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Whipple, Henry Benjamin

bishop of Minnesota, was born Feb. 15, 1822, in Adams, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the private schools of New York, and studied under Dr. William D. Wilson of Cornell university. In 1849 he was ordained deacon, and a priest in 1850. The same year he became rector of Zion's church, New York. He was rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Chicago in 1857, where he remained till consecrated bishop of Minnesota in St. James' church, Richmond, Va., in 1859. In 1876 he was offered the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands. He is one of the original trustees of the Peabody education fund. He built the cathedral of the Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minn., the first protestant cathedral built in America. He founded and built the three noble educational institutions at Faribault, Minn. -the Seabury Divinity school, St. Mary's Hall and the Shattuck Military school. Bishop Whipple has devoted much of his life to the evangelization of the Indians; is known among the Indians as Straight Tongue, and is called the Apostle to the Indians. His name is well-known in England, and in 1888, at the Pan-Anglican synod, he preached the opening sermon at Westminster Abbey.

He was present at the Lambeth conference in 1897, and delivered the sermon in connection' with the unveiling of the Tennyson memorial at the Isle of Wight.

Bishop Whipple is chaplain-general of the society of the Sons of the Revolution.