Background
Waterhouse, Richard Green was born on December 24, 1855 in near Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Franklin and Lorinda Rachel Sims (Thompson) Waterhouse.
Waterhouse, Richard Green was born on December 24, 1855 in near Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Franklin and Lorinda Rachel Sims (Thompson) Waterhouse.
Richard was educated in the local and high schools of his community. He attended Hiwassee College, and graduated from in 1885.
He was twice married. They had one child, a daughter, Edith. Mistress Carrie Steele Waterhouse died 11 September 1891.
Review
Waterhouse then married Mistress Mary Thomas Carriger of Morristown, Tennessee 10 October 1894. They had two sons, Richard and Leon.
Richard was converted to the Christian faith in 1873.
He served the Altamont and Spencer Mission, and Jonesboro. He was then appointed Junior Preacher on the Abingdon Circuit, serving for four years.
This was followed by two years on the Radford District. In 1892 Review Waterhouse was elected Professor of Mental and Moral Science in Emory and Henry College.
He was elected President of the College in 1893.
Refusing to allow an increase of his salary, he never received more than $1,300.00 per year during the seventeen years he served. President Waterhouse gave himself to the elimination of the College"s debt, and to rebuilding for the new demands then facing the Mechanical Engineering Church, South in the field of college education. President Waterhouse soon became widely known among the educators of the Church, South.
He was in great demand as a speaker.
He became known also as one of the most powerful preachers of the connection. He was elected a delegate to the General Conferences of 1894-1910.
Review Waterhouse was elected to the Episcopacy at the 1910 General Conference of the Mechanical Engineering Church, South.
His first assignment as Bishop was to the Pacific Coast. He moved to Los Angeles and served that area four years.
By the end of his first quadrennium as Bishop, his health showed serious impairment and continued to decline. He moved to Emory, where he was well loved and honored by his neighbors and his home Annual Conference.
He took the superannuation relationship in 1918.
Bishop Waterhouse had grown rather feeble, but kept up his effort to recover, taking regular exercises. On 7 December 1922, while thus engaged, walking on a street on a gloomy afternoon, Bishop Waterhouse was struck by an automobile and fatally injured. He was hurried to a hospital, but did not regain consciousness.
Bishop Waterhouse died 9 December 1922.
He was buried at Emory, Virginia two days later on 11 December 1922.
Member 5 General Conferences Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Member Board Education, 1902-1910.
Married Carrie Steele, February 3, 1887 (died 1891). Married second, Mistress.