 1811 - 1893 (81 years)
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| Name |
William Ingraham Kip |
| Title |
Rev. |
| Birth |
3 Oct 1811 |
New York City, NY  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Apr 1893 |
San Francisco, Marin County, CA [1] |
- Kip - The Right Reverend William Ingraham Kip, Bishop of California,
died at San Francisco, on Thursday, April 6th, 1893, in his
eighty-second year, having been born in New York City, October 3d,
1811. He was the eldest son of Leonard Kip, for many years president
of the North River Bank, who married, December 12th, 1809, Maria,
daughter of Duncan Ingraham of Greenvale, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
and was a descendant in the seventh generation (Leonard6, Leonard5,
Isaac4, Jacob3, Isaac2, Hendrick1), of Hendrick Kip, who settled in
New Amsterdam prior to 1643. He graduated from Yale College in 1831,
in the class with president Noah Porter and Professor Lyman H.
Atwater, studied law for a short period of time and then entered the
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, receiving his theological
education in Alexandria Seminary, Virginia, and the General
Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained in 1835, and
was successively rector of St. Peter's, Morristown, N. J., assistant
minister of Grace Church, New York City, and rector of St. Paul's,
Albany, N. Y. In 1853 he was elected missionary bishop of California,
and in 1857, on the organization of California as an independent
diocese, he was made diocesan bishop. In 1835 he married Maria
Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Lawrence of New York City, by whom he had
two children, Lawrence, b. September 17th, 1836, who became a
lieutenant-colonel in the regular army and who married, April 23rd,
1867, Eva, daughter of Peter Lorillard; and William Ingraham, b.
January 15th, 1840, who married February 28th, 1865, Elizabeth
Clementina, daughter of Hon. William B. Kinney.
Bishop Kip was a man of wide reading and deep knowledge in his chosen
profession. He possessed a keen literary instinct, was the author of
a number of religious works, and made some important contributions to
the genealogical history of his native state.
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| Person ID |
I6484 |
Crane Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
24 May 2023 |
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| Sources |
- [S603] Obituary, Kip, William I., (New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record, Volume 24, Page 197, 1893 Obtained September 4, 2002), 5047.
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