American Reformed Episcopal Church bishop, born at Pendleton, near Manchester, England, on the 13th of December 1835, and arrived in the United States at the age of ten. He graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1859, in which year he became vice-president of Gale College, Galesville, WI. In 1861 he was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He served in the Civil War, entering the service as chaplain, and because of the courage displayed by “the fighting parson,” emerging as brevet brigadier-general. Later he was a pastor in Milwaukee, and in 1871 became state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin, twice receiving a re-election. In 1873 he became president of the Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1875 he was made rector of St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church, Chicago, and the following year became editor of the Appeal, the organ of the Reformed Episcopal Church. In July of the same year he was chosen bishop. He has published some valuable educational works; among them, Hand-Book of Synonyms (1883); Hand-Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, Provincial Words, etc. (1883); and A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms (1888). He was elected presiding bishop June 9, 1897.
