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Francis Vinton |
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Born Aug. 20, 1809, Providence, RI. Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1826, to July 1, 1830, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Bvt. Second Lieut., 3d Artillery, July 1, 1830. Second Lieut., 3d Artillery, July 1, 1830. Served: in garrison at Ft. Independence, Mas., 1830‑32; on Topographical duty, July 17, 1832, to Apr. 3, 1833; on Engineer duty, Apr. 8 to Sep., 1833; in garrison at Ft. Constitution, N. H., 1833‑36; in Creek Nation, 1836; and on Recruiting service, 1836. Resigned, Aug. 31, 1836. Civil History. — Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1839‑72. Elected Bishop of Indiana, June 3, 1848: declined. Degree of S. T. D. conferred by Columbia College, N. Y., 1848. Member of the Board of Visitors to the U. S. Military Academy, 1855. Deputy to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1853‑66. President of the Board of Visitors to the U. S. Military Academy, 1867. Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New York city, 1855‑72. Ludlow Professor of Ecclesiastical Polity and Canon Law in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Feb. 3, 1869, to Sep. 29, 1872. Author of Treatise on Canon Law, 18–––. Died, Sep. 29, 1872, at Brooklyn, N. Y.: Aged 63. Buried, Island Cemetery, Newport, RI. Biographical Sketch.Reverend Francis Vinton was born, Aug. 20, 1809, at Providence, R. I. He entered the Military Academy, July 1, 1826, and while a Cadet, by his attention to his studies and devotion to literary improvement, gave high promise of his future eminence. Upon graduating from the institution he was promoted to the Artillery, and not only conscientiously performed all his military duties, but found time for the study of law, in which profession his logical mind, skill in debate, and perception of its intricacies, gave high promise of distinction. Soon after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar, he, Aug. 31, 1836, resigned from the Army, not to enter the legal profession, but the Episcopal ministry. In 1839 he was ordained, and began his new career in a small parish of his native State, from which he was soon called to Newport, R. I., and, in 1844, to Brooklyn, N. Y., where his eloquence and unwearying labors placed him among the most noted divines of the country.a Declining the Bishopric of Indiana, to which he was elected in 1848, he became, in 1855, Assistant Minister of Trinity Parish, New York city, and four years later was specially p450 assigned to the charge of Trinity Church, which was always filled to overflowing with admiring hearers to listen to his impressive reading of the Church services and the brilliant oratory of his sermons.
Vinton was appointed, Feb. 3, 1869, Ludlow Professor of Ecclesiastical Polity and Canon Law in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, where he won golden opinions from all connected with the institution. Professor |
a A bibliography of his published works, including a sample of his preaching — a Thanksgiving sermon, Dec. 4, 1845 — is online at the Canterbury Project. The curious outlier, "Louis XVII and Eleazar Williams. Were They the Same Person?", a 10‑page article, is online in several places, for example as a set of text images at the University of Michigan.
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