History of Goshen, (Orange County) New York United States of America

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A Biography of George de Normandie Gillespie

George de Normandie Gillespie, first bishop of Western Michigan and 112th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Goshen, N.Y., June 14, 1819. He was graduated at the General theological seminary in 1840, and was ordained deacon, June 28, 1840, in St. Peter's church, New York city, and priest in St. Mark's church, Le Roy, N.Y., June 30, 1843, where he was rector, 1840-45. He was rector of St. Paul's church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1845-51, of Zion church, Palmyra, N.Y., 1851-61, and of St. Andrew's church, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1861-75. He was elected bishop of the newly erected diocese of Western Michigan in 1874, and was consecrated at St. Mark's, Grand Rapids, Feb. 24, 1875, by Bishops McCoskry, Talbot, Bissell, Robertson, Paddock and Wells. The diocese, extending from Lake Michigan and the Straits of Mackinac on the north to the state of Indiana on the south and including the western half of the state embraced an area of 18,449 square miles and in 1900 had a population of 794,-969. He made Grand Rapids the see city and organized the Association of the diocese of Western Michigan to hold the funds and property of the diocese in trust. He served on the state board of correction and charities, from 1876. He received the degree M.A. in 1850, and that of S.T.D. in 1875, from Hobart college. He published Manual and Annals of the Diocese of Michigan (1868), and other pamphlets.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor