The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-09-26
The New CLERGYMAN

REV. henry Ieller OOcke, WIN nd'
= accepted call to be the rector Of st
n Andrews church, Mount Holly. viii
attend the triennial general convention
Il of the Episcopal church, at st. Louis
h next month, as delegate from North
Carolina. He is expected to be in
Mount Holly the latter part of October
: Dobbins Memorial Chapel in st. An
drew's burying ground on All Saints
day, November 1st. A brief sketch Of
! the new clergyman follows:
Rev. Henry Teller Cooke was born at
: City Point. Virginia, in 1876. His
father, for whom he was named, was a
=. member of the vestry of the Episcopal
e church in that city. His mother was
4 Elizabeth Welsh Horner, a grand
daughter of DR.. William Horner, Dean
of the medical college of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Cooke spent his early school
days in his native town, after which
he went to Staunton, Virginia, for two
years to prepare himself to become a
cadet at the Virginia Military Insti-
tute at Lexington, Va. He gdduated
from that institution in 1895 and spent
two years teaching and doing special
work in connection with the study of
arts. In the fall of 1897 he became a
candidate for holy orders and entered
the Virginia Theological Seminary at
Alexandria, of which DIR. Angus Craw-
ford, former rector of Trinity church, I
Mount Holly, was the Dean. On the
completion of the three years course |
in theseminary he was given diploma |
and was ordained to the Diaconate of |
the church by Bishop Peterkin, of |
West Virginia. He was also recon-
mended by the faculty for the degree
of Bachelor of Divinity.
When he left the seminary Bishop
Randolph, of Virginia, sent him to
take charge of the churches in Bote-
tourt county, where he served his
Diaconate. June Is, 1901, he resigned
from the churches under his charge to
become the curate of ST. Paul's church,
New Orleans, and owing to the death
OF the rector of that church, Mr.. Cooke
took charge of the parish, remaining in
control for eighteen months. The yes
try endeavored to secure him as rector
of the church but he declined and took
up work under the Bishop of Missouri
for year when he went to. Baltimore
as the curate of Grace church with the
view of taking special work in con-
nection with the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity.
1t was in Baltimore that he met Miss
Maria Snowden, daughter of Wilton
Snowden, and she became his wife in
1906. In the meantime, however, in
1904, MIR. Cooke accepted call to st. C
Paul's church, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, where he has been for the !
last twelve years. For the last six T
years he has spent his vacation at a
Avon-by-the-Sea, in this state, having
charge of st. Johns church.
Mr.. Cooke is an earnest worker.
During the period of his stay in Win
there have been greatl
changes in the church life. On his
arrival in the parish he found an in G
lebtedness which had been inherited
rom former rector and he went to
work to have this wiped out, accom- =,
olishing the task in short time. >,
The growth of the congregation de- :,
new church and a hand q
some stone building was erected and \
equipped, followed within a year by -
the erection of one of the most delight !,
ul rectories in the South. The con- =
sregation continued to grow and Mr.. Il
Cooke will leave it twice as large as ;,
when he took charge. The finances =
# the parish have been put in good o.
and all Indebtedness has i
,een wiped out, while the church !,
has increased in value from :,
10, 900 to SIS, 900. :;
In addition to the work done in the :,
parish itself colored Sunday school !,
md congregation was organized, a =
hurch building was erected for them =
md turned over to clergymen of their 9
'wn race. A mission has been devel- :,
ped among the operatives in one of :,
he mill districts of the city where ;,
hapel has been built and where there
$ strong Sunday school and congre- :
,ation. In connection with the relig-
Gus work of the mission chapel there
las been developed night school, day ~
nursery and dispensary which have r
'een serving good purpose iii the lives y
If the people. Since March, Mr.. q
frank Dean, of Philadelphia, has been "
ssisting the rector in the work for the IL
benefit of the mill operatives. X
Besides the church work Mr.. Cooke u
las done in Winston-Salem he has "
aiken an active part in the building u
Up of a better community life, being
in all matters pertaining 10 a
he municipality and he is president U
If the Ministers Association, an or
yanization composed of about seventy
i've ministers, which has been a most 81
affective force for making better Win &
School Supplies, L. S. Boyce, v