GEORGE HILL BOTTOME, son of Rev Francis Bottome, D.D., and Margaret (McDonald) Bottome, was born June 25, 1861, at Williamsburg, now a section of Brooklyn, N Y. His mother was a popular writer on religious subjects for the young, and founder of the King's Daughters. He was fitted for college at Hackettstown (N. J ) Seminary, and then spent a year in traveling on the continent under the tutorship of Rev Mr. Coleridge, a grandson of the poet.
After graduation [Yale College, Class of 1883] he spent a year at Oxford, England, and then entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity with honors in 1887. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1887, and Priest in 1888. After a year at Zion Church, New York City, he became assistant minister of Grace Church, and since the erection of the parish buildings on East Fourteenth street in 1895, had been vicar of the chapel and mission there which he organized. In his service of twenty-five years he accomplished a large work in a wise and loving spirit.
As the result of nervous strain and overwork he contracted diabetes about the beginning of 1910, but continued actively at work until two or three days before his death. While visiting friends at Ossining, N Y, he was suddenly taken seriously ill, and died there May 10, 1913. He was in his 52d year. A memorial service was held May 25 in Grace Church.
He married, June 8, 1893, Anna Griswold Tyng, of Morristown, N. J, daughter of Rev Dudley Atkins Tyng (BA. Univ. Pa. 1843) and Catharine Maria (Stevens) Tyng. She survives him with two sons. A brother (B.A. Yale 1893) is living, but another brother (BA Dickinson College 1873), a clergyman in the English Church, died about two weeks after his brother.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
After graduation [Yale College, Class of 1883] he spent a year at Oxford, England, and then entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity with honors in 1887. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1887, and Priest in 1888. After a year at Zion Church, New York City, he became assistant minister of Grace Church, and since the erection of the parish buildings on East Fourteenth street in 1895, had been vicar of the chapel and mission there which he organized. In his service of twenty-five years he accomplished a large work in a wise and loving spirit.
As the result of nervous strain and overwork he contracted diabetes about the beginning of 1910, but continued actively at work until two or three days before his death. While visiting friends at Ossining, N Y, he was suddenly taken seriously ill, and died there May 10, 1913. He was in his 52d year. A memorial service was held May 25 in Grace Church.
He married, June 8, 1893, Anna Griswold Tyng, of Morristown, N. J, daughter of Rev Dudley Atkins Tyng (BA. Univ. Pa. 1843) and Catharine Maria (Stevens) Tyng. She survives him with two sons. A brother (B.A. Yale 1893) is living, but another brother (BA Dickinson College 1873), a clergyman in the English Church, died about two weeks after his brother.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
GEORGE HILL BOTTOME, son of Rev Francis Bottome, D.D., and Margaret (McDonald) Bottome, was born June 25, 1861, at Williamsburg, now a section of Brooklyn, N Y. His mother was a popular writer on religious subjects for the young, and founder of the King's Daughters. He was fitted for college at Hackettstown (N. J ) Seminary, and then spent a year in traveling on the continent under the tutorship of Rev Mr. Coleridge, a grandson of the poet.
After graduation [Yale College, Class of 1883] he spent a year at Oxford, England, and then entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity with honors in 1887. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1887, and Priest in 1888. After a year at Zion Church, New York City, he became assistant minister of Grace Church, and since the erection of the parish buildings on East Fourteenth street in 1895, had been vicar of the chapel and mission there which he organized. In his service of twenty-five years he accomplished a large work in a wise and loving spirit.
As the result of nervous strain and overwork he contracted diabetes about the beginning of 1910, but continued actively at work until two or three days before his death. While visiting friends at Ossining, N Y, he was suddenly taken seriously ill, and died there May 10, 1913. He was in his 52d year. A memorial service was held May 25 in Grace Church.
He married, June 8, 1893, Anna Griswold Tyng, of Morristown, N. J, daughter of Rev Dudley Atkins Tyng (BA. Univ. Pa. 1843) and Catharine Maria (Stevens) Tyng. She survives him with two sons. A brother (B.A. Yale 1893) is living, but another brother (BA Dickinson College 1873), a clergyman in the English Church, died about two weeks after his brother.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
After graduation [Yale College, Class of 1883] he spent a year at Oxford, England, and then entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity with honors in 1887. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1887, and Priest in 1888. After a year at Zion Church, New York City, he became assistant minister of Grace Church, and since the erection of the parish buildings on East Fourteenth street in 1895, had been vicar of the chapel and mission there which he organized. In his service of twenty-five years he accomplished a large work in a wise and loving spirit.
As the result of nervous strain and overwork he contracted diabetes about the beginning of 1910, but continued actively at work until two or three days before his death. While visiting friends at Ossining, N Y, he was suddenly taken seriously ill, and died there May 10, 1913. He was in his 52d year. A memorial service was held May 25 in Grace Church.
He married, June 8, 1893, Anna Griswold Tyng, of Morristown, N. J, daughter of Rev Dudley Atkins Tyng (BA. Univ. Pa. 1843) and Catharine Maria (Stevens) Tyng. She survives him with two sons. A brother (B.A. Yale 1893) is living, but another brother (BA Dickinson College 1873), a clergyman in the English Church, died about two weeks after his brother.
SOURCE: "1912-1913 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University"... presented at the annual meeting of the alumni of Yale University, Published, 1915.
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