Chisholm, James (2)

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, September 30, 1815. After attendance at the high-school of Salem, and the Latin school in the same place, he graduated from Harvard College in 1836, immediately after which he became a teacher in an academy at Charlestown, Virginia, for one year. In 1837 he went to Washington city and taught a select classical school for more than a year, connecting himself with the Protestant Episcopal Church in February 1839. Leaving Washington the following April, he entered the middle class of the Theological Seminary of Virginia; and in October 1840, was ordained deacon. His first parish was, Norbonne, comprising the two congregations of Trimlut, (Martinsburg) and Mt. Zion (Hedgesville), Virginia. Of this parish he was rector from 1842 to 1850, and thereafter at Portsmouth, until his death, September 15, 1855. As a preacher, his style was elaborate and attractive, and he excelled as a pastor. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5:768; Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1855, page 483.