Leonidas Lent Hamline was born in Burlington, Connecticut on May 10, 1797.

A statue of the bishop, sculpted by Michael Price, professor of art, stands on campus.

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

[1] He died in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on February 22, 1865, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

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