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Thomas (NATHANIEL SEYMOUR an American)

NATHANIEL SEYMOUR, an American bishop; born in Faribault, Minn., 1867. Having finished his schooling in this country he studied at Cambridge, in England. In 1891 he was ordained deacon, and priest in 1893. From 1891 to 1892 he was rector of Grace Church, in Ottawa, Kan., then became professor of ethics at Bethany College, Topeka, Kan. A year later he became professor of theology at the Kansas Theological School, where he remained until 1895, when he received an appointment as chaplain at the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. In 1902 he was elected to the bishopric of Salina, Kan., which he declined. In 1909 he was consecrated Bishop of Wyoming.