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the Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Gilbert Gear

Born in Middletown, Connecticut, September 13th, 1793

Died October 13th, 1873

Bishop Whipple said at his funeral: "This is no common grave. A great man in our Israel is fallen; a brave-hearted soldier, after the battle of fourscore years, has entered into his rest."

http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/mn/edsall_gear.html

http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/mn/tanner_early.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=rmAxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA795&lpg=PA795&dq=%22Joseph+H.+Johnson%22+bishop&source=bl&ots=9pv10dctjs&sig=TnOWlgL8hoOPD4FrMZE_iGAmoac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAzgKahUKEwjr-Jq7taTIAhXBhA0KHTzxBrg#v=onepage&q=Minnesota%20Snelling&f=false

father of John Henry Gear

http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=138 +++++++++++++++++++

"the Rev. Ezekiel Gilbert Gear, first Chaplan at Fort Snelling and first Protestant clergyman to minister to Indians and white settlers in what are now the cities of Minnreapol and St. Paul"

Title	St. Mark's: a parish church and a cathedral Author	Cathedral Church of St. Mark (Minneapolis, Minn.) Publisher	Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 1953 Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized	May 15, 2009 Length	127 pages

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https://books.google.com/books?id=uxkzAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA32&dq=Ezekiel+Gilbert+Gear&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgyahUKEwjw1ILAz83IAhXH0YAKHaUJAZg#v=onepage&q=Ezekiel%20Gilbert%20Gear&f=false

"The Reverend Ezekiel G. Gear, Episcopal chaplain at Fort Snelling for twenty years, ministered to the settlers outside the fort as well as to soldiers. He alternated with a {Roman} Catholic missionary in offering services in {what is now} St. Paul and was active in establishing the Episcopal Church in Minnesota." (page 211)

Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860 ISBN 0803251513 Francis Paul Prucha U of Nebraska Press, March 1, 1995

https://books.google.com/books?id=4Fy4q16w33EC&pg=PA211&dq=Ezekiel+Gilbert+Gear&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwCGoVChMIyqnY88bNyAIVi8yACh0PPwbF#v=onepage&q=Ezekiel%20Gilbert%20Gear&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=cVlMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA185&dq=Ezekiel+Gilbert+Gear&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCWoVChMI9Zb5_MrNyAIVS5eACh2iagwt#v=onepage&q=Ezekiel%20Gilbert%20Gear&f=false