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Show ee 302 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY Santa Fé were elected respectively chancellor and treasurer of the jurisdiction. At the general convention held in New York in 1880, the Rev. George K. Dunlop was elected bishop and was consecrated in St. Louis, Missouri, November 21, 1880. It was during the administration of Bishop Dunlop that the edifice at Santa Fé, known as the Church of the Holy Faith, was constructed. Through his efforts the handsome church structure in Las Vegas was partially built. Bishop Dunlop died March 12, 1888. His successor was Rev. J. Mills Kendrick, of Ohio, who was consecrated January 18, 1889. In 1892 New Mexico was Separated from Arizona and became a missionary district by itself. Bishop Kendrick is still in charge of the jurisdiction. A summary of the work of the Episcopalian church is found in the note. In the year 1851 the Presbyterian Missionary Union sent Rev. W. T. Kephardt to New Mexico. He was more of a politician than a missionary. He soon identified himself with THE PRESBYTERIANS newspaper work, became the editor of the Santa Fé Gazette, and espoused the anti-slavery cause. The work of the missionaries during the first ten years of their labors was unsatisfactory, and little was really accomplish- ed until the Civil War period, confronted as they were by the same conditions and influences as were met by the other denominations . During these early days of Protestant missionary work, it must be remembered that other than the native New Mexicans dians, the population of New Mexico was very limited. ican’’ — go called — was a type unto himself. and In- The ‘‘ Amer- Some of the best and some of the worst representatives of the American people were to be found in New Mexico. The ‘‘American’’ was found princi- pally at or in the vicinity of the numerous army posts in the tertltory. At any rate, outside of the army, the actual residents of American birth were, in point of numbers, a very insignificant element of the tota] population. republi i e ‘tibia <5 emda ip aeme re ced ae ‘tor ie years. He was the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the territory. In 1866 he was pe ga married to Miss Jennie M. Miller, a native of the state of Missoum, ae there were six children. Two of these, William E. and mang Sindhi “vec with Aditwten. distinction War, in Roosevelt’ osevelt’s ‘i regiment of Rough Ri iders during tHe etn William F-. Bonney ‘Billy the Kid”’ ee es |