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Kip, William Ingraham

bishop, author, was born Oct. 3, 1811, in New York city. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of California in 1853-93.

He was the author of Double Witness of the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; and The Olden Time in New York. He died April 6, 1893, in San Francisco, Cal.

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