POTTER, HENRY CODMAN (18351908)

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POTTER, HENRY CODMAN (18351908) , American Protestant Episcopal bishop, the son of Bishop Alonzo Potter, was born in Schenectady, New

York

YORK
YORK (HOUSE OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, on the 25th of May 1835. He was educated in the Philadelphia Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church and in the Theological Seminary of Virginia, where he graduated in 1857. He was ordained deacon in 1857 and priest in 1858; was

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

of Christ Church, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1858-1859, and of St John's Church, Troy, N. Y., in 1859-1866; refused the presidency of Kenyon College in 1863 and the bishopric of Iowa in 1875; was secretary of the House of Bishops in 1866-1883; and was assistant

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

of Trinity Church, Boston, in 1866-1868, and rector of Grace Church, New

York

YORK
YORK (HOUSE OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City, in 1868-1884. In October 1883 he was consecrated assistant to his uncle, Horatio Potter, bishop of New York, and in 1887 succeeded him. The Rev. David Hummell Greer (b. 1844) became his coadjutor in September 1903, and succeeded to the bishopric after the death of Bishop Potter in
Cooperstown, N. Y., on the 21st of July 1908. During Bishop Potter's administration the corner-stone of the Cathedral of
St John the Divine was laid (in 1892).
He was notable for his

interest

INTEREST

in social reform and in politics: as rector of Grace Church he worked to make it an " institutional church " with working-men's clubs, day nurseries, kindergartens, &c., and he took part in the summer work of the missions on the east side in New York City long after he was bishop; in 1900 he attacked the Tammany mayor (Robert A. Van Wyck) of New York City, accusing the city government of protecting vice, and was a leader in the reform

movement

MOVEMENT

which elected Seth Low mayor in the same year; he frequently assisted in settling labour disputes; he worked for the re-

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of the army

canteen

CANTEEN (through the Fr. cantine, from Ital. cantina, a cellar)

and attempted to improve the saloon, which he called the " poor man's club "notably by his taking part in the opening (August, 1904) of the unsuccessful Subway Tavern. He published: Sisterhoods and Deaconesses at Home and Abroad (1872) ; The Gates of the East (1876), a book of travels; Sermons of the City (1881); Waymarks (1892) ; The Scholar and the State (1897); The East of To-day and To-morrow (19o2); The Industrial Situation (1902); Law and Loyalty (1903), and Reminiscences of Bishops and Arch-Bishops (1906).
See Harriett A. Kayser, Bishop Potter, the People's Friend (New York, 1910).
His brother, CLARKSON NOTT POTTER (1825-1882), was a civil engineer, then (18481868) a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the National House of Representatives. Another brother, ROBERT BROWN POTTER (1829-1887), a lawyer and a soldier, commanded the 51st New York Volunteers at

Cedar

CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos)

Mountain, Second Bull Run and Antietam, was wounded at Antietam and at

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, was commissioned major-general of volunteers in September 1865, and was mustered out in 1866. A third brother, ELIPHALET NOTT POTTER (18361901), was rector of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 18621869, was professor of ethics in Lehigh University in 18691871, and was president of Union College in 18711884, of Hobart College in 18841897, and of Cosmopolitan University, a correspondence school, in 1897-1901.

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