Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Edward Miller JEFFREYS, August 27, 1946
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Md.  August 29, 1946
Rev. Dr. E. M. Jeffreys -  
   Services for the Rev. Dr. Edward Miller Jeffreys, 81, rector of Emmanuel 
Episcopal church here from 1902 to 1906 who died Tuesday at his mome in 
Erndenheim, near Philadelphia, will be conducted at noon tomorrow in 
Philadelphia by Bishop Oliver J. Hart, assisted by the Rev. Frederick Blatz.  
Burial will be there.
   Dr. Jefferys who in 1905 was appointed archdeacon of the Cumberland 
section, retired from parish work in 1937 after 31 years as rector of historic 
old St. Peter's Episcopal church in Philadelphia where he was called after 
leaving here.
   Born in Philadelphia, Dr. Jefferys was educated at Hastings' and Rugby 
Academies and was graduated in 1886 from the University of Pennsylvania and 
from Berkeley Divinity School, now in New Haven, in 1889.
   Following his ordination in 1889, he became curate of St. Peter's, serving 
there for a few months before becoming assistant rector of St. John's Church 
in Detroit.  After a tour of the Near East, and Palestine he became rector of 
ST. Paul's in Doylestown, Pa.
   Dr. Jefferys served as a chaplain in France for both the British and 
American Expeditionary Forces in the World War I, and was one of the first 
American chaplains to reach France in 1917.
   He was a former president of the standing committee of the Diocese of 
Pennsylvania, a trustee of the diocese and of the Episcopoal Hospital, a 
member of the board of the Council of City Missions, and warden, chaplain and 
instructor of the Church Training and Deaconess House in  Philadelphia.  He 
also belonged to the Philadelphia club and served as fleet chaplain of the 
Corinthian Yacht club.
   Besides his widow, Mrs. Amy Faulconer Jefferys, survivors include a son, C. 
P. B. Jefferys, a teacher at St. George's School, Newport, R. I. and a 
brother, Harry L. Jefferys, of Ardomore, Pa.



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