DOANE, GEORGE WASHINGTON
Adair's New Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 7
jastic; bp. of New Jersey, 1832; promInent in educational work. (1882 - 1913), Episcopal prelate, b. Boston, Ma ., the son of George Washington Doane, also a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. After his graduation from Burlington College, N.J., where his father lived as bishop of that state, he was ordained priest in 1856 and served as minister in two Burlington churches. In 1859 he became rector of St. Mary’s, Burlington, in succe ion to his father, who held both the rectorship and bishopric till his death in that year. From 1861 to 1868 he held rectorships at Hartford, Conn. and Albany, N.Y. In the latter year he became the first bishop of Albany and was head of the diocese for forty-four years. He took an active part in several Lambeth Conferences. In Albany he founded St. Agnes School and succe fully applied his energies to the building of a cathedral there. His chief literary work is a life of his father.
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