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STARKEY, Thomas Alfred, P. E. bishop, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1824. He was educated as a civil engineer, and practised that profession in 1839-'45. Having resolved to enter the ministry, he studied theology for two years, and was ordained deacon in the Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia, 21 February, 1847, by Bishop Alonzo Potter, and priest in Trinity church, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 21 May, 1848, by the same bishop. He served as missionary in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1847-'50, where he founded the Church of the Holy Apostles, at St. Clair. He was rector of Christ church, Troy, New York, in 1850-'4, of St. Paul's, Albany, New York, in 1854-'8, of Trinity church, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1858-'69, and of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C., in 1869-'72. He served in 1875-'6 in the Mission rooms, New York city, and became rector of St. Paul's church, Paterson, New Jersey, in 1877. This post he held for three years. He received the degree of D.D. from Hobart college, New York, in 1864. He was elected bishop of northern New Jersey in 1879, and was consecrated 8 January, 1880. The name of his diocese was changed to that of Newark in 1886.
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