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...clergymen and his laymen have long been trying to get a bishop coadjutor. Five men they asked and were five times refused.* Last week they found a man who would accept. Unlike the previous five selected he was right there in Pennsylvania. He was Dr. Francis M. Taitt, rector of St. Paul's Church, Chester...
...minutes later his acceptance was announced to the press. It appeared to most observers that the potentates of the Pennsylvania diocese had made sure in advance, this time, that they would not be met with refusal. There was virtually no debate before the election. Dr. Louis C. Washburn, rector of Old Christ Church, Philadelphia, and nominator of Dr. Taitt, mentioned a letter circulated among deputies to the convention. Bishop Garland interrupted: "There must be no references to letters, to caucuses held by laity or clergy, or to newspaper reports. If there are such references I will have to speak some...
...first served as an assistant at Old St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, then was rector of Trinity Church, Southwark, for five years. Since 1892 he has been rector of the Chester Church. In 1904 he was elected missionary bishop to South Dakota but declined the position because he wished to stay in Philadelphia with his ill mother. He is not married...
Yale University William DeWitt Mitchell LL.D. Vincent Masscy, Canadian Minister to the U. S LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D. Arthur Holly Compton physicist D.Sc. William Hallock Park, physician (bacteriology, hygiene) D.Sc. Willa Cather, author (Death Comes for the Archbishop) D.Litt. Henry Knox Sherrill, rector (Trinity Church, Boston) D.D. George Leslie Harrison, Governor Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Died. Dr. Edward Mansfield McGuffey, 74, of Elmhurst, N. Y., rector of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church, authority on canon law, son of the late Alexander McGuffey (coauthor of famed McGuffey Readers); in Elmhurst...