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Enos, Edgar A., D.D., is of New England colonial ancestry, being a lineal descendant on the paternal side of
John Enos of Westerly, R. I., 1680, and on the maternal side of Henry Stevens, of Stonington, Conn., 1666. He was
prepared for college at the Whitestown Seminary, Whitesboro, N. Y., and entered Hamilton College in 1870, graduating
with the class of 1874. In 1875 he was instructor in Latin and mathematics in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic
Institute. In 1876 he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York city, from which he was graduated in 1878; for
several years thereafter he was connected with the Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, as instructor in history,
rhetoric and elocution. On Trinity Sunday, 1881, he was ordered deacon by Bishop Horatio Potter in St. Paul's chapel,
Trinity parish, New York, and on the 12th of January, 1882, he was ordered priest by the same bishop, in the Church
of the Transfiguration, New York. His first service in orders was in the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York
under the direction of the late Rev. Dr. Robert S. Howland. After this service he was the rector successively of
All Saints, Larchmont Manor, N. Y., Christ's church, Towanda, Pa., and St. John's church, Bridgeport, Conn., and
in April, 1887, he entered on the rectorship of St. Paul's parish. Troy, N. Y. In 1892 the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him by St. Stephen's College, Annandale. He is married and has three children; his
wife is a daughter of the late General F. W. Hopkins of Rutland, 4t.
From:
Landmarks of Rensselaer County
BY: George Baker Aaderson
Published By: D. Mason & Co. Publishers
Syracuse, NY 1897
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