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Future missionary ordained
On this day in 1826, Richard Salmon was ordained an Episcopal priest in
New York, after two years as a deacon. He suffered from tuberculosis
and, unsuccessful at ministry in the East, determined to take a colony
of church members to Texas. But he also failed at the rare calling of
clergyman-empresario, for his colony, already drastically reduced,
disintegrated immediately upon arrival in Velasco in October 1836.
Nevertheless, Salmon became the first Episcopal priest to minister
canonically and regularly in Texas. He was one of two chaplains of the
Texas Senate in the First Congress of the republic, and he officiated at
Stephen F. Austin's funeral. After a long illness and a short stint as
principal of the Houston city school, he returned to New York in 1840.
In July 1849 he died of cholera on a steamboat near Baton Rouge while on
his way back to Texas.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- SALMON, RICHARD
- PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
- PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL EDUCATION
- EMPRESARIO
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