IN MEMORIAM. 



BY KEV. J. B. PRADT, MADISON. 



Entered into rest, December 7, 1873, the Rt. Kev. William Edmond Armitage, S. T. D., 

 Bishop of WiEConein, and VicfTresident of this Academy. 



William Edmond Armitage was born in the city of New York, Sep- 

 tember 6, 1830. Educated under the influences of the Episcopal Church, 

 he entered Columbia College, in the same city, at the earliest age the 

 statutes of that institution allowed, and graduated with honor in 1849, at 

 the age of 19. 



Having, from early youth, determined to devote himself to the sacred 

 ministry, after graduation he immediately entered the General Theologi- 

 cal Seminary of the Episcopal Church, in New York, and after finishing 

 the usual three years' course of study, was ordained deacon early in the 

 summer of 1853, and to the priesthood in 1854. 



His first ministry was as assistant to the venerable Dr. Burroughs, 

 rector of St. John's Church, Portsmouth, N. H. His first parish was St. 

 Mark's Church, Augusta, Me., where, in 1858, he married Louisa, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. Allan Lombard. 



His next parish was St. John's Church, in the city of Detroit, of which 

 he was the first rector, and which he built up to a very remarkable de- 

 gree of strength and prosperity. 



From this post of usefulness he was called, in 1866, to become the As- 

 sistant of the venerable Bishop Kemper, of Wisconsin, his consecration 

 taking place in his own parish church, December 6, and his funeral in 

 the same church seven years later, December 11. 



It is in keeping with the beautiful symmetry of his character, that he 

 thus spent seven years in scholarly preparation for his life-work, seven 

 years in its more youthful prosecution at the east, seven more of ma- 

 tured labor at the west, and seven as a Christian Bishop in Wisconsin. 

 For Dr. Armitage was indeed a man of singularly beautiful and sym- 

 metrical life and character. Of sweet and serene temper, of methodical 

 habits, of orderly and untiring industry and devotion, these traits ex- 



