Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire: His Life and Work

by Lawrence Foushee London

CHAPTER IX. DEVELOPMENT AND CONCLUSION OF THE BISHOP'S WORK

[54] Joseph B. Cheshire, "Our Summer, 1908," a journal of his visit to England for the Pan-Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Conference, owned by Mr. J. B. Cheshire, Jr., Raleigh.

[55] Joseph B. Cheshire, "England, 1920," a journal of his trip to England for the Lambeth Conference and of his visit to France and Switzerland, owned by Mr. J. B. Cheshire, Jr., Raleigh.

[56] Sermon on Patriotism and the War, Joseph Blount Cheshire Papers, University of North Carolina Library.

[57] Journal of the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina (1919), p. 51.

[58] Ibid. (1923), p. 84.

[59] The Raleigh News and Observer, March 28, 1930.

[60] Carolina Churchman, April, 1930.

Published Writings of Joseph Blount Cheshire

Address of the Right Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of North Carolina, on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Memorial Vestibule in Christ Church, Raleigh, to the Glory of God and in the Memory of Richard Henry Lewis, December 18, 1927. Charlottesville, Va., n.d.

"Baptism of Virginia Dare," anniversary address, delivered on Roanoke Island by Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., August 18, 1910, North Carolina Booklet, Vol. X, no. 4.

Bishop Atkinson and the Church in the Confederacy. Raleigh, 1909.

"The Bishops of North Carolina—When the State Was One Diocese," The Carolina Churchman, November, 1910-February, 1911.

The Church in the Confederate States: A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912.

"The Church in the Province of North Carolina," in Sketches of Church History in North Carolina, edited by Bishop Cheshire.

"Decay and Revival, 1800-1830," in Sketches of Church History in North Carolina, edited by Bishop Cheshire.

"Dr. Richard H. Lewis; An Intimate Sketch by a Life-long Friend," The Carolina Churchman, October, 1926.

The Early Conventions: held at Tarborough Anno Domini 1790, 1793 and 1794. The first effort to organize the Church in North Carolina. Collected from original sources and now first published. With introduction and brief notes, Raleigh, 1882.

"The Early Rectors of Christ Church," Centennial Ceremonies held in Christ Church Parish, Raleigh, North Carolina, A.D. 1921. Including Historical Addresses. Raleigh, 1922.

"Entries in an Old Bible which was Formerly in the Possession of Miss Chloe Coward," North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1903.

Fifty Years of Church Life in North Carolina, an Address by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., Bishop of North Carolina, on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Rev. Robert B. Drane, D.D., as Rector of St. Paul's Church, Edenton, N. C. All Saints' Day, 1926. Edenton, n.d.

"First Settlers in North Carolina Not Religious Refugees: A Study in Origins," North Carolina Booklet, Vol. V, no. 4.

Fragments of Colonial Church History: 1. Public Libraries. n.p., 1886.

"The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, and Religious Liberty in the Province of North Carolina," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. I, no. 4.

An Historical Address Delivered in Saint Matthew's Church, Hillsboro, N. C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924. Being the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Parish. Durham, 1925.

"An Historical Sketch of the Church in Edgecombe County, North Carolina," Church Messenger, August 17-September 21, 1880.

"How Our Church Came to North Carolina," The Spirit of Missions, May, 1918.

Milnor Jones, Deacon and Missionary. Raleigh, 1920.

Nonnulla: Memories, Stories, and Traditions, More or Less Authentic, About North Carolina. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1930.

"The Office of Solicitor General of North Carolina," University of North Carolina Magazine, May, 1894.

"The Personnel of the North Carolina Convention of 1788," Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. III, 1899.

A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson, His Character and Rule of Holy Life, by George Herbert, with an Introduction and brief notes by the Bishop of North Carolina. New York: Thomas Whittaker, Inc., 1908.

Public Worship in the Church. A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of North Carolina delivered at the meeting of the Convocations of Raleigh and Charlotte, in October, 1912. Also a Pastoral Letter to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese, n.p., n.d.

Saint Peter's Church, Charlotte, North Carolina—Thirty Years of its Life and Work, 1863-1893. Charlotte, 1921.

"A Sermon; Preached in St. John's Church, Fayetteville, the Sunday next before Advent, November 24, 1889, at the Centennial of the Fayetteville Convention of 1789," University of North Carolina Magazine, Vol. XI, no. 4.

Sketches of Church History in North Carolina, Addresses and Papers by the Clergymen and Laymen of the Dioceses of North and East Carolina. Wilmington, 1892.

"Some Account of My Life for My Children," Carolina Churchman, January, 1934-May, 1935.

"White Haven Church and the Rev. Robert Johnston Miller," in Sketches of Church History in North Carolina, edited by Bishop Cheshire.

"Why Judge Haywood Left North Carolina," University of North Carolina Magazine, January, 1895.

"Wilmington, the Free Town of the Cape Fear," in Historic Towns of the Southern States, by Lyman P. Powell. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1900.

Index

• A
• Abbey of Valle Crucis, [109]
• Adams, Rev. Samuel F., [59]
• "A. H. W.," poem, [17]
• Albemarle section, [2], [89]
• Alpha Delta Phi, [11]
• Alston, Rev. Primus P., [31], [76], [104]
• Alumnae Association of St. Mary's School, [64]
• American Church Institute for Negroes, Cheshire elected to, [105]
• "Annals of the Church in the Province of North Carolina," MS by Cheshire, [91]
• Archdeacons, Cheshire's estimate of, [117]-[118]
• Ashe County, [57]-[58]
• Atkinson, Bishop Thomas, [18]-[19], [21];
  • on division of Diocese, [35];
  • sketch of by Cheshire, [94]-[95]

• B
• Bakersville, N. C., [58]
• Baltimore, [13];
  • practices law in, [14]-[15]
• Barber, Rev. M. A., [103]
• Barrett, Rev. Robert S., [47], [48]
• Barrows, Rev. W. S., [49]
• Baskerville, Rev. Erasmus L., [103]
• Battle, President Kemp P., [19], [22], [39]
• Battle, Richard H., [75]
• Beach Cliff Schoolhouse, [34]
• Beaver Creek, [58]-[59]
• Bickett, Gov. Thomas, [116]
• Bishop of Georgia, Cheshire considered for, [41]
• Bishop Payne Divinity School, [105]
• Bixby, Robert F., [10]
• Blount, Elizabeth, [2]
• Blount, Joseph, [2]
• Bridgers, Cheshire, and Bridgers, firm of, [15]
• Bridgers, Col. John L., [15]
• Bridgers, John L., Jr., [15]
• Bronson, Rev. Benjamin S., institutional work in Charlotte, [28]-[29]
• Burlington, N. C., Cheshire is called to church at, [25]
• Buxton, Rev. Jarvis, [40], 91

• C
• Calvary Church, Tarboro, [2], [3], [35];
  • Cheshire receives call to, [41];
  • Cheshire consecrated in, [52]-[53]
• Canterbury, Archbishop of, [67]
• Capers, Bishop Ellison, [53], [66]
• Chapel Hill, [19]-[20];
  • Cheshire gives work in to Bishop Penick, [120]
• Chapel of the Cross, Cheshire becomes rector of, [19]-[20]
• Charlotte, Cheshire begins work in, [27]
• Cheshire, Annie, [44]
• Cheshire, Annie Gray, Bishop's sister, [4]
• Cheshire, Annie Webb (Mrs. Joseph Blount), [17], [22], [44];
  • death of, [67]
• Cheshire, Elizabeth Mitchell (Mrs. Joseph Blount), [69];
  • death of, [123]
• Cheshire, Elizabeth Toole, [23], [44]
• Cheshire, Godfrey, [44]
• Cheshire, James Webb, [44]
• Cheshire, John, the Bishop's grandfather, [2]
• Cheshire, Dr. Joseph Blount, Sr., [2], [3], [4], [7], [10]
• Cheshire, Bishop Joseph Blount, birth, [4];
  • early education, [4]-[6];
  • practices law, [14]-[17];
  • marries Annie Webb, [17];
  • ordained deacon, [19];
  • rector, Chapel of the Cross, [19]-[26];
  • ordained priest, [25];
  • rector, St. Peter's, Charlotte, [27] ff.;
  • Negro work in Charlotte, [30]-[31];
  • in diocesan conventions, [34]-[39];
  • views on episcopate, [47];
  • elected assistant bishop, [50];
  • on Missionary Jurisdiction of Asheville, [60]-[63];
  • St. Mary's School, [63]-[66];
  • death of Annie Webb Cheshire, [67];
  • marries Elizabeth Mitchell, [69];
  • in the General Convention, [69]-[70];
  • on public worship, [71]-[72];
  • on fishing and hunting, [77]-[79];
  • on divorce question, [81]-[84];
  • on national prohibition, [84]-[85];
  • as a father, [86]-[87];
  • on racial episcopate, [101]-[104];
  • asks for assistance, [119];
  • death of Elizabeth Mitchell Cheshire, [123];
  • on youth of today, [123]-[124];
  • death of, [125]
• Cheshire, Joseph Blount, Jr., [44], [77]
• Cheshire, Katherine Drane, [4]
• Cheshire, Sarah, [44], [79]
• Cheshire, Theophilus Parker, [4]
• Cheshire Building, St. Augustine's, [107]
• Christ Church, Raleigh, [48]
• Church in the Confederate States, discussion of, [94]-[96]
• Churchman, The, [95]
• Church Messenger, [23], [25], [90]
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, [75], [119];
  • Cheshire's last service, [124]
• Church Temperance Society, of England, [110]-[111]
• Church Times, [95]
• Clark, Gov. Henry, [88]
• Clark, Judge Walter, [89]
• Colonial Records of North Carolina, [89], [91]
• Connor, R. D. W., resolution on the Bishop, [116]
• Convocation for Colored Work, [74]
• Convocation of Charlotte, [74], [119]
• Convocation of Raleigh, [74]
• Curtis, Dr. M. Ashley, [3], [53]

• D
• Davidson College, [33]
• Deerfield, Mass., [10]
• Delany, Rev. Henry B., [76];
  • elected suffragan bishop, [103]-[104]
• Devereaux, Thomas P., [2]
• Division of the Diocese, [35]-[36]
• Dodge, Rev. A. W., [42]
• Drane, Dr. Robert B., on Cheshire's sermons, [80]-[81]
• Dudley, Bishop T. U., [53]
• Durham, N. C., [20];
  • Cheshire organizes church in, [23]-[25]

• E
• Edenton, N. C., home of Cheshire's ancestors, [2]
• Edenton Academy, [2]
• Edgecombe County, [19]-[20];
  • history of church in, [88]-[89]
• Eliot, George, quotation from, [100]
• Ellicott City, [1], [12]
• Episcopal School for Boys, Raleigh, [2]
• Erwin, William A., [114], [116]
• Executive council, formed, [117]-[118]

• F
• France, Cheshire visits, [68]
• Fundamental Constitutions, Cheshire discusses, [97]

• G
• General Convention, Cheshire elected deputy to, [40];
  • on racial episcopate, [102]
• George, Rev. T. M. N., nominated assistant bishop, [48]
• Glenn, Gov. Robert B., [83]
• Gletsch, Switzerland, [112]
• Good Samaritan Hospital, [42]-[43], [99]
• Graves, Professor Ralph, [22]
• Graves' school, Granville County, [7]
• Guerry, Bishop William A., [103], [104]
• Guild of St. Martin, [32]

• H
• Halifax, [3]
• Harding, Rev. Nathaniel H., nominated assistant bishop, [48]
• Hartford, Conn., [8], [10]
• Herbert, George, [93], [94]
• Hillsboro, N. C., [20];
  • Cheshire studies law in, [13]-[14]
• Historiographer, Cheshire elected, [90]
• Holler, Bill, [77]-[78]
• Holmes, Rev. Lucian, [29]
• Holt, Lawrence, [114]
• Honesty, Cheshire writes essay on, [7]
• Honorary degrees, given Cheshire, [93]
• Hooper, George G., Cheshire's law partner, [14]-[15]
• Hooper, Professor J. de Berniere, [22]
• Hooper and Cheshire, firm of, [15]
• Horner, Bishop Junius Moore, consecrated bishop, [63]
• Howard, Judge George, [14]
• Howard and Perry, firm of, [14]
• Hunter, Dr. A. B., [108], [112], [116]

• I
• Iredell County, [42]
• Ireland, Cheshire visits, [68]
• Ives, Bishop Levi Silliman, [2], [3];
  • work at Valle Crucis, [56], [59];
  • sketch of by Cheshire, [94]

• J
• Jackson, Bishop Henry M., [47]
• Jamaica, Cheshire visits, [113]
• Johns, Bishop John, advice to young clergymen, [21]
• Johnston, William H., [91]
• Joint convention of 1890, [91]-[92]
• Jones, Hamilton C., [28]
• Jones, Rev. Milnor, mission work in the mountains, [56]-[59];
  • Cheshire's estimate of, [60];
  • life of by Cheshire, [96]
• Jones, Sam, [43]-[44]
• Jurisdiction of Asheville, formation of, [61]-[63]

• K
• Kerfoot, President of Trinity College, [9]

• L
• Lambeth Conference, Cheshire attends, [67]-[68], [109], [111]-[112]
• Lenten services, Cheshire on, [73]
• Lewis, Nell Battle, tribute to the Bishop, [86]
• Lewis, Dr. Richard H., [5], [7], [13], [118];
  • Cheshire's best man, [17];
• Lloyd, Rev. Arthur S., nominated assistant bishop, [49]
• Long Creek Township, [33]-[34]
• Louisburg, N. C., [5]
• Louisburg Academy, Cheshire attends, [6]
• Lucas, Rev. Henry, [41]
• Lyman, Bishop Theodore Benedict, [21], [24], [25], [34], [53];
  • on division of Diocese, [35];
  • estimate of Cheshire's work in Charlotte, [41];
  • asks for assistance, [46], [48];
  • death of, [54];
  • sketch of by Cheshire, [94]

• M
• McCoy, Columbus W., [33]
• Mallett, Dr. William P., [22]
• Marshall, Dr. Matthias M., [19], [35];
  • nominated assistant bishop, [48]
• Maryland, [9], [12]
• Mecklenburg County, missions in, [42]
• Meredith, Rev. Reuben, [79]
• Methodist Church Conference, [83]
• Missionary bishops for Negro work, [101]-[102]
• Mitchell, Elizabeth Lansdale,
  • marries Bishop Cheshire, [69];
  • death of, [123]
• Mitchell, Rev. Walter A., [69]
• Mitchell County, [57]-[58]
• Monreath, summer home of the Bishop's father, [5], [12]
• Monroe, N. C., Cheshire organizes church in, [32]
• Mooresville, N. C., [33]
• Murdoch, Dr. Francis J., Cheshire's estimate of, [47];
  • nominated assistant bishop, [48];
  • nominates Cheshire, [48];
  • on Cheshire's election as bishop, [51]
• Murray, Bishop John Gardner, estimate of Cheshire, [107]
• Music in the church, Cheshire on, [73]

• N
• Negro, religion of the, [106]
• Newsome, A. R., estimate of Cheshire as an historian, [98]
• Niles, Professor William W., [9]
• Nonnulla, vii, [79];
  • discussion of, [97]

• O
• Orkneys, Cheshire visits, [68]
• Osborne, Rev. Edwin A.,
  • takes work at Monroe and Long Creek, [32], [34];
  • founds Thompson Orphanage, [42]
• Outlook, [95]

• P
• Palmer, Professor George H., [94]
• Pamlico Banking and Insurance Company, [15], [19]
• Pan-Anglican Congress, [109]-[111]
• Parker, Elizabeth Toole, [4]
• Parker, Mary Toole, [4]
• Parker, Theophilus, [4]
• Pastoral Letter, by Cheshire, [72]-[73]
• Penick, Bishop Edwin A., elected bishop coadjutor, [119];
  • proposes gift for Cheshire, [121], [122]
• Perry, Bishop James DeWolf, tribute to Cheshire, [125]
• Phi Kappa, Cheshire's fraternity, [11]
• Pittsboro, N. C., [19]
• Polk County, [57]
• Portrait of the Bishop, [108]
• Presbyterian Synod, [83]
• Pynchon, Professor at Trinity, [10]

• Q
• Quaker settlements in North Carolina, [89]
• Quin, Rev. Charles C., [30]-[32]
• Quintard, Bishop Charles T., [53]

• R
• Racial episcopate, [103]
• Ravenscroft, Bishop John Stark, [47];
  • sketch of by Cheshire, [94]
• Ravenscroft, Raleigh, home of the Bishop, [120]
• Roanoke River swamp, Bishop hunts in, [78]
• Rockingham, N. C., [33]
• Ruffin, Chief Justice Thomas, [13]
• Ruffin, William K., Cheshire studies law under, [13]-[14], [16]

• S
• St. Ambrose Church, Raleigh, [76]
• St. Augustine's School, [105], [107]-[108]
• St. Clement's Hall, Cheshire teaches at, [1], [12]-[13], [16]
• St. Luke's Church, Tarboro,
  • Cheshire holds first service as bishop in, [53]
• St. Mark's Church, Mecklenburg County, [25];
  • organized, [34]
• St. Martin's Church, Charlotte, organized, [31]
• St. Mary's School, founded, [63]-[64];
  • Cheshire's opinion of, [64];
  • established as a church school, [64]-[66];
  • Cheshire's daughters attend, [87];
  • debt on, [113]-[114];
  • endowment for, [114]
• St. Matthew's Church, Hillsboro,
  • Cheshire married in, [17]
  • Cheshire is called to, [25]
• St. Michael and All Angels, Charlotte, organized, [30], [31], [99]
• St. Michael's Industrial School, Charlotte, [104]-[105]
• St. Paul's Church, Edenton, [2], [80]
• St. Paul's Church, Macon, Ga.,
  • Cheshire receives call to, [41]
• St. Paul's Church, Winston-Salem, [25], [55]
• St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, [28], [36];
  • Cheshire is called to, [26]
• St. Peter's Home and Hospital,
  • organized, [29], [30]
• St. Philip's Church, Durham, [24]-[25]
• Saluda conference, [66]
• Saunders, Col. William L., [89]-[90]
• Scotland, Cheshire visits, [68]
• Scotland Neck, [3]
• Sermons, Cheshire discusses, [21]-[22]
• Sessums, Bishop Davis, [53]
• Shepherd, John Avery, [12]
• Smedes, Dr. Aldert, [63]
• Smedes, Dr. Bennett, [63], [64], [66]
• Smedes, Rev. John E. C., [19], [25];
  • verses to Cheshire, [51]-[52]
• Society of the Cincinnati, Cheshire becomes member of, [93]
• State Literary and Historical Association, Cheshire elected president of, [97]
• Strange, Rev. Robert B., [92]
• Suffragan bishops, for Negro work, [101]-[104]
• Sutton, Rev. Robert B., [19], [20]
• Switzerland, Cheshire visits, [68], [112]

• T
• Tarboro, N. C., [14]-[15], [17];
  • description of, [2]
• Tarboro Building and Loan Association, [15]-[16]
• Tarboro Male Academy, Cheshire attends, [5], [7], [13]
• Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, [42]
• Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, [3]
• Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., Cheshire enters, [8]-[9];
  • graduates from, [11]-[12];
  • confers degree on Cheshire, [93];
  • Cheshire visits, [124]
• Tryon, N. C., [56]
• "Tuttle Prize," Cheshire wins, [11]

• U
• University of North Carolina, [5], [6], [8], [19], [87];
  • confers degree on Cheshire, [93]
• University of the South, Cheshire made trustee of, [39]-[40];
  • Cheshire's son attends, [87];
  • confers degree on Cheshire, [93]

• V
• Valle Crucis, Cheshire revives work at, [56]-[57], [59]

• W
• Watauga County, missions in, [57]-[58]
• Watauga River, [56], [77]
• Watson, Bishop Alfred A., [25], [53]
• Webb, Annie Huske, Cheshire meets, [16];
  • marries Cheshire, [17];
  • death of, [67]
• Weed, Bishop Edwin G., [53]
• Weeks, Stephen B., [49] n.
• West Indies, Archbishop of, [113]
• Wetmore, Rev. George B., [34]
• Whipple, Bishop Henry B., [47]
• Wilkes, John, [27]-[28], [32]
• Wilkes, Mrs. John, [42]-[43]
• Wilkinson, Frank S., [5], [7]-[8]
• Williams, Bishop John, [10]-[11]
• Wilson, President Woodrow, [115]
• Winchester, Rev. J. R., [47]
• Windsor, N. C., [3]
• Winston, Professor George T., [22]

• Y
• York, Archbishop of, Cheshire visits, [68]