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| | St George's Dayton OH Church Windows Philander Chase |
 | | Philander was the youngest of 15 children born to a family of remarkable pioneers self-sufficient, intelligent, and exceptionally well educated. |
 | | Philander became an Episcopalian while attending Dartmouth College, and entered the ministry soon afterward, preaching to settlers and Indians as an itinerant missionary in New York State, founding the first Protestant parish in the Louisianan Territory, and serving a parish in Connecticut, before heading to Ohio in the spring of 1817. |
 | | Finally, when he was 60 years old, the diocese of Illinois called Philander as their bishop, and he started over one last time, with one church, four priests, and two deacons for the entire state, traveling through the wilderness once more, to preach in cabins, flsmith’s shops, and barns until his death in 1852. |
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