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Burgess (FREDERICK an American)

FREDERICK, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop born in Providence, R. I., in 1853. He graduated from Brown University in 1873, and from 1874 to 1875 studied at the General Theological Seminary, afterward spending a year in post-graduate studies in Oxford. He was ordained priest in 1877 and served as rector of several churches in New England, Pennsylvania, and Detroit. He was rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn, from 1898 to 1902, and in the latter year he was consecrated bishop of Long Island.

BURGOMASTER generations added to the names of places, as in England; but, under a decision of the United States Board on Geographic Names, the form is now boro, as Brattle-boro.