Vail, Right Rev. Thomas Hubbard

D.D. (Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1858), LL.D. (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 1875), Episcopalian; b. in Richmond, Va., Oct. 21, 1812 graduated at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Conn., 1831, and at the General Theological Seminary, New-York City, 1835; and after ministerial service in St. James's Church, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he organized All Saints' Church, Worcester, Ma ., 1836; became rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Ma ., 1837; of St. John's Church, E ex, Conn., 1839; of Christ Church, Westerly, R.I., 1844; of St. Thomas's Church, Taunton, Ma ., 1857; of Trinity Church, Muscatine, Io., 1863; first bishop of Kansas, 1864. As a Churchman he is evangelical, liberal, conservative. He edited, with memoir, Rev. August us Foster Lyte's Buds of Spring (poems, with additional poems of his own), Boston, 1838; and is the author of Plan and Outline, with Selection of Books under Many Heads, of a Public Library in Rhode Island, 1838; Hannah: a Sacred Drama (published anonymously), Boston, 1839; The Comprehensive Church, 1841, 3d ed. New York, 1883; Reports (of school committees in Ma achusetts); sermons, charges, addre es, pastoral letters, etc.