C. Winfred Douglas

DOUGLAS, Charles Winfred. b. Oswego, New York, 15 Feb 1867; d. Santa Rosa, California, 18 Jan 1944. Douglas was raised as a Presbyterian. His first contact with the Episcopal Church came in 1888 as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, Syracuse, New York, while a student at Syracuse University (BM, 1901). He attended St. Andrew’s Divinity School, Syracuse; and Matthews Hall, Denver, Colorado. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church (deacon 1893, priest 1899), serving as a minor Canon of St John's Cathedral, Denver. He had moved to Denver to recover from a serious respiratory illness, and one of the attending physicians was Mary Josepha Williams (1860-1938), a resident of Evergreen, Colorado...