William Hobart Hare was an American

United States

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 bishop

Bishop

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 of the Protestant Episcopal Church, son of George Emlen Hare

George Emlen Hare

George Emlen Hare was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born in Philadelphia.He graduated at Union College in 1826, was rector of St. John's, Carlisle, Pa. , of Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J., , and of St. Matthews, Philadelphia . In 1844-45 he was professor of Latin and Greek at the...

. He was born at Princeton

Princeton, New Jersey

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, N. J.

New Jersey

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, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. He preached in Philadelphia until 1870, was for three years the general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions, and in 1872 was elected Missionary Bishop of Niobrara

Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

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. In 1883 his diocese was extended to include the State of South Dakota

South Dakota

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. He wrote several pamphlets on missionary work in the West

Western United States

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.

He was one of the leading missionaries in America and was called "the Apostle of the West" for his dedicated work in the rural Dakotas among pioneers and Native Americans.

Hare is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA)

Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)

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 on May 17.

Publications

• M. A. D. W. Howe, Jr.
  Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.
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  , The Life and Labors of Bishop Hare, Apostle to the Sioux
  Sioux
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  (New York, 1911)