During the rewrite of the Whipple Website over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered (and learned for the first time!) many fascinating factoids about Whipples. Here is one such example, submitted by Carla Armstrong in 1999. (See her original submission at on the main site).

Bishop Henry B. Whipple (first Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota) had a son named Charles Henry Whipple. At the age of 23, Charles became cashier at the Citizens’ National Bank of Faribault, Minnesota. (The diocese of Minnesota is centered in Faribault.)
While carrying a $30,000 payroll to an army encampment in Montana, bandits held up the stage coach. “The guard was killed, the stage driver was wounded, but Whipple took to the underbrush with the money and escaped.”
After ten years as a bank employee, Charles joined the army. He retired from the army on February 15, 1912, after having been appointed brigadier general and paymaster general.
Read the full story at https://whipple.one-name.net/photos/genchwhipple1881.html.