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Y, JUNE 11, 1901.PROF. WILLIS H. BARRISED CLERGYMAN, PROF' AND SCIENTIST, DEADOldest Resident Clergyman In the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa ~ Came West With Bishop Lee, Settling First At Burlington, and Later Coming to Davenport to Take Professorship At Griswold College.Prof. Willis H. Barris, the oldest resident Episcopal clergyman in the diocese of Iowa, and for 14 years curator of the Davenuort Academy of Sciences, passed away yesterday afternoon at his home, Ely house, on the southeast corner of Main and Twelfth streets. Though in his eightieth year, he had been sick for only two weeks. and it was only last Saturday that he was considered dangerous. The end came yesterday afternoon about 3 o’clock.As life as full of good works as it was long had this beloved clergyman lived. He was born in Pennsylvania SO years ago on the 9th of next July. He had the opportunities of a good education, an education better in fact than the majority of young men. He graduated at Alleghany college, Alleghany, Pa., and then took a post graduate course in civil engineering at the same institution. Later he took a course at the General Theological seminary of New York City. He became an assistant with the bishop, settling at Burlington, Rochester* N. Y.. and then came West with the biship, settling at Burlington, and accepting the rectorship of the Episcopal church there.-It was on Easter Sunday, 1S66. that he concluded his work at Burlington and came to Davenport to assume tire chair of ecclessiastic history at Griswold, that chair having been created and endowed for him. As long as Griswold college was in existence he was a member of the faculty. He was one of the incorporators of the Iowa Christian Home, out of which has grown St. Luke’s hospital, and had been a trustee of the latter since its organization.Dr. Barris was also rector at both Trinity church and Grace cathedral at different times, and at one time was rector of the Episcopal church at Iowa City. For the past 14 years he has been curator at the Davenport Academy of | Sciences, and his work in that capacity has made him known all over the scientific world.Dr. Barris had a great bent for geology. and the academy has published and distributed many pamphlets on that subject written by him. He was at one time the possessor of a very fine and valuable collection of crinoids, which wvas later secured by Agassiz.The diocese of Iowa will miss Dr. Barris. For years he has been a diocesan officer, serving time and time again upon the standing committee, and at the time of his death being diocesan registrar.Dr. Barris is survived by his wife and three daughters, Mrs. E. S. Hammett, and Misses Amanda and Bessie, and by a daughter by his first wife, Mrs. S. R. J. Hoyt.The funeral arrangements will not be announced until the return of Miss Bessie Barris from New York.
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Davenport Daily Republican
Davenport, Iowa, US
Tue, Jun 11, 1901
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