David Buel Knickerbacker (February 24, 1833 – December 31, 1894), was an American

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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.

Early life and education

Born on February 24, 1833, at Schaghticoke,

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, he was the son of Mary Delia (Buell) Knickerbocker and her husband

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, a lawyer and former

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from New York. David Buel Knickerbocker was educated at

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and the

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in New York City.

Ministry

Soon after his graduation from seminary in 1856 he went as a missionary to

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, then a village of three hundred people, and remained there 27 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

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, 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

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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

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from Trinity College in 1871.

Family

He was married to Sarah (Moore) Knickerbocker in

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, in the summer of 1856. They had two children. Their daughter died of illness in Minneapolis in 1865, at the age of seven, and their son David was killed when attempting to jump on railcars at the St. Paul & Pacific depot in the fall of 1866. Bishop Knickerbacker died December 31, 1894, in Indianapolis and was buried next to his wife in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knickerbacker, David Buel 1833 births 1894 deaths Episcopal bishops of Indiana Burials at Crown Hill Cemetery People from Schaghticoke, New York 19th-century American Episcopalians