Episcopal clergyman, b. New London, Conn. He attended Harvard Univ., Berlin Univ., and was graduated from the Cambridge Theological School (1872). After holding rectorships in West Newton and Holyoke, Mass., he went to Chicago to become rector at St. Paul's, Kenwood, 1876 to 1880. In 1880, he moved to Milwaukee where he was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church until his retirement in 1902. A liberal theologian, he was deposed from the ministry in 1912 for views embodied in his work, The Historic Jesus. Milwaukee Evening Wis., Mar. 20, 1913; A. J. Aikens and L. A. Proctor, eds., Men of Progress. Wis. (Milwaukee, 1897).Learn More
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