The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-06-02
The Death Of Bishop Kemper
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
y special dispatch from DeIahelh, 10 be
found IN cur columns this morning, conveys
the s0rroE.u tidings that the Hight Reyer-
end Jackson hemper, Bishop Of the diocese
of Wisconsin, died at his residence IN that
town at twenty minutes past two clock
yesterday afternoon.
During the past few weeks the Bishop 5
health has been steadily sinking. and il has
been apparent that his long and good life
was q aw DC to its close The announces
ment of his death will therefore cause little
or no surprise.
Bishop kemper was born at Pleasant Val
ley. Duchess county, New ork, on Christ
mas day, in the year 1876. He was grad
uateG at Columbia College. New ! ork, IN
1909, and ordained in the Episcopal minis
try at Philadelphia in 1911. when he became
an assistant with Bishop White, IN Christ
Church, in that city. 4 few years later ne
was assigned TO the agency OF the Soclety
for the Advancement Of Christianity, and IN
that Office he travelled much in Pennsylva>
MA. At Pittsburgh, hearing OF isolated
communities of EpIscopallans In Ohio, he
sought them cat and ministered to Them
So far as we can learn he was the first min
ls,er Of that church who ever preached west
of the Alleghanies. About the year 1880
lie became rector OF a church or parish al
Norwalk, Conn, where he remained till
! 1885, when he was called to be missionary
Bishop of the Northwestern states aud ter
ritories.
In this great field of labor the territory
under his ecclesiastical authority " as proba
bly, the largest that has ever been entrusted
to one man, since the Apostles We're sent
/ forth into the world. 1t has been said that
J if the known world at the time of the Apos
ties, had been equally divided among them
! the field of each ones mInlStratlon would
not have been 50 large as was Bishop KEN
per's when he first was Bishop OF the North
western states and territories. St. Louis
was the largest city within his region. and
! in that city he took up his residence; but
I his labors admitted Of his being at home
/ only a small portion Of the time.
/ Twelve dioceses or missionary lurlsdlc-
tons have been constituted from The orig
/ inal episeOpate Of Bishop kemper, viz
/ Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa
Minnesota. Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado
| Montana, Nevada, and Oregon.
/ Few men in the service of religion have
ever travelled so much and over such an eX,
tensve territory in the performance Of eccle
/ siastical duties as Bishop kemper. His
travels were mostly through wild regions,
| By modes of conveyance far from comtorta
! BILE, and often beset Sy the dangers and
hard.hips Of the frontier. For many yeari
! it was not uncommon for him to start on
a journey Of several hundred miles or
( horseback or in open wagons. He once re
marked that he remembered making jour
ney Of three hundred and fifty miles, prin
/ cipally in stage coaches, after several year,
/ Of his Western travels, and thinking how
! comfortable travelling had become.
| As the years pa ssed oil, and the country
became settled, one diocese after anothe,
was erected in the vast region original s
covered by the diocese Of Bishop kemper
and during the past few years, the require,
/ ments Of the church in Wisconsin alone
have been enough TO require his entire at
tentiOn.
In the year lS43 the Bishop changed his
! resdence to Delaiield, in Waukesha county
! tweniy-six miles west of this city. The
/ Na>h0tah Theological Seminary was estab
/ lished at about the same time, on the Nasho
/ tab lakes, and he fixed bis home on.a trac
ing the grountfs Of + q tn at inStituton Amid
the pleasant scenery Of the many lakes aud
! hlliS IN that vicinity, AMI close to the prln'
/ cipal Western seminary Of the Episcopa
ministry, whose usefulness he so much de,
sired, the good Bishop has had his quiet
and humble dwelling place, until, at the
age Of four score years, he has been sum
moned to the eternal life.
He was endowed with much physical Wig
or and highly active temperament; only
such man could have endured, almos,
continually, the arduous labors of his pos
ition, and the privation and trials he passed
through.
While the Episcopal church in Wiscon>
sin suffers a great bereavement, and the
church throughout the whole country loses
loved and vcnerated patriarch, the pubs
lie generally viii feel the loss of one who
had at heart the moral and spiritual good
of ALL pure and noble Christian gentle
man.