(William Stephen Rainsford 1850 − 1933 was a big game hunt...)
William Stephen Rainsford 1850 − 1933 was a big game hunter and rector of St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square in New York from 1882 to 1906. In this book Rainsford writes: "WHEN only eighteen I killed, or helped to kill, my first buffalo; ...at that time (1868) I spent part of the spring, and all of the summer, fall, and early winter, on the plains and among the mountains of British North America." This book details the author's hunting adventures during this time. This book originally published in 1896 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
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William Stephen Rainsford was born on October 30, 1850 near Dublin, Ireland, eldest of the eight children of Marcus and Louisa Anne (Dickson) Rainsford. He was descended on both sides from old Anglo-Irish families. His father became in 1852 vicar of Dundalk and in 1865 incumbent of St. John's Chapel, Belgrave Square, London.
William was educated at Irish and English schools. He entered Cambridge in 1870 and completed his course in 1873 (A. B. 1874).
Experience in mission work in the East End of London added a concern for social justice to his family inheritance of Evangelical piety. In 1869 he accompanied a party of emigrants to Canada and made a trip to the Far West, developing an interest in exploration and hunting which was to be lifelong.
In December 1873 he was ordained deacon, the following year, priest, beginning his ministry as curate at St. Giles's, Norwich. Though successful as a preacher, he became dissatisfied with the rigidity of English Evangelicalism.
In 1876 he accepted an invitation to New York and spent two years as a mission preacher in America. After a mission at St. James's Cathedral, Toronto, he was assistant rector there, 1878-82, and then was called to St. George's, Stuyvesant Square, New York. St. George's, formerly a prosperous Evangelical parish, had lost touch with a changing neighborhood, and was facing collapse when Rainsford took charge in January 1883.
He reorganized it as a free church, and enlarged its work by numerous activities to meet the needs of the district. The "institutional church" (a term which the activities at St. George's did much to popularize) was for him not a substitute for but an expansion of the Evangelical message of personal religion. Rainsford's preaching and the carefully planned use of the Prayer Book services were the heart of the life of the parish. His personal magnetism and organizing ability secured the support of a series of able assistants, and of a congregation which included an unusual number of men prominent in the city.
In 1888 Memorial House, for parish activities, was dedicated. A physical breakdown in 1889 forced Rainsford to relinquish work for several months. In the following decade, however, his influence continued to grow.
St. George's with its 4, 000 communicants, daily services, large plant, and numerous organizations had become the largest and most active parish in the Episcopal Church. Through his former assistants and by contact with theological students, Rainsford spread his ideas of the ministry among the younger clergy. He was active in civic affairs and in touch with the labor movement.
(William Stephen Rainsford 1850 − 1933 was a big game hunt...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
In April 1878 he married Emily Alma Green in London, they had three sons: Lawrence, Ralph Stewart, and Kerr. His wife died in 1923, and he remarried, to Harriette Rogers, daughter of William Evans Rogers and Susan LeRoy Fish.
