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Graves, Anson Rogers

clergyman, bishop, was born April 13, 1842, in Wells, Vt. When five years of age he moved with his parents to Illinois; received the rudiments of his education in the common schools; and subsequently graduated from the Rutland high school and Hobart college.

In his junior year he took both the White and Cobb essay prizes. After graduating in 1866 he studied law and taught school; but after two years he entered the General Theological seminary. After twelve years of work as a clergyman in the episcopal church in parishes east and west, he became rector of the Gethsemane church of Minneapolis, Minn.; and in 1890 was consecrated missionary bishop of western Nebraska. He has received the degrees of S. T. D. and