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Type of entity
Personne
Forme autorisée du nom
Wilson, Frank Elmer
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Description area
Dates d’existence
1885-1944
Historique
Born on May 21, 1885, in Kittaning, Pennsylvania, Frank Wilson graduated from Hobart College in 1907. He graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from General Theological Seminary in New York in 1910 and was ordained a priest later that year. After serving in various churches and as an Army chaplain during World War I, he became rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1919. In 1928, Wilson was elected as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Eau Claire and was consecrated in 1929.
Frank Elmer Wilson died in office on February 16, 1944.