,transcriber's ,note3    ,obvious       
printer errors have been corrected4     
,hyphenation has been  rationalised4    
,small capitals have been replaced by   
full capitals4 ,italics are  indicated  
by underscores4           ,bishop       
,joseph ,blount ,cheshire               
,photograph by ,bayard ,wootten         
,,bishop ,,joseph ,,blount ,,cheshire   
,from a portrait by ,mrs4 ,arthur ,nash1
 in the possession of ,miss ,sarah      
,cheshire1 ,raleigh1 ,north ,carolina4  
,bishop   ,,joseph ,,blount ,,cheshire  
,his ,life and ,work     ,,by ,,lawrence
 ,,foushee ,,london1 ,,ph4,d4           
,historiographer of the ,diocese of     
,north ,carolina     ,chapel ,hill      
,,the ,,university ,,of ,,north         
,,carolina ,,press   #aida              
,,copyright1 #aida1   ,,by ,,the        
,,university ,,of ,,north ,,carolina    
,,press       ,,designed ,,by ,,stefan  
,,salter   ,,manufactured ,,in ,,the    
,,united ,,states ,,of ,,america   ,,by 
,,the ,,american ,,book-,,stratford     

,,press1 ,,inc41 ,,new ,,york           
,foreword    ,by ,,edwin ,a4 ,,penick1  
,bishop of ,north ,carolina      ,one of
 the many characteristics for which     
,bishop ,cheshire is remembered  by his 
friends and admirers was his            
uncompromising adherence to the last    
letter of truth4 ,an inaccurate or      
careless remark often brought forth     
from him a startling correction4 ,his   
own historical papers were loyal to     
such facts as patient research could    
discover4 ,his official documents  were 
models of lucidity and precision4 ,his  
counsel was penetrating and  true and   
bracing like fresh air in a stuffy room4
 ,his conversation1  particularly when  
he was describing the very human traits 
of men and  women he had known1 was full
 of delightful surprises because of his 
breathtaking forthrightness4 ,he even   
carried in his pocketbook an exact      
paper pattern of a huge mountain trout  
he once caught as documentary  evidence 
of his best fish story4    ,this        

characteristic of ,bishop ,cheshire must
 have been in the author's  mind when he
 wrote the following pages4 ,i believe  
that the good ,bishop  would approve    
this biography for its restraint and    
disciplined  faithfulness to the record 
of a true life4     ,ravenscroft        
,raleigh1 ,north ,carolina   ,february  
#aj1 #aida4          ,preface      ,from
 my earliest memories ,i can recall the 
annual visits of ,bishop  ,cheshire to  
the home of my parents4 ,as very young  
boys my brothers and ,i  were fond of   
looking at him1 for with his flowing    
white beard and rather  stocky figure1  
he appeared a perfect embodiment of     
,santa ,claus4 ,he  readily gained our  
confidence with his frank and open      
manner and his  keen understanding of   
the sort of things children were        
interested in4 ,as  ,i grew older he won
 my complete affection and admiration4  
,with his many  relatives and friends   
throughout ,north ,carolina1 ,i felt    
particularly  honored when he wrote me  

letters from ,england during his visit  
there in  #aibj4 ,the multiplicity of   
such personal attentions was one of his 
characteristics which gained for him the
 lasting affection of his  people4      
,although ,i have felt inadequate to the
 task of writing ,bishop ,cheshire's    
life1 ,i have found the work a labor of 
love and a distinct privilege4  ,some   
persons will undoubtedly be disappointed
 that more stories of and  about the    
,bishop have not been included4 ,the use
 of many of his  anecdotes has          
purposefully been avoided1 since most of
 them are much  more delightfully told  
by the ,bishop himself in his charming  
volume of  reminiscences1 ,nonnulla4 ,my
 primary object has been to present his 
accomplishments as deacon1 priest1 and  
bishop4 ,his work in these periods  of  
his career merits preservation in some  
permanent form for its own  sake as well
 as for the benefit of future churchmen4
 ,also1 an attempt  has been made to    
portray the ,bishop's dynamic           

personality and its  striking influence 
upon the character of his work and of   
his human  contacts4    ,i wish to      
gratefully acknowledge the kind         
assistance given me by ,mr4  ,joseph ,b4
 ,cheshire1 ,miss ,sarah ,cheshire1 and 
,mr4 ,james ,w4 ,cheshire in  reading   
this work and for the generous loan of  
invaluable manuscripts4 ,i  also wish to
 express my appreciation to my wife1    
,emily ,dewey1 for her  untiring help in
 criticizing and reworking the          
manuscript1 and to ,bishop  ,edwin      
,anderson ,penick and ,rev4 ,alfred ,s4 
,lawrence for reading the work4         
,lawrence ,f4 ,london     ,chapel ,hill1
 ,north ,carolina   ,december #a1 #aidj4
          ,contents                     
,,page         ,,foreword1 ,,by ,,bishop
 ,,edwin ,a4 ,,penick                   
v         ,,preface                     
vii    ,,chapter       ,i ,,youth ,,and 
,,manhood                               
#a      ,,ii ,,deacon ,,and ,,priest    
#ah     ,,iii ,,saint ,,peter',s        

,,parish                                
#bg      ,,iv ,,election ,,to ,,the     
,,episcopate                            
#df       ,v ,,first ,,years ,,in ,,the 
,,episcopacy                            
#ee      ,,vi ,,man ,,and ,,bishop      
#gg     ,,vii ,,historian               
#hh    ,,viii ,,work ,,among ,,the      
,,colored ,,people                      
#ii      ,,ix ,,development ,,and       
,,conclusions ,,of ,,the ,,bishop',s    
,,work                #aji              
,,notes                                 
#abg         ,,published ,,writings ,,of
 ,,joseph ,,blount ,,cheshire           
#aca         ,,index                    
#ace          ,,chapter ,i    ,youth and
 ,manhood      ,it was eleven o'clock   
one morning in the middle of ,september1
 #ahfi1 when  ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire 
stepped into a classroom to teach a     
course in  ,latin4 ,before him sat six  
boys1 several of them older than        
himself4 ,he  was only nineteen years   
old1 and he was about to begin his first

 job4  ,the school was ,st4 ,clement's  
,hall at ,ellicott ,city1 ,maryland1 and
 the  assignment for that day was one in
 ,sallust4 ,about all young ,cheshire   
could recall of that particular passage 
was its being one of the most  difficult
 he had ever tried to translate4 ,he was
 faced with the  alternative of bluffing
 his way through or frankly confessing  
to the  boys that he was thoroughly     
unprepared to teach the assignment4 ,so1
  boldly facing his class1 he declared3 
,young gentlemen1 it is many years      
since ,i last looked into ,sallust1 and 
this passage1 ,caesar's speech1 ,i      
remember as the most difficult passage  
in this book4 ,i am not prepared  to    
deal with it today1 but ,i will endeavor
 to be ready for you  tomorrow4    ,this
 was a rule of life which he followed   
consistently1 to deal frankly  and      
honestly with every situation1 no matter
 what it might cost him  personally4    
,complete fearlessness was one of       
,bishop ,cheshire's most  pronounced    

characteristics4 ,in his announced views
 on public questions1  in the           
administration of his diocese1 and in   
his historical writings1  his courage   
was often manifested4 ,his was not1     
however1 a character  which could be    
described in a few striking phrases4    
,the man can best be  understood by     
observing his deeds as they developed   
from early youth  until the end of a    
long life of four score and two years4  
,in the mid-nineteenth century the quiet
 little town of ,tarboro1 ,north        
,carolina1 was like many other small    
towns to be found in the ,old ,south4   
,it was one of the oldest places in the 
state1 having been founded in the       
colonial period and given the           
distinction of a borough town4 ,tarboro 
contained a fairly large number of old  
established families and a few  persons 
of some prominence in the state4 ,not   
the least of these was the  ,rev4       
,joseph ,blount ,cheshire1 ,rector of   
,calvary ,episcopal ,church1 a man  who 

exemplified in his life and work the    
best traditions of the  ,episcopal      
clergy4    ,dr4 ,cheshire came of an old
 ,north ,carolina family which for      
several  generations had lived in the   
,albemarle section4 ,one of his         
ancestors was  ,joseph ,blount1 who was 
a member of the first vestry of ,st4    
,paul's  parish1 ,edenton4 ,his parents1
 ,john ,cheshire and ,elizabeth ,blount1
 lived  in ,edenton1 where he was born  
in ,december1 #ahad4 ,he received his   
education at the ,edenton ,academy and  
at the ,episcopal ,school for ,boys4    
,the latter school had just been founded
 by ,bishop ,ives and was located  in   
,raleigh on the site where now stands   
,st4 ,mary's ,junior ,college4 ,after   
completing his course at the ,episcopal 
,school1 he took up the study of  law in
 ,raleigh under the supervision of      
,thomas ,p4 ,devereux4 ,in #ahcf he  was
 admitted to the bar1 but he evidently  
did not find the law congenial  to his  
tastes1 for he soon abandoned it4 ,he   

decided to enter the  ministry1 and in  
#ahch began his studies for that field  
of work under the  direction of ,bishop 
,ives4    ,during his preparation for   
the ministry he made the acquaintance of
 the  botanist and clergyman1 ,dr4 ,m4  
,ashley ,curtis4 ,the interest which    
,dr4  ,curtis stimulated in him for     
plants and flowers bore abundant fruit4 
,the  beautiful grounds surrounding     
,calvary ,church stand today as a living
  expression of his love for flowers and
 shrubs4    ,by ,february1 #ahdj1 ,dr4  
,cheshire had advanced sufficiently far 
in his  theological studies to be       
ordained deacon by ,bishop ,ives4 ,the  
,bishop  placed him in charge of the    
parishes at ,halifax and ,windsor4 ,the 
next  year he was ordained priest and   
was given ,calvary ,church1 ,tarboro1 in
  addition to his other work4 ,shortly  
after taking over this work he          
organized a mission at ,scotland ,neck1 
which in time became ,trinity  parish4  
,three parishes and a mission was a     

large assignment for a young  clergyman1
 but ,dr4 ,cheshire was not daunted by  
the extent of his duties4  ,from the    
first his chief interest was in the work
 at ,tarboro4 ,in  consequence of this  
and the desire of the ,calvary ,church  
people for more  of his time1 he gave up
 the church at ,halifax in #ahdh and the
 one at  ,windsor the following year4   
,he retained his work at ,scotland      
,neck1  however1 until #ahfi4 ,his      
pastorate at ,calvary ,church continued 
for more  than half a century4 ,during  
this long rectorship a beautiful new    
church  was built1 to which he himself  
contributed generously4    ,dr4         
,cheshire will probably be best         
remembered in the history of the        
,american ,episcopal ,church for the    
part he played in healing the breach    
between the northern and southern       
branches of the church following the    
close of the ,civil ,war4 ,he waged a   
determined fight in the diocesan        
convention of #ahfe to send deputies to 

the ,general ,convention to be held     
that fall in ,philadelphia4 ,the        
advocates of reconciliation were        
successful1 and ,dr4 ,cheshire was      
elected one of the deputies to the      
,general ,convention4 ,at ,philadelphia 
he used all his influence in helping  to
 bring about the reunion of the church4 
,two years after he took charge of      
,calvary parish1 ,dr4 ,cheshire was     
married to ,elizabeth ,toole ,parker1   
daughter of ,theophilus ,parker1 his    
senior warden1 and ,mary ,toole ,parker4
 ,the next most important event in  his 
life was the birth of his son and       
namesake1 ,joseph ,blount1 who was  born
 on ,march #bg1 #ahej4 ,in the course of
 time ,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,cheshire had  five
 other children1 ,theophilus ,parker1   
,john1 ,elizabeth1 ,annie ,gray1 and    
,katherine ,drane4 ,john and ,elizabeth1
 however1 died in their second year4    
,joseph ,blount was born in the house   
built many years before by his          
grandfather1 ,theophilus ,parker4 ,his  

father and mother had lived in it  since
 their marriage and had come into its   
possession after the death of  his      
grandfather4 ,when ,joseph was born his 
parents' household consisted  of        
themselves1 his grandmother1 an aunt1   
and two cousins4 ,with the  subsequent  
births of his brothers and sisters his  
family was indeed a  large one4 ,the    
give and take of a large family probably
 played some part  in the development of
 the tolerant and unselfish character   
which so  distinguished him in manhood4 
,young ,cheshire received his earliest  
education under the direction of  his   
mother1 who taught him reading1 writing1
 and something about  numbers4 ,he did  
not attend a formal school until he was 
nine years old4  ,however1 he found     
himself to be quite as far advanced in  
the knowledge  of books as the most     
forward of his companions4 ,the school  
he first  attended in ,tarboro was      
taught by ,rev4 and ,mrs4 ,owen4 ,it was
 while  attending this school that he   

and ,richard ,lewis met one another and 
formed a friendship which grew and      
continued for more than three-score     
years4    ,in the fall of #ahfa         
,cheshire entered the ,tarboro ,male    
,academy1 whose  sole teacher at that   
time was ,mr4 ,frank ,s4 ,wilkinson1 a  
graduate of the  ,university of ,north  
,carolina4 ,in this school ,wilkinson   
took boys of  every age1 from beginners 
to those preparing for college4         
,cheshire later  tells us that          
,wilkinson was devoted to the profession
 of teaching1  laboring faithfully to   
interest his pupils1 and give them the  
best that  he had himself4 ,the school  
usually numbered between thirty and     
thirty-five boys1 but when it included  
as many as forty1 ,wilkinson  engaged an
 assistant4 ,during ,cheshire's         
attendance at the ,academy1 ,mr4        
,william ,henry ,johnston was employed  
as an assistant4 ,he was also a         
graduate of the ,university and1 as     
,cheshire says1 a very good scholar     

after the standards of the day4 ,in this
 small school1 which never  boasted more
 than two teachers at any one time1     
,joseph ,cheshire prepared  himself for 
college4    ,since the summer climate of
 ,tarboro did not agree with ,dr4       
,cheshire's  health1 he purchased in    
#ahej a home in ,franklin ,county1 about
 four miles  from ,louisburg4 ,this     
place was named ,monreath and on it     
stood an old1  well-built house         
surrounded by one hundred and sixty     
acres of land4 ,here  the ,cheshires    
spent their summers4 ,these pleasant    
vacations at ,monreath  caused ,joseph  
to lose about two months of school each 
year1 since the  fall term began the    
middle of ,july4 ,therefore1 in the     
summer of #ahfd he  asked his father if 
he could not attend the ,louisburg      
,academy from ,july  to ,september4 ,his
 father readily agreed1 and each day    
young ,cheshire  walked the four miles  
into ,louisburg to conjugate ,latin     
verbs and pursue  the other fields of   

learning which made up the curriculum of
 the average  classical school of that  
day4    ,during the ,civil ,war the     
,cheshires did not suffer from          
molestation by  the enemy or from severe
 deprivation as did many southern       
families4 ,they  gave shelter and       
comfort to many refugees from the       
eastern part of the  state1 which was   
occupied by federal troops4 ,writing of 
his impressions  of the war years1      
,cheshire observed3 ,it is strange that 
almost all my  memories of those        
tragical days seem to be of bright and  
happy  experiences4 ,i do not remember  
any atmosphere of gloom or depression4  
,the spirit of all was brave and        
buoyant4#a ,the abolition of slavery    
did not greatly affect the economic     
status of his family1 since his  father 
owned only a few domestic servants whom 
he had inherited4    ,cheshire's        
religious education began1 of course1 at
 home4 ,every ,sunday  afternoon he and 
his brother stood before their mother   

with the ,negro  children and repeated  
their assigned part of the catechism4   
,he did not  attend ,sunday school until
 after he had learned all the catechism1
 that  is1 all but the ,desire4 ,he     
later remarked that he never learned it 
so  as not to forget it1 and that it was
 the only thing he ever tried to        
remember and failed4    ,by the fall of 
#ahfe ,cheshire was ready to enter      
college4 ,it had been  originally       
planned that he should go to the        
,university of ,north  ,carolina4 ,but  
when the time arrived his father did not
 have the money to  send him4 ,dr4      
,cheshire1 however1 had already decided 
not to send his son  to the state       
,university2 he did not think the       
environment there would be  suitable for
 a boy of fifteen1 for a good many young
 soldiers1 fresh  from the careless life
 of the army1 were entering the         
,university that  fall4 ,cheshire's best
 friend1 ,dick ,lewis1 and several      
others of his  class-mates went in the  

fall of #ahfe to ,mr4 ,graves' school in
 ,granville  ,county4 ,he was left in a 
class by himself at the ,tarboro        
,academy1 where  he continued his       
studies under the direction of ,mr4     
,wilkinson4    ,during this period of   
study at the ,academy ,cheshire wrote an
 amusing and  original essay on the     
subject of honesty4 ,launching into his 
subject  with the statement that there  
had already been so much written upon it
  that it was about worn out1 he        
declared that he chose the topic for    
want  of a better one4 ,this            
introduction was succeeded by the       
following3     ,i have been thinking for
 a long time what else to say about     
',honesty1'   but can't think of a      
single thing which some other boy has   
not said in   his composition since ,i  
have been going to school3 and ,i think 
that ,i   had better practice what ,i   
have here attempted to preach1 and tell 
you1   ,mr4 ,wilkinson1 that it is      
,monday morning1 and that composition   

never   entered into my head ,saturday1 
and so you need not expect much4        
,instead   of a composition ,i will give
 you an account of my doings ,saturday  
evening1 which ,i hope you will take as 
an equivalent4    ,cheshire then gave an
 interesting description of a delightful
 horseback  ride he had had with a young
 lady4 ,he concluded his essay by       
saying3 ,i  hope this will be taken as a
 composition4 ,if it is not ,i hope you 
will  return it as there is enough clean
 paper on it to write another one4#b    
,the composition is not only worth      
quoting for its originality1 but also   
because it brings out a pronounced      
characteristic of the later man4        
,complete honesty with himself as well  
as others1 under all conditions1  was   
one of his most outstanding qualities4  
,joseph continued his studies under ,mr4
 ,wilkinson until ,february1 #ahff4  ,by
 that time ,dr4 ,cheshire had secured   
sufficient funds with which to  send his
 son to college4 ,he was still opposed  

to sending him to the  ,university for  
the reason already mentioned and because
 he felt the fate  of that institution  
at the time was most uncertain4 ,he     
decided1  therefore1 to send ,joseph to 
,trinity ,college at ,hartford1         
,connecticut4  ,trinity was an excellent
 school1 under the management of the    
church1 and  ,dr4 ,cheshire was         
personally acquainted with its          
president4    ,before his son left home 
for college1 ,dr4 ,cheshire told him    
that he must  decide while in school    
what he wished to do for his life's     
work4 ,he  explained that since he had  
other children to educate1 he would not 
be  able to help him after graduation4  
,his father went on to say that it      
would be a great happiness to him if his
 son should decide to go into  the      
ministry1 but that was something he must
 determine for himself4  ,cheshire later
 remarked that this was the only time in
 his memory that  his father ever spoke 
to him of the possibility of making the 

ministry  his life's work4    ,in late  
,february of #ahff young ,cheshire left 
home for ,hartford4 ,an  inexperienced  
boy1 having traveled little beyond his  
section of the  state1 he now set out to
 enter a strange school among people    
with whom1  less than a year ago1 his   
people had been at war4 ,such a prospect
 would  have filled an older heart with 
trepidation4 ,he traveled as far as ,new
  ,york with a stranger who had been in 
,tarboro on business1 and from  thence  
he went alone to ,hartford4    ,cheshire
 was allowed to enter the ,freshman     
class with conditions only in  ,greek   
and ,latin composition1 which was a     
tribute to the work done under  ,mr4    
,wilkinson that fall4 ,he learned upon  
arriving at school that he was  the     
first man from the ,confederate ,states 
to enter ,trinity since the  close of   
the war4 ,he was treated kindly by his  
fellow students1 and  never complained  
of any hostility or unfriendliness on   
the part of the  northern boys4 ,his    

closest friends1 however1 were among a  
group of  students from ,maryland4      
,shortly after he entered college1 his  
father wrote to ,president ,kerfoot     
asking him to suggest someone on the    
faculty who would be willing to act  as 
an advisor and friend to his son4 ,dr4  
,kerfoot proposed ,rev4 ,william  ,w4   
,niles1 ,professor of ,latin at         
,trinity1 who gladly took ,cheshire     
under  his care4 ,in time the two became
 fast friends4 ,professor ,niles and his
  wife often entertained him and always 
made him feel at home in their  house4  
,under ,professor ,niles' direction     
,cheshire was prepared for              
confirmation1 and in ,may1 #ahff1 he was
 confirmed in the college chapel4  ,in  
later years he said of the ,nileses3 ,i 
can never be sufficiently  grateful to  
,professor ,niles and his good wife4444 
,i enjoyed from that  time--from my     
,freshman days in college to the end of 
their lives1 the  friendship and        
confidence of these most admirable      

people4#c    ,dr4 ,cheshire had a good  
deal of difficulty in maintaining his   
son at  college4 ,the years immediately 
following the war were hard ones for    
almost all southerners1 and the         
,cheshire family was no exception4 ,when
  ,cheshire came home for the ,christmas
 holidays of #ahfg1 his father told  him
 that he would be unable to send him    
back to college4 ,he accepted  this     
decision as final1 and wrote his        
roommate1 ,robert ,f4 ,bixby1 that he   
was not returning to college after the  
holidays4 ,not long afterwards1  ,dr4   
,cheshire received a letter from        
,professor ,pynchon1 a member of the    
,trinity faculty1 who informed him that 
a friend1 who wished to withhold  his   
name1 would be happy to advance the     
necessary money for his son's  monthly  
board if that would be sufficient to    
make his return to college  possible4   
,after talking the matter over with his 
son1 ,dr4 ,cheshire  accepted the       
generous offer1 since he believed he    

would be able to repay  the full amount 
by the end of #ahfh4 ,in this way young 
,cheshire was able  to resume his work  
at ,trinity1 receiving each month       
through ,dr4 ,pynchon  the money for his
 board4 ,as he had anticipated1 ,dr4    
,cheshire was able to  repay the whole  
debt at the end of #ahfh4 ,although he  
never knew1  ,cheshire suspected that   
the money1 so badly needed at the time1 
came  from the father of his friend1    
,robert ,bixby4    ,during his first two
 years at ,trinity1 ,cheshire had come  
to know ,rev4  ,john ,williams1 ,bishop 
of ,connecticut and one-time ,presiding 
,bishop of  the ,episcopal ,church1 who 
often visited the college4 ,when school 
closed  in ,june1 #ahfh1 ,cheshire found
 that he was not financially able to go 
home for the summer vacation1 and that  
he would have to remain in  ,hartford4  
,bishop ,williams heard of his plans and
 thereupon invited him  to his old home 
in ,deerfield1 ,massachusetts1 for a    
month4 ,the ,bishop  said that he could 

serve as his secretary1 and on this     
condition  ,cheshire gladly accepted the
 invitation4 ,as it turned out1 he had  
very  little to do4 ,he spent the month 
most delightfully1 meeting many         
interesting people and visiting near-by 
historical places4 ,after leaving       
,bishop ,williams1 he spent a pleasant  
month in ,maryland visiting two of  his 
college friends4 ,thus most of the      
summer passed rapidly1 and he  returned 
to ,hartford greatly refreshed1 ready to
 begin the last year of  his collegiate 
work4    ,while at ,trinity ,cheshire   
became a member of the ,phi ,kappa      
fraternity1  now the ,alpha ,delta ,phi4
 ,he was the only member of his class   
who  belonged to this fraternity4       
,consequently1 ,cheshire modestly       
explains1  whenever an honor fell to a  
,phi ,kappa of his class he was the only
 one  to receive it4 ,whether this was  
the reason or not1 he was made president
  of the ,senior class1 and was elected 
a marshal for the commencement of       

#ahfh4 ,as for class and college prizes1
 he never entered a contest until  his  
last year4 ,at this time he entered the 
competition for the ,tuttle  ,prize1    
which was an award of thirty dollars for
 the best essay by a  senior on a       
subject to be chosen by the faculty4    
,the topic selected for  ,cheshire's    
class was ,the ,causes of the ,french   
,revolution4 ,cheshire  submitted a     
paper of forty-eight foolscap pages4    
,much to his  gratification1 and        
somewhat to his surprise1 his essay won 
the prize4  ,with the money he purchased
 ,pratt's ,complete ,works of ,bishop   
,hall in  ten volumes as a gift for his 
father4 ,for himself he bought a set of 
,chaucer's works in eight volumes and a 
few other books4 ,indeed1 he seems  to  
have made his prize money go far and to 
much advantage4    ,in ,june1 #ahfi1    
,cheshire's college days came to a      
close4 ,during his three  and one-half  
years at ,trinity he made many close    
friendships which  continued throughout 

his life4 ,he was not an outstanding    
student1 but  did creditably in all his 
courses4 ,at the commencement exercises 
he  delivered an original address1 which
 was required of all graduates4 ,he     
chose as the subject of his senior      
oration ,the ,strength of ,republican   
,governments1 a topic characteristic of 
that period4 ,cheshire had been         
influenced in the choice of this subject
 by ,de ,tocqueville's ,democracy  in   
,america1 in which he had become        
interested4 ,following his graduation   
he returned to ,north ,carolina1 where  
he spent the summer of #ahfi with  his  
family at ,monreath4 ,this was his last 
long vacation4 ,he was soon to  take    
over his first position and to begin    
earning for the remainder of  his life  
his own way4    ,in the course of       
graduation week at ,trinity1 ,cheshire  
had the good  fortune of making the     
acquaintance of ,rev4 ,john ,avery      
,shepherd of  ,maryland4 ,dr4 ,shepherd 
had organized a few years before a      

private  school1 which he called ,st4   
,clement's ,hall1 at ,ellicott ,city    
near  ,baltimore4 ,being favorably      
impressed with ,cheshire's personality  
and his  record at ,trinity1 ,dr4       
,shepherd offered him a position in his 
school  teaching ,latin and ,greek for  
the scholastic year #ahfi-gj4 ,his      
salary was  to be six hundred dollars a 
year in addition to board and lodging4  
,cheshire gladly accepted the position1 
since he wished no longer to be a       
burden on his father4 ,his younger      
brother was then ready to enter  college
 and was only waiting for him to finish4
    ,in the middle of ,september        
,cheshire left ,monreath to take up his 
duties  at ,st4 ,clement's ,hall4       
,before he left home his father gave him
 fifty  dollars to aid him until he     
should receive a part of his salary4    
,this  was the last time he ever gave   
him any money1 that is1 from a feeling  
of  responsibility for his son's        
support4    ,at ,st4 ,clement's         

,cheshire was given all the upper       
classes in ,latin and  ,greek1 and in   
addition taught some arithmetic and     
algebra4 ,in  consequence of his rather 
poor beginning in ,latin and ,greek at  
the  ,tarboro ,academy1 he never became 
a scholar in these fields4 ,while       
teaching ,latin he became more          
interested in this subject and read     
rather  widely in ,tacitus and other    
,latin authors4 ,in the course of his   
busy  life of teaching he found time to 
continue a kind of study of  ,blackstone
 which he had begun in his senior year  
at ,trinity4 ,he also  read through     
,kent's ,commentaries and a good deal of
 ,english poetry4    ,cheshire came to  
know a number of people in the          
neighborhood of the  school who helped  
to make his life at ,st4 ,clement's more
 interesting and  pleasant4 ,he spent a 
good many week-ends in ,baltimore with  
some of his  ,trinity friends4 ,when his
 oldest and best friend1 ,richard       
,lewis1 came to  ,baltimore to study    

medicine in the fall of #ahgj1 his      
visits became more  frequent4 ,on the   
whole1 his life at ,st4 ,clement's was  
happy1 and the  experience he gained1   
worth while4 ,he never1 however1 became 
fond of  teaching1 but he enjoyed his   
students and took a warm personal       
interest  in them4 ,after two years at  
,st4 ,clement's he decided to abandon   
teaching  for the law profession1 which 
he thought would be more congenial to   
his  tastes4    ,when ,cheshire returned
 to ,north ,carolina in ,june1 #ahga1 he
 went with his  family to ,hillsboro to 
spend the summer4 ,here he began the    
study of law  under the eminent lawyer1 
,william ,k4 ,ruffin1 son of ,chief     
,justice ,thomas  ,ruffin1 who coached  
law students since he was too crippled  
to do much  active practice4 ,ruffin was
 a devotee of the common law and always 
gave his students a thorough drilling in
 it4 ,he made ,cheshire devote  almost  
all the summer to the study of ,second  
,blackstone and ,cruise's  ,real        

,property4 ,when he left ,hillsboro in  
,september1 ,ruffin made him  promise   
that he would secure an old folio       
edition of ,coke's  ,commentaries on    
,littleton and read it carefully4 ,some 
time later  ,cheshire bought a copy of  
this work in ,baltimore and read it from
 cover  to cover as he had promised4 ,he
 once remarked that he believed he was  
the last man in ,north ,carolina to have
 completely read the old folio  edition4
 ,cheshire found ,mr4 ,william ,ruffin a
 most interesting man as  well as a     
stimulating and helpful teacher4#d      
,upon returning to ,tarboro ,cheshire   
continued his study of law1 now in  the 
office of ,howard and ,perry4 ,in this  
office he read law1 for he  says that   
,judge ,george ,howard would not agree  
to give him any  instruction4 ,cheshire1
 however1 maintained that he learned    
much law from  ,judge ,howard1 and a    
good deal of sound practical wisdom4    
,after his summer's work under ,william 
,ruffin and some three months'  study in

 ,judge ,howard's office1 ,cheshire was 
ready to try for his  license4 ,on      
,january #a1 #ahgb1 he went to ,raleigh 
to be examined by the  ,supreme ,court  
,justices4 ,it was an oral test and1 in 
,cheshire's own  words1 was a very      
slight and superficial examination in   
comparison  with those given today4 ,the
 day after the examination he was       
informed  that he had passed and was    
granted his license4    ,shortly        
afterwards ,george ,g4 ,hooper1 a       
,trinity ,college friend1 wrote         
,cheshire to come to ,baltimore and join
 him in a law partnership4 ,he did  not 
particularly care to leave ,north       
,carolina1 but he feared if he  remained
 he might be a burden on his father     
while establishing himself4  ,he        
accordingly accepted ,hooper's offer1   
and the two men formed a  partnership   
under the firm name of ,hooper and      
,cheshire4 ,hooper agreed to  pay him a 
salary for the first year1 at the end of
 which time they would  make a new      

agreement4    ,cheshire had not been in 
the office long before he learned that  
,hooper  had little real law practice4  
,his work was almost entirely confined  
to  drawing up conveyances and examining
 land titles4 ,after some fifteen       
months of this sort of work1 ,cheshire  
realized there was little future  for   
him in such a partnership4 ,it was1     
therefore1 with much pleasure  that he  
received1 in ,may1 #ahgc1 a letter from 
his friend1 ,john ,l4  ,bridgers1 ,jr41 
asking him to return to ,tarboro and    
join him and his  father1 ,colonel ,john
 ,l4 ,bridgers1 in the practice of law4 
,cheshire  readily accepted this        
proposal1 and the following month came  
back to  ,north ,carolina where he was  
to make his home for the remainder of   
his  life4    ,cheshire was happy to be 
living in ,tarboro once again with his  
family  and among his old friends4 ,thus
 was formed the firm of ,bridgers1      
,cheshire1 and ,bridgers4 ,this         
connection continued until ,january1    

#ahge1  at which time ,cheshire was     
offered the position of secretary and   
treasurer of the ,pamlico ,banking and  
,insurance ,company1 a corporation      
organized to solicit fire insurance4 ,he
 accepted the offer because it  gave him
 an office and a small salary and did   
not interfere with his law  practice4   
,the company's business was not         
extensive1 and required only a  few     
hours of his time each day4 ,while      
holding this position he was also       
treasurer of the ,tarboro ,building and 
,loan ,association4 ,again this  office 
demanded little of his time1 merely     
requiring that he receive the  money    
from the secretary weekly and pay it out
 upon his order4    ,cheshire continued 
the practice of law until the early part
 of #ahgh4 ,in  summing up his work at  
the bar1 he observed3 ,i made a living  
and saved  a few hundred dollars4 ,i had
 no very interesting or important cases1
 so  far as ,i recall4#e ,during his    
last year of practice1 however1 he made 

a little over fifteen hundred dollars1  
which1 for a young lawyer of that       
period1 was doing quite well4    ,since 
leaving ,st4 ,clement's ,hall in ,june1 
#ahga1 ,cheshire had not by any  means  
devoted all of his time and thought to  
the study and practice of  law4 ,he     
accomplished a great deal more in the   
summer of #ahga than the  study of      
common law under ,mr4 ,william ,k4      
,ruffin4 ,it was then that he  renewed  
his acquaintance with his cousin1 ,miss 
,annie ,huske ,webb1 who  lived in      
,hillsboro4 ,he had seen this cousin but
 little since her visit  to ,tarboro in 
,december1 #ahfe4 ,he always remembered 
the first time he saw  her upon her     
arrival in ,tarboro for that visit and  
described the meeting  thus3 ,when ,i   
looked at her1 as she came in out of the
 rain1 and lifted  the veil from her    
face1 ,i thought her the most beautiful 
person ,i had  ever seen4 ,i think that 
first impression was never effaced4#f   
,in the course of the summer spent in   

,hillsboro ,cheshire saw a good deal  of
 his cousin4 ,it was not long before he 
realized that he was in love  with her4 
,while not possessing a particularly    
romantic nature1 ,cheshire  was a man of
 deep emotions and fine sentiments4     
,during his courtship of  ,miss ,webb he
 composed for her this little poem3     
,a4 ,h4 ,w4      ,my ,love is a fair    
white ,lily1      ,and she loves not the
 day's full glare1    ,but she seeks out
 a quiet valley1      ,and she lifts up 
her sweet face there4    ,the blue      
heavens through the branches      ,look 
down with their kindly light2    ,and   
she smiles back a gentle greeting       
,when the stars look through at night4  
,the song-birds sing to her sweetly1    
,and she's rocked by the gentle breeze2 
,and she hides from the storms of       
,winter      ',midst the roots of the   
giant trees4    ,she peeps in the       
crystal streamlet1      ,as she nods in 
the breezes light3    ,and she knows not
 her own fair beauty1      ,but is glad 

that she's pure and white4#g    ,by     
,may1 #ahgb1 ,cheshire and ,annie ,huske
 ,webb were engaged2 but it was not     
until #ahgd that he felt he was         
financially able to marry4 ,on ,december
 #ag  of that year they were married in 
,st4 ,matthew's ,church1 ,hillsboro4    
,they  had a simple wedding with        
,richard ,lewis as his best man4 ,the   
following  day ,cheshire and his wife   
went to ,tarboro1 where for the next    
four years  they made their home with   
his family4    ,with this1 the greatest 
event in his life up to that time1 we   
close the  first phase of ,cheshire's   
career4 ,during the period he had grown 
to  manhood1 received his scholastic and
 collegiate education1 taught for  two  
years1 studied law and practiced it for 
six years1 and had some  little part in 
the business world4 ,all of this        
training and varied  experience gave him
 a rich background for the great work   
which lay ahead  of him4                
,,chapter ,,ii    ,deacon and ,priest   

,ever since he left college ,cheshire   
had been conscious of a growing  desire 
to become a candidate for ,holy ,orders4
 ,not long after his  marriage he spoke 
to his wife of this aspiration1 and told
 her he had  now decided to present     
himself to the ,bishop4 ,he had not come
 to this  decision earlier because he   
was determined not to go into the       
ministry  until he had made a success of
 what he was doing at that time4 ,he    
would  not enter the ministry as a      
failure from another field of work4 ,by 
the  middle of #ahgf he decided that he 
was making a respectable living for  his
 wife and himself4 ,he thereupon told   
his father of his decision and  sent    
,bishop ,atkinson his application4      
,shortly afterwards the ,bishop         
accepted him as a candidate for ,holy   
,orders1 and ,cheshire began  preparing 
himself for his new work4    ,it was    
,cheshire's original plan to attend the 
,general ,theological  ,seminary in ,new
 ,york for a year or two1 but ,bishop   

,atkinson and his  father dissuaded him 
from this course because they objected  
to the ,dean  of the ,seminary and      
because they felt that its ritualistic  
influences  were too strong4 ,bishop    
,atkinson thought that1 since ,cheshire 
had had a  good classical education1 had
 pursued intellectual interests1 and had
  been reared in a clergyman's family1  
he could quite adequately do his        
preparatory work at home4 ,cheshire     
accepted the ,bishop's advice1 and at   
once began a well laid-out course of    
reading4 ,he had already read a good    
many ecclesiastical works1 since he had 
been contemplating this step for  some  
time4    ,at the end of #ahgg he gave up
 his connection with the ,pamlico       
,insurance  and ,banking ,company1 and  
soon afterwards concluded his legal     
affairs4 ,in  ,september1 #ahgg1 he went
 to ,raleigh to stand his examinations  
for the  diaconate before ,rev4 ,dr4    
,matthias ,m4 ,marshall and ,rev4 ,john 
,e4 ,c4  ,smedes4 ,having passed his    

examinations acceptably1 ,cheshire was  
ordained  deacon by ,bishop ,atkinson on
 ,april #ba1 #ahgh1 in ,calvary ,church1
 ,tarboro4  ,his father presented him   
for ordination4 ,the following ,sunday  
he  assisted his father in the morning  
service and preached his first  sermon4 
,thus he was launched upon a new career 
in which he was to rise  to heights far 
beyond his modest dreams4    ,when ,dr4 
,kemp ,plummer ,battle1 ,president of   
the ,university of ,north  ,carolina1   
heard that ,cheshire was studying for   
the ministry1 he asked  ,bishop         
,atkinson to send him to ,chapel ,hill4 
,dr4 ,battle was a native of  ,edgecombe
 ,county and had known ,cheshire and his
 family for many years4  ,since the     
revival of the ,university in #ahge1    
,rev4 ,robert ,b4 ,sutton1 of           
,pittsboro1 had from time to time held  
services in the ,chapel of the  ,cross4 
,the ,chapel ,hill churchmen1 however1  
felt that the parish needed a  regular  
and resident minister4 ,the ,bishop     

complied with ,dr4 ,battle's  request   
and informed ,cheshire that he was to   
serve his diaconate in  ,chapel ,hill   
under the direction of ,dr4 ,sutton4    
,this was a disappointment  to          
,cheshire1 for he had hoped he would be 
able to remain in ,edgecombe  ,county   
and strengthen the church's position    
there4 ,the ,bishop also  directed him  
to hold a regular appointment in the    
rapidly growing town  of ,durham1 where 
as yet there was not even an established
 mission4 ,this  was a difficult        
assignment for a young deacon just      
beginning his  ministry4 ,in ,chapel    
,hill he had to revive an old parish    
which had fallen  somewhat into decay   
during the hard years of the            
reconstruction period1  while in ,durham
 he had to build from the ground up1    
commencing with only  a handful of      
church people4    ,cheshire came to     
,chapel ,hill in ,may1 and on the       
nineteenth of that month  held his first
 service in the ,chapel of the ,cross4  

,president ,battle  invited him to make 
his home at his house until he could    
find a suitable  place4 ,cheshire       
accepted this generous offer and spent  
several weeks  with the ,battles4 ,in   
consequence of a long illness1          
contracted soon  after his arrival1 he  
did not hold another service in ,chapel 
,hill until  the last ,sunday in ,june4 
,the next ,sunday he was able to keep   
his first  appointment in ,durham1 but  
following this service1 he had a serious
  relapse and was unable to continue his
 work until early fall4    ,for a few   
weeks that fall ,cheshire boarded at the
 hotel1 while his wife  visited her     
family in ,hillsboro4 ,this gave him an 
excellent opportunity  to come into     
close contact with the students1 many of
 whom took their  meals at the hotel4   
,in this way he came to know a number of
 students who  were not members of his  
church4 ,throughout his rectorship in   
,chapel ,hill  he made it a point to    
know all the students who were in any   

way  connected with the ,episcopal      
,church4 ,in a comparatively short time 
he  was on friendly terms with most of  
the small student body4    ,cheshire    
frankly confessed that in the first     
exercise of his ministerial  duties     
among the students he felt great        
embarrassment and even some  timidity4  
,he explained3 ,i had not been          
accustomed to speak much of my  own     
religious feelings2 and ,i was at a loss
 how to make a proper  approach to the  
subject of another person's religious   
duties and  convictions4#h ,he visited  
the boys in their rooms when he thought 
they  liked it1 but never sought to     
force himself upon them4 ,cheshire later
  declared he did not remember ever     
approaching a student on the subject  of
 religion without receiving a serious   
and courteous hearing4 ,many  students  
seemed to appreciate the interest he    
took in their religious  life4 ,cheshire
 himself was only a few years older than
 many of the  undergraduates and1       

therefore1 could understand their point 
of view and  enter sympathetically into 
their problems4 ,the effectiveness of   
his  first year's work in ,chapel ,hill 
was demonstrated when ,bishop ,lyman    
made  his visitation to the ,chapel of  
the ,cross in ,may1 #ahgi4 ,cheshire    
presented to the ,bishop for            
confirmation nine students and two girls
 of  the village4 ,in later years he    
remarked that this was one of the most  
interesting and satisfactory classes ,i 
ever presented4    ,when he first began 
preaching1 ,cheshire took great pains in
 the  preparation of his sermons1       
writing them out in full4 ,he freely    
admitted  he had no special gifts or    
talents as a speaker4 ,in discussing the
  problem of preaching with ,cheshire   
just after his ordination1 ,bishop      
,atkinson said he would give him the    
same advice which ,bishop ,johns1 of    
,virginia1 used to give his young       
deacons3 ,choose a pretty long text1 so 
that if they persecute you in one city1 

you may flee to another4  ,cheshire     
began1 in time1 to memorize his sermons 
and then to attempt to  preach          
extemporaneously1 but he always felt    
that his written sermons  were better4  
,concerning the reception of his sermons
 in ,chapel ,hill1 he  stated3 ,my      
,chapel ,hill congregation seemed to me 
most considerate and  appreciative of my
 attempts at preaching1 even the        
students of the  ,university1 so far as 
,i could judge4#i    ,in his            
congregation ,cheshire had some of the  
most distinguished members  of the      
,university faculty4 ,president ,battle 
was his senior warden and  sincere      
friend1 who gave him judicious praise as
 well as sound advice  as to the        
pitfalls which a young clergyman might  
expect to encounter4  ,dr4 ,j4 de       
,berniere ,hooper1 ,professor of ,greek1
 was in ,cheshire's  opinion1 the most  
scholarly and highly cultivated member  
of his  parish4 ,professors ,ralph      
,graves and ,george ,t4 ,winston1 both  

young men  who were later to win fame1  
were also members of his congregation4  
,he  lived on friendly relations with   
these and other members of the small    
faculty4    ,when ,mrs4 ,cheshire came  
to ,chapel ,hill1 she and her husband   
moved to the  home of ,dr4 ,william ,p4 
,mallett1 where they lived until the    
early part of  #ahgi4 ,they then took   
over the parish rectory1 a small        
four-room house  with a kitchen in the  
back yard4 ,it faced ,rosemary ,lane and
 was situated  on a two-acre lot1 on    
part of which stands the present        
rectory4 ,their  families and           
parishioners furnished the house for    
them quite  comfortably4 ,there was a   
small debt on the rectory1 and1 prior to
  ,cheshire's coming to the parish1 it  
had been rented to assist in  retiring  
the obligation4 ,when he moved into the 
rectory1 he agreed to  pay the interest 
on the debt1 notwithstanding that his   
salary was only  five hundred dollars a 
year4 ,it was not easy1 even in those   

days1 to  live on such a small income1  
but ,cheshire often remarked that his   
years  in ,chapel ,hill were as happy1  
,i believe1 as possible in this world4  
,he  was fortunate in realizing his     
happiness at the time and often spoke of
  it to his wife4 ,to make their        
happiness complete1 a second child1#aj  
,elizabeth ,toole1 was born to them in  
the summer of #ahgi4    ,although the   
parish in ,chapel ,hill was his chief   
charge1 ,cheshire did  not think that it
 had an exclusive claim upon him4 ,he   
regarded it as a  center from which to  
work4 ,in the fall of #ahgh he began to 
lay definite  plans for what was to be  
an important missionary work in ,durham4
 ,after  surveying the prospects there  
,cheshire1 with the co-operation of his 
little flock1 was able to rent a hall on
 ,main ,street which was  ordinarily    
used for public entertainments4 ,here he
 held services on the  first ,sunday in 
every month4 ,the work in ,durham       
prospered remarkably1  considering that 

the congregation had no church building 
of their own4  ,cheshire and his        
congregation soon realized1 however1    
that if much  progress was to be made1  
they must have a church4 ,the greatest  
difficulty at first was to find a lot   
within their means4 ,finally1 one  was  
purchased at a low price because of its 
undesirability from a  business         
standpoint4 ,in the spring of #ahhj the 
foundations of the little  church were  
laid4    ,since his congregation could  
bear only a small part of the cost of   
building a church1 ,cheshire had to ask 
for assistance elsewhere4 ,his  family  
and friends in ,edgecombe ,county       
contributed about one-fourth of  the    
total cost4 ,in a communication to the  
,church ,messenger ,cheshire  requested 
the rectors of the larger parishes of   
the ,diocese to  contribute one         
,sunday's offering to the completion of 
the ,durham church4  ,on the general    
subject of soliciting aid for religious 
purposes1 he  declared3 ,indiscriminate 

begging from anybody and everybody to   
the  neglect of every consideration1    
except the chance of getting a dollar1  
is not becoming to the cause of         
religion1 and is a positive             
discouragement to ,christian liberality4
 ,this was the kind of soliciting  which
 he never practiced4 ,throughout his    
ministry he requested aid for  the      
church of only those who he felt were   
rightfully responsible for its  support4
    ,by the spring of #ahha the church  
was completed at a cost of about        
twenty-five hundred dollars4 ,in a      
remarkably short time1 less than a  year
 and a half1 the money had been raised  
and the building erected4  ,cheshire    
named it ,st4 ,philip1 the ,deacon1     
feeling it to be the fruit  of his work 
as a deacon4 ,it was with much pride and
 happiness that1 on  ,july #bd1 #ahha1  
he assisted ,bishop ,lyman in the       
consecration of ,st4  ,philip's--a      
fitting close to his work in that       
mission4#aa    ,cheshire never expected1

 nor did he ever receive1 any           
compensation from  the ,diocese for his 
missionary activities4 ,concerning extra
 parochial  work1 he said3 ,i did not   
look upon work outside the parish as    
extra  work1 for which ,i should receive
 extra remuneration or special          
commendation4#ab ,shortly after         
,cheshire began his work in ,durham1 the
  ,treasurer of the ,diocese sent him a 
check for twenty dollars1 which he      
promptly returned1 saying that he did   
not desire to receive anything  from the
 ,diocesan ,treasury4#ac ,during his    
three years of service in  ,durham the  
little mission paid him small amounts   
from time to time1  which approximately 
covered the expenses he incurred4 ,he   
looked upon his  labors for this mission
 as a pure work of love and missionary  
enterprise4 ,in recalling this          
experience1 he declared3 ,i believe ,i  
worked harder and with more enthusiasm  
in my ,mission of ,st4 ,philip's1       
,durham1 and afterwards in establishing 

,st4 ,mark's ,church1 ,mecklenburg      
,county1 than in any other work ,i ever 
undertook4444#ad    ,while carrying     
forward his constructive work in ,chapel
 ,hill and in  ,durham1 ,cheshire did   
not overlook his preparation for the    
priesthood1  although1 as he remarked1  
he did not feel that impatience to get  
out of  the ,diaconate1 which he often  
observed in young clergymen4 ,during his
  leisure hours he read widely and      
thoroughly1 and was well prepared when  
the time came for his advancement4 ,at  
the close of the diocesan  convention1  
held in ,winston-,salem1 he was ordained
 priest by ,bishop  ,lyman in ,st4      
,paul's ,church on ,may #cj1 #ahhj4 ,he 
was presented for  ordination by ,rev4  
,john ,e4 ,c4 ,smedes1 and the sermon   
for the occasion  was preached by ,dr4  
,alfred ,watson1 later ,bishop of ,east 
,carolina4  ,commenting upon the        
ordination service1 the ,church         
,messenger said of  ,cheshire3          
thoroughly active1 he will do a work    

that will tell in the  diocese4         
,during his ministry in ,chapel ,hill   
,cheshire received calls from several   
parishes1 all of which offered him a    
better salary than he was then          
receiving1 but he usually declined them 
by return mail4 ,in the winter of  #ahha
 the vestry of ,st4 ,matthew's1         
,hillsboro1 and the church in           
,burlington asked him to take charge of 
their parishes4 ,this prospect  appealed
 to him strongly1 since he would live in
 ,hillsboro1 his wife's  old home1 where
 they had many kinsfolk and friends4    
,before taking any  action1 however1 he 
consulted ,bishop ,lyman1 who replied   
that he  preferred ,cheshire to remain  
in ,chapel ,hill where he was doing a   
good  work4 ,he accepted the ,bishop's  
decision and declined the call to       
,hillsboro4    ,about two months later  
,cheshire received a call from ,st4     
,peter's1  ,charlotte1 which he declined
 immediately4 ,hearing of this action1  
,bishop  ,lyman wrote him that he wished

 him to accept the charge of ,st4       
,peter's4  ,cheshire replied that he had
 refused to go to ,charlotte because the
  ,bishop had instructed him1 only a few
 months earlier1 to remain in  ,chapel  
,hill4 ,bishop ,lyman1 however1 answered
 that he had directed the  vestry of    
,st4 ,peter's to call him again and he  
would see to it that  ,cheshire         
accepted4 ,the call was accordingly     
renewed1 and ,cheshire went  to         
,charlotte to interview the vestry4 ,he 
told them that he accepted the  charge  
because he felt it his duty to respect  
the wishes of the  ,bishop4 ,cheshire   
often remarked that during his ministry 
he never  accepted a call to any parish1
 explaining that the ,bishop had        
directed  him to go to ,chapel ,hill and
 later to the parish in ,charlotte4     
,this was  not said in a spirit of      
criticism of his ,bishop but merely as a
  statement of fact1 for he also        
declared that he preferred to have his  
work given him4 ,throughout his long    

life of service he always had the       
feeling of doing a work assigned to him4
    ,cheshire quite naturally regretted 
leaving ,chapel ,hill1 for he had been  
happy in his work there4 ,he was also   
reluctant to part with his mission  in  
,durham1 which was created in a very    
real sense by his own labors4           
,recalling the first three years of his 
ministry1 he declared3 ,i look  upon my 
life at ,chapel ,hill as my pupilage1   
the completion of my  training for my   
life work4#ae          ,,chapter ,,iii  
,saint ,peter's ,parish      ,cheshire  
entered upon his work in ,charlotte with
 a feeling that here he  had an         
excellent opportunity for extending the 
influence of his church1  particularly  
in the missionary field4 ,he did not    
feel any fear or  trepidation at the    
thought of this larger and more         
difficult work1  although he had no     
great confidence in his own ability4 ,he
 went to his  new parish with the       
determination to give to it his best1   

and throughout  his rectorate there he  
never lost sight of that ideal4 ,when   
some of his  friends heard that he was  
going to ,st4 ,peter's1 they told him he
 was  taking over one of the hardest and
 most undesirable parishes in the       
,diocese4 ,this was indeed a            
discouraging description of his new     
work1 but  after serving twelve years at
 ,st4 ,peter's1 ,cheshire remarked that 
he had  found nothing which would       
justify such a characterization of that 
parish4    ,cheshire did not bring his  
wife and children to ,charlotte at once 
but  left them in ,chapel ,hill for the 
summer4 ,during this time he lived with 
,mr4 ,john ,wilkes1 the senior warden of
 the parish1 and took his meals at  a   
boarding house4 ,finding no parish      
rectory in ,charlotte1 he bought a      
house on ,north ,church ,street4 ,this  
purchase took all he had saved from  his
 law practice1 plus an additional       
thousand dollars which he had to        
borrow4 ,his salary from ,st4 ,peter's  

being twelve hundred dollars a year1  he
 was able to carry a debt of this       
amount4 ,with a salary this size he     
felt that he had been raised to a       
condition of affluence4 ,in an          
exuberance of generosity he offered to  
become responsible for the  support of  
an orphan in one of the foreign mission 
orphanages4 ,for some  reason his       
proposal was not accepted4 ,it was not  
long1 however1 before  he found that his
 salary was little if any above his     
actual needs4    ,when ,cheshire became 
rector of ,st4 ,peter's there were one  
hundred and  thirty-seven communicants  
in the parish4 ,mr4 ,john ,wilkes and   
,colonel  ,hamilton ,c4 ,jones were his 
senior and junior wardens1 respectively4
  ,these men were quite different in    
temperament1 but both were sincerely    
devoted to the welfare of the church4   
,the young rector found in them  staunch
 friends and helpful advisors4 ,one of  
the first tasks ,cheshire  set for      
himself was to visit and become         

acquainted with each member of  his     
congregation4 ,after making a careful   
study of the parish register1  he       
purchased a small memorandum book in    
which he wrote down the full  name1 age1
 and church status of each person       
connected with ,st4 ,peter's4  ,by the  
end of his first summer in ,charlotte he
 had become fairly well  acquainted with
 most of his parishioners4    ,one of   
,cheshire's predecessors at ,st4        
,peter's was the ,rev4 ,benjamin ,s4    
,bronson1 rector of the parish from     
#ahfg to #ahgh4 ,he had been greatly    
interested in institutional work1 and   
had begun several enterprises in  the   
course of his ministry in ,charlotte4   
,none of these1 however1 was  carried to
 a successful conclusion under his      
direction4 ,mr4 ,bronson's  capacity    
seemed to be limited to merely          
initiating worth-while projects4  ,his  
efforts were not futile1 for he         
instilled in his congregation a deep    
interest in this type of work4 ,cheshire

 often said that what he was able  to   
accomplish in ,charlotte was due in part
 to the enthusiasm for  institutional   
work which ,mr4 ,bronson had aroused in 
his parishioners4 ,he  confessed that he
 did not have the type of mind which    
readily produced  original ideas3 ,i    
think ,i can only methodize and put into
 practice  ideas ,i get from others4#af 
,although he exaggerated his lack of    
originality1 he was strikingly          
successful in taking a good idea or     
suggestion and making it work4    ,when 
,cheshire came to ,charlotte he found   
one of ,mr4 ,bronson's charities  still 
in existence1 although in a sadly       
neglected condition4 ,this was a        
four-room house which was known as ,st4 
,peter's ,home and ,hospital4 ,the  good
 work which was being done in a very    
small way by this institution  strongly 
appealed to ,cheshire4 ,he regularly    
visited the sick there1 and  soon began 
to lay plans for enlarging its          
usefulness4 ,for this purpose  he       

enlisted the aid of a retired clergyman1
 ,rev4 ,lucian ,holmes1 who was  then   
conducting in ,charlotte a small school 
for boys4 ,mr4 ,holmes visited  the     
people of the city1 soliciting          
contributions ranging from ten cents  to
 one dollar a month4 ,his efforts were  
successful1 and in a  comparatively     
short time the little hospital was      
assured of a modest  monthly income4 ,it
 was planned that the women on the      
,board of ,managers  of the hospital    
should collect the pledges4 ,thus1 under
 ,cheshire's  direction1 ,st4 ,peter's  
hospital was firmly established and has 
continued  to grow in usefulness to the 
community from that time to the present 
day4    ,shortly after becoming rector  
of ,st4 ,peter's1 ,cheshire began to    
take an  active interest in the church's
 work among the ,negroes4 ,he found     
among a  large ,negro population only   
one communicant4 ,prior to the ,civil   
,war  ,negroes had worshiped with the   
whites1 sitting in galleries erected for

  their use4 ,following the war and     
reconstruction1 however1 the church had 
of necessity been forced to curtail its 
work among the ,negroes4 ,he  recognized
 in this condition an opportunity for a 
great work4 ,since his  parish was large
 and demanded the greater part of his   
time1 he asked  ,bishop ,lyman to send  
him an unmarried clergyman who could    
devote all his  efforts to the ,negro   
work4 ,the ,bishop complied with his    
request1 and in  the spring of #ahhb    
sent ,rev4 ,charles ,c4 ,quin to        
,charlotte4 ,quin received  a stipend of
 two hundred dollars a year from the    
,diocese1 which ,cheshire  supplemented 
with fifty dollars out of his own       
pocket4 ,in addition1 ,quin  lived with 
the ,cheshires1 who gave him his room   
and board4    ,after securing an        
assistant for the ,negro work1          
,cheshire's next step was  to find a    
place in which to worship4 ,he found an 
old house in the ,negro  section of     
,charlotte1 which he bought and         

remodeled sufficiently to make  it serve
 as a mission4 ,he named the little     
chapel ,st4 ,michael and ,all  ,angels4 
,although ,quin was placed in charge of 
this mission1 ,cheshire  held an evening
 service there every second ,sunday4 ,in
 this way he was  able to keep in       
personal contact with the congregation4 
,the work progressed so well that it was
 not long before the need for a  larger 
church was apparent4 ,seeing this need1 
,cheshire solicited  contributions for a
 new church from his parishioners and   
from various  churchmen throughout the  
,diocese4 ,he sent ,quin to             
,pennsylvania1 ,new  ,york1 and         
,connecticut with letters to his friends
 in those states1  asking for           
assistance4 ,cheshire and ,quin were    
fairly successful in their  efforts to  
raise funds for the new church1 and in  
the spring of #ahhc the  cornerstone was
 laid4 ,in the course of the year the   
nave and chancel  were completed1 while 
the transepts were left to be finished  

at some  future time4 ,it was a         
well-built brick church and large enough
 to allow  for considerable growth in   
the congregation4 ,it stands today as a 
testimonial to ,cheshire's zeal in      
advancing the work of the church4       
,shortly after it was built1 ,quin      
resigned and was succeeded by ,rev4     
,primus ,p4 ,alston1 a colored          
clergyman1 who remained in charge of the
  parish for over twenty years4 ,st4    
,michael and ,all ,angels was now       
practically independent of ,st4         
,peter's1 although it was still under   
,cheshire's general direction4    ,while
 in the process of establishing ,st4    
,michael's1 ,cheshire was at the  same  
time engaged in another missionary      
enterprise4 ,he found in a  section of  
,charlotte1 known as ,mechanicsville1 a 
number of families who  were members of 
the ,episcopal ,church but were not     
connected with ,st4  ,peter's parish4   
,seeing an opportunity to extend the    
work of the parish1  he determined to   

bring the services of the church to     
these people4 ,he  began by establishing
 a ,sunday school in an abandoned       
schoolhouse in  this section4 ,the      
,sunday school gradually expanded into a
 little  mission1 which he called ,st4  
,martin's4 ,not long after the mission  
was  started1 the building in which the 
services were held was destroyed by     
fire4 ,not permitting this misfortune to
 discourage him1 he began almost  at    
once to lay plans for the erection of a 
chapel on the same location4    ,after  
negotiating with the ,charlotte school  
board1 he was able to buy  the property 
for fifteen hundred dollars1 to be paid 
in three  installments4 ,cheshire       
himself paid the first installment of   
five  hundred dollars1 while two of his 
parishioners guaranteed the remainder4  
,he procured his part of the cost by    
selling a lot in ,tarboro which his     
father had given him4 ,when the land was
 bought1 he began the work of  raising  
money for the erection of a chapel4 ,his

 loyal friend1 ,mr4 ,john  ,wilkes1 came
 forward as usual and supported him     
generously with both  time and money4   
,other friends came to his assistance1  
and work was soon  started on the       
building4 ,cheshire organized the ,guild
 of ,st4 ,martin to  help him in        
carrying forward the work on the chapel4
 ,some time before it  was completed1 he
 began to hold a service in the little  
church every  ,sunday night4 ,this      
service was in addition to three others 
which he held  each ,sunday at ,st4     
,peter's4 ,thus1 ,cheshire had literally
 built from the  ground up the mission  
of ,st4 ,martin's4 ,it maintained a     
steady growth and  in time became one of
 the larger parishes of the ,diocese4   
,there seems to have been almost no     
limit to ,cheshire's missionary  fervor4
 ,he was not content to confine his     
labors to the bounds of  ,charlotte4    
,shortly after coming to ,st4 ,peter's  
he visited ,monroe1 and  there he found 
a number of churchmen who at one time   

had been served by  the rector at       
,wadesboro4 ,at the request of these    
churchmen ,cheshire gave  them a monthly
 service1 being assisted for a time by  
,mr4 ,quin4 ,in #ahhe  the work at      
,monroe was turned over to ,rev4 ,edwin 
,a4 ,osborne4 ,during his  rectorate at 
,st4 ,peter's ,cheshire also held       
services from time to time  at          
,rockingham1 ,mooresville1 ,mount       
,mourne1 and ,davidson ,college4 ,he did
  not1 however1 succeed in establishing 
a permanent mission at any one of  these
 places4 ,if he had had more time to    
devote to this distant  missionary work1
 he might have met with better success4 
,in the fall of #ahhc there came to     
,cheshire an opportunity to do what he  
later characterized as the most entirely
 gratifying and successful work  of all 
my missionary undertakings4#ag ,columbus
 ,w4 ,mc,coy1 of ,long ,creek           
,township1 ,mecklenburg ,county1 invited
 ,cheshire to hold a service in his     
community1 stating that a number of     

people in his neighborhood had          
manifested an interest in the ,episcopal
 ,church4 ,mc,coy had formerly been  a  
,presbyterian1 but having become        
acquainted with the ,book of ,common    
,prayer1 he expressed a desire to join  
the ,episcopal ,church4 ,cheshire       
accepted the invitation1 and on         
,november #ah held his first service    
there  in the community schoolhouse4 ,he
 passed the night with ,mr4 ,mc,coy and 
spent the next day in visiting the      
people of the neighborhood4 ,he felt    
that very little can be accomplished in 
a new field by merely having a  service1
 even a ,sunday service1 unless time is 
given to personal  familiar visiting    
from house to house1 to know the people1
 and to  establish some influence among 
them4#ah ,he held a second service that 
night1 and returned to ,charlotte the   
following morning4 ,this same  procedure
 was followed in his subsequent visits4 
,in ,december ,cheshire went again to   
,long ,creek1 but in consequence of bad 

weather1 he did not return again until  
the spring4 ,beginning in ,may1  #ahhd1 
he held monthly services in the ,long   
,creek community4 ,observing  the       
growing interest of the community in the
 church1 he decided to hold  a series of
 services for them from ,august #ab     
through the #afth4 ,he  secured the     
assistance of ,rev4 ,dr4 ,george ,b4    
,wetmore and ,rev4 ,mr4  ,osborne4 ,the 
services were held in ,beach ,cliff     
,schoolhouse and were so  well attended 
that part of the congregation was forced
 to sit  out-of-doors4 ,cheshire and his
 assistants took turns in preaching in  
the  morning and evening4 ,in the       
afternoons they visited those families  
who  had shown an interest in becoming  
members of the church4 ,in the course   
of the week they baptized sixteen       
persons1 for the most part children1    
and at the end of the services fourteen 
adults signified their desire to  be    
confirmed4 ,at the close of the week's  
preaching ,cheshire was  presented with 

a petition signed by eleven persons who 
asked that they  be organized as a      
mission under the name of ,st4 ,mark's  
,chapel4 ,this was  indeed a successful 
conclusion to the week's work4    ,on   
,october #be ,bishop ,lyman visited     
,long ,creek and confirmed sixteen      
persons4 ,following the confirmation he 
organized the congregation as a  mission
 to be known as ,st4 ,mark's4 ,cheshire 
continued his monthly visits  to the new
 mission until ,january1 #ahhe1 at which
 time he turned this  work over to ,rev4
 ,edwin ,a4 ,osborne1 who had already   
taken charge of  ,cheshire's            
congregation in ,monroe4 ,upon assuming 
this work ,mr4 ,osborne  moved from     
,henderson ,county to ,charlotte4       
,during the remainder of  ,cheshire's   
rectorate at ,st4 ,peter's1 he and ,mr4 
,osborne became intimate  friends and   
co-operated generously in each other's  
work4    ,although ,cheshire devoted    
most of his time and energy to ,st4     
,peter's  parish and its missions1 he   

did not neglect his duty to the         
,diocese4 ,he  attended all of the      
diocesan conventions and took an active 
and  significant part in their          
deliberations4 ,probably the most       
important  action taken by any          
convention during his ministry was that 
relating to  the division of the        
,diocese4 ,the question of dividing the 
church in  ,north ,carolina into two    
dioceses had been discussed from time to
 time by  the conventions since the     
election in #ahgc of ,bishop ,lyman as  
assistant  bishop4 ,bishop ,atkinson had
 favored a division at one time1 but    
when the  question was placed squarely  
before the convention of #ahgg1 he came 
out  strongly against it4 ,the large    
number of clergy and laity who favored  
division dropped the proposal for the   
time-being out of deference to  ,bishop 
,atkinson1 who1 they felt1 did not have 
much longer to serve4 ,upon  his death  
in ,january1 #ahha1 the question was    
again brought forward4 ,at  the         

convention of #ahhb1 held in ,calvary   
,church1 ,tarboro1 ,dr4 ,m4 ,m4         
,marshall1 rector of ,christ ,church1   
,raleigh1 introduced resolutions        
declaring the sentiment of the people on
 division and calling for a  committee  
to consider proposals for the erection  
of a new diocese4 ,the  convention      
approved ,dr4 ,marshall's resolutions1  
and the ,bishop appointed  a special    
committee to report upon the subject4   
,after some study of the proposal this  
committee submitted a majority  report  
calling for a division of the ,diocese4 
,bishop ,lyman1 who during  ,bishop     
,atkinson's life-time had advocated the 
formation of a new  diocese1 now        
reversed his position4 ,upon hearing the
 report of the  special committee1 the  
,bishop delivered an impassioned attack 
upon the  report4#ai ,the opposition of 
the ,bishop led to a long and1 at times1
  acrimonious discussion4 ,when the     
question was finally voted upon1 the    
committee's report was adopted by a     

large majority of the clergy and  laity4
 ,the convention appointed a committee  
of clergymen and laymen to  confer with 
the ,bishop upon the details of the     
division1 to obtain his  consent1 and to
 report to the next diocesan convention4
 ,cheshire was  made a member of this   
committee4    ,st4 ,peter's parish1     
,charlotte1 was host to the diocesan    
convention of  #ahhc4 ,the most pressing
 and important business of this         
convention was  the question of forming 
a new diocese4 ,on the second day the   
,committee  on ,conference with the     
,bishop made its report4 ,the committee 
stated that  after a consultation with  
the ,bishop it found that he was opposed
 to a  division of the ,diocese because 
he felt that one bishop in good health  
could do the work for the entire state1 
and that the church in ,north  ,carolina
 was not financially able to support two
 bishops and two  diocesan              
organizations4 ,the ,bishop told the    
committee1 however1 that he  would      

consent to the erection of a new diocese
 provided a large majority  of clergy   
and laity desired it1 the line of       
division to be satisfactory  to him1 and
 the permanent funds to be divided      
equally between the two  dioceses4      
,following the report the convention    
voted on the question3  forty-two       
clergymen voted for division1 and eleven
 against2 twenty-nine  parishes voted   
for1 and ten against4 ,cheshire voted   
for the creation of  a new diocese1 as  
he had done in the convention the year  
before4    ,when the question of a      
territorial division came up for        
discussion1  ,cheshire moved that the   
new diocese be composed of the counties 
of  ,hertford1 ,bertie1 ,martin1 ,pitt1 
,greene1 ,wayne1 ,sampson1 ,cumberland1 
and  ,robeson1 and all that part of the 
state located between those counties    
and the ,atlantic coast4 ,cheshire later
 withdrew his motion when the  special  
,committee on a ,line of ,division      
presented an amended report  which      

embodied in substance his               
recommendation4 ,the convention         
unanimously adopted the amended report4 
,cheshire was in favor of placing  the  
counties of ,edgecombe and ,halifax in  
the eastern ,diocese and  retaining     
,cumberland in the old ,diocese4 ,when  
he saw1 however1 that  ,bishop ,lyman   
would not give up ,edgecombe and        
,halifax1 he recommended  that          
,cumberland should be included in the   
new division4 ,this was the  arrangement
 finally adopted4    ,after an agreement
 had been reached on the line of        
demarcation1 ,cheshire  offered the     
following resolutions3 7#a7 that the    
convention of #ahhc  ratify the work of 
the convention of #ahhb relative to a   
division of the  ,diocese2 7#b7 that the
 ,bishop of the ,diocese and the        
,general ,convention  of the church be  
requested to give their consent to this 
procedure2 and  7#c7 that all the       
securities and properties of the church 
in ,north  ,carolina be equally divided 

between the two dioceses1 as should be  
agreed upon by a committee representing 
both4 ,cheshire's resolutions  were     
voted upon separately1 and were all     
adopted4 ,following their  approval the 
convention received a letter from       
,bishop ,lyman announcing  his consent  
to the formation of a new diocese4 ,thus
 was decided an  important1 and vexing1 
problem of the church in ,north         
,carolina4    ,the convention of #ahhc  
was the first in which ,cheshire had    
taken a  significant part1 but from that
 time forward his influence and counsel 
became increasingly important4 ,he was  
made chairman of the committee on  the  
division of diocesan properties4 ,his   
committee had a difficult task  in      
dividing the permanent funds of the     
church to the satisfaction of  both     
dioceses4 ,the problem caused a few very
 bitter discussions in  several         
succeeding conventions4 ,cheshire       
usually led the discussions1  often     
taking the side of the new diocese      

against ,bishop ,lyman and a  majority  
in the convention4 ,more often than not 
he won his point1 since  his opponents  
rarely took the pains to make themselves
 fully acquainted  with the facts4      
,cheshire was sometimes accused of being
 discourteous in  his manner towards the
 ,bishop when they disagreed4 ,it can be
 fairly  said1 however1 that he was     
never intentionally so4 ,in a letter to 
the  ,bishop he remarked that he often  
spoke excitedly and impetuously upon    
any subject about which he felt very    
strongly1 and that this  characteristic 
was sometimes interpreted as            
discourtesy4#bj ,cheshire  had the      
highest respect for ,bishop ,lyman and  
admired him both as a  bishop and a man4
 ,nevertheless1 it was almost inevitable
 that two such  decided and forthright  
characters as ,lyman and ,cheshire      
should have  pronounced disagreements4  
,one of ,cheshire's most valuable       
contributions to the diocesan           
conventions was his services on the     

,committee on ,canons4 ,he was a member 
of this committee from #ahhd through    
#ahic1 with the exception of #ahhg-hh1  
serving as its chairman for several     
years4 ,he made himself thoroughly      
acquainted with the canons of the       
church1 and while serving on the        
committee1 he did most of its work4     
,during these years debates on the      
canons occupied much of the time of the 
annual conventions4 ,long after         
becoming bishop1 ,cheshire remarked that
 he was happy to observe that  this was 
no longer true1 and that ,we have come  
to be interested in more  important     
business4 ,he did not mean to belittle  
the value of canonical  law1 but rather 
to emphasize the importance of other    
work4    ,in #ahhg ,cheshire made a     
revision of the canons1 expecting the   
convention  of that year to call for a  
revisal4 ,he also carefully annotated   
the  canons and the articles of the     
diocesan constitution4 ,the convention  
of  #ahhg did call for a revision to be 

made and be presented to it the next    
year4 ,however1 ,cheshire was surprised 
and disappointed when the ,bishop  did  
not reappoint him to the ,committee on  
,canons4 ,hearing of the work  ,cheshire
 had already done on the canons1 ,dr4   
,kemp ,p4 ,battle suggested  that he    
should present to the next convention   
his revision as a  substitute for the   
one to be proposed by the committee4    
,cheshire decided  to follow this       
suggestion4 ,when the committee         
presented its report to  the convention 
of #ahhh1 he rose to say that he had    
prepared a revision  of the canons the  
year before and had been advised by some
 of his  friends to offer it as a       
substitute4 ,several requests were made 
from the  floor that he should explain  
his work4 ,following his explanation a  
motion was made that his revisal be     
adopted in place of that of the         
,committee on ,canons4 ,the motion was  
carried by a large majority1 and  after 
making several minor changes1 the       

convention adopted ,cheshire's          
revision4 ,its action was a signal      
tribute to the high character of        
,cheshire's work4    ,from time to time 
,cheshire served on other regular and   
special  committees4 ,he was a member of
 the ,executive ,missionary ,committee  
from  #ahhe to #ahia1 and a member of   
the ,board of ,managers of the ,thompson
  ,orphanage from #ahhf through #ahic4  
,in all his activities he manifested a  
zealous interest in the affairs of the  
,diocese4 ,in consequence of his  work  
in the diocesan conventions and his     
productive ministry in  ,charlotte1 he  
came to be recognized as one of the     
outstanding clergymen  of the state4    
,cheshire's first personal contact with 
the work of the church outside of       
,north ,carolina was with the           
,university of the ,south at ,sewanee1  
,tennessee4 ,feeling that the churchmen 
of his ,diocese displayed an            
unwarrantable lack of interest in the   
welfare of the ,university of the       

,south1 he resolved to bring to their   
attention the needs and  opportunities  
of the institution4 ,in #ahhe he made an
 appeal for support  of the school in   
the columns of the ,church ,messenger4  
,he wrote  personal letters to prominent
 churchmen1 and made addresses on behalf
 of  the ,university in as many parishes
 as he could conveniently reach4 ,his   
voluntary efforts met with some success4
 ,perceiving ,cheshire's active         
interest in the school1 ,dr4 ,jarvis    
,buxton1 clerical trustee for the       
,university from the ,diocese of ,north 
,carolina1 resigned this position at    
the convention of #ahhe4 ,dr4 ,buxton   
then nominated ,cheshire to succeed     
him1 and the convention unanimously     
confirmed his nomination4 ,from #ahhg   
until he was elected bishop he attended 
every meeting of the trustees4  ,during 
this period ,cheshire formed many       
lasting friendships with the  trustees  
and professors he met at ,sewanee4      
,these associations gave him a  better  

understanding of the church's work      
outside of his ,diocese4    ,the        
diocesan convention further recognized  
,cheshire's ability by  electing him one
 of the clerical deputies to the        
,triennial ,general  ,convention of     
#ahhf4 ,he was re-elected a deputy to   
the succeeding  conventions of #ahhi and
 #ahib4 ,as far as the journals reveal1 
he did not  take an active part in any  
of these meetings4 ,it was              
characteristic of  him to have little to
 say in a body of which he was a new    
member until  he had become thoroughly  
acquainted with its personnel and       
procedure4 ,at  the ,general ,convention
 of #ahhi he was made a member of the   
,missionary  ,council and was re-elected
 to the ,council in #ahib4 ,attendance  
upon these  conventions further         
broadened his knowledge of the work of  
the national  church and brought him    
into contact with many of its prominent 
figures4    ,in consequence of his      
energetic parochial work and his active 

participation in diocesan affairs1      
,cheshire received1 during his          
rectorate at ,st4 ,peter's1 several     
calls to other parishes4 ,in ,september1
  #ahhh1 the vestry of ,calvary ,church1
 ,tarboro1 asked him to become their    
rector to succeed his father1 who wished
 to retire4 ,cheshire refused the  call4
 ,it is to be supposed that he preferred
 the larger opportunities  offered in   
,charlotte1 but his personal papers do  
not reveal why he  rejected the         
invitation4 ,writing to him concerning  
his refusal1 ,bishop  ,lyman stated that
 he was pleased to learn that ,cheshire 
was to remain in  ,charlotte1 and that  
he recognized how great a calamity it   
would have  been to the interest of the 
,church1 in your own1 and in the        
adjacent  counties1 had you decided to  
resign your present position4 ,i am     
sure1  too1 that your determination to  
remain will greatly strengthen the      
hearts of those around you1 and greatly 
increase your powers of  usefulness4#ba 

,this commendation of his work by       
,bishop ,lyman1 who was  not inclined to
 give excessive praise1 must have been  
encouraging to  ,cheshire4 ,three years 
later he received a call from the vestry
 of ,st4  ,paul's ,church1 ,macon1      
,georgia4 ,they offered him a rectory   
and a salary  of sixteen hundred dollars
 a year1 but he also declined this call4
    ,the most complimentary             
consideration ,cheshire received1 prior 
to #ahic1  was in the summer of #ahia4  
,at that time ,rev4 ,henry ,lucas1      
rector of ,st4  ,mark's ,church1        
,brunswick1 ,georgia1 in behalf of      
himself and several  other clergymen1   
wrote ,cheshire to ask if he had any    
objection to his  name being used as a  
nominee for bishop of ,georgia4 ,lucas  
stated that  the diocesan convention of 
,georgia was to meet on ,july #a1 in    
,macon1 to  elect a bishop4 ,cheshire   
replied that if he were elected by the  
convention he would be on the whole     
unwilling to accept4 ,the ,georgia      

convention met and elected a bishop1 but
 ,cheshire's name was not placed  in    
nomination because the delegates did not
 wish to risk a refusal4 ,rev4  ,a4 ,w4 
,dodge1 a member of the convention1     
wrote ,cheshire3 ,i think we  could have
 elected you without any great          
difficulty if you had been  willing to  
serve us4#bb ,in none of his writings   
examined does ,cheshire  give an        
explanation of his unwillingness to     
become bishop of ,georgia4  ,his love   
for ,north ,carolina and its people and 
a sincere conviction that  he should    
devote his life to the work of the      
church in this state is  probably the   
best explanation of his decision4       
,during these years in which ,cheshire  
was assuming a greater share of         
diocesan work1 his parochial and        
missionary duties in and outside of     
,charlotte were not neglected4 ,the only
 serious criticism of his services      
which was brought to his attention by   
his parishioners was that the  missions 

in ,iredell and ,mecklenburg counties   
demanded too much of his  time4         
,cheshire1 however1 maintained that in  
serving the rural missions  he was at   
the same time building up ,st4 ,peter's1
 since the missions  would eventually   
furnish many new members to the town    
parish4 ,in spite  of this criticism1 he
 continued his missionary and           
institutional work4  ,in #ahhe and #ahhf
 he gave wholehearted assistance to     
,rev4 ,edwin ,a4  ,osborne in           
establishing the ,thompson ,orphanage in
 ,charlotte as a  diocesan institution4 
,the last parochial enterprise of ,st4  
,peter's  ,church in which he           
participated was the founding of the    
,good ,samaritan  ,hospital for         
,negroes4 ,the movement for the hospital
 was initiated by  ,mrs4 ,john ,wilkes1 
with whom ,cheshire co-operated in every
 way4 ,he  devoted much time to raising 
the money for the purchase of a lot4 ,in
  #ahhh he laid the cornerstone of the  
hospital and three years later          

officiated at its formal opening4 ,the  
,good ,samaritan was the first  hospital
 for ,negroes to be established in      
,north ,carolina4    ,in the course of  
his pastorate in ,charlotte ,cheshire   
was on the  friendliest of terms with   
the ministers of the other              
denominations1  although he sometimes   
strongly differed with them4 ,he was a  
member of  the local ,ministerial       
,association1 serving for a time as its 
vice-president4 ,the association often  
passed resolutions inviting  popular    
preachers to hold revivals in           
,charlotte4 ,cheshire1 not in  sympathy 
with professional revivalists1          
customarily opposed this  procedure4    
,when the association once invited the  
well-known preacher1 ,sam ,jones1 to    
hold a series of services in ,charlotte 
for ten days1 all the ministers  except 
,cheshire closed their churches during  
the revival4 ,at the time1  he was      
criticized rather severely for his lack 
of co-operation4 ,some  eighteen months 

later ,jones announced he was returning 
for a second  revival1 although he had  
received no invitation4 ,hearing of his 
plans1  the ,baptist pastor1 at the next
 meeting of the ,ministerial            
,association1  proposed a resolution    
that the ministers of the town should   
not close  their churches during ,jones'
 visit1 nor co-operate with him4 ,he    
declared  that1 while his church had    
gained a good many members immediately  
following the revivalist's services1    
most of them had by this time  deserted 
him1 and the whole effect of ,jones'    
preaching had been to lower  and        
demoralize the religious life of his    
congregation4 ,the other  ministers     
concurred in his opinion4 ,cheshire1    
however1 objected to the  resolution on 
the grounds that he would not oppose any
 man who1 as far  as he knew1 was       
honestly trying to preach the ,gospel as
 he understood  it4 ,he opposed it also 
as a matter of policy1 since1 in his    
opinion1  nothing would please ,jones   

more than to be able to say that a lot  
of  little two-by-four preachers got    
together1 and voted to keep ,sam ,jones 
out of ,charlotte4#bc ,cheshire's       
argument convinced the other clergymen  
that he was right1 and the resolution   
was dropped4 ,the incident well         
illustrates his keen sense of fairness  
and good judgment4    ,cheshire's       
domestic and social life in ,charlotte  
was happy and  interesting4 ,although   
his salary was not large1 he was able to
 make his  family reasonably            
comfortable4 ,when he and ,mrs4         
,cheshire left ,chapel  ,hill1 they had 
two children1 ,elizabeth and ,sarah4    
,during their twelve  years in          
,charlotte four other children were born
 to them--,joseph ,blount1  ,annie1     
,godfrey1 and ,james ,webb4 ,this was a 
large family to support on a            
clergyman's salary1 but by good         
management they were able to make their 
life pleasant4 ,the ,cheshires were     
hospitable people and enjoyed           

entertaining their friends4 ,the ,dean  
of the ,convocation of ,charlotte and   
the ,diocesan ,evangelist1 as well as   
many other visiting clergymen1  usually 
stayed with them when visiting ,st4     
,peter's parish4    ,cheshire made many 
friends in ,charlotte outside of his    
congregation as  well as among his      
parishioners4 ,he accomplished a great  
deal in building  up a more friendly    
attitude on the part of the other       
denominations  towards the ,episcopal   
,church4 ,the fearless and positive     
stand he always  took on questions      
involving the principles and policies of
 his church1  while antagonizing some   
people for a time1 in the end won him   
many  admirers and the respect of all4  
,when ,cheshire resigned his rectorate  
of ,st4 ,peter's in #ahic to become     
assistant bishop of the ,diocese of     
,north ,carolina1 he left in the parish 
a record difficult for any future rector
 to equal4 ,in the course of his  twelve
 years at ,st4 ,peter's he had increased

 its membership from one  hundred and   
thirty-seven to two hundred and         
sixty-three4 ,he organized  and         
established ,st4 ,martin's parish1 ,st4 
,michael and ,all ,angels' mission  for 
,negroes1 ,st4 ,mark's mission at       
,mecklenburg1 and ,st4 ,paul's mission  
at ,monroe4 ,he sponsored the building  
of ,st4 ,peter's and the ,good          
,samaritan hospitals1 and assisted ,rev4
 ,e4 ,a4 ,osborne in establishing the   
,thompson ,orphanage4 ,these were       
significant accomplishments for a       
rectorate of twelve years4 ,but as      
almost everyone else1 ,cheshire also    
experienced some failures4 ,in his      
attempts to establish missions at       
,rockingham1 ,mooresville1 and ,mount   
,mourne1 he had not been successful4    
,however1 balanced against his          
successes1 these failures seem small4   
,,chapter ,,iv    ,election to the      
,episcopate      ,theodore ,benedict    
,lyman was elected assistant bishop of  
,north ,carolina  in #ahgc1 and upon the

 death of ,bishop ,thomas ,atkinson in  
#ahha he assumed  the control of the    
,diocese4 ,in #ahia he celebrated in    
,christ ,church1  ,raleigh1 the fiftieth
 anniversary of his ordination to the   
priesthood4  ,by this time the ,bishop  
had begun to show signs that the duties 
of his  office were becoming too arduous
 for his failing strength4 ,it was not  
until two years later1 however1 that he 
felt that he must ask for  assistance in
 his ,episcopal duties4 ,when the       
diocesan convention met in  ,christ     
,church1 ,raleigh1 on ,may #ag1 #ahic1  
,bishop ,lyman brought to the  attention
 of the body his failing health and the 
necessity of conserving  his strength4  
,he stated he would welcome any         
suggestions on the subject  the         
convention saw fit to make4 ,the subject
 of assisting the ,bishop was  taken    
under consideration immediately1 and a  
committee was appointed to  study how   
best this might be accomplished4    ,the
 following day this committee           

recommended1 in the form of several     
resolutions1 that ,bishop ,lyman should 
be relieved of a part of his  official  
work by the election of an assistant    
bishop2 that when the  convention       
completed its present session it should 
adjourn to meet again  in ,raleigh on   
,june #bg to elect an assistant bishop2 
and that the present  convention should 
take steps towards determining a salary 
for the new  office4 ,the resolutions   
were adopted in their entirety4         
,before taking up the proceedings of the
 adjourned convention1 it is            
interesting to consider here some views 
,cheshire once expressed on the         
,episcopate in ,north ,carolina4 ,in    
#ahia a friend wrote him asking who he  
thought would make a good successor to  
,bishop ,lyman4 ,in reply to this       
query1 ,cheshire remarked that he did   
not approve of anyone's expressing  an  
arbitrary opinion as to the choice of a 
bishop for this ,diocese1 but  since    
that was what his friend desired1 he    

would offer some suggestions4  ,he      
declared that ,dr4 ,francis ,j4         
,murdoch1 ,rector of ,st4 ,luke's1      
,salisbury1 was his first choice1 and   
characterized him as a learned1  noble1 
and lovable man4 ,his second and third  
choices were the ,rev4  ,robert ,s4     
,barrett1 of ,atlanta1 and the ,rev4    
,mr4 ,winchester1 of  ,nashville4 ,above
 everything1 said ,cheshire1 ,we want a 
plain man--one who  can come down to the
 plain people of our country4 ,he did   
not suggest  anyone above the age of    
fifty1 since he thought it was better to
 choose  a clergyman rather under than  
above his prime4 ,speaking in general of
  the election of bishops1 ,cheshire    
observed3 ,i really1 and in all         
seriousness1 think that there is        
something providential in the choice of 
a man to the office of ,bishop4 ,the    
best men are so often those who were    
hardly thought of beforehand--sometimes 
hardly heard of4#bd ,to  illustrate his 
point1 he cited the elections of        

,bishops ,ravenscroft1 of  ,north       
,carolina1 ,whipple1 of ,minnesota1 and 
,jackson1 of ,alabama4 ,these           
observations are particularly           
interesting1 coming as they did only two
  years before the proposed election of 
an assistant bishop4    ,when the       
adjourned convention convened in ,christ
 ,church on ,june #bg1  ,bishop ,lyman  
gave his canonical consent to the       
election of an assistant  bishop4 ,the  
convention then provided that the new   
office should carry  with it an annual  
salary of twenty-five hundred dollars4  
,at the afternoon session the doors of  
the convention were closed1 and         
nominations for an assistant bishop by  
the clergy were in order4 ,the          
clergymen nominated were ,rev4          
,nathaniel ,h4 ,harding1 ,dr4 ,joseph   
,blount  ,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,rev4 ,t4 ,m4 
,n4 ,george1 ,dr4 ,francis ,j4 ,murdoch1
 ,dr4  ,matthias ,m4 ,marshall1 and     
,rev4 ,robert ,s4 ,barrett4 ,it is      
significant that  all of these          

candidates1 with the exception of ,r4   
,s4 ,barrett1 of  ,atlanta1 were        
clergymen resident in ,north ,carolina4 
,it is also of  interest that ,murdoch  
and ,cheshire1 who were to be the two   
most  important candidates1 nominated   
each other4 ,in his nomination speech   
,dr4  ,murdoch said3 ,the good shepherd 
knows his sheep4 ,this is pre-eminently 
true of ,dr4 ,cheshire4 ,he knows the   
people of ,north ,carolina1 their       
history1 their relationships1 better    
perhaps than any other person           
living4#be    ,under the rules of the   
convention the clergy elects a bishop by
 a  two-thirds vote of their number4    
,their choice is then submitted to the  
laity1 who either ratify or reject it4  
,in this convention twenty-nine  votes  
was the necessary majority for election4
    ,on the first three ballots1        
although all candidates received some   
votes1  ,cheshire led each time4 ,but   
after the third ballot1 the contest was 
narrowed down to ,cheshire1 ,barrett1   

and ,murdoch4 ,cheshire remained ahead  
through the sixth ballot2 ,murdoch then 
took the lead1 which he held1  with the 
exception of five ballots1 through the  
twenty-fourth4 ,during  this balloting1 
,barrett led all candidates twice and   
tied with ,murdoch  for the highest     
number three times4 ,after the          
twenty-fourth ballot  ,cheshire asked to
 be excused from further attendance4 ,he
 explained that  he had expected the    
convention to last only one day and had 
accordingly  promised to marry a friend 
on the twenty-eighth4#bf ,he was        
excused1 and  without further balloting 
the convention adjourned at             
eleven-thirty in  the evening4    ,the  
following morning balloting was resumed1
 with ,murdoch continuing to  hold his  
lead4 ,on the twenty-ninth ballot the   
,rev4 ,arthur ,s4 ,lloyd1 of  ,norfolk1 
,virginia1 was nominated and remained in
 the contest until the  end4 ,from the  
thirty-second through the thirty-fifth  
ballots ,cheshire  did not receive a    

single vote2 while from the thirty-sixth
 through the  thirty-eighth he received 
only one vote on each4 ,before the      
thirty-seventh was taken1 ,rev4 ,w4 ,s4 
,barrows moved that if no one was       
elected within the next two ballots1 the
 clergy should retire from the          
convention for a conference4 ,his motion
 was carried4 ,since no election  took  
place1 the clergy repaired to ,christ   
,church chapel for prayer and           
conference4    ,there was a small       
minority in the convention1 numbering   
ten or twelve  clergymen1 who were      
opposed to electing anyone from the     
,diocese of ,north  ,carolina4 ,this    
minority held the balance between the   
stronger candidates  and thus prevented 
an election4 ,all attempts to compromise
 with the  minority on some candidate   
other than ,murdoch or ,cheshire failed4
  ,thereupon1 when the clergy met in the
 chapel1 it was agreed that they  should
 arrive at a choice by the process of   
elimination4 ,after several  votes were 

taken1 the selection lay between        
,cheshire and ,murdoch4 ,the  supporters
 of both men then agreed to vote in the 
convention for the one  who received the
 highest vote in this conference4 ,when 
the votes were  counted1 it was found   
that ,cheshire led by a majority of one4
 ,the clergy  then re-entered the church
 and took the thirty-ninth ballot1 which
  resulted in twenty-nine votes for     
,cheshire1 seven for ,lloyd1 and five   
scattered4 ,the laity quickly confirmed 
the choice of the clergy by a  vote of  
twenty-four to seven2 whereupon the     
,bishop declared ,rev4 ,joseph  ,blount 
,cheshire1 ,jr41 elected assistant      
bishop of the ,diocese and  appointed a 
committee to notify him of his election4
    ,after performing the promised      
marriage ceremony1 ,cheshire went to    
,high  ,point to spend the night4 ,when 
he arrived1 he found several telegrams  
from friends congratulating him upon his
 election4 ,describing his  reaction to 
the news1 he said that he could not     

comprehend what they  meant1 and thought
 there must be some mistake4 ,i was more
 deeply  agitated than ,i could have    
anticipated4 ,the following day he wrote
 his  father3 ,the one thing in the     
election at ,raleigh which gives me     
unmixed  satisfaction is the knowledge  
that it would be a happiness to you and 
to  mother4 ,in every other respect my  
feelings are of so confused a kind  that
 ,i hardly know myself what to do or    
say4444 ,i feel that this  election has 
its human cause and origin in your      
life-long labor for the  church1 and in 
the name and good will of our people    
which ,i have derived  from you and not 
made for myself4#bg ,this sincere       
statement of his  thoughts about his    
election was characteristic of          
,cheshire4 ,he felt  profoundly the     
great responsibility which had been     
placed upon him1 and  wrote a friend    
that he could never have undertaken it  
had he not felt  that he had the        
sympathy1 co-operation1 and prayer#bh of

 his people4    ,the month following his
 election ,cheshire received more than  
two hundred  letters and telegrams of   
congratulation4 ,they came from         
clergymen and  laymen in and outside of 
,north ,carolina1 and a great many were 
from  persons who were not members of   
the ,episcopal ,church4 ,one of the most
  common sentiments found in these      
letters was the pleasure and            
gratification expressed at the election 
of a ,north ,carolinian as  assistant   
bishop4 ,it is a noteworthy fact that   
,cheshire was the first  native         
clergyman of the state to be elected to 
the ,episcopate of the  ,diocese of     
,north ,carolina4    ,dr4 ,francis ,j4  
,murdoch1 as well as many of his        
adherents1 sent their  sincere          
congratulations4 ,in a circular letter  
to his supporters1  thanking them for   
their efforts in his behalf1 ,dr4       
,murdoch said of  ,cheshire3 ,the       
election has ended as ,i wished4 ,other 
men may tremble as  to the outcome4 ,i  

have not one misgiving4 ,neither love   
for ,dr4 ,cheshire  nor prejudice       
against any man can warp my judgment in 
this matter4 ,i say  now 7as ,i said    
when ,i nominated him7 that we have made
 no mistake4#bi  ,this warm praise from 
a man of ,dr4 ,murdoch's high character 
and ability  must have been very        
encouraging to ,cheshire4    ,an amusing
 and interesting tribute to ,cheshire's 
election as assistant  bishop were some 
verses by ,rev4 ,john ,e4 ,c4 ,smedes4  
,dr4 ,smedes1 a former  clergyman of the
 ,diocese1 had been one of ,cheshire's  
examiners for  deacon's orders and had  
presented him for ordination as priest4 
,his  lines are as follows3             
,,congratulations ,,to ,a               
,,bishop-,,elect      ,news sweeter and 
fresher    ,i ask not1 ,joe ,cheshire3  
,you are bishop assistant    ,elect2    
though too distant    ,for love's       
fondest issue1    ,alas6 or ,i'd kiss   
you4    ',twas my joy to examine you    
,and find no mean sham in you2    ,for  

deep did they ram in you1    ,at        
,berkeley and ,trinity1    ,a full      
charge of divinity4    ',twas my joy1   
mine eye feasted1    ,to see duly       
priested    ,the youth ,i presented4    
,and now ,i'm contented3    ,they will  
make you a bishop4    ,i send a meek    
wish up    ,to the ,shepherd above1     
,that in wisdom and love    ,you may    
long feed ,his sheep1    ,while the     
,faith you still keep1    ,and then1    
crosier laid down1    ,may at last wear 
a crown4    ,shortly after his election 
,cheshire received an invitation from   
the  vestry of ,calvary ,church1        
,tarboro1 to have his consecration      
service held  there4 ,he accepted the   
invitation and selected ,october #ae as 
the date4  ,it was indeed fitting that  
he should be consecrated in the church  
which  his father had served for a half 
century and in which he himself had     
been brought up and ordained to the     
diaconate4    ,on the day of ,cheshire's
 consecration the little town of        

,tarboro was  taxed almost to its       
capacity to take care of the out-of-town
 people who  had come for the service4  
,about thirty clergymen from the        
dioceses of  ,north ,carolina and ,east 
,carolina were present4 ,the service    
began at  eleven in the morning4 ,the   
ecclesiastical procession1 headed by    
seven  bishops and the bishop-elect1    
entered the church singing the hymn ,the
  ,church's ,one ,foundation4 ,rt4 ,rev4
 ,t4 ,u4 ,dudley1 ,bishop of ,kentucky1 
preached the sermon4 ,bishop ,lyman was 
the consecrator1 assisted by  ,bishops  
,watson1 of ,east ,carolina1 and        
,capers1 of ,south ,carolina4  ,cheshire
 was presented by ,bishop ,weed1 of     
,florida1 and ,bishop ,sessums1  of     
,louisiana4 ,the venerable ,bishop      
,quintard1 of ,tennessee1 also took     
part in the service4 ,all of the bishops
 joined in the laying on of  hands4     
,during the service the choir sang the  
anthem ,how ,beautiful upon  the        
,mountains are the ,feet of ,them that  

,publish ,good ,tidings1 composed  by   
,rev4 ,dr4 ,m4 ,a4 ,curtis4 ,it is      
interesting to note that this anthem was
  sung at the ordination of ,dr4 ,j4 ,b4
 ,cheshire1 ,sr41 in #ahdj and at the   
ordination of ,rev4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1  
,jr41 in #ahhj4 ,the service closed with
  the singing of the recessional ,holy1 
,holy1 ,holy4 ,it was a beautiful  and  
impressive ceremony1 but its beauty was 
marred for ,cheshire by the  absence of 
his father1 who was not well enough to  
attend4    ,bishop ,cheshire's first    
episcopal act was to hold an evening    
service in  ,tarboro1 the night of his  
consecration1 at ,st4 ,luke's ,chapel   
for  ,negroes4 ,he did not lose any time
 in assuming the duties of his new      
office4 ,while in ,tarboro he made      
several visitations in ,edgecombe and   
,halifax counties4 ,on ,october #bc he  
and his family returned to ,charlotte1  
but he did not tarry long4 ,a few days  
later he set out for the mountains  of  
,north ,carolina1 where he spent a month

 visiting the scattered  churches and   
missions in that section4 ,returning    
from the mountains1 he  continued his   
visitations until he was suddenly called
 to ,raleigh on  ,december #ac by the   
death of ,bishop ,lyman1 who had been in
 greatly  enfeebled health for the past 
few months4    ,the death of ,bishop    
,lyman placed the ,assistant ,bishop in 
full charge of  the ,diocese of ,north  
,carolina4 ,the few weeks of work       
,bishop ,cheshire had  had under the    
direction and advice of the senior      
bishop stood him in  good stead now that
 he had the sole responsibility for     
episcopal  guidance of the ,diocese4    
,,chapter ,v    ,first ,years in the    
,episcopacy      ,when ,bishop ,cheshire
 assumed the episcopal oversight of the 
,diocese of  ,north ,carolina1 he felt  
little confidence in his ability to     
fulfill the  duties of the office4 ,he  
did feel that by sincere and diligent   
application he could accomplish much for
 the welfare of the church4 ,when       

elected assistant bishop he was1 in his 
own words1 constrained to  accept the   
call1 not from any sense of fitness in  
myself1 but simply  because such a call 
seems to me to carry with it an         
imperative  obligation to accept1 unless
 the hand of ,god should plainly point  
in  another direction3 a dispensation   
was laid upon me4#cj ,notwithstanding   
his expressed views1 ,bishop ,cheshire  
was1 in the opinion of most  churchmen1 
better fitted for his office by ability1
 temperament1 and  training than any    
other man in ,north ,carolina4          
,bishop ,cheshire met his first diocesan
 convention in ,may1 #ahid1 at ,st4     
,paul's ,church1 ,winston4 ,he opened   
his annual address by saying3 ,i  cannot
 bring into any order or method in my   
own mind1 much less can ,i  put it into 
words1 the feelings which this occasion 
calls up4 ,to no one  can it seem       
stranger than it does to myself that ,i 
should occupy this  place1 and thus     
address you from the chair of           

,ravenscroft1 of ,atkinson1  and of him 
so lately taken from us4 ,he made no    
recommendations for  important changes  
in the policy or work of the church1    
since he wished  to become more         
thoroughly acquainted with the problems 
and needs of the  ,diocese before doing 
so4 ,the ,bishop urged upon the clergy  
then1 as he  was to do many times in the
 future1 the necessity of keeping their 
parochial records in proper order1 and  
observed that no businessman  would     
employ a clerk for a week if he kept his
 books as many of the  parish registers 
were kept4 ,in concluding his address1  
the ,bishop  touched on three subjects  
which were to be collectively the theme 
of his  episcopate3 namely1 the         
importance of regarding the ,diocese    
rather than  the parish as the unit of  
the church2 the necessity of supporting 
all  diocesan institutions2 and the     
great need for continuing and expanding 
the missionary work of the ,diocese4    
,time and time again he drove home  the 

spirit and essence of these subjects1   
until the clergy and laity  alike caught
 some of the fire of his enthusiasm and 
translated his ideas  into living       
reality4    ,one of the first diocesan  
projects ,bishop ,cheshire undertook was
 the  revival of the old mission of     
,valle ,crucis1 established by ,bishop  
,ives  about fifty years before4 ,at the
 same time he planned to revive the     
mission work along the ,watauga ,river4 
,for this difficult work the ,bishop    
had one man in mind who he thought was  
eminently qualified--,rev4 ,milnor      
,jones4 ,his first meeting with ,jones  
had been at the convention of #ahhc4    
,shortly afterwards1 ,bishop ,lyman had 
asked ,cheshire if he would carry to    
,jones a sum of money which had been    
raised to aid him in erecting a  church 
at ,tryon4 ,the ,bishop had added that  
he hoped ,cheshire would spend  a few   
days with ,jones to observe his work4   
,cheshire complied with the  ,bishop's  
request1 and spent a few unforgettable  

days with ,jones1 driving  with him over
 the hills and valleys of ,polk ,county 
to visit his  scattered missions4 ,at   
the time1 he had been greatly impressed 
with  ,jones' influence with the        
mountain people4 ,when he began to plan 
the  revival of ,valle ,crucis1 he      
remembered his experience with the      
picturesque mountain missionary4        
,milnor ,jones1 however1 was in ,oregon 
when the ,bishop was ready to  commence 
his mountain work4 ,in ,january1 #ahid1 
,cheshire wrote asking him  to return to
 ,north ,carolina4 ,in replying to      
,bishop ,cheshire1 ,jones wrote  this   
characteristically laconic letter3      
,where do you want me to go8  ,what do  
you wish me to do8 ,and what salary will
 you give8 ,not that the  amount of the 
salary makes any difference2 ,i only    
wish to know just  what ,i have to go   
on4 ,the ,bishop answered as concisely3 
,i want you to  go to ,valle ,crucis1 on
 the ,watauga ,river4 ,i want you to    
revive the old  ,valle ,crucis ,mission1

 as your special work2 and ,i give you  
for your  field of operations ,watauga1 
,mitchell1 and ,ashe ,counties1 to do   
what you  can in them4 ,i will give you 
six hundred dollars a year1 payable     
monthly4#ca    ,milnor ,jones was a     
rough1 plain-spoken individual with a   
remarkable  faculty for understanding   
and winning the confidence of the simple
  mountain folk4 ,he had a deeply       
religious nature1 and a complete        
fearlessness in preaching the ,gospel as
 he understood it4 ,bishop  ,cheshire   
found him an unusually effective man in 
laying the foundations  of missionary   
work1 but from that point he seemed to  
lack the power to  build further4       
,jones entered with enthusiasm upon his 
work in the mountains of ,north         
,carolina4 ,when the ,bishop began his  
visitations to the western counties  in 
,june1 #ahie1 he found that ,jones had  
made a promising beginning4  ,bishop    
,cheshire spent several weeks with him1 
visiting one mission  station after     

another in the counties of ,mitchell1   
,watauga1 and ,ashe4  ,they preached1   
baptized1 and confirmed in the most     
out-of-the-way places  and under the    
most varied conditions4 ,when they first
 visited  ,bakersville they held        
services in the courthouse1 but upon    
their return  for a second service some 
time later1 they were refused the use of
 the  building on the grounds that the  
courthouse was not safe for large       
crowds4 ,the local newspaper1 however1  
gave as the reason for the refusal  the 
fact that the ,methodists and ,baptists 
held that the ,episcopalians  had been  
preaching uncomfortable doctrine4 ,the  
,bishop and ,jones were  not to be      
daunted2 they held their service on the 
street in front of the  courthouse4 ,a  
large congregation gathered for the     
service4 ,when the  ,bishop began       
preaching he did not think his voice    
would reach the  assemblage1 but after a
 few minutes he felt as if he could make
 himself  heard a mile away4 ,he        

afterwards declared that ,i never spoke 
with  more ease1 freedom1 and enjoyment1
 or with a greater sense of the high    
privilege of being a servant and        
ambassador of my ,lord4#cb    ,another  
interesting episode in ,bishop          
,cheshire's mission work in the         
mountains took place at ,beaver ,creek1 
,ashe ,county1 in the summer of  #ahif4 
,here the ,bishop and ,jones were       
maintaining a mission school with  two  
teachers in a building which had been   
leased for two years4 ,when the  ,bishop
 went to the schoolhouse to hold a      
service1 he was met by a mob of  more   
than fifty men who forcibly prevented   
him from entering4 ,the mob  declared   
that the reason they were preventing him
 from holding his  service was that they
 did not like ,mr4 ,jones' doctrine and 
they  understood that he1 the ,bishop1  
taught the same doctrine4 ,in reporting 
the incident to the convention of the   
,jurisdiction of ,asheville1 the        
,bishop described it as an experience   

which ,i certainly had never  thought a 
possibility in my native state of ,north
 ,carolina4#cc    ,in reviving the old  
mission at ,valle ,crucis ,bishop       
,cheshire did not  intend to follow the 
plan of ,bishop ,ives1 which had been to
 establish a  boys' school and a        
training school for the clergy4 ,his    
primary motive  was to evangelize the   
people of the mountain counties4 ,he    
wanted to make  ,valle ,crucis an       
associate mission from which preachers  
and teachers  should go out and keep up 
the work of evangelizing1 instructing1  
and  educating wherever an opening might
 be found or made4#cd    ,milnor ,jones1
 carrying letters of introduction from  
his ,bishop1 in the  fall of #ahie      
visited the northern states to raise    
funds for his mountain  work4 ,he was   
successful in his efforts and1 with the 
money thus raised1  mission schools were
 established at ,valle ,crucis and at   
,beaver ,creek4 ,in  the course of #ahif
 and #ahig a mission home1 consisting of

 an eight-room  house1 was erected at   
,valle ,crucis at a cost of twelve      
hundred dollars4  ,it was built to      
accommodate a missionary1 a teacher1 and
 several pupils  attending the mission  
school4 ,shortly after this constructive
 beginning  ,milnor ,jones gave up the  
work at ,valle ,crucis4 ,he confined his
 efforts  to the small mission stations 
scattered over ,mitchell1 ,watauga1 and 
,ashe  counties4 ,the ,bishop placed    
,rev4 ,samuel ,f4 ,adams in charge of   
,valle  ,crucis1 and under his guidance 
and that of his successors the work     
progressed steadily4    ,milnor ,jones  
left ,north ,carolina towards the end of
 #ahig4 ,he1 with the  assistance and   
encouragement of ,bishop ,cheshire1 had 
laid the  foundations of a missionary   
work which was to be a credit to the    
church4  ,referring once to the         
character of ,jones' work1 the ,bishop  
remarked3 ,if  ,i had a wild mountain   
country full of moonshiners1 ,i think ,i
 would like  to have him1 but for       

anything more civilized he is too       
savage4#ce ,with  all of ,jones'        
crudeness and faults1 ,bishop ,cheshire 
believed him to be  really a more ,godly
 man than many an one whose life is     
perfectly  conventional and blameless4  
,the ,bishop often remarked that the    
visits  he made to ,milnor ,jones in the
 mountains of ,north ,carolina were     
among  the most interesting experiences 
of his career4    ,coinciding with      
,bishop ,cheshire's efforts to expand   
and revive the  missionary work of the  
church in the mountains1 a movement was 
initiated  to create a missionary       
district from the western counties of   
the ,diocese  of ,north ,carolina4 ,at  
the diocesan convention of #ahid a      
committee was  appointed to study the   
advisability of requesting the ,general 
,convention  to organize the western    
counties of the state into a missionary 
jurisdiction4 ,it was felt by many that 
the present ,diocese was too large  to  
be adequately administered and          

supervised by one bishop4 ,in his       
address to the convention of #ahie      
,bishop ,cheshire substantiated this    
view when he reported that during the   
past year he had been able to  devote   
only nine weeks to the western section  
of the state1 which  embraced nearly    
thirty counties4    ,the ,bishop was in 
sentiment strongly opposed to a division
 of his  ,diocese1 for he disliked      
seeing the church in ,north ,carolina   
divided  further4 ,also1 he had become  
deeply interested in his mountain       
missions  and was loath to relinquish   
them4 ,he realized1 however1 the        
impossibility of properly serving such a
 large territory4 ,moreover1 he  was    
determined not to make the mistake which
 he thought ,bishop ,atkinson1  in      
#ahgg1 and ,bishop ,lyman1 in #ahhb1 had
 made when they opposed the  formation  
of a new diocese4 ,in his opinion1 a    
bishop makes a mistake1  when he opposes
 the well-settled convictions of his    
clergy and people  upon a matter        

affecting the development of the        
,diocese4#cf    ,when the diocesan      
convention met in ,may1 #ahie1 the      
,committee on the  ,proposed ,missionary
 ,jurisdiction recommended that the     
,general ,convention  be requested to   
set apart the western section of the    
,diocese of ,north  ,carolina as a      
missionary jurisdiction4 ,it was further
 recommended that  the line of division 
should be the eastern boundaries of the 
counties of  ,alleghany1 ,wilkes1       
,alexander1 ,catawba1 ,lincoln and      
,gaston4 ,bishop  ,cheshire had         
suggested to the committee this         
territorial division4  ,although it     
meant a great loss of strength to his   
own ,diocese1 the  ,bishop believed that
 the missionary jurisdiction should be  
made large  enough to be of importance1 
and that it should be created with the  
view  of its becoming a diocese at some 
future date4 ,the convention adopted    
the committee's recommendations1 and    
instructed its deputies to present  them

 to the ,general ,convention4    ,when  
this body met in the fall of #ahie1     
,bishop ,cheshire presented in the      
,house of ,bishops the memorial of the  
,diocese of ,north ,carolina  requesting
 the erection of a missionary           
jurisdiction4 ,the memorial was         
referred to the ,committee on ,domestic 
,missions4 ,a few days later the        
,bishop of ,florida1 chairman of the    
committee1 reported the memorial        
unfavorably1 stating that his committee 
did not believe the reasons set  forth  
were sufficient to justify an           
affirmative action4 ,he further         
reported that the legal and             
constitutional requirements had not been
  properly provided for4 ,bishop        
,cheshire then introduced a resolution  
calling for the erection of a missionary
 district and providing that it  should 
be under the limited jurisdiction of the
 ,bishop and ,convention of  the        
,diocese of ,north ,carolina until such 
constitutional amendments could  be     

adopted to remove the objections        
advanced by the ,bishop of ,florida4    
,the ,house of ,bishops adopted the     
resolution with little discussion1 and  
two days later it was approved by the   
,house of ,deputies4 ,following this    
action ,bishop ,cheshire moved that the 
,house of ,bishops should proceed to    
the election of a missionary bishop for 
the newly created district4 ,his  motion
 met with opposition and was postponed  
to a future meeting of the  ,house of   
,bishops4 ,the district1 which was to be
 known as the  ,jurisdiction of         
,asheville1 was temporarily placed under
 the episcopal  care of ,bishop         
,cheshire4    ,only a few weeks after   
the close of the ,general ,convention1  
,bishop  ,cheshire1 on ,november #ab1   
#ahie1 met the first convention of the  
,missionary ,jurisdiction of ,asheville4
 ,he outlined to the clergy and  laity  
what would be expected of them as a     
missionary jurisdiction1 and  gave much 
helpful advice on setting up the        

machinery for carrying on  their work4  
,the ,bishop called to their attention  
the almost incalculable  opportunities  
for extending the influence of the      
church in the mountain  counties4 ,the  
next year he greatly expanded this idea 
in a charge to the  clergy of the       
,jurisdiction4 ,the ,bishop pointed out 
that nine-tenths of  the work in the    
,jurisdiction of ,asheville was to      
evangelize people who  were almost      
wholly ignorant of the church4 ,such    
material aids as  rectories1            
schoolhouses1 and even churches1 while  
undoubtedly helpful1  were not necessary
 adjuncts to the primary object of the  
church3 to  catch men4 ,he urged the    
clergy to know the people1 to preach to 
them in  words they could understand1   
and to make religion an integral part of
  their lives4    ,after completing his 
first year in charge of the             
,jurisdiction of  ,asheville1 and after 
a careful study of the manifold problems
 peculiar  to it1 ,bishop ,cheshire was 

convinced that the erection of the      
missionary  jurisdiction was an act of  
wise and prudent statesmanship4 ,he     
thought  that a missionary who had the  
oversight of three or four counties     
sorely  needed regular visitations from 
the bishop1 and in his opinion the work 
could be more effectively carried on if 
the bishop were able to remain a  week  
or more with each missionary4 ,he       
pressed these points upon the  members  
of the ,house of ,bishops in strongly   
advocating the election of a  bishop for
 the ,jurisdiction4 ,finally1 in the    
fall of #ahih1 the ,house of  ,bishops  
elected the ,rev4 ,junius ,moore        
,horner1 a native ,north ,carolinian1   
as missionary bishop of the             
,jurisdiction of ,asheville4 ,he was    
consecrated on ,december #bh1 #ahih1 in 
,trinity ,church1 ,asheville1 with      
,bishop ,cheshire as the consecrator4   
,after this service ,bishop ,cheshire   
formally turned over to ,bishop ,horner 
the full administration of the          

,jurisdiction4    ,turning now to a     
wholly different phase of ,bishop       
,cheshire's work1 we  take up one of the
 most important achievements of his long
 episcopate1  the establishment of ,st4 
,mary's ,school for girls as a church   
institution4 ,this school had been      
founded in ,raleigh by ,dr4 ,aldert     
,smedes in #ahdb1 and had been nurtured 
and maintained1 through good and  hard  
times1 by its founder and his son and   
successor1 ,dr4 ,bennett  ,smedes4 ,st4 
,mary's was not a church school1 but its
 two rectors had been  ,episcopal       
clergymen1 and thus the institution had 
been under the  exclusive influence of  
the ,episcopal ,church4 ,by #ahif ,dr4  
,bennett ,smedes  was finding it very   
difficult to compete with publicly      
supported and  privately endowed        
schools4 ,at this time he made it known 
that he could  no longer continue ,st4  
,mary's as a private school4    ,the    
,alumnae ,association of ,st4 ,mary's at
 once took action to preserve  the      

school for the church4 ,it sent a       
memorial to the diocesan convention  of 
#ahif1 in which it appealed to the      
,episcopal ,church in ,north ,carolina  
either to endow the ,school1 or to erect
 for it suitable buildings in  ,raleigh 
or elsewhere1 and thus relieve it of one
 great drain1 its heavy  rent4 ,the     
appeal met with sympathetic attention   
from ,bishop ,cheshire4  ,only the year 
before1 he had remarked to the          
convention3 ,i have been1  from earliest
 childhood1 brought up to look upon ,st4
 ,mary's ,school1 at  ,raleigh1 as the  
most valuable of all our church         
institutions or agencies  in ,north     
,carolina4444 ,i cannot too highly      
recommend this school to the  confidence
 of all the people of ,north ,carolina4 
,after careful consideration of the ,st4
 ,mary's ,alumnae memorial1 the         
convention adopted a resolution         
providing for the appointment of a      
committee of six1 to include the        
,bishop1 with the authority to buy      

suitable buildings for a girls' school  
or to purchase land and erect new       
buildings4 ,in direct reply to the      
memorialists1 ,bishop ,cheshire offered 
a resolution1 which the convention      
adopted1 assuring the alumnae that  the 
church in ,north ,carolina will do all  
in its power to place ,st4  ,mary's     
,school upon a permanent foundation as  
an institution under the  charge and    
patronage of the ,church throughout the 
entire ,state4444    ,at the convention 
of #ahig the special committee on a     
diocesan school for  girls reported that
 it had procured a charter of           
incorporation for the  ,board of        
,trustees of ,st4 ,mary's ,school from  
the state legislature1 and  had turned  
over to this corporation all further    
negotiations4 ,the newly  constituted   
,board of ,trustees1 of which ,bishop   
,cheshire was chairman1  then made its  
report4 ,it recommended that not less   
than one hundred  thousand dollars be   
raised for the purchase of a location1  

the erection  of buildings1 and an      
endowment of ,st4 ,mary's ,school4 ,the 
,board announced  that it had contracted
 to purchase for fifty thousand dollars 
a site  known as the ,st4 ,mary's       
,tract4 ,the convention adopted the     
report as it  was made4    ,during the  
past year1 at the request of the        
,trustees1 ,bishop ,cheshire  had spent 
a month visiting many towns throughout  
the state in an attempt  to interest the
 people of the church in the needs and  
potentialities of  ,st4 ,mary's ,school4
 ,his efforts met with gratifying       
success4 ,he appealed  to the women of  
the state1 and especially to the alumnae
 of ,st4 ,mary's1  to raise fifty       
thousand dollars for an endowment which 
should be known  as ,the ,st4 ,mary's   
,alumnae ,association ,fund4 ,to        
stimulate the interest  and increase the
 activity of the women in this plan1    
,bishop ,cheshire  organized the ,order 
of the ,patrons and ,daughters of ,st4  
,mary's4 ,he  proposed to find fifty    

women who would give five hundred       
dollars each  towards the endowment1 and
 two hundred and fifty others who would 
each  contribute one hundred dollars4   
,he reported to the convention of #ahig 
that he had raised a substantial amount 
in this way4    ,thus1 ,st4 ,mary's was 
established as the official school of   
the ,episcopal  ,church in ,north       
,carolina4 ,the ,diocese of ,east       
,carolina and the  ,jurisdiction of     
,asheville had agreed to contribute to  
the maintenance of  the school and were 
given representation on the ,board of   
,trustees4 ,dr4  ,bennett ,smedes was   
retained as rector of the school and    
continued in  this position until his   
death in #ahii4 ,the first year the     
school was  under the control of the    
church the number of boarding students  
increased fifty per cent4 ,to a great   
extent the enlarged enrollment was  due 
to the renewed interest which ,bishop   
,cheshire had aroused4    ,in the course
 of his negotiations to establish ,st4  

,mary's as a church  school1 the ,bishop
 discovered that the churchmen of ,south
 ,carolina had  been for some time loyal
 and generous supporters of the school4 
,after  reflection upon this fact1 he   
determined to ask the ,diocese of ,south
  ,carolina to co-operate in the        
maintenance and management of ,st4      
,mary's4  ,when he discussed the subject
 with the ,board of ,trustees1 it was   
decided  to appoint a committee of the  
,board to meet at ,saluda to confer with
  representatives from ,south ,carolina4
 ,the conference was held in ,august1   
#ahih4 ,after a friendly and            
constructive discussion1 the conference 
resolved that ,st4 ,mary's ,school      
should be placed under the control and  
patronage of all the ,carolina          
,dioceses4    ,bishop ,cheshire met with
 the convention of the ,diocese of      
,south ,carolina  in the spring of #ahii
 and presented the advantages and       
possibilities of  ,st4 ,mary's as a     
church institution4 ,the resolution of  

the ,saluda  conference was reported to 
the convention and was unanimously      
adopted4  ,bishop ,capers1 two          
clergymen1 and two laymen were appointed
 to the ,board  of ,trustees to         
represent ,south ,carolina4 ,after      
patient and diligent work  ,bishop      
,cheshire was able to unite the church  
of the two states in the  support of one
 church school for girls4 ,in a         
comparatively short time it  was to     
become the largest ,episcopal school for
 girls in the ,united  ,states4    ,in  
the winter of #ahig ,bishop ,cheshire   
suffered an irreparable loss in  the    
death of his wife4 ,their married life  
of twenty-two years had been  remarkably
 happy4 ,mrs4 ,cheshire had been a great
 help to him in his work  as deacon and 
priest and later as bishop of the       
,diocese4 ,she gave him  encouragement1 
devotion1 and the benefit of her sound  
common sense4 ,the  ,bishop often spoke 
of how much she meant to him in his     
work1 and of  their happy life together4

    ,it was a fortunate coincidence that
 the ,lambeth ,conference came in the   
summer of #ahig1 for it enabled him to  
have a complete change1 removing  him   
from those associations which reminded  
him so strongly of his wife4  ,the      
,lambeth ,conference1 which convenes    
approximately every ten years at        
,lambeth ,palace1 ,london1 is composed  
of all the bishops of the ,episcopal    
,church throughout the world4 ,bishop   
,cheshire decided to attend1  believing 
it would be broadening and an           
exceedingly worth-while  experience4    
,the object of the ,conference was to   
discuss religious  questions of         
world-wide interest4 ,in the course of  
its sessions it would  be divided into  
groups which would discuss problems     
relating to  particular countries4      
,the ,bishop sailed from ,new ,york on  
,june #b1 arriving in ,england six days 
later4 ,since the ,conference did not   
commence until ,july #a1 he spent the   
intervening time sight-seeing4 ,this was

 the summer of ,queen ,victoria's       
,diamond ,jubilee1 giving an additional 
interest to his trip4 ,he attended  the 
,jubilee service at ,st4 ,paul's1 and   
remarked that the ,bishop of  ,london   
preached a good sermon for the occasion4
    ,the ,lambeth ,conference was       
formally opened at ,westminster ,abbey  
by the  ,archbishop of ,canterbury1 who 
was to preside over its sessions4 ,there
  were present for the ,conference one  
hundred and ninety-four bishops from    
all parts of the world4 ,forty-nine of  
these represented the ,episcopal        
,church of the ,united ,states4 ,the    
sessions of the ,conference continued   
through ,july #ca4 ,bishop ,cheshire was
 a member of the committee on church    
unity1 and1 as far as his journal       
reveals1 this was the only committee  on
 which he served4 ,reporting upon the   
,lambeth ,conference to his  diocesan   
convention the following year1 ,bishop  
,cheshire said3 ,the first  message     
which we bring home from the ,lambeth   

,conference of #ahig is that  ,god in   
,his ,providence is opening the world to
 us2 and to prepare us for  the work we 
are to do1 ,he is drawing all parts of  
the world-possessing  ,anglo-,saxon race
 into a closer union of common interest 
and sympathies1  and of mutual          
confidence4 ,he declared that the       
,american bishops1 while  receiving much
 benefit from the ,conference1 had also 
contributed  constructively to its work4
    ,shortly after the ,conference      
closed1 ,bishop ,cheshire visited the   
,archbishop of ,york for a few days4    
,upon leaving ,york he spent about a    
month traveling in ,england1 ,scotland1 
the ,orkneys1 and ,ireland4 ,in early   
,september he left ,england for the     
,continent1 where he visited in         
succession ,antwerp1 ,brussels1 and     
,cologne4 ,of his reactions to the      
cathedrals of these three cities1 the   
,bishop observed that they do not  seem 
to me to be really so full of interest  
and beauty as even the  inferior        

,english cathedrals4 ,they do not so    
abound with evidences and  symbols of   
their connection with the life and      
history of the country and  people1 and 
so in spite of all their ornamentation  
they have a barren  look4#cg ,the       
,bishop did some further sight-seeing in
 ,germany1  ,switzerland1 and ,france4  
,while in ,switzerland he saw the famous
 ,lion of  ,lucerne1 which he thought   
possessed a dignity1 nobleness1 and     
beauty  about it which exceeds anything 
of the kind ,i have ever seen before4   
,leaving from ,southampton1 he arrived  
in ,new ,york on ,september #bd1        
feeling much refreshed and ready to     
return to the work of his ,diocese4     
,two years after his visit to ,england  
,bishop ,cheshire married ,miss         
,elizabeth ,lansdale ,mitchell1 of      
,beltsville1 ,maryland4 ,she was the    
daughter of ,rev4 ,walter ,a4 ,mitchell1
 an ,episcopal clergyman4 ,the  marriage
 proved to be happy and successful in   
every way4 ,mrs4 ,cheshire  was a       

splendid mother to the ,bishop's        
children1 and they all became  devoted  
to her4    ,when a friend heard that    
,bishop ,cheshire was to be married1 he 
remarked  to the ,bishop that with his  
large family he needed a wife4 ,with his
  characteristic honesty the ,bishop    
replied3 ,i don't need any such thing4  
,my daughters take the best care of me  
and want me to have the best of         
everything4 ,i don't need a wife2 ,i am 
marrying again just because ,i want     
to4#ch    ,from the ,general ,convention
 of #ahie to that of #aica1 ,bishop     
,cheshire  attended every triennial     
meeting of this body4 ,in the first     
three or  four conventions1 he did not  
take an active part in the discussions  
of  the ,house of ,bishops4 ,for that   
matter1 he never participated as        
prominently in its deliberations as some
 of the other bishops4 ,at the  #ahie   
convention he was appointed to the      
committees on the ,admission of  ,new   
,dioceses and on the ,consecration of   

,bishops1 and at the next  triennial    
meeting he was made a member of the     
,joint ,commission on the  ,revision of 
the ,constitution and ,canons4 ,this    
last appointment pleased  him1 since it 
was the kind of work for which he was   
well prepared4 ,his  legal training     
influenced his partiality for this type 
of work4 ,in #aijd  he was appointed to 
the ,committee on ,canons1 on which he  
served for  almost every convention     
until his death4 ,as a member of this   
committee  he made his most important   
contribution to the work of the ,general
  ,convention4 ,it will be recalled that
 it was in this capacity that he had    
done his best work in the diocesan      
conventions4 ,from time to time he was  
made a member of other regular and      
special committees4    ,when ,bishop    
,cheshire assumed the office of bishop  
of the ,diocese of  ,north ,carolina1 he
 felt it his duty to exercise the full  
authority of  that office4 ,in deciding 
upon this course of action he did not   

intend to  be arbitrary or despotic in  
administering the ,diocese1 although at 
times  some clergymen and laymen seemed 
to think so4 ,but when they became      
better acquainted with him and his      
methods1 they admired and respected  him
 the more4 ,the ,bishop had a           
forthright1 and sometimes decidedly     
blunt1 manner of speaking1 which1 to    
those who did not know him so well1     
seemed arbitrary or overbearing4 ,he had
 disagreements with his  clergymen1 but 
they felt that they could always count  
upon receiving a  fair hearing from him4
 ,when the ,bishop realized he was in   
error upon any  point1 no one was       
quicker than he to admit it4    ,in     
#ahie ,bishop ,cheshire1 for the first  
time in the history of the  ,diocese1   
issued to the clergy ,visitation        
,articles1 as called for by a  canon of 
the church4 ,after employing them for a 
year he found they were  useful and     
calculated to make the visitations of   
the ,bishop of more  real value to the  

,clergy and to the people4 ,the ,bishop 
has for so long a  time ceased to exert 
any real influence or control in the    
ordinary life  and work of the parish in
 all parts of the ,united ,states1 that 
the  assertion of that authority1 which 
in theory our ,bishops are supposed to  
possess1 is perhaps impracticable at    
present4#ci ,he thought that if  the    
bishop would make himself acquainted    
with the affairs of each  congregation  
during his visitation1 it would         
strengthen the influence of  the        
episcopate1 and would go far towards the
 breaking up of our present             
congregational parochialism4 ,one of    
,bishop ,cheshire's customs which       
endeared him to his people was that of  
calling upon the members of a           
congregation during his visitation4 ,of 
this practice he once remarked3  ,people
 like the attention and it makes ,bishop
 and people feel nearer  together1 but  
in most cases they do not want very long
 visits4#dj ,the  ,bishop's keen        

understanding of human nature was one of
 his most notable  qualities4    ,bishop
 ,cheshire thought that southern bishops
 had a great deal to be  thankful for1  
particularly that in the ,south as much 
as anywhere in the  world1 ,i believe1  
the ,bishop may still be in some real   
and personal  sense1 the pastor of his  
flock1 can live in familiar and         
confidential  relations with his people4
 ,he deplored the tendency1 which seemed
 to be  growing in some quarters1 of    
making the bishop simply an             
administrator  of ecclesiastical        
affairs4    ,while ,bishop ,cheshire was
 in no sense a ritualist1 or what is    
commonly  known as high church1 he      
believed in a strict adherence to the   
rubrics  of the ,book of ,common        
,prayer4 ,he had a great reverence and  
admiration  for the services of the     
,prayer ,book1 and consequently little  
patience  with those clergymen who      
attempted to alter their order or       
length4 ,he  was not a dogmatic         

formalist1 but was thoroughly convinced 
that the  canons and rubrics of the     
church should be obeyed and not         
disregarded by  those individuals who   
might take exception to them4    ,in a  
charge to his clergy on the subject of  
,public ,worship1 ,bishop  ,cheshire    
pointed out that the church was         
established and is sustained by  ,christ
 for two purposes3 first1 to be the     
depository and source of  spiritual     
,truth and ,power2 and second1 to bring 
men into living contact  with that      
spiritual ,truth and ,power4 ,the       
,prayer ,book is a means by  which the  
church can diffuse and extend the truth1
 and it is also a  means of developing  
and conserving the influence of the     
church4 ,in his  opinion1 extemporary   
methods of worship had a tendency to    
weaken and  finally destroy the concept 
of common public worship4 ,the public   
worship  of the ,episcopal ,church was  
not left to individual whim or judgment1
 but  was definitely prescribed4 ,he    

maintained that the participation of the
  congregation in the services and      
sacraments of the church is its         
principal means of cultivating its      
oneness with ,christ4 ,the ,bishop      
enjoined the clergy to follow the       
services as they were set down in the   
,prayer ,book1 and warned them that they
 would gain nothing1 but rather  would  
injure the church by seeking to make    
their services more  attractive through 
short cuts or innovations4    ,in a     
,pastoral ,letter to the clergy and     
laity of the ,diocese1 ,bishop          
,cheshire further developed the subject 
of public worship and the use of  the   
,prayer ,book4 ,he gave much sound      
instruction as to how the minister  and 
congregation should conduct themselves  
in any of the church's  services1       
particularly emphasizing the importance 
of correct kneeling  and audible and    
intelligent responses4 ,he stressed the 
value which the  clergy and laity would 
receive from a regular observance of the

 feast  days and fast days4 ,the ,bishop
 expressed his strong disapproval of    
decorating the church for any purpose   
other than for ,god's honor4 ,the       
sacred character of the church should   
not be sacrificed to gratify the  vanity
 of men and women4 ,he referred         
particularly to the extravagant         
excesses often indulged in when         
decorating the church for weddings4     
,this ,pastoral ,letter is just as      
applicable to churchmen today and is    
worthy of as much consideration from    
them as when it was first issued in     
#aiab4 ,it would be of great value to   
them to hear it read annually in the    
churches of the ,diocese4    ,bishop    
,cheshire never went to extremes in     
anything4 ,in spiritual as well  as in  
material matters he believed in         
preserving a sense of proportion4  ,he  
advised his clergy to use practical     
judgment in the observance of  ,lenten  
services4 ,very few clergymen were      
capable of preaching good  sermons for  

forty or more consecutive days and1 in  
his opinion1 few  congregations desired 
them4 ,even in those cases where a      
preaching ,lent  had been successful1 he
 thought that a change would have a     
salutary  effect upon the people4    ,on
 the subject of church music he tried to
 preserve an equilibrium of  opinion4   
,the ,bishop was very fond of good      
ecclesiastical music and  thoroughly    
enjoyed singing himself4 ,while his     
standards of church music  were high1 he
 did not at all approve of too elaborate
 arrangements of  the old chants and    
hymns4 ,he wanted them sung properly1   
but also in such  a way that at least a 
part of the congregation would be able  
to join in  with the choir4 ,on several 
occasions he was known to have stopped  
the  organist and choir in the middle of
 a hymn or chant because the tune was   
either too difficult or too decorative4 
,bishop ,cheshire's interest in domestic
 missionary work was by no means        
limited to the zeal which he had        

displayed when working in the mountains 
of ,north ,carolina4 ,in his report on  
missionary work to the convention of    
#ahih1 he made a strong appeal for      
domestic missions and missionaries4 ,he 
called to the attention of the          
convention the fact that the growth of  
the church in the ,diocese was chiefly  
through its missions4 ,since there  were
 no large city parishes1 its strength   
lay in the towns1 villages1  and country
 districts4 ,in these1 said he1 has been
 our growth1 and in  these is our hope  
and strength for the future4 ,the       
missionary clergymen  had presented for 
confirmation during the past year more  
than half of  the total number of       
persons confirmed4 ,he concluded these  
remarks with  an urgent plea for        
adequate salaries for the missionaries4 
,up to #aija the administration of the  
diocesan missions was in the hands  of  
the ,bishop and the ,executive          
,missionary ,committee of the           
convention4  ,bishop ,cheshire reported 

that under this system the missionary   
work  usually showed an annual deficit  
of from four to five hundred dollars1   
even after he had used funds for it     
which should have been reserved for     
special work4 ,with the advice and      
approbation of ,bishop ,cheshire1 the   
convention of #aija divided the         
missionary work of the ,diocese into    
three  divisions--the ,convocation of   
,raleigh1 the ,convocation of           
,charlotte1 and  the ,convocation for   
,colored ,work4 ,these convocations1    
each with an  archdeacon at its head1   
were given full control of diocesan     
missions4  ,the archdeacons1 under the  
supervision of the bishop1 had the      
direction  and control of the           
missionaries in their respective        
convocations4 ,under  this new          
organization the diocesan missions      
progressed steadily1 and the  treasurers
 of the convocations seldom reported a  
deficit4 ,some fifteen  years after this
 plan was inaugurated1 ,bishop ,cheshire

 declared that the  missionary work had 
been prosecuted with greater vigor and  
system than  ever before in my knowledge
 of the ,diocese4    ,at the close of   
the first decade of ,bishop ,cheshire's 
episcopate1 a  large number of clergy   
and laity gathered at ,good ,shepherd   
,church1  ,raleigh1 on the evening of   
,october #ad1 #aijc1 to celebrate the   
occasion4  ,at this service the ,bishop 
made an address in which he reviewed his
 work  for the period4 ,during the      
decade he had held more than #d1jjj     
services1  preached #a1djj sermons1     
delivered #ejj addresses1 confirmed     
#d1djj  persons1 consecrated #bg        
churches and chapels1 and ordained #bg  
clergymen4  ,to him the greatest        
achievement of the past ten years was   
the  acquisition of ,st4 ,mary's and its
 establishment as the church school of  
all the ,carolina dioceses4 ,in #ahig   
his ,diocese had assumed in behalf of   
,st4 ,mary's an obligation of fifty     
thousand dollars to be paid in twenty   

years4 ,at the end of six years only    
eighteen thousand dollars of the  debt  
remained1 and in addition ten thousand  
dollars had been spent upon  permanent  
equipment for the school4 ,since the    
,diocese took over ,st4  ,mary's1 the   
number of boarding pupils had increased 
threefold4 ,in  conclusion1 he declared 
that they should not look too much to   
the past  but should press on to the    
future with the work of the church4     
,representatives of the clergy and laity
 congratulated the ,bishop upon  his    
tenth anniversary1 pledging their       
loyalty and devotion to him1 and        
expressing the appreciation of their    
respective bodies for his splendid      
work4 ,mr4 ,richard ,h4 ,battle1 in     
behalf of a number of the ,bishop's     
friends1 presented him with a beautiful 
pectoral cross and a silk  cassock4 ,in 
acknowledging the kind expressions and  
gifts1 the ,bishop  remarked3 ,i have   
one single desire1 it is to serve ,god  
in this ,diocese4  ,it was the interest 

that ,i took in the work here that      
brought me into  the ministry1 and ,i   
have no desire to labor elsewhere4 ,i   
love my people1  and ,i appreciate the  
kindness1 sympathy and aid that has been
 given  me4444#da    ,the following day 
the colored clergy and laity honored the
 ,bishop in a  service at ,st4 ,ambrose 
,church1 ,raleigh4 ,resolutions         
expressing the  confidence and affection
 of the colored churchmen were presented
 to  ,bishop ,cheshire by ,rev4 ,henry  
,b4 ,delany4 ,rev4 ,primus ,p4 ,alston1 
on  behalf of the colored clergy1 gave  
the ,bishop a handsome stole1           
accompanying it with an address         
expressing the gratitude of the colored 
people for his work among them4         
,afterwards1 the ,bishop observed that  
nothing during the past ten years had   
been more gratifying to him than  the   
unvarying respect1 courtesy and loyal   
support which he had  received at the   
hands of his colored clergy and laity4  
,,chapter ,,vi    ,man and ,bishop      

,in addition to his accomplishments as a
 clergyman1 prelate1 and scholar1       
,bishop ,cheshire attained considerable 
skill and reputation as a  sportsman4   
,fishing and hunting were the sports he 
liked best and the  only ones he        
indulged in4 ,he once remarked that he  
had been fond of  fishing from his      
boyhood1 but he thought his liking for  
it increased  with age4 ,his prowess as 
a fisherman was well known to his       
churchmen  from the coast to the        
mountains of ,north ,carolina4 ,during  
the #ahij's1  when he was building up   
his mountain work1 he would sometimes   
allow  himself a few hours of relaxation
 to fish for the fine trout in the cold 
mountain streams4 ,as a good fisherman  
should1 he always carried his  tackle   
with him when traveling near promising  
streams4 ,in later years1  whenever he  
had the opportunity1 he returned to the 
mountains for a  brief vacation of      
fishing4    ,on one of these trips1     
accompanied by his son1 ,joseph ,b4     

,cheshire1 ,jr41  he was fishing in the 
,watauga ,river4 ,when they came to a   
ford1 the  ,bishop recalled that he had 
an old friend1 ,bill ,holler1 living a  
short  distance away1 whom he would like
 very much to see4 ,accordingly1 they   
walked up the road about a half mile4   
,pausing at the foot of a  mountainside1
 the ,bishop asked his son to climb up  
and tell ,mr4 ,holler  that an old      
friend wanted to see him1 but not to    
mention his name4  ,shortly afterwards1 
his son returned accompanied by a little
 old man1  with long white hair and     
beard and a pleasant1 wrinkled face4 ,as
 soon as  the old man saw his visitor1  
his face lit up with a smile1 he threw  
open  his arms1 rushed up to the        
,bishop1 and embraced him1 crying3      
,lord6 ,it's  the old ,bishop1 the old  
,bishop1 the old ,bishop6    ,the       
,bishop's fondness for hunting was      
almost as great as that for  fishing4   
,he began hunting in early boyhood but1 
according to his own  statement1 he     

never became a good shot4 ,many of his  
hunting companions1  however1 would     
undoubtedly contest the point4 ,among   
the people of his  ,diocese he was      
famous for his skill in wild turkey     
hunting4 ,strange as  it may seem1 he   
did not kill a wild turkey until he was 
sixty-four years  old4 ,up to that time 
he had hunted partridges a great deal1  
but as he  grew older1 he had to give it
 up because it required so much walking4
  ,hunting wild turkeys1 although       
strenuous enough1 was better suited to  
his years4 ,after his first kill1       
scarcely a season passed that he did    
not bag at least one turkey4 ,as the    
,bishop's enthusiasm for this sport     
grew1 he made an interesting collection 
of turkey calls4 ,they ranged  from     
several varieties made from the wing    
bone of the turkey to the box  type1    
which was usually made of cedar4        
,illustration3 ,bishop ,cheshire fishing
 in the ,french ,broad ,river1          
,september1 #aiab4     ,illustration3   

,photograph by ,bayard ,wootten   ,the  
,parker-,cheshire ,house in ,tarboro1   
birthplace of ,bishop ,cheshire4   ,the 
house was built by ,theophilus ,parker1 
the ,bishop's grandfather4    ,less than
 a month before his death ,bishop       
,cheshire went turkey hunting  in the   
,roanoke ,river swamp1 near ,scotland   
,neck4 ,on this occasion1 at the  age of
 eighty-two1 he killed a fine gobbler4  
,about a week later he was  to go to    
,st4 ,stephen's ,church1 ,oxford1 for a 
visitation and planned  while there to  
go turkey shooting with his friend1     
,rev4 ,reuben ,meredith1  rector of the 
church4 ,his son ,godfrey was to join   
them for the hunt on  ,monday4 ,a few   
days before leaving home1 however1 he   
did not feel at all  well and1 after    
consulting his physician1 informed his  
daughter1 ,miss  ,sarah ,cheshire1 he   
would give up the hunt4 ,but by         
,saturday the ,bishop  was feeling so   
much better that on his way to ,oxford  
he wrote his  daughter the following    

letter3     ,dear ,sarah3     ,when     
,godfrey comes to ,oxford tomorrow have 
him bring my gun and the bag   in which 
,i keep my hunting clothes and turkey   
calls4 ,i am going turkey   hunting on  
,monday4     ',when the devil was sick  
the devil a monk would be1 ,when the    
devil was   well the devil a monk was   
he4'     ,your affectionate father1     
,joseph ,blount ,cheshire    ,bishop    
,cheshire had an enviable reputation    
throughout the state as a  raconteur of 
rare charm4 ,some of his best stories   
came from his fishing  and hunting      
experiences1 but they covered many other
 subjects as well4  ,most of his best   
anecdotes of personalities and events in
 ,north ,carolina  history are found in 
his book ,nonnulla4 ,it was not always  
the content  of his stories which caught
 and held the interest of his listeners1
 but  quite as often the manner in which
 the ,bishop told them4 ,for this reason
  they sometimes lose their color and   
charm when read or repeated by  someone 

else4 ,when he told an amusing story1   
which he often did1 one of  its best    
features was his own enjoyment in the   
telling and his hearty1  contagious     
laughter4 ,another characteristic of the
 ,bishop's stories was  the natural way 
they appeared in his conversation1      
usually graphically  illustrating or    
emphasizing a point4 ,he never dragged a
 story into his  conversation merely for
 the pleasure of telling it4    ,as a   
conversationalist1 however1 he did not  
depend upon his ability to  tell a good 
story4 ,he could talk interestingly to  
persons from any walk  of life1 seeming 
always to know just the right thing to  
say to each4 ,he  never flattered1 but  
gave freely his candid opinion whenever 
requested4  ,although he talked a great 
deal himself1 the ,bishop made his      
listener  feel that he was interested in
 his ideas and wanted to hear them4     
,in his role as a preacher of sermons   
,bishop ,cheshire did not resemble  his 
modern prototype1 who quite often is    

more of a brilliant lecturer  than a    
preacher4 ,the ,bishop employed no      
oratory in his sermons1 but  preached   
very much as if he were talking to a    
group of friends4 ,he took  a text from 
the ,bible1 most frequently from the    
,new ,testament1 and  proceeded to      
expound and interpret it1 seldom using  
stories or anecdotes  to illustrate his 
ideas4 ,they were unadorned1            
straightforward  expositions of         
religious truth4 ,of his sermons1 the   
,bishop remarked to  one of his         
clergymen1 ,because a man is not        
converted to ,christ through  my        
teaching and preaching1 ,i do not on    
that account conclude that he has       
rejected ,christ2 he has only rejected  
my representation of ,christ4    ,dr4   
,robert ,b4 ,drane1 for more than fifty 
years rector of ,st4 ,paul's  ,church1  
,edenton1 once wrote of a rather typical
 reaction to the ,bishop's  sermons4 ,he
 invited a man1 who scarcely ever came  
to church1 to come to  ,st4 ,paul's to  

hear ,bishop ,cheshire4 ,the man said he
 would be glad to1  that he had heard   
the ,bishop preach several times1 and   
that he always  talked sense4 ,dr4      
,drane remarked that if the thousands of
 persons who  belonged to no church     
could be made to realize that preachers 
did  really talk sense1 the membership  
of the churches would increase and      
religion would be more respected4       
,while not meaning to belittle the value
 of sermons1 ,bishop ,cheshire          
sincerely felt that the prayers1        
responses1 chants1 and hymns of the     
church's service1 climaxed by the       
supreme act of ,christian worship1 the  
celebration of the ,holy ,communion1    
held a greater significance for  mankind
 and better satisfied spiritual needs4  
,bishop ,cheshire's interest and        
activities extended to all phases of the
  church's life in his ,diocese4 ,there 
was scarcely any work or endeavor of    
his people too small to attract his     
attention4 ,he often remarked that it   

is the little things that count4 ,it was
 his capacity to understand and         
sympathize with the everyday problems of
 his people that so greatly  endeared   
him to them4 ,although the ,bishop never
 in any way permitted  himself or his   
clergy to become involved in            
controversial political  affairs1 he    
displayed at all times a vital interest 
in the social  problems of his state4   
,when he felt it to be the duty of the  
church to  take a positive stand on a   
social question1 he did not hesitate to 
make  clear her position and to take    
what action he believed best suited to  
the occasion4    ,the increasing number 
of divorces in ,north ,carolina and the 
growing  laxity of the laws on that     
subject was a problem which gave the    
,bishop  much concern4 ,in #aijd he     
called the matter to the attention of   
his  diocesan convention and suggested a
 remedy for the situation4 ,the ,bishop 
asserted that there had been sufficient 
talk and theorizing upon the  divorce   

question and that now was the time for  
positive action4 ,the  apathy of the    
public conscience1 which had permitted  
the divorce law to  be greatly modified1
 was1 in his opinion1 the cause of the  
divorce evil4  ,bishop ,cheshire        
believed there was only one true reason 
for divorce3  adultery4 ,for many years 
it had been the only cause recognized by
 the  state law1 but in recent years    
frequent changes in the law to meet     
individual cases had created an         
unjustifiable condition4 ,not one of    
these modifications of the law had been 
adopted upon any general  principle of  
morals or of social science4    ,the    
,bishop called upon the convention to   
express its condemnation of the  present
 legislation on the divorce question1   
and to issue an address to  the people  
of the state urging the necessity of    
reforming the divorce  laws4 ,he also   
suggested that the convention appoint a 
committee to  communicate with the other
 ,christian bodies of the state in order

 to  secure united action on the        
subject4 ,after serious deliberation1   
the  convention indorsed the ,bishop's  
position4 ,it authorized him to appoint 
a committee1 of which he should be      
chairman1 to publish an address to  the 
people of the state expressing the      
sentiment of the ,episcopal ,church  on 
the divorce question2 and to prepare a  
memorial to the ,general  ,assembly     
requesting that the divorce laws be     
restored to the status of  the code of  
#ahhc4 ,the convention sent a request to
 the ,diocese of ,east  ,carolina1 the  
,jurisdiction of ,asheville1 and all the
 other denominations  of the state to   
join in this memorial4    ,bishop       
,cheshire lost no time in forwarding to 
every church conference or  synod1      
meeting prior to ,january1 #aije1 the   
resolutions of his diocesan  convention4
 ,favorable action was taken on the     
resolutions by the  ,presbyterian1      
,methodist1 ,baptist1 and ,methodist    
,protestant churches4 ,the  ,bishop     

attended the ,presbyterian ,synod and   
the ,conference of the  ,methodist      
,church1 and was cordially received4    
,when the ,general ,assembly met in     
#aije1 ,governor ,robert ,b4 ,glenn     
recommended that the divorce laws be    
restored to the form as found in  the   
code of #ahhc4 ,after a close           
consideration of the memorial of the    
,north ,carolina churches1 the          
legislature enacted a law which embodied
 in  substance the request of the       
memorialists4    ,bishop ,cheshire once 
more concerned himself with the divorce 
problem  when the legislature of #aica  
was considering several bills for       
modifying  the conditions for granting  
divorces4 ,at the time the bills were   
under  discussion he was visiting his   
daughter in ,louisiana4 ,in order to    
place  his views on the subject before  
the legislature1 the ,bishop addressed a
  letter to the chairman of the         
,judiciary ,committee of the ,house of  
,representatives4 ,it was published in  

the ,news and ,observer of ,february    
#ab4    ,he again attacked the practice 
of enacting special laws for  particular
 persons1 and asserted that in some     
incidents the laws were                 
unconstitutional4 ,he reviewed the      
efforts which he and many other         
citizens had made about twenty-five     
years before to restrict the causes  for
 granting divorce4 ,with public opinion 
behind them1 their efforts had  been    
successful1 but since that time many of 
the old abuses had  reappeared4 ,the    
,bishop declared that from his knowledge
 of public  opinion in ,north ,carolina1
 sentiment against relaxing the divorce 
laws  was as strong then as it had been 
twenty-five years before4 ,in his       
letter he confined himself to one       
principal idea1 the will of the  people 
of the ,state against personal influence
 in behalf of individual  parties1      
believing that it would produce a       
greater effect than if he  merely       
reiterated the usual moral and social   

arguments4    ,it cannot be said with   
certainty how much effect the ,bishop's 
letter had  on the members of the       
legislature1 but coming from a man whose
 character  and opinions were held in   
such high regard by ,north ,carolinians1
 it must  have had some influence upon  
the outcome4 ,the proposed measures were
  defeated by large majorities in the   
,general ,assembly4    ,on one of the   
most controversial questions of the     
twentieth century1  national            
prohibition1 ,bishop ,cheshire held very
 definite views4 ,he  believed that each
 state should be allowed to decide the  
question for  itself1 and that a federal
 prohibition law would breed more evil  
than  good4    ,several years before the
 passage of the national prohibition    
law1 ,bishop  ,cheshire attended a      
meeting in ,raleigh which was           
considering various  aspects of social  
welfare work4 ,he was present as an     
invited guest4 ,the  business of the    
meeting was moving along smoothly1 when 

someone  introduced a resolution to the 
effect that the meeting should          
memorialize ,congress with a demand that
 the manufacture and sale of  alcoholic 
beverages be made illegal in the ,united
 ,states4 ,the resolution  was received 
with much enthusiasm4 ,many speeches    
were made advocating  its passage and   
all were applauded4 ,after the          
enthusiasm had somewhat  subsided and   
the question was about to be put1       
,bishop ,cheshire asked  permission to  
say a few words4 ,he stated that he     
deplored excessive  drinking and its    
evil consequences1 suffered as much if  
not more by the  innocent as well as the
 drinker4 ,he sympathized with the      
purpose of the  resolution to achieve   
more widespread temperance1 but1 he     
reminded them1  good intentions unless  
intelligently directed often did more   
harm than  good4 ,under the ,american   
system each state or community had the  
authority to outlaw liquor1 as had      
already been done in ,north ,carolina4  

,so long as the prohibition of liquor   
was confined to those states whose      
public opinion was behind it1 he        
believed it could be enforced4 ,he did  
not think1 however1 that a federal law  
could be enforced in those states  where
 public opinion and the state           
authorities were in opposition4 ,he     
maintained that what had already been   
accomplished in some states in  behalf  
of temperance would be jeopardized if an
 attempt was made to  impose prohibition
 upon those states which were not yet   
ready for it4    ,upon the conclusion of
 the ,bishop's remarks1 there was for a 
few moments  complete silence4 ,it was  
as if someone had thrown cold water over
 the  entire meeting4 ,when a member    
moved that the resolution be laid on the
  table1 not a voice was raised in      
opposition to the motion1 and the       
subject was dropped4 ,the ,bishop was   
never one to allow his intelligence  to 
be overruled by emotionalism1 and in    
stating his views on national           

prohibition he not only displayed his   
sound judgment but also proved  himself 
a very good prophet4    ,bishop         
,cheshire exercised a remarkable        
influence upon the people of his        
,diocese4 ,one aspect of the effect of  
his character upon them is seen in  the 
ready co-operation and assistance they  
gave him in his work for the  church4   
,the inspiration they caught from him   
was not a transient  enthusiasm1 but one
 which carried over from one endeavor to
 another4  ,above all1 the              
,episcopalians of the ,diocese loved    
their ,bishop as a  man--a vital1       
interesting personality who possessed   
none of the unctuous  pompousness of the
 commonplace ecclesiastic4 ,miss ,nell  
,battle ,lewis once  aptly characterized
 the ,bishop as much more than a        
,churchman1 able  ,churchman though he  
is4 ,foremost1 he is a man--a           
gentleman--of the most  unswerving      
honesty1 conviction1 courage1 kindness1 
humor1 and  charm4#db    ,throughout    

almost all of his ,episcopate ,bishop   
,cheshire had no  secretary4 ,by choice 
he attended to his correspondence       
himself1 writing  all of his letters in 
longhand4 ,towards the end of his life  
he employed  a secretary for a short    
time1 but soon found that he preferred  
to do the  work himself4 ,he kept       
letter-books in which he entered a      
record of every  letter he wrote1 giving
 the name of the person written to1 the 
date1 and  the place he was writing     
from4 ,according to his own records1 he 
wrote  during his ,episcopate #ff1ggh   
letters4 ,the ,bishop never liked any   
help in  doing something which he felt  
he was able to do for himself4    ,as a 
father ,bishop ,cheshire won the        
admiration of everyone who knew him4    
,each of his three daughters and three  
sons gave him their wholehearted  love1 
obedience1 and respect throughout his   
lifetime4 ,he gained and held  their    
devotion by his kindness1 intelligence1 
and sympathetic  understanding4 ,he was 

a strict disciplinarian1 but always     
preserved a  tolerant and open-minded   
attitude towards the desires and        
weaknesses of  youth4 ,he treated his   
sons as men and expected them to act the
 part4    ,the ,bishop gave his children
 all the advantages he could afford4    
,two of  his sons were educated at the  
,university of ,north ,carolina1 and the
  third attended the ,university of the 
,south4 ,his three daughters all went   
to ,st4 ,mary's ,school4 ,when one of   
his sons was leaving home to enter      
college1 the ,bishop told him that he   
would not ask him to promise to  refrain
 from forming bad habits at school1 such
 as drinking and  gambling1 nor would he
 accept such a promise if his son       
offered it4 ,he  went on to say that he 
had tried to teach him right from wrong 
and that  his son well knew what things 
he could do that would make his father  
happy and proud and those which would   
make him unhappy and ashamed4 ,he       
wanted his son to conduct himself as a  

gentleman1 not because of any  promises 
made1 but for the sake of decency4 ,the 
,bishop asked him to  remember that he  
would always stand up for him as long as
 he was in the  right1 but he would not 
defend him for a moment if he were ever 
guilty  of misconduct4 ,this            
straightforward1 manly counsel made a   
lasting  impression upon the son4 ,it   
was typical of the ,bishop's            
uncompromising  and practical way of    
thinking on moral questions4            
,,chapter ,,vii    ,historian      ,from
 his youth ,bishop ,cheshire had been   
fond of history1 and as he grew  older1 
his interest in it developed into a     
serious avocation4 ,while  practicing   
law in ,tarboro1 he saw a good deal of  
his uncle-in-law1  ex-,governor ,henry  
,clark1 who had a decided taste for     
history4 ,he had an  excellent library  
to which he made his nephew welcome4    
,cheshire spent  many happy hours       
browsing among the old books and        
manuscripts and  listening to the       

conversation of his uncle4 ,governor    
,clark had a  thorough acquaintance with
 the early history of ,north ,carolina1 
particularly that of his own section4   
,in later years ,bishop ,cheshire  said 
of his uncle3 ,i have often felt that he
 had a greater influence  than any other
 person in developing my tastes and     
inclinations in the  direction of       
historical inquiry4#dc    ,for his first
 serious historical composition         
,cheshire chose a subject  with which he
 was intimately acquainted1 the history 
of the church in  ,edgecombe ,county4   
,in a series of articles1 under the     
title1 ,an  ,historical ,sketch of the  
,church in ,edgecombe ,county1 ,north   
,carolina1  which appeared in the       
,church ,messenger from ,august #ag     
through  ,september #ba1 #ahhj1 he      
traced the history of this parish from  
the  colonial period through the        
rectorate of his father4 ,the sketch is 
superior to the usual parish history in 
that it concerned itself with  the      

growth and development of the church in 
,edgecombe rather than with  the        
genealogy of the families in that       
county4    ,when ,colonel ,william ,l4  
,saunders was in the process of         
compiling the  ,colonial ,records of    
,north ,carolina1 he asked ,cheshire to 
make a  collection of documents relating
 to the colonial ,episcopal ,church4    
,cheshire secured from ,bishop ,perry of
 ,iowa1 ,historiographer of the         
,episcopal ,church1 a large body of     
material1 which he had copied under  his
 personal supervision4 ,colonel         
,saunders found the material so         
interesting and valuable that he        
incorporated it in its entirety in the  
several volumes of the ,colonial        
,records4 ,in appreciation of his       
contribution ,cheshire was given a full 
set of this work4 ,in #ahic ,judge      
,walter ,clark1 when he began to edit   
the ,state ,records of ,north           
,carolina1 wrote ,bishop ,cheshire3 ,i  
beg that you will aid me with your      

advice1 suggestions and information as  
to what should be published and  the    
best means of procuring materials4#dd   
,this statement well  illustrates the   
high regard in which the ,bishop's      
historical acumen was  generally held4  
,in #ahhc1 in the course of collecting  
materials for ,colonel ,saunders1       
,cheshire visited ,philadelphia4 ,while 
there he examined the records of  the   
,pennsylvania ,quakers for information  
concerning the early ,quaker            
settlements in ,north ,carolina4 ,from  
his examination of these records he     
found sufficient evidence to disprove   
the long-held thesis that the  early    
settlers of ,north ,carolina were       
religious refugees from ,new  ,england  
and ,virginia4 ,his conclusion was that 
the first settlers of the  ,albemarle   
section came there primarily for        
economic reasons and not for  religious 
freedom4 ,he embodied his findings in a 
pamphlet called ,the  ,first ,settlers  
of ,north ,carolina ,not ,religious     

,refugees4 ,after reading  the          
monograph1 ,colonel ,saunders wrote     
,cheshire3 ,you have not only  proved   
your proposition2 ,you have demonstrated
 it4#de ,saunders  adopted the same     
interpretation in his preface to the    
first volume of  the ,colonial ,records4
 ,cheshire's original thesis was further
 expanded  and substantiated by future  
historians of the state4    ,in #ahhb   
,cheshire edited and published the      
documents relating to the four          
conventions1 held between #agij and     
#agid1 which had made the abortive      
attempt to set up a diocesan            
organization in ,north ,carolina4 ,the  
documents of three of these conventions 
had never been published before4  ,they 
threw much light upon an important phase
 of the early history of  the ,episcopal
 ,church in ,north ,carolina4    ,the   
,diocese recognized ,cheshire's ability 
as an historian by electing  him        
historiographer at the convention of    
#ahhd4 ,the convention of #ahgf  had    

created this office1 and had elected    
,dr4 ,m4 ,m4 ,marshall1 ,rector of      
,christ ,church1 ,raleigh1 the first    
historiographer4 ,it had also passed a  
resolution requiring each clergyman to  
compile a history of his parish4  ,when 
,cheshire became historiographer eight  
years later1 only a few of  the clergy  
had complied with the resolution4 ,after
 examining the  histories which had been
 written1 he found that1 with a few     
exceptions1  they were of no value4     
,several months after his election1 in  
an article  for the ,church ,messenger1 
he stressed the importance of preserving
  local church history4 ,he announced   
that he was making a collection of  old 
documents and pamphlets on church       
history for the ,diocese1 and he        
requested anyone possessing these       
materials to send them to him4 ,one of  
,cheshire's chief contributions as      
historiographer was the interest he     
aroused among the churchmen in the      
history of the church and of their      

respective parishes4    ,the publication
 of the ,colonial ,records of ,north    
,carolina further  stimulated his       
interest in historical research4 ,he    
planned and began to  write the ,annals 
of the ,church in the ,province of      
,north ,carolina4 ,he  worked upon this 
history whenever he found an            
opportunity1 but after his  election as 
bishop his duties were so pressing that 
he had to abandon  the project4 ,he had 
made considerable progress1 however1    
before laying  it aside4 ,his research  
was not done in vain1 for he was able to
 use much  of it in one of the papers he
 presented before the centennial        
convention  of the dioceses of ,east    
,carolina and ,north ,carolina in #ahij4
    ,probably ,cheshire's most          
productive act as historiographer of the
  ,diocese was to initiate and          
successfully direct the celebration of  
the  one-hundredth anniversary of the   
convention of #agij4 ,this convention1  
held in ,tarboro1 had made the first1   

although unsuccessful1 attempt to  form 
a diocese in ,north ,carolina4 ,as the  
centennial of the event drew  near1     
,cheshire thought that it should be     
commemorated in some  appropriate       
manner4 ,accordingly1 at the diocesan   
convention of #ahhi he  introduced a    
series of resolutions calling for a     
joint convention of the  dioceses of    
,north ,carolina and ,east ,carolina to 
be held at ,tarboro the  following year4
 ,the resolutions were adopted and a    
committee on  arrangements appointed1   
with ,dr4 ,jarvis ,buxton as chairman4  
,commenting  on the proceedings1        
,cheshire frankly remarked3 ,i took     
care1 however1 to  get myself elected   
,secretary of the ,committee2 and the   
,committee  cheerfully allowed me to do 
all the work4#df    ,the ,committee on  
,arrangements decided that the most     
fitting and  profitable manner of       
celebrating the occasion would be to    
present a  series of papers on the      
history of the ,episcopal ,church in    

,north  ,carolina4 ,cheshire organized  
the program1 selecting the writers and  
the  subjects of the papers4    ,the    
joint convention met in ,tarboro ,may   
#af-ah1 #ahij1 and was well  attended by
 churchmen from both dioceses4 ,the     
papers covered the history  of the      
church in the colony1 its decay         
following the ,revolution1 and its      
revival after #ahag4 ,cheshire read a   
paper on ,the ,church in the ,province  
of ,north ,carolina4 ,at the close of   
the proceedings1 the convention         
resolved that the addresses should be   
published in book form under            
,cheshire's editorial direction4 ,upon  
the motion of the ,rev4 ,robert         
,strange1 it was also resolved3 ,that   
the thanks of the joint ,convention  of 
,north and ,east ,carolina be extended  
to the ,rev4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41   
for conceiving and carrying to so       
successful an issue the reunion which   
has been so delightful and edifying to  
us all4    ,since there was not         

sufficient time1 all of the addresses   
prepared for  the joint convention were 
not delivered4 ,in addition to the paper
  ,cheshire read1 he also wrote two     
others--,decay and ,revival1 #ahjj-ahcj 
and ,white ,haven ,church and the ,rev4 
,robert ,johnston ,miller4 ,these       
papers1 as well as all the others       
written for the centennial  celebration1
 were published in a volume entitled    
,sketches of ,church  ,history in ,north
 ,carolina4 ,besides the three papers   
and his editorial  work1 ,cheshire wrote
 the introduction to this book4 ,the    
volume is a  distinct contribution to   
the history of the ,episcopal ,church in
 ,north  ,carolina4 ,prior to this time 
little of any value had been written on 
the  subject4 ,cheshire's articles are  
probably more scholarly than any of the 
others1 and they definitely reveal more 
research in original sources4    ,in    
recognition of ,cheshire's achievements 
as a clergyman and his  contributions as
 a historian1 the ,university of ,north 

,carolina at its  commencement of #ahij 
conferred upon him the degree of ,doctor
 of  ,divinity4 ,four years later the   
,university of the ,south bestowed upon 
him  the same honor1 and in #aiaf his   
alma mater1 ,trinity ,college1          
,hartford1  ,connecticut1 also gave him 
the degree of ,doctor of ,divinity4 ,he 
was not  one to seek honors1 but when   
they were conferred upon him he         
appreciated  them1 particularly the     
thought which motivated the bestowal4   
,bishop  ,cheshire became an honorary   
member of the ,north ,carolina ,society 
of the  ,cincinnati in #ahig and a few  
years later an hereditary member4 ,he   
served  for a time as chaplain of the   
,north ,carolina ,society and later of  
the  national organization4    ,although
 his diocesan work occupied most of his 
time1 the ,bishop found  the opportunity
 now and again throughout his episcopate
 to write  articles for ecclesiastical  
and historical publications4 ,the       
subject  matter of most of his writings 

was drawn chiefly from ,north ,carolina 
history4 ,one of his most interesting   
departures from this practice was  the  
editing of ,george ,herbert's ,a ,priest
 to the ,temple or1 the ,country        
,parson1 ,his ,character and ,rule of   
,holy ,life4 ,this work1 first published
  in #afeb1 had attracted his attention 
when he was a young lawyer in           
,baltimore4 ,he was greatly impressed at
 the time with its earnestness and  its 
spiritual character4 ,when in #aije     
,professor ,palmer1 of ,harvard         
,university1 edited the complete works  
of ,herbert1 the ,country ,parson  was  
again brought to the ,bishop's          
attention4 ,he decided to bring out a   
special edition of the ,country ,parson 
in order to make it available to  all of
 the clergy4 ,the work appeared in #aijh
 and was dedicated to his  father1 whose
 sixty years in the ministry splendidly 
illustrated  ,herbert's ideal of a      
country parson4 ,in his introduction to 
the book  ,bishop ,cheshire commented3  

,it is not too much to say of it that   
for  beauty and truth to nature1 for its
 combination of the ideal and the       
practical1 for its presentation of an   
almost heavenly perfection in  terms of 
human experience1 it has not its equal  
in the religious  literature of our     
language4 ,whenever sending out a young 
clergyman as a  country parson1 he      
always tried to supply him with a copy  
of this work1  believing that it would  
be of great value to him and his        
parishioners4    ,at the request of the 
editor of the ,carolina ,churchman      
,bishop ,cheshire  wrote1 in #aiaj-aiaa1
 a sketch of the life of each of his    
predecessors1  ,bishops ,ravenscroft1   
,ives1 ,atkinson1 and ,lyman4 ,he did   
not make the  sketches serious          
biographical studies1 but tried to      
present intimate  pictures of the four  
bishops1 including a few amusing        
anecdotes4 ,the  sketch of ,bishop      
,ravenscroft is probably the best and   
the most  interesting4    ,in the course

 of #aiaj and #aiaa1 at the invitation  
of the ,episcopal  seminaries at        
,sewanee1 ,alexandria1 ,new ,york1      
,philadelphia1 ,cambridge1  and         
,middletown1 ,bishop ,cheshire delivered
 a series of lectures on the  history of
 the ,episcopal ,church in the          
,confederate ,states4 ,the lectures     
were well received1 and upon their      
conclusion the ,bishop was urged to  put
 them in permanent form4 ,realizing that
 the interest in the subject  was fairly
 widespread1 he decided to arrange the  
lectures for  publication4 ,in #aiab    
,longmans1 ,green1 and ,company         
published them under  the title1 ,the   
,church in the ,confederate ,states4    
,in this work the ,bishop describes the 
organization of the ,episcopal  ,church 
in the ,confederacy1 the church's work  
among the soldiers1 its  attitude       
towards the ,negroes1 its trials and    
burdens1 its publications1  and1        
finally1 the reunion of the northern and
 southern branches of the  church4      

,following the last chapter he included 
a brief study of the life  of ,thomas   
,atkinson1 ,bishop of ,north ,carolina1 
#ahec-ahha1 who had been  one of the    
most important exponents of the reunion 
of the church in  #ahfe4    ,in general1
 the critics praised the ,bishop's work 
as a significant  contribution4 ,of it  
the ,outlook remarked3 ,his account of  
the attitude  of the ,church in its     
political relations throughout those sad
 and trying  times is free from any     
tinge of bitterness4 ,its narrative of  
the work of  bishops and councils1 and  
of the ministries of the church to the  
soldiers and to the slaves1 deserves to 
be widely read for the  little-known    
facts it records4 ,the ,churchman1 of   
,new ,york1 declared3  ,the temper of   
,bishop ,cheshire's narrative is        
admirable1 his account of  perplexing   
constitutional questions that arose from
 the relations of the  ,church to the   
,confederacy and to the ,union is clear1
 his analysis of the  issues is         

penetrating and acute1 his conclusions  
will be generally  accepted4 ,the church
 periodicals1 ,north and ,south1 were   
unanimous in  their praise of the       
,bishop's work4 ,they felt he had done  
the ,american  ,episcopal ,church a     
great service in preserving this phase  
of her  history4 ,the ,church ,times1 of
 ,london1 thought that while the book   
was  interesting and informative1 it was
 not fair to the northern church4  ,many
 of the reviewers considered the last   
chapter of the work1 which  discussed   
the reunion of the church in #ahfe1 the 
most interesting and  significant4 ,the 
,bishop was able to write of this       
particular subject  with intimacy1 since
 his father had taken an active part in 
the reunion4    ,the ,church in the     
,confederate ,states is ,bishop         
,cheshire's most  important historical  
contribution4 ,in it his style is       
direct1 simple1  and restrained4 ,it    
describes and interprets a phase of     
,civil ,war history  which had never    

before been adequately treated1 and     
since its  publication no work on the   
subject has superseded it4 ,for his     
information ,bishop ,cheshire relied    
almost entirely upon original  sources4 
,some of the more personal incidents1   
however1 were gained from  actual       
participants in that stormy period4     
,on one of his visitations to ,milnor   
,jones' missions in ,watauga ,county1   
,bishop ,cheshire told ,jones that if he
 should outlive him he would see  that  
some recognition was made of ,jones'    
work4 ,many years later the  ,bishop    
fulfilled his promise by writing the    
volume1 ,milnor ,jones1  ,deacon and    
,missionary4 ,the greater part of this  
biography is devoted to  the years      
#ahid-ahig1 which ,jones spent in the   
mountains of ,north  ,carolina4 ,it is  
an interesting picture of that most     
unique character1  and a good           
description of both the difficult and   
sometimes amusing sides  of missionary  
work in the mountains4 ,although the    

,bishop liked and  admired ,jones1 he   
did not fail to bring out his faults as 
well as his  many virtues4    ,bishop   
,cheshire's last important literary     
work#dg was his reminiscences  of       
personalities and incidents in ,north   
,carolina history4 ,he gave these       
memories the title ,nonnulla1 meaning   
,not ,nothings4 ,the ,bishop began  this
 book on his seventy-fifth birthday1 and
 completed it five years  later4 ,he    
included in it stories and anecdotes    
about people and places  not customarily
 found in the serious histories1 but    
which are not  entirely without         
significance as illustrating1 in an     
informal and  familiar way1 the life of 
our ,state and our people4 ,nonnulla is 
replete with human interest to ,north   
,carolinians1 and contributes much  to  
their understanding of some of the      
characters who helped to build  their   
state4    ,in recognition of ,bishop    
,cheshire's contributions to ,north     
,carolina  history1 the ,state ,literary

 and ,historical ,association elected   
him its  president for #aica4 ,in his   
presidential address the ,bishop        
discussed the  religious provisions of  
the ,fundamental ,constitutions prepared
 by ,john  ,locke for the ,lords        
,proprietors of ,carolina4 ,although    
,locke's document  was never put into   
effect1 its provisions for religious    
freedom1 in the  ,bishop's opinion1     
perhaps found lodgment in the life of   
the people and  attained a better       
development in their subsequent         
history4#dh ,while  the ,church of      
,england was made the established church
 of the colony1  liberty of conscience  
was permitted to all except atheists4   
,elaborating  upon the theme of         
religious freedom1 he demonstrated that 
the colonial  government did not        
practice religious intolerance even     
though laws were  enacted for the       
support of an established church4       
,with his presidential address to the   
,state ,literary and ,historical        

,association1 ,bishop ,cheshire         
concluded his work as an historian4 ,it 
was  a fitting close to this phase of   
his life4 ,although history had been to 
him a pleasant avocation1 no            
professional historian ever took his    
work  more seriously or had a higher    
ideal of historical accuracy4 ,in the   
words of ,dr4 ,a4 ,r4 ,newsome1 of the  
,university of ,north ,carolina1 ,native
  ability1 industry and self-discipline 
enabled him to achieve a degree of      
historical scholarship seldom           
encountered among laymen4 ,the          
,episcopal  ,church in ,north ,carolina 
owes him a debt of lasting gratitude for
 his  pioneer work in its history4      
,,chapter ,,viii    ,work ,among the    
,colored ,people      ,bishop           
,cheshire's active interest in the      
church's work among the ,negroes  began 
when he was rector of ,st4 ,peter's     
,church1 ,charlotte4 ,his  organization 
of the colored mission of ,st4 ,michael 
and ,all ,angels and  the part he took  

in helping to establish the ,good       
,samaritan ,hospital  have already been 
related4 ,when he became bishop he      
continued and  greatly enlarged his     
activities in behalf of the ,negro work4
    ,in the early part of his episcopate
 the ,bishop made an address to the     
,conference of ,church ,workers ,among  
,colored ,people1 in which he expressed 
some interesting ideas on the colored   
work4 ,he first pointed out that  the   
reconstruction acts had failed to       
accomplish for the ,negro many of  their
 designed objectives4 ,although those   
acts were for the most part of  a purely
 political character1 he realized many  
sincere people in the  ,north had       
advocated them in the belief that they  
would help the ,negro4  ,in his opinion1
 the legislation of the reconstruction  
period had not  accomplished for the    
colored people what its sincerest       
advocates had  confidently expected4 ,if
 the ,negroes are to play a significant 
role in  the future of this country1 the

 ,bishop declared1 it will be only      
because they shall have become fitted   
for that part4 ,no theories of          
predominant political equality will     
avail for preserving privileges  which  
are not exercised for the benefit of the
 community4444 ,he  believed that the   
disabilities of the ,negro could not be 
removed1 nor  the disadvantages under   
which he worked conquered1 by           
legislation  against particular evils1  
but simply by changing the actual       
conditions  of the race itself4 ,those  
who are interested in the welfare of the
  ,negro must work for the elevation of 
his ideals of living1 of working1  and  
of self-restraint4 ,the ,bishop         
emphasized the importance of  developing
 a spirit of self-reliance and self-help
 among the colored  clergy and laity1   
believing this to be the best means by  
which they  could strengthen their      
economic and social position4    ,the   
colored churchmen of the ,diocese soon  
learned that in ,bishop  ,cheshire they 

had a staunch friend and one from whom  
they could count  upon receiving a fair 
and sympathetic hearing4 ,he            
reciprocated this  confidence with a    
like faith in them4 ,it was a regular   
practice of the  ,bishop to attend only 
the first day's session of the annual   
meetings of  the white and colored      
convocations4 ,he did this in order to  
give the  clergy an opportunity of      
speaking their mind freely4 ,he always  
remembered an observation of ,george    
,eliot that the first thing the  clergy 
do1 when they get together in           
convocation1 is to abuse the  ,bishop4  
,in this connection ,bishop ,cheshire   
once remarked3 ,i do not  know what the 
white clergy may do1 but ,i do not      
believe my black clergy  will have      
anything to say against me even in my   
absence4#di    ,at the opening of the   
twentieth century one of the most       
important  questions facing the         
,episcopal ,church in the ,south was the
 separation of  the ,negro work in each 

diocese from that of the white4 ,bishop 
,cheshire  was strongly opposed to any  
separation of the church's work founded 
solely on the racial feeling4 ,he       
disliked to see the unity of the        
,diocese disrupted1 and believed the    
ideal situation was a church and a      
diocese which in its annual gatherings  
should represent visibly the  oneness of
 all races and colors in ,christ4#ej ,he
 realized1 however1  that he could not  
be guided entirely by his personal      
feelings on a  question of such         
importance4 ,a large body of the ,negro 
clergy and many  white churchmen        
throughout the ,south felt that the     
welfare of the church  demanded some    
sort of separate organization for the   
colored work4    ,when he met his       
diocesan convention in the spring of    
#aijg1 ,bishop  ,cheshire announced his 
position on this question4 ,since the   
colored  people seemed to desire an     
organization of their own1 he believed  
the  time had come for the church to    

take some definite action4 ,he asked the
  convention to make known its views on 
the question of separation1 since  it   
would come up for discussion in the     
,general ,convention that fall4 ,the    
,bishop stated that two plans of        
organization for the ,negroes were being
  considered4 ,one provided for the     
consecration of suffragan bishops who   
should have charge of the colored clergy
 and laity and should be under  the     
diocesan bishop4 ,the other called for  
the consecration of missionary  bishops 
who should have charge of the colored   
work in contiguous  dioceses and who    
should be responsible to the ,general   
,convention4 ,the  ,bishop declared that
 he was heartily in favor of the latter 
plan1  believing that it met the needs  
of existing conditions much more justly 
and adequately than the former4         
,moreover1 the colored people themselves
  seemed to favor the plan of using     
missionary bishops4 ,if they were used  
they would be under the direct control  

of the ,general ,convention and  would  
be given more independence than         
suffragan bishops1 who would be  under  
the administrative jurisdiction of the  
white diocesan bishop4  ,bishop         
,cheshire felt that if the colored work 
was to be made independent  of the      
white1 the ,negro bishops should be     
given some administrative as  well as   
spiritual responsibilities4    ,when the
 convention took up the question of the 
colored work1 it  referred the whole    
matter to a special committee4 ,after   
careful study1  the committee           
recommended that the ,negroes be given a
 separate  organization1 that the plan  
of missionary bishops be adopted1 and   
that  the deputies from the ,diocese    
should present these recommendations to 
the ,general ,convention4 ,the          
committee's report was adopted4    ,at  
the ,general ,convention1 which met in  
the fall of #aijg1 the ,conference  of  
,church ,workers among ,colored ,people 
presented a memorial in which it        

advocated a separate organization for   
the ,negroes and the election of        
suffragan bishops4 ,a joint committee of
 the ,house of ,bishops and the  ,house 
of ,deputies1 of which ,bishop ,cheshire
 was made a member1 was  appointed to   
consider the memorial4 ,this committee  
recommended the  adoption of the        
principal features of the memorial4     
,bishop ,cheshire and  one other member 
of the committee presented a minority   
report in which  they urged the use of  
missionary bishops4 ,their report was   
defeated in  the ,house of ,bishops by a
 vote of fifty to thirty-four1 while    
that of  the majority was carried1      
forty-five to thirty-three4 ,after the  
defeat  of his proposal1 ,bishop        
,cheshire voted for the majority's      
report1  believing it preferable to no  
action on the subject4    ,the question 
of the racial episcopate was1 however1  
far from being  settled4 ,during the    
next three meetings of the ,general     
,convention ,bishop  ,cheshire and a few

 others continued to work for the       
adoption of the plan  of missionary     
bishops4 ,in #aiac they succeeded in    
getting the plan  approved by the ,house
 of ,bishops1 but it was defeated by the
 ,house of  ,deputies4 ,the southern    
bishops and clergy were the most        
undecided as to  what plan they wanted  
to put into effect4 ,up to #aiah the    
,diocese of  ,north ,carolina had taken 
no action towards electing a suffragan  
bishop  for the colored work4 ,in #aiag 
,bishop ,cheshire advised his diocesan  
convention to consider the question4    
,the next year the convention voted  to 
proceed to the election of a suffragan  
bishop4    ,before nominations for the  
office were called for1 ,bishop         
,cheshire  gathered together the colored
 clergy and laity of the convention for 
an  informal discussion4 ,he told them  
that1 in his opinion1 ,rev4 ,henry ,b4  
,delany1 who was then archdeacon of the 
colored convocation1 was the best  man  
for the office4 ,rev4 ,m4 ,a4 ,barber   

strongly represented the  qualifications
 of the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,baskerville1 who had
 been recommended by  ,bishop ,guerry1  
of ,south ,carolina4 ,mr4 ,delany then  
withdrew from the  conference1 and      
,bishop ,cheshire asked the colored     
clergy to express  themselves frankly on
 their preference4 ,every one of them   
expressed the  opinion that1 while they 
thought ,baskerville was an excellent   
man1 they  did not think he could       
compare with ,delany in qualifications  
for the  office of bishop4 ,of this     
unanimity of opinion1 ,bishop ,cheshire 
remarked3 ,it was something of a        
surprise to me--for ,i really did not   
know how strong their feelings were4    
,when the convention proceeded to the   
election of a suffragan bishop1  ,delany
 was the only man nominated4 ,he        
received every vote of the clergy  and  
laity4 ,when he was presented to the    
convention and asked to say a  few      
words1 he simply remarked3 ,i cannot    
speak4 ,i cannot utter what ,i  feel4 ,i

 thank you4 ,bishop ,cheshire           
characterized his laconic expression  as
 about the best speech he could possibly
 have made4#ea    ,archdeacon ,delany   
was highly esteemed by both white and   
colored  churchmen1 and his election met
 with general satisfaction throughout   
the  ,diocese4 ,bishop ,guerry wrote    
,bishop ,cheshire that he thought       
,delany was  the logical man and ,i     
believe you have made a wise choice4444 
,i envy  you the privilege of having    
been the first ,diocese in the          
,carolinas to  take the lead in so far  
reaching a policy4    ,it will be       
remembered that while rector of ,st4    
,peter's1 ,bishop ,cheshire  had        
established in ,charlotte a mission for 
,negroes1 ,st4 ,michael and ,all        
,angels4 ,shortly after it was well     
started1 ,rev4 ,primus ,p4 ,alston1 a   
colored priest1 was placed in charge of 
the mission4 ,alston was an  energetic  
and progressive man4 ,he soon began a   
manual-training school  for ,negro boys 

and girls1 which he called ,st4         
,michael's ,industrial  ,school4 ,in    
time he erected buildings at a cost of  
about eight thousand  dollars1 raising  
almost all of the money by himself4     
,after some twenty  years of splendid   
work as head of this school1 ,rev4 ,mr4 
,alston died in  #aiaj4 ,bishop         
,cheshire at once decided that something
 must be done to  preserve the valuable 
work which ,alston had carried on so    
successfully4  ,realizing the high      
regard which the people of ,charlotte   
had for the man  and his work1 the      
,bishop determined to lay the question  
of the future of  ,st4 ,michael's       
,school before a body of representative 
citizens of  ,charlotte in the hope of  
making it a civic enterprise1           
irrespective of  denominational         
interests but still under the official  
administration of  the diocesan bishop4 
,acting upon this decision1 the ,bishop 
called  together in ,charlotte a group  
of progressive men representing         

different  denominations4 ,he pointed   
out that the school was the property of 
the  ,diocese of ,north ,carolina1 that 
it had for more than twenty years done a
  great work for the community1 and that
 no religious test was made an  entrance
 requirement1 although religious        
training was a part of the  school's    
work4 ,the ,bishop then asked the group 
if it would act with him  as a board of 
managers for the direction and          
maintenance of the school4  ,the men    
displayed a sympathetic interest1 and   
promised to co-operate  with him in any 
plan for making permanent the work of   
the institution4  ,the ,bishop thereupon
 organized the ,board of ,managers of   
,st4 ,michael's  ,industrial ,school1   
under whose control it continued to     
operate4    ,when ,bishop ,cheshire met 
his diocesan convention in #aiab1 he    
reported  what he had done and asked for
 its endorsement of his action and its  
assent to the new plan for operating the
 school4 ,the convention  confirmed the 

,bishop's work and consented to his plan
 for continuing ,st4  ,michael's        
,school4 ,thus1 by his promptness and   
resourcefulness1 he  preserved for the  
church and the community of ,charlotte a
 valuable  institution4    ,bishop      
,cheshire's work among the ,negroes of  
his ,diocese received  recognition from 
the national church when1 in #aiaa1 he  
was elected  chairman of the ,advisory  
,council of the ,american ,church       
,institute for  ,negroes4 ,the          
,institute had been organized in #aijf  
for the purpose of  aiding the larger   
,episcopal schools for ,negroes1 such as
 ,st4  ,augustine's1 the ,bishop ,payne 
,divinity ,school1 and others4 ,from    
this  time forward he received a number 
of invitations to speak in the  dioceses
 of the ,north on various phases of the 
church's work among the  ,negroes of the
 ,south4 ,one of his most interesting   
addresses on this  subject was made     
before the ,woman's ,auxiliary of the   
,diocese of ,long  ,island at its annual

 meeting in #aiae4    ,in this address  
the ,bishop declared that the fact the  
,negro was  increasing in population    
meant to him that ,god is not done with 
him4 ,he  has something for him to do4  
,the ,negro had not only survived his   
contact with a higher civilization1 but 
had made in it a place for  himself4    
,protected and trained by his two and a 
half centuries of  ,american slavery1   
the greatest blessing which up to this  
time he has  ever known1 the ,negro had 
lived through emancipation and the      
incalculable injustice of his premature 
enfranchisement4 ,he was  turning from  
false political and social aspirations  
and attempting to  lay sound foundations
 for his moral and material development4
 ,referring  to the religion of the     
,negro1 ,bishop ,cheshire observed that 
he found it  very little different from 
that of the white man4 ,he spoke of the 
,negro's gift of religious emotion1     
which might be dangerous1 yet it is  a  
gift2 and it is needed to give power and

 life to faith4 ,the ,bishop  declared  
that the church set up a standard for   
the ,negro to live by1 it  acknowledged 
him as a brother1 and it gave him a     
definite place in its  organization4    
,in answer to the question of what the  
,woman's ,auxiliary could do for the    
,negro1 ,bishop ,cheshire replied it    
should try to teach the colored         
churches to support themselves and to be
 willing and able to aid others4  ,as   
for a particular work the organization  
could undertake1 he emphasized  the     
importance of hospital care4 ,this was a
 vital need and one which the  ,negro by
 himself could not supply4#eb    ,the   
address was well received1 although a   
few of the ideas contained in  it were  
doubtless a little disturbing to some of
 the listeners4 ,the  ,bishop was       
fearless in expressing his convictions1 
and was ever ready to  defend them when 
necessary4    ,st4 ,augustine's ,school 
for ,negroes was founded in #ahfg by    
,north ,carolina  churchmen4 ,it was    

built and maintained1 however1 by       
northern churchmen  and agencies4 ,while
 the school was not a diocesan          
institution1 ,bishop  ,cheshire         
throughout his episcopate gave it his   
full co-operation and  support4 ,he had 
a personal interest in the school1 for  
his father had  been one of the original
 incorporators4 ,as ex-officio president
 of the  ,board of ,trustees he kept in 
close contact with the development of   
,st4  ,augustine's4 ,realizing that his 
state benefited most from the school1   
,bishop ,cheshire time and time again   
urged his people to give it every       
encouragement and assistance within     
their means4    ,in appreciation of his 
services to ,st4 ,augustine's1 the      
authorities of  the school resolved to  
name a proposed new building for ,bishop
 ,cheshire4  ,of this decision1 the     
presiding bishop1 ,john ,gardner        
,murray1 remarked3  ,i can conceive of  
nothing more splendid that the ,church  
or community  could do than to erect at 

,st4 ,augustine's a building in honor of
 ,bishop  ,cheshire4 ,the work itself is
 most deserving in every way1 and the   
,bishop  whose name you propose to have 
associated with it1 is one of the       
greatest ,bishops in our ,church in his 
every relationship thereto4#ec    ,the  
dedication of the ,cheshire ,building at
 ,st4 ,augustine's ,college took  place 
on ,bishop ,cheshire's eightieth        
birthday1 ,march #bg1 #aicj4 ,in the    
course of the ceremony the ,bishop      
delivered an address in which he  traced
 the history of ,st4 ,augustine's from  
its establishment as a simple  normal   
school to its present collegiate status4
 ,he touched upon the  development of   
,negro education in the ,south since    
#ahfe1 and emphasized  the importance of
 this fact in the growth of a better    
relationship  between the races4 ,st4   
,augustine's1 said the ,bishop1 in a    
larger sense  represents the church's   
attitude towards the ,negro problem in  
,america  and what it has done to solve 

that problem4    ,dr4 ,a4 ,b4 ,hunter1  
principal of the school for twenty-five 
years1 made a  short talk in which he   
spoke of the ,bishop's loyal support of 
,st4  ,augustine's4 ,he ascribed much of
 the institution's success to the       
unfailing sympathy and material         
assistance of the ,bishop4 ,towards the 
end of the ceremony a portrait of       
,bishop ,cheshire1 hanging in the hall  
of the new building1 was unveiled4      
,coming as it did towards the end of his
 life1 this expression of  appreciation 
from the colored people was a fitting   
close to the ,bishop's  work among the  
,negroes4 ,he understood and respected  
his colored people1  and in return they 
loved him and gave him their loyalty and
 confidence4          ,,chapter ,,ix    
,development and ,conclusion of the     
,bishop's ,work      ,in the first      
decade of his episcopate ,bishop        
,cheshire laid the  foundation for      
almost all of his future work4 ,the     
remainder of his life  was devoted to   

expansion and improvement4 ,this program
 demanded all of  his thought and energy
 and1 as it progressed1 became almost   
more than  one man could administer4    
,the ,bishop never complained of being  
overworked1 but when he realized he was 
no longer physically able to  meet the  
demands of his office1 he did not       
hesitate to ask for  assistance4    ,a  
pleasant and interesting interlude in   
the routine of the ,bishop's busy  life 
was a trip to ,england in the summer of 
#aijh4 ,the object of the trip  was to  
attend the ,pan-,anglican ,congress and 
the ,lambeth ,conference4 ,the  ,bishop 
and ,mrs4 ,cheshire sailed from ,new    
,york and landed at ,liverpool on  ,may 
#bh4 ,since the ,pan-,anglican ,congress
 was not to open for about two  weeks1  
they spent the intervening time         
sightseeing and visiting friends4       
,among the many interesting places they 
visited was the old ,abbey of  ,valle   
,crucis in ,wales for which ,bishop     
,ives had named his mission school  in  

the mountains of ,north ,carolina4 ,the 
,bishop observed that here1  however1   
there was no natural cruciform          
arrangement of valleys and  streams     
which so distinguished his ,valle       
,crucis mission4    ,the ,pan-,anglican 
,congress was opened on ,june #ae by an 
impressive service  held in ,westminster
 ,abbey4 ,the ,congress was composed of 
bishops1  clergymen1 laymen1 and        
laywomen representing the ,anglican     
communion from  all parts of the world4 
,there were six thousand delegates      
present1 but  they were divided into a  
number of sections for the discussion of
 every  phase of church work4 ,bishop   
,cheshire attended the sessions of one  
of  these sections every day1 but he did
 not have time to enter in his  journal 
much about the proceedings4 ,on one     
occasion1 when the topic for  discussion
 was the church's work among the        
,negroes of ,north ,america1 he  was one
 of the speakers4 ,he later remarked    
that he had scarcely warmed  to his     

subject before his allotted time was    
gone4    ,on another occasion the       
,bishop was invited to a breakfast given
 by the  ,church ,temperance ,society4  
,at the breakfast he was seated next to 
the  ,bishop of ,london1 who was to     
preside over a meeting of the ,society  
following the meal4 ,in the course of   
conversation ,bishop ,cheshire  remarked
 to the ,bishop of ,london that in      
,america at least as far as  concerned  
my part of it1 drinking was unknown     
among women4 ,the ,english  prelate     
seemed to be greatly impressed by this  
statement4 ,after the  breakfast there  
were several scheduled speakers who     
talked on the  problem of intemperance4 
,they all agreed that the use of        
intoxicants in  ,england as a whole had 
improved1 but that the discouraging     
feature of  the situation was the       
increased use of them by women4 ,the    
,bishop of  ,london announced that the  
meeting would like to hear from the     
,united  ,states1 and he would1         

therefore1 call upon ,bishop ,cheshire  
for a few  words4 ,as he rose to speak1 
the ,bishop of ,london said to him1     
,tell them  what you have been telling  
me4 ,after commenting on the work of the
  ,church ,temperance ,society1 he      
complied with the request and added3 ,i 
believe it to be true of all parts of   
the ,united ,states that among the      
descendants of the original ,english1   
,scotch1 and ,scotch-,irish settlers  of
 ,america1 intemperance or the use of   
intoxicating drinks among the  women is 
unknown1 or so extremely rare as to     
amount to nothing in  looking at the    
situation in its general aspect4#ed ,his
 audience  displayed a keen interest in 
his views4    ,the ,pan-,anglican       
,congress closed on ,june #bd with a    
service in ,st4 ,paul's  ,cathedral4    
,bishop ,cheshire thought that the      
,congress was the most  remarkable      
religious gathering of recent times4 ,he
 was particularly  impressed by the deep
 interest the ,british public and press 

took in the  proceedings of the         
,congress4 ,the capacity of the great   
,albert ,hall was  taxed to hold the    
average daily attendance of twelve      
thousand persons4    ,the ,lambeth      
,conference1 which opened on ,july #e1  
did not attract as much  attention as   
usual1 since it followed so closely upon
 the ,pan-,anglican  ,congress4 ,its    
work1 however1 was none the less        
significant in the life  of the church4 
,bishop ,cheshire considered its        
proceedings more  interesting than those
 of #ahig4 ,he noted that the younger   
bishops took a  more active part than   
they had in the previous ,conference4   
,he served as  a member of the          
,committee on ,foreign ,missions4       
,bishop ,cheshire returned to ,england  
in the summer of #aibj to attend his    
third and final ,lambeth ,conference4   
,he was then seventy years old but in   
good health and still capable of doing a
 full day's work4 ,he regularly         
attended the sessions of the            

,conference1 and manifested as much     
interest  as ever in its work4    ,the  
,bishop was made a member of the        
,committee on ,christianity and         
,international ,relations1 which was to 
deal in particular with the ,league  of 
,nations4 ,he found the work of the     
committee very interesting1 but  later  
remarked that the ,american bishops on  
the committee found  themselves in an   
embarrassing position1 since the ,league
 of ,nations had  been made a political 
issue in the presidential campaign of   
that  year4#ee ,bishop ,cheshire felt   
that this ,lambeth ,conference surpassed
  the two previous ones in the          
importance of the work accomplished and 
in  the probable results4 ,the          
,conference took much wider and freer   
views  of the questions discussed4 ,the 
,bishop observed that some of the       
speeches which were received with       
decided approval were strongly opposed  
to all that had been the traditional    
policy of the church4    ,upon the close

 of the ,conference ,bishop and ,mrs4   
,cheshire1 accompanied  by their        
friends1 ,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,a4 ,b4 ,hunter1
 spent a few weeks traveling  on the    
,continent4 ,the ,bishop particularly   
enjoyed his visit to  ,switzerland1     
whose mountain scenery greatly impressed
 him4 ,he always  thought1 however1 that
 his ,north ,carolina mountains were    
more beautiful  and appealing than the  
more spectacular ,alps4 ,on one ,sunday 
which the  ,cheshires and ,hunters spent
 at ,gletsch1 ,switzerland1 the ,bishop 
took his  little party out into the     
country4 ,in the presence of the great  
,rhne  glacier with his congregation    
sitting on rocks about him1 he read the 
,morning ,prayer1 omitting not one part 
of it4    ,in addition to his three     
visits to ,europe1 ,bishop ,cheshire    
made one  other trip beyond the borders 
of the ,united ,states4 ,in #aiaj the   
,archbishop of the ,west ,indies invited
 a number of ,american bishops to       
,jamaica to assist in the consecration  

of the churches which had been  rebuilt 
on the island after the disastrous      
earthquake of #aijg4 ,bishop  ,cheshire 
accepted the invitation and1 as it      
turned out1 was the sole  representative
 of the ,american ,episcopal ,church4   
,the consecration  ceremonies took place
 in ,january1 #aiaa4 ,during his stay of
 about two  weeks the ,bishop           
participated in the consecration of five
 or six  churches4 ,describing the      
ecclesiastical procession at one of the 
ceremonies1 the ,daily ,news of         
,kingston1 ,jamaica1 commented3 ,there  
was  then the stern ,prelate of ,north  
,carolina just south of ,mason and      
,dixon's  line2 ,prelate of a vast      
domain many1 many times the size of this
 island1  and with a problem something  
like ours4 ,this exaggerated description
  amused the ,bishop a great deal4 ,he  
enjoyed his visit1 particularly  riding 
about the island observing the customs  
and manners of the  natives4 ,he always 
took a keen pleasure in learning about  

new places and  their people4           
,turning now to diocesan affairs1 we    
find ,bishop ,cheshire preparing to     
begin a long campaign to free ,st4      
,mary's ,school from its burdensome debt
  and to raise an adequate endowment for
 the institution4 ,when he  addressed   
the convention of #aiab he reminded the 
members that on ,october  #ae1 #aiac1 he
 would complete twenty years as bishop  
of the ,diocese of  ,north ,carolina4   
,in his opinion1 the most important work
 accomplished in  this period was the   
establishment of ,st4 ,mary's as a      
diocesan school4  ,the ,bishop declared 
that he would like to celebrate his     
twentieth  anniversary by paying off the
 debt on ,st4 ,mary's and by raising one
  hundred thousand dollars towards a    
permanent endowment4 ,he wished1        
therefore1 to devote much of his time   
for the next eighteen months to  this   
end1 and asked for the convention's     
support4 ,the convention  indorsed his  
suggestion and promised its             

co-operation4    ,at the convention of  
#aiac a special committee on an         
endowment for ,st4  ,mary's was         
appointed to work with the ,bishop4     
,notwithstanding the  efforts of ,bishop
 ,cheshire and the committee1 very      
little money was  raised by the         
anniversary of his consecration4 ,thus1 
the matter stood  until #aiaf1 when     
,bishop ,cheshire proposed an           
exceedingly ambitious  program4 ,the    
plan called for raising fifty thousand  
dollars to retire  the school's funded  
debt and to meet certain necessary      
expenses1 one  hundred thousand dollars 
as an endowment1 and another hundred    
thousand  for additions and             
improvements4 ,it was further suggested 
that the  dioceses of ,east ,carolina1  
,south ,carolina1 and the ,jurisdiction 
of  ,asheville should be asked to       
co-operate in this endeavor4 ,the       
convention  adopted the plan1 and the   
quota for ,bishop ,cheshire's ,diocese  
was set at  seventy-five thousand       

dollars4    ,the ,bishop was untiring in
 his efforts to interest his people in  
the  needs and promising future of ,st4 
,mary's4 ,the program for raising the   
endowment was progressing well when the 
war disrupted its work1 but the         
campaign was by no means abandoned4 ,by 
the end of #aiba more than one  hundred 
and forty-six thousand dollars had been 
pledged4 ,two years later  the ,bishop  
reported that ,st4 ,mary's ,school was  
free of all debt4 ,the  generous gifts  
to the school by ,mr4 ,lawrence ,holt   
and ,mr4 ,william ,a4  ,erwin1 which    
followed shortly afterwards1 gave the   
,bishop much pleasure  and made him feel
 that the work which he considered the  
most important  of his episcopate was   
now permanently established4    ,when   
,america entered the ,world ,war in     
#aiag1 ,bishop ,cheshire felt that      
,president ,wilson was fully justified  
in asking ,congress for a  declaration  
of war4 ,of the conflict he observed    
that1 while ,america as a  nation had   

committed errors and evils in the past1 
he believed that as  far as the present 
war was concerned1 we know that we have 
no selfish  purpose or desires4 ,the    
,bishop was upholding a cause which was 
brought  close home to him1 for he had  
two sons who volunteered and later saw  
service in ,france4 ,he had very        
definite ideas on duty to one's country1
  and little patience with those        
pacifists who held that a ,christian    
could  not go to war4 ,in his opinion1  
such an argument was no more valid than 
it would be to say that one should not  
protect one's home and family  against  
thieves and murderers4 ,we owe          
everything that we are-- declared  the  
,bishop1 all that we have to our        
,country4 ,we owe her ourselves4#ef  ,in
 the course of the war he gave voice to 
these views in many of his  sermons4    
,when the ,bishop heard that a camp for 
training soldiers was to be  established
 in ,charlotte1 he called together the  
,episcopal clergy of  that city for a   

discussion of the problem of caring for 
the needs of  thirty or forty thousand  
soldiers who were expected there4 ,they 
devised  plans for keeping open the     
parish houses of the several churches   
for the  use of the soldiers1 and the   
best means of caring for their religious
  life4 ,the ,bishop addressed a letter 
to the people of the ,diocese asking    
them to give every possible assistance  
to their friends in ,charlotte in  this 
great responsibility4           99      
99       99       99       99    ,as    
,bishop ,cheshire was about to complete 
a quarter of a century as head  of the  
,diocese of ,north ,carolina1 it was    
planned to celebrate the  occasion with 
a special service in ,calvary ,church1  
,tarboro1 on ,october  #ae1 #aiah4 ,but 
when the time came for the celebration1 
it had to be  postponed because of the  
influenza epidemic4 ,it was finally held
 in  ,raleigh at the closing session of 
the convention of #aiai4 ,the ,bishop   
delivered an address in which he traced 

the history of the ,diocese  during his 
episcopate4 ,the convention then by a   
unanimous rising vote  adopted the      
following resolution introduced by ,dr4 
,r4 ,d4 ,w4 ,connor3      ,that         
gratefully acknowledging our obligations
 to ,almighty ,god for the    many      
evidences of ,his ,divine guidance in   
the affairs of ,his ,church             
throughout this period of its history1  
we are especially grateful to    ,him   
for the love and care with which ,he has
 preserved the physical    strength1 the
 mental vigor and power1 and the        
spiritual grace and    consecration of  
our beloved ,bishop4 ,resolved further1 
that this    ,diocese is greatly        
indebted to ,bishop ,cheshire for the   
sympathetic    spirit1 the unflagging   
zeal and never-failing wisdom and the   
statesmanlike vision with which1 under  
,god1 he has directed its    affairs1   
shaped its policies1 and guided its     
growth and development2    that we hope 
and pray he may long be spared to lead  

us in full    strength and vigor of     
body1 mind1 and spirit2 and that we take
 this    opportunity of pledging to him 
our unswerving loyalty and undivided    
support in the prosecution of his labors
 for the spread of the ,kingdom    of   
,god on earth4#eg    ,dr4 ,a4 ,burtis   
,hunter1 for the clergy1 and ,governor  
,thomas ,bickett1 for  the laity1       
brought to the ,bishop messages of      
loyalty and affection4 ,mr4  ,william   
,a4 ,erwin presented the ,bishop with a 
purse of gold from the  people of the   
,diocese as a token of their love and   
esteem4 ,bishop  ,cheshire was deeply   
moved by these expressions from his     
clergy and  laity4 ,it would be         
difficult to find in any diocese a more 
sympathetic  relationship between bishop
 and people4    ,as ,bishop ,cheshire   
advanced in years1 changes were taking  
place in the  church as in almost every 
other institution4 ,some of these he    
advocated1  while others he accepted    
with regret4 ,when the diocesan         

convention of  #aiai met1 a plan was    
introduced placing the administration of
 the  affairs of the ,diocese in the    
hands of the bishop and an executive    
council4 ,of the proposed plan ,bishop  
,cheshire said that he thought it  had  
some advantages1 but he earnestly hoped 
that the administration of  the diocesan
 missions by the archdeacons would not  
in any way be  changed4 ,the archdeacons
 were a great assistance to the bishop  
in  carrying on missionary work1 and    
were invaluable in overseeing vacant    
parishes and missions4 ,he referred to  
them as the eyes of the ,bishop in  all 
matters of practical work1 and stated   
that he wished to take this  occasion to
 express his appreciation for the relief
 they had afforded  him4 ,in his        
opinion1 whatever shortcomings could be 
ascribed to the  present system of      
convocations under archdeacons were     
largely due to the  lack of co-operation
 by the laity4    ,after considering    
several proposals1 the convention       

adopted a plan of  diocesan organization
 which provided for an executive        
committee to be  elected by the         
convention4 ,it was to be composed of   
the bishop as  ex-officio chairman1     
three clergymen1 three laymen1 and three
 laywomen4  ,the executive committee was
 to act as a co-ordinating and          
co-operating  agent in diocesan work4   
,the convention also provided the bishop
 with a  secretary who should likewise  
serve as secretary of the executive     
committee4 ,the functions of the        
archdeacons were not at this time       
altered4 ,several years later1 however1 
the personnel of the executive          
committee and the scope of its influence
 were enlarged4 ,also1 a field          
secretary1 who was to oversee missionary
 work1 was employed4 ,these  innovations
 made the old system of convocations and
 archdeacons  unnecessary1 and it was   
accordingly abolished4    ,the ,bishop  
observed with regret the abolition of   
the office of  archdeacon but acquiesced

 in it1 since the majority of the clergy
 and  laity preferred the new system of 
administration4 ,in his annual address  
of #aibi he paid a final tribute to his 
archdeacons4 ,he asserted that the      
missionary work had never been so well  
looked after as under their             
supervision1 and that he would not have 
been able to advance this phase  of his 
work without their invaluable           
assistance4    ,when ,bishop ,cheshire  
was entering upon his seventieth year1  
he felt  little impairment of his       
physical strength and had no desire to  
diminish  his episcopal duties4 ,he     
realized1 however1 that others might    
feel he  was growing too old to carry on
 the work alone4 ,placing the affairs of
  the church above any personal         
considerations1 he asked the convention 
of  #aiai whether he should continue to 
administer the ,diocese without         
assistance or adopt some other course4  
,the ,bishop then retired1 and the      
convention sitting as a committee of the

 whole considered its reply4 ,dr4       
,richard ,h4 ,lewis introduced a        
resolution which was unanimously        
adopted4  ,it declared that the affairs 
of the ,diocese had in no way been      
neglected2 that there was no evidence of
 failure of the ,bishop's  physical or  
mental faculties2 and that the          
convention was confident that  he would 
ask for assistance when he felt it was  
necessary4 ,the  confidence his people  
placed in him1 as expressed in this     
resolution1  gave ,bishop ,cheshire much
 pleasure and encouragement4    ,in the 
spring of #aibb the ,bishop informed the
 ,standing ,committee of the  ,diocese  
that he had been urged by several       
physicians and laymen to  curtail his   
work and to request the convention for  
assistance4 ,the  ,standing ,committee  
promptly advised him to propose the     
election of a  bishop coadjutor4        
,accordingly1 on ,april #ba1 he         
addressed a letter to the  clergy in    
which he announced his intention to ask 

the approaching  diocesan convention to 
consider the question of electing a     
bishop  coadjutor4 ,the ,bishop felt the
 clergy and laity should be informed of 
his purpose in order that they might    
give this important subject  thoughtful 
consideration before the meeting of the 
convention4    ,on ,may #af1 at the     
,church of the ,good ,shepherd1         
,raleigh1 the convention  met and       
immediately took up the question of     
giving the ,bishop assistance  in his   
work4 ,after consideration it resolved  
that a bishop coadjutor  should be      
elected4 ,bishop ,cheshire then gave his
 consent to the  election1 and assigned 
to whoever should hold the new office   
the  episcopal oversight of the         
,convocation of ,charlotte and the      
personal  supervision of all postulants 
and candidates for ,holy ,orders of the 
,diocese4    ,the nominations for bishop
 coadjutor took place on the evening of 
the  second day4 ,after six ballots were
 taken1 the ,rev4 ,edwin ,anderson      

,penick1 ,rector of ,st4 ,peter's       
,church1 ,charlotte1 was elected4 ,he   
received thirty-two clerical votes and  
twenty-four from the laity4 ,the  choice
 of the convention met with general     
satisfaction throughout the  ,diocese4  
,concerning the election1 ,bishop       
,cheshire declared3 ,we believe  that   
the ,spirit of ,god effectuates with    
,his presence1 ,his guidance1 ,his      
blessing1 the solemn functions of the   
,body of ,christ4 ,and never1 ,i make   
bold to say1 did we feel more sure of   
the ,divine presence1 guidance and      
blessing1 than in the solemn hour of the
 choosing of our ,bishop  ,coadjutor4   
,among the many happy and helpful       
experiences of my  ,episcopate1 and of  
my life1 ,i remember that as one of the 
best4#eh    ,on ,october #ae1 #aibb1 the
 twenty-ninth anniversary of ,bishop    
,cheshire's  consecration1 ,rev4 ,edwin 
,a4 ,penick1 ,d4,d41 was consecrated    
bishop  coadjutor in ,st4 ,peter's      
,church1 ,charlotte4 ,he entered upon   

the duties  of his office almost        
immediately thereafter4 ,from that time 
until the  death of ,bishop ,cheshire   
the two men worked together in perfect  
harmony4  ,although they did not always 
agree on diocesan policy1 they never    
allowed a difference of opinion to mar  
their affectionate relationship4        
,bishop ,cheshire gradually placed more 
responsibility on ,bishop ,penick as  he
 became better acquainted with the work 
of the ,diocese4 ,a  characteristic act 
of ,bishop ,cheshire's1 and one which   
claimed the  admiration of his people1  
was the turning over of the work at     
,chapel  ,hill to ,bishop ,penick's     
supervision4 ,the ,chapel of the ,cross 
at ,chapel  ,hill had been the ,bishop's
 first parish and he had always retained
 for  it a deep affection4 ,therefore1  
it was a personal sacrifice for him to  
relinquish it to another4 ,he felt that1
 due to the peculiar nature of  the work
 at ,chapel ,hill1 it should be under   
the guidance of a younger  man4    ,as  

,bishop ,cheshire grew older he began to
 plan how best he could provide  for his
 wife and daughter when they would no   
longer be able to live at  ,ravenscroft1
 the ,bishop's house4 ,he decided to    
build a small apartment  house in       
,raleigh1 which would produce an income 
as well as provide a  home for them4    
,when the house was completed he        
advertised the apartments  for rent only
 to families with children4 ,he thought 
the frequent  practice of denying       
apartments to persons with children was 
most unfair  and1 therefore1 determined 
to make his house an exception4 ,this   
was  typical of the ,bishop1 who loved  
children and large families4    ,in     
building his apartment house ,bishop    
,cheshire had to borrow a part of  the  
cost of its construction4 ,speaking of  
this to ,bishop ,penick1 he  remarked he
 hoped to live four years longer since  
by that time his loan  would be retired4
 ,recalling this observation ,bishop    
,penick decided to  raise a sum of money

 from among the people of the ,diocese  
to relieve the  ,bishop of this care4   
,the money was raised by the time the   
diocesan  convention met in the spring  
of #aibd at ,winston-,salem4 ,it was a  
fitting  time and place for the         
presentation of the gift1 since it was  
at  ,winston-,salem thirty years before 
that ,bishop ,cheshire presided over his
  first convention4 ,the gift1 which    
amounted to #d1bgc1 was presented to    
the ,bishop from the people of the      
,diocese by ,dr4 ,richard ,h4 ,lewis1   
who  said in part3 ,my dear ,bishop3 ,by
 your strong and vigorous intellect1    
your wide and accurate learning1 your   
public spirit1 your unspotted           
character1 and a personality of         
unaffected friendship1 you have come to 
be--in the words of another--'one of the
 best known and best loved men in  our  
,state4' ,referring to this generous    
expression of affection1 ,bishop        
,cheshire remarked that he could never  
cease to feel grateful to him  whose    

generosity conceived the idea1 and to   
the many kind friends who  responded to 
his suggestion1 and transmuted his      
thoughts into act4    ,at this          
convention the ,bishop delivered an     
address in which he briefly  reviewed   
the high points in the thirty years of  
his episcopate4 ,he  declared he wished 
to repeat a major point he had made in  
his first  episcopal address in #ahid1  
namely1 the importance of realizing the 
common bond of union in the ,diocese by 
becoming interested in common  ,diocesan
 work4 ,during the past three decades   
,bishop ,cheshire had  accomplished more
 than any of his predecessors in        
breaking down  parochialism by arousing 
in his people a lively interest in      
diocesan  enterprises4 ,the ,bishop     
concluded the review of his work by     
saying that  the past thirty years had  
been happy ones1 years in which ,i have 
received much love1 consideration1 and  
kindness from all our people1  clerical 
and lay4    ,the unusual and            

praiseworthy feature of the general     
esteem in which  ,bishop ,cheshire was  
held in ,north ,carolina was the        
demonstration of that  esteem during his
 lifetime4 ,the churchmen did not wait  
until his death  to eulogize him and to 
erect memorials in his honor4 ,on many  
occasions  and in many different ways he
 was made to realize the high place     
which  he held in the hearts of his     
people4    ,after completing thirty-five
 years as bishop of the ,diocese of     
,north  ,carolina1 a longer period than 
any of his predecessors1 ,bishop        
,cheshire  felt that he must give up the
 greater part of his work4 ,he therefore
  informed the convention of #aibi that 
he was turning over to ,bishop  ,penick 
the general administration of the entire
 ,diocese4 ,he thought that  the        
ever-increasing and more complicated    
work of the church required a  younger  
and more vigorous man1 one1 as he       
expressed it1 more adaptable  and more  
in sympathy with changing conditions and

 methods4 ,of ,bishop  ,penick he said3 
,we have one whom we all believe to be  
eminently fitted  to carry on the       
,diocese with success and with the      
confidence1 sympathy  and affection of  
all4 ,bishop ,cheshire did not intend1  
however1 to  relinquish all of his      
duties4 ,he retained for himself the    
episcopal  oversight of about one-third 
of the parishes and missions1 the       
keeping  of the diocesan register1 and  
the requisite business before the       
,standing  ,committee4 ,the parishes    
which he reserved for his own           
visitations were  all located within a  
convenient distance from ,raleigh4      
,bishop ,cheshire was not present at the
 convention of #aibi because of the     
serious illness of ,mrs4 ,cheshire4     
,bishop ,penick read his address4 ,it   
was  the first diocesan convention that 
he had failed to attend since #ahgf     
when he had been present as a lay       
delegate4 ,mrs4 ,cheshire died before   
the convention adjourned4 ,accordingly1 

resolutions of sympathy for the  ,bishop
 were adopted1 and a committee was      
appointed to represent the  convention  
at ,mrs4 ,cheshire's funeral4 ,the death
 of his wife was a great  loss to the   
,bishop2 their life of thirty years     
together had been happy  and congenial4 
,mrs4 ,cheshire had been a generous     
mother to his small  children1 and a    
helpful and devoted wife4    ,although  
his strength was gradually failing1     
,bishop ,cheshire displayed  during the 
next three years a remarkable activity4 
,for one of his years  he preserved an  
unusually tolerant attitude towards the 
many religious1  social1 and political  
changes of the day4 ,when1 on his       
eightieth  birthday1 he was asked what  
he thought of the youth of today1 the   
,bishop  replied3 ,the world is a much  
better place than it was when ,i was a  
young man4444 ,young people today have  
more personal religion than they  did   
then4#ei ,while he disapproved of much  
that was done by the youth  of today1 he

 thought that his parents must have had 
much of the same  sort of disapproval of
 his own generation4 ,when people talk1 
said the  ,bishop1 of the degeneration  
of the morals and manners of the        
present1  and praise the good old times 
and old time religion1 as being so much 
superior to the present1 they do not    
know what the old times were1 and  in my
 opinion1 they are often speaking       
nonsense4 ,that is my very serious      
opinion4#fj ,in making this observation 
he did not mean to depreciate  the      
religion of his forefathers1 for no one 
had a greater respect and  veneration   
for the past4    ,during the last year  
of his life ,bishop ,cheshire filled    
almost all of  his regular visitations  
in the eastern part of the ,diocese4 ,in
 addition1  he spent ten days1 in the   
month of ,july1 visiting the country    
churches  in the counties of ,rowan1    
,mecklenburg1 ,davie1 and ,iredell4 ,in 
the course  of these visitations he     
called on forty families in the several 

parishes  and missions4 ,such activity  
in midsummer would have taxed the       
strength  of a far younger man1 but it  
did not appear to trouble the ,bishop4  
,at  the time1 he wrote his son that    
although the heat was very severe1 he   
noticed it no more than if he had been  
doing nothing4 ,in ,june of #aicb  the  
,bishop went to ,hartford1 ,connecticut1
 to assist in the consecration  of a new
 chapel at his alma mater1 ,trinity     
,college4 ,he enjoyed the trip          
thoroughly1 renewing some of his old    
friendships and making new ones4    ,by 
the fall of #aicb ,bishop ,cheshire's   
health was greatly impaired1 but  he    
continued his visitations through       
,december #aa4 ,on that day he          
performed his last service4 ,he         
confirmed a class of fifteen persons in 
the ,church of the ,good ,shepherd1     
,raleigh1 but was not able to preach the
  sermon4 ,a few days later he went to  
,charlotte for treatment by a           
specialist4 ,shortly after entering the 

hospital1 however1 he became  gradually 
worse4 ,on ,december #bg1 at six-thirty 
in the evening1 the  ,diocese of ,north 
,carolina lost its beloved ,bishop4     
,it was unusually difficult for the     
people of the ,diocese to realize that  
,bishop ,cheshire would no longer be    
with them4 ,he had possessed such a     
lovable and dynamic personality1 had so 
largely molded the character of  the    
,diocese1 and had been its ,bishop for  
so long that his people found  it hard  
to associate the idea of death with him4
 ,he had baptized1  confirmed1 or       
married many of them1 had entered       
sympathetically into the  pleasures and 
problems of their secular as well as    
their spiritual  lives1 and thus        
endeared himself to them to an extent   
far beyond the  capacity of most men4   
,in the words of the ,presiding ,bishop1
 ,james ,de,wolf  ,perry3 ,it is        
impossible to foresee a time when his   
influence will not  be felt1 his        
penetrating mind will not be esteemed or

 when his name will  cease to be held in
 grateful and loving remembrance4       
,illustration3 ,,the ,,chapel ,,of ,,the
 ,,cross1 ,,chapel ,,hill   ,from a     
drawing by ,mary de ,b4 ,graves         
,notes      ,,chapter ,i4 ,,youth ,,and 
,,manhood    #a4 ,joseph ,blount        
,cheshire1 ,some ,account of ,my ,life  
for ,my ,children1  ,carolina           
,churchman1 ,march1 #aicd4 ,hereafter1  
this work is cited simply  as ,some     
,account of ,my ,life4    #b4 ,this     
manuscript was written on ,february #ab1
 #ahff4 ,it is owned by ,mr4  ,j4 ,b4   
,cheshire1 ,jr41 of ,raleigh4    #c4    
,cheshire1 ,some ,account of ,my ,life1 
,carolina ,churchman1 ,may1 #aicd4      
#d4 ,ibid41 ,december1 #aicd4    #e4    
,ibid4    #f4 ,ibid41 ,february1 #aice4 
#g4 ,ibid4      ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,deacon
 ,,and ,,priest    #h4 ,cheshire1 ,some 
,account of ,my ,life1 ,carolina        
,churchman1 ,may1 #aice4    #i4 ,ibid41 
,april1 #aice4    #aj4 ,the first child 
was born in ,march1 #ahgh1 but died only

 a few days  after birth4    #aa4       
,church ,messenger1 ,august #d1 #ahha4  
#ab4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1             
,autobiography1 pp4 #bbi-bcj1 a         
manuscript work  owned by ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4  
,cheshire1 ,jr4    #ac4 ,ibid41 p4 #bcj4
    #ad4 ,ibid41 pp4 #bca-bcb4    #ae4  
,ibid41 p4 #bef4      ,,chapter ,,iii4  
,,saint ,,peter',s ,,parish    #af4     
,cheshire to his wife1 ,november #bc1   
#aije1 ,cheshire ,manuscripts1 owned  by
 ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4
    #ag4 ,cheshire1 ,autobiography1 p4  
#cae4    #ah4 ,ibid41 p4 #cbb4    #ai4  
,ibid41 p4 #cde4    #bj4 ,cheshire to   
,bishop ,lyman1 ,april #f1 #ahhf1       
,joseph ,blount ,cheshire  ,papers1     
,university of ,north ,carolina         
,library4    #ba4 ,bishop ,lyman to     
,cheshire1 ,october #ag1 #ahhh1 ,joseph 
,blount ,cheshire  ,papers1 ,university 
of ,north ,carolina ,library4    #bb4   
,a4 ,w4 ,dodge to ,cheshire1 ,july #f1  
#ahia1 ,bishop ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire
  ,papers1 ,north ,carolina ,historical 

,commission4    #bc4 ,cheshire1         
,autobiography1 p4 #chb4      ,,chapter 
,,iv4 ,,election ,,to ,,the ,,episcopate
    #bd4 ,cheshire to ,nannie ,c4 ,hoke1
 ,february #af1 #ahia1 ,bishop ,joseph  
,blount ,cheshire ,papers1 ,north       
,carolina ,historical ,commission4      
#be4 ,rev4 ,robert ,b4 ,owens to ,l4 ,f4
 ,london1 ,july #h1 #aich4 ,mr4 ,owens  
was a member of the adjourned convention
 of #ahic4 ,this letter contains  a     
description of the proceedings of that  
convention4    #bf4 ,dr4 ,stephen ,b4   
,weeks was the friend ,cheshire referred
 to4 ,the  wedding took place in        
,randolph ,county4    #bg4 ,cheshire to 
,dr4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,sr41 ,june 
#bi1 #ahic1 ,bishop  ,joseph ,blount    
,cheshire ,papers1 ,north ,carolina     
,historical ,commission4    #bh4        
,cheshire to ,sallie ,badger ,hoke1     
,july #c1 #ahic1 ,bishop ,joseph        
,blount ,cheshire ,papers1 ,north       
,carolina ,historical ,commission4      
#bi4 ,rev4 ,francis ,j4 ,murdoch in an  

open letter to ,rev4 ,e4 ,a4 ,osborne1  
#ahic1 ,bishop ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire
 ,papers1 ,north ,carolina ,historical  
,commission4      ,,chapter ,v4 ,,first 
,,years ,,in ,,the ,,episcopacy    #cj4 
,journal of the ,convention of the      
,diocese of ,north ,carolina  7#ahid71  
p4 #fd4    #ca4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1  
,milnor ,jones1 ,deacon and ,missionary1
 p4 #bh4    #cb4 ,ibid41 p4 #ec4    #cc4
 ,journal of the ,convention of the     
,missionary ,jurisdiction of  ,asheville
 7#ahif71 p4 #ea4    #cd4 ,ibid41 pp4   
#ej-ea4    #ce4 ,cheshire to his wife1  
,october #b1 #aija1 ,cheshire           
,manuscripts1 owned  by ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4    
,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4    #cf4      
,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,fifty ,years of 
,church ,life in ,north ,carolina1  p4  
#f4    #cg4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1      
,journal of #ahig1 p4 #if1 a manuscript 
account of  his visit to ,england and   
the ,continent in the summer of #ahig1  
owned by  ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41 
,raleigh4    #ch4 ,nicholas ,collin     

,hughes1 ,some ,memories of ,bishop     
,cheshire4 ,this  manuscript was written
 for ,l4 ,f4 ,london and is in his      
possession4    #ci4 ,journal of the     
,convention of the ,diocese of ,north   
,carolina 7#ahif71  pp4 #fa-fb4    #dj4 
,cheshire to his wife1 ,november #g1    
#ahii1 ,cheshire ,manuscripts1 owned  by
 ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4
    #da4 ,the ,raleigh ,news and        
,observer1 ,october #ae1 #aijc4         
,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,man ,,and ,,bishop    
#db4 ,carolina ,churchman1 ,april1      
#aica4      ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,historian
    #dc4 ,cheshire1 ,some ,account of   
,my ,life1 ,carolina ,churchman1        
,january1  #aice4    #dd4 ,walter ,clark
 to ,cheshire1 ,may #bd1 #ahic1 ,bishop 
,joseph ,blount  ,cheshire ,papers1     
,north ,carolina ,historical            
,commission4    #de4 ,cheshire1         
,autobiography1 p4 #cfj4    #df4 ,ibid41
 pp4 #dad-dah4    #dg4 ,for a complete  
list of the ,bishop's published         
writings1 see pp4  #aca-acc4    #dh4    

,the ,raleigh ,news and ,observer1      
,december #d1 #aica4      ,,chapter     
,,viii4 ,,work ,,among ,,the ,,colored  
,,people    #di4 ,cheshire to his wife1 
,august #be1 #aije1 ,cheshire           
,manuscripts1 owned  by ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4    
,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4    #ej4      
,journal of the ,convention of the      
,diocese of ,north ,carolina 7#aijg71   
p4 #gb4    #ea4 ,bishop ,cheshire to    
,bishop ,guerry1 ,may #ag1 #aiah1       
,joseph ,blount  ,cheshire ,papers1     
,university of ,north ,carolina         
,library4    #eb4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1
 ,manuscript ,address1 ,cheshire        
,manuscripts1 owned  by ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4    
,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4    #ec4      
,carolina ,churchman1 ,may1 #aibi4      
,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,development ,,and     
,,conclusion ,,of ,,the ,,bishop',s     
,,work    #ed4 ,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1   
,our ,summer1 #aijh1 a journal of his   
visit to  ,england for the              
,pan-,anglican ,congress and the        
,lambeth ,conference1 owned  by ,mr4 ,j4

 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41 ,raleigh4    #ee4 
,joseph ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,england1 #aibj1 
a journal of his trip to  ,england for  
the ,lambeth ,conference and of his     
visit to ,france and  ,switzerland1     
owned by ,mr4 ,j4 ,b4 ,cheshire1 ,jr41  
,raleigh4    #ef4 ,sermon on ,patriotism
 and the ,war1 ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire
 ,papers1  ,university of ,north        
,carolina ,library4    #eg4 ,journal of 
the ,convention of the ,diocese of      
,north ,carolina 7#aiai71  p4 #ea4      
#eh4 ,ibid4 7#aibc71 p4 #hd4    #ei4    
,the ,raleigh ,news and ,observer1      
,march #bh1 #aicj4    #fj4 ,carolina    
,churchman1 ,april1 #aicj4              
,published ,writings of ,joseph ,blount 
,cheshire      ,address of the ,right   
,rev4 ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire1 ,bishop
 of ,north  ,carolina1 on the ,occasion 
of the ,dedication of the ,memorial     
,vestibule in  ,christ ,church1         
,raleigh1 to the ,glory of ,god and in  
the ,memory of ,richard  ,henry ,lewis1 
,december #ah1 #aibg4 ,charlottesville1 

,va41 n4d4    ,baptism of ,virginia     
,dare1 anniversary address1 delivered on
 ,roanoke  ,island by ,rt4 ,rev4 ,joseph
 ,blount ,cheshire1 ,d4,d41 ,august #ah1
 #aiaj1 ,north  ,carolina ,booklet1     
,vol4 ,x1 no4 #d4    ,bishop ,atkinson  
and the ,church in the ,confederacy4    
,raleigh1 #aiji4    ,the ,bishops of    
,north ,carolina--,when the ,state ,was 
,one ,diocese1 ,the  ,carolina          
,churchman1 ,november1 #aiaj-;,february1
 #aiaa4    ,the ,church in the          
,confederate ,states3 ,a ,history of the
 ,protestant  ,episcopal ,church in the 
,confederate ,states4 ,new ,york3       
,longmans1 ,green  and ,co41 #aiab4     
,the ,church in the ,province of ,north 
,carolina1 in ,sketches of ,church      
,history in ,north ,carolina1 edited by 
,bishop ,cheshire4    ,decay and        
,revival1 #ahjj-ahcj1 in ,sketches of   
,church ,history in ,north  ,carolina1  
edited by ,bishop ,cheshire4    ,dr4    
,richard ,h4 ,lewis2 ,an ,intimate      
,sketch by a ,life-long ,friend1 ,the   

,carolina ,churchman1 ,october1 #aibf4  
,the ,early ,conventions3 held at       
,tarborough ,anno ,domini #agij1 #agic  
and  #agid4 ,the first effort to        
organize the ,church in ,north          
,carolina4  ,collected from original    
sources and now first published4 ,with  
introduction and brief notes1 ,raleigh1 
#ahhb4    ,the ,early ,rectors of       
,christ ,church1 ,centennial ,ceremonies
 held in  ,christ ,church ,parish1      
,raleigh1 ,north ,carolina1 ,a4,d4      
#aiba4 ,including  ,historical          
,addresses4 ,raleigh1 #aibb4    ,entries
 in an ,old ,bible which was ,formerly  
in the ,possession of ,miss  ,chloe     
,coward1 ,north ,carolina ,historical   
and ,genealogical ,register1  ,july1    
#aijc4    ,fifty ,years of ,church ,life
 in ,north ,carolina1 an ,address by the
 ,rt4  ,rev4 ,joseph ,blount ,cheshire1 
,d4,d41 ,bishop of ,north ,carolina1 on 
the  ,fiftieth ,anniversary of the ,rev4
 ,robert ,b4 ,drane1 ,d4,d41 as ,rector 
of ,st4  ,paul's ,church1 ,edenton1 ,n4 

,c4 ,all ,saints' ,day1 #aibf4 ,edenton1
 n4d4    ,first ,settlers in ,north     
,carolina ,not ,religious ,refugees3 ,a 
,study in  ,origins1 ,north ,carolina   
,booklet1 ,vol4 ,v1 no4 #d4             
,fragments of ,colonial ,church         
,history3 #a4 ,public ,libraries4 n4p41 
#ahhf4    ,the ,fundamental             
,constitutions of ,carolina1 and        
,religious ,liberty in the  ,province of
 ,north ,carolina1 ,historical ,magazine
 of the ,protestant  ,episcopal ,church1
 ,vol4 ,i1 no4 #d4    ,an ,historical   
,address ,delivered in ,saint ,matthew's
 ,church1 ,hillsboro1  ,n4 ,c41 on      
,sunday1 ,august #bd1 #aibd4 ,being the 
,one ,hundredth ,anniversary  of the    
,parish4 ,durham1 #aibe4    ,an         
,historical ,sketch of the ,church in   
,edgecombe ,county1 ,north  ,carolina1  
,church ,messenger1 ,august             
#ag-,september #ba1 #ahhj4    ,how ,our 
,church ,came to ,north ,carolina1 ,the 
,spirit of ,missions1 ,may1  #aiah4     
,milnor ,jones1 ,deacon and ,missionary4

 ,raleigh1 #aibj4    ,nonnulla3         
,memories1 ,stories1 and ,traditions1   
,more or ,less ,authentic1  ,about      
,north ,carolina4 ,chapel ,hill3 ,the   
,university of ,north ,carolina  ,press1
 #aicj4    ,the ,office of ,solicitor   
,general of ,north ,carolina1           
,university of  ,north ,carolina        
,magazine1 ,may1 #ahid4    ,the         
,personnel of the ,north ,carolina      
,convention of #aghh1 ,publications  of 
the ,southern ,history ,association1    
,vol4 ,,iii1 #ahii4    ,a ,priest to the
 ,temple or1 ,the ,country ,parson1 ,his
 ,character and ,rule  of ,holy ,life1  
by ,george ,herbert1 with an            
,introduction and brief notes  by the   
,bishop of ,north ,carolina4 ,new ,york3
 ,thomas ,whittaker1 ,inc41 #aijh4      
,public ,worship in the ,church4 ,a     
,charge to the ,clergy of the ,diocese  
of  ,north ,carolina delivered at the   
meeting of the ,convocations of ,raleigh
  and ,charlotte1 in ,october1 #aiab4   
,also a ,pastoral ,letter to the ,clergy

  and ,laity of the ,diocese1 n4p41 n4d4
    ,saint ,peter's ,church1 ,charlotte1
 ,north ,carolina--,thirty ,years of its
  ,life and ,work1 #ahfc-ahic4          
,charlotte1 #aiba4    ,a ,sermon2       
,preached in ,st4 ,john's ,church1      
,fayetteville1 the ,sunday next  before 
,advent1 ,november #bd1 #ahhi1 at the   
,centennial of the ,fayetteville        
,convention of #aghi1 ,university of    
,north ,carolina ,magazine1 ,vol4 ,,xi1 
no4 #d4    ,sketches of ,church ,history
 in ,north ,carolina1 ,addresses and    
,papers by  the ,clergymen and ,laymen  
of the ,dioceses of ,north and ,east    
,carolina4  ,wilmington1 #ahib4    ,some
 ,account of ,my ,life for ,my          
,children1 ,carolina ,churchman1        
,january1 #aicd-,may1 #aice4    ,white  
,haven ,church and the ,rev4 ,robert    
,johnston ,miller1 in ,sketches  of     
,church ,history in ,north ,carolina1   
edited by ,bishop ,cheshire4    ,why    
,judge ,haywood ,left ,north ,carolina1 
,university of ,north ,carolina         

,magazine1 ,january1 #ahie4             
,wilmington1 the ,free ,town of the     
,cape ,fear1 in ,historic ,towns of the 
,southern ,states1 by ,lyman ,p4        
,powell4 ,new ,york3 ,the ,knickerbocker
 ,press1  #aijj4          ,index      ,a
    ,abbey of ,valle ,crucis1 #aji      
,adams1 ,rev4 ,samuel ,f41 #ei    ,a4   
,h4 ,w41 poem1 #ag    ,albemarle        
section1 #b1 #hi    ,alpha ,delta ,phi1 
#aa    ,alston1 ,rev4 ,primus ,p41 #ca1 
#gf1 #ajd    ,alumnae ,association of   
,st4 ,mary's ,school1 #fd    ,american  
,church ,institute for ,negroes1        
,cheshire elected to1 #aje    ,annals of
 the ,church in the ,province of ,north 
,carolina1    ,,ms by ,cheshire1 #ia    
,archdeacons1 ,cheshire's estimate of1  
#aag-aah    ,ashe ,county1 #eg-eh       
,atkinson1 ,bishop ,thomas1 #ah-ai1 #ba2
    on division of ,diocese1 #ce2       
sketch of by ,cheshire1 #id-ie      ,b  
,bakersville1 ,n4 ,c41 #eh              
,baltimore1 #ac2    practices law in1   
#ad-ae    ,barber1 ,rev4 ,m4 ,a41 #ajc  

,barrett1 ,rev4 ,robert ,s41 #dg1 #dh   
,barrows1 ,rev4 ,w4 ,s41 #di            
,baskerville1 ,rev4 ,erasmus ,l41 #ajc  
,battle1 ,president ,kemp ,p41 #ai1 #bb1
 #ci    ,battle1 ,richard ,h41 #ge      
,beach ,cliff ,schoolhouse1 #cd         
,beaver ,creek1 #eh-ei    ,bickett1     
,gov4 ,thomas1 #aaf    ,bishop of       
,georgia1 ,cheshire considered for1 #da 
,bishop ,payne ,divinity ,school1 #aje  
,bixby1 ,robert ,f41 #aj    ,blount1    
,elizabeth1 #b    ,blount1 ,joseph1 #b  
,bridgers1 ,cheshire1 and ,bridgers1    
firm of1 #ae    ,bridgers1 ,col4 ,john  
,l41 #ae    ,bridgers1 ,john ,l41 ,jr41 
#ae    ,bronson1 ,rev4 ,benjamin ,s41   
institutional work in ,charlotte1 #bh-bi
    ,burlington1 ,n4 ,c41 ,cheshire is  
called to church at1 #be    ,buxton1    
,rev4 ,jarvis1 #dj1 #ia      ,c         
,calvary ,church1 ,tarboro1 #b1 #c1 #ce2
    ,cheshire receives call to1 #da2    
,cheshire consecrated in1 #eb-ec        
,canterbury1 ,archbishop of1 #fg        
,capers1 ,bishop ,ellison1 #ec1 #ff     

,chapel ,hill1 #ai-bj2    ,cheshire     
gives work in to ,bishop ,penick1 #abj  
,chapel of the ,cross1 ,cheshire becomes
 rector of1 #ai-bj    ,charlotte1       
,cheshire begins work in1 #bg           
,cheshire1 ,annie1 #dd    ,cheshire1    
,annie ,gray1 ,bishop's sister1 #d      
,cheshire1 ,annie ,webb 7,mrs4 ,joseph  
,blount71 #ag1 #bb1 #dd2    death of1   
#fg    ,cheshire1 ,elizabeth ,mitchell  
7,mrs4 ,joseph ,blount71 #fi2    death  
of1 #abc    ,cheshire1 ,elizabeth       
,toole1 #bc1 #dd    ,cheshire1 ,godfrey1
 #dd    ,cheshire1 ,james ,webb1 #dd    
,cheshire1 ,john1 the ,bishop's         
grandfather1 #b    ,cheshire1 ,dr4      
,joseph ,blount1 ,sr41 #b1 #c1 #d1 #g1  
#aj    ,cheshire1 ,bishop ,joseph       
,blount1 birth1 #d2    early education1 
#d-f2    practices law1 #ad-ag2         
marries ,annie ,webb1 #ag2    ordained  
deacon1 #ai2    rector1 ,chapel of the  
,cross1 #ai-bf2    ordained priest1 #be2
    rector1 ,st4 ,peter's1 ,charlotte1  
#bg ff42    ,negro work in ,charlotte1  

#cj-ca2    in diocesan conventions1     
#cd-ci2    views on episcopate1 #dg2    
elected assistant bishop1 #ej2    on    
,missionary ,jurisdiction of ,asheville1
 #fj-fc2    ,st4 ,mary's ,school1       
#fc-ff2    death of ,annie ,webb        
,cheshire1 #fg2    marries ,elizabeth   
,mitchell1 #fi2    in the ,general      
,convention1 #fi-gj2    on public       
worship1 #ga-gb2    on fishing and      
hunting1 #gg-gi2    on divorce question1
 #ha-hd2    on national prohibition1    
#hd-he2    as a father1 #hf-hg2    on   
racial episcopate1 #aja-ajd2    asks for
 assistance1 #aai2    death of          
,elizabeth ,mitchell ,cheshire1 #abc2   
on youth of today1 #abc-abd2    death   
of1 #abe    ,cheshire1 ,joseph ,blount1 
,jr41 #dd1 #gg    ,cheshire1 ,katherine 
,drane1 #d    ,cheshire1 ,sarah1 #dd1   
#gi    ,cheshire1 ,theophilus ,parker1  
#d    ,cheshire ,building1 ,st4         
,augustine's1 #ajg    ,christ ,church1  
,raleigh1 #dh    ,church in the         
,confederate ,states1 discussion of1    

#id-if    ,churchman1 ,the1 #ie         
,church ,messenger1 #bc1 #be1 #ij       
,church of the ,good ,shepherd1         
,raleigh1 #ge1 #aai2    ,cheshire's last
 service1 #abd    ,church ,temperance   
,society1 of ,england1 #aaj-aaa         
,church ,times1 #ie    ,clark1 ,gov4    
,henry1 #hh    ,clark1 ,judge ,walter1  
#hi    ,colonial ,records of ,north     
,carolina1 #hi1 #ia    ,connor1 ,r4 ,d4 
,w41 resolution on the ,bishop1 #aaf    
,convocation for ,colored ,work1 #gd    
,convocation of ,charlotte1 #gd1 #aai   
,convocation of ,raleigh1 #gd           
,curtis1 ,dr4 ,m4 ,ashley1 #c1 #ec      
,d    ,davidson ,college1 #cc           
,deerfield1 ,mass41 #aj    ,delany1     
,rev4 ,henry ,b41 #gf2    elected       
suffragan bishop1 #ajc-ajd              
,devereaux1 ,thomas ,p41 #b    ,division
 of the ,diocese1 #ce-cf    ,dodge1     
,rev4 ,a4 ,w41 #db    ,drane1 ,dr4      
,robert ,b41 on ,cheshire's sermons1    
#hj-ha    ,dudley1 ,bishop ,t4 ,u41 #ec 
,durham1 ,n4 ,c41 #bj2    ,cheshire     

organizes church in1 #bc-be      ,e     
,edenton1 ,n4 ,c41 home of ,cheshire's  
ancestors1 #b    ,edenton ,academy1 #b  
,edgecombe ,county1 #ai-bj2    history  
of church in1 #hh-hi    ,eliot1 ,george1
 quotation from1 #ajj    ,ellicott      
,city1 #a1 #ab    ,episcopal ,school for
 ,boys1 ,raleigh1 #b    ,erwin1 ,william
 ,a41 #aad1 #aaf    ,executive council1 
formed1 #aag-aah      ,f    ,france1    
,cheshire visits1 #fh    ,fundamental   
,constitutions1 ,cheshire discusses1 #ig
      ,g    ,general ,convention1       
,cheshire elected deputy to1 #dj2    on 
racial episcopate1 #ajb    ,george1     
,rev4 ,t4 ,m4 ,n41 nominated assistant  
bishop1 #dh    ,glenn1 ,gov4 ,robert    
,b41 #hc    ,gletsch1 ,switzerland1 #aab
    ,good ,samaritan ,hospital1 #db-dc1 
#ii    ,graves1 ,professor ,ralph1 #bb  
,graves' school1 ,granville ,county1 #g 
,guerry1 ,bishop ,william ,a41 #ajc1    
#ajd    ,guild of ,st4 ,martin1 #cb     
,h    ,halifax1 #c    ,harding1 ,rev4   
,nathaniel ,h41 nominated assistant     

bishop1 #dh    ,hartford1 ,conn41 #h1   
#aj    ,herbert1 ,george1 #ic1 #id      
,hillsboro1 ,n4 ,c41 #bj2    ,cheshire  
studies law in1 #ac-ad                  
,historiographer1 ,cheshire elected1 #ij
    ,holler1 ,bill1 #gg-gh    ,holmes1  
,rev4 ,lucian1 #bi    ,holt1 ,lawrence1 
#aad    ,honesty1 ,cheshire writes essay
 on1 #g    ,honorary degrees1 given     
,cheshire1 #ic    ,hooper1 ,george ,g41 
,cheshire's law partner1 #ad-ae         
,hooper1 ,professor ,j4 de ,berniere1   
#bb    ,hooper and ,cheshire1 firm of1  
#ae    ,horner1 ,bishop ,junius ,moore1 
consecrated bishop1 #fc    ,howard1     
,judge ,george1 #ad    ,howard and      
,perry1 firm of1 #ad    ,hunter1 ,dr4   
,a4 ,b41 #ajh1 #aab1 #aaf      ,i       
,iredell ,county1 #db    ,ireland1      
,cheshire visits1 #fh    ,ives1 ,bishop 
,levi ,silliman1 #b1 #c2    work at     
,valle ,crucis1 #ef1 #ei2    sketch of  
by ,cheshire1 #id      ,j    ,jackson1  
,bishop ,henry ,m41 #dg    ,jamaica1    
,cheshire visits1 #aac    ,johns1       

,bishop ,john1 advice to young          
clergymen1 #ba    ,johnston1 ,william   
,h41 #e    ,joint convention of #ahij1  
#ia-ib    ,jones1 ,hamilton ,c41 #bh    
,jones1 ,rev4 ,milnor1 mission work in  
the mountains1 #ef-ei2    ,cheshire's   
estimate of1 #fj2    life of by         
,cheshire1 #if    ,jones1 ,sam1 #dc-dd  
,jurisdiction of ,asheville1 formation  
of1 #fa-fc      ,k    ,kerfoot1         
,president of ,trinity ,college1 #i     
,l    ,lambeth ,conference1 ,cheshire   
attends1 #fg-fh1 #aji1 #aaa-aab         
,lenten services1 ,cheshire on1 #gc     
,lewis1 ,nell ,battle1 tribute to the   
,bishop1 #hf    ,lewis1 ,dr4 ,richard   
,h41 #e1 #g1 #ac1 #aah2    ,cheshire's  
best man1 #ag2    tribute to ,cheshire1 
#aba    ,lloyd1 ,rev4 ,arthur ,s41      
nominated assistant bishop1 #di    ,long
 ,creek ,township1 #cc-cd    ,louisburg1
 ,n4 ,c41 #e    ,louisburg ,academy1    
,cheshire attends1 #f    ,lucas1 ,rev4  
,henry1 #da    ,lyman1 ,bishop ,theodore
 ,benedict1 #ba1 #bd1 #be1 #cd1 #ec2    

on division of ,diocese1 #ce2           
estimate of ,cheshire's work in         
,charlotte1 #da2    asks for assistance1
 #df1 #dh2    death of1 #ed2    sketch  
of by ,cheshire1 #id      ,m    ,mc,coy1
 ,columbus ,w41 #cc    ,mallett1 ,dr4   
,william ,p41 #bb    ,marshall1 ,dr4    
,matthias ,m41 #ai1 #ce2    nominated   
assistant bishop1 #dh    ,maryland1 #i1 
#ab    ,mecklenburg ,county1 missions   
in1 #db    ,meredith1 ,rev4 ,reuben1 #gi
    ,methodist ,church ,conference1 #hc 
,missionary bishops for ,negro work1    
#aja-ajb    ,mitchell1 ,elizabeth       
,lansdale1    marries ,bishop ,cheshire1
 #fi2    death of1 #abc    ,mitchell1   
,rev4 ,walter ,a41 #fi    ,mitchell     
,county1 #eg-eh    ,monreath1 summer    
home of the ,bishop's father1 #e1 #ab   
,monroe1 ,n4 ,c41 ,cheshire organizes   
church in1 #cb    ,mooresville1 ,n4 ,c41
 #cc    ,murdoch1 ,dr4 ,francis ,j41    
,cheshire's estimate of1 #dg2           
nominated assistant bishop1 #dh2        
nominates ,cheshire1 #dh2    on         

,cheshire's election as bishop1 #ea     
,murray1 ,bishop ,john ,gardner1        
estimate of ,cheshire1 #ajg    ,music in
 the church1 ,cheshire on1 #gc      ,n  
,negro1 religion of the1 #ajf           
,newsome1 ,a4 ,r41 estimate of ,cheshire
 as an historian1 #ih    ,niles1        
,professor ,william ,w41 #i             
,nonnulla1 vii1 #gi2    discussion of1  
#ig      ,o    ,orkneys1 ,cheshire      
visits1 #fh    ,osborne1 ,rev4 ,edwin   
,a41    takes work at ,monroe and ,long 
,creek1 #cb1 #cd2    founds ,thompson   
,orphanage1 #db    ,outlook1 #ie      ,p
    ,palmer1 ,professor ,george ,h41 #id
    ,pamlico ,banking and ,insurance    
,company1 #ae1 #ai    ,pan-,anglican    
,congress1 #aji-aaa    ,parker1         
,elizabeth ,toole1 #d    ,parker1 ,mary 
,toole1 #d    ,parker1 ,theophilus1 #d  
,pastoral ,letter1 by ,cheshire1 #gb-gc 
,penick1 ,bishop ,edwin ,a41 elected    
bishop coadjutor1 #aai2    proposes gift
 for ,cheshire1 #aba1 #abb    ,perry1   
,bishop ,james ,de,wolf1 tribute to     

,cheshire1 #abe    ,phi ,kappa1         
,cheshire's fraternity1 #aa             
,pittsboro1 ,n4 ,c41 #ai    ,polk       
,county1 #eg    ,portrait of the        
,bishop1 #ajh    ,presbyterian ,synod1  
#hc    ,pynchon1 ,professor at ,trinity1
 #aj      ,q    ,quaker settlements in  
,north ,carolina1 #hi    ,quin1 ,rev4   
,charles ,c41 #cj-cb    ,quintard1      
,bishop ,charles ,t41 #ec      ,r       
,racial episcopate1 #ajc                
,ravenscroft1 ,bishop ,john ,stark1 #dg2
    sketch of by ,cheshire1 #id         
,ravenscroft1 ,raleigh1 home of the     
,bishop1 #abj    ,roanoke ,river swamp1 
,bishop hunts in1 #gh    ,rockingham1   
,n4 ,c41 #cc    ,ruffin1 ,chief ,justice
 ,thomas1 #ac    ,ruffin1 ,william ,k41 
,cheshire studies law under1 #ac-ad1 #af
      ,s    ,st4 ,ambrose ,church1      
,raleigh1 #gf    ,st4 ,augustine's      
,school1 #aje1 #ajg-ajh    ,st4         
,clement's ,hall1 ,cheshire teaches at1 
#a1 #ab-ac1 #af    ,st4 ,luke's ,church1
 ,tarboro1 ,cheshire holds first service

    as bishop in1 #ec    ,st4 ,mark's   
,church1 ,mecklenburg ,county1 #be2     
organized1 #cd    ,st4 ,martin's        
,church1 ,charlotte1 organized1 #ca     
,st4 ,mary's ,school1 founded1 #fc-fd2  
,cheshire's opinion of1 #fd2            
established as a church school1 #fd-ff2 
,cheshire's daughters attend1 #hg2      
debt on1 #aac-aad2    endowment for1    
#aad    ,st4 ,matthew's ,church1        
,hillsboro1 ,cheshire married in1 #ag2  
,cheshire is called to1 #be    ,st4     
,michael and ,all ,angels1 ,charlotte1  
organized1 #cj1 #ca1 #ii    ,st4        
,michael's ,industrial ,school1         
,charlotte1 #ajd-aje    ,st4 ,paul's    
,church1 ,edenton1 #b1 #hj    ,st4      
,paul's ,church1 ,macon1 ,ga41 ,cheshire
 receives call to1 #da    ,st4 ,paul's  
,church1 ,winston-,salem1 #be1 #ee      
,st4 ,peter's ,church1 ,charlotte1 #bh1 
#cf2    ,cheshire is called to1 #bf     
,st4 ,peter's ,home and ,hospital1      
organized1 #bi1 #cj    ,st4 ,philip's   
,church1 ,durham1 #bd-be    ,saluda     

conference1 #ff    ,saunders1 ,col4     
,william ,l41 #hi-ij    ,scotland1      
,cheshire visits1 #fh    ,scotland      
,neck1 #c    ,sermons1 ,cheshire        
discusses1 #ba-bb    ,sessums1 ,bishop  
,davis1 #ec    ,shepherd1 ,john ,avery1 
#ab    ,smedes1 ,dr4 ,aldert1 #fc       
,smedes1 ,dr4 ,bennett1 #fc1 #fd1 #ff   
,smedes1 ,rev4 ,john ,e4 ,c41 #ai1 #be2 
verses to ,cheshire1 #ea-eb    ,society 
of the ,cincinnati1 ,cheshire becomes   
member of1 #ic    ,state ,literary and  
,historical ,association1 ,cheshire     
elected    president of1 #ig            
,strange1 ,rev4 ,robert ,b41 #ib        
,suffragan bishops1 for ,negro work1    
#aja-ajd    ,sutton1 ,rev4 ,robert ,b41 
#ai1 #bj    ,switzerland1 ,cheshire     
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,n4 ,c41 #ad-ae1 #ag2    description of1
 #b    ,tarboro ,building and ,loan     
,association1 #ae-af    ,tarboro ,male  
,academy1 ,cheshire attends1 #e1 #g1 #ac
    ,thompson ,orphanage1 ,charlotte1   
#db    ,trinity ,church1 ,scotland      

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,hartford1 ,conn41 ,cheshire enters1    
#h-i2    graduates from1 #aa-ab2        
confers degree on ,cheshire1 #ic2       
,cheshire visits1 #abd    ,tryon1 ,n4   
,c41 #ef    ,tuttle ,prize1 ,cheshire   
wins1 #aa      ,u    ,university of     
,north ,carolina1 #e1 #f1 #h1 #ai1 #hg2 
confers degree on ,cheshire1 #ic        
,university of the ,south1 ,cheshire    
made trustee of1 #ci-dj2    ,cheshire's 
son attends1 #hg2    confers degree on  
,cheshire1 #ic      ,v    ,valle        
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#ef-eg1 #ei      ,w    ,watauga ,county1
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 #ef1 #gg    ,watson1 ,bishop ,alfred   
,a41 #be1 #ec    ,webb1 ,annie ,huske1  
,cheshire meets1 #af2    marries        
,cheshire1 #ag2    death of1 #fg        
,weed1 ,bishop ,edwin ,g41 #ec          
,weeks1 ,stephen ,b41 #di n4    ,west   
,indies1 ,archbishop of1 #aac           
,wetmore1 ,rev4 ,george ,b41 #cd        
,whipple1 ,bishop ,henry ,b41 #dg       

,wilkes1 ,john1 #bg-bh1 #cb    ,wilkes1 
,mrs4 ,john1 #db-dc    ,wilkinson1      
,frank ,s41 #e1 #g-h    ,williams1      
,bishop ,john1 #aj-aa    ,wilson1       
,president ,woodrow1 #aae               
,winchester1 ,rev4 ,j4 ,r41 #dg         
,windsor1 ,n4 ,c41 #c    ,winston1      
,professor ,george ,t41 #bb      ,y     
,york1 ,archbishop of1 ,cheshire visits1
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