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BISHOP, FRANK ELMER (1866-1944)

BISHOP, FRANK ELMER, Baptist minister, Newcastle field, 1921-25; b. Aylesford, Kings Co., N.S., 17 Dec 1866, s/o William Edgar Bishop and Isabella Spurr; m. 1897, Janet J. McDonald, of Queens Co., N.B.; d. Digby, N.S., 9 Feb 1944.

Frank E. Bishop was educated at Digby Academy, the Nova Scotia Normal School, and Acadia University (BA 1896). He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1897 but later undertook a three-year program of study at the Rochester Theological Seminary in Lyons, N.Y. (1901-04). He spent most of his career in the pulpits of town and city churches in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick but set pastoral duties aside in 1911-12 to serve as superintendent of Baptist home missions for New Brunswick. He came to Newcastle from the church at East Florenceville, N.B., in the spring of 1921. After he had been pastor for several months it was stated that all departments of the church were "imbued with a new spirit." He stayed four and a half years and then went to Digby, where he later retired.

Bishop enjoyed an excellent reputation as a clergyman. In 1935 he was honored with the King's Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1938 Acadia University conferred an honorary DD on him. He and his wife, Janet J. MacDonald, had a son and a daughter.

Sources

[b/d] Acadia Record [m] Advocate 11 Jul 1922 / Acadia archives; Bishop family data; Levy; Maritime Baptist 30 Mar 1921, 27 Jun 1923, 25 Oct 1925


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