Background
Breck, James Lloyd was born on June 27, 1818 in near Philadelphia. Son of George and Catherine D. (Israeli) Breck.
Breck, James Lloyd was born on June 27, 1818 in near Philadelphia. Son of George and Catherine D. (Israeli) Breck.
He attended high school at the Flushing Institute, founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, who inspired him to resolve at the age of sixteen to devote himself to missionary activity.
Breck is commemorated on April 2 on the Episcopal calendar of saints. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838 and a Bachelor of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary in 1841. lieutenant continues today as a seminary.
Breck was ordained into the priesthood later that year by the Missionary Bishop, Jackson Kemper at the Oneida Indian settlement 150 miles north of Nashotah.
In 1850 Breck moved to Minnesota where he founded schools for boys and girls such as Breck School in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and the Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota. He also began mission work among the Ojibwa.
On June 23, 1850, on top of Grandad Bluff, Breck celebrated the first Episcopal Eucharist in the Louisiana Crosse area. In 1867 he moved to Benicia, California to build another two institutions.
Breck was known as "The Apostle of the Wilderness".
Breck died in Benicia in 1876. He was buried beneath the altar of the church he served as rector but later his body was removed and reinterred on the grounds of Nashotah House in Nashotah, Wisconsin. The recommittal service there had 14 bishops, around 100 priests and numerous lay people in attendance.
Breck School was established in 1886 in Wilder, Minnesota.
Henry M. Ackley, who was married to Breck"s niece and had been connected with Nashotah House, later became a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
Married Jane Maria Mills, 1855. Married second, Sarah Styles, 1864.
