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aiiii Cubbs. assiste'l by Bisliops Burgess. White- house, Scott, W. H. Lee. Chirk and Bowman. In ISGO he was active in organizing the Bishop Sea- bury Mission in Faribault, Minn., out of which grew the Seabury Divinity scliool (of which Bishop Whipi.le "was president, 18G0-1901). He founded Shattuck Military school: in 18G2 he laid the corner stone of the first P.E. cathedral in the United States, that of Our Merciful Saviour at Faribault. Minn., which became the centre of his group of diocesan schools, and in 1SG6 he founded St. Mary's school for girls. He declined the apixnntnient of chaplain of the 1st Minnesota volunteers, 18GL and a bishop's see in the Sandwich Islands, offered him by the Arch- Bishop of Canterbury in 1870. In 1886 he was given a coadjutor in the pei-son of the Rt. Rev. Mahlon N. Gilbert (q. v. ). His educational work among the Indians, and his effort at Wash- ington, D.C., in their behalf, was marked with a degree of patience and systematic endeavor tliat accomplished great benefit, and won for him among the tribes the epithet of " Straight Tongue." He was also called '"St. John of the Wilderness." Bishop Whipple was married, first, in 1843, to Cornelia, daughter of the Hon. Benjamin and Sarah Wriglit of Jefferson county, N.Y. She died in 1890, and he was married sec- ondly, in October, 1896, to Evangeline, only daughter of Dr. Francis and Jane (Van Poelien) Marrs of Boston, Mass. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon Bisliop W^liipple by llobart in 1850. that of S.T.D. by Racine in 1859, and in 1888 the respective degrees of D.D. and LL.D. by the English universities of Durham, Oxford and Cambridge. He served in various inii»ortant Indian commissions, including that with the Sioux for the purpose of opening the Black Hills. 1876; was an authority on every phase of the Indian question; preached the in- itial sermon at Lambeth Palace at the Lambeth conference in London, 1888, and inaugurated the convocation systems of the Episcopal church in the United States. He was a voluminous correspondent, and published many sermons and addresses, and wrote extensively on the In- dian question. He was a trastee of the Pea- lx>dy Fund for Educational Work in the South, 1873-1901. he and Cliief-Justice Fuller being the vice-presidents of the board. He preached the sermon at the Centennial of the P.E. church in New York in 1889; preached on special occasions in nearly every cathedral in England, and be- fore the universites of Oxford and Cambridge and delivered the " Ramsdea sermon," before • 'ambridge in 1897. At her request he visited Qiie.-n Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1891. He
 * icted as presiding bishop of the American church

.•it the Lambeth conference in 1897, and in the

same year preached the memorial sermon at the unveiling of the Tennyson monument at the Isle of Wight. In 1899 he was invited to be pres- ent at the Centenary of the Church Missionary society of England as the representative of the P.E. Church in America, and delivered an ad- dress. In 1870 he conducted the first public Protestant service held in Cuba. He visited Porto Rico by request in 1900, to examine the field for church work and held confirmations there, being the first American bishop to visit the island; was chaplain -general of the Sons of the Revolution and of the Society of Colonel Wars; was one of the board of Indian commissioners; president of the Florida Audubon society, and wrote extensively on the Indian question. He pub- lished many sermons and addresses, Lights and Shadoirs of a Long Episcopate being one of his latest productions. He was a member of the Victoria Institute of Great Britain. In the midst of his great labors, after a sudden illness of one week, he died in Faribault, the see of his diocese. His body rests under the altar of his ca- thedral, the tower of which was erected in his honor by the people of America and England. The date of his death is Sept. 16, 1901.

WHIPPLE, William, Jr., signer, was born in Kittery, Maine, Jan. 14, 1730; son of William and Mary (Cutts) Whipple and grandson of Robert and Dorcas (Hammond) Cutts. His father re- moved from Ipswich to Kittery, and thereafter followed the sea. William, Jr., subsequently made several voyages to the West Indies on mer- chant vessels, amassing some fortune. In 1759 he established a business partnership with his brother Joseph in Portsmouth, X.H. He was married to his cousin, Catharine, daughter of John and Catharine (Cutts) Moffat of Portsmouth. He was a member of the provincial congress of New Hampshire, 1775, serving on the committees of safety of Portsmouth town and province: a delegate to the Continental congress at Philadel- phia, Pa., 1775-79, signing the Declaration of In- dependence of July 4, 177G, and serving on the marine and commerce committees and as super- intendent of the commissary and quarter-mas- ter's departments, and was a member of the council of New Hampshire, Jan. 6, 1776. He was commissioned brigadier-general of the 1st brigade of New Hampshire troops. July 17, 1777; participated under General Gates in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga, and signed the capi- tulatory articles with Burgoyne. He took part in General Sullivan's expedition to Rhode Island in 1778; declined liis appointment as commis- sioner of the board of admiralty, 1780; was a member of the general assembly of New Hamp- shire, 1780-84, and resigned his military commis- sion, June 20, 1782. He was president of the