Memoirs of the life and services of the Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter.
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Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was an Episcopal bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Background
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was born Mark Antony De Wolf Howe 5 April 1808, in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was the only child of John and Louisa (Smith) Howe, the latter a sister of Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith of Kentucky. He was a descendant of James Howe who emigrated from England and was admitted freeman of Roxbury, Massachussets, in 1637, later moving to Ipswich. John Howe's father, Capt. Perley Howe, had married Abigail DeWolf, a sister of James DeWolf, whose father, Mark Anthony D'Wolf, had come to Bristol from Guadeloupe, whither his father, Charles, born in Lyme, Connecticut, had emigrated. The D'Wolfs were descendants of Balthasar, who settled in Connecticut very early.
Education
Mark Howe studied at the local academy, at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, and at private schools. At the age of sixteen he entered Middlebury College, Vermont. After two years he transferred to Brown University, from which he graduated in 1828.
Career
At Brown he came under the dominating influence of President Francis Wayland, the first of three men who shaped his career. The other two were Bishop Alexander V. Griswold, who baptized him, and Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, his first academy teacher. Howe studied law in his father's office, taught in the Adams Grammar School (1929 - 30), and in the Hawes Grammar School (1830) in Boston, and was tutor for a year (1831 - 32) at Brown.
Having prepared for the ministry, guided by the Rev. John Bristed of St. Michael's, Bristol, R. I, he received deacon's orders from Bishop Griswold in January 1832, and was ordained the next year. After a few months of service at St. Matthew's Church, South Boston, he became the first rector of St. James, Roxbury. Beginning in the autumn of 1835, he was for nine months at Christ Church, Cambridge, but soon returned to Roxbury for an eventful pastorate of ten years. During this period he edited the Christian Witness.
Always interested in civic affairs, he vigorously defended religion in the public schools against Horace Mann, secretary of the state board of education. In 1846 he became rector of St. Luke's, Philadelphia. While here he raised the church to a position of power through his preaching, his organizing ability, and his spiritual leadership. Henry C. Potter, later bishop of New York, sitting as a youth in St. Luke's, listened to a searching personal plea which decided him to enter the ministry. The rector was alive to the problems of the Civil War period, and printed in 1864 a reply to the "mischievous dissemination" on the Bible view of slavery published by Bishop John H. Hopkins of Vermont.
Near the close of Howe's ministry at St. Luke's, he published the Memoirs of the Life and Services of the Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D. , LL. D. (1871). He also wrote an introductory essay for Reginald Heber's Poetical Works (1858). In 1871 he was chosen first bishop of the new Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and was consecrated December 28. He moved to Reading, where he lived until the last summer of his life. In the spring of 1895 Bishop Howe relinquished the burden of his office, and retired to Weetamoe Farm, in Bristol, on the shore of Narragansett Bay.
Achievements
He organized the new diocese without friction, worked with great zeal, and traveled long distances in the course of his duty. Although having pronounced convictions, and a deep reverence for tradition, he exercised patience and open-mindedness and guided his people happily and wisely through twenty-three years of activity.
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Connections
His first wife was Julia Bowen Amory, whom he married October 16, 1833. She died February 5, 1841, and in 1843 he married Elizabeth Smith Marshall. His third wife, whom he married in June 1857, was Eliza Whitney.
