# Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire: His Life and Work

Author: London, Lawrence Foushee, 1908-2005; Penick, Edwin A. (Edwin Anderson), 1887-1959 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68887

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bishop+Joseph+Blount+Cheshire%3A+His+Life+and+Work+London&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 job. The school was St. Clement's Hall at Ellicott City, Maryland, and the assignment for that day was one in Sallust. About all young Cheshire could recall of that particular passage was its being one of the most difficult he had ever tried to translate. He was faced with the alternative of bluffing his way through or frankly confessing to the boys that he was thoroughly unprepared to teach the assignment. So, bold...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX. DEVELOPMENT AND CONCLUSION OF THE BISHOP'S WORK](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. FIRST YEARS IN THE EPISCOPACY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. ELECTION TO THE EPISCOPATE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. SAINT PETER'S PARISH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII. WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. YOUTH AND MANHOOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. DEACON AND PRIEST](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII. HISTORIAN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bishop-joseph-blount-cheshire-his-life-and-work-68887/chapters/15/index.md)