Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-22
Name Revered among the Dig
nitaries of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
LIFE ENDED THIS MORNING
"Make Divorce More Difficult"
Was One of His Battle
Cries-OppOsed WOm-
an Suffrage.

New York May 17.-Bishop william
Croswell Doane, bishop OF the Albany
diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. died at the Hotel Manhattan in
this city shortly before one o'clock this
morning. He was 81 years old
Bishop Doane came here from Albany
on Tuesday accompanied by several of
his nearest relatives. He was apparently
In his usual health as he entered the
hotel He became i'll on Wednesday and
Dr. r. S. Hard, his family physician,
was called and remained in attendance.
The family gave out no information
this morning regarding the bishop
death but 1t was said at his hotel to be
due to old age. The family plan to leave
to-day for Albany, taking the body with
them.
1t was learned later that 1t was not I'M
til Thursday night that Bishop Doane
was forced to take to his bed. He suf-
fered with weakness and there was an
acute attack of heart trouble. Early
Friday there was slight improvement
giving hope that he would recover his
strength. At noon Friday, however, he
began to fail, and the decline was grad
ua until death.
Three grandchildren. the Misses
Margaret and Elizabeth Gardner and
Charles Frazier. who arrived last night
from Philadelphia. were with him.
Bishop Doane came here to attend
the quarterly meeting of the board of
missions of the Episcopal Church. He
Thursday sessions.
INTIMATE FRIEND OF MORGAN.
Albany, n. Y, May 16.--A man of high
standing in the Episcopal Church was
Bishop Doane, sometimes referred to as
william of Albany" and among the other
digntaries of the church his name was
revered He was an intimate friend of
the late ]. p. Morgan. the financier. who
took an active interest in the doings of
the church and each meeting between
these two mon was marked by some show
of affection.
Bishop Doane's record as bishop of AL
bany was an enviable one. Among his
many achievements. the establishment of
All Saints Cathedral stands out as the
most prominent. In Albany and other cit
les and towns in the diocese are many
other lasting monuments to the indefa-
of homes for boys and girls. Chief among
them Is the chid's hospital here, where
children of all creeds and races are treat
ed, and st MarYaret's Home, an institu-
ton for the care of founding babies con-
nected with the hospital
In recognition of his labors, Bishop
Doane had received honorary degrees
from Union and Columbia Colleges in
this State and from Cambridge and OK
| ford in England. In the latter two he
| received degrees of Ill. d. and D. d. in
the same year, the first time these insti-
tutions ever conferred the degrees on
one man in one year.
ENEMY OF DIVORCE.
On many of the mooted questions of
the day Bishop Doane held and was not
afraid to express strenuous Views. He
was a consistent enemy OF divorce
Make divorce more difficult" was one
of his battle cries. At meetings of the
church bodies of which he was a men,
Der he often spoke Of his opposition to a
| national divorce law, but at the same
time declared his belief that greater uni
formity OF the divorce laws OF the States
would better conditions materially.
Woman suffrage he had always con-
sistently opposed, referring to it in ad
dresses to the graduating classes OF
St Anges school (for girls. which he
founded here as modern "chimera'
The bishop also advocated temperance
reforms and made pleas for the up
lift OF this queer thing. society"
William Croswell Doane was born
In Boston. March 2. 1882. tho son OF
George Washington Doane. descendan,
of Deacon John Doane, who came from
England to Plymouth in one OF the
three ships which brought the frs,
settlers to Cape Cod between the years
1920 and 1923