Balch, Lewis P W Dd

Balch, Lewis P. W. D.D., a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the Diocese of Michigan, was rector, in 1853, of a church in Westchester, Pa. In 1854 he removed to Baltimore and officiated there for several years; in 1860 he began to officiate at the Church of the Holy Cross, Middletown, R. I.; in 1862 he was a professor in the Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burlington,Vt.; in 1864, was rector of Emmanuel Church, Newport, R. I.; in 1871, was rector of the Church of the Ascension, Baltimore, Md.; in the following year removed to Plymouth, N. H., and in 1873 went to London, Ontario. He died June 4, 1875, aged 61 years. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1876, p. 149.