title: Anson Rogers Graves
text: # Anson Rogers Graves
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  