Doane, Wm. C, Beshup Albay The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane Page 1 of 2 Note: W.C.D. is half-brother of Charles Callahan Project Canterbury Perkins (1823-86), uncle of Thomas H. Pertains. Portrait provided by the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, New York, which retains copyright. The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane First Bishop of Albany 1832-1913 A Memorial of William Henry Odenheimer, D.D. at the service in commemoration of this faithful servant of God, in Grace Church, Newark, Sept. 4, 1879, by Wm. Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany. Newark: Advertiser Steam Printing House, 1879. 18 pp. Edward Bouverie Pusey, Doctor and Confessor of the Catholic Church. A Sermon preached in St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, October 22, 1883, At the request of the Pusey Memorial Committee, By William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany. Philadelphia: Printed for the Pusey Memorial Committee, 1884. 37 pp. Memorial Address Consecration of the Bishop of Albany [William Croswell Doane] Being the Feast of the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin MDCCCXCIX. By Edgar A. Enos, D.D. Rector of Saint Paul's Parish, Troy. 18 pp. http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/usa/wcdoane/ 2/2/2004 Croswell Doane, First Bishop of Albany By George Lynde Richardson Page 1 of 32 Project Canterbury William Croswell Doane, First Bishop of Albany By George Lynde Richardson Hartford, Connecticut; Church Missions Publishing, 1933. 43 pp. "The Christian workman, on the other hand, gives himself, and his life enters into and makes part of what he does. The master-builders build themselves in, as the Apostles and Prophets are the foundation on the Cornerstone. Only God's eye can see the place or measure the prominence of the life built in. But it is there, and it will be revealed. Meanwhile it serves a larger and a better end, when the hands that toiled, the heads that planned, the hearts that loved are at rest and still, to look back on the growing beauty of the work, and honour SO the workmen who had part in its upbuilding." From the Sermon preached by Bp. Wm. Croswell Doane, in St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York, the 21st Sunday after Trinity, 1882, commemorating the Jubilee of the Consecration of his Father as Bishop of New Jersey. The Right Reverend WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE First Bishop of Albany CHAPTER On Quinquagesima Sunday, March 3, 1832, the Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, the Rev. George W. Doane, wrote in his journal, "Primum post natum W. C. Deo maxima laus." His second son, who was thus welcomed with thanksgiving, was born March 2nd in what his father later called by far the most eventful year of his life. It was a time of trial and difficulty in the Church at large and in Trinity Parish. Before the year was over, in October, he was elected by the Diocese of New Jersey as its Bishop, to succeed the venerable Dr. Croes. Things moved rapidly, for on the 19th of October he had accepted the election and on the 31st of the same month he was consecrated Bishop during the meeting of the General Convention in St. Paul's Chapel, New York City. This was a notable Convention, for the House of Bishops, which numbered only thirteen when the session opened, had four new Bishops added to it before it closed: Bishop Doane, Bishop John Henry Hopkins of Vermont, Bishop Benjamin B. Smith of Kentucky, and Bishop Charles P. Mcllvaine of Ohio. New England, the place of his birth, had as a consequence, no part in the early life of William Croswell Doane. The family removed to New Jersey in the spring of 1833 and http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/usa/wcdoane/glrichardson.html 2/2/2004 Shapiro Library/ILL Dept 5 SOLDIER and SERVANT SERIES THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE D.D., LL.D., D.C.L. FIRST BISHOP OF ALBANY by Reverend Geörge Lynde Richardson, D. D. 97 CHURCH MISSIONS PUBLISHING COMPANY VALE OCT 14 1934 LIBRARY. 'His mind and will were constructive; therefore, his hard to summarize. He was a many-sided man of outstand- first and continuous task was to build for the new diocese ing gifts and multifarious contacts with life. To a naturally institutions and organizations that should survive himself powerful mind was added the discipline of study and wide and those who worked with him, inspired with his ideals reading and observation and a vigorous independence of and faiths. In spirit and purpose they were substantially thought. But even more than for his intellect and scholar- all the clergy and laity of the diocese. He knew how to bind ship, he was remembered for his capacity to make friends. us to him with hooks of steel. His large and gracious nature He carried in his mind and in his heart a host of people rang- without effort forged the links, and they drew to him even ing through all classes of society and his interest in them was those who differed from him in points of view and details genuine. He was as truly the friend of an Adirondack guide of method. as he was of an Archbishop of Canterbury. He met with "Here, in this majestic Cathedral church which he the same genial and democratic temper a Wall Street banker built to consecrate his houses of learning and charity, we, or a Maine fisherman. It is characteristic of him that at the clergy of the diocese, thank God for all that he was to one Diocesan Convention, after having paid tribute to notable us, to the diocese, and to the Church of Christ in this land, leaders in the Church who had died during the year, he added with its deepening sense of its historic and world-wide re- to the list the name of the gatekeeper at the Union station, lations.' with whom he on his frequent railway journeys had formed "The minute is signed for the clergy by the Rev. Drs. a real friendship and to whom he paid a tribute of affectionate Battershall and Enos and the Rev. Hubert P. LeF. Grabau." respect. Bishop Doane came to a diocese in which there were Bishop Doane was a man of tireless industry. He wrote 75 parishes and missions, 6,561 communicants, and 78 clergy much, traveled far, neglected no least duty in his Diocese, canonically connected. When he died there were 126 par- yet found time for many and weighty duties elsewhere. ishes, 37 organized missions, and 12 other places where work At Northeast Harbor, Maine, where in 1882 he founded was carried on, though without organization. The communi- the summer colony he did, during his vacations, a work of cants had increased four-fold to 25,578, and the clergy num- far-reaching influence that grew to be nearer to his heart bered 142. than anything else except the Diocese of Albany. There He came to a diocese newly created, practically without he established St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, hallowed by memories organization and without institutions. He left a diocese of his daughter and a beloved sister-in-law. Every summer fully organized in a system of convocations for missionary more people came thither, attracted by the vital Christian extension, and equipped with a Cathedral, hospitals, schools, character of the colony. The wooden slab chapel was re- a sisterhood employed in many works of mercy, an orphan- placed by a beautiful stone Church, where gathered a con- age, and a wide-spread ministry to sufferers from tubercu- gregation made up of men and women from many com- losis in the Adirondack region. To these outward and visible munions beside our own, as well as the island residents who signs of his wise and energetic administration should be had had hitherto no opportunity for Christian worship. added, what cannot be added because it cannot be known, One who is familiar with the life there writes that even now, much less measured, the deep impression of a spiritual min- twenty years after his death, the influence of Bishop Doane istry upon a multitude of souls; a record known to God, is manifest in the general observance of Sunday as a day for though it cannot be set down in pages of statistics nor valued joyful worship. Though Mt. Desert was his place of recrea- by any method of human computation. tion and rest, he did there a work that touched more varied The characteristic qualities which marked the career groups of people with his vital faith than even in his own of the first Bishop of Albany and left their impress upon Cathedral. two generations during his long ministry of sixty year's are He was a man fitted to command, and no one who ever 32 Doane Doane (Mar. 26, 1849). His own diocesan convention relocated the line of the tunnel, and achieved exonerated him of any culpability, but a persis- great accuracy in the meeting of the borings. He tent effort was made to bring him to trial before was largely responsible for the development, in the House of Bishops. To a man of Doane's the United States, of the advanced system of pride the idea of standing trial was even more tunneling with machinery and high explosives. humiliating than any imputation of guilt, and He has also been called a pioneer in the use of he announced that he would "make the trial of a compressed-air machinery in this country. In bishop hard." By using every resource at his 1869 he became chief engineer of the Burlington disposal he managed to block proceedings for & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, laying almost five years and eventually the case was down approximately 24I miles of track in about dismissed. But a heavier blow awaited him. His four years. During this period he became much elder son, George Hobart Doane, turned Catho- interested in the establishment/ of a Congrega- lic, having come to doubt the efficacy of the or- tional college at Crete, Nebr. and was instru- dination received at his father's hands. On Sept. mental in obtaining for its location a square mile 1855, the Bishop went through the ordeal of on the Big Blue River near that town. In grati- deposing his own son. Only four more years tude for his aid the college was named in his were allowed him, but he served his Church and honor and until his death he was one of its trus- his God indefatigably to the end. tees. In 1873 he returned to Charlestown where 'he Life and Writings of George Washington Doane, he was again appointed chief engineer of the with a Memoir by his son, William Croswell Doane (4 Hoosac Tunnel. When the tunnel was formally vols., 1860-61); A. A. Doane, The Doane Family (1902) J. Julian, A Dict. of Hymnology (rev. ed., opened, on Feb. 9, 1875, he ran the first engine 1907) ; C. C. Tiffany, A Hist. of the P. E. Church in the through it. For two more years he continued in S. A. (1895) Cat. of the Officers and Alumni of Union Coll. 1797-1884 (1884) Gen. Theol. Sem. Cat. charge of construction. He was actively inter- G. M. Hills, Hist. of the Church in Burlington, N. ested in professional societies, was for over twen- (1876) H. G. Batterson, A Sketch-Book of the Am. ty years a member and for nine years president Episcopate 1783-1883 (2nd ed., rev. and enl. 1884) F. C. Morehouse, Some Am. Churchmen (1892). of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and G.H.G. joined the American Society of Civil Engineers DOANE, THOMAS (Sept. 20, 1821-Oct. 22, in 1882. He was active in numerous civic, chari- 1897), mechanical engineer, was descended from table, and/educational enterprises in and around Deacon John Doane who came to Plymouth, Boston, and was for many years a deacon in his Mass., on the ship Fortune, in 1621. Thomas church, the Winthrop Church, at Charlestown. was born in Orleans, Mass., on Cape Cod, the On Nov. 5, 1850, he married Sophia Dennison oldest child of John and Polly (Eldredge) Doane. Clarké, who died in 1868. Later he married His father was a lawyer and served for a time Louisa Amelia Barber of Brattleboro, Vt. While in the state Senate. Thomas attended an acad- on á visit to relatives at West Townsend, Vt., emy on the Cape and when he was nineteen en- he/ died of heart-failure, survived by his second tered the English Academy at Andover, Mass., wife and four children of his first marriage. spending five terms there. At the conclusion of [Trans. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers, XXXIX (1898), this period he took advantage of an opportu- 690-94, an account prepared by F. W. D. Holbrook, who at intervals for a number of years was Doane's nity to enter the employ of Samuel L. Felton of chief assistant A.A Doane, The Doane Family (1902), Charlestown, Mass., a well-known civil engi- pp. 444-47 Boston Transcript, Oct. 23, 1897.] neer. Three years later, having thus served his K.W.C. professional apprenticeship, he accepted his first DOANE, WILLIAM CROSWELL (Mar. 2, employment with the Windsor White River Di- 1832-May 17, 1913), first bishop of the Protes- vision of the Vermont Central Railroad. He tant Episcopal diocese of Albany, was one of the served as resident engineer of the Cheshire Rail- most influential leaders of his own communion road at Walpole, N. H., from 1847 to 1849. In and an honored figure in American public the latter year he began in Charlestown an in- life. His parents were Rev. George Washington dependent practise as civil engineer and sur- Doane [q.v.], afterward Bishop of New Jersey, veyor, which he continued until his death. Dur- and his wife, Eliza Greene (Callahan) Perkins, ing his professional career he was associated widow of James Perkins. He was born in Bos- with practically all of the railroads running out ton where his father was at the time Rector of of Boston, but he was more especially known for Trinity Church, He graduated at Burlington his/connection with the Boston & Maine. Ap- College, N. J., in 1850, was ordained deacon in pointed in 1863 chief engineer of the Hoosac 1853 and priest in 1856. Between 1853 and 1869 Tunnel, on which construction had already been he was successively rector of St. Mary's Church, begun, he introduced new engineering methods, Burlington; St. John's, Hartford, Conn., and 334 D.A.B. V.3,PL1. Doane Dobbin ved Peter's, Albany. During the same period he was Rev. of Revs. (N. Y.), July 1913; Churchman, and Liv- He for six years adjunct professor of literature at ing Church, May 24 and 31, 1913 Jas. Hooper, A Hist. of St. Peter's Ch. in the City of Albany (1900) N. y. in Burlington College and for four years lecturer Tribune, May 18, and N. Y. Times, May 19-20, 1913.] 1 of in the same subject at Trinity College. Conse- F.T.P. ves. crated bishop on Feb. 2, 1869, he devoted the rest DOBBIN, JAMES COCHRAN (Jan. 17, e of of his long life to the building up of his diocese. 1814-Aug. 4, 1857), secretary of the navy, was In He held that no episcopate was complete with- a native of Fayetteville, N. C., where his father, gton out its cathedral which should have free seats, John Moore Dobbin, was a prosperous mer- ying frequent services, schools and houses of mercy chant. His mother was Anness, the daughter of bout of all kinds; and the fruition of this idea, All James Cochran of Person County, a planter and much Saints Cathedral of Albany, having in its con- for several terms a member of Congress. Dob- ega- nection St. Agnes School, the Child's Hospital, bin's early education was received in Fayette- tru- St. Margaret's Home, and the Sisterhood of the ville and at the Bingham School in Hillsboro. mile Holy Child, has been influential in establishing In 1828 he entered the University of North Caro- rati- the American ideal of cathedral administration. lina and was graduated in 1832. For three years his He was visitor, trustee, and honorary chancellor he read law, and after his admission to the bar, :rus- of Hobart College, and regent and chancellor of he settled in Fayetteville. Refusing all requests here the University of the State of New York. At two to engage in politics, he devoted himself to his the Lambeth Conferences he was spokesman for the profession. He had a fine intellect, much charm nally American Episcopate. Indefatigable in his dioc- of personality, and was a spirited and graceful gine esan activities, he was actively interested in the speaker. His tastes were simple, and he led a d in betterment of social and moral conditions, and quiet and dignified life, brightened by much per- nter- fearless in expressing his opinion on public ques- sonal friendship. He married Louisa Holmes of wen- tions. He was a stanch upholder of the cause of Sampson County who died in I848. In 1845 the dent missions, vigorous in his opposition to divorce Democrats of his district, without his knowledge, and and a leader in his church for its suppression. nominated him for Congress. He accepted with eers He did much to advance Episcopal legislation in genuine unwillingness, made a rather brilliant nari- this matter and his influence was also felt in campaign, and serving one term with unusual ound promoting marriage and divorce reform in the distinction for a new member, refused reelection. n his civil law. His principal literary work was the But in 1848 he was elected to the House of Com- own. biography of his father entitled, The Life and mons where he won reputation by his efforts in ison Writings of George Washington Doane, with a behalf of the charter of the North Carolina Rail- tried Memoir (4 vols., 1860-61). His Rhymes from road and by the eloquent speech by which, in Vhile Time to Time (1901) show him have been more fulfilment of a promise to his dying wife, he con- Vt., than moderately gifted as a poet, and his hymn, verted the legislature and secured the establish- cond "Ancient of Days," has a permanent place in the ment of a hospital for the insane. He was speak- hymnals of many communions. He was the re- er of the House in the legislature of 1850 and by 898), cipient of honorary degrees from Trinity, Co- the close of the session was generally regarded brook, one's lumbia, Hobart, and Union colleges, and from as the leader of his party. Heading the North 902), the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dub- Carolina delegation in the Baltimore convention lin. of 1852, he made the speech which precipitated .C. Doane was a friend and admirer of Dr. Pusey, the stampede for Pierce, and as candidate for ar. 2, and in his earlier ministry was looked upon as elector at large he made an active campaign for otes- a high churchman. He was fond of ceremony, him. He was again elected to the Commons, and of the wore the dress of an English bishop, and was was the caucus nominee of his party for United inion frequently regarded as aristocratic. While al- States senator. A deadlock ended in failure to ublic ways a pronounced churchman, however, he was elect any one, but in March 1853 Pierce appoint- igton really democratic in spirit, and numbered among ed him secretary of the navy and he accepted. ersey, his friends all sorts and conditions of people. Like most secretaries of the navy, Dobbin kins, Broadening and mellowing with the years, at his knew little or nothing of naval matters when he Bos- summer chapel at Northeast Harbor, Me., he was appointed, but he directed his keenly ana- or of ministered to and even gave the Communion to lytical mind to the question, and, by the time he ngton members of all denominations. In November wrote his first report, he had formulated the on in 1853 he married Sarah Katharine Condit of policy which he successfully carried out. The 1869 Newark, N. J., whom he survived. navy was at a low ebb, with few ships and most urch, of those antiquated, with a large body of officers d St. [A. A. Doane, The 'Doane Family (1002) Who's Who 111 America, 1912-13 Outlook, May 31, 1913 too old or too incompetent for efficiency, with 335. About Us Page 1 of 3 ABOUT US The Parish of St. Mary and St. Jude We are located on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the third largest and one of the most uniquely beautiful islands on the east coast of the United States. The Parish of Acadia National Park, with its mountains, lakes, hiking paths, and carriage roads, is our back yard, and the cool, clear waters of the Gulf of Maine St. Mary and St. surround us. Jude We are one parish serving two communities from three locations. Home The Parish Center is located on Kimball Road in About Us Northeast Harbor, Maine. It houses the parish hall, Calendar parish office, and chapel used by the congregation People in the winter months. Adjacent to the Parish Center is the Rectory. Ministries What's Current Newsletter St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, our Gothic cathedral-style Getting Involved stone church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located at the junction of Kimball Links and S. Shore Roads, Northeast Harbor, Maine. 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The Parish Center in Northeast Harbor was remodeled in 1912 to create a chapel, complete with chancel, choir, and vestry that the congregations of St. Mary and St. Jude could use in the winter months. Since the first sermons offered by Bishop Doane, the Parish of St. Mary and St. Jude has welcomed many distinguished preachers. And more than 21 missionaries and priests have served as Rector -- some briefly, others for more than a decade. Home I About Us I Calendar I People I Ministries I Vestry at Work What's Current | Newsletter I Getting Involved I Links I Contact Us The Parish of St. Mary and St. Jude P.O. Box 105, Northeast Harbor, Maine 04662 Tel: 207/276-5588 Fax: 207/276-3220 E-mail: info@maryjude.org http://www.maryjude.org/aboutus.html 2/2/2004