BISHOP GREGORY THURSTON BEDELL
The Rev. Dr. Gregory Thurston Bedell, the third Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, died at his home in the Dakota apartment house Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock from a complication of diseases,
after an illness of about three years' duration. He leaves a wife, who is an invalid. The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Ascension to-morrow at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Donald, the rector, will
conduct the service, and will be assisted by the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown,rector of St. Thomas's Church, and Bishop Walker of North Dakota. The body will be taken to Mount Vernon, Ohio, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by a train leaving here at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Upon the arrival of the train at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday the body will be taken to the old graveyard back of Ross
Hall, Kenyon College, at Gambier. The procession will pass the bishop's old home, "Kokosing," on the way to the cemetery. The burial service, which will be held there in the Church of the Holy Spirit, will be conducted by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, the rector, assisted by Bishop Leonard and the Rev. Edward C. Benson, of Kenyon College.
Bishop Bedell was born at Hudson, August 27, 1817, and was the only son of the Rev. Gregory Townsend and Penelope Thurston Bedell. The father of Bishop Bedell was a clergyman of [first] rate abilities, who died in 1834, when only forty-three years old. He was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, at the time. Bishop Bedell was an infant when his parents removed from Hudson
to Fayetteville, N.C. When he was less than five years old they removed to Philadelphia. At an early age he entered Dr. Muhlenberg's school at Flushing, where he was prepared for Bristol College, near Philadelphia, from which he
graduated in 1836. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va., and immediately afterward was ordained a deacon in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, by his great-uncle, Bishop Moore. He was ordained a presbyter by the same prelate on August 29, 1841. The youthful deacon went to work at once at West Chester, Penn., where he remained for three years until he accepted a call to the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension in this city.
In 1859 he resigned his charge and became Assistant Bishop of Ohio. Bishop McIlvaine died in March, 1873, when Bishop Bedell became his successor. In 1874 the old diocese was divided, Bishop Bedell choosing the northern portion, which
retains the old name of Diocese of Ohio.
--New-York Tribune, (New York, NY); Sunday, 13 March 1892; pg 7, col 4
The Rev. Dr. Gregory Thurston Bedell, the third Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, died at his home in the Dakota apartment house Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock from a complication of diseases,
after an illness of about three years' duration. He leaves a wife, who is an invalid. The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Ascension to-morrow at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Donald, the rector, will
conduct the service, and will be assisted by the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown,rector of St. Thomas's Church, and Bishop Walker of North Dakota. The body will be taken to Mount Vernon, Ohio, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by a train leaving here at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Upon the arrival of the train at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday the body will be taken to the old graveyard back of Ross
Hall, Kenyon College, at Gambier. The procession will pass the bishop's old home, "Kokosing," on the way to the cemetery. The burial service, which will be held there in the Church of the Holy Spirit, will be conducted by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, the rector, assisted by Bishop Leonard and the Rev. Edward C. Benson, of Kenyon College.
Bishop Bedell was born at Hudson, August 27, 1817, and was the only son of the Rev. Gregory Townsend and Penelope Thurston Bedell. The father of Bishop Bedell was a clergyman of [first] rate abilities, who died in 1834, when only forty-three years old. He was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, at the time. Bishop Bedell was an infant when his parents removed from Hudson
to Fayetteville, N.C. When he was less than five years old they removed to Philadelphia. At an early age he entered Dr. Muhlenberg's school at Flushing, where he was prepared for Bristol College, near Philadelphia, from which he
graduated in 1836. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va., and immediately afterward was ordained a deacon in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, by his great-uncle, Bishop Moore. He was ordained a presbyter by the same prelate on August 29, 1841. The youthful deacon went to work at once at West Chester, Penn., where he remained for three years until he accepted a call to the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension in this city.
In 1859 he resigned his charge and became Assistant Bishop of Ohio. Bishop McIlvaine died in March, 1873, when Bishop Bedell became his successor. In 1874 the old diocese was divided, Bishop Bedell choosing the northern portion, which
retains the old name of Diocese of Ohio.
--New-York Tribune, (New York, NY); Sunday, 13 March 1892; pg 7, col 4
BISHOP GREGORY THURSTON BEDELL
The Rev. Dr. Gregory Thurston Bedell, the third Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, died at his home in the Dakota apartment house Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock from a complication of diseases,
after an illness of about three years' duration. He leaves a wife, who is an invalid. The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Ascension to-morrow at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Donald, the rector, will
conduct the service, and will be assisted by the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown,rector of St. Thomas's Church, and Bishop Walker of North Dakota. The body will be taken to Mount Vernon, Ohio, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by a train leaving here at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Upon the arrival of the train at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday the body will be taken to the old graveyard back of Ross
Hall, Kenyon College, at Gambier. The procession will pass the bishop's old home, "Kokosing," on the way to the cemetery. The burial service, which will be held there in the Church of the Holy Spirit, will be conducted by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, the rector, assisted by Bishop Leonard and the Rev. Edward C. Benson, of Kenyon College.
Bishop Bedell was born at Hudson, August 27, 1817, and was the only son of the Rev. Gregory Townsend and Penelope Thurston Bedell. The father of Bishop Bedell was a clergyman of [first] rate abilities, who died in 1834, when only forty-three years old. He was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, at the time. Bishop Bedell was an infant when his parents removed from Hudson
to Fayetteville, N.C. When he was less than five years old they removed to Philadelphia. At an early age he entered Dr. Muhlenberg's school at Flushing, where he was prepared for Bristol College, near Philadelphia, from which he
graduated in 1836. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va., and immediately afterward was ordained a deacon in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, by his great-uncle, Bishop Moore. He was ordained a presbyter by the same prelate on August 29, 1841. The youthful deacon went to work at once at West Chester, Penn., where he remained for three years until he accepted a call to the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension in this city.
In 1859 he resigned his charge and became Assistant Bishop of Ohio. Bishop McIlvaine died in March, 1873, when Bishop Bedell became his successor. In 1874 the old diocese was divided, Bishop Bedell choosing the northern portion, which
retains the old name of Diocese of Ohio.
--New-York Tribune, (New York, NY); Sunday, 13 March 1892; pg 7, col 4
The Rev. Dr. Gregory Thurston Bedell, the third Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, died at his home in the Dakota apartment house Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock from a complication of diseases,
after an illness of about three years' duration. He leaves a wife, who is an invalid. The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Ascension to-morrow at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Donald, the rector, will
conduct the service, and will be assisted by the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown,rector of St. Thomas's Church, and Bishop Walker of North Dakota. The body will be taken to Mount Vernon, Ohio, over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by a train leaving here at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Upon the arrival of the train at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday the body will be taken to the old graveyard back of Ross
Hall, Kenyon College, at Gambier. The procession will pass the bishop's old home, "Kokosing," on the way to the cemetery. The burial service, which will be held there in the Church of the Holy Spirit, will be conducted by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, the rector, assisted by Bishop Leonard and the Rev. Edward C. Benson, of Kenyon College.
Bishop Bedell was born at Hudson, August 27, 1817, and was the only son of the Rev. Gregory Townsend and Penelope Thurston Bedell. The father of Bishop Bedell was a clergyman of [first] rate abilities, who died in 1834, when only forty-three years old. He was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, at the time. Bishop Bedell was an infant when his parents removed from Hudson
to Fayetteville, N.C. When he was less than five years old they removed to Philadelphia. At an early age he entered Dr. Muhlenberg's school at Flushing, where he was prepared for Bristol College, near Philadelphia, from which he
graduated in 1836. He was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va., and immediately afterward was ordained a deacon in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, by his great-uncle, Bishop Moore. He was ordained a presbyter by the same prelate on August 29, 1841. The youthful deacon went to work at once at West Chester, Penn., where he remained for three years until he accepted a call to the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension in this city.
In 1859 he resigned his charge and became Assistant Bishop of Ohio. Bishop McIlvaine died in March, 1873, when Bishop Bedell became his successor. In 1874 the old diocese was divided, Bishop Bedell choosing the northern portion, which
retains the old name of Diocese of Ohio.
--New-York Tribune, (New York, NY); Sunday, 13 March 1892; pg 7, col 4
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Gregory Thurston Bedwell 3rd Bishop of Ohio
Departed to be with Christ
March 11, 1892
Aged 74
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