History of Laurens, (Otsego County) New York United States of America

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Mahlon Norris Gilbert, bishop coadjutor of Minnesota and 141st in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Laurens, N.Y., March 23, 1848; son of Norris and Lucy (Todd) Gilbert; grandson of Elijah and Lois (Ward) Gilbert, and of Chauncey and Hannah (Hotchkiss) Todd; and great-grandson of Ambrose Ward, a soldier in the American Revolution. The family removed from Connecticut to Western New York in 1817 and settled in Otsego county. Mahlon entered Hobart with the class of 1870, but left in his junior year by reason of ill health. He taught school in Florida, 1868-70, and in Ogden, Utah, 1870-72. He was graduated at Seabury divinity school, Faribault, Minn., in 1875; was ordained deacon by Bishop Whipple in 1875 and priest by Bishop Tuttle in October of the same year, and ministered at Deer Lodge and as rector of St. Peter's church at Helena, Mont., for six years. He declined a call to St. Mark's church, Minneapolis, and in January, 1881, accepted the rectorship of Christ church, St. Paul, Minn. In 1886 he was elected bishop coadjutor of Minnesota and was consecrated, Oct. 17, 1886, by Bishops Lee, Bedell, Whipple, Coxe, Doane, Brewer and Rulison. On account of the extent of the territory in the jurisdiction and the advanced age of Bishop Whipple, the burden of the work fell to the bishop coadjutor, and the flourishing schools and prosperous missions of the diocese attested to the efficiency of his labor. He received the honorary degrees of M.A. from Hobart college in 1880, S.T.D. from Racine, from Seabury and from Hobart in 1886, and LL.D. from Hobart in 1895. He died in St. Paul, Minn., March 2, 1900.

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

History of Laurens, (Otsego County) New York

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