Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-20 | Page 1 | Dr , Greer Dies Busy Life Ends

DR. DAVID H. GF.EER, Episco- jj pal bishop of New York, i whose death occurred yesterday- ' i IP" ' x ll o i V, ,i i f v 4 VV X 1 f - " Li! GREER DIES; BUSYJJFE ENDS Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Metropolitan Diocese Passes Away. NEW YORK, May 19. The Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, died in a. hospital here at 6:lu o'clock tonipht. Bishop Greer accepted I lie election as coadjutor bishop of the diocese of New York after having declined three earlier offers to the episcopacy in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. On the death of Bishop Henry C. Potter in ISM'S, Bishop Greer became the head of the diocese. dio-cese. Next to his ability as an administrator and organizer, probably Bishop Greer's most prominent characteristic was his extreme democracy. He was spoken of a a "bishop without trappings." U was said at the time of his consecration as bishop that, until he had been invested with the of lice, he had never wurn any of the habiliments of the sacerdotal office. of-fice. He gave as his reason for this (hat the livery of the church wag a concession to his own weakness, and he way suid to have made the statement that if fie could not, by hie own bearin? and conduct, impress im-press iru-n as being different frcm themselves, them-selves, he did not care to make ihem pretend by aruiieial means thai be wa s. Bishop Greer was born at W heeling". W. Ya., March 20. S44. His father and mother were church people and his grandfather grand-father was a clergyman of the Church of hhigla nd, serving for many years in Wheeling. He was graduated from Washington eollege, Pennsylvania, In lS'iJ and prepared hi mself for the study of law, but first taught school for a year at Johnstown. 1 'a. , and then determined (Continued on Pago 2, Column 7.) DR. GBEER DIES; t 80S! LIFE El! (Continued from Page One.) y?; to take up the ministry. Hp entered the Protestant Episcopal ' seminary oi . 'A Kenyon college. He was made a deaot the same year and was graduated in It -6 z,, and assumed charge of Christ churh Clarksburg. W. 'Va. He was ordain I ' priest in lSoS and became a rector ol Trinity church, Covington, K, where !J : remained until he accepted a call in U'l , to Crane church. Providence, R. I. Hi-;;, was married in 1S69 to Miss Caroline A ' -y Keith of Covington. Ky. They iiad twi : sons and two daughters. -r:- As an author, Bishop Greer contrib'jte. several books on religious topics, amcni which were "The Historic Christ," "Fron Things to God," "The Preacher and H.-v: Place" and "Visions." , -'