4* 4* 4* 4 4> m amenta : : ^ s 4* 4* 4* 4 4* ^ 4* 4* 4* 4 THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT OF Commodore Byron McCandless THe. UBKARY OF THE BISHOP OF SPRINGFIELD WyTTTTTTTTTTTT*'fW CW9 M IW W W> W W W W9 M W W W in America : : fTOfffiWW>fffiWiW * T -r T T Biographical and iiogtapl)icai, of tlje Bishops of tije American Ciwrct), toitl) a l&reliminarp Cssap on tyt Historic episcopate anD 2Documentarp Annals of tlje introduction of tl)e Anglican line of succession into America William of and Otstortogmpljrr of tljr American * IW> CW tffi> W ffi> ^W ffi ^ ^ CDttfon W9 WS W fW W <W $> W IW W> W> W> W c^rtjStfan Hitetatute Co, Copyright, 1895, BY THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY. CONTENTS. PAGE ADVERTISEMENT vii PREFACE ix INTRODUCTION xi BIOGRAPHIES: Samuel Seabury I William White 5 Samuel Provoost 9 James Madison 1 1 Thomas John Claggett 13 Robert Smith 15 Edward Bass 17 Abraham Jarvis 19 Benjamin Moore 21 Samuel Parker 23 John Henry Hobart 25 Alexander Viets Griswold 29 Theodore Dehon 31 Richard Channing Moore 33 James Kemp 35 John Croes 37 Nathaniel Bowen 39 Philander Chase 41 Thomas Church Brownell 45 John Stark Ravenscroft 47 Henry Ustick Onderdonk 49 William Meade 51 William Murray Stone 53 Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk 55 Levi Silliman Ives 57 John Henry Hopkins 59 Benjamin Bosworth Smith 63 Charles Pettit Mcllvaine 65 George Washington Doane 67 James Hervey Otey 69 Jackson Kemper 71 Samuel Allen McCoskry .' 73 Leonidas Polk 75 William Heathcote De Lancey 77 Christopher Edwards Gadsden 79 iii 956336 CONTENTS. William Rollinson Whittingham ". 81 Stephen Elliott 83 Alfred Lee 85 John Johns 87 Manton Eastburn 89 John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw 91 Carlton Chase 93 Nicholas Hamner Cobbs 95 Cicero Stephens Hawks 97 William Jones Boone 99 George Washington Freeman 101 Horatio Southgate 103 Alonzo Potter 105 George Burgess 107 George Upfold 109 William Mercer Green Ill John Payne 113 Francis Huger Rutledge 115 John Williams 117 Henry John Whitehouse 119 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright 121 Thomas Frederick Davis 123 Thomas Atkinson 125 William Ingraham Kip 127 Thomas Fielding Scott 129 Henry Washington Lee 131 Horatio Potter . 133 Thomas March Clark 135 Samuel Bowman 137 Alexander Gregg 139 William Henry Odenheimer 141 Gregory Thurston Bedell 143 Henry Benjamin Whipple 145 Henry Champlin Lay 147 Joseph Cruikshank Talbot , 149 William Bacon Stevens 151 Richard Hooker Wilmer 155 Thomas Hubbard Vail 157 Arthur Cleveland Coxe 159 Charles Todd Quintard 163 Robert Harper Clarkson 165 George Maxwell Randall 167 John Barrett Kerfoot 169 Channing Moore Williams 171 Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer 1 73 George David Cummins 175 William Edrr.ond Armitage 177 Henry Adams Neely 1 79 Daniel Sylvester Tuttle 181 CONTENTS. v PAGE John Freeman Young 183 John Walrus Beckwith 185 Francis McNeece Whittle 187 William Henry Augustus Bissell 189 Charles Franklin Robertson 191 Benjamin Wistar Morris 193 Abram Newkirk Littlejohn 195 William Croswell Doane 197 Frederic Dan Huntington 199 Ozi William Whitaker 201 Henry Niles Pierce 203 William Woodruff Niles 205 William Pinkney 207 William Bell White Howe 209 Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe . 211 William Hobart Hare 213 John Gottlieb Auer 215 Benjamin Henry Paddock . 217 Theodore Benedict Lyman 219 John Franklin Spalding 221 Edward Randolph Welles 223 Robert Woodward Barnwell Elliott 225 John Henry Ducachet Wingfield 227 Alexander Charles Garrett 229 William Forbes Adams 231 Thomas Underwood Dudley 233 John Scarborough 235 George De Normandie Gillespie 237 Thomas Augustus Jaggar 239 William Edward McLaren 241 John Henry Hobart Brown 243 William Stevens Perry 245 Charles Clifton Penick 249 Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky 251 Alexander Burgess 253 George William Peterkin 255 George Franklin Seymour 257 ' Samuel Smith Harris 259 Thomas Alfred Starkey 261 John Nicholas Galleher ... 263 George Kelly Dunlop , 265 Leigh Richmond Brewer 267 John Adams Paddock 269 Cortlandt Whitehead 271 I lugh Miller Thompson 273 David Buel Knickerbacker 275 Henry Codman Potter 277 Alfred Magill Randolph 279 William David Walker. 281 CONTENTS. Alfred Augustin Watson 283 William Jones Boone 285 Nelson Somerville Rulison 287 William Paret 289 George Worthington 291 Samuel David Ferguson 293 Edwin Gardner Weed 295 Mahlon Norris Gilbert 297 Elisha Smith Thomas 299 Ethelbert Talbot 301 James Steptoe Johnston 303 Abiel Leonard 305 Leighton Coleman 307 John Mills Kendrick 309 Boyd Vincent 311 Cyrus Frederick Knight 313 Charles Chapman Grafton 315 William Andrew Leonard 317 Thomas Frederick Davies 319 Anson Rogers Graves 321 William Ford Nichols 323 Edward Robert Atwill 325 Henry Melville Jackson 327 Davis Sessums 329 Phillips Brooks 331 Isaac Lea Nicholson 335 Cleland Kinloch Nelson 337 Charles Reuben Hale 339 George Herbert Kinsolving 341 Lemuel Henry Wells 343 William Crane Gray 345 Francis Key Brooke 347 William Morris Barker 349 John McKim 351 Frederick Rogers Graves 353 Ellison Capers 355 Thomas Frank Gailor 357 William Lawrence '. 359 Joseph Blount Cheshire 361 Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall 363 John Brockenbrough Newton 365 John Hazen White 367 Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh 369 ADVERTISEMENT. THE interest surrounding the first complete collection of photo- graphs of American bishops published warrants a brief recital of the difficulties involved in gathering them. The aim to secure the best, as well >as the latest, likeness had frequently to be limited to- securing any likeness at all; for certain of the bishops never sat for portraits. It is generally believed, for example, that no portrait was ever made of Bishop Dehon, al- though a very rare silhouette exists. By diligent searching, how- ever, a poor photograph was discovered, from which a pen-and-ink drawing was made, which is reproduced on page 30. Neither Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's very full collection, nor any other that we know of, possesses a photograph of this prelate. Bishop Madison was never known to have sat for a portrait, and tradition says that the painting of that diocesan now in the possession of Mrs. S. M. Chamberlayne, of Richmond, Va. (through whose kind permission we secured a photograph from this painting), is in reality a portrait of his daughter, who strongly resembled him, taken after her father's death. Bishop Whittingham's portrait was not painted during his lifetime, although a daguerreotype was taken about 1845. Mrs. Rollinson Colburn, of Washington, D. C., a personal friend of Bishop Whittingham, made pencil-sketches of him in 1871, while he was visiting at her home, from which a large (copyright) portrait was painted after his death, in 1879. Huntington painted his portrait from the old but as this the in his daguerreotype ; represents bishop younger days, it has been thought well to photograph the very ex- cellent likeness by Mrs. Colburn, which she has generously allowed us to do. The painting was praised by Archbishop Trench and Bishop Pirikney, and is now reproduced for the first time, Brand, in his biography of Whittingham, having made use of Huntington's work. We are also indebted to another member of this family Miss Colburn for our photographs of Bishops Green and Pinkney, taken from portraits painted by her, and truer in representation than hitherto published ones. Bishop C. M. Williams was one of viii ADVERTISEMENT. those who would never sit for a portrait. His likeness appears in a group; but as the reproductions were unsatisfactory, a pen-and-ink sketch was made from the photograph. Besides our portraits of Madison, Whittingham, Green, and Pinkney, taken from oil-paintings by photography, six others were produced in the same way, viz., those of Robert Smith, Jarvis, Kemp, H. U. Onderdonk, Stone, and Gadsden. In cases where photographs are not known, or where they lack merit, we have, wherever it has been possible, made use of engrav- ings. Twenty-nine of our portraits have been so taken. Of these the following were engraved by J. C. Buttre : White (from Sully's painting), Provoost, Claggett, Bass, Hobart, Griswold, R. C. Moore, Croes, Bowen, P. Chase, Brownell, Ravenscroft, Mcllvaine, Otey, De Lancey, Henshaw, Freeman, Wainwright (from Brady's paint- ing), and Cummins. The portrait of the senior Boone is from an engraving by Sartain, from Mooney's painting, and the likeness of Bishop Polk is also from an engraving by Sartain, and is used by permission of Dr. William H. Polk, of New York. The portraits of Bishops Meade and B. T. Onc"erdonk are from engravings by Neil and Ormsby respectively. The following are from engravings by unknown artists : Seabury, Benjamin Moore, Parker, Ives, Davis, and Hopkins. All other illustrations are from photographs furnished by the bishops themselves, by members of their families, or by authorized photographers. We are under obligations to the Rev. F. D. Jaudon, of Manston, Wis., and to the Rev. E. H. Porter, of Newport, R. I., for the loan of photographs and engravings from their collections, and to Mr. Rollinson Colburn, of Washington, D. C., for material assistance in many ways. Acknowledgments should also be made to the Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, of Brooklyn, Conn., for 'the use of the large por- trait of Bishop Jarvis, taken from the only painting of that prelate in existence; to Mr. D. E. Huger Smith, of Charleston, S. C., for a photograph of Bishop Smith, taken from the painting in possession of his Mr. Robert Smith to the Rev. F. brother, Tilghman ; Chase, of N. for our likeness of Carlton Chase and to Scarsdale, Y., Bishop ; the Rev. Montgomery Schuyler, of St. Louis, Mo., for that of Bishop Hawks. PREFACE. THE story of the introduction of the Anglican episcopate into America is full of incident. The lives of the men who have filled the office of bishop in the American Church are at once interest- ing and instructive.