Shawnee-Coffey County KS Archives Biographies.....Wayne, Joseph 1835 - 1902
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Author: James L. King (1905)

REV. JOSEPH WAYNE.

    The death of Rev. Joseph Wayne, in Christ's Hospital, Topeka, on July 23,
1902, removed a prominent clergyman and exemplary citizen from the ranks of
those who were working for the higher interests of mankind. He was born December
7, 1835, in Latton, Wiltshire, England, and was one of a family of eight
children born to John and Maria (Bartlett) Wayne.

    The parents of Rev. Mr. Wayne immigrated to America and settled in Central
New York. There he was educated, completing his studies at Genesee College, in
1863, and later finishing a theological course at the DeLancey Divinity School.
In 1877 he was ordained deacon by Bishop A. C. Coxe, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and in 1878 the same bishop ordained him to the priesthood. He filled in
turn the following parishes in New York: Honeoye Falls, Angelica and Addison. In
1882 he removed to Burlington, Kansas. In 1887 he accepted a call to Marysville,
Kansas, and in 1892 to Moberly, Missouri, and in 1894 to Mason City, Illinois,
where he remained until 1896, when he returned to Kansas. From that date until
his death he resided at Topeka, being chaplain of Christ's Hospital, and also
acting as city missionary for the bishop. His last participation in the holy
service he loved so well was on July 6, 1902, when he celebrated the Holy
Communion at the hospital and later assisted in the services at Grace Cathedral.
  His death took place in the Wayne Building, the beautiful hospital annex which
was built by Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and presented to the diocese in June, 1902. His
was the first death to occur in the building. This annex is a fine structure,
erected at a cost of $13,450. It had been a source of so much happiness to him
to contribute in this way, his heart overrunning with philanthropy and charity.
On July 25th, at Grace Cathedral, the bishop and other members of the Episcopal
clergy, performed the burial services over their companion and dearly beloved
brother. His remains were laid away in the beautiful Topeka Cemetery.

    On June 22, 1865, Rev. Mr. Wayne was married to Ardelia B. Bush, who is a
daughter of Elias Bush, a prominent farmer in New York, who died when Mrs. Wayne
was1 five years old. She resides in a beautiful home at No. 1164 Woodward
avenue, carrying out many of the benevolent schemes, in the completion of which
she and her husband were so closely united. Rev. Mr. Wayne lived a life that
remains an inspiration to other Christian laborers. Zealous in the cause of his
church, he had a broad mind and was concerned both in the material as well as
spiritual welfare of those who came to be dependent upon his religious guidance.
Thus he came to be personally known to many who loved him as a man as well as
reverenced him as a clergyman. His portrait accompanies this sketch.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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