Background
PETERKIN, George William was born on March 21, 1841 in Clearspring, Maryland, United States. Son of Reverend J. Peterkin, Doctor of Divinity, and Elizabeth Howard Hanson.
PETERKIN, George William was born on March 21, 1841 in Clearspring, Maryland, United States. Son of Reverend J. Peterkin, Doctor of Divinity, and Elizabeth Howard Hanson.
Educated Episcopal High School of Virginia, 1856-1858. University of Virginia, 1859. Served private to Second lieutenant, 21st Virginia Infantry C.S.A.
Adjt. of regiment, from June 3, 1862. Aide to Brig. General W. N. Pendleton, chief of artillery, Army Northern Virginia. Graduate Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1868.
Doctor of Divinity, Kenyon, 1878. Doctor of Divinity, Washington and Lee, 1878, Doctor of Laws, 1892.
Served in Confederate Army, 1861- G5. Private in Company F. 21 Virginia Infantry. Corporal, sergeant, and lieut.-adjutant of regiment.
1st lieut. and A. District of Columbia (United States.) staff of General W. A. Pendleton, Chief Artillery Army, Northern Virginia. Assistant to his father at St. James’s Church, Richmond, Virginia (United States), 1868. Rector St. Stephen’s Church, Culpeper, Virginia (United States), 1869.
Memorial Church, Baltimore, Indiana (United States.), 1873. Organised Mission in Brazil, 1893. Porto Rico, 1901; member of Board of Missions since 1886. First Bishop of West Virginia since 1878.
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Member of the board of mgrs. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of Protestant Episcopal Church.
Married Constance Gardner, d.; married second, Marion McIntosh, d.