Membership in Yale's Skull & Bones Society:
Partridge, Sidney Catlin............1880
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Sidney Catlin Partridge (brother of William Ordway Partridge) b. 1 Sep 1857 in NY. He was the first Episcopal Bishop in Kyoto, Japan. His parents were: George Sidney Partridge, Jr. and Helen Derby Catlin. This entry states also that he is a descendant of George Partridge of Plymouth (BNA, 1904).
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Bishop of West Missouri:
Sidney C. Partridge, (1911 - 1930)
The first Bishop of Kyoto, Japan was the Rt. Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, who for nineteen years had been one of the leading missionaries in the China mission. In 1912, after his translation to the Diocese of West Missouri, the Rev. H. St. George Tucker was elected to succeed him. The new Bishop had been for thirteen years in Japan and much of this time he had been president of St. Paul's College.
Project Canterbury
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church.
Japan
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1934.
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church: Japan (1934)
He died in 1930, after forty years of service that it is given to few ... Rev. Sidney C. Partridge.
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INFO below provided by Cheryl Cartwright (#47690711):
Sidney Catlin Partridge, B.A. 1880.
Born September 1, 1857, in New York City
Died June 22, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo
Father, George Sidney Partridge; head of importing department of A T. Stewart & Company of New York City; gazetted for Legion of Honor for services to merchants of Pansand Lyons during siege of Pans in 1870, but died before the decoration could be conferred; son of George Sidney and Mary (Tew) Partridge, of New York City. Father was 1832-1875 (George Sidney Partridge Jr) .
Mother, Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge; daughter of Charles Taylor Catlin (B A. 1822) and Lucy Ann (Derby) Catlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Yale relatives include: Lynde Catlin (B A 1786) (great-grandfather); John M. Catlin (B.A. 1820) (greatuncle); Lynde A. Catlin, '$3, Charles T. Catlin, '$6, Hasket D. Catlin, '59 (uncles); Arnold W. Catlin, '62 (uncle) and his son, Reginald W. Catlin, '08; and George L. Catlin, '60, Arthur T. Hadley, '76, and his sons, Morris Hadley, '16, and Hamilton Hadley, '19 (cousins).
Adelphi Academy. Two first prizes in English composition Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Junior year and second prize at Junior Exhibition; first dispute appointment Senior year and a DeForest Scholarship; an editor of Tale Record and a Class Day historian; member Linonia, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at Yale Divinity School 1880-82 and at Berkeley Divinity School 1882-84; ordained as a deacon in Protestant Episcopal Church June 4,1884, at Middletown, Conn , by the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D D , Bishop of Connecticut, and as priest in 1885 m China, by the Rt Rev William J Boone, D.D , Missionary Bishop of Shanghai; during the summer of 1884 employed under the Board of Missions in giving account of its missionary work in the Far East in various cities of the United States; instructor in natural science at St. John's Missionary College in Shanghai 1884-87, and treasurer of the mission; had charge of Bishop Boone Memorial School /or Boys in Wuchang 1887-1899, teaching in both Chinese and English; during that period also taught Bible and exegesis in St. Peter's Divinity School; elected first missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan, in 1900 (consecrated in Tokyo on February 2) and served as such until 1911, when elected bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (then called Diocese of Kansas City), his enthronement taking place at Grace Church in Kansas City on June 27; continued in office until death; ex-officio president of executive council of the Diocese; preached in various churches in England and Scotland during summer of 1912 and attended Lambeth Conference of Bishops in London in 1920; of late years had frequently preached during the summer months in the "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York; D.D. Berkeley Divinity School 1900; president of St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, since 1911; chairman of Social Service Commission of the Province of the Southwest; a founder of St Andrew's Church in Kansas City in 1916; state chaplain of Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati and of Missouri Society of the Sons of the Revolution; member of Yale Alumni Board since 1913; president of Yale Club of Kansas City for a number of years; had delivered numerous addresses before clubs, colleges, and patriotic societies and published some sermons in pamphlet form and religious books in Chinese; translated the Declaration of Independence into Chinese, had it engraved on a scroll, and gave it to the American consul; wrote five series of stories on Chinese life and character, which were published by McClure Newspaper Syndicate in papers in the United States and Canada during 1918-19 under the title of "The Mysterious Ways of Wang Foo."
Married (1) June 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, Charlotte Irene, daughter of Louis and Charlotte Irene (Ritter) Mills, of New Haven. One daughter, Helen Louise (Mrs. George E. Chapin). Mrs. Partridge died May 3, 1886.
Married (2) November 27, 1901, in San Francisco, Calif., Agnes Laura Louise, daughter of John Simpson, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen and one time Danish consul in San Francisco, and Amalia (Ortwed) Simpson. One daughter, Amalia Ortwed Lucy, the wife of Frederic Pomeroy Lyman, Jr., a student in civil engineering at Cornell for two years.
Death due to double lobar pneumonia. Buried in St. Luke's Churchyard, Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City.
Survived by wife, two daughters, four grandchildren, and two brothers, Dr. Charles C. Partridge, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the Rev. Wells M. Partridge, of Dorchester, Mass.
Partridge, Sidney Catlin............1880
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Sidney Catlin Partridge (brother of William Ordway Partridge) b. 1 Sep 1857 in NY. He was the first Episcopal Bishop in Kyoto, Japan. His parents were: George Sidney Partridge, Jr. and Helen Derby Catlin. This entry states also that he is a descendant of George Partridge of Plymouth (BNA, 1904).
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Bishop of West Missouri:
Sidney C. Partridge, (1911 - 1930)
The first Bishop of Kyoto, Japan was the Rt. Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, who for nineteen years had been one of the leading missionaries in the China mission. In 1912, after his translation to the Diocese of West Missouri, the Rev. H. St. George Tucker was elected to succeed him. The new Bishop had been for thirteen years in Japan and much of this time he had been president of St. Paul's College.
Project Canterbury
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church.
Japan
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1934.
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church: Japan (1934)
He died in 1930, after forty years of service that it is given to few ... Rev. Sidney C. Partridge.
*********
INFO below provided by Cheryl Cartwright (#47690711):
Sidney Catlin Partridge, B.A. 1880.
Born September 1, 1857, in New York City
Died June 22, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo
Father, George Sidney Partridge; head of importing department of A T. Stewart & Company of New York City; gazetted for Legion of Honor for services to merchants of Pansand Lyons during siege of Pans in 1870, but died before the decoration could be conferred; son of George Sidney and Mary (Tew) Partridge, of New York City. Father was 1832-1875 (George Sidney Partridge Jr) .
Mother, Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge; daughter of Charles Taylor Catlin (B A. 1822) and Lucy Ann (Derby) Catlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Yale relatives include: Lynde Catlin (B A 1786) (great-grandfather); John M. Catlin (B.A. 1820) (greatuncle); Lynde A. Catlin, '$3, Charles T. Catlin, '$6, Hasket D. Catlin, '59 (uncles); Arnold W. Catlin, '62 (uncle) and his son, Reginald W. Catlin, '08; and George L. Catlin, '60, Arthur T. Hadley, '76, and his sons, Morris Hadley, '16, and Hamilton Hadley, '19 (cousins).
Adelphi Academy. Two first prizes in English composition Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Junior year and second prize at Junior Exhibition; first dispute appointment Senior year and a DeForest Scholarship; an editor of Tale Record and a Class Day historian; member Linonia, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at Yale Divinity School 1880-82 and at Berkeley Divinity School 1882-84; ordained as a deacon in Protestant Episcopal Church June 4,1884, at Middletown, Conn , by the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D D , Bishop of Connecticut, and as priest in 1885 m China, by the Rt Rev William J Boone, D.D , Missionary Bishop of Shanghai; during the summer of 1884 employed under the Board of Missions in giving account of its missionary work in the Far East in various cities of the United States; instructor in natural science at St. John's Missionary College in Shanghai 1884-87, and treasurer of the mission; had charge of Bishop Boone Memorial School /or Boys in Wuchang 1887-1899, teaching in both Chinese and English; during that period also taught Bible and exegesis in St. Peter's Divinity School; elected first missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan, in 1900 (consecrated in Tokyo on February 2) and served as such until 1911, when elected bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (then called Diocese of Kansas City), his enthronement taking place at Grace Church in Kansas City on June 27; continued in office until death; ex-officio president of executive council of the Diocese; preached in various churches in England and Scotland during summer of 1912 and attended Lambeth Conference of Bishops in London in 1920; of late years had frequently preached during the summer months in the "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York; D.D. Berkeley Divinity School 1900; president of St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, since 1911; chairman of Social Service Commission of the Province of the Southwest; a founder of St Andrew's Church in Kansas City in 1916; state chaplain of Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati and of Missouri Society of the Sons of the Revolution; member of Yale Alumni Board since 1913; president of Yale Club of Kansas City for a number of years; had delivered numerous addresses before clubs, colleges, and patriotic societies and published some sermons in pamphlet form and religious books in Chinese; translated the Declaration of Independence into Chinese, had it engraved on a scroll, and gave it to the American consul; wrote five series of stories on Chinese life and character, which were published by McClure Newspaper Syndicate in papers in the United States and Canada during 1918-19 under the title of "The Mysterious Ways of Wang Foo."
Married (1) June 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, Charlotte Irene, daughter of Louis and Charlotte Irene (Ritter) Mills, of New Haven. One daughter, Helen Louise (Mrs. George E. Chapin). Mrs. Partridge died May 3, 1886.
Married (2) November 27, 1901, in San Francisco, Calif., Agnes Laura Louise, daughter of John Simpson, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen and one time Danish consul in San Francisco, and Amalia (Ortwed) Simpson. One daughter, Amalia Ortwed Lucy, the wife of Frederic Pomeroy Lyman, Jr., a student in civil engineering at Cornell for two years.
Death due to double lobar pneumonia. Buried in St. Luke's Churchyard, Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City.
Survived by wife, two daughters, four grandchildren, and two brothers, Dr. Charles C. Partridge, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the Rev. Wells M. Partridge, of Dorchester, Mass.
Membership in Yale's Skull & Bones Society:
Partridge, Sidney Catlin............1880
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Sidney Catlin Partridge (brother of William Ordway Partridge) b. 1 Sep 1857 in NY. He was the first Episcopal Bishop in Kyoto, Japan. His parents were: George Sidney Partridge, Jr. and Helen Derby Catlin. This entry states also that he is a descendant of George Partridge of Plymouth (BNA, 1904).
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Bishop of West Missouri:
Sidney C. Partridge, (1911 - 1930)
The first Bishop of Kyoto, Japan was the Rt. Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, who for nineteen years had been one of the leading missionaries in the China mission. In 1912, after his translation to the Diocese of West Missouri, the Rev. H. St. George Tucker was elected to succeed him. The new Bishop had been for thirteen years in Japan and much of this time he had been president of St. Paul's College.
Project Canterbury
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church.
Japan
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1934.
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church: Japan (1934)
He died in 1930, after forty years of service that it is given to few ... Rev. Sidney C. Partridge.
*********
INFO below provided by Cheryl Cartwright (#47690711):
Sidney Catlin Partridge, B.A. 1880.
Born September 1, 1857, in New York City
Died June 22, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo
Father, George Sidney Partridge; head of importing department of A T. Stewart & Company of New York City; gazetted for Legion of Honor for services to merchants of Pansand Lyons during siege of Pans in 1870, but died before the decoration could be conferred; son of George Sidney and Mary (Tew) Partridge, of New York City. Father was 1832-1875 (George Sidney Partridge Jr) .
Mother, Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge; daughter of Charles Taylor Catlin (B A. 1822) and Lucy Ann (Derby) Catlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Yale relatives include: Lynde Catlin (B A 1786) (great-grandfather); John M. Catlin (B.A. 1820) (greatuncle); Lynde A. Catlin, '$3, Charles T. Catlin, '$6, Hasket D. Catlin, '59 (uncles); Arnold W. Catlin, '62 (uncle) and his son, Reginald W. Catlin, '08; and George L. Catlin, '60, Arthur T. Hadley, '76, and his sons, Morris Hadley, '16, and Hamilton Hadley, '19 (cousins).
Adelphi Academy. Two first prizes in English composition Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Junior year and second prize at Junior Exhibition; first dispute appointment Senior year and a DeForest Scholarship; an editor of Tale Record and a Class Day historian; member Linonia, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at Yale Divinity School 1880-82 and at Berkeley Divinity School 1882-84; ordained as a deacon in Protestant Episcopal Church June 4,1884, at Middletown, Conn , by the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D D , Bishop of Connecticut, and as priest in 1885 m China, by the Rt Rev William J Boone, D.D , Missionary Bishop of Shanghai; during the summer of 1884 employed under the Board of Missions in giving account of its missionary work in the Far East in various cities of the United States; instructor in natural science at St. John's Missionary College in Shanghai 1884-87, and treasurer of the mission; had charge of Bishop Boone Memorial School /or Boys in Wuchang 1887-1899, teaching in both Chinese and English; during that period also taught Bible and exegesis in St. Peter's Divinity School; elected first missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan, in 1900 (consecrated in Tokyo on February 2) and served as such until 1911, when elected bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (then called Diocese of Kansas City), his enthronement taking place at Grace Church in Kansas City on June 27; continued in office until death; ex-officio president of executive council of the Diocese; preached in various churches in England and Scotland during summer of 1912 and attended Lambeth Conference of Bishops in London in 1920; of late years had frequently preached during the summer months in the "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York; D.D. Berkeley Divinity School 1900; president of St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, since 1911; chairman of Social Service Commission of the Province of the Southwest; a founder of St Andrew's Church in Kansas City in 1916; state chaplain of Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati and of Missouri Society of the Sons of the Revolution; member of Yale Alumni Board since 1913; president of Yale Club of Kansas City for a number of years; had delivered numerous addresses before clubs, colleges, and patriotic societies and published some sermons in pamphlet form and religious books in Chinese; translated the Declaration of Independence into Chinese, had it engraved on a scroll, and gave it to the American consul; wrote five series of stories on Chinese life and character, which were published by McClure Newspaper Syndicate in papers in the United States and Canada during 1918-19 under the title of "The Mysterious Ways of Wang Foo."
Married (1) June 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, Charlotte Irene, daughter of Louis and Charlotte Irene (Ritter) Mills, of New Haven. One daughter, Helen Louise (Mrs. George E. Chapin). Mrs. Partridge died May 3, 1886.
Married (2) November 27, 1901, in San Francisco, Calif., Agnes Laura Louise, daughter of John Simpson, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen and one time Danish consul in San Francisco, and Amalia (Ortwed) Simpson. One daughter, Amalia Ortwed Lucy, the wife of Frederic Pomeroy Lyman, Jr., a student in civil engineering at Cornell for two years.
Death due to double lobar pneumonia. Buried in St. Luke's Churchyard, Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City.
Survived by wife, two daughters, four grandchildren, and two brothers, Dr. Charles C. Partridge, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the Rev. Wells M. Partridge, of Dorchester, Mass.
Partridge, Sidney Catlin............1880
**************************
Sidney Catlin Partridge (brother of William Ordway Partridge) b. 1 Sep 1857 in NY. He was the first Episcopal Bishop in Kyoto, Japan. His parents were: George Sidney Partridge, Jr. and Helen Derby Catlin. This entry states also that he is a descendant of George Partridge of Plymouth (BNA, 1904).
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Bishop of West Missouri:
Sidney C. Partridge, (1911 - 1930)
The first Bishop of Kyoto, Japan was the Rt. Rev. Sidney C. Partridge, who for nineteen years had been one of the leading missionaries in the China mission. In 1912, after his translation to the Diocese of West Missouri, the Rev. H. St. George Tucker was elected to succeed him. The new Bishop had been for thirteen years in Japan and much of this time he had been president of St. Paul's College.
Project Canterbury
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church.
Japan
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1934.
Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church: Japan (1934)
He died in 1930, after forty years of service that it is given to few ... Rev. Sidney C. Partridge.
*********
INFO below provided by Cheryl Cartwright (#47690711):
Sidney Catlin Partridge, B.A. 1880.
Born September 1, 1857, in New York City
Died June 22, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo
Father, George Sidney Partridge; head of importing department of A T. Stewart & Company of New York City; gazetted for Legion of Honor for services to merchants of Pansand Lyons during siege of Pans in 1870, but died before the decoration could be conferred; son of George Sidney and Mary (Tew) Partridge, of New York City. Father was 1832-1875 (George Sidney Partridge Jr) .
Mother, Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge; daughter of Charles Taylor Catlin (B A. 1822) and Lucy Ann (Derby) Catlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Yale relatives include: Lynde Catlin (B A 1786) (great-grandfather); John M. Catlin (B.A. 1820) (greatuncle); Lynde A. Catlin, '$3, Charles T. Catlin, '$6, Hasket D. Catlin, '59 (uncles); Arnold W. Catlin, '62 (uncle) and his son, Reginald W. Catlin, '08; and George L. Catlin, '60, Arthur T. Hadley, '76, and his sons, Morris Hadley, '16, and Hamilton Hadley, '19 (cousins).
Adelphi Academy. Two first prizes in English composition Sophomore year; dissertation appointment Junior year and second prize at Junior Exhibition; first dispute appointment Senior year and a DeForest Scholarship; an editor of Tale Record and a Class Day historian; member Linonia, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones. Studied at Yale Divinity School 1880-82 and at Berkeley Divinity School 1882-84; ordained as a deacon in Protestant Episcopal Church June 4,1884, at Middletown, Conn , by the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D D , Bishop of Connecticut, and as priest in 1885 m China, by the Rt Rev William J Boone, D.D , Missionary Bishop of Shanghai; during the summer of 1884 employed under the Board of Missions in giving account of its missionary work in the Far East in various cities of the United States; instructor in natural science at St. John's Missionary College in Shanghai 1884-87, and treasurer of the mission; had charge of Bishop Boone Memorial School /or Boys in Wuchang 1887-1899, teaching in both Chinese and English; during that period also taught Bible and exegesis in St. Peter's Divinity School; elected first missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan, in 1900 (consecrated in Tokyo on February 2) and served as such until 1911, when elected bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri (then called Diocese of Kansas City), his enthronement taking place at Grace Church in Kansas City on June 27; continued in office until death; ex-officio president of executive council of the Diocese; preached in various churches in England and Scotland during summer of 1912 and attended Lambeth Conference of Bishops in London in 1920; of late years had frequently preached during the summer months in the "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York; D.D. Berkeley Divinity School 1900; president of St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, since 1911; chairman of Social Service Commission of the Province of the Southwest; a founder of St Andrew's Church in Kansas City in 1916; state chaplain of Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati and of Missouri Society of the Sons of the Revolution; member of Yale Alumni Board since 1913; president of Yale Club of Kansas City for a number of years; had delivered numerous addresses before clubs, colleges, and patriotic societies and published some sermons in pamphlet form and religious books in Chinese; translated the Declaration of Independence into Chinese, had it engraved on a scroll, and gave it to the American consul; wrote five series of stories on Chinese life and character, which were published by McClure Newspaper Syndicate in papers in the United States and Canada during 1918-19 under the title of "The Mysterious Ways of Wang Foo."
Married (1) June 12, 1884, in Brooklyn, Charlotte Irene, daughter of Louis and Charlotte Irene (Ritter) Mills, of New Haven. One daughter, Helen Louise (Mrs. George E. Chapin). Mrs. Partridge died May 3, 1886.
Married (2) November 27, 1901, in San Francisco, Calif., Agnes Laura Louise, daughter of John Simpson, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen and one time Danish consul in San Francisco, and Amalia (Ortwed) Simpson. One daughter, Amalia Ortwed Lucy, the wife of Frederic Pomeroy Lyman, Jr., a student in civil engineering at Cornell for two years.
Death due to double lobar pneumonia. Buried in St. Luke's Churchyard, Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City.
Survived by wife, two daughters, four grandchildren, and two brothers, Dr. Charles C. Partridge, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the Rev. Wells M. Partridge, of Dorchester, Mass.
Inscription
SIDNEY CATLIN PARTRIDGE
1857-1930
BISHOP OF KYOTO JAPAN
1900-1911
BISHOP OF WEST MISSOURI
1911-1930
