Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Marriage 1.3 Graduation 1.4 Ordination 1.5 Occupation 1.6 Death 1.7 Burial 1.8 Children 2 Sources

Biography

William Ingraham Kip was born on October 3, 1811, in Manhattan, New York to Leonard Kip and his wife, Maria Ingraham. He married Maria Elizabeth Lawrence on July 1, 1835, in New York City, New York. They had two children during their marriage. He died on April 7, 1893, in San Francisco, California, having lived a long life of 81 years, and was buried in Colma, California.

William prepared for college in New York and entered Rutgers in 1827, but in 1828 left to enter Yale, where he was graduated in 1831. He began the study of law, but abandoned it for that of theology, and studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary, 1832-1833, and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1835. He was ordained deacon June 28, 1835 and priest on October 24, 1835 at St Peter's Church, Morristown, New Jersey, and in 1835-36 was rector of the same church. He moved on to become assistant rector at Grace Church, New York City from 1836-1837 and then became Rector of St Peter's Church in Albany, New York from 1838-1853.^[1][2]

In 1853, he was nominated for the missionary bishopric of California by Bishop Wainwright. He was consecrated at Trinity Church in New York City 28 October 1853. When he arrived in San Francisco, he had only two congregations, but the Episcopalian population grew as California grew, When Californioa became a diocese in 1857, Kip was elected as its first Bishop, a position he held until his death on 7 April 1893.^[1][2]

His great-great-grandsons are business people Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch, industrialists and owners of Koch Inductries..

Birth

• William Ingraham Kip, of Breton ancestry, was born on October 3, 1811, in Manhattan, New York, to Maria Ingraham, age 26, and Leonard Kip, age 37.^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Marriage

• William Kip was married to Maria Elizabeth Lawrence, the daughter of merchant banker Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia Beach (the daughter of a minister of Trinity Church) on 1 July 1835, at St Thomas' Church, New York City. ^{[1][5][6][7][8][3]}

Graduation

• William Kip graduated Yale University with a B.A. degree in 1831.^[6][7][8]

• William graduated the General Theological Seminary in June 1835.^[3][6][7][8]

Ordination

• William was ordained as a Deacon, 28 June 1835 at St Peter's Church, Morristown, New Jersey. ^[7][8]
• William was ordained as a Priest on 24 October 1835 at St Peter's Church, Morristown, New Jersey.^[3][6][7][8]

Occupation

• Rev. William Kip was Rector, St Peter's Church in Morristown, New Jersey from 1835 to 1836.^[3][6][7][8]
• Asst Minister, Grace Church, New York City, 1836. ^[3]
• Rector, St. Paul's Church, Albany, New York, 1836-1853.^[3][6][7][8]
• Missionary Bishop of California, 1853-1857.^[3][7][8]
• Diocesan Bishop of California, 1857-1893^[3][6][7][8]

Death

• Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip died on April 7, 1893, in San Francisco, California, when he was 81 years old.^[4][5][6][8]

Burial

• Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip isburiedin Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, San Mateo, California.^[4][8]

Children

• William and Marie had the following children:
  1. Lawrence Kip (1836–1899), U.S. Army officer who married Eva Lorillard (1847–1903), the daughter of Lorillard Tobacco Company heir Pierre Lorillard III.^[6]
  2. William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840–1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco. He married Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, William Burnet Kinney. They had four children, three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Edie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robinson of Kansas City, KS).^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wikipedia contributors, "William Ingraham Kip," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Ingraham_Kip&oldid=847508308 (accessed November 24, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Armentrout, Don S. and Slocum, Robert Bock, editors. "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians," Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY, 2000. https://episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/kip-william-ingraham
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. James G Wilson and John Fiske, Editors. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1892. Multiple Volumes. Vol III,Page 552-553.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVS-DGMF : 26 July 2019), William Ingraham Kip, 1893; Burial, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States of America, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park; citing record ID 7691116, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Ancestry.com. California, Biographical Index Cards, 1781-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Biographical Card Index. Sacramento, California: California State Library.
6. ↑ ^{6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10} California, Pioneer Index File (1906–1934); A–Z. Sacramento, California: California State Library.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9} Welles, Albert. American Family Antiquity (Society Library, New York, 1880-1881) . Vol II, Page 25.
8. ↑ ^{8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11} Kipp, Edward. Descendants of Ruloff De Kype. Legacy, 2008. Pagew 323.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7691116/william-ingraham-kip
• "California, Pioneer Migration Index, Compiled 1906-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLV-H6SG : 16 August 2019), William Ingraham Kip, ; citing Emigration, California, United States, California State Library, Sacramento.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6PX-6Z3 : 29 July 2017), William Kipp, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States; citing enumeration district ED 211, sheet 218B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,079.
• Louis Harmon Peet. Handy Book of American Authors. New York, USA: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1907.
• Kip, William Ingraham Historical Notes of the Family of Kip (Munsell, Albany, 1871), Page 20.
• Obituary, Newspapers.com - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 7 Apr 1893 - Page 2, Brooklyn,New York. www.newspapers.com/clip/39550315/obituary_for_ingraham_kip/?
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