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Notes for Mark Antony DeWolfe HOWE
RT. REV. MARK ANTONY DE WOLF HOWE, D. D., LL. D., b. 5th Apr. 1808; d. 31st July, 1895, at his old home, Weetamoe, in Bristol, R. I. Spent two years at Middlebury College and then entered the Junior Class at Brown University, graduating as Class Poet in 1828. He taught in the public schools of Boston, was a tutor in Latin, Greek, and Elocution at Brown University, and began the study of law in his father's office. In 1832 he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, Cambridge, and was editor of ?The Christian Witness,? then, and long after, the well-known New England organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church. While at Roxbury, occurred his celebrated discussion with the eminent Horace MANN, which largely decided public opinion in favor of the American School System for America. In 1846, he was elected Rector of St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, where he remained until his elevation to the Episcopate. St. Luke's Parish, under his leadership, became one of the strongest and most influential in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. For twelve years he was secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the General Convention. In 1865, he was elected Missionary Bishop of Nevada, but declined. He received the Degree of Doctor of Divinity from Brown University in 1848, and that of Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania, 28th Dec. 1871. For twenty-three years he labored in the building up of an effective and harmonious organization in a diocese of magnificent distances. In his active career as Bishop, he frequently traveled yearly six thousand to ten thousand miles. Was a member of the Pan-Anglican Convention, which met in Lambeth Chapel, London, in 1878. Bishop HOWE m. (firstly) Julia Bowen AMORY; m. (secondly) Elizabeth S. MARSHALL, dau. of Rev. Herbert MARSHALL; m. (thirdly) Eliza WHITNEY, dau. of Asa WHITNEY.
I. Mary Amory, d. 1909; m. Rt. Rev. William Hobart HARE, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1. Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., b. 20th Sept. 1862; B. S., University of Pennsylvania, 1885; M. D., Jefferson Medical College, 1893, in which he is now a Professor; author and editor of standard works on Therapeutics; m. 8th May, 1884, Rebecca Clifford PEMBERTON.
11. Mary Amory Hare, m. Arthur COOKE, U. S. Navy.
I. HERBERT MARSHALL, M. D., b. 16th July, 1844, the subject of this memoir.
- Colonial Families of the United States of America
HOWE, Mark Antony De Wolfe, first bishop of Central Pennsylvania and 99th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Bristol, R.I., April 5, 1808; only child of John and Louisa (Smith) Howe; grandson of Capt. Perley and Abigail D'Wolf Howe and of Stephen and Ruth (Bosworth) Smith; great grandson of the Rev. Perley Howe; of Mark Antony and Abigail (Potter) D'Wolf, and of Samuel and Eliza (Drown) Smith; and a descendant of James Howe, who came in 1637 to Roxbury, and in 1638 settled in Ipswich, Mass., and of Richard Smith, who settled in Bristol, R.I., in 1680 and was clerk of the town. Bishop Howe's grandfather, Capt. Perley Howe, an ardent patriot in the American Revolution, was impoverished by investing in Continental money and spent his last days as a seacher in Hartford and Weathersfield, Conn. His father, John Howe, was born at Killingly, Conn., July 5, 1783, was graduated at Brown in 1805; admitted to the bar in 1808, practised law in Bristol, Conn., 1808-41; was a state representative for several years; collector of customs, 1841-45; farmer, 1845-53; died at the home of his son, Bishop Howe, in Philadelphia, Pa., March 14, 1864. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was a pupil of the village school; attended the villageacademywhich was taught by two divinity students of Bishop Griswold, one of them the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng; and received his final preparation for college at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and under private tuition at South Kingston and Taunton. He college in 1824 and in 1826 changed to Brown, where he was graduated, A.B., 1828; A.M., 1831. He was usher in the Adams school, Boston, 1828, and head master of the Hawes school, South Boston, 1829-30. He was confirmed in St. Matthew's church, South Boston, by Bishop Griswold in 1830; was a student of theology under the Rev. Mr. Bristed in Bristol, 1830-31, and tutor in Brown university, 1831-32. He was ordained deacon in January, 1832, and priest in February, 1833, by Bishop Griswold. He was assistant and rector of St. Matthew's church, South Boston, Mass., 1832-33; rector of St. James's parish, Roxbury, 1833-34; of Christ church, Cambridge, 1834-35; and of St. James's church, Roxbury, 1836-46. He served as associate editor of the Christian Witness, Boston, 1834-45; declined a call to St. Paul's church, Louisville, Ky., 1845; and was rector of St. Luke's church, Philadelphia. Pa., 1846-71. He was a candidate for election for bishop coadjutor to Bishop Potter of Pennsylvania in 1862 and a deadlock in the contest between him and Dr. Stevens was decided by lot in favor of the latter. In 1865 he was elected missionary bishop of Nevada, which diocese included Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, but declined the office. In November, 1871, he was elected bishop of the newly erected diocese of Central Pennsylvania and was consecrated in St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, Dec. 28, 1871, by his uncle, Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, assisted by Bishops McHvaine, Lee, Potter, Clark, Bedell, Kerfoot and Morris. In 1884 he was given a coadjutor in the person of Bishop Rulison. He was a deputy to the general convention, 1850-71; secretary of the house of clerical and lay deputies, 1850-52; trustee of Brown university, 1872-90; a fellow of Brown [p.383] university, 1890-93; a member of the Pan-Anglican conference, London, 1878; a founder of the Episcopal hospital, Philadelphia, and corporate trustee of the Philadelphia Divinity school. He celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of his ordination at Christ cathedral, Reading, Pa., Jan. 15, 1882. He received from Brown the degree of D.D. in 1849 and from the University of Pennsylvania that of LL.D. in 1876. He was married, Oct. 16, 1833, to Julia Bowen Amory, who died in February, 1841, leaving two daughters, Louisa and Mary. He was twice married: first, June 17, 1843, to Elizabeth Smith Marshall, of Bristol, R.I.; and secondly, June 9, 1857, to Eliza Whitney, who survived him, as did seven sons and one daughter. His daughter Mary was married in October, 1861, to the Rev. William Hobart Hare, afterward Bishop of South Dakota. His son, the Rev. Reginald Heber (q.v.), was in 1900 rector of the Church of Our Saviour, Longwood, Brookline, Mass., and Frank Perley (A.B., Brown, 1872; E. M., Lehigh, 1878) and Arthur Whitney (A.B., Brown, 1880) became manufacturers of iron and steel in Philadelphia, Pa. Bishop Howe's published works include: Review of the Report of the Boston Public Schools (1845); Introductory Essays to Butler's Bishop Heber's Poems (1857); Loyalty in the American Republic (1803); Memoirs of the Life and Services of Bishop Alonzo Potter (1871); Charge to Clergy, &c. (1886). He died at Bristol, R.I., July 31, 1895.
- The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume V
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