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miral George Dewey, whom Mr. Schwab numbers among his close friends.
Mr. Schwab's domestic life is ideal. He was married in 1893 to Emma, daughter of R. E. Dinkey, of Weatherly, Car- bon County, Pa., and resides in Braddock, a suburb of Pitts- burg, and about a mile distant from the great Edgar Thom- son Works, within view of the theatre of his early struggles and late triumphs.
VERY REV. E. A. BUSH, V. G.
He was born in Montreal, Canada, Juno 5, 1839, and at the death of his parents in the year 1851 came to the United States under the care and protection of Rev. W. Pollard, a near relative, and began his preparatory studies at St. Francis' College, Loretto. By the advice of the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, D. D., he was sent the following year to St. Vincent's College, Beatty, in order that he might there learn German. After some years he was sent, with other students, to St. Thomas' College, Bardstown, Ky. Later he was recalled to the newly restored St. Michael's Seminary, Pittsburg. Here ho completed his theological studies, and on February 7, 1863 was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, D. D.
He was immediately assigned to duty as professor at the seminary until he was appointed to the presidency of St. Francis' College, Loretto, which position he filled until re- called to the seminary in 1868. In 1870 he was appointed to the pastorate of St. Michael's Church, Loretto, where he con- tinued as pastor for twenty years. Soon after his appoint- ment he was chosen to be a member of the Bishop's Council, and has retained this position during the administrations of Bishop Domenec, Bishop Tnigg and Bishop Phelan.
In April, 1890, he was transferred to the pastorate of St. John's Church, Altoona, where he was soon appointed Vicar Forane of the eastern portion of the diocese. Here he re- mained until November, 1894, when he became Rector of St. Peter's Church, Allegheny City, and soon after was pro-
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moted to the Vicar Generalship of the diocese by Rt. Rov. Richard Phelan, D. D., the fourth of the eminent prelates who have governed the prosperous diocese of Pittsburg.
REV. MARTIN RYAN.
He was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, February 14, 1845. Coming to this country he entered St. Michael's Seminary, where he pursned his philosophical and theological course, and where he was, on June 7, 1873, or- dained to the priesthood by Rt. Rov. Bishop Domenec.
Immediately thereafter he was assigned as Assistant to the late Rev. James Treacy, pastor of St. Bridget's Church, Pittsburg. In May, 1876, he was appointed pastor of St. Peter's Church, Brownsville, and of the outlying missions at Uniontown, Fayette County, and at Waynesburg, Green County. In October of the same year he was transferred to St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburg, where he remained until his appointment in November, 1877, to the pastorate of St. Stephen's Church, Hazlewood, in the 23rd ward of the city. In July, 1879, he was transferred to the pastorate of St. Augustine, Cambria County, where he remained for nearly eleven years, during which period he erected the new church at Chest Springs, and formed the congregations at Ashville and Frugality.
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When in April, 1890, Very Rev. E. A. Bush, the present Vicar General of the Diocese of Pittsburg, was appointed Rector of St. John's Church, Altoona, Father Ryan succeeded to the pastorate of St. Michael's, Loretto.
In March, 1891, he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Gallitzin, in succession to Vory Rev. J. Boyle, V. F., transferred to Johnstown. Here, in Gallitzin, he has since remained, and on June 7th, last year he happily celebrated his Silver Jubilee, -- the 25th anniversary of his ordination to. the priesthood.
REV. FERDINAND KITTELL.
He was born at Ebensburg, Cambria County, April 20, 1847, the fourth of a family of nine children. His father, William Kittell, a lawyer well known in his day, was born in
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wise, at an early age, mani- fested a disposition to em- brace theecclesiastical state. Another brother, still younger, also entered on the ecclesiastical career, but in 1873, while about to finish his classical course as a stu- dent of St. Michael's Semi- nary, was taken from earth after a brief illness from typhoid pneumonia. The eldest of the family has for thirty-seven years been a member of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy, of Pitts- burg, and is at present Mother Assistant of the Community.
. REV. WILLIAM KITTELL.
Father William made his preparatory studies at St. Fran- cis' College, Loretto, and at St. Michael's Seminary, Pitts- burg. In the fall of 1867 he entered the College of the Prop- aganda, Rome, and after a successful course was, on March 28, 1875, raised to the priesthood in the Basilica of St. John Lateran by His Eminence, Cardinal Patrizi, the Vicar of the Holy Father. On his return he was appointed professor at the diocesan seminary, and in subsequent years labored on the missions at Alpsville, Connellsville, Johnstown, St. Au- gustine, Freeport, and at St. Mary's, and at St. John the Baptist's, Pittsburg. Several years ago he was appointed pastor at Uniontown, where he labored with great success until he was called by Rt. Rev. Bishop Phelan in 1893 to the onerous and responsible position of Diocesan Secretary and Chancellor, which he continues to fill to the satisfaction of all.
REV. RICHARD CALLIXTUS CHRISTY.
He was born in the town of Loretto, October 14, 1829, of Peter Christy and Catherine Shirley, who were among the
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early settlers of that entirely Catholic community, and was baptized by Father Gal- litzin. At an early age he manifested an inclination to devote himself to the serv- ice of God in the holy priest- hood, and was among the first students of St. Mi- chael's Seminary, when that institution was located in Birmingham, now the South Side, Pittsburg. Thence ho was sent to St. Mary's Som- inary, Baltimore; and on the completion of his studies was ordained to the priest- hood in St. Michael's Church, Loretto, by Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Connor. REV. R. C. CHRISTY.
After his ordination he had charge for several years of the congregation at Clearfield, Butler County. At the out- break of the Civil War in 1861 he was elected Chaplain of the regiment raised by Colonel Sirwell. of Kittanning, and ac. companied his command throngh their long march- es in the Southern States. He en- deared himself to all, officers and soldiers, by his pleasantry in camp, his heroism on many a battle field, and by the ministrations of his sacerdotal
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functions. Gifted with a high sense of honor and duty, pos- sessed of a commanding exterior, endowed with more than or- dinary physicaland moral courage, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the Union cause, every inch a soldier-priest, it is no. wonder that he received, and was ever afterwards known by the sobriquet of "The Fighting Chaplain of the Army of the Cumberland." At the expiration of his term of service he returned to the diocese, and was appointed pastor of the Church of the Holy Naine, Ebensburg, where he remained for a number of years, and where he built a large and beauti- ful church, and introduced the Sisters of St. Joseph to assume control of Mt. Gallitzin Seminary, which he estab- lished for the education of small boys. Leaving this place he accepted a position in Columbus, Ohio, where after a long and painful illness he died on Wednesday, October 16, 1878. He was buried at Ebensburg on the following Friday.
REV. HENRY M'HUGH.
The subject of this sketch was born December 8, 1835, in Munster Township, Cambria County, Pa., and was baptized by the illustrious Father Gallitzin. His parents, Michael McHugh and Elizabeth MeManns, emigrated from County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1821, and in the following year set- tled on a farm about midway between Loretto and Wilmore, where he was born and reared.
He entered St. Francis' College, Loretto, as a student in 1856, and during the winter of 1858-59 taught the public school near Munster. He was enrolled among the students of St. Michael's Seminary, Pittsburg, February 22, 1959, and in the following September was, with several other students, sent to St. Vincent's College, Beatty, where he spent one term. In September, 1860, he was recalled to St. Michael's Seminary, where he continued his studies until he was or- : dained to the priesthood on June 6, 1868.
His first appointment was as assistant to Rev. Terence S. Reynolds, pastor of St. Michael's Church, Loretto, where he commenced his ministrations on July 12 following. On February 2, 1869, he was appointed pastor of the church at
REV. HENRY M'HUGH, RECTOR ST. AGNES' CHURCH, PITTS- BURG, PA .- BAPTIZED BY FATHER GALLITZIN.
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the Sand Patch Tunnel, in Somerset County, which was then in course of construction. Soon afterwards he located at Myers' Mills, from which place he attended to the spiritual wants of the men who were working on the railroad. His mission then extended from Myers' Mills to Ohio Pyle Falls. Mass was celebrated in private honses, shanties and in the open.
In the fall of 1869 he was assigned to the Brownsville mission, which included Uniontown, Fayette County. and sta- tions sonth to the Maryland line: also Waynesburg, Greene County, and JJefferson, Jacktown, Jollytown and points west and south to the boundary of West Virginia. The extreme length of this mission was about eighty miles. In 1870 he built the present church in Waynesburg, when there were not more than twenty Catholic families in all Greene County.
January 18, 1873, he was appointed pastor of St. Bar- tholomew's Church, Wilmore, Cambria County-the church to which his family had belonged ever since its erection. Here he passed more than twenty-three years of his priestly life. He made many needed and substantial improvements and repairs on the Wilmore church and church property. adding a commodions and beautiful pastoral residence of brick, all clear of debt. In 1882 he formed the congregation at Ehrenfeld and erected a substantial frame elinreh: and after the debt was paid off he handed it over to the Rt. Rov. Bishop to be assigned to a resident pastor.
On March 28, 1896, he was promoted to the pastorate of St. Agnes' Church, Pittsburg, which position he still occu- pies. Besides reducing the debt on the church ho has erected a beautiful and commodious pastoral residence of brick, something that was long and badly needed, and has made many other notable improvements.
REV. THOMAS M'ENRUE
Was born near the village of Wilmore (formerly Jeffer- 'son), Cambria County, on October 28, 1842, and was baptized by Rov. Matthew W. Gibson, then assistant pastor of St.
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Michael's Church, Loretto. After obtaining a knowledge of the branches at that time taught in the public schools, he spent one year at St. Vincent's College, Beatty, and one at St. Francis' College, Loretto. In the fall of 1862 he entered St. Michael's Seminary, Pittsburg, where he pur- smed his philosophical and theological course, and on June 6, 1868, was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. Bishop Domenec. His first appointment was to what was known as "the Washington mission," com- prising Washington and Greene Counties and a part of Allegheny. In January, 1873, he was made pastor of St. Augustine, Cambria County, which place, though small, contained more Cath- REV. THOMAS MCENRUE. olics than the combined territory of his former mission. After five years of arduous labor he was transferred to the western end of the diocese, and is now pastor of Irwin, Pa.
REV. HILDEBERT P CONNERY.
He was born August 12, 1844, on a farm near Munster in the parish of Loretto, and was the youngest of ten children. His parents, Patrick Connery and Margaret McCloskey, were among the carly settlers of "the mountain, " and were united in marriage by Father Gallitzin in the year .1819.
His early education was received at St. Francis' Col- lege, Loretto, whence he passed to St. Michael's Semi- nary, Pittsburg, to pursue his philosophical and theological studies. He was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. Bishop Domenec, then Bishop of Allegheny, at St. Vincent's College, Beatty, on December 5, 1876.
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His first appointment was as assistant at St. John Gual- bert's, Johnstown. After laboring for a brief time in that position, he was made pas- tor of Suterville, which was afterwards united with the parish of St. Patrick, Alps- ville. He remained pastor of the united missions for one your, when he was trans- ferred to Brownsville, where he continued for two years. He was then ap- pointed to Morrinsville, from which place, after one year, he returned to Browns- ville, where he remained for seven years. Once more he went to Alpsville, where he spent about nine years. REV. I. P. CONNERY. On September 5, 1895, he assumed charge of St. Agnes' Church, Pittsburg, where he was actively engaged until his death, which was caused by appendicitis. Some ten days previous to his demise he, at his own request, was taken to the Mercy Hospital. where he peacefully surrendered his soul at 8.30 a. m. Monday, March 2, 1896.
During all his priestly career he was remarkable for his apostolic zeal. His life was holy, and his death precions in the sight of the Lord.
REV. CHARLES OSCAR ROSENSTEEL.
The subject of this sketch and his brother, Rev. Thomas Warren Rosensteel, are worthy representatives of an old and honored family of Baltimore. Their ancestors settled in Maryland long before the Revolutionary War. Their ma- ternal great great-grandfather, Capt. Joseph White (Blanc), was a Frenchman who carried on trade with the West Indies,
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being the owner of a line of merchant vessels, which sailed regularly between Baltimore and Cuba, San Domingo and other West India islands. Several of his vessels were captured by the British during the War of Independence. Their paternal great-grandfather, Capt. George Rosensteel, was also a sea-faring man. Their father, Thomas G. Rosensteel, was born at Ta- neytown, Md., and their mother, Mary £. Singer, near Emmitsburg, in the samo state. Like many other Catholics of Maryland REV. C. O. ROSENSTEEL. they were attracted by the fame of Father Gallitzin and of the conmmunity founded by him at Loretto, and came hither to establish a home in the year 1855.
Rev. C. O. Rosensteel was born near Emmitsburg, May 13, 1855, and was brought by his parents the same year to Loretto, where, as he advanced in age, he received his first religious instruction under Fathers Reynolds and Bush, the then pastors. Ho made his preparatory studies at St. Fran- cis' College, Loretto; then entered Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, where he studied the classics and philosophy; and after a creditable course of theology at St. Mary's Sem- inary, Baltimore, was ordained there on December 20, 1884, by His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons. He had the hap- piness of celebrating his first mass at Loretto in the presence of his family and of the friends of his youth.
His first appointment was to the position of assistant priest at St. Ann's Church, Baltimore, where he remained from January 1 to September 1, 1885. He was then pro- moted to the pastorate of St. Mary's Church, Newport,
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Charles County: aud on November 5, 1889, was transferred to the pastorate of St. Mary's, Rockville, and of St. John's, Forest Glen.
After a residence of nine years at Rockville, during which period he had labored hard and successfully to build up the two parishes, the latter were separated, and he was made pastor of Forest Glen, another priest being appointed to Rockville. At Forest Glen he was instrumental in build- ing a brown-stone church, one of the finest church structures in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which was dedicated to the honor of God and to the memory of Bishop Carroll, the first pastor, afterwards first Bishop, and first Archbishop of Bal- timore.
Besides his work at Forest Glen he was given charge of . two outlying missions with the duty of building a church in cach. Through his exertions the corner-store of St. Peter's, at Olney, Md., was laid on November 13, 1898, and on Christ- mas Day following the first mass was said in it. He is now making efforts to begin work on a new church at Bright- wood, D. C.
Having built a fine pastoral residence at Forest Glen he now, to crown his work there, contemplates erecting a monu- ment to the memory of Archbishop Carroll's mother, whose remains lie at' rest beneath the ancient shady oaks in the old graveyard, close to the spot where her illustrious son erected the first rude church for the few scattered families of Mary- land and Virginia. Thus the little mustard seed, planted by Father Carroll in 1774 at Rock Creek, now known as Forost Glen, has grown into a great tree whose branches extend far and wide. It has been well said that "Forest Glen was the Bethlehem of the Church in the United States, and Baltimore the Jerusalem."
REV. THOMAS WARREN ROSENSTEEL
Was born near Loretto, Angust 20, 1859. He made his preparatory studies iu St. Francis' College, Loretto; his classical studies in Mt. St. Mary's, Emmitsburg, and com- pleted his course in philosophy and theology at the Grand
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Seminary of Quebec, Can- ada, where on June 13, 1886, he wasordained to the priest- hood by His Eminence, Car- dinal Taschereau, Archbish- op of Quebec.
His first appointment on his return to his native dio- cese was to the position of assistant priest at St. John Gualbert's Church, Johns- town. He labored here suc- cessfully for two years, and was then appointed assist- ant at St. Agnes' Church, Pittsburg, where he re- mained for 14 months, when he was made first resident pastor of Ashville, Cambria REV. THOMAS W. ROSENSTEEL. County, from which place he attended the adjacent missions of Frugality and Baker's Mines. Only those who have a knowledge of the country as it then appeared, can form an idea of the difficulties with which he had to contend; yet in spite of all he built commodious churches and pastoral resi- dences in Ashville and Frugality, and did much to improve Baker's Mines. After six years of hard, constant and suc- cessful work in a rough, mountainous district with a far- scattered population, and paying off all debts, he was, in De- cember 1894, promoted to the pastorate of St. Matthew's Church, Tyrone, Blair County, where he has since built a beautiful church, and where he still remains the honored pastor of a devoted flock.
REV .. JOHN C. M'ATEER.
He was born near Loretto March 27, 1858, of James Mc- Ateer and Mary A. Elder, who twenty years previously had been united in marriage by Father Gallitzin. Early develop- ing a spirit of piety he resolved to devote himself to the
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sacred ministry, and to pro- pare himself for his high vo- cation he entered St. Vin- cent's College, Beatty, Pa., in September, 1875. In 1881, having been affiliated to the Diocese of La Crosse, he became a student of St. Francis' Seminary, Milwan- kee, Wis., where he pursued his course of philosophical and theological studies. Ho was raised to the holy priest- hood on the Feast of SS. Peterand Paul, June 29, 1885, in St. Joseph's Cathedral. La Crosse, by the Rt. Rev. Kilian C. Flasch, then Bishop of that Sce. He celebrated REV. JOHN C. MCATEER. his first mass on July the 5th following, in the church at- tached to St. Vincent's Arch-Abbey, Beatty, Pa., in the pres- ence of the members of his family, who some years pre- viously had moved from Loretto to Westmoreland County.
His first appointment was as assistant to Very Rev. James Schwebach, V. G., now Bishop of La Crosse. In Feb- ruary, 1886, he was appointed pastor of St. Philip's Church, Crawford County, Wisconsin, where he remained until the following September, when he was transferred to the pastor- ate of St. Thomas' Church, Richland Contre. Here he labored until October 6, 1898, when he was promoted to the pastor- ate of St. Bridget's Church, Stanton, St. Croix County,- which position he continues worthily to fill.
REV. FRANCIS C. NOEL,
Present Rector of Corpus Christi Church, Chambersburg, Pa., and Dean of the Central and Southern Districts of the Diocese of Harrisburg, was born at Noel's Station on the
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Ebensburg and Cresson Railroad, in the Loretto parish, Feb- ruary 2, 1859, of Joseph Noel and Catherine Stolz.
Being eager for an edu- cation he, at an early age and by more than ordinary industry, fitted himself for the profession of teaching, and for three years was em- ployed in teaching the public schools of the district. Then for the two following years he was engaged as professor in St. Francis' College, Loretto,-at the same time pursuing there the study of the classics. After one year's course at St. Vincent's College, Beat- ty, Pa., he entered the Grand Seminary, in Quebec, REV. FRANCIS C. NOEL. Canada, where he completed his philosophical and theological studies: and on April 11, 1888, he was ordained to the priest- hood at the Pro-Cathedral, Harrisburg, by Rt. Rev. Bishop Mc- Govern, then recently consecrated second Bishopof the diocese.
His first appointment was to the pastorate of the Sacred Heart Church, Lewistown, Pa., where he labored zealously for five years, completing the church structure and making it one of the prettiest little churches in the diocese. On May 6, 1893, he was transferred to his present position, where he has had charge also of the outlying missions of Sonth Monn- tain and Doylesburg. In the former of these missions he has built a pastoral residence, and completed the Church of St. Ignatins; and he is now engaged in erecting at Chambers- burg a new parish church of stone.
REV. GEORGE W. KAYLOR.
He was born near Loretto, May 21, 1863, his parents be- ing William Kaylor and Margaret Connery-Scanlan. Hc
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entered St. Francis' College, Loretto, in 1876, and St. Vin- cent's College, Beatty, in 1880. In 1882 he was sent by Rt. Rev. Bishop Tuigg to the American College, Rome, where, in 1885, he re- ceived the degree of Ph. D. On account of failing health he returned home towards the end of 1886 and entered St. Mary's Seminary, Balti- more, where, on December 17, 1887, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Dio- cese of Pittsburg by His Em- inence, Cardinal Gibbons. On the following Christmas morning he said his first REV. GEORGE W. BAYLOR. mass in St. Michael's Church, Loretto. His first appoint- ment was as assistant at St. Peter's Church, McKees- port, where he remained until October, 1889, when he was made pastor of Sewickley. He retained this position until Angust, 1892, when he was transferred to the pastorate of St. Canice's Church, S. S., Pittsburg. Owing to con- tinued and increasing ill health he resigned the pastorato in June, 1896, and obtained a six month's leave of absence, which he spent in traveling in the South. On his return ho attended temporarily to Perrysville and Moversdale, and in October, 1897, was appointed pastor of Ellwood City. Here he remained until last spring, when his health completely failed and he has since been incapacitated from duty.
REV. FRANCIS HERTZOG.
He was born in the borough of Loretto on September 2, 1870. His parents, Joseph Dominic Hertzog and Theresa
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Lenz, are old and faithful members of the parish. He made his preparatory stud- ies under the Franciscan Brothers, Loretto, and his higher studies at St. Vin- cent's Seminary, Beatty. He was ordained to the priesthood July 2, 1898, by Rt. Rov. Bishop Phelan, and said his first mass in St. Michael's Church, Loretto, on the Sunday following. Soon afterward he was assigned to duty as assist- ant at St. Andrew's Church, REV. FRANCIS HERTZOG. Allegheny City, which position he continues to fill with great ability and zeal.
, REV. BROTHER LAWRENCE O'DONNELL.
He was born July 6, 1818, at Rathronan, parish of Lish- ronagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. He gave early evidence of sincere piety, and manifesting an inclination towards a re- . ligious life he became a member of the Community of Fran- ciscan Brothers at Roundstone, County Galway, in 1844, and on July 16, 1846, was professed by the Most Rev. John Mc- Hale, the illustrious Archbishop of Tuam. In the following year he was sent to a house of the Order, called "Holy Trin- ity Monastery, " at Market Weighton, Yorkshire, England, where he labored for three years. In 1850 with three other Brothers he was sent by his superiors to the newly estab- lislied monastery at Loretto, the first foundation of the Or- der in the United States. Landing in New York the Broth- ers came by railroad as far as McVeytown, thence by canal to Hollidaysburg, thence on the "Old Portage" up the five in- clined planes to the Summit, and thence on foot to Loretto. -
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