History of Southport, (Fairfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Henry Bedinger Cornwall, educator, was born in Southport, Conn., July 29, 1844; son of Nathaniel Ellsworth and Susan Peyton (Bedinger) Cornwall; grandson of Asa Cornwall of Cheshire, Conn.; and a descendant of William Cornwall, a resident of Middletown, Conn., early in the seventeenth century. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1864, and in 1867 finished the course at the School of mines, receiving the degrees of A.M. and E.M. He was assistant in mineralogy and metallurgy at Columbia college, 1869-73, and professor of applied chemistry and mineralogy in the College of New Jersey from 1873. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia in 1888. He published A Manual of Blowpipe Analysis and Determinative Mineralogy (1882); and a translation of Plattner's Blowpipe Analysis (1870)

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Andrew Leonard, fourth bishop of Ohio and 151st in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Southport, Conn., July 15, 1848; son of William Boardman and Louisa (Buckley) Leonard, grandson of Stephen Banks Leonard ; great grandson of Silas Leonard, and a descendant of Henry Leonard, Taunton, Mass., 1653. He was a student at Phillips Andover academy, and at St. Stephen's college, Annandale, N.Y., and was graduated at Berkeley Divinity school, Middletown, Conn., in 1871. He was made deacon May, 31, 1871, and ordained priest, July 22, 1872. He was married, April 17, 1873, to Sarah Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Phebe Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was assistant to the Rev. Charles H. Hall, D.D., at Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1871-72, and was rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1872-80, and of St. John's church, Washington, D.C., 1880-89. He was chosen missionary bishop of Washington Territory in 1880, but declined the appointment. He was elected bishop of Ohio in 1889 and was consecrated in St. Thomas's church, New York, Oct. 12, 1889, by Bishops Williams, Donne, Whitehead, Purer, Whipple, Vincent, and Courtney of Nova Scotia. He received the degree of D.D. from St. Stephen's college in 1881 and from Washington and Lee university in 1883. He is the author of Via Sacra, or Footprints of Christ (1879); Brief History of the Christian Church (1883); A Faithful Life (1887); Church Club Lectures (1893); Bedell Lectures (1894).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor