Background
Newton, William Wilberforce was born on November 4, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Richard and Lydia (Greatorex) Newton.
Newton, William Wilberforce was born on November 4, 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Richard and Lydia (Greatorex) Newton.
Brother of Richard Heber North. Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1865, honorary Doctor of Divinity.
Deacon, 1868, priest, 1869, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Church of Epiphany, Philadelphia, 1869-1870. Rector Saint Paul’s Brookline, Massachusetts, 1870-1875, Trinity, Newark, New Jersey, 1875-1877, Saint Paul’s, Boston, 1877-1882, Saint Stephen’s, Pittsfield, 1881-1900.
Organized American Congress of Churches, which met at Hartford, Connecticut, 1885, and Cleveland, Ohio, 1886.
Author: A Run Through Russia. Philip McGregor; The Voice of Saint John.
Summer Sermons from a Berkshire Pulpit. Life of Doctor West. A. Muhlenberg.
The Child and the Bishop.
New Tracts for New Times. The Abiding Value of First Principles. Thekla’s Journal; The Gate of the Temple.
Address: Brookline, Massachusetts
Married Emily Stevenson Cooke, November 16, 1870.