Background
Wilner, Robert Franklin was born on April 10, 1889 in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Mortimer and Lillian Isabel (Price) Wilner.
Wilner, Robert Franklin was born on April 10, 1889 in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Mortimer and Lillian Isabel (Price) Wilner.
Educated Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) Business College, 1905-1906, Bloomsburg (Pennsylvania) State Teachers College, 1907-1909, Temple University (medical department), 1909-1910, 1911-1912, Philadelphia Divinity School, 1927-1928. Doctor of Divinity, Philadelphia Divinity School, 1947.
Ordained deacon Episcopal Church, 1928, priest, 1929. Stenographer, Wilkes-Barre, 1906-1907, 1910-1913. Secretary to George West. Bailey, of Philadelphia, 1913-1915.
Appointed missionary to China by Board of Missions Episcopal Church, 1915.
Assistant treasurer China Mission, Shanghai, later Hankow, 1916-1926. Staff Saint Stephens Mission to Chinese, Manila, Philippine Islands, 1928-1929.
Chaplain Brent School (for American boys and girls) 1929-1931. Rector Easter School (for Igorot boys and girls), assistant priest Church of Resurrection, Baguio, Philippine Islands, 1929-1937.
Elected suffragan bishop, Philippine Islands, October, 1937, consecrated bishop January 25, 1938.
Address: All Saints Mission, Bontoc, Mount Provident, Philippines.
Married Alfaretta Amburn Stark, April. Children: Alfaretta Isabel, Robert Edson, George Amburn (killed in action in Germany, November.