Whipple, George, Dd

Whipple, George, D.D.

a professor of the Congregational Church, was born in Albany, N. Y., June 4, 1805. For a time he was a student in the Oneida Institute; was one year (1833) in the Lane Theological Seminary; and graduated from the theological department of Oberlin College in 1836, in which year he was ordained as an evangelist. From 1836 to 1838 he was principal of the Olberlin preparatory department, and from 18S8 to 1847 was professor of mathematics in that institution. From 1846 until his death he was secretary of the American Missionary Association, his office being in New York City. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1876. See Cong. Quar. 1877, p. 427.