Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-15
SUBURBAN BISHOPS WAR RECORD
Rev. A. C. Acheson of Middleton Helped Put Down ReTs
Second Rebe1ion-Showed Courage Under Fre-Was
Student University of Toronto-Has Accepted
Election as Sufragan.

announcements of+Ifs acceptance of
bishop of the diocese Of Connecticut
was made on Monday by Rev. %.
Campion AcheSon, rector OF the
Church of the Holy Trinity at Middle
town.
The announcement folIows:
REV. e, c. AchesQn has notified the
bishop OF Connecticut that subject to
the approval of the house OF bishops
and the several ecclesiastical enthort-
ties he will accept his election to -the
Office of bishop Euffragan?
Rector For % Years.
Mr.. Acheson's only rectorsffp has
been at the church at MIddIetown, to
which he came In 1882. after serving
one year as curate at All Saints
three years as curate at st. Georges
church, New York city. Born in
WooIwfcfl, England, of his parents,
he was reared IN Ireland where he re-
ceived his early education He went
to Canada in 1881 and for a time was
in business, with the firm Of George
Go1ding and Sons. Of Toronto.
Ordained in 1883.
He attended the University of
Toronto, but left without finishing
his course, and entered Wyc1iffe COL
lege, a divinity school, from which he
was graduated in 1888. He received
an adeundem to New York university,
and took his masters degree there in
1892, while serving at st. Georges
His ordination took viace in 1888. i'm
mediateIy upon his graduation from
Wycliffe. He was naturalized as an
American citizen in 1894, after coming
to live in Middletown.
One of Queen's Own.
That the suffragan bfshop-elect
has been a soldier as well as
clergyman is not so generally known
as are the other principal facts of
his career. While a student at the
Der Of Company z, the university
company of the Canadian regi-
ment known as the Queens Own
rifles. During his college course
the company, with the rest Of this
regiment, was ordered to the terri
province of the same name, to help
put down what was known as RiePs
second rebellion, an uprising Of sever
al thousand Indians, led by Louis Riel,
a French and Indian half-breed.
Marched 2o4 Miles.
The hardships and privations of
the men of this regiment commenced
long. before they arrived at the scene
of hostilities in the far west. This
was before the completion Of the
Canadian Pacific railway, and con-
sequently several hundred miles of
the journey had to be accomplished
on foot through the deep snow. The
men slept in snowdrifts, lived on
bareback and salt pork and suf-
fered greatly from the cold on ac-
count of insufficient clothing.
From place called Swift Cur
rent, which was as near as trains
could take them to their destination,
the command of which young Ache
son was a member had to under
take a 204-mile march to BattIeford,
where nearly 500 men, women and
children had been huddled into a
stockade defended by a single COM
pany of the northwest mounted po-
lice. Not until they were detained
at Swift Current did the young SOL
diers ascertain where they were
bound for or the nature of the task
which awaited them.
1t was found that indiscriminate
ravages had been committed by the
Indians in all the settlements along
the line of march. Houses had been
destroyed after being pIundered, and
all sorts Of loot was found in the
wilderness, many miles from where
it had been stolen. The Indians had
even hauled a piano for several miles
and left it in the woods.
NJ, Acheson still has a curious me-
mento of this journey in the shape
of two Greek books, one of them a
testament, which he picked up in the
woods where the Indians had aban-
doned them.
Indians Prepared to Attack
Before the relief column arrived at
the stockade at Battlefort, the Indians
had fled, and assembling at point on
the Saskatchewan river, forty miles