Bishop B. Wistar Morris
By MRS. BELLE J. SELLWOOD
THE Right Rev. Benjamin Wistar Morris, D. D., S. T. D., the second missionary bishop of Oregon, was born in Willsboro, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1819. He was graduated from the Veil Theological Seminary, New York, in 1846, was ordained deacon in St. Philip's Church, Philadelphia, on the 28th of June, in the same year the Right Rev. Alonzo Porter, D. D., and presbyter in St. Matthew's Church, Sanbury, Pennsylvania, on the 27th of April, 1847, by the same prelate. The bishop
received his degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College, New York, and that of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was rector of St. MatthewsChurch, Sanbury, for four years, and of St. David's for six years, when he was appointed assistant minister of St. Luke's Church at Germantown, where he remained until his election to the episcopate during the session of the general convention October, 1868. He was consecrated missionary bishop of Oregon and Washington Territory, December 3, 1868, in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, by the Right Rev. Alfred Lee, bishop of Delaware, assisted by Bishops
