USA > Kansas > Linn County > A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, B.V.M., Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records > Part 10
USA > Kansas > Miami County > A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, B.V.M., Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records > Part 10
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Mr. Koehler was married in Paola in 1873 to Miss Catherine Klassen, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Klassen. Their union was blessed with two sons and four daughters, Frank Koehler, Mrs. Grace Reimbold, wife of Ernest Reimbold; Mrs. Agnes Luby, wife of William Luby; Augustine J. Koehler of New York; Miss Mary Koehler, who is Sister Cecilia of Ursuline Academy of Paola and Miss Antoinette Koehler.
Mr. Koehler was greatly devoted to his family, in fact, he lived and died for God and his family. "Sacrifice and duty" was the motto of his life and all who knew him realized how closely he lived up to it.
MRS. JACOB KOEHLER.
SISTER M. CECILIA KOEHLER.
Mrs. Koehler, wife of Jacob Koehler, was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Klassen of Paola. She was born in Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1856, and a year later went with her parents to Kansas City and in 1861 came with them to Paola, where she grew to womanhood and made her permanent home.
She was one of the pupils of the first schools in Paola and her last teacher was Prof. D. M. Ferguson, about 1871. She was known to all of the early residents as a charming, light-hearted, happy girl, pleasing entertainer and a favorite among the young folks. She was married to Jacob Koehler, October 8, 1872, and surrounded by every comfort they lived happily until his death May 22, 1914. After that she went with her youngest daughter "Nettie" to live with her son in New York, where she died of heart trouble August 22, 1916.
Mrs. Koehler was brought up in the Catholic Church and was devoted to her
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faith and family. She was one of the first women to lend her efforts and as- sistance to the Church on all occasions. She was president of the Altar So- ciety and was appointed president for life of the Catholic Ladies Sewing Society. She, too, with her husband was a fervent promoter of the League of the Sacred Heart. For many years she took charge of the sacristy, the altar linens and the decoration of the High Altar. Regularly on Saturday afternoon she could be seen going to the church after a hard day's work with a basket of the flowers she had raised in her garden for the adornment of the altar.
Her life work though seemingly brief was well done. She was a woman of rare worth. Christian devotion was the leading trait of her character and a more exemplary church member never offered prayers to God. To her husband she gave help, to her children she gave good character and to the world she gave an example that today is her crown among the saints.
MOTHER MCGRATH.
SISTER MARY CHARLES MCGRATH GRANDDAUGHTER.
Mrs. Alice McGrath, widow of the late Robert McGrath, has gone to her reward. She was a character of ex- cellence that will never come again. In her was combined the patience, the wit and the piety of women of Irish blood. Had she lived until next month she would have reached her ninety-fifth birthday.
Death came as a gentle messenger on Easter Sunday, April 12, 1914. She was then at the home of her son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dore, near Waverly, Coffey county, Kansas. The body was brought to Paola on Tuesday, the 14th inst., and burial was in the Catholic ceme. tery, east of Paola, on Wednesday. Solemn Requiem Mass was chanted by Rev. Father Scanlan of Sheffield. Mo., in Holy Trinity church here, and he was assisted by Rev. Father Burk, of this parish, and Rev. Father Mc- Donald, Chaplain at Ursuline acad- emy. Father Scanlan, who delivered the beautiful sermon is a nephew of the deceased. There was a large attendance of those who knew Mrs.
McGrath in her lifetime.
Maloney was her maiden name, Alice Maloney, and she was born in the county Limerick, Ireland, May 16, 1819, became the wife of Robert McGrath on February 16, 1847; sailed for America two years later and reached the state of New York, by way of Quebec, Canada, and Mr. McGrath, with his brother-in-law, Thomas Dwyer, engaged in contracting in the building of the Erie railroad. In 1850 the family moved to Ohio, and lived there eight years. It was in the spring of 1858 that Robert and Alice McGrath landed at Arrow Rock, on the Missouri river, below Saint Louis. From there they traveled behind ox teams to Linn county, Kansas. Mr. McGrath bought a claim for $75.00 and pre-empted this quarter section of 160 acres. Through the war the family lived in Linn county and in 1866 they moved to the old Baptist Mission farm, just east of this city, which Mr. McGrath bought. It was here that he died in 1870. The wife had nine children to look after at the time of his death, the youngest only three years of age. Then came the test of excellence, of her ability to manage, and of her
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patience. She proved equal to every emergency. Industrious, religious and ob- liging, she quietly but firmly followed her own plans. The result was she reared sons and daughters to bless her life, cherish her memory, and keep the name clean before the world.
In 1898, the family being all grown and married, she went to make her home with her daughters and her sons, but lived most of the time with Mr. and Mrs. Dore. Last August she fell from the porch and was severely injured. From this she never recovered.
Her sons and daughters living are Thomas McGrath, of Paola; Mrs. Mary Fenton, of Drexel, Mo .; Patrick H. McGrath, of Gardner; Mrs. Amelia Dore, of Waverly; Mrs. Margaret Koehler, of Wichita; Robert I. McGrath, Waverly; Tim- othy W. McGrath, Idalia, Colorado, and Christopher C. McGrath, Waverly. Mary's husband, John Fenton, died a few years ago, also Maggie's husband, Joseph Koehler, is dead. He died about twenty years ago. John McGrath, a son, died here when he was about twenty-one. There are thirty-six grandchildren and twenty-eight great grandchildren.
Mrs. McGrath was not schooled and yet she was educated. She had a mind that took in everything around her. Common sense and purity of heart were her leading traits. She knew how to support a home, how to regulate a school, how to conduct a church and how to train children that they would become useful and honorable. She was intensely democratic, not in the partisan sense, but in the deeper and broader meaning of the word. She loved liberty and feared oppres- sion. She saw clearly into the future. Time proved her excellence in every way and especially in her foresight. Often those about her couldn't understand her plans and her predictions. She was ahead of them in that intuitive knowledge which enables the true mothers of this country to shape its destiny.
MRS. JOHN SHEEHY DEAD.
Mrs. John Sheehy died Saturday morning, October 20, 1917, shortly after 11:00 o'clock, at her home, 404 East Miami street, Paola, Kansas. Eighty-six years' contact with a world that is not always kind, had worn out the frail body. But. the end came peacefully and she died content with her children gathered around her and the consolation of the last prayers of her Church.
Born in the County Tyrone, Ireland, about the year 1831, Mary Colton grew to womanhood there under the care of her parents, James and Sarah Colton. It was in 1857 that her brother, Father James Colton, a parish priest in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, went back to Ireland for a visit with the old folks. On his return to America his sister, Mary, accompanied him. He placed her under the care of the good Sisters of the Dominican convent, at Benton, Wisconsin, where she re- mained three years. Her education completed, she was married in the year 1860 at Shullsburg, Wisconsin, to John Sheehy, and for nineteen years the couple lived at Monroe in the same state. Six children were born to theni. Two died in infancy, the four surviving being: Mrs. Sarah Williams, Katherine, wife of J. D. Bogle, and James F. Sheehy of Paola, and Allie, wife of Walter Nalty of Omaha, Nebraska. Thirteen grandchildren also survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheehy came to Kansas in 1879. For a year they lived on a farm just east of Paola, then located on the place in Middle Creek that was the Sheehy homestead many years. Mr. Sheehy died twenty-two years ago. and the next spring the widow came to Paola, where she has since resided. A gentle, homeloving woman, all her thoughts were for her family and her church, and no mother was ever more richly rewarded in the love and care of her children.
Mary Colton Sheehy was a woman of simple virtues that prompted her to deeds of love everlasting. She came of a family of high name and good blood. She read deeply and gathered sermons from running brooks and stones. The kitchen and the parlor, the cradle and the altar were the places of her labors and
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her devotion. She was domestic and religious, her industry never flagged and her charity never waned. Children and grandchildren have risen to call her blessed. Well may the mound in Holy Cross cemetery, above her consecrated dust, be a shrine where they will often pray, for she was saintly as well as human. Her noble examples of conduct like the sunbeams, will continue to per- petuate and purify all earthly life. "Good name in man and woman is the im- mediate jewel of their souls," said the bard, whose thoughts live on and on, and Mrs. Sheehy's immortal spirit left this earth reflecting the light of "full many a gem of purest ray serene."
Every pew of Holy Trinity church was filled Monday morning when she was borne there for the last blessing of her church. A solemn Requiem Mass was chanted by the Reverend Father O'Farrell, assisted by Father McNamara, of Louisburg, and Father Bollweg, and the last tribute was paid to this good woman by Father Kinsella. Interment was in Holy Cross cemetery, east of town.
MRS. MARCELLA CLARK IS DEAD.
A gentle soul went to a rich re- ward last Sunday evening, October 12, 1913, when Mrs. Marcella Clark of this city died at her home. Had she lived until the last day of this month, she would have been 83 years old.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, October 31, 1830, she was married to John Keenan in 1854. Immediately after their marriage, the young couple set sail for America and landed in New York. Remaining there a short while, they moved west and settled at Free- port, Illinois. From Freeport they moved to Dublin, Illinois. Here Mr. Keenan died and, in 1865, Mrs. Kee- nan and Richard Clark were married. Three years later the family moved to Miami county, Kansas, and made their home south of Paola on the north bank of the river. Mr. Clark died there in 1877.
In 1880 Mrs. Clark moved to Paola and here she lived from that time on. SISTER M. LOYOLA KEENAN, GRANDDAUGHTER. She was a very devout and indus- trious person, who gave heed to the welfare of everybody with whom she came in contact. Many is the person that she has helped and many is the prayer she has offered up for those in want and those in distress.
Mrs. Clark was a woman of bright mind. She was saving and invested her surplus money to a good advantage. To her sons she extended all the oppor- tunities for education that the country afforded, and, besides this, gave them wholesome moral example in her conduct.
The three living sons are: Thomas C. Keenan, a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas; Joseph F. Keenan, whose home is near Cleveland, Mo., and Peter J. Keenan, who lives upon the old homestead, south of town. Joe will move to Paola in a short time, as he has already purchased ground and expects to make this his permanent home.
Burial services were conducted last Wednesday, Mass being sung at the Holy Trinity church by Reverend Father Burk. The body was borne to the Catholic cemetery, east of the city, and there interred with the rites of the Church.
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Thus lived and thus died the unselfish, hard-working charitable Marcella Clark. May her soul rest in peace!
MRS. JOSEPH DALTON DEAD.
Death came peacefully on Saturday morning, May 17, 1919, at 6:30 o'clock to Mrs. Johanna Dalton, widow of the late Joseph Dalton, at the family home, near Fontana. Mother Dalton was in her 82nd year and had been in declining health for months. After a serious sick spell a month ago, she rallied and her death at this time was unexpected. She breathed her last, sitting in a rocking chair, after only an hour's illness.
Johanna Cunningham was born in the County Kerry, Ireland, in April, 1839, and came to this county when 14 years of age. She joined her brothers, Michael and Maurice, in Richmond, Indiana, and lived there until her marriage to Joseph Dalton, four years later. Shortly afterward the young couple went to Canada, where Mr. Dalton followed contract mining about fifteen years. Then they moved to Michigan, coming to Kansas almost fifty years ago. They located on the home- stead in the Irish settlement near Fontana, which has been the family home ever since. It was the center of hospitality in the neighborhood, and it was the warm Irish heart and cheerfulness of Mrs. Dalton that made it such a popular spot. She was truly the queen in the household, and sixteen jewels were the royal dec- orations in the sacred crown of motherhood she wore so proudly. One of the sixteen children died in infancy, four others in their youth, but eleven have grown to useful manhood and womanhood. In their children and children's children this noble father and mother built a living monument that is a constant exemplification of the reward earned by clean, wholesome living. Mr. Dalton died eight years ago last October, and the good wife was laid beside him in Holy Cross cemetery, Monday morning, following services at Holy Trinity church. Rev. Father Francis Fitzgerald sang the Requiem Mass, and in his matchless way, Rev. Father Kinsella gave the funeral address, dwelling on the worth, goodness and living faith of this pioneer mother.
The surviving children are Mrs. Maggie Wolfe, Miss Mary Dalton, James and Charles, all of whom live on farms near the home place; Jack, in Cordova, Alaska: Annie, wife of Lawrence Moran, of Fulton, Kansas; Jennie and Michael, Miles City, Mont., and Dan, Sarah and Kittie, at home. She also leaves twenty- two grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and one brother, Michael Cunning- ham, in Rosedale, Kansas. Mr. Cunningham is 96 years old.
MR. PATRICK HOGAN DEAD.
Four score and five was the run of years that decreed the body of Mr. Patrick Hogan, of Paola, Kansas, to the grave, earth to earth and dust to dust. At his home here, surrounded by wife, sons and daughters, he died Wednesday morning, March 31, 1920, and today will be the burial in Holy Cross cemetery, east of town. Services will be at the Catholic church at 10 o'clock this morning (Friday).
Born on Saint Patrick's Day, 1835, in the County Clare, Ireland, the boy struck out for America in 1847, and landed in Canada, where he went to work. Later he crossed the line into Michigan and lived there many years. On the 12th day of September, 1863, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Ryan, at Hancock, Michigan, and in 1878, the family moved to Miami county, Kansas. The first honie was in Osage township, and afterward in Paola township. In 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Hogan moved to this city, and here they made their home ever since.
Besides Mrs. Hogan, the wife and mother, there are four sons and three daughters surviving, John Edward Hogan lives in Kansas City, Kansas; Michael James Hogan, Pueblo, Colo .; Patrick Henry Hogan, in Humboldt, Kansas; William Dennis Hogan, at Augusta, Kansas; Mrs. Minnie Allen, wife of Richard Allen,
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Hutchinson, Kansas; Mrs. Hannah Cunningham, wife of George Cunningham, and Lillie Fitzgerald, wife of Michael J. Fitzgerald, in Paola. All were at the bed- side when the father died.
Here was a plain man of the common mold who made his living by his hands, reared a large family and added to the world's wealth, not alone in goods, but in happiness. Early in life, he learned to labor and, through the long run of years, made his bread by the sweat of his brow. By his side in every trial and through all toil, was his faithful wife, who survives him. She was the light of home, the ever industrious one who laid up store for rainy day and led in family prayer. This couple's example is worth more than gold, and today the husband and father is mourned by the household, by the city and by the whole community.
DIED IN HIS 96TH YEAR.
Michael Cunningham died on Thurs- day, May 6, 1920, at his home at No. 32 South Ninth Street, Kansas City, Kansas, in his ninety-sixth year, and the body was buried in the Holy Cross cemetery, east of Paola, on Saturday, May 8th, after Requiem Mass had been sung in the Cath- olic Church of this city. Rev. Father Kinsella spoke briefly of the old pioneer whose eventful life had closed. No his- tory of Miami county would be complete without reference to Michael Cunning- ham, who came here in 1857. In that year there was a settlement formed in Osage township by an Irish colony from Indiana. Besides Mr. Cunningham, there were his brother, Morris Cunninghamı; Michael Allen, Michael Moran and Rich- ard Collins. Also there was Katherine Sheehan, a widow, the mother of John Sheehan, who now resides upon the edge of the old settlement. The Cunning- ham, Allen, Moran, Collins and Sheehan families all were directly or collaterally MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, Last of Old Settlers. related. Mrs. Michael Cunningham was the sister of Michael Allen. She died in 1864 and about two years later Mr. Cun- ninghanı and Miss Mary Poland were married. She was the daughter of Patrick Poland, one of the first settlers of Osawatomie township. The surviving child of the first union is Sarah Cunningham, and the other sons and daughters are as follows: William Cunningham, who lives in Rosedale; John Cunningham, 832 Homer Street, Kansas City, Kansas; Bert and Tom Cunningham, who live in Miami county; Mrs. John Sheehan, of Osage township; Mrs. Wm. Baxter, Healy, Kansas; Mrs. John Marks, Sixth Street and Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Maurice Wolfe, who lives at the Cunningham home.
From 1857 until 1910, Mr. Cunningham resided upon the land which he home- steaded, then he turned the place over to the sons and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, taking a home in the Rosedale section. Through the long period of over fifty years of the building of Osage township and of Miami county, Mr. Cunningham was a potential factor. He helped to rear the first school house, to build the first bridge and hauled part of the stone to erect the first little Cath- olic Church in the city of Paola, upon a plat of ground given by Mother Baptiste. In the war he helped to guard the border and, through it all he was a cheerful,
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vigorous worker. He not only kept the faith of his fathers, but so ordered his conduct that he was respected on every hand.
Born in the County Kerry, Ireland, in the year 1825, the brief period of his youth was spent in the unhappy Island where hard times prevailed, and the en- ergetic boy seized the first opportunity to strike for America. He landed with nothing to help him but his hands and he went to work. It was at an early day that he settled with those whom he had helped to bring from Ireland, near In- diana. Like those associated with him, he lived upon public works and gladly embraced the opportunity that came with the opening of Kansas for settlement to get some land of his own. Although not schooled in books, he was well in- formed upon the happenings of the age around him, and became an intelligent citizen. Especially did he become a patriotic American, loving liberty and hating tyranny. His soul was filled with the spirit of American freedom. "Great flag, me boy, and a great country," he would remark every time he saw the Stars and Stripes. His honesty was of the plain old sort, his other virtues were in keeping with all that is set forth in the Ten Commandments, and he lived to be the last of the grand colony of Irish, who helped to make Miami county and the state of Kansas. His younger brother, Morris Cunningham, died several years ago, and Mike Moran fell early in the fighting. Mike Allen, Richard Collins, Katie Sheehan and all the rest have gone the way of earth. In his ninety-sixth year he lay down peacefully and breathed his last. His memory will live as long as our language is spoken.
Besides Mrs. Cunningham, the widow, and all the living children, the follow- ing persons accompanied the body from Kansas City to the burial ground: John Sheehan, James, Sarah and Charles Dalton, Paola; Maurice Wolfe, John Marks, W. H. Poland and wife, Mrs. McLain, Mrs. Dunlavy, Henry Allen, Harry McGown, Will Wolfe, Kansas City; Michael Mulvihill and wife, James McRoberts and wife, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Hess and James Mulvihill, Topeka; Thomas, Will, Mary and Thomas Mulvihill, Jr .; Harry, Anna and Allen Cunningham, Rosedale, and Mary Sheehan, Leavenworth.
PART V HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, PAOLA
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
PONTIFICAL NOTES
POPES REIGNING SINCE THE TIME THE FIRST MISSIONARIES ENTERED KANSAS.
Pope Pius VII sat in the chair of Peter at the time Father de la Croix passed this way on his first visit to the Osage tribe in 1822; Napoleon I had died the previous year, May 5, 1821.
Pope Leo XII was in office when Father Van Quickenborne, S.J., journeyed through this section on his way to the same tribe in 1827.
Pope Pius VIII was reigning during his visit in 1830.
Pope Gregory XVI was Pope at the time of his visit to the Miamis on the Marais des Cygnes river in 1835. It was under this Pope that Father Aelen, S.J., first preached the Gospel to the Peorias, where Paola now stands, in 1839.
Pope Pius IX was head of the Church when Father Schoenmakers, S.J., came in 1847; also when Father Ponziglione, S.J., came in 1851, and Father Schacht in 1858. Then followed the regular line of pastors to our own day.
Pope Leo XIII reigned from 1878 to 1903.
Pope Pius X from 1903 to 1914, and the present Pope, Benedict XIV, followed. It can thus be seen that eight Popes have reigned since the Missions in Kansas began in 1822.
EPISCOPAL NOTES.
First Bishop-Most Rev. Louis William Valentine Dubourg, Archbishop of the Cardinalatial See of Besancon; consecrated in Rome, Sept. 24, 1815; Bishop of Louisiana, Upper and Lower, took his first residential seat in St. Louis, January 6, 1818. On July 18, 1826, the Diocese of Louisiana was divided and the Sees of St. Louis and New Orleans erected. Bishop Dubourg, having resigned the See of Louisiana, was transferred to the Diocese of Montauban in France, August 13, 1826, and made Archbishop of the Cardinalatial See of Besancon, February 15, 1833, where he died December 12 of the same year.
Second Bishop .- Rt. Rev. Joseph Rosati, C. M., Bishop of St. Louis; conse- crated Bishop of the titular See of Tenagra and constituted Coadjutor of Bishop Dubourg of Louisiana at Donaldsonville, La., March 25, 1824. When the See of Louisiana was divided Bishop Rosati was made Bishop of St. Louis and Adminis- trator of New Orleans. He died while on business in Rome on September 25. 1843.
Most Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick, D. D., Archbishop of St. Louis, cons. No- vember 30, 1841, Bishop of Drasa and Coadjutor of Rt. Rev. Bishop Rosati; Bishop of St. Louis, 1843; Archbishop, 1847; Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis, May 21, 1895; died March 4, 1896.
The first Bishop to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation within the confines of what is now known as Kansas was the Right Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick of St. Louis, who officiated at Sugar Creek Mission, Linn County, on June 19, 1842. He confirmed 300 Indians.
Bishop Barron,* acting for the Right Rev. Bishop Kenrick, visited the same Mission on December 17, 1845. He remained two weeks and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to eighty Indians.
Right Rev. John Baptist Miege, S. J., the first bishop to reside in the section of country now known as Kansas, arrived soon after March 25, 1851, the date of his Consecration at St. Louis, Mo. He established his home at Leavenworth in August, 1855. Up to this date he resided at St. Mary's College, Kansas.
*Right Rev. Edward Barron, D. D., Bishop of Upper and Lower Guinea, Africa, on his return to the United States, where he had formerly resided, visited Arch- bishop Kenrick of St. Louis.
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Right Rev. Louis Mary Fink, O. S. B., his immediate successor and long his co-worker, was consecrated in Chicago on June 11, 1871.
Bishop Miege resigned in 1874 and Bishop Fink filled the office until May 22, 1877 as Bishop of Eucarpia, when he became the first Bishop of Leavenworth with Kansas exclusively as his diocese. In 1887 this immense diocese was di- vided, and Concordia and Wichita were erected into independent Sees.
Bishop Fink died on the 17th of March, 1904, after thirty-three years of strenuous but most successful labor for the upbuilding of the church in Kansas.
Right Rev. Thomas Francis Lillis, D. D., succeeded Bishop Fink on December 27, 1904, and was transferred to the See of Kansas City, March 4, 1910.
Right Rev. John Ward, D. D., was appointed to succeed Bishop Lillis Novem- ber 24, 1910, and was consecrated February 22, 1911.
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