WHIPPLE, Henry Benjamin, Americo Protestant Episcopal bishop: b. Adams, Jeffer son County, N. Y., 15 Feb. 181; d. Farihault Minn., 16 Sept. 1901. III health presented his entering college, for which he had prepared. and he engaged in business for several years In 1847 he began a theological course privately. took priest's orders in the Episcopal Church in 1850 and was rector of Zion Church, Rome. N. Y., 1850-57 and of the church of the Holy Communion, Chicago, 1857-59. In October 1899 he was consecrated first bishop of Minne sota He very soon afterward organized the Seabur• Mission at Faribault. out of which la., since been developed the cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour. Seabury Divinity School, the Shattuck School for boys, and Saint Mary's Hall. a school for girls. Bishop Whipple was widely known as "the apostle to the Indians' on account of his labors among them both for their material as well as 'primal welfare.
By the Indians be was called 'Straight Tongue.' He thoroughly understood the Indian character and at the time of the Sioux massacre in 18h.? insisted that the trouble came directly from the false dealing of the whites with the Indians. In 1876 he secured the Sioux treaty, opening up the best portions of Dakota to white settlement, and his advice in regard to Indian affairs was sought by every Pry- lent from Lincoln to McKinley. In his and Shadows of a La ,copate' (1899) the character of the In problem will be found very fully treated. oshop ‘Whipple traveled extensively and Wks w islisuwa and highly regarded in England, while in his own country he was beloved and respected by men of every creed.