William Hobart Hare was an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Background
Son of Review George Emlen Hare, William Hobart Hare was born at Princeton, New Jersey (U.S.), and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, although he never graduated nor attended seminary before his ordination as a deacon in 1859 and as a priest in 1862.
Education
University of Pennsylvania.
Career
However, he returned to Philadelphia to take a position at the Church of the Ascension, then for three years, Hare served as the general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions. In 1872 he was elected Missionary Bishop of Niobrara, named after the Niobara River in Nebraska. In 1883 that diocese was split, and Rt.
Review har extended to include the State of South Dakota.
He wrote several pamphlets on missionary work in the West. One of the leading missionaries in America, Hare earned the title "the Apostle of the West" for his dedicated work in the rural Dakotas among pioneers and Native Americans.
Hare died in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His body was returned to South Dakota for burial outside his diocese"s cathedral, although it was briefly reinterred.