[1] He served in the following positions:[1] He was ordained deacon in Trinity Church of Paris by the Bishop of New Hampshire William Woodruff Niles on March 10, 1895, and then ordained priest on July 1, 1896, while serving as master at St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.

[2] He was consecrated by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle assisted by Ozi W. Whitaker and William Woodruff Niles.

Kinsman was Episcopal Visitor of the Society of the Atonement, an Episcopalian religious community which later became Roman Catholic.

In 1918 he was one of the Protestant Episcopalian delegates at an ecumenical meeting with representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church in New York City.

Kinsman lived the last eleven years of his life at the Marcotte Nursing Home in Lewiston, Maine, and died there in 1944.