History of Millwood, (Clarke County) Virginia United States of America

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William Meade, third bishop of Virginia, and 22d in succession in the American episcopate, was born near Millwood, Va., Nov. 11, 1789; son of Richard Kidder and Jane Randolph Meade. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1808, A.M., 1811; was ordered deacon, Feb. 24, 1811, and ordained priest, Jan. 10, 1814. He was assistant to the Rev. Alexander Balmaine in Millwood in 1811; rector of Christ church, Alexandria, Va., 1811-13, and was rector at Millwood, as successor to Mr. Balmaine, 1821-29. He was active in procuring the election of Dr. Richard C. Moore as bishop of Virginia. In 1827 he caused his name to he withdrawn as a possible candidate for assistant bishop of Pennsylvania. In 1829 he was elected assistant bishop of Virginia, and was consecrated in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 19, 1829, by Bishops White, Hobart, Griswold, Moore, Croes, Brownell, and Onderdonk. He served as pastor of Christ church, Norfolk, Va., 1834-36, and upon the death of Bishop Moore, Nov. 11, 1841, he succeeded as bishop of Virginia, and to the presidency of the Theological seminary at Alexandria, Va. He was given an assistant in the person of the Rev. John Johns, D.D., Oct. 13, 1842. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Knowledge society in 1847. He opposed secession, and in 1861 made many efforts to save Virginia from participating in the civil war. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the College of William and Mary in 1827. He published an American edition of the works of the Rev. William Goode, and is the author of: Family Prayers (1834); Pastoral Letters on the Duty of Affording Religious Instruction to Those in Bondage (1834); Life of Rev. Devereux Jarratt by Himself, Abridged by Bishop Meade (1840); Companion to the Font and Pulpit (1846); Lectures on the Pastoral Office (1849); Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church (1852); Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (1857); The Bible and the Classics (1861). He died in Richmond, Va., March 14, 1862.

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

History of Millwood, (Clarke County) Virginia

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