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- !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume X
VINTON, Francis {72032}, clergyman and author, was born in Providence, R.I., Aug. 29, 1809; son of David and Mary (Atwell) Vinton. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, 1830; was promoted 2d lieutenant, July 1, 1830; served on garrison, topographical and engineer duty, 1830-36, and resigned, Aug. 31, 1836. He studied law at Harvard, 1830-32, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1834, but abandoned the law and entered the General Theological seminary, New York city, where he was graduated in 1838, and was ordered deacon, Sept. 30, 1838, and ordained priest in March, 1839, at St. John's church, Providence, by Bishop Griswold. He was twice married: first, Oct. 8, 1838, to Maria Bowen {71167}, daughter of John Whipple of Providence, R.I., and secondly, Nov. 3, 1841, to Elizabeth Mason, only daughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Newport, R.I. He was rector of St. Stephen's, Providence, 1840-42; Trinity church, Newport, R.I., 1842-44; Emanuel and Grace churches, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1844-46; and Trinity church, New York city, 1855-72. During the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island in 1842, he took an active interest and on its suppression he held a thanksgiving service at Trinity church. He declined the bishopric of Indiana in 1848, and was defeated for provisional bishop of New York in 1852. He was professor of ecclesiastical polity and law at the General Theological seminary, N.Y., 1869-72. The honorary degree of S.T.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1848, and that of D.C.L. by William and Mary college in 1869. He is the author of: Arthur Treemaine, or Annals of Cadet Life (1830); Evidences of Christianity (1855); Oration on the Annals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1863); Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1870). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1872.
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