George Herbert Kinsolving Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
George Herbert Kinsolving
Bishop of Texas
Church:Episcopal Church
Diocese:Texas
Elected:May 19, 1892
Term:1893–1928
Retired:-->
Predecessor:Alexander Gregg
Successor:Clinton S. Quin
Ordination:1875
Ordained By:William Rollinson Whittingham
Consecration:October 12, 1892
Consecrated By:Richard Hooker Wilmer
Birth Date:28 April 1849
Birth Place:Bedford County, Virginia, United States
Death Place:Austin, Texas, United States
Buried:All Saints Church, Austin, Texas
Nationality:American
Religion:Anglican
Parents:Ovid Americus Kinsolving & Julia Heiskell Krauth
Children:1
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George Herbert Kinsolving (April 28, 1849 – October 23, 1928) was an American religious leader who was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, serving from 1893 to 1928.

Early life and family

Kinsolving was born on April 28, 1849, in Bedford County, Virginia. He came from a family of clergymen. His father, the Reverend Otis Americus Kinsolving (1822–1894), minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, Virginia became an avid Confederate, especially supporting Mosby's Rangers although G.H. Kinsolving's brother joined the Richmond Howitzers light artillery. The family of his father's second wife likewise supported the Confederacy (her father Asa Rogers became a local militia general), and after her death from complications of childbirth, Rev. Otis Kinsolving was imprisoned for treason by occupying Union forces. The child whose birth led to that death, Lucien Lee Kinsolving (1862–1929), later became the first missionary bishop of Brazil, and G.H. Kinsolving preached the sermon at the consecration ceremony attended by twelve bishops. His other half-brother by his father's second wife, Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving (1861–1961), also became known as an author and historian in Maryland. His half-brother by his father's third wife, Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, served Episcopal churches in the South and New York City. Whereas his father's family were prominent Episcopalians, his mother's family, the Krauths, were devout Lutherans.[1]

Education and Ordained Ministry

Kinsolving was a student at the University of Virginia between 1868 and 1870, after which he taught a year in a boys' school near Baltimore. He later studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary from where he graduated in 1874. In 1892 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology by Griswold College in Davenport, Iowa, and a Doctor of Divinity in 1893 by the University of the South.[2]

He was the ordained deacon on June 26, 1874, by Bishop John Johns of Virginia and then priest in 1875 by Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham of Maryland. He initially served as assistant at Christ Church in Baltimore between 1874 and 1875, and then rector of St Mark's Church, Baltimore from 1875 until 1878. In 1878, he became rector of St John's Church in Cincinnati, while in 1881 he transferred to the Church of the Epiphany in Philadelphia where he remain until 1892. He married Grace Jaggar on October 8, 1879, and they had one child.[3] [4]

Episcopacy

On May 19, 1892, Kinsolving was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Texas, and was consecrated on October 12, 1892, at the Church of the Epiphany by Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer of Alabama. He succeeded as diocesan bishop on July 11, 1893, and remained in office until his death in 1928. While bishop in Texas, he oversaw the establishment of All Saints' Episcopal Church by the campus of the University of Texas at Austin; his crypt is beneath the church's altar.[5]

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  1. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/kinsolving-george-herbert "Kinsolving, George Herbert (1849–1928)"
  2. 1968 . KINSOLVING, George Herbert. Who Was Who in America . 680.
  3. 1895. George Herbert Kinsolving. The Episcopate in America . 341.
  4. 1910 . The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Who Was Who in America . 343.
  5. Web site: Details for George Herbert Kinsolving Crypt (Atlas Number 7453019905). Texas Historical Commission. Texas Historic Sites Atlas. August 30, 2022.