{"id":1261,"date":"2010-04-16T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:45:37","slug":"three-deacons-ordained-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/three-deacons-ordained-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Deacons Ordained Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1263\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mitton2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1263\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1263\" title=\"Rev. John Mitton\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mitton2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. John Mitton\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mitton2-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mitton2-689x1024.jpg 689w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mitton2.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. John Mitton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April 16, 1936<\/p>\n<p>Three young men were ordained as deacons in the Protestant Episcopal church by Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies, bishop of the diocese of Western Massachusetts, at a special service at Christ Church cathedral yesterday morning.   The young men are Revs. Richart Elliott Benson of Springfield, a member of All Saints Episcopal Church; John Mitton a member of St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Church at Holyoke; and Charles Flint Kellogg a member of St. James Episcopal church of Great Barrington.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kellogg and Mr. Mitton will also graduate from General Theological seminary in May.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.. Mitton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mitton of 72 Lincoln street, Holyoke.   He graduated from the Holyoke high school in 1927 and was a classmate of Mr. Kellogg at St. Stephen&#8217;s college, Columbia university.   Mrs. Mitton the newly ordained deacon&#8217;s mother, was unable to attend the service as she is confined to her home as a result of recent injuries which she suffered in an accident.   Other members of the young man&#8217;s family, however, attended the service.   Along with them were friend including Mrs. Fred Mitton of Dover, N. J.; Mrs. Joseph Bosse and Miss Lorraine Bosse of Yonkers, N.Y.; Mrs. Lois Sherwood of Washington, D.C.; Robert Porteous of Townsend and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gill of Holyoke.   Mr. Mitton returned yesterday afternoon to New York.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1936 Three young men were ordained as deacons in the Protestant Episcopal church by Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies, bishop of the diocese of Western Massachusetts, at a special service at Christ Church cathedral yesterday morning. The young men are Revs. Richart Elliott Benson of Springfield, a member of All Saints Episcopal Church; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,102],"tags":[179,298,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}