Background
FUNSTEN, James Bowen was born in Clarke. Son of Colonel Oliver Ridgway Funsten, of 11th Virginia Cavalry, United States of America, and Mary Bowen, of Mirador, Virginia.
FUNSTEN, James Bowen was born in Clarke. Son of Colonel Oliver Ridgway Funsten, of 11th Virginia Cavalry, United States of America, and Mary Bowen, of Mirador, Virginia.
Studied at University High School. Virginia Military Institute. University of Virginia.
Virginia Theological Seminary.
Till 20 years manager of Mother’s Plantation in Virginia. Doctor of Divinity.
Practised law in Baltimore. Deacon at 23; missionary in charge of Bristol and Marion, Virginia. Priest; spent some time in travel abroad, 1884.
Rector of Christ Church, Richmond, 1884-1890.
General missionary, Virginia, 1890-1892. Rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1892-1899. Bachelor of Laws, Bishop of Southern Idaho, and West Wyoming, since 1899.
7th Bishop of Idaho, 1907. Bishop in charge of Wyoming, 1907.