Trinity History

Rev. William Naylor Webbe, Eighth Rector of Trinity, 1879-1888

William Naylor Webbe was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 17 December 1848, the son of the Rev. William Thomas Webbe, an English immigrant from Stourport, Worcestershire, and his wife Jane (Naylor). For thirty years the father had served as an assistant minister at St. Michael's Church on High Street in Brooklyn. William graduated from Columbia in 1870 and married Caroline Putnam Main, descended from an old Connecticut family that included Gen. Israel Putnam. In 1873 he received a Master of Arts from Columbia, attended General Theological Seminary, and was ordained to the priesthood. He began his career in Missouri, serving parishes in the towns of Mexico and Louisiana before assuming the rectorship of Grace Church in St. Louis. Remaining there less than a year, he moved to Evansville to become rector of St. Paul's Church, where he earned a reputation as a strong evangelist.



 

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