History of Cobham, (Albemarle County) Virginia United States of America

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Cleland Kinloch Nelson - A Biography

Cleland Kinloch Nelson, third bishop of Georgia and 160th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Greenwood, near Cobham, Albemarle county, Va., May 23, 1859; son of Keating S. and Julia (Rogers) Nelson, and a lineal descendant of William Nelson, president of Virginia colony, and of Gen. Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. He was graduated at St. John's college, 1872; studied for the priesthood under his uncle, the Rev. Dr. C. K. Nelson, and at the Berkeley divinity school, Conn. He was ordained deacon in the church of the Ascension, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 1875, and priest in Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1876. He was rector of the church of St. John the Baptist, Germantown, Pa., 1876-82, and of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pa., 1882-92. He was elected bishop of Georgia, Nov. 12, 1891, and was consecrated in St. Luke's cathedral, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24, 1892, by Bishops Quintard, W. B. W. Howe, Lyman, Whitehead, Rulison, Coleman, Jackson and Watson.

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