From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 827

REV. STEPHEN PEET, was born at Sandgate, Vt., on the 20th of February, 1797.  During the year, his parents removed to Lee, Mass., where he passed his boyhood, and at the age of 16 united with the Church.  Soon after, he went with the family to Ohio, where, at the age of 17, by the death of his father, he was thrown upon his own resources.  He resolved to enter the ministry, and completed his preparatory course of study at Norfolk, Conn., under the tuition of Rev. Ralph EMERSON.  In 1819, he entered Yale Collage, and graduated with honor in 1823.  His theological studies were pursued, partly under the direction of Mr. EMERSON, and partly at Princeton, New Haven and Auburn Theological seminaries, and on the 22d of February, 1826, he was ordained pastor of Euclid, Ohio.  While here, Mr. PEET became greatly interested in the sailors upon the lakes, and soon resigned his pastorate to devote himself exclusively to Bethel work.  While engaged in this work, he was a resident of Buffalo, N.Y., where he added to his other duties the editorship of the Bethel Magazine and Buffalo Spectator, a religious paper, afterwards merged into the New York Evangelist.

In October, 1837, Mr. PEET removed to Green Bay, Wis., and became pastor of the only Presbyterian Church then existing within the present limits of the State.  Two years later, he secured the erection of a house of worship at that place, costing $3,000, the bell being the gift of John Jacob Astor.  This bell was the first church bell whose tones were heard in the State.  In 1839, Mr. PEET accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, in Milwaukee, then organized but a short time.  He remained here until 1841, leaving the impress of his hand upon the work of the church, and greatly strengthening the young organization by the ability and vigor with which he threw himself into this work.  In 1841, he was appointed General Agent for the American Home Mission Society for Wisconsin.  In this capacity he assisted in organizing a large proportion of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches, and was instrumental in forming the convention in which the churches of these two denominations were harmoniously united.  After eight years' work with the society, Mr. PEET resigned his position, to labor as the financial agent of Beloit College, in which he was deeply interested.  In 1850, he became prostrated, from overwork, and his life was despaired of.  The disease finally took a more favorable turn, and, much to the joy of his friends, he began to mend.  Mr. PEET afterwards served as pastor of the Congregational Church at Batavia, Ill., three years, where he founded an academical institution as a tributary to Beloit College.  While busy with plans for the organization of the Chicago Theological Seminary, in 1855, he was attacked with chills and fever, which turned to inflammation of the lungs, from which he died on the 21st of Mar.  The body was interred in the cemetery at Beloit, within sight of his beloved college.

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