American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Norwalk, CT, on the 5th of May 1739; was graduated at Yale, and in 1764 was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church; in the same year became rector of Christ Church, Middletown, and in 1797 was consecrated bishop of Connecticut. He took up his residence at New Haven, where he died on the 3rd of May 1813.
His son, Samuel Farmer Jarvis, was born in Middletown, CT, on the 20th of January 1786; was graduated at Yale in 1805, and in 1810 was ordained to the ministry; took charge of a church at Bloomingdale, NY, and afterward of a church in New York City, which he retained until 1819, when he was chosen professor of biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary, in New York. From 1820 to 1826 he was rector of St. Paul’s Church, Boston. He then went to Europe for research in church history and the study of art. Nine years later he returned, and became professor of oriental literature at Trinity College, Hartford, but resigned in 1837 to become rector of Christ Church, Middletown, and in 1838 was appointed historiographer to the American Episcopal Church. In this connection he published in London, in 1844, a Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church. In addition, he wrote No Union with Rome (1843) and The Church of the Redeemed (1845). He died in Middletown on the 26th of March 1851.
