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KEMPER, JACKSON. 



KENNEDY, JOHN P. 



Number of female persons of school age 56,989 cember 24. 1789: died at Delaficld, Wis., Mar 



Increase for the year 12,479 OK ., Qt7A 'TT , , , ^ ,' ,.' ^ * 



Total number of persons of school age 109,244 *i 1870. Me Was educated at Columbia Col- 



increase for the year 16,727 lege, New- York City, graduating in 1809. Af- 



32,183 ter spending some time in teaching and in the 



increase for the year 1^986 study of theology, he became assistant minis- 



of female persons enrolled in public 31035 ter of Ch . rist Church, Philadelphia, in 1811, 

 increase for the year!"""""!!!!! !! s',551 and remained there till 1831 ; he Avas called to 

 Whole number of persons enrolled in public the rectorship of St. Paul's, Norwalk, in 1831, 

 ^^crease'fOTthVyear.V.V.'.'.'.'!.'.'."!.'.".'!.' ^sa? and in 1835 was consecrated missionary bishop 

 Average daily attendance in public schools.. 39^401 of Missouri and Indiana, being the first mis- 

 Increase for the year 8.277 oirmftrv bishrm nf flip PvntAstnnt "Fnienrmol 



Average length of time school has been taught 5.2 months. 5i? nH1 7 . Dlsn P . OI tne ri , 



increase for the year 2 months, tynurcn in America. His labors were very ar- 



Number of male teachers employed in public duous, but were performed with great cheer- 



increase'for'the year!'.!!!'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'..!! 'iso f um ess. When dioceses were organized in 



Number of female teachers employed in pub- these States, he was transferred, at bis own 



iC TncTeaseforiheyear.'."':.'.':.'!.':!!!:!: ^Z request, to a new missionary field, the Terri- 



Average wages paid to male teachers in pub- tory ot Wisconsin, to which Iowa, and subse- 



licschools $3960 quently Minnesota, was added. In 1854 sepa- 



Increase for the year 253 j TIT- 



Average wages paid to female teachers iu rate dioceses having been Organized in V\ is- 



pubfic schools 3110 consin and Iowa, he was consecrated Bishop 



^aSWftSa.^SL':::: 318,596 3? < Wisconsin. In 1868 notwithstanding his 



increase for the year 25,886 37 great age, he attended the General Council of 



Amount expended for repairs and incidentals 98,64433 Bishops, in London, and received from Cam- 

 Increase for the year 19,30057 I -J TT -i XV fTT T\ -T>- 1. 



Amount received on the semi-annual dividend bridge University the degree of LL. D. Bish- 



of State school money 139,957 37 op Kemper was highly esteemed, not only by 



JaaS^SfySJB&'^'iSfm'^f. 23 ' 721 57 the members of his own communion, but by 



port of public schools 518,32385 all who knew him, for his courteous manners. 



Total Sr^iv^S'various-sources 8 > m 87 * attainments as a scholar, and his abundant 



for public schools 67304141 missionary labors on the frontier. 



Increase for the year 107,180 24 KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON, LL. D., an 



^rick^leTltoZT^ P ToSi 3; . fra . m . e : l.soi American statesman, scholar, and author, born 



'increase for the year ."..!!!.'!.' '288 in Baltimore, Md., October, 1795; died in 



Newport, E. I., August 18, 1870. He gradu- 

 ated at Baltimore College, in 1812. In 1814 

 The State University, at Lawrence, is in a he entered the army as a volunteer, taking 

 flourishing condition, and three new buildings part in the battles of Bladensburg and North 

 are in course of construction. An Agricultural Point. After leaving the service he devoted 

 College is in successful operation at Manhattan, himself to the study of law, and was admitted 

 It has a liberal endowment, derived from a to the bar in 1816. Two years after that event- 

 donation of 90,000 acres of land from the Gen- he made his first essay in authorship by pub- 

 eral Government. There is a Normal School lishing, in connection with Peter Hoffmann 

 at Einporia, attended during the year by 190 Cruse, " The Ked Book," a series of miscella- 

 male and 131 female students. neous articles in prose and verse, issued every 

 There is a Blind Asylum at "Wyandott, at fortnight. In 1820 he was elected to the Mary- 

 which there were 23 pupils during the year, land House of Delegates, and rechosen the next 

 The Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Olathe had 41 two years. In 1823 he received from President 

 inmates supported at an expense of $6,500. Monroe the appointment of secretary of le- 

 The Asylum for the Insane at Ossawattamie gation to Chili, but was led to withdraw his 

 had charge of 41 persons at the close of the acceptance before the mission sailed. Being 

 year. On the 30th of November there were an ardent supporter of the Whig party, he 

 209 convicts in the Penitentiary, an increase labored diligently with his pen in defence of 

 of 23 during the year. There were no escapes, his political opinions. He was always an ac- 

 but one death, and very little sickness in the tive opponent of the extension of slavery, and 

 institution. an earnest supporter of the doctrine of pro- 

 The Kansas Pacific Railroad was finished on tection to American industry. In 1831 he was 

 the 15th of August, and extends from Kansas a delegate to the National Convention of the 

 City, Mo., to Denver, making, with the Denver Friends of Manufacturing Industry, and was 

 Pacific Eailroad, which connects with the one of the committee appointed to draft an ad- 

 Union Pacific at Cheyenne, a line of 735 miles, dress setting forth the protectionist view. In 

 The Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston 1838 he was elected to Congress upon the 

 Railroad has been opened to Humboldt, on its Protection platform, and soon became a lead- 

 way to the southern coast. ing member in the House. In the presidential 

 KEMPER, Right Rev. JACKSON, D.D.,LL.D., campaign of 1840 he was one of the electors 

 Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese on the Harrison ticket. In 1841 he was again 

 of Wisconsin, an American clergyman born in elected to Congress, and was prominent in the 

 Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N. Y., De- controversy between President Tyler and the 



