Category: Biographies
It was eleven o'clock one morning in the middle of September, 1869, when Joseph Blount Cheshire stepped into a classroom to teach a course in Latin. Before him sat six boys, several of them older than himself. He was only nineteen years old, and he was about to begin his first...
It was eleven o'clock one morning in the middle of September, 1869, when Joseph Blount Cheshire stepped into a classroom to teach a course in Latin. Before him sat six boys, sev...
2. CHAPTER IIEver since he left college Cheshire had been conscious of a growing desire to become a candidate for Holy Orders. Not long after his marriage he spoke to his wife of this aspira...
3. CHAPTER IIICheshire entered upon his work in Charlotte with a feeling that here he had an excellent opportunity for extending the influence of his church, particularly in the missionary fi...
4. CHAPTER IVTheodore Benedict Lyman was elected assistant bishop of North Carolina in 1873, and upon the death of Bishop Thomas Atkinson in 1881 he assumed the control of the Diocese. In 18...
5. CHAPTER VWhen Bishop Cheshire assumed the episcopal oversight of the Diocese of North Carolina, he felt little confidence in his ability to fulfill the duties of the office. He did feel...
6. CHAPTER VIIn addition to his accomplishments as a clergyman, prelate, and scholar, Bishop Cheshire attained considerable skill and reputation as a sportsman. Fishing and hunting were the...
7. CHAPTER VIIFrom his youth Bishop Cheshire had been fond of history, and as he grew older, his interest in it developed into a serious avocation. While practicing law in Tarboro, he saw a g...
8. CHAPTER VIIIBishop Cheshire's active interest in the church's work among the Negroes began when he was rector of St. Peter's Church, Charlotte. His organization of the colored mission of St...
9. CHAPTER IXIn the first decade of his episcopate Bishop Cheshire laid the foundation for almost all of his future work. The remainder of his life was devoted to expansion and improvement....
10. CHAPTER I. YOUTH AND MANHOOD11. CHAPTER II. DEACON AND PRIEST12. CHAPTER III. SAINT PETER'S PARISH13. CHAPTER IV. ELECTION TO THE EPISCOPATE25. Rev. Robert B. Owens to L. F. London, July 8, 1938. Mr. Owens was a member of the adjourned convention of 1893. This letter contains a description of the proceedings of that...
14. CHAPTER V. FIRST YEARS IN THE EPISCOPACY37. Joseph B. Cheshire, Journal of 1897, p. 96, a manuscript account of his visit to England and the Continent in the summer of 1897, owned by Mr. J. B. Cheshire, Jr., Raleigh.
15. CHAPTER VII. HISTORIAN16. CHAPTER VIII. WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE17. CHAPTER IX. DEVELOPMENT AND CONCLUSION OF THE BISHOP'S WORK54. Joseph B. Cheshire, "Our Summer, 1908," a journal of his visit to England for the Pan-Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Conference, owned by Mr. J. B. Cheshire, Jr., Raleigh.