The New International Encyclopædia/Cheshire, Joseph Blount

CHESHIRE, Joseph Blount (1850—). An American Protestant Episcopal clergyman. Bishop of North Carolina. He was born at Tarboro, N. C., graduated at Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) in 1869, and practiced law from 1872 to 1878. He was ordained priest in 1880, was consecrated bishop coadjutor in 1893, and bishop in the same year. His publications include The Early Conventions of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina (1882), and various pamphlets and addresses. He has edited Sketches of Church History in North Carolina (1892).