Frank Scovill Onderdonk

Background

Onderdonk, Frank Scovill was born on May 31, 1871 in Mission Valley, Texas, United States. Son of Gilbert and Martha Jane (Benham) Onderdonk.

Education

Student Southwestern U. (Doctor of Divinity), Georgetown, Texas, 4 years (elective course).

Career

Minister Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892. In W. Texas Conference, 1892-1897. Missionary at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1897-1901 (built church and manager Trinity Hospital).

Presiding elder 1 year and pastor 2 years in Mexico City, 1901-1903. Presiding elder Guadalajara, 1903-1907. President Colegio Wesleyano, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1907-1914.

Superintendent Mexico, Italian and Bohemian missions in Texas, November since 1914. Delaware Congress on Christian Work in Latin America, Panama, 1916. Delegate Latin American Congress, Havana, Cuba, June 1929.

Delegate general Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 5 times between 1906 and 1926. Delegate Ecumenical Methodist Conference, Atlanta, Georgia., 1931. Address: San Antonio, Tex.

Connections

Married Rowena Tyson, October 12, 1892. Children: Mistress Martha Kuykendall, Mistress Rowena Horlyk, Mistress Ruth Mitchell, Mistress Mary Elizabeth Manchester.

Father:

Gilbert Onderdonk

Mother:

Martha Jane (Benham) Onderdonk

Spouse:

Rowena Tyson

child:

Mistress Martha Kuykendall Onderdonk

child:

Mistress Rowena Horlyk Onderdonk

child:

Mistress Mary Elizabeth Manchester Onderdonk

child:

Mistress Ruth Mitchell Onderdonk