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Fawcett (M EDWARD an American)

M. EDWARD, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in New Hartford, Ia., in 1865. He graduated from Upper Iowa University in 1886, after afterward studying at the Garrett Biblical Institute. He was ordained a priest in 1897 and was rector of churches in Elgin and Chicago, Ill., until 1903, when he was appointed 3d bishop of Quincy, Ill. In 1917 he was captain and chaplain of the 5th Illinois Infantry and was also a divisional chaplain of the 33d Division.