"■'I'.V.'iWi ' mJvr The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924005819937 St. John's CA'rHp;iiRAi„ Cijvviu.anj), (). THE CHURCH IN NORTHERN OHIO AND IN THE locESE OF Cleveland FROM 174Q TO 1890. FOURTH EDITION. [Revised and Enlarged.] BY THE RE;V. GKORQE K. HOUCK, Chancellor of the Diocese of Cleveland. cli;vt-;land : SHORT & FORMAN, PRINTKRS. 1890. RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS, AND LAITY OF THE DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. Copyright, 1887. All Rights Reserved. 'Colligite, quae superaverunt fragmenta, ne pereant.' PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, On entering a large city the eye is filled with the evidences of the material struggle for life — some of them grand, some of them dismal. One cannot but reflect on that incessant activity which has upreared the vast mart. And yet, above all the massive or elegant structures that synibolize the various suc- cesses, pursuits and ambitions of man, there towers the cross of the Catholic church. Passing out into the country, in the raore modest village, and amid surroundings nearer to the God of nature, still we find the upreared shaft, remirfder of mankind's redemption. These temples, lowly or superb, are the evidences of the civilization that builds beyond time, and yet preserves all that is worth preserving in time. But the temples are not self, upreared, and back of this the civilization on which depends the security of the temporal, there have been architects and builders at work — their master, the Supreme Architect of the universe, and their prime domain, the spiritual. In this domain there is the perfection of order. From the lowliest church to the great cathedral divine authority overrules. There is unison, guid- ance, from parish to diocese, until all centre at Rome, where is the Church. " Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia." Those then who have mastered a diocese, from the building priest to the artchitect bishop, have founded more, and more lasting, than the teeming city, whatsoever the wonders of its construction or the myriads of its population. Self-interest built the city, self-sacrifice the diocese. Empires decay; religion remains, rooted in the hearts of man. The pages that follow will give the reader an idea of how a diocese is constructed. The men who most largely figure in this volume are also heroes of battle-fields, but their victories were bloodless, won under the banner of the Prince of Peace. God knows there are wounds to be received in that field. We who reap what those pioneer priests sowed can, in the historical sketches that follow, learn something of what it meant, of hardships, of fatigues, of disgusts and crosses, to make firm foundation of Catholicity in Northern Ohio and the Diocese of Cleveland. Our contemporaries who are still building and supervising, they too have history to make, their Catholic imprints to leave on Time ; and their road, if less rugged in one way, is as arduous in another as that of their priestly predecessors. Equal the merit of those who blaze the road, or those who lay the high- way. The cross assumes many shapes. The author of this volume — to him a labor of love — is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland. Here was he born, here ordained, here has he ministered. To this diocese of his affections he dedicates this delineation of her ecclesia.stical growth. If its reading will conduce to reflection on what it means to live for God, the transcendent merit of laboring with eye upturned to heaven, ever facing the grand edifice of Eternity, he will have attained sufficient object. By those of the laity whose sturdy Catholic parents figure in this work, it will be particularly treasured. And the value of thus collating facts of early Catholic his- tory, the advantage of this volume to the future historian on a larger scale, commends itself at once to the discerning reader. Manly Tello. September lo, 1887. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, The exhaustion of the first edition of " The Church in Northern Ohio and in the Diocese of Cleveland," as also a demand for a second edition, are a pleasing evidence of the growing interest among our Catholic people for information on church history, whether diocesan or general. Though this work does not pretend to be a complete history of Catholicity in this fair and prosperous portion of the Church, it contains in succinct form the historical data and the "blazed trees" that, it is hoped, will aid and guide the future historian, who will best appreciate the dry-as-dust labor and accompanying usefulness of the "Biographical Notices," " Tables of Churches," etc. The time has not j^et come to write such history, for the reason that those who helped to make it are either too recentl}' dead or still among the living. For valuable assistance rendered to this work I thank the Right Rev. Bishops Machebeuf and De Goesbriand, who were among the pioneer priests of Northern Ohio ; also Mr. John Gilmary Shea, LIv. D., the Reverends M. Healy, S. Bauer, N. Roupp, J. J. Dohert)-, Z. Druon, F. Westerholt, A. Martin, F. Ankly, and others. G. F. H. December 15, 1888. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. Grateful for the kind reception given the first and second editions of "The Church in Northern Ohio and in the Diocese of Cleveland," the author sends this unpretentious volume, with some changes and additions, on its third tour amongst an appre- ciative Catholic public. March 20, 1889. CONTENTS. Page. Preface to First Edition, 3 Preface to Second Edition, 5 Preface to Third Edition, . 6 Historical Sketch of Catholicity, Part I. — In Northern Ohio ; 9 Part II. — In the Diocese of Cleveland, 25 Biographical Sketch of the Right Rev. Edward Fenwick, O. P. 46 Biographical Sketch of the Most Rev. John B. Purcell, D. D. 52 Biographical Sketch of the Right Rev. Amadeus Rappe, D. D. 57 Biographical Sketch of the Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, D. D. 76 Biographical Notices of the Secular and Regular Clergy, 1818 — April, 1890, 84 I/ist of the Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1890, 204 Ivist of the Regular Clergy " " " April, 1890, 211 List of Churches, Stations, etc. " " October, 1847, 213 List of Churches, Stations, etc. " " April, 1890, 217 List of Male Religious Communities in the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1890, 227 List of Female Religious Communities in the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1890, 228 List of Educational Institutions in the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1890, 228 List of Charitable Institutions in the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1890, 229 Catholic Progress in Northern Ohio and in the Diocese of Cleveland, 1817 — 1889, 230 Historical Sketch of Early Catholicity and of the First Church in Cleveland, 237 Historical Sketch of Early Catholicity and of the First Church in Toledo, 248 Letter from John Gilmary Shea, LL. D. 254 Catholic Miscellanea, 257 Reminiscences of Rt. Rev. P. J. Machebeuf, D. D. 303 Reminiscences of Rt. Rev. L. De Goesbriand, D. D. 309 ILLUSTRATIONS. I. St. John's Cathedral, Cleveland, Title Page. II. St. Paul's Church, near Dungannon, facing page 20 ■III. Right Rev. Edward Fenwick, O. P. " " 46 IV. Most Rev. John B. Purcell, D. D. " " 52 V. Right Rev. Amadeus Rappe, D. D. " " 57 VI. Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, D, D. " " 76 VII. St. Mary's Theological Seminary, Cleveland, " " 84 VIII. Ursuline Convent, Cleveland, " " 99 IX. Ursuline Convent, Toledo, " " 130 X. Notre Dame Convent, Cleveland, " " 155 XI. St. Ignatius College, Cleveland, " " 180 XII-. St. Vincent's Hospital and Asylum, Toledo, " " 200 XIII. Charity Hospital and Foundling Asylum, Cleveland, " " 229 XIV. St. Mary's Church, on the " Flats," Cleveland, " " 237 XV. (Old) St. Francis de Sales' Church, Toledo, " " 248 XVI. Cathedral School, Cleveland, " " 276 HISTORICAL SKETCH Catholicity in Northern Ohio -AND IX THE- Diocese oe Cleveland. :BJ^-^bT X. Northern Ohio. 1749-1847. The learned Catholic historian of the Church in the United States, John Gilmary Shea, LL. D., in an interesting article contributed to the Catholic Universe, September 15, 1881, says that the first trace of Catholic missionaries having visited the territory now within the limits of Ohio, is found as early as 1749. It was then that the Jesuit Fathers, Potier and Bonne- camp, came to evangelize the Huron Indians living along the Vermillion and Sandusky rivers, in Northern Ohio. He also states that the first permanent chapel within the confines of the present state of Ohio, was erected near Sandusky in i/Si- by the Jesuit Father de la Richardie, who, with his compan- ions, had come from Detroit and Canada to the southern shore of Lake Erie. A part of the Huron tribe was brought by Father de la Richardie, in 1751, to Sandusky, where, under the name of Wyandots, they soon took an active part in the affairs of the West. They were also conspicuous in the last French War, and at its close were implicated in the conspiracy of Pontiac, 10 THE JESUITS. though long checked by the influence of Father Peter Potier, S. J. During the exciting times of the war these missionaries were driven from Sandusky, Father Potier being the last Jesuit missionary among the western Hurons. He died in July, 1 78 1. The Indian missions in and near Sandusky thence depended entirely on the priests attached to the French Posts in Canada and Michigan. Although the Wyandots at San- dusky were thus cut off in great measure from all spiritual care and instructions they kept the Faith. When white set- tlers began to come into the state, the Wyandots attracted the attention of the Protestant " missionaries," who appeared to be bent rather on undoing what the Jesuit missionaries had done, than on combatting Paganism in its stronghold. A Presbyterian preacher named Joseph Badger made an attempt to " evangelize " the Wyandots, but met with a firm opposi- tion from their chiefs, one of whom it is said, put to death a member of his tribe because he had apostatised. The Meth- oilists next attempted what the Rev. Badger failed to do, and with better success. The old members of the Wyandot tribe having died, their children, who had not been properly instructed, followed the new religious " guides " and so were lost to the Church.* Traces of these Indian missions have been found recently near the Sandusky river at Fremont and near the Portage river at Port Clinton, in the form of plain silver crosses, such as are known to have been used by the French Canadian missionaries. When the Society of Jesus was suppressed, and Canada lost to the French, the above mentioned Indian missions were abandoned. From 175 1 to 1795 no record is found of any further effort made in Northern Ohio to continue the mission- ary work begun by the Jesuits. In the early part of 1796 the Rev. Edmund Burkef was sent by Bishop Hubert, of Quebec- from Detroit to the northwestern part of Ohio, near Fort Meigs, just built by the British government on the east bank *Shea'5 Am. Cath. Missions, p. 203. tSee "Letter from John Ciilmary Shea, LL.Il.," p. 246. Rev. E. Burke was born in Ireland about 1743; died at Halifax, as Vicar Apostolic of Nora Scotia, Dee. 1. 1820. THE DOMINICANS. 11 of the Maumee river, near the present site of Perrysburg, Wood county. Here he resided about one year, minister- ing to the few Catholic soldiers in the fort, and endeavoring with little success, to christianize the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in the neighborhood — the latter work having been for long one of his aims as a missionary priest. Father Burke left this unpromising charge about February, 1797. From that time, and until 18 17, no priest was stationed in Northern Ohio, and in fact none in the entire territory of the present state of Ohio. During this period of about twenty years a number of Catholic families came from Maryland and Pennsylvania and settled in Columbiana county, some as early as 1812, and others a few years later in Stark and Wayne counties. In 1814 the saintly Dominican Father, Rev. Edward Fen- wick, was sent by Bishop Flaget, of Bardstown, Ky., to look after the spiritual interests of the Catholics, sparsely settled in Southern and Central Ohio, with a view to provide them with regular pastoral attendance. In 1817 he paid his first pastoral visit to the few Catholic families settled in the north- eastern part of the state — Columbiana and Stark counties. It is therefore from last mentioned year that Catholicity in Northern Ohio really dates its beginning. As this narrative is to be confined to the territory of Northern Ohio — the present Diocese of Cleveland — in record- ing the establishment, growth and progress of the Church, it will deal with such facts relating thereto as far as the subject demands, and the narrow limits of a sketch will permit. I. THE DOMINICANS. Columbiana and Stark counties are the cradle of Catho- licity in Northern Ohio, and the Dominicans its first mission- aries. As to the early labors of these pioneer priests in Northern Ohio it is to be regretted that the records are sadly deficient. In fact, as the writer was informed by the Very 12 THE DOMINICANS. Rev. Provincial of the Dominicans in the United States, no records were kept by the Dominicans, either by themselves while attending to their scattered missions, or at their con- vents in Kentucky, and in Perry county, Ohio, whence they were sent to Northern Ohio. This account of their early labors must therefore necessarily be incomplete. The infor- mation here given was gathered from historical sketches of congregations iinder their pastoral care, and although meagre, it is hoped it will not fail to prove of interest to the reader. As above stated, Rev. Father Fenwick, the pioneer priest of this state, made his first visit to Northern Ohio in 1817, and found a number of Catholic families settled near Hanover, and near the present village of Dungannon, in Columbiana county ; also at Canton, Stark county. In 1818 he came again, accompanied by his nephew, the Rev. N. D. Young, who had been ordained the year previous. Arrangements were now made for regular visits. In December, 18 18, Father Fenwick was directed to establish a convent of his Order near Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, on a tract of land given the Dominicans for that purpose by Mr. P. Dittoe, a fervent and generous Catholic. This convent was the residence of the Dominican Fathers who attended at regular intervals, the missions entrusted to their pastoral care in Columbiana, Stark, Mahoning and Wayne counties. Rev. Fathers Fenwick and Young were soon joined by others of their Order, each of whom had charge of one or more missions in Northern and Central Ohio. The following is a complete list of their names, viz: Revs. Vincent de Raymacher, Charles P. Montgomery, John A. Hill, John G. Alleman, Joseph S. Alemany, P. Fochenkress, J. O'Meara, Thomas H. Martin, A. Fahey, Thomas McGrady, D. J. O'Leary, A. F. Van de Weyer and Richard P. Miles. Wher- ever they labored they did so with zeal and success, and left their impress on all the missions under their charge. Hard- ships and difficulties and disappointments they bore cheer- fully. They laid the foundation of religion deeply, so that their successors might, as they did, build solidly thereon the edifice. THE REDEMPTORISTS. 13 Among them, Fathers Fenwick, Young and Hill were markedly successful. Their names are intimately associated with the early Catholic history of Northern Ohio; the first two as founders of the flourishing congregations in Columbi- ana and Wayne counties, and Father Hill as the founder of St. John's, Canton, where his remains now rest. Bishop Flaget finding it impossible to attend to the vast territory under his jurisdiction, petitioned the Holy See for relief. The result was the erection of the Diocese of Cincin- nati, embracing the states of Ohio and Michigan, and the appointment of Father Fenwick as its first Bishop. Reluct- antly he accepted the burden, and was consecrated at Bards- town, Ky., January 13, 1822. Till his death in 1832, he loved to visit the field of his early missionary labors and was always most cordially welcomed by his former co-laborers and par- ishioners. The Dominicans gradually gave up to secular priests their pastoral charges in the above named counties till, in 1842, they withdrew entirely, St. John's, Canton, being their last mission in Northern Ohio. H. THE REDEMPTORISTS. Meanwhile the central portion of Northern Ohio, especially the counties of Huron, Erie, Sandusky and Seneca, had received a considerable influx of Catholics, principally from Germany. In 1832 several Redemptorist Fathers came from Austria to the United States, under direction of their Provincial and at the earnest invitation of Rt. Rev. Edward Fenwick, to take charge of the Indian and the few Catholic German missions in Michigan, then under his jurisdiction as Bishop of Cincinnati. Disheartened at meeting with little or no success in their priestly labors in Michigan they asked to be relieved of this fruitless mission. As soon as their request was granted by their Provincial. Bishop Purcell, successor to Bishop Fenwick, 14 THE REDEMPTORISTS. ofifered them the pastoral charge of the missions in Crawford, Huron, Erie, Seneca and Wyandot counties, with residence at Peru, Huron county, where, since, 1829, a congregation of Catholic Germans had been organized. Rev. F. X. Tschen- hens was accordingly sent, in 1834; later he was joined by the Rev. Fathers Czakert, Haetscher, Prost and SaenderL Soon these good and zealous priests found as little consola- tion here as did their brethren in Michigan. Their appeals to the generosity of their people in Peru, for the erection of a new and much needed church, and ftjr other parochial wants, met with no response. The spirit of the congregation was bad; insult and abuse the return given the priests for their labors and self-sacrifice. This was most painful to good Father Tschenhens, who had in a particular manner interested himself in the spiritual welfare of his congregation. However, in spite of ill-treatment he and his faithful co-laborers con- tinued to discharge their duty, hoping against hope for a change of spirit. Father Tschenhens now took personal charge of the scattered missions in the adjoining counties, visiting at regular intervals, on horseback, and often over almost impassable roads, Sandusky, Norwalk, Liberty, Tiffin, Bucyrus, Wolf's Creek (now New Riegel), McCutchenville (no longer existing as a mission), and occasionally Canton. Whilst he was thus engaged Father Czakert, and his associ- ates above mentioned, attended Peru and the neighboring missions. No change for the better taking place in the spirit of the congregation at Peru, the Redemptorist Fathers asked their Provincial for permission to give up this charge. Their request was granted, and on Low Sunday, 1839, the Rev. Father Prost announced to the congregation that he and his brethren intended to leave them, giving as a reason for so doing, the continued unkindness and ingratitude shown the Fathers in return for their labors among the people entrusted to their pastoral care. All the Redemptorist Fathers left as announced, with the exception of Rev. F. X. Tschenhens, who a few months later followed his associates to Pittsburg, where they founded a THE SANGUINISTS. 15 convent and the present very flourishing congregation of St. Philomena. In 1841, at the earnest solicitation of Bishop Purcell, Father Tschenhens again took charge of the congregation at Peru, which had been without a priest for months, owing to dissensions which caused the removal of the secular priest in charge, the Rev. Joseph Freigang. Father Tschenhens was assisted by the Redemptorist Fathers, Revs. J. N. Neumann and L. M. Alig, remaining from June, 1841, to November, 1843. Meanwhile he also attended Tiffin and a few other missions in Seneca and Wyandot counties. With last men- tioned date ended the labors of the Redemptorists in Northern Ohio. III. THE SANGUINISTS. The number of Catholics and missions so rapidly increased that Bishop Purcell was obliged to seek for more priestly help outside his diocese. Whilst on his return home from a visit to the Eternal City, in 1843, he chanced to meet at Havre a band of missionary priests, members of the Society of the Most Precious Blood (also and better known as Sanguinists), who were on their way to the United States to devote them- selves to the pastoral care of their German brethren in the Faith. He informed them of the great and pressing need of priests for his diocese, and kindly invited them to come to his assistance. The invitation was accepted, and in January, 1844, the Very Rev. Father Brunner, Provincial of the Sang- uinists, accompanied by Rev. Fathers Meier, Wittmer, Van den Broek, Capeder, Ringele and Jacomet, arrived at Peru and took charge of St. Alphonsus' congregation as successors to the Redemptorists. They also accepted charge of the missions attended by their predecessors, besides attending to the Catholic Germans in Cleveland, and the scattered mis- sions in Lorain, Medina, Wayne, Portage and Stark counties. The advent of these devoted priests was hailed with delight wherever they were sent. Their labors were signally blessed. 16 THE SECULAR CLERGY. Religion flourished in all the missions under their vigilant care, so that the healthy growth of Catholicity in Northern Ohio may be justly, and in a large measure, ascribed under God to the untiring zeal of these excellent priests. Decem- ber, 1844, Father Brunner established a convent for this Society at New Riegel, in 1845 one at Thompson, and in 1848 another at Glandorf, each of which places became a center of Catholicity for the surrounding country, and from which the neighboring missions were regularly attended. In 1847 the congregation of Peru, completely changed in spirit by the prayerful labors of the Sanguinist Fathers, was resigned by them. It was then placed in charge of secular priests, and has since so remained. IV THE SECULAR CLERGY. Thus far this sketch has dealt chiefly with the labors of the clergy belonging to the religious orders. The secular clergy are no less deserving of special mention, for they too labored in this part of the Lord's vineyard amid trials, diffi- culties and hardships, often side by side with their brethren already mentioned, and more often alone in the scattered and wide-spread missions of Northern Ohio. And their labors have borne fruit a hundred fold. They did yeoman's service; they blazed the way for those who succeeded them, and laid the foundation for many missions that have long since devel- oped into strong, vigorous and prosperous congregations. The first secular priest to do missionary work in Northern Ohio was the Rev. Ignatius J. Mullon, a learned and pious clergyman. He was stationed at the Cathedral in Cincinnati between 1824 and 1834, and was repeatedly sent by his Bishop to the missions in Stark and Columbiana counties, also to Tiffin and Fremont, remaining for longer or shorter periods in each place. His first visit to Northern Ohio was shortly after his ordination, in 1824. Rev. Francis Marshall was the next secular priest, doing pastoral work at Chippewa, (near Doyles- town) in 1827. In 1S30 Rev. John M. Henni was appointed THE SECULAR CLERGY. 17 resident pastor of St. John's, Canton, remaining till 1834. During this time he also attended missions in Columbiana, Stark and Wayne counties. Next in point of time was the Rev. Edmund Quinn, first resident pastor of St. Mary's, Tiffin, 1831-35. His mission covered all of Northwestern Ohio. In 1833 Rev. W. J. Horstmann came to Northern Ohio and founded a colony on land he purchased in Putnam county from the government. Here also he established St. John's congre- gation, Glandorf Rev. James Conlan had charge of missions in Columbiana and Mahoning counties, and the eastern portion of Stark county, from 1834. In 1835 Rev. Matthias Wuertz was appointed pastor of St. John's, Canton, and attended Massillon, Louisville, Navarre, and several stations in Stark and Wayne counties. He remained till 1845. Rev. John Dillon was the first resident pastor of Cleveland, from 1835 to 1836, and during this short time attended stations in Summit and Lorain counties. Rev. Basil Schorb, a native of Pennsyl- vania, was appointed resident pastor of Chippewa in 1837, and had charge of Canal Fulton, Massillon, Canton, Liverpool, Randolph and Wooster. He left Ohio in 1843. Rev. George Boehne was on the mission in Putnam county, notably Fort Jennings, from 1841. Rev. Patrick O'Dwyer had pastoral charge of the Catholics of Cleveland from 1837 to 1839, '^i^'^ commenced their first church in 1838. Between 1838 and 1840 the Rev. Michael McAleer did pastoral duty at Canton, Dungannon and Navarre. From 1839 to 1847, the Rev. Joseph McNamee was resident pastor of St. Mary's, Tiffin. For several years he also had charge of all the stations and missions in Northwestern Ohio, covering the same territory as his predecessor, Father Quinn. Rev. Projectus J. Machebeuf had charge of the missions in Sandusky, Henry, Ottawa, Wood and Lucas counties from 1839, till he was transferred to Sandusky, as first resident pastor, in December, 1840. From Sandusky he attended mis- sions in Sandusky, Erie and Huron counties. In 1840 the Revs. Amadeus Rappe and Louis de Goesbri- and came to Ohio. The latter was sent .by Bishop Purcell to 18 THE SECULAR CLERGY. take charge of St. Louis' congregation, Louisville, Stark county. Father Rappe resided about six months at Chilli- cothe. In 1841 he was sent to Toledo, where he organized St. Francis de Sales' congregation, and attended all the mis- sions and stations in Lucas, Paulding, Williams, Defiance and Henry counties. In 1846 he was joined by Father de Goes- briand, who shared with him the privations and labors con- nected with this difficult charge. Father Rappe remained at Toledo till his elevation to the Episcopacy in 1847. Rev. Peter McLaughlin was resident pastor at Cleveland from 1840 to 1846. Shortly after his arrival he had the interior of St. Mary's church, on the Flats, completed. The church was dedicated June 7, 1840. Father McLaughlin also attended missions in Lake, Lorain and Summit counties. Rev. Maurice Howard was on the mission in Northern Ohio about ten years. He came in 1842. Among his charges were Doylestown, Cleveland and Tiffin. He also attended missions in Wayne, Summit, Richland, Portage, Medina, Mahoning, Lake, Huron and Geauga counties. In 1843 Rev. John J. Doherty was appointed pastor of St. John's, Canton, where he remained about five years. He also attended Massillon, Canal Fulton and Navarre. In 1844 the Revs. John H. Luhr and John O. Bredeick were assigned charges in Northern Ohio. Father Luhr was first stationed at St. John's, Canton, October, 1844. In 1845 he organized St. Peter's, Canton, whose pastor he was till 1847. Father Bredeick was the founder of Delphos, and of St. Jx)hn's congregation, same place. In 1845 Rev. Peter Peudeprat arrived from France and was sent to Sandusky as assistant to Father Machebeuf, where he remained till the following year, when he was appointed pastor of St. Louis' church, Louisville, Stark county. From 1844 to 1846, Rev. Cornelius Daley was first resident pastor of St. Vincent's, Akron, and from 1846 to 1847 pastor at Doylestown. Rev. Philip Foley was stationed at Massillon in 1846, and attended Wooster, where he directed the build- ing of the first church, commenced in 1847 and finished two years later. THE SECULAR CLERGY. 19 Besides the above mentioned secular priests the following- were also on the mission in Northern Ohio; Revs. Michael A Byrne, at Cleveland, 1845-47; J- Freigang, at Peru and Nor- walk, 1840-41; H. Herzog, at Ft. Jennings, 1840; J. Hoffmann, at St. John's, Canton, with charge of Louisville and Doyles- town, 1836-37; H. D. Juncker, at Canton and Tiffin, 1836-37; J. Kearney, who attended East Liverpool and Wellsville from Steubenville, 1845-46; F. X. Roth, at Avon, 1845-47; E. Thien- pont, at Tiffin, 1834-35; J- V. Conlan, at Dungannon, in 1847. Very Rev. Stephen T. Badin and Very Rev. Edward T. Collins also visited some of the missions in Northern Ohio between 1835 and 1837, the former ministering to the Catho- lics at Canton, Canal Fulton, Fremont and Tiffin, the latter to those of Dungannon, Toledo and along" the Maumee river. This brief narrative contains the names of all the secular priests who, at any time between 1824 and 1847, were either stationed in Northern Ohio, or attended missions located therein. As this sketch would hardly permit more than the mere mention of their names, the reader is referred to the biographical notices* of these priests, many of whom are deeply enshrined in the memory of those who knew them and their disinterested work in the cause of religion. The following is a complete list of secular priests stationed in Northern Ohio, October, 1847, when the Diocese of Cleve- land was erected : Revs. G. Boehne, Glandorf; J. O. Bredeick, Delphos; James Conlan and J. Vincent Conlan, Dungannon; Louis de Goesbriand, Toledo; John J. Doherty, St. John's, Canton; Philip Foley, Massillon; Maurice Howard, Cleveland; J. B. Jacomet, assistant, St. Peter's, Canton; John H. Luhr, St. Peter's, Canton; Projectus J. Machebeuf, Sandusky; Casi- mir Mouret, Doylestown; Peter Peudeprat, Louisville; Ama- deus Rappe, Toledo — in all, fourteen secular priests. Of the above mentioned priests only the following are living (April, 1890) : The Rt. Rev. L. de Goesbriand, present Bishop of Burlington; the Rev. John J. Doherty, pastor of St. John's, Honesdale, Pa., and the Rev. J. B. Jacomet, residing at Thompson, Seneca county, O. *pp. 84 et seq. 20 CHURCHES. V. CHURCHES. As heretofore stated, Father F'enwick came to Northern Ohio for the first time in 1817, visiting among other places in Columbiana and Stark counties, the few Catholic families set- tled near the present village of Dungannon. Here also, under his direction, in 1820, was built the first church in Northern Ohio. It was a small brick building, dedicated to St. Paul the Apostle, and served its purpose till 1849, when the pres- ent church in Dungannon was erected. Three years later the Catholics in Canton also built a brick church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. It was replaced in 1872 by the pres- ent very beautiful church. Until 1829, the above were the only two churches in Northern Ohio, when a third was built at Chippewa, near the present village of Doylestown. It was primitive in style, small in size and built of logs. In 1831 two more log churches were erected, one at Randolph, Port- age county, the other between Lawrence and Canal Fulton, in Stark county. In 1832 a small brick church (St. Mary's) was opened for divine service at Tiffin. It was built under direction of the Rev. Edmund Quinn, and was enlarged by a frame addition built during the pastorate of Father McNamee in 1845. In 1833 three log churches were erected, viz.: ac Glandorf, Putnam county; Navarre (Bethlehem), Stark county, and at New Riegel (Wolf's Creek), Seneca county. In 1834 the Catholics of Peru built a frame church under the direc- tion of the Redemptorist Father, Rev. F. X. Tschenhens, who had it dedicated to St. Alphonse, the founder of the Redemp- torists. In 1835 a brick church was built at Louisville, Stark county, and another (frame) at La Porte, Lorain county. In 1836 a frame church was erected at Shelby Settlement, Richland county, and another the following year at McCutch- enville, Wyandot county, eight miles south of Tiffin. In 1839 a log church was erected at Thompson, Seneca county. Cleve- land's first church (frame) was begun in 1838, and opened for St. Paul's Chtrch, nivar DcxaANNOx, O. [Thf first CaLholic Chiircli ert-cU-d in Northern (.)lii(i.J RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES. 21 divine service in 1840. During the latter year the Catholics of East Liverpool, Columbiana county, erected a neat brick church. Five churches were added to the above list in 1841. Father Rappe secured by purchase two Protestant frame meeting houses, one of them unfinished. They were located at Toledo and Maumee. The first was dedicated to St. Francis de Sales. Log churches were erected at La Prairie, Sandusky county, and New Washington, Crawford county; also one of wood, near Norwalk, dedicated to St. Peter. The last mentioned church, and the one at Maumee, are still in use. In 1842 churches were built at Sandusky (Holy Angels'), Abbeyville, Landeck, Liberty, Liverpool, Sheffield, and St. Stephen's Settlement, the first of stone, the last of wood; the others were log churches. In 1844 a log church was erected at Delphos by Father Bredeick, and frame churches at Massillon (St. Mary's), Akron (St. Vincent's), Defiance (St. John's), and Fremont (St. Ann's). At French Creek an old frame building was bought and fitted up for church purposes; it served as such till the erection of the present edifice in 1849. In 1845 brick churches were built at Canton (St. Peter's), and New Berlin, Stark county; Providence, Lucas county; Tiffin (St. Joseph's), Seneca county. During the same year a frame church was also built at Harrisburg, Stark county. In 1846 a log church was erected at Bismarck (Sherman), and one of same kind, in 1847, at New Bavaria (Poplar Ridge). Total number of churches built or bought between 1820 and October, 1847, was 42, viz: stone, i; brick, 9; frame, 15; log, 17- VI. RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES. July, 1844, a community of Sanguinist Sisters was estab- lished at Wolf's Creek (New Riegel) by the saintly Father Brunner. The convent, the. first in Northern Ohio, was a log house. The community numbered but three sisters: Mother Mary A. Albrecht, Sister Rose and a novice. 22 RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES. December, 1845, Father Brunner also founded a community at Thompson, and here, as at Wolf's Creek, a log house was the convent building and contained a chapel. As soon as the sisters were established in their respective convent homes at Wolf's Creek and Thompson, they at once began the perpetual adoration of our Lord in the Blessed Eucharist, as directed by their Rule. They and their successors have ever since con- tinued, day and night, the observance of this part of their Rule, as a reparation for the insults and outrages commit- ted against our blessed Lord in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. In 1846, at the invitation of the Rev. Father Rappe, five Sisters of Notre Dame came from Cincinnati to Toledo, there to establish a convent and a select school. Father Rappe secured for them a small frame house on Cherry street, near the present site of St. Francis de Sales' church. This they fitted up for their convent and academy. They were part of a colony that had come from Namur- Belgium, to Cincinnati, with Father Rappe. The superioress of the Toledo community was Mother M. Louise, who died in 1886 at Cincinnati, where she had founded the present flour- ishing community in 1840. Another member of the Toledo community was Sister M. Aloysius, an accomplished Prussian lady, who later was appointed superioress of the Sisters of Notre Dame, at Roxbury, Mass. She became celebrated for a time through her testimony in court at Boston, in connection with the infamous committee appointed in 1854 by the anti- Catholic legislature of Massachusetts to pry into the convents of Boston and neighborhood. Her testimony made the mem- bers of that vile committee so odious in the eyes of decent and fair-minded Protestants that their outrageous " prying " was never repeated. hi 1848 the sisters of the Toledo community returned to Cincinnati, owing to lack of support. As Toledo at this time was but a small village and extremely unhealthy, and the num- ber of boarding pupils and day scholars attending the sisters' academy very limited, it was thought best by the superioress BISHOPS FENWICK AND PURCELL. 23 of the Mother House at Cincinnati, to recall the sisters, four of whom returned, the fifth having fallen a victim to the dread Maumee fever. VII. BISHOPS FENWICK AND PURCELL. The Rt. Rev. Edward Fenwick was consecrated first Bishop of Cincinnati, January 13, 1822, and had as part of his jurisdic- tion the whole of the state of Ohio. When he took charge of his diocese there was but one church in Northern Ohio (near Dungannon,) and no priest resided within that limit of terri- tory. At the time of his death, September, 1832, there were six churches, viz.: near Dungannon, Doylestown and Canal Fulton, and at Canton, Randolph and Tiffin. Of resident priests there were three — at Canton, Dungannon and Tiffin. Very Rev. F. Reze administered the diocese from the time of Bishop Fenwick's death till the advent of Rt. Rev. John B. Purcell, who at the age of thirty-three years was consecrated second Bishop of Cincinnati, October 13, 1833. He had juris- diction of Northern Ohio till October, 1847, during which time Catholicity made wonderful strides in this part of the state. A large influx of emigrants necessitated the building of churches and the establishing of missions and stations in nearly every county in Northern Ohio, notably in Columbiana, Erie, Lorain, Lucas, Portage, Putnam, Sandusky and Seneca •counties. It is true these churches 'were not remarkable for architecture, material or siz-e, but they served their purpose and accommodated the faithful who frequented them with perhaps more fervor and piety than do their descendants the beautiful and costly temples since erected in their stead. Bishop Purcell visited Northern Ohio at frequent intervals, and always with gratifying results. But he soon found his vast diocese too large for his personal attention. As early as December, 1841, in an interesting communication to the Catholic Telegraph, describing one of his visits to Northern Ohio, he writes : " It would require the constant attention of 24 BISHOPS FENWICK AND PURCELL. two bishops and a hundred priests * * * to preserve the faithful, convert the erring, reclaim the sinful, found schools, and build churches necessary over such an extensive territory." He petitioned the Holy See to be relieved of part of his jurisdiction. His petition was heard, and as a result the present Diocese of Cleveland was erected in 1847. Father Rappe, " the missionary of the Maumee," was appointed the iirst bishop of the new diocese, and consecrated as such at Cincinnati by Bishop Purcell, October 10, 1847. FJ>^:EtT II. Diocese of Cleveland. 1S47-1SS7 I. TERRITORY OF THE DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. The territory assigned by the Holy See to the Diocese of Cleveland, April 23, 1847, was "all that part of the state of Ohio lying north of 40 degrees and 41 minutes." As this line intersected several counties, it was thought best by the bish- ops of the Dioceses of Cincinnati and Cleveland to petition the Holy See to establish the limits between these two dioceses by county lines, as appears from the following agreement published in the Catholic Telegraph, January 11, 1849: " In order to prevent any misunderstanding or uncertainty with regard to the extent of jurisdiction, as defined only by the geographical line of 40 degrees and 41 minutes, the Rt. Rev. Bishops of these two dioceses have agreed among them- selves, and they direct us to publish, that the counties of Mercer, Auglaize, Hardin, Marion, Morrow, Knox, Tuscara- was, Carroll and Jefferson, which belong to the Diocese of Cincinnati, shall constitute the northern boundary of the Diocese of Cincinnati ; that all counties north of those just named, shall compose the Diocese of Cleveland. Holmes county, for the greater part south of the line above traced, is by mutual consent assigned to the Diocese of Cleveland. Any new counties that may hereafter be formed by the authority of the legislature, will belong to that diocese in which the larger portion of them will be situated. Application will be made as early as possible to the Holy See to sanction this arrangement." 26 BISHOP RAPPE. When the Diocese of Columbus was erected, in \\ Holmes county was included within its jurisdiction. All the other counties embraced within the above described limits have since been under jurisdiction of the Diocese of Cleve- land, viz.: Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Geauga, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Medina, Ottawa, Paulding Portage, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Van Wert, Wayne, Williams, Wood and Wyandot, in all thirty-three counties, comprising about one-third of Ohio. The territory of the diocese extends from the west line of Pennsylvania to the east line of Indiana, and from the southern shore of Lake Erie about seventy-five miles south. n. BISHOP RAPPE— 1 847-1 870. In order to present in succinct form the growth and devel- opment of the Diocese of Cleveland, its history will be given chronologically, and by decades of years. Besides the erec- tion of churches and the founding of religious, charitable and educational institutions, only the more important events in connection with the history of the diocese will be mentioned; to do more would exceed the limits of this sketch. In giving dates of the erection of churches, reference is had only to_^ri-/ churches built by congregations. In many cases these were built long after such congregations received attendance as stations, as will be shown in the " list of churches, etc." This remark holds also for institutions of charity, etc. Where notably fine, large and costly churches have replaced former structures, these will also receive due mention. A. — 1847-1857. The Rt. Rev. Amadeus Rappe took possession of the Diocese of Cleveland as its first bishop a few days after his consecration, which had taken place at Cincinnati, October 10, 1847. On his arrival at Cleveland, his episcopal city, he DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 27 found but one church, a frame building, located on Columbus street, corner of Girard. It had been dedicated June 7, 1840, to " Our Lady of the Lake," since 1849 known as St. Mary's church, on the Flats. October, 1847, Rev. Maurice Howard was the only priest stationed in Cleveland. Besides having pastoral charge of the church on the Flats, he also attended a number of missions in Cuyahoga and neighboring counties. Within the limits of his diocese the Bishop found forty-two churches, attended by twenty-one priests, of whom seven were members of the San- guinist society. The Catholic population of the diocese was estimated at this time to be about 10,000. There were also two small convents of sisters of the same society, viz.: at New Riegel and Thompson, and an academy and convent at Toledo belonging to the Sisters of Notre Dame, whose Mother House was at Cincinnati. For some months the Bishop resided in a rented house near the Haymarket. In 1848 he bought several lots on Bond street, corner of St. Clair, on which were located a large brick building and several frame houses. The brick building was fitted up as his episcopal residence. Within a very short time after Bishop Rappe's arrival in Cleveland, he impressed all with his indefatigable zeal and great earnestness. As early as March, 1848, the Cleveland Herald, a secular paper, at no time during its long existence over-friendly toward Catholics, published in its issue of March i6th, the following item concerning Bishop Rappe, and his work in the cause of total abstinence, of which he had been for some years a practical and consistent advocate: "Bishop Rappe is just what every man who has important enterprises in hand should be, a real workingman. His labors too, are for the benefit of others -the present and future — the temporal, social and moral improvement of the people of his charge. Strict sobriety, industry and economy are virtues which he inculcates with hearty good will — the sure stepping stones to individual, family and associated success. Temper- ance supports the superstructure and new over five hundred 28 BISHOP RAPPE. cold water men are enrolled in the Cleveland Catholic Tem- perance Society.'' January, 1848, he appointed as his vicar-general the Very Rev. Louis de Goesbriand, who had been his co-laborer in Northwestern Ohio for two years. Father de Goesbriand was stationed in Cleveland, and had as his assistant the Rev. M. Kreusch, C. PP. S., the Rev. Maurice Howard having been sent to Tiffin as pastor of St. Mary's. During the same year Bishop Rappe opened a small semi- nary in a one-story frame building, formerly a stable, back of his residence on Bond street. Father de Goesbriand was its first superior. Among the young men first to apply for admission as seminarists were Messrs. James Monahan, A. Berger, Peter Kreusch, Thomas J. Walsh, M. O'SulIivan, E. W. J. Lindesmith, F McGann, N. Roupp, W. O'Connor, and F. M. Boff, all of whom became priests. In 1849 the Rev. A. Caron succeeded Father de Goesbriand as superior of this humble seminary. The Catholic population of Cleveland rapidly increased shortly after the erection of the diocese, owing to a large immigration from Ireland and Germany. The- Bishop finding it of imperative necessity to build a church for the accom- modation of his growing flock (estimated in 1848 at abou*- 4,000) in the episcopal city, proposed to make the new church his cathedral, and to assign St. Mary's on the Flats to the Germans. Sunday, October 29, 1848, the cornerstone of the present cathedral was laid. The Cleveland Herald of October 30, 1848, makes mention of the ceremony in the following item : "The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the cathedral on Erie street was witnessed yesterday by a very large con- course of people. At one o'clock a numerous procession was formed at St. Mary's church and marched to the site of the cathedral. The ceremonies were conducted by Bishop Timon of Buffalo, Bishop LeFevre of Detroit, and Bishop Rappe of Cleveland, assisted by Vicar-General de Goesbriand of Cleveland, Rev. P. J. Machebeuf, of Sandusky, Rev. J. H. Luhr of Canton, and the students of the theological seminary in this DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 29 city. An eloquent address was delivered by Bisliop Timon, and a discourse in German by Rev. Mr. Luhr. " The cathedral, when completed, will be a noble edifice and an ornanient to the city. The dimensions will be 170 feet by 75. rising 50 feet from the water table to the eaves. The building is to be of brick, and the style of architecture will combine strength with beauty." In November, 1848, the first diocesan synod was held, with fifteen priests in attendance. The second synod was held in 1852, and the third in 1854. September, 1849, Bishop Rappe went to Europe, his object being to solicit aid in his native France for the new cathedral then in process of erection ; also to secure priests and sisters to aid him in his work. During his absence the Very Rev. Father de Goesbriand, V. G., administered the diocese. The Bishop succeeded in obtaining generous assistance from his countrymen, and in securing several priests and seminarists, as also a band of devoted Ursulines, for whom the present convent on Euclid avenue had been purchased from Judge Cowles in 1849. Bishop Rappe returned from Europe in August, 1850. Besides visiting his diocese he also superin- tended the building of the cathedral, and had the great satis- faction of having it consecrated, and opened for divine service, November 7, 1852. As above stated. Bishop Rappe was a strong advocate of total abstinence, having seen and felt the disastrous results of intemperance whilst engaged on the mission in Toledo and along the Maumee valley. In March, i85i,he published a vigorous pastoral letter on this subject, of which the following is an extract: " Among the evils which prevail, and of which the progress and consequences are most alarming, is one which we have observed for years, and more especially during our last visita- tion; it is one which fills with sorrow the hearts of your pas- tors and counteracts all their efforts to promote your spiritual welfare; it is one which is more frightful than any calamity which could befall you ; which threatens not only to put an end to all decent observance of the Sunday, but to eradicate 30 BISHOP RAPPE. piety and to destroy every sentiment that elevates and enno- bles the Christian soul, to bring- inevitable ruin upon reason, honor and fortune — the drinking shop, the sink wherein all that is good is buried." During the months of July and August, of the same year, on invitation of the Bishop, Father Mathew the apostle of total abstinence, delivered a series of lectures and sermons in Cleveland and other important cities and towns in this dio- cese. Thousands took the pledge of total abstinence from Father Mathew. His labors, as those also of Bishop Rappe in this regard, were blessed with most gratifying results. October 30, 1853, Father de Goesbriand was elevated to the Episcopacy as first Bishop of Burlington, Vt., which important position he still holds with eminent success. The Rev. James Conlan succeeded him as vicar-general, and acted as such till 1870. Between 1847 and 1857 churches were erected in the fol- lowing places : 1848 — Delaware Bend, Six Mile Woods ; 1849 — Marshallville, Wooster ; 1856 — Archbold, Painesville ; 1851 — Fostoria, Independence, Sheffield; 1852 — Cleveland (cathedral), Lima, Summitville ; 1853 — Rockport (St. Pat- rick's), Sandusky (St. Mary's), Toledo (St. Mary's), Youngs- town rSt. Columba's); 1854 — Cleveland (St. Patrick's), Elyria, Massillon (St. Joseph's), Toledo (St. Joseph's); 185S — Gallon (St. Joseph's); 1856 — Berea (St. Mary's), Berwick, Cleveland (Immaculate Conception, i. e., the Church of the Nativity, built in 1848 as a "chapel of ease," and situated in the rear of the present cathedral, was removed thence to Superior street near Lyman), Findlay, Napoleon. The total number of churches erected during this period was twenty-six. Whilst directing and encouraging the organization of mis- sions and congregations and the erection of churches for their accommodation, Bishop Rappe also provided for the care of orphans and the education of the young, all under charge of devoted sisters. To this end he authorized the establishing- of a convent of Sanguinist Sisters at Glandorf, in 1848. In the fall of 1850 the Ursuline Academy on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, was opened and has ever since enjoyed the patron- DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 31 age and confidence of the public, Catholic and Protestant. The same is to be said of the Ursuline Academy, established at Toledo in 1854. St, Mary's. Orphan Asylum for girls and St. Vincent's Asylum for boys were founded in Cleveland (185 1), the former in charge of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary, the latter in charge of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, a community founded by Bishop Rappe, with assistance of Mother M. Ursula, of sainted memory. She was known in the world as Miss C. Bissonette. In 1855 the Grey Nuns of Montreal established at Toledo an orphanage for boys and girls, which is known as St. Vincent's Asylum. September, 1850, the Bishop bought a fine property on Lake street, near Dodge, known as " Spring Cottage." The frame building on the large plat of ground was fitted up as a seminary, which was opened in November of the same year, with Father Caron as superior. During the summer of 1853, the north wing of the present building was erected, and in 1859, owing to' the rapidly increasing number of seminarists, the present main or central portion of the seminary was built. To give young men an opportunity to receive a college education under Catholic auspices. Bishop Rappe purchased in 1854, an eligible property on the West Side, Cleveland, near St. Patrick's church. The incomplete frame buildings on the property were remodeled to serve the purpose of their pur- chase. September of the same year they were opened under the name of St. John's College. This institution had, however, a fitful existence, owing to lack of patronage, and was finally closed in 1859. B.— 1857-1867. The second decade of Bishop Rappe's administration is remarkable for the large number of churches built, many of them handsome and spacious edifices. The following is a list of places in which churches were erected: 1857 — Cleveland (St. Bridget's and St. Peter's); 1858— Fremont (St. Joseph's), Millersville, Norwalk (St. Mary's), Olmsted, Wellington; 1859 — Bellevue, Big Springs, Crawfordsville, South Thompson; i860 — Alliance, Ashtabula, Cleveland, (St. Augustine's), Hud- son, Junction, Port Clinton, Prout's, K.ockport (St. Mary's); 32 BISHOP RAPPE. 1861 — Crestline, Euclid, Kalida, Kelley's Island, North Ridge, Ottoville, Stryker, Toussaint; 1862 — Akron (St. Bernard's), Bucyrus, Cleveland (Holy Rosary — since 1881 known as Holy Name, St. Joseph's), Clyde, Monroeville, Ravenna, Vermillion, Woodville; 1863— Ashland, Toledo (St. Patrick's); 1864— Conneaut, Convoy, Florence, French Settlement, Medina, Niles, Royalton, St. Patrick's Settlement, Strasburg, Upper Sandusky, Warren; 1865 — Cleveland (St. Mary's of the Assumption), Grafton, Kirby, Marshallville, Milan; 1866 — Mud Creek, Shelby — total, 56 churches. In 1857 Bishop Rappe convoked the fourth diocesan synod, resulting in much wholesome legislation. One of the statutes promulgated made it obligatory on all congregations, finan- cially and numerically able, to support parochial schools. This law gave new impulse to the parochial school system, encour- aged in most earnest manner by Bishop Rappe almost imme- diately after he came to Cleveland. In i860 Bishop Rappe paid his first decennial visit to Rome. During his absence theVery Rev. James Conlan, V G., was administrator of the diocese. Two years later he again went to Rome to assist at the canonization of the Japanese martyrs, to which ceremony many of the American bishops had been specially invited by Pius IX. Very Rev. A. Caron, V. G., administered the affairs of the diocese during the Bish- op's absence. In 1862 St. Joseph's Asylum for orphan girls was opened on Woodland avenue, Cleveland, to relieve the crowded con- dition of St. Mary's Asylum on Harmon street. In 1863 Bishop Rappe introduced into the diocese the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, and, by special agreement with Bishop O'Connor, of Pittsburg, located them on a large tract of land near New Bedford, Pa., where they founded a convent and an orphan asylum. In 1863 the Ursulines of Cleveland established a mission at Tiffin, placing it in charge of Mother M. Joseph as superi- oress. In a few years it grew to a prosperous community, its academy meeting with public favor almost from the very opening. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 33 In 1865, at the solicitation and with the generous aid of Cleveland's citizens, irrespective of creed, Bishop Rappe opened Charity Hospital — the first public hospital built in Cleveland. The Bishop established St. Louis' College at Louisville Stark county, in 1866, to replace St. Mary's College and Pre- paratory Seminary, Cleveland, opened in September, i860. It was placed in charge of secular priests. The following year its management was transferred to the Basilian Fathers of Sandwich, Canada, but the college was closed in 1873 fot" want of support. C. — 1867-1877. For the fourth time Bishop Rappe went to Europe — in the fall of 1867 — the Very Rev. Vicar General Caron administer- ing the diocese during his three months' absence. Besides visiting his native country the Bishop also went to Rome to attend to some affairs in connection with his diocese. During the first three years of the third decade of Bishop Rappe's administration, churches were erected in the follow- ing places : 1867 — Cleveland (St. Wenceslas'), Hubbard, Lan- deck. Reed, Rootstown, Wellsville, West Brookfield ; 1868 — Edgerton, Kent, Leetonia, Marblehead, Mentor, Norwalk (St. Paul's), St. Mary's Corners, Toledo (Immaculate Conception); 1869 — Cleveland (St. Malachy's, St. Stephen's), Gallon (St. Patrick's), Jefferson, Madison, North Amherst, Willoughby Youngstown (St. Joseph's) — in all twenty-three churches. St. Francis' Orphan Asylum and Home for the Aged was established at Tiffin, in 1867, under the direction of the Rev. Joseph L. Bihn, who applied his patrimony and savings towards the purchase of the lands and the erection of build- ings used for this excellent institution. He also established, in 1868, a sisterhood of the Third Order of St. Francis, which has charge of the domestic affairs of the asylum and home. Some of the sisters are also engaged as teachers in a number of parochial schools in the diocese. In 1867 Bishop Rappe introduced the Franciscan Fathers, of Teutopolis, 111., into the diocese, and gave them pastoral 34 BISHOP RAPPE. charge of St. Joseph's church, Cleveland, In the following- year they erected their present monastery and chapel, corner of Chapel and Hazen streets. ■ St. Mary's church, Toledo, was given in charge of the Jesuit Fathers of the Provincial House of Buffalo, in 1869. Bishop Rappe invited the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, of Cincinnati, to establish a house of their Order in Cleveland. The invitation was accepted in 1869. Their convent was a frame building on Lake street, situated on a large lot which had been secured for them by Bishop Rappe. Here they remained until the completion of their present large building, in 1875. Their silent, saving work in behalf of fallen, erring woman has resulted in untold good and has forced recognition even from an anti-Catholic public. The paternal heart of good Bishop Rappe next prompted him to provide for a class of unfortunates, neglected and rejected by a cold, selfish world — the aged poor. To give them shelter and needed care he had the Little Sisters of the Poor establish a Home for them on Perry street, in 1870. This charitable work soon met with generous support on the part of the citizens of Cleveland, irrespective of creed. In a few years the old buildings first bought had to be enlarged and in part replaced by others more commodious and better adapted, so large was the number of applicants. October, 1869, Bishop Rappe again went to Rome, this time to attend the Vatican Council which was opened Decem- ber 8, of the same year. Whilst in Rome he found that the years of opposition on the part of some, in regard to the administration of his dio- cese, had crystallized in charges preferred against him to the Holy See. Rather than further contend with his opponents and unwilling any longer to carry the burden of his episcopal labors, which he found so little appreciated on the part of a few, he concluded to resign the responsible and burdensome office of bishop he had borne for twenty-three years amid trials, difficulties and mental worry known to God alone. Where others would have met the enemy and contested posi- tion in the face of opposition and strife, he thought best to ADMINISTRATOR HANNIN. 35 lay down crosier and mitre, thus to have peace in the evening of his life. This he believed himself the more constrained to do, as in his advanced age, sixty-eight years, he felt himself physically too weak to administer, with satisfaction to him- self, his large and rapidly growing diocese. Added to this, he found his sight greatly impaired ; in fact, he had lost the use of his right eye. He resigned August 22, 1870, and retired to the Diocese of Burlington, Vt., where he resumed the role of a missionary, so familiar to him. For obvious reasons the details of this sad and painful chapter in the history of Bishop Rappe's saintly and self-sac- rificing life are not yet for publication. This will be the task of the future historian of the Diocese of Cleveland, and the writer of Bishop Rappe's life and labors. . III. VERY REV. EDWARD HANNIN, ADMINISTRATOR. Sede Vacante — 1870-1872. Within a few days after Bishop Rappe's resignation, the Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell appointed the Very Rev. E. Hannin as administrator of the Diocese of Cleveland. During his term of office, which lasted till April, 1872, churches were erected in the following places : 1870 — Antwerp, Briar Hill, Van Wert; 1871 — Cleveland (Annunciation, St. Columb- kill's — closed as a parish in 1872, Holy Family — St. Edward's since 1886), Loudonville, Mantua, Sandusky, (Sts. Peter and Paul's), Toledo (St. Louis') — total, ten congregations organ- ized and churches built. For ordinations, bishops of the neighboring dioceses were invited. Among them was the Rt. Rev. John H. Luers, Bishop of Fort Wayne. June 29, 1871, this worthy prelate conferred Holy Orders in the seminary chapel. After the ceremony he started for the Union depot, preferring to walk rather than to take the carriage which had been placed at his service. Reaching the corner of St. Clair and Bond streets. 36 BISHOP GILMOUR. he fell to the pavement, stricken with apoplexy. He was carried to the Bishop's house, near by, where he expired in a few moments. Beyond a suit of injunction, in connection with the build- ing of a church, begun by the congregation of St. Bridget's, Cleveland, without proper authorization, nothing of special note occurred during Father Hannin's administration, except that he had not as peaceful a regime as he could have wished, or the good of religion demanded. No one was better pleased than he when he was relieved of his responsible post of duty, by the advent of Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, in April, 1872. IV. BISHOP GILMOUR, 1872-1887. The Rt. Rev. Richard Gilmour, present and second Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, was consecrated at Cincinnati, April 14, 1872. Within a few days after his consecration he took possession of his Episcopal See. He soon found that the disturbance and opposition which had caused many a heart-ache to his predecessor. Bishop Rappe, and which had made the administration of Very Rev. Father Hannin anything but pleasant, had permeated the diocese to a large extent. Firmness and judgment were needed to put the disturbed elements to rights. Bishop Gilmour felt the difficulty of his position as well as the gravity of his impending work. But he also found in the diocese at large a generous spirit among the laity, a willing, energetic clergy, and a readiness to second any effort for the advancement of diocesan interests. Often he had rather to repress than foster activity in matters pertaining to the material growth of the diocese. November, 1872, he convoked a synod of his clergy — the first during his administration, and the fifth since the organi- zation of the diocese. In this synod much of the legislation in force at present was enacted. It also embodied considerable DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 37 of the legislation of the previous synods, notably that of 1868. Among the diocesan laws enacted, were those urging anew the necessity of parochial schools, regulating the financial affairs of congregations, assessing congregations for the sup- port of seminary, etc., (Diocesan Fund), and for the support of sick and disabled priests, (Infirm Priests' Fund). The latter fund had been established some years previous, but it was now found necessary to modify and change many of the regula- tions governing it, so as to place it on a firm basis. This it has maintained ever since. With additional and needed changes made from time to time in its management, the Infirm Priests' Fund is now in excellent condition. March, 1873, Bishop Gilmour published his first pastoral letter. It aroused the latent bigotry of the country, especially of Cleveland, the hot-bed of Puritanism and anti- Catholic hatred. Not that the Bishop published " doctrines strange and new," but that he dared to publish what he did. He took strong ground against the public school system, and urged upon his people the necessity of establishing and main- taining their own schools. He also insisted that Catholics assert their rights as citizens ; that they are Catholic first, American next. For these and other utterances of like import he was denounced in unmeasured terms by pulpit and press. To defend Catholic doctrine and the citizen rights of Catholics, the Bishop established the Catholic Universe, its first number appearing July 4, 1874. About this time also he organized in Cleveland the Catholic Central Association, com- posed of representatives from all the parishes and Catholic societies of the city. Its influence for good was soon felt. Since the opening of the Workhouse in Cleveland, in 1870, the unfortunate Catholic inmates had been denied their rights as Catholics. No Catholic priest was permitted to visit or instruct them. After much opposition the Bishop finally succeeded in getting the con- sent of the Workhouse authorities to allow Catholic prisoners the consolation of their religion thus far denied them. To the Catholic Central Association, through some of its leading 38 BISHOP GILMOUR. members, is due in large measure this concession. Since 1876 Mass has been regularly celebrated at the Workhouse on alternate Sundays, and on every Sunday morning- the Catholic inmates of the refuge department receive catechetical instruc- tion from a committee appointed for that purpose by the Catholic Central Association. In 1875 the Catholic school property of Cleveland was placed on the tax duplicate, in spite of a decision of the supreme court of Ohio, rendered in 1874, to the effect that such property was not taxable. In 1876 suit of restraint was entered by the Bishop and finally carried to the supreme court of Ohio, the decision in each of the courts being in his • favor. The Bishop's house, on Bond street, was not diocesan prop- erty, but the personal property of Bishop Rappe, who, on his departure from Cleveland, leased it for a term of years. The lessee sublet it to the Very Rev. Administrator Hannin as a residence for himself and the cathedral clergy. Bishop Gil- mour was informed of this fact within a few days after he came to Cleveland, and at the same time was curtly notified that the rent, considered high even then, would at once be raised. Unwilling to be a tenant any longer than he could help, the Bishop arranged for the erection of the present episcopal residence on Superior street, immediately east of the cathe- dral, the cost to be borne equally by the diocese and the cathedral parish. The building was begun in 1874 and com- pleted early in 1876. June 24, 1874, Bishop Gilmour fell seriously ill of nervous prostration, and for two years was unable to attend to the affairs of the diocese. On the advice of his physicians he went to Europe for the benefit of his shattered health. Dur- ing his absence, the Very Rev. F. M. Boff, who had been made vicar-general in May, 1873, was appointed administrator of the diocese. The Bishop returned from Europe, June, 1876, much im- proved, though by no means fully restored to health. Grad- ually he regained strength and by degrees resumed duty. Between 1872 and 1877 the diocese showed a marked DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 39 degree of activity, as seen in the erection of a large number of churches, schools, and religious institutions. During this period churches were, built in the following places: 1872 — Carey, Green Spring, Mineral Ridge, New London, Oak Harbor, Ottawa, Plymouth, Roachton, Struthers, Sylvania, Vienna, Wakeman, Wauseon ; 1873 — Defiance (Our Lady of Per. Help), Elmore, Parma, Salineville, Toledo (Good Shep- herd's, St. Peter's); 1874 — Berea (St. Adalbert's), Cleveland (St. Procop's), Genoa, Weston ; 1875 — Brighton, Brj^an, Desh- ler ; 1876 — Bettsville, Leipsic, North Ridgeville, Spencerville, Toledo (St. Hedwig's) — in all thirty-one churches built, and as many new congregations established. In 1872 the Sisters of St. Joseph, a teaching community, were welcomed to the diocese, as also, in 1874, the Sisters of Notre Dame, who had been exiled from Germany because of the " May Laws." Both these communities established them- selves in Cleveland, the latter having a large and flourishing academy in connection with their convent. In 1873 a foundling asylum was opened in Cleveland and placed in charge of the Sisters of Charity, for the reception of waifs. In connection with this asylum a lying-in hospital was also founded. Till the opening of these two institutions, wealthy Cleveland had no shelter to offer these helpless babes and their unfortunate mothers — the former, offsprings of sin, the latter, its victims. On invitation of Bishop Gilmour, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary, connected with St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, established (1874) an academy at Louisville, Stark ■county, in the building known as St. Louis' College, but closed in 1873. With the academy was also an institute for deaf mutes. Both academy and institute were closed a few years later for want of support. A convent of Ursuline Sisters was founded, in 1874, at Youngstown, to take charge of the parochial schools in that place, and eventually to establish an academy. In 1875 the Grey Nuns of Montreal built a hospital in Toledo which was opened to the public in 1876. In the latter year the Franciscans established, near their monastery 40 BISHOP GILMOUR. in Cleveland, St. Joseph's College for boys. Although this institution was fairly supported, the Franciscan Fathers found it impracticable to continue it longer than June, 1880. D.— 1877-1887. September 8, 1877, the sad news of Bishop Rappe's death reached Cleveland from St. Albans, Vt. As eminently meet, as well as justly due to the memory of the deceased Bishop, arrangements were at once made to have his remains brought to Cleveland for burial. On their arrival an immense throng met them, and Cleveland's citizens, without creed or class distinction, vied with each other to pay their last tribute of respect to the remains of Bishop Rappe, whom in life they loved and respected, and whose memory, in death, they revered as that of a public benefactor, and noble hearted pre- late. Silent and sad as was his departure from Cleveland seven years previous, grandly triumphant in death was his return to the city he loved so well, of which he spoke when in the throes of death, for which, during nearly a quarter of a century, he had given his best efforts. After the impressive obsequies his remains were placed in a crypt under the main alt&r of the cathedral, there to repose till the Last Call. In 1877 Bishop Gilmour began to systematize the routine and business affairs of his diocese by establishing a chancery office. He had plats made of all the church property and the respective deeds indexed and labelled for ready reference. Parish, and "permit" records, records of priests and religious institutions were begun, and blank forms for annual reports, together with letter books and letter files, were introduced. In 1878 the collecting of historical data in connection with every congregation and religious institution in the diocese was begun. So promptly and kindly did the clergy and heads of religious houses respond to the call for historical data that the future historian will have comparatively an easy task in writing the history of the Diocese of Cleveland. He will have but to sift and collate the adundance of historical matter in the diocesan archives. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 41 March 13, 1879, Bishop Gilmour published a pastoral letter, -which again, as in 1873, aroused the hatred of an anti-Cath- olic press and pulpit. For many months after its publication, the echo of bigotry resounded far and wide, simply because he enunciated doctrines, not new, but bold in their utterance. His expressions regarding human liberty, rights of Church and State, and Catholic schools, gave blatant bigotry food for many •sensational sermons and " blood-curdling " editorials. May, 1882,. the sixth diocesan synod was held in St. Mary's Seminary, one hundred and thirty-nine priests of the secular and regular clergy being in attendance. As a result •of this synod we have the present diocesan legislation, which, -with the exception of about half a dozen of its two hundred and sixty-two statutes, is in perfect harmony with the laws of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, held in November, 1884. In July, 1882, Bishop Gilmour went to Europe, to visit, among other countries, his native Scotland, which he had not seen since he left it in 1829. Besides traveling extensively through Ireland, England, "France and Germany, he also paid his ad limina visit to Rome, his first official visit to the Holy See, although he had been there for a few weeks in 1875, as an invalid. During his absence, till February, 1883, Very Rev. Vicar ■General Boff administered the diocese. In 1884 the diocesan seminary was enlarged, by the addi- tion of the present south wing, which contains suites of rooms for professors and separate rooms for students, neatly and comfortably furnished. During the following year, the main or centre building, was entirely remodeled by changing the tapper two stories into a very handsome chapel, and locating a lecture hall and the library on the first floor. The wing and changes cost nearly $20,000. March, 1887, Bishop Gilmour published the " Constitution and By-laws for the Government of the Parochial Schools of the Diocese of Cleveland," of which the principal features are: The examination of parish schools by district boards, and the 42 BISHOP GILMOUR. annual examination of teachers by a diocesan board of exam- iners. Between 1877 and 1887 the following institutions were established in the diocese : 1877 — Convent of the Poor Clares, Cleveland, and the Ursuline Academy, at Villa Angela, near Nottingham ; 1884— Cleveland — St. Alexis' Hospital, Protect- ory for Girls, in charge of the Sisters of Notre Dame ; Louis- ville, St. Louis' Orphan Asylum for boys; 1885 — Toledo»- Little Sisters of the Poor. The Jesuit Fathers, to whom had been entrusted, in 1880, the pastorate of St. Mary's churchr Cleveland, opened St. Ignatius' College, opposite their church,, corner Carroll and Jersey streets, September, 1886. At this time, also, the Ursulines opened an institution at Nottingham' for the education of boys under twelve years of age. It is known as St. Joseph's Seminary. Since 1877 churches were erected in the following places : 1877 — Put-in-Bay ; 1878 — Collinwood ; 1879 — Cecil, Chicago- Junction, Honey Creek, Lorain ; 1880 — Cleveland (St. Col- man's, Holy Trinity), East Palestine, Hicksville ; 1881 — Bowling Green, Cleveland (St. Stanislas'), Sterling; 1882 — Attica, Peninsula, Toledo (St. Anthony's), Youngstown (Immaculate Conception) ; 1883 — Cleveland (St. Adalbert's, St. Michael's, Our Lady of Lourdes'), Toledo (Sacred Heart),- Tremblayville ; 1884 — Lowellville ; 1886 — Cuyahoga Falls, Holgate, Wadsworth ; 1887— Akron (St. Mary's), Cleveland (St. Anthony's, St. Francis'), Hamler, Miller's City, New Lis- bon, North Creek, Republic — total, thirty-five churches built and new congregations established. Few dioceses in the country, if any, -contain as many fine,, large and costly churches as are in the Diocese of Cleveland. Many of these were built within the last fifteen years, replac- ing edifices of far less pretensions as to size and cost. Among the more noteworthy are the following : Cleveland, St. John's Cathedral (furnished in 1880 with the handsomest spire in the city, and renovated, 1884, in most artistic manner), St. Patrick's, St. Stephen's, Immaculate Conception and St. Edward's (large and beautiful stone churches), St. Bridget's,. St. Joseph's, St. Peter's, (renovated in 1885); Canton, St.. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 43 John's and St. Peter's ; Delphos, St. John's ; Fremont, St. Joseph's ; New Riegel, St. Boniface's ; Sandusky, St. Mary's, Sts. Peter and Paul (both stone churches); Thompson, St. Michael's ; Tiffin, St. Joseph's ; Toledo, St. Francis', St. Mary's (enlarged and renovated in 1883), St. Patrick's, St. Peter's. Within the last few years many fine schools have been built. Mention of a few of the larger and finer is here made : Cleveland, St. Bridget's, St. Malachy's, Holy Name, St. Joseph's ; Toledo, St. Patrick's, St. Mary's ; Defiance, Our Lady's. August, 1887, the cornerstone was laid for a $35,000 school house for St. Bernard's, Akron. Wherever throughout the diocese churches or schools are built to replace similar edifices, they are of beautiful propor- tions, tasteful design, and commensurate with the means of congregations building them. There appears to be a healthy emulation to erect churches worthy their sacred use, and schools at least equal to those which Catholic parents help to build, but which in conscience they can not allow their children to attend. The Diocese of Cleveland is provided with generously sup- ported charitable institutions, covering nearly all wants of suffering and neglected humanity. But there is great need of a reformatory for wayward and homeless boys. A farm of nearly forty acres of excellent land, within a few miles of Cleveland, is already secured as a site for this most necessary institution. Lack of means, however, has thus far prevented the erection of suitable buildings to take from the streets and shelter, educate and train in virtue and future usefulness, boys who are now going to spiritual destruction. The seminary, " the heart of the diocese," is also greatly in need of enlargement for the accommodation of a sufficient number of young levites, who are not only to take the place of the laborers in the Lord's vineyard, called to their reward, but also to meet the wants of a rapidly growing diocese, with missions and congregations springing into existence on every side — and no priests to serve them. The enlargement of the seminary would also make it prac- 44 BISHOP GILMOUR. ticable to have spiritual retreats for the secular priests and frequent meetings of the clergy of the diocese — now impossible because there is no building in the diocese large enough and under its control, where such retreats or meetings could be held. In 1817 Father Fenwick came for the first time to North- ern Ohio to break the Bread of Life to the famishing children of God's Church, living in sparse numbers within the limits of the present flourishing Diocese of Cleveland. He was the first priest to visit at regular intervals this part of Ohio since the Jesuits were obliged to abandon their Indian missions on the southern shore of Lake Erie, and along the Vermillion, San- dusky and Portage rivers. Beyond a few Catholic settlers in Columbiana and Stark counties, Father Fenwick found no trace of Catholicity. When the Diocese of Cleveland was erected in 1847, Bishop Rappe found but one church and one priest in Cleveland, and forty-two churches in the entire diocese, attended by twenty- one priests. Were Father Fenwick, the apostle of Catholicity in Ohio, and Bishop Rappe, the missionary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, to return to the scene of their apostolic labors, their hearts would indeed be gladdened, as they are no doubt gladdened in heaven, to see the vigorous growth of the Tree of Life they planted. They would find more than two hundred churches, many of them cathedral-like in size and beauty, studding the territory formerly under their pastoral care and jurisdiction. Institutions of religion, education and charity would greet their eye ; parochial schools, generously and willingly supported, would give them assurance that the children, the hope of the future, have every means placed within their reach to keep them in the Faith ; they would find a zealous clergy, devoted religious, and a generous laity. We have endeavored to outline the history of Catholicity in Northern Ohio, and in the Diocese of Cleveland. It is for the future historian to give in detail its foundation, growth and development, the struggles, trials and labors of the pio- neers of religion in this part of our fair state. We close this DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 45 sketch with the subjoined table, which gives, in a summarized form, and by decades of years, the growth of the Church in Northern Ohio and in the Diocese of Cleveland : TABlvE. Year. Churches Resident Priests (Sec. and Reg.) Female Rel. Com. Chari- table Institu- tions. Educ'nl Institu- tions. Paroc'l Schools IN NORTHERN J J„J^ °"'°- I 1837 2 14 I 7 — IN DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. '1847 1857 1867 1877 1887 42 78 150 190 225 21 54 158 187 3 7 9 17 18 3 5 10 16 I 4 5 7 8 7 70 no 126 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH —OF THE— RIGHT REV. EDWARD D. FENWICK, O. P., FIRST BISHOP OF CINCINNATI. JANUARY, 1822 — SEPTEMBER, 1832. Edward D. Fenwick, a descendant of the ancient English family of Fenwick Tower, was born in St. Mary's county, Maryland, in 1768. After the death of his father, Edward was sent to Europe to complete his studies. When leaving home he was in his sixteenth year. He entered the Domini- can college at Bornheim, Flanders. Impressed with the spirit and virtues of his Dominican preceptors, he became attached to them and soon joined their Order. From his childhood he showed a tender and unaffected piety. This grew with his years, and impressed itself on his superiors, whose respect and confidence he easily won. Dur- ing the French revolution he was engaged in the duties of a professor, and as procurator of the Dominican convent at Bornheim. When the French soldiery overran and pillaged the Netherlands, his convent was seized and he, with his brethren, imprisoned as Englishmen. Securing his release as an American citizen, he went to one of the Dominican con- vents in England. There he remained till 1804, when in compliance with his ardent wish he was sent by his Provincial to America, to labor there in behalf of the spiritual interests of his countrymen. His native state was his first field of priestly work in this country. Here he toiled in his Master's vineyard about one year. Then Bishop Carroll, of Baltimore, upon consultation, and with the advice and consent of the RlCHT RHVIU-LICX C.N-Ii IvDWARD I) I'KXWICK, O. P. BISHOP FEN WICK. 47 pather General of the Dominicans, sent him to Kentucky to ■establish a colony of Friars Preachers. In compliance with instructions Father Fenwick, accompanied by three of his brethren, Fathers Wilson, Tuite and Anger, founded, in 1805, St. Rose's Convent, located in Washington county, Kentucky, •on a farm he purchased with his patrimony. Here it was that the Dominican order had its first home in the United States, and from this place the light of the Gospel was carried far and wide. The Convent of St. Rose was soon crowned with ben- edictions. The children of St. Dominic, animated with the zeal of their pious founder, spread through the whole extent -of Kentucky, and afforded to the inhabitants the benefits of the religion of Jesus Christ. A Bull was received from Rome ►constituting Father Fenwick Provincial of the Order in North America. He could not, however, resolve upon accepting that dignity, fearing it might prevent the conversion of souls to God. A remarkable circumstance, which has always been looked upon as the most certain evidence of the exalted virtue ■of Father Fenwick is, that, after having obtained from Rome the office of Provincial for Father Wilson, with the permission to annul the appointment should he himself choose to remain Provincial, or to abdicate it, he did not hesitate a moment, but asked Father Wilson to accept, as he himself preferred rather to obey than to command. In 1 8 14 Father Fenwick, the apostle and pioneer priest of this state, made his first missionary visit to Ohio, and went as far north as Perry county, in the present Diocese of Columbus, where he found three Catholic families, consisting in all of twenty members. These good people were so rejoiced to see him, that he could never recall his first pastoral visit to this part of his vast " parish " without experiencing the greatest consolation, because he considered it the first fruit of his mis- sion in Ohio. According to the most authentic information obtainable Father Fenwick's first visit to Northern Ohio — within the ter- ritory of the Diocese of Cleveland — was in 1817, when he ■came to Columbiana and Stark counties. There he found a 48 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF number of Catholic families, some of whom had moved ta Ohio from Pennsylvania and Maryland ; others had emigrated from Ireland and Germany. None of them had seen a priest since they had settled in Ohio. In 1818 Father Fenwick established, on a farm given for the purpose by Mr. P. Dittoe, a fervent and generous CathoHc, the present flourishing Convent of St. Joseph's, near Somer- set, Perry county, Ohio, and was its superior for nearly four years. From St. Joseph's he and his few brethren of the con- vent, among them his nephew, Rev. N. D. Young, regularly attended the missions in Perry and the neighboring counties^ whilst those of Southern Ohio received pastoral care from St. Rose's, Kentucky, and occasionally, also, from St. Joseph's,. Perry county. Bishop Flaget, of Bardstown, had under his jurisdiction Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. He petitioned the Holy See to relieve him from the spiritual care of a part of his immense territory. In accordance with his wish the Dio- cese of Cincinnati was erected, in 1821, and Father Fenwick consecrated by Bishop Flaget as its first bishop in the church of St. Rose, Washington county, Kentucky, January 13, 1822. Soon after his consecration. Bishop Fenwick took possession of his Episcopal See. Arriving at Cincinnati he found neither church nor dwelling. He rented a small house, where he was obliged to sleep in the garret ; the other part was destined for a chapel and a study. At times he was not able to pay the rent, and frequently had to seek his meals in the city. The cathedral, if we may call it by that name, was a barn-like plank building, about one mile from the town, and in rainy weather quite inaccessible. The attempt to move it to the town failed; it broke down on the road. A lot was wanting- upon which to erect the cathedral again ; but where were the means to pay for it .'' Without money, without the hope of procuring it to pay the debts already contracted, everywhere even the most neces- sary things wanting, in 1823 the Bishop took the resolution to set out for Rome, with the intention of resigning his heavy BISHOP FENWICK. 49 charge. The Holy Father, Leo XII, however, encouraged him and presented him with 1,200 scudi for the expenses of his journey and those of the clergyman who traveled with him. A good God, in fact, loaded him with blessings, opening new sources to him, particularly in France, in the Association at Lyons, for the propagation of the faith. Belgium and Ger- many, in imitation of France, also contributed liberal sums to Bishop Fenwick in support of his poor diocese. On his return, in 1824, the debts were paid, and a brick cathedral erected on Sycamore street. Later he established the Athenaeum Col- lege, near his cathedral church. He also introduced into his diocese the Dominican Sisters, and one or two other religious communities to instruct the children. Full of courage, after his successful visit to Europe, he devoted all his energy and zeal to the development and visita- tion of his diocese. At or away from his episcopal city, he never had an idle moment. To reach all the missions of his immense diocese, covering Ohio and Michigan, he had to make long and tedious journeys by wagon, stage, or on horseback, often through forests, and more often over almost impassable roads. His last visit to Northern Ohio was during the time of the cholera, in 1832. Before leaving Cincinnati, on a visit to Michigan, he had been ailing. Rallying somewhat, and pre- pared to die amidst his labors if God so willed, he proceeded on his long journey, visiting all the missions along the route,, preaching, catechising, and giving confirmation. In these missions difficulties of all kinds met him in con- stant succession ; some persons imploring the aid of the Bishop, some to have churches erected, others to have the clergymen provided for. Much good was done in this last episcopal visit. Upon the lakes the Bishop assisted those dying of cholera. He himself fell so sick at Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., that it was feared he would not recover. But he rallied and soon resumed his return journey to Detroit, and thence through Northern Ohio to Canton, where he arrived, September 24, completely exhausted, with renewed 50 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF symptoms of the dreadful scourge that visited the entire country and counted its Victims by the thousand. He was attended with the greatest and most tender care. Next morning he said Mass and wrote several letters. The stage arriving at the door of the pastoral residence of Father Henni, he bade him good-bye and went on to Wooster, intending to go thence to Cincinnati. Arriving at Wooster about 8 P. M., he was taken from the stage with the fatal seal of cholera on him. He was brought to a hotel where he expired at noon, Wednesday, September 26, 1832. Before sunset of the same day a mound marked the resting place of his remains. It seemed he had a foreboding of his death, for wherever he passed he said: "This is my last visit." In one of his letters he wrote that he would visit two or three congre- gations in the neighborhood of St. Joseph's, Perry county^ which would be the term of his mission, and that thence he would return to Cincinnati, because his strength failed him, but added, as was his custom, that he would do so : Deo volente, quia homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. Father Henni was at once informed of the bishop's dying condition, but on arriving at Wooster a few hours later, he found him buried. In February, 1833, Bishop Fenwick's remains were taken to Cincinnati and there entombed under the old cathedral- They now repose beneath the altar of the present St. Peter's cathedral, Cincinnati. Bishop Fenwick was deservedly esteemed for his many noble qualities. He was a man of great simplicity of charac- ter. Delicate in health, he nevertheless devoted himself unsparingly as priest and bishop to the work within his sphere. The Catholics of Ohio owe him a debt of gratitude as the founder of the Church in this state. " By his talents and amiable deportment he had gained himself many admirers and many personal friends. As a herald of the Cross he was always at his post, faithful, vigilant and indefatigable. In the ordinary walks of life he was dig- BISHOP FENWICK. 51 nified, affable and unostentatious. * * * He was truly the apostle of Ohio." i.) " Though not gifted with great natural talents, he possessed a peculiar tact for winning souls to Christ. * * * Frank, open and sincere by nature, and an American himself, he possessed an instinctive talent for deal- ing with Americans, whether Catholic or Protestant. Multi- tudes of the latter were converted to Catholicity through his agency." 2.) 1) Catholic Almanac, 1848 ; 2) Spalding's "Sketches of Kentucky," p. 155. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -OF THE — MOST REV. JOHN B. PURCELL, D. D., SECOND BISHOP OF CINCINNATI, 1833-1850. FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF CINCINNATI, 1850-1883. John Baptist Purcell, a native of Ireland, was born at Mallow, county Cork, February 26, 1800. After completing a collegiate course in his native country he set out for the United States, landing at Baltimore in his eighteenth year. For a short time he held a position as private tutor, but desirous of devoting himself to the priesthood, he entered Mt. St. Mary's College, at Emmittsburg, Maryland. Showing talent much above the ordinary, he was sent to the famous Sulpician Seminary, Paris, to complete his theological studies where he was ordained priest May 23, 1826. Shortly after his ordination 'he returned to the United States, and was appointed president and one of the professors of Mt. St. Mary's College, of which he was an alumnus. For seven years he held this important position when the Holy See appointed him suc- cessor to the lamented Bishop Fenwick, as second Bishop of Cincinnati. As such he was consecrated, in his thirty-fourth year, at Baltimore, by Archbishop Whitfield, October 13, 1833. After attending the Second Provincial Council of Baltimore, held a few days after his consecration, he set out for Cincin- nati, arriving there November 14, 1833. In his episcopal city he found but one church, a college in embryo, (the Athenjeum, on Sycamore street), and an orphan asylum. His diocese comprised the whole of Ohio and part of Kentucky. In Ohio there were at this time but sixteen churches, attended by fourteen priests, a Dominican convent in Perry county, and a Catholic population estimated at about six thousand souls. j '%?«■* :Mijst Kj;vj{kknii John ]'.ai-tist I'i-rciuj., D. 1). BISHOP PURCELL. 53 Within the limits of the present Diocese of Cleveland — with which this sketch will chiefly deal, so far as the labors of Bishop Purcell are concerned — there were but three churches, viz.: one near Dungannon, and one each in Canton and Tiffin. These churches were attended by two priests. Revs. J. M. Henni and Edmund Quinn, stationed respectively at Canton and Tiffin. To visit his scattered flock Bishop Purcell could not avail himself of the convenience of travel now enjoyed, nor the hospitality now offered. On country wagons, by stage-coach- and on horseback he covered great distances over bad roads' through primeval forests and across unbridged streams, often partaking of primitive country hotel fare, and often taking shelter in log huts. But in spite of difficulties, hardships and frequent privations, he cheerfully and often made his diocesan visitations, instructing, consoling and encouraging the faith- ful committed to his charge. His episcopal visits were always red-letter days for clergy and laity. His cheerful disposition and buoyant spirit spread sunshine and joy wherever he went, and his sermons attracted by their brilliancy and eloquence. His first visit to Northern Ohio was made during the months of June and July, 1834, viz.: Dungannon, Canton, Louisville, Canal Fulton, Chippewa (Doylestown), Wooster, Tiffin and McCutchenville. During the months of July, August and September, 1835, he visited, Dungannon, New Lisbon, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Falls, Randolph, Louisville and Canton, and in 1836, Tiffin and Fremont. June 7, 1840, he preached in Cleveland at the dedication of the Church of Our Lady of the Lake, known later and since as St. Mary's on the ■" Flats," Bishop de Forbin-Janson, on a visit from France, performing the dedicatory ceremony. During the same month Bishop Purcell also visited Liverpool, Chippewa, Canton and East Liverpool. November, 1840, he again came to Northern Ohio, visiting Findlay, Glandorf, and Ft. Jennings. In 1841, during the months of June, July, August and November, he made an extensive tour through Northern Ohio, visiting the following places : Norwalk, Peru, Shelby, Shelby Settlement, Tiffin, McCutchenville, Wolf's Creek 54 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF (New Riegel), Sandusky, Fremont, LaPrairie, Perrysburg, Toledo, Canton, Louisville, Randolph, Akron, Chippewa, Wooster, Canal Fulton, Massillon and Bethlehem. In all these places he administered confirmation, and in many he dedicated churches or laid cornerstones for such. In June and July, 1846, he visited Sandusky, Cleveland, Peru, Nor- walk. Tiffin, New Riegel, Toledo, Dungannon and Wooster, and in August, 1847, Wooster, Canal Fulton, Youngstown and Akron. At Akron he performed his last episcopal func- tion in this part of his jurisdiction, ordaining to the priesthood, August 5, 1847, the Rev. J. Vincent Conlan. In 1834 he sent a band of Redemptorist Fathers to North- ern Ohio to take charge of missions in Huron, Erie and Seneca counties, with residence at Peru, near Norwalk. They were succeeded in 1844 by the Sanguinist Fathers, who had been invited by him in Europe, the year previous, to come and labor in the Ohio mission. Finding his diocesan work far beyond his strength, he petitioned the Holy See for a division of his vast spiritual territory. In compliance with his wish the division was made in 1847, and all that part of Ohio, north of forty degrees and forty-one minutes, erected into a separate diocese, with the Episcopal See at Cleveland, and the Rt. Rev. Amadeus Rappe as its first bishop. When Bishop Rappe took possession of his See he found forty-two churches, fourteen secular priests and seven Sanguinists under his jurisdiction, an increase of thirty-nine churches and nineteen priests since 1833, when Bishop Purcell was appointed to the See of Cincinnati. Although thus relieved of nearly one-third of his former jurisdiction, Bishop Purcell's zeal and labor did not diminish ; on the contrary they grew and spread. Catholicity under his direction made wonderful strides in Central and Southern Ohio. With astonishing rapidity churches multiplied, congre- gations sprang into existence, religious, charitable and educa- tional institutions were established, all demanding and receiv- ing his watchful care and paternal guidance. In 1850 Bishop Purcell was made Archbishop, with the BISHOP PURCELL. 55 Bishops of Louisville, Vincennes, Detroit and Cleveland as his suffragans. Under his direction Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West was opened near Cincinnati in 1852. Indefatigably he labored for the spread of religion, and everywhere throughout his dio- cese evidence of his zeal and of the steady growth of the Church could be seen. In 1853 Archbishop Purcell was relieved of the charge of Eastern Kentucky, in the erection of the Diocese of Coving- ton. In 1868 he asked for further relief from constantly increasing work. The result was the erection of the Diocese of Columbus, comprising the southeastern part of Ohio. The first bishop was the Rt. Rev. S. H. Rosecrans, who, as coadjutor since 1862, had lightened his labors. In 1869 the Archbishop made the last of his many visits to Rome, this time to attend the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, which opened in December of that year. He took a prominent part in its debates, notably in those connected with the definition of the infallibility of the Pope. He belonged to the inopporiunists, but after the council defined papal infallibility to be of faith, he yielded assent. Shortly after his advent to Cincinnati, in 1833, the rapid growth of Catholicity in that city, as in fact throughout the country, aroused bigotry and fanatical alarm. He was chal- lenged by a Protestant preacher, named Alexander Campbell, to a public debate on Catholic doctrine. This was in 1837. For many days the disputants held sway over large and inter- ested audiences. The brilliant young bishop vanquished his opponent and gained for himself the name of a profound theologian, accurate historian and keen debater. He was a facile and pleasing writer, as his many learned pastorals will attest. He also contributed largely to the columns of the Catholic Telegraph, and had the habit of writ- ing descriptions of his episcopal visitations, which will prove a storehouse of valuable material for the future historian of Catholicity in Ohio.* *See Catholic Miscellanea, in the last section of this volume. 66 BISHOP PURCELL. In connection with Archbishop Purcell's biography it becomes our duty to mention the clouded ending of an other- wise brilliant career, a singularly pure and unselfish life spent for God and His Church. We refer to his financial disaster, of which Dr. John Gilmary Shea, in his recent work, " The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States" pages 107 and 108, writes as follows : "Early in 1879 financial affairs which had been managed by the Very Rev. Edward Purcell, ended in bankruptcy. How it all came about must ever remain a mystery. The venerable Archishop, as ignorant as a child of the system and its extent, at once came forward and assumed the whole responsibility of his brother's operations. This only compli- cated matters and raised a host of legal questions as to his ability, in character of trustee for the Catholic church in his ■diocese, to assume an individual indebtedness contracted by another ; and if he could, it became necessary to decide what property became liable for it — that owned by the diocese, or the property of every Catholic church and institution in the diocese. If the debt became a just charge on the whole diocese and all its churches and institutions, it was a debt on every Catholic, which he was bound in conscience to pay. This extreme view no theologian or canonist was found to take. " The debts were at first supposed not to exceed a quarter of a million dollars, and attempts were made to meet or reduce it materially by subscriptions ; but when it was found that the indebtedness reached nearly four millions of dollars, the attempt was abandoned as hopeless. The Very Rev. Edward Purcell died broken-hearted. The Archbishop made an assignment of all property in his name, and long litigations began. The,courts ultimately decided that the congregations were not liable except for moneys actually advanced to them." In May, 1880, Archbishop Purcell retired to Brown county, Ohio, near the Ursuline Convent, where he lingered in illness brought on in the early part of 188 1 by a paralytic stroke, till his death, July 4, 1883. ^^ s?^ 4\ '^: W' . 1 v*- »<.. RiCHT Revp;rKki) AmadKUS Rappk, D. D, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH / — OF THE — RIGHT REV. AMADEUS RAPPE, D. D., FIRST BISHOP OF CLEVELAND. OCTOBER, 1847 — AUGUST, 1870. Louis Amadeus Rappe, first Bishop of Cleveland, was born February 2, 1801, at Audrehem, a village near Ardres (dis- trict of St. Omer), Department of Pas-de-Calais, France. His parents, Eloi Rappe and Marie Antoinette Rappe, nee Noel, belonged to the peasantry and were highly esteemed for their probity, industry and Christian virtues. They had a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. The subject of this sketch was the youngest of the sons. Of his four broth- ers, three were killed in the Napoleonic wars, the fourth died unmarried. Destined by his father to the life of a farmer, Louis Amadeus received but an elem.entary education, such as the village school afforded. Trained by his parents to habits of order and industry, he soon acquired a practical knowledge of husbandry and thus became very useful to his father in the management of the farm. He took delight in his avocation ; was passionately fond of horses, a liking which he retained all his life. He was also fond of youthful sports and athletic games. Sparkling with wit and cheerfulness, he was a general favorite with the young people of his native village. His career seemed well marked out and his family friends did not doubt his vocation — that of a farmer. But God was there, with His secret and admirable designs ! One evening, toward the end of the year 1819, when Amadeus ■was in his 19th year, and the family were gathered around o8 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF the domestic hearth, the father expressed a regret that not one of his sons had a vocation to the priesthood. He said he had always hoped to see one of them at the altar, this wish having been the dream of his life, but that now it was not to be realized. Amadeus, struck by this remark, answered : ■'Well, father, if you wish it I will become a priest." It need hardly be said that this answer was not taken by the family in a serious light. A general laughter ensued, so diametri- cally opposed to that sacred calling were his well-known tastes. On the following morning he went to his father, saying: " Father, the remark which I made to you last evening is serious. It occupied my thoughts all night ; I have seriously reflected upon it, and wish to be a priest." The sentiment thus made known to the father, and to the mother, consent was readily granted, but not without doubt and fear lest their son might not persevere. They were all the more apprehensive of his firmness and perseverance, as one of his older brothers began the course of studies for the sacred ministry, but failed to reach the altar. Soon the necessary preparations for the departure of young Amadeus were made. He went to Furnes, a small village about six miles from Boulogne, to the pastoral residence of one of his relatives, the Rev. Mr. Noel, who was parish priest of the place. Our young aspirant to the sacred ministry took his' first Latin lesson from this venerable priest, under whose wise direction he seriously reflected on his vocation, which as he acknowledged was put to a severe test for the first few months. October, 1820, he entered the college at Boulogne> then under the direction of the celebrated Abbe Haffreingue. As he was taller and older than his fellow students, he was given charge of one of the studyrooms, an office delicate, and at times difficult, but filled by him with kindness and pru- dence. Even at this epoch in his life he showed a keen sense of duty and a firm will. One of his relatives having seen him during a vacation full of mirth and glee, the life of the circles in which he moved, noticed that at college he Was serious and sedate, and so told him, Amadeus replied, "When vacation is over I shut up all my mirth in a box, to be Opened only the BISHOP RAPPE. 59 next vacation." As he was of a most cheerful disposition, it must have cost him no little effort to do so. In 182 1 he received tonsure at the hands of Cardinal de la Tour d' Auvergne Lauragais, Bishop of Arras. Having com- pleted the collegiate course of studies in 1826, he went to the Diocesan seminary at Arras, receiving minor orders on December 22, of the following year. May 21, 1828, he was ordained subdeacon, and on December 20 of the same yeari •deacon. The same prelate who gave him tonsure also ordained him to the priesthood on March 14, 1829.* The parish of Wismes, a small village near Fauquembergues, dis- trict of St. Omer, was his first appointment. There he remained till 1834, meanwhile also attending a neighboring mission church. The chaplaincy of the Ursuline Convent at Boulogne-sur-Mer having become vacant and the sisters knowing the sterling worth, indomitable zeal, and great pru- dence of Father Rappe, were desirous of having him appointed their chaplain and spiritual director. Mother Ursula, the superioress of the community, petitioned his bishop to this effect, and her request was granted. Father Rappe remained chaplain to the Ursulines of Boulogne from January, 1834, till May, 1840. During this tiine he read with intense interest the " Annals of the Propagation of the Faith," which excited in him an ardent desire to devote himself to the American mission. In 1839 Bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, passed through London on his way from America to Europe, and whilst in that city he was requested by the parents of three young English ladies to take them. under his protection as far as the Ursuline Convent at Boulogne. There he met the zeal- ous chaplain of the community, and future missionary, Father Rappe, to whom he made known the spiritual destitution of his large diocese. Rev. Amadeus Rappe then offered to go with him to America. This he did, however, with great 'diffidence, owing to his age, thirty-nine, which he felt would be no small hindrance in adapting himself to the life of a mis- sionary in a strange land. Another great obstacle for him *The (acts in connection witli Bishop Rappe's home, college and seminary life were furnished the writer July, 1888, by a gentleman intimately acquainted with the lamented prelate, his cousin— Dr. Dewulf, now residing in Paris. 60 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF was the fact that he was unacquainted with the English' language. But he would allow none of these obstacles tO' hinder him from entering upon the toilsome and self-sacrific- ing life of a missionary. After receiving the necessary per- mission from his Ordinary to leave his diocese, and bidding farewell to his charge, which deeply regretted to lose him, who was to them a wise counselor and prudent director, he set sail for America, September, 1840, arriving at Cincinnati the following month. He was immediately sent by Bishop Purcell to Chillicothe in order to learn English. Mr. Marshall Anderson, a convert and most estimable gentleman, was his- teacher. But Father Rappe found it very difficult to master even the rudiments of the language ; in a few months, how- ever, he was able to speak it sufficiently well to make himself understood, though his pronunciation always remained defective. About 1836 the present flourishing city of Toledo was founded. Catholics there were very few in number and had neither church nor priest ; Tiffin was the nearest place whence sick calls were attended. The Miami and Erie canal was being built about that time, and there came quite a large influx of Catholic laborers who settled along the line of the canal and the Maumee river. There was much sickness then, the dread Maumee fever undermining the strongest constitu- tion, and hurrying many of its victims to an early grave. There was also much intemperance among the laborers, who spent their hard earned money in drink and allowed their families to want. To this uncultivated and uninviting field of labor Father Rappe was sent about six months after his arrival at Cincinnati. His " parish limits " extended from Toledo to- the Indiana state line and as far south as Allen county. From the summer of 1841 till the spring of 1846 his labors, priva- tions and difficulties of all kinds were indeed trying ; he never lost courage, but full of missionary zeal and self-sacrifice- he labored faithfully among his people. It was here that he first saw the terrible effects of intemperance, which so filled him with a horror of this vice that he fought it then and during" the remainder of his life by word and example. Thousands bless his memory for the energetic measures he took in rescu- BISHOP RAPPE. 61 ing them from a drunkard's grave. For five years, 1841-46, Father Rappe was alone in this section of the state, but his work grew beyond his strength. Hence Bishop Pufcell sent him a co-laborer in the person of Father Louis de Goesbriand, present Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, who arrived at Toledo ■in January, 1846. At that time Toledo and the surrounding ■country, even as far west as the state line, were full of malaria -of the most malignant type. Bishop de Goesbriand, in his reminiscences of Bishop Rappe's missionary life, says: "At certain seasons it was impossible to meet a healthy-looking person, and frequently entire families were sick and unable to help one another. Apart from the terrible malarial fever, we were occasionally visited by such epidemics as erysipelas, and towards the end of 1847 we saw ship-fever stricken emigrants landing on the docks, to die among strangers a few hours after, arrival." After the Miami and Erie canal was finished many of the laborers left with their families to seek homes in a more healthy climate. As the majority of them were Cath- olics, Father Rappe's missions were greatly weakened. Very few Catholic families remained between Toledo and Defiance. Mass was said, however, each Sunday in Toledo and fre- quently at Maumee City, and on week days at Providence, Defiance, Poplar Ridge, and occasionally at Fremont and La Prairie. The roads were often almost impassable, but Father Rappe and his faithful companion found neither bad roads nor the inclemency of the weather a sufficient obstacle to prevent them from visiting each of their scattered missions at the time appointed. Li his intercourse with his people. Father Rappe was most affable, and he knew well how to win their respect and confidence. He was acquainted with every family, and knew every member of each family. He had a special gift to teach catechism, and would spend weeks in a settlement pre- paring a few children for the reception of the sacraments. During this time of preparation he would instruct the children for hours each day, and always managed to rivet their atten- tion. He was ever watchful of the spiritual welfare of the adult portion of his flock, urging them to frequent confession and a regular attendance at Mass. 62 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF To assist him in instructing the children at Toledo he secured several Sisters of Notre Dame from Cincinnati. They were of the band oi Religeuses that had come with him from Namur, Belgium, in 1840, and established a branch of their community in Cincinnati. He secured a house, near the pres- ent site of St. Francis de Sales' church, Toledo, which was fitted up as a convent and select school for the little band of sisters that shared with him the trials and hardships of missionary life. They remained at Toledo from 1846 to 1848,^ when owing to lack of support they were recalled to Cincin- nati. Bishop Purcell finding the labor of properly attending to his vast diocese, comprising the state of Ohio, too much for him, petitioned the Holy See for a division of his jurisdiction. Cleveland was considered as the most fit city in the northern part of the state for an Episcopal See, and hence was so des- ignated. Father Rappe, the zealous missionary of the Mau- mee, was chosen as the first bishop of this new diocese. Although the Papal Bulls to this effect were issued April 23, 1847, they did not reach Cincinnati till the following August. The fact of their arrival was published in the Catholic Tele- graph, September 2, 1847, ^^ follows : " The Bulls for the consecration of Rt. Rev. Mr. Rappe for the new See of Cleveland have arrived. We very sincerely congratulate the clergy and congregations in the northern part of Ohio on this appointment ; if zeal for the glory of God and utter disregard of self, a blameless life, and fervent piety can qualify a man for the Episcopacy, we know no one more likely to see his hopes realized than the bishop-elect of Cleve- land. This is his character amongst those who know him." Father Rappe was consecrated at Cincinnati, October 10, 1847, by Bishop Purcell, assisted by Bishop Whelan, of Wheeling, Virginia. Two days after his consecration, and just before starting for Cleveland, he published his first pas- toral letter, which is given here in full. It portrays clearly the apostolic zeal and devotedness to the cause of God on the part of Bishop Rappe. BISHOP RAPPE. 63 AMADEUS. BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND APPOINTMENT OF THE APOS- TOLIC SEE BISHOP OF CLEVELAND. To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Cleveland Grace Unto Yon, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ: VENERABLE BRETHREN OF THE CLERGY AND BELOVED BRETHREN OF THE LAITY ! Overwhelmed by the labors and solicitude which his extensive diocese required, and full of zeal for the welfare of the flock which he has governed with unsurpassed wisdom and success, the Rt. Rev. John Baptist, Bishop of Cincinnati, humbly supplicated the late Provincial Council to establish another Episcopal See in the northern part of the state of Ohio. This request was granted, and the city of Cleveland has been chosen to be the See of the new diocese. The Roman Court has approved and sanctioned these proceedings, and His Holiness, Pius IX, at the request of the Council, has elevated me to the Episcopacy. Had I consulted my fears I would have immediately declined accepting a station so encompassed with difficulties, but yielding to the voice of authority, and thereby made strong by the favor of the Almighty, I consented to forego my weakness and inability^ to rely solely on Him who can strengthen the weak, and pre- pare them for the labor. " Go, and teach all nations : behold I am with you all days until the consummation of the world.'' That divine mission given by Jesus Christ to His Apostles, has been confided to me by their successors and the Apostolic See. Invested with this sacred power, and comforted by the grace of the episcopal office, I feel encouraged to work for the glory of our common Master and the welfare of our immortal souls. 64 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF It is indeed consoling, venerable brethren of the clergy, that in discharging the functions of a ministry so sublime and perilous, I will be seconded by your devotion, your talents> your virtues, and your experience. For several years I have fought in your ranks, shared your toils, admired your zeal, and witnessed with joy the success that crowned your efforts. It was then one of my greatest pleasures, whilst associated with you in the ministry, to call you friends, and now, placed at your head, as the first sentinel of the camp of Israel, I desire more than ever to be regarded as your friend and father, rather than your superior. My happiness will be henceforth to have part in your labors, to direct your efforts, to alleviate your cares, and to console your sorrows. Our number is small, but let us pray to the Lord to send more laborers into His vineyard, and whilst- waiting with patience His answer to our supplications, let our union, our piety, our prudence and zeal make amends for the deficiency. In the daily morning meditations we will find a divine fire which illumines and vivifies; the reading of the Holy Scriptures will furnish us with arms against our enemies, and be our comfort in tribula- tion. The works of the Fathers and the acts of the Councils, but particularly of the Councils of Baltimore, which are so appropriate to the circumstances and wants of our mission, will be a pure source from which we can draw sound doctrine and wisdom to direct us in the various exigencies of our ministry. Your spiritual necessities, beloved brethren of the laity, are not unknown to us; we wish to be intimately acquainted with your desires for the advancement of religion, and although we may be unable to provide resident pastors for every congregation, we will endeavor to console you in their absence by frequent visits, and by sending you, from time to time, faithful missionaries who will speak your language, and animate your piety. We sigh for the day when we will be able to appear amongst you, to bless you, to instruct you, and to be edified by your devotion. Many a time have we been moved by the constancy of your faith and the beauty of your example. BISHOP RAPPE. 65 What a consolation for a pastor to be surrounded by a faithful flock, anxious to diffuse on all sides the sweetness of the doc- trines of Jesus Christ. Those truly Catholic souls are His glory, and they give a powerful energy to His words. They are so many apostles before whose integrity and piety the demon of prejudice is passing away. The times are propi- tious ! The eminent virtues of our prelates and clergy, their eloquence in the pulpit, their polemical works, so marked by ability and clearness, the numerous conversions, both at home and abroad, conversions in which the finger of God is so visible, since they can not with reason be attributed to any worldly motive — all these circumstances directed by Divine Providence for the triumph of truth seem to have mitigated the violence of our dissenting brethren, and prepared the minds of the more learned portion of the community to examine and appreciate the divine excellence of our holy religion. It is for you, beloved brethren of the laity, to encourage this disposition to a sounder system. If the elo- quence of an upright life does not convert our opponents, at least it silences the hostility of the unwise and imprudent. It is thus that we can most efificaciously contribute to the propa- gation of that faith which has conquered the world. Console, beloved brethren of the laity, and help your pastors by the sanctity of your lives. Have but one mind, no matter what may be your nation, your language, your position in society. You are all the children of the same Father, the members of Jesus Christ, destined for the same inheritance. In order that you might preserve this sweet union of mind and heart, come often to the Sacred Table, to feed on the Bread of Life, to be strengthened by the God of charity. He will remind you that He loved you even to the shedding of His Blood, and therefore has the right to command that you love one another. Unite together every night in family worship, and the Lord will be amongst you. Observe punctually the Lord's day, and the laws of the Church and of the state, and educate your children in the fear and love of God. Do all in your power to provide for their instruction, orthodox and pious teachers. We beseech you also, beloved brethren, by the 66 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF mercy of Jesus Christ, to live soberly. Drunkenness, and the debaucheries which attend it, degrade man, disgrace the faith, and precipitate many into endless misfortunes. As for us, venerable fellow-laborers, we will all endeavor to be the models of the faithful in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity. Our mission is a glorious one, and our reward will be equally glorious if we live according to our sublime vocation. tAMADEUS, Bishop of Cleveland. Given at Cincinnati, October 12, 1847. Within a week after his consecration Bishop Rappe took possession of his diocese, comprising all that, portion of Ohio lying north of the southern limits of Columbiana, Stark, Wayne, Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Wyandot, Hancock, Allen and Van Wert counties; and containing forty-two churches, attended by twenty-one priests. There was then but one church in Cleveland, St. Mary's on the " Flats," which served as his cathedral, and but one priest, the Rev. Maurice Howard. January, 1848, Father Howard was sent to Tiffin, and Father de Goesbriand was appointed his successor and vicar-general. St. Mary's congregation was composed of English and German speaking Catholics, who had far out- grown their church when Bishop Rappe came to Cleveland. He succeeded in getting a German priest, by whom separate services were given to the German portion of the congrega- tion, thus tiding over the necessity of building another church at. that time. For several months the Bishop resided in a rented house, south of the Public Square ; but in ,1848 he bought a house on Bond street, which he made his episcopal residence. To supply the wants of the growing Catholic po'p- ulation, a frame building, 30x60, was erected on Superior street, a short distance east of Erie, near the site of the pres- ent cathedral, and next to the lots which Rev. Peter McLaugh- lin had bought in 1845 for church purposes. This frame building served several years as a " chapel of ease " for St. Mary's church, and as a parochial school, the first in the city. BISHOP RAPPE. 67 Folding doors cut off the sanctuary during school hours. This little church was commenced and finished in December, 1848. It was used for the first time on Christmas of same year, and hence was called the Church of the Nativity. Meanwhile Bishop Rappe had plans drawn and specifications made for a cathedral, to be erected on the northeast corner of Superior and Erie streets. Mr. Keily, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was the architect. The cornerstone was laid on Sunday, October 29, 1848, Bishop Timon, of Buffalo, preaching on the occasion. The cathedral was consecrated November 7, 1852. In 1849 the Bishop went to Europe for the purpose of securing priests for his diocese, and members of religious com- munities for schools and charitable institutions. He returned in August, 1850, bringing four priests, *), five seminarists, f), two Sisters of Charity, and six Ursuline nuns. Two years previous be had opened a seminary back of the episcopal residence on Bond street, with Father de Goesbriand as its first superior. Thither the seminarists, just arrived from France, were sent, some to complete their studies and one or two to be ordained shortly. During the Bishop's absence. Judge Cowles' mansion on Euclid avenue was bought for the Ursuline Sisters. It is the present Mother House of the Cleveland Ursulines. The sisters took possession of their new home on their arrival in Cleve- land, and almost immediately opened a select school and an academy. In 1851 the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary established St. Mary's Orphan Asylum for girls. The first building used for the purpose was located on St. Clair street, near Bond, Cleveland. Toward the end of 1853 the asylum was transferre4 to Harmon street, its present location. During the latter year Bishop Rappe opened St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum for boys on Monroe street, Cleveland, and placed it in charge of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine^ a community he had established. Thus the most pressing wants of the diocese were supplied. The Bishop now directed his attention to details of diocesan work, visiting every church * Kevs. C. M. Coquerelle, C. Evrard, A. Gelaszewski, and J. B. Mareaohal. t Messrs. L. F. D'Arcy, Z. Druon, L. Filiere, L. Molon, and N. Ponchel, €8 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF and station at frequent intervals, giving missions, administer- ing confirmation and preaching. Though constantly at work, either at home in his cathedral, or out in the diocese, he never showed signs of fatigue. Never satisfied with what he had already accomplished, he was always anxious to dp still more for the glory of God and the good of religion. He was specially solicitous for Catholic schools, and where it was within the range of possibility priests were obliged to estab- lish such in their respective parishes. He also established institutions in which charity in various forms might be dis- pensed, and to this end introduced the following female religious communities into the diocese, besides those already mentioned, viz.: the Grey Nuns (Smur-Grises) of Montreal, 1855 , the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1869, and the Little Sisters of the Poor, 1870. He also welcomed the Franciscans to the diocese in 1867, giving them charge of St. Joseph's •congregation, Cleveland, and two years later the Jesuits, to whom he entrusted St.. Mary's congregation, Toledo. Previous to 1865 Cleveland had no public hospital. As early as 1850, two French Sisters of Charity attempted to establish one on the West Side — then known as Ohio City- Their noble purpose failed for want of means, and so they returned to their native France the following year. In 1863, during the interstate war, then at its height of bloody carnage, many sick and wounded soldiers were sent to Cleve- land for medical treatment, but no provision had been made to receive and care for them. It was then that Cleveland realized the necessity of a hospital, which Bishop Rappe would long before have built had he had the means. He now saw a near realization of his long-cherished plan. He offered to build a hospital and provide efficient nurses, on condition the public would come to his assistance. This offer, was gladly accepted, and two years later (1865) Charity Hos- pital, costing about $75,000, was opened to the public, and placed in charge of the Sisters of Charity. In every good work Bishop Rappe was in the front ranks, never shirking his part, never refusing his aid or countenance. Though perhaps meeting with disappointment, or receiving insult for his BISHOP RAPPE. eO' pains, he never halted, but courageously went on in his work. He knew no such word z.?, fail. Time, incessant labor, and mental worry caused by opposi- tion, began to tell on him. His sight also began to fail him. He lost the use of his right eye and was in danger of losing" his sight entirely. In 1869 he attended the Vatican Council. Opposition and strife still growing, he felt it to be to the best interests of religion to resign the burden of the Episcopacy he had so long and patiently borne. His resignation as Bishop of Cleveland, tendered August 22, 1870, was accepted by the Holy See. When Bishop Rappe came to Cleveland in 1847 he found a sparsely settled diocese awaiting organization at his hands. He left it flourishing, well provided with priests, churches, schools and religious institutions. The episcopal city in 1847 had but one small church; in 1870 there were eleven, with as many, and mostly large, congregations. His work as a mis- sionary priest and as a missionary bishop, his burning zeal and noble self-sacrifice enshrine him in the history of the Church in the United States as an apostle of Catholicity in Ohio. In this connection, and in justice to the memory of Bishop Rappe, we place the following on record : Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of the Propaganda, in a letter sent to the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, May 8, 1885, referring to Bishop Rappe, says : " * * in ilia miserrima conspiratione contra episcopuin Clevelandenseni, praedecessorem Amplitudinis Tuae, in qua ille sanctiis et apostolicus senex falso * * accusabatur." Five years after Bishop Rappe resigned, the Holy See offered him another diocese, as appears from the subjoined letter addressed to Bishop Gilmour by the Rt. Rev. Bishop de Goesbriand : "Burlington, Vt., 21st December, 1884. Rt. Rev. R. Gilmour, Bishop of Cleveland: Rt. Rev., Dear Sir : " After consulting my records I find that Mgr. Roncetti, Ablegate of the Holy Father, arrived at Burlington, from 70 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF Portland, in company of Father Ubaldo Ubaldi, Very Rev. Father Quinn and Rev. Father O'Farrell, of New York, on Saturday evening, July 24th, 1875. The object of his visit was to see Rt. Rev. A. Rappe, whom he thought to be living in I^urlington, but who was living at St. Albans with Father Druon. " The Ablegate expressed himself disappointed in not meeting him. I remember distinctly that after inquiring con- cerning Bishop Rappe, he opened in my presence, and read with much attention, a letter of Cardinal Franchi to himself, and said to. me that he had been commanded to see Rt. Rev. A. Rappe, and authorized to offer him another diocese. The Ablegate left Burlington the next day and did not see Bishop Rappe. Whether or not he wrote to him I cannot tell, but it was certainly intended to speak to him of another See, for I remarked to Mgr. Roncetti, that the charge of a diocese would be too much for Bishop Rappe, who at that date must have been seventy-four years of age. What I have here written I am ready to swear to. tLOUIS, Bishop of Burlington, Vt." Dr. John Gilmary Shea in his recent work. The Catholic Hierarchy in the United States, (page 206,) referring to the resignation of Bishop Rappe, says : " Bishop Rappe had built up the diocese and might have been expected in his declining years to enjoy a happy old age amid the clerg}' and people whom he had guided as a faithful pastor for twenty [twenty-three] years, but this was not to be. An ungrateful opposition sprung up, calumny assailed even the venerable bishop, who with a broken heart resigned his See on the 22d of August, 1870, and retired to the diocese of his good friend Bishop de Goesbriand, of Burlington." In his Lilies of Deceased Bishops, Dr. Richard H. Clarke says of Bishop Rappe: "While attending the [Vatican] coun- cil his reputation was assailed unjustly at Rome, by calumnies forwarded from the very diocese he had served so well. This movement was limited to a few. * * * Rome, misled by BISHOP RAPPE. 71 calumnies, which it afterwards discovered and pronounced to be the fruits of a conspiracy, counseled his retirement. But he was never removed from his office as Bishop of Cleveland. On his return to Cleveland from Rome, he resigned his bishopric August 22, 1870. He had been Bishop of Cleveland not only in name but in deed, and left that title unsullied before God."*) * * " Since his death I have seen the original letter, one from the Holy See, in which the means resorted to, to compel his retirement from his See, are spoken of as a ' mis- erable conspiracy,' the accusations against him are character- ized as 'false' (falso accusabatur), and in which Bishop Rappe is himself spoken of as 'that holy and apostolic old man,' (ille sanctus et apostolicus senex).''t) At the Pontifical Requiem High Mass for the deceased prelates of the Cincinnati province, celebrated in St. Peter's cathedral, Cincinnati, March 7, 1882, at the time the Fourth Provincial Council of Cincinnati was in session, Bishop Dwen- ger, of Fort Wayne, preached the sermon on the occasion. Referring to Bishop Rappe, he spoke as follows : " * * We remember today the first Bishop of Cleveland, Amadeus Rappe. Having known him from the days of my childhood, it is today a pleasant duty to do justice to his memory. He was elevated to the episcopal dignity, not so much on account of brilliant talent, as on account of piety and apostolic zeal. It was an edifying sight to see the hard working apostolic bishop visit every church of his wonderfully growing diocese every year, preaching, giving confirmation, hearing confessions ; nothing was too bard for him ; nothing could tire him. When I conducted missions and forty hours' devotions, I sometimes would feel a delicacy to urge the priests to go in the confessionals ; but if the good bishop was present I never hesitated to ask him to hear confessions, if I knew there was a crowd. Witness the wonderful growth of the Diocese of Cleveland from the year 1847 to the time of his resignation. I do not deny that the saintly apostolic bishop, relying upon the advice and judgment of men whom he considered more learned than hiniself, did * Vol. 3, pp. 2«, 245 ; t Vol. 3, pp. 248, 249. 72 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF commit some error in the administration ; but the austere, hard-working, apostolic man was innocent of the cruel accusa- tions that were concocted against him, and saddened the last days of his life. I know how these accusations were con- cocted. I have spoken with the principal witness. I know he [the Bishop] was innocent. Beautiful were the words the good bishop used, when in 1870 he tendered his resignation to the Holy See : That for the good of his diocese he not only resigned his dignity, but also his good name ; that for the sake of peace and harmony he desired no vindication."* Immediately after his resignation he retired to St. Albans, Vermont, making his home with V. Rev. Father Druon, V. G.. until his saintly death, at St. Albans, September 8, 1877. He was incessantly engaged in his former and favorite work of giving missions and catechising the young throughout the Diocese of Burlington. He conducted a very successful mis- sion in the great parish church of Notre Dame, Montreal, preaching the entire course of sermons himself Immense audiences heard his eloquent and impressive sermons, and thousands took from him on that occasion the pledge of tot^l abstinence. He was the Father Mathew of Montreal. The last mission he gave was at Grand Isle, near St. Albans. Although seriously ailing of what proved to be his last illness, he closed the mission exercises, after one week of intense pain and suffering, September 7, 1877, the day before he died. On the same day he left for Milton, twelve miles from St. Albans. The following particulars of Bishop Rappe's fatal illness and death were given to the writer by the Very Rev. Father Druon, in a letter dated September 20, 1888 : "He arrived at Milton in the morning (Friday, Sept. 7th,) when Father Car- dinal telegraphed to me. I reached Milton at 12.30 P. M. and found Bishop Rappe a little delirious, though he had taken a good fish dinner. I brought him to St. Albans without any trouble, in the afternoon, when I telegraphed to Bishop de Goesbriand, who arrived in the evening. He heard his con- fession, for at that time he had entirely recovered his consci- *Catholic Telegraph, March 9, 1882. BISHOP kAPPE. 73 ousness. Dr. Fassfet, who came to see him in the afternoon, found him pretty well, so that he then had hope of his recovery. After the Bishop's arrival at St. Albans, when he was still a little delirious, he wished to start for his missions, and it was then that he said : ' / have a grand mission to per- form; I want to go to Cleveland by the zvay of Buffalo.' On the following day he fell into a comatose state from which he never recovered; he died peacefully that night at 11:30 o'clock. The last words he breathed were : ' / have prayed for my friends ; I have prayed for my enemies; now may God bless them all!' " Words of apostolic benediction, of forgiving and-ieving charity ; an echo of the Last Words on Calvary ! His remains were brought to Cleveland — to the city he loved so well. On arrival Thursday evening, September 13th, they were met by an immense concourse of people. Catholic and Protestant, all vieing to do honor to the dead Bishop whom in life they loved and venerated. By torchlight the immense funeral cortege passed from the Union Depot to the cathedral, where, on a magnificent catafalque, Bishop Rappe's mortal remains were placed in state for the night. Next day a. Pontifical Requiem Mass was celebrated by Bishop Dwenger, of Ft. Wayne. Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, preached the pane- gyric, pronouncing a beautiful tribute to the memory of the sainted dead. The remains of Bishop Rappe were then enclosed in a vault beneath the cathedral he had built, and beneath the alter at which for eighteen years he had offered up the divine sacrifice. Tuesday, October 16, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour preached in the cathedral at the Month's Mind of Bishop Kappe. From his sermon on that occasion we quote the following passage : " Bishop Rappe came as a missionary, he abided as a missionary, he persevered as 'a missionary. The same brave old missionary bishop ! Seeking his people far and wide; preaching incessantly to them from the pulpit, day after day and year after year; patiently awaiting them in the confessional; by the bed of the dying, consoling and exhort- ing, or by the side of youth, guiding and protecting, encour- aging or chiding, he was ever the same — the indefatigable 74 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF bishop; who knew no self, .only God and the things of God. Preaching retreats, erecting temples; founding convents, giving instruction in his universal character of missionary, he died as he had lived — a true soldier of Christ; a man of God. It is the most beautiful episode, perhaps; in the Catholic annals of the United States. His last public act was to celebrate Mass and as-k the prayers of 'the people for the grace of a happy death; his last words werean invocation of charity. It was meet that he should have been brought here to repose under the altar that he built; it was right that he should have come among his own for their' prayers — those to whom he had given a life's earnest labors. It was fitting that his virtues and his memory should be placed before the people whom he so loved, for whom he had so labored." In 1887, Bishop Gilmour authorized his vicar-general, Mgr. Boff, to raise a fund by collections in the churches of the dio- cese for a monument, to be erected to the memory of Bishop Rappe. The response of the diocese was most generous. Since then a fine marble bust of the deceased prelate has been executed and placed in the Bishop's residence, and in October, 1888, a life size statue in bronze of Bishop Rappe, in full pon- tifical robes, was cast in Rome. It will be permanently placed on a suitable pedestal, either in the vestibule of the cathedral* or on the cathedral grounds facing Superior street. Few men on the missions of America ever excelled Bishop Rappe in the line of his work. Untiring in zeal, patient in hardships, generous, unselfish, no labor seemed to weary or exhaust him. Tall and wiry, quick and elastic in motion, good his aim, suffering and sorrow the objects of his charity, he lived for religion and his kind. Ill-versed in English, because learned late in life, defective in early education, yet by nature's gifts and his own energy of character, he ranked as an orator of more than ordinary powers. His wont was to preach thrice every Sunday — frequently four and five times — always to a different audience, and often in churches miles distant from each other. He was great as a missionary rather than as a bishop, and excelled as a pioneer who explored and out-lined, * It is now (1889) temporarily placed in the cathedral vestibule. BISHOP RAPPE. 75 leaving to others to shape and consolidate. A lover of his native land, he gave not only his allegiance but his most ardent support to his adopted country. A true patriot, a Christian man, tolerant of dissent, conceding to others what he asked for hipisejf—j-religipus apd civil liberty — he died at the ripe old age of seventy-six, thirty years of which he had spent as priest and bishop on the missions of Ohio. He died amid the tears of his people, and the respect of his fellow citizens, with the weill-merited reputation of a life spent for -God and the good of his fellowmen. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH — OF THE — RIGHT REV. RICHARD GILMOUR, SECOND AND" PRESENT BISHOP OF CLEVELAND, SINCE APRIL, 1872. Richard Gilmour was the only child of John and Marion- (Callander) Gilmour. He was born in the city of Glasgow, Scot- land, Sept. 28, 1824. His parents were in comfortable circum- stances and strict Scotch covenanters. In 1829, when Rich- ard was in his fifth year, they emigrated to Nova Scotia, but a few years later moved to Pennsylvania and settled on a farm near Latrobe, where their son attended the district schools. Not satisfied with the training there received, he made every effort to improve his mind by home reading. His love for books was fostered by his parents, who gave him every facility in this regard their means afforded. With his studious habits and retentive memory, he soon acquired a knowledge of general literature, history and mathematics^ much beyond that of boys of his age. He also gained consid- erable proficiency in music, which in later years came him in good stead, and was indirectly the means that brought him into the Catholic Church. After completing the branches- taught in the common schools his parents sent him to Phila- delphia, there to attend the more advanced schools. At this time he was in his eighteenth year. The Rev. Patrick Rafferty was then stationed at Philadelphia as pastor of St. Francis'" Church, (Fairmount,) located near the school which young Richard attended. In this church was an organ on which Father Rafferty kindly allowed him to practice during the week. Father Rafferty's earnest and withal kindly ways won the heart of Richard so much that his inbred prejudice against Right Ruvkrend Richard Gii^jiour, Ii. D. BISHOP GILMOUR. 77 the Catholic clergy yielded sufficiently to permit him to entertain a sincere esteem for this good priest. This esteem soon ripened into the closer relation of friendship. Occasion- ally he attended the Sunday services held by Father Raffertyi whose sermons struck him as clear, pointed and instructive. Richard, naturally of an inquiring mind, began of his own -accord to direct his attention to the study of Catholic doctrine, which for him had been thus far a sealed book. All his read- ing was now turned in that direction. Finally, convinced in his own mind that he could no longer conscientiously profess and believe as he had been trained to in his childhood, he went to Father Rafferty for further instructions. Two years after he had made the acquaintance of this priest, and after calmly reflecting on the important step, he was received into the Church by his friend Father Rafferty. His parents were indeed much surprised at this, but they had the good sense not to interfere with what the son honestly believed in this important matter to be his duty. In fact, they followed his •example ; first his mother and sonie years after her his father. Richard was now in his twentieth year, and felt he must choose his role in the drama of life. After calm reflection, aided by the advice of his spiritual guide, Father Rafferty, he resolved to enter the priesthood. To fit himself for this impor- tant step, he entered Mount St. Mary's College and Seminary^ Emmittsburg, Md., July, 1846, where by his ecclesiastical spirit, earnestness of purpose and diligence in study he soon won the esteem of his superiors and the respect of his fellow students. As an evidence of the confidence reposed in him he was appointed prefect of the collegians and professor of the higher mathematics within one year after entering Mount St. Mary's. These positions he held till the end of his seminary course. Owing to the fact that he was far advanced in his studies before entering college, he completed the collegiate course two years later (1848), when he received the degree of master of arts. At the completion of the theological course he was received by Archbishop Purcell for the Diocese of Cincinnati, and was ordained priest by him in the cathedral -of that city, August 30, 1852. His first field of missionary 78 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF labor, to which he was sent in September of the same year,, embraced Portsmouth, as his place of residence, Ironton,Vinton and Gallipolis, besides a number of missions and stations in the neighborhood and in northeastern Kentucky and West Vir- ginia. In all these places he labored with zeal, but not with- out encountering many hardships and difficulties of the most trying kind. His was the lot of the pioneer missionary, borne- with patience, but crowned with success. In April, 1857, he was appointed successor to Rev. James F. Wood (the late Archbishop of Philadelphia), as pastor of St. Patrick's church, Cincinnati. Here his administrative qualities and pastoral zeal had full sway, and well did he come up to the expecta- tions of Archbishop Purcell. During his pastorate St. Patrick's grew and flourished; under his direction a fine school building" was erected, the parochial school system was brought to a high degree of perfection, and all else pertaining to the spirit- ual and temporal welfare of his charge was wrought with most gratifying results. Feeling the need of some respite from the incessant strain in connection with pastoral work, done unremittingly since his ordination, and desirous of devoting some time to literary pursuits, so congenial to his taste, he asked for and obtained a professorship in Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati. But his valuable services as a pastor were not long to be dispensed with, as he remained at the seminary only a little more than a year — April, 1868, to July, 1869. He was called to fill a vacancy in the important and at the same time disturbed parish of St. Joseph's, Da3Hon. His prudent management and buiness tact soon brought things to rights in this new field of labor,' so that in 1872, when he was called to the high and responsible position he now holds, St. Joseph's congrega- tion, Dayton, was left by him in a most prosperous condition. The Diocese of Cleveland was without a bishop since August, 1870. Factions had done disastrous work, and the diocese had become a by-word throughout the country. Whom to appoint under these difficult circumstances as successor to good Bishop Rappe, who had been made the victim of faction and discord — a man loved by his people and universally respected by BISHOP GILMOUR. • ■ 79 those not of the Fold — was a question not so easily answered. Finally, after much deliberation, Rome decided to appoint from the several candidates presented by the Bishops of the province of Cincinnati, the Rev. Richard Gilmour as the one best fitted for this most difficult position. Father Gilmour well knew what was asked of him when made acquainted with his appointment. But trusting in God, and not shirking from duty where and when duty called, he obeyed the call and accepted the burden. He was consecrated Bishop of Cleve- land by Archbishop Purcell in the cathedral at Cincinnati, April 14, 1872. A few days later he took possession of his cathedral church at Cleveland, thus relieving Very Rev. E. Hannin, who had filled the office of Administrator of the dio- cese since August, 1870. Cares, difficulties and trials were again his lot, but in a greater degree and of graver form than when first he became a priest. Within his sphere of office he had contentions to meet and opposition to encounter which came from the same sources that opposed the administrations of Bishop Rappe, and Very Rev. Father Hannin, and which taxed all his prudence and energy. From without he was held in disfavor by the non-Catholic friends of the revered Bishop Rappe. This disfavor was intensified when Bishop Gilmour published his first pastoral letter, March, 1873. In it he fearlessly discussed and defended the citizen rights of Catholics, who had till then been looked upon as " hewers of wood and drawers of water," and seemingly took that position rather than that of equals of their non-Catholic fellow citizens. In the same letter he also explained and defended the paro- chial school system and insisted on its acceptance by his people, many of whom had thus far opposed it. For these bold and fearless utterances of views he was fiercely attacked by the local press and pulpit, as well as by the press at large. But in spite of assault, calumny and misrepresentation he pursued the path of duty as he saw it and forced the public to acknowledge, at least, that he cared not for public opinion, if it ran counter to what he considered himself bound to do and say. Meanwhile the strain of incessant work and care told on 80 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF his constitution. June 24, 1874, while attending the com- mencement exercises at St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana, he fell seriously ill of nervous prostration. For two years he was unable to attend to the affairs of his diocese, and for months was at the brink of death. His physicians ordered him to take absolute rest, and directed he should go to southern France for his health, which he did. June i, 1876, he returned to Cleveland, to the great joy of his people, who received him with an ovation of welcome.. Though not fully restored to health he resumed by degrees his episcopal duties and gradually regained his former strength and vigor. In 1877 he began to systematize the business affairs of his diocese ; had all the deeds of church property indexed and plats made of every parcel of church land ; blank forms and registers covering all the details of diocesan and parochial affairs were introduced, so that within a few years the Diocese of Cleveland took front rank with the best regulated dioceses of the country for its thorough system and order. His jurisdiction embraces the whole of Northern Ohio, viz.: all the territory north of the southern limits of the counties of Columbiana, Stark, Wayne, Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Wyandot, Allen and Van Wert, thirty-six counties in all. There are at present (Sept. i, 1887,) 22$ churches in the diocese, 187 priests, secular and regular, 126 parochial schools, 7 orphan asylums, besides a number of other charitable and religious institutions, all requiring and receiving his careful supervision. The clergy is a most zealous, hard-working body of men, co-operating with the Bishop in all that pertains to the best interests of the diocese. The laity, numbering upwards of 200,000, is in harmony with Bishop and clergy, generously responding to every call made by faith or charity. All in all. Bishop Gilmour is at the head of a diocese second to none in the United States in point of organization and Catholic vigor and strength. Above was remarked the disfavor in which Bishop Gilmour was held by the non-Catholic citizens of Cleveland for his public utterances. This has been thoroughlychanged. Tilli88i he never had an opportunity offered him of addressing his fel- BISHOP GILMOUR. 81 low-citizens as such. His first appearance in public as a citizen was on the occasion of the Garfield meeting held in the Public Square, July 4, 1881, when the citizens of Cleveland assembled to give expression of sympathy with the assassinated presi- dent, then at the point of death. To most of that vast audience the Bishop was in person a stranger. After his speech, most eloquent and patriotic. Bishop Gilmour gained and ever since has held the esteem and respect of Cleveland's citizens. At the congress of churches, which held its sessions in Cleveland, Ohio, May, 1886, he was invited to speak. The subject assigned him, "Religion in the Public Schools," was treated in a thoughtful and masterly manner, and he held his immense and varied audience spell-bound. The address was copied fully or in part by the leading journals of the country. Since 1881 he has been called upon repeatedly to speak in public, always receiving a most respectful hearing, even on the part of those who dissent from his views. In the Church he is esteemed a thoughtful and prudent prelate. In the Fourth Provincial Council of Cincinnati, and Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, he took a prominent part in the deliberations. In the summer of 1885 he was delegated by the Archbishops of this country to go to Rome in the intere.sts of the decrees of the Baltimore council, sent there for review and approval. He had been there three years pre- vious on his official visit in connection with his administration of the Diocese of Cleveland. He was, therefore, no stranger to the Roman authorities, who now, as then, received him most kindly. This mission, performed in connection with two other bishops who had preceded him to Rome, was most suc- cessful. Bishop Gilmour has a national reputation as a defender and promoter of the Catholic parochial school system. Feel- ing the want of good readers for the schools under his juris- diction, he compiled a series himself, known as the Catholic National Readers, six in all. They are in use throughout the United States, as is also the Bible History, published by him when a parish priest. He has made it incumbent on the parishes of his diocese to have parochial schools when at all 82 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF possible.. March,. 1887, he also published a code of rules and regulations governing these schools, one feature being the annual examination, by a diocesan board of examiners, of the teachers engaged therein, and an annual examination, by dis- trict school boards composed of priests and laymen, of all pupils attending the parochial schools. It is his aim to makfe these schools at least equal to the public schools. In 1876 he tested before the courts what he considered the unjust taxation of the parochial schools of Cleveland. Although the supreme court of Ohio had decided the question in the celebrated Purcell-Gerke suit, that Catholic schools were not taxable, one of the Cuyahoga county auditors (Mr. Benedict,) regardless of this decision, placed the Catholic schools of Cleveland on the tax duplicate. The Bishop entered suit of restraint, the common pleas, circuit and supreme courts deciding in his favor. Recognizing the power and influence of the press, and desirous of giving the large and influential Catholic body of Northern Ohio a defender of Catholic thought and rights, to meet the almost daily assaults and insults heaped upon it by an antagonistic press, notably those of a certain paper, fittingly characterized by the Hon. B. F. Wade, the Bishop established the Catholic Universe, July 4, 1874. Rev. T. P. Thorpe was its first editor. Mr. Manly Tello, the present editor, succeeded him in September, 1877, and both these gentlemen did, and the latter is still doing, excellent work in Catholic jour- nalism. Bishop Gilmour is a man of strong individuality, firm, bold, fearless. As a preacher and public speaker he impresses with his eloquence, calm thought and earnestness. As a writer he is pointed and wields a strong pen, even trenchant at times. His style is the simplest, terse in expression, clear as his speech. Tall, commanding in appearance, with a markedly intellectual countenance, he would be singled out in any assembly as a man of force and strength of character. Not quick to express his views, he seldom, if ever, recedes from them when once expressed. Strictly just and fair-minded in his dealings, he resents keenly any injustice or deception. BISHOP GILMOUR. 83 Kind and forbearing with weakness, he is just as ready to measure swords with insult or assault, within the limits of his official position. At first sight he impresses one as stern and reserved, but those who know him, know his kindness of heart and generous impulses. As a conversationalist he has few superiors. With a fund of anecdote and quiet humor, and a retentive memory of his reading and travels, he is most entertaining in any circle. He is simple in his habits, meth- odical and painstaking in his work. Few men in like position spend more hours at " desk work" than Bishop Gilmour. He governs his diocese as much with his pen as with the crosier. Thoroughly American in sentiment, he has, nevertheless, an impartial respect and a kindly feeling for all nationalties com- posing his flock. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES , OF PRIESTS OF THE SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY, FORMERLY ON THE MISSION IN NORTHERN OHIO, OR IN THE DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. BETWEEN 1818 AND APRIL, l8gO. 1. Abbrederis, Rev. Rudolf, (Sanguinist,) was born at Rankweil, near Feldkirch, Austria, September 18, 1850 ; came to the United States in 1869 ; was educated by the Sanguinists in their seminary at Carthagena, Mercer Co., O., where he was ordained for them by Archbishop Purcell, August 15, 1873. He had the following charges in this diocese : Ottawa, August, 1878, to August, 1882; Big Spring, August, 1882, to Novem- ber, 1885, when he left the Sanguinists, and diocese. 2. Abel, Rev. Anthony J., was born November 11, 1833, at Burgau, Bavaria ; completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 28, 1863. Monroeville was his first appointment, which he retained till October, 1864, when he was sent to Ottoville as first resident pastor. July, 1865, he was sent to Shelby Settlement, where he remained till 1867, when he left the diocese and went to Colorado. In 1889 he was received into the Diocese of Concordia, Kansas, where he is pastor of Tipton. 3. Aboulin, Rev. John J. M., (Basilian,) was born at St. Alban-en-Montagne, Diocese of Viviers, France, March 18, 1841 ; was ordained for the Basilians at Annonay, France, by X SECULAR AND kM.GULAR CLERGY. 85 Bishop de Charbonhel, Septeniber 21, 1867. Was in this diocese as professor at Louisville College, from February,, 1868, till September, 1870. Returned to Sandwich, Canada, and since 1870 has been doing pastoral duty there, at Assump- tion Church. 4. Ahern, Rev. Joseph Loughlin, was born at Knuckan- cummer, county Cork, September 20, 1847. ^^ made his studies for the ministry at All Hollows', Dublin, and St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. He was ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Fitzgerald, July 4, 1875, and appointed pastor of Alliance, August, 1875. This charge he held till August, 1877, when he met with a serious accident by break- ing one of his legs. He was taken to the Charity Hospital,. Cleveland, for treatment. In August, 1878, he resumed pastoral work as assistant to Rev. M. Healy, at St. Mary's,. Tiffin, remaining till October of same year, when he was appointed assistant at St. Francis', Toledo. June, 1879, ^ic resigned this position, and for the benefit of his shattered health, went on leave of indefinite absence to Ireland, and later (188 1) to New Zealand, where he is now laboring on the mission. 5. Albrecht, Rev. J. M., (Sanguinist,) was born in Ger- many, January 6, 1800. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe. June 4, 1849. From Thompson he attended Peru, Huron county, in 1849; was assistant at Thompson till June, 1856, when he was sent to Liverpool. There he remained till May, 1859, when he left the Sanguinists and diocese and went to Minnesota, where he died in March, 1884. 6. Alemany, Most Rev. Joseph Sadoc, (Dominican,) was born at Vich, in the province oi Catalonia, 18 14. He entered the Dominican Order in 1829, and was ordained at Viterbo,. by Bishop Pianetto, in 1837. Soon after his ordination he was sent to Rome, where he was stationed at the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva till 1841, when he was sent to the Amer- ican missions. He came to Ohio, and was stationed at Canton for a few months. He also attended Dungannon, and was the S6 BIOGRAPmCAL NO TICES OP- THE first priest to visit the Catholics at 'Mansfield.' His^next field -of labor Was at Memphis.Tenn.-, as successor to Father McAleet, in 1846. In' the following year he was elected Provincial of his Order in the United States. While at Rome in 1850, attending a General Chapter of the Dominican Order, he was consecrated Bishop of Monterey, Cal., June 13, 1850. Three years later he was appointed Archbishop of San Francisco, which office he resigned, November, 1884, and returned to Valencia, Spain, where he died a saintly death, April 14, li 7. Alio, Rev. L. M. (Redemptorist), was born at Pinen, Switzerland, November i, 1805, and was ordained September 18, 1839. He attended St. Alphonse's congregation, Peru, Huron county, Ohio, with Father Tschenhens from June, 1841, till November, 1843. Later he left the Redemptorists and was for many years pastor of St. Mary's church, Washington city, where he died June 9, 1882. 8. Alleman, Rev. John George (Dominican), a native of Alsace, was ordained at Zanesville, Ohio, by Bishop Purcell, June I, 1834. In 1836 he was resident pastor of St. John's, Canton, whence he also attended Louisville, where he built the first church. About 1840 he left Ohio and went to Iowa, labor- ing with much zeal, there and in Illinois on the widespread and difficult missions. His health began to fail about i860. Three years later, Nov. 26, 1863, he went to St. Vincent's Asylum, St. Louis, Mo., where he died July 14, 1865, aged 59 years. He was a faithful and hard working priest. 9. Allward, Rev. John, was first resident pastor of Ash- tabula, for fourteen months from May, 1862, till July, 1863, and attended South Thompson as a mission. This was the only appointment he had in the Diocese of Cleveland. No other record of him. 10. Anderson, Rev. Henry, came from Ireland on a visit to his cousin, the Rev. E. Hannin, of St. Patrick's, Toledo, whose assistant he was for some months in 1868, and as such SE-CULA'R' AND- REGULA-R CLERGY. 87; attended, for a while, the CoVigregatiorf 'of the Immaculate Conception, Toledo, just then organized. 11. Andrescheck, Rev. Alardus, (Franciscan), born at Breslau, Silesia, May 29, 1839, was educated for the priesthood at Paderborn, and ordained at Teu'topolis, 111., by Bishop^ Juncker, February 7, 1868. He was sent to the Cleveland Monastery, as assistant at St. Joseph's church, January 23, 1877; was appointed pastor of the same church, July 16, 1885, retaining this position till August, 1888, when his superior transferred him to Teutopolis, 111., where he now resides. 12. Antl, Rev. Francis Joseph, was born at Jesenec, Moravia, Austria, March 30, 1843 ; ordained at Bruenn, Austria, July 11, 1869 ; came to America in same year ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor of St. Procop's, Cleve- land, from May, 1882, till July, 1883. Then he went to the Diocese of Chicago ; is now stationed at Savanna, 111. 13. AUGUSTINSKY, Rev. Cyril, (Franciscan), a Moravian, was born at Braunsburg, March 21, 185 1. He studied for the ministry at Kremsier, Archdiocese of Olmuetz, and was ordained for the Franciscans, at St. Louis, Mo., by Bishop Ryan, July 25, 1877. He labored on the mission in Missouri and Nebraska till July, 1885, when he was sent by his superior to the Franciscan Monastery, at Cleveland, whence he attended Independence. He left the Franciscan Order Maj', 1887, and by dispensation was affiliated to the Diocese of Little Rock, Ark., where he is now stationed. 14. AUSTERMANN, V. Rev. Bernard, (Sanguinist), a native of Prussia, was born at Everswinkel, Westphalia, April 5, 1824 j was educated for the priesthood at Thompson, O., and there ordained for the Sanguinists by Bishop Rappe, June 13, 1856. From New Riegel he attended Fostoria and Crawfordsville, July, 1856, to February, 1857. He was then appointed pastor of Thompson, remaining till September, 1857. Since then he had various posts of duty assigned him in other dioceses where 8S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE the Sanguinists have charge of congregations. He was also for some years their Provincial. He is now in the Diocese of Nashville. 15. Badin, V. Rev. Stephen Theodore, the first priest ordained in the United States, was a native of Orleans, France, where he was born July 27, 1768. He came to Baltimore, March 28, 1792, and was there ordained by Archbishop Carroll, May 25, 1793. For many years he labored on the mission in Kentucky and Ohio. He did pastoral duty at Canton, Canal Fulton, Cleveland, Fremont and Tiffin, between 1835 and 1837. He was a man of fine, cultivated mind, of great energy and indomitable zeal. He was vicar-general of the Dioceses of Bardstown, Ky., and Cincinnati. Died in the latter city, April 19, 1853. 16. Bally, Rev. William, was born in the city of Bonn, Prussia, May 4, 1831; educated at Bonn and Paris; came to Cleveland, December, 1856, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July 26, 1857. He was assistant at St. Peter's, Cleve- land, till November of same year, when he received the pas- torate of St. Nicholas' congregation, Berwick, Seneca county, remaining till July, 1861, when he left the diocese; October, 1861, he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's church, Galena, III, which charge he still holds. 17. Barbier, Rev. Charles, was born of Protestant parents at Strassburg, Alsace, in 1829. He entered the French artillery, and whilst serving his term became a Catholic. He shortly after resolved to study for the priest- hood. After leaving the army he made his preparatory studies at Strassburg. In 1862 Bishop Rappe adopted him for the Diocese of Cleveland, and ordained him toward the end of the same year. He was at the seminary for a few months as professor of philosophy, and had, besides. Inde- pendence as his first pastoral charge. From April to Novem- ber, 1863, he had temporary charge of St. Louis' congregation, Louisville, during the absence, in Europe, of the pastor. Rev. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 89 L. Hoffer. He then had, successively, the following pastoral charges in this diocese: Poplar Ridge (now New Bavaria), 1863-65, where he began the erection of a church destroyed by fire in 1887; first resident pastor of Six Mile Woods, 1865- ^T, Millersville, 1867-68; Avon, March, 1868, to September, 1871; Milan, 1871 to August, 1872; Youngstown, St. Joseph's, August, 1872 to April, 1873; first resident pastor of New Cleveland, April, 1873 to March, 1874. His last charge was St. Joseph's church. Fort Jennings, March, 1874, till death, August 23, 1876. 18. Begel, Rev. John Joseph, was born in France, April 5, 1817, where also he was ordained December 18, 1841. He established the community known as the Sisters of the Humil- ity, B. V. M., August, 1854. He came to America July, 1864, and founded the present flourishing convent of same sisters at New Bedford, Pa., by special agreement under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Cleveland. Father Begel was an exemplary priest, and a man of profound and varied learning. He wrote a historical description of" The Way of the Cross," published in 1880. It is an admirable and interesting book, containing personal observations of his journey made some years previ- ous to Jerusalem and other places in Palestine. He died at New Bedford, after an illness of about four years, January 23, 1884. 19. Behrens, Rev. Henry, was born at Duesselldorf, Prussia ; ordained by Bishop Rappe July 30, 1861 ; attended Avon, September, 1861 to March, 1862 ; was pastor of Findlay from 1862 to July, 1863, and during that time attended the missions of Fostoria and Liberty. He was transferred to Six Mile Woods, 1863, where he remained but a few months after having begun the erection of a church. His next charge was Maumee, December, 1863-65. During the latter year he also attended Perrysburg as a mission. In the fall of 1865 he received charge of French Creek. His next appointment was Millersville (Greensburg), November, 1866, to August, 1867. Then he was appointed pastor of Shelby Settlement, Septem- 90 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ber, 1867. He remained here until 1869, when he left the diocese and returned to Europe, where he died a few years later. 20. Beranek, Rev. George A. (Redemptorist), was born at Mistek, Olmuetz, Austria, April 23, 1806; ordained July 22. 1834; in the United States since June, 1843; had temporary charge of St. Wenceslas' congregation, Cleveland, from Sep- tember, 1868, to February, 1869, as Bishop Rappe had no Bohemianpriest during that time. Since 1869, Father Beranek has been stationed at Baltimore, Md., where he is still doing pastoral duty. 21. Berger, Rev. August, was born in Germany in 1822; ordained by Bishop Rappe, November 19, 1848; was assistant to Rev. P. J. Machebeuf, at Sandusky, for one year; left the diocese in 1849; returned in 185 1, and left again in 1852; died at Germantown, 111., October i, 1865. 22. Berthelet, Rev. Francis A., was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 28, 1830. He was educated for the priesthood at the diocesan seminary of St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, where he was ordained by Bishop Prince, November 14, 1853; Joined the Jesuits in 1854 at St. Acheul, France, and later, for several years, was professor in the Jesuit colleges at Fordham, New York and Montreal. In last mentioned place he had charge, for two years, of the erection of the present beautiful church of the Gesu. August, 1868, he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, and was assistant at the cathedral for a few months, when he was sent to Canton, as pastor of St. John's congregation. There he remained till March, 1876. Whilst at Canton the present very handsome church of St. John's was built under his direction. After nearly three years' illness he died, October 31, 1878, at Detroit, where also his remains are buried. 23. BiRNBAUM, Rev. Irenaeus (Franciscan), a native of Germany, was ordained March 27, 1868. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from July, 1877, to February, 1879, ^-S SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. one of the professors at St. Mary's Seminary. Meanwhile he also attended Parma and Independence, from August, 1877, to January, 1878, and from March, 1878, to February, 1879. Returned to Europe in 1879. 24. BiRNBAUM, Rev. John Baptist (Sanguinist), born in Wuerttemberg, May 8, 1823 ; came to United States in 1864; Avas ordained July 10, 1867; had pastoral charge of Big Spring ; was assistant at Glandorf, Thompson, New Riegel ; was pastor of Reed, Seneca county, which mission he attended from Thompson, where he died May 28, 1882. 25. BODEN, Rev. Gregory (Franciscan), was born at Gold- scheid, Prussia, in 1838 ; ordained April 3, 1868; in Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from September, 1874, to February, 1876, with charge of asylum and convent chapels, and of Inde- pendence, from 1875 to 1876. 26. BoE, Rev. , was stationed at Louisville, as assist- ant to Rev. L. F. D'Arcy, from September, 1859, to January, i860, when he returned to New Orleans, whence he came. 27. BOEHNE, Rev. George, born 1799 in Neuenkirchen Osnabrueck, Germany, was ordained in 1831. He came to America in the fall of 1841, when he was received by Bishop Purcell and sent to Glandorf as assistant to Rev. William J. Horstmann, whom he succeeded as pastor, February, 1843. In the summer of 1848 he was appointed pastor of Fort Jen- nings, where he remained till his death, September 20, i860. His remains are buried at Fort Jennings. Though an invalid (epileptic) for many years of his priesthood, he did much for religion. Under his direction churches were built in Glandorf and Fort Jennings, the second in each place. 28. BORGESS, Rev. Otto H., was born in Westphalia, Germany, January 12, 1805; ordained in Muenster, 1830; came to this country in 1832 ; was in the Diocese of Cleve- land from 1862 to February, 1863, as pastor of St. Clement's, 92 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Navarre. Returned to Europe and died at Steinerberg, Swit- zerland, January II, 1876. 29. BOURJADE, Rev. Julian, a native of the Diocese of St. Flour, France, came to Cleveland in September, 1853, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe a few months later. From Fremont he attended the stations of La Prairie and Toussaint (1853-56). His next charge was Providence, where he resided from 1856 to February, 1857, meanwhile attending St. Mary's Corners for a few months. He had been ailing of consump- tion for some time and was ordered to Cleveland, where he died in the Bishop's house, March 8th, 1857, aged about thirty. His remains are entombed in the cathedral basement. He was a very worthy priest. 30. Bowles, Rev. Joseph D., was a native of the city of Limerick, Ireland, where he was born April 12, 1829. After finishing the collegiate course of studies in his native city he entered All Hallows', Dublin, where he studied philosophy and theology. March 26, 1853, he was ordained priest by Archbishop Cullen, in the cathedral of Dublin, for the Diocese of Glasgow. He remained, however, but a few months in the diocese for which he was ordained". December, 1853, he was- received by Bishop Bayley into the Diocese of Newark, N. J., where he did pastoral work till January, 1868, when he became affiliated with the Diocese of Chicago. His first appointment there was as assistant, then as pastor pro tern, at Immaculate Conception church, Chicago. Later he was pastor at Hyde Park and Monmouth, May, 1869 to July, 1872. He was then received into the Diocese of Cleveland, and appointed pastor of Clyde, with charge of Green Spring as a mission, July, 1872 to January, 1875. Bellevue was his next appointment, to May, 1876. He was then transferred to Ravenna, where he remained till April, 1883, when he was assigned the pastorate of St. Ann's, Fremont. This charge he held till his death, July 4, 1887. He was identified with the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Ohio as its president, ,and was for a number of years the treasurer of the National SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 93 Total Abstinence Union. His remains are buried at Wash- ington, D. C. 31. Braun, Rev. Julian von, born and ordained in Ger- many, was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, Septem- ber, 185 1 ; had charge of St. Mary's congregation, Massillon, till 1852, meanwhile attending Bethlehem (Navarre). He died of cholera, August 2, 1852, at Massillon, where his remains repose. 32. Bredeick, Rev. John Otto, a native of Westphalia, was born at Verl, January 23, 1789. After the usual collegi- ate and theological course of studies he was ordained at Osnabrueck, Hanover, in 1822. For twenty-two years he held various ecclesiastical positions in his native country, notably that of a member of the Cathedral Chapter at Osna- brueck. After some deliberation he resolved to devote him- self to the American mission. For this purpose he came to the United States in 1844, and chose Northern Ohio as his future field of labor. He brought with him a few sturdy Westphalians and some means. With the latter he purchased large tracts of government land in " Section Ten," on a portion of which he established the present flourishing town of Del- phos. There also he formed the nucleus of St. John's congre- gation, building its first church and pastoral residence at hi own expense. Much of the prosperity of the town and con- gregation must be credited to his zeal, prudence and gen- erosity. He shared privations and hardships with the ■' set- tlers," and at his death, August 19, 1858, had the satisfaction to see his long, laborious work crowned with success. He also organized and attended the congregation of Ottoville (1848-58). During the time of his pastorate at Delphos and Ottoville he not only refused to accept the salary to which he was entitled, but gave, largely of his purse to support the churches and the schools built and established by him. He ■ also gave to each of these places valuable real estate for the same purpose. St. John's congregation, Delphos, is- indebted to Father Bredeick for the finest and largest church p'-operty 94 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE in the Diocese of Cleveland. Though long dead, he lives in the memory of a grateful people for whom, to this day, the name of " Father Bredeick " is a household word. 33. Brehm, Rev. Fidelis, a Swiss, was born at Butekon,. Canton Aargau. He was received into the Diocese of Cleve- land in 1870, and appointed pastor of Landeck, which charge he held till 1878. From Landeck he also attended Spencer- ville (1871-77.) During his absence in Europe on a vacation,. (1876,) the pastoral residence at Landeck was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of his library and personal effects. In 1878 he left the diocese with a Catholic colony, for Arkansas. His project there failed of success, but Bishop Gilmour declin- ing to receive him back he returned to Europe, in 1879, where in his native country he is pastor of Stetten. 34. Breymann, Rev. Francis (Jesuit), was born at Asche- berg. Diocese of Muenster, Westphalia, September 16, 1836 ; made his studies at the Gymnasium of Muenster and with the Jesuits ; was ordained for them by Cardinal Melchers, Arch- bishop of Cologne, September 13, 1868. He came to this country in 1869, and was stationed at St. Michael's, Buffalo,, till 1871. He was then sent to St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- land, as professor of moral theology, remaining till 1872 ;. was recalled to Buffalo, remaining there till 1875. He was next on the mission in the Diocese of St. Paul, till 1880. His next appointment was as assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, till July, 1885, when he was transferred to Buffalo. In 1889 he was sent to Prairie >du Chien, Wis., where he now resides. 35. Brennan, Rev. George H., was born in county Ros- common, Ireland. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe in April, 1852. His first charge was Doylestown and Wooster, May, 1852, to January, 1854. He was then appointed resi- dent pastor of Wooster, remaining till 1856. From Wooster he attended Ashland, Crestline and Mansfield as missions. In 1856 he left the diocese and was successively connected with the Dioceses of Milwaukee, Dubuque and Boston. He was. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 95 next affiliated with the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., from 1870 till 1874, when he returned to Ireland. He now resides in Dublin. 36. Brown, Rev. Michael Bernard, was born May 20, 1840, at Beckmantown, Clinton county. New York ; made his ecclesiastical studies at the seminary in Cleveland, and in Notre Dame University, Indiana. He was ordained by Bishop Luers for the Society of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Indiana, June 10, 1867. He remained with the society till August, 1876. From that time till August, 1883, he was on the mission in the Diocese of Cleveland, viz.: assistant at St. Columba's, Youngstown, till July, 1877; pastor of Crestline to March, 1881 ; again assistant at St. Columba's, Youngs- town, till December, 1881. He then had temporary charge of St. Joseph's, Youngstown, till March, 1882. His next appoint- ment was Wellsville, where he remained till August, 1883. Between 1883 and 1888 he was on the mission in the Dioceses of Mobile and Cincinnati, in the former, however, but a short time. His last appointment was as pastor of St. Paris, Cham- paign county, Ohio, where he died suddenly, September 19, 1888. He was a facile writer, a good pulpit orator, and a man of scholarly attainments. 37. Brown, Rev. Patrick Henry, was born at Sherring-- ton, Canada, December 21, 1834 ; ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 30, 1861 ; appointed pastor of Hudson the following month, attending as missions Ravenna and Kent. In the latter place he built the present church. In 1862 he was stationed at Ravenna, where he remained till August, 1872,. meanwhile (1862-67) attending Kent. His next and last charge was St. Columba's, Youngstown. He resigned this pastorate July, 1877, owing to protracted illness; was brought to Charity Hospital, Cleveland, where, after nearly a year of suffering, he died September 26, 1878. 38. Brueggemann, Rev. Eustace (Franciscan), was born at Werl, Westphalia, April 2, 1830; ordained March 17, 1866; «6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE in the United States since October, 1869; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as superior of Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1879 to 1882, attending Independence and Parma as missions from January to July, 1881. Is at present in the Diocese of St. Louis, Mo. 39. Brunner, Very Rev. Francis Salesius (Sanguinist), was born in Switzerland, January 19, 1795, and ordained in March, 18 19. He was the founder and Provincial of the San- guinist Society in America, and with a band of faithful co- laborers took charge of Peru and surrounding missions, January, 1844. He established a Sanguinist Convent at Thompson (1844), one at New Riegel (1845), and in 1848 a third one of the same society at Glandorf He and his faithful followers deserve well of the Catholics of the Diocese of Cleveland. Their work has been unostentatious, but none the less suc- cessful and lasting. He was in Northern Ohio till 1858, when he went to Europe. He died at Schellenberg, in the Princi- pality of Lichtenstein, Austria, December 29, 1859. Father Brunner was a saintly priest and a wise and prudent superior. 40. BUCHHOLZ, Rev. Lucius (Franciscan), was born at Dorsten, Prussia, Diocese of Muenster, April 3, 1838; ordained August 16, 1868 ; in Cleveland Monastery from 1869 to 187 1 41. Byrne, Rev. Michael Ambrose, was born, 1821, near Stranorlar, county Donegal, Ireland; came to the United States at the age of 17. A few years later he entered Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmittsburg, Md., and finished his studies at Cincinnati where he was ordained by Bishop Purcell, Novem- ber I, 1845. January, 1846, he was sent to Cleveland as assistant to Rev. P. McLaiighlin. From Cleveland he also attended Avon, Painesville and South Thompson. In 1847 he returned to Cincinnati and was appointed first resident pastor of All Saints' church, Fulton, then a suburb of Cincin- nati, where he died of cholera August 22,. i'850. 42. Byrne, Rev. Robert Alexis, brother to Rev.' Michael A. Byrne, was born near Stranorlar, Cotinty Donegal, Ireland, SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 97 in 1828 ; made part of his studies for the ministry in London- derry (Ireland), Emmittsburgand Fordham. He was ordained by Archbishop Hughes in 1856. Remained in the Diocese of New York till 1873, when he was received by Bishop Gilmour and sent to Toledo. There he organized the present Good Shepherd congregation, whose church was built under his direction. His health failing, he resigned this charge March 20, 1875, and returned to his home in Ireland, where he died August 23d, of the same year. 43. Campion, V. Rev. Augustine S., was born at Henin- Lietard, pas-de-Calais, France, February 18, 181 1. After completing his studies for the ministry at the seminary of Arras, France, he was ordained by Bishop d'Auvergne, December 18, 1834. He did pastoral duty in his native country till 1848, when he came to Cleveland, November of same year. On bis arrival Bishop Rappe sent him to Fremont as assistant to Rev. L. Nightingale, pastor of St. Ann's. From Fremont he attended a number of smaller missions in the vicinity, viz.: Toussaint, LaPrairie, etc. In 1849 he was sent to Wooster, whence he also attended French Settlement and Doylestown. In the last mentioned place he built the church, since replaced by the present handsome structure. In 1851 he was given the pastoral charge of St. John's, Canton, and attended Canal Fulton and Massillon as missions. November, 1853, he was called to the cathedral and made vicar-general. His next and last appointment in this diocese was the pastor- ate of St. Francis de Sales', Toledo, November, 1854, to May, 1856. He then left the diocese to join the Sulpitians at Montreal, where he remained till his death, June 10, 1886. He had been ill for nearly two years previous to his demise and was unableto do duty. He bore his sufferings with Christian patience till his Master's summons came. While pastor of St. Francis de Sales', Toledo, he arranged for the opening of an orphan asylum in that city. At his earnest request the Mother Superioress of the Grey Nuns at Montreal sent four of these sisters, October, 1855, to open and take charge of the asylum. Before Father Campion left, in 1856, he saw the good work of 98 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE these sisters fully and practically appreciated by the citizens of Toledo. Father Campion was a most devoted priest, charitable, kind-hearted and full of zeal for religion. 44. Capeder, Rev. Peter Anthony (Sanguinist), was born at Lumbrein, Canton Graubuendten, Switzerland, January i, 1817. After completing his studies at Lbewenburg, Switzer- land, he was ordained at Feldkirch, Austria, by Bishop George Pruenster, May 11, 1843. He came to this country in 1844, with the first band of Sanguinist Fathers. From 1844 to 1888 he was stationed in and outside the Diocese of Cleve- land, in places committed to the Sanguinists ; he shared the hardships of the pioneer priest. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1844-57; 1865-70; 1872-80; 1884, to May, 1886, with Peru, Thompson, New Riegel, Tiffin, Liverpool and Glandorf as the several fields of his pastoral work. In Novem- ber, 1887, he was again sent by his superior to Thompson, where he remained till his sudden death, October 2, 1888. During the last few years of his life he did no pastoral work, owing to physical inability, his hearing and memory having been seriously impaired. " Father Peter Anthony,'' as he was familiarly called, was truly a priest— a man without guile. Although neither a brilliant scholar nor an eloquent preacher his daily life was an edifying sermon and a practical illus- tration of humility and simplicity. Full of sunshine in his character he won all who had any intercourse with him, by his kindly words, genial humor and sparkling wit. 45. Carabin, Rev. A., was born in France, 1807, and there educated; ordained by Bishop Fenwick in 1831; received into the Diocese of Cleveland, 1847, after having been on the missions of Upper Michigan for a number of years. Bishop Rappe sent him to Peru, where he remained from December, 1847, to September, 1850. His next charge was St. Ann's, Fremont, till 1852, when he was stricken with paralysis. He rallied for a short time sufficiently to do pastoral duty at St. Peter's, Canton, February to July, 1853; was then obliged to give up all work, and for twenty years was a patient sufferer. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 9& The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent's Asylum, Cleveland, had charge of him for many years, and he died there August I, 1873. His remains are interred in St. John's cemetery, Cleveland. 46. Caraher, Rev. Bernard, born, educated and ordained in Ireland, was received by Bishop Rappe, November, 1853. Till August, 1854, he was connected with the cathedral. He was next appointed pastor of St. John's, Canton, residing there from December, 1854, till his death, on Good Friday, (April 10,) 1857. From Canton he also attended, monthly, St. Joseph's, Massillon. 47. Caron, Very Rev. Alexis, was born at Bilquem, near St. Omer, Diocese of Arras, France, December 8, 1802. After finishing the collegiate course at the '■^petite seminaire" of St. Omer, he began to study theology under the direction of a venerable priest. Rev. M. Delahage, who, on his return from exile, held a professor's chair in this preparatory seminary. On leaving St. Omer, Father Caron entered the society of the " Missionnaires de France" (known now as that of the '"Fath- ers of Mercy,") the superior of which was the celebrated Abbe Ranyan. In this society Father Caron was raised to the dignity of the priesthood in the year 1827. Meanwhile the revolution of 1840 broke out, and the house of these good TathefS7-4ik€--many other religious institutions, was pillaged and plundered. The inmates were constrained to abandon their dwelling in order to avoid death. Father Caron made his escape in the disguise of a peasant. Shortly after this event the Bishop of Arras, Mgr. de la Tour d'Auvergne^ appointed him assistant priest at Flechin, a small parish in the Canton of Fauquemberg. Here, as elsewhere, his pastoral zeal, and his charity toward the poor endeared him to all his parishioners. From Flechin Father Caron was sent to Wimille as second assistant to Rev. Father Elin. In the fall of 1848 an ever all-ruling Providence brought about for him the possibility of realizing a desire which he had long formed — that of devoting himself to the American missions. 100 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE In company with Father Campion he ofifered his priestly ser- vices to Bishop Rappe and was gladly welcomed and received by him. He arrived in Cleveland November, 1848, and soon after was appointed successor to Father de Goesbriand, as superior of the diocesan seminary. This position he held till June, 1856, when Bishop Rappe granted him a six months' leave of absence to visit his native France. He returned in January, 1857, when he was appointed pastor of Holy Angels' church, Sandusky, where he remained till May, 1861. He then went to Painesville to reside with Father Coquerelle, and, although assigned no regular duty from the time he left San- dusky, because of his impaired health, yet he volunteered to attend Ashtabula (1861-62.) Repeatedly, during Bishop Rappe's visits to Europe, 1862-1867, and from November, 1869 to August, 1870, Father Caron held the responsible position of Administrator of the diocese. He was also one of Bishop Rappe's vicars-general for about twenty years. From 1869 till his death, December 21, 1873, he resided at Charity Hos- pital, where, as long as his illness (cancer) permitted, he acted as chaplain. His remains are buried in St. John's cemetery, Cleveland, a very handsome monument, erected by his clerical friends, marking his grave, as well as that of Very Rev. James Conlan and Rev. John Dillon, both of whose remains are inclosed in the same coffin. 48. Carroll, Rev. Thomas, was born at Ardagh, Ireland, August 17, 1833; educated at Notre Dame, Ind., and ordained by Bishop Luers for the Holy Cross Society in 1858. He left the society, 1863, on. account of ill health. January, 1864, he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland and appointed assistant at the cathedral. He remained till October, 1867, when he was received into the Diocese of Erie where he has been since. He is now stationed at Oil City, Penn. 49. Cebulla, Rev. Sebastian (Franciscan), was born March 10, 1838, in Silesia; ordained March 12, 1869; in the Franciscan Monastery of Cleveland from 1883 tO' 1884. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Belleville, 111. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 101 50. Cherrier, Rev. Leo (Basilian), was born at Dundas, Ont., Canada, October 28, 1834; educated at St. Michael's College, Toronto, and there ordained by Bishop Lynch, March 25, 1864 ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1872 to 1873 as professor at St. Louis' College, Louisville, Ohio ; is now in the Diocese of Hamilton, Ont. 51. Christophory, Rev. Jacob, a native of Luxemburg, was born at Merl, April 26, 1848; was trained for the priest- hood in the city of Luxemburg, and for five years in the dio- cesan seminary at Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Gilmour, June 15, 1878. North Ridge, with the mission of Mud Creek, was his first appointment, July, 1878, to June, 1881. From latter date till September, 1887, he was resident pastor of St. Patrick's Settlement, with charge of Liberty as a mission. From this position he was removed to Medina, with charge of the missions of French Settlement, Sterling and. Wadsworth, but remained only four months. His last appoint- ment in this diocese was ae assistant at St. Peter's, Cleveland, till July, 1888, when he was received into the Diocese of Leavenworth, where he now is. 52. Clement, Rev. Julius, a native of France, was ordained there about 1850. He was received by Bishop Rappe July, 1864, and appointed one of the professors at St. Mary's Semi- nary, Cleveland, and in 1866, superior at the college at Louis- ville, O., where he remained till July, 1867. He was then received into the Diocese of Vincennes, where he died, as pastor of Green Castle, Ind., in October, 1871. 53. COADY, Rev. Peter, was born in Bally-Callan, county Kilkenny, Ireland; came to the Diocese of Cleveland from Canada, December, 1870; was at St. Mary's Seminary for a few months, when' he was appointed pastor of South Thomp- son, with charge of Jefferson as a mission. He remained there from March, 1871, till Some time in 1872, when he left the diocese. 54. Collins, Very Rev. Edward Timothy, a native of Phil- adelphia, Pa., was born February 26, 1802; studied for the 102 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ministry at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmittsburg, Md.; was ordained by Bishop Kenrick, July i, 1832, for the Diocese of Cincinnati, where he was stationed at the cathedral. May, 1838, Bishop Purcell appointed him as one of his vicars-gen- eral. Between 1837 and 1839 he visited the missions along the Miami canal, from Cincinnati as far up as Toledo, making the entire journey on horseback. He also attended missions in Columbiana county (Dungannon, etc.,) about 1834. Father Collins was a scholarly man and a keen judge of books, of which he had a very fine and large collection, covering every branch of ecclesiastical lore. He gave his library to Mt. St. Mary's Seminary. He was a most worthy priest, genial and compan- ionable, without ever forgetting what he owed his priestly dignity. He died at Cincinnati, August 26, 1865. 55. CONLAN, Very Rev. James, was born at Mohilh county Leitrim, Ireland, August 22, 1801; made his course of studies in Ireland, and at Cincinnati, where he was ordained by Bishop Purcell, September 20, 1834. His first appoint- ment was as assistant to the Rev. James Reid, pastor of St. Martin's, Brown county, Ohio. There he remained for a few months, when he was appointed pastor of Steubenville, whence he attended the stations and missions located in the counties of Columbiana, Mahoning, Carroll, Jefferson and the eastern portion of Stark. He resided at Steubenville from 1834 to 1842, and then removed to St. Paul's, near the present village of Dungannon, Columbiana county. A journey of fifty or a hundred miles to say Mass or attend a sick-call was among the ordinary occurrences of his missionary life. Neither dis- tance nor hardship prevented him from cheerfully responding to any demand made on him for priestly aid. October, 1849, he was called to Cleveland, and for four years lived with the Bishop, attending the cathedral. November, 1853, he was appointed first resident pastor of St. Patrick's, Cleveland, his last charge. For many years he also held the position of vicar-general under Bishop Rappe, till the latter's resignation. In i860, during the Bishop's absence in Europe, he was administrator of the diocese. Under his direction old St. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 103 Patrick's was enlarged and completed, two schools were built, and the present handsome church begun and brought under roof. He died at Charity Hospital, March 5, 187S, full of years and merits. He was one of God's noblemen, a true priest, loved and respected by all who knew him. His remains rest in St. John's cemetery, Cleveland, with those of the Rev. John Dillon, with whom he had been ordained. 56. CONLAN, Rev. James V., was born at Mohill, county Leitrim, Ireland, September 27, 1820 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at Cincinnati ; was ordained in (old) St. Vincent's church, Akron, Ohio, by Bishop Purcell, September 5, 1847, five weeks before the consecration of Father Rappe as first Bishop of Cleveland, and was appointed assistant to Rev. James Conlan at Dungannon. " Father Vincent " as he was called, to distinguish him from his cousin. Very Rev. James Conlan, was next placed in charge of St. John's church, Canton, August 1848 ; remained there till January, 185 i, when he was appointed pastor of Holy Angels', Sandusky. December, 1855, he was assigned as assistant to Rev. James Conlan, at St. Patrick's, Cleveland, where they zealously and success- fully labored together till March 5, 1875, when the latter died. Father Vincent succeeded as pastor of St. Patrick's. August, 1877, he resigned this charge and took the pastorate of St. Ann's, Fremont. There he remained till January 15, 1883. Owing to protracted illness, which prevented him from doing pastoral duty he resigned and went to Charity Hospital, Cleveland, where he died March 15, 1883. His remains are buried in St. John's cemetery, Cleveland. He was a genial, kind-hearted priest. 57. Conlan, Rev. Thomas J., was born in Summitville, Columbiana county, Ohio, February 6, 1846; commenced his ecclesiastical studies in St. John's College, formerly existing in Cleveland ; finished them in St. Mary's Seminary, Lake street ; was ordained by Bishop Rappe, March 7, 1869. For a while he was a professor in the diocesan seminary ; then {1870) he was transferred to the cathedral as assistant. In 104 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, OF THE 1873 he accepted the position of secretary to Bishop Gilmour, but from 1874, owing to ill health, was unable to render much Service either in this capacity, or while having charge at the cathedral. He made every effort to recuperate his fast wan- ing strength, traveling extensively for his health, but all to no purpose. For five years he was a patient sufferer from consump- tion, till finally death relieved him August 20, 1879. He died at his father's residence in Cleveland. His remains are buried in St. John's cemetery, Cleveland, near those of his uncle, the Very Rev. James Conlan. He was of a kind, gentle nature, gifted, and thoroughly a priest. " Father Tom," though no more among the living, lives in the memory of those with whom and for whom he labored, as one of God's chosen min- isters, and as a model ecclesiastic, 58. COPPINGER, Rev. Thomas J. J., was born and edu- cated in Ireland (no record of date or place of birth). As a young man he was in .the British army ; then came to the United States, and was ordained by Bishop Purcell at Cincin- nati, October 21, 1854, and appointed assistant at the cathe- dral. Left the Diocese of Cincinnati and came to Cleveland, September, 1862, and was an assistant at cathedral, till July, 1863. He then enlisted in the army, was wounded in the battle of Winchester, and then discharged. Returned ta Ireland, where he remained but a short time ; then went to England, and there entered a Cistercian Monastery. A few months later he again returned to his native diocese, Cloyne, where, after doing pastoral duty for a short time, he died about 1874. 59. COQQERELLE, Rev. Charles M., born at Etaples,, Diocese of Arras, France, May 31, 1804, was ordained in 1833; came to Cleveland August, 1850; was appointed resident pastor of Port Clinton and thence attended Marblehead, Toussaint and La Prairie. After nearly two years of laborious- mission work there, he was appointed pastor of Painesville in the latter part of 1852. There he remained till 1869, when he resigned his pastorate on account of deafness and old age.. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 105 Shortly after his resignation he returned to France where he died September 5th, 1880. 60. COUILLARD, Rev. J. B., born and ordained in Canada; was received into the diocese by Bishop Rappe in 1869; assist- ant to Rev. F. M. Boff at St. Francis' church, Toledo, October, 1869, till February, 1871, when he left the Diocese of Cleve- land. He was then received into the Diocese of Springfield, where he died in 1874. 61. CULLEN, Rev. James, was born in Wexford, Ireland, June 29, 1814. Made his collegiate studies in Ireland; entered Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmittsburg, Md., and there studied philosophy and theology, meanwhile, (for three years), teach- ing the collegians the higher mathematics, in which branch he was quite proficient. He was ordained for the Diocese of Philadelphia by Bishop Kenrick, July 19, 1847. He remained in that diocese, holding various positions, till 1870, when he went to Albany. Two years later he was received by Bishop Gilmour, who appointed him resident pastor of East Liver- pool, with charge of Wellsville as a mission. In 1875 he was transferred to Vermillion, and in 1878 to Olmsted. July, 1882, he was appointed assistant at Sts. Philip and James' church, Canal Fulton. Six months later he was obliged to give up all pastoral work owing to ill health and failing memory, the latter often a blank at times. Since January, 1883, he has been on the retired list. September, 1888, he went to Chicago to reside with his relatives, and has remained there since. 62. CZAKEKT, Rev. Peter (Redemptorist), was born Decem- ber 12, 1808, in Bohemia. In his twenty-fourth year he joined the Redemptorists; was ordained January 12, 1834, and soon after came to the United States. He was sent to Northern Ohio, (Peru, Huron county), in 1835, and remained till 1839, when he returned to Baltimore. In 1844 he was appointed Provincial of the Redemptorists in this country, retaining this position till 1847, when he was sent to Lafayette city, near New Orleans, where he died September 2, 1848. He was a model priest and full of missionary zeal. 106 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 63. Daley, Rev. Cornelius, born in county Cork, Ireland, was ordained by Bishop Purcell, March 2, 1844. For nearly a year he labored on the mission in Southern Ohio. ' He was then appointed first resident pastor of St. Vincent's, Akron, (1845-46). Meanwhile he also attended Doylestown, whither he was transferred, February, 1846. He also attended Youngstown (1845). When the Diocese of Cleveland . was organized (October, 1847), he affiliated with the Diocese of Cincinnati, where he remained till his death, at Fayetteville, Brown county, January 24, 1876. 64. D'Arcy, Rev. Louis Florence, was born and educated in France (Diocese of Arras) ; came to Cleveland in August, 1850; was ordained by Bishop Rappe, April 2, 185 1; was assistant at the cathedral till September, 185 i, when he was appointed pastor of Louisville, remaining till May, 1854. He then went to France for the benefit of his health, returning in 1856. He again had charge of Louisville congregation, till 1861, when he left the Diocese of Cleveland. Whilst at Louisville he also attended Strasburg and there built the present (second) church. Between 1861 and 1866 he labored in the Dioceses of Mobile and Cincinnati, and for a short time he was also at Notre Dame, Ind. In 1866 he was again received by Bishop Rappe and appointed pastor of St. Ann's, Fremont, but remained in charge only till July, 1867, when he returned to France, where he died a few years later. 65. Daw, Rev. — , for a few months pastor of Elmore (1872); meanwhile attended the missions of Genoa and Wood- ville. No other record of him. 66. DeGoesBRIAND, Rt. Rev. Louis M. J., the present Bishop of Burlington, was born at St. Urbain, Finistere, France, August 4, 1816; made his ecclesiastical studies at Point-Croix, Guimper, in his native diocese, and at St. Sul- pice, Paris. He was ordained at Paris, July 13, 1840, by Bishop Rosati, of St. Louis, Mo., then in Europe on a visit. He came to Ohio in 1840 and was appointed successor to Rev. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 107 M. Wuerz, as the second resident pastor of Louisville, where he remained from October, 1840 to January, 1S46. He was then sent as assistant to Father Rappe, who had charge of Toledo and the " Maumee " section of northwestern Ohio, and with whom he shared the hardships and privations of that •extensive and uninviting mission. There he remained till January, 1848, when Bishop Rappe appointed him vicar-gen- eral, with residence at Cleveland. This office he held till he was consecrated first Bishop of Burlington, October 30, 1853, which responsible and important dignity he still holds, and with eminent success. 67. Delbaere, Rev. Polydore Henry, born at Ingoy- ghem. West Flanders, Belgium, December 21, 1838 ; made "his studies for the ministry in Flanders and at the University of Louvain; was ordained by Cardinal Stercks, Archbishop of Mechlin, May 21, 1864; was in the Diocese of Detroit for some years ; received by Bishop Gilmour, ad interim, Febru- ary, i87S> and appointed pastor of Archbold and missions. April, 1877, he was sent to Antwerp with charge of a number ■of missions. April, 1879, he left the diocese, and was received into the Diocese of Peoria, where he now is. 68. Delhez, Rev. Francis X. (Jesuit), was born at Aix-la- Chapelle, Diocese of Cologne, October 6, 1837 ; ordained August 24, 1869; in this country since September, 1869 ; was assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, from 1870 to 1871, and again from 1873 to 1874. He is now in the Diocese of Buffalo. 69. Deneny, Rev. Thomas, was born at Maghera, county Cavan, Ireland, January 9, 1849 i ordained by Bishop Hogan at St. Joseph, Mo., September 9, 1874 ; was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, pro tempore, September, 1887, and had ■charge of Wellington, with the mission of New London, till June, 1889, when through illness he was obliged to give up pastoral duty and go to St. Joseph's Retreat, near Detroit where he has been since, for treatment. 108 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 70. De Raymacher, Rev. Vincent (Dominican), a native of Belgium, was ordained by Bishop Fenwick in 1822. He was stationed at Cincinnati for a short time and then sent to the Dominican Convent near Somerset, Perry county, whence he attended the stations and rhissions in Stark and Colum- biana counties between 1823 and 1835. He was resident pastor of St. John's, Canton, in 1835. Returned to Belgium where he died in 1870, aged 72 years. 71. DiCKMANN, Rev. Bernard (Sanguinist), was born at Minster, Auglaize county, O., in 1839; educated at Cartha- gena, Mercer county, Ohio ; ordained at Minster, Ohio, by Bishop Rosecrans, for the Sanguinists, August 17, 1862 ; was pastor at Glandorf from April, 1874, to May, 1881, where he also directed the building of the present beautiful church. In 1 88 1 he was sent by his superior to California ; is now pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Sedalia, Mo. 72. DiCKNEITE, Rev. Raynerius (Franciscan), was bora at Bokel, near Rietberg, Westphalia, November 11, 1832 ; in this country since November, 1859; ordained July 2, i860; member of Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1870 to- 1874; had charge of Independence from 1871 to 1873. At present he is stationed in the Diocese of Monterey, Cal. 73. Dillon, Rev. John, was born in Drumcunny, county Leitrim, Ireland, in 1807. He was ordained in Cincinnati with Very Rev. James Conlan, by Bishop Purcell, September 20, 1834. He was sent to Cleveland in 1835 as the first resi- dent priest, where also he organized the first congregation,, the members of which had as their first place of worship Judge Underhill's office, a small room on Spring street ; next on Main street hill, opposite Union Lane ; then on Prospect street, in "Farmer's Hall," in the Mechanics' block, which is now the Prospect house. He raised a collection for the erec- tion of a church on the Flats, but had not the happiness to- begin the work. He died of bilious fever, October 16, 1836. Rev. Father Badin, the pioneer priest of Kentucky, attended SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 109 him in his last illness. His remains, at first interred in the Erie Street cemetery, were transferred to the cathedral shortly after its completion in 1852, and entombed in one of the vaults beneath the main altar. In compliance with the dying request of Very Rev. James Conlan, whose intimate friend and class-mate he had been, they were then (March, 1875) taken to St. John's cemetery, Cleveland — what little remained of them — and enclosed in the same cofifin with his, the same monument marking their joint grave. But a little more than two years a priest, Father Dillon labored with much success, and endeared himself to all who knew him. He was talented, energetic, pious, and a pulpit orator of far more than ordinary force and ability. His zeal for God's cause was bounded only by his physical strength. He was held in the highest esteem by the citizens of Cleveland, irrespective of creed. 74. DOEBBING, Rev. Bernard (Franciscan), was born at Muenster, Westphalia, in 18555 was ordained June i, 1879; professor of philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and member of Franciscan Monastery, same city, from Febru- ary, 1880 to July 1 88 1. He is now in Rome, Italy, engaged as professor. 75. DOHERTY, Rev. John J., was born at Glen of Aher- low, county Tipperary, Ireland, November 20, 1817; studied for the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmittsburg, Md.; was ordained by Bishop Purcell, at Cincinnati, April 23, 1843. His first appointment was as assistant at the cathedral, Cincinnati, till February, 1844; was then transferred to Massil- lon, where he built the first (stone) church, used by St. Mary's congregation. He remained till August of same year, attend- ing during this time, and alternately with Rev. M. Wuerz, the mission of Bethlehem (Navarre). His next appointment was to the pastorate of St. John's, Canton, which he retained till he left the diocese, August, 1848. From Canton he attended several missions, among which were Canal Fulton, and Canal Dover. He is at present pastor of St. John's, Honesdale, Pa., Diocese of Scranton, where he has been for many years. 110 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 76. DOLWECK, Rev. John Peter, was born at Benning^ Diocese of Metz, Lorraine, August 26, 1828. He studied for the priesthood at Metz and in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- land,, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, December 11, 1853. He was pastor of St. Mary's, Sandusky, from December, 1853,. till April, 1855 ; St. Alphonse's, Peru, Huron county, till August, 1861, with charge of St. Peter's, Norwalk, from Sep- tember, i860; Berwick, from September, 1861, till April, 1862. Then he was transferred to Liverpool, Medina county, where he remained till January, 1864. He then left the diocese to join the Benedictines, of whose Order he has been a member ever since. He was Prior at Chicago for some years. Is now in the Diocese of Monterey, Cal. yy. Drees, Very Rev. Henry Joseph (Sanguinist), was born at Garell, Oldenburg, Germany, March' 5. 1830 ; in America since 1833 ; ordained November 7, 1861 ; was in this diocese as pastor of New Riegel, from September, 1864, to August, 1866. At present he is the Provincial of the San- guinists in the United States, with residence at Carthagena, Mercer county, Ohio. 78. Droessler, Rev. Dominic (Franciscan), was born in the Diocese of Paderborn, Prussia, August 2, 1843 ; came to the United States, June, 1862 ; ordained January 13, 1867 ;. belonged to the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1868- to 187 1 ; and again from January, 1873, to April, 1875 ; had charge of Independence from 1868 to 1869. Now lives in Germany. 79. Drolshagen, Rev. Gustave, was received by Bishop Rappe, in 1868 ; alter a short stay at Antwerp, Paulding county, he was appointed pastor of Shelby Settlement, Jan- uary, 1870, to September, 1872 ; then of St. Peter's, Norwalk, till 1874, during which year he left the diocese and went to Tennessee. No other record of him. 80. DruON, Very Rev. Zephyrin, was born at Ven-din- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. Ill le-Viel, Pas-de-Calais, France, March 14, 1830 ; made his studies for the ministry at Arras, France, in St. Mary's Sem- inary, Cleveland, and St. Sulpice, Paris ; was ordained in France by Bishop Beauvais, July 3, 1853 ; returned to Cleve- land and was assistant at the cathedral from September to December, 1853, when he affiliated with the Diocese of Bur- lington, Vt., where he has been since. For many years he has been one of Bishop de Goesbriand's vicars-general ; also pastor of Immaculate Conception church, St. Albans, Vt., where he is at present stationed. 81. Eberschweiler, Rev. Fridolin (Jesuit), was born at Maxweiler, Diocese of Treves, Rhenish-Prussia, July 19, 1839; ordained July 15, 1870; came to this country in 1870; was professor at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, from 1871 to 1873 ; assistant at St. Mary's church, Toledo, from 1873 to 1881, and at St. Mary's, Cleveland, from 1881 to 1882. He was then sent to Montana, where he has been since on the 82. ElSENRING, Rev. Joseph Thomas (Sanguinist), was born at Mosnang, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, November I, 1844; was educated at- St. Gallen, Switzerland, and at Carthagena, Mercer county, Ohio. He was ordained for the Sanguinists by Archbishop Purcell, August 15, 1873; was in the Diocese of Cleveland, from January, 1876 to August, 1878, as pastor of St. Boniface's church, and local superior of convent, New Ricgel. During the time he was pastor there the present beautiful church (third) was built. In 1878 he was sent to Europe; returned October, 1882. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Ft. Wayne, Ind. 83. ElSENRING, Rev. Sebastian (Sanguinist), was born at Waldkirchen, Switzerland, May 10, 1852. He was ordained for the Sanguinists by Archbishop Purcell, March 17, 1878; appointed assistant at St. John's, Glandorf, where he died of consumption, July 30, 1880, aged 28 years. 112 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 84. Engelhard, Rev. Zephyrin (Franciscan), was born at Bilshausen, Westphalia, Novennber 13, 185 1; came to the United States in 1852; ordained June 18, 1878; in Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1879 to 1880. He is now in the Diocese of San Francisco, Cal. 85. EvRARD, Rev. Charles, was born in the city of Metz, Lorraine, June 13, 1822. He was educated for the ministry at Versailles, where also he was ordained by Mgr. Gross, Bishop of Versailles. June 22, 1845. After five years' service as chaplain and parish priest in France, he came to Cleve- land, August, 1850. September 15, the same year, he was sent to Peru, Huron county, where under his direction the present church and pastoral residence were built. January 6, 1854, he was assigned to St. Mary's, Toledo. There he built the present church, since enlarged. He held this charge till Sep- tember 29, 1867, when Bishop Rappe appointed him pastor of Fort Jennings. This position he declined and remained with- out pastoral charge till August i, 1868, when he again accep- ted the pastorate of Peru. He held this charge till November 30, 1873, when Bishop Gilmour appointed him pastor of St. Joseph's, Tiffin, where he remained till his death. May 11, 1885. He was for many years a very active member of the Board of Infirm Priest's Fund, and was also a member of the Bishop's Council for some time. Father Evrard was a man of strong will, decided and clear views, and a ceaseless worker who knew not self Wherever he labored his memory is cherished as that of a priest full of zeal for God's work and the good of souls. 86. Fahey, Rev. Anthony (Dominican), a native of Ire- land, was educated in Rome for the priesthood ; came to the United States in December, 1834. He had pastoral charge of St. Paul's near Dungannon, between 1834 and 1835, and of St. John's, Canton, between 1836 and 1837. No other record of him. Zj. Fahle, Rev. Arsenius (Franciscan), was born at SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 113 Paderborn, Westphalia, September 23, 1843 ; ordaitied March 12, 1869; member of Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1880 to 1881. At present he is stationed in the Diocese of Kansas City, Mo. 88. Fahle, Rev. Ewaldus (Franciscan;), was born at Paderborn, Westphalia, August 20, 1848 ; studied for the ministry at Duesseldorf; was ordained at Paderborn by Bishop Martin in 1873; came to Franciscan Monastery, Cleve- land, March, 1879, remaining till February, 1880. During this time he was professor of philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland., In 1880 he was sent by his superiors to Holland, where he is at present. 89. F^AULHABER, Rev. Bonaventure (Franciscan), a native of Baden, was born March 28, 1842; made his ecclesiastical studies at Constance and Freiburg, Baden, and Teutopolis, 111. He was ordained at St. Louis, Mo., for the Franciscans, by Rt. Rev. P. Ryan, January 6, 1873 ; was in the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from July, 1873, to July, i8^S, and from Julj', 1881, to January, 1887. While here he attended the mission of Independence, 1873-75 ; Parma from July, 1881, to Jafiuary, 1887, when he was sent by his superiors to Nebraska, where he now is. 90. Ferguson, Rev. Michael Joseph (Basilian), was born at Ontario, Canada, March 23, 1839 ; educated at St. Michael's College, Toronto ; ordained by Bishop Lynch, October 23, 1861 ; in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1872 to 1873, ^s one of the professors at Louisville College. Returned to Canada, where he is now engaged as professor at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario. 91. FiLlERE, Rev. Louis J., was born at Dohen, Pas-de- Calais, France, March 31, 1822. Studied for the priesthood at Arras, France, where he received part of Holy orders. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, September 8, 1850 ; was pas- tor of St. John's, Defiance, November, 1850, to March, 1854; had charge of Providence till 1852, also of eighteen other mis- 114 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE sions and stations in Lucas, Henry, Wood, Paulding- and Fulton- counties, between 1850 and 1856. He was resident pastor of Providence from April, 1854, till December, 1856, with Arch- bold, Napoleon, Bryan, Stryker and Wauseon as missions. He next had charge of Berea, as resident pastor, irom Decem- ber, 1856, to February, 1876. From Berea he attended Rockport till 1866, and Olmsted till- 1876. February, 1876, he resigned all pastoral charge and retired to Milton Centre^ Wood county, Ohio, where he has been since. 92. FiNUCAN, Rev. William J., a native of Toledo, Ohio, was born November 30, 1853. He began his ecclesiastical studies at St. Louis' College, Louisville, Stark county, and completed them in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Gilmour June 15, 1878. Shortly after his ordination he was sent to Massillon to take temporary charge of St. Joseph's congregation during the absence of the pastor. November, 1878, he received the pastorate of St. Michael's, Kelley's Island and the mission of Put-in-Bay. July, 1880, he was transferred to Jefferson, whence he also- attended Conneaut. This charge he held till March, 1881,. when he was appointed pastor of Crestline, remaining till June, 1887. Owing to failing health he then asked to be removed to another place. Salem was his choice and there he was sent, with charge of East Palestine as a mission. But he was soon obliged to give up pastoral work because of protracted and serious illness. Resigning December, 1887, he received a leave of absence to spend the winter in a. southern climate. A few months later he returned, but not improved. He retired to Toledo, remaining till his death, October 18, 1888. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, an excellent pulpit orator, and had the confidence of the people among whom he labored. His remains rest in Calvary cemetery, Toledo. 93. Fitzgerald, Rev. William J., was born in New York city August 7, 1853 ; educated at Toronto, Cincinnati, Mon- treal; finished his studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. WW land. He was ordained by Bishop Gilmour, December 26, 1876; was appointed assistant at St. Malachy's, Cleveland, remaining till July, 1880. Then he received charge of St. Patrick's, Leetonia, where he began the erection of the pres- ent church, but did not live to see its completion. It pleased God to call this noble-hearted young priest after a brief illness, at a time when all, to human eye, was fair and promising to him. He died at his father's residence, Columbus, Ohio,. March 22, 1882. His remains are buried in Cathedral ceme- tery, same city. 94. Flammang, Rev. Nicholas, was born at Consdorf, Luxemburg, May 9, 1844. He came to Cleveland Seminary^ March, 1866, and, after completing his theological studies, was ordained by Bishop Rappe, March 7, 1869. He had the following pastoral charges in the Diocese of Cleveland : Find- lay, March, 1869, to August, 1870; Doylestown, to Septem- ber, 1871 ; Avon, to August, 1872 ; New Bavaria, from February to July, 1873, when he left the diocese. He was for several years on the mission in Minnesota and Dakota, and from 1885 to the time of his death, was a member of the Benedictine Order. He died at Yankton, Dakota, February 10, 1887. 95. Fleisch, Rev. George (Sanguinist), a native of Aus- tria, was born at Goetzis, Tyrol, November i, 1846 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at Feldkirch, Austria, and St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, Mercer county, Ohio ; ordained at Cincinnati for the Sanguinists, by Archbishop Purcell, June 30, 1874; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor of Big Spring, from December, 1876, to August, 1877. Since then he has had charge of missions in various dioceses, under direc- tion of the Sanguinists. He is now chaplain of St. Johns' Hospital, New York city. 96. Flum, Rev. Philip, born at Constance, Baden, in 1829; was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July, 1852. The pas- torate of Maumee was his first appointment, 1852-54. There 116 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE he enlarged the church, bought in 1842 by Rev. A. Rappe ; during this time also attended Providence. Between 1854 and 1855 he was superior of St. John's College, Cleveland. August, 185 5i he was appointed pastor of Dungannon, remain- ing till May, 1856, when ill health obliged him to resign. He then left the diocese and went to Texas, where he died. Date of death not recorded. He was a fine linguist and a man of varied learning. 97. FOCHENKRESS, Rev. P. (Dominican), was stationed at Canton about 1836. No other record of him. 98. Foley, Rev. Philip, was born near Mallow, Ireland, about 1820, and was ordained by Bishop Purcell, March 2, 1844. His first charge in Northern Ohio and Diocese of Cleveland was at Massillon, 1846 to 1848, whence he attended Canal Fulton, also Wooster, where he built the first church. He was then transferred, February, 1848, to St. Francis', Toledo, where he remained till November, 1854, meanwhile attending New Bavaria (Poplar Ridge), 1849, St. John's, Defiance, till 1849; Six Mile Woods, 1848; St. Mary's Corners, 1853. He was then affiliated to the Diocese of Cincinnati, where he remained till 1857. Then he went to St. Louis, Mo., owing to ill health. He died there May i, 1857. His remains rest in St. Francis de Sales' cemetery, Toledo. 99. Frauenhofer, Rev. Thomas, was born at Pfeffen- hausen, Bavaria, December 6, 18 17; ordained July i, 1844; came to this country May, 1852; was in the Diocese of Chicago for some time (at McHenry, 111.); was in the Diocese of Cleve- land as pastor of French Creek from July 24, 1864, till January 20, 1868; also attended Avon as a mission. He then returned to Illinois, where he died August 21, 1881. 100. Freigang, Rev. Joseph, a native of Baden, came to this country in 1837; was first stationed at Boston, then at Detroit. From the latter place he came to the Diocese of Cincinnati in 1840, and was appointed pastor of Peru, Huron SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 117 county, whence he also occasionally attended New Washing- ton and Tififin. Contrary to the wish of Bishop Purcell he organized St. Peter's congregation, Norwalk, and in so doing caused his bishop much trouble. He was dismissed February, 1841. No other record of him. lOi. Frensch, Rev. Christian (Sanguinist), was born at Hahn, near Nassau, Diocese of Limburg, Prussia, August 27, 1827. He came to America, October, 185S; was ordained for the Sanguinists October 24, 1863; in the Diocese of Cleveland from January, 1864, to August, 1866, as assistant at New Riegel, and pastor of Big Spring; from April, 1865, to August, 1866, he also attended Crawfordsville, Wyandot county. He left the Sanguinists March, 1869, and has since been affiliated with the Diocese of Cincinnati. 102. Frere, Rev. Julius Alfred, was born at St. Ger- main-en-Laye, France, June 23, 1821; studied at Versailles, France, where he was ordained in June, 1853 ; did pastoral duty in his native country till 1858, when he was received by Bishop Rappe and appointed pastor of Harrisburg, Stark county, where he remained till 1863. He then left the diocese and went to Detroit. In 1865 he joined the Society of the Holy Cross, Notre' Dame, Ind., and has since continued a member thereof 103. Fritz, Rev. Ehrhard (Sanguinist), was born at Buechlerthal, Baden, January 4, 1848 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, Mercer county, O., and was ordained at Cincinnati by Archbishop Elder, May 30, 1885. He was in this diocese as pastor /ri? tein. of Assumption church, Reed, from September till December, 1885. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Cincinnati. 104. Fruzzini, Rev. Joseph (Jesuit), was born at Brig, Canton Wallis, Switzerland, April 13, 1816 ; joined the Society of Jesus November 4, 1833; was ordained in 1847; came to America the following year, after the expulsion of the Jesuits 118 .BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF J^HE from Switzerland. He was stationed for some time at Wil- liamsville, N. Y., in the present Diocese of Buffalo. In 1853 he returned to Europe where he was employed in several ■colleges and houses of the society in Germany, France and Switzerland. In 1869 he returned to America; was assistant priest at St. Mary's Toledo, O., in 1870 and again in 1877. After an illness of several months, which he bore with exem- plary patience, he died in Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y.. May 21, 1880. 105. Gaechter, Rev. Joseph (Jesuit), was born at Kob- lach, Austria, November 6, 1847 ; educated by and for the Jesuits in Maria Laach, and for them ordained in Liverpool, England, by Bishop O'Reilly, February 25, 1878. For two years he was professor in Europe. In 1880 he was sent to Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y., where he was engaged in like position till August, 1886, when he was appointed one of the professors in St. Ignatius' College, Cleveland. August, 1889, he was again transferred to Canisius College, Buffalo, where he now is. 106. Gales, Rev. Nicholas (Sanguinist), was born in Wellenstein (Kleinmacher), Luxemburg, September 2, 18 14; came to the United States in August, 1846; joined the San- guinists and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, January 27, 1851. His field of labor was chiefly in this diocese — Glandorf New Riegel, Thompson and St. Stephen's. For twenty-five years he abstained from the use of meat and led a most mortified life. He died at Himmelgarten, Mercer county, Ohio, Janu- ary I, 1882. 107. Gallagher, Rev. Joseph F., was born at Newport, county Mayo, Ireland, May 22, 836, and larrived in]Cleveland July 9, 1847. Made his studies for the ministry in St. John's College, Cleveland, at Loretto, Pa., and St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. Bishop Rappe ordained him June 30, 1861. Mansfield was his first appointment, July, 1861, till May, 1862. He was then sent to Wooster where he remained till Septem- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 119 ber, 1865. From Mansfield he attended Crestline, till May, 1862, where he built the present frame church. While sta- tioned at Wooster he attended Mansfield, till December, 1863, Loudonville, OrrviUe, and Lakeville, from May, 1862, till September, 1865. His next appointment was as one of the assistants at the cathedral, October, 1865, to September, 1870, when he was sent to Toledo to take temporary charge of St. Patrick's congregation. December, 1870, he was appointed pastor of Holy Rosary congregation, Cleveland, which charge "he held till his death, January 30, 1886. During last men- tioned period he built St. Columba's Academy, and nearly brought to completion the present (Holy Name) church, begun by same congregation, under his direction, in 1881. Father Gallagher was a zealous worker for Catholic education and total abstinence. 108. Gantfier, Rev. Sebastian (Sanguinist), a native of Grermany, was born in'Unter-Muensterthal, Baden, August 20, 182 1 ; in the United States since May, 1847 ; ordained for the Sanguinists, by Bishop Rappe, at Peru, Huron county, June 5, 1849. Between 1849 and 1852, he attended from Thompson (where he was assistant) the missions of Bismarck (Sherman), New Washington, and St. Stephen's, Seneca •county. From 1852 to 1853, he attended Fostoria, Liberty, Grawfordsville, Big Springs and Upper Sandusky, from New Riegel. For a few months in 1853 he was assistant at Glan- -dorf. From 1863 to 1868 he had charge of the mission of New Cleveland, attending it from Glandorf; and between 1870 and 1872 he attended Reed from Thompson. During the interims and since 1872, he did pastoral duty in the Dio- ceses of Fort Wayne and Cincinnati. He is now stationed in the former diocese. 109. Gauthier, Rev. F., D. D., was born in Quebec, Can- ada, January 22, 1836; studied in Quebec and Rome; was -ordained at Rome by Cardinal Patrizzi, October 7, i860; was twice in the Diocese of Cleveland, first, as pastor of St. Louis' ■church, East Toledo, from September, 1872, to March, 1876 ; 120 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE then as first resident pastor of St. Mary's Corners, Fulton county, from February, 1877, to October, 1880, when he left and was received into the Diocese of Detroit, to which he at present belongs. no. Gayer, Rev. Adolph (Jesuit), was stationed at St. Mary's, Toledo, from March to June, 1875. He then left the Jesuits, became a secular priest, and returned to Europe. He is now chaplain to a family of nobility in Sigmaringen. in. Gehling, Rev. W., attended Dungannon from Feb- ruary to May, 1858, which was the only charge he held in the Diocese of Cleveland. 111. Gela.SZEWSKI, Rev. Alexander, a native of Poland, was in this diocese as first resident pastor of French Creek congregation, of which he had charge from August till Decem- ber, 1850. During this time he also attended Sheffield and Avon as missions. No other record of him. 113. Gezowski, Rev. Joseph, was born in Koeniggraetz, Bohemia, February 13, i8n; ordained January 29, 1838; came to the United States July, 1850; was in the Diocese of Cleve- land from 1854 to 1855, first as assistant to Rev. J. H. Luhr, at St. Peter's, Cleveland, then assistant at St. Mary's, same city. In 1855 he left the diocese and joined the Carmelite Order. Was for a time in Covington diocese. Then went to New York city, where he died July 25, 1881, as chaplain of St. Joseph's Asylum, of which he was the founder. i\\. Gibbons, Rev. Walter John, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 5, 1844, where he was also educated for the min- istry. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, May 18, 1867. His charges were : Maumee, June 9, 1867 to September i,. 1870; professor at St. Mary's Seminary, September, 1870 to July, 1871; Youngstown, St. Columba's,- August, 1871 to July, 1872; Ravenna and Kent, July, 1872 to May, 1874. After a few months' leave of absence on account of sickness he was- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 121 pastor of St. Augustine's, Cleveland, from September, 1874 to July, 1875. He was again compelled to give up pastoral work because of ill health, remaining off duty till November, 1876. Next he was assistant at St. Francis', Toledo, till February, 1877, when he again assumed charge of St. Augustine's, Cleve- land. May 30, 1878, he was appointed pastor of Bellevue,. where he died April i, 1885, soon after completing the pres- ent beautiful church. His remains are buried in St. John'.? cemetery, Cleveland. Father Gibbons was an eloquent preacher and an earnest worker in the cause of Catholic schools. 115. GILLIBERTI, Rev. A. R., a native of Italy, was sta- tioned at the cathedral as assistant from March to September,. 1862. No other record of him. 116. GOCKE, Rev. Joseph J., was born at Howesville,. Preston county, W. Va., October 18, 1854. With much suc- cess he made his collegiate studies at St. Vincent's, Wheeling, 1871-72, and St. Vincent's, Westmoreland county. Pa., 1872-76. In September, 1876, supplied with excellent testimonial let- ters, he was received into St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he studied philosophy and theology. He was elevated to the priesthood by Bishop Gilmour, July 2, 1881. Shortly after his ordination he was assigned the pastorate of South Thompson, Geauga county, from which place he also attended Madison as a mission. Four years later, June 2, 1885, he was transferred to St. Anthony's church, Milan, Erie county, with charge of the mission at Prout's Station. There, as in South Thompson, he discharged his priestly duties faithfully and with success. He died at Milan, after a brief illness of but five days, from the effects of la grippe, on January 31, 1890. His remains were taken to Howesville, W. Va. 117. GOEBBELS, Rev. Joseph J., was born at Duesseldorf, Prussia, August 30, 1816; came to the United States Febru- ary, 1857; was ordained F"ebruary 24, 1859 ; in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1861 to 1864, during which time he was pastor 122 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICpS OF THE of Fort Jennings. Whilst there he built the present pastoral residence. From ,Fort Jennings he also attended Kalida (1861) and Ottoville (1861-63). He died at Covington, Ky., October 11, 1885. 118. GONTHYN, Rev. Edward, a Belgian, was in this dio- cese from 1869 to 1870, and during that time had charge of the Catholic French in Cleveland, who then attended Mass in St. Mary's church on the Flats. He left Cleveland for Wis- consin, and died suddenly at Preble, Diocese of Green Bay, March 9, 1879. 119. Goodwin, Rev. Jacob, was pastor of St. Vincent's, Akron, from 1849 to 1850, when he left the diocese. From Akron he also attended Doylestown. No other record of him. 120. Grandmougin, Rev. C. A., was born at -Bezange- la-Petite, France, ini842; finished his studies for the ministry in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, February 14, 1867; was appointed pastor of St. Augus- tine's, Cleveland, where he died, November 25, 1871, of small- pox, contracted whilst attending a sick call. 121. Greisch, Rev. .Nicholas (Jesuit), was born at Esch- an-der-Sauer, Luxemburg, February 9, 1831; ordained August 30, 1855; was at St. Mary's, Toledo, from March, 1869, till February, 1875, first as assistant, then as pastor, from March, 1872. He is now stationed in the Diocese of La Crosse. 122. Grevin, Rev. Louis, was born and ordained in France; came to this diocese November, 1855, when he was appointed pastor of Harrisburg. There he remained till 1857, when he was transferred to the cathedral, remaining, however, but a few months, when he left the diocese. He was then received into the Diocese of Ft. Wayne where he remained till 1865. Then he returned to France and died about 1870. 123. Hackspiel, Rev. John, was born at Riefensberg, Tyrol, Austria, August 15, 1825; ordained July, 1849; came SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 123 to the United States November i8, 1857; was at once received into the. diocese (November, 1857; when he was made pastor ■of Randolph, which charge he held till July, 1861; His next appointment was the pastorate of St. Mary's, Sandusky, where he remained till October, 1862, meanwhile beginning the ■erection of the present parochial school. November, 1862, he was transferred to French Creek, from which place he also attended Avon and Sheffield. March, 1864, he was sent to St. Peter's, Canton, of which congregation he had charge till August, 1865, when he left the diocese to join the Jesuits. He remained in this society till his death in New York city, -as pastor of St. Joseph's church, March 31, 1885. He was a learned and saintly priest. 124. Haemers, Rev. H. E., was pastor of Fort Jennings from 1864 till September, 1866; had temporary charge of St. Joseph's, Toledo, and Sylvania, during the fall of 1866, when, about November of the same year, he was sent to Peru. There he remained only till January, 1867, when he was dis- missed from the diocese. 125. Haetscher, Rev. Francis Xavier (Redemptorist), was born in Vienna, Austria, December i, 1784; ordained there January 23, 1816; was stationed at Peru, Huron county, between 1832 and 1833; during the summer of 1832 he attended Tiffin from Peru; returned to Europe in the autumn of 1837; died at Loeben, Austria, January 3, 1863. 126. Hahn, Rev. Florian (Sanguinist), was born at Ra- vensburg, Wuerttemberg, September 4, 1850; was educated for the ministry in St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, O., and there ordained by Archbishop Elder, June 8, 1882. He was stationed in the Diocese of Cleveland, from August, 1882, to March, 1889, as pastor of Assumption church. Reed, Seneca county. He was then transferred by his superior to the Dio- cese of Ft; Wayne, where he is at present. 127. Halley, Rev. Thomas F., was born at Tramore> ■county Waterford, Ireland, January 14, 1833; made his course ■of studies for the ministry in Waterford, Mt. Melleray and All 124 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Hallows', Ireland, and Cincinnati, Ohio, completing them at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, December 2, i860. Immediately after hi.s^- ordination he was sent as assistant to St. Francis', Toledo, whence after a short time he was tranferred as professor t& St. Mary's Seminary. August, 1862, he was appointed pastor of Grafton, where he began and brought under roof the present church. April, 1868, he was assigned the pastorate of St. Mary's, Norwalk, where he remained till his death, January- 4, 1885. He was for years a patient sufferer from a hurt received when a youth, which caused him more or less pain through life, especially in his latter years. 128. Hamene, Rev. James, was born, 1825, in the village of Chemery, Diocese of Metz, Lorraine, France; made his col- legiate studies at Sierk. and philosophy and part of theology in the diocesan seminary of Metz. He was received as a student for the Diocese of Cleveland in the beginning of 1852, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, December 11, 1853.- Peru, Huron county, was his first charge, January, 1854, to April, 1855. At Peru he established a parochial school; also attended St. Peter's, Norwalk, from Peru. He next had charge- of St. Mary's, Sandusky, June, 1855, to July, 1861, where, under his direction, the congregation built their first church, the present pastoral residence, and a school. From Sandusky he- was transferred to St, Mary's, Cleveland, where he remained till September, 1862, when he was appointed pastor of Maumee with charge of Perrysburg as a mission, remaining till 1863. His next appointment was St. Mary's, Massillon, till 1867. There also he built the present pastoral residence. In 1867 he- returned to France, where he did duty till his death, April 14,. 1886. His remains are buried in his native village, Chemery,. 129. Hansen, Rev. H. Beda (Franciscan), was born at. Bedburg, Rhenish Prussia, November 26, 1847; ordained March 21, 1874; in the United States since July, 1875; at Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1881 to 1882. He is now a secular priest, and stationed in the Diocese of Columbus.. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 126 130. Hartmann, Rev. Hubert (Jesuit), born in Muenster, Westphalia, was ordained in the same city by Bishop Brink- -mann, August 10, 1873. Was sent by his superiors to the United States, in September, 1888. He was assistant at St- Mary's, Toledo, and pastor of Sylvania from September, 1888, till September, 1889. Since that he has been at Canisius' Col- lege, Buffalo, as professor. 131. Haussner, Rev. Victor, was born at Erlinsbach, Switzerland, December 7, 1833; came to the United States, April, 1856, when he joined the Sanguinists and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, August 28, 1857. No record of his pastoral ■charges till 1861 (the year he left the Sanguinists), when he was pastor of Avon, from June to August, 1861. He was then assigned the pastorate of Randolph, remaining till July 12, 1868; there also, he built the present church. His next charge ■was St. Mary's, Sandusky, till September, 1872. Bismarck (Sherman), Huron county, was his next field of labor. There he remained till March, 1879, when because of ill health he did no pastoral duty for four months. In June of same year he was sent to St. Peter's, North Ridgeville, where he labored till December, 1880, when a relapse disabled him permanently. January, 1881, he went to Charity Hospital, Cleveland, and .after many weeks of suffering, died April 28, 1881. 132. Hecht, Rev. Edward, D. D., a native of Alsace, was born at Rufach, October i, 1836. He made his ecclesiastical ^studies at Strassburg and Rome ; obtained in the latter city the doctorate in philosophy, theology and canon law. He was ordained at Strassburg by Bishop Raess, December 17, 1859. From i860 to 1864, he was chaplain at St. Louis-des- Francais', Rome ; then preceptor in Hungary from 1865 to 1869. September, 1869, he came to the United States and was appointed professor of philosophy and dogmatic theology at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, which position he held till the closing of the seminary in 1880. In September of same; year he was received into St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and appointed professor o.f the same branches he taught at Cincin- 126 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE nati. In August, 1887, he was recalled to Mt. St. Mary's- Seminary, Cincinnati, where he died after a few days' illness,. January 9, 1888. He was a true Nathanael — a man without guile, learned, unostentatious, devoted to his work as a pro- fessor, and a man of solid piety. His remains repose in St- Joseph's Cemetery, Cincinnati. 133. Heimo, Rev. Joseph Anthony, was born in Freiburg,. Switzerland ; ordained in his native country, from which he and the inmates of his convent (Black Friars) were expelled by the Swiss government in 1848 ; came to Cleveland July, i860, and was given charge of the missions of Strasburg and Harrisburg, which he attended from Calmoutier, Holmes county, from 1849 to 1868 under the jurisdiction of the Bishop- of Cleveland. He died at Calmoutier, April 12, 1859, aged fifty years. 134. Heitz, Rev. Joseph (Sanguinist), was born at Sher- man (Bismarck) Huron county, Ohio, June 9, 1856 ; educated at Carthagena, Ohio, and Teutopolis, 111.; ordained for the Sanguinists by Bishop Elder, June 11, 1881 ; was in the Dio- cese of Cleveland as assistant at Glandorf from January to August, 1882 ; and as pastor of Big Spring from August, 1882 to October 20, 1883. He is now in the Diocese of Cin- cinnati. 135. Henneberry, Rev. Patrick (Sanguinist), a native of Ireland, was born January 30, 1830 ; ordained by Bishop Rappe, . at New Riegel, for the Sanguinists, November 21, 1853; was pastor of St. John's, Defiance, in 1855 ; of Lima between 1856 and i860, with charge of the missions of Con- voy (1859), and Spencerville (1858). He was also superior of the Sanguinist Convent at New Riegel, from February, i860, to August, 1864, meanwhile attending, at irregular intervals, the missions of Kenton, Hardin county (Diocese of Cincinnati), McCutchenville, Crawfordsville and Upper San- dusky. In 1864 he went to California to establish a college under the direction of the Sanguinist Society. This project SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 127 failing, he went to preach missions and total abstinence in Australia, South Africa and East India. He is now engaged giving missions in the western part of the United States. He preaches equally well in the English and German languages. 136. Henni, Most Rev. John Martin, was born in Switzer- land, June 15, 1805 ; ordained by Bishop Fenwick, February 2, 1829; pastor of Canton, Stark county, from 1830 to 1834,. attending meanwhile Dungannon and the scattered missions of Columbiana and Wayne counties. From Canton he also attended Doylestown (1830), Canal Fulton (1830) and occa- sionally Peru, Huron county. In 1834 he was transferred to Cincinnati, where he organized Holy Trinity congregation. A few years later he also established the Wahrheits Freundy the oldest Catholic German paper in the United States. May, 1838, he was appointed vicar-general of the Cincinnati dio- cese. March 19, 1844, he was consecrated first Bishop of Milwaukee. Died as Archbishop of same See, September 7, 1 88 1, full of years and merit. He was a true man of God. 137. Henriot, Rev. Stephen, was stationed at cathedral, Cleveland, from March to May, 1854 ! came from and returned to the Diocese of New Orleans. No other record of him. 138. Henry, Rev. Francis J., was born near Dreenan,, county Derry, Ireland, April 14, 1848 ; made part of his ecclesiastical studies in Ireland, St. Vincent's, Westmoreland county, Pa., and finished them in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- land. May 7, 1871, he was ordained at Toledo for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Luers, of Ft. Wayne. Had temporary^ charge of St. Patrick's, Toledo, till May i, 1872, when he was appointed pastor of Briar Hill, with charge of Mineral Ridge, Girard and Canfield as missions. June, 1876, he was sent to St. Rose's, Lima, whose successful pastor he was till his death, February 22, 1886. Father Henry was an earnest, hard- working priest. 139. Henseler, Rev. Augustine (Franciscan), a West- phalian, was born at Guetersloh, August 8, 1836 ; ordained 128 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE June 14, 1862; in the United States since October, 1876; member of the Franciscan Monastery and assistant at St. Joseph's, Cleveland, from 1876 to 1879; then pastor of St. Peter's, Chicago, till 1884. He is now stationed at Indian- apolis, Ind. 140. Henzler, Rev. Eusebius, was born at Muelheim, Wuerttemberg, August 14, 1823 ; ordained September, 1853 ; received into the Diocese of Cleveland June, 1859, when he •was appointed assistant to Rev. A. Dambach, at French Creek, acting as such till June, i860, and meanwhile attending Avon, of which place he had charge till June, 1861. He then left the diocese and went to Wisconsin, where he died about 1870, as pastor of French Creek, Kossuth county. 141. Herbstritt, Rev. Andrew (Sanguinist), was born at J"uehrenthal, Baden, September 15, 1823 ; came to the United States July, 1844; was ordained February 23, 1848, for the ■Sanguinist Society ; did pastoral work at Avon, New Riegel and Glandorf in the Diocese of Cleveland, and at Wapakoneta, Auglaize county, Ohio, whilst a Sanguinist. He left the San- guinist Society in 1865 and became a secular priest. Then, for nearly three years, he was pastor of St. Mary's, Sandusky, -where he bought the lots on which the present beautiful church is built. July, 1868, he was transferred to Randolph, remain- ing till February, 1869, when he left the diocese and was received by the Bishop of Detroit. He died at Wyandotte, Mich., September 3, 1880. 142. Herzog, Rev. Henry, was first resident pastor of Ft. Jennings, Putnam county, between 1840 and 1848. In 1850 lie was stationed at St. Henry's, Mercer county, O. Died at Minster, Auglaize county, O., in 185 1. 143. Hetet, Rev. Joseph, was born at Auray, France, January 24, 1838 ; ordained at Laval, France, by Mgr. Vicard, March 8, 1873. After filling various positions in his native country he came to the United States in 1886, and to the Diocese of Cleveland in 1888. December, 1888, he was SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 129 assigned the pastorate of Harrisburg, with the mission of Strasburg. He left the diocese January, 1890, and went to live with the Fathers of Mercy, in New York city. 144. HiEBER, Rev. John George (Jesuit), was born at Kleinkuchen, Wuerttemberg, July 22, 1837; educated for the ministry at Augsburg and Munich ; ordained by Mgr. von Dinkel, Bishop of Augsburg, August 9, 1863 ; held various positions in Europe and United States, first as a secular priest, then as a member of the Society of Jesus. Was in the Diocese of Cleveland as assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, from 1869 to July, 1870; again from 1877 to 1883 ; then assistant at St. Mary's, Cleveland, from 1883 to July, 1886. He is now stationed at Davenport, Iowa. 145. Hill, Very Rev. John Austin (Dominican), a native of England, was born in 1777. His parents were Anglicans, and persons of distinction and wealth. They sent him to the college of St. Omer, France, where he made his classical studies. After completing them he entered the English army, but soon asked and obtained his release from military service, which had become distasteful to him. .Shortly after this he married an estimable lady and entered the Catholic church. Soon he felt that he was called to serve God in the priesthood. His wife, seconding his holy ambition, volun- tarily embraced the life of a nun in a Belgian convent, whilst Mr. Hill entered a seminary in France to prosecute his studies -for the sacred ministry. Before he entered he was arrested by the French authorities, who held him for two years a prisoner of state. Upon his release he returned to England and was received into the college of Old Hall Green. Two years later he went to Rome and entered the Dominican Convent of the Minerva. In 1821 he received the Dominican habit and Holy Orders. Ardently desirous of devoting himself to the American missions his wish was gratified by his supe- riors, who sent him to St. Rose's, Kentucky, in 1822. The Rt. Rev. E. Fen wick had been consecrated bishop of the newly erected See of Cincinnati during that year and was much in 130 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE need of priests for the missions of his vast diocese. Father Hill was sent to him, remaining for some time at Cincinnati. Six months after his arrival he was appointed vicar-general. In 1824 he was sent to Northern Ohio to take charge of the missions and stations in Columbiana and Stark counties, attending them for a few months from the Dominican con- vent in Perry county. November, 1824, he was appointed resident pastor of St. John's, Canton, where he remained till his death, September 3, 1828. In compliance with his wish his remains were interred beneath the eaves of the south side of the church which had been built under his direction. Some years later, however, they were reinterred in the center of St. John's Cemetery, Canton, and a plain white marble slab placed over them, containing, in classical latin, an epitaph composed ■ by Father Henni, descriptive, in brief, of his virtues and worth. Father Hill was a man of commanding, soldierly appearance, due no doubt to his early military training. He was an elo- quent preacher, a keen controversialist, a thorough scholar, and as a priest' a living example of sacerdotal virtues. 146. Hills, Rev. E. M. W., a convert from Anglicanism, studied for the prieslhood for some time at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati ; was ordained for the Diocese of Cov- ington by Bishop Toebbe, in 1871, and stationed at Immacu- late Conception church, Newport, Ky., till 1873, when he came to the Diocese of Cleveland. Bishop Gilmour sent him to South Thompson, where he remained till 1875. His next appointment, after a few months' illness, was Kelley's Island, November, 1876, which charge he held till July, 1878, when he left the diocese and the ministry, and again joined the Anglican sect, of which he is at present a minister. 147. HiPELIUS, Rev. Edward, was born at Stadtlauringen, Bavaria, February 7, 1836 ; studied at the Royal College of Muennerstadt, Bavaria, St. Vincent's College, Westmoreland county. Pa., and at Rome. In the last mentioned place he received the doctorate in canon law. He was ordained for the Benedictines by Bishop Young, of Erie, August 8, 1858. I'KSri.ixi'. C made his ecclesiastical SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 137 studies at All Hallow's and Carlow, Ireland ; was ordained at Allegany, N. Y., for the Diocese of Rochester, by Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, June 20, 1872. March, 1888, he came to the Diocese of Cleveland and was appointed assistant at Sts. Peter and Paul's church, Sandusky. October, 1889, he was appointed to the pastorate of Vermillion, which he resigned the following December, when he left the diocese. 168. Kerckhoff, Rev. Hermann (Jesuit), a native of Hanover, was born at Haren-Ems, June 26, 1836. He was educated for the priesthood at Muenster and Maria-Laach ; ordained at Osnabrueck for the Jesuits, by Mgr. Melchers, July 16, 1861. Till 1872 he exercised the ministry in Europe. Then he came to the United States and was assigned various positions by his superiors. August, 1886, he was sent to Cleveland as one of the professors at St. Ignatius' College. Left Cleveland, September, 1887. Is now at Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y. 169. Kleekam, Rev. Sebastian (Franciscan), was born at Elbroch, Diocese of Paderborn, Germany, April 25, 1844 ; ordained August 12, 1869; belonged to Franciscan Monas- tery, Cleveland, from 1869 to 1871, meanwhile (1870) attend- ing Independence and Parma. Died at Sherman, Missouri, September 13, 1875. 170. KOCKEROLS, Rev. William (Jesuit), was born at Wuerm, Diocese of Cologne, August 3, 1824; entered the Society of Jesus, October 30, 1855, and made the regular course of studies for the ministry under direction of the Jesuits ; was ordained priest at Maria-Laach by Archbishop Melchers, of Cologne, September 14, 1868 ; came to this country in 1869, and was engaged in giving missions in the Diocese of Buffalo and elsewhere. February 15, 1875, he was sent to Toledo as pastor of St. Mary's church. This charge he held till June, 1886. During this time, and under his direction, the large brick residence of the Jesuit Fathers near the church was built; also the splendid parochial schoolhouse. 138 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE which is an ornament to Toledo and the just pride of St Mary's congregation. His next appointment was at Prairie- du-Chien, Wis., where he remained nearly three years. In 1889 he was sent to St. Ann's, Buffalo, where he took seriously ill. In the hope of obtaining relief, or a possible cure, his superior sent him to the celebrated springs at Mt. Clement, Mich., near Detroit. But he was not to be cured. Feeling that his end was rapidly approaching, he asked to be taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, there to prepare for death, which five weeks later, December 11, 1889, ended his suffer- ings. His obsequies took place at St. Mai'y's church, Toledo, where for over eleven years he had done faithful pastoral work. A large funeral cortege accompanied his remains to their last resting place, in St. Mary's Cemetery. 171. KOEHN, Rev. John, was born in Niederlahnstein, Nassau-Limburg, September 10, 1831, ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 24, 1866 ; had charge of the missions of Marble- head, La Prairie and Toussaint, also of Port Clinton, where he resided from July, 1866, to March, 1868. From December, 1868, to February, 1869, he was pastor of Kelley's Island; then received the pastorate of Randolph, where he remained till March, 1875. His next charge was St. Mary's, Massillon, March 20, 1875, to March i, 1879, during which time he began the present magnificent church. His health failing he was unequal to the labor of attending so large a congre- gation as St. Mary's, hence he resigned on last mentioned date (March, 1879,) ^^id went to Charity Hospital, Cleveland. There he rallied sufficiently, he thought, to resume pastoral -work. Bishop Gilmour then appointed him pastor of Bis- marck (Sherman), April, 1879, but in October of same year he was again obliged to resign because of his shattered health. After a lingering illness and much suffering he died at Bis- marck, January 24, 1880. There also his remains repose. Father Koehn was a hard-working, self-sacrificing priest. 172. KOENEN, Rev. N., was assistant to Rev. F. Wester- holt at Defiance for some months, between 1856 and 1857. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 139 lie also attended Providence during this time. He left the T)iocese of Cleveland in 1857. 173. KOERLING, Rev. Ignatius (Jesuit), a native of West- -phalia, was born at Altenbueren, February 11, 1838. He was educated in Europe, by and for the Jesuits, and for them -ordained at Maria-Laach, by Mgr. Melchers, September 13, 1868. Two years later he was sent to the United States, doing pastoral duty in New York city and Buffalo. In Sep- tember, 1 87 1, he was appointed assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, remaining there till 1881, when he was given a like ■position at St. Mary's, Cleveland. August, 1883, he was transferred to Wisconsin, as professor in the Jesuit College at Prairie-du-Chien, remaining till July, 1886; then to Man- kato, July to September, 1886. On last mentioned date he •was again sent to Toledo, as assistant at St. Mary's, where he Temained till July, 1887. St. Mary's, Cleveland, as assistant, was his next appointment, July, 1887, to August, 1888 ; then again St. Mary's, Toledo, as assistant, with pastoral charge of :Sylvania. One month later he was transferred to Buffalo, where he now resides. 174. KOHLER, Rev. Peter, a Swiss, studied for a time with the Sanguinists at Thompson, and was there ordained deacon by Bishop Purcell, in 1844. Shortly after this he returned to Switzerland, but came back within a year. Nearly ■eleven years after his ordination as deacon. Bishop Rappe received him, and ordained him a priest, December 31, 1854. He was sent to Shelby Settlement as assistant ; was next ^stationed at Navarre, from which place he attended Canal Fulton and Doylestown. In the summer of 1855 he left the Diocese of Cleveland. No other record of him. 175. KOLOPP, Rev. Hyacinthe N. M., was born at Abreschwiller, Diocese of Nancy, Lorraine, May 7, 1850. He :made part of his ecclesiastical studies at Fenetrange and Pont-a-Mousson, France, and completed them at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, having been received in 1870 on the 140 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE recommendation of his uncle, Rev. Peter Kolopp, as a student for this diocese. August 8, 1874, he was ordained by Bishop' Gilmour. His first appointment was Elmore, whence he attended the missions of Genoa, Oak Harbor and Woodville. December, 1875, he was appointed to take charge of Antwerp,, with the missions of Cecil, Delaware Bend and Junction,, besides a number of stations, some of which have since devel-- oped into missions. Providence, Lucas county, was his next: pastoral charge, from April 10, 1877, to August, 1883. Fromi Providence he attended Bowling Green, where he secured, several lots on which, under his direction, the present church was built. August 19, 1883, he assumed charge of his last appointment, Holy Trinity congregation, Bucyrus, where the beautiful church, completed in the fall of 1886, was erected, during his pastorate. He died at Bucyrus, March 22, 1887. 176. Kolopp, Rev. Peter, was born at Heinrichsdorf,'. Lorraine, July 4, 1834; made his ecclesiastical studies in. Phalsburg, Lorraine; was received into the Diocese of Altoni by Bishop Juncker, and by him ordained July 14, 1858 ; was: received into the Diocese of Cleveland, October, 1864, and sent as assistant to Rev. L. Hoffer, Louisville, Ohio, where- he remained till June, 1866. He was then, successively, pas- tor of Doylestown, June, 1866, to Augiist, 1870 ; Six Mile- Woods, till October, 1875 ; St. Peter's, Norwalk, till June, 1881,. and Avon, till May, 1883. After an illness of nearly eight months he died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, November 20, 1883. 177. Kramer, Rev. J. J., was born, educated and ordained! in Alsace ; was received into the Diocese of Cleveland in 1853, and sent as assistant to Rev. J. H. Luhr, at St. Peter's, Cleveland. November, 1854, he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Cleveland, and remained till May, 1856, when he was sent to Dungannon. This charge he held till he left the dio- cese, July of same year. He was then received into the Diocese of Alton. Later he returned to Europe, where he: died in 1882. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 141 178. Kramer, Rev. Maria Anton (Sanguinist), was born at Hirschbach, Wuerttemberg, February 3, 1817 ; came to the United States October, 1852, and was ordained at New Riegel for the Sanguinists by Bishop Rappe, November 21, 1853 ; did pastoral work in the Diocese of Cleveland, off and on, between 1855 and 1877, at Avon, French Creek, Thompson, New Riegel and Glandorf. At other times he was on mis- sions in the Dioceses of Cincinnati and Ft. Wayne. His last charge in the Diocese of Cleveland was at Thompson, from December, 1874, till his death, February 17, 1877. 179. Krasney, Rev. Anthony, was born, educated and •ordained in Bohemia ; came to this country in 1857, ^"d was stationed for a while in New York city ; was received into the Diocese of Cleveland in May, 1858, and from St. Peter's, Cleveland, attended Independence till 1862, when he was appointed first pastor of St. Joseph's, on Woodland avenue. There he remained in charge till October, 1867, when he was •appointed the first pastor of St. Wenceslas' (Bohemian) con- gregation, Cleveland, then organized by Bishop Rappe. Be- cause of ill health he resigned this charge, October, 1869, and •died at Charity Hospital, Cleveland, March 3, 1870. He was a fine German and Bohemian scholar. He had been in bad health for some years previous to his death, and much of his sickness could be traced to the unkind treatment he received from his countrymen of St. Wenceslas' congregation, who ■embittered his life by their un-Catholic spirit ; also to the severity of prison life he endured in Austria, from 1849 to 1857, as a prisoner of war, because of the part he took in the "Czech movement" in 1848. 180. Kreidler, Rev. John B. (Jesuit), a native of Wuert- temberg, was born at Horb, June 8, 1848. He was educated by and for the Jesuits, and for them ordained by Bishop Brown, at Salpoint, England, September 21, 1873. For three years he was on the mission in England ; came to the United States in August, 1876, and was sent to Burlington, Iowa, where he remained till September, 1881. His next appoint- 142 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ment was as assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, till August, i< During this time he also had pastoral charge of the mission of Sylvania. He now resides at Mankato, Minn., as pastor or Sts. Peter and Paul's church. l8i. Kreusch, Rev. Matthias (Sanguinist), was born at Longwich, near Schweich, Diocese of Treves, Prussia, October- 7, 1820; came to the United States, December, 1843; was ordained for the Sanguinists by Bishop Purcell, June 10, 1845 ; had pastoral charge of the Catholic Germans of Cleveland, about 1848 ; attended Avon from July, 1849, to July, 1850, and again from July to December, 1856 ; was also at New Riegel, Thompson and Glandorf, 1856-65. Then, till his death, he was on duty in other dioceses where the Sanguinists had charge of congregations. In 1859 he attended Lima, where he- built the first church. He died near Minster, O., of cholera. morbus, July 21, 1874. "Father Matthias," as he was called, did much good for religion. He was a saintly priest, a man' without guile. 182. Kreusch, Rev. John Peter, brother to Rev. M.. Kreusch, was born at Longwich, Diocese of Treves, Prussia, December 2, 1818. He received a common school education in his native city, but feeling himself called to the priesthood, he made his preparatory studies at Castle Loewenburg, and in Switzerland. About 1844 he came to the United States- Bishop Purcell sent him to the Sanguinist Fathers, at Thomp- son, where he continued his ecclesiastical studies for a time. When the Diocese of Cleveland was erected in 1847 he sought and received adoption from Bishop Rappe as a seminarist. He was ordained November 19, 1848, after finishing his theo- logical course in the first diocesan seminary, then in the rear- of the Bishop's residence on Bond street. He had the follow- ing pastoral charges in the Diocese of Cleveland between the time of his ordination and 1854 : Cleveland, St. Mary's on the Flats, 1848-51 ; French Creek, as resident pastor, with Shefifield as a mission, 1851-52; Shelby Settlement, with charge of the missions of Crestline, Bucyrus, Gallon, Loudonville, New- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 143 Washington and Mansfield, 1852-54. In 1854 he was received into the Diocese of Vincennes where he remained about four years. He then was again received by Bishop Rappe, who. gave him pastoral charge of Dungannon, where he remained till 1859, when he was received into the Diocese of Wheeling by Bishop Whelan. He was engaged in parochial work in the city of Wheeling from the time of his entry into the dio- cese until about 1886, when owing to age and illness he retired from the ministry to seek rest and medical care. For over twenty-five years he had charge of St. Alphonsus' church,. Wheeling. May 11, 1888, he died full of years and merit. In order to aid his fellow-priests in obtaining pure altar wine he devoted his savings and spare time to an extensive vine- yard he had established near Wheeling. Though he succeeded in supplying pure altar wine, the project had ended in finan- cial failure, a short time before he died. 183. KUEHR, Rev. Ferdinand, D. D., was born at Eslohe, Prussia, August 25, 1806; made his studies for the priesthood at the Propaganda, Rome, and was there ordained by Cardi- nal Reisach, August 10, 1830. He was stationed at St. John's, Canton, as temporary pastor, November, 1837, to January, 1838. He was pastor of St. Mary's church, Covington, from 1841 to November 20, 1870, the date of his death. 184. KuEMIN, Rev. Charles, a Swiss, was born in 1,802. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from May, 1865, till Feb- ruary 27, 1867, as pastor of Kelley's Island, with charge of Put-in-Bay as a mission. Before coming here he served seven years in the Diocese of Buffalo, and six years in that of Chicago. In 1867 he returned to his native country, Switzer- land, and died the following year in the hospital at Chur, aged 66. 185. KUHNMUENCH, Rev. Peter (Sanguinist), was born at Nerbach, Baden, October 31, 1843; educated for the minis- try at Bischofsheim, Baden, and at Carthagena, Mercer county, O.; ordained at Cincinnati for the Sanguinists by Archbishop 144 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Purcell, June 24, 1876; was in the Diocese of Cleveland from July, 1881, to September 8, 1884, as assistant at New Riegel. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Cincinnati. 186. KUNKLER, Very Rev. Andrew (Sanguinist), was born at Glotterthal, Baden, November 25, 1825; in the United States since 1843; ordained at New Riegel for the Sanguinists by Bishop Rappe, February 23, 1848. The only appointment he held in the Diocese of Cleveland was St. John's, Glandorf, from 1848 to 1849, and assistant at St. Michael's, Thompson, from April to September, 1857. From 1858 to 1874 he was Provincial of the Sanguinists in this country. He died suddenly at Weston, Mo., December 6, 1889. He was a thorough ecclesiastic and a model religious. 187. Lais, Rev. Joseph, was born at Griessheim, Baden, September 29, 1829. After devoting several years to studies under the Benedictines in Switzerland he came to America, March, 1852, and entered the Cleveland Diocesan Seminary. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July 8, 1855. His first mission was St. Mary's, Massillon, of which he had charge from 1855 to 1858. Then he was pastor of Navarre (Bethle- hem), 1859-60; of Doylestown with charge of Canal Fulton and French Settlement as missions, 1860-62. In 1862 he was appointed resident pastor of Canal Fulton, attending several missions from that place. There he remained till 1867, when he again received the pastorate of St. Mary's, Massillon, retaining this appointment till he died, February 5, 1875. His remains are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Massillon. Father Lais took special interest in Catholic schools. Whilst at Massillon he erected the present handsome and commodi- ous school. He was ever faithful to his sacerdotal duties, and left the record of a devoted and true priest. 188. Langevin, Rev. Alfred, a Canadian, was born at St. Pie, P. Q., April i, 1861 ; educated for the priesthood at St. Hyacinth and Montreal, Canada ; ordained at St. Albans, Vt., by Bishop de Goesbriand for the Diocese of Burlington, June SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 145 22, 1884. Was on the mission in Vermont till January, \\ when he came to the Diocese of Cleveland. Bishop Gilmour sent him to Dungannon, where he remained but four weeks^ when he returned to Vermont. He is now engaged in pastoral work at Chicopee, Mass., Diocese of Springfield. 189. Laux, Rev. Alphonse (Sanguinist), was born Sep- tember II, 1835, in the town of Stolzenberg, Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg. He came to this country in 1859, and was ordained at Cincinnati for the Sanguinists by Archbishop Purcell, November 7, 1861. From 1862 to 1863 he was sta- tioned at New Riegel, whence he attended Berwick, St. Pat- rick's Settlement, McCutchenville and Crawfordsville. In 1864 he attended Bismarck (Sherman) from Thompson. In 1869 he was appointed pastor of New Riegel. July, 1875, whilst directing the building of the present beautiful church at New Riegel, (begun during his pastorate) he fell and broke one of his legs, and has since been more or less unable to do pastoral duty. From 1877, to February, 1880, he assisted the pastor of Glandorf. Since then he has held the position of chaplain in various hospitals and asylums. He is now sta- tioned at Jersey City, N. J., charged with a similar position. 190. Leddy, Rev. James H., was born at Newark, N. J., May 14, 1837 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del., and Seton Hall, N. J. He was ordained for the Diocese of Buffalo by Bishop Timon, March 18, 1863. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland between 1876 and 1877 — at the cathedral for two months as assistant, then pastor for four months at Van Wert, when he returned to the Diocese of Buffalo, where he has been since. 191. Lewandowski, Rev. Vincent, a native of Gralewo- Posen, Austria, was born May 31, 1841. He made his collegi- ate studies in the Gymnasium of the city of Posen, and his theological course with the Franciscans, in the same city, for whose Order he was ordained, October 30, 1864. He became a secular priest, and was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor 146 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE of St. Hedwig's (Polish) congregation, Toledo, from October, 1875, till July, 1885, when he left the diocese. From St. Hed- wig's he attended St. Anthony's congregation (Toledo), which he organized, and whose church was built under his direction. This latter charge he held from November, 1882, till August, 1884. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Milwaukee. 192. LiNDESMlTH, Rev. Edward W. J., a native of Ohio, was born in Center township, Columbiana county, September 7, 1827. He made his studies for the ministry at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July 8, 1855. Doylestown was his first pastoral charge, together with the missions of Canal Fulton, French Settlement and Marshallville, July, 1855, to February, 1858. St. John's, Can- ton, was his next appointment, with New Berlin as a mission, February, 1858, to October, 1868. From this date to May, 1872, he was resident pastor of Alliance, meanwhile attending Leetonia. May, 1872, he was appointed first resident pastor of Leetonia. There he resided till July, 1880, when he accepted a chaplaincy in the U. S. army. Bishop Gilmour having granted him temporary leave of absence from the diocese for the pur- pose. His residence is at Fort Keogh, Montana. 193. LOCHERT, Rev. Gabriel M., was born, 1810, at Niederlauterbach, Alsace; educated and ordained in Alsace, France. He came to the Diocese of Cleveland in the spring of 1859, and was appointed first resident pastor of Navarre (Bethlehem), where after a brief illness he died July 13, of the same year. 194. LUDWIG, Rev. Frederick C, a native of the Duchy of Braunschweig, Germany, was born of Protestant parents in the town of Wolfenbuettel, January 13, 1823. After his entry into the Church he made his studies for the priesthood at the Seminaries of St. Mary's, Cleveland, and St. Sulpice, Paris. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July 3, 1864. Louisville was his first appointment, August to October, 1864. He then, successively, had pastoral charge of the following places : SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. UT Dungannon, October, 1864, to February, 1867; Peru, to March,. 1868; Rockport and Independence, to May, 1869; Shelby Set- tlement, to December, 1869. He then became mentally deranged and was made a pensioner of the Infirm Priest's Fund from January, 1870, to October, 1882, residing in retire- ment at East Liverpool, O. On the supposition that he had recovered from his mental illness. Very Rev. Administrator Boff, in absence of the Bishop in Rome, then assigned him the pastorate of St. Peter's, Norwalk, where he remained only till January, 1883. Then he was appointed assistant at St. Ste- phen's, Cleveland, February to July, 1883, when he was again on the sick list till December, 1886. At last mentioned date he left the Diocese of Cleveland, and went about as caprice dictated. Finally death put an end to his blighted existence, June 25, 1889. His remains rest in St. Philip's Cemetery, Dungannon, O. 195. LUHR, Very Rev. John Henry, was born at Stein- feld, Oldenburg, Diocese of Muenster, April 21, 1808, and was ordained September 21, 1831. In 1844 he was received into the Diocese of Cincinnati, at that time comprising the state of Ohio. After a short stay in Cincinnati, the pas- torate of St. John's, Canton, was assigned him. This posi- tion he held from October, 1844, till the organization, by him, of St. Peter's congregation, Canton, June, 1845. During 1848 he also attended Randolph for a few months. February, 1853, he was transferred from Canton to Cleveland, where he organized St. Peter's congregation, whose first school and present church were built under his direction. He was pastor of the last mentioned congregation till January, 1868, when he left the diocese and returned to Cincinnati, where he was appointed pastor of St. Augustine's. This position he held till his death, August 2, 1872. Whilst at Canton he also had charge of Massillon (where he built the first church), Navarre and New Berlin. He was one of Bishop Rappe's vicars- general from 1854 to 1868. Father Luhr was a faithful priest,, full of zeal, and an earnest worker in the cause of religion. 148 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 196. McAleer, Rev. Michael, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, March 4, 181 1, was ordained by Bishop Purcell, November 23, 1837 ; did pastoral work at Canton, Navarre and Dungannon, between 1837 and 1840. He then left Ohio and went to the Diocese of Nashville with Bishop Miles, and was stationed at Memphis, Tenn., where he remained some years. Later he was received into the Diocese of New York ; was appointed pastor of St. Columba's, New York city, where he •died February 22, 1881. 197. McCaffrey, Rev. Patrick, was born in New York state, October, 1841 ; made his preparatory course of studies in Cleveland, Louisville, Ohio, and finished same in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where, July 17, 1870, he was ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Mullen, of Erie.. His first appointment was St. Ann's, Briar Hill, from which place he attended as missions Girard and Struthers. In the latter place, as also at Briar Hill, he built the present churches. Being of delicate health, he was obliged, with great reluc- tance, to resign his charge, April, 1872. He then went to live with his parents at Toledo, to receive the care and attenr tion he so much needed. Every effort was made to restore health but without avail. Though he said Mass, and occa- sionally preached in St. Patrick's and St. Francis de Sales' ■churches, Toledo, he was unable to do any continued pastoral ■duty. For two years after leaving Briar Hill he suffered :greatly, but patiently, till death's summons came, April 7, 1874. His remains are buried at Toledo. 198. McDonald, Rev. Patrick, a native of Ireland, was Iborn at Castlemagner, county Cork, September 24, 1855. He made his higher ecclesiastical studies in the Louvain Univer- sity, and at Rome, where he received the divinity doctorate. He was ordained at Liege, Belgium, for the Diocese of Cloyne, by Bishop Doutreloup, April 14, 1879. After filling a number •of positions in Ireland and elsewhere he came to the Diocese ■of Cleveland in November, 1888. Shelby and its four mis- sions were assigned to his pastoral care. He left the diocese June 5, 1889. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 149' 199. McGann, Rev. Francis, was born, 1823, in county Roscommon, Ireland ; came to America in 1837 ; was received as a student by Bishop Rappe in 1848, and ordained by him September 8, 1850. He was at once appointed pastor of St. Vincent's, Akron, where he remained till August, 185S, mean- while attending Youngstown and Ravenna (1854-55). He established a parochial school at Akron. Bishop Rappe then recalled him to Cleveland, directing him to attend Rockport, Berea and Olmsted. Unwilling to accept this appointment he left the Diocese of Cleveland and was received by Bishop O'Regan, of Chicago, under whose jurisdiction he remained about two years. Next he was in the Diocese of Milwaukee, where, as pastor of Mineral Point, Wis., he died September 18, 1870. 200. McGlone, Rev. J. B., was born in the parish of Glenfarn, Diocese of Kilmore, Ireland, December 23, 1853 j came with his relatives some years later to America, and for a time lived in the Diocese of Providence. He made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Michael's College, Toronto, and Holy Angels' Seminary, near Niagara Falls ; was received by Bishop Gilmour as a student for the Diocese of Cleveland, January, 1881, and by him ordained April i, 1882. His first appointment was as assistant at Holy Rosary church, Cleve- land, where he remained till February, 1883. In the following month he was sent to St. Columba's, Youngstown, as assistant. March, 1884, he became seriously ill, and till his death, at Providence, R. I., August 12, 1884, was unable to do duty. 201. McGoVERN, Rev. Francis, a native of parish Kinaw- ley, county Cavan, Ireland, was born March 18, 1843. He commenced hig studies for the priesthood in his native Dio- cese of Kilmore. In 1868 he came to the United States and entered the Augustinian College at Villanova, Delaware county. Pa., where he remained about one year, when he was admitted to the diocesan seminary of Philadelphia. In 1873 he was received for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Gilmour, who ordained him June 7th of the same year, and 150 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE then stationed him at the cathedral as one of the assistants. This position he held for three years, when he was appointed pastor of St. Ann's, Briar Hill. Such he was from June, 1876, till his death (after five weeks' illness), August 28, 1887. "While stationed at Briar Hill, he also attended Mineral Ridge and Lowellville as missions till 1881. 202. McGrady, Rev. John H. M. (Dominican), born in 1799. of Irish parentage, was ordained at Cincinnati by Bishop Fenwick in 1822. He had pastoral charge of Dungannon from November, 1830, to February, 1834, residing there as first resident priest from January, i83i,to November, 1833. From Dungannon he also attended, occasionally. Canal Fulton, Canton and Youngstown. He died at St. Rose's, Kentucky, December 27, 1838. 203. McGrath, Rev. John P., a native of Pennsylvania, was born at Pottsville, April 6, 1853. He studied mental philosophy at St. Charles' Seminary, Philadelphia, theology at Mt. St. Mary's, Emmittsburg, and St. Mary's, Cleveland. Bishop Gilmour ordained him July i, 1882, and sent him to Defiance, to take temporary charge of the church of Our Lady. ■October, 1882, he was assigned the pastorate of Salineville, where he remained till August, 1884. February, 1885, he was sent to Providence, with charge of Bowling Green. He left this charge and the diocese, December, 1888. 204. McGrath, Rev. Patrick C, born near Malleray Abbey, Ireland, was ordained for the Diocese of Erie by Bishop Mullen in 1869 ; was received into the Diocese of Rochester in 1870, where he remained till 1878, when Bishop •Gilmour received him. He was sent to St. Mary's, Tiffin, as assistant to Rev. M. Healy ; remained but a few months when he left the Diocese of Cleveland and was received by the Bishop of Peoria, whose subject he was till death, July 21, 1882. He died at St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, where he liad gone for medical treatment. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 151 205. McLaughlin, Rev. Peter, a native of Ireland, was Ijorn in 1805. He was ordained at Cincinnati, in 1840, by Bishop Purcell, and sent to Cleveland as its third resident pastor. There he finished St. Mary's church on the Flats, begun by his predecessor, Father O'Dwyer. From Cleveland lie attended Avon, 1840-42 ; South Thompson, Akron, Cuya- hoga Falls, Ravenna and Painesville, 1840-45 ; and Randolph, ■occasionally, 1841-42. He left Cleveland in February, 1846, and went to the Diocese of Milwaukee, where he remained a short time. He was then received into the Diocese of Brook- lyn (1854) and later into that of Portland, Me.; died as pastor ■of Bath, same diocese, March 12, 1861, aged 56 years. His remains are buried in Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Me. "Father Peter," as he was familiarly called, was a man of medium height, stoutly built, and of a strong constitution. Every feature of his countenance indicated force of character. He was to a great extent a "self-made man," having had to undergo almost insurmountable difficulties to acquire an edu- cation. A part of his college course he made while watching and attending to his father's flocks, using his spare time in ■studying latin and the higher mathematics. His eloquence -attracted great audiences of Catholics and Protestants. Many times on Sundays and on Holydays the church on the Flats was filled to overflowing by people who had come from all parts of the city to hear his learned and impressive sermons. During his pastorate in Cleveland he fought hard among his people against the vice of intemperance. He established the first total abstinence society in Cleveland, and thus succeeded in reclaiming many from a drunkard's grave. In his zeal for the elevation of his people he went even so far as to go to their homes and teach them how to work, and to be clean and comfortable. On occasion of public or civic celebrations Father McLaughlin was invariably invited as one of the speakers. He was universally respected by the non-Catholic citizens of Cleveland for his zeal, earnestness and blunt hon- ■esty. He was also a pungent and forcible writer, as evi- -denced by a series of controversial articles he contributed to the Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, in 1843. For a further 152 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE account of his pastoral labors the reader is referred to the " Historical Sketch of Early Catholicity in Cleveland, etc.,''' in this work. 206. McLoY, Rev. John B., a native of Ireland, was educated in France and in Rome. For fourteen years he was on the mission in Scotland and in the Diocese of Newark,. N. J.; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as assistant to Rev. Joseph F. Gallagher, pastor of Holy Name church, Cleveland, from February to May, 1883. Since November, 1888, he has been a " disciple " of the apostate priest, in New York city,. Rev. J. O'Connor. 207. McNamee, Rev. Joseph, came to this country from Ireland about 1836. He was ordained at Cincinnati, in the absence of Bishop Purcell, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Chabrat of Bardstown, Ky., April 8, 1839. After a few months of pas- toral duty at Cincinnati, he was sent to St. Mary's, Tiffin,. October, 1839. There he remained till July, 1847, meanwhile, though in poor health, attending Maumee, Toledo, Providence and in fact all the missions in Northwestern Ohio, 1839-41 ;. Findlay, New Riegel, McCutchenville and Fremont, between 1839-43. In July, 1847, he left the Diocese of Cincinnati. He died at Pawtucket, R. I., (Diocese of Providence), March 28,. 1853. He was a faithful and zealous priest. 208 McShane, Rev. Patrick A., was born at Poynt's Pass,, county Armagh, Ireland, April 8, 1854. Made the latter part of his ecclesiastical studies in Rome, where he also received his " degree " as a doctor of divinity. He was ordained for the Peoria diocese by Bishop Spalding, May 15, 1878. About ten years later he was received, pro tempore, into the Diocese of Cleveland (April, 1888), and given pastoral charge of Salineville and Summitville. He left the diocese January, 1889. 209. Machebeuf, Rt. Rev. Joseph Projectus, was born at Riom, Preu-de-Dome, Diocese of Clermont, France, August SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 153 II, 1812 ; made his studies at Riom, at St. Sulpice and Mont- Ferrand, France. He was ordained at Clermont by Bishop Feron, December 21, 1836. After nearly three years of priestly labor in his native country he came to the Diocese of Cincin- nati, August, 1839, and in the following month was sent to Tiffin, as assistant to Rev. Joseph McNamee, pastor of St. Mary's, attending Fremont, (Lower Sandusky), Napoleon. Sandusky, Maumee and Toledo as missions. He remained at Tiffin till the end of December of the same year, when he was transferred to Sandusky where he organized Holy Angels congregation and built their first (and present) church. From Sandusky he continued to attend Fremont, where he estab- lished St. Ann's congregation and directed the building of their first church. He also made pastoral visits to Peru for a few months. He was stationed at Sandusky till Jan- uary, 1 85 1, when on invitation of his life-long friend, Bishop Lamy, he went to New Mexico. He labored there and in Colorado on the hard and scattered missions of these terri- tories, till his consecration as Vicar Apostolic of Colorado, August 15, 1868, with residence at Denver. In 1887 he was appointed first Bishop of Denver. October 18, 1888, he con- tributed a very interesting article to the Catholic Universe, in which he described his eleven years' labor on the mission in Northern Ohio. He died at Denver, Col., July 10, 1889, full of years and merit. He was a man full of zeal, not sparing self, but always busy with the things of God. His memory will be revered as of "the Apostle of Colorado." 210. Machui, Rev. Bonaventure (Franciscan), a native of Silesia, was born at Gramschuetz, July 8, 1825. After com- pleting his ecclesiastical studies at Breslau he was ordained priest by Cardinal Diepenbrock for the Diocese of Breslau, June 22, 1850. After serving as a secular priest till Decem- ber, 1S53, he entered the Franciscan Order at Breslau on the 2ist ofsame month. Later and successively he was trans- ferred to Paderborn, Muenster, and Cologne. When the " May Laws " were executed against the Franciscan Order in Germany, he came to the United States in July, 1875. On 154 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE arrival in this country he was sent to the Cleveland Monastery -where he resided till his death. Father Bonaventure was ;a learned and pious priest — a true religious. For nearly ten years he was a member of the diocesan board of exam- iners of seminarists and junior clergy and as such did good .and appreciated service. He was also repeatedly appointed vicar or assistant superior of the Franciscan Monastery. For the last five or six years of his life he was in poor health and hence unable to do active duty in the ministry. He died of apoplexy, April 2, \\ 211. Maesfrancx, Rev. Elias, was born in Belgium October 5, 1819; ordained in 1846; came to the United States in 1866 ; was received into the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Rappe in 1867, and sent to Delphos as assistant to Rev. F. Westerholt, when after a short stay he was transferred to St. John's, Landeck, Allen county, as first resident pastor. This charge he left in April of the following year, when he -was received into the Diocese of Detroit by Bishop I.efevre. He remained there a few years and then returned to his native country, where he now resides. 212. Mahony, Rev. Timothy M., was born in Tipperary, county Tipperary, Ireland, August 16, 1836. He came to the United States with his parents in 1849. For some years his liome was in Sandusky. In his i8th year he began his eccle- siastical studies with the Dominicans, at St. Joseph's, Perry ■county, O. He continued his collegiate course at Bardstown, Ky. He began to study mental philosophy at Mt. St. Mary's, Timmittsburg. In 1861 he entered St. Mary's Seminary, ■Cleveland. June 29, 1863, he was elevated to the priesthood in the cathedral by Bishop Rappe, who appointed him as one of the assistants in the church where he received Holy Orders. Whilst holding this position he aided largely in raising means for the erection of Father Mathew hall and the building used as a school for the girls, since replaced by the present splendid school edifice. Bellevue was his next field of labor, August, 1866, to August, 1 87 1. He was then appointed pas- ,fiS||r| Mffcra^^^^ If No TRi; DAMIC CONVKNT ANIl ACAUiaiV, CLKVIU.ANI), O. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 155 tor of Niles, where he remained till November, 1873, when he was assigned to the pastorate of St. Vincent's, Akron. Here he had a large parish to attend and a heavy debt to face, and here he was the same zealous and successful pastor as in his former and more limited sphere of labor. During his seven years' pastorate at Akron he won the hearts of his people by his disinterestedness and strict attention to duty. He also succeeded in largely reducing the burdensome debt. August i, 1880, he entered upon the discharge of the onerous duties of pastor of St. Patrick's, Cleveland. He found the shell of the present beautiful structure, and a debt of over $25,000. During his nine years of pastorate of St. Patrick's he paid the entire debt, finished the church and furnished it with every needed comfort and convenience. In 1888 he pur- chased a lot on which he intended building a pastoral resi- •dence and at the hour of his death (September 29, 1889, after but one days' illness) was actively engaged in creating the the needed means for his work. Father Mahony was a man •of kindly disposition, and untiring zeal. Wherever he was his memory is held in merited benediction. Single in pur- pose, honest of intent, untiring in zeal, he was always ready at the call of duty and the bidding of charity. 213. Marechal, Rev. John B., born in Normandy, France, May 17, 1812, was ordained for the Diocese of Arras, in 1835 ; was received by Bishop Rappe in August, 1850, and appointed pastor of Louisville, which charge he held from September, 1850, till September, 1851, when he was appointed •one of the professors in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. He was connected with the seminary and assisted in the parochial work at the cathedral till June, 1855. He then returned to France to assist the celebrated Abbe Migne, in publishing the voluminous edition of the Fathers of the Church, a work for which by his scholarly attainments he was eminently fitted. He was a " book-worm," a learned man and a pious priest. By too close application to study in his latter years his sight became greatly impaired, so that he could no longer pursue the work he had undertaken in France. He then 156 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE retired to a convent as chaplain, which position he held till he died, December, 1882. 214. Marschal, Rev. John A., a native of East Prussia,, and for a time a Dominican, was born at Allenstein, in 1819 ; ordained in 1844; was in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1866 to April, 1867, as pastor of Maumee. Bishop Rappe then dis- missed him, and for a number of years he was on the mission elsewhere, viz.: in the Dioceses of Chicago and Milwaukee. October, 1877, he was again received into the diocese by Bishop Gilmour, to whom he was a stranger. He was appointed pastor of the Poles, in Cleveland, then worshiping in St. Mary's, on the Flats. He also attended Parma as a mission from January till March, 1878 ; Brighton, from Octo- ber, 1877, to January, 1879, at which last date he left the diocese and returned to Europe. 215. Marshall, Rev. Francis, was born in Adams county. Pa.; attended Chippewa, near Doylestown, in 1827. No other record of him. 216. Marte, Rev. Jacob (Sanguinist), was born at Rank- weil, Diocese of Brixen, Austria, in the year 1843 ; came to the United States in i860; was ordained for the Sanguinists, June 6, 1866 ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor of New Cleveland from August, 1872, to April, 1873 ; assistant at Glandorf till July, 1877, and as pastor of Big Spring (where he built the present church) till August, 1882, when he returned to Europe. There he remained till 1889, when he was recalled to this country. He is now in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (Ft. Recovery). 217. Martin, Rev. Edward, was born at Grenoble, France, about 1827. After following the profession of a law- yer for a few years he became a Franciscan, went to Rome and was there ordained priest. Later he left the Franciscan Order, and in 1863 came to America, when he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland and appointed one of the pro- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 157 fessors at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. In 1864 he was appointed pastor of Harrisburg, remaining till 1865, when he left the diocese. 218. Martin, Rev. Thomas H. (Dominican), was 01- ■dained by Bishop Fenwick in 1822 ; attended Dunganno. and several missions in Stark and Wayne counties betwee'i 1825 and 1827, and was the first priest to visit (1826) the Catholics of Cleveland. He was assistant pastor of St. John'j, Canton, in 1830, and again from July to December, 1835. Hj died in New York city. May 10, 1859. 219. Maszotas, Rev. Joseph, a native of Russia, was born at Wladislawow, January 8, 1861. He made his ecclesiastical studies in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was there ordained by Bishop Gilmour, December 17, 1887. He was appointed assistant at St. Stanislas' church, Cleveland, but left that position and the diocese in August, 1889, and was received into the Diocese of Scranton, where he is at present. 220. Mauclerc, Rev. A. L., was born about 1820, and ordained in France; received into the Diocese of Cleveland in 1859, ^rid appointed pastor of St. Louis' congregation, Louis- ville, Ohio, remaining till the beginning of the year 1861, when for a few months he had charge of St. Peter's, Norwalk. He then left the diocese to join the Society of Mary, near Dayton, where he remained till 1876, when he returned to France (St. Remy), and died there May 6, 1876. 221. Mazuret, Rev. Peter Patrick, was born at Rouse's Point, N. Y., in 1834; made his studies for the priesthood at the Sulpician Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained at Sand- wich, Ont., by Bishop Pinsouneault, March 15, 1863. He was on the mission in Canada till August, 1864, and in the Diocese of Buffalo till 1874, when he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, and appointed one of the cathedral assistants. March, 1875, he was sent to Defiance to organize the present congregation of Our Lad}^ of Perpetual Help. Under his 158 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE direction their beautiful church was also begun and partly- finished. He left the diocese January 4, 1 877, and was received into the Diocese of Cincinnati, where he is at present. 222. Meili, Rev. Aloysius Maria, was born of Protestant parents at Zurich, Switzerland, March 8, 1840; entered the Church when about twenty-eight years of age; made his- studies at Zurich, Basle, Spring Hills (near Mobile), St. Mary's- Seminary, Cincinnati, and St. Meinrad's, Ind.; was ordained for the Diocese of Ft. Wayne by Bishop Luers, February 27,. 1870. Came to the Diocese of Cleveland, September, 1872,. and was sent as assistant to St. Joseph's, Tiffin, remaining till July, 1873, when he was appointed pastor of Crestline. There he remained till March 20, 1874, when he left his charge and the diocese. July, 1883, he assumed pastoral duty in the Diocese of Leavenworth, Kansas, where he has since been engaged on the mission. 223. Mertes, Rev. Anthony, was born at Wagenhausen,. Diocese of Treves, Prussia, January 8, 1826 ; ordained at Treves by Bishop Arnoldi,. March 23, 1853. Did pastoral duty in his native diocese till expelled, in 1876, by the Prus- sian government, under the May laws. April, 1876, he came to the Diocese of Cleveland, and was appointed pastor of New Bavaria. March, 1879, he was transferred to Edgerton, with charge of Florence as a mission, August, 1883, he returned, to Europe, where he is now doing pastoral duty. 224. Meyer, Rev. Charles W. (Sanguinist), was born in Cincinnati, O., June 25, 1856. He was educated for the priest- hood in St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, O., and ordained in Cincinnati, by Archbishop Elder, for the Sanguinists, May 30, 1885. After doing pastoral work in Missouri, and for eleven months in Mercer county, O., he was sent to the Dio- cese of Cleveland as assistant at St. John's church, Glandorf, (May- August, 1889); then as assistant at Thompson, where he remained till April, 1890, when he was transferred to the Diocese of Cincinnati. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 159 225. Meyer, Rev. Maria Anton (Sanguinist), born at Aesch, Canton Basel, Switzerland, February 21, 1817 ,' studied for the ministry at Graubuendten, Switzerland ; was ordained at Feldkirch, Austria, September 8, 1843 ; came to- Ohio in 1844, and till 1846 had pastoral charge of the follow- ing places: Peru, Thompson, Tiffin, New Riegel ; also at- tended the Catholic settlers in Huron, Richland, Crawford,. Hancock, Stark, Wayne, Ashland, Summit, Lorain, Lucas and Ottawa counties, making the entire journey on horseback. In 1846 he went with Bishop Henni to the Diocese of Milwau- kee, but was recalled in 1848, when he was stationed at Cleve- land for a short time, with charge of Avon and French Creek as missions. Bishop Rappe then gave him pastoral charge of the following places in the Diocese of Cleveland : Glandorf and Fort Jennings, 1849-51 ; Thompson, 185S, to July, 1856;' Avon, July to December, 1856. He was also at New Riegel for a while, but no record of time given. In 1858 he left the Sanguinists and became a secular priest, and as such he has continued ever since, in the Dioceses of Cincinnati and Cov- ington. 226. Miles, Rt. Rev. Richard P. (Dominican), a native of Maryland, was born May 17, 1791, and ordained in September, 1816. He had pastoral charge of St. John's, Canton, between 1828 and 1830 ; was consecrated first Bishop of Nashville,. September 16, 1838. He died February 21, i860. 227. MOENNING, Rev. Francis (Franciscan), was born at Bakum, Diocese of Osnabrueck, Prussia, December 28, 1837; ordained at Teutopolis, 111., by Bishop Juncker, January 13,. 1867. He was attached to the Franciscan Monastery, Cleve- land, from July, 1883, till January, 1887. While there he assisted the secular clergy, and attended to the spiritual wants of a number of religious communities. He is now in the Diocese of Nashville. 228. MOES, Rev. Nicholas, a native of Luxemburg, was born at Bous, February 8, 1826. He was educated for the 160 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE ministry in the Athenteum in the city of Luxemburg (seven years), in Belgium, under direction of Jesuits (two years), and for two years in the Diocesan Seminary at Cleveland. Bishop Rappe ordained him April i6, 1859, '^"d assigned him the pastorate of St. Phillip's, Dungannon, where he remained till July, 1861, when he was m.ade pastor of St. Joseph's, Fremont. September of the following year he was transferred to St. Mary's, Sandusky, remaining till 1864, when he was sent to St. Nicholas', Berwick. September, 1865, he was called to the Diocesan Seminary as professor of mental philosophy, and attended Louisville, for a' short time from Cleveland. In 1867 he went to Europe for a few months. On his return Bishop Rappe sent him to St. Francis de Sales', Toledo, as assistant, and eight months later to New Bavaria, (Poplar Ridge), as pastor. In 1873 he was again appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Sandusky, where under his direction the present very beautiful church was built at a cost of over $80,000, with but a comparatively small debt remaining. Since 1878 his health has been poor. Twice during this time he was obliged to give up pastoral work. Although his two trips to his native country, in 1878 and 1885, benefited his health to some extent, he never fully rallied, chronic rheumatism being one of his afflictions. He resigned his pastorate in October, 1888, and returned to Luxemburg on an indefinite leave of absence. Father Moes is noted for his eloquence and scholarly attain- ments. 229. MOITRIER, Rev. Francis, born at Saizerais, France, February 19, 1839, was educated for the priesthood at Nancy, and St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, January 6, 1865, when he was sent as assistant to Rev. V. Arnould, of Shelby Settlement. August, 1865, he was appointed pastor of Harrisburg, remaining till May, 1866, when he was sent to Alliance, whence he attended Leetonia. This charge, he held till 1867, when he was received into the Diocese of Vincennes. Since 1871 he has been affiliated with the Diocese of Columbus. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 161 230. MOLLOY, Rev. James, was born at Tullamore, Kings county, Ireland, October 13, 1844; made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Bridget's Seminary, Tullamore, and All Hallow's, Dublin ; was ordained at Nashville, Tenn., by Bishop Feehan, November 30, 1867. He was on the mission in the Diocese of Nashville till received into the Diocese of Cleveland in 1872 ; was assistant at Sts. Peter and Paul's, Sandusky, till 1875 ; then assistant at St. Columba's, Youngstown, till July, 1876. He was next appointed pastor of Bellevue, remaining till May, 1879. Then he left the diocese, but returned July, [880, when he received the pastorate of Kent. There he remained till August, 188 1, when he again left. He is now in the Dio- cese of Cincinnati. 231. MoLON, Rev. Louis, was born in the Diocese of Arras, France, 1826 ; came to Cleveland as a Serninarist, August, 1850, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, the following month, September 8. Soon after his ordination he was sent to TifSn, as pastor of St. Mary's, remaining till Septem- ber, 1852. Meanwhile (January to September, 1852) he also attended St. Joseph's congregation, same place. His next appointment was the pastorate of St. Mary's, Massillon, Sep- tember, 1852, to July, 1855. During this time (1854) he also organized St. Joseph's congregation, Massillon. He was next appointed superior and professor of St. John's College, then (1855) in existence in Ohio City, now West Side, Cleveland. He retained this charge but a few months, as he preferred the active life of a pastor to that of a professor. Bishop Rappe accordingly assigned him the pastorate of St. Vincent's, Akron, January, 1856. In the fall of the same year he was appointed pastor of Berwick, remaining till November, 1857. His next charge was St. Ann's, Fremont, December, 1857, to July, 1861. From December, 1857, till i860, he also attended St. Joseph's, Fremont, organized by Rev. John Roos, in 1857. He also had charge of Port Clinton, La Prairie, Marblehead and Toiissaint, from June, i860, to July, 1861. From July, 1861, till September, 1863, he was pastor of Holy Angels', Sandusky, and attended Kelley's Island and Put-in-Bay. In 162 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE the fall of 1863 he visited his native France on a six months' leave of absence, and on his return succeeded Rev. D. Tighe in the pastorate of St. Joseph's, Massillon, the congregation he had organized in 1854. There he remained till September^ 1865, when he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Elyria, and attended for a while as missions, Norwalk, North Amherst, Vermillion, Lorain (Black River), and several small stations. He remained in Elyria till his death, November 16, 1880, although he had resigned his charge in March of same year, owing to an apoplectic stroke, which disabled him from doing any pastoral work. His remains are buried at Elyria, and near those of a former pastor of same place, the Rev. Francis Sullivan. 232. MONAHAN, Rev. James, was born in parish Tubber- curry, county Sligo, Ireland, December 8, 1822. He was ordained in St. Mary's church, on the Flats, Cleveland, November 19, 1848 — the first priest ordained by Bishop Rappe. From December, 1848, to July, 1849, h"e was stationed at the cathedral (St. Mary's church, on the Flats), Cleveland, and was then sent to Holy Angels', Sandusky. His next charge was Dungannon, December, 1849, to October, 1852, with Summitville, Wellsville and East Liverpool as missions. In 1853 he was sent to Maumee, and in 1854 to Toledo as assistant to Father Foley at St. Francis' church, where he remained till 1855. His next appointment was as assistant to Very Rev. James Conlan, at St. Patrick's, Cleveland, where he remainpd.but a short time when he left the Diocese of Cleveland. He was received by Archbishop Purcell and sent on the mission in Perry county. He was also for a time in the Diocese of Philadelphia. In 1863, after a visit to Ireland, he was again received by Bishop Rappe and sent to Bellevue, 1863-65 ; then to St. Bridget's, Cleveland, 1866-70. His next appointments were South Thompson, 1870-72 ; Alliance, 1 872-75 ; assistant at St. Francis', Toledo, 1876-77 ; and assistant at Holy Rosary church, Cleveland, 1877 to July, 1880. Bishop Gilmour then gave him charge of St. Stephen's congregation, Niles, where he remained from July, 1880, till SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 16? his death, September 6, 1884. His remains are buried in St. John's Cemetery, Cleveland. 233. Montgomery, Rev. Charles P. (Dominican), was ordained in 1830; had charge of missions in Columbiana and Stark counties between 1837 and 1840. For many years he was pastor of Zanesville, where, on Easter Monday, i860, he was found dead in bed at the pastoral residence. He was an excellent priest and much beloved by his people. 234. MORAN, Rev. James, was assistant to Rev. Philip Foley, at St. Francis' church, Toledo, 1848 ; attended Dun- gannon from autumn of 1848 to 1849. No other record of him. 235. MoURET, Rev. Casimir, was stationed at Doyles- town in 1847 and 1848. October, 1848, he was appointed pastor of St. Vincent's, Akron, where he resided till June, 18^0, meanwhile attending Harrisburg and New Berlin as missions. No other record of him. 236. MUEHE, Rev. Michael (Sanguinist), born at Biesen- hofen, Bavaria, July 5, 1865, was educated for the priesthood at Carthagena, Mercer county, O., and there ordained for the Sanguinists by Archbishop Elder, March 17,^ 1889. From March to November of same year he was engaged in pastoral work in the Diocese of Cincinnati ; from November till December, 1889, as temporary pastor of St. Mary's, Tiffin, O. Since then he has been in the Diocese of Kansas City. 237. MULCAHY, Rev. Michael (Basilian), was born in Cork, Ireland, December 28, 1840 ; educated at St. Michael's College, Toronto ; ordained at Lyons, France, by Bishop Charbonnel, May 21, 1864 ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland for one year (1867-68) as one of the professors of St. Louis' College, Louisville, Stark county ; also attended Leetonia as a mission from 1867 to July, 1868. At present he is at St. Michael's College, Toronto. 164 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 238. MuLLON, Rev. James Ignatius, a native of Ireland, studied for the ministry at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitts- burg, Md., and was ordained by Bishop Fenwick in 1824. Shortly after his ordination he attended the Catholic settlers in Columbiana county, and repeatedly make pastoral visits to Canton, Tiffin and Fremont. He was stationed at the cathe- dral in Cincinnati for nearly ten years, and while there he published the Catholic Telegraph (1831-34), of which he was the first editor. He was a brilliant writer and an elo- quent preacher. He left Ohio in 1834 and went to the Dio- cese of New Orleans, where he died in September, 1866, aged seventy-two years. 239. Myler, Rev. James P., was born in Cleveland, O., July 27, 1856. In his seventeenth year he entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, where he made his collegiate studies. After completing them he was received into St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he made the usual course of philosophy and theology. He was ordained in the Semi- nary chapel by Bishop Gilmour, July 6, 1884. A few weeks after his ordination he was sent to St. Augustine's, Cleveland, to supply, for a short time, the place of the pastor, then off on a leave of absence because of ill health. He was next sent to Niles to take temporary charge of St. Stephen's congrega- tion. He filled a like position at St. Mary's, Norwalk, for a few weeks. January 20, 1885, he was sent to Holy Name church, Cleveland, as assistant. This last position he held till July, 1887, when he was relieved from all duty owing to consump- tion, to which he had fallen a victim. He then retired to his home at Painesville, Ohio, where he died August 31, 1887. He was a model priest, and a man of much promise. Gentle in manner, of quiet and retiring disposition, he impressed all within his circle as an earnest and sincere worker in the min- istry. 240. Neumann, Rt. Rev. John Nepomucene (Redemp- torist), was born on Good Friday, March 28, 181 1, at Pracha- titz, Bohemia. His parents were from Bavaria, but in 1802 SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 165 had settled in Bohemia. He made his studies at the Semin- aries of Budweis and Prague, where he distinguished himself by his talent and piety. He came to the United States in 1836, and was ordained in New York city by Bishop Dubois, June 25, of same year. Remaining a secular priest until Octo- ber, 1840, he sought admission from the Redemptorists and was received at Pittsburg as a novice. During the summer of the following year he was sent to Peru, Huron county, O., as assistant to Rev. F X. "Tschenhens, also a Redemp- torist. November, 1841, he was sent to Baltimore to finish his novitiate. On his way thither he met Bishop Purcell at Canton, who asked him to go to Randolph for a few weeks and there reorganize the congregation that had been without spiritual attendance since the destruction of their church, by a bigoted incendiary, in 1838. Father Neumann did as asked, and then resumed his journey to Baltimore. March 28, 1852, he was consecrated Bishop of Philadelphia. He died suddenly in that city, January 5, i860. He was distinguished for his great humility, piety, learning and zeal, and was known as a saintly priest and bishop. May, 1886, a commission was appointed to inquire into the life, character and works of Bishop Neumann, and to send to Rome the testimony pro- cured, with a view to having him eventually canonized. It is the belief of all who came in contact with Bishop Neumann during his life that he possessed the virtues and attributes of a saint. This belief has been strengthened since his death by the many miraculous cures which are said to have taken place at the tomb where his remains lie, in St. Peter's church, Philadelphia. 241. Neumann, Rev. Maximilian (Franciscan), was born in Neustadt, Silesia, July 7, 1846. He was educated for the Franciscans at Neisse (Silesia), Duesseldorf and Paderborn (Germany), and was also ordained for their Order by Arch- bishop Melchers, at Cologne, March 13, 1875. He was sent to this country by his superiors in September, 1875, and sta- tioned as assistant at St. Francis' church, Quincy, 111., where he remained till July, 1885. His next appointment was as supe- 166 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE rior of the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from July, 1885, to August 6, 1888. He was then made pastor of St. Peter's church, Chicago, where he now resides. 242. Neumann, Rev. Nicholas Lawrence, was a native of Boulogne, Diocese of Metz, France, where he was also edu- cated for the ministry. He was ordained at Metz by Bishop Besson, and was engaged on the mir.sion in his native diocese till 1850, when he came to America, and was received into the Diocese of St. Louis. January, 1852, he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Rappe, who directed him to attend the Catholic Germans of Cleveland. Left the diocese about April, 1852, and went to Toronto ; later he returned to Europe, where he died. 243. NiEMOELLER, Rev. Eustace (Franciscan), was born at Visbeck, Westphalia, April 9, 1837 ; in the United States since August, i860; ordained at Teutopolis, 111., for the Fran- ciscans by Bishop Juncker, December 4, 1868 ; attached to Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from September, 1871, to August, 1880. He was chaplain and spiritual director to several religious communities. He also assisted the secular clergy in pastoral work. He is now stationed at Chicago. 244. Nightingale, Rev. William L., of English birth, was received into the Diocese of Cleveland July, 1848, and for a few weeks assisted at the cathedral, then on the "Flats," Cleveland. He was then appointed first resident pastor of St. Ann's, Fremont, where he remained till he left the diocese, some time during the early part of 1850. He was a zealous priest and an eloquent preacher. No other record of him. 245. NOLTE, Rev. Jacob (Franciscan), was born August 8, 185 1, at Geseke, Diocese of Paderborn, Westphalia; came to the United States July, 1875 ; ordained July 25, 1877 ; in Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1878 to 1879. At present he is in the Diocese of Omaha. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 167 246. NOLTE, Rev. Paschalis (Franciscan), was born at Germete, Westphalia, Germany, June 12, 1845 ; educated at Franciscan Monastery, Quincy, 111.; was ordained at St. Louis for the Franciscans by Bishop Ryan, June 5, 1881 ; a member of Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from July, 1882, to July, 1885. He is now in the Diocese of Chicago. 247. NUNAN, Rev. F. X., was born in county Limerick, Ireland, May 10, 1845 ; made his studies at St. Mary's Semi- nary, Baltimore, and St. Sulpice, Paris; was ordained by Archbishop Alemany for the Diocese of San Francisco, Sep- teinber, 1869. Till 1875 he was engaged on the mission in California and Kansas, when he came to the Diocese of Cleve- land, where he had charge of the following places : Wakeman, with Medina as mission, October, 1875, to May, 1878 ; Ver- million and several missions, till March, 1879 ! Clyde and the mission of Green Spring, to June, 1881 ; Archbold and mis- sions, till April, 1882 ; St. Mary's Corners, till August, 1883 ; Wellsville, till September 15, 1884, when he went to the Dio- cese of Peoria. Present residence not known. 248. O'Bairne, Rev. — (Dominican) ; stationed at St. John's, Canton, in 1835. No other record of him. 249. O'Brien, Rev. Denis P., born in the parish of Knockainy, county Limerick, Ireland, July 8, 1859, '^^■S edu- cated for the priesthood at Mt. Melleray, and St. John's, Waterford, Ireland. Bishop Powers ordained him at Water- ford, June 17, 1883. Shortly after his ordination he came to the United States and was received into the Diocese of Kan- sas City, where he was stationed at St. Patrick's church, in the city of St. Joseph, Mo., November, 1883, to January 23, 1884. Bishop Gilmour received him in February, 1884, and appointed him resident pastor of Warren with charge of Mantua and a number of stations. From Warren he also attended Niles for several months. He was transferred to Niles, September, 1884, and remained till April 4, 1888, when he left the diocese of his own accord and went to Chicago, where he is now engaged in pastoral work. 168 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 250. O'Callaghan, Rev. Cornelius J., was born at Kan- turk, county Cork, Ireland, March 10, 1832 ; made his eccle- siastical studies at Cork, Ireland, and Fordham, N. Y.; was ordained by Archbishop Hughes for the Diocese of Portland, October 20, i860. Bishop Rappe received him into the Dio- cese of Cleveland in 1869 and sent him as assistant to St. Francis', Toledo, where he remained till 187 1, when he was appointed assistant at the cathedral, Cleveland. There he remained till 1874, when he returned to the Diocese of Port- land, where he now is. 251. O'Connor, Rev. John B., born and educated in Ire- land, was ordained at Pittsburgh by Bishop O'Connor about 1854. Bishop Rappe received him into the Diocese of Cleve- land and appointed him assistant at the cathedral. May, i857> where he remained till June, i860, when he left the diocese. No other record of him. 252. O'Connor, Rev. William, was born in Ballyorgan, county Limerick, Ireland, March 30, 1827 ; made his theolog- ical studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, November 21, 1851. He had charge of Elyria, Grafton, Rockport, Liverpool and Medina till 1853, attending these places from Cleveland. Between 1853 and 185s he attended Youngstown, Wellsville and East Liverpool from Dungannon. From July, i855i to July, 1858, he was stationed at St. P>ancis', Toledo, first as assistant to Rev. A. Campion, and from May, 1856, as pastor. During this time he also attended Sylvania and several stations. Youngstown was his next appointment as first resident pas- tor of St. Columba's, with Briar Hill, Warren, Niles and New Bedford as missions, besides a number of stations — 1858 to 1862, when he left the Diocese of Cleveland and joined the Redemptorists, with whom he has since remained. At present he resides at Boston. 253. O'DWYER, Rev. Patrick, a native of Cashel, county Tipperary, Ireland, was ordiined at Quebec in 1829. Sep- SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 169 tember, 1837, he came to Cleveland as successor to Rev. John Dillon, where he did pastoral duty till June, 1840, besides attending a number of missions and stations in Lorain, Summit and Portage counties. He commenced the frame church on the Flats, for which his predecessor had collected about $1,100. He left in 1840 and went to London, Canada, and later he was received into the Diocese of Chicago. He died at St. Charles, 111., August 30, 1871. 254. O'HiGGlNS, Rev. William, of Irish birth, was edu- cated at Maynooth; ordained in British Guinea about 1853. He was nephew to Bishop O'Higgins of Ardagh. Came to Cincinnati in 1857, and was appointed successor to Rev. R. Gilmour, at Ironton. Remained there about one year, when he was appointed pastor of St. Thomas', Cincinnati, (1858-60); then assistant to Father Gilmour, at St. Patrick's, same city. From 1862 to 1864 he was chaplain of the Tenth Regiment, O. V. I. Next he had charge of Sedamsville mission, near Cincinnati, for nearly a year, when he was received into the Diocese of Little Rock, where he remained till about 1870. He then came to Cleveland in 1871, and was appointed pro- fessor at St. Mary's Seminary, where he remained till his appointment as pastor of St. Augustine's, Cleveland, Decem- ber, 1871, to June, 1872. Was a few months at Charity Hos- pital as a patient, in 1872, and then left the Diocese of Cleve- land. Returned to Ireland, where he died in 1875. 255. O'Keefe, Rev. Daniel, was born at Middleton, county Cork, Ireland, in 1835; began his studies in Cork, continued at St. Vincent's College, Westmoreland county, Pa., and finished them in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 25, 1865. He was appointed first resident pastor of South Thompson, 1865-66, attending Jefferson as a mission. He was then sent to Defiance as assistant to Rev. A. I. Hoeffel, with charge of Antwerp (where he began the present church). Mud Creek, Delaware Bend, and several smaller missions. October, 1869, he was appointed pastor of Providence, where he remained 170 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE till January, 1871, when he was obliged to resign, owing to ill health. He was lying sick in the pastoral residence at Perrys- burg for ten weeks, when he was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, where he died June 16, 1871. His remains are buried in St. Francis' Cemetery, Toledo. Father O'Keefe was a zealous, earnest priest, and won the esteem of his parishioners wherever he was engaged in the ministry. 256. O'Leary, Rev. D. J., (Dominican), a native of Ire- land, made his ecclesiastical studies at the Minerva, Rome ; came to the United States in 1821, and was ordained by Bishop Flaget, at St. Rose's, Kentucky, in 1823. He attended Dun- gannon, Columbiana county, in 1834. Died at the Dominican Convent, near Somerset, Perry county, February 8, 1845, aged fifty-one. 257. O'Mara, Rev. Patrick H., was born in Chicago, 111., February 22, 1852. He was educated for the priesthood at Louisville College, and St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. Bishop Gilmour ordained him July 5, 1877, and a few days later appointed him resident pastor of Hudson, with charge of the missions of Cuyahoga Falls and Peninsula. He remained there till July, 1881. In the following month he was appointed assistant to Rev. M. Healy, pastor of St. Mary's, Tiffin. December of same year he received a like appointment to St. Columba's, Youngstown, where he remained one year. His last mission was as assistant to Rev. A. I. Hoeffel, pastor of St. John's church, Delphos, from August, 1886, to September, 1888, when owing to sickness he went to St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital, Fort Wayne. There, after four weeks' illness, he died October 22, 1888. His remains are interred in St. John's Cemetery, Cleveland. 258. O'Mealy, Rev. Joseph, was born in Ireland, 1815. He was stationed at St. John's, Canton, for a few months in 1840. Later he was superior of the Diocesan Seminary, in Brown county, Ohio (at present the well-known Ursuline Convent); he was also, for a number of years, at Portsmouth SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 171 and Dayton. He died in 1856. His grave is in Calvary Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. 259. O'Meara, Rev. J., (Dominican), was stationed at St. John's, Canton, 1835-36, and attended Canal Fulton. Left Ohio about 1840 and went to Illinois, where he died. No other record of him. 260. O'Neill, Rev. Michael, was born in the parish of Bruff, county Limerick, Ireland, June 24, 1830 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at Cork and Castle Knock, Ireland, and in the Diocesan Seminary of Cleveland. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, January i, 1855, and remained at the cathedral as assistant, with charge of Berea, Hudson and Mantua as missions, till July, 1856. Then he was appointed pastor of Wooster, remaining till July, 1861. He also attended Mans- field, Crestline and Bucyrus as missions, besides several small stations, while pastor of Wooster. July, 1861, he was trans- ferred to St. Ann's, Fremont, which charge he held till May, 1865, when he left the Diocese of Cleveland and went to Cincinnati. There he was appointed pastor of Holy Angels' church. This charge he held till his death, April 24, 1885. 261. O'Reilly, Rev, James, was born in Rossduff, county Longford, Ireland, February 14, 1841, and made his studies at New Orleans, Niagara Falls, and in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. He was ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 24, 1866, and appointed assistant at the cathedral, where he remained till October i, 1869. He was then appointed pastor of St. Rose's, Lima. January 6, 1871, he was recalled to Cleveland to take charge of St. Columbkill's congregation, just then organized. He remained there till October i, 1872, when he was sent to Toledo as pastor of St. Francis de Sales' church, where he continued till his death, September 30, 1885. 262. O'SULLIVAN, Rev. Michael, was born in Ireland (no record of date or place) ; finished his studies for the ministry at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop 172 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Rappe, August — , 1852. His first appointment was at St, Mary's, Tiffin, September, 1852, to February, 1859, where under great difficulties, he built the present church. There he also established a parochial school. From Tiffin he attended Findlay till 1854. F"ebruary, 1859, he was received by Arch- bishop Purcell, who sent him to Urbana. Five months later he was appointed pastor of Holy Angels' church, Cincinnati. In 1860 he went to the Diocese of Chicago, and remained there till his death, as pastor of Amara, 111., July — , 1865. His remains were interred in Calvary Cemetery, Chicago, July 28, 1865. Father O'Sullivan was a man of sterling quali- ties, firm but kind in his dealings with those committed to his care. He was also an excellent preacher. The writer will ever treasure most pleasant recollections of this warm-hearted priest, whose parochial school he attended, and one of whose altar boys he was for several years. Father O'Sullivan's greatest delight was to be with the children of his parish. His genial ways spread sunshine and joy on those whom he honored with his presence. To the children as well as to the adults committed to his care, he was indeed a spiritual father, a wise counselor and true friend. 263. Oberle, Rev. Francis Joseph, born in Schweinheim, Bavaria, May 7, 1842, was ordained for the Redemptorists, April I, 1865. In 1874 he became a secular priest. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from February, 1877, till March, 1881, and had charge of Shelby as resident pastor, and attended Chicago Junction (where he organized a congrega- tion and built the present church), also Plymouth and Republic. After leaving the Diocese of Cleveland he was admitted, some time after, by Bishop Gross, to the Vicariate of North Caro- lina, where he was on the mission till 1883, when he became an invalid of consumption. He was received by his friend, Rev. A. J. Sauer, pastor of St. Andrew's, Ellenville, Ulster county. New York, with whom he made his home till death, March 16, 1885. 264. Obermueller, Rev. Francis Xavier, a native of Austria, was born at Schwarzenberg, Tyrol, October 6, 18 lO. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 173 He came to this country in July, 1844, and was ordained by Bishop Henni for the Diocese of Milwaukee, June 11, 1846. Shortly after his ordination he expressed a desire to join the Sanguinist Fathers, whose conamunity in Tyrol he had learned to esteem. His wish was granted by his Ordinary. He was therefore received at New Riegel, Ohio, by the Very Rev. Provincial Brunner, under whose direction he did pastoral duty in various places in the Diocese of Cleveland, viz.: New Riegel, as assistant pastor, from 1847 to 1848 ; also attended as missions, St. Joseph's, Tiffin, 1850 ; Fostoria and Liberty, 1848. Next he was assistant at Thompson, from 1848 to 1850, when he left the Sanguinists and returned to the Diocese of Milwaukee, where he had pastoral charges till 1852. He then went back to his native Tyrol, where he was pastor till Octo- ber, 1856. In the following month he returned to America with Very Rev. Father Brunner, having been received again as a member of the Sanguinist society. February,, 1857, he was given charge of a congregation in Mercer county, O., and later a professorship in the Sanguinist college, then existing at Gruenewald, same county. September 12, 1857, he was sent to Cleveland as pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption con- gregation, then occupying the old frame church on the Flats. This charge he retained till August, 1861. Meanwhile, December, i860, he again left the Sanguinists and became a secular priest, and so continued till death. During his pastor- ate of St. Mary's, Cleveland, a portion of the present church property was bought. The parochial school was enlarged and placed in charge of Brothers of Mary and Ursuline Sisters. August, 1 86 1, he was sent by Bishop Rappe to Norwalk as pastor of St. Peter's, where he remained till he again left the diocese, October, 1865. From Norwalk he attended Peru, September, i86{, to September, 1862; Milan, 1863-65 ; Mon- roeville, where he organized the present congregation, September, 1861, to July, 1863. In October, 1865, he returned to the Diocese of Milwaukee, having been reclaimed by Bishop Henni. He was sent to Jefferson, Wis., as pastor of St. Law- rence's church and chaplain of the Franciscan Sisters, remain- ing till 1 87 1, when he became affiliated with the Diocese of 174 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE La Crosse, on invitation of its first bishop, the Rt. Rev. M, Heiss, whose intimate friend he was for many years. As he was of advanced years and delicate health he was unable to do pastoral duty.- Bishop Heiss therefore assigned him the chaplaincy of St. Rose's Convent, at La Crosse, where he resided till his death, June 12, 1886. Whilst connected with the Diocese of La Crosse he was a member of the Bishop's Council. He was always held in high esteem by his superiors, and by his co-laborers on the missions, for his priestly virtues and worth. He was a fine scholar, a saintly and self-sacrificing priest. 265. Orzechowski, Rev. M. F., a native of Poland, was born at Stopnica, May 30, 1838, and educated for the priest- hood in Poland and in the seminary at Sans, France. He was ordained for the Diocese of Galveston, Texas, by Bishop Dubuis, Nqvember i, 1866. He was on the mission in Texas till 1882; then in the Diocese of Milwaukee till August, 1884, when he was received by Bishop Gilmour and appointed pastor of St. Anthony's (Polish) congregation, Toledo. This posi- tion he held till November, 1887, when he went to Europe. He returned in May, 1888, and went to the Diocese of Buffalo; then to Davenport, Iowa, where he is now engaged in the ministry. 266. Paganini, Rev. Angelo, was born, educated and ordained in Italy. After being on the mission in several dio- ceses in the east, in New Jersey and Maryland, he was received by Bishop Gilmour in 1873, and appointed resident pastor of Warren. There he remained till 1875, when after a few months' absence, he was sent to Hudson, February, 1876, remaining till May, 1877, when he left the Diocese of Cleve- land, and later returned to Italy. He died there of cholera, near Assisi, August — , 1884. 267. Paganini, Rev. Joseph, was received into the Dio- cese of Cleveland, in 1875 and appointed pastor of Warren. Remained but a short time. No other record of him. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 175 268. Peter, Rev. George, was born in Somborn, Chur- Hessen, Europe, May 19, 183S; made his studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland ; was ordained by Bishop Rappe, June 26, 1859. He had the following pastoral charges in the Dio- cese of Cleveland : Fremont, St. Joseph's, as assistant, with charge of the missions of Millersville (Greensburg), Clyde, Elmore, Woodville, Port Clinton and Toussaint, July, 1859, to June, 1861 ; Dungannon, with Leetonia as a mission, and the stations of New Lisbon and Salem, June, 1861, to June, 1864; Liverpool, June, 1864, to January, 1866; Milan to October, 1868 ; Upper Sandusky to March, 1873, from which place he also attended Kirby, January, 1869, to March, 1873. After three months' illness he was sent to Avon in the fall of 1873, and attended Sheffield as a mission. In the following year he was appointed pastor of St. Peter's, Norwalk. He remained there till October, 1875. Edgerton and Florence were his next charges, October, 1875, to May, 1879, when he was sent to Fort Jennings, remaining there till June, 1881. Since last mentioned date he has not done pastoral duty. For the last few years he has been residing at Put-in-Bay. 269. Peudeprat, Rev. Peter, was born, educated and ordained in the Diocese of Clermont, France*; came to North- ern Ohio in 1845, and was sent to Sandusky as assistant to Rev. P. J. Machebeuf pastor of Holy Angels' church, whence he also attended the mission of Fremont. January, 1846, he was sent to Louisville, Stark county, as successor to Rev. L. de Goesbriand. From this place he attended Harrisburg, and occasionally, also, Wellsville. He remained at Louisville till April, 1850, when he went to reside at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, for a few months. In the latter part of 1850 he assumed charge of Painesville, as first resident pastor. At once he secured the present church lot and had moved on it an old carpenter shop, which he bought and changed it into a temporary church. From Painesville he attended as missions, South Thompson, Willoughby and Conneaut. He left Paines- ville and the Diocese of Cleveland, in the summer of 1852, to join his life-long friend, Bishop Lamy, in the hard missionary 176 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE life of New Mexico. On his way thither he fell a victim to cholera, at St. Louis, Mo., where he died, July — , 1852. 270. PONCHEL, Rev. Narcissus, was born at Hermelin- ghen, France, September 19, 1825 ; completed his studies for the priesthood in the Diocesan Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, January i, 1851. Till March, 185 I, he attended Avon from Cleveland, and was then sent as assistant to Rev. Philip Foley, pastor of St. Francis de Sales', Toledo, remaining until 1854. During his stay at Toledo, he also had charge of the missions of Six Mile Woods (1851-52), Providence (1851-54J, Toussaint (1852-53), and Maumee (1852-53). February, 1854, he was appointed pastor of Doylestown and attended Canal Fulton as a mission till Jan- uary, 1855, when he accepted a professorship at St. John's College, then in existence in Cleveland. He retained this position till 1356, when Bishop Rappe sent him to Norwalk to take charge of St. Peter's congregation, and to organize the English-speaking Catholics of the same town as a congrega- tion (St. Mary's), whose first church was commenced and nearly completed under his direction. He was pastor of St. Peter's till 1858, and of St. Mary's till his death, September 15, i860. His remains repose beneath the church he built, and in it a memorial tablet is erected to his memory. Father Ponchel was a man of large acquirements, a priestly character and a thorough gentleman. By his refined manners and gentle ways he made friends of all who had dealings with him. To this day his memory is cherished by Protestants and Catholics of Norwalk, and wherever he labored in the diocese. 271. Praessar, Rev. Hugo (Jesuit), was born January 11, 1838, at Ahrlweiler, Diocese of Treves ; ordained August 27, 1863; in this country since September, 1868; was assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, from 1871 to 1873. No record of his pres- ent residence. 272. Prendergast, Rev. Michael, was born, educated and ordained in Ireland. He was received into the Diocese SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 177 of Cleveland in 1855. and stationed at the cathedral for a few months. His next appointment was Summitville, with Leetonia, Niles, Youngstown and Warren as missions, April, 1856, to 1858. He then left the Diocese of Cleveland, and resided with the Sanguinists at Wapakoneta, ( Diocese of Cincinnati,) from which place he attended Lima for a short time in 1861. During this last mentioned year he affiliated with the Diocese of St. Paul, Minn., where he was pastor at Winona. He died about 1862. 273. Primeau, Rev. John B., a French Canadian, was born at Chateauguay, P. Q., April 29, 1836 ; ordained at Montreal, by Bishop Bourget, October 21, i860; was engaged as pastor and professor in the Diocese of Montreal from i860 till 1869, when he went to the Diocese of Springfield, Mass He remained there till July, 1882, when Bishop Gilmour' assigned him pastoral work at Archbold, Fulton county, with charge of several missions. November 15, 1883, he left the Diocese of Cleveland. Asking Bishop Gilmour, in Septem- ber, 1884, to again give him pastoral work he was sent to St. Louis' church. East Toledo. December, 1888, he was removed from this charge and dismissed from the diocese, but refused to vacate the pastoral residence, which he has continued to occupy since, and up to present time, (April, 1890). 274. Prost, Very Rev. Joseph (Redemptorist), was born in Austria, January, 1804; ordained July 16, 1832; came to the United States in 1834; attended Peru, Huron county, between 1835 and 1839; was Provincial of the Redemptorists in the United States between 1840 and 1843; returned to Europe; died at Tuchheim, Austria, March 19, 1885. 275. PUETZ, Rev. Anselm (Franciscan), was born at Dueren, Diocese of Cologne, Prussia, September i, 1834; ordained September i, 1862; in the United States since July, 1875; belonged to Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1884 to July, 1885. He is now in the Diocese of Chicago, 111. 178 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 276. QuiNN, Rev. Bernard, was born in Ireland in 1840. He nnade his studies for the ministry, in part, at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, July 3, 1864. Was sent to Louisville, Stark county, in 1865, as professor in the college then and there in existence, where he remained till June, 1867. He was appointed first resident pastor of Upper Sandusky, but retained this position only two months. His next and last appointment in the Diocese of Cleveland was St. Joseph's, Maumee, where he remained till September, 1867, when he left the diocese. 277. QuiNN, Rev. Edmund, a native of Ireland, made his ecclesiastical studies at Bardstown, Ky., and was ordained at Cincinnati by Bishop Fenwick, January i, 1831. He was the first resident pastor of St. Mary's, Tiffin, receiving his appoint- ment in May, 183 1, after having done pastoral duty in Cincin- nati. He organized St. Mary's congregation. Tiffin, and had its first (brick) church built on a lot near the present Ursuline Convent. From Tiffin he attended the Catholic families along and near the Miami canal, from Providence, Lucas county, O., to Peru, Indiana, at which latter place he died, September 5, 1835, a victim of the dreaded Maumee fever. He was a most zealous, self-sacrificing priest. 278. QuiNN, Rev. John, was born at Kanturk, county Cork, Ireland, December i, 1824. He came to this country in 1852, and two years later entered St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he made his theological studies. June 13, 1858, he was elevated to the priesthood by Bishop Rappe, who sent him, the following month to Toledo, as assistant at St. Francis de Sales' church. There he remained till December, i860, when he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Norwalk. He held this charge till April, 1864, besides attending the mission of Wakeman about one year, 1863-64. At Norwalk the church, commenced by his predecessor, Rev. N. Ponchel, was completed under his direction. April, 1864, he was appointed superior of the Diocesan Seminary, and one of its professors. This post of honor he filled quite satisfactorily SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 179 till July, 1866, when his impaired health, never robust, obliged him to retire for a while for much needed rest and medical treatment. In 1867 he felt himself again able to take charge of a congregation. He was accordingly appointed pastor of St. Ann's, Fremont. This charge he held till August, 1868, when he was transferred to the pastorate of the Immaculate Conception congregation, Toledo. The present frame church, school and brick pastoral residence were built under his direction. In May, 1878, he was removed to St. Mary's, Wakeman, where he remained till obliged by sickness to cease all pastoral work, January, 1885. He lingered in patiently borne sickness at St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, until death released him, March 26, 1887. His remains are buried at Sandusky. 279. QuiNN, Rev. William, D. D., a native of Ireland, was born in Limerick, October 14, 1839. For nine years he was a student at the Propaganda, Rome, and was there ordained for the Diocese of Dublin. He came from Cincinnati to Cleve- land in September, 1873, and was appointed one of the pro- fessors at the seminary, but remained only till the following March. He died at Valetta, Isle of Malta, November 25, 1885. He was an able professor, a fine classical scholar and an eloquent preacher. 280. Reichert, Rev. Augustine (Sanguinist), was born at Nussloch, Baden, February 20, 183 1 ; came to America in 1834; ordained at New Riegel for the Sanguinists, by Bishop Rappe, November 21, 1853; was in the Diocese of Cleveland, at Thompson, as assistant, with charge of neighboring mis- sions, from June, 1854, to November, 1855; from 1856 to 1859 as assistant at Glandorf ; from 1859 to 1862 as pastor of New Riegel; and as pastor of Glandorf, from 1862 to May, 1874, when he was sent by his superior to Kansas, where for fif- teen years he did pastoral duty, amid hardships and privations such as few would care to endure. He died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., February 13, 1889. A priest in the true sense of the word he realized the dignity and respon- 180 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE sibility of pastor of souls; he was one of his Master's faithful servants. 281. Reinhardt, Rev. Joseph, born in Bavaria, about 1842, was ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland by Bishop Rappe, January 22, 1865. New Bavaria ( Poplar Ridge) was his first appointment. May, 1865, to May, 1867. For a few months he also attended Perrysburg as a mission. His next charge was Upper Sandusky, with Bucyrus and Kirby as missions. On the morning of February 22, 1868, he intended to go to Bucyrus to meet Bishop Rappe, who was to give confirmation there on that day. Having missed the pas- senger train he attempted to board a freight train and so reach Bucyrus in time for the ceremony, although told by the trainmen that they could not take him. Shortly after the freight train left Upper Sandusky his mangled remains were found near the railway station. The coroner's jury found that the railway employes were not to blame for his death. His untimely and sad ending cast a gloom over the entire community of Upper Sandusky, where he was highly esteemed by all classes for his amiable qualities. His remains are buried at Upper Sandusky. 282. Revis, Rev. Wenceslas, was born, 1822, at Wodnau, Bohemia; ordained in the year 1846; came to America in 1852, and was on the mission in the Dioceses of Philadelphia, Alton and Nashville. He left Nashville during the civil war and returned to his native country. At the close of the war, in 1865, he went back to Nashville, remaining till 1870, when he accepted an invitation from Very Rev. Administrator Hannin to take charge of St. Wenceslas' (Bohemian) congre- gation, Cleveland. He came in January, 1870, and remained till March, 1873. While pastor of St. Wenceslas' he shared the fate of his predecessor. Father Krasney, by being vilified and persecuted by his infidel countrymen, and some of his parishioners, who did all they could to obstruct his pastoral work and embitter his stay among them. Disheartened he left his difficult charge and went to the Diocese of Chicago, St. Ignatius' College, Cleveland. O. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 181 where he remained till death, at Feehanville, June 19, i Father Revis was a zealous priest and an eloquent preacher. 283. Richard, Rev. Charles Hermann (Jesuit), was born at Osnabrueck, Hanover, May 8, 1834; ordained August 25, 1867 ; came to America, October, 1867 ; was stationed at St. Mary's, Toledo, as assistant, from 1869 to 1872. 284. RiNGELE, Rev. Jacob (Sanguinist), was born 1806, at Doettingen, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland; ordained De- cember 21, 1842; came to the United States December 31, 1843. He was engaged on the mission in Northern Ohio and Diocese of Cleveland between 1845 and 1865, and from 1870 till his death, December 15, 1871. Among his charges were Peru (184s) ; Cleveland (1848-49) ; Dungannon (1850) ; Defi- ance (about 1855) ; Shelby Settlement (1855-56) ; Thompson (1865-66) and New Riegel (1867), in all of which places he was full of zeal for religion, and did faithful missionary work. 285. ROEDIGER, Rev. Edmund (Franciscan), was born at Kalmerode, Eichfeld, Prussia, in 1857 [J) ; ordained at Teuto- polis. 111., May 28, 1882 ; in Cleveland Monastery from July, 1883, to April, 1884. Is at present on the mission in China. 286. ROESSNER, Rev. Clement (Sanguinist), was born 'at St. Peter's, Mercer county, Ohio, September 20, 1849; edu- cated by and for the Sanguinists at Carthagena, Ohio; ordained January 20, 1876 ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor of Ottawa, 1876-77 ; then of New Riegel from July, 1878, to August, 1880. He died in the Diocese of Nashville, October I, 1887. 287. ROETZER, Rev. J. M., was born in Bavaria about 1834. He came to Cleveland in 1856; was received by Bishop Rappe as a student for the Diocese of Cleveland and by him ordained June 26, 1859. Was professor at the semin- ary for a short time after his ordination ; then pastor of Find- lay, i860, till March, 1862, meanwhile attending Fostoria as a mission. He was next in charge of French Creek, as resident 182 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE pastor, from March to September, 1862, during that time also attending Avon and Sheffield. He then left the diocese. Died a few years after in Michigan. Date and place of death not recorded. 288. Rohan, Rev. Edmund, was born at Goulane, county Kerry, Ireland, January 8, 1854. He made his college course of studies at Mt. Melleray, Ireland ; philosophy and theology at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was received in September, 1880. Five years later, July 9, 1885, he was ordained for the Diocese of Cleveland by the Rt. Rev. Bishop de Goesbriand, during the absence of Bishop Gilmour, then in Rome. August, 1885, he was appointed pastor of South Thompson, with charge of Madison. April it, 1886, he was transferred to Van Wert, from which place he attended Con- voy and Spencerville. January, 1888, Bishop Gilmour appointed him assistant at Holy Name church, Cleveland, where he remained about one month. Owing to ill health he performed no priestl)^ duties till March 25, of same year, when he was sent to Dungannon, with charge of New Lisbon as a mission, This position he held till his death, February 19, 1889. He was an earnest worker and had the good will of those intrusted to his pastoral care. 289. ROLLINET, Rev. August Joseph, was born, 1796, at Long-Sancey, Diocese of Besancon, France ; studied for the ministry at Aix, in Provence ; was ordained about 1820, and after doing pastoral work in his native diocese came to America in 1848. Remaining a few months in Canada, he came to Ohio and was appointed first resident pastor of Cal- moutier. Holmes county, then under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Cleveland. This charge he held till 1858. He then joined the Society of Mary at Dayton. He also had temporary charge of the congregation at Louisville, Stark county, June, 1857, till June, 1858. He left the Society of Mary after a short time, and again received the pastorate of Calmoutier, where he died suddenly, January i, 1859. Father Rollinet was a most zealous priest, and enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 183 290. ROOS, Rev. John, a Bavarian, was born in 1832, at Dirmstein, Diocese of Speyer ; came to the United States in 1850. After finishing his studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, June i, 1856. He was sent to St. Ann's, Fremont, shortly after his ordination, remaining till December, 1857. During his pastorate the German members of St. Ann's left, and organized a separate congregation, known as St. Joseph's. From Fremont he attended Clyde and several other missions in Sandusky county. December, 1857, he was sent to St. John's, Canton, remaining till August, 1858, when he apostatized and became a member and minister of the Episcopal sect. Is now and has been for many years a resident minister of an Episcopal congregation in Baltimore, and is known as Rev. Rose. 291. ROSENBAUM, Rev. Balthasar, (Jesuit), was born at Enskirchen, Rhenish Prussia, October 5, 1847; was ordained in Liverpool, England, by the bishop of that diocese, the Right Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, August 31, 1877; was on the mission in England till September, 1885, when he was sent by his superior to St. Mary's, Toledo, as assistant, remaining till August, 1886. 292. Roth, Rev. Francis Xavier, a native of Alsace, France, attended Avon, Lorain county, between 1845 and 1847. He was next stationed at the cathedral from November, 1847, to February, 1848, when he left the Diocese of Cleveland. In 1854 he was in the Diocese of Detroit, where he died. 293. ROUPP, Rev. Nicholas, was born at Puttelange, Lorraine, France, April 25, 1825 ; .studied in the Diocesan Seminaries of Metz and Cleveland. Was ordained by Bishop Rappe, August 15, 1849. Shelby Settlement was his first appointment, August, 1849, to February, 185 1, with Gallon as a mission. He was then called to the cathedral, Cleveland, to attend the Catholic Germans, remaining till June, 1853, when he received the pastorate of St. Peter's, Norwalk. This charge he held till September, 1854, when he was sent to 184 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Maumee, where he remained till June, 1858. He was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Massillon, December, 1858, after a six months' visit to his native country. From Massillon he was transferred to St. Mary's, Sandusky, November, 1863, and remained till he left the dioce.se, June, 1864 ; returned to the Diocese of Metz, where he is still engaged in the ministry. 294. Rudolf, Rev. George P., was born at Ems, Canton Chur, Switzerland, September 13, 1843. After completing his studies in the Diocean Seminary, Cleveland, he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, May 16, 1868. He had the following pas- toral appointments in the Diocese of Cleveland : Defiance, St. John's, May, 1868, to August, 1869 ; Port Clinton, with La Prairie, Marblehead and Toussaint as missions, from Novem- ber, 1869, to March, 1871 ; Liverpool to September, 1872; Milan, to January, 1875 ; Clyde, to March, 1879 ; Findlay, to March, 1881, when he was relieved of all pastoral duty. He then left the ministry. 295. Ruff, Rev. Engelbert (Sanguinist), was born at St. Maergen, Baden, October 5, 1817 ; came to this country in 1845 ; was ordained at Thompson, Seneca county, for the Sanguinists, by Bishop Rappe, February 23, 1848. He labored on the mission in the Diocese of Cleveland in the following places : New Riegel, 1848 to 1854 ; Thompson and neighbor- ing missions till 1867, when he was sent by his superior to missions in other dioceses. He is now stationed in the Dio- cese of Nashville, Tenn. 296. Russ, Rev. Bernard (Sanguinist), was born at Min- ster, Auglaize county, Ohio, December 25, 1851 ; made his studies at St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, Ohio ; was ordained at Cincinnati by Archbishop Purcell, May 17, 1879 ! was assistant at Glandorf, Putnam county, Ohio, from May 31, 1879, to November 15, 1880. He was then sent on the mission in Kansas, remaining till January 1883. Since then he has had various positions in the Diocese of Cincinnati. Is at present stationed in Mercer county, Ohio. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 185 297. Ryan, Rev. Edmund F., a native of Ireland, was born at Knockany, county Limerick, Aug^ust 24, 1856; was educated for the priesthood at Thurles, Ireland, and Versailles, France. Bishop Dorrian ordained him at Belfast, October 28, 1875. After doingf pastoral work in his native country till 1884, he came to the United States. Four years later he was received pro tempore into the Diocese of Cleveland, and appointed assistant to the pastor of St. Malachy's church, Cleveland, July, 1888. He left the diocese in August, 1889. 298. Saenderl, Rev. Simon (Redemptorist), was born at Malgersdorf, Bavaria, September 30, 1800 ; ordained June 2, 1825; came to the United States, March, 1832 ; was stationed at Peru, Huron county, between 1835-36, and occasionally attended Wolf's Creek (New Riegel), during-this time; was pastor of St. John's, Canton, 1836-37; left the Redemptorists in 1847, and joined the Trappists at Gethsemani, Ky,, where he received the Habit, March 15, 1852. Died at Gethsemani, February 22, 1879. 299. Salaun, Rev. John F., was born at Landevenneque, Finistere, France, November 18, 1818; was educated in France, and ordained at Point Croix, Diocese of Quimper, by Bishop Graverond, June 10, 1843. Came to the Diocese of Cleveland December, 1855, and shortly after his arrival he was appointed superior of St. Mary's Seminary. This position he held with distinction till August, 1864, when he left the diocese. For many years he has been doing pastoral duty at South Orange, Diocese of Newark, N. J., where he is now stationed. Whilst superior of Cleveland Seminary he had charge of the follow- ing missions : Hudson, Euclid and Newburgh (Cleveland). 300. Sanner, Rev. Sebastian, was born, educated and ordained in Germany. He was received into the Diocese of Cincinnati by Bishop Purcell, in 1846, and sent to Calmoutier, Holmes county. In 1848 Bishop Rappe appointed him assist- ant at St. Francis de Sales' church, Toledo, to attend the Catholic Germans residing there. In 1850 he was given the 186 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE pastorate of St. Joseph's, Maumee, from which place he attended New Bavaria, Six Mile Woods, Defiance and Provi- dence. December, 1853, he was transferred to Shelby Settle- ment, where he remained till he left the Diocese of Cleveland, September, 1854. 301. SCHALK, Rev. Frederick (Sanguinist), was born in New Riegel, Seneca county, Ohio, March 2, 1850; educated by the Sanguinists at Carthagena, Mercer county, Ohio, and for them ordained by Archbishop Purcell, January 17, 1873; was pastor of Ottawa, Putnam county, from February, 1873, to February, 1876. Is at present stationed at Wapakoneta, Diocese of Cincinnati. 302. SCHE-DLER, Rev. Caspar (Sanguinist), was born at Schwabeck, Bavaria, May 6, 1842; came to the United States in 1866, and was ordained for the Sanguinists by Archbishop Purcell, Nov. 21, 1868. Was in the Diocese of Cleveland as assistant at New Riegel from August, 1869, to September, 1870, and during that time also attended Big Spring. He has since been in the Diocese of Cincinnati. 303. SCHELBERT, Rev. Aloysius (Sanguinist), was born at Monthenthal, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, October 12, 1813; ordained July 28, 1850, and came to this country October of the same year. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland between October, 1853, and November, 1864, viz.: at Glandorf till November, 1858, and at New Riegel till 1864. His superior then appointed him pastor of Himmelgarten, Mercer county, Ohio. In 1865 he was sent to St. Joseph's, same county, where he remained till July, 1876, when he returned to Europe, (Schellenberg, Austria), remaining there as pastor and local superior of the Sanguinist Convent till his death, April 10. 1878. 304. SCHERER, Rev. Peter D., a Swiss, was born at Lies- berg, June 29, 1840; made his studies for the ministry in his native town and at Mt. Calvary, Wis., with the Capuchins SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 187 lor whose Order he was ordained by Bishop Henni, July 25, 1863. As a Capuchin he held various positions from 1863 to 1886, eight in all. December, 1887, the Holy See permitted him to become a secular priest. As such he was received pro tempore by Bishop Gilmour, who appointed him resident pastor of Independence, with charge of Brighton as a mission. He remained till June, 1888, when he was recalled to the Dio- cese of Solothurn, Switzerland, to which he had been assigned when secularized by the Holy See. 305. SCHILL, Rev. Kilian (Sanguinist), was born at Henweiler, Baden, July 8, 1854 ; educated at St. Charles' Seminary, Carthagena, Ohio, and there ordained by Arch- bishop Elder, June 8, 1882; was assistant at Glandorf, from September, 1882, to July, 1885. Is now stationed in Mercer county. Diocese of Cincinnati. 306. SCHLOESSER, Rev. Kilian (Franciscan), was born at Cologne, Rhenish Prussia, May 9, 1826 ; ordained March 11, 1857; in the United States since i860. Was superior of Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1871 to 1879, ^"^ pastor of St. Joseph's, same city, from 1871 to July, 1885. During his pastorate in Cleveland, the Franciscan Monastery and the present church of St. Joseph's congregation were built. He is at present pastor at Santa Barbara, in the Dio- cese of Monterey, Cal. 307. Schmidt, Rev. — , (Sanguinist?); at Thompson from 1856 to 1857. No other record of him. 308. SCHMITZ, Rev. Meinolph (Franciscan), was born in the city of Cologne, Germany, February 16, 1840; came to America, December, 1867; ordained February 7, 1868 ; was a member of the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1875 to 1879 ; he was also superior of Franciscan College, same city. Is now a secular priest in the Diocese of Jamestown, N. D. 309. Schneider, Rev. Thomas (Franciscan), was born December 31, 1850, at Neustadt, Silesia; in the United States 188 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE since October, 1869; ordained June 18, 1878; was attached to the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from July, 1 881, to July. 1885, during which time he was also pastor of Parma and Independence. He is now a secular priest and stationed in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. 310. SCHOCH, Rev. Theobald (Sanguinist), was born at St. Peter's, Mercer county, Ohio, July 24, 1848 ; educated for and by the Sanguinists at Carthagena, Ohio ; ordained by Bishop Dwenger, January 18, 1873. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from February, 1873, *^o September, 1875. as pastor of St. Peter's, Big Spring, and of St. Joseph's, Craw- fordsville, till June, 1875. Next he had charge of one of the Sanguinist missions in Mercer county, Ohio. He then went to Europe (Schellenberg, Austria,) where he died, November 19, 1889. 311. SCHORB, Rev. Basil, was born, 1810, in Adams county. Pa.; ordained by Bishop Purcell at Cincinnati, May 20, 1837. Shortly after his ordination he was sent to Chippewa, near Doylestown, Wayne county, from which place he attended the missions of Canal Fulton, St. John's, Canton (1837), Massillon (1843), Peru (1840), Liverpool, Randolph and Wooster (1842). In 1843 he left Ohio and returned to Pennsylvania, where he died as pastor of York, April 4, 1871. 312. SCHWEIGER, Rev. Andrew J. M., was stationed in Cleveland from October, 1852, till some time in 1853, to min- ister to the spiritual wants of the Catholic Germans. No other record of him. 313. Schweitzer, Rev. Clement (Sanguinist), was born in Baden, Germany, 1810 ; ordained by Bishop Rappe for the Sanguinists in 1849 ; was stationed at Thompson, Seneca county, from 1849 till his death, April 23, 1850. 314. SCIIWICK, Rev. Joseph (Jesuit), was assistant at St. Mary's church, Toledo, from November, 1877, to October 12, SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 189 1878. On latter date he left the Jesuits and became a secular priest. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. 315. Seeberger, Rev. Cosmas (Sanguinist), was born at Frastanz, near Feldkirch,Austria, March 4, 1840 ; in the United States since January, 1866 ; ordained for the Sanguinists June 30, 1874 ; was assistant at New Riegel and pastor of Big Spring from October, 1875, to December, 1876. He is now in Diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind. 316. SiGG, Rev. Aloysius (Jesuit), a native of Wuerttem- berg, Germany, was born at Eberhardzell, December 4, 1839. After completing his ecclesiastical studies at St. Francis' Seminary, Milwaukee, he was ordained by Bishop Henni, November 5, 1865. Till 1874 he was engaged in various positions, the last two years as secretary to Bishop Heiss, at La Crosse, Wis. He then went to Holland and became a Jesuit. In 1880 he was sent back to this country, (Mankato, Minn.) In 1885 he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Toledo, which position he held till January, 1890, when his superiors sent him to St. Ann's, Buffalo, N. Y., where he is now stationed. At Toledo he was superior of the Jesuit Fathers for four years. 317. Simeon, Rev. Nicholas, (Jesuit), a Swiss, was born at Lenz, November 28, 1834. Bishop Baudri ordained him at Maria-Laach, for the Jesuits, August 29, 1865. He was stationed at St. Ignatius' College, Cleveland, from September, 1889, to February, 1890, and during that time was engaged giving missions and retreats. He is now in Prairie-du-Chien, Wis. 318. SOMMER, Rev. Severin, was received by Bishop Rappe, October, 1854, and appointed resident pastor of Shelby Settlement, where he remained about a year, when he left the Diocese of Cleveland. No other record of him. 319. Spicher, Rev. Peter (Jesuit), was born in Switzer- land, Canton Freiburg, December 22, 1811. He joined the 190 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Society of Jesus, October i, 1832, and was ordained in 1842. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Switzerland he came to America in 1848, and was appointed professor of theology for the members of the Society of Jesus at St. Louis, Mo. So highly were his learning, his virtues, and his zeal in the care of souls appreciated, that he was put first on the list of candi- dates for the Episcopal See to be erected in Quincy, later transferred to Alton, 111. Aware of this he returned to Europe. For many years he was superior of several houses of the society in Germany, and was also for a time Master of Novices. In 1868 he returned to this country to found a mis- sion of the German Jesuits, of which he was appointed first superior the following year. He took up his residence at Toledo, O., where Bishop Rappe had given the Jesuit Fathers of the Buffalo Province charge of St. Mary's church. Relieved at his request in 1870 of the office of superior, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., where he died at St. Ann's church on March 29, 1874. Father Spicher was a man of rare charity, meek- ness and humility — qualities which endeared him everywhere to clergy and laity. 320. Spierings, Rev. Gerard Augustine, a native of Hol- land, was born at Uden, August 24, 1828, where also he was educated for the ministry. He was ordained by Mgr. Caroli, Bishop of Cambray, France, November 17, i855- October, 1865, he was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, and appointed pastor of Upper Sandusky. There he remained till April, 1867, when he was sent to Dungannon. This charge he retained till 1869, when he left the diocese. While pastor .of Upper Sandusky he also attended Kirby (1865-66), and Bucyrus (November, 1865, April, 1867). Since 1869 he has been on the mission in New Jersey, and is at present pastor of Keyport, Diocese of Trenton. 321. Stein, Rev. George, a native of Baden, was in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1852 to 1858, first as pastor of Randolph, till 1857, then for a few months in 1858, pastor of St. Mary's, Massillon, when he left the Diocese. No other record of him. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 191 322. Stiefvater, Rev. Andrew, (Sanguinist)y was born at Kirchhofen, Baden, November 28, 1830 ; ordained at Thomp- son, Seneca county, O., by Bishop Rappe, August 27, 1857. He had the following charges in the Diocese of Cleyeland, viz.: Glandorf, assistant, 1857-60; Reed, as pastor, and Thompson, as assistant, 1877-83 ; chaplain of Ursuline Con- vent, Tiffin, 1883, June, 1886 ; Thompson, assistant, June, 1886 — September, 1887; same place, chaplain, October, 1888 — September, 1889. He is now in the Diocese of Nashville. 323. Stremler, Rev. James, D. D., was born, educated and ordained in Lorraine, France. About 1859 he received the doctorate at Rome, where he was chaplain for three years of the collegiate church of St. Louis of France. Came to the Diocese of Cleveland from Laval University, Quebec, and was superior of St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, from September, 1866, to August, 1870, when he left; then affiliated with the Diocese of Alton, and later with Vincennes, (1873), where he now is as pastor of Floyd Knobs, Ind. In i860 he published the well known and frequently quoted work, " Traite des Peines Ecclesiastiques." 324. Stroker, Rev. Francis, was born at Strokestown, county Roscommon, Ireland, in 1829. He made his theo- logical studies at the seminary in Cleveland, and was ordained by Bishop Rappe, December 11, 1853. Dungannon was his first appointment, December, 1853, to June, i8SS- He was then transferred to Summitville, where he remained till April, 1856. While resident pastor of Dungannon and Summitville, he also had charge of several missions: Niles (1853-56), War- ren, (1853-56), and St. Columba's, Youngstown, (1853-54). April, 1856, he left the Diocese of Cleveland and was received by Bishop Henni, of Milwaukee, in whose diocese he remained as pastor of Milford, Wis., till death, some time in 1864. He was killed by railway cars. 325. Stuecker, Rev. Quirinus (Franciscan), a native of Germany, was born at Bidefeld, August 6, 1851; educated for 192 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE . the sacred ministry at Teutopolis and St. Louis; ordained in latter city for the Franciscans by Bishop Ryan, June 21, 1879. Owing to illness shortly after his ordination he was unable to do duty till August, 1880, when he attended pastoral work at Teutopolis till October, 1887. He was then sent to the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, where he remained from October 13, 1887, to August 7, 1888. His superiors then sent him on the mission to Hermann, Mo. 326. Sullivan, Rev. Francis Augustine, was born in Ireland, August 2, 1837. He was received by Bishop Rappe, and after a few years' stay in the Diocesan Seminary, was sent to the Sulpitian Seminary at Paris to complete his studies. There he remained about three years. On his return he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, December 2, i860. January after his ordination he was appointed one of the professors at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and for a few months attended Ravenna and Newburgh (Cleveland). In the latter place he commenced the erection of the old church (Holy Rosary) on North Park street. Owing to failing health he resigned his position as professor and accepted the pastorate of St. Mary's, Elyria, August, 1863, with charge of Vermillion as a mission. He died of consumption at Elyria, February 4, 1864. 327. SUTER, Rev. Aloysius (Jesuit), was born at Mutathal, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, February 16, 1835 ; ordained September 10, 1867 ; in this country since September, 1868 ; was assistant at St. Mary's, Toledo, from 1876 to 1880, and from August to September, 1889. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Dubuque, Iowa. 328. Thiele, Rev. Henry L., was born in the Diocese of Muenster, Germany, 1819 ; ordained by Bishop Baraga for the Diocese of Marquette, in 1854; received into the Diocese of Cleveland in 1861 and sent to Akron, where he organized St. Bernard's congregation, remaining till May, 1863. His next appointment was St. Joseph's congregation, Massillon, whose first resident pastor he was, July, 1863, to December, 1864. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 193 During this time he also attended Navarre (Bethlehem). From January to June, 1865, he had charge of St. Martin's, Liverpool. He then returned to the Diocese of Marquette, where he did pastoral duty till 1873, when he went to Notre Dame, Ind. There he died August 17, of same year. He was a man of fine literary taste and wrote much for maga- zines and other periodicals. 329. Thienpont, Rev. Emanuel, a native of Belgium, was ordained in Cincinnati, January 20, 1833, by Bishop Rosati, of St. Louis. In 1835 he was sent to attend the missions along the Miami Canal as far north as Toledo. In 1835 he was also at St. Mary's, Tiffin, for six months as successor to Rev. E. Quinn. From 1836 to 1842 he was pastor of the Catholic Germans of Dayton. Then he had charge of Ports- mouth, Steubenville and other places. Died October 19, 1873, aged about 70 years. 330. Thoma, Rev. John M., (Sanguinist), was born at Werbach, Baden, August 13, 1833 ; educated at Rome, and there ordained for the Sanguinists, August 19, 1857. After doing pastoral duty in Europe till 1868, he came to the Diocese of Cleveland during the same year, and from Thompson, under direction of the Provincial of the Sanguinists, attended St. Sebastian's congregation, Sherman (Bismarck), from July, 1868, to July, 1869. He then returned to Europe, but came back to this country, February, 1886, as a secular priest, and was received into the Diocese of St. Joseph, Mo., where, as pastor of New Hirrlingen, he died April 18, 1887. 331. TiGHE, Rev. Denis, was born in Ireland; received into the'DioceSan Seminary, Cleveland, about 1855. Before completing his studies for the ministry he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, in 1857, and sent to Holy Angels', Sandusky, as assistant to Father Caron. In 1859 he was appointed pastor of Summitville, remaining till September, 1864, mean- while attending East Liverpool and Wellsville as missions. He was then appointed first resident pastor of St. Bridget's, 194 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE Cleveland, which position he held till his death, June 19, 1866. His simplicity of character and earnest piety made him a noble example for those committed to his spiritual guidance. 332. Treacy, Rev. James, was born at Ballymagill, county Kilkenny, Ireland, May 12, 1857. He made his colle- giate studies at Knocktopher, and mental philosophy and one year of theology in St. John's College, Waterford. September, 1883, he was received by Bishop Gilmour as a student for the Diocese of Cleveland and sent to St. Mary's Seminary, Cleve- land. January 8, 1885, he was elevated to the priesthood, and on the 20th of the same month entered on the discharge of his duties as one of the assistants at the cathedral. Not of strong frame, and never of robust health, he soon showed signs of failing strength. His condition growing worse, in spite of prompt medical care, he obtained from his bishop, in May, 1887, an indefinite leave of absence to return to his native Ireland, where he hoped to find relief He came back to Cleveland in October, 1888, very little improved in health. One month later, on the advice of his physicians, he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, in the well known sanitarium, under the efficient charge of the Sisters of Charity, he gained steadily in strength for many months, and his hopes for recovery brightened. But grim death only dallied with its victim. Consumption had gone too far in its destructive course to leave hope for recovery. When he finally realized that his end was near, he cheerfully awaited the final summons. Fortified with all the Rites of Holy Church, he yielded his soul to God on Friday morning, March 21, 1890. Father Treacy was a priest of gentle piety and prudent zeal. He had also a sweetness of soul, which constantly won men to God, and made him a favorite with all who knew him. Charity, modesty, and a spirit of priestly obedience richly blended in his character. 333. Truemper, Rev. William (Jesuit), a Prussian, was born at Lutter, in November, 1840, and ordained for the Jesuits at Maria-Laach, by Bishop Eberhardt, of Treves, May SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 195 31, 1871. He was stationed at St. Mary's, Cleveland, as assistant, from July. 18S7, till September, 1889, and during this time also attended Willoughby for some months. He is now at St. Ann's, Buffalo. 334. T.SCHENHENS, Rev. F. X. (Redemptorist), was born in Holland, July 24, 1801 ; ordained August 15, 1827. He was among the first Redemptorists that came to the United States, landing June 20, 1832. He went directly to Cincin- nati, where he resided for some time. In 1834 Bishop Purcell sent him to Peru, Huron county, whence he attended Tiffin, New Riegel, McCutchenville, Norwalk, Sandusky and Fre- mont. He had charge of Peru till 1839, but returned in 1841 from Pittsburgh, where he had been appointed superior of a Redemptorist convent he established there. He remained for nearly one year, when he was recalled to Pittsburgh. Wherever he labored on the mission in Northern Ohio his memory is revered by the old Catholic settlers yet living, as that of a saintly, self-sacrificing minister of God. His last visit to Ohio was in December, 1858, when he preached the funeral sermon of a dear friend and former parishioner of hi.'^, who died in Tiffin. He was a priest devoted to his work with apostolic zeal. He died at Baltimore, May 10, 1877. 335. Uhlmann, Rev. John Baptist, was born at Con- stance, Baden, February 19, 1804; ordained at Freiburg, Baden, by Archbishop Bernard Boll, September 17, 1828. Till 1850 he did pastoral duty in the Diocese of Freiburg, when he concluded to come to America, owing to the continued disturbed condition of his native Baden, caused by the Revo- lution in 1848. In 1852 he was received by Bishop Rappe and appointed pastor of St. Joseph's, Tiffin, where he built the first pastoral residence. From Tiffin he also attended Liberty, 1853-56. He remained at Tiffin from September, 1852, till May, 1856, when he was transferred to St. Peter's, Canton. He remained there from June, 1856, till June, 1864, when he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's, Sandusky, where he resided till he left the Diocese of Cleveland to return to 196 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE his native country, July, 1865. He died at Bonndorf, Baden, February 18, 1882. Father Uhlmann was a man of varied and deep learning and an eloquent preacher. 336. Van den Broek, Rev. John (Sanguinist), was born at Oss, Province of Nord .Braband, Holland, December 3, 1819; was ordained at Feldkirch, June 19, 1843, and came to the United States in December of same year. He had pastoral charge of the following places in the Diocese of Cleveland : Randolph, about 1845 ; assistant at Louisville, with charge of New Berlin, 1848 to 1849; Tiffin, St. Joseph's, 1850; French Creek and Avon, 1851 to 1853; New Riegel, 1854 to 1856; Liverpool, 1859 to 1861. Since then he has been in the Dio- cese of Cincinnati. 337. Van de Weyer, Rev. A. F. (Dominican), a native of Holland, attended Dungannon between November, 1833, and April, 1835, and Louisville, Stark county, from Canton, between 1835 and 1838. No other record of him. 338. Verlet, Rev. George, was born at Phalsburg, Lor- raine, March 27, 1839 ! began his studies for the priesthood in his native city, and coming to this country in 1858, completed them in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he was ordained by Bishop Rappe, September 30, 1861. His first appointment was as assistant at St. Mary's Sandusky, whence he also attended Kelley's Island, Oak Harbor, Port Clinton, Marblehead, Toussaint, and a number of stations, October, 1861 — January, 1862. He was then sent to Port Clinton as first resident pastor. From this place he continued attending the above named missions till June, 1865, when he was trans- ferred to St. Joseph's, Massillon. There he remained till his removal to New Bavaria, May, 1888, where he remained till his death, August 3, 1889. He was a genial and kind hearted priest. 339. Vernimont, Rev. Raymund (Sanguinist), a native of Ohio, was born at Berwick, Seneca county, October 13, 1856 ; was educated for the Sanguinists at Carthagena, O., and SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY 197 for them ordained at Cincinnati, by Archbishop Elder, May 30, 1885. He had charge of St. Mary's, Tiffin, during the absence of the pastor. Rev. M. Healy, from December, i88q, till Feb- ruary, 1890. He is now stationed in the Diocese of Cin- cinnati. 340. ViERE, Rev. Christian, was born at Osnabrueck, Prussia, October 9, 183 1 ; ordained March 14, 1856; came to America in 1865. He was received into the Diocese of Cleve- land in 1866, and appointed pastor of Fort Jennings, remain- ing till September, 1867, when he was made pastor of St. Mary's, Toledo. In August, 1869, he was transferred to St. John's, Defiance, of which charge he was relieved by Bishop Gilmour, October, 1878. He then left the ministry, and now resides at Fort Jennings, Putnam county, O. 341. VlGEAUT, Rev. Alfred, a Canadian, was born at St. Mary de Monnoir, Province of Quebec, May 10, 1844; ordained at Rimouski by Bishop Langevin, October 12, 1873 ; was in the Diocese of Cleveland as pastor of Toussaint and La Prairie, from June, 1881, to February, 1883. He then left the diocese and was received into the Vicariate of Dakota. 342. VoiSARD, Rev. Joseph A., was born at Indevilliers, (Doubs) France, June 29, 1828; ordained at Besancon, France, September- 18, 1858. Came to the Diocese of Toronto, November of same year. Was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, September, 1865, and appointed pastor of St. Ann's, Fremont, which he found in a disturbed and rebellious condition. He soon became dissatisfied \\\'i)\ his charge and returned to Canada in April, 1866, and has been there ever since, doing pastoral duty. Now at Fort Erie, Ontario. 343. VOLM, Rev. Frederick A., a native of Baden, was ordained at Cincinnati by Bishop Purcell, December, i860. He was in the Diocese of Cleveland from July, 1866, to March, 1867, as pastor of Millersville. He was next at Goshen, Ind., Diocese of Fort Wayne, for a short time, and then disappeared. No other record of him. 198 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 344. VUILLEMOT, Rev. F., was born in the Diocese of Nancy, Lorraine, about 1834; was ordained at Nancy in 1859, came to the Diocese of Cleveland, April, 1864 ; was assistant to Rev. L. Hoffer, at Louisville, from May to July of same year. Then he was sent to St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, where he taught philosophy for a few months. Returned to France in 1865, where he is at present. 345. Walsh, Rev. Francis (Basilian), was born at Kings- ton, Ontario, in 1843 ; was ordained at Louisville. Stark county, for the Basilians, by Bishop Rappe ; was at Louisville College, as professor, about four years, 1868-72. He is now stationed in Colorado. 346. Walsh, Rev. John, a native of Ireland, was born at Tullardon, county Kilkenny, December 13, 1844; completed his ecclesiastical studies at Maynooth, and was there ordained by Bishop Quinn, for the Diocese of Ossory, on June 15, 1870. June, 1888, he was received, pro tempore, into the Diocese of Cleveland, and sent to St. Columba's, Youngstown, as assist- ant, where he remained till his transfer to the cathedral, Cleveland, as first assistant, September, 1888. In January, 1890, he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's Corners, Fulton county, where remained two months, when he left the diocese and went to that of Duluth, Minn., where he now is. 347. Walsh, Rev. Thomas, born in county Cork, Ireland, about 1830, was ordained by Bishop Rappe, January, 1854, and appointed assistant at the cathedral, whence he also attended Berea for a few months in 1854. He remained at the cathedral till December, 1856, when he went to the Diocese of Alton, 111. He was pastor of St. Joseph's church, Cairo, 111. Whilst preaching he suddenly took seriously ill and shortly after died, March 5, 1863. He was a fine preacher and of amiable disposition. Whilst at the cathedral, Cleveland, he was the ordinary confessor of the students at the seminary, by whom he was loved and highly esteemed as a wise spiritual director. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 199 348. Walsh, Rev. Thomas J., was born near Wexford, county Wexford, Ireland, in 1828 ; was educated for the min- istry in Wexford College, and St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland; ordained by Bishop Rappe, July — , 1852, and appointed pastor of St. Ann's, Fremont, remaining till 1856, when he was sent to St. Vincent's, Akron. From Akron he attended Ravenna. In 1858 he was appointed pastor of Summitville, where he remained till 1859, when he was received into the Diocese of Wheeling. Some time later he affiliated with the Diocese of Alton, and lastly with that of St. Joseph, Mo. In these three dioceses he labored on the missions about twenty- two years, the last two years as pastor of St. Patrick's, in the city of St. Joseph, Mo., where he died November 27, 1881, after ailing about sixteen months of heart disease. 349. Wardy, Rev. Charles Thaddeus, was born, educated and ordained in France. He came to the Diocese of Cleveland from St. Catharine's, Diocese of Toronto, July, 1865, and was sent to Port Clinton, with charge of La Prairie and Toussaint as missions. He remained till July, 1866. October of same year he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's, Toledo, which charge he held till 1868, meanwhile attending Sylvania ; also the asylum and Ursuline Convent, Toledo, as chaplain. In 1870 he was sent to Kelley's Island, remaining there till 1874. During his pastorate of this place he also attended Put-in- Bay. New Bavaria (Poplar Ridge), was his next appoint- ment, where he remained till he left the diocese, October, 1875. He was received into the Diocese of Fort Wayne, where he remained till 1879, when he joined the Benedictines. Died at Monte Casino Priory, near Covington, Ky., October 29, 1880. He was a zealous priest. Although he learned the English language late in life he had perfect command of it, speaking and writing it with greatest ease. 350. Weber, Rev. Peter (Sanguinist), was born in Ger- many. Date and place of birth or ordination not recorded. Had charge of St. Joseph's congregation, Randolph, from 1851 to 1853 ; Harrisburg from 1853 to 1854, with New Ber- 200 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE lin as a mission. He attended the Catholic Germans of Cleveland, between October, 1850, and March, 1851; Avon and French Creek in 1851-54. In 1854 he left the Diocese of Cleveland and the Sanguinists ; was received into the Diocese of Vincennes, where he was appointed pastor of New Alsace, Ind. No other record of him. 351. Weikmann, Rev. John Baptist, a native of Wuert- temberg, was born at Gmuend, June 24, 181 1; studied at Ellwangen, Rottweil and Tuebingen ; was ordained September 12, 1838 ; came to the United States, December, 1855, and was appointed by Bishop Rappe as pastor of St. Peter's, Canton. This position he held for about six weeks, till February 26, 1856, when he was dismissed. He then went to the Benedictine Convent, in Westmoreland county. Pa. April, 1856, he was received into the Diocese of Milwaukee, where he held several charges, till November, 1861. He then affiliated with the Diocese of Vincennes, and in 1863 with that of Dubuque. In last mentioned diocese he remained till his death, as pastor of New Vienna, Iowa, October 11, 1870. 352. Weis, Rev. Bernardine (Franciscan), was born at Mursbach, Bavaria, October 14, 185 i : came with his parents to the United States in 1852 ; was ordained December 27, 1874 ; in Cleveland Monastery from 1880 to 1882. At present he is in the Diocese of St. Louis, Mo. 353. Weiss, Rev. PaUlinus (Franciscan), born at Lindau, Diocese of Augsburg, March 21, 1831 ; in the United States since 1862 ; ordained November 9, 1865 ; was in the Franciscan Monastery, Cleveland, from 1882 to July, 1885. He is now in the Diocese of Chicago, 111. 354. WiLHELMi, Rev. Peter (Sanguinist), a native of Luxemberg, was born at Wellenstein, March 18, 18 17 ; made his ecclesiastical studies at Thompson and New Riegel. He was ordained at Tiffin by Bishop Rappe, January 27, 185 1. He was stationed in the Diocese of Cleveland from 1853 to 1856, 1884 to 1886, September, 1887, to September, i! SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 201 first at Thompson for three years, then at Glandorf for one year, and again at Thompson for nearly three years, in each of which places he was assistant pastor. He is now in the Diocese of Cincinnati. 355- Willi, Rev. Willibald (Sanguinist), was born at Ems, Switzerland, in 1820. He came to America, August, 1850, and was ordained for the Sanguinists by Bishop Rappe, January, 1851. Owing to ill health, even at his ordination, he was never able to do much of pastoral work. He was sta- tioned at Glandorf till the autumn of 1853. He died at Maria Heim, Jay county, Indiana, December 15, 1854. 356. WiRTZ, Rev. Hermann (Franciscanj, was born at Cologne-on-the-Rhine, January 6, 1842; in America since April, 1861 ; ordained September 7, 1872. Was in the Cleve- land Monastery and professor in St. Joseph's College, Decem- ber, 1878, to July, 1879. 357. WiTTMER, Rev. John (Sanguinist), was born at Ober- Erlinsbach, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland, November 4, 1818 ; ordained at Feldkirch, Austria, by Bishop Bruenster, November 21, 1841 ; came to this country with the first San- guinist Fathers in 1844. He had the following pastoral charges in the Diocese of Cleveland : assistant at Peru, 1844-46 ; first resident pastor of Randolph, 1846 ; assistant at Thompson, whence he also attended St. Joseph's, Tiffin, 1847-48; pastor of Thompson, March, 1849, to 1853. He was then for many years on the mission in the Diocese of Cin- cinnati, especially in Mercer, Auglaize and Shelby counties. In 1885 he was sent by his superior to the Diocese of Nash- ville, where he is at present. 358. WOCHNER, Rev. Henry (Jesuit), was born, 1839, in Haslach, Wuerttemberg ; ordained September 8, 1868; in the United States since 1876; was assistant at St. Mary's, Cleveland, from 1881 to August, 1885. He is now in the Diocese of Winona. 202 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 359. WUERZ, Rev. Matthias, was born, 1807, in Schoen- bach. Diocese of Metz, France. He came to America in 1833 and made his theological studies at Cincinnati, where he was ordained by Bishop Purcell, June 13, 1835. He was appointed first resident pastor of Louisville, Stark county, February, 1838, having been transferred from Cincinnati. From Louisville he also attended Randolph. He was pastor of St. John's, Canton, from October, 1840 to 1843, and had charge of Massillon and Navarre; also occasionally visited the mission of Peru. He returned to France in 1845, where he died of apoplexy, April 2, 1858. 360. Young, Very Rev. Nicholas D. (Dominican), nephew of Bishop Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati, was born in Maryland, 1783; studied at St. Rose's, Ky., and Rome; was ordained by Bishop Flaget, December 10, 1817 ; came to Northern Ohio from Kentucky, November, 1818 ; attended Dungannon, Columbiana county, from Somerset, Perry county, about 1820, and again between 1833 and 1835. January, i833> he was elected Provincial of the Dominicans in the United States. He was Stationed for many years at Somerset, O., St. Rose's, Ky., and Washington, D. C. Died at Giesboro, Md., October 28, 1878, aged 95. He was one of the pioneer priests of Northern Ohio, and a man full of apostolic zeal. 361. Zahner, Rev. — ; at Shelby Settlement from 1852 to 1853. During his pastorate he completed the present church, begun by Rev. P. Kreusch. No other record of him. 362. Zanders, Rev. Raymundus (Franciscan), was born at Friemersdorf, Rhenish Prussia, August 8, 1846 ; educated at Duesseldorf and Paderborn for the ministry; ordained at Paderborn by Bishop Conrad Martin, in 1873; came to the United States in 1884 and was appointed, October of the same year, as assistant at St. Anthony's church, St. Louis, Mo. July, 1885, he was sent to the Franciscan Monastery, Cleve- land, remaining till February, 1886, when he was appointed chaplain of St. Francis' Hospital, Jersey City, N. J. SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERGY. 203 363. Zareczny, Rev. Victor, was born at Lemberg, Galicia-Austria, December 3, 1841. He was educated in Bohemia, Italy, and in the city of Vienna, Austria; ordained at Tarnow, Galicia, July 21, 1868, by Bishop Putkalski; was received into the Diocese of Cleveland, December, 1873, and appointed pastor of the Poles in Berea, where he organized St. Adalbert's congregation, and built their present church and school. He also attended Royalton, 1877-82, and the Poles living in Cleveland, 1879. He left Berea, and the dio- cese, February, 1884. He is at present in the Diocese of Detroit. 364. ZuMBUEHL, Rev. Leonz, was born in Luzern, Switz- erland, May I, 1846 ; studied for the ministry at Luzern, Schwytz, Freiburg and Chur ; was ordained at Feldkirch, Austria, for the Diocese of Cleveland, by Bishop Amberg, April 19, 1870. Came to Cleveland, September, 1870, and was made pastor of Fort Jennings, where he remained till January, 1872, when he was appointed professor of philosophy in St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland. 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Stations. October, i8^y. Places. Attended From Places. Attended From 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Archbold --- Bucyrus Cuyahoga Falls Delaware Bend Elyria Fiiidlay Fostoria (Rome) Hicksville— Junction --- Lima Mansfield Marblehead -.. Marshal 1 ville(B ristol j Napoleon _ Toledo. Thompson. Doylestown. Toledo. Cleveland. New Riegel. New E.iegel. Toledo. Toledo. r Delphos and I Glandorf . Thompson. Sandusky. Doylestown. Toledo. 10. Oak Harbor 16. Ottoville -- 17. Painesville 18. Port Clinton-— 19. Ravenna --. 20. Six-Mile Woods- 21. South Thompson 22. SummitviUe 23. Toussaint 24. Vermillion 25. 'Wcllsville 26. Woodville 27. AVooster 28. Youngstown Toledo. Glandorf. Cleveland. Sandusky. /Cleveland and I Doylestown. Toledo. Cleveland. Dungannon. Sandusky. Cleveland. Dungannon . Toledo. Massillon. Doylestown. D. Convents. October, 184J. 1. New Riegel --- Sanguinist. 2. Thompson - __ Sanguinist. 3. Toledo ._ _ Notre Dame Convent and Academy. SUMMARY. 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Kingsville Kinsman Johnsonville- - Lafayette -- Lakeville - Latchie Leavittsburg Limaville Lindsey Linndale Mahoning Millbury - Nevada Newton Falls Cuyahoga .. Geauga Defiance . .. Putnam Paulding .- Trumbull... Wood Putnam Paulding — Huron Wayne Trumbull --. Paulding AVayne Portage- Ashtabula -.. Trumbull ,.. Huron - Sandusky Columbiana - Lake Trumbull ..- Ti-umbull---- AUen Ashland Wood..- Trumbull. --- Stark Sandusky ... Cuyiihoga --- Mahoning -. Wood Wyandot --- Trumbull.... Attended i-'rom. Jefferson. Alliance. Warren. Niles. St. Patrick's Settlement. Kelley's Island. Hudson. A^rmillion. Warren. Hudson, Vermillion. Warren. Wakeman . Salem. Sandusky. Warren. Painesville. Edgerton. Lima. Antwerp. Warren. Providence. New Bavaria. Antwerp. Peru. Canal Fulton. Warren . Antwerp. Wooster. Warren. South Thompson. Briar Hill. Wellington. Genoa. Alliance. Jefferson. Warren. AVanen . Lima. Loudonville. (ilenoa. AVarren . Alliance. Genoa. Rnckport. , AVarren. Elmore. Bucyrus. AVarren. 227 TABLE IV. STATIONS.— CONCLUDED. No. Pl.vce. County. Attkndei) From. 5(1 Summit - Wellington. 51 Obeiiin 5' Trumbull .53 54 56 Petersburg Mahoning Wood Salem. .57 llobbin's Station Dungannon. .5X ,5>1 Lorain Wellington. m HI Shiloh Shelby. (il? W Springfield Briar Hill. ftl Edgerton. St. Mary's Cornerr^. 65 fifi fi7 Teegarden -. Texas Columbiana - fiR fi9 Thomaston Westville -- 7n 71 Wickliffe Euclid 7?. Willshire 7S TABLE V. Communities and Institutions. A. Male Religious Communities. April, 1890. No, Pr.ACK. Cleveland ._ (ilandorf --- New Riegel- Thompson.. Toledo COMMUNITIKS. Franciscans Jesuits Sanguinists Sanguinists Sanguinists Jesuits in 'A 1867 1880 1H4-S 1844 1845 Sr PERIORS. Rev. T. Arentz. Rev. H. Knappmeyer. Rev. F. Nigsch. Rev. B. Russ. Rev. F. X. llriessmayer. Rev. A. Leiter. 228 TABLE V —Continued. B. Female Religious Communities. April, 1890. No, Plack. Cleveland . 10 Glandort-j-. 11 N. Bedford- 12 New Uiegel- 13 Thompson.-- 14 Tiffin --- 15 " 16 Toledo 17 " 18 " _ 19 Youngstown- COMMUXITIKS. Ursuline Sisters --- Ladies of Sacred Heart of Marj' Sisters of Charity Sisters of Good Slieplierd Little Sisters of Poor. Sisters of St. Joseph Sisters of Notre Dame Poor Clares - Franciscan Sisters Sanguinist Sisters Sisters of Humility B. V. M-- Sanguinist Sisters Sanguinist Sisters --- Ursuline Sisters Franciscan Sisters--- Ursuline Sisters Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns)-- Little Sisters of Poor Ursuline Sisters (as 1850 18.51 1851 1869 1870 1872 1874 1877 1S84 1848 1864 1844 1845 1863 1867 1854 1855 1885 1874 Superioress. Mother St. Mary. Madame Le Masson. Mother M. Joseph. Mother M. Baptist. Mother Noel de St. Louis. Mother M. George. Sister M. Modesta (L. S.)* Mother M. Veronica. Sister Leonarda. Sister Felicite, Mother M. Patrick. Sister Cypriana. Sister M. Dula. Mother M. Ignatius. Mother M. Frances. Mother M. Aloysius. Sister Fernand. Mother M. Louisa. Mother M. Lawrence. c. Educational Institutions. April, 1890. No. Plack. Namk. H3 Superiors. 1 Cleveland .-- Nottingham _ Tiffin Toledo St. Mary's Theological Peminarj'-.. 1846 1886 1850 1874 1877 1886 1863 1888 1854 Rev. X. A. Moes, D. D. Rev. H. Knappmeyer, S. J. Mother St. Mary. Sister M. .Modesta (L. S.i Mother M. Louis (L. S.) Mother M. Ascension (L. S.) .Mother M. Ignatius. Mother M. Ignatius. 3 4 6 7 S St. Joseph's Seminary for Boys St. Ignatius' Seminary for Boys *Loeal Superioress, ii 229 D. Charitable Institutions. April, 1890. No. Place. Name. SB m to W3 In Char(}k ok Superior. 16 Cleveland Charity Hospital --- St. Alexis' Hospital --- Lying-in Hospital and Foundling Asylum -- Home for the Aged Poor House of Good Shep- herd St. Mary's Orphan Asy- lum for Girls Louisville . N.Bedford. Tiffin Toledo St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum for Boys--- St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum for Girls- -- Protectory for Girls- - St. Louis Orphan Asy- lum for Boys St. Mary's Orphanage . St. Mary's Hospital -.. St. Francis OrphanAsy & Home for the Aged St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum St. Vincent's Hospital the Aged Home for Poor --- 1865 1884 1873 1870 1869 1851 1851 1862 1884 1883 1864 1864 1867 1S55 1876 1885 Sisters of Charity FranciscanSist'rs Sisters of Charity of Little Sisters the Poor _-. Sisters of Good Shepherd Ladles of Sacred Heart of Mary Sisters of Charity Ladies of Sacred Heart of Mary. Sisters of Notre Dame . Sisters of Charity Sisters of Humil- ity, B. V. M. - Sisters of Humil- ity, B.V.M... FranciscanSist'rs Sisters of Charity Little Sisters of the Poor Sister M. Thomas (L. S.*) Sister Leonarda. Sister Mary (L. S.) Mother M. NoSl de St. Louis. Mother M. Baptist. Madame Le Masson. Mother M. Joseph. Miss Hogan, {L. S.) Sister M. Modesta. Sister M. Patriclc (L. S.) Mother M. Patrick. Rev. J. L. Bihn. Sister Fernand (L. S.) Mother M.Louisa. *Local Superior. Summary. Churches with resident pastors --148 Mission churches 85 Total number of churches 233 Stations (without churches)-.. _ 73 Seminary - 1 Educational Institutes for boys 3 Educational Institutes for girls - 5 Secular Priests - — -171 Regulars - 38 Total number of priests 209 Male Religious Communities 6 Female Religious Communities — . 19 Charitable Institutions - 16 Parochial Schools 127 Catholic Progress -IN- prtherii Oljio \s[i[\^ Diocese of Glevelaijl The subjoined tabulated statement shows the years when missions, congregations with resident pastors, institutions, as also stations since developed into congregations, were estab- lished. It gives a summarized exhibit of the wonderful growth and spread of the Church in Northern Ohio and in the diocese of Cleveland. Steadily, year by year, churches, and religious, charitable and educational institutions have been increasing in number and strength, till the diocese of Cleve- land, covering the whole of Northern Ohio, now ranks with the largest and best established dioceses in the United States. The mustard seed of religion, planted by the Dominican Father, Rev. E. Fenwick, near Dungannon in 1817, has grown to a large and vigorous tree under whose shadow rest two hundred and thirty churches and many institutions, spread- ing their benign influence in behalf of religion, educa- tion and charity. The tabulated statement was compiled from various sources and is as accurate as pains-taking care could make it. Places are given alphabetically for each year, and as known at present. Where names of places or churches have been changed in course of time, the names under which they were formerly known are given in parenthesis. Date afier name of place signifies the year when the first church NORTHERN OHIO. 231 was built, and hence prior to date given such place was attended as a station, with divine service in private houses public halls, or other temporary place of worship. Where no date follows place, a church was built simultaneously with organization of mission or congregation. 1817. Dungannon (St. Paul's Settlement, Hanover,) 1820. 1818. 1819. 1820. Marshallville (Bristol), 1849. 1821. 1822. Consecration of the Rt. Rev. Edward Fenwick as first Bishop of Cincinnati. 1823. Canton, St. John's. 1824. 1825. Canal Fulton (Lawrence, Fulton), 1831. 1826. Louisville (Beechland), 1834; Wooster, 1849; Youngs- town, St. Columba's, 1853. Rev. T. H. Martin, O. P., pays the first visit to Cleveland Catholics. 1827. Doylestown (Chippewa), 1837. 1828. 1829. Peru (German Settlement near Norwalk), 1834. 1830. McCutchenville, 1837 [church destroyed by fire in 1 87 1 and not rebuilt.] 1831. Randolph; Tiffin, St. Mary's, 1832. 1832. Navarre (Bethlehem), 1833. Bishop Fenwick died of cholera at Wooster. 1833. Avon, 1844; New Riegel (Wolf's Creek); Shelby Set- tlement, 1836. Rt. Rev. J. B. Purcell consecrated second Bishop of Cincinnati. 1834. East Liverpool, 1841; Fort Jennings, 1840; Glandorf; Liberty, 1841; Sandusky, Holy Angels', 1842; Thompson, 1839; Wellsville, 1867. 232 CATHOLIC PROGRESS IN THE 1835. Akron (Cascade), St. Vincent de Paul's, 1844; Bucy- rus, 1862; Cleveland, St. Mary's on Flats, [com- menced 1838, dedicated 1840, closed 1879, ^n"^ taken down September, 1888]; La Porte [church removed to Grafton, 1865]. 1836. 1837. Marshallville (Bristol), 1865. Toledo (Manhattan, Vistula), St. Francis de Sales', 1842; Rev. E. Thienpont the first priest to visit the Catholics of Toledo, 1837. 1838. Providence, 184S; Maumee (Maumee City, South To- ledo), 1841. 1839. Massillon, St. Mary's, 1844. 1840. Abbeyville, 1842 [closed 1859]; Grafton (Rawsonville) 1865; Liverpool, 1842; Norwalk, St. Peter's. 1841. Cuyahoga Falls, 1886; Defiance, St. John's, 1844; Fremont (Lower Sandusky), St. Ann's, 1844; La Prairie; Napoleon, 1856; New Washington, 1846; Ravenna, 1862; Woodville, 1862. 1843. Elyria, 1854; French Creek, 1844; Marblehead, 1868; St. Stephen's Settlement (Bloom); Sheffield; Sum- mitville, 1852; Toussaint, 1861; Vermillion, 1862. 1843. New Bavaria (Poplar Ridge), 1845; Port Clinton, i860. 1844. Delphos; Findlay, 1856; Mansfield, 1848; New Rie- gel, Sanguinist Convent; South Thompson, 1859. 1845. Canton, St. Peter's; Harrisburg; New Berlin; Oak Harbor, 1872; Painesville, 1850; Thompson, San- guinist Convent; Tiffin, St. Joseph's. 1846. Archbold, 1850; Bismarck (Sherman); Delaware Bend, 1848; Hicksville, 1880; Junction, i860; Lima, 1852; Six Mile Woods, 1848; Toledo, Notre Dame Sisters of Cincinnati open a Convent and select school [closed in 1848]. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 233 1847. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND ERECTED. Right Rev. Amadeus Rappe consecrated first Bishop of Cleveland. Cleveland, St. Mary's Church on the Flats made the Cathedral church; Fostoria (Rome), 1851. Priests in Diocese, 21; churches, 42; stations, 28; religious communities, 3. 1848. Cleveland — present Cathedral commenced; St. Mary's Theological Seminary opened near Bond street, [transferred in 1850 to frame building "Spring cot- tage," on Lake street, site of present seminary grounds; enlarged in 1853 by addition of brick building, and in 1856 by a frame building; north wing and middle portion of present building erected in 1859; south wing in 1881]. Glandorf, Sanguin- ist Convent; Rockport, St. Patrick's, 1853. 1849. Wellington, 1858. 1850. Cleveland, Ursuline Convent and Academy; Ottoville (Section Ten), 1861; Warren, 1864. 1851. Cleveland — St. Mary's Orphan Asylum for Girls; Convetit of Ladies of Sacred Heart of Mary; St. Vincent's Asylum for Boys; Convent of Sisters of Charity. Independence. 1852. Alliance, i860; Cleveland, Cathedral consecrated in November; St. Mary's Corners, 1868. 1853. Ashland, 1863; Cleveland, St. Peter's, 1857; Clyde, 1862; Massillon, St. Joseph's, 1854; Mineral Ridge, 1872; New London, 1872; Nile.s, 1864; Salem, 1881; Sandusky, St. Mary's; Wakeman, 1872. 1854. Cleveland— West Side (Ohio City), St. Mary's of the Assumption, 1865; St. Patrick's; St. John's Col- lege. Crawfordsville, (St. Joseph's, West Salem), 1859; Gallon, St. Joseph's, 1855; Green Spring, 1872; Hudson, i860; Olmsted, 1858; Toledo — St. Joseph's; St. Mary's, 1856; Ursuline Convent and Academy. 234 CATHOLIC PROGRESS IN THE 1855. Cleveland, St. Joseph's; Sylvania', 1872; Toledo, St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum. 1856. Berea, St. Mary's; Berwick (Frenchtown); Bluffton, 1865; Cleveland, Immaculate Conception; Genoa, 1874; Leetonia, (St. Barbara's 1868-81, St. Pat- rick's since 1881); Norwalk, St. Mary's, 1858. 1857. Cleveland, St. Bridget's; Conneaut, 1864; Fremont, St. Joseph's, 1858; Royalton, 1864; Strasburg, Upper Sandusky. 1858. Ashtabula, i860; Big Springs, 1859; Custar, 1866; Jefferson, 1869; Millersville (Greensburg); Spen- cerville, 1876. 1859. Bellevue; French Settlement, 1864; Cleveland, St. John's College, closed; North Lawrence, 1889. 1860. Cleveland — St. Augustine's; St. Mary's College and Preparatory Seminary opened on Lake street. Convoy, 1864; Euclid, 1861; Medina, 1864; New Cleveland, 1861; Prout's Station; Rockport, St. Mary's; Willoughby, 1869. 1861. Akron, St. Bernard's, 1862; Crestline; Kalida; Kelley's Island; Monroeville, 1862; North Ridge; Perrys- burg; Stryker. 1862. Cleveland — (Newburgh), Holy Rosary [since 1881, Holy Name]; St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum for Girls. Kent, 1868; Toledo, St. Patrick's, 1863. 1863. Madison, 1869; Milan, 1865; St. Patrick's Settlement, 1864; Tiffin, Ursuline Convent and Academy. 1864. Antwerp, 1870; Florence; Hubbard, 1867; Mantua, 1 871; New Bedford, Convent of Sisters of Humil- ity of Mary; North Amherst, 1869. 1865. Bryan, 1875; Cleveland— St. Malachy's, 1869; Charity Hospital. Edgerton (Clarksville), 1868; Kirby; Shelby, 1866; Wauseon, 1872. 1866. Huron, 1889; Mud Creek; Salineville, 1873; Toledo, St. Peter's, 1873; West Brookfield, 1867. DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. 235 1867. Cleveland — St. Wenceslas'; Franciscan Monastery. Landeck; Louisville, St. Louis' College [closed 1873]; Mentor, 1868; Reed; Rootstown; Tiffin, St. Francis' Hospital and Orphan Asylum; Toledo, Immaculate Conception, 1868; Van Wert, 1870. 1868. Carey, 1872; Norwalk, St. Paul's; Ottawa, 1872. 1869. Bowling Green, 188 1 ; Briar Hill, 1870. Cleveland— St. Stephen's; Good Shepherd Convent. Galion, St. Patrick's; Youngstown, St. Joseph's. 1870. Bishop Rappe resigned the Episcopal See of Cleve- land. Cleveland — Little Sisters of the Poor [Home for the Aged Poor]; St. Mary's of the Annuncia- tion. Elmore, 1873; Roachton, 1872; Struthers, 1872; Vienna, 1874. 1871. Cleveland — St. Columbkill's [discontinued as a con- gregation in 1872]; Holy Family [St. Edward's since 1886]. Loudonville; Sandusky, Sts. Peter and Paul's; Toledo — St. Hedwig's; St. Louis'. Vienna, 1872. 1872. Cleveland, Convent of Sisters of St. Joseph; Lowell- ville, 1884; Parma, 1873; Plymouth. Rt. Rev. R. Gilmour consecrated as second Bishop of Cleveland 1873. Berea, St. Adalbert's; Brighton, 1875. Cleveland— St. Stanislas', 1881; House of Maternity and Found- ling Asylum. Defiance, Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Peninsula, 1882; Toledo, Good Shepherd's. 1874. Cleveland — St. Procop's; Notre Dame Convent and Academy. Leipsic, 1876; Louisville, Academy for Girls and for Deaf Mutes [discontinued in 1883; building formerly used for a college, then for an academy, is used as an Asylum for Orphan Boys since 1884]; Weston; Youngstown, Ursuline Con- vent. 1876. Bettsville, 1876; Cecil, 1879; Deshler; North Ridge- ville. 1876. Chicago Junction, 1879; Toledo, St. Vincent's Hospital. 236 CATHOLIC PROGRESS. 1877. Cleveland, Poor Clares' Convent; Collinwood, 1878; Nottingham, Ursuline Convent and Academy; Put- in-Bay. Bishop Rappe died at St. Albans, Vt. 1878. Lorain (Black River), 1879.* 1879. Cleveland, Franciscan College [closed 188 1]; Honey Creek. 1880. Cleveland — St. Colman's; Holy Trinity. East Pales- tine. 1881. Sterling (Russell). 1882. Attica; Payne, 1883; Toledo, St. Anthony's; Youngs- town, Immaculate Conception. 1883. Big Ditch, 1884. Cleveland— St. Adalbert's; St. Michael's; .Our Lady of Lourdes'. Toledo, Sacred Heart; Tremblayville. 1884. Cleveland — St. Alexis' Hospital; St. Mary's Protectory for Girls. Louisville, St. Louis' Asylum for Orphan Boys. 1885. Toledo, Little Sisters of the Poor. 1880. Cleveland, Jesuit College; Holgate; Nottingham, St. Joseph's "Seminary" for Small Boys; Wadsworth. 1887. Cleveland — St. Anthony's; St. Francis'. Hamler; Miller's City; New Lisbon; North Creek; Republic. 1888. Akron, St. Mary's; Ashtabula Harbor, 1889; Cleve- land, St. Ladislas'; Haselton; Tiffin, St. Ignatius' "Seminary" for Small Boys. Diocesan School Board and School Inspectors appointed. 1889. Cleveland, Sacred Heart; Kansas; Latty. Rectors and Diocesan Courts, etc., appointed. ST. Mary's Church, on " Fi.ats," Ci