Leete, Frederick Deland was born on October 1, 1866 in Avon. New New York Son of Review Menzo Smith and Amelia (DeLand) L. (8th generation from Governor William Leete of New Haven and Connecticut colonies, and Philip DeLand, French Huguenot refugee to Massachusetts before 1650).
Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1889, Master of Arts, 1891, Doctor of Divinity, 1903, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1921. Graduate work, Syracuse University and Rochester. Doctor of Laws, Albion College, 1912, Ohio Northern University, 1923, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1936.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1891. Pastor Dryer Memorial, Utica, New York, 1888-1891. General secretary Young Men's Christian Association, 1891-1894.
Pastor Little Falls, New York, 1894-1898, Monroe Avenue, Rochester, 1898-1903, University Church, Syracuse, 1903-1906, Central, Detroit, 1906-1912.
Elected bishop 1912; charge, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina., Florida, 1912-1920. Resident bishop, Indiana, 1920, Indiana and southern Illinois, 1924, Iowa and Nebraska, 1928-1936.
At various times trustee Chattanooga, Clark, DePauw and Nebraska Wesleyan universities, Cornell College. President Wesley Founds. of Indiana and Iowa universities.
President trustees Evansville College, 1924-1926.
Member of commission Revision of Hymnal, 1928 to completion of new Hymnal, 1936. Member boards of Home and Foreign Missions, 1912-1936. President Ecumenical Methodist Council, Methodisms of Americas and Orient, 1931-1944.
Member board education, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924-1928, 32.
Member War Board, Board Bishops, 1917-1918. President Council Benevolences, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1920-1924.
Member Commission Interdenom. Relations, 1916-1924, 1928-1936.
Chairman Commission Evangelism, 1932-1936.
Member Commission Central Conferences, 1932-1936. Ecumenical Methodist Conference, Toronto, 1911, London, 1921, Atlanta, 1931, member Ecumenical Methodist Council, American and Orient. Delegate to Irish Methodist Conference, 1927, Presbyterian General Assembly, 1932, Methodist.
Member of commission Revision of Hymnal, 1928 to completion of new Hymnal, 1936. Member boards of Home and Foreign Missions, 1912-1936. Member board education, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924-1928, 32.
Member War Board, Board Bishops, 1917-1918.
Member Commission Interdenom. Relations, 1916-1924, 1928-1936.
Member Commission Central Conferences, 1932-1936. Fellow Royal Society Arts (England).
Member National Association Biblical Instructors, National Institute Social Sciences, American History Association (life.
Married Jeanette Gertrude Fuller, July 28, 1891. Married second, Zoe North Morrison, 1953. Children: Helen DeLand (Mistress West. Doctorate. Keefer), Jeanette Fuller (Mistress J. M. Mullin), Frederick DeLand, Junior.
