Frederic Cook Morehouse (March 19, 1868 – June 25, 1932) was a prominent lay
Episcopalian
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journalist and publisher.
In 1900, Morehouse succeeded
Charles Wesley Leffingwell as editor of ''
The Living Church
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'' magazine following the purchase of that periodical by the Young Churchman Company. He participated in ecclesiastical debates throughout the beginning of the twentieth century, articulating an Anglo-Catholic position regarding
reservation of the Blessed Sacrament
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and the
Thirty-nine Articles
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. He was a member of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, and also served as a member of the House of Deputies of General Convention for 21 years.
Morehouse's son,
Clifford Phelps Morehouse, succeeded him as editor of ''The Living Church''.
Published works
''Some American Churchmen''(1892)
* ''The Evolution of Parties within the Church''
* ''A Churchman's View of the Church's Function''
See also
*
Linden H. Morehouse
References
* Charles Fiske, "Churchman and Christian" in
The Living Church
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, June 24, 1933, p. 223.
Further reading
* W. Bertrand Stevens, ''Editor's Quest: A Memoir of Frederic Cook Morehouse'' (New York: Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1940)
External links
Bibliographic directoryfrom
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Dictionary of Wisconsin History entry
1868 births
1932 deaths
American Episcopalians
Anglo-Catholic writers
American Anglo-Catholics
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