CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - OBITS - Bowen, Nathaniel August 25 1839
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The American Almanac, 1840
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1840

Boston:  Published by David H. Williams.
New York:  Collins, Keese, and Company
Philadelphia:  Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
David H. Williams, In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Massachusetts

Cambridge:  Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Printers to the University.

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AMERICAN OBITUARY.  1839

Aug. 25. — At Charleston, S. C., in his 61st year, Nathaniel Bowen, D.D., 
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of South Carolina. He was ordained 
in 1802, and continued pastor of St. Michael's Church in Charleston till 1812, 
when he removed to New York; and in 1818, he succeeded Bishop Dehon in the 
diocese of South Carolina. "This excellent divine," says the Charleston 
Patriot, "was an example of those winning manners and amiable virtues, that, 
more than in any other human calling, diffuse over the high function of 
reforming and instructing men a sweet and mellow lustre; while they are not 
less effective for beneficent ends and general utility in all the offices of 
piety, from the least to the most important. In this case they were set off by 
a simplicity of character, which, harmonizing with what approached as nearly 
as possible to apostolic influence and authority, placed all classes of men on 
the same generous and even affectionate level. It must be mentioned as one of 
the shining ornaments of the Bishop's character, that he was an example of the 
most extended toleration, being as free from any taint of bigotry, as he was 
largely imbued with the benevolent affections in their largest exercise. An 
extensive knowledge of mankind enabled him at all times to temper, with the 
sweet spirit of charity and the liberal indulgence of a wise experience, all 
severity of reproof and harshness of conclusion towards the imperfections of 
humanity."


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