Item 0007 - Letter, 5 March 1887

Rev. Brandram Boileau Ussher was born on August 6, 1845, in Dublin, Ireland.

He was a clergyman, physician, and poet. He received his early education at Delgany College in Ireland. In 1861, he received the Diploma of the Royal Dublin Society and moved to the United States in 1863. He started to study medicine at the University of Michigan and completed his studies at the University Medical College of Kansas City. He practiced as a physician for fourteen years in Aurora, Illinois. He received theological training under Bishop Whitehouse of Chicago, Illinois, and his chaplains in the Anglican Church. He was ordained deacon in the city of Chicago in 1874 and presbyter in Emmanuel Church in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1876. He served as pastor in Toronto and Montreal and was elected Bishop of Canada and Newfoundland in the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1882. In 1892, he became Bishop of Kansas City and served until his retirement in 1898. In 1899, he graduated from Harvard University Summer School and helped found the Victorian Club of Boston, becoming its President in 1909. For a few years, he was a special lecturer at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. He was also a member of the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. He published many of his sermons and poems.

In 1867, he married Elizabeth Leonora Thompson (1842–1891), and in 1897, he remarried Mary R. Whitney Pelton (1839–1918). He died on February 16, 1925, in Los Angeles, California.