From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 862

REV. DAVID KEENE, D.D., Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, was born in the parish of Banwell, Somersetshire, England, March 7, 1820.  Immigrating to the United States in June, 1842, he arrived at Milwaukee in September of the same year.  In August, 1843, he entered the Theological Seminary of Nashotah House; in 1844, was admitted a candidate for holy orders, and in March, 1847, was ordained to the diaconate in Nashotah chapel by the Right Rev. Jackson KEMPER, and, in November of the same year, to the order of Priests in St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, by the same Bishop.  In June, 1847, he was elected to the rectorship of St. Johns, and in this, his first and only charge, he has continued to exercise his ministry up to the present time, it being a rare instance of single and long-continued pastoral charge.

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