Background
He was born at Bristol, R. I., and graduated at Brown University in 1816.
He was born at Bristol, R. I., and graduated at Brown University in 1816.
Brown University.
The following year he was ordained, beginning his ministry at Marblehead, Massachusetts He held several pastoral charges and was for a time editor of the Episcopal Recorder at Philadelphia. His last rectorship, in Lexington, Kentucky., he held until 1837, though in 1832 he had become Bishop of the diocese.
He published Saturday Evening (1876) and Apostolic Succession (1877).