Hill, William H. Lectures on Episcopacy and Papal Supremacy. Utica, N, Y.: H. H. Curtiss, 1851. First Edition. [10598]
Faded blindstamped cloth, gilt title to spine, 6 x 4 inches, lacks the front free end papers (blanks). xiv, 265 pp., complete. One leaf of the table of contents is detached and laid in; the front sections of the book are shaken. Fair. Hardcover.
A somewhat strident defense of episcopacy against the claims of Romanism, in which Millerites, Mormons, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalist are caught in the crossfire. He defends apostolical succession, but claims that the Church of England existed before interference from Rome, and that Anglican and Episcopal succession is apostolical.
William Henry Hill (1816-1896), a parishioner under William Ingraham Kip at Albany, NY; hew was a choir leader; and a reporter with the Albany Evening Journal. He became a candidate for ordination in 1844, by 1847 was ordained priest and became rector of a church in Brownsville, NY (1846-1851), and at Morris, NY (1851-1855). In 1853 Rev. Kip was made missionary bishop of California, and in 1856 Hill followed him West, serving as a rector and also as superintendent of the city schools of Sacramento. He was assigned to St. Athasius, Los Angeles form about 1874-1881, and from 1881 to 1889 was chaplain of the San Quentin prison.
