Joseph Blount Cheshire Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Joseph Blount Cheshire
Bishop of North Carolina
Church:Episcopal Church
Diocese:North Carolina
Elected:June 28, 1893
Term:1893–1932
Retired:-->
Predecessor:Theodore B. Lyman
Successor:Edwin A. Penick
Ordination:May 30, 1880
Ordained By:Theodore B. Lyman
Consecration:October 15, 1893
Consecrated By:Theodore B. Lyman
Birth Date:27 March 1850
Buried:Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard (Tarboro, North Carolina)
Parents:Joseph Blount Cheshire Sr & Mary Toole Parker
Spouse:Annie Huske Webb (m. 1874, d. 1897)
Elizabeth Lansdale Mitchell (m. 1899, d. 1929)
Children:9
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Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. (March 27, 1850 – December 27, 1932) was a bishop of North Carolina in The Episcopal Church.[1]

Education

Cheshire was born on March 27, 1850, in Tarboro, North Carolina, the son of the Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire and Elizabeth Toole Parker. He was educated at Trinity College from where he earned his B.A. in 1869 and M.A. in 1872. He received the Doctor of Divinity from the University of North Carolina in 1890 and another from the in 1894.

Ordination

Cheshire was ordained as a deacon on April 21, 1878, and as a priest on May 30, 1880. Between 1878 and 1881, he served as the rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was later appointed the rector of St Peter's Church in Charlotte, North Carolina and served between 1881 and 1893.

Episcopacy

Cheshire was elected coadjutor bishop of North Carolina in 1893 and was consecrated on October 15, 1893, by Bishop Theodore B. Lyman of North Carolina. He succeeded Bishop Lyman on December 13, 1893.

Personal life

Cheshire married Annie Huske Webb on December 17, 1874. After her death he married Elizabeth Lansdale on July 19, 1899.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cheshire, Joseph Blount . 1930 . Nonnulla; Memories, Stories, Traditions, More or Less Authentic . Chapel Hill . The University of North Carolina press . 2015-04-20.