Abstract:
Thomas Fielding Scott was the Episcopal Church’s first bishop in the Pacific Northwest. He served for only thirteen years (1854-1867) and left thinking he had been a failure. But despite his feeling of failure, there were many successes, all the more remarkable because of the difficult conditions that included staffing, financial support, and primitive means of transportation. He left more than his vestments to his successor: he had laid a foundation upon which another would build.
