The Right Reverend Anson Rogers Graves | |
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| Western Nebraska | |
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| Province | The Episcopal Church  |
| Diocese | Western Nebraska |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 4, 1871 |
| Consecration | January 1, 1890 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 13, 1842 |
| Died | December 30, 1931 (aged 89) La Mesa, California |
| Signature |  |
Anson Rogers Graves (April 13, 1842 – December 30, 1931) was the first bishop of the Missionary District of Western Nebraska in The Episcopal Church.[1]
Biography
Anson Rogers Graves was born in Wells, Vermont on April 13, 1842.[2]
Anson Rogers Graves was consecrated as an Episcopal Church bishop to the Missionary Diocese of The Plate (Western Nebraska) on January 1, 1890, by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle and others. He resigned in 1910.[3]
He was the father of college football player and coach Eliot Graves.[4]
He died at his home in La Mesa, California on December 30, 1931.[5]
References
- ↑ Graves, Anson R. (1911). The Farmer Boy who Became a Bishop: the Autobiography of the Right Reverend Anson Rogers Graves. Akron, Ohio: The New Werner Company.
- ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IV. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 286. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ↑ The Living Church Annual 1944, pg. 380-381
- ↑ Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska. Alden Publishing Company. 1909. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ↑ "Bishop A. R. Graves of Episcopal Church Dies". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. La Mesa, California. Associated Press. January 1, 1932. p. 24. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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