History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . Cross, he fought iniquity wher-ever found, but his almost single handedcombat, by masterly pleas, addresses, andevery personal influence he could bring tobear against the rascalities carried on underthe system of Indian agencies, rises to themajesty of the heroic. His woik of evan-gelizing the Sioux and Chippewa Indians, inwhich he was very successful, was greatlyaided by the friendship he showed for theirmaterial interests.
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . Cross, he fought iniquity wher-ever found, but his almost single handedcombat, by masterly pleas, addresses, andevery personal influence he could bring tobear against the rascalities carried on underthe system of Indian agencies, rises to themajesty of the heroic. His woik of evan-gelizing the Sioux and Chippewa Indians, inwhich he was very successful, was greatlyaided by the friendship he showed for theirmaterial interests. He secured their confi-dence so thoroughly that he was namedStraight Tongue, because he never lied toa red man. He became an authority onevery jdiase of the Indian question, and hehas been appointed by different presidents ofthe United States on important commissions,and has proved himself to be not only a spir-itual guide of the first order, but a philan-thropist of the practical sort, a statesman ofsagacity, and a successful advocate and dij)-lomat. As successful and as notable as hiswork has been among and for Red men—and which has been to him trulv a -White. HKNKY I!. WHIPPLE. Mans Burden—his labors for the people ofhis own race have been greater, and thefruits of them will continue to grow when1 he Indians have disappeared as a race. Hisgreat school at Faribault will remain* mon-ument of which not only any man, but astate, might feel proud. He laid the wallsof the beautiful stone buildings of St. Maryshall for girls, which he first opened in hisown home; Shattuck Military school for boys;Seabury Divinity School, and the Cathedralof the Merciful Savior, the first Protestantcathedral erected in the United States. Hehas also largely directed the management ofthe schools to their present thriving condi-tion. In 1871 the archbishop of Canterburyoffered him the bishopric of the SandwichIslands, but he declined it in the interest ofthese diocesiau schools and his Indian work.
Size: 1393px × 1795px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhistoryofgre, bookyear1901
