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David Buel Knickerbacker

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David Knickerbacker
IV Bishop of Indiana
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Church Episcopal Church in the United States of America
See Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, now the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
In office 1883 1894
Predecessor Joseph Cruickshank Talbot
III Bishop of Indiana
Successor John Hazen White
V Bishop of Indiana & I Bishop of Michigan City (Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana)
Orders
Ordination 1857
Consecration 1883
Personal details
Born (1833-02-24)February 24, 1833
Schaghticoke, New York
Died (1894-12-31) December 31, 1894 (age 122)
Indianapolis, Indiana, buried at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis on 1-5-1895

David Buel Knickerbacker (February 24, 1833 - December 31, 1894), was an American Episcopal clergyman who in 1883 became the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana and 130th bishop in the line of succession in the American episcopate.

Born on February 24, 1833 at Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York, he was the son of Mary Delia (Buell) Knickerbocker and her husband Herman Knickerbocker, a lawyer and former Congressman from New York. David Buel Knickerbocker was educated at Trinity College, Hartford and the General Theological Seminary in New York City.

Soon after his graduation from seminary in 1856 he went as a missionary to Minneapolis Minnesota, then a village of three hundred people, and remained there twenty seven years, during which time he did much to direct its growth. He built three churches there, including Gethsemane Episcopal Church, and five in its outlying districts. He founded Cottage Hospital (1870), the first hospital in the city of Minneapolis, which was moved and renamed St. Barnabas Hospital (1871–1991), which ultimately was closed and sold in 1991 to Hennepin County Medical Center, and the Sheltering Arms Hospital. In 1877 he was elected missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona but declined.

After becoming the fourth bishop of Indiana in 1883, he founded a boarding school for boys at Turner and another for girls in Indianapolis and secured $25,000 toward an endowment for the Diocese of Indiana. He also founded the Church Worker, a monthly publication of which he was editor. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1871.


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