BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D.
“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY
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1811
October 3, Thursday: William Ingraham Kip was born in New-York, of Breton ancestry, a son of Leonard Kip (1774-1846), president of a bank, and Maria Elizabeth Ingraham Kip (1784-1877), a daughter of Captain Duncan Ingraham (1752-1807).
Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 5th day 3rd of 10 Mo// David Buffum was concerned in a short but lively testimony from these scripture Words “What shall I do unto my vineyard that hath not been done in it” — Then E Coggeshall was concerned in a living prayer, on behalf of the Aged Middle Aged & Youth, the Silent & afflicted burden bearers, & very fervantly for the prosperity of this Monthly Meeting - It was a favor’d season to me, tho’ the mind was severly buffeted yet a place of quiet was experienced after a Season — ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
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1827
William Ingraham Kip matriculated at Rutgers College.
LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.
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1828
William Ingraham Kip switched from Rutgers College to Yale College.
F.A.P. Barnard graduated from Yale, standing 2d in the honor list, and became a teacher in the Hartford Grammar School.
NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE
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1831
William Ingraham Kip graduated from Yale College. Briefly, he would study law.
In this year a proposal was being made, to establish in New Haven a separate college for black scholars. What an embarrassment! Yale would argue that harboring such students in the same town would be “incompatible with the prosperity, if not the existence” of Yale, — and they would successfully prevent that new institution from being formed and successfully prevent those black youths from receiving a higher education.1
THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
1. The Reverend Timothy Dwight, when he was head of Yale, would argue that a man “who receives slaves from his parents by inheritance, certainly deserves no censure for holding them.” Fully a tenth of the graduates of Yale would be proslavery, which is approximately double the percentage that obtained among Harvard grads or Princeton grads. Larry Tise has tried to make a case, in his 1987 book PROSLAVERY, that Yale was more important than any other college or university in the 19th Century in turning out major proslavery clergymen and, in effect, helping to make proslavery a national and not a purely sectional ideology. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1835
June 28, Sunday: After graduating from the General Theological Seminary, William Ingraham Kip was ordained as an Episcopal deacon.
For his Junior year at Harvard College, David Henry Thoreau enrolled for classes in Greek, Latin,2 English, French, German, theology, and moral philosophy.
The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal opened (currently for small craft only). France obtained a Columbian charter to dig a ship canal entirely across its province of Panama, from sea to shining sea.
AMANAPLANACANALPANAMA Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 1st day 28th of 6th M / Our Morng Meeting was well attended & Father engaged in the Ministry acceptably. — In the Afternoon our friend Mead ATwater was at Meeting & well engaged in the Ministry - it was rather larger than in the Morning. - H & Richd went to Fathers to tea, & are to come here to lodge RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.
July 1, Wednesday: William Ingraham Kip got married in New York with Maria Elizabeth Lawrence (1812- 1893), daughter of Isaac Lawrence, president of the United States Bank in New-York. The couple would produce two children, Lawrence Kip and William Ingraham Kip, Jr.
2. Would it have been during this period that he had Henry Swasey McKean for his Latin tutor? HDT WHAT? INDEX
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October 24, Saturday: William Benjamin Carpenter became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a Licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Company. Soon he would relocate to Edinburgh. His first printed paper, “The Structure and Function of the Organs of Respiration in the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms,” had begun to appear in the pages of the West of England Journal. He was under the influence of Sir Charles Lyell’s GEOLOGY, in particular its section “On the Distribution of the Animal Kingdom,” and was planning the publication of “a little work on the philosophical study of Natural History.”
Deacon William Ingraham Kip was ordained as an Episcopal priest. He would become, briefly, rector of St. Peter’s Church in Morristown, New Jersey.
THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1836
Deacon William Ingraham Kip became assistant minister of Grace Church in New-York.
The Reverend R.H. Collyer denounced conditions in the Irish tenements.
CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT
September 17, Saturday: Birth in New-York of Lawrence Kip, first child of Maria Elizabeth Lawrence Kip and Deacon William Ingraham Kip.
Waldo Emerson wrote to Thomas Carlyle that “the five hundred copies of the SARTOR are all sold, and read with great delight by many persons.” “Regular book publication of SARTOR did not take place until 1836, when Emerson arranged for publication in Boston and wrote an enthusiastic preface.”
SARTOR RESARTUS STUDY THIS STRANGENESS
Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 7th day 17th of 9 M 1836 / Recd a letter & parcell from my friend Thos Thompson 8 M 6 1836 — The state of Society in England is such as to call for Mourning & lamentation - The ways of Zion Mourn & the Curtains of Middean tremble — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
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1838
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip became rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Albany, New York.
The Union Theological Seminary conferred its D.D. degree upon Chester Dewey.
In New York, the Scottsville and Le Roy Railroad was built at the cost of $40,0000, using wooden rails. It only reached from Scottsville to Caledonia.
Asa Fitch decided to start studying agriculture and entomology. He began to collect and study insects for New York State.
The formative meeting of the American Association of Geologists took place at the home of Ebenezer Emmons in Albany, New York (this organization was the predecessor of the American Association for the HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Advancement of Science). In this year he named the Adirondack region of mountains.
THE SCIENCE OF 1838
WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF
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1840
January 15, Wednesday: Birth in Albany, New York of William Ingraham Kip, Jr., second child of Maria Elizabeth Lawrence Kip and the Reverend William Ingraham Kip.
Waldo Emerson lectured in East Lexington, Massachusetts as part of the dedication of a new church building. Then he lectured in Boston, delivering the 6th lecture of his current series, on “Reforms.” HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1843
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s THE HISTORY, OBJECT, AND PROPER OBSERVANCE OF THE HOLY SEASON OF LENT (Albany: Erastus H. Pease, 82 State Street), THE LENTEN FAST
and his THE DOUBLE WITNESS OF THE CHURCH (New York: D. Appleton & Co.). It may be as well, then, old and trite as the subject is, to say a few words on some of those features of our Church, which bear at once a DOUBLE WITNESS against Rome on the one hand, or mere Protestant congregations on the other. — Rev. F.W. Faber DOUBLE WITNESS OF CHURCH HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1846
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS IN ROME (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 148 Chesnut-St.). CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS IN ROME
THE EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA; COMPILED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE LETTERS OF THE FRENCH JESUITS, WITH NOTES, BY THE REV. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, M.A., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway).3
EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS
3. In about 1849, Henry Thoreau would make notes on this volume in his Indian Notebook #3. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1847
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip received the degree of S.T.D. (at the time this meant Sacrae Theologiae Doctor rather than Sexually Transmitted Disease) from Columbia College. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1849
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s FEW DAYS AT NASHOTAH (Albany: Printed by J. Munsell). FEW DAYS AT NASHOTAH
At about this point Henry Thoreau made notes in his Indian Notebook #3 on THE EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA; COMPILED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE LETTERS OF THE FRENCH JESUITS, WITH NOTES, BY THE REV. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, M.A., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway). EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1850
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s EARLY CONFLICTS OF CHRISTIANITY (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 164 Chesnut-St.). EARLY CONFLICTS OF CHR... HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1853
June: Lawrence Kip entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
October 28, Friday: The Reverend William Ingraham Kip had been nominated by his old friend Bishop Wainwright to be the Episcopal missionary bishop to California. On this day he was consecrated by Bishops Jackson Kemper, Alfred Lee, and William Jones Boone.
James Munroe & Company returned the 706 unbound, unsold copies of AWEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS from the printing of 1,000, providing Henry Thoreau’s attic chamber with an instant library.4
October 30, Sunday: Bronson Alcott set out by train on his Western conversational tour, wearing a new $28.00 suit from Tolman & Co. in Boston (presumably paid for by Waldo Emerson) and carrying with him a box of printed prospectuses proclaiming his Conversations.
4. “Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.” —Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library: A talk about Book Collecting,” page 61 in ILLUMINATIONS (NY: Schocken, 1969). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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December 20, Tuesday, 2PM: The steamer George Law left New-York harbor, bound for Aspinwall on the Isthmus of Panama. The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s brother Leonard Kip had already visited California during the Gold Rush, but by the time Kip would arrive at San Francisco aboard the steamer Golden Gate, that brother would have left to return to New-York. He would make the mule-train transit across the Isthmus of Panama accompanied by his wife Maria Elizabeth Lawrence Kip and their younger son William “Willie” Kip, Jr. Initially he was to have only two or three California congregations under his charge, but the Episcopalian population there would soon be on the increase. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1854
The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s THE CATACOMBS OF ROME AS ILLUSTRATING THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES (Redfield: 110 and 112 Nassau Street, New York). THE CATACOMBS OF ROME HDT WHAT? INDEX
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January 1, Sunday: Lincoln University was chartered in Oxford, Pennsylvania, initially as the Ashmun Institute. This would be one of America’s earliest “Negro colleges.”
At 9PM the steamer S.S. Golden Gate, “probably the most magnificent sea steamer afloat,” built in 1851 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, sailed under Captain J.B.G. Isham from Panama for San Diego, California carrying 750 passengers such as the 3-person Kip family.
Henry Thoreau was being written to by Waldo Emerson.
Concord 1 Jany 1854 Dear Henry, I meant to have seen you, but for delays that grew out of the snowbanks, to ask your aid in these following particulars. On the 8 February, Harvard Professor Horsford is to lecture at the Lyceum; on the 15th THEODORE PARKER Feb.y, Theodore Parker. They are both to come to my house for the night. Now I wish to entreat your courtesy & counsel to receive these lonely pilgrims, when they arrive, to guide them to our house, & help the alarmed wife to entertain them, & see that they do not lose the way to the Lyceum, nor the hour. For, it seems pretty certain that I shall not be at home until perhaps the next week following these two. If you shall be in town, & can help these gentlemen so far, You will serve the whole community as well as Yours faithfully, R.W. Emerson
Thoreau was reading Father Paul Le Jeune on American and Canadian natives. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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January 1. Le Jeune, describing the death of a young Frenchwoman who had devoted her life to the savages of Canada, uses the expression: “Finally this beautiful soul detached itself from its body the 15th of March,” etc. The drifts mark the standstill or equilibrium between the currents of air or particular winds. In our greatest snow-storms, the wind being northerly, the greatest drifts are on the south sides of the houses and fences and accordingly on the left-hand side of the street going down it. The north tract: of the railroad was not open till a day or more later than the south. I notice that in the angle made by our house and shed, a southwest exposure, the snow-drift does not lie close about the pump, but is a foot off, forming a circular bowl, showing that there was an eddy about it. It shows where the wind has been, the form of the wind. The snow is like a mould, showing the form of the eddying currents of air which have been impressed on it, while the drift and all the rest is that which fell between the currents or where they counterbalanced each other. These boundary lines are mountain barriers. The white-in-tails, or grass finches [Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus], linger pretty late, flitting in flocks before, but they come so near winter only as the white in their tails indicates. They let it come near enough to whiten their tails, perchance, and they are off. The snow buntings and the tree sparrows are the true spirits of the snow-storm; they are the animated beings that ride upon it and have their life in it. The snow is the great betrayer. It not only shows the tracks of mice, otters, etc., etc., which else we should rarely if ever see, but the tree sparrows are more plainly seen against its white ground, and they in turn are attracted by the dark weeds which it reveals. It also drives the crows and other birds out of the woods to the villages for food. We might expect to find in the snow the footprint of a life superior to our own, of which no zoology takes cognizance. Is there no trace of a nobler life than that of an otter or an escaped convict to be looked for in the snow? Shall we suppose that that is the only life that has been abroad in the night? It is only the savage that can see the track of no higher life than an otter. Why do the vast snow plains give us pleasure, the twilight of the bent and half-buried woods? Is not all there consonant with virtue, justice, purity, courage, magnanimity? Are we not cheered by the sight? And does not all this amount to the track of a higher life than the otter's, a life which has not gone by and left a footprint merely,5 but is there with its beauty, its music, its perfume, its sweetness, to exhilarate and recreate us? Where there is a perfect government of the world according to the highest laws, is there no trace of intelligence there, whether in the snow or the earth, or in ourselves? No other trail but, such as a dog can smell? Is there none which an angel can detect and follow? None to guide a man on his pilgrimage, which water will not conceal? Is there no odor of sanctity to be perceived? Is its trail too old? Have mortals lost the scent? The great game for mighty hunters as soon as the first snow, falls is Purity, for, earlier than any rabbit or fox, it is abroad, and its trail may be detected by curs of lowest degree. Did this great snow come to reveal the track merely of some timorous hare, or of the Great Hare, whose track no hunter has seen? Is there no trace nor suggestion of Purity to be detected? If one could detect the meaning of the snow, would he not be on the trail of some higher life that has been abroad in the night? Are there not hunters who seek for something higher than foxes, with judgment more discriminating than the senses of foxhounds, who rally to a nobler music than that of the hunting-horn? As there is contention among the fishermen who shall be the first to reach the pond as soon as the ice will bear, in spite of the cold, as the hunters are forward to take the field as soon as the first snow has fallen, so the observer, or lie who would make the most of his life for discipline, must be abroad early and late, in spite of cold and wet, in pursuit of nobler game, whose traces are then most distinct. A life which, pursued, does not earth itself, does not burrow downward but upward, which takes not to the trees but to the heavens as its home, which the hunter pursues with winged thoughts and aspirations, — these the dogs that tree it, — rallying his pack with the bugle notes of undying faith, and returns with some worthier trophy than a fox's tail, a life which we seek, not to destroy it, but to save our own. Is the great snow of use to the hunter only, and not to the saint, or him who is earnestly building up a life? Do the Indian and hunter only need snow-shoes, while the saint sits indoors in embroidered slippers? The Indians might have imagined a large snow bunting to be the genius of the storm. This morning it is snowing again fast, and about six inches has already fallen by 10 A.M., of a moist and heavy snow. It is about six inches in all this day. This would [be] two feet and a half in all, if it has not settled, — but it has. I would fain be a fisherman, hunter, farmer, preacher, etc., but fish, hunt, farm, preach other things than usual. When, in 1641, the five hundred Iroquois in force brought to Three Rivers two French prisoners (whom they had taken), seeking peace with the French,- I believe this preceded any war with them, -at the assembling for this purpose, they went through the form of tying their prisoners, that they might pass for such; then, after a speech, they broke their bonds and cast them into the river that it might carry them so far that they might never be remembered. The speaker “then made many presents, according to the custom of the country where the word for presents is speech (où le mot de présens se nomme parole), to signify that the present speaks more strongly 5. But all that we see is the impress of its spirit. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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than the mouth.” (Le Jeune.) Our orators might learn much from the Indians. They are remarkable for their precision; nothing is left at loose ends. They address more senses than one, so as to preclude misunderstanding. A present accompanies each proposition. In delivering one present, the speaker said, “This is the house which we shall have at Three Rivers when we come here to treat with you,” etc. This is in Paul Le Jeune’s Relation for ’40 and ’41, page 156.
January 18, Wednesday: Just after midnight, the steamer SS Golden Gate, “probably the most magnificent sea steamer afloat,” limped into the harbor of San Diego, California with a broken centre shaft, making best use of its one remaining engine and paddlewheel, to take on fresh provisions for its 750 passengers for the trip farther up the coast. At 3PM the vessel began to leave the harbor of San Diego, and there would be a series of mishaps, followed by a storm and a shipwreck, with the 750 passengers being returned to San Diego to board other steamers (the Golden Gate would be recovered but this incident would end up costing the steamboat company some $140,000).
Robert and Clara Schumann left Düsseldorf for Hanover to give concerts and visit Johannes Brahms and Joseph Joachim (this would be their last trip together).
Having received minimal interference from Mexican authorities, William Walker expanded his domains from Baja California to Sonora (although he has never been there).
The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher sermonized, in his Tabernacle “crowded to its utmost capability,” on John Mitchel and his attitude toward human slavery. He read to this audience the substance of the disgusting letter that Mitchel had placed in The Citizen, to “a tempest of hisses and cries of shame.” He suggested to this audience that they consider Mitchel to be among “the dead,” which is a curious thing to say since it is so ambiguous: –it might be taken to mean that everyone ought to shun such a person, –or it might be taken to mean that someone ought to put him out of his misery.
Henry Thoreau was summoned as surveyor by Middlesex County Justice of the Peace L. Marett of the Court of Common Pleas in Cambridge to help resolve a land dispute at 9 AM on January 20th in regard to a survey he had just completed for William O. Benjamin. The other party was listed as “Leonard Spaulding Lots.”6 The threat made in the legal summons was merely the customary and usual sort of belligerent insolence which one is to expect, when an established government bureaucracy deals with a mere citizen:
Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pain and penalty in the law in that behalf made and provided.
Middlesex[ ] SS[ ]To Henry D. Thoreau of Concord in said County of [Middlesex] Greeting.
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You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to make your appearance before Justices of the Court of Common [Pleas] now— — holden at Cambridge Thursday within and for the County of [Mid- dlesex] on [Friday] the twentieth day of January instant at 9 O clock [A.M] and from day to day until the Action hereinafter named is heard by the court, to give evidence of what you know relating to an Action or Plea of Tort then and there to be heard and tried betwixt William C Benjamin Leonard Spaulding [& als] } Plaintiff and William [C] Benjamin ------} Defendant Hereof fail not[,] As you will answer your default under the pains and penalty in the law in that behalf made and provided.— Dated at Cambridge the [E]igh- teenth day of January [ ] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four L. Marrett Justice of the Peace[.]
View Henry Thoreau’s personal working drafts of his surveys courtesy of AT&T and the Concord Free Public Library: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/Thoreau_Surveys.htm
Thoreau testified in Cambridge, but his client Benjamin lost.
January 20, Friday: Captain J.B.G. Isham of the steamship SS Golden Gate reported to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company: Mr. E. Flint,—
Dear Sir:— I am obliged to report to you that on the 10th we broke our centre shaft, and drifted about under sail until the 14th, by which time we were able to steam with one engine and one wheel. I have 750 passengers on board. I came into San Diego on the night of the 18th, between 12 and 1 o’clock, for fresh provisions, all hands having been on an allowance for six days. I was 500 miles from San Diego when I broke down. In leaving San Diego I had got outside and near to Point Toma; coming down broadside too, I gave the engine a back turn to get room to swing around, and when I rang the bell to go ahead, it being so badly balanced it could not be got over the centre, and the result was that the current sheared the ship on to the edge of the bank, which I did not consider of any consequence, notwithstanding I had but one engine and it worked heavy. The ship then swung around and brought up alongside the bank fore and aft. The steamer Goliah was at this time leaving port. I made signal to her; she came alongside and took my hawsers; by the time she got hold the tide had fallen eight inches. She parted both hawsers, and I then saw no chance of getting off until the next high tide. I ran my hawsers again and the Goliah came to anchor HDT WHAT? INDEX
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to be ready when the tide made. By this time it was 5 P.M. and perfectly smooth. The tide commenced to flow at 6 o’clock, at which time a gale from the south east burst upon us. At 9 o’clock the Goliah let go my hawsers and made a shelter inside the harbor. At 11 P.M., having sail on the ship and the engines at work, the ship swung around and brought up upon the same shoal, not being able to get away on account of the violence of the storm and the breaking sea. After bringing up, the sea broke heavily on us until 4 o’clock in the morning, when it moderated; but the sea continued to break heavily and around us. During the night the ship pounded very heavily and almost any other ship would have gone to pieces; when the ebb tide made, she soon became more quiet. At daylight the Goliah came out to see us; it was too rough to do anything with her. The ship made considerable water during the night. This day we have been occupied in getting the water out of the ship, which was over the furnaces; we began at 8 o’clock with bail gangs and pumps. At 7 P.M., had the furnaces clear of water and raised steam and started the engines, but it did not effect anything but to keep in position. At 4 A.M., on the 20th, had steamers Goliah and Isthmus off to us; made contract with them to land the passengers, and the Goliah to take off both of our steam anchors. Many of the passengers will go up on these boats, the balance I shall subsist on shore until you send a steamer down to take them up. I shall use every means to take her off. I think she has started some of her butts, but hope, if we succeed in shifting her position, to be able to get her into San Diego; if not, I shall keep her in as shoal water as is necessary, until I get assistance from San Francisco. I think you had better send down a set of purchases and two or three steam pumps, and if we do not get another gale we shall succeed in saving the ship. At 12 M. I have sounded in two lines from the ship, and find that we must lighten the ship twenty inches to get her up. The Goliah failed in carrying out my anchors this morning, and I shall be obliged to adopt other expedients. I shall do the best that I can. I shall send the mails up by the steamer Goliah. I have announced to the passengers that the Company will subsist them on shore until you send a steamer to their relief. I have one or two hulks alongside, and shall commence discharging freight, stores and coal to-morrow. Yours, &c., J.B.G. Isham, Comd’g Golden Gate
January 26, Thursday, early morning: The Kip family boarded the steamer Columbia to complete their voyage to San Francisco, California. This steamer was greatly overloaded and during the dark boarding, one of the passengers fell down an open hatch, suffering injuries that would prove fatal.
Henry Thoreau spent the day in court in Cambridge. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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January 29, Sunday, morning: The steamer Columbia delivered the Kip family to its California destination, the community of San Francisco.
It was 18 below zero, Fahrenheit. In Boston, the Reverend Alexander Young preached his last sermon (because soon after, he would catch a cold that would turn into pleurisy). In Concord, Henry Thoreau stayed home and read Marcus Terentius Varro.
Jan. 29. A very cold morning. Thermometer, or mercury, 18° below zero. Varro says that gluma seems to be a glubendo because the grain is shelled from its follicle (deglubitur). Arista, the beard of grain, is so called because it dries first (quod arescit prima). The grain, granum, is a gerendo, for this is the object of planting, that this maybe borne. “But the spica (or ear), which the rustics call speca, as they have received it from their forefathers, seems to be named from spes (hope), since they plant because they hope that this will be hereafter (cam enim quod sperant fore).” The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a, lake of a river, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers, a trivial or quadrivial place. It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs. It is from the Latin villa, which, together with via (a way), or more anciently vea and vella, Varro derives from veho (to carry), because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried. The steward or overseer of the villa was a vilicus, and those who got their living by teaming (?) (vecturis) were said vellaturam facere. And whence the Latin vilis and our word villain (?). The inhabitants are way-worn by the travel that goes by and over them without travelling themselves. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1856
Due to increase in the Episcopal population, California became a diocese in its own right and the Reverend William Ingraham Kip was elected as its Episcopal Bishop.
Pierre Pellier, who has recently immigrated from France, introduced the Agen plum. This would become the basis for a large prune industry in the Santa Clara Valley.
“The only lesson of history is that there are no lessons of history.” — A.J.P. Taylor HDT WHAT? INDEX
BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP
1868
John Muir sailed to California via New-York, Cuba, and the Isthmus of Panama.
Bishop William Ingraham Kip’s THE UNNOTICED THINGS OF SCRIPTURE (New York: A. Roman & Company, Publishers. San Francisco: 417 and 419 Montgomery Street). UNNOTICED THINGS OF SCR... HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1870
September: Bishop William Ingraham Kip’s article “New York Society in the Olden Time” appeared in Putnam’s Magazine. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1872
A new record for New-York real estate was reached when Anthony J. Drexel, a Philadelphia banker, pays $348 a square foot for a building at 23 Wall Street, on the southeast corner of Broad.
Bishop William Ingraham Kip’s NEW YORK SOCIETY IN THE OLDEN TIME (New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons). He received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College. OLDEN TIMES IN NEW YORK HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1877
Bishop William Ingraham Kip’s THE CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 549 & 551 Broadway. CHURCH AND THE APOSTLES HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1880
Bishop William Ingraham Kip was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as an examiner at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1892
THE EARLY DAYS OF MY EPISCOPATE BY THE RIGHT REV. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D.D., LL.D. BISHOP OF California (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 2 & 3 Bible House). THE EARLY DAYS OF MY ... HDT WHAT? INDEX
BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP
1893
April 6, Thursday/7, Friday, midnight: William Ingraham Kip died. His last act as Episcopal Bishop of California had been the ordination of his grandson, William Ingraham Kip, III of San Francisco. Also surviving him were his wife Maria Lawrence Kip and his other son, Colonel Lawrence Kip (1836-1899) of New York. The body would be placed in the Kip family plot of Iona Churchyard in the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park of Colma, California.
“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY
“Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Ingraham Kip HDT WHAT? INDEX
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“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Prepared: March 4, 2015 HDT WHAT? INDEX
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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT
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This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX
WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D.
Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.
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