History of Nichols, (Tioga County) New York United States of America

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Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh, third bishop of Kansas and 176th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Nichols, Tioga county, N.Y., April 12, 1848; son of Cornelius and Elmira (Rosebrook) Millspaugh, and of Dutch descent, his great-grandfather, Peter yon Miltzbach, settling in Orange county, N.Y., with his wife, Elsie Kimbark, a French Huguenot refugee who boasted of royal blood. The next generation changed the name. His father removed to Faribault, Minn., in 1857, and there Frank attended the parish school kept by the Rev. James Lloyd Breck . He was graduated from Shattuck Hall in 1870, and from Seabury Divinity school, B.D., 1873; was ordered deacon, June 22, 1873, ordained priest, June 21, 1874, and was a missionary in Minnesota, 1873-76. He was dean of Trinity cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1876-86; continually represented the diocese as president of the standing Committee and delegate to the general convention; was rector of St. Paul's church, Minneapolis, 1886-94, and dean of Grace cathedral, Topeka, Kan., 1894-95. He was elected bishop of Kansas as successor to the Rt. Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas, his old professor, deceased, in 1895, and he was consecrated at Grace cathedral, Topeka, by Bishops Whipple, Tuttle, Spalding, Atwill and Brooke, Sept. 19, 1895. He received the degree of D.D. from Seabury in 1895.

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

History of Nichols, (Tioga County) New York

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