{"id":25090,"date":"2011-03-15T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/patch_a_look_back_at_oxford_connecticuts_tory_clergyman\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:15:14","slug":"patch_a_look_back_at_oxford_connecticuts_tory_clergyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25090","title":{"rendered":"(Patch) A Look back at Oxford, Connecticut&#39;s, Tory Clergyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal churches of the Naugatuck Valley share a unique and historic clergyman. The Rev. Richard Mansfield served as minister to a circuit that extended from West Haven to Waterbury, nearly 60 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfield\u2019s father, Jonathan, was a deacon in the New Haven Congregational Church.  The son studied to become a Congregational clergyman. He finished all the required studies for admission to Yale College (now Yale University) at age 11. College rules required him to wait until he was 14 before admission. He graduated in 1841 with first honors of his class. This earned him a prize that led to his conversion to Episcopalian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxford-ct.patch.com\/articles\/oxfords-tory-clergyman\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal churches of the Naugatuck Valley share a unique and historic clergyman. The Rev. Richard Mansfield served as minister to a circuit that extended from West Haven to Waterbury, nearly 60 miles. Mansfield\u2019s father, Jonathan, was a deacon in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25090\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,186,66,435,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}