Background
Kemerer, Benjamin Tibbits was born on December 9, 1874 in Vernon Center, Minnesota, United States. Son of Samuel D. and Mary (Tresenriter) Kemerer.
Kemerer, Benjamin Tibbits was born on December 9, 1874 in Vernon Center, Minnesota, United States. Son of Samuel D. and Mary (Tresenriter) Kemerer.
Educated Hamline University, 1890-1894. Doctor of Divinity, Seabury Theological Seminary, 1931.
Began as editor of country newspaper at 16. Later proofreader for West Publishing Company, then salesman, manager cutlery department and advertising manager, Simmons Hardware Company, Saint Louis. Deacon, 1903, priest, 1904, Protestant Episcopal Church.
Missionary to city institutions, Saint Louis, 1904-1907.
Rector Saint George’s Church, Saint Louis, 1907-1921. General secretary field department National Council Protestant Episcopal Church, 1921-1923.
Rector Saint Clement’s Church, El Paso, Texas, 1923-1927, Saint Paul’s Church, Duluth, 1927-1930. Elected bishop coadjutor Diocese of Duluth, June 1930, consecrated November 1930.
Succeeded as bishop of Duluth on resignation of Bishop Bennett, November 8, 1933.
Upon the re-union of the Dioceses of Duluth and Minnesota, January 1, 1944, became Suffragan Bishop of Minnesota, retired, 1948.
Mason.
Married Callie Frederick, October 1, 1896. Children: Carol Frederick (wife of H. R. Edwards, Doctor of Medicine), Elizabeth James (wife of West.J.L. Porcher, Doctor of Medicine).