The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-09-16
The Venerable PreIate, Full of Good
Works, Died at O'Clock
This Morning.
Half Century of Noble Labor for
Mankind in the Northwest
Brought to an End.

I the Indians, he said, all his efforts appar-
| emily went for nauoht. There came an
! uprising which compassed the destruction
| OF every mission in the state and the
! death of more than 900 whites. Then peo-
! pie began to inquire into the causes-the
! bad treatment-which could have provoked
| the Indians to such an outbreak, and when
| hosulities were at an end, new policies
were adopted toward them which persuad-
| ed them to a Deaceable acceptance of the
| civilized conditions imposed upon them.
With natural pride, the bishop called at
tention to the fact that to-day there are
over 10000 communicates among the
! Indians tr the United States.
Bishop Whipple was a stanch admirer
of President Mckinley. Speaking on the
eve Of the last election, he said, in the
same interview:
AS an American citizen l am taking an ac-
tive interest in politics. | hope to see Presi-
| dent Mckinley reelected. The undoubted
fact that the country is everywhere prosper
| ous-a condition l am acquainted with from
personal observation-is sufficient reason in
itself why the present administration should
| be continued in Office
A Sketch of His Career.
To write the life of the Rt Rev Henry Ben
iamin Whipple would be to chronicle the
struggles and triumphs of the Episcopal
church in Minnesota. Identified with the
movement to Christianize the sayages of the
northwestern territory from its inception the
young man entered upon his duties with a
heart capable of rising above adversity and
brave enough to defy the perils OF the will
derness. He went among blood-thirsty saw
ages proelaiming the gospel of the Prince of
Peace. He became the friend and conf1dant
of Wild men whose hands were red with the
blood of innocent white men, but he contin-
ued among them bearing the cross and point
ing the way to higher things. In all of his
missionary work he was signally successful.
He trusted the rude beings with whom he
had cast his lot, and they trusted him. To
the day of his death it was the bishops log-
ing thought, and one always on his lips when
an allusion was made to the Indians, that in
all of his dealings with the red men he had
never known "a full blooded American Indian
to tell lie
The bishops life was full of adventure and
activity. The naked facts alone, without en-
bellishment, cannot be expressed in the bold
est manner without seeming, to those beyond
his generation, as merely fusome eulogy.
EXaggeration, however, is scarcely possible
when dealing with his life and services in the
northwest
Henry Benjamin Whipple was born at Ad-
ANS Jefferson county, n. Y, in 1928 His
father, John Whipple was merchant of
New York, and a stanch supporter of the old
whig party. The maiden name of his mother
was Elizabeth Wager. She was the daughter
OF Henry Wager, one OF the electors who
chose Jefferson president of the United States.
OF the ancestors on both the fathers and
mothers side sixteen were officers in the
revolutionary and colonial wars. Many of the
family were noted for usefulness in church.
state and country, one signer of the Declar-
alton of independence. BY virtue of the ser
vices of these ancestors, Bishop Whipple was
a member of both the Sons of the Revolution
and of the Society of Colonial Wars of the
United States, and also the chaplain general
| OF both organizations. He was educated in
the private schools of New York state and
received the college degree of d d from
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