James Lloyd Breck

James Lloyd Breck (June 27, 1818 – April 2, 1876) was a priest, educator and missionary of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America.

Breck was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at the Flushing Institute, founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, who inspired him to resolve at the age of sixteen to devote himself to missionary activity. In 1844, by then a priest, he went to the frontier of Wisconsin with two classmates, under the direction of Bishop Jackson Kemper, to found Nashotah House, intended as a monastic community, a seminary, and a center for theological work. It continues today as a seminary. [http://www.nashotah/edu/about.htm]

In 1850 Breck moved to Minnesota where he founded schools for boys and girls, and the Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota. He also began mission work among the Ojibwa. [ [http://www.seabury.edu/about/history.php Seabury: About Seabury: Seabury's History ] ] On June 23, 1850, on top of Grandad Bluff, Father Breck celebrated the first Episcopal [Goldstein, Norm, editor, "Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law", 2000, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, pp. 84-85.]
Holy Communion in the La Crosse area. [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/jlbreck/letters/04.html The Life of the Reverend James Lloyd Breck, D.D ] ]

In 1867 he moved to Benicia, California to build another two institutions. [ [http://www.beniciahistoricalmuseum.org/benhist_1850.htm 1850's - Athens of California ] ] He died there in 1876.

He is commemorated on April 2 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.

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* [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/jlbreck Documents by and about James Lloyd Breck]
* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=7938&key=breck&cy= Articles about Father James Lloyd Breck and Nashotah House, Wisconsin State Historical Society]
* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1893&keyword=House Wisconsin Historical Society biography of Fr. Breck]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/nashotah/index.html Nashotah Seminary]
* [http://www.seabury.edu/worship/sermon_james-lloyd-breck-commemoration.php A Commemoration Service At Seabury Seminary]
* [http://www.beniciahistoricalmuseum.org/benhist_1850.htm History of the 2 schools in Benicia]