Leonidas Lent Hamline

Leonidas Lent Hamline
Born	(1797-05-10)May 10, 1797 Burlington,Connecticut
Died	February 22, 1865(1865-02-22)(aged 67) Mount Pleasant,Iowa
Burial place	Rosehill Cemetery
Occupation(s)	Clergyman, lawyer

Leonidas Lent Hamline(pronounced "Hamlin"; 1797–1865) was an AmericanMethodist Episcopalbishopand a lawyer. He is the eponym ofHamline UniversityinSt. Paul, Minnesota,and of Hamline Avenue and Hamline United Methodist Church, also in St. Paul.

Biography

Leonidas Lent Hamline was born inBurlington, Connecticuton May 10, 1797.He studied for the ministry, but afterward studied law, and practiced for a while inOhio.He became a preacher in theMethodistchurch in 1830. In 1844, when the Methodist church divided overslavery,he was a member of theGeneral Conference,the church's legislative body, and drew up the plan of separation.

He provided US$25,000 of his own money to launch a school, which becameHamline University.A statue of the bishop, sculpted byMichael Price,professor of art, stands on campus.

Hamline's grave at Rosehill Cemetery

Hamline was the first editor of the long-running 19th-centuryCincinnati-based periodical,The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West.

He died inMount Pleasant, Iowaon February 22, 1865, and was buried atRosehill Cemeteryin Chicago.

A number of his sermons are given in theWorks of L. L. Hamline, D. D.,edited by Rev. F. G. Hibbard, D. D., (two volumes, 1869).

Publications

• W. C. Palmer,Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D. D.,(New York, 1866)

See also

• List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References

• Leete, Frederick DeLand,Methodist Bishops.Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.