Early Clergy of Pennsylvania and Delaware, S. F. Hotchkin, 1890 - Chapter 10, Bishops Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja and Sally Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ EARLY CLERGY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE. BY REV. S. F. HOTCHKIN, M.A. Author of The Mornings of the Bible, History of Germantown, &c. P. W. ZIEGLER & CO., PUBLISHERS, NO. 720 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1890 Copyright, 1890, by Rev. S. F. Hotchkin. NOTE: Use URL: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/hotchkin/early-clergy.htm to access other chapters. BISHOPS. 94 CHAPTER X. RT. REV. HENRY USTICK ONDERDONK. [The following sketches are abridged from Rev. Dr. Batteron's Sketch Book of the American Episopate. Bishop White is noticed in the histories of the parishes he served.] BISHOP Onderdonk was born in the city of New York in A.D., 1789. He was a graduate of Columbia College in that city, and became a physician, but in 1815 was ordained deacon by Bishop Hobart. He was rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, when elected Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania. He was consecrated in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1827, by Bishops White, Hobart, Kemp, Croes and Bowen. When Bishop White died in 1836, "he became Bishop of Pennsylvania." He died in 1858, and was buried at the churchyard of St. James the Less. He wrote "Episcopacy Tested by Scripture," and other works as well as various hymns and three Psalms in the Old Prayer-book Collection." THE RT. REV. ALONZO POTTER, D.D., LL.D. Bishop Potter was born in the State of New York, A.D., 1800. He was a graduate of Union College, where he became a professor. In 1822 Bishop Hobart ordained him to the Diaconate, and in 1824 Bishop Brownell ordained him a priest; "acting for the Bishop of New York. In 1826 he became rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston." In 1831 he was again a professor in BISHOP STEVENS. BISHOPS. 95 Union College, and from this post he entered the Episcopate. He was consecrated in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1845, by Bishops Philander, Chase, Hopkins, G. W. Doane, Whittingham, and Alfred Lee. He died on board ship in San Francisco Harbor, July 4th, A.D., 1865. He is buried at Laurel Hill. He wrote various works, and edited "The Memorial Papers." THE RT. REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, D.D., LL.D. Bath, in Maine, was the birthplace of this worthy bishop. He studied in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., traveled abroad, and became a physician in Savannah, Georgia, and was the historian for that State, writing its history. In 1843 Bishop Elliot ordained him a deacon, and the next year a priest. He became rector of Emanuel Church, Athens, Georgia, and a professor in the University of Georgia. In 1847 the diocese sent him as a deputy to the General Convention. In 1848 he became rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, and in 1862 Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania, being consecrated in St. Andrew's Church on the 2d of January by Bishops Hopkins, A. Potter, H. Potter, A. Lee, Clark, H. W. Lee, and Odenheimer. When Bishop Potter died in 1865, "he became Bishop of Pennsylvania." In 1865 the Diocese of Pittsburgh was taken from the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and in 1875 Central Pennsylvania was erected into a diocese. From 1868 Bishop Stevens had "charge of the American Episcopal Churches in Europe" for six years. He wrote many things which appeared in print, among them a work on the Parables and on Consolation, and on the Lord's Day, and on the History of St. Andrew's Church. He preached the Consecration BISHOPS. 96 Sermons of Bishops B. H. Paddock and S. F. J. Schereschewsky, Missionary Bishop to China. At the Church of the Holy Trinity, in Nice, France, he preached "in behalf of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the Church Missionary Society," in 1866, and in 1878 the closing sermon in the Cathedral of St. Paul, in London, at the Pan-Anglican Council, was delivered by him. THE RT. REV. OZI WHITAKER, D.D. The State of Massachusetts and the town of New Salem, in 1830, are noted as the place and date of the birth of this bishop. He is a graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont, and of the General Theological Seminary. In 1863 Bishop Eastburn ordained him a deacon, and he received priest's orders from him also. He became rector of St. John's Church, Gold Hill, Nevada, but in 1865 took the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, at Englewood, N.J. In 1867 he was rector of St. Paul's Church, Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1868 was elected Missionary Bishop of Nevada, by the General Convention which met in St. John's Church, New York. Kenyon College gave him the Doctorate in Divinity in 1869. In 1869 he was consecrated in St. George's Church, New York, by Bishops McIlvaine, H. Potter, Eastburn, Odenheimer, and J. C. Talbot.