Milestones: Sep. 29, 1930
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Center in Manhattan.
Died. Robert Livingston Rudolph, 64, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Diocese of New York and Philadelphia, since 1925 dean of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadelphia; of apoplexy, at his summer home in Dorset, Vt.
Died. John Lind, 76, onehanded (he lost his left hand in a sawmill) Swedish-born onetime (1899-1901) Governor of Minnesota, four-time Republican Representative from the 4th Minnesota District, in 1913 President Wilson's unofficial emissary to Mexico under the then Provisional President Victoriano Huerta; after long illness, in Minneapolis.
Died. Rev. William Andrew Leonard, 82, since 1889 Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, founder of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Free Library, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U. S. from January to March 1930, Presiding Bishop at the trial of Bishop William Montgomery Brown;— of old age; at Gambier, Ohio.
Died. Henry Phipps, 90, patriarch of the steel industry, longtime business associate of Thomas and Andrew Carnegie, father of Hon. Mrs. Frederick Edward Guest (Capt. Rt. Hon. Guest was one-time private secretary to Winston Churchill), of John Shaffer, Henry Carnegie, Howard Phipps (all officers of U. S. Steel Corp. and donors to polo at Yale University), and of Mrs. Bradley Martin (famed socialite-philanthropist), grandfather of International Poloist Winston Guest; of old age, at Great Neck, L. I. Some philanthropies of Steelman Phipps: a psychiatric clinic at Johns Hopkins University; Phipps Institute (for clinical research in the field of tuberculosis) at the University of Pennsylvania; model tenements in Manhattan.
*Cf. (author unknown): "Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat."
*Unfrocked in New Orleans, 1925; now bishop of the Old Catholic Church in America.
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