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Sumner (WALTER TAYLOR an American)

WALTER TAYLOR, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born at Manchester, N. H., in 1873.

He was educated at Dartmouth College , and at the Western Theological Seminary, and received honorary degrees from these two universities, and from Northwestern University. He was made a deacon in 1903, and a priest in 1904.

From 1903 to 1906, while serving as , while ser serving as pastor of St. George's Church, Chicago, he was secretary to the Bishop of Chicago; from 1906 to 1915 he was dean of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, and superintendent of the City Missions of the Episcopal Church, Chicago ; and in 1915 he was consecrated Bishop of Oregon. He also served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education (1909- 1915) and was a member or officer of many religious and charitable associations, commissions, congresses, institutions, etc. Until 1915 he was also chaplain of the 1st Illinois Cavalry, I. N. G.