The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-19
DEATH OF BISHOP DoANE
Head Of Albany Diocese Passes
Away in New York.

Head of Albany Diocese Passes
Away in New York.
Bishop William Croswell Doane
81, bishop of the Albany diocese OF
the protestant Episcopal church died
at the Hotel Manhattan. New York
just before / o'clock Saturday morn,
ing Bishop Doane Went to New
York from Albany on Tuesday, &C
companied by several of his nearest
relatives. He was apparently in his
usual health as he entered the hotel
but showed the effects of his age. He
became i'll on Wednesday and DR.. E.
S. Hard, his family physician, was
called and remained in attendance.
A 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 named was revered, His record
as bishop of Albany is an enviable
one. Among his many achievements
the establishment of All Saints ca
thedral stands out as the most prom
inent. In Albany and other cities
and towns in the diocese are many
other lasting monuments of the in
defatigable bishop, most of them in
the form of homes for boys and girls
Chief among them is a child's hospi-
tai in Albany, where children of al
creeds and races are treated, and St,
Margaret's home, an institution for
the care of founding babies con
nected with the hospital.
On many of the moot questions of
the day Bishop Doane held and was
not afraid to express strenuon-
views. He was consistent enemy
of divorce. Make divorce more
difficult" was one of his battle cries.
The picturesque and large-minded
bishop was born in Boston, March 2,
1882. educated at Burlington college,
William Doane naturally shaped his
career for the ministry.
In youth he belonged to the high"
church party, perhaps inclining to
be an extreme man, though those
who knew his temperament and
character were assured that with the
developments of time he could be
counted on as a safe and well-balanc-
ed churchman. This confidence was
evidenced by his call, in 1868. to St.
Johns parish in Hartford. CT. In
1867 he was called to st. Peters, AL
bany. By writing in poetry and
prose, by active participation in the
councils of the church, by solid and
brilliant preaching, by public-spirit-
ID fnta IN ~
lar affairs, the clergyman's position
became one of marked Importance.
so that when Albany was cut off
from New York and made a separate
diocese, in 1868, he was naturally
thought of as the incumbent of the
new see.
Bishop Doane will be buried from
the Cathedral of All Saints tomorrow
afternoon at 2.15 o'clock. Right
Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, coadju-
tor bishop, now becomes bishop by
succession and is the head of the dio
cese.
The body of Bishop Doane arrived
at Albany Saturday afternoon. 1t
left New York at o'clock. accom-
panied by the family, Upon its ar
rival at the Union station it was con
veyed directly to the bishops resi-
dence in Elk street. The body will
not lie in state in the interim before
the funeral.
The body will be inferred in the
crypt beneath the Cathedral of All
Saints. His will be the first bishops
body to be so buried. The bodies of
his wife and her sister, who was a
member of the bishops household
are already in the crypt.