The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-03-18
Bishop Quayle
Dies at Home
in Kansas
FORMER BISHOP OF METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF MIN
NESOTA DIES SUDDENLY OF
HEART ATTACK.

Members of the Methodist Episco-
pal church in Minnesota were saddeh-
ed Tuesday afternoon, upon learning
of the death of DR.. William A. Quayle
at his home at Baldwin, Kans., the
previous afternoon. The deceased was
well known to members of the local
Methodist church.
Although the bishop had been con-
fined to his bed for several days, his
condition had not been regarded as
alarming. He spent several hour.
Monday morning debating letters ano
articles, but late in the afternoon he
had a heart attack, which rendered
him unconscious. Within thirty min
utes he was dead
He is survived by his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Allie Quayle and Mrs.
Mabel Parmenter, of Baldwin and a
son, w. R. Quayle, Eustia, Fla,
!. In nf921, Bishop Quayle was stricken
while in St. Joseph, Mo-, .and forced
to undergo a major operation. In the
latter part of 1922 he suffered a ner-
vous breakdown while presiding at a
conference in San Fransico and re-
covery was slow, Dream Heaven, al
BALDWIN, Kans., had been maintained
by the bishop as a residence for ti.e
last Is years.
Because of his. health, Bishop Quayle
retired. ins 1923 and. had planned to
spend the remainder of his life Ii
Baldwin, where Baker university, Of
which he once was president, was To-
Gated. At the time of his retirement
he was bishop of the st. Louis area.
Last year the district was consoli-
dated with the Wichita, Kans., area to
form the present Kansas City district.
Bishop Quayle became widely
known in Minnesota during the four
years he spent in the state as bishop
He was assigned to the residential!
bishopric of Minnesota, with the epis-
copal residence in st. Paul, in 1912
He remained in the position until
St. Louis. He was succeeded by
Bishop Charles B. Mitchell.
Bishop Quayle's oratory made hini
immensely popular in Minnesota. He
was called an "optomistic advocate Of
real democracy" and at the time Of
his assignment to the st. Louis dis
trict he and Mrs. Quayle-- were
eulegized at a farewell reception a.
Hamline university. At the rally De.
Samuel F. Kerfoot, president of Ham
line, presented him with a loving cur.
which bore the inscription "Minne-
apolis-St. Paul Methodism. Loving
rememberances of Bishop and Mrs.
William A. Quayle." - sso.-,.
Before his elevation toithe hishopr.o
in 1908, he had held pastorates at
Kansas City, Indianapolis and Chi
cago. $50 q
Aa outspoluen republican, a keen
political observer and removes
teacher, lecturer and writer, the war
found Bishop Quayle a staunch and
uncompromisin patriot He criticize.
President Wilson for preaching "open
covenants" abroad and practicing
CLOSED covenants" at home, and h,
urged the right of the American peo-
rle to discuss and have the deciding
voice in acceptance of peace and the
League of Nations by the United.
States. He said that peace COM
mission which did not make Germany
pay to the utmost farthing was not a
peace commission of the American
people, and he suggested that until
such time as the kaiser is tried
and executed for murder, justice will
not have room to sway the world"