Childs, Wentworth L

Childs, Wentworth L.

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born in New Hampshire, nurtured in the Episcopalian communion, and ordained deacon in 1849, and priest in 1851. For a time he was assistant minister of St. John's, Portsmouth, Virginia, and in 1853 removed, as rector, to St. Alban's, near Washington, D.C., where he died, December 14, 1860. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1861, page 186.