Butler, Clement Moore

BUTLER, CLEMENT MOORE: American Episcopalian; b. at Troy, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1810; d. in Philadelphia Mar. 5, 1890. He was graduated at Washington (Trinity) College 1833, and at the General Theological Seminary, New York, 1836; was rector of various churches in New York, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Ohio 1837–61, and from 1849 to 1853 chaplain of the United States Senate; chaplain of the United States embassy at Rome 1861–64; professor of church history in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, 1864–84. Besides occasional sermons, he published: The Year of the Church, hymns and devotional verse for the Sundays and Holy Days of the ecclesiastical year for young persons (Utica, N. Y., 1839); The Book of Common Prayer Interpreted by its History (Boston, 1845; 2d ed., enlarged, Washington, 1849); Addresses and Lectures on Public Men and Public Affairs delivered in Washington City (Cincinnati, 1856); The Flock Fed, catechetical instruction preparatory to confirmation (New York, 1862); Inner Rome, political, religious, and social (Philadelphia, 1866); The Ritualism of Law (1867); A Manual of Ecclesiastical History (from the first to the nineteenth century; 2 vols., 1868–72); History of the Book of Common 320Prayer (1880); History of the Reformation in Sweden (New York, 1883).