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REV. HARRY INNES BODLEY.

Harry Innes, a son of Charles Scott Todd and Frances Price (Curd,) Bodley, was born at Lexington, Ky., April 10, 1852; married at New York City by the Rev. George H. Houghton, D.D., Sept. 13, 1877, to Mary Anna, daughter of James Stuart and Hannah Maria (Webb,) Gillespie, who was born in New York City, July 1, 1852.

Harry Innes Bodley received his preliminary education from private tutors and in private schools at Lexington, Ky., New York City, St. Louis, Mo., and Faribault, Minn. His higher education was at Columbia College and the General Theological Seminary, New York.

He was ordained deacon in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York, on Trinity Sunday, May 27, 1877, by the Right Rev. Bishop Horatio Potter, D.D., by whom he was also ordained to the priesthood in the same Church in New York on June 10, 1878. He was minister in charge and Rector of Christ Church, Canaan, Conn., from July 15, 1877, to Feb. 20, 1882. In addition to this cure he also had the charge of Christ Church, Sheffield, Mass., from Jan. 23, 1881, to Jan. 29, 1882. He was the secretary and treasurer of the Litchfield Archdeaconry, 18781880.

From Canaan he removed to North Adams, Mass. where he began the duties of Rector of St. John's Church on Feb. 21, 1882, and continued there until July 6, 1890, when he removed to Mount Vernon, N. Y. He was at this time an Examining Chaplain for the Diocese of Massachusetts. He was special preacher and lecturer at St. John's Church, Stamford, Conn., from October, 1890 to the spring of 1891, residing meanwhile at Mount Vernon. He was Corresponding Secretary of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry, from Sept. 18, 1892, to Nov. 1, 1895.

On Sept. 28, 1895, he was transferred from the Diocese of Massachusetts to the Diocese of Kansas. In the Journal of Convention of that Diocese, 1895, the clergy list contains the name of the Rev. Harry I. Bodley, "Visitor and Examiner of St. John's Military School, Salina." The Right Rev. Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh was consecrated Bishop of Kansas, Sept. 19, 1895. In his address to the Diocesan Convention of 1896, he says: "My first official act Sept. 19, 1895, was the nomination of the Rev. Harry I. Bodley (Dean,) to Grace Cathedral, Topeka." The Rev. Mr. Bodley was installed as Dean at the Cathedral on Nov. 17, 1895. On May 24, 1896, the Bishop visited St. John's School, Salina, and the Baccalaureate sermon in Christ Church was by the Very Rev. Dean Bodley. At this Convention, 1896, the Very Rev. H. I. Bodley is reported as on the Board of Visitors and Examiners of the College of the Sisters of Bethany, Topeka, and as Dean of the Cathedral Chapter. He was also appointed by this Convention chairman of the committee on finance, and chairman of the committee to arrange for the annual convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the Woman's Auxiliary and the order of the Daughters of the King in Junction City, at the time of the next Diocesan Convention.

He resigned his position at the Cathedral on Sept. 12, 1897, and removed to Mount Vernon, N. Y. In the Kansas Journal of Convention, Sept. 1898, the Rev. Mr. Bodley reports having exercised his ministry in New York, Brooklyn, and Tarrytown, N. Y., also in New Haven, Stamford, and elsewhere in Connecticut, besides having charge of the Church of the Transfiguration, Norfolk, Conn., during the summer. Early in 1899 he became the private secretary of the Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D.D., Bishop of New York.

On the seventeenth of April, 1899, the parish of St. Mark's, New Britain, Conn., elected a committee to request Bishop Brewster to appoint a Rector for that parish. In compliance with this request, the Bishop appointed the Rev. Harry I. Bodley of the Diocese of Kansas, who became the Rector on Aug. 1, 1899.

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