Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — New Chaplain of the Senate. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New Chaplain of the Senate.

The Rev. Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce, who succeeded the late Dr, Liiwurd Everett Hale as chaplain of the United States senate, is pastor of All Souls’ Unitarian church, Washingtcu. v.Uere President Taft worships. L.f Pierce was one of Dr. Hale’s closest personal friends aud used to sub.lfv.te for him as senate chaplain wh.n the hu.cr was unavoidably ab- -. . - a • VVlt. < Dr. Pierce is a native of Providence. R 1., where His family has been prom-

ULYSSES O. B. PIEBCn. inent for six generations. The new senate chaplain is forty-four years old and was educated at Hillside college, Michigan. He received the degree of bachelojr of divinity in 1880 and then took a postgraduate course at Harvard. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1881 and from 1883 to 1886 was pastor of the Unitarian church at Pomona, Cal. His next pastorate was at Ithaca. N. Y.. where he remained nntil called to All Souls’, Washington, in 1901. Dr. Pierce is a member of tbe Cosmos club and tbe author of “The Soul of tbe Bible.”