George Deshon

He was raised a Congregationalist and received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point at the age of sixteen.

[1] Deshon was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in July 1851 and served with the Ordinance Department in Baltimore, Maryland, but resigned his commission in October.

He was ordained priest in 1855 and became associated with Isaac Hecker, Clarence Walworth, Augustine Hewit, and Francis A. Baker, all regularly employed in missionary work.

[4] He remained in this house during the rest of this life, being novice-master for several years, and afterwards assistant superior and in charge generally of the temporal interests of the community, which owed much to his business ability.

He also superintended throughout the building of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, in which his skill and knowledge as an engineer, acquired at West Point, were of service.