Anson Rogers Graves
{{Short description|American Episcopal bishop}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = The Right Reverend
Anson Rogers Graves
| bishop_of = Western Nebraska
| image = The Rt. Rev. Anson Rogers Graves.jpg
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| diocese = Western Nebraska
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| ordination = June 4, 1871
| consecration = January 1, 1890
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|1|13}}
| birth_place = Wells, Vermont
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|12|30|1842|1|13}}
| death_place = La Mesa, California
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| signature = Signature of Anson Rogers Graves.png
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Anson Rogers Graves (April 13, 1842 – December 30, 1931) was the first bishop of the Missionary District of Western Nebraska in The Episcopal Church.{{cite book |last=Graves |first=Anson R. |date=1911 |title=The Farmer Boy who Became a Bishop: the Autobiography of the Right Reverend Anson Rogers Graves |url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~nechurch/episcop/fbbp/ |location=Akron, Ohio |publisher=The New Werner Company}}
Biography
Anson Rogers Graves was born in Wells, Vermont on April 13, 1842.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA286 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=IV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=286 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-12-05 |via=Google Books}}
Anson Rogers Graves was consecrated as an Episcopal Church bishop to the Missionary Diocese of The Plate (Western Nebraska) on January 1, 1890, by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle and others. He resigned in 1910.The Living Church Annual 1944, pg. 380-381
He was the father of college football player and coach Eliot Graves.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YxM1AQAAMAAJ|title=Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska|year=1909|publisher=Alden Publishing Company|access-date=December 30, 2018}}
He died at his home in La Mesa, California on December 30, 1931.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64643872/bishop-a-r-graves-of-episcopal-church/ |title=Bishop A. R. Graves of Episcopal Church Dies |newspaper=St. Louis Globe-Democrat |location=La Mesa, California |agency=Associated Press |page=24 |date=1932-01-01 |access-date=2020-12-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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