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WHITAKER, Ozi William, P. E. bishop, born in New Salem, Massachusetts, 10 May, 1880. He was graduated at Middlebury college, Vermont, in 1856, was principal of the high-school in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, for nearly four years, and then entered the General theological seminary, New York, where he was graduated in 1863. He was ordered deacon in Grace church, Boston, Massachusetts, 15 July, 1863, by Bishop Eastburn, ordained priest in St. Stephen's chapel, Boston, 7 August, 1863, by the same bishop, went at once to Nevada, and was made rector of St. John's, Gold Hill. He returned to the east in 1865, and became rector of St. Paul's church, Englewood, New Jersey Mr. Whitaker went to Nevada again in 1867, and became rector of St. Paul's church, Virginia City. He was elected missionary bishop of Nevada by the general convention in New York in 1868, and consecrated in St. George's church, New York, 13 October, 1869. He received the degree of D. D. from Kenyon college, Ohio, in the same year. Bishop Whitaker was elected assistant bishop of Pennsylvania and translated in 1886. Upon the death of Bishop Stevens, 11 June, 1887, ha became bishop of Pennsylvania. He attended the third Pan-Anglican council in London in 1888. He has published occasional sermons.
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