Jackson Kemper The Ohio Anglican.blog

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Jackson Kemper The Ohio Anglican.blog
was the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United
States of America.

Baptized David Jackson Kemper by Dr. Benjamin Moore, the Assistant
Rector of his parents' congregation at New York City's Trinity Church,
he would eventually drop the given name "David." He had been born in
the Hudson River Valley of New York, where his parents had taken
temporary refuge during a smallpox outbreak in New York City. He was
the son of Col. Daniel Kemper, a former aide-de-camp to Gen. George
Washington at the battles of Germantown and Monmouth during the
American Revolution, and Elizabeth (Marius) Kemper, who descended from
well-known families of the Dutch New Amsterdam era.
He entered Columbia College at the age of fifteen, where he studied
theology under Dr. Henry Hobart and graduated in 1809 as the
valedictorian of his class. Relocating to Philadelphia, he was made a
deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1811 and was ordained as a priest in
1814. In 1835, the Episcopal Church undertook to consecrate missionary
bishops to preach the Gospel west of the settled areas, and Kemper was
the first to be chosen. He promptly headed west. Having found that
clergy who had lived all their lives in the settled East were slow to
respond to his call to join him on the frontier, he determined to
recruit priests from among men who were already in the West, and
established a college in St. Louis, Missouri, for that purpose. He
went on to found Nashotah House and Racine College in Wisconsin, and
founded the mission parish that became the Cathedral Church of All
Saints in Milwaukee. He constantly urged a more extensive outreach to
the Native American peoples, and translations of the Scriptures and
the services of the Church into their languages. From 1859 till his
death in 1870, he was bishop of Wisconsin, but the effect of his
labors covered a far wider area.


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