The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06
RE c R U|Ts TO R 0 NJ {
Protestant Institution Has Given
Brilliant Priests and Laymen.

The conversion of three Seminar1-
ans from the New York General The
illogical Seminary, (Anglican), calls
attention to the large number of
graduates and non-graduates of this
| institution who are numbered among
Rome's recruits.
A Convert Bishop.
The most illustrious of them all,
says the pilot" was the late Right
Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, d. D., Prot
estant Bishop of North Carolina, who
was a student at the seminary in
1928, and with his wife, daughter of
Bishop John Henry Hobart, startled
the world by making his submission
to Pope Plus the Ninth. Dr. Ives
lived long and useful life as Cath
olic layman, and was one of the
founders of the New York Catholic
Protectory. 1t also gave us the Rev.
Edgar P. Wadhams, who graduated
in the class of 1S43, and became the
first bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Other Graduates.
Other graduates who became Cath
olics were as follows: (The date
after their names signifies the year
of their graduation).
Rev. William Henry Hoyt, 1863);
Rev. Frederick w. J. Pollard, l839);
Rev. Alfred Mersan Lontrel Q84D;
Rev. Ferdinand White, (1S42); Rev.
William Everett and Rev. Benjamin
W. Witcher, (1844); Rev. William
Alfred jerks and Rev. Thomas Scott
Preston, (1846); Rev. John S. Ster-
ling, (184O; Rev. William Markoe,
(1849); Rev. William Callyhan Rob-
inson, 1S5O; Rev. Edwin BENJAMIN
Russell, qs6N; Rev. Edward South
gate. son of Bishop Southgate,
(1S70); Rev. Alfred Bradford Lesson
(1S73); Rev. George w. West,
(1874); Rev. Francis P Mackall
(1S76); Rev. George w. Bovine,
(188D; Rev. James Sterling Fenton,
Jr., (1SS2); Rev. Jesse Albert Locke,
Rev. Henry Rufus Sargent and Rev.
Lewis T. Watson, (1SS5); Rev. DR..
William McGarvey, 1885,; Rev. Ed
ward L. Buckley, Rev. Charles de
Lyon Nichols and Rev. Charles Hen
ry Schultz, qSS7; Rev. James M.
Raker and the Rev. William Writ
Mills, QS9D; Rev. Ernest w. Jewell,
(1S93); Rev. Stephan Innes, (1S99);
Rev. John r. Oliver, (1900); Rev. Will
liam Fl. Mcclellan, (1902); Rev. Ed
gar N. Cowan, (1904); Rev. Foster w.
Stearns, (1909).
Of the non-graduates of the Gen.
eral Theological Seminary who be-
came Catholics, may be mentioned:
Edmund Dorr Griffin, (1855); Power
Arnold, $500; Robert A. Blackwell,
(1S4S); William F. Browne, (1855);
John d. Bryant, (1842); George AL
bert Cain, (1902); Moses Hale Doug
lass, (1897); William Henry Henkell,
(1893); Edward Ives, 1929; Ruston
Maury Ludlow, (1893); Ward Hunt
Johnson, QS9O); Albert w. Manifold,
/ (1899); BENJAMIN J. McMaster,
(1s43); Edward w. Putnam, (1s46);
George A. Sterling, 1886; Norman
c. Stoughton, (1826); Beverly Tillot-
son, (1850); John Spencer Turner,
(1894); Henry Van Rensselaer,, (1876);
Clarence A. Walworth, (1845); Clar-
ence e. Woodman, (1876); st. Ethel
bert Yates, (19O3).
Many Became Priests.
1t is interesting to know, that of
these converts, all became priests,
with the exception of Messrs. Arnold,
Blackwell, Cain, Bryant, Douglass,
Loutrel, jerks, Markoe, Robinson,
Russell, Bovine, Locke, Nichols, Oil
yer, Griffin, Ludlow, Manifold, Mills,
McMaster, George A. Sterling,
Stoughton, Schultz, Yates, Stearns,
and Whitcher.
Thomas Scott Preston was des-
tined to wear the purple of the Ro-
man household, to die Vicar General
of the Archdiocese of New York, and
was instrumental with Mother Caro-
line Starr (also convert), in found
ing the Sisterhood of the Divine
Compassion. Robinson became Dean
of the Law department of the Catho-
lie University; McMaster added to
the gaiety of the nation by his mill
tant journalistic career; Van Rens-
salaer and Mcclellan entered the
Jesuit Order; Walworth was one of
the founders of the Paulists. Tillot-
son and Woodman also entered the
same Order; John Delavan Bryant
rendered yeoman service to the
cause of Catholic literature, and Rob-
ert A. Blackwell, after long public
career as a jurist and editor, is now
spending the evening of his days In
st. Louis; Turner liz Marquis OF the
Roman Court; Locke and Schultz,
founded and are the Headmasters Of
i fiourishing academies for boys.
i Faith il the magnetic needle which
guides the soul when the polar star OF
i reason is Wrapt i'm darkness.