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- The hard-working German immigrant parish priest and carpenter founded the St. Angela Domestic Science Institute in 1908 – an all-girls boarding high school in Carroll to educate young women in the art of Christian homemaking. It was one of the the first schools to accept students from across parishes.
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Fr. Joseph Kuemper (1855-1923) left his mark and an important legacy on Carroll county's 20th century history. St. Bernard High School in Breda consolidated into Kuemper High in 1979. [1]
By 1916, each of the 13 area parishes surrounding Carroll built their own Catholic grade school, and eventually Catholic high schools were also established in Breda, Mt. Carmel, Templeton and Vail. Fr. Joseph Kuemper (1855-1923) left his mark and an important legacy on Carroll county’s 20th century history.
April 23, 1915, Fr. Joseph Kuemper, pastor of SS. Peter & Paul Parish in Carroll, purchased five acres in northwest Carroll which was to become the site of the parish. The nucleus of the parish was formed, and in 1916 work began building a church.
Lambert Kniest and P. M. Guthrie petitioned the bishop to establish a new Catholic church in Carroll. When permission was granted, Fr. John F. Kempker, pastor of Mt. Carmel, helped organize the founding of St. Joseph Parish and the building of the first church.
Sep 20, 2023 · The lead story at the top center of the Carroll Times on Sept. 20, 1923, was headlined “Rev. Joseph Kuemper, Founder of St. Anthony Hospital and St. Angela Institute, Dies Friday at Age of 68.”
Probably no man exercised more influence on the Carroll area than Father Joseph Kuemper, an ordained Roman Catholic priest and professor at the College of Dubuque (now Loras College). Father Kuemper served in several parishes in eastern Iowa before coming to Carroll as pastor of SS.
Looking northeast at a four-story brick and stone building founded by Father Joseph Kuemper as the St. Angela Domestic Science Institute in 1908, an all-girls boarding high school in Carroll, Iowa, to educate young women in the art of Christian homemaking.
