White Haven Parish; Robert Johnston Miller; Fraternal Relations, the Diocesan Convention and the Lutheran Synod (Classic Reprint)
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The following account is derived from various sources, from printed journals, rirem manuscript letters, 'and from personal relations received 'from different quarters. 1from Mr. Abernathy were obtained some new facts,' and the confirmation of the chief points which had already been discovered. The principal source of information is, of course, Mr. Mil ler's letter' to Dr. Hawks, dated Mary's Grove, Burke 06, N. C., April 15th, 1830, which appeared first in the Church Review, and was republished in the church messen ge'b'of October 15th, 1879.
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St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, N. C: A Short History of the Parish From Its Origin to the Consecration of the Church in 1862 (Classic Reprint)
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HE history of the Church in this community goes back but a few years. There are, however, some facts of an earlier date, which have a bearing upon the subject, and which may be briefly mentioned, before we take up the story of St.
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The Church in the Confederate States; A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States. New York-1912
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St. Martin's Chapel: A Brief History of Its Origin and Work, 1887-1937 (Classic Reprint)
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In the spring of 1887 the present brick chapel was built. The materials I bought, and paid the masons by the day. The roof was built by the workman of Mr. John Wilkes, under Richard Grimes his shop carpenter. I do not remember exactly where I got the money for it. Some of it was given to me, and some I borrowed from the building association, and repaid gradually. Mi. Wilkes was very generous in charging the bare cost of materials and wages in the construction of the roof, and gave the seats. Many individuals gave me small sums. It was several years before I had it all paid for.
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Joseph Blount Cheshire was a bishop of North Carolina in The Episcopal Church. Cheshire established St. Philip the Deacon Church at Durham, and from 1881 until 1893, he was rector of St. Peter's Church, Charlotte.
Background
Joseph Blount Cheshire was born on March 27, 1850 at Tarborough, North Carolina, United States. He was the eldest surviving infancy of nine children of the Rev. Joseph Blount and Elizabeth Toole (Parker) Cheshire. His father, parish priest at Tarborough for over fifty years and active in restoring the unity of the American Church in 1865, was the grandson of John Cheshire, who came from England to Virginia before the Revolution; and was descended, like Thomas, William and Willie Blount , from James Blount, who settled on Albemarle Sound in 1669.
Education
After attending the Tarborough Male Academy, Cheshire in February 1866 entered Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he was warmly received as the first student from the former Confederate States.
Career
Graduated in 1869, he taught Greek and Latin for two years in Dr. Shepherd's School at Ellicott City, before returning to North Carolina to read law. Licensed in 1872, he began practice in Baltimore, but the next year returned to Tarborough, where he remained at the bar with success until 1878, although beginning in 1876 to read for holy orders. The discipline of the law left a definite impress upon his mind. On April 21, 1878, he was ordered deacon and at the request of Kemp Plummer Battle, president of the newly reopened University of North Carolina, sent to Chapel Hill. While here he established at Durham the church of St. Philip the Deacon. Ordained priest on May 30, 1880, he was called next year to St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, accepting on the bishop's direction. Here he remained rector twelve years, creating many new missions and extending the Church's work among the Negroes. With an outlook always more than parochial, he advocated successfully a second state diocese, revised the canons, and became a trustee of the University of the South. When the diocesan convention met at Raleigh in 1893 to elect an assistant bishop, Cheshire and the Rev. Francis J. Murdoch, nominating each other, became the foremost candidates. A deadlock ensued. On the second day, June 28, Cheshire, excused to marry his friend, Stephen Beauregard Weeks, at Trinity, was in his absence elected. Consecrated at Tarborough on October 15, he became diocesan on the death of Bishop Theodore Benedict Lyman on December 13, 1893, and thereafter resided at Raleigh. He was the first native of North Carolina raised to her episcopate. Then in the vigor of his forty-fourth year, he extended missions among the mountain people of the western counties so successfully that a missionary jurisdiction was erected and by 1898 a bishop elected. Much effort also went into building churches, hospitals, and schools for the Negroes. Although opposed to racial separation in church administration, he yielded to popular feeling, and a Negro suffragan was elected in 1918. He attended all General Conventions and the Lambeth Conferences of 1897, 1908, and 1920. Although no ritualist, he stressed the Church's Catholic character and strict observance of the Prayer-Book's rubrics. As bishop, he ruled firmly but with forthright honesty, judgment, and kindness. Cheshire's scholarly writings on church and state history include "The First Settlers of North Carolina Not Religious Refugees" (Church Messenger, Mar. 1896), Sketches of Church History in North Carolina (1892), by himself and others under his editorship; many parish histories; and most important, The Church in the Confederate States (1912), a lucid constitutional analysis. More informal is Nonnulla: Memories, Stories, Traditions, More or Less Authentic (1930), about North Carolina. In 1908 he edited for his own clergy George Herbert's A Priest to the Temple, or, The Country Parson. In 1922 the Rev. Edwin Anderson Penick was elected coadjutor, but Cheshire continued his visitations until his death at Charlotte in the fortieth year of his episcopate, exemplifying in his own life his saying that in the South "as much as anywhere in the world, I believe, the Bishop may still be in some real and personal sense, the pastor of his flock, can live in familiar and confidential relations with his people".
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Personality
Bearded, of middle stature, robust in physique and personality, he enjoyed all his life hunting wild turkeys, fishing, and, above all, good talk. A cultivated gentleman, his great simplicity and candor enabled him to meet on equal terms all sorts and conditions of men.
Connections
Cheshire was twice married: first, on December 17, 1874, to Annie Huske Webb, of Hillsborough, the mother of his nine children, who died in 1897; second, on July 19, 1899, to Elizabeth Lansdale Mitchell, of Maryland, who died in 1929.