The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-17
BISHOP DOANE DIED
IN NEW YORK HOTEL
Head of Albany Diocese of the Episcopal
Church and a Famous
Clergyman.

New York, May f1.-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 apparent
ly in his usual health as he entered the
hotel He became i'll on Wednesday and
DIR. Il. S. Hard, his family physician,
was called and remained in attendance.
The family gave out no information this
morning regarding the bishops death but
il 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.
II was learned later that it was not
until Thursday night that Bishop Doane
was forced to take his bed. He suf-
fered with weakness and there was an
acute attack of heart trouble. Early
Friday there was a slight Improvement,
giving hope tht he would recover his
strength. At noon Friday, however, he
began to fail, and the decline was grad
ual until death.
Three grandchildren, the Misses Mar
garet 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 mis-
sions of the Episcopal church. He was
present at the Wednesday and Thursday
sessions.
Albany. n. y, May IA man of
high standing in the Episcopal church
was Bishop Doane, sometimes referred
to as William OF Albany" and among
the other dignitaries Of the church his |
name was revered. He was an intimate |
friend Of the late j. p. Morgan, the fl. |
nancier, who took an active interest in
the doings of the church and each meet |
ing between these two men 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 cities and towns in the diocese are
many other lasting monuments to the
ndefatigable bishop, most OF them in the
form Of homes for boys and girls. Chief
lmong them is the child's hospital here.
where children of all creeds and races
ire treated, and St. Margaret's Home. an
Institution for the care OF foundling {
,abies connected with the hospital. Il
In recognition of his labors, Bishop j
)oane had received honorary degrees Il
rom Union and Columbia colleges in this
tate and from Cambridge and Oxford in I
england. In the latter two he received {
egrees of LII. ID. and D. d. in the same y
ear the first time these institutions +,
yer conferred the degrees on one man j
\ one year.
he day Bishop Doane held and was not a
fraid to express strenuous views. He z
as consistent enemy Of divorce. t
Make divorce more difficult was one ]
his battle cries. At meetings of the | i
hurch bodies of which be was mem
er he often spoke Of his opposition to
national divorce law, but at the same q
me declared his belief that greater
OF the divorce laws of the u
tates would better conditions material 7
Woman suffrage he had always con- !,
silently opposed, referring to it in adj II
resses to the graduating classes of st. n
nges school tfor girls, which he a
,unded here, as modern 'chimera' Ia
he bishop also advocated temperance q
'forms and made pleas for 'the up d
# of this queer thing, society. fce
William Croswell Doane was born in !,
oston March 2, 1882. the son of George :,
'ashington Doane, descendant OF Dea-
m John Doane, who came from England a,
Plymouth in one of the three ships :;
hich brought the first settlers to Cape a,
ID between the years 1920 and 1852. a,