JOSEPH WILLIAM FORSYTHE

Joseph William Forsythe is said to have received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857. His father, Joseph Forsythe, was also a T.C.D. graduate, and had served in the diocese of Nova Scotia since 1847. The son, Joseph William, took an ad eundem degree from King’s College, Windsor, in 1863. He was ordained deacon in 1858, priest in 1859.

He was stationed at Liverpool, N.S., 1858—1861; Truro, 1861; Guysboro, 1862; St. Eleanor’s and Summerside, 1865-1873; Kitley, Ont., 1873—77; Pem— broke, 1877-87; Carleton Place, 1887-88; Leeds Rear, 1888-1890. From 1890 until his resignation he was incumbent of Oxford Mills. He died some time between 1914 and 1916.

During his years at St. Eleanor’s Mr. Forsythe served the Kensington congregation. It was in his time that St. Mark’s was disconnected from St. Eleanor’s and Summerside and attached to New London.

JOSEPH CHURCHILL COX

Joseph Churchill Cox was born in Cornwallis, N.S., in 1838. After some experience in teaching he entered King’s College, Windsor, in 1862, and took his degree in 1866. He was ordained deacon in 1866, and priest in 1871, by Bishop Binney. He was stationed at Walton, N.S., 1866—67, 1877—79; New London, 1867-69, 1870-74; Van Deusenville, Mass, 1869-70; Merritton, Ont., 1874—75; Harrietsville, N.S., 1879-81; Stewiacke, 1881—86; Brompton with Windsor, Quebec, 1890-94; and at Port Morien, N.S. He retired to Falmouth, N.S., then to Windsor, where he died, January 24, 1913, aged 75 years.

OBADIAH SAMUEL NEWNHAM

Obadiah Samuel Newnham was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England, March 23, 1848. He received his early education in Birmingham, and he studied! for five years under Canon Pope, British Consular Chaplain in Lisbon, Portugal. He was ordained deacon in St. Luke’s, Halifax, in 1875, and priest in Charlottetown in 1877. From late in 1875 to 1878 he served as Rector of New London, and he then moved to Point du Chene where he began a long career of fifty-four years in the Diocese of Fredericton. He next went to St. John as curate in St. Mark’s parish, with duties connected especially with St. Mary’s Chapel-of-Ease. From St. John he went to Hampton where he succeeded Canon William Walker, 1883-1887. It is to be noted that the firs-t St. Thomas’s Church, New London, was built in William Walker’s incumbency, and that the second church was completed in that of O. S. Newn— ham. After leaving Hampton Mr. Newnham was appointed Rector of Christ Church, St. Stephen, where he laboured until his retirement in 1925. He was made a Can-on of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, in 1901, and Arch- deacon of Fredericton in 1907. For forty-three years he acted as secretary of the diocesan synod. He died May 12, 1932.

THOMAS BLANCHARD REAGH

Thomas Blanchard Reagh, son of Isaac Reagh and his wife Mollie Ann Tupper, was born at Victoria Vale, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, in 1846. He received his early education in his home school, and taught school himself when only in his teens. Later he studied law for a short time at Harvard, but did not pursue this vocation. He himself came from a Baptist family, and he married a Methodist wife, Ada Ruth Miller, of his native province. After their marriage, when Mr. Reagh was superintend-ing a Business College in Charlottetown, he was influenced by the Reverend Alfred Osborn-e, corres- ponding secretary on P.E.I. for the C. & C.C.S., to study for holy orders. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1878 and to the priesthood in 1880 by Bishop Binney. After serving a year as assistant-curate at Milton. during Dr. Read’s absence in England he was sent to New London. Here he remained from 1879 to 1889 with the exception of a year spent in Port Hill, 1882-1883. From 1890 to 1911 he was Rector of Milton, when he was obliged to retire from active work because of failing health and loss of eyesight. He died August 26, 1914, and is buried at Milton.

The Diocesan Year Book for 1915 tells that as Rector of Milton “he laboured as a faithful minister of Christ; winning the love of his people, particularly for his care and attention to the sick and afflicted.” The same

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