Perry, Right Rev. William Stevens

S.T.D. (Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1869); LL.D. (William and Mary College, Williams burg, Va., 1876), D.C.L. (University of Bishops' College, Lennoxville, Can., 1885), Episcopalian, bishop of Iowa; b. at Providence, R.I., Jan. 22, 1832; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1854; studied theology first at the Alexandria -Theological Seminary, Va., then privately with Rev. Drs. A. H. Vinton, Boston, and J. S. Stone, Brook line, Ma .; became a istant minister at St. Paul's, Boston, Ma ., 1857; rector of St. Luke's, Nashua, N.H., 1858; of St. Stephen's, Portland, Me., 1861; of St. Michael's, Litchfield, Conn., 1864; of Trinity, Geneva, N.Y., 1869; president of Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., April, 1876; bishop, Sept. 10, 1876 He was deputy from New Hampshire to the General Convention, 1859; from the diocese of Maine, 1862, at which convention he was made a istant secretary; succeeded to the secretaryship, 1865; was elected secretary to the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in the General Convention, 1868, 1871, and 1874; historiographer of the American Church, 1868; profe or of history in Hobart College, 1871-73. With Dr. J. Cotton Smith he edited The Church Monthly, Boston, 1864. A full list of his numerous and valuable writings down to date is given in Batters on's Sketch-book of the American Episcopate, Philadelphia, 2d ed. 1885. Leaving out sermons, charges, and minor publications, of these may be mentioned, Historical Sketch of the Church Mi ionary A ociation of the Eastern District of Ma achusetts, Boston, 1859; Journals of the General Convention of the Protestant-Episcopal Church of the United Slates, of America (with illustrative historical notes and appendices by the Rev. Francis L. Hawks and the Rev. William Stevens Perry), vol. l. (all published), Philadelphia, 1861; Bishop Seabury and Bishop Provoost: an Historical Fragment, privately printed, 1862 Documentary History of the Protestant-Episcopal Church in South Carolina, Francis L. Hawks and William Stevens Perry editors, No. 1 (all published), 1862; The Collects of the Church, pri 178 vately printed, 1863, 2d ed. 1878; The Connection of the Church of England with Early American Colonization, Portland, 1863; Bishop Seabury and the " Episcopal Recorder " a Vindication, privately printed, 1863; A Century of Episcopacy in Portland (a sketch of the history of the Episcopal Church in Portland, Me., from the organization of St. Paul's, Falmouth, Nov. 4, 1763, to the year 1883), Portland, 1863; Documentary History of the Protestant-Episcopal Church in the United States of America (containing numerous hitherto unpublished documents concerning the Church in Connecticut), Francis L. Hawks and William Stevens Perry editors, New York, 1863-64, 2 vols.; Liturgic Worship. Sermons on the Book of Common Prayer, by Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, New York, 1864 (edited, the course planned, and one of the sermons delivered, by William Stevens Perry); A Memorial of the Rev. Thomas Mather Smith, D.D., privately printed, 1866; A History of the Book of Common Prayer, with a Rationale of its Offices, by Francis Proctor (with an introductory chapter on the History of the American Liturgy, by William Stevens Perry), New York, 1868, new ed. London and New York, 18S1; Questions on the Life and Labors of the Great Apostle, 1869; The Churchman's Year-Book, Hartford, 1870; do., 1871; Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church,vo\. i., Virginia, 1871; do., vol. ii., Penn- S3'lvania, 1872; do., vol iii., Ma achusetts, 1873; do., vol. iv., Maryland, 1878; do., vol. v., Delaware, 1878; Life Le ons from the Book of Proverbs, New York, 1872, 4th ed. 1885; A Sunday-school Experiment, 1874, 3d ed. 1877; Handbook of the General Convention, 1874, 4th ed. 1881; Journals of the General Convention, 1785 to 1835, 3 vols. Historical Notes and Documents illustrating the Organization of the Protestant-Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1874; The Re-union Conference at Bonn, 1875. A Personal Narrative, 1876; The American Cathedral, 1877; Mi ions and Mi ionary Bishoprics in the American Church (a paper read before the Church Congre held at Stoke-upon-Trent, Eng., October, 1875), privately printed, 1877; Scriptural Reasons for the Use of Forms of Prayer, Davenport, 1878; The Second Lambeth Conference: a Personal Narrative, 1879; A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the General Convention held in the City of Boston 1877, New York, 1880; Some Summer Days Abroad, Davenport, 1880: Ober-Ammergau in 1875 and 1880, privately printed, 1881; Easter with the Poets, Davenport, 1881; The Church's Year, Davenport, 18S1; Catechetical Instruction, with an introduction, 1882; The Church's Growth and the Church's Needs in Iowa, 1882; Griswold College: Shall it be built up? a few words to Churchmen, 1883; A Pastoral about the Lenten fast, 1883; Historical Sketch of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, 1784-1884, New York, 1884; A Discourse on the Centenary of the Consecration of Bishop Seabury, 1884; The Election of the First Bishop of Connecticut, an historical review, 1885; The Men and Measures of the Ma achusetts Conventions of 1784-85, a centenary discourse, Boston 179, 1885; The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, vol. i., The Planting and Growth of the American Colonial Church, 1587-1783, Boston, 1885; do., vol. ii., The Organization and Progre of the American Church, 1783- 1883, Boston, 1885; Ten Episcopal Addre es, 1877-86.