Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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In 1888 he preached frequently in Paris, and officiated in the Gallieau Chapel, as Bishop in charge of the Gallicana of France, a position which he resigned in 1892, when the Archbishop of Utrecht consented to assume that work in France. Bishop Coxe died in Clifton Springs, N. Y., July 20, 1896, and was buried under what is now the chancel of Trinity Church, Geneva. The Bishop was ever warmly interested in Hobart College. He was an ex officio Trustee from 1865 to 1896 ; as such he was invariably present at the meet- ings, and for a large portion of the period was Chairman of the Board. He was especially interested in all plans for increasing the geueral funds or special endowments of the College, and prepared various appeals to be sent out offi- cially by the Trustees; in one of these appeals ho made clear Hobart’s position as the representative equally of all the five dioceses of the State. He is well remembered in the instruction of the College by the various courses of lectures he delivered from time to time ; his earliest series was entitled “ English lit- erature of the 19th Century” (1870); several years after that he delivered a course on “ Early English Poetry this course was extremely popular, being illustrated by the reading and interpretation of early English ballads in a most pleasurable and commendable manner ; his latest lectures were historical in character, and were vety will received. His enthusiastic interest iu the College was at all times warmly felt by the students, and made many friends for him and for Hobart. This appreciation of Bidrop Coxe’s labors for the College is now about to receive its highest and most abiding monument among us in the erection of the Coxe Memorial Hall. S

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Bishop Coxe, 1818-1896 r— j ■‘-HE Rt. Rev, A. Cleveland Coxe, S.T.D.,LL.D., was bom in Medharu, New Jersey, May 10, 1818, and was graduated at tlie University of r New York in 183S, and at the General Theological Seminary in 1841. He was ordered Deacon in St. Paul’s Chapel, New York, on June 27, 1841, by Bishop Onderdonk; and was ordained Priest in St. John’s Church, Hartford, Conn., September 25, 1842, by Bishop Brownell, Soon after his ordination to the Diaconate he took charge of St. Anne’s Church, Morris- anis, New York, where he remained until Raster o£ the following year, when he removed to Connecticut, and became rector of St. John’s Church, Hartford. In 1854, he removed to Maryland, and became the rector of Grace Church, Baltimore. In 1863 he became the rector of Calvary Church, New York. City, where he remained until his elevation to the l$piscopate. In. 1856, during his rectorship in Baltimore, he was elected to the Episcopate of Texas, but declined. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from St. James’ College, Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1836, and also from the University of Dnrham, England, in 1888 ; that of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Trinity College, Hartford, in x868, and that of Doctor of Laws from Kenyon College in the same year. He was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Western New York in Trinity Church, Geneva, January 4, 1865; and upon the death of Bishop DeLancev in April of that year, he became Bishop of the diocese. In 1851, 1869, and 1870, he made tours of Europe and in 1872 was given charge of The Church in Kayti ; in Port-au-Prince he consecrated the Church of the Holy Trinity. Bishop Coxe was the author of several works on theology, general litera- ture, pamphlets, presses, etc. Among his many publications are “Christian Ballads,’’ 1840 ; “Athanasian, and other roeius,” 1842 ; “ Hallowe’en,” 1844 ; “ Saul: A Mystery,” 1845 ; “ Sermons on Doctrine and Duty,” 1854 ; “Impres- sions of England,” 1836; “Criterion,” 1866; “ Moral Reforms,” 1869; “Lady Chase,” 1878 ; and “ The Peneteutial,” 1882. In 1883 he founded The Christian Literary Company of New York, and edited nine volumes of their series of Ante-Nicene Bathers, also subsequently their edition of St. Augustine on the Psalms. 4

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The 1901 Echo Board Editor-in-Chief James Albert Masses, k a Associate Editors Cheseeigh Horton Briscoe Bugens Bother. Jagar, 2 x John Henry Heady Foster Partridge Boswell, 2 t Business Managers Psrctvai. Huntington Whaley, K a Donald McLaren Kirby, 2 Keating Lewis Simons, K a