Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — BISHOP DIES ABROAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BISHOP DIES ABROAD.

Bov. J. -\. I'll* Gerald Stricken witti PI Ml flay While nt IlSßgkSng. Bishop James X. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal - church, who died at Hongkong while making his quadrennial

visit to the mission stations. was till years old and had been a bishop since 18SS. Pleurisy was the caT.se of death. His home was iu St. Louis. Bishop Fitzgerald was engaged in making one of the quadrennial visits which the bishops are required to pay to the

msnop FITZGERALD, mission stations. lie left Montreal Oct. 27. accompanied by Mrs. Fitzgerald, his two daughters and son Roy. to visit the Methodist missions in Southern Asia, took part in the public celebration »«f the founding of thp mission in India at Bareilly, Dee. 28, aud was to have represented the Missionary Society at the China centeunial of Protestant missions at Shanghai. l?is daughter,'Cornelia, died at Penang, in the Straits Settlements, on the way to India. Bishop Fitzgerald was born at Newark, N. J. He joined the Newark conference Ln \S62. After acting as recording secretary of the Missionary Society from 1880 to 188 S he was elected bishop. He was formerly presiding elder of the NewartrNewton and Jersey City district.