1820–1885

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Born: Oc­to­ber 30, 1820, Pitts­ton, Maine.

Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1885, New York Ci­ty.

Buried: Saint Au­gus­tine Na­tion­al Ce­me­te­ry, Saint Au­gus­tine, Flo­ri­da.

Biography

Young at­tend­ed Wes­ley­an Uni­ver­si­ty, Mid­dle­town, Con­nec­ti­cut; Wes­ley­an Sem­in­ary, Read­field, Maine (now Kents Hill School); and the Vir­gin­ia Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, Al­ex­an­dria, Vir­gin­ia.

Ordained a Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, he served in Tex­as, Miss­iss­ip­pi, Lou­isi­ana, and New York, and became the se­cond bish­op of Flo­ri­da in 1867.

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