Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922, American clergyman, bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, b. England, grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1859. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and afterward held Methodist pastorates in Milwaukee. In 1875 he joined the Reformed Episcopal Church, a dissident sect that had broken away from the Episcopal Church. He became a bishop in 1876. He was known as a leader who directed public improvement in education, in prison reform, and in the fight for temperance.

Samuel Fallows (December 13, 1835 – September 5, 1922) was an American clergyman. Fallows was born in England and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1859. During the American Civil War, he fought in the Union Army. He was a Methodist pastor following the war, though in 1875 he joined the Reformed Episcopal Church, where he became a bishop in 1876. He was a public figure notable for his efforts in public education, prison reform, and the temperance movement.

He was buried at Forest Home Cemetery, in Forest Park, Chicago.

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Further reading

• Fallows, A. K. Everybody’s Bishop (1927).

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