History of Gambier, (Knox County) Ohio United States of America

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Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick, editor, was born in Gambler, Ohio, March 26, 1837; daughter of Dr. Albert Taylor and Harriet (Coxe) Bledsee. Her education was somewhat haphazard, but she was surrounded by the advantages of a fine library and of literary people. Later she became a student at Cooper Female institute, Dayton, Ohio. In 1860 she was married to the Rev. James Herrick. She was assistant editor of the Southern Review, edited by her father, 1874-77, and was editor-in-chief, 1877-78. In 1878 she became editorially connected with Scribner's Monthly, afterward the Century. She published Wonders of Plant-Life under the Microscope (1883); Chapters in Plant-Life (1885); The Earth in Past Ages (1888), and contributed to magazines.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Mills Kendrick, third missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona and l47th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Gambler, Ohio, May 14, 1856; son of John and Julia G. Kendrick and grandson of Stephen Kendrick, of Lebanon, N.H. He was educated at Marietta college, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in New York city in 1858. He served in the Federal army, 1861-63, as private, captain, and assistant adjutant-general. He studied for the ministry at the Divinity school at Gambier, Ohio; was made deacon, May 31, 1864, and ordained priest, June 28, 1865, by Bishop McIlvaine. He was a missionary at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, 1865-67; rector of St. Andrew's church at Fort Scott, Kan., 1867-69; of St. Paul's church, Leavenworth, Kan., 1869-75; of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbus, Ohio, 1875-78; superintendent of city missions in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1878-88; and general missionary of the diocese of southern Ohio, 1888-89. He was consecrated missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, Jan. 18,1889, by Bishops Tuttle, Dudley, Knickerbocker and Rulison. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Marietta college, Ohio, in 1880.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor