ARCHBISHOP
Adair's new Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 4
a chief bp., or the bp. of a province, as well as of his own (arch) diocese; title usually implies metro-= politan functions. First recorded use of the title (to denote respect) is by St. A than as i us in IV. cent. Certain Oriental Churches, some branches of Luther an Church, R.C., and Anglican Churches still use the title, but the powers and functions a ociated with the title vary. The a’s of Canterbury (‘Primate of All England’) and York (‘Primate of England’) share ecclesiastical government of Church of England. 1916), an American pioneer in the oil industry, b. in Leesburg, Ohio. As a boy he clerked in a country store, then, in 1864, went to the Pennsylvania oil regions, where for eleven years he was active in the oil busine , in Oil City. He was chief owner and president of the Achme Oil Co., and when that concern amalgamated with the Standard Oil Co., in 1875, became a director of the mr i } at ee corporation. He was one of the nine members of the Board of Trustees of the Standard Oil Co., formed in 1882; of them he alone served throughout the whole period till 1911, when the corporation was di olved by the Supreme Court of the United States. After that he was president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Throughout his busine career he was closely a ociated with John D. Rockefeller. On his death his estate was valued at $100,000,000, portion of which went to Syracuse University.
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