Background
Graves, Anson Rogers was born on April 13, 1842 in Wells, Rutland Company, Vermont, United States. Son of Daniel and Almira (Rogers) Graves.
Graves, Anson Rogers was born on April 13, 1842 in Wells, Rutland Company, Vermont, United States. Son of Daniel and Almira (Rogers) Graves.
Bachelor of Arts, Hobart College, 1866, A.M., 1869. General Theological Seminary, 1870. S.T.D., Racine College, 1890.
Doctor of Laws, Hobart, 1890.
Deacon, 1870, priest, 1871, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Grace Church, Brooklyn, 1870-1871. Rector Plattsmouth, Nebraska, 1873.
Assistant Gethsemane Church, Minneapolis, 1874-1875. Rector All Saints’, Northfield, Minnesota, 1876. Missionary in N.H., 1877-1880.
Rector St. Peter’s, Bennington, Vermont, 1880-1883, Gethsemane, Minneapolis, 1883-1889. Consecrated missionary bishop of the Platte (now district of W. Nebraska), January 1, 1890. Resigned October 1910.
Author: The Farmer Boy Who Became a Bishop (autobiography). Sermons for Lay-Readers. Has written various tracts.
Home: La Mesa, California.
Married Mary Totten Watrous, April 3, 1877. Children: Frederick Daniel, Margaret (wife of Bishop Bennett), Eliot Varnum, Mistress Gertrude Martin, David Watrous Paul.