Fowles James H

Fowles James H., a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Nassau, N.P., in 1812 and died in 1854. He graduated at Yale College in 1831, and about 1843 was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, but afterwards joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was ordained by bishop Bowen, of South Carolina, in which state he labored until 1845, when he succeeded Dr. S.H. Tyng as rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, where he remained until compelled by ill health to resign, only a few months before his death. He edited Goode's Better Covenant, etc., and The Convict Ship, for which he wrote introductions; and was the author of Protestant. Episcopal Views of Baptism, Explained and Defended (Philadel. 1846, 18mo): — Sermons (30) preached in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, preceded by a biographical sketch (Phila. 1855, 8vo). — Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, s.v.