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BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Ingraham Kip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 William Ingraham Kip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Ingraham Kip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Ingraham Kip HDT WHAT? INDEX BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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 WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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 “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Ingraham Kip HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 William Ingraham Kip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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 WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 William Ingraham Kip “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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 WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 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 WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. 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 BISHOP WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP, D.D. WILLIAM INGRAHAM KIP 1849 The Reverend William Ingraham Kip’s FEW DAYS AT NASHOTAH (Albany: Printed by J.