The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-22
SUDDEN DEATH.
Of bISH OP
M|LLSP PAUCH
BISHOP OF DIOCESE OF KANSAS
OF The PROTESTANT EPlsco.
PAL CHURCH DIES AFTER AN
EvESTFUL LIFE.

Topeka. Kansas. Nov. 22-The RL
Rev. Frank K Millspaugh, bishop OF
the diocese Of Kansas OF the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, was known
widely both in Kansas and elsewhere
for the work he had accomplished il
eleyating his church in Kansas. From
1885 until his serious illness in 1915,
which made necessary the naming OF
a cesdJutor, Bishop Millspaugh was
always active, building new churches
and rectories, aiding weak parishes
and encouraging church schools and
hospitals.
: The II Rev. James Wise Of ST.
Louis, was named coadjutor bishop
Of the church in order TO relieve him
OF some t. his many duties. Bishop
Wise was consecrated on October IS,
l 1916.
Bishop Mhlspaugh was born in
april, lS4s, in Tioga County, New
York, OF Dutch and Huguenot ances-
try, the family originally having been
Won Miltzbach. His lineage could be
traced back TO the seventeenth cen
tury when some Of his Huguenot an.
cestors were forced 10 leave France
by the revocation OF The Edict of
Nantes
Bishop Millspaugh's parents moved
10 Minnesota in 1851 and there he
received his first education in the
parish schools. He attended, as stu.
dent and choir boy, the Bishop Sea
bury University, graduated from the
Shattuck School at Faribault, Mimi,
now one Of the largest military schools
in the west, and in 1872 from the Sea.
bury Divinity School
He was ordained Deacon the next
year and was advanced to the priest
hood in 1874 by Bishop Whipple. His
first parish comprised large part of
what is now the Diocese of Duluth,
with headquarters at Brainerd, Mimi,
and what was then an unsettled dis.
/ trict But he was there only three
years, going to Omaha, where he be-
came Deacon of the Cathedral. In
Omaha, in conjunction with Bishop
Clarkson, he built a new handsome
church structure costing 100000 that
stood as a monument for his ten years
Of service there When he went to
Minneapolis as rector OF St PauTs
church, he found that it was greatly
in debt and struggling for life.
By mis- untiring and never tagging
efforts he has saved It to the people
and The diocese Bishop Whipple said
Of his work there
II was in 1894, that Bishop Mills
paueh, then a priest, came TO Topeka,
as dean Of Grace Cathedral. He was
elected the next year as Bishop of
Kansas as the successor of Bishop
Thomas. On September 10 of that
year, he was Consecrated to the office
by Bishops Whipple. Tuttle, Spalding,
Atkill and Brooke, in the Topeka ca.
thedral.
During his years in Kansas. it was
said Of him that his work had ac.
complished much for the church. par.
ticularly in the establishment and de- |
yelopment OF church schools, in the |
strengthening OF weak parishes and |
in increasing the revenues of the |
church. He built thirty-six churches |
and twenty-one rectories during his
years as bishop, and, through his aid, |
debt OF $4,000 was removed from
the College Of the Sisters Of Bethany. !
The grounds Of Christ Hospital here
were increased to eight acres, two
wings We're added to the building. and
the endowment fund increased about
$4,000 during his episcopacy
The construction OF St Luke's Hos
pital at Wellington. Kansas, was
started by him and, in 1909. the bull.
ding OF the new Grace Cathedral here
was commenced under his supervision.
Bishop Millspaugh was married in
1882, TO Miss Mary Mcpherson Ham