William Kip, Early Days of My Episcopate

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William Kip left New York in December 1853 to become a missionary bishop and later the first diocesan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of California. This database is a collection of his reminiscences as rector of the Grace Church in San Francisco. It contains descriptions of his visits to Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Monterey, and Los Angeles. Also included are his experiences in mining camps in Grass Valley and Nevada. For those wishing to better understand the history of the Episcopal Church in California, this can be an illuminating collection.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 62. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Kip, William Ingraham. The Early Days of My Episcopate. New York: T. Whittaker, 1892.

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