Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III (1867) PREPARATIONS My face was now turned towards the new sphere of duty opening wide before me. On the afternoon of the day I left Morris, at Portlandville, Otsego County, N. Y., I united in marriage the Rev. Mr. Miller and Miss Mary T. Foote. At the same time and place the Rev. Mr. Goddard and Miss Mumford were married by Rev. Mr. Pidsley, pastor of the bride, and rector at Portlandville. Mrs. Geo. W. (Pidsley) Foote was present. Mr. Fooie had already set out for Utah, accompanied by Mr. Has- kins. They left New York City together on the 5th of April, and arrived in Salt Lake City, after detentions and perils from floods and snows, the one on the 3d, and the other on the 4th of May. After the wedding, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, we pushed on to New York, where we arrived Tuesday morning. On the night boat from Albany down were the Presiding Bishop and Mrs. Hopkins. The presence and greetings of this distinguished and venerable couple were a benediction. I had, several years before, in New York, heard Bishop Hopkins preach in St. Bartholomew's Church, corner of Lafayette Place and Great Jones Street, and he seemed to me a Greek philosopher transformed into a Christian apostle, talking. With Mrs. Tuttle and the baby I went to Dr. Sabine's house to stay. At this house, 46 West 23d Street, nearly seven months before, I had been apprised of my election. Wednesday, May 1st, the Festivalof St. Philip and St. James, we repaired to Trinity Chapel, where I was consecrated Bishop of Montana. Of those who officiated at my consecration, only Dr. Dix is now alive. I may be pardoned for recording here some of my memories of my fathers and brethren. Dear old Dr. Roosevelt Johnson, amiable, benevolent, beneficent, saintly, the obliging, u... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.