Background
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 New York
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David Knickerbacker
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Education
David Buel Knickerbocker was educated at Trinity College, Hartford and the General Theological Seminary in New York City.
Career
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 founded Cottage Hospital (1870), the first hospital in the city of Minneapolis, which was moved and renamed Saint 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 editors He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1871.
They had two children.
