About this record
In 1834, Episcopal bishop Jackson Kemper undertook a trip to Wisconsin to report on the school founded by Rev. Richard Cadle for the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Kemper provides a comprehensive account of his journey to Green Bay and the sometimes deplorable conditions of the children enrolled in the missionary school. The diary was written in pencil in small notebooks; to read it, you'll want to click "Page & Text" to have the original handwritten pages and a typed version open on your screen at the same time. It's also long and documents a wealth of subjects, so you may want to use the Search box at the upper left of the document viewer to find passages of interest.Citation
Kemper, Jackson. Diary, 1834. Unpublished manuscript in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (Wis Mss G box 1, Vol 69). Online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=78