Obituary of Bishop Henry N. Pearce, Washington Co, Ar

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Obituary: Bishop Henry Niles Pearce of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Arkansas, died yesterday at Fayetteville, Ark. He was born in Pawtucket, R. I.,
Oct. 19, 1820, and was graduated from Brown University in 1842. He was ordained
a deacon in 1843, and a priest in 1849, at Matagorda, Texas. After several years
of missionary work in Washington Co., Texas he became rector of St. John's
Church at Mobile, Ala., and in 1868 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's
Church in Springfield, Illinois. In 1870 he was consecrated Bishop of Arkansas
and Indian Territory, and in the following year when Arkansas was erected into a
diocese, he was made its diocesan, still retaining charge of the Indian
Territory mission, Bishop Pierce was the author of "The Agnostic, and Other
Poems," and several volumes of sermons. In 1862 he received a Doctor of
Divinity from the University of Alabama, and in 1869 the Degree of Doctor of
Laws from William and Mary. New York Times, Sep. 6, 1899.

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