The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-01

scientific as we'll as theological attain
ments. died Tuesday morning at Prov
| idence, X. /. He was grandson O
Chauncey Langdon of Castleton, con
! gresham lS15-17, state legislator anC
/ councillor and one of the Federalist
leaders of the state in the early part Of
! the century. On the mothers side
he was descended from the Wheelocks
and Woodwards of Dartmouth college
and was born at Burlington Aug. 10,
1881, the son of John Jay and Harrietto
Curtis (Woodward) Langtlon.
His childhood and youth were spent
mostly in the south with his mother
but he fitted for college at the Castle
ton Vt, seminary, graduated AT
Pennsylvania university, Lexington.
Ky. at the age of 10, and was adjunct
professor of astronomy and chemistry
in Shelby college, Kentucky. in the
college year of 1901.
In May. 1851, he was appointed
assistant examiner of the United
States patent office. and was later its
chief examiner. In 1856 he entered
upon the practice of patent law, but
not long afterwards resolved to enter
the ministry of the Episcopal church,
and two years later he was made
deacon, and in 1853 priest. He served
for one year as assistant minister in
ST. Andrews church of Philadelphia,
and in the autumn of 1859 went
abroad. At Rome. Italy. while chap
lain of the L. S. Legation near the
Holy See, he founded the American
Episcopal church, and served there as
the church's first rector,
Returning to the United States he
became rector of st. Johns church,
Havre de Grace, Nd, from 1862 till
1866.
In the general convention of 1860
DIR. Langdon brought forward the
subject of Italian Catholic reform and
was appointed member OF the joint
committee and sent to Italy in this
work in 1867 While abroad he made
AN extended visit to Florence, where
he remained until the year 1873, acting
as the agent and instrument of inter-
course between the bishops and the
clergy of the church of England and
of the American church and those
members of the Latin churches that
were inclined to reform. 1t was here
that he was especially active in bring
Ing ABOUT TeldtluuS DctWCCh thC oief
Catholics" and the American bishops.
He was during all this time in close
relations with the principal leaders of
the liberal Catholic party in the
Italian church during and before the
period of the Vatican council, as we'll
as with the early leaders of Liberal
in Germany. In 1873 he
founded the Emmanuel Episcopal
church at Geneva, Switzerland. He
co operated in German, French and
Swiss religious movements and attend |
I'd the Old Catholic congresses at
Cologne in 1872, Constance 1873. Fret |
burg 1874, and was a member of the re-
union conferences in Bann in 1874 and |
'75.
He returned to this country in the /
after part of 1879, having received the |
legree of ID. ID. from Gambler college. !
ohio, the year before. He accepted |
he rectorship of Christ church. Cam
bridge, Mass, in 1916, but toward 1
he close of the second year of his /
work there, his health being greatly /
broken, he resigned. In 1883 he be
:ame rector of st. James church,
Bedford. Pa. where he resided until +
$50 when he came to Providence to
'eside with his son, Prof. Courtney
I.angdon of Brown University. DIR. |