Background
Wells, Lemuel Henry was born on December 3, 1841 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Horace Demming and Mary (Barker) Wells.
Wells, Lemuel Henry was born on December 3, 1841 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Horace Demming and Mary (Barker) Wells.
Student Trinity College, Connecticut, 1860-1862, honorary Bachelor of Arts, 1864. Lieutenant 32d Wisconsin Infantry, 1862-1865. Bachelor of Arts, Hobart College, 1867, Master of Arts, 1882, Doctor of Divinity, 1892, Doctor of Civil Law, 1914.
Bachelor of Divinity, Berkeley Divinity School, 1869.
Doctor of Laws, Whitman College (Washington).
Deacon, 1869, priest, 1871, P.E. Company, assistant Trinity Church, New Haven, 1869-1871. Rector Walla Walla, Washington, 1871-1882, Saint Luke’s, Tacoma, 1884-1889, Trinity, Tacoma, 1889-1892. Consecrated missionary bishop of Spokane, December 16, 1892.
Resigned, 1913.
Home: Tacoma, Washington
Married Lizzie C. Folger, 1869. Married second, Henrietta B. Garretson, June 21, 1880.