Rex, Percy Fielitz

Percy Fielitz Rex was born in Narcissa, PA on June 18, 1902, the son of Percy Corson Rex and Agnes Charlotte (Fielitz) Rex. After attending Muhlenburg College, Lutheran Seminary and Yale Divinity School, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church. He served in churches in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and Delaware over the next forty years. From the 1930's the Rexes spent summer vacations in Pocasset on Cape Cod. He collected Cape Cod books, pamphlets and items of literary interest from secondhand book dealers on the Cape from when he first arrived. His interest in turn-of the-century Cape Cod author Joseph Crosby Lincoln (see MS Collection 14. Finding aid for MS 14 : http://www.sturgislibrary.org/collections/special/archives/lincoln) led to his writing a biography of Lincoln titled The Prolific Pencil (W.S. Sullwold, Taunton, MA, 1980). He is also the author of Contemporaries, A Poetic Focus on Today (Charles Printing Co., Wilmington, DE, 1961).

From the description of Percy Fielitz Rex collection, 1776-1974. (Clams, Inc). WorldCat record id: 501171925