Starkey, Right Rev. Thomas Alfred

S.T.D. (Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., 1864), Episcopalian, bishop of Northern New Jersey; b. in Philadelphia, Penn., in the year 1824; educated for and practised as a civil engineer, 1839-45 studied theology under Rev. Dr. F. Ogilby, Bishop Odenheimer, and Rev. W. C. Cooley; ordained deacon 1847, priest 1848; was mi ionary in Schuylkill County, Penn., 1847-50, where he founded the Church of the Holy Apostles, St. Clair; was rector of Christ Church, Troy, N.Y., 1850-54; St. Paul's, Albany, N.Y., 1854-58; Trinity, Cleveland, O., 1858-69; the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., 1869-72; resigned because compelled to take a rest, which he did until 1875, when he filled Rev. Dr. Irving's place in the Mi ion Rooms in New-York City (autumn, 1875, to spring, 1876); became rector of St. Paul's, Paters on, N.J., 1877; bishop of Northern New Jersey, 1880. The name of his diocese was changed to that of Newark, 1886.