The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Van Buren, James Heartt

VAN BUREN, văn bū'rĕn, James Heartt, American Protestant Episcopal bishop: b. Watertown, N. Y., 7 July 1850; d. 9 July 1917. He was graduated from Yale in 1873 and from Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., in 1876, took orders in the Episcopal Church in the year last named and for more than 10 years was rector of Saint Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass. In June 1902 he was consecrated bishop of Porto Rico.