed a
new and now fourishing church, and re-
| al, In 1913 ha w
dained priest in Baltimore, and in 1S49 re-
ceived the appointment of rector of Great
Choptank parish in Cambridge, Md, where
he continued in active service till called
month ago, to come up higher-a period of
! "A years, or half century in all.
Nor were his labors confined, by any
means, to his own parish. He held many
important positions on church committees,
also as deputy to general convention, as
dean of convocation, ETC., all indicating the
personal regard of his brethren, together
with the confidence and esteem of the
bishop of the diocese. In 1856 he was
! honored with the title of d. D., from st.
Johns college.
In 1856 he was married to Miss Annie
C. Hooper of Cambridge, and had by her
five children, two of whom, Henry Arson
and William Wyatt, are still living, the one
a lieutenant in the first cavalry, U. 5. A.,
the other tutor in st. Marks school,
Southboro, Mass.
In 1889, speaking of his health as ''fair-
ly good" though troubled more or less with
rheumatism, and so not able to "move
around as briskly as in other days. . he adds ::
"But l manage to hold four services on
each Lords day, and drive 80 miles in the
attendance which he thought reasonable
duty for one who is 81 years DID," In 1891
he writes: 81 may well thank God that
my lot has been cast here, where have
abundant opportunity for labor in the Mas
ter's vineyard; where no sound of theolo-
gical strife nor jar intrudes, and where l
have been granted happy home" L. G.
West Brattleboro, Jan. 81, '93.