From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 876

RT. REV. EDWARD RANDOLPH WELLES, S.T.D. (Racine College), third Bishop of the Diocese of Wisconsin, son of Dr. Gardner and Pauline (FULLER) WELLES, was born in Waterloo, N.Y., January 10, 1830.  He graduated at Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1850; read law for a few months in the office of Judge HADLEY, Waterloo, but, becoming a candidate for holy orders, under Bishop DE LANCEY of western New York, studied theology under the direction of Rev. Dr. W. D. WILSON of Geneva, now of Cornell University, was ordained deacon in the Advent Ember-Season of 1857, by Bishop DE LANCEY, in St. Paul's Church, Waterloo, and by the same prelate ordained priest in Trinity Church, Geneva, in September, 1858; was tutor at De Veaux College, where he was ordained deacon, ministering on alternate Sundays, at the churches in Lewiston and Suspension Bridge.  In October, 1858, he organized the parish of Christ Church, Red Wing, Minn., in the missionary jurisdiction of Bishop KEMPER, and continued in the rectorship of the parish in Red Wing until October 1874, at which time the rectorship was resigned to enter upon the duties of the Episcopate of Wisconsin.  He was elected to the Diocese in June, 1874; consecrated in St. Thomas Church, New York, in October of the same year.

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