William Edward Toll
{{Short description|American bishop}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| type = Archdeacon and Suffragan Bishop
| name = William Edward Toll
| title = Suffragan Bishop of Chicago
| image = The Rt. Rev. William Edward Toll.jpg
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| church = Episcopal Church in the United States of America
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| see = Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
| term = 1911 — 1915
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| successor = Sheldon Munson Griswold
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1843|11|29}}
| birth_place = Bedford, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|06|27|1843|11|29}}
| death_place = Chicago, USA
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The Right Reverend William Edward Toll (November 29, 1843 – June 27, 1915) was Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVJCAQAAMAAJ&q=william+edward+toll|title=The Churchman's Year Book & American Church Almanac|year=1915|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ukQAAAAIAAJ&q=william+edward+toll+chicago|title=Journal of the ... Annual Convention, Diocese of Chicago|year=1916|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}}
Biography
William Edward Toll was born in Bedford, England on 29 November 1843, the son of John and Mary Toll,England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and christened at St Peter's Church, Bedford, on 31 December 1843.Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Database online). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014 He was educated at Bedford Modern School.School of the Black and Red, by Andrew Underwood (1981)
Toll emigrated to the United States at the age of 21.{{cite web|url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=STR19150630.2.4#|title=True Republican 30 June 1915 — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}} He was ordained in 1871 and initially served as curate in the Grace Episcopal church until called to a pastorate in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he was again transferred to the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and became the Rector of St Peter's Church at Sycamore where he remained for eight years. He later became Rector of the Christ Episcopal Church at Waukegan following which he was made Archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.
Toll was consecrated on 27 December 1911 as the Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago becoming the third Suffragan Bishop in the United States the others being the Suffragan Bishops of New York City and Philadelphia.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19111228&id=wNcnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WGYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4453,5033441|title=The Gazette Times - Google News Archive Search|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}}
Toll died of a heart attack on 27 June 1915 when ascending steps at a train station.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19150628&id=jw0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BOQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4415,6935111|title=The Evening News - Google News Archive Search|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}} He was survived by a wife, two daughters and a son. There are photographic portraits of Toll at the National Portrait Gallery, London.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw226170/William-Edward-Toll?LinkID=mp135698&role=sit&rNo=0|title=National Portrait Gallery - Portrait - NPG x159547; William Edward Toll|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2015}}
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Category:People educated at Bedford Modern School
Category:British emigrants to the United States