The sun., 1908-04-30
MORGAN DIX DIES SUDDENLY
RECTOR or TRINITY SINCE THE
CIVIL WAR DAYS
Vas Barely Able In His Elghty.frst Year
to Preach His Easter sermOn-WOuld
Not Exchange His Metropolitan Rec
torshIp for q Provincial BlshOpriC.

ity Church dnoe the days OF the civil war;
died suddenly at O'Clock last night at his
homo, n West Twenty-ffth street, Of heart
failure, superinduoed by asthma, from
which he had been a sufferer for years.
DR.. Dix had been aillng for several weeks,
and was 20 III when he delivered his Easter
sermon that he barely was able to finish
Mrs. Dix, DR.. Dix's son. John A, Dix and
his daughters Margaret and Mrs. William
II. Wheelock were at his bedside when he
died.
DR.. Dir had been sick in bed since Sunday.
His condition became so serious on Tuesday
that DR.. Alexander A. Smith was called in.
DR.. Smith was in constant attendance until
DR.. Dix died. The funeral arrangements
will be announced to-day, The interment
will doubtless be in the Dix vault in Trinity
ohurchyard, where Dr. Dix's father was
buried.
DR.. Dix was a son Of Gen job n A. Dix
Governor, Senator and Minister to France.
The family is Of English stock and num-
bered among it's names some prominent
Puritan families Of New England. Dr.
Dixs mother was the daughter Of John
Jordan Morgan, Welshman who in the
early part Of the century was a man OF
wealth and position in New York.
DR.. Dix was born here on November !,
1897. His father was then Major in the
Regular army, but shortly after resigned
his commission and removed to Coopers-
town with his family. When Dr. Dix was
years old the family took house at AL
bany and they lived at the State capital
for twelve years while Gen. Dix was by
turns Adjutant General, Secretary OF State,
Superintendent Of Public instruction and
a member Of the Assembly.
DR.. Dix's mother failed in health IN 1912
and the family wee to Madeira tospend the
winter. They toured Spain and Italy and
came back 20 New York two years
later. Already the young son had done
some college preparatory work which was
completed in New York upon his return.
He entered the sophomore class OF Column
bia in is45, was graduated In 1918 aud there
upon took up the study Of law in Washing
ton with his father, who then was in the
United States Senate.
DIR. Dix had studied law only short time
when he decided 10 enter the ministry
He entered the General Theological Sem
mary and after his graduation in 1852 was
ordained a deacon in st. Johns Chapel,
New York, by the then Bishop Of New
Hampshire and admitted to the priesthood in
1854 by Bishop Alonzo Potter in st. Mark 8
Church. Philadelphia He was appointed
assistant at st. Marks to the rector, the
Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilmer, who afterWard
became Bishop Of Louisiana.
After some years at st. Marks Dr. DIX
resigned and spent a year and a half in
European travel and study. He came back
TO America in 1885 and was elected assistant
minister Of Trinity parish in this city In
1859 ne was made assistant rector Of Trinity
and in 1882, upon the death Of the Rev Dr.
William Berrisn, DR.. Dix succeeded to the
rectorship. DR.. Dix was associated with
Trinity for practically half century
MANY times. so DR.. Dix's close friends
say he has refused to be elevated TO the
Office Of Bishopof different dioceses sthrough-
out the country. When the present Bishop
Potter succeeded to the diocese Of New
York DR.. Dix was prominently mentioned
for the office. As rector Of Trinity DIR.
Dx's position and influence in the affairs
Of his church were greater perhaps than
they would have been as Bishop Of smaller
diocese,
Virtually as rector Of Trinity he was
n dean OF a large ecclesiastical establish
ment and his clergy may be considered
his canons Under his direction we're
seven churches and a score Of cergymen
and the weathiest parish perhaps in the
world. Notwithstanding his many duties
DIR. Dix found time for a great deal OF
literary work and other labor that had
TO do directly or indirectly with his vocation,
He was a trustee OF Columbia University.
from which institution he received his
A. B. away back in ls4S; delegate to many
general conventions and a member OF the
committee on oanons; president Of the
standing committee Of the diocese, trustee
| Of the Sailors Snug Harbor and ex officio
trustee of the Leske and Watts Orphan
Lsvmm. trustee OF the General Theological
| Seminary and chairman Of ts standing
committee, vice-president Of the New
! York Protestant Episcopal Public School
! and Of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty 10 Animals, and trustee Of the
House Of Mercy, the Society for, Promoting
Religion and Learning and the Church
Orphan Home. -
Among DR.. DiI's literary works are two
sComnentaries' on the Eplstles; Lee
- .,n Ps1 1t!h5..slT," Lectures CT :ha
| Two Estates,' and a second edition OF the
same work; two American and two Eng.
| Nsh editions. Of Sermons, DOctrinal and
PRACTICAL" Memoirs Of John A. Dix in
two volumes, and his most popular work
Lecture on the CallinG.of a Christian
Woman" which has run into many edi-
tons. Also he was, the author and pub.
! Usher Of many books and a History OF
the Parish OF Trinity Church He had
doctors degrees from both Harvard anS
Oxford and manuals Of instruction and de-
| votion.
A triple Jubilee was celebrated by DR..
Dix and his parishioners at old st. PaulH
! Church in lower Broadway on November /,
| 1902. that was unique. On that day DR..
| Dir celebrated his fftieth anniversary as q
| clergyman, his seventy-hfth birthday and
| his iortieth anniversary as rector OF Trinity
| An the leading clergymen Of the Episcopal
Church in New York and the neighborhood
were on hand TO honor the aged rector
and the services were noteworthy. At the
evening service the parishioners presented
DR.. dix with an Immense loving cup that
since then has been one Of his treasures:
IL was IN 9 next year that mo stirred New
York momentarily with his sermon that
deplored @the decline Of womanhood from
lis old ideals and It's deterioration through
t6s.TS the SopyPs nsS sns is T Ienten sermons t%s
often dealt with current vanities and popu'
lar vices