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 AVHITEHEAD

WHITFIELD

Tracts (G vols.. 1771-T'2). His biographies in- clude: "Meiuuiis" by t lie Rev. Dr. John Gillies (1T72); " Life and Times of WiiiteheUr' by the Rev. Robert Pliilip (183S), and a "Life" by the Rev. Luke Tyerinan (2 vols., 187C). He died in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 30, 1770, and was buried uiidir tlie church on Federal street.

WHITEHEAD, Cortlandt, second bisliop of Pittsburgii. and 12bth in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in New York city, Oct. 30. 1842 : son of William Adee and Margaret Eliza- betii ^ Parker) AVhitehead ; grandson of William and Abby (Coo) Whitehead, and of James and Peneloj* (Butler) Parker, and great-grandson of James and Gertrude (Skinner) Parker. He at- tended Philips academy, Andover, Mass., 1859 ; was graduated from Yale. A.B.. 1863, A.M., 18G6 ; attended the Philadelphia Divinity school, 1863- 04 ; was a helper of the sanitary commission, to minister to the sick and wounded soldiers, after the battle of Fredericksburg. 1864 ; returned to the seminary, and was graduated in 1867. He was admitted deacon in Trinity church, Newark, N.J., by Bishop Odenheimer, June 21, 1867, and ordained priest in St. Mark's chapel. Black Hawk, Col., by Bisliop Randall, Aug. 7, 1868. He was married. July 29, 1868, to Charlotte Burgoyne, daughter of John Cruikshank and Mary (Luke) King of Roxbury, Mass. He was a missionary in Colorado, 1807-70, and rector of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pa., 1870-82. He was assistant secretary of the diocese of central Pennsylvania, 1872-81, and was twice sent as a deputy from that diocese, to the General Conven- tion. He was consecrated bishop in Trinity church, Pittsburgh, Jan. 2o, 1882, by Bishops Stevens, Bedell and Howe, assisted by Bishops Scarborough, Seymour, Peterkin and Helmouth of Huron, Canada. He attended the Pan- Anglican councils held in London in 1888 and 1897. Tiie honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Union in 1880, by Hobart in 1887 and S.T.D. by St. Stephen's in 1890.

WHITEHOUSE, Henry John, second bishop of Illinois, and o.jth in succession in the American episcopate, was born in New York city, Aug. 19, 1N03. He was graduated from Columbia, A.B., 1821. A.M., 1824. and from the General Theological seminary. New York city in 1824 ; was admitted to the diaconate by Bishop White and advanced to the priesthood in St. James's church, Phila- delphia, Aug. 26, 1827. He was rector of Christ church, Reading, Pa, 1827-30; of St. Luke's, Rochester, N.Y., 1830-44, and of St. Thomas's, New York city. 1844-51. He was elected second bisliop of Illinois in 18,51, as successor to Bishop Chase, and was consecrated, Nov. 20, 18.11, by Bishops Brownell. Lee and Eastburn, assisted by Bishops Hawks, Potter. George Burgess and Williams. He

was the first P.E. bishop to advocate the adoption in the United States of the cathedral system. He delivered the opening sermon at the first Lambeth conference in London, b}' invitation of the arch- bishop of Canterbury. The honorary degree of S. T.D. was conferred on him by Hobart in 1834 and by Oxford university, England, in 1867, and that of LL.D. by Columbia in 1865 and by Cambridge university. England, in 1867. He died in Chicago, 111., Aug." 10. 1874.

WHITFIELD, Albert Hall, jurist, was born in Aberdeen, Miss.. Oct. 12, 1849; son of Robert Donnell and Jane Amanda (McMillan) White- field ; grandson of Needham and (Alice James) Whitefield, and of John and Mary (McKeown) McMillan, and a descendant of Matthew White- field who come from England in 1670. He attended the academy at Greene Springs, Ala., 1866-67, and was graduated from theUniversity of Mississippi, A.B., 1871, A.M. and LL.B., 1874. He was adjunct professor of Latin and Greek at the University, 1871-74 ; was married, Dec. 13, 1876, to Isadore, daughter of Joseph and Marina (Kitchin) Rob- bins Buffalo of Raleigh, N.C. ; was professor of law at the University of Mississippi, 1882-94; as- sociate justice of the supreme court of Mississippi, 1894-1900 ; was appointed chief-justice in May, 1900, and reappointed, May 10. 1903, for a full term of nine years. The honorarj^ degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Mississippi. He is the author of a magazine ar- ticle on "The Philippines: Shall They Be An- nexed?" (Cosmojwlitan, January, 1899).

WHITFIELD, James, R.C. archbishop, was born in Liverpool. England, Nov. 3. 1770. Ontlie death of his father in 1787 he removed to Italy with his mother, and engaged in mercantile busi- ness between France and Italy. He studied thelogy under the Rev. Ambrose Marechal ; re- ceived tonsure and minor orders, Juh* 24, 1808, at the hands of Cardinal Koch, archbishop of Lyons ; was made sub-deacon, July 22, 1809, and ordained priest, July 24, 1809, in the Primatial church of Lyons, by Monseigneur Simon, bishop of Grenoble. He was parish priest of Cosby, 1809-17 ; joined Bishop Marechal in the United States in 1817, and became pastor of St. Peter's church, Baltimore, Md. He was appointed, March 28, 1828, titular bishop of Appolonia, and coad- jutor to Archbishop Marechal, who died before the consecration, and he was therefore conse- crated archbishop of Baltimore, in that city. May 25. 1828. by Bishop Flaget, assisted by Bishops Dubois and Conwell. He was also appointed ad- ministrator of the see of Richmond, and devoted his large private fortune to building churches and schools. In 1834 he aided St. James's church, Baltimore ; procured the incorporation of St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, and completed the