William Jones Boone Jr. (17 May 1846 – 5 October 1891) was the fourth

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bishop of Shanghai. Boone was born in Shanghai, son of and namesake of William Jones Boone and his wife Sarah Amelia De Saussure Boone. After his mother’s death, he and his brother were taken to the US for their education. He studied at

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and attended

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Australian National University , Open Research section, ''The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, in China and Japan, 1835-1870'' by Ian Welch, Australian National University, 2013, page x
/ref> prior to his ordination to the diaconate in

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in 1868. The Foreign Missions Committee appointed him as a missionary to China in 1869. He was consecrated Bishop of Shanghai on 28 October 1884. Boone served in Wuchang before retiring to America with ill-health; however, he later decided to return to China to continue his work in Hankow. Internet Archive, ''The Story of the Church in China,'' by Arthur R Gray and Arthur M Sherman (1913), page 174
/ref> He married Mary Carolina De Saussure Boone and after her death in 1875, he married Henrietta F. Harris Boone; he died of thyphoid in 1891.

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1845 births 1891 deaths Virginia Theological Seminary alumni Episcopal bishops of Shanghai 19th-century Anglican bishops in China 19th-century American clergy American expatriates in Shanghai {{US-bishop-stub

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