William Ingraham Kip (October 3, 1811 – April 7, 1893) was an American
Protestant
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Episcopal bishop.
Early life
Kip was born in New York City, of
Breton
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ancestry, the son of Leonard Kip and Maria (Ingraham) Kip.
[Memorial Biographies, 130] He graduated at
Yale
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in 1831.
[Batterson, 176] After briefly studying law, Kip turned to a clerical calling and graduated from the
General Theological Seminary
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church (GTS) is an Episcopal seminary in New York City. Founded in 1817, GTS is the oldest seminary of the Episcopal Church and the longest continuously operating Seminary in the Anglican Communi ...
in 1835.
[ He was ordained deacon in June 1835 and ordained priest in October of the same year.][
Kip became ]rector
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*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of St. Peter's Church in in 1835, moved to become assistant minister of Grace Church in New York City in 1836, and moved again to become rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Albany, where he remained from 1838 to 1853.[
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Episcopate
In October 28, 1853, Kip was chosen to be the missionary bishop to California.[Batterson, 177] He was the 59th bishop in the ECUSA, and was consecrated by Bishops Jackson Kemper
Jackson Kemper (December 24, 1789 – May 24, 1870) in 1835 became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Especially known for his work with Native American peoples, he also founded parishes in wha ...
, Alfred Lee, and William Jones Boone.[ He arrived in California after a journey by steamship and transit of the Panamanian isthmus, which in those days could be a dangerous journey.][Kip, 12–46] Kip's brother, Leonard
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, had already moved to California during the Gold Rush
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New ...
, but returned to New York by the time Kip arrived in San Francisco. On arriving in San Francisco, Kip had only two congregations under his charge, but the Episcopal population soon began to grow as immigrants from the East streamed into California.[Kip, 89–93] When California became a diocese in its own right in 1856, Kip was elected as its first bishop.[Kip, 189] He continued to serve as Bishop of California until his death in 1893. His last act in office was the ordination of his grandson, William Ingraham Kip, III. Kip was noted for his Episcopalian Catholicism, which he considered as a means of raising the spiritual sights of California's urban centers. He also promoted the idea of " Grace Cathedral" for San Francisco, which was also advanced by his successor, William F. Nichols.
Among his works are:
* ''The Lent
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en Fast'' (1843)
* ''Early Jesuit Missions in North America'' (1846)
* ''The Catacombs of Rome'' (1854)
* ''The Olden Time in New York'' (1872)
* ''The Church and the Apostle
An apostle (), in its literal sense, is an emissary, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (''apóstolos''), literally "one who is sent off", from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (''apostéllein''), "to send off". The purpose of such sending ...
s'' (1877)
* ''Double Witness of the Church'' (twenty-second edition, 1904)
Personal life
Kip was married to Maria Elizabeth Lawrence, the daughter of merchant banker Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia Beach (the daughter of a minister of Trinity Church). They had two children:[
* ]Lawrence Kip
Lawrence Kip (September 17, 1836 – November 17, 1899) was an American soldier, author, and sportsman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
Early life
Kip was born on September 17, 1836 in Morristown, New Jersey. He was t ...
(1836–1899), U.S. Army officer who married Eva Lorillard (1847–1903), the daughter of Lorillard Tobacco Company
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Th ...
heir Pierre Lorillard III
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.
* William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840–1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco. He married Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, William Burnet Kinney
William Burnet Kinney (September 4, 1799 – October 21, 1880) was an American politician and diplomat.
Early life and education
His grandfather, Sir Thomas Kinney, came to the United States from England before the Revolution to explore the mine ...
. They had four children,[ A history of the new California: its resources and people, Volume 2 edited by Leigh Hadley Irvine]
/ref> three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS).Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey edited by Francis Bazley Lee
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His great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch
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, David Koch
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, and Bill Koch.
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External links
Documents by Kip
on Project Canterbury
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Yale University alumni
American religious writers
Religious leaders from New York City
1811 births
1893 deaths
Episcopal bishops of California
General Theological Seminary alumni
American people of Breton descent
19th-century American Episcopalians
Burials at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park