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3 unusual facts about Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman


Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

From 1946-1949 Whitman served as a chaplain to the U.S. Army in the Philippines before taking a position as associate rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he also served as chaplain to Episcopal students at the College of William and Mary.

He later returned to the ministry, however, as rector of St. Martin’s Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Disgraced, he returned to New York and took work as a messenger boy for a carpet company and a Wall Street bank.



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