Background
Decormis, Louis was born on January 14, 1846 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Edward and Martha (Whitelock) Decormis.
Decormis, Louis was born on January 14, 1846 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Edward and Martha (Whitelock) Decormis.
And direct descendant on maternal side of Edmund Freeman, Colonial deputy governor with Governor Bradford, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Bachelor of Arts, Kenyon College, 1870. Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1873.
(Doctor of Divinity, Northern Illinois College, 1898.
Doctor of Laws, Ewing College, 1900).
Deacon and priest, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1873. Rector Saint John's, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1873-1876, Saint Stephen’s, Lynn, 1876-1885. 1st assistant minister, Saint Ann’s, Brooklyn, 1885-1887.
Rector All Saint’s Church, Great Neck, Long Island, 1887-1895 (built church and rectory), Saint Paul’s Church, Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1895-1901.
Removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1901. In charge Saint Paul’s, Boston, 1909.
Republican.
Married Isabel Gibbs, November 15, 1882.