Anson Rogers Graves (April 13, 1842 – December 30, 1931) was the first bishop of the Missionary District of Western Nebraska in The Episcopal Church.
Biography Anson Rogers Graves was born in Wells, Vermont on April 13, 1842.
Anson Rogers Graves was consecrated as an Episcopal Church bishop to the Missionary Diocese of The Plate (Western Nebraska) on January 1, 1890, by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle and others. He resigned in 1910.The Living Church Annual 1944, pg. 380-381
He was the father of college football player and coach Eliot Graves.
He died at his home in La Mesa, California on December 30, 1931.
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