Edward Robert Atwill

The Right Reverend Edward Robert Atwill
Bishop of West Missouri
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	West Missouri
Elected	1890
In office	1890-1911
Successor	Sidney Catlin Partridge
Orders
Ordination	April 1, 1865 by Horatio Potter
Consecration	October 14, 1890 by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle
Personal details
Born	(1840-02-18)February 18, 1840 Red Hook, New York, U.S.
Died	January 24, 1911(1911-01-24) (aged 70) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Buried	Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Denomination	Episcopalian
Parents	Robert Edward & Margaret E. Atwill
Spouse	Mary Whiting ​ (m. 1864)​
Children	7, including Douglass H. Atwill

Edward Robert Atwill (February 18, 1840 – January 24, 1911) was first bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City, serving from 1890 to 1911.

Early life and education

Atwill was born on February 18, 1840, in Red Hook, New York, the only son of Robert Edward and Margaret E. Atwill. He was home schooled until he attended Columbia College from where he graduated in 1862. He also studied at the General Theological Seminary, earning a Bachelor of Divinity in 1864. He was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the University of Vermont in 1882.[1]

Ordained ministry

Atwill was ordained deacon on July 3, 1864, by Bishop Horatio Potter of New York, and priest by the same prelate on April 1, 1865. He served his diaconate year as curate at St Luke's Church in New York, and then in 1865 became rector of St Paul's Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[2] He was also for a time curate to the Bishop of Vermont, stationed at St Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont, while in 1867 he was appointed rector of that church. From 1882 until 1890 he was rector of Trinity Church in Toledo, Ohio.[3]

Bishop

In 1890 Atwill was elected as the first Bishop of West Missouri and was consecrated bishop on October 14, 1890, by Presiding Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle.[4] He remained in office until his death on January 24, 1911. He was buried at Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City.[5]

References

1. "Edward Robert Atwill". The Episcopate in America: 325. 1895.
2. "ATWILL, Edward Robert". Men of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries: 85. 1908.
3. "Bishop Atwill". Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People 1800-1908: 473. 1908.
4. The Living Church Annual 1944, pgs. 380-381
5. "Death of the Rt. Rev. Edward R. Atwill, D.D." The Living Church. 44: 462. February 4, 1911.

External links

•  Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Atwill, Edward Robert". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 162.