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Source 11: "FRANKLIN, Thomas Levering, clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 April 1822. After his graduation at Trinity, in 1841, Bishop Meade, in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1844, and priest in Camden, New Jersey ordained him deacon, in the following year. His charges have been Trinity Church, Moorestown, New Jersey ; St. Ann's, Amsterdam, N. Y. ; St. John's, Mount Morris, N. Y. ; Christ Church, Madison, Ind. ; and the Church of the Evangelists, Philadelphia, where he still remains (1887). He has traveled extensively through the United States and built Churches and rectories. He founded the Jane Grey School, Mount Morris, New York, in 1866, and was its rector till 18'70. For six years he edited the " Episcopal Register," and he has contributed to religious and secular journals. He received the degree of D. D. from Hobart in 1871."

More Levering family info at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=levering&id=I
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