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

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To the sainted memory of a life-long friend and benefactor of our Alma Mater, ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, Doctor and Prelate, Second Diocesan of Western New York, this volume is dedicated.

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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