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John Barrett Kerfoot
John Barrett Kerfoot (March 1, 1816 – July 10, 1881) served as Rector of the College of St. James near Hagerstown, Maryland, as President of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
John Barrett Kerfoot was born on March 1, 1816, in Dublin, Ireland. His parents, Richard Kerfoot and Christiana Barrett, were Scotch-Irish, by descent, brought up in the Church of Ireland, but afterwards connected with the Wesleyans. Richard Kerfoot and his family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1819, where he was successful in business. However, he "lost a considerable sum of money from endorsing notes for his friends".
Richard Kerfoot died of "inflammatory fever" in 1825. His son John said that he remembered his father as he was dying "blessing him and giving him his dying counsels," such as "to be a good boy, to say his prayers regularly, to read his Bible, and to obey and take care of his mother." The children "loved and reverenced" their mother who died in the summer of 1858.
John Kerfoot's "earliest secular education" began in a school in Lancaster that used the "Lancastrian" or Monitorial System, in which older students taught the younger ones.
From age six until Kerfoot began his theological studies in 1833, the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg was "a major influence" in Kerfoot's life and the primary factor in his education. Muhlenberg was "unequalled in some respects as an educator of youth." He came to Lancaster in 1820 as associate rector of St. James's Church, Lancaster and opened a Church Sunday-School. Kerfoot began attending the school when he was six years old.
In 1826, Muhlenberg moved from Lancaster to Flushing, on Long Island. Two years later he opened the "Flushing Institute." Archived May 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By the generosity of Miss Yeates, Kerfoot's Sunday School teacher in Lancaster, the twelve-year-old Kerfoot was enabled to attend the Flushing Institute, where he was again "under the care and instruction" of Muhlenberg. At age 14, on February 24, 1830, Kerfoot wrote about his gratefulness for being in Flushing Institute under the influence of Dr. Muhlenberg. In March 1832, Kerfoot wrote about spending his seventeenth birthday at the Flushing Institute and about having a paper on "Private Prayer" he had written published in The Churchman.
Kerfoot was confirmed on April 19, 1832, by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Kerfoot's goal had always been the holy ministry. In 1833, he became a candidate for Holy Orders and began his theological studies. During his first year of theological studies, he had an essay published in the Churchman.
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John Barrett Kerfoot
John Barrett Kerfoot (March 1, 1816 – July 10, 1881) served as Rector of the College of St. James near Hagerstown, Maryland, as President of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
John Barrett Kerfoot was born on March 1, 1816, in Dublin, Ireland. His parents, Richard Kerfoot and Christiana Barrett, were Scotch-Irish, by descent, brought up in the Church of Ireland, but afterwards connected with the Wesleyans. Richard Kerfoot and his family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1819, where he was successful in business. However, he "lost a considerable sum of money from endorsing notes for his friends".
Richard Kerfoot died of "inflammatory fever" in 1825. His son John said that he remembered his father as he was dying "blessing him and giving him his dying counsels," such as "to be a good boy, to say his prayers regularly, to read his Bible, and to obey and take care of his mother." The children "loved and reverenced" their mother who died in the summer of 1858.
John Kerfoot's "earliest secular education" began in a school in Lancaster that used the "Lancastrian" or Monitorial System, in which older students taught the younger ones.
From age six until Kerfoot began his theological studies in 1833, the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg was "a major influence" in Kerfoot's life and the primary factor in his education. Muhlenberg was "unequalled in some respects as an educator of youth." He came to Lancaster in 1820 as associate rector of St. James's Church, Lancaster and opened a Church Sunday-School. Kerfoot began attending the school when he was six years old.
In 1826, Muhlenberg moved from Lancaster to Flushing, on Long Island. Two years later he opened the "Flushing Institute." Archived May 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By the generosity of Miss Yeates, Kerfoot's Sunday School teacher in Lancaster, the twelve-year-old Kerfoot was enabled to attend the Flushing Institute, where he was again "under the care and instruction" of Muhlenberg. At age 14, on February 24, 1830, Kerfoot wrote about his gratefulness for being in Flushing Institute under the influence of Dr. Muhlenberg. In March 1832, Kerfoot wrote about spending his seventeenth birthday at the Flushing Institute and about having a paper on "Private Prayer" he had written published in The Churchman.
Kerfoot was confirmed on April 19, 1832, by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Kerfoot's goal had always been the holy ministry. In 1833, he became a candidate for Holy Orders and began his theological studies. During his first year of theological studies, he had an essay published in the Churchman.
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