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| | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright |
 | | WAINWRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew, P. bishop, born in Liverpool, England, 24 February, 1793; died in New York city, 21 September, 1854. |
 | | He was of American parentage, his mother being a daughter of Reverend Jonathan Mayhew, of Boston. |
 | | He was graduated at Harvard in 1812, where he was afterward tutor, ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in Trinity church, Boston, 13 April, 1817, ordained priest in Christ church, Hartford, Connecticut, 29 May, 1818, and became rector of the latter. |
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