Richard Fish Cadle was an Episcopal clergyman and missionary born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College with his Bachelors in 1813 and Masters in 1816.

He was ordained a deacon in 1816 and served churches in New York and New Jersey, and was a missionary in Detroit.

In 1829 he moved to Green Bay where he helped establish an Episcopal mission school and acted as chaplain of Ft. Howard and rector of Trinity parish. He later helped found parishes in Prairie du Chien, Mineral Point, Elkhorn, and Whitewater. From 1841 to 1842 he was superintendent of the mission at Waukesha, out of which grew Nashotah House. After serving as chaplain of the territorial legislature from 1843 until 1844, he returned to New York. 

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