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MOST REV. JAMES EDWARD QUIGLEY. 
 Second Archbishop of Chicago. 
 
190 I 
 
 1851 
 
 THE 
 
 Golden Jubilee 
 
 Souvenir 
 
 THE HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 St. Mary’s Parish 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
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 THE HENNEBERRY COMPANY 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
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 Copyright by 
 
 DANIEL GAHAN, “JR.” 
 1902 
 
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 To the Catholic Youth of Elgin 
 This Memorial 
 of 
 
 Their Fathers in the Faith 
 is 
 
 Affectionately Dedicated 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2018 with funding from 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
 
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GENERAL INDEX 
 
 - PAGE 
 
 Preface. 9 
 
 Introduction. 11 
 
 Priests of St. Mary’s Parish (Missionary). 21 
 
 Biography of the Rev. John Guiguen. 27 
 
 The Establishment of the Parish— 
 
 The First Pastor, Father John Faughnan. 28 
 
 The Second Pastor, Father P. J. Scanlan. 29 
 
 The Third Pastor, Father Andrew Doyle. 29 
 
 The Fourth Pastor, Father William Feely. 80 
 
 The Fifth Pastor, Father James Gallagher. 36 
 
 The Sixth Pastor, Father Michael Carroll. 38 
 
 The Seventh Pastor, Rev. Andrew Eustace. 41 
 
 The Eighth Pastor, Rev. Terrence Fitzsimmons. 45 
 
 The Ninth Pastor, Rev. John Mackin. 49 
 
 The Tenth Pastor, Rev. John J. McCann. 72 
 
 Priests who Assisted Father Mackin—Fathers Carroll, Griffin, Sullivan, Dwyer 
 
 and Lynde. 56 
 
 Priests who Assisted Father McCann — Fathers Patrick Gildea and J. B. Murray. 74 
 
 Establishment of St. Joseph’s Church. 52 
 
 First Pastor of St. Joseph’s, Rev. B. Westharp. 52 
 
 Second Pastor of St. Joseph’s, Rev. Arthur Riss. 52 
 
 Third Pastor of St. Joseph’s, Rev. Joseph Rohde. 52 
 
 Laying of Corner Stone of St. Mary’s Church. 63 
 
 Salutatory. 68 
 
 Prelate and Priests who were Elgin Boys. 74 
 
 Rt. Rev. Maurice Francis Burke. 74 
 
 Very Rev. Daniel Joseph Spillard, C. S. C. 76 
 
 Very Rev. Patrick Keating, S. J. 79 
 
 The Rev. Michael Hennessy. 81 
 
 Members of Religious Orders who were Young Ladies of St. Mary’s Parish.... 81 
 
 St. Mary’s Parish, its Early Days and Familiar Faces of the Long Ago. 84 
 
 Pioneers of the Parish—1830-1840. 91 
 
 Pioneers of the Parish—1840-1845. 93 
 
 Pioneers of the Parish—1845-1850. 97 
 
 Pioneers of the Parish—1850-1855. 112 
 
 Pioneers of the Parish —1855-1860. 120 
 
 Judge M. W. Hogan. 126 
 
 Joseph Healy. 130 
 
 Hugh Murphy. 132 
 
 John Nolan. 133 
 
 Patrick Daly. 135 
 
 Benefactors of Early Parishioners. 139 
 
 In Defense of the Flag, 1861 65. 143 
 
 Among the Boys of ’98. 154 
 
 History of St. Mary’s Choirs. 157 
 
 St. Mary’s Academy. 166 
 
 Societies and Clubs of St. Mary’s Parish — 
 
 C. O. F„ Elgin Court No. 137. 175 
 
 C. O. F., St. Joseph’s Court No. 235. 190 
 
 W. C. O. F., St. Regina Court No. 92. 185 
 
 St. Mary’s Social and Benevolent Society . 188 
 
 The Knights of Columbus, Elgin Council. 192 
 
 The Altar and Rosary Society. 194 
 
 League of the Sacred Heart. 194 
 
 The Isabella Club. 195 
 
 The Gifford Club. 196 
 
 St. Joseph’s Hospital. 197 
 
 The Elgin State Hospital for the Insane. 200 
 
GENERAL IN DEN—Continued. 
 
 The Golden Jubilee— page 
 
 The Services Monday, October 28, 1901. 204 
 
 “The Catholics of Tomorrow,” Sermon by Rev. Thos. J. Whalen. 204 
 
 “The Church,” Sermon by Rev. Thos. E. Cox. 212 
 
 The Services Tuesday. 220 
 
 The Services Wednesday Morning, the Dedication of the Church. 221 
 
 “My House is a House of Prayer,” Dedication Sermon by Rev. E. L. 
 
 Rivard, C. S. V., D. D. 226 
 
 Jubilee Committees.. 232 
 
 Committee on History and Printing.239, 240 
 
 Parish Customs. 241 
 
 Index to advertisements last page of book. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Most Rev. Janies Edward Quigley.. Frontispiece 
 
 Black Hawk. 23 
 
 Rt. Rev. Simon William Gabriel Brute. 24 
 
 Rt. Rev James M. Maurice De St. Palais. 25 
 
 Rev. John Guiguen. 26 
 
 Father Guiguen's Log Cabin.. . 27 
 
 Rt. Rev. William Quarter. 29 
 
 Father William Feely. 30 
 
 Rt. Rev. J. O Van De Velde. 31 
 
 Richard Keogh’s House. 32 
 
 Old Cobble-Stone Church of the Immaculate 
 
 Conception. 33 
 
 St. Patrick’s Church, St. Charles, Ill. 33 
 
 Meehan’s Old Store. 34 
 
 314 West Chicago Street. . . 35 
 
 House of Patrick Keating. 36 
 
 Father James Gallasher. 37 
 
 Catholic Cemetery near Gilberts, Ill., Site of 
 
 the Barrens Church. 37 
 
 Father Gallagher's Home . 38 
 
 Rt. Rev. Anthony O’Regan. 39 
 
 Father Michael Carroll. 40 
 
 Rev. Andrew Eustace. .... 42 
 
 Rt. Rev. Janies Duggan . 44 
 
 Rev. Terrence Fitzsimmons. . 45 
 
 St. Mary’s Church, Gilberts, 111. 46 
 
 The Cobble-Stone Church and Father Fitz¬ 
 simmons’ Residence. 47 
 
 Rt. Rev. Thomas Foley. 48 
 
 Rev. John Mackin. 50 
 
 Remodeled Church and the Parochial 
 
 Residence. 51 
 
 The Old St. Joseph’s Church and Fathers 
 
 Westharp, Riss and Rohde.... 53 
 
 The New St. Joseph’s Church. 55 
 
 Priests who Assisted Father Mackin — Fathers 
 Carroll, Griffin, Sullivan, Turner and 
 
 Lynde. 57 
 
 The Old Church, December 17, 1899. 59 
 
 The Laying of the Corner Stone of St. Mary's 
 
 Church. 64 
 
 The First Child Christened and the First 
 
 Couple Married in the New Church. 66 
 
 St. Mary's Church. 67 
 
 Most Rev. Patrick A. Feelian and Rt Revs. 
 
 A. J McGavick and P. J. Muldoon. 71 
 
 Revs. John J. McCann, P. Gildea and J. B. 
 
 Murray.. 73 
 
 Rt. Rev. Maurice F. Burke and Revs. D. J. 
 
 Spillard and Patrick Keatin '. 75 
 
 Home of Keating Family, Fayville. 80 
 
 Young Ladies of the Parish who became 
 
 Sisters of Charity. 82 
 
 Elgin in 1835. 86 
 
 Ruin of Old Home of George Tyler. 87 
 
 Views Along Tyler Creek. 88 
 
 John Tyler. 89 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Parishioners who Came from— 
 
 1835-1840. 92 
 
 1840-1845.94, 96 
 
 1815-1850 . 98,100,105,107,109 
 
 1850-1855. 111,113,115,117.119 
 
 1855-1860. 121,123,125 
 
 John Spillard and Family. 124 
 
 judge M. W. Hogan. 126 
 
 Elgin in the ’50’s 127 
 
 Parishioners who Came in 1860 or Later.... 129 
 
 Joseph Healy. 130 
 
 Daniel Burke and Family. 131 
 
 Hugh Murphy. 132 
 
 John Nolan’s Farmhouse and 1 tock Barn. 133 
 
 A Few Homes of Parishioners.134, 136, 139 
 
 Patrick Daly. 137 
 
 Benefactors of Early Parishioners—James T. 
 Gifford, Gen. Elijah Wilcox, Wm. C. 
 Kimball, F. L. McClure, Dr. Joseph Tefft, 
 
 Dr. Edgar Winchester. 140 
 
 Schoolhouses of Early Days. 142 
 
 Gen. Wm. F. Lynch. 145 
 
 Elgin in 1866, Panoromic View. 153 
 
 Along Fox River. 156 
 
 Former Choir Members.159, 160, 161,163 
 
 Gifford Park and Public Buildings of Elgin. 165 
 
 Girls of Communion Class, 1900. 167 
 
 St. Mary’s Academy. 169 
 
 First Communion Class, 1901. 170 
 
 First Communion Class, May 26, 1902. 172 
 
 First Communion Class, Sunday, May 26, 
 
 1902. 174 
 
 Chief Rangers, Elgin Court No. 137, C. O. F., 
 
 Chief Rangers, St Joseph’s Court No. 235, 
 
 C. O. F , Present and Past . 191 
 
 Knights of Columbus,Officers of Elgin Council 193 
 
 St. Joseph's Hospital . 198 
 
 Public Schools of Elgin . 199, 203 
 
 Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane at 
 
 Elgin. 201 
 
 Rev. Thomas J. Whalen . 205 
 
 Rev. Thomas E. Cox. 213 
 
 Scenes During Last Day of Jubilee . 222 
 
 Interior of St. Mary’s Church During High 
 
 Mass After Dedication. 224 
 
 Rev. E. L. Rivard. 227 
 
 The Jubilee Altar Boys. 232 
 
 The Jubilee Choir.235 
 
 The Jubilee Ushers. 235 
 
 The Jubilee Decoration Committee.237 
 
 The General Jubilee Committee.238 
 
 Committee on History and Printing, Ladies... 239 
 Committee on History and Printing,Gentlemen 240 
 Last Resting Place of Parents of St. Mary’s 
 
 First Parishioner. 244 
 
 Panoramic View’ of Elgin, 1902. 245 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I N 1851 the corner stone of the first Catholic church in Elgin was 
 laid. To commemorate that event, the Golden Jubilee Exercises 
 of last October were held. Among the many committees appointed 
 on the occasion of the jubilee, was one called the Historical Committee. 
 It was composed of the following members : Rev. John J. McCann, 
 Thos. P. Sheehan, M. C. Tobin, Daniel J. Gahan, Jr., and the Misses 
 Ella McOsker, Maria Grady, Mary Donahue, Delia Ryan and Helen 
 Duhy. Mr. Edward Keogh, Mr. Frank C. Fedou, Mrs. Harry Dorley 
 and Miss Edna Walker were later additions to the committee. 
 
 Mr. Thos. P. Sheehan was made president and Miss Mary 
 Donahue, secretary. Mr. Edward Keogh was appointed to write the 
 introduction and some of the biographical sketches; Mr. Thos. P. 
 Sheehan, the history of the parish in general ; Mr. Daniel Gahan, the 
 biographies of the clergy; Mr. Frank C. Fedou and Miss Edna Walker, 
 the Golden Jubilee celebration ; Mrs. Harry Dorley, the history of the 
 choirs ; and Miss Helen Duhy, the sketch of St. Mary’s Academy. The 
 other members of the committee, though doing none of the writing, 
 assisted in collecting material. 
 
 The sketches of the parish societies were written by their respect¬ 
 ive secretaries. Rev. P. Gildea wrote “ The Laying of the Corner 
 Stone,” and Mr. W. J. McCarthy wrote “With the Boys of ’98.” 
 
 Meetings of the Historical Committee were held every week or two 
 for several months. Old parishioners were called upon for information. 
 Newspaper files, city and county histories, and the early parish records 
 were consulted. The result is the present volume. 
 
 A few of the men and women who attended mass offered by the first 
 priests in the parish, are still living; and they were consulted in the 
 preparation of this book. Some of the members of the Historical Com 
 mittee were born here, and have lived here all their lives. The truth¬ 
 fulness of the narrative, therefore, cannot be called in question. 
 
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 Only those who have been engaged in the same kind of work can 
 fully appreciate the patient labor necessary in the preparation of this 
 volume. Though the work was very tedious, the members of the com¬ 
 mittee feel amply repaid for their pains. They realize that it will serve 
 as one of the original sources of information for the general historian; 
 for it is on works like this, modest though they be, that the general 
 historian must rely for his data. It is also their hope that it may serve 
 as an humble monument to the pioneers of Catholicity in this section 
 of Illinois, and help to confirm the present and future generations of 
 Elgin Catholics in the faith of their forefathers. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 From the quaint old town of Vincennes, in the State of Indiana, 
 came to Elgin and to the Fox River country of Illinois, the first Catho¬ 
 lic missionaries of whose work and labors we have absolute knowledge. 
 Because of this fact the following circumstances connected with it are 
 of interest to the reader and are therefore introduced in this prefatory 
 statement. 
 
 Vincennes, itself, as late as the period of the coming to Elgin of 
 these missionaries, was still to a great extent a frontier town, with a 
 population largely composed of French Canadians, interspersed with 
 European French. Its population had been so composed from long 
 before the revolution, and we find in Law’s History of Vincennes that 
 “ It was founded by Father Mermot in the year of 1700.” In Park- 
 man’s Discovery of the Northwest, the author says that Vincennes was at 
 first “An isolated French post, built in the depths of the gigantic forests 
 of the Lower Wabash,” and the same author thus continues : “ Here 
 the French lived and grew in an atmosphere of Indian social life until 
 the fires of the revolution, kindled afar off, came to their doors.” 
 
 And then when the fires of that mighty effort for human freedom 
 did come to the doors of this romantic old place, one appeared on the 
 scene in the person of Father Pierre Gibault, parish priest of Vin¬ 
 cennes, whose name ought to surely stand among the proudest of the 
 immortal patriots of the revolution. Father Gibault was a Jesuit and a 
 personal friend of General George Rogers Clark, the American com¬ 
 mander in the Northwest, who, commissioned by Patrick Henry, boldly 
 attacked the British forces wherever found in the Northwest territory 
 then held for the English sovereign by General Hamilton and other com¬ 
 manders, with hordes of Indian allies. Father Gibault, being a 
 patriot as well as a priest, actively entered into the struggle, and com¬ 
 menced his labors by recruiting, at Kaskaskia, a company of his parish¬ 
 ioners for service under General Clark. Law’s History describes this 
 
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 stout patriotic priest as “a courageous lover of liberty,’’ but more than 
 this, he, according to the same historian as well as according to Park- 
 man, actually fed and supported the American patriotic army under 
 Clark, during all its campaigns against the British troops and defenses 
 in the Northwest territory. He, together with a compatriot named 
 Vigo, a trader from St. Louis, personally indorsed the continental 
 money with which General Clark was alone supplied for the susten¬ 
 ance of the American troops; and the historian quoted (Parkman) 
 says : “ At the end of the war and the overthrow of the British, Father 
 Gibault and Vigo had more than $20,000 of the worthless scrip on their 
 hands,” at that time an enormous sum of money ; and to this the his¬ 
 torian sorrowfully adds, “ it never was redeemed.” Father Gibault 
 in his efforts for American success by recruiting and feeding the 
 American army and indorsing continental money, as Law puts it, 
 “ to aid the American army disposed of all his cattle, and even 
 of the tithes of his parishioners.” For this he was thanked by a vote 
 of the Virginia Legislature, and Parkman says that next to General 
 Clark, the United States is indebted to Father Gibault for the conquest 
 from the British of the great territory forming now the magnificent 
 States of the Middle West, and including Illinois. 
 
 Such was the patriot priest in old Vincennes in the time of the 
 revolution ; and as the years went by, long after the revolution, the old 
 customs yet prevailed in the old town on the Lower Wabash. The spirit 
 of adventure was yet strong, and the great land of the West was unin¬ 
 habited by few besides the red children of the forest and prairie. Still, 
 the years went by, until at last some French priests, always paragons 
 of missionary intrepidity, living in Vincennes, wistfully looking over 
 the great Western lands that lay beyond them, found in 1837-8, that the 
 Northern Illinois country was receiving some settlers. The coming to 
 the Fox River country of Father St. Palais (afterward bishop of Vin¬ 
 cennes) and of Father Guiguen was the result or consequence of this 
 survey of a yet wild land. 
 
 It is, and perhaps ever will be, doubtful as to whether or not mis¬ 
 sionary priests had, before the period referred to, visited the Fox or the 
 Rock River regions. We know that they had been in their vicinities, 
 and that the intrepid and saintly Marquette whose love for, and loyalty 
 to, the great command, “ Go teach all nations,” knew neither pause nor 
 fear, as his love for, and loyalty to, his fellow-men, whether civilized or 
 savage, knew no bounds, was on the present site of Chicago on his 
 
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 second trip to the land of the Illinois in November, 1674, and that 
 Catholic missionaries among the Indians of Northern Illinois, long after 
 Marquette’s time, may be indistinctly traced, down to the period of 
 their removal from Illinois. Apropos of this statement, the writer 
 recollects that he was told in a conversation that he once held with Rev. 
 N. C. Clark, first pastor of the Elgin Congregational Church, and a 
 gentleman held justly in the highest esteem in Pdgin during his life, 
 that in his early career in the Fox River Valley, and while traveling 
 through it as a missionary, he, on one occasion, near the present site of 
 Naperville, came on a large gathering of Pottawattamies in the timber, 
 who were before a sort of rude altar performing a ceremony, the nature 
 of which the reverend gentleman did not understand. Inquiring of an 
 Indian the meaning of it, the Indian gave him to understand that 
 they were praying for their dead friends and relatives, and “ it seemed 
 to me,” said the reverend gentleman, “ as if the Indians held to the 
 purgatorial doctrine.” It would seem from this, as well as from many 
 other circumstances, that either the pioneer missionaries who visited 
 Northern Illinois at a very early day, or later missionaries preaching 
 the gospel, had left among the red men lasting impressions of the 
 Catholic faith. 
 
 But historically true it is, at all events, that with the abolition of 
 French ascendancy in the Northwest, Catholic missionary effort therein 
 largely declined, if it did not actually cease. That eloquent and truth¬ 
 ful chronicler of Catholic events, William J. Onahan of Chicago, well 
 summarizes the languishing condition of Catholic mission work among 
 the Indians of the prairies, after the fall of the French influence in the 
 Illinois country, and up to the time of the Black Hawk War, thus : 
 “With the close of the French dominion in the Northwest, effected by 
 the treaty of Utrecht, the presence and labors of the ‘ black gown ’ 
 gradually disappeared from the scene, though one or more of the zeal¬ 
 ous missionaries would from time to time appear on the forbidden ter¬ 
 ritory, to recall and renew among the Indian tribes the teachings of the 
 pioneer fathers.” Although, of course, after the revolution there was 
 no forbidden territory in the United States to Catholic missionary work, 
 there had been such before that event, and as a consequence, after the 
 triumph of the “ brave Continentals in their ragged regimentals,” the 
 work that had been forbidden by force, by habit became supine. It so 
 continued until the early thirties when by emigration the new or white 
 race took personal possession of the Northwest. 
 
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 Then the struggle of the red warrior, his last stand for the graves 
 of his sires began; but the heroism of Black Hawk availed but 
 little against the power of his white enemies. Crushed and driven 
 westward again, the Father of Waters now parted the red man from 
 his old domain, and Northern Illinois began to receive white settlers. 
 The diocese of Vincennes, in which this part of the State of Illinois 
 was located, the old parent of the Elgin church, in 1842 included the 
 great States of Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, with a total Catholic 
 population of 25,000 persons. The Catholic records of Chicago show 
 that “ up to the year 1835, the religious wants of the Catholic settlers 
 of Chicago were supplied by the occasional visits and ministrations of 
 a priest from Detroit or Vincennes.” There is no doubt, however, that 
 the priests St. Palais and Guiguen that visited Elgin at, or a short time 
 after, the year indicated were from the latter place; and what a picture 
 of brave devotion to Christian duty is disclosed to us, as we now look 
 back on the journeyings of these solitary priests from the banks of the 
 Lower Wabash to the banks of the Illinois Fox. In their zeal they 
 dared all obstacles, and in their lonely quest after the Savior’s work we 
 behold again the men with script and staff walking through the wilder¬ 
 ness. Their way lay through miles of solitude, and was beset with 
 dangers through fever-breeding swamps and woods, tangled and almost 
 impassable, across prairies scorched by a blazing sun, or locked in 
 the iron grasp of wintry desolation. And, after all, there were but few 
 Catholics in Elgin in those days of that trying time, when through such 
 scenes came to it Father St. Palais or Father Guiguen. Yet they came, 
 and raised the cross among the new inhabitants. 
 
 At the period mentioned, European emigration to the United States 
 was not yet large, and the Catholic inhabitants of Elgin and of the 
 country surrounding it were few and scattering. Many of these people 
 had just pre-empted land, or bought it at the land sale in Chicago. 
 Life’s struggle was hard and it was before them, but to them the com¬ 
 ing of the Vincennes priests was a sort of ray of sunshine. It glad¬ 
 dened their lives and made bright the darkness through which they 
 toiled. 
 
 And thus it went on for a time, but the day of the missionary 
 priest was passing. The brothers James T. and Hezekiah Gifford 
 had settled in Elgin in 1834-5, and their liberal inducements were as 
 early as 1838-9 bringing newcomers to their little settlement. To 
 James T. Gifford the first inhabitants of Elgin owe a great debt of 
 
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 gratitude. His land was freely disposed of to all comers. He was a 
 benevolent man, and a man who respected all alike, and to him are the 
 Catholics of Elgin indebted for many favors, among them for the site of 
 their old church, his gracious and voluntary donation. 
 
 In 1844, the Rt. Rev. William Quarter was appointed Bishop 
 of Chicago, its first bishop, and we may add first bishop of Illinois. 
 At that time the majority of the Elgin settlers were American emigrants 
 from the Eastern States, with quite an infusion of emigrants from 
 Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, all of them called “ Hoosiers.” 
 They principally settled in what is still called “ Hoosier Grove,” in the 
 town of Hanover, Cook county, and among these, quite a number of 
 the emigrant farmers attending the Catholic services held in Elgin also 
 settled. However, soon after their settlement in the location indicated, 
 the Catholic settlers moved to the toiwn of Rutland, west of Fox River 
 where many of their children still live. For years the settlement at 
 
 Rutland was attached to St. Mary’s parish at Elgin, and the period of 
 
 its severance from the same is told in the subsequent pages, as are all 
 the territorial mutations that have occurred in St. Mary’s parish since 
 its establishment. 
 
 Bishop Quarter took possession of his new see on May 7, 1844, 
 and while the bishop’s see included the whole State of Illinois, St. 
 Mary’s parish was also an ecclesiastical territory of magnificent distances. 
 Down to 1852, or thereabouts, the pastor in charge at St. Mary’s had to 
 answer sick and other calls from all over Kane county, north of 
 
 Batavia. From all of DeKalb county, from the northern portion of 
 
 Du Page county, and from the southern part of McHenry county. As 
 the country was rapidly settling at this period, owing to the great Euro¬ 
 pean emigration that set into America during the years 1848-9, demands 
 for the services of the Elgin priest from the vast parish that he minis¬ 
 tered to were constant and occurring both night and day. A lumber 
 wagon with a board for a seat was the mode of conveyance adopted by 
 him generally, and the roads that he traveled may be described as 
 simply execrable. But when the call for him came, it was answered 
 night or day, rain or shine. 
 
 Among the very early Catholic settlers in Elgin or its vicinity—and 
 in this purely introductory writing, allusion will only be made to the 
 coming to Elgin and its neighborhood of the very early settlers, all 
 biographical notices of them being extraneous to the subject matter of 
 an introduction—were the Tyler family, after whom Tyler Creek is 
 
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 named, consisting of George, Israel and Calvin Tyler and their aged 
 parents. Another son was Catholic bishop of Hartford, Connecticut. 
 The family were converts, and were the first purely American Catholics 
 in Elgin or its surroundings. 
 
 Up to the years 1850-2 the Elgin congregation used to assemble 
 every fourth Sunday in each month to attend mass under any shelter 
 obtainable. The reader will find the places selected and used for the 
 purpose indicated, mentioned in the following pages. Indeed, up to the 
 period named, it was an easy matter to hold the congregation, for it 
 was but small and easily accommodated. The village of Elgin itself was 
 at this time merely a sort of way station on the State road from Chicago 
 to Galena, traveled by the Frink and Walker line of stage coaches. In 
 truth, it was but a pretty little settlement in a new country. Years had 
 elapsed, it is true, since the coming to the Fox River of the devoted 
 missionary priests from the Wabash, and from their advent to the 
 period that we are now writing of, religious services had at what may be 
 called irregular intervals been held in Elgin, but the attendance was 
 necessarily small. Our great neighbor Chicago itself was as late as 
 1850 but a frontier city of scarce twenty thousand people, without a 
 railway, who looked at the advent of a passenger steamboat from Buffalo 
 as an event of mighty and of far-reaching importance ; just as the Elgin 
 people of that day looked in rustic wonder at the advent of a Frink and 
 Walker stage coach to their village. The Rutland Catholics, had 
 at or about the period here alluded to become quite a numerous 
 congregation, composed of located farmers, and they, it is also true, were 
 attached to and were territorially within the Elgin parish, but they had a 
 church of their own, and although attended and ministered to by the 
 Elgin pastor, they were in other respects recognized as a separate con¬ 
 gregation. As they seldom attended church in Elgin, the Elgin congre¬ 
 gation was but little reinforced on such occasions as church services 
 by their western neighbors. 
 
 But a new and a great change was at hand, and it came one day 
 in the early spring of 1850, when the whistle of the locomotive sounded 
 over the hills of the Fox River valley for the first time, and little Elgin, 
 now attached to the outside world, became the western terminus of rail¬ 
 way travel. 
 
 In February, 1850, the first train on the old Galena and Chicago 
 Union railway, now the Northwestern railway, came to Elgin. That is 
 to say, the first train on the road that reached this point. Soon after, the 
 
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 Frink and Walker line of stage coaches disappeared from the scene, 
 like an actor who lags superfluous on the stage, and railway communi¬ 
 cation with the outer world being now well and thoroughly established, 
 settlers began coming to Elgin in large numbers. From 1850 to 1858, 
 settlers continued to come, and new additions were constantly being 
 made to the Elgin Catholic congregation. During the period of the 
 railway building, too, the congregation was largely added to on Sundays 
 by the very large number of workmen employed in that work ; and so at 
 or about the time that work on the old church began, the Catholics of 
 Elgin had become quite numerous as a resident population, apart from 
 the very large number of transient Catholics. To the latter, however, 
 as is related in the following paragraph, the successful erection of the 
 old St. Mary’s church is largely due and ascribable. 
 
 Elgin remained the western terminus of the Galena and Chicago 
 Union railway for over a year, and then its management commenced 
 its extension to Rockford. In this work, as stated, a very large number 
 of Catholic workmen were employed on the west side of the Fox River. 
 The financial aid which these men were able to give to the building of 
 a church, an effort which the circumstances of the Elgin Catholics 
 would hardly warrant, emboldened the then pastor, Rev. William 
 Feely, to make an effort to erect the church (old St. Mary’s) of which 
 the corner stone had been laid a very short time before. During 1852 
 and 1853 the effort was made, and the walls and roof of the edifice were 
 completed by Father Feely. During the succeeding pastorate of 
 Rev. James Gallagher, the interior of the church was completed. 
 From the time of its roofing, mass was said in it on the Sundays that 
 were appointed for that purpose until the opening of the new St. Mary’s 
 Church. The old church now stands as a reminder of the past, but to 
 Elgin Catholics it has long been, and while it stands it will ever be, a 
 sacred spot, around which cluster the joys and sorrows, but, above all, 
 the holiest hopes of a long past. 
 
 Owing to the energy of Rev. Michael Carroll, who succeeded 
 Father Gallagher, the present site of the new St. Mary’s Church was 
 purchased, and the building standing upon it was long occupied as a 
 parochial residence. After the death of Father Carroll the parish con¬ 
 tinued to grow steadily but not rapidly, and during the pastorate of 
 Father Eustace, who succeeded Father Carroll, the great civil war took 
 place. Then it may with truth be said that for four years the drum roll 
 never ceased in Elgin. From 1861 to the end of the great struggle, 
 
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 companies and even regimental organizations were being recruited in 
 Elgin, and many of these organizations won names of historic glory 
 and deathless fame. St. Mary’s parish furnished to them its full quota 
 of members and the roll call of our honored dead who sleeo in the 
 
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 lovely cemeteries of Elgin tells, at least to some extent, of the spirit that 
 animated the people of the parish during the long and memorable 
 struggle for the Union, and for government by the people, and of and 
 for the people. 
 
 The efforts and wise judgment of Rev. Terrence Fitzsimmons, 
 who succeeded Father Eustis in the pastorate of the parish, caused the 
 introduction to Elgin of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the 
 establishment of St. Mary’s Academy in Elgin. This institution has been 
 a splendid aid to the cause of the moral as well as intellectual instruc¬ 
 tion of the youth of Elgin and its vicinity of both sexes. Year after 
 year since the date of its establishment, it has continued to send 
 forth classes of graduates that mark it as an educational institution of a 
 high grade, and one that deserves well of the Catholic people ; indeed 
 we might with truth say of all the people of Elgin. 
 
 The organization of St. Joseph’s parish, a vigorous German off¬ 
 shoot of St. Mary’s, is related in the succeeding pages. The recent 
 purchase of a splendid site for a new church edifice, to take the place of 
 the present church, by the people of St. Joseph’s, tells well of the 
 prosperity of the parish, and is a splendid evidence of the earnestness 
 of the German Catholics of Elgin, and of their present worthy and 
 energetic pastor, Rev. Father Rohde. 
 
 The rise and progress of the Catholic church in Elgin from the 
 early day when Elgin, the then pretty little hamlet by the Fox, was but 
 little known, is so intimately associated with the rise and progress of 
 Elgin, the now fine and thrifty city, that the growth of the one seems 
 to be the growth of the other. Elgin, the small frontier settlement of 
 not quite seventy years ago, has grown to be world famous because of 
 its mechanical and other products. At the present time, owing to the 
 wondrous development of mechanism, electricity and of other scientific 
 accessories to human labor, it is impossible to set any bounds to 
 the future growth of a city like Elgin, with a name such as it has 
 acquired for its manufactured products. The growth of St. Mary’s 
 parish is now truly marked and gratifying. If you ask for the monu¬ 
 ments of this progress and advancement, as was said by the Roman of 
 old, “ Look around you.” The new St. Mary’s Church, one of the 
 
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 handsomest religious edifices in the State, of which the imposing exte¬ 
 rior was erected by the efforts of the late revered and lamented rector, 
 Rev. John Mackin, is now about to be interiorly completed by the pres¬ 
 ent energetic and devoted rector, Rev. John J. McCann. This means that 
 when the church is fully completed it will be a true model of ecclesiasti¬ 
 cal elegance. The reverend rector is assisted in parish work by Rev. 
 Fathers Gildea and Murray, both devoted workers, and Elgin, besides 
 its great and central parish as we may name it, of which we write, 
 now has its prosperous German parish of St. Joseph, with its fine 
 parochial school, St. Mary’s Academy, and last, but not least, St. 
 Joseph’s new and perfectly conducted hospital. 
 
 Among the early parishioners of the church were many who 
 entered business in Elgin. Others there were who attached themselves 
 to various pursuits in life, some professional, others agricultural, etc., 
 but with very few exceptions these have all passed away. Many of 
 their descendants are, however, engaged in business and in the various 
 walks in life here in the city of their birth. To all who read the suc¬ 
 ceeding pages much interesting information will be given of those who 
 have been, and of those who are still, connected with St. Mary's parish. 
 
 In the soft and mellow days of the fall of 1901, in the golden time 
 of the year, the golden Jubilee of St. Mary’s was fittingly celebrated, 
 the new church being then dedicated to the service of the Almighty by 
 the Rt. Rev. Peter J. Muldoon, auxiliary bishop to the Archbishopof Chi¬ 
 cago. The Jubilee is fittingly described in the subsequent pages. And 
 so, in a golden light, full of promise for the future, ended the first half 
 century of St. Mary’s parish. 
 
 All the former pastors of the parish have gone to their eternal 
 reward. Rev. Francis A. Lynde, for several years assistant pastor to 
 Father Mackin and for a time to Father McCann, died recently at 
 Boulder, Colorado, whither he had gone to recruit sadly impaired 
 health. All the pastors, from first to last, it may be said to their credit, 
 did their work well, and have left behind them indisputable evidences 
 of that fact. 
 
 And now, as we close this introduction to the story of the planting, 
 progress, struggles and successes of this Christian church so dear to 
 many in Elgin, we may well take a momentary glance backward. The 
 retrospect again brings before us a wondrous scene. Again we see the 
 indomitable missionaries, Fathers St. Palais and Guiguen, of the long 
 past, weary and travel-stained, journeying with God’s message of love 
 
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 on the yet hot trail of a wild and conquered race, from the far off banks 
 and forests of the Lower Wabash, to the still primeval wilds of the 
 Illinois Fox. The desert land through which the lonely soldiers of the 
 cross then took their tiresome way, is now filled with a mighty popula¬ 
 tion. surrounded by a civilization beyond the wildest imaginings of that 
 long past time ; and the solitudes they crossed now hold splendid cities, 
 filled with people of wondrous energy; such is the change and such the 
 picture. But still the two adventurous priests, plodding westward on 
 their mission of mercy, seem inseparable from the picture, be it that of 
 the past or that of the present. The wilderness here at the end of that 
 journey to which they came, has truly blossomed in the years that have 
 gone ; the seed they planted has borne an abundant harvest; their 
 work has remained to this day, and ever will remain, and to such serv¬ 
 ants of the Lord and to their labors in the desert places may truly be 
 applied the words of the Prophet Isaiah, “ The wilderness and the soli¬ 
 tary place shall be glad for them , and the dese)i shall rejoice and blossom 
 as the rose." 
 
 Edward Keogh. 
 
 Elgin, October i, 1902. 
 
Priests ot St. Marv s Parish of Elgin. 
 
 Though assigned the work of preparing a sketch of the priests 
 who have administered to the needs of the parishioners of Elgin, it is 
 with much reluctance that we attempt the task. First, we find of 
 necessity we must trespass on the domain of others of the committee— 
 a sketch of the priests is synonymous with one of the parish, and 
 again, we are forced to a confession of consciousness of our inability 
 to provide even a preliminary historical sketch of our most worthy 
 subjects ; yet it is doubtful if any one would be satisfied, under the 
 circumstances, with the result of his efforts. No records of the parish 
 prior to 1853 are obtainable. Those of the diocese were destroyed in 
 the great Chicago fire of 1871; however, partial copies of the diaries of 
 Bishops Quarter and Van de Velde remain which, together with the 
 Easter issue of “ The New World ” for 1900, a diary kept by the late 
 Jeremiah Ryan, and a memorandum given by Mr. Edward Keogh, 
 afford data that otherwise would have been lost. 
 
 All our former pastors and our earliest pioneer parishioners have 
 been called to their eternal home. The accounts received are brief; 
 some do not correspond with those received from other sources ; in 
 other instances none at all have been secured. 
 
 Notwithstanding the defects in this record and the errors it may 
 contain, owing to the reasons here mentioned, we present the result 
 of our efforts, believing they are substantially correct. 
 
 Before beginning a sketch of the history of the priests of Elgin, we 
 trust our readers will not deem it out of place if we revert briefly to 
 some of the priests who as missionaries did zealous, heroic, and effec¬ 
 tive work in this region prior to the erection of the diocese of Chicago, 
 and after Illinois was admitted to the sisterhood of States in 1818. 
 
 This date found the territory under the jurisdiction of the Rt. 
 Rev. Dr. Benedict Joseph Flaget, Bishop of Bardstown (now Louisville, 
 Kentucky). Fort Dearborn had been rebuilt but a short time since its 
 
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 destruction, and the massacre by the Indians in 1812 of most of its 
 garrison, and settlers and their families who sought its protection. 
 This fort was the frontier outpost of the northwest. Established there 
 was the government agency for the payment of the Indians for their 
 lands. Traders and settlers began to assemble about it once more. 
 Again the Canadian voyageurs appeared at the place. The majority of 
 these people, a goodly number of the garrison, and many of the friendly 
 Indians were Catholics at this time. 
 
 Their venerable bishop, ever solicitous for the spiritual and 
 temporal welfare of his people, did not neglect those at Fort Dearborn. 
 He sent priests as often as conditions would permit to visit them. 
 Among those from Bardstown came Father Stephen Theodore Badin, 
 who was the first priest ordained in the United States. He was 
 elevated to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. John Carroll, First Bishop of 
 Baltimore, May 25, 1793. Father Badin was probably the first priest 
 to visit this section of Illinois. It is recorded that he said mass at the 
 home of Simon Brady, near Kellogg’s Grove, in the vicinity of the 
 present city of Freeport, in October, 1827, while on his way to Galena. 
 In crossing the State it is not improbable that he passed through what 
 was later the parish of Elgin. He afterwards administered to the wants 
 of the laborers during the construction of the Illinois and Michigan 
 canal, and to those of the settlers in its vicinity; subseqently he was 
 pastor at Bourbonnais Grove, near Kankakee. 
 
 Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, an Italian Dominican, was a zealous 
 contemporaneous worker with Father Badin among the miners at 
 Lapointe (now Galena) among the sparsely located settlers and with the 
 traders and Indians in northern Illinois, though the former priest’s 
 missions extended much farther north and west. As with the Jesuit 
 and Franciscan Fathers who immediately succeeded Marquette in the 
 same field, the sufferings and sacrifices of these good priests in the 
 cause of their Master and for the eternal salvation of the souls of His 
 children are known to few but the recording angel. 
 
 After the suppression of the Indians under Black Hawk and the 
 capture of that noted chief in 1832, the remnant of the once powerful 
 tribes of Illinois withdrew beyond the Mississippi. Reports by return¬ 
 ing soldiers of the beauty and fertility of the country, with its abundance 
 of timber, springs, and fresh flowing streams, soon caused an influx of 
 people from adjacent States, and of emigrants to seek homes among the 
 abandoned fields of the Pottawattamies. 
 
St. Mary's Parish , Elgin, 111. 
 
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 BLACK HAWK. 
 
 The Sac chief, who rallied the assembled bands of Illinois Indians in their final, though 
 futile, effort to retain from the encroaching white settlers the domain of their forefathers. 
 
 “In 1835 the bill that had been passed by the State Legislature 
 became a law and appropriations were made for the digging of the 
 channel to be called the Illinois and Michigan canal. The contractors 
 who had this work in hand sent circulars to the seaports of the United 
 States and Canada, which were distributed among the emigrants who 
 were coming in multitudes to America. Thousands started westward to 
 find ready work, the majority coming from Ireland.” 
 
 Two years before this time the Catholics of the future city of 
 Chicago, the greater part of whom were French, petitioned Rt. Rev. 
 Joseph Rosati, first Bishop of St. Louis, who then had jurisdiction over a 
 part of Illinois, for a priest. Father John M. I. St. Cyr was sent in 
 response to their call and became the first pastor of Chicago. 
 
 As a great number of the men who came to work on the canal 
 appeared first in Chicago, Father St. Cyr found that he could not 
 
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 attend to the pressing needs of his flock. He wrote to his bishop for 
 more priests ; his letter was referred to Rt. Rev. Simon William Gabriel 
 Brute, Bishop of Vincennes, whose recently formed diocese extended 
 westward in Illinois to a north and south line which crossed the stream 
 at “ the great whirlpools of the Illinois river, which are about 8,000 paces 
 above the city of Ottawa.” 
 
 RT. REV.SIMON WILLIAM GABRIEL BRUTE. 
 First Bishop of Vincennes. 
 
 Bishop Brute immediately sent Father Schaefer to Chicago, and 
 later on with other priests, the zealous Fathers John Guiguen and James 
 M. Maurice De St. Palais (the latter was afterwards pastor of Chicago 
 and later Bishop of Vincennes), to help Father St. Cyr in his mission. 
 
 From reports of old Catholic settlers Father De St. Palais was, 
 without doubt, the first priest to visit and say mass in Elgin. This is 
 thought to have been prior to 1840. 
 
 In 1842 Father John Guiguen, who had been for about a year 
 assisting Father Dupontavice at Joliet, moved to Meehan’s settlement, 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III 
 
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 in Shields township, Lake county (near the present town of Lake 
 Forest). “ His dwelling there was a log hut that stood near the Liberty- 
 ville road. From this station, on horseback, about once in four months, 
 
 RT. REV. JAMES M. MAURICE DE ST. PALAIS. 
 
 Father Guiguen would make a tour of the missions under his charge, 
 going as far westward as New Dublin and sometimes Galena, then 
 south and east to Joliet, then north by way of Chicago to his home in 
 the bush. He would visit Catholic settlers wherever he could find 
 
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 them, baptize the children, say mass, and speak words of encourage¬ 
 ment to the people in the wilderness.” 
 
 Under his guidance the Catholics of Rutland township and vicinity, 
 on land now the site of the old Catholic cemetery, given by the late 
 Edward Keating, in 1843 began the erection of the first Catholic church, 
 known as the “ Barrens Church,” in what was later the parish of Elgin 
 
 REV. JOHN GUIGUEN. 
 
 and in Kane county. The timber used in the construction of its frame 
 grew on the ground and it was prepared at Tyler’s mill, which was 
 located on Tyler creek, about forty rods below where the Chicago, Mil¬ 
 waukee and St. Paul railroad now crosses it, but little more than a mile 
 northwest of Elgin. The Stephens brothers, who owned land southeast 
 of the church site, were the builders. A permanent floor was not laid 
 in it until the winter of 1845-46, and the building was never completed. 
 
St. Mary's Parish , Elgin , III. 
 BIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. JOHN GUIGUEN. 
 
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 The Rev. John Guiguen was born in Brittany, France, near 
 Gourin, a town in the department of Morbihan, January, 12, 1814; he 
 was educated at the preparatory seminary at Plouguerneval, after which 
 he entered the grand seminary at St. Brieux, in the diocese of that name, 
 wherein he studied theology as a preparation for the priesthood and 
 received minor orders before coming to the United States. In October, 
 1839, he arrived at Vincennes, where he completed his theological 
 course, and was ordained by Bishop De la Hellandiere, August 16, 1840. 
 
 FATHER GUIGUEN’S LOG CABIN. 
 
 He was sent to Joliet, Illinois, where he remained about a year, and 
 then removed to Little Fort (Waukegan) or near it, in Lake county; at 
 the same time he had charge of the missions in McHenry, Kane and 
 DeKalb counties, which were then parts of the diocese of Vincennes. 
 When the diocese of Chicago was erected in 1844, Illinois was severed 
 from the jurisdiction of Vincennes, and Father Guiguen was recalled by 
 his bishop to the latter diocese, where he served creditably in the capa¬ 
 city of pastor in many places, as director of the diocesan seminary for 
 several years, and finally as chaplain of the Sisterhood of St. Mary’s of 
 the Woods, at the mother house of the Sisters of Providence, at St. 
 
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 Mary’s, Vigo county, Indiana, where he died December 17, 1893. His 
 remains rest in the cemetery of the community beside those of his pred¬ 
 ecessors. 
 
 THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FIRST PASTOR AND 
 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PARISH. 
 
 In May, 1844, the Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter, the first bishop of Chi¬ 
 cago, came to assume charge of his lately formed diocese. Soon after¬ 
 wards the priests sent to the Illinois mission from Vincennes were 
 recalled by their bishop. This was an unexpected difficulty which 
 beset Bishop Quarter’s path, but he met it resolutely. He set about 
 founding a college which was the germ of the future University of St. 
 Mary’s of the Lake. He opened it June 3rd, less than a month after 
 his arrival. 
 
 When the bishop came to Chicago he found two young men study¬ 
 ing for the priesthood under the direction of Father De St. Palais, 
 Mr. Patrick McMahon and Mr. Bernard McGorisk. Other semin¬ 
 arians and priests came from many places in response to his call. 
 On November 21, 1844, Mr. John Faughnan, a young Irishman hail¬ 
 ing from New York, presented himself to Bishop Quarter as a 
 candidate for the priesthood. So worthy and capable did the bishop 
 find him that he was made one of the trustees of the college. He was 
 ordained December 3, 1844, and sent to assist Father Patrick McMahon 
 at Donnelly settlement. In January, 1845, Father Faughnan was 
 appointed the first pastor of Elgin and left Chicago on the 21st of that 
 month for his new field and to establish the parish. 
 
 The young, devoted priest lived at the homes of his parishioners in 
 his different missions, but as much as possible with those near the 
 “Barrens” Church, his only edifice or worship. He said mass in the 
 adjoining villages from time to time, and at such other places as best 
 suited the convenience of his people. His flock, in the main, were 
 very poor, struggling in a wild place to build homes and for a foothold 
 in life. Their good pastor cheerfully shared their poverty, and, also, 
 often his own raiment with those whom he believed in need of it more 
 than himself. 
 
 While attending his priestly duties in his mission, Father Faughnan 
 contracted a severe cold, which developed into consumption and obliged 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 him to retire to Chicago, where he died, universally mourned, on 
 September 27, 1845, at the bishop’s house, at the corner of Michigan 
 avenue and Madison street. His funeral was the largest ever seen in 
 Chicago up to that date. 
 
 RT. REV. WILLIAM QUARTER. 
 
 First Bishop of Chicago. 
 
 Father P. J. Scanlan immediately followed Father Faughnan as the 
 next pastor of the parish. He was succeeded in 1847 by Father Andrew 
 Doyle. While in the parish Father Doyle made his home in Elgin. It 
 
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 was located where is now the northeast corner of South State and 
 Locust streets. His time in the parish, like that of his predecessors, 
 was brief. Father Doyle died in Chicago some years after leaving 
 Elgin, but the date is unknown to the writer. The death of Father P. 
 J. Scanlan also took place in Chicago on December 28, 1848. The 
 remains of Fathers Faughnan, Scanlan and Doyle were interred in the 
 old cemetery, situated where is now the archepiscopal residence, but 
 after the Chicago fire were removed to Calvary Cemetery. 
 
 FATHER WILLIAM FEELY. 
 
 FATHER WILLIAM FEELY, THE FOURTH PASTOR. 
 
 The fourth pastor of the parish was the Rev. William Feely, who 
 came in the spring of 1848. During the years of Father Feely’s pastor¬ 
 ate the Elgin parish included, besides the village of Elgin, Dundee, 
 Huntley, Turner Junction, St. Charles, Geneva, Blackberry, Sycamore 
 and “ The Barrens ” (near the present station of Gilberts). Mass was 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 said on every fourth Sunday at Elgin, “The Barrens,” St. Charles ana 
 Blackberry, and on occasional week days in the other places named. 
 
 On Trinity Sunday, May 26, 1850, Bishop Van de Velde was in 
 Elgin. Mass was said in Mr. Richard Keogh’s house ; later in the day 
 
 RT. REV. J. O. VAN DE VELDE. 
 
 Second Bishop of Chicago. 
 
 the bishop administered confirmation in the old, unplastered frame 
 church at “ The Barrens.” This was the first visit of a bishop to the 
 parish for this purpose. Thirty-nine males and forty females received 
 the sacrament of confirmation. 
 
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 Father Feely was a man possessed of great energy, educated and 
 resourceful. He labored hard and incessantly for the spiritual welfare 
 of his people and for the betterment of their temporal conditions. He 
 exerted himself to the utmost in the collection of funds to build a church 
 in Elgin. The bulk of the contributions came from laborers then at 
 work on the railroad which was in course of construction through Elgin, 
 and from young men and women employed about the town and on 
 farms in the neighborhood. 
 
 RICHARD KEOGH’S HOME. 
 
 On a lot on the southeast corner of Gifford and Fulton streets 
 (obtained gratis some time previous of James T. Gifford, the founder of 
 Elgin), in the spring of 1851, Father Feely began the erection of the 
 cobble-stone church of the Immaculate Conception, the corner stone 
 of which was laid on Holy Thursday, April 17th, of that year. The 
 mason work was done by Patrick Hennessy and his brother William, 
 who gave much of their labor as an offering for their part of the good 
 work. The carpentering was done under the supervision of the late 
 John Kelley of Pingree Station. 
 
St. Mary's Parish , Elgin, 111. 
 
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 THE OLD COBBLE-STONE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. 
 
 ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, ST. CHARLES. 
 
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 During the time the Elgin church was in course of construction, 
 Father Feely began the erection of the stone church still in use at St. 
 Charles, and one of frame in Blackberry. He finished only the exterior 
 of these churches. St. Charles and that part of the parish then south 
 and west of it was divided from Elgin parish in 1853, and mass was 
 subsequently said at Elgin and “ The Barrens ” church on alternate 
 Sundays, and at other times among the parishioners as usual. 
 
 MEEHAN’S STORE. 
 
 It may be of interest to the parishioners of today to state that 
 during Father Feely’s pastorate, mass was said at the house of “Long” 
 John Murphy, which yet stands near the southeast corner of Dundee 
 and North streets, and at the house at the northeast corner of Center 
 and Milwaukee streets, which was built and then owned by Mr. E. 
 Barrett; also at the store building yet in use at the northeast corner of 
 Douglas and Dexter avenues, which was built and owned at the time 
 by the late Mr. John Meehan, and on the west side in a portion of the 
 
St. Mary's Parish , Elgin , ///. 
 
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 building now at 314 West Chicago street, which at the time was used 
 for school purposes, the teacher being the late J. B. Newcomb. 
 
 On June 5, 1853, the third Sunday after Pentecost, Bishop J. O 
 Van de Velde said high mass and gave confirmation to fifty-six persons 
 in Elgin, who were the first to receive the sacrament in this city. The 
 next day the bishop visited at the home of Mr. Patrick Keating at Fay- 
 ville. Late in the summer of this year Father Feely was transferred to 
 
 314 WEST CHICAGO STREET. 
 
 Mt. Sterling and Beardstown, Brown county, Ill., where he remained for 
 some time, and afterwards to St. Patrick’s Church, Chicago, where he 
 served as an assistant to Father P. J. McLaughlin, during the visita¬ 
 tion of the Asiatic cholera and for some time later, when he resigned 
 and came to E'lgin to reside. 
 
 BIOGRAPHY OF FATHER FEELY. 
 
 Father Feely was born in County Galway, Ireland, and finished 
 his studies for the priesthood in St. Isidore’s College in Rome, Italy, 
 and was there ordained. While in Rome he mastered the Italian and 
 French languages. The first record of his appearance in America 
 seems to be at Peoria, Ill., where he was pastor of St. Mary’s Church 
 between 1846 and 1848. 
 
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 Father Feely died at Elgin in 1864, aged about sixty years. His 
 remains rest with those of his relatives, the Keogh family, in the lot of 
 the latter in Elgin Cemetery. 
 
 HOME OF PATRICK KEATIXG 
 
 FATHER JAMES GALLAGHER, ELGIN’S FIFTH PASTOR. 
 
 The next pastor to assume charge of the parish of Elgin was Father 
 James Gallagher. 
 
 Father Gallagher was born in the parish of Kilgort, St. Johnston, 
 County Donegal, Ireland. In his youth he came to America and rela¬ 
 tives think he began his ecclesiastical studies in St. Louis, Mo. He 
 came to Chicago in 1845 ar >d entered the University of St. Mary’s of 
 the Lake. He was elevated to the priesthood by Bishop Quarter, 
 September 19, 1846, and the next year was appointed to the pastorate 
 of Mt. Sterling, Brown county, with dependent missions at Versailles, 
 Beardstown and Pittsfield, Pike county. 
 
 The baptismal record kept by Father Gallagher indicates that he 
 was appointed to the parish of Elgin in November, 1853. His first 
 work here was to endeavor to complete the unfinished church, which he 
 succeeded in doing about 1855. Joseph Hutchison, then one of the 
 
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 FATHER JAMES GALLAGHER. 
 
 THE FOREGROUND IN THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY NEAR GILBERT’S 
 IS THE SITE OF THE OLD “BARRENS CHURCH.” 
 
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 young men of the parish, did much of the plastering. The church was 
 dedicated August 26th of that year. During the same year, also, Father 
 Gallagher built a large frame church at Gilbert’s Station, on land given 
 by the late Daniel Pingree, about a mile west cf the old “ Barrens 
 Church the latter was then abandoned and moved awav. 
 
 4 
 
 THE SECOND HOUSE IN THE FOREGROUND FROM THE RIGHT 
 WAS FATHER GALLAGHER’S HOME. 
 
 Father Gallagher’s home in Elgin stood on a lot where is now the 
 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul freight depot, or near it. 
 
 While boating on Fox River for pleasure with his friend Father 
 Herbert, who was with him for a visit, Father Gallagher was drowned 
 near the dam on June 13, 1858. His remains were buried beneath his 
 church, near the altar. 
 
 FATHER MICHAEL CARROLL, THE SIXTH PASTOR. 
 
 Father Michael Carroll was the next to succeed in charge of the 
 parish of Elgin. He said his first mass here on June 27, 1858. Dur¬ 
 ing Father Carroll’s pastorate, the property on which St. Mary’s Church 
 now stands was secured and the building that stood on it served as a 
 parochial residence for many years. 
 
 Father Carroll did not live long to enjoy his new parish. He died 
 on December 29, i860. His remains, like those of his predecessor, 
 were interred beneath the church. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 The Rev. Michael Carroll was born in Effin, County Limerick, 
 Ireland. No record of his early career has been obtained. He was a 
 pastor in Illinois before the diocese of Chicago was erected, having 
 
 RT. REV. ANTHONY O’REGAN. 
 Third Bishop of Chicago. 
 
 succeeded the Rev. George A. Hamilton, first pastor of the parish of 
 Alton, in 1841. While pastor of that parish the following missions 
 depended on his visitations : Brussels and Michael, Calhoun county; 
 
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 Carroll Settlement, or Ridgeley, near Bunker Hill, Macoupin county ; 
 Monks Mound and Edwardsville, Jersey county, and Liberty, Adams 
 county. 
 
 Though mass was said in a temporary structure when Father Car- 
 roll went to Alton, the first real church in that parish, St. Mathew’s, was 
 built by him in 1845. There, in the following year, a successful mis¬ 
 sion was given by the Rev. F. X. Wenninger, S. J. 
 
 On November 10, 1847, a Theological Conference of the southern 
 part of the diocese of Chicago was held at Alton, and was presided over 
 by Father Carroll. 
 
 FATHER MICHAEL CARROLL. 
 
 In February, 1849, the Rt. Rev. J. O. Van de Velde, the newly 
 consecrated bishop of Chicago, began the first visitation of his diocese 
 by administering confirmation in this parish. 
 
 St. Mathew’s Church was destroyed by fire in 1851. Father Car- 
 roll and some prominent members of his parish then proposed a change 
 of site ; in this they were supported by their bishop, who authorized the 
 erection of a new church, the present Cathedral. Divine service was 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 first held in the new church in 1846, Father Carroll officiating, though 
 but the exterior of the edifice was completed. 
 
 In 1857, when the Rt. Rev. Henry Damian Juncker, D.D., the first 
 bishop of Alton, left Dayton, Ohio, for his new field, Father Carroll 
 resigned and returned to his bishop in Chicago; afterwards he made a 
 visit to Ireland and the continent, and on his return to Chicago he was 
 appointed to the pastorate of Elgin. 
 
 THE SEVENTH PASTOR, THE REV. ANDREW EUSTACE. 
 
 On May 26, 1861, by the appointment of Bishop Duggan, the Rev. 
 Andrew Eustace came to Elgin to assume charge of the parish as its 
 pastor. 
 
 If no temporal structures today remain in Elgin as a testimonial of 
 his work in the parish, it is no evidence that he did not labor diligently 
 here for his people. Almost simultaneous with his coming to the place, 
 the clarion note of war reverberated o’er the land, calling the sons of 
 the North to the defense of their country. It is unnecessary here to 
 state that since the date of the celebrated “tea party” in Boston harbor 
 to the present time, the sons of the Catholic church give place to none 
 for patriotism or valor. In the fraternal strife of the Civil War this 
 parish sent more than its quota, from commander to private, to loyally 
 support the flag of the Union. 
 
 When the shadow of war’s grim specter hovers over any people* 
 the fathers and sons at the front, heroes though they be, do not meet 
 all the trials and sacrifices incident to such conditions. At the homes 
 they leave, from where the heart’s hopes and prayers of mothers, wives 
 and children follow their loved ones on the march through swamp and 
 over hill, plain and mountain, those who need the support and pro¬ 
 tection of strong arms meet with equal fortitude and courage the priva¬ 
 tions that ensue. Thus it was in Elgin ; yet, as reports of the frightful 
 carnage of this fratricidal conflict came from the South, the hearts of the 
 bravest sank. The majority of the people of the parish were yet poor. 
 With patriotism excited after listening to a war speech, often the head of 
 a large family of children, who depended on his earnings for support, 
 enlisted and went away, trusting to God to care for those he left behind. 
 
 These women and children did not look in vain to Father Eustace 
 for consolation or aid, and many were the demands made on his gen¬ 
 erosity; a kinder-hearted man never lived, and when the sad tidings of 
 
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 sickness in the camps and hospitals of the South, resulting from mias¬ 
 matic fevers and privations on the march, or the dread news of the 
 death of a father, son or brother came, Father Eustace was found at the 
 side of the despairing to give hope with words of encouragement and 
 support. 
 
 During these trying times the good pastor did not neglect the 
 spiritual needs of his flock. In October, 1863 he secured, for the first 
 
 REV. ANDREW EUSTACE. 
 
 mission ever given in the parish, the services of the Redemptorist 
 Fathers Giesen and Bradley. The mission was very successful, great 
 crowds of people were in attendance, many of whom were non-Catholics. 
 The mission in Elgin terminated on the 18th of the before-mentioned 
 month. As a memorial of the mission a large wooden cross was placed 
 on the wall near the gospel side of the altar, where it remained until the 
 old church was remodeled years afterwards. After finishing in Elgin 
 
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 the good missionaries, with the pastor, went to Gilbert’s to give the 
 people in that part of the parish the benefits of a mission also. 
 
 While in Elgin Father Eustace labored earnestly for the welfare of 
 the church of which he was a worthy priest. In 1868 he was assigned 
 by his superior to the parish of Lockport, Illinois. On the 5th day of 
 March of that year Father Eustace bade adieu to his congregation, and 
 soon afterwards departed for his new field, taking with him the best 
 wishes of the people of Elgin. 
 
 BIOGRAPHY OF FATHER EUSTACE. 
 
 The Rev. Andrew Eustace was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, 
 where he attended school until his fourteenth year, and then entered 
 the Seminary of Castleknock, in the same county, where he remained 
 two years, preparatory to entering Maynooth College, and then passed 
 examinations—the youngest in his class. He remained in Maynooth 
 several years, until the death of his parents, that of both occurring in 
 the same month. In the early 50’s he came to his relative, the late 
 Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis, Missouri. In October, 1854, he 
 entered the famous Carondolet Seminary, then under the presidency of his 
 old friend, Father Feehan, late our most reverend archbishop. In the 
 spring of 1857 he became affiliated with the diocese of Chicago and on 
 the 13th of August following he was ordained in St. Mary’s Cathedral 
 by the Right Reverend Anthony O’Regan, then bishop of this diocese. 
 
 After exercising the ministry in Chicago for a short time Father 
 Eustace was appointed to the pastorate of McHenry, McHenry county, 
 with its out-missions, and while in that parish he made his home at 
 Richmond, where he built “a fine little church.” He built also a par¬ 
 ochial residence in McHenry, but was assigned to the parish of Elgin 
 be f ore its completion. After leaving Elgin Father Eustace had charge 
 of the parish of Lockport and its missions. At Lockport he enlarged 
 the parochial residence. About 1871 he was invited by his cousin, Arch¬ 
 bishop Kenrick of St. Louis, to his diocese and was made pastor of the 
 important parish of St. Michael’s in that city. There, for nearly twenty- 
 one years, Father Eustace administered to the wants of his people and 
 made many improvements, to meet the requirements of the parish. 
 
 In 1891 Father Eustace suffered a severe attack of the grippe, 
 which was followed by other ailments, necessitating his resignation as 
 pastor of St. Michael’s. On the 30th day of July, 1892, he was taken 
 
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 to the Mullamphy hospital in what was thought to be a dying condition, 
 but his splendid constitution enabled him to survive almost eight 
 months longer. He died on Tuesday, March 21, 1893, just within a 
 
 RT. REV. JAMES DUGGAN. 
 Fourth Bishop of Chicago. 
 
 week of the 60th anniversary of his birth. He was attended in his last 
 moments by Father Granville, chaplain of the hospital. 
 
 Father Eustace was beloved by all who knew him. He was pos¬ 
 sessed of more than ordinary information, was charitable to the poor, a 
 
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 sincere friend and a faithful worker in the vineyard of the Lord. His 
 remains repose in the priests’ circle in the beautiful Calvary Cemetery 
 at St. Louis, near those of his cousin and godfather, Archbishop 
 Kenrick. May he rest in peace. 
 
 THE REV. TERRENCE FITZSIMMONS, 
 
 THE EIGHTH PASTOR. 
 
 At the solicitation of the Very Rev. Dr. Dunn, the vicar general 
 of the diocese, the Rev. Terrence Fitzsimmons withdrew from the 
 
 REV. TERRENCE FITZSIMMONS. 
 
 pastorate of Hartland and assumed charge of the parish of Elgin. 
 He appeared here for duty on the 8th day of March, 1868. 
 
 Father Fitzsimmons came to his new field with a mind replete with 
 knowledge, with many years’ experience in the ministry, and with a 
 determination to do all in his power for the improvement of his parish. 
 Like Father Eustace, he was a man possessed of large physical propor- 
 
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 tions and a genial, hospitable disposition. He readily formed new 
 acquaintances, whose respect he afterwards retained. Among the 
 young people, especially those employed in the watch factory in Elgin, 
 he became very popular, many of whom were parishioners or acquaint¬ 
 ances years before in the vicinity of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Father Fitzsimmons was an earnest advocate of the doctrine of 
 Father Matthew, Ireland’s great apostle of total abstinence. In the 
 fall of 1872 an organization known as “The Young Men’s Catholic 
 Temperance and Benevolent Association ” was founded, which soon 
 
 ST. MARY’S CHURCH, GILBERTS. 
 
 included among its members nearly all the young men of the parish. 
 A little later a similar organization was formed by the older men of the 
 congregation. During the existence of these organizations, which was 
 many years, they had the respect and support of the community at 
 large. Frequent entertainments under their auspices were given, which 
 were enjoyed and were usually attended by the members and their 
 friends in large numbers. To this day the good results of adherence to 
 the principles of these associations are noticeable in the parish. The 
 good priest also formed other sodalities and societies among the young 
 people, all of which were to him a source of pride and satisfaction. 
 
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 For some years after Father Fitzsimmons came here, he said the 
 last mass at Gilbert’s station on alternate Sundays. On these days, as 
 did his predecessors, he gave the people of Elgin the benefit of an early 
 mass before he took his long trip, winter and summer, to and from the 
 mission church. This ride was usually taken behind a pair of good 
 horses of his own. It afforded him much pleasure to possess fine-bred, 
 
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 speedy animals, of which he was a judge. An occasional drive 
 behind these was his only indulgence and recreation. 
 
 In 1872 the parish was again divided and Gilbert’s Station attached 
 to the newly-formed parish of Huntley. After this occurrence the 
 pastor of Elgin was enabled to devote to the people of the town and its 
 immediate vicinity his sole attention. 
 
 Realizing the necessity of early religious training for the children 
 of the parish, in unison with other educational development, Father 
 Fitzsimmons, in 1874, broke ground for the stone and brick structure 
 
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 now known as St. Mary’s Academy, though it was his intention to 
 dedicate it to St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized American. The 
 funds for the erection of this fine edifice were obtained from the parish- 
 
 RT. REV. THOMAS FOLEY. 
 Fifth Bishop of Chicago. 
 
 ioners by contributions and as the result of church fairs, which were 
 first introduced here under Father Fitzsimmons’ supervision. 
 
 Before the school building was completed, a wave of monetary 
 depression passed over the country which was a source of discourage- 
 
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 ment to the poor priest and the beginning of much subsequent trial, 
 and it yet remained unfinished when Father Fitzsimmons resigned the 
 pastorate of Elgin in the fall of 1877. In 1879, having disposed of his 
 property, he went to Chicago to reside with his nephew and namesake, 
 Terrence Fitzsimmons. 
 
 The Rev. Terrence Fitzsimmons was born in County Cavan, 
 Ireland. His childhood was spent on his father’s farm. At the age of 
 twenty years he bade adieu to his friends and went to Boston, Mass. 
 He began at once classical and theological studies at Philadelphia 
 and Montreal and was ordained a priest in 1835. He returned to 
 Massachusetts, and remained at South Boston twenty years, where 
 he did great good in the temperance cause, having at one time the 
 leadership of 1,700 persons. 
 
 He made two visits to Europe, learning to speak the Italian, 
 French and Spanish languages fluently, and acquired great funds of 
 information. He came west in 1857, taking up a residence at Hartland, 
 McHenry county, Illinois, where he was assigned by Bishop Duggan. 
 Besides Hartland, his charge included Harvard, Woodstock, Crystal 
 Lake and vicinity. This he surrendered when he was transferred to 
 Elgin. 
 
 For nearly forty-five years did this venerable priest perform his 
 labors, erecting during this time thirteen churches, convents and insti¬ 
 tutions of learning, including one in this parish. 
 
 Father Fitzsimmons died suddenly, immediately after saying mass, 
 at the home of his nephew, 138 Hubbard street, Chicago, Illinois, on 
 December 8, 1880, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. He was exten¬ 
 sively known and had many friends to whom he was endeared by his 
 unpretentious, faithful and efficient work. His remains repose in 
 Calvary Cemetery, Chicago. 
 
 REVEREND JOHN MACKIN, THE NINTH PASTOR OF ELGIN. 
 
 In the County Armagh, Ireland, a county hallowed by the works of 
 St. Patrick, his sisters and disciples, in the year 1833, John Mackin was 
 born. From early youth, when he began to form plans for his life 
 work, he had but one idea—that of the priesthood. 
 
 He studied at the renowned Seminary of All Hallows, Ireland, and 
 was there ordained in 1861 for the diocese of Chicago. Bidding adieu 
 to his kindred and the scenes of his childhood, soon after his ordination 
 
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 he sailed for America. Entering his chosen field, he was assigned by 
 the Right Reverend James Duggan, then bishop of the diocese, to 
 St. Mary’s parish, Chicago, where he officiated for two years, when he 
 was made pastor of Lockport, with its out-missions of Lemont and Sag 
 Bridge. 
 
 At Lockport he built the tower of the old St. Denis’ Church and 
 placed therein the bell still in use. 
 
 REV. JOHN MACKIN. 
 
 St. Mary’s parish, Peoria, became his next charge, becoming there 
 the successor to Father Abram J. Ryan, “ the poet priest of the South.” 
 In this parish Father Mackin built and established one of the best 
 parish schools in the State. He became pastor of Peoria in March, 
 1864, and remained until June 8, 1871, when he was transferred to Joliet, 
 where for many years he was pastor of St. Mary’s parish. 
 
 On the second of September, 1877, during the celebration of his 
 first mass in Elgin, Father Mackin announced that at the command of 
 his bishop he came to assume charge of the parish; then proceeding 
 
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 to the delivery of a sermon evinced pulpit ability few preachers can 
 hope to attain, much to the pleasure and gratification of his hearers. 
 
 As soon as he was settled in his surroundings, Father Mackin 
 immediately bent to his priestly duties. Observing the old church 
 edifice to be no longer adequate to the requirements of the parish, 
 under the supervision of a Mr. Garvy of Chicago, he had it remodeled 
 and enlarged by veneering the walls of the old structure with brick and 
 adding a transept of the same material. 
 
 REMODELED CHURCH AND THE PAROCHIAL RESIDENCE. 
 
 While this work was in progress, the remains of Fathers Gallagher 
 and Carroll were removed from their resting places beneath the old part 
 of the church and appropriately reinterred beneath the new addition. 
 By the end of 1879 the exterior was completed, and soon the interior 
 was finished and refurnished with new altars, pews and stations of the 
 cross, to the entire satisafction of priest and people. 
 
 Father Mackin next induced the Sisters of the B. V. M. to locate 
 in the parish and transferred to this order the unfinished parochial 
 school property, upon their agreement to assume the debt on and to 
 complete the same. 
 
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 On the lot in Gifford street adjoining the church a few years later 
 Father Mackin, at a cost of about $6,000, built a parochial residence. 
 Here, soon after its occupancy, while the pastor was in the East on a 
 needed vacation, Father Patrick Eugene Turner, a young priest from 
 Chicago who came as a substitute during Father Mackin’s absence, died 
 suddenly with symptoms of appendicitis. 
 
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 ESTABLISHMENT OF ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH. 
 
 In 1887 a number of representative German Catholics of the parish 
 secured an option on the brick Presbyterian church edifice in Villa 
 street, near Chicago street, which later, by the authority of the arch¬ 
 bishop, was purchased. After reconstructing the interior to meet the 
 requirements of the new congregation, it appeared a neat little chapel. 
 
 The Germans then withdrew from the old and formed a new parish, 
 which has been served in turn as pastors by Fathers B. Westharp, Arthur 
 
 Riss and Joseph Rohde. Father Rohde was appointed August 15, 
 1901, and is doing his best to advance the interests of his charge. 
 
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 Though the unforeseen delay in the publication of this volume has 
 been a source of some disappointment, it affords us pleasure, as it goes 
 to press, to add to the preceding brief record of St. Joseph’s parish a 
 memorandum of its progress in the interim, much of which is due to 
 the encouragement and guidance of its zealous pastor, Father Rohde. 
 
 Within the past year it was determined by priest and people that 
 the old church in Villa street and the school room in its basement were 
 too small for the growing congregation, which now numbers more than 
 one hundred families. In the fall of 1902 it was disposed of, together 
 with the adjoining property on Chicago street, which belonged to the 
 parish. What was long known as the Schaller property, on Division 
 street, between Center and Geneva streets, was then secured, at a cost 
 of about $9,600, as a site for a new church and parish school building ; 
 the structures standing thereon to be used as a pastoral residence and 
 a home for the sisters, who would have charge of the school. 
 
 To Mr. J. W. Brinkmann, of Chicago, the well-known church archi¬ 
 tect, was entrusted the work of plans and specifications for the new edi¬ 
 fices. These were soon presented and accepted, and in May, 1903, the 
 
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 contracts were let and ground broken for foundations of the new build¬ 
 ings. So rapidly did the work progress the school building was under 
 roof and the church well under way when the Right Rev. P. J. Mul, 
 doon, bishop of the archdiocese, came on the evening of June 21, 1903- 
 to lay the corner stone of the church. This ceremony was witnessed 
 by a concourse of interested people, that covered the parish grounds 
 and the adjacent streets, the most of whom, including courts of the 
 Catholic Order of Foresters, from Chicago, Aurora, Winfield, West 
 Chicago, Hampshire, Volo and Elgin, accompanied by a brass band? 
 met the Right Rev. Bishop and the accompanying clergy on their arri¬ 
 val in the city and escorted them to the parochial residence. 
 
 The congregation took possession of and heard the first mass in 
 the new church, which was said by Father Rohde, assisted by Father 
 Hoendrup, of Shermerville, on Sunday, August 23, 1903. The citizens 
 of Elgin, in general, congratulate the pastor and the congregation in 
 the speedy and successful termination of their efforts and share with 
 them the pride all must feel in the erection of another temple to Christ¬ 
 ianity that is an ornament to our city. 
 
 The new St. Joseph’s church is of Toronto pressed brick of a dark 
 red shade, with trimmings of Bedford sandstone and substructure of 
 Joliet sandstone. It is Romanesque in design. The tower is 100 feet 
 in height. The auditorium is 125x39 feet, and the center elevation of 
 the arched and ribbed ceiling is 35 feet. The interior trimmings are of 
 hard pine, with flooring of hard wood. The three altars are of a beau¬ 
 tiful Roman pattern, and together with chancel rails and pews are of 
 oak, designed and manufactured by Messrs. Hann & Wanzerin, of 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 The seating capacity of the church is about four hundred. The 
 entire parish buildings will be heated from a steam plant located in the 
 basement of the church. 
 
 The new parochial school house is located just to the northeast of 
 the church, and is also of brick, 25x58 feet in dimensions. Though 
 unpretentious in exterior appearance it is neatly finished and comforta¬ 
 ble in the interior, and can readily accommodate one hundred pupils. 
 It has two nice large rooms, a good basement and ample play ground 
 for the children. The two rooms are so arranged with folding doors 
 they can be readily transformed into a large hall. 
 
 The school will be presided over by the Sisters of St. Frances, 
 whose reputation as instructors need no testimonials in the community. 
 
NEW ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, 
 
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 The total cost of the church and school building will be inside of 
 $ 20 , 000 , which, taking the price of material and labor at the present 
 time into consideration, speaks well for the judgment and attention of 
 those who had the work in charge. 
 
 BIOGRAPHY OF REV. JOSEPH RHODE. 
 
 Father Joseph Rhode was born March 19, 1843, in Rietberg t 
 Westphalia, Germany. He completed his grammar school course in 
 the German Gymnasium of his native town and then entered Pader- 
 berg College, where he studied for six years, graduating with honor. 
 At the seat of the bishopric, which is located in the college town, he 
 was elevated to the priesthood in 1870. After serving in the capacity 
 of a priest in his native country for six years he came to Chicago. 
 
 Since coming to this archdiocese Father Rhode has worked dili¬ 
 gently and successfully in many German parishes and missions. 
 Among them before coming to Elgin he served at St. Peter’s, Chicago,. 
 Kankakee, North Aurora, and Volo and Fremont Center, Lake county,. 
 Illinois. 
 
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 After the Third Plenary Council Father Mackin was made an 
 irremovable rector and a member of the archbishop’s council. 
 
 During his pastorate in Elgin the following young priests in the 
 order named served as Father Mackin’s assistants: Fathers Thos. 
 Carroll, Edward M. Griffin, J. Sullivan, Joseph Dwyer and F. A. Lynde. 
 Of these but Father Griffin, now an assistant with Father H. O’G. 
 McShane in Chicago, and Father Lynde survive.* Father Carroll died 
 in Ireland, while on a visit in pursuit of health. Father Sullivan died 
 in Chicago of blood poisoning, contracted while attending a patient’at 
 a hospital. Father Dwyer met a sudden and accidental death in an 
 Eastern city. After celebrating mass, while crossing a street with a 
 brother priest, he was run down by a street car. He died soon after¬ 
 ward with true Christian submission to the will of Divine Providence. 
 
 Late in the fall of 1896 Father Mackin began the erection of the 
 magnificent new church of St. Mary’s, the corner stone of which was 
 laid July 31, 1898. With a pardonable pride he watched the noble pile 
 assume its vast proportions, but he did not live to say mass in it. With 
 
 *Father Lynde died at Boulder, Colorado, September 30, 1902, since this article: 
 was written. 
 
PRIESTS WHO ASSISTED FATHER MACKIN. 
 
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 the humility and resignation of the true priest that he was, after a 
 long sickness, he surrendered his soul to the God who gave it on the 
 twenty-fourth of August, 1899. And sadly enough the first services in 
 the new church were those of his own funeral, with its mass of requiem, 
 the celebrant of which was his cousin, the Reverend M. T. Mackin, 
 pastor of St. Brendan’s Church, Chicago. Father H. P. Smyth, pastor 
 of St. Mary’s Church, Evanston, delivered the funeral sermon, during 
 which he paid an eloquent and merited tribute to the life of the deceased 
 pastor. Near a hundred of the clergy of the diocese came to pay hom¬ 
 age to the memory of the good priest and to assist at the mass for the 
 repose of his soul. And spacious as is the new church, its capacity 
 was inadequate to the demands for admission of the throng of citizens 
 and parishioners, who were there to attend the obsequies, and offer with 
 humility their prayers that the soul of the priest who had unpreten¬ 
 tiously, for twenty-two years, labored among and for them, with all those 
 of the faithful departed, might, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. 
 
 The casket containing the remains of Reverend John Mackin is 
 inclosed in a brick vault beneath the floor on the west side of the 
 church, about six feet from the wall near the angle of the transept, 
 opposite a tablet which was erected to his memory. 
 
 In person Father Mackin was of medium height, spare of build 
 and was of a nervous sympathetic temperament. A glance at his clean¬ 
 out features would evince the dignified scholarly gentleman. His 
 ideals were of the highest order and he strove to attain them. 
 
 Though sensitive and jealous of his rights, he willingly accorded 
 others the same consideration he sought himself. He possessed great 
 mental capacity. He was alert and always a student. His ability and 
 intellectuality were recognized by his archbishop and the priests of the 
 archdiocese, who often sought his opinions and advice in their councils. 
 If this gave him any pleasure, it was only as testimony to his rectitude, 
 candor and honesty. He was an eloquent preacher. Though unpre¬ 
 tentious in regard to oratory, his sermons and discourses glowed with the 
 fire of genius, were always instructive and interesting and seldom failed 
 to find responsive chords in the hearts of his congregation. 
 
 The gentleness of his disposition, the simplicity and regularity of 
 his daily life, his devotedness and self-sacrifice as pastor, his kindness 
 to the poor and afflicted, his consideration to the erring and fallen, all 
 these, combined with his disregard for self, rendered him a model priest. 
 
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 He commanded the respect of all who knew him. The memory of 
 his beautiful character will long remain a cherished remembrance among 
 his people. 
 
 Father F. A. Lynde, who came from Aurora, Illinois, in the spring 
 of 1892, to assist Father Mackin, remained in charge of the parish 
 after the death of that revered priest. 
 
 THE OLD CHURCH, DECEMBER 17, 1899. 
 
 In his efforts to raise money for the completion of the church 
 Father Mackin was rendered efficient aid by Father Lynde, who did all 
 in his power to carry out the plans of the deceased pastor when the 
 burden rested upon his own shoulders. In the fall of 1899, Father D. 
 J. McCaffrey of Chicago came to assist Father Lynde in administering 
 to the demands of the parish. 
 
 Through the efforts of these priests, with the support of the con¬ 
 gregation, the new church, though far from completion, was ready for 
 
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 occupancy when the newly appointed pastor, the Rev. John J. McCann r 
 came on December 24, 1899, to assume control of the parish. 
 
 On December 17, 1899, Father Lynde celebrated the last mass 
 said in the old Church of the Immaculate Conception, about which are 
 clustered memories of other days. Within its sacred walls most of the 
 congregation of today were baptized and confirmed. Here many were 
 joined in the holy bonds of matrimony and went forth with the priest’s 
 advice and benediction in happiness, good Christians and useful 
 members of society. And here, above the biers of our departed kindred 
 and friends, have we heard the last requiem sung and the last rites read 
 ere we laid to rest all that was mortal of the dear ones, whose voices, 
 now hushed forever, we heard in prayer and chant so often in praise to 
 the meek and lowly Nazarene. 
 
 Father Lynde remained an assistant with Father McCann until 
 September, 1900, when the condition of his health forced him to seek 
 relief in a milder climate. 
 
 BIOGRAPHY OF FATHER LYNDE. 
 
 Rev. Francis A. Lynde of the archdiocese of Chicago, was born 
 in Chicago, Jan. 19, 1864. The family moved to Waukegan, Ill., dur¬ 
 ing his childhood, and his early education was received in the Waukegan 
 parochial school. He made his classical and theological studies in the 
 Niagara University, and was ordained to the priesthood by the late 
 Bishop Ryan, C. M., of Buffalo, N. Y., June, 15, 1889. 
 
 His first appointment in the Chicago archdiocese was at Dixon, 
 Ill., where he remained two years. He was one year assistant pastor 
 at Aurora, Ill., and eight years assistant pastor to the late Father 
 Mackin, Elgin, Ill., and acting pastor at Elgin following the death of 
 Rev. Father Mackin until the appointment of the present pastor, 
 Rev. John J. McCann. 
 
 In September, 1900, he was obliged on account of failing health to 
 relinquish active duty and seek restoration in Colorado. While in the 
 West he visited many places, even going as far as El Paso, Texas, where 
 he spent the early part of the year 1902 in his efforts to regain health, 
 which at the time seemed to be improving. Late the following spring 
 he returned to Colorado, where his remaining strength gave way, his 
 malady, tuberculosis, complicated with stomach trouble, having baffled 
 the best medical skill. He died at Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 30, 1902. 
 
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 The remains were brought to Chicago by his mother, and the funeral 
 was held from her home, 267 Webster Avenue, Saturday morning, 
 Oct. 6th, to St. Vincent’s Church, where the service began at 9:30, with 
 the office of the dead chanted by about fifty priests of the archdiocese, 
 among whom was Father Grace, a professor at Niagara University, and 
 many of his classmates. 
 
 The solemn mass of requiem was sung by Father E. W. Gavin of 
 Waukegan, for whom in boyhood the deceased served mass; Father 
 Foley of Pullman was deacon, Father J. B. Feeley of Harvey was sub¬ 
 deacon, and Father J. M. Scanlan of St. John’s Church, Chicago, was 
 master of ceremonies. 
 
 Father P. C. Conway of St. Pius’ Church, Chicago, a classmate of 
 Father Lynde’s, preached the funeral sermon, an eloquent and touching 
 discourse, during which he paid a glowing tribute to the disposition, 
 life work and death of the deceased, following with words of sympathy 
 and encouragement to the bereaved mother—widowed since the infancy 
 of Father Lynde; her husband, a Union soldier, was killed during 
 the Civil War—and to the loving and self-sacrificing sister. 
 
 After the services in Chicago, the funeral cortege was by train to 
 Waukegan, where, after a short service at St. Mary’s Church, the inter¬ 
 ment took place in the parish cemetery. Revs. E. W. Gavin, 
 P. C. Conway, E. A. Murphy, J. J. Morressey, M. Sullivan, Joseph 
 Joyce and T. Kearney officiated at the grave. 
 
Laying ot Corner Stone of New Church. 
 
 REV. P. GILDEA. 
 
 The corner stone of the present beautiful edifice was laid Sunday 
 afternoon, July 31, 1898. It was a day and a scene not soon to be for¬ 
 gotten by those who were fortunate enough to be present. The weather 
 was perfect. The people began to arrive early, so that every inch of 
 space in and about the church was taken long before the time appointed 
 for the ceremony. There must have been three thousand people pres¬ 
 ent, Catholics and non-Catholics. The walls of the new church had 
 risen to a height of some six feet; they were profusely decorated with 
 the national colors. The floor had been put in place, and here seats 
 had been reserved for the leading members of the congregation and 
 other prominent citizens. 
 
 At 3.30 p. m. the strains of martial music were heard. The Elgin 
 military band, led by Mr. J. F. Tetzner, swung around the corner of 
 Chicago and Gifford streets. Then came the Catholic Foresters, Elgin 
 Court No. 137, and St. Joseph’s Court, one hundred and fifty in num¬ 
 ber. They made a splendid appearance as they marched along at a 
 lively pace, honest enthusiasm written upon their manly faces. After 
 the Foresters had taken their places, the crowd settled back to waiting 
 patiently once more. The sun beat down in all its July fierceness. 
 Those who had parasols put them up; those who had not wished 
 they had. 
 
 About 4 o’clock there was a sharp clicking of watches. It was 
 the hour fixed for the ceremony. All eyes were on the parochial resi¬ 
 dence. At last the procession came forth, glistening in vestments of 
 white and gold. First came the cross-bearer, bearing aloft the emblem 
 of salvation ; then came two acolytes with lighted candles. After them 
 came the clergy, two and two, and lastly came Father Mooney, the 
 chancellor of the archdiocese, who was to perform the ceremony. He 
 was vested in alb, stole and cope. The procession wended its way 
 slowly from the parish house to the new church, the crowd respectfully- 
 parting to make way. 
 
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St. Mary’s Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 And here some indefinable feeling of awe and reverence seemed 
 to creep over the waiting multitude. Even the whisperings of conver¬ 
 sation gradually died away. And when the procession reached the 
 place designated for the High Altar, and marked by a large wooden 
 cross, every sound was hushed. “ Quam dilecta tabernacula tua!” 
 “ How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! ” Rich and clear 
 came the words, borne on the warm afternoon air. The people bowed 
 their heads; some knelt, and a few of the older people wept silent 
 tears. Perhaps they were thinking of another corner stone that was 
 laid fifty years ago. “ Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord ; 
 they shall praise thee forever,” continued the chanting priests. “Bet¬ 
 ter is one day in thy courts above a thousand. I have chosen to be an 
 abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles 
 of sinners. For God loveth mercy and truth; the Lord will give grace 
 and glory. He will not deprive of good things them that walk in inno¬ 
 cence. O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.” 
 (Psalm 83.) While the priests sang this psalm, so beautiful in itself, 
 and so appropriate for the occasion, the officiating priest blessed the 
 place intended for the main altar. The procession then moved to the 
 other end of the building, or to that part of it fronting on Fulton street, 
 where the corner stone was held in mid-air, ready to be dropped into its 
 place on a moment’s notice. Some appropriate prayers were here re¬ 
 cited. “ O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who art the Stone 
 cut without hands from the mountain, make firm the stone about to be 
 placed in thy name.” Then the priest sprinkled the stone with holy- 
 water, and cut the sign of the cross on it three times with a mason’s 
 trowel, using at the same time the invocation of the blessed Trinity— 
 “ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” 
 Again the celebrant prayed. “ Bless this stone, O Lord, and grant, 
 through the invocation of thy name, that all who give towards the build¬ 
 ing of this church, with a pure intention, may receive health of body 
 and peace of soul, through Christ our Lord. Amen.” Then the litany 
 of the Saints was recited, followed by Psalm 126. “Unless the Lord 
 build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep 
 the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.” And so on to the end 
 of the psalm. At a sign from the master of ceremonies, the stone, 
 guided by the hand of the priest, slowly settled into its place. Other 
 prayers were recited, other psalms were sung, the walls of the church 
 were sprinkled with holy water, and the ceremony was over. 
 
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 Thus was laid the corner stone upon which has since been raised 
 the beautiful church that now graces the northwest corner of Gifford 
 and Fulton streets. Church of the Immaculate Conception it was then 
 called, although the name has since been changed to that of St. Mary’s 
 by the authority and approval of the archbishop. The corner stone 
 
 THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE. 
 
 itself can easily be seen by anyone entering the church from Fulton 
 street. It is on the right hand side of the main entrance, about six 
 feet above the ground. It is a beautiful sand stone, weighing eighteen 
 hundred pounds, and bearing on its face the simple inscription, “ St. 
 Mary’s, July 31, 1898.” There was placed in the corner stone, in a 
 hollow made specially for that purpose, a strong box of copper, con- 
 
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 taining copies of the daily papers, samples of the coins of the United 
 States, and some ecclesiastical documents. These, no doubt, will be a 
 subject of interest for the antiquarian of some future day. 
 
 This sketch would be incomplete without some account of the ser¬ 
 mon delivered on the occasion by Father Egan of Auburn Park, Chi¬ 
 cago. It was pronounced a masterly effort in sacred eloquence by 
 those who heard it. Unfortunately, however, we have not been able to 
 find any manuscript of the sermon. The only reference we have a 
 hand is the Elgin Daily Courier of August i, 1898. 
 
 Father Egan gave a brief outline of the history of the Catholic 
 Church, showing that it was the oldest society in existence bearing the 
 name of Christian. In part, he said : “Christ came on earth to save 
 mankind from sin and the consequences of sin. This He accomplished 
 by His life and teaching, and especially by His death on the cross. Be¬ 
 fore going back to His Father, before He ascended into heaven, Christ 
 founded an organization or a society that was to continue the work He 
 had begun. This society, this organization, is the Catholic church, the 
 same that exists today in all parts of the world, teaching the same doc¬ 
 trines that Christ taught, administering the sacraments as He instituted 
 them, exercising the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as He com¬ 
 manded. Your church, your congregation here in Elgin, is a branch of 
 that glorious institution.” 
 
 The preacher then went on to say, that as Christ really dwelt in 
 every Catholic church by means of His eucharistic presence, no pains 
 should be spared to make His dwelling place all that it should be. No 
 temple could be too magnificent for Him, whom the heaven of heavens 
 cannot contain. 
 
 Father Egan commended the pastors and the people of Elgin for 
 their taste, their generosity and their enterprise, of which he saw ample 
 evidences before him. He did not hesitate to say that the Elgin 
 church promised to be the most beautiful of all suburban churches in 
 the archdiocese. He earnestly exhorted the people to continue in their 
 generosity, not to relax their efforts till every cent of debt was paid. 
 They could then call the church their own, and offer it to God as a 
 tribute of their homage and devotion. 
 
 A subscription was then taken up, some of those present contrib¬ 
 uting quite generously. A good sum was realized, which was used in 
 helping to defray the expenses of the day. 
 
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 Some figures may be of interest here. The new church is one hun¬ 
 dred and thirty-two feet in length, and seventy-two feet wide in the tran¬ 
 sept. The roof is sixty-three feet high; the clear-story walls are forty- 
 three feet. The tower will be one hundred and seventy-five and one- 
 half feet. The interior woodwork is of oak. The seating capacity is 
 eight hundred and ten. The cost, exclusive of furniture, is forty thous¬ 
 and dollars. The architect was Martin Carr of Chicago. 
 
 THE FIRST CHILD CHRISTEXED AND THE FIRST COUPLE MARRIED 
 
 IN THE NEW CHURCH. 
 
 Among the priests present on the occasion of the laying of the corner 
 stone were: Fathers P. A. L. Egan, N. J. Mooney, P. J. Muldoon, B. 
 P. Murray, M. T. Mackin, Ed. A. Murphy, P. J. McDonnell, H. 
 O’Gara McShane, D. E. McGuire and D. Hayes, all of Chicago; Wil¬ 
 liam J. McNamee of Joliet, M. Stack of St. Charles, H. P. Smyth of 
 Evanston, George H. Rathz of Batavia, Joseph T. Shields of St. Louis 
 and Joseph Rohde, St. Joseph’s. 
 
 The altar boys were Edward Kelley, James Meenagh and George 
 McLoughlin. 
 
ST. MARY’S CHURCH 
 
Salutatory. 
 
 St. Mary’s Church, Elgin, December 24, 1899. Rev. John J. McCann. 
 
 It is hardly necessary for me to say that I am delighted at my 
 appointment to the pastorate of this great parish of St. Mary’s, Elgin. 
 The fact that it is one of the ten irremovable rectorships of the arch¬ 
 diocese makes it a most desirable charge. More than that, the reputa¬ 
 tion which it has long enjoyed for its intelligent faith, its piety, its 
 generosity and its spirit of union and good will, makes it worthy the 
 ambition of any priest. 
 
 While I am more than pleased at my appointment, I assure you 
 it is not in a spirit of pride that I enter upon my duties. That memo¬ 
 rial tablet over there "is sufficient to stifle any such feelings. That 
 marble recalls the memory of my predecessor, a priest universally 
 respected for all the solid qualities that go to make a man and a priest. 
 His life on earth is ended, his work is done, and the verdict of the 
 world is that his life was a noble one and his work well done. When 
 he died he had to his credit forty years of faithful service in the priest¬ 
 hood. In the natural order of things I have many years yet to live 
 and the greater part of my work is still before me. That tablet speaks 
 of work accomplished. In me you can see at most the promise of 
 work to be done. 
 
 The task assigned me is a great one, materially and spiritually con¬ 
 sidered. I approach it with humility indeed and yet with hope. I feel 
 confident of success, first, because hope and courage are natural to my 
 youthful years. Another reason of confidence is the fact that I come 
 here not without experience. During the last five years I have had a 
 fair measure of success in a field that few cared to enter and where 
 failure was prophesied for me. My work in Oregon, Polo, Byron and 
 Ashton, the missions under my charge, more than anything else secured 
 for me the promotion to this parish. 
 
 I feel confident of success also, because I trust in the hearty 
 cooperation of Father Lynde, who has labored so long and so well in 
 
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 your midst. He is acquainted with all of you and is familiar with the 
 affairs of the parish. Since Father Mackin died his position has been 
 a very trying one. Not knowing when a new pastor would be 
 appointed or what would be his work, he had to exercise the greatest 
 prudence. He would naturally fear to do anything which the new 
 pastor might not approve. When I came and learned of what he had 
 done I could not but congratulate him. He had filled a difficult position 
 well. I am pleased to bear witness to his good work. I feel that we 
 understand each other perfectly and I feel certain that his future 
 cooperation will greatly tend to lighten my labor. 
 
 Finally, I trust in the zeal and generosity of the whole parish, not 
 forgetting even the children. What has been already done speaks vol¬ 
 umes for your good will and generosity. Loving your former pastor, 
 as I know you did, I am sure you are most anxious to see this church 
 completed and paid for, because you know how much he desired it. 
 Moreover, this is to be the temple of God; not a place where you come 
 to offer worship merely, but a place where God is to dwell corporally 
 in the blessed sacrament. Here in the tabernacle our blessed Lord 
 shall ever reside. This church is to be God’s house in the literal sense 
 of the words. Believing this, as you do, you must be ready to work 
 and contribute that it may be worthy of God. 
 
 Above all, I trust in the grace of God. Without His grace we 
 would work in vain. Pray, therefore, that He may lavish His grace on 
 us priests and on yourselves. Doing all we can ourselves by our nat¬ 
 ural power, God’s grace will not permit that our efforts fail. 
 
 Still, my dear brethren, the material work before us is only one 
 part of our duty. It is a great work, but it is not all. Nor is it the 
 more important The end of religion is not the erection of churches 
 and schools and the holding of great ceremonials. These are only a 
 means to an end. The end of them all is our own personal sanctification. 
 We must not, therefore, imagine that we have done our duty 
 when we have completed and paid for our church edifice. In the mean¬ 
 time we must labor for our own sanctification. We must be holy, as 
 God is holy, if we hope to abide with Him in eternity. 
 
 We priests are the ministers of God, empowered and commanded 
 to assist you in the work of personal sanctification. God has appointed 
 us to preach His gospel, to administer His sacraments, the channels of 
 grace, and He desires us to be models of the virtues which we inculcate* 
 I do most earnestly pray that we shall not be wanting in our part, and 
 
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 you must pray for us, “lest,” as St. Paul says, “after we have preached 
 to others we ourselves should become castaways.” 
 
 Without going into details, I can at least promise that we shall 
 give you the best service in our power. In the old church many things 
 were difficult or impossible which here are feasible. Father Mackin 
 had planned many improvements in the way of devotions and sodalities 
 when he should have moved into this new building. I shall endeavor 
 to carry them out as I learn your wishes and needs and as opportunity 
 offers. We shall do all we can to encourage the choir. In my estima¬ 
 tion good music is a most important feature of church service. I am 
 gratified to find here such an excellent choir and I shall do all I can to 
 assist and encourage them. 
 
 Finally, the children shall come in for a large share of my attention. 
 If we would perpetuate the church we must see to the early training of 
 the children. The future of the church depends upon their education. 
 The intelligent faith, the piety, the generosity and general good spirit 
 of this parish is due in very great measure to the influence of the school 
 which you have had in your midst so many years. In every place where 
 these sisters have schools they enjoy the highest reputation as teachers. 
 Whatever I can do to further their work I shall be most happy to do. 
 All thoughtful men will admit that where it is possible, a school in 
 which science and religion go hand in hand is the ideal one. Here in 
 this parish we have such a school and I would like to see you all take 
 advantage of it. 
 
 In conclusion, there are two suggestions which seem appropriate 
 on this occasion. We are opening today the magnificent edifice which 
 Father Mackin so longed to see completed. I would suggest, therefore, 
 that you offer your prayers and communion for the repose of his soul. 
 I would also ask you to pray for us priests who are to continue his 
 work. Pray that we may not succumb to the burdens and heat of the 
 day. Pray that we may labor faithfully all the day, so that we may not 
 fear to meet the Lord of the harvest when at eventide the angel of death 
 shall summon us home. 
 
THE FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO AND HIS AUXILIARY BISHOPS 
 
Rev. John J. McCann. 
 
 THE TENTH PASTOR. 
 
 Rev. John J. McCann was born in Providence, Rhode Island, Octo¬ 
 ber 25, 1862. He is the son of George T. and Catherine McCann 
 of Aurora, Ill, to which place the family moved in July, 1866. Father 
 McCann attended the Aurora public schools, and had spent one year 
 in the high school when he went to college. Entering St. Viateur’s 
 College, Bourbonnais, Ill., in September, 1877, he remained there five 
 years in the study of the classics and philosophy. He studied theology 
 and kindred sciences in St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md., finisaing 
 the regular course of clerical studies January 6, 1888, on which date 
 he received ordination at the hands of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. 
 The next seven years he spent as assistant at St. James’, Chicago; St. 
 Philip’s, Chicago; St. Mary’s, Joliet, and St. Michael’s, Ga ] ena. He 
 was appointed pastor of the missions of Oregon, Polo and Forreston 
 by Archbishop Feehan, November 28, 1894. He soon afterwards 
 annexed the missions at Byron and Ashton. He organized the first 
 Catholic congregation and built the first Catholic church at Byron in 
 1895. A four acre cemetery and six town lots were also purchased by 
 him at Byron. The churches at Oregon and Ashton were greatly im¬ 
 proved under his pastorate. In Polo he secured a centrally located lot 
 and erected a new church at a cost of a little over $10,000. Both 
 churches which he built, that at Byron and that at £olo, were fully paid 
 for before the first mass was said in them. 
 
 Father McCann is a member of the Albert Woodcock Camp, Sons 
 of Veterans, Byron, Ill. When the Spanish American war broke out 
 he was appointed chaplain of the Sons of Veterans’ provisional regi¬ 
 ment by Colonel Hamilton. In union with the regimental surgeon, Dr. 
 E. H. Abbott of Elgin, he enlisted a full company of soldiers for the 
 regiment in the vicinity of Oregon and Byron. 
 
 At a competitive examination, held Friday, December 15, 1899, at 
 the Cathedral residence, Chicago, he passed a successful examination 
 
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 PRESENT PASTOR OF ST. MARY'S PARISH AND ASSISTANT PRIESTS. 
 
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 before the Archdiocesan Examining Board, and the next day was ap¬ 
 pointed by Archbishop Feehan to the irremovable rectorship of St. 
 Mary’s Church, Elgin. 
 
 REV. PATRICK GILDEA. 
 
 Rev. Patrick Gildea was born in Ireland, June 4, 1868. He studied 
 classics at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam. Coming to America in August, 
 1886, he entered Niagara University in September of the same year, 
 where he pursued his studies in philosophy and theology for the next 
 six years. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago, June n, 
 1892, by Bishop Ryan of Buffalo. His first appointment was to St. 
 James’ church, Chicago. He came to Elgin in August, 1900. 
 
 REV. JOHN B. MURRAY. 
 
 Rev. John B. Murray, at present one of the assistant pastors of St. 
 Mary’s church, was born in Chicago. 
 
 He was educated at St. Canisius’ College, Buffalo, N. Y., and St. 
 Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md. He was ordained priest on June 22, 
 1895. As a priest of the Archdiocese, he has served as assistant at St. 
 Mary’s, Aurora; St. Leo’s, Chicago; St. Patrick’s, Rochelle. He came 
 to this parish April 29, 1901. 
 
 PRELATE AND PRIESTS WHO WERE ELGIN BOYS. • 
 
 Among the prelates and priests who are a source of pride to their 
 creed and country, the parish of Elgin has the honor to name four sons 
 of its pioneers who spent a goodly portion of their boyhood within its 
 border. They are Rt. Rev. Maurice Francis Burke, Bishop of St. 
 Joseph, Missouri; Very Rev. Daniel J. Spillard, C. S. C., President of 
 Holy Cross College, New Orleans, Louisiana; Very Rev. Patrick 
 Keating, S. J., President of St. Xavier’s College, Melbourne, Australia, 
 and Rev. Michael Hennessy of the diocese of Puebla, State of Puebla, 
 Mexico. 
 
 BISHOP BURKE. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Maurice Francis Burke was born in Ireland, May 5, 1845, 
 being the sixth of eight children (of whom he is the youngest survivor) 
 born to Francis N. and Joanna C. Burke. 
 
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 The family came to America in 1849 and settled in Chicago. In 
 1856 they moved to Elgin and fixed their home on a farm in Hoosier 
 Groove, which was purchased by the father. There, at the district 
 school and at the Elgin Academy, young Maurice received his rudi 
 mentary education. At the age of eighteen he entered the University 
 of St. Mary’s of the Lake, Chicago, where he remained until February, 
 1866, when he matriculated at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 
 During the following September, having been accepted as a student, he 
 was sent to the American College at Rome, where, after completing a 
 thorough course, he was ordained by Cardinal Patrizi on May 22, 1875, 
 for the diocese of Chicago. 
 
 On his return to his diocese he was assigned to duty in St. 
 Mary’s Church, Chicago, as assistant priest, where he remained until 
 March 24, 1878, when he was appointed by Bishop Foley to the pastor¬ 
 ate of St. Mary’s parish, Joliet. There, by his zeal and energy, he soon 
 completed a fine stone church, built and established parochial schools 
 and procured a site for a Catholic cemetery on the east side of the city. 
 The evident ability of the devoted priest marked him as one to whom 
 important duties could be confided. When the diocese of Cheyenne 
 was erected he was elected by the Sovereign Pontiff to guide the new 
 flock and was consecrated its first bishop on October 28, 1887, at the 
 Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago, by Archbishop Feehan, 
 assisted by Bishops McCloskey of Louisville, and Cosgrove of Daven¬ 
 port. In this new diocese, which embraces all of Wyoming Territory ? 
 the young bishop found ample scope for his ability for organizing the 
 work of Catholicity among the 4,500 white and 3,500 Indian adherents 
 of the faith. With characteristic firmness he applied himself to duty 
 and soon the diocese of Cheyenne possessed the public institutions 
 which only the presence and energy of a bishop can call forth. 
 
 On June 19, 1893, Bishop Burke was transferred to the important 
 new diocese of St. Joseph, Missouri. Since his arrival there he has 
 remodeled and enlarged the cathedral, built an episcopal residence, 
 laid out a new cemetery, and through his instrumentality the Ladies of 
 the Sacred Heart have just completed a parochial school at a cost of 
 $60,000. 
 
 THE VERY REV. DANIEL JOSEPH SPILLARD, C. S. C. 
 
 The Rev. Daniel Joseph Spillard, C. S. C., the oldest of thirteen 
 children, was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, on the 8th of November,. 
 
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 1839. In 1842 his parents removed to the United States, and resided, 
 for the following ten years, in Rochester, New York, where young Mr. 
 Spillard attended the public schools for a while, and afterwards the 
 Catholic Select School, when it was opened at St. Mary’s church. He 
 also attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart until it was finally 
 closed. In 1853 he accompanied his parents to Erie, Pa., where he 
 remained about one year. 
 
 In 1854 the family removed to Elgin, where the future priest 
 attended both the public and private schools successively, and he spent 
 two years at the Elgin Academy. 
 
 Considerably advanced in his studies, Mr. Spillard entered the 
 University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in February, 1862. After two and 
 one-half years of diligent application, he completed the studies pre¬ 
 scribed in the collegiate course, and in June, 1864, received the degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts. On that same occasion he was chosen to deliver 
 the valedictory oration, which he did in a most effective manner. He 
 also bore away with him the premium of honor for that year. 
 
 Some months after his graduation, Mr. Spillard resolved to link 
 his destiny with the institution wherein he had completed his studies, 
 and accordingly he entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the 
 Holy Cross at Notre Dame, and, after the prescribed term of probation, 
 made his profession in September, 1866. He continued his theological 
 studies till August, 1868, when he was, on the 28th of that month, 
 ordained priest. 
 
 Previous to his ordination, Mr. Spillard had been engaged in 
 teaching Latin and Greek in the college, but after ordination he was 
 appointed Prefect of Discipline, which office he held for two years. 
 
 His experiences, during thirty-two subsequent years of his priest¬ 
 hood were many and varied, and we cannot in this notice give more 
 than a very brief outline of them. 
 
 In August, 1870, he was named pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, 
 South Bend, Indiana. During the four years of his incumbency he 
 built a school house, paid part of the debt on the church, and instituted 
 monthly collections, which were kept up by his successors, until all the 
 debts on the old church were canceled and the new church was built 
 and paid for. 
 
 Father Spillard’s hard work began to tell upon his health, and his 
 superior thought that a change of climate would be beneficial to him. 
 
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 He was accordingly sent to Austin, Texas, where he remained nearly 
 ten years. The change of climate, however, did not bring any diminu¬ 
 tion of labor. He built the first frame college building, east of the 
 present magnificent structure, and called it St. Edward’s College, after 
 the patron saint of the then Superior General, the Very Rev. Edward 
 Sorin. 
 
 The beautiful St. Mary’s church, of which Father Spillard was 
 pastor, was begun by him under great difficulties. The structure was 
 not completed when he was again appointed to his former office of 
 president of St. Edward’s College. After a year he was recalled to 
 Notre Dame to take charge of the novitiate, holding the responsible 
 position of Master of Novices for two years. 
 
 Next we find him, with other priests of the Congregation of the 
 Holy Cross, giving missions in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. 
 
 When the mission season closed, he took temporary charge of the 
 little parish of Richwood, Wisconsin, and here, while attending to the 
 wants of the few Catholics of the neighborhood, he enjoyed a well- 
 earned and much-needed rest. 
 
 The following year we meet him again at Notre Dame, as rector of 
 Holy Cross Seminary. Two years afterwards he was named assistant 
 local superior at Notre Dame and teacher of moral theology. Then, 
 in consequence of the serious illness of its pastor, St. Patrick’s church 
 was again entrusted to the care of Father Spillard, and thus, after an 
 absence of seventeen years, he was welcomed back once more to the 
 scene of his early pastoral labors. During his stay the old church 
 property was sold, the debt on the church paid, and the beautiful pas¬ 
 toral residence built. 
 
 On the death of the Very Rev. A. Granger, July 26, 1893, bather 
 Spillard succeeded him as local superior and second assistant general. 
 When the present superior general of the Congregation of the Holy 
 Cross, the Very Rev. G. Francais, made his first official visit to New 
 Orleans, he decided that a new college building was needed and that 
 F r Spillard was the right man to take the work in hand. Whilst 
 directing the work, he also had charge of the Church of the Sacred 
 Heart. It was during his pastorate that this church was built by the 
 munificence of that grand old Catholic gentleman, Colonel Count 
 Patrick B. O’Brien. This church was dedicated and consecrated on 
 the same day, February 23, 1896, by Archbishop Janssens. This 
 
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 church is one of the very few in the country that is consecrated. It is 
 not out of place here to mention that the same generous benefactor did 
 not forget the interests of the children of the parish, as his bequest of 
 five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the erection of a parish school testifies. 
 
 In 1897 Father Spillard was called to the presidency of the Holy 
 Cross College, just mentioned. However, he did not leave the parish 
 until he had gone through the yellow fever epidemic of that year, daily 
 visiting the “ Isolation Hospital ” until the scourge had passed. Being 
 once asked whether, not being an immune, he was not afraid of the 
 dread plague, he answered as any ordinary good priest might have done 
 under the circumstances, “During my priestly life I have never shrunk 
 from duty. I may die of yellow jack, never of fear.’’ 
 
 At present, Father Spillard is president of the Holy Cross College, 
 which under his management is forging to the front among educational 
 institutions. 
 
 Besides college work, Father Spillard is chairman of the Com¬ 
 mittee of Studies for the Catholic Winter School. 
 
 For those who heard him at the celebration of our Golden Jubilee, 
 and for our townsfolk who have had the pleasure of hearing him 
 occasionally at his visits to Elgin, it is hardly necessary to say that he 
 is possessed of considerable ability as a pulpit orator, which fact is 
 recognized in his present southern home, where he is often called upon 
 to preach on special occasions. 
 
 Father Spillard is still in the enjoyment of health and strength, 
 and someone remarked of him not long since, “ He is the youngest 
 old man I have ever seen.” 
 
 May he live long in the enjoyment of his green old age. 
 
 VERY REV. PATRICK KEATING, S. J. 
 
 On St. Patrick’s Day, 1846, Patrick Keating was born in Tipper¬ 
 ary, Ireland, where his parents, Patrick and Elizabeth Keating, for 
 many years conducted a general mercantile business. Having dis¬ 
 posed of their business and property in 1849, Mr. Keating with his 
 family soon afterward came to America and settled near Elgin on all 
 extensive farm at Fayville, which he purchased, and there the boyhood 
 years of the subject of this sketch were spen. 
 
 He attended school in Elgin and was ta great favorite with an 
 because of his extreme good nature and lively disposition. 
 
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 In 1861 he returned to Ireland and entered Clongowes Wood 
 College, near Dublin, of which his brother, Father Thomas Keating, S. J., 
 was rector. He studied in Jesuit colleges in France, Germany and 
 Italy, and was in Rome when it was besieged by Victor Emmanuel in 
 1870. Patrick, with other students, was assigned to care for the 
 wounded, and relates that though bullets whizzed about them, and shells 
 exploded near, not one of them was injured. The boys were burning 
 with desire to show their devotion to the Pope by taking arms and pitch- 
 
 HOME OF KEATING FAMILY, FAYVILLE. 
 
 ing into the fray, but the saintly Pius IX would have no wanton blood 
 shed. As soon as the robbers succeeded in breaking through the wall, 
 he saw that his brave soldiers would all be sacrificed before the over¬ 
 whelming numbers assailing them, and ordered all to submit for the time. 
 
 In 1880 Patrick Keating was ordained and began his mission of 
 preaching and teaching in various Jesuit institutions in the old world. 
 He has served as rector of Clongowes Wood College, Ireland, of St. 
 Ignatius College in Sydney, Australia, and at present is president of St. 
 Xavier’s College in Melbourne. 
 
St. Marys Parish , Elgin, III. 
 
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 He has been a faithful son of Loyola—has made many friends 
 beyond the sea, but remembers with affection the scenes and compan¬ 
 ions of his boyhood and the awakening of Christian faith in his childish 
 soul under the guidance of the early priests of the old church of the 
 Immaculate Conception in Elgin. 
 
 THE REV. MICHAEL HENNESSY. 
 
 The Rev. Michael Hennessy was one of twin sons born to John 
 Hennessy and Mary Roche, his wife, at Clintonville, Kane county, 
 Illinois, December 24, 1867. 
 
 He attended the village school at the place of his nativity until he 
 was twelve years of age, when with his parents and the rest of the 
 family, he went to Tombstone, Arizona, where he was instructed at a 
 Catholic college for about six years. In 1885 he entered St. Charles 
 College, Ellicott City, Maryland, and later attended St. Mary’s Semi¬ 
 nary, Baltimore, where he remained about two years, when he returned 
 to Arizona on account of the death of a brother. Remaining at Flagstaff, 
 he received private instruction under the auspices of the Bishop of 
 Tucson. 
 
 On October 30, 1893, he sailed for Louvain, Belgium, where he 
 completed his studies and was ordained July 7, 1899. Returning 
 immediately to the United States, he was sent to Puebla, Puebla, 
 Mexico, where he began his mission as a Catholic priest. 
 
 By late reports it is learned he is at present an assistant to the 
 pastor of Santa Monica, California. 
 
 Daniel Gahan, Jr. 
 
 SISTERS. 
 
 That heroic spirit of self-abnegation which has impelled countless 
 women in other lands to choose a religious vocation, was not wanting 
 even amongst the little band of Elgin worshipers. Though aware how 
 distasteful public mention will be to them, we take the liberty of record¬ 
 ing the names of these women, once parishioners of Elgin, who are now 
 members of various religious orders: Miss Mary Keating, now a 
 Madame of the Sacred Heart at Omaha, Neb.; Miss Josephine Reegan, 
 now Sister Hortense of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at Oran, Africa; 
 Miss Sarah M. Dwyer, now Sister M. Cristina of Sisters of Mercy; 
 
1. Miss Josephine Regan, now Sister Hortense. 
 
 2. Sister Monica of the Order of St. Benedict, formerly Miss Mary Hogan and later 
 
 Mrs. Cummings. 
 
 3. Miss Mary Rochford, Sister M. Lidwina of the B. V. M. 
 
 4. Miss Catherine Rochford, Sister M. Hiltrude of the B. V. M. 
 
 5. Miss Joanna Rochford, Sister M. Remberta of the B. V. M. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 the following Sisters of Charity, B. V. M.: Misses Kate Foley, Sister 
 M. Assunta; Mary Rochford, Sister M. Lidwina ; Catherine Rochford, 
 Sister M. Hiltrude ; Joanna Rochford, Sister M. Remberta ; Anastasia 
 Meehan, Sister M. Evangelista; Sarah Russell Powers, Sister M. 
 Ligouri, and Minnie Palmer, Sister M. Bertina, Miss Mary Hogan, 
 afterwards Mrs. Cummings, joined the Benedictine Order, and is 
 known as Sister Monica at the academy in Nauvoo, Ill.; Miss Celia 
 McCartney, Sister Amadus Marie of the Sisters of Providence. St. 
 Mary’s, Ind. 
 
St. Mary’s Parish. 
 
 ITS EARLY DAYS AND FAMILIAR FACES OF THE 
 
 LONG AGO. 
 
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 In this fair land few cities there are the size of Elgin that cannot 
 claim among the earliest settlers Catholic pioneers. Many of these, 
 because of the unjust and discriminating laws prevailing in the land of 
 their nativity, on arrival were poor in worldly goods, but rich in the 
 possession of love of God, of country and honesty of purpose. In 
 religion they were not aliens in America. If the traditions of Ireland 
 and the Sagas of Iceland be true, St. Brendan, a Catholic Irishman, 
 and Leif Erikson, a Catholic Norseman, were the first Caucasians 
 to reach its shores. Our ancestors in the Catholic faith manned 
 the caravels of Columbus. They first sailed its lakes and rivers, 
 they first explored its forests, plains and mountains. With the 
 courage of martyrs they spread the light of Christianity among its 
 dusky inhabitants. They first, in a realm now within the confines of 
 the United States, proclaimed the right of man to worship his Creator 
 according to the dictates of conscience. Their names are conspicuous 
 among the bravest and best who signed the Declaration of Independ¬ 
 ence. 
 
 During the War of the Revolution the army and navy of Washing¬ 
 ton bristled with men who were proud to assert their Catholicity, and 
 the French soldiers and sailors who came to his assistance when all was 
 darkest were sent by the devoted Catholic King and Queen, Louis 
 XVI and Marie Antoinette. 
 
 We of today are unworthy of our heritage if we do not properly 
 sustain the faith of such illustrious sires. 
 
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 The harbinger of civilization in the section of Illinois in which 
 Elgin is located was the United States soldier. 
 
 In 1832, the Indians under Black Hawk, in their final though futile 
 effort to retain the domain of their forefathers, created such consterna- 
 
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St. Mary's Parish , Elgin, 111. 
 
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 tion that nine companies of infantry commanded by General Scott were 
 sent from the seaboard to support the troops at the front. 
 
 On the 8th of July, this command, decimated by Asiatic cholera 
 (which appeared for the first time in America that summer) to less than 
 four companies, arrived in Chicago, where Fort Dearborn was soon 
 converted into a hospital. After the disease had abated, the march 
 towards the Mississippi was resumed. 
 
 Little grassy mounds to this day mark the resting places of many 
 of these defenders of our frontier, who were buried where they fell, 
 victims of the cholera, and are mute indicators of the course of Scott’s 
 trail across the state. 
 
 Along that trail came the first settlers to this vicinity, and along 
 that trail also went the Indians on their final visits to Fort Dearborn. 
 
 The ford at Fox river was at the place now known as “ Five 
 Islands,” and to the early settlers as “ Scott’s Ford.” It is about four 
 miles south of Elgin. There on the western bank of the river, close to 
 a spring which is near the end of the Elgin, Aurora & Southern 
 Traction Company's bridge, Scott’s command struck camp after cross¬ 
 ing the river; and at that place lie under one mound the remains of two 
 of those unknown soldier boys. No tablet marks the spot, but a wild 
 cherry tree keeps silent vigil beside their forsaken graves. No record 
 even in the war department of the United States of their names is 
 available, and though but seventy years have elapsed since their 
 sacrifices, all seems to be forgotten. 
 
 That the names and sacrifices of the pioneers of St. Mary’s Parish 
 may not be forgotten when their forms and features shall have dis¬ 
 appeared, is the main object of our volume. 
 
 GEORGE TYLER. 
 
 Elgin’s Fust Catholic Parishioner. 
 
 During the time James T. Gifford, the whole-souled, generous 
 man who founded the town of Elgin (whose kindness and aid to early 
 settlers was appreciated by them and will not soon be forgotten by their 
 descendants), was building his log house, Elgin’s first structure, George 
 Tyler, Elgin’s first Catholic parishioner appeared on the scene. 
 
 Mr. Tyler was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, November 
 28, 1800. His parents were both Episcopalians and his uncle, the 
 
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 Rev. Daniel Barber, was a minister of high standing in that creed, and 
 was widely known in New England. 
 
 * At the age of 20. young Tyler left home for Georgia, where another 
 maternal uncle was extensively engaged in the milling business. There 
 he remained for some time teaching school, an occupation he enjoyed. 
 He was a man of superior education, being a master of both the Latin 
 and Greek languages. From Georgia, he traveled to the other states of 
 the South, and lived for a time in Texas, always engaged in the same 
 profession of educating the young. 
 
 JAMES T. GIFFORD’S LOG HOUSE. 
 
 In 1835 he returned to the North, stopping in Cincinnati, where 
 his sister, who had become a member of a community of the Sisters 
 of Charity, resided. There he learned with a shock that his mother 
 and all his brothers and sisters had become Catholics, as had also his 
 uncle, the Rev. Daniel Barber, and all of his family. 
 
 He was shocked, because he had always hitherto entertained 
 prejudiced notions of the Church of Rome. He began to investigate, 
 however, and in a short time was baptized and received into the church 
 by Archbishop Purcell. 
 
 Of the eight children born to his parents, Noah Tyler and Abigail 
 Barber, five devoted earnest lives to the faith they professed. Their 
 four daughters, Rosetta A., Sarah M., Martha L., and Catherine, 
 became Sisters of Charity, known in religion as Sisters Genevieve, M. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin , III. 
 
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 DeSales, Beatrice, and Mary James. Their son William became a 
 priest, and was afterward elevated to the see of Hartford as its first 
 Bishop. 
 
 In Cincinnati, Mr. Tyler purchased a horse, and rode all the way 
 to Chicago, thence he came to where Elgin is now located. He met 
 Mr. James T. Gifford, as before mentioned, stopped with him for a 
 short time and helped him in the construction of his log house. 
 
 THE RUIN OF THE OLD HOME OF GEORGE TYLER. 
 
 Being pleased with the appearance of the place and its environ¬ 
 ments he determined to settle on land in the vicinity. Leaving Mr. 
 Gifford’s place, he crossed the river, traveled about two miles northward, 
 camped under a thorn-apple tree beside the creek which now bears his 
 name, and in that neighborhood marked his claim and built a home. 
 
 The following year, 1836, he was pleased to welcome to the West 
 from their old home in New Hampshire, his aged parents and his 
 brothers, Calvin I. and Israel B. J. Tyler, who took tracts of land 
 adjoining his own. 
 
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 To this place a number of Irish families came bearing letters of 
 introduction from Bishop Tyler. Many of these people took land to 
 the westward, at the place long known as the “ Barrens" or the “ Irish 
 Settlement.” There the first Catholic church in the vicinity was built: 
 and much of it was the handiwork of Israel Tyler. 
 
 George and Calvin married young ladies of Rutland township, the 
 Misses McCartney, who were sisters. 
 
 JOHN TYLER. 
 
 At the home of the former, in 1837, the first mass in what was 
 later the Parish of Elgin, was said, the celebrant being Father 
 De St. Palais. 
 
 Israel Tyler died in 1844. His father, Noah died in 1845, and the 
 mother, Mrs. Abigail Tyler, died in 1857. Their remains quietly 
 repose beneath the sod in the old cemetery near Gilbert’s, not far from 
 where stood the old “ Barrens’ Church.” A stone erected to the 
 memory of Noah Tyler marks their resting place. 
 
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 Calvin Tyler, with his family, became residents of the City of 
 Elgin about 1865, and here remained until the 8o’s. After the death of 
 his wile he went to California, and died there in the latter part of 
 October, 1891. 
 
 His remains rest at Santa Maria in that State. Two of his sons 
 and a daughter, with their families, still reside in the community to 
 which their father came in his youth. Four sons followed their father 
 to California, and a younger daughter, after her marriage, went with 
 her husband to Michigan. 
 
 In 1872 George Tyler, with his family, moved to Ellis county, 
 Texas, where he remained about a year, and thence went to William¬ 
 son county in that state, and located on a site about three miles from 
 what is now known as the city of Taylor. He died there December 8, 
 1897. He was attended in his last moments by the Rev. John B. 
 Murphy, the pastor of the parish. 
 
 His son, John Tyler, is the present owner of a large tract of land 
 of the old Tyler estate in Texas. He is a prosperous man, a devout 
 Catholic and a generous contributor to the temporal success of every 
 enterprise in his parish. 
 
 The venerable Sister Mary DeSales was the last survivor of the 
 family of Noah Tyler. Her death occurred at St. Joseph’s Academy, 
 Emitsburg, Md., Aug. r3, 1899, in the 96th year of her age. She 
 was long a zealous worker at Detroit, Mich., where her memory is 
 revered. 
 
Pioneers o f the Parish. 
 
 The following is a partial list of the earliest settlers in the parish. 
 The years preceding their names indicate the time of their coming. 
 The majority were heads of families in the years named. 
 
 1830-1835. 
 George Tyler 
 
 i835- i 8 4°- 
 
 Burke, Owen 
 Farrell, John, Sr. 
 Farrell, Jeremiah 
 Farrell, John, Jr, 
 Farrell, Timothy 
 Farrell, Dennis 
 Farrell, Wm. 
 McGrath, Dennis 
 Ryan, John 
 
 Ryan, Thos. 
 
 McGrath, Owen 
 McGrath, Patrick 
 O’Brien, Patrick 
 O’Neill, Daniel (Big Dan) 
 O’Neil, Daniel (Little Dan) 
 Tyler, Calv r in I. 
 
 Tyler, Israel 
 Tyler, Noah 
 
 MR. OWEN BURKE. 
 
 Mr. Owen Burke was among the first settlers of Elgin. He was 
 born in County Limerick, Ireland. He came to Elgin in 1837, finding 
 employment with James T. Gifford, the founder of our city. Mr. 
 Gifford at the time was giving a building lot to every machinist who 
 would build upon it, also to every denomination that wished to build a 
 church. Mr. Burke was offered a lot, but as he was going to take up 
 land himself, he could not accept Mr. Gifford’s offer, but informed 
 him that he would accept one upon which to build a Catholic church. 
 Mr. Gifford said that when he was ready to build a church, he would 
 give the lot. 
 
 When Father Feelev assumed charge of the parish, he learned 
 of Mr. Gifford’s offer. At this time, however, the best lots were gone. 
 The Catholics were given the choice of what was left. They 
 
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on 
 
 [. Mrs. Owen Burke, 
 
 2. Owen Burke, 
 
 3. Calvin I. Tyler, 
 
 4. Timothy Farrell, 
 
 Wm, Farrell, 
 
 1 1 
 
 !S35- l 8 40. 
 
 6 . 
 
 1 • 
 8. 
 
 9 - 
 
 10. 
 
 Mrs, Michael Burk. 
 
 William McFarland, 
 Patrick O’Brien, 
 
 John Farrell, Sr., 
 John Farrell. Jr , 
 Machiel Burk, 
 
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 selected the one on the southeast corner of Gifford and Fulton streets 
 Owen Burke’s home was the first in which mass was celebrated in 
 the village of Elgin. Mr. Burke at that time owned the farm now 
 known as the Mink farm. 
 
 In 1849 he moved to Rutland township and lived there for over 
 forty years. He was a zealous church member and friend to 
 priests and sisters ; his home always bore a warm welcome for them, 
 and for several veirs they cime there and felt that his house was a 
 home to them. 
 
 Mrs. Burke died October 22, 1891. Mr. Burke went to live with 
 his daughter in Chicago and died there November 30, 1892. Three 
 children still survive him, Daniel Burke of Elgin, Mrs. Thomas Adams 
 and Mrs. Michael Murphy of Chicago. 
 
 1840-1845. 
 
 Burke, Michael 
 Barrett, Edmund 
 Campbell, Edward 
 Campbell, Wm. 
 Campbell, Edward, Jr. 
 Coughlin, John 
 Carroll, Richard 
 Coleman, Peter 
 Costello, John 
 Dwyer, Richard 
 Dwyer, John 
 Dwyer, Edward 
 Dwyer, Thomas 
 Dooley, Michael 
 Duncan, Patrick 
 Donahue, Mrs. Mary 
 Devine, Patrick 
 Flynn, John 
 Gleason, John 
 Hennessey, William 
 Hennessey, Patrick 
 Halligan, Mr. 
 
 Hayden, Timothy 
 Heimmer, Geo. 
 
 Keating, Edward 
 Keating, Wm. 
 
 Leddin, Michael 
 Lynch, Timothy 
 Lynch, Eugene 
 Lynch, William F. 
 Lynch, David J. 
 Martin, Patrick 
 Martin, Thos. 
 
 Martin, John 
 Moore, James 
 Moore, Richard 
 McLaughlin, Wm. 
 McLaughlin, John 
 McGrath, Terence 
 McGrath, John 
 McGrath, Dennis 
 McNiney, Patrick 
 McMahon, Michael 
 McCartney, Arthur 
 McCartney, John 
 McCartney, Arthur, Jr. 
 McCartney, George 
 McCartney, Edward 
 
I 
 
 J 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 1840-1 
 
 Timothy Lynch, 
 
 Mrs. Timothy Lynch (1854), 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Casey, 
 
 Mrs. Richard Dwyer, 
 
 Tames Regan. 
 
 6. Mrs. James Regan, 
 
 7. Mrs. Mary Donoghue, 
 
 8. Mrs. Patrick Hennessy. 
 
 9. Eugene Lynch, 
 
 10. Edward Campbell. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 95 
 
 1840-1845. 
 
 O’Brien, Brvan 
 O’Brien, John F. 
 O’Brien, Patrick 
 
 Quinlan, [as. 
 Regan, James 
 Tobin, John 
 Tobin, Pierce 
 Tansy, Martin 
 Tyrrell, Patrick 
 Woods, Patrick 
 
 O’Brien, Bernard 
 
 O’Brien, Thos. 
 O’Burke, John 
 Quinlan, Daniel 
 
 TIMOTHY LYNCH, SR. 
 
 Timothy Lynch was born in December, 1807, in the city of Cork, 
 Ireland, where his father was in business, and his early training was 
 along the lines which he followed until his death. When thirty years of 
 age he came to America, locating at Rochester, New York, where he 
 engaged in business until he came to Elgin with his family, in 1845. 
 The journey from Buffalo to Chicago was made by boat around the 
 lakes, and then by emigrant wagon to Elgin, where the family arrived 
 on the first of September. The next morning he went to work on the 
 west side mill race, and the same winter worked on the Waverly House. 
 The following spring Mr. Lynch started a tannery on the west side, 
 but shortly afterwards discontinued it, and engaged in general mer¬ 
 chandising, which business in a few years he made one of the most 
 successful in Elgin. 
 
 Mr. Lynch was a public-spirited citizen, always forward in any 
 progressive movement. When the civil war broke out in 1861, he con 
 tributed liberally to the Union cause. 
 
 Always a practical Catholic, in the church he was a zealous 
 worker and liberal giver. He was widely known among the Catholic 
 clergy, many of whom made his home their headquarters when in the 
 vicinity, and frequently celebrated mass there before the building of the 
 church. 
 
 Honored and respected in the community, he died November 20, 
 1872, with all the blessings of the church. 
 
 EUGENE LYNCH. 
 
 Eugene Lynch, the eldest son of Timothy Lynch, was born in 
 Cork, Ireland, June 3, 1833. In 1838 with his parents he came to 
 America and finally with them and the rest of their family to Elgin 
 where all settled in 1845. 
 
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 Sharing the responsibilities for the support of the family with his 
 father, the aid rendered helped not a little to secure for the latter the 
 firm business foothold he soon afterward obtained. 
 
 In early manhood Mr. Lynch married a Miss Holland and began 
 business for himself at Clintonville. 
 
 j 840-1845. 
 
 1. Mrs. Arihur McCartney, 4. John F. O’Brien, 
 
 2. Mrs. John McCartney, 5. Mrs. John Gleason, 
 
 3. John McCartney, " 6. Mrs. James McLaughlin, 
 
 7. James McLaughlin. 
 
 His young wife with her child died soon after he went to Clinton¬ 
 ville, and he then returned to Elgin and continued in business with his 
 father until the breaking out of the rebellion, when like his brothers he 
 gave his services in defense of the Union. 
 
 On November 4, 1867, he was married at Torrington, Litchfield 
 County, Conn., to Miss Margaret Batters, and again engaged in business 
 in Elgin, which he conducted successfully and with satisfaction to his 
 
St. Mary's Parish , Elgin, III. 
 
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 patrons until he retired with a competency in 1898 when he was 
 succeeded by his son, Timothy J. Lynch. 
 
 During Mr. Lynch’s long residence in Elgin he was well and fav¬ 
 orably known, his original jokes and droll expressions were always a 
 source of pleasure to his friends and companions who thought a group 
 for pleasure was incomplete without the presence of “the deacon.” 
 
 Mr. Lynch served several terms as a member of the city council 
 from the ward in which he resided. 
 
 In the early spring of 1902, in the apartments of the veterans of 
 the Grand Army, an organization Mr. Lynch felt proud to be a member 
 of, he suffered a stroke of paralysis which ultimately resulted in his 
 death, June 26, 1902. His funeral services were held at St. Mary’s 
 Church from whence his remains were conducted with military honors 
 to the Bluff City cemetery, where they repose in the family lot beside 
 those of his son, Timothy J. Lynch. 
 
 i845- i 8 5°- 
 
 Beegan, Patrick 
 Burke, Michael 
 Connor, John 
 Connor, Terrence 
 Connor, Michael 
 Collin'S, Patrick 
 Coyle, John 
 Coyle, John, Jr. 
 Coyle, James 
 Costello, Patrick 
 Callahan, C. 
 Carroll, Michael 
 Casey, Daniel 
 Clinnin, John 
 Duhy, James 
 Duhy, John 
 Duhy, Matt. 
 
 Daly, Patrick 
 Donovan, Dinnis 
 Donahoe, John 
 Donahoe, Patrick 
 Dougherty, John 
 
 Dougherty, Edmund 
 Dunlea, John 
 Egan, Wm. 
 
 Forkins, Martin 
 Fitzgerald, James 
 Fitzgerald, Jas. (Rutland). 
 Flinn, Daniel 
 Freeman, Patrick 
 Freeman, Michael 
 Freeman, James 
 Freeman, Nicholas 
 Freil, James 
 Frisby, Patrick 
 Gahan, Daniel 
 Gubbins, James 
 Gubbins, Joseph Ryan 
 Gubbins, Joseph V. 
 Gubbins, William 
 Gubbins, George 
 Gubbins, J. Maddin 
 Gubbins, Robt. 
 
 Gallagan, John 
 
i845- i 8 5°- 
 
 1. Daniel Gahan, 
 
 2. Mrs. Daniel Gahan, 
 
 3. Mrs. Stafford McOsker, 
 
 4 . Stafford McOsker, 
 
 5. Patrick Mann, 
 
 it. Mrs. Patrick 
 
 6. Mrs. Patrick Mann, 
 
 7. Terrence Connor, 
 
 8. Mrs. Terrence Connor (1845), 
 
 9. Bernard Healy, 
 
 10. Patrick O’Flaherty, 
 
 O’Flaherty. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 i 8 45 ~ i 8 5 °- 
 
 Healy, Bernard 
 Hayes, Edward 
 Hayes, John 
 Hayes, David, Sr. 
 
 Hayes, David, Jr. 
 
 Hayes, Edward 
 Heelan, John 
 Heelan, Philip 
 Heelan, Wm. 
 
 Haves, Wm. 
 
 Hennessey, James 
 Hogan, James 
 Kelley, John 
 Kelley, Mrs. Mary 
 Kelley, John 
 Kelley, Timothy 
 Kelley, Richard 
 Keating, Patrick 
 Keating, Edward 
 Keating, John 
 Keating, Patrick, Jr. 
 
 Keating, -(Hoosier Grove.) 
 
 Keogh, Richard 
 Keyes, James 
 Kiley, Patrick 
 Kane, Jas. 
 
 Lafever,- 
 
 Larkin, Timothy 
 Long, Thomas 
 McCall, A. C. 
 
 McOsker, Stafford 
 McElroy, James 
 McNamara, William 
 Meehan, John, Sr. 
 
 Meehan, John, Jr. 
 
 Mann, Edward 
 Mann, Patrick 
 
 Mann, Thomas 
 Mann, John 
 Mann, Michael 
 Martin, John 
 Mahoney, Dennis 
 Mahoney, Jeremiah 
 Murphy, John (Long John) 
 Murphy, John (Short John) 
 Murphy, Cornelius 
 Murphy, Patrick 
 Murphy, Jeremiah 
 Murray, Patrick 
 McFarland, Wm. 
 
 McGrath, Daniel 
 McGrath, John 
 McGrath, James 
 McGrath, David 
 McGrath, Thos. 
 
 Meagher, Edward 
 Meagher, Patrick 
 Mockiey, Michael 
 Mockley, John 
 Needham, Martin 
 Nolan, John 
 O’Flaherty, Patrick 
 O’Kane, John 
 O’Leary, Timothy 
 Powers, James 
 Powers, John 
 Powers, Martin 
 Powers, Maurice 
 Powers, Thomas 
 Powers, Patrick 
 Ponsonby, Patrick 
 Regan, James 
 Rice, Wm. 
 
 Roach, John 
 

 1845-1850. 
 
 
 Mrs. David Hayes. 
 
 6. 
 
 Mrs. John Clinnin, 
 
 David Hayes. 
 
 7 - 
 
 John Keating, 
 
 Martin Strausel, 
 
 8. 
 
 Michael Solon, 
 
 Mrs. Martin Strause], 
 
 9 - 
 
 Mrs. Michael Carroll, 
 
 John Clinnin, 
 
 i 
 
 10. 
 
 1. John Roach. 
 
 John Galligan, 
 
St. Marys Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 101 
 
 i 8 45 - i 8 5 °- 
 
 Rourke, Daniel 
 Rourke, James 
 Rourke, Patrick 
 Ryan, John 
 Ryan, Terrence 
 Sheedy, John 
 Scanlan, James 
 Scanlan, Patrick 
 Scanlan, Wm. 
 Scanlan, John 
 Scanlan, Johnnie 
 Shea, James 
 Shea, John 
 Shea, Daniel 
 Shea, Martin 
 Straussel, Martin 
 Solon, Michael 
 Stanton, John 
 
 Stanton, Michael 
 Tyrrell, Pierce 
 Tyrrell, John 
 Tyrrell, Mrs. B. 
 Tyrrell, Patrick 
 Tierney, James 
 Vaughan, M. 
 Wallace, Edward 
 Wallace, Patrick 
 Wallace, John 
 Wallace, John, Jr. 
 Wallace, Thos. 
 Wallace, Wm. 
 Wallace, Patrick 
 Wallace, Michael 
 Welch, Michael 
 Welch, William 
 Welch, James 
 
 BERNARD HEALY. 
 
 The late Bernard Healy may well be enumerated among the very old 
 settlers of Elgin. Coming to the “village ” of Elgin, as it was called, 
 in 1842, he materially aided the old Catholic settlers of the “village 
 and its vicinity in the establishment of a Catholic congregation in Elgin 
 with a resident priest. Mr. Healy was born in the vicinity of Dublin, 
 the capital of Ireland, and when a youth, went to reside in the city of 
 Manchester, England, where he spent very many of his years. In 
 Manchester he learned the trade of saddle and harness making, and 
 he eventually became President of the Saddle and Harness Makers’ Guild, 
 or, as we would now call it, “ union ” of that great manufacturing city. 
 
 On coming to Elgin, Mr. Healy very soon entered the business of 
 manufacturing harness in a frame building on Chicago street, and 
 from the start did a thriving trade. He employed a number of 
 workmen in his business, and was always spoken of as a model 
 employer. During his residence in England he had been much 
 interested in Sunday school teaching, and in lecture courses, debating 
 societies, and kindred adjuncts to Catholic church work by means of 
 
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 which the Catholic movement in that country had attained vast pro¬ 
 portions. He had also, during his residence in England, become 
 attached to the economic and political views of the Chartist organization, 
 whose contention was based on the propriety and reasonableness of 
 the recovery by the English people of many constitutional rights that 
 had been filched from them by the governing classes of that country. 
 His adhesion to this school of political thought in England made Mr. 
 Healy an uncompromising advocate of the rights of man everywhere. 
 In the advocacy of his belief in any subject, he used terse, plain and 
 straightforward words, and in all matters of business, as well as of 
 principle, he was open and consistent both in word and in act. 
 
 A self-made man, he prized eudeation above everything else. He 
 was a patron and friend of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and 
 regarded that famous institution with the highest esteem. 
 
 Some years ago, Mr. Healy with a few others, made an earnest 
 effort to secure for the Catholics of Elgin a cemetery of their own, but 
 the effort failed owing to circumstances. Its failure is now to be much 
 regretted, owing to the constantly increasing difficulty of obtaining 
 suitable and accessible cemetery grounds in the vicinity of Elgin. 
 
 Bernard Healy died in Elgin in 1896, being perhaps at the time 
 of his death the very last of the old business men of Elgin who were 
 his associates when it was a little country mart. He had seen great 
 changes from the time that he came to the little hamlet until he died 
 in the vigorous and growing city; but to the end he remained the same 
 straightforward, honest and truthful man, never varying from his path 
 of duty as he saw it in life. 
 
 THOMAS O’CONNELL. 
 
 In the year 1847 Mr. Thomas O’Connell came to Elgin, and as he 
 had received an academic education in Ireland before coming to 
 America, very soon found that the Elgin of that day was but a sorry 
 place for a scholar, and a scholar of the academic order at that. Mr. 
 O’Connell then settled at Gilbert’s, and to him may with truth be awarded 
 the distinction of teaching the first Catholic school in this vicinity, and 
 it is more than likely the first Catholic school in Kane and the counties 
 adjoining, save Cook. After teaching the Gilbert’s school for some 
 time, Mr. O’Connell became connected with the Galena and Chicago 
 Union railway, on its advent to Gilbert’s, and after filling the office of 
 
St. Marys Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 103 
 
 station agent for some time, followed the road in its building and 
 in various capacities until it reached Galena. After filling the 
 office of station agent at Galena, Mr. O’Connell returned to his old 
 home in Gilbert’s, at which place he died in 1861. He was an 
 educated man and a good man. His demise, which was rather sudden, 
 was very sincerely regretted by the people of Rutland. John 
 O’Connell, the well-known tobacconist of Elgin, is a son of the deceased. 
 
 STAFFORD McOSKER. 
 
 Stafford McOsker, during his lifetime one of the best known and 
 best esteemed citizens and business men of Elgin for years, moved to 
 the village of Elgin in 1848, from the vicinity of Rhinebeck, Dutchess 
 County, New York. He left behind one of the loveliest parts of the 
 ever lovely Hudson River country to settle in a land of promise, invit¬ 
 ing in appearance, but of undeveloped beauty ; but he lived to see and 
 to take part in that development, and to behold the little village to which 
 he came in the early forties become a thriving and prosperous city. 
 
 Stafford McOsker was a native of the County Derry, Ireland, and 
 was bom in 1821. At a very early age he came to the United States, 
 and first lived for a time at Brooklyn, New York; from whence moving 
 to near Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, in the same state, where he 
 resided for a considerable period. He thence moved to the City of 
 Paterson, New Jersey, in which, even then a lively city, he established 
 a merchant tailoring business, there continuing until 1848, when, as 
 stated, he came to Elgin, where he at once reentered the merchant 
 tailoring trade. In this he prospered, and in this continued up to and 
 until a very short time before his death. 
 
 Mr. McOsker was all his life a man of very extensive reading and 
 a lover of literature. He was what may be well called a self-made 
 scholar. His acquaintance with English literature was very extensive, 
 and he exhibited a versitality of knowledge that showed him to have a 
 mind well stored with the fruits of study and of research. He loved to 
 quote in conversation from his favorite authors, and he had what one 
 might call a personal fondness for writers who “hold the mirror up to 
 nature,” as for Shakepeare, and for those of deep analytical thought 
 on philosophical, moral and religious subjects. He had also in his 
 youth read medicine quite extensively as a student; and while it existed 
 in Elgin, he was an active member of the Young Men’s Association, the 
 
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 first literary society in the city, and one that in its time had as its 
 members the best talent in Elgin. 
 
 Mr. McOsker was a most energetic business man. His trade all 
 over Kane County was very large, and his reputation as an honorable 
 man made him a name well known all over this vicinity. He was a 
 faithful and prominent member of St. Mary’s congregation during his 
 long residence in this city, and in every movement connected with its 
 advancement he was an actor, and a generous and an earnest one at 
 that. His death occurred in 1874, from paralysis. He had received a 
 stroke of the dread warning the previous year, which had caused him to 
 resign business, but he bore the visitation with Christian resigna¬ 
 tion and with sincere Christian patience. He died as he had lived, a 
 Christian man at peace with all the world and with a firm reliance on 
 the goodness and mercy of God. 
 
 Hundreds of friends followed him to his last resting place, and 
 many to this day mention Mac’s ” genial and friendly ways as those of 
 a true friend, and of a good neighbor and spirited citizen. 
 
 PATRICK MANN. 
 
 Patrick Mann, who is now nearly eighty-eight years of age, came 
 to Elgin from his native home, in County West Meath, Ireland, in April, 
 1850, and has ever since been a resident of Elgin. He came, as many 
 have since come, with no money or other riches than a brave heart and a 
 willing hand. He was always industrious and frugal, and in the years 
 of his active business life, he acquired considerable property, and now 
 lives in peace and comfort. For the first year after coming to Elgin, 
 he worked at odd jobs. Then in April, 1851, he secured employment 
 with Augustus Adams and Joseph Phelps, who were running a foundry 
 and machine shop, at which employment he remained for five years. 
 He then went into partnership with his brother, Michael Mann, in the 
 grocery business, in the frame building which used to stand near the 
 railroad on Chicago Street, and which was torn down to make way for 
 the present News Advocate Building. 
 
 He continued in partnership with Michael for a couple of years, 
 when he became sole owner of the business. He continued at the 
 same place until he retired from business in 1876. 
 
 In August, 1856, he married Ellen Donovan, who was a native of 
 County of Cork, Ireland. She was a sister of Dennis Donovan, who 
 
1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 1845-1850. 
 
 Mrs. Richard Keogh, 6. 
 
 Richard Keogh, 7. 
 
 Mrs. William Rice, 8. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Kelley, 9. 
 
 Mrs. Patrick Meagher, 10. 
 
 11. Mrs. John Connor. 
 
 Mrs. James McElroy, 
 Dr. James McElroy, 
 Mrs. John Powers, 
 
 Mrs. David Hayes, Jr., 
 David Hayes, Jr. 
 
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 for many years prior to his death was a well-to-do farmer of Rutland, 
 in this county. Mrs. Mann died in August, 1869. Four children were 
 born to them : John P., a practicing attorney of Elgin and a member 
 of the well-known law firm of Fisher & Mann; Jeremiah J , who was 
 for several years in the furniture business and later in the express busi¬ 
 ness in Elgin, dying January 23, 1895; Cecelia, now wife of Will C. 
 Higgins, who resides with her father; and Edward F. Mann, the well- 
 known plumber of Elgin. 
 
 DR. JAMES McELROY. 
 
 Dr. James McElroy was born in the parish of Rahue, County 
 West Meath, Ireland, December 3, 1814, a son of Terrence and Eliza¬ 
 beth (Cody) McElroy. 
 
 Dr. McElroy, acquired a literary education in his native land, and 
 studied pharmacy in Dublin and there graduated in 1836. 
 
 After a successful practice of a few years as D. V. S., in Ireland, 
 he came to America in 1840. Before leaving the land of his nativity 
 he was fortunate in gaining the heart and hand of one of its daughters. 
 Miss Elizabeth Smith, who ever afterward proved a loving companion, 
 a willing helpmate, a fond wife and mother and a truly Christian 
 woman. 
 
 After arrival in the United States, Dr. McElroy settled for a time 
 in New York, but came West in 1844, since which time Elgin has been 
 his home address, although he has spent some time in other places, 
 being in the employ of Frink & Walker, and Moore & Davis of Mil¬ 
 waukee, who owned or controlled many of the stage lines in northern 
 Illinois and southern Wisconsin in early days. 
 
 Although nearly four score and ten years of age, Dr. McElroy is 
 hale and hearty, and his ruddy, cheerful face can be seen as he passes 
 on our streets among his host of friends, still attending to business. 
 
 JOHN MEEHAN. 
 
 The likeness of the late John Meehan, which will be found among 
 the photographs of the parishioners of St. Mary s parish, will recall to 
 many the features of a well-known and highly respected citizen of 
 Elgin. He had lived in Elgin from his early manhood to a ripe and 
 honored old age, and it may with truth be asserted that none of the 
 
1845-185°- 
 
 I. 
 
 Mrs. Edward Meagher, 
 
 6. 
 
 Mrs. John Hayes (1864), 
 
 2 
 
 Edward Meagher, 
 
 7 - 
 
 Mrs. James Powers, 
 
 3 - 
 
 John Hayes, 
 
 8. 
 
 Mrs. John Meehan, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Patrick Collins, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Patrick D. Hayes, 
 
 5 - 
 
 John Meehan, 
 
 10. 
 
 Patrick Tyrrell, 
 
 11 . Mrs. William Egan. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 inhabitants of the city were better known, especially among the older 
 people, than the subject of this little memoir. His death, which occured 
 in April, 1899, was sincerely regretted by an exceptionally large class 
 of friends and acquaintances, for they had known him for many years as 
 a man of sterling worth and high integrity. 
 
 Owing to his active habits in life, he had from a very early period 
 in the history of Elgin, and up to the very time of his death, been a 
 familiar figure on the streets and thus had been in daily intercourse 
 with our people, by all of whom he had ever been held as a person of 
 the most friendly impulses. 
 
 Coming to Elgin at an -early date, when the Catholic parish was 
 yet in what may be well styled an inchoate condition, John Meehan, 
 from that time to almost the day he died, was in very truth a devoted 
 Christian. The writer feels that it is but truth to say that in all these 
 long years, none who have worshipped at St. Mary’s shrine excelled 
 him in the performance of his religious obligations. He was, in fact, 
 a Christian man in act as well as in profession. 
 
 Mr. Meehan was a native of and had before coming to America 
 been in business in the City of Limerick, Ireland. He came to Elgin 
 in 1850, and at first for a short period resided on the west side. 
 While so residing he erected the frame store which yet stands on the 
 northeast corner of Douglas and Dexter avenues, it being thought 
 at that time that the depot for the railway just entering Elgin would attract 
 the trade of the village to the locality named. In this location Mr. Meehan 
 for some years did business in the clothing line, but it becoming evident 
 after a while that trade would still adhere to Chicago street, Mr. Meehan 
 purchased the site for and erected thereon the brick block just west of 
 the railway crossing on Chicago street, recently removed to make way 
 for the new block by Mr. M. Tobin. At the time that Mr. 
 Meehan built the old structure it was thought to be, and it was, 
 quite an addition to Chicago street, and in it he for many years, 
 and up to his final retirement from trade, still continued in the clothing 
 business, having both a large town and country trade in the same. 
 Being a man of excellent business foresight, the subject of this sketch 
 afterward erected another business edifice on Chicago street, near the 
 bridge, and during all the time that he lived in Elgin his highest grati¬ 
 fication was to see it steadily and surely improve. During all the years 
 of his life in Elgin he was not known to have ever quarreled with a 
 
i845- i ^5°- 
 
 Mrs. Edward Mann, 
 
 6. 
 
 Mrs. James Scanlan ( Rutland) 
 
 Edward Mann, 
 
 7 - 
 
 Mrs. Patrick Daly. 
 
 John Duhy, 
 
 8. 
 
 Patrick Daly, 
 
 Mrs. Martin Forkin, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Martn Needham, 
 
 Martin Forkin, 
 
 1 o. 
 
 Richard Welch, 
 
 II. Mrs. Richard Welch. 
 
110 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 single individual, for he looked over the faults or the follies of others 
 and withal he was a man of a lively and joyous disposition, kind and 
 true to his friends. In business his name stood for the strictest integ¬ 
 rity, and he lived to a vigorous old age among people who had 
 known him for decades of years as a good man, who during a long life 
 was mindful of his duties as a Christian and as a citizen. His memory 
 will not cease to be cherished by many in Elgin while they can call to 
 mind the cheery ways and the true friendship of this long time friend 
 and faithful attendant at St. Mary’s Church. 
 
 DANIEL GAHAN. 
 
 One of the few pioneers of St. Mary’s parish yet with us, who is as 
 interested in its welfare, if not so active as in other days, is Daniel 
 Gahan. He is, perhaps, the last survivor of the many old parishioners, 
 who when conveyances were not available, often on a Sunday walked to 
 the “ Barrens Church ” to attend mass before there was a Catholic 
 church in Elgin. Difficulties but sharpened the sense of duty of many 
 of those early comers who lost no opportunity to evince and establish 
 the faith they prized more than comfort or life, and to arrange for its 
 maintenance and transmission. 
 
 Mr. Gahan was born March 5, 1824, in the parish of Bagnalstown, 
 County Carlow, Ireland, and there lived on his father’s farm until the 
 early spring of 1848, when he came to America. He first stopped for 
 a time in Westmoreland Co., Penn., and there acquired a knowledge of 
 the tanning business. 
 
 In 1849 he came West, and after a short stay in Chicago moved 
 to Elgin, which has since been his home. 
 
 His first work in this vicinity was in the woods getting out material 
 for the Galena & Chicago Union R. R., then in course of construction 
 through the place. The venture was unprofitable as the contractor left 
 for parts unknown about the time the work was completed, leaving his 
 workmen only their experience for their efforts. 
 
 Soon Mr. Gahan found employment in the large tannery that was 
 located where is now the main plant in Elgin of the Borden Milk Con¬ 
 densing Co. After working there a short time he was appointed fore¬ 
 man of the tanning department, a position he held until 1865, when 
 with L. H. Delmarle, under the firm name of Gahan & Delmarle, he 
 established the Fox River Tannery at the west end of the Chicago St. 
 
1. 
 
 James Quinn, 
 
 1850-1855. 
 
 - 
 
 Mrs. James Doran, 
 
 2 
 
 Mrs. James Quinn, 
 
 
 8. 
 
 Charles Danner, 
 
 3 ‘ 
 
 Mrs. Bernard Can nan 
 
 ( '838)1 
 
 9 - 
 
 Mrs. Charles Danner, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Bernard Cannan, 
 
 10. 
 
 Richard Long, 
 
 5 - 
 
 Bernard Lynn, 
 
 
 1 1. 
 
 Mrs. Matthias Drennan 
 
 6. 
 
 Mrs. Bernard Lynn, 
 
 
 i 2. 
 
 Matthias Drennan. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 bridge. From the first the firm did a large and profitable business, 
 both wholesale and retail, in leather, hides, pelts, shoe-findings, etc. 
 
 After a few years Mr. Delmarle withdrew and his interest in the 
 business was assumed by Mr. F. J. Hutchinson (a brother-in-law to the 
 senior partner), the firm now becoming Gahan & Hutchinson. 
 
 With increasing business the new firm soon were obliged to move 
 their tannery to Clintonville. The firm at this time also engaged in the 
 manufacture of boots and shoes in the unoccupied portion of their store 
 building in West Chicago St., where they continued in business until the 
 late ’70s, when they sold their business site to the Chicago, Milwaukee 
 & St. Paul Railroad Co. for yard and depot purposes. The subject of 
 this sketch then withdrew from the business. Since that time he has 
 engaged in insurance and other agencies, and has served the public in 
 the capacity of justice of the peace several terms. 
 
 Today, though much beyond the allotted time of human life, he is 
 hale and hearty, and possesses the same genial disposition so charac¬ 
 teristic of him earlier in life. 
 
 In 1851 Mr. Gahan was married at Blairsville, Penn., to Miss 
 Mary Hutchinson, whose life as a devoted Christian, wife and mother 
 terminated December 31, 1888. 
 
 1850-1855. 
 
 Barrett, James 
 Boyle, Dominick 
 Bowland, John 
 Burke, Wm. 
 
 Byron, John 
 Bradley, Michael 
 Burns, John 
 Burns, Hugh 
 Burns, Adam 
 Barry, Joseph 
 Bannon, Bernard 
 Caldwell, James J. 
 Carroll, Larry 
 Connery, Thomas 
 Connery, Thos. 
 Connery, Michael 
 •Connery, Richard 
 
 Connery, John 
 Cassidy, James 
 Collins,Wm. 
 
 Clifford, Thomas 
 Connor, James 
 Collins, Edward 
 Casey, Timothy 
 Collins, David 
 Camphin, Edward 
 Camphin, John 
 Camphin, Michael 
 Camphin, Daniel 
 Cotter, Wm. 
 
 Casey, James 
 Cummings, Thomas 
 Costigan, Martin 
 Campbell, Thomas 
 
1850-1855- 
 
 I. 
 
 Mrs. Eugene O’Reilly, 
 
 7 - 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Gahan 
 
 2. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Clifford, 
 
 8. 
 
 Thomas Gahan, 
 
 3 - 
 
 Mrs. Bridgit Ryan, 
 
 9 - 
 
 F. J. Hutchinson, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Jeremiah Ryan, 
 
 10. 
 
 James Connor, 
 
 5 - 
 
 Mrs. Jeremiah Ryan, 
 
 11. 
 
 James Galligan, 
 
 6 . 
 
 Mrs. Richard Hutchinson, 
 
 12. 
 
 Matthew O’Neil. 
 
114 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 1850-1855. 
 
 Cannon, B. 
 
 Collins, Michael 
 Cullen, Dennis 
 Dunne, Wm. 
 
 Danner, Charles 
 Drannan, Thos. 
 Drennan, Wm. 
 Drennan, Matt. 
 
 Dunn, Owen 
 Dennis, Alex. 
 
 Dorsey, Thomas 
 Dorsey, Michael 
 Dadey, Dennis 
 Duggan, Jeremiah 
 Dooley, Michael 
 Doran, James 
 Daley, John 
 Driscoll, John 
 Flannigan, Patrick 
 Fleming, David 
 Fitzgerald, Patrick 
 Foggerty, Joseph 
 Feery, Michael 
 Feery, James 
 Foggerty, Patrick 
 Frisby, Patrick 
 Fordrescher, Joseph 
 Fordrescher, Simon 
 Fordrescher, John 
 Fitzsimmons, Patrick 
 Gahan, Thomas 
 Grady, Michael 
 Gannon, Mrs. Mary A. 
 Gilmartin, Daniel 
 Gleason, Dennis 
 Gaffney, Patrick 
 Galligan, James 
 
 Gahagan, Lawrence 
 Gabbit, Michael 
 Garry, Michael 
 Garvy, David 
 Garvy, John 
 Gowrey, John 
 Hutchinson, Mrs. Richard 
 Hutchinson, John F. 
 Hutchinson, F. J. 
 Hutchinson, James 
 Hutchinson, Joseph 
 Hogan, John 
 Hines, Peter 
 Harrington, Wm. 
 Harrington, Edward 
 Hannigan. James 
 Hand, Patrick 
 Haley, Patrick 
 Hassett, John 
 Higgins, Wm. 
 
 Hopkins, Matt. 
 
 Houlihan, Edward 
 Hayes, Patrick 
 Heslin, Thos. 
 
 Horgan, Daniel 
 Hogan, Michael 
 Hyde, Nicholas 
 Horgan, John O. G. 
 Kennedy, Jas. 
 
 Kennedy, Wm. 
 
 Kinkead, Jas. 
 
 Knowles, Patrick 
 Knowles, Matt. 
 
 Kinney,Bryan 
 Kelley, John 
 Kean, Bryan 
 Kelley, Owen 
 
iS5° 
 
 1. Patrick Fitzsimmons, 
 
 2. Mrs. Patrick Fitzsimmons, 
 
 3. Mrs Michael Grady, 
 
 4. Michael Grady, 
 
 5. Mrs. John Ryan, 
 
 6. John Ryan, 
 
 7. Mrs. Margaret l ong, 
 
 8. Dennis Dailey, 
 
 9. Mrs. Andrew Masterson, 
 10. Mrs. Patrick Handley. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 1850-1855. 
 
 Kitzen, Michael 
 Kane, Andrew 
 Kelley, Andrew 
 Kramer, N. 
 
 Kinney, Simon 
 Kavanaugh, Peter 
 Larkin, Patrick 
 Linnahan, John 
 Lynn, Bernard 
 Logan, Owen 
 Long, Richard 
 Little, Peter 
 Little, Lewis 
 Little, Edward 
 Little, Joseph 
 Long, John 
 Lynch, Mrs. Ann 
 Lawlor, John 
 Lawlor, Patrick 
 Mann, Jas. 
 
 Morney,- 
 
 McGuire, Joseph 
 McDonnell, Wm. 
 McGrath, Joseph 
 McCarthy, Michael 
 McCormick, Edward 
 McMahon, Michael 
 McCormick, Patrick 
 Masterson, Andrew 
 Moran, Martin 
 Maher, Martin 
 Miller, Joseph 
 Maher, Thomas 
 Maher, Michael 
 Manning, Philip 
 Murphy, Michael 
 Murphy, Philip 
 
 Murray, Michael 
 Nolan, Patrick 
 Nolan, James 
 O’Brien, Philip 
 O’Laughlin. J. P. 
 O’Neil, Matt. 
 O’Neil, Philip 
 O’Neil, Joseph 
 O’Neil, Dennis 
 O’Donnell, Wm. 
 O’Reillv, Mrs. E. 
 O’Connell, Thomas 
 O’Neil, Daniel 
 O’Connor, Jeremiah 
 Provost, Joseph 
 Pabst, Joseph 
 Pabst, Martin 
 Phalen, Daniel 
 Phalen, Patrick 
 Phalen, John 
 Quinn, James 
 Ryan, “ Johnnie ” 
 Ryan, Jeremiah 
 Ryan, John 
 Rafferty, Patrick 
 Rafferty, John 
 Riley, Wm. 
 
 Regan, Michael 
 Russell, Dennis 
 Ryan, Edmond 
 Ryan, Timothy 
 Roche, Wm. 
 
 Roche, Michael 
 Roche, John 
 
 Roche, James 
 Tyrell, Mrs. David 
 Rice, Wm. 
 
1 85 
 
 1. Patrick Knowles, 
 
 2. Mrs. Patrick Knowles, 
 
 3. Mrs. Mary A. Gannon, 
 
 4. Joseph Miller, 
 
 5. Mrs. Joseph Miller, 
 
 -1855. 
 
 6. Mrs. David Tyrrell, 
 
 7. Mrs. Wm. Drennan, 
 
 8. Joseph Pabst, 
 
 9. Mrs. Joseph Pabst, 
 
 10. Patrick Larkin. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 1850-1855. 
 
 Sullivan, Jeremiah 
 Sweeney, Patrick 
 
 Tobin, Chas. 
 Whalen, John 
 
 Sweeney, Neil 
 Shea, Michael 
 Shine, John 
 
 Walsh, Joseph 
 Wallace, Thos, 
 Wetzler, Jacob 
 
 Walker, William 
 
 Shine, Daniel 
 Spillard, John 
 
 Welch, Richard 
 Welch, James 
 Young, Thomas 
 
 Stanton, Patrick 
 Sower, George 
 Spaulding, Matt. 
 
 MRS. EUGENE O’REILLY. 
 
 Mrs. Eugene O’Reilly was born in Castledooey, Raphoe, County 
 Donegal, Ireland, in 1837. Her maiden name was Catherine Sweeney* 
 her parents being Thomas and Annie Sweeney. She came to this 
 country when fourteen years old, and lived with her uncle, Father 
 Gallagher, for several years. 
 
 After her marriage to Mr. Eugene O’Reilly, she moved to Chicago, 
 where she resided until her death, September 16, 1900. One who knew 
 her well said of her: “ She was always a devout Christian ; a better 
 mother never lived; her whole time was devoted to her family ; her home 
 was her paradise.” 
 
 [EREMIAH RYAN. 
 
 Mr. Jeremiah Ryan was born at Morroe Wood, Parish of Abing- 
 ton, County Limerick, Ireland, on May 28, 1820. Coming to Amer¬ 
 ica in 1847, he resided in New York for four years. There he married 
 Miss Margaret Fitzgerald, a companion from childhood. In 1851 
 the family moved to Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut, where 
 they resided until 1855, when they moved to Elgin. 
 
 In his 18th year, in the City of Cork, Ireland, Mr. Ryan took from 
 Father Matthew the total abstinence pledge, a pledge which he kept 
 inviolate until the day of his death. His charitable and benevolent dis¬ 
 position, his gentleness and affability won for him the respect and 
 esteem of his neighbors and the community at large. He was a most 
 devout and conscientious Catholic. He was a great lover of children, 
 
I. 
 
 Mrs. Brian Kenney, 
 
 1050-105;,. 
 
 6. 
 
 Nicholas Hyde, 
 
 2. 
 
 Brian Kenney, 
 
 
 7 * 
 
 Mrs. David Collins, 
 
 3 - 
 
 Mrs. Patrick Tray nor 
 
 
 8. 
 
 David Collins, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Michael Roche, 
 
 
 9 - 
 
 Peter Hines, 
 
 5 - 
 
 Mrs. Michael Roche, 
 
 
 10. 
 
 William Roche, 
 
 11 . 
 
 Mrs. William Roche. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 and he knew them all, always having a glad welcome for them ; and 
 they all knew “ Jerry Ryan,” and honored and respected him. 
 
 He was once elected town collector of the town of Elgin, an office 
 which he filled with honor to himself and credit to the township. 
 
 Mr. Ryan was very methodical in his way and kept a daily record 
 of local and parish events for over fifty years. Mr. Ryan died in Elgin 
 on April 9, 1898, in the 78th year of his age, mourned by a host of 
 friends. 
 
 r855—i860. 
 
 Allen, James 
 Barry, Robert 
 Burke, Francis N. 
 Burke, Patrick 
 Burke, John 
 Burke, Wm. 
 
 Burke, Maurice 
 Buel, Mrs. Josephine 
 Boyle, Dominick 
 Cooney, Patrick 
 Carte, Charles 
 Considine, John 
 Colford, Patrick 
 Colford, Richard 
 Collins, Stephen 
 Connell, R. 
 
 Costigan, John 
 Dougherty, Charles 
 Delaney, James 
 Dooley, Patrick 
 Dibb, Isaac 
 Donahue, Wm. 
 Duggan, Patrick 
 Driscoll, Patrick 
 Daley, John 
 Fay, Peter (1845), 
 Freeman, Michael 
 Fahey, John 
 Foley, Patrick 
 
 Foley, Thomas 
 Gilick, Robt. 
 
 Gilick, Michael 
 Grant, Patrick 
 Gubbins, Edward 
 Garvey, Thomas 
 Garvey, Patrick 
 Grant, Richard 
 Grady, John 
 Hefferman, Joseph 
 Hennessey, John 
 Hade, Mrs. C. 
 Hannigan, Thomas 
 Handley, Patrick 
 Hennick, Wm. 
 Hennick, John 
 Hogan, Patrick 
 Hickey, William 
 Jones, Patrick 
 Kelley, Thomas 
 Kelley, Thomas B. 
 Kinney, Wm. 
 
 Kalahan, Thomas 
 Kenneally, Mrs. Mary 
 Kenneady, James 
 Kenneady, Edward 
 Logan, Owen 
 Logan, Thomas 
 Logan, John 
 
Mrs. Francis N. Burke, 
 
 i S5 5-1860. 
 
 6. 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Kelley, 
 
 Francis N. Burke, 
 
 7 - 
 
 Conrad Kohn, 
 
 John Nolan, 
 
 8. 
 
 Mrs. Conrad Kohn, 
 
 Mrs. John Nolan, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Mrs. Josephine Buel, 
 
 Thomas Kelley, 
 
 10. 
 
 John Martin, 
 
 11. 
 
 Mrs. John Martin. 
 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 1855-1860. 
 
 Laughlin, Thomas 
 
 Murphy, Daniel 
 
 McGarry, John 
 
 Meenagh, John 
 
 McBroiarty, Anthony 
 
 Meenagh, Patrick 
 
 Me Nab, Michael 
 
 Nolan, John 
 
 McCartney, John 
 
 O’Brien, Michael 
 
 McCartney, Richard 
 
 O’Brien, Wm. 
 
 McCartney, Anthony 
 
 O’Brien, James 
 
 McEnerney, Patrick 
 
 O’Connor, James 
 
 McGraw, David 
 
 Powers, William 
 
 McGarry, Patrick 
 
 Quinlan, James 
 
 McLaughlin, James 
 
 Quillinan James 
 
 McCormick, Stephen 
 
 Quernheim, Philip 
 
 Murphy, John 
 
 Rourke, Patrick 
 
 Miller, Peter 
 
 Rotcher, Michael 
 
 Mulloy, Patrick 
 
 Rochford, Patrick 
 
 Mulloy, James 
 
 Rhoden, Christopher 
 
 Morrisey, Patrick 
 
 Sheehan, James L. 
 
 Morrisey, Michael 
 
 Shields, James 
 
 Morrisey, Martin 
 
 Schaller, Andrew 
 
 Moore, James 
 
 Savage, James 
 
 Moran, Michael 
 
 Sweeney, Peter 
 
 Murphy, Philip 
 
 Shern, Michael 
 
 Murphy, John 
 
 Traynor, Patrick 
 
 Wallace, Matt. 
 
 PATRICK JONES. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Jones came to Elgin in 1857 from Burling¬ 
 ton, Vt. Mr. Jones worked at his trade of tailor for two years, when 
 he formed a partnership with Mr. Joseph Hemmens to carry on a mer¬ 
 chant tailoring business under the firm name of Hemmens & Jones, 
 which was only terminated by his death which occurred March 22, 1899, 
 the firm being at that time the longest established of any in the city. 
 Mrs. Jones survived her husband but about two years, dying January 
 6, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were members of St. Mary 's congregation 
 from their arrival in Elgin and were always active in church affairs. 
 Mr. Jones was born in Montreal, Canada, and moved to Vermont in 1841. 
 Mrs. Jones was born in the Vale of Aherlowe, County Tipperary, Ire- 
 
1855 j S6j. 
 
 I . 
 
 Mrs. Mary Kenneally, 
 
 6 . 
 
 Mrs. Patrick Rochford, 
 
 0 
 
 Mrs. Andrew Schaller. 
 
 / * 
 
 Phillip Quernheim, 
 
 J* 
 
 Andrew Schaller, 
 
 8 . 
 
 Mrs. Philop Manning, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Mrs. Tames Sheehan, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Foley, 
 
 5 * 
 
 Patrick Rochford, 
 
 10. 
 
 'Thomas Foley. 
 
 4 
 
Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 124 
 
 land, and emigrated to this country with her parents when a small child, 
 and settled at Burlington, Vt. Of their eight children five survive them, 
 Lawrence, Joseph and Margaret still belong to St. Mary’s parish and 
 Charles and Ellen live in Chicago. 
 
 JOHN SPILLARD. 
 
 John Spillard enjoyed the distinction of being the first Catholic 
 elected to any public office in this city. He was chosen alderman of 
 the then Third ward (now the Seventh), in the year 1S61, for two years, 
 and re-elected in 1865. 
 
 JOHN SPILLARD AND FAMILY. 
 
 Mr. Spillard was among the early business men of Elgin, coming 
 here in 1S54, and immediately erecting a small tannery on North State 
 street. He was prosperous from the beginning, and after years of 
 hard work and industry, he became one of the largest sheep-skin manu¬ 
 facturers in the State. Besides manufacturing, he also dealt in wool, 
 hides and furs. 
 

 1855-1860. 
 
 1. James O’Brien, 
 
 2. Mrs. Catherine Hade, 
 
 3. Thomas Logan, 
 
 4. Mrs. Michael Sheran. 
 
 5. Michael Sheran. 
 
 11. Mrs. T. B. 
 
 6. William Hickey, 
 
 7. Mrs. Wm. Hickey, 
 
 8 . Mrs. Christopher Rhoden, 
 
 9. Christopher Rhoden, 
 
 10. T. B. Kelley, 
 
 Kelley. 
 
Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 126 
 
 In 1865, J. H. Spillard, his second son, became his partner, and 
 from that time on the business was conducted under the hrm name and 
 style of John Spillard & Son. 
 
 JUDGE M. W. HOGAN. 
 
 Among the early parishioners who have since become prominent, 
 mention must be made of the Hon. M. W. Hogan. Born in Ireland, 
 he came to this country at an early age, and for a couple of years lived 
 
 JUDGE M. W. HOGAN. 
 
 here with Mr. John Meehan, Sr., who was then his guardian. In the 
 summer or fall of 1854 he moved to Chicago. There, in union with John 
 Meehan, Jr., son of the John Meehan above referred to, and William 
 L. Linton, editor of a Catholic paper called “ The Western Banner,” he 
 helped organize the “Young Men’s Catholic Institute,” the first society 
 of the kind in Chicago. 
 
 He studied law under the guidance of the late Hon. S. S. Hayes, 
 and in the old University of Chicago, now known as the Northwestern 
 

 IN THE ’50’S, 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 University. Shortly after being admitted to the bar, he married Miss 
 Delia Walsh, daughter of the late Dr. John Walsh, of Buttevant, Ireland, 
 who was then residing in Chicago. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Hogan moved with his family to St. Louis. After 
 the war of the rebellion broke out, he met many of his former friends 
 and companions who had taken up arms and were moving to the front 
 in defense of the flag. Among them was General Lynch of Elgin. 
 One day as the two friends were sitting in the old “ Planters' House,” 
 St. Louis, a dispatch from Governor Yates of Illinois was handed to 
 General Lynch. The Governor had appointed General Lynch colonel 
 of a regiment, and wished him to report at once for duty. General 
 Lynch was very desirous of having Mr. Hogan appointed lieutenant 
 colonel; but sickness in his family at that time prevented Mr. Hogan’s 
 acceptance of the generous offer. During the war, however, Mr. 
 Hogan did military duty in and around St. Louis as a member of the 
 enrolled Missouri militia. He assisted the late Dr. Thomas O’Reilly 
 to organize, equip and send to the field the Seventh Missouri Infantry, 
 U. S. Volunteers, afterwards known as ‘ the St. Louis Fighting Irish 
 Brigade.’' 
 
 During his long residence in St. Louis, Mr. Hogan filled many 
 public offices. He served as city alderman; was a member of the 
 school board ; was prosecuting attorney for state and county for three 
 successive terms. 
 
 Leaving St. Louis in 1886, he returned with his family to Chicago. 
 There his wife died four years later, leaving with him six children, two 
 sons and four daughters. His sons, Thomas S. and Frank J., are mem¬ 
 bers of the Chicago bar, having offices in the Ashland Building. One 
 of his daughters is married to Mr. John H. Burke of Baltimore, Md., 
 and another to Mr. George J. Flannigan of Flannigan Brothers, book 
 publishers of Chicago. His youngest daughter, Stella, is well known in 
 Elgin, being a frequent visitor here at the homes of her relatives. 
 
 The Judge’s sister, Miss Kate Hogan, has for many years been a 
 member of St. Mary’s parish, residing with Mrs. Mary T. Hogan, 
 widow of the Judge’s brother, P. T. Hogan, who is buried here. 
 
 Having once been a resident, and always having relatives here, the 
 Judge has been a regular visitor to our city. He has many friends 
 among the older parishioners, and is always a most welcome guest in 
 
 our midst. 
 
i86g or later. 
 
 I. 
 
 John McGarry, 
 
 8. 
 
 Mrs. Thomas Jordan, 
 
 2 
 
 Mrs. Patrick Phelan, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Thomas Jordan, 
 
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 Mrs. John Jordan. 
 
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 William O’Bierne, 
 
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 James Wall, 
 
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 Mrs. John McGarry, 
 
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 John Jordan, 
 
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 Mrs. Ellen Kane, 
 
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 Michael McGarry, 
 
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 Mrs. William O’Bierne, 
 
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 Mrs. Michael McGarry 
 
 
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 Mrs. James Wall. 
 
 
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 JOSEPH HEALY. 
 
 Among the young men of Elgin, and especially among the young 
 men of St. Mary’s parish in the years from 1866 to September 14, 1871, 
 when he died at the early age of 26 years, none gave promise of a 
 brighter and nobler future than Joseph Healy. Born in Elgin, after a 
 rudimentary education here, he was sent by his father, the late Bernard 
 Healy, to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. There, his remark- 
 
 JOSEPII HEALY. 
 
 able application to and success in study, won him high honor and marked 
 him as an exceptionally talented young man. After graduating at this 
 university with the highest success he returned to Elgin, and very soon 
 after entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. There he 
 entered the justly famed law department of that institution, and after 
 the usual extensive course of law reading, practiced in that university, 
 he graduated from it, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. On his 
 return to Elgin he entered the law firm of Botsford & Barry, the firm’s 
 
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 title becoming Botsford, Barry & Healy. He remained a member of 
 this firm until his death, the same being then unquestionably the lead¬ 
 ing law firm of the county. 
 
 We have alluded to what promised to be the bright future of this 
 departed friend, and truly such a future he had, if ability, honesty of 
 word and deed, and fidelity to high purposes and ideals can assure 
 professional success. But his early death ended what seemed destined 
 to be a distinguished life at its very beginning, professionally considered. 
 
 DANIEL BURKE AND FAMILY. 
 
 He had all the characteristics of an able lawyer, especially of a very 
 able office lawyer, and better yet, of an honest man. Among his 
 friends and intimates he was absolutely a beloved friend and companion, 
 and among such of them as are yet living, his memory will be fondly 
 cherished until the hour of death. 
 
 Joseph Healy was a man of intense public spirit, and devoted a 
 large part of his spare time to the formation and perfecting in Elgin of 
 a good fire department. His work in this respect will never be for 
 
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 gotten by the old guard of the fire department. His early death was 
 widely and sincerely mourned, and his funeral services held at old St. 
 Mary’s Church, and his interment in the old Elgin cemetery was made 
 the occasion of a sympathetic demonstration participated in by people 
 of all circles, perhaps larger than has attended the funeral rites of any 
 citizen of Elgin before or since that sorrowful occasion. 
 
 HUGH MUKPHY. 
 
 HUGH MURPHY. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is Hugh Murphy, born at Elgin, Ill., 
 April 14, 1852, attended public school at Elgin in 1861-2, In 1863, 
 ’64 and ’65 did about everything in the way of odd jobs that one of his 
 age was capable of and the necessities of those severe war times required 
 in order to exist. From 1865 to 1870 he served an apprenticeship 
 with E. F. Reeves at the trade of stone cutting, stone mason work, 
 plastering and brick laying. During the five years of his apprentice- 
 
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 ship he attended school at the Elgin Academy during the winter season. 
 From September 1871 to June 1872 he took a private commercial 
 course from the professors at Notre Dame,- South Bend, Ind., and 
 worked on the Cathedral at his trade to pay for same. From 1873 
 until 1878 he worked as journeyman and contractor in the various 
 states of the Union and settled in 1878 at Omaha, Neb., where he was 
 employed as Assistant City Engineer in charge of sewer work. In 1880 
 he had charge of the mechanical construction of the Omaha Water Works. 
 In 1882 he entered the business of contracting of public works, in¬ 
 cluding grading, sewer construction and paving with wood, stone, 
 brick and asphalt. In 1888 he opened the stone quarries at Lyons, 
 
 MR. NOLAN’S FARM HOUSE AND STOCK BARN. 
 
 Colo., and operates in the line of his business in Nebraska, Colorado, 
 Utah and Iowa. He has been successful in all his undertakings. 
 
 In 1882 he was married to Miss Helen McGraw of Chicago. 
 They have four children living, Hugh, Mary, Richard and Helen. 
 
 Solely by his own efforts and ability he has accumulated a com¬ 
 petent fortune, and has a loving family and a happy home, although he 
 started in life with as little of this world’s goods as it was possible for 
 one to possess. 
 
 JOHN NOLAN. 
 
 One of the prosperous and well-known members of St. Mary’s 
 parish is Mr. John Nolan, whose fine dairy farm of about 200 acres is 
 located in the south-western corner of Elgin township. Mr. Nolan was 
 
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 born in County Carlow, Ireland, May i, 1832. He came to Elgin in 
 1857 with no possessions, but an honest heart and willing hands. For 
 eight years he worked with farmers in the vicinity of Elgin, and then 
 bought the land on which he has since made his home. 
 
 In 1865 he was married to Miss Helen Dunn, who was born in 
 County West Meathe, Ireland. Their union was blessed with three sons 
 and a daughter, who are a source of pride and comfort to their parents 
 in their declining years. 
 
 Visits to the home of these hospitable people are always enjoyed by 
 their many friends. Their comfortable farm-house, surrounded by 
 shade, ornamental and fruit trees, the modern horse and stock barns, 
 dairy house and out-buildings, all well kept, are the result of their own 
 efforts, and are eloquent testimonials to their industry, good judgment 
 and taste. Mr. Nolan and his family are regular attendants at and 
 liberal contributors to the support of St. Mary's Church. 
 
 PATRICK DALY. 
 
 A sketch of the old time folk of Elgin would be indeed very incom¬ 
 plete did it not contain some allusion to the late Patrick Daly. Our 
 whole people, young and old, well knew the good, cheery, whole-souled 
 man, ever with a smile on his honest, humorous face, that for genera¬ 
 tions, we may say, performed in the Elgin cemetery “man’s last duty to 
 man,” the return of dust to dust. 
 
 What a work our old friend did in that old cemetery of ours, now, 
 as we look back at it with its forty years of labor. How many sorrowful 
 groups and breaking hearts has he faced in that time. Surely, no other 
 man in Elgin, as he, has faced such a ceaseless panorama of sorrow 
 moving constantly before his honest and sympathetic Irish eyes and 
 heart. Indeed, Patrick was near to the people of Elgin, for he had been 
 with them in their most supreme hours of sorrow, and had laid to rest 
 their best beloved with the strong arm of his youth, and with the feeble 
 but ever faithful arm of his old age. 
 
 Patrick Daly was born in the County of West Meathe, Ireland, on 
 the 17th of March (St. Patrick’s Day), 1810. He emigrated to 
 America, and came direct to Elgin in 1850. Very soon after coming 
 to Elgin, or to be precise, as soon as the old St. Mary’s Church was 
 roofed, the then pastor, Rev. Father Feely, appointed Mr. Daly to look 
 after the church as a sort of sexton, and from this by some natural 
 

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 transition he soon graduated into the performance of the duties of the 
 village cemetery sextonship. Afterward, when the city government 
 was instituted in Elgin, and the cemetery came under corporate con¬ 
 trol, he yet continued in it his duties as sexton, and so continued until 
 a short time before his death, when age and illness prevented him from 
 longer performing the duties of his old work. The City of Elgin, how¬ 
 ever, remembering his old-time faithfulness, kept him in its employ up 
 to and until his death. He reposes in the sweet old cemetery that he 
 loved in life more than any spot on earth.* 
 
 PATRICK DALY. : 
 
 Patrick Daly died on the 13th of December, 1893, regretted by all 
 our people of every sort and character. In his life he addressed all 
 who came to visit the cemetery as “ my son,” thus to the little child and 
 to the old man alike. Maybe that their sorrows which he every day saw 
 
 *Since the above was written Mr. Daly’s remains, together with those of the 
 deceased of his family, have been transferred to the Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin. 
 
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 endeared them to him and made his kind heart pity them—who can 
 tell ? Mark how Shakespeare puts the words of philosophy into the 
 mouths of the grave diggers at Ophelia’s grave. Patrick, too, lived and 
 philosophized among our tombs, and who can say but that he, too, 
 realized the awful fact that all is vanity save love of God and of truth, 
 and love for one’s fellowmen, and these characteristics he had and he 
 practiced for forty years in the old Elgin cemetery, in storm and in 
 sunshine, young and aged, rich and poor, “he gathered them in.” 
 
 THE OLD SEXTON. 
 
 H. RUSSELL. 
 
 Nigh to a grave that was newly made, 
 
 Leaned a sexton old, on his earth worn spade. 
 His work was done and he paused to wait, 
 
 The fun’ral train through the open gate; 
 
 A relic of bygone days was he, 
 
 And his locks were white as the foamy sea; 
 
 And these words came from his lips so thin, 
 
 I gather them in, I gather them in. 
 
 I gather them in ! for man and boy, 
 
 Year after year of grief and joy; 
 
 I’ve budded the homes that lie around 
 In every nook of this burial ground ; 
 
 Mother and daughter, father and son, 
 
 Come to my solitude, one by one; 
 
 But come they strangers or come they kin, 
 
 I gather them in, I gather them in. 
 
 Many are with me, but still I’m alone; 
 
 I’m king of the dead, and I make my throne 
 On a monument slab of marble cold; 
 
 And my sceptre of rule is the spade I hold. 
 Come they from cottage or come they from hall, 
 Mankind are my subjects all, all, all! 
 
 Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfuliy spin, 
 
 I gather them in, I gather them in. 
 
HOMES OF PARISHIONERS 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Benefactors of Early Parishioners. 
 
 It would be to us a matter of supreme pleasure, indeed, we would 
 prefer to say that it would be to us a labor of love to insert in this 
 memoir of St. Mary’s church a complete collection of the pictures and 
 biographies of the early citizens. It is not for lack of desire so to do 
 that we forbear the effort, but for other causes. We sincerely believe 
 that, taken as a whole, no better men settled in the then west and 
 northwest than the men who located in what is now the city of Elgin 
 during its early days. We knew them to be men of broad minds, spurn¬ 
 ing prejudice, and whether Protestant, Free Thinker or of no religious 
 faith, men in the aggregate who looked upon their neighbors as their 
 friends and brothers in fact. Well might such men. glorious pioneers, 
 use the passionate and lofty appeal of the good man in Leigh Hunt’s 
 poetic gem : 
 
 “Write me as one who loves his fellow man ” 
 
 issues from their souls and lips, for they were ever true to the spirit of 
 brotherly love ; and indeed we may well add that from its first settle¬ 
 ment the Fox River valley has been “ a peaceful vale,” in which neither 
 religious nor social animosities ever had an abiding place. 
 
 And so it is now, long after most of these old settlers of Elgin 
 have gone over to the silent majority, that we speak of these large- 
 hearted men, no matter of what religious faith, with love and venera¬ 
 tion. Through their kindly deeds and benevolent words they largely 
 contributed to the planting of St. Mary’s parish. They encouraged 
 the early Catholic settlers to locate in their village or in its vicinity, 
 and afterward proved themselves benefactors, kind friends and 
 good neighbors: Americans in all the word implies, for though worship¬ 
 ing at other altars, and, with but few exceptions, differing in nationality 
 from Catholics, they willingly accorded our predecessors in the faith 
 the same privileges sought by themselves, the parishioners of today 
 
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 BENEFACTORS OF EARLY PARISHIONERS. 
 
 Mr. Tames T. Gifford, 
 Mr. Wm. C. Kimball, 
 Dr. Joseph Tefft, 
 
 4. Gen. Elijah Wilcox. 
 
 5. Mr. F. L. McClure, 
 
 6. Dr. Edgar Winchester. 
 
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 can not do otherwise than cherish loving feelings for the memory of 
 those good people. 
 
 Entertaining the impression, the readers of this volume will deem 
 the foregoing brief tribute a proper termination to the sketches of our 
 early parishioners, and with the belief their possession will be appre¬ 
 ciated, we take pleasure in presenting on the preceding page portraits 
 of a few of the representative pioneer settlers. Like most of our early 
 settlers the few village fathers, whose portraits we here reproduce, were 
 men whose reputation, efforts and ability contributed much toward 
 making Elgin what it is, and in securing for it the prosperity it enioys 
 today. Early residents will well know the following: 
 
 James T. Gifford, Wm. C. Kimball, Dr. Joseph Tefft, Gen. Elijah 
 Wilcox, F. L. McClure, H. Edgar Winchester. 
 
 They have passed away, too, but they leave behind them the 
 memory of good lives, and that will survive forever, for 
 
 A man dies, 
 
 But his memory lives for all time. 
 
In Defense of the Flag. 
 
 As has been stated in a preceding page, it was during the time 
 “that tried men’s souls” when Father Eustace came amongst us. The 
 shrill blast of war had sounded, and St. Mary’s parish sent her full 
 quota to the front in defense of the Union. Many of them sleep 
 beneath southern skies. Others returned after four years of war to 
 home and loved ones and to again become useful citizens and active 
 members of St. Mary’s parish. Among the members of St. Mary’s 
 parish who answered the call to arms was Brig. Gen. Wm. F. Lynch. 
 
 The following sketch of the acts and life of Brigadier General 
 William F. Lynch synopsize the brilliant career of an Elgin man, and of 
 a devout member of St. Mary’s congregation. General Lynch’s career 
 in the civil war reads almost like romance, so daring were its o many 
 features, and so thoroughly were they marked by all the characteristics 
 of a patriotic soldier. Back in the year 1855, in the then diminutive 
 city of Elgin, a military company was formed that made its first appear¬ 
 ance at a fourth of July celebration in that year, held in what used to be 
 called Colby’s grove, a wooded spot a short distance east of the Elgin 
 Academy. This particular company, on the occasion referred to, was 
 habited in black trousers, white shirts, and black caps, and was com¬ 
 posed of what we may call the elite of the young men of Elgin. The 
 members of the organization were armed with such guns and bayonets 
 as the State then furnished to its military companies, for Illinois had at 
 that time no militia regiments patterned on the present existing model 
 of such organizations. This military company soon after its formation 
 realized that its first need was a genuine military garb; and as its 
 members were intensely patriotic, and as one of its chief organizers, 
 Sergeant Samuel Ward (afterwards killed while leading his company at 
 the battle of Shiloh), had in his boyhood near Albany, N. Y., been 
 much impressed by the dress of the Albany (New York) Continentals 
 with their [quaint old colonial garments and their cocked hats and 
 
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 bottle plumes, he advised the new company, his Elgin comrades, to 
 adopt the continental style of dress, and they did so. Then in the 
 garb o-f “ ’76,” the boys made their appearance to general admiration 
 on the streets of Elgin. Very soon after this event, they secured a 
 famous drill master in the person of Col. E. E. Ellsworth, a young 
 man then unknown to fame, but soon after to become one of the most 
 picturesque figures in the early events of the great civil war. Under 
 the instruction of this truly talented tactician the Elgin Continentals 
 rapidly advanced in proficiency, until their name became known all 
 over the West. The members were all persons of means. They 
 established their own armory, furnished it. engaged their own instructor, 
 garbed themselves, constantly received and royally entertained visiting 
 brethren of the sword, one such entertainment, that of the National 
 Guards Cadets, the crack military company of Chicago, costing their 
 Elgin entertainers over one thousand dollars. In fact, just before the 
 rebellion the Elgin Continentals were talked of and admired all over the 
 Northwest. Many of its members became distinguished officers from 
 1861 to 1865 in various regiments during the long fratricidal struggle. 
 
 Of this highly honorable and gallant band of young men, William F. 
 Lynch was a member, and in it he got his first glimpse of military life. 
 In a biographical notice of General Lynch, published in the Notre Dame 
 Scholastic, the journal of the university at which young Lynch was 
 educated, the writer says : “ Young Lynch’s father sent him to school to 
 Notre Dame, and one of the motives for this action appears to have been 
 a wish to get him away from the glamour of the Elgin uniform. But the 
 love of the garb was too strong for the youth. Hardly had he entered 
 Notre Dame when the military company then existing at the university 
 was changed to a continental company, William F. Lynch being its 
 drill master. In i860 the subject of our sketch was elected captain of 
 this company, and on April 17, 1861, President Lincoln called for 
 75,000 men. Public meetings were held everywhere. One was held 
 at South Bend, near the university. Lynch was there. Moderation was 
 counseled by all the speakers. Lynch chafed under the talk, mere 
 talk; at last, as all were going to leave, he got up and said : ‘ I am going 
 to the front, to shed the last drop of my blood if need be for the Union.’ ” 
 A company of the First Indiana Regiment was organized on the spot. 
 
 Then his own university company got on fire, or as the university 
 paper quoted puts it, “The captain let the blaze out, for the company 
 
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 was on fire already.” They must be off for the front. The president 
 of the university declared that he had no authority to let boys under 
 twenty-one enlist, which was true, but about sixty of the elder youth 
 went, and with them went Lynch. However, when they reached the 
 military rendezvous at Indianapolis, they found that the Indiana quota 
 was already full, and the boys had to return home. But in no way 
 deterred, young Lynch forthwith entered the Twenty-third Illinois Volun- 
 
 GENERAL WILLIAM F. LYNCH. 
 
 teers, the afterwards highly distinguished regiment commanded by 
 Colonel James A. Mulligan. While absent from this regiment on 
 recruiting service, the regiment being then in Missouri, the subject of 
 our sketch escaped capture at the hands of the confederates, Colonel 
 Mulligan and his entire command being captured by the confederate 
 General Price at Lexington, Missouri, after a memorable resistance by 
 Colonel Mulligan, a resistance that became an inspiration to the Union 
 forces in the Northwest. Hearing of the fate of his regiment, Lynch at 
 
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 once posted off to Governor Yates, and boldly asked that he be permitted 
 to raise a regiment of his own. The Governor asked him to whom he 
 could refer for an assurance that he could command a regiment. Lynch 
 referred him to Hon. Schuyler Colfax and to Governor Morton, both of 
 whom he had met at the University of Notre Dame. To Governor 
 Yates’ inquiry, Colfax replied, “ Good young man ; give him a chance,” 
 and Governor Morton answered, “ None better.” He then and thus got 
 permission to raise the 58th Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Now in 
 command of a regiment of his own, Colonel Lynch was soon at the 
 front and at once saw active service, participating in the assault and 
 capture of Fort Donelson, where his regiment fought first in Thayer’s 
 brigade and then on the left of Wallace’s troops. On the 6th and 
 7th of April, 1862, the great battle of Shiloh was fought. In this 
 memorable battle Colonel Lynch’s regiment was in the very thickest of 
 the struggle, being at the center of Grant’s line, among the troops 
 commanded by General W. H. L. Wallace and General Ben Prentiss. Of 
 the defense of this position by the union army, among whom as stated 
 was Colonel Lynch’s regiment, the confederate General W. P. Johnson 
 says, “ On the federal left center, W. H. L. Wallace and Hurlbut were 
 massed, with Prentiss’ fragment in a position so impregnable and 
 thronged with such fierce defenders that it won from the confederates 
 the title of the “ hornet’s nest.” Lynch, with most of his men, was 
 captured near or at the hornet’s nest, but the battle was eventually 
 saved by the resistance made by its “ fierce defenders,” among whom 
 Lynch and his men fought like heroes. After his capture, Colonel Lynch 
 was first sent to Madison, Georgia, and afterwards to Libby prison, 
 where he was held for a short period. From the latter he was paroled 
 on the 15th of October, 1862, and after an immediate exchange he went 
 to Washington and forthwith commenced to recruit and reorganize his 
 old regiment. In January, 1863, he was placed in command of Camp 
 Butler, near Springfield, Illinois, which was a camp for the holding of 
 confederate prisoners, and there he remained until June, 1863, when, 
 with his regiment, he was ordered to Cairo, Illinois, and from thence 
 under Sherman to Meridian, Mississippi. In this expedition he and his 
 regiment participated in the battle of the Big Black, and in many other 
 engagements until Meridian was reached. Returning from this expedi¬ 
 tion, Colonel Lynch became an acting brigadier general and so con¬ 
 tinued until he was desperately wounded on May 18, 1864. During this 
 
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 period, both in dispatches to the war department and otherwise, he 
 received the highest encomiums from his commander, General A. J. 
 Smith. On March 13. 1864, now Acting Brigadier Lynch was with the 
 Red River expedition under General Banks, on the west bank of the 
 Atchafalaya. On the 14th of the same month, Fort DeRussy, an 
 important confederate work, was captured by the federal army, 
 General Mower of the latter using Lynch’s brigade in the important 
 capture. Then the expedition moved on up the river with varying for¬ 
 tune until April 8, 1864, then the confederates under General Taylor 
 met the union forces under Generals Mower and Emery in battle array 
 Lynch’s brigade being in Mower’s command. As the event is told in 
 the university journal, to which allusion has heretofore been made, and 
 as the war record of General Lynch closes with his wounding about 
 that time, we copy the following from the Notre Dame Scholastic : 
 
 “ On the afternoon of April the 8th, Taylor attacked the federals 
 near Mansfield and drove them back in utter confusion. A panic 
 spread among the teamsters of the wagon train, but by night the 
 federal General Emery had checked the flight. In the afternoon about 
 five o’clock the confederate General Churchill attacked the left of the 
 federal line. That part of the line was the weakest in numbers, and on 
 it was posted Benedict’s brigade, supported on the left by Lynch’s 
 brigade. When Churchill attacked, the confederate General Walker 
 advanced and turned the right wing of the federal line. The federals 
 rallied on Lynch, and then Lynch charged and broke the confederate 
 right wing. Immediately General A. J. Smith advanced his whole line, 
 in a charge led by Mower, and the confederates were routed. 
 
 Lynch chased the fugitives hotly for about three miles, and he then 
 suddenly discovered that he had with him only about four hundred men. 
 These were from various regiments, who had been attracted to the pur¬ 
 suit by the ardor of the young general. The confederates began to 
 re-form to cut Lynch off, and about three thousand of them were falling 
 into line. The timber favored Lynch, for his enemy could not estimate 
 his numbers and they thought that he had a large force, owing to the 
 number of flags that were with him. After a volley he charged, the 
 enemy vanished, and Lynch got back to the army unmolested. Lynch’s 
 brigade was engaged in many minor actions until on the morning of the 
 18th of May he led his men across Yellow Bayou to engage the enemy 
 under Wharton and Polignac. Batteries were posted, but there was no 
 
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 engagement. He had been expecting a visit from his brother, and as it 
 was most probable that the enemy would not attack, he obtained per¬ 
 mission from General Mower to go to Simsport, where he met his 
 brother. The two men were returning toward the brigade when they 
 heard the sound of firing. Lynch left his brother, and rode forward at 
 a gallop to join his command. When he reached the front, his troops 
 were just starting to charge the enemy. He dashed to the head of his 
 brigade and on they went with a rush. In this charge General Lynch’s 
 leg was shattered by a musket ball, which struck him just below 
 the knee. He was lifted from his horse and carried back to the boats. 
 Owing to a disagreement as to the necessity or inadvisability of ampu¬ 
 tating the wounded limb, it was merely dressed, and it was at length 
 decided to avoid amputation, but thereby a life of suffering became the 
 lot of this brave man, and in the end the wound then received caused 
 his death. It necessarily ended his war service. 
 
 After the civil war, General Lynch became identified with the 
 Fenian movement for the invasion of Canada. In July, 1866, he was 
 appointed first lieutenant in the 426 regular United States Infantry. In 
 1867 he became captain. In the same year he received the brevet 
 rank of major for “ gallant service in the battle of Pleasant Hill, La.” 
 and soon after the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel for gallant service 
 an the battle of Yellow Bayou, La. In December, 1870, he was retired 
 tfrom active service in the United States regulars, with the rank of 
 brigadier general. A law of congress soon after reduced him to the 
 rank of colonel on the retired list, but after a personal interview with 
 the President, General Lynch secured restoration to his rank on the 
 retired list as brigadier general within ten days from the date of his 
 reduction. The last years of his life were spent at home in Elgin 
 among the friends of his youth. He is buried in the old Elgin cemetery 
 where are interred, it is believed, all the other members of his family or 
 relatives save one or two. He was a man of such generous disposition 
 and withal so genial and kindly that his friendship was a genuine 
 pleasure to those who knew him best. Cunning had no place in his 
 breast, and want and suffering never appealed to him in vain. He 
 suffered much in his later years, but he bore the suffering as became a 
 Christian and a man. In early life he had been a great reader and was 
 intimately acquainted with the choicest works, both of the English 
 classics and of general literature. He was a devout Catholic, a 
 
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 generous man to all men of all faiths, a soldier without fear and without 
 reproach, and in the civil offices that he filled in Elgin, after his return 
 from the war, whether as a member of the city council, or as a member 
 of the board of education, he ever did his duty well and honestly, and 
 for the best interests of Elgin and of its people. Ed. K. 
 
 Of the others who volunteered and enlisted from the parish during 
 those trying times we might name the following: 
 
 58th Illinois Volunteers, Company A. 
 
 Wm. F. Lynch, 
 
 John O’Brien, 
 
 John Murphy, 
 
 John O’Mara, 
 
 Eugene Lynch, 
 
 James O’Brien, 
 
 Michael Roche, 
 
 Wm. Walsh, 
 
 Patrick Haugh, 
 
 Nicholas Burns, 
 
 Peter Hines, 
 
 John Martin, 
 
 Bartholomew Kelley, 
 
 Thomas E. McGrath 
 
 Daniel Murphy 
 
 James Quirk, 
 
 Dennis Morrison, 
 
 Patrick Reynolds. 
 
 58th Illinois Volunteers, Company B. 
 
 David J. Lynch. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 John Sheedy. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 James Golden, 
 
 Wm. Hogan. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Thomas Ryan, 
 
 John Sherman. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Philip Heelan, 
 
 Patrick McEvoy, 
 
 David Bradley, 
 
 Jeremiah Mahoney. 
 
 James Burns, 
 
 James Scanlan, 
 
 James Costello, 
 
 Joseph Tynell, 
 
 Patrick Coleman, 
 
 Richard Collins, 
 
 Edward Gallagher, 
 
 Thomas Cooney, 
 
 Michael Gartland, 
 
 John Clancy, 
 
 James Heffernan, 
 
 Thomas Connery, 
 
 Anthony McBraiarty, 
 
 Edward Gubbins, 
 
 Patrick Kinney, 
 
 Edward Keating. 
 
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 7th Illinois Volunteers, Company A. 
 
 J. R. Kinney, James O’Donnell, 
 
 John Murphy, B. Sweeney. 
 
 64th Illinois Volunteers, Company C. 
 
 Bartholomew Kelley, Martin Tansey, afterwards in 
 
 Wm. Welch, the 27th Missouri. 
 
 65th Illinois, Company A. 
 Hugh Henry. 
 
 Michael Dunn, 
 
 Milton Earin, 
 
 Daniel Flynn, 
 
 69th Illinois, Company B. 
 
 John Flynn, 
 Richard Keogh, 
 Philip Brennan. 
 
 127th Illinois Volunteers, Company C. 
 
 Alex Dennis, 
 
 Louis Little, 
 
 Patrick O’Flaherty, 
 
 James L. Sheehan, 
 
 Patrick Wallace, 
 
 P. 
 
 John Wallace, 
 
 John McCartney, 
 Edmund Dougherty, 
 John Maher, 
 Michael Murray, 
 
 . Dooley. 
 
 Company I. 
 Joseph Corby, Jr. 
 
 36th Illinois Volunteers. 
 Peter Little. 
 
 105th Illinois Volunteers. 
 Patrick Keating. 
 
 Thomas Mann, 
 Michael Guilfoil, 
 Wm. R. Halligan, 
 
 55th Illinois. 
 
 John Guilford, 
 John Shields, 
 John Guilfoil, 
 Timothy Donovan. 
 
 17th Illinois Cavalry, Company H. 
 Timothy Donovan. 
 
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 Anthony Handley, 
 Thomas Rodgers, 
 
 89th Illinois. 
 
 James Duhy, 
 
 John Connor. 
 
 52nd Illinois Volunteers, Company I. 
 John Quinlan. 
 
 Wm. Barrett, 
 
 Patrick Murray, 
 
 John Murray, 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Michael McCarthy, 
 Daniel P. McGahey, 
 Sebastian Pfister, 
 John Reinhart. 
 
 141st Illinois Volunteers, Company B. 
 Mark F. Kernan, John F. Larkin. 
 
 Patrick Ford, 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Patrick O’Malley. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 John Dillion. 
 
 Wm. Fadden, 
 
 Eugene I. Casey, 
 John Carroll, 
 Timothy Hays, 
 
 Company G. 
 
 Charles McBraiarty, 
 Patrick Murphy, 
 George Doherty, 
 Peter Welsh. 
 
 John McCoy, 
 
 Company K. 
 
 John Sullivan. 
 
 153rd Illinois, Company C. 
 Thomas Dougherty, John Flynn, 
 
 John Dougherty, 
 
 George J. Walsh, 
 Lawrence Walsh. 
 
 12th Illinois Cavalry, Company H. 
 
 W. M. McNoughton, David McGee, 
 
 Christopher McGrath, John Shields. 
 
Golden Jubilee Souienir 
 
 15th Illinois Cavalry, Company I. 
 Richard Larkin. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 William Donovan, 
 
 Robert Gallagher, 
 
 Robert Collins, 
 
 Wm. Meehan, 
 
 Charles Collins, 
 
 John Muldoon, 
 
 Patrick Glennon, 
 
 Jeremiah Phelan. 
 
 Renwick’s 
 
 Elgin Battery. 
 
 James Collins, 
 
 Michael Kennedy, 
 
 Mathew Corrigan, 
 
 Eugene Kennedy, 
 
 Daniel Cullen, 
 
 Michael Lynch, 
 
 Patrick Corbett, 
 
 John W. Mahoney, 
 
 Richard Doyle, 
 
 Thomas McGuire, 
 
 John Dailey, 
 
 Michael McGowen, 
 
 John Dolan, 
 
 Joseph O’Connor, 
 
 Andrew Deignan, 
 
 John O’Brien, 
 
 Thomas Dwyer, 
 
 John Powers, 
 
 James Deignan, 
 
 Patrick Quinn, 
 
 Milton Earin, 
 
 Charles Reardon, 
 
 Patrick H. Flynn, 
 
 James Roche, 
 
 John Foley, 
 
 James Reily, 
 
 James Grady, 
 
 John Sweeney, 
 
 Wm. Hanlon, 
 
 John Walsh, 
 
 Patrick Hughes, 
 
 John Ward. 
 

Among the Bovs of ’98. 
 
 It was nearly midnight on April 25, 1898, when Colonel Bennett 
 of the Third Illinois Volunteers received orders to report by April 27th 
 at Springfield with the Third Infantry. April 26th, at about 7 a. m., every 
 whistle in Elgin sounded the awful alarm. Anxious mothers and fath¬ 
 ers, loving wives, sisters and sweethearts knew what that meant to 
 them; their boys in blue were called to fight in their country’s cause, 
 and fight they would ; for a finer, braver or more manly lot of fellows 
 never went forth than the Illinois Third. 
 
 Elgin was not behind in sending forth her boys. Besides the 
 members of the Third Regiment, many volunteers left their homes and 
 joined other regiments. They went to Springfield and were examined 
 by the doctors, and were mustered into Uncle Sam’s service. May 8, 
 1898, the second call was made, when many more Elgin boys went; and 
 even a third call was made later in the same month. On May 14, 
 1898, they left Springfield for Chickamauga Park, via the Illinois Cen¬ 
 tral railroad, and arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 16, 1898. The 
 regiment marched from Roseville to Snodgrass Hill, an historic spot in 
 Chickamauga Park. The next morning, they marched to Kelley’s field, 
 where they remained till ordered to Puerto Rico. July 22nd, they took 
 cars for Newport News, and on July 28th they embarked on the auxil¬ 
 iary cruiser “ St. Louis ” for Puerto Rico. After a pleasant and quick 
 voyage the boat cast anchor off Ponce, Puerto Rico, landing at Arroyo, 
 August 3rd. When the men reached the shore they buckled on their 
 cartridge belts, loaded their rifles, under orders from Major Jackson, 
 and started on the double quick for the foot of the mountains. The 
 stars and stripes were raised on the Custom House by the Third Illinois, 
 and the officer of the port and the mayor of the city were arrested by 
 Colonel Bennett. Major Caughey with the Third Battalion landed last and 
 patrolled the town. The Third was on the skirmish line thirty-six hours, 
 but not an Illinois man was injured; and on the second day the enemy 
 was driven into the mountains. 
 
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 The boys suffered great hardships and privations; sleeping on wet, 
 muddy ground, many of them caught colds which resulted in their deaths. 
 
 Father Sherman, son of General Sherman, was with the boys, and 
 said mass in the open air. Among the Catholic boys who went from 
 Elgin were : William I. McCarthy, Thomas F. McCarthy, Cosmas Zim¬ 
 merman, Frank McQueeney, Joe Howard, Harry Howard, D. Hen¬ 
 nessey, Jas. Hennessey, F. Gilles, John Farrell, Joseph Farrell, Wm. 
 Flaharty and Martin Connelly. 
 
 They sailed from Guyama, Puerto Rico, on November 2nd, on the 
 “ Romania,” and arrived in New York on November 9th, and in Elgin, on 
 the 1 ith of November. Elgin gave them a hearty welcome home, and the 
 name of the Third Illinois will ever be near and dear to the boys who 
 went to war, and to those who loved them most. 
 
 Wm. I. McCarthy. 
 
History ot St. Mary’s Choirs. 
 
 Nearly half a century ago the congregation gathered one Sunday 
 morn in the church of the Immaculate Conception to attend mass, 
 heard not as heretofore a low mass, but a high mass sung by Father 
 Gallagher, while the strains of Peter’s mass, rendered by a choir of Elgin’s 
 best musicians, filled the small building and found a ready echo in the 
 hearts of the sturdy worshipers. 
 
 That mass, rendered in the fall of 1854, is the first record of a choir 
 at St. Mary’s Church in Elgin. No other singers (grander though they 
 may have been) ever had more appreciative listeners than ihis pioneer 
 choir, which struggled for many months under difficulties unknown to 
 choirs of the present day. 
 
 The instrument used on this occasion was a small melodeon, two 
 by three feet, carried that Sunday, and many following Sundays, on 
 the shoulders of Peter Little, from the west side of the river, a distance 
 of nearly a mile. The organist and leader, Miss Julia Little, with her 
 choir, composed of Michael Mann, Peter Little, Joseph Little, Joseph 
 Fordrecher, Eliza Connor and Bridget Dooley, felt more than repaid 
 by the heartfelt gratitude and praise received from each member of the 
 congregation. 
 
 Miss Little was succeeded in the fall of ’58 by Mr. Fred C. Kothe 
 as organist, and Mr. Mitchell as leader and instructor. Under their 
 joint supervision, the choir rapidly increased in members and excellence. 
 On great church festivals they were assisted by an orchestra composed 
 of Henry Tetzner, Frank Preston, William Saunders, Wallace Saunders 
 Christian Sexaner, Joseph Fordrecher and Nic. Hereth. The members 
 of the choir were the Misses Julia Clifford, Margaret Clifford, Mary Clif¬ 
 ford, Kate Meehan, Mary Meehan, Mary Spillard, Barbara Straussell, 
 Theresa Lynch, Maggie Blake, Jennie Connor, Rose Gaffney and Eliza¬ 
 beth Tierney, and the Messrs. Dan. Spillard, James Sheehan, Pat. 
 Laughlin, Joseph Corby, Matthew Duhy, John Meehan, Michael Mann, 
 
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 John Fitzgerald, and Mr. Louis Brown of South Elgin. Mrs. Charles 
 Mack also sang on special occasions. 
 
 Under the leadership of Mr. Mitchell, members of this choir 
 formed themselves into a Glee Club which was a credit to Elgin. Gray¬ 
 haired singers still recall with pleasure and pride the many gatherings 
 of this club, especially the picnic held August 15, i860, in Colby’s 
 Grove on Park street, where James Sheehan’s house now stands ; and 
 the eye will sparkle and a glow come to the faded cheek as they tell of 
 the band and large parade which were features of that well-remembered 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Kothe was succeeded by Mr. Tim. McCarthy, a young man of 
 much musical ability. After him came Matt. Duhy and Miss Ella 
 McOsker. The last two named kindly gave their services in the 
 absence of a regular organist, until such could be obtained. The 
 pastor, Father Fitzsimmons, was fortunate in securing the services of 
 Miss Kate Quinlan (1870) of Woodstock, Ill., who was the possessor 
 of a rich soprano voice, as well as an accomplished player. Under her 
 eadership the choir made rapid progress. Misses Kate Meehan, 
 Mary Tierney, Elizabeth Tierney, Mary Fitzgerald and Miss Haggerty, 
 Messrs. John Fitzgerald, Frank Welna and Jerry Spillard, were members 
 of her choir. This choir on special occasions sang Haydn’s mass 
 in D. 
 
 Miss Quinlan was succeeded by Mrs. Coffin, whose choir was com¬ 
 posed of Misses Mary Tierney, Emma Clifford, Nellie Fitzgerald, 
 Nellie Lynch, Mary and Josephine Dennis, Lizzie Hippie, Susie Spil¬ 
 lard, Mrs. Frank Welna, Messrs. Headly and Frank Welna. Mrs. 
 Coffin played but a short time, and was succeeded by Miss Josephine 
 Dennis, who played for only a few months. Following Miss Dennis 
 came Miss Lizzie Hippie, who played from the early seventies for a 
 period of thirteen years. Much of her early success was due to Father 
 Fitzsimmons, the pastor, who encouraged and assisted her in every pos¬ 
 sible way. He took the utmost interest in the choir, and every member 
 felt it a pleasure to sing during his service as pastor. During her long 
 service Miss Hippie counted among her singers the best of St. Mary’s 
 musical talent, who will recall with pleasure the many hours of choir 
 practice spent in preparing for the sacred festivals, and be glad that by 
 their singing they rendered the services more impressive by giving freely 
 of their voices to Him who bestowed them. Following are the names, 
 as near as she can recall them, of those who sang with her : Misses 
 
FORMER CHOIR MEMBERS. 
 
 1. Mr. Fred. C. Kothe, 4. Miss Mary Tierney, 
 
 2. Mrs. Fred. C. Kothe, 5. Miss Ella McOsker, 
 
 Miss Kate Quinlan, 6. Mr. Matt. Duhy. 
 
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 Mary and Katie Miller, Eva, Anna, Laura and Lena Quernheim, 
 Jennie Hippie, Julia Logan, Lydia Collins, May Grant, Lizzie Conway, 
 Lizzie and Kittie Guilfoil, Maggie and Delia Ryan, Addie Rippstine, 
 Sarah O’Flaherty, Annie Fitzsimmons, Mary Harrington, Etta and 
 Thresa Schevers, Rose, Marne, Annie and Adell Kasser, Mary Miller, 
 Mrs. Frank Welna, Mrs. Schmidt, Messrs. Frank Welna, Leo McOsker, 
 Jerry Ryan, John Sheedy, Dan. E. Maloney, Con. M. Buel, John Ryan, 
 
 FORMER CHOIR MEMBERS. 
 
 1. Miss Lena Quernheim, 5. Jennie Hippie, 
 
 2. Leo. McOsker, 6. Mary Miller. 
 
 3. Frank Welna, 7. Lizzie Hippie, 
 
 4. Jerry Ryan, 8. Mrs. Frank Welna. 
 
 Jerry Doherty, Tom. Flemming, Tom. Gaffney, Basil Davis, Geo. 
 Murray, Victor Kasser, Herman Loeding, Paul Jander. Harry A. 
 Dorley, Thomas J. Herlihy. 
 
 Miss Eva Lynch followed Miss Hippie (1887) with a choir of 
 young singers, trained by the Sisters of St. Mary’s Academy. Father 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 Mackin soon secured the services of Mr. Oliver as leader. They made 
 rapid progress and were soon singing Farmer’s and Millard's masses. 
 
 Father Mackin, in his kind, fatherly way, was very fond and proud 
 of his “boys and girls,” as he called them. They were Misses Frankie 
 Fitzsimmons, Nellie Jones, Marne Smith, Maine and Kate Connor, 
 Kate Murphy, Messrs. James Meehan, Edward Meehan and Stafford 
 McOsker. Miss Lynch was followed in September, 1891, by Miss 
 
 FORMER CHOIR MEMBERS. 
 
 I 
 
 o 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 Basil Davis, 
 Theresa Schevers, 
 Con. M. Buel, 
 Lydia Collins, 
 Herman Loeding, 
 Sarah O’Flaherty, 
 
 7 - 
 
 8 . 
 
 9. 
 
 10. 
 
 11. 
 
 12. 
 
 Mary Harrington. 
 
 Harry A. Dorley, 
 Etta Schevers, 
 Lizzie Hippie, 
 Rose Kasser, 
 Thos. J. Herlihy, 
 Geo. Murray, 
 
 Nellie Jones, who played but a few months, assisted by Mr. T. J. 
 Flerlihy as leader. After Miss Jones’ service Miss Marne Lindsay 
 was organist for a short time, with Mr. Frank Rogers as leader. Miss 
 
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 Ella Keating succeeded Miss Lindsay with the same choir. A new 
 member was Mr. Thos. Ryan, one of Elgin’s finest baritone singers. 
 He sacrificed his life for his country in the Spanish war. 
 
 Miss Marne Kasser followed Miss Keating and with her sister Miss 
 Rose, as leader, succeeded in establishing and keeping up a fine choir. 
 The following well-known singers sang during her service of five years: 
 Misses Nellie Jones, Lottie Jenkins, Maine Kelly, Miss Mullen, Kate 
 Murphy, Maine Connor, Anna Lynch, Josephine Lynch, Eva Quern- 
 heim, Laura Quernheim, Mesdames Eugenia Cook, Frank Spillard, 
 Harry Daveler, James Meehan, Mary Clyne, and the Messrs. Thos. 
 J. Herlihy, Harry Dorley, James Meehan, Edward Meehan, Stafford 
 McOsker, Geo. Bowes, William Ludford, David Burzell, Henry Herbert, 
 Ed. Kohn, John Thiele, John Murphy, Ed. Schevers, Bernard Schevers, 
 Fred Mumme, Harry Kasser, Otto Peabody. 
 
 The program for Christmas, 1899, the first service in the new 
 church, was exceptionally good and showed careful and efficient train¬ 
 ing. Parts of Farmer’s and Ganss’ masses were sung. A week later, 
 on New Year’s Eve, was held that grand and inspiring service, a mid¬ 
 night mass. The following program, especially the offertory, was ren¬ 
 dered in a most artistic manner : Ganss’ mass, offertory, Heavenly 
 Light,” soprano solo, with violin obligato, Miss Rose Kasser and Harry 
 Miller; closing hymn, “ Glorious is Thy Name, O Lord,” Mozart. 
 
 Prof, von Plies succeeded Miss Kasser in September, 1901, and 
 was organist during the Jubilee year. The following were members of 
 his choir, and sang at the jubilee and dedication of St. Mary’s, October, 
 1901 : Mesdames Eugenia Cook, Carl Swanson, H. A. Daveler, F. A. 
 Spillard, James Meehan, Dakin, Misses Grace Tennant, Tennie Smith, 
 Anna Lynch, Josephine Lynch, Frances Lapeski, and the Messrs. B. A. 
 Schevers, John Murphy, H. Herbert, E. Kohn, Wm. Ludford, F. 
 Mumme, Otto Peabody, James Meehan. Miss Nellie Jones, of St. 
 Vincent’s Church, Chicago, assisted the choir to render the following 
 program at the dedication: Kyrie, Mozart; Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, 
 Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Farmer; Offertory, Ave Maria, Mrs. F. A. 
 Spillard. 
 
 A history of St. Mary’s choir would not be complete without 
 mentioning the singing of the children, taught by the Sisters of the 
 academy. Many attended low mass because of the beautiful hymns 
 sung by the fresh young voices, and felt greater devotion in their 
 prayers. 
 
FORMER CHOIR MEMBERS. 
 
 I. 
 
 Annie Fitzsimmons, 
 
 6. 
 
 Thomas Ryan, 
 
 2 . 
 
 Mary Miller, 
 
 7- 
 
 Jerry Doherty, 
 
 3- 
 
 Dan E. Maloney, 
 
 8 . 
 
 John Sheedy, 
 
 4 - 
 
 Eva Quernheim, 
 
 9 - 
 
 Lenaand Laura Quernheim, 
 
 5 - 
 
 John Ryan, 
 
 10 . 
 
 Lizzie Conway, 
 
 ii. Mrs. Mary Clyne. 
 
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 Not many who attended the children’s mass for the first time in 
 the new church, Christmas, 1899, will soon forget the “ Adeste,” sung by 
 the sweet young voices, or the playing of “ The Angels’ Serenade ” by 
 Misses Mary Tobin, Edna Walker and Annie Souster on their mando¬ 
 lins, with Miss Gertrude Buel at the organ. It truly seemed as though 
 the angel voices singing the “ Gloria in Excelsis ” centuries ago could 
 not have been much sweeter. This number was most appropriately 
 followed by the singing of the “ Wondrous Story,” and each listener 
 felt very near the Crib of Bethlehem. 
 
 Misses Eva Lynch, Lucy Connor, Edna Walker and Gertrude 
 Buel, music pupils of St. Mary’s Academy, were organists for the 
 children’s choir. 
 
 Miss Gertrude Buel generously gave her time and talents as 
 organist for over seven years. Many of the above singers have long 
 since joined the celestial choirs and the remaining ones who have not 
 yet been allowed to enter the blessed portal of the skies, hope and 
 trust that in a future happy home they may swell that joyful chorus on 
 high, even as they gave of their best here while singing the praises of 
 God in St. Mary’s. 
 
 Mrs. Harry Dorley. 
 

 
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St. Mary’s Academy. 
 
 Until the year 1880 there was no Catholic school in Elgin. No 
 Catholic school ? Rather, every Catholic home, though but a cabin, 
 was a school in itself. 
 
 There, the fathers and mothers, who, through adverse circumstances, 
 if not fleeing from tyranny and oppression, had left other lands, with all 
 that tender association and long established Catholic faith had made 
 unspeakably dear, laid the foundations of true Christian education. 
 
 There, though obliged to toil early and late for the necessities of 
 life, they taught their children the grand truths of Catholic faith, the 
 same prayers which had been on the lips of the wisest and holiest 
 through all the Christian ages, and by their example taught still more 
 eloquently self-denial, honesty and charity. 
 
 They were surrounded with difficulties. In a new land, where civ¬ 
 ilization itself had scarcely been established, they had to endure cold and 
 heat, loneliness and poverty, and often the taunts and jeers of neigh¬ 
 bors, hostile to them and to their holy faith. Did they falter ? Did 
 they give up one single principle of religion in order to conform to the 
 easy-going ideas of those outside the church ? On the contrary, the 
 errors and indifference of others were but spurs to urge them to 
 renewed effort to guide the little souls entrusted to their care safe into 
 the one fold of the one Shepherd. 
 
 They were in earnest, these men and women, and enforced parental 
 authority with a vigor that might be wholesome if put in practice 
 today. They impressed upon the child’s mind the fact that lessons must 
 be learned, regardless of indolence or caprice. It is not unlikely, as 
 regards the effect of this training, that many who, decades of years ago, 
 were taught the Catechism under their supervision could today, if given 
 a little start on the first question, rattle off the whole Catechism, ques¬ 
 tion and answer, without pause, and with the old time stumble upon the 
 big words. 
 
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Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
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 Ah, yes ! they were good teachers, and the wonder is, not that the 
 children who grew up amidst the rude conditions of pioneer life in 
 Elgin should have kept the faith, but that any of them could possibly 
 forget the lessons of such teachers. 
 
 Bishop Spalding says that a father or mother, simple and unlet¬ 
 tered, but endowed with good sense and love of truth and justice, has 
 a more lasting educational influence on the child than can be exerted 
 by a doctor of a university. 
 
 But as time went on, with the growth and prosperity of the city 
 came evils and temptations which weakened the influence of Christian 
 homes, and the good seed in good ground was, all too often, choked by 
 the tares, everywhere abounding. The Catholics of Elgin saw that 
 their only hope lay in good Catholic schools, where the priceless inher¬ 
 itance of faith would be guarded, where heait and mind and soul alike 
 would be educated, and where truth would illumine young minds to see 
 and spurn error. Their zealous pastor, Father Fitzsimmons, was most 
 anxious to provide a parochial school, and early in the ’7o’s sought for 
 a suitable site. He bought a lot on Villa street, began the erection of 
 a school, and although the completion of the building was delayed for 
 some years, owing to lack of funds, the stately edifice now known far 
 and near as St. Mary’s Academy is the outcome of this generous effort. 
 
 In 1878 Father Mackin, who had succeeded Father Fitzsimmons 
 as pastor, with the approval of Bishop Foley, invited the Sisters of 
 Charity of the B. V. M. to purchase the school property and open a 
 pirochial school. These Sisters, whose mother-house is at Dubuque, 
 had the reputation of being great teachers, and Father Mackin was well 
 pleased when he secured their services for Elgin. 
 
 The Sisters, on taking the property, assumed the mortgage of four 
 thousand dollars already on it, and at a cost of eight thousand more 
 completed and furnished the building. It was agreed, also, that a cer¬ 
 tain sum be paid annually by the parish for the support of the free 
 school. In February, 1880, the girls’ school was opened by Sister M. 
 Agatha, Superior, Sisters M. Alexis, M. Severin, M. Theodore, M. Eliz¬ 
 abeth and M. Emerentia, under the direction of Sister M. Olympia. 
 
 Father Mackin gave the school every aid and encouragement. The 
 Catholics eagerly availed themselves of its advantages, some making 
 great sacrifices in order to send their children there. Some non-Catho- 
 lics also quickly recognized its superiority and sent their children to the 
 school. 
 
St. Mary’s Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 The musical department, being under the direction of teachers emi¬ 
 nently fitted for the position, was immediately appreciated, and very 
 soon the Sisters, by unfailing kindness, gentleness and patience, had 
 won all hearts. They were cultured and experienced teachers, and 
 entered upon their duties with zeal. 
 
 Besides the arduous labors of the school room, the Sisters also 
 took charge of the Sunday school, were active in works of charity, and 
 
 ST. MARY’S ACADEMY. 
 
 their coming was felt by all to be a blessing. While working earnestly 
 for the girls of the parish, the Sisters aimed also to provide for the 
 boys, and in the year 1886 Sister M. Hillary, the Superior, opened a 
 department for them. 
 
 This department, duting the sixteen years of its existence, has been 
 noted for giving the pupils thorough training in the common studies, 
 thus fitting them for practical business life. Better than this, it has 
 done untold good in cultivating in the boys habits of neatness and 
 
FIRST COMMUNION CLASS. 1901. 
 
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 171 
 
 industry; in guarding them from evil example, awakening conscience to 
 shun the vices so rampant amongst the boys around them. The Sisters 
 had encouraged all pupils, during the second year in the academic 
 course, to try for teachers’ certificates at the public examinations of the 
 county superintendent. That the pupils have been remarkably suc¬ 
 cessful in obtaining these certificates is evidence of the thoroughness 
 of their teaching. St. Mary’s Academy is recognized as a first-class 
 school by other educational institutions, notably, the normal schools, 
 where its pupils are admitted as coming from a reputable school, and 
 where they have succeeded in passing most rigid examinations. During 
 the twenty odd years of its existence St. Mary’s Academy has had eight 
 Superiors, namely : Sisters M. Theodore, M. Angela, M. Hillary, M. 
 Fredrica, M. Alexis, M. Annunciata, M. Theodore and M. Ignatia. 
 These have all been teachers of the highest attainments, gifted with rare 
 talent and zeal, and possessing business ability which has placed the 
 finances of the school in a satisfactory state of improvement. The 
 pupils who have graduated from St. Mary’s Academy are now, with 
 credit to themselves and their alma mater, filling various positions, both 
 in the home and as artists, teachers, musicians, business people, and 
 one, having chosen the higher life, is now Mother Superior in a large 
 convent of the order. 
 
 Whether numbered amongst these or in whatever walk of life 
 Providence may have placed them, each has the opportunity to bear 
 witness to the effect of St. Mary’s teaching, by unselfishness and help¬ 
 fulness, by devotion to duty, and unceasing effort to attain to high ideals 
 of wisdom and virtue. To such a one, however lowly her station, St. 
 Mary’s Academy offers the laurel wreath of approval, and points with 
 satisfaction, as the result of Christian education. And now, after nearly 
 a quarter century’s existence, here is St. Mary’s Academy in the front 
 rank of educational institutions, with a reputation for tireless effort and 
 good results. Determined to advance, she unites with all Catholic in¬ 
 stitutions of learning, and, as they face the hosts of schools whose 
 curriculum includes everything but knowledge of God, and who are 
 made powerful by unlimited means and the patronage of the multitude, 
 they hold aloft the banner of Christian education and proclaim to the 
 world, though it be well nigh deaf to the cry, that Godless education 
 leads back to paganism; that the relation of the creature to its Creator 
 is the alpha and omega of knowledge; that to elevate the human above 
 the brute, heart and mind and soul alike must be educated. They fal- 
 
FIRST COMMUNION CLASS, MAY 2G, 1902. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, 111. 
 
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 ter not at the inequality of the struggle; but, eager to save immortal 
 souls, they stand their ground, convinced that right is might. They 
 confidently look for aid from all right-minded people, and knowing that 
 God will never permit the darkness of unbelief to overshadow faithful 
 souls, they listen even now for the voice of the little child of the future, 
 crying, “Lead, Kindly Light.” 
 
 GRADUATES. 
 
 Miss Anna Meehan, 
 
 Miss Julia Burke, 
 
 Miss Anna Lynch, 
 
 Miss Maud Blanchard, 
 
 Miss Miranda Dougherty, 
 
 Miss Agnes Mann, 
 
 Miss Catherine Connor, 
 
 Miss Ella Keating, 
 
 Miss Ella Jones, 
 
 Miss Mary O’Bierne, 
 
 Miss Frances Fitz Simmons, 
 
 Miss Catherine Lvnch, 
 
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 Miss Mary Heslin, 
 
 Miss Caroline Lewis, 
 
 Miss Grace Keating, 
 
 Miss Mary Lynch, 
 
 Miss Mary Mann, 
 
 Miss Mary Tennant, 
 
 Miss Anna Flynn, 
 
 Miss May Keating, 
 
 Miss Teresa Zimmerman, 
 Miss Jennie Wickham, 
 Miss Lucy Connor, 
 
 Miss Nora Keating. 
 
 Miss Josephine Flynn, 
 Miss Bernice Stone, 
 
 Miss Grace Tennant, 
 
 Miss Leonore Tobin, 
 
 Miss Alice Heslin, 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Jordan, 
 Miss Mary Kelly, 
 
 Miss Teresa Roche, 
 
 Miss Margaret O’Brien, 
 Miss Marie Murphy, 
 
 Miss Edna Walker, 
 
 Miss Gertrude Buel, 
 
 Miss Catherine Freeman. 
 
 Helen Duhy. 
 
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Societies and Clubs of St. Mary s Parish. 
 
 ELGIN COURT, No. 137, C. O. F. 
 
 The preliminary meeting for organizing a court of the Catholic 
 Order of Foresters was held at St. Mary’s Academy, January 14, 1890, 
 and was called to order by Mr. John Ward of Chicago. The necessity 
 of a Catholic organization was recognized by all present and the result 
 of this meeting was a canvass among the men of St. Mary’s parish and 
 a ready response to form a permanent court in Elgin. On February 4th 
 twenty-six men met at the committee rooms of Turner Hall, and were 
 duly initiated as members of Elgin Court, No. 137, C. O. F., by High 
 Chief Ranger J. P. Lauth of Chicago, assisted by Deputy Organizer 
 Ward of the same city. The following officers were chosen to preside 
 over the affairs of the court : 
 
 Chief Ranger.James Meehan. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Paul Jander. 
 
 Recording Secretary.John F. O’Connor. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Joseph H. Jones. 
 
 Treasurer.C. M. Buel. 
 
 Trustees 
 
 Senior Conductor 
 Junior Conductor 
 Inside Sentinel.. . 
 
 . S. J. McOsker 
 . Jos. F. Ryan. 
 
 . H. A. Dorley. 
 
 Outside Sentinel . . 
 Medical Examiner 
 
 Dr. C. E. Starrett. 
 
 The history of Elgin court since its inception has been one of 
 harmony, progress and prosperity, and from its humble beginning it 
 has grown to its present large proportions with a total membership of 
 over 190 members, and is conceded to be second to none in the entire 
 organization for progressiveness and the successful conduct of its 
 business management. 
 
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 Sick and death benefits are the prominent features of this fraternal 
 organization, and the grand total of funds disbursed by Elgin court to 
 sick and deceased members is a record to which its members point 
 with pride, conscious of having by organized efforts, relieved many cases 
 of want and suffering. 
 
 Catholicity and its upbuilding have ever been promoted by Elgin 
 court through a strict adherence to the religious obligations, which the 
 order imposes, and the united efforts of its members in sustaining our 
 church and school. Nor has Elgin court been remiss in fostering the 
 social life of St. Mary's parish; picnics, balls and entertainments, 
 whether for gain or diversion, have during the life of Elgin court fur¬ 
 nished many hours of social intercourse which have united in closer 
 bonds of friendship the members of this parish. 
 
 , OFFICERS, FEBRUARY 4, 1890. 
 
 Chief Ranger.James Meehan. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Paul Jander. 
 
 Recording Secretary.John F. O’Connor. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Joseph H. Jones. 
 
 Treasurer.Conrad M. Buel. 
 
 f M. C. Tobin, 
 
 Trustees.-{ J. T. Logan, 
 
 i Thos. P. Sheehan. 
 
 Senior Conductor.W. L. Roche. 
 
 Junior Conductor.S. J. McOsker. 
 
 Inside Sentinel.Jos. F. Ryan. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.H. A. Dorley. 
 
 Medical Examiner.Dr. C. E. Starrett. 
 
 The officers for 1890, at the April election, were same as above, 
 all being re-elected. J. P. Mann was elected to fill J. F. O’Connor’s 
 place as Recording Secretary, Mr. O’Connor being obliged to leave 
 the city. 
 
 OFFICERS ELECTED FOR 1891. 
 
 Chief Ranger.Thos. P. Sheehan. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.George Danner. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Maurice Feery. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Jos. H. Jones. 
 

 PRESENT AND PAST CHIEF RANGERS, ELGIN COURT, No. 137, C. O. F. 
 
 I. J. P. Mann, 
 
 6. 
 
 John McBride, 
 
 2. T. P. Sheehan, 
 
 7 * 
 
 H. H. Foy, 
 
 3. James Meehan, 
 
 8. 
 
 John Roche, 
 
 4. J. T. Logan, 
 
 9 - 
 
 C. M. Buel. 
 
 5. D. Gahan, Jr., 
 
 
 
 
178 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Treasurer.Thos. J. Herlihy. 
 
 fM. C. Tobin, 
 
 Trustees.f J. T. Logan, 
 
 1 H. A. Dorley. 
 
 Senior Conductor.W. L. Roche. 
 
 Junior Conductor.S. J. McOsker. 
 
 Inside Sentinel.B. A. Schevers. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.Theo. M. Spillard. 
 
 Medical Examiner.C. A. Stone. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1892. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger . 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor . . 
 Junior Conductor . . 
 Inside Sentinel. . . . 
 Outside Sentinel 
 Medical Examiner.. 
 
 . . John P. Mann. 
 
 . .Geo. Danner. 
 
 . . James Meehan. 
 
 . .Joseph H. Jones. 
 
 . . N. P. Weber. 
 fM. C. Tobin, 
 f J- T. Logan, 
 
 [ H. A. Dorley. 
 
 . .Chas. E. Sheehan. 
 . .Chas. Spillard. 
 
 . . P. F. Harting. 
 
 . . Wm. Naughton. 
 
 . . E. M. McCeney. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1893. 
 
 Chief Ranger.John T. Logan. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Conrad M. Buel. 
 
 Recording Secretary.James Meehan. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Wm. L. Roche. 
 
 Treasurer.N. P. Weber. 
 
 f Jas. M. Meenagh, 
 
 Trustees.f Jno. P. Mann, 
 
 f Francis C. Fedou. 
 
 Senior Conductor. 
 
 Junior Conductor. 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel. 
 
 ( E. M. McCeney and 
 Medical Examiners.{ Dr. G. J. Schneider. 
 
St. Mary’s Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 179 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1894. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger. 
 
 Recording Secretary. 
 
 Financial Secretary. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor. 
 
 Junior Conductor. 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel. 
 
 Medical Examiner. 
 
 . .John McBride. 
 
 . ..C. E. Carr. 
 
 . .James Meehan. 
 
 . . W. L. Roche. 
 
 . .N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( J. M. Meenagh, 
 
 J. P. Mann, 
 
 ( B. O’Neil. 
 
 . .J. F. Knowles. 
 
 . .Chas. E. Spillard. 
 . .A. F. Spillard. 
 
 . .Thos. McCue. 
 
 . .G. J. Schneider. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1895. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger . . 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary.. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor. . . 
 Junior Conductor. . . 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.... 
 Medical Examiner.. . 
 
 . .Daniel Gahan, Jr. 
 . .John Roche. 
 
 . .James Meehan. 
 
 . .Thos. J. Cleary. 
 
 . . N. P. Weber. 
 
 fC. M. Buel, 
 
 ^ J. P. Mann, 
 l J. M. Meenagh. 
 
 . . E. F. Mann. 
 
 . . Tim. G. Jackman. 
 . . E. J. Kohn. 
 
 . .Timothy Sullivan. 
 . .H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 Chief Ranger Daniel Gahan resigned before his term expired. 
 Vice Chief Ranger Roche succeeded Bro. Gahan, and B. O’Neil was 
 elected to the office of Vice Chief Ranger for the unexpired term. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1896. 
 
 Chief Ranger.John Roche. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.B. O’Neil. 
 
 Recording Secretary.James Meehan. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Thos. J. Cleary. 
 
180 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor 
 Junior Conductor 
 Inside Sentinel . . 
 Outside Sentinel . 
 Medical Examiner 
 
 . .N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( C. M. Buel, 
 
 J. P. Mann, 
 
 ( j. M. Meenagh. 
 
 . . J. G. Elbert. 
 
 . . Jos. Howard. 
 
 . . B. McQueeney. 
 
 . . Eugene Christie 
 . . H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1897. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger .. 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor. . . 
 Junior Conductor. . , 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel 
 Medical Examiner.. . 
 
 . .C. M. Buel. 
 
 . .Jos. H. Jones. 
 
 . . James Meehan. 
 
 . .Thos. J. Cleary. 
 . .N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( M. C. Tobin, 
 
 S. J. McOsker, 
 
 ( W. L. Roche. 
 
 . .Jos. Howard. 
 
 . .W. J. O’Brien. 
 
 . . Henry H. Foy. 
 
 . .Geo. Pilcher. 
 
 . . H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1898. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger .. . 
 Recording Secretary.. 
 Financial Secretary.. . 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor. . . . 
 Junior Conductor. . . . 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel. 
 
 Medical Examiner.. . . 
 Spiritual Director. . . . 
 
 .C. M. Buel. 
 
 .Jos. H. Jones. 
 
 .James Meehan. 
 
 .Thos. J. Cleary. 
 
 .N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( E. F. Mann, 
 
 . . . J. M. Meenagh, 
 
 ( S. J. McOsker. 
 
 .Henry H. Foy. 
 
 .Wm. J. O’Brien. 
 
 .Thomas McCarthy. 
 
 .Edward Kennealy. 
 
 .H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 .Rev. John Mackin. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elyin, III. 
 
 181 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1899. 
 
 Chief Ranger.H. H. Foy. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.F. A. Howard. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Jas. Meehan. 
 
 Financial Secretary.T. P. Sheehan. 
 
 Treasurer.N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( D. Frank Gahan, 
 
 Trustees. W. L. Roche, 
 
 ( A. F. Soillard. 
 
 Senior Conductor.A. Glass. 
 
 Junior Conductor.Jas. O’Bierne. 
 
 Inside Sentinel.Frank Ahrens. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.Jas. Brahan. 
 
 Medical Examiner.H. J. Gahagan, M. D. 
 
 Deputy High Chief Ranger.C. M. Buel. 
 
 Chaplain.Rev. J. Mackin. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1900. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger. 
 
 Recording Secretary. 
 
 Financial Secretary. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Senior Conductor. 
 
 Junior Conductor. 
 
 Inside Sentinel. 
 
 Outside Sentinel. 
 
 Medical Examiner. 
 
 Deputy High Chief Ranger 
 Chaplain. 
 
 . H. H. Foy. 
 
 . . F. A. Howard. 
 
 . . Jas. Meehan. 
 
 . . T. P. Sheehan. 
 
 . . N. P. Weber. 
 
 ( W. L. Roche, 
 
 A. F. Spillard, 
 
 ( E. P. Keating. 
 
 . . F. Ahrens. 
 
 . . Thos. Gannon. 
 
 . . Ed. Larkin. 
 
 . .A. W. Glass. 
 
 . ,H. J. Gahagan, M. D. 
 
 . .C. M. Buel. 
 
 . . Rev. John J. McCann. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1901. 
 
 Chief Ranger.C. M. Buel. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.T. J. Cleary. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Jas. Meehan. 
 
182 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Financial Secretary.T. P. Sheehan. 
 
 Treasurer.N. P. Weber. 
 
 \ Frank O’Flaherty, 
 
 Trustees.- Wm. Burke, 
 
 ( Geo. Danner. 
 
 Senior Conductor.John Elbert. 
 
 Junior Conductor.J. J. McGraw. 
 
 Inside Sentinel.Ed. Larkin. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.Joseph O’Leary. 
 
 Medical Examiner.Ft. J. Gahagan. 
 
 Deputy High Chief Ranger.W. L. Roche. 
 
 Chaplain.Rev. John J. McCann 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1902. 
 
 Chief Ranger.C. M. Buel. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.D. C. Hunter. 
 
 Recording Secretary.T. J. Cleary. 
 
 Financial Secretary.T. P. Sheehan. 
 
 Treasurer.N. P. Weber. 
 
 ^ F. O’Flaherty, 
 
 Trustees.- Ed. Larkin, 
 
 ( H. Sturm. 
 
 Senior Conductor.J. G. Elbert. 
 
 Junior Conductor.F. J. Cleary. 
 
 Inside Sentinel.Wm. Cannon. 
 
 Outside Sentinel.Wm. Anselman. 
 
 Medical Examiner.H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 Deputy High Chief Ranger.W. L. Roche. 
 
 Spiritual Director.Rev. John J. McCann 
 
 ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 Aubertin, N. 
 Aubertin, J. C. 
 Ahrens, Frank 
 Auseon, Frank 
 Anselman, Wm. 
 Buel, C. M. 
 Burns, C. F. 
 Bourque, Fred 
 Burns, Robt. 
 Burke, Daniel 
 
 Brahan, James 
 Burke, E. D. 
 Bellew, Francis 
 Burns, M. F. 
 Burke, Wm. 
 Burzell, David 
 Bolger, G. F. 
 Bopp, Henry 
 Bogonynski, M. 
 Bopp, Ed. H. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
 183 
 
 Connor, Matthew 
 Copley, Robt. J. 
 Cox, Patrick 
 Cleary, T. J. 
 
 Carr, C. E. 
 
 Cleary, M. 
 
 Crosby, J. J. 
 Christie, Eugene 
 Cleary, Frank J. 
 Connor, J. T. 
 Cannon, Thos. 
 Cassin, B. 
 
 Dorley, H. A. 
 Danner, George 
 Doyle, Miles 
 Doherty, John 
 Driscoll, Chas. 
 Doran, John 
 Elbert, J. G. 
 Eberlein, M. 
 Elbrink, F. J. 
 Foley, Wm. 
 
 Fay, P. W. 
 
 Foley, Dr. E. A. 
 Frymark, Peter 
 Forkins, James 
 Fay, John 
 Frisby, Edwin 
 Freeman, Patrick 
 Farrell, Wm. 
 Farrell, John 
 Fish, Ed. P. 
 Gahan, Daniel, Jr. 
 Glennon, John 
 Graham, P. J. 
 Gahagan, Dr. H. J 
 Gannon, Geo. 
 Gannon, Thos. 
 
 Grady, Wm. 
 Gahan, D. F., Sr. 
 Gahan, A. T. 
 Gahan, D. F., Jr. 
 Gildea, Rev. P. 
 Gannon, Wm. 
 Howard, F. A. 
 Hines, P. J. 
 
 Hilley, George 
 Howard, Joseph 
 Hennessey, John 
 Hansberry, Peter 
 Hennessey, Jas. F. 
 Hunter, D. C. 
 Higgins, Ed. S. 
 Jones, J. H. 
 Jackman, T. G. 
 Jeffers, Jas. W. 
 Kray, John 
 Keating, Ed. P. 
 Kinnane, M. H. 
 Kennealy, James 
 Kane, David 
 Kannaugh, J. F. 
 Knowles, J. F. 
 Keegan, Jas. H. 
 Kohn, E. J. 
 
 Kelley, C. H. 
 Kennealy, E. J. 
 Kramer, P. 
 
 Kelley, J. E. 
 Kothe, E. C. 
 Kothe, John F. 
 Kray, Jacob 
 Logan, J. T. 
 Logan, E. A. 
 Lyons, T. P. 
 Ludford, Wm. 
 
184 
 
 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Landers, Win. 
 
 Lies. H. J. 
 
 Larkin, Ed. 
 McOsker, S. J. 
 McKenzie, Joseph 
 McQueeney, B. 
 McCue, Thos. 
 McKeon, Thos. 
 McGarrity, M. 
 McArdle, J. 
 McCarthy, W. 
 McGuire, Thos. 
 McCartney, J. A. 
 McCormick, John 
 McNamara, H. J. 
 McCarthy, Thos. E.. 
 McCorry, Chas. 
 McCarthy, C. J. 
 McGravv, J. J. 
 McGarrey, T. E. 
 McCartney, G. P. 
 McCann, Rev. J. J. 
 McSorley, Frank 
 Meehan, James 
 Meenagh, James M. 
 Meehan, E. J. 
 
 Mann, J. P. 
 
 Moran, P. J. 
 Meehan, Thos. 
 Mann, E. F. 
 
 Mullen, Jas. 
 Mulroney, Jas. 
 Meredith, M. 
 Mullen, H. P. 
 Murphy, Jeremiah 
 Murphy, J. I). 
 Meyers, W. J. 
 Naughton, W. T . 
 Norton, Daniel 
 O’Rourke, [as. 
 O’Neil, B. 
 
 O’Connor, F. J. 
 O’Leary, John 
 O’Brien, M. 
 
 O’Brien, W. J. 
 O’Leary, Joseph 
 
 O’Bierne, James 
 O’Flaherty, Frank 
 Pfister, Geo. 
 Pilcher, Geo. 
 Pendergast, W. R. 
 Powers, John 
 Phalen, Edwin 
 Pease, A. J. 
 
 Quinn, John 
 Roche, W. L. 
 Roche, John 
 Rice, John J. 
 Ryan, John 
 Rohles, John 
 Ring, John G. 
 Roche, John F. 
 Rohles, James 
 Sheehan, T. P. 
 Schevers, B. A. 
 Sturn, Henry 
 Sheehan, Chas. E. 
 Spillard, C. E. 
 Schevers, E. S. 
 Spillard, A. F. 
 Spillard, M. A. 
 Spillard, Theo. 
 Shehan, R. E. 
 Sweeney, F. L. 
 Smith, P. J. 
 Sullivan, Thos. 
 Sullivan, J. W. 
 Tobin, M. C. 
 Thiel, J. J. 
 Tiffaney, D. 
 Tennant, M. A. 
 Tennant, John 
 Weber, N. P. 
 Ward, Chas. 
 Whalen, John 
 Walsh, Wm. 
 Wagner, J. W. 
 Wilson, W. J. 
 Wagner, Adolph 
 Wills, John J. 
 Ward, P. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, Elgin, III. 
 
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 WOMEN’S CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS. 
 
 ST. REGINA COURT NO. 92. 
 
 The Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters was founded in Chicago, 
 July 17, 1891. A charter was secured and the organization incorpor¬ 
 ated under the insurance laws of the State of Illinois, January 31, 1894. 
 
 It is a fraternal beneficiary society with a ritualistic form of work 
 and a representative form of government. Its objects are : To pro¬ 
 mote friendship, unity and charity among its members; to aid sick and 
 distressed sisters, and to provide for the families of deceased members. 
 The endowment rank provides insurance in the sums of one and two 
 thousand dollars, as the applicant may elect. 
 
 Applicants are obliged to pass a rigid examination as to character 
 and physical condition. Catholic women between the ages of eighteen 
 and fifty years are eligible to membership. 
 
 The Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters has had a very pros¬ 
 perous career. It has spread to nearly every State in the Union, and 
 has a membership of 37,000, 560 subordinate courts, and a reserve fund 
 of over $82,000. 
 
 St. Regina Court, No. 92, W. C. O. F., was instituted Monday even¬ 
 ing, October 5, 1896, at Knights of Pythias hall, Elgin, Ill. The 
 court was organized by Mrs. Mary Rayburn and publicly installed by 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers, founder and High Chief Ranger of the order. 
 The court was the largest in the State outside of Chicago, there being 
 forty-four charter members and twenty applications for membership. 
 The membership continued to increase rapidly; 167 persons have been 
 enrolled, with a loss of five by death. The regular meetings are held 
 the first and third Saturday evenings, at Pythian hall. 
 
 The annual banquet and reunion takes place about October 5th, 
 the anniversary of the institution of the court. 
 
 St. Regina Court provides a special benefit in the form of a funeral 
 fund. At the death of a member, $25 is paid the family or beneficiary 
 of the deceased. A requiem mass is offered annually for deceased 
 members of the court. 
 
 PRESENT OFFICERS, 1902. 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Norton. 
 Mrs. Annie McArdle. 
 
Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Recording Secretary.Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Mrs. Julia McKenzie. 
 
 Treasurer 
 Trustees. 
 
 Conductors 
 
 ..Mrs. Mary Mann. 
 
 ( Mrs. Margaret Spillard, 
 
 < Mrs. Nellie Doherty, 
 
 ( Mrs. Mary Burney. 
 
 < Mrs. Margaret Roach, 
 
 ( Miss Elizabeth Keenan. 
 
 Sentinels. 
 
 Chaplain. 
 
 Representatives to Convention . .. 
 
 < Miss 
 ( Mrs. 
 
 .. Mrs. 
 
 ( Mrs. 
 4 Miss 
 
 Bridgie Brahan, 
 Mary Hanson. 
 Margaret Souster. 
 
 Mary Scott, 
 
 Julia Butler. 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1896-1897. 
 
 Chief Ranger.Mrs. Mary Scott. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Mrs. Cecelia Higgins. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Mrs. Mayme Myers. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Miss Sarah Guilford. 
 
 Treasurer.Mrs. Mary O’Neil. 
 
 ( Mrs. Mary Lewis, 
 
 Trustees. - Mrs. Louise Long, 
 
 ( Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 ^ , . \ Miss Josephine Butler, 
 
 Conductors. , r ■»«- t- • u 
 
 < Miss Mary brisby. 
 
 0 { Mrs. Sarah Norton, 
 
 Sentinels. tt- , • ^ cc 
 
 ( Miss Katie Duffy. 
 
 Representatives to Annual Conven- { Mrs. Mary Scott, 
 
 tion.( Mrs. Mayme Myers. 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1898. 
 
 Chief Ranger.Mrs. Mayme Myers. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Mrs. Julia McKenzie. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Miss Catherine Colford. 
 
 Treasurer.Mrs. Mary O’Neil. 
 
 ( Mrs. Mary Burney, 
 
 Trustees. 1 Mrs. Stasia Knox, 
 
 ( Miss Maria Grady. 
 
 „ , t 1 Miss Ella Younger, 
 
 Conductors. ^ ^ & 
 
 f Miss Delia Conway. 
 
St. Mary's Parish, El yin, III. 
 
 18 
 
 Sentinels 
 
 i Miss Elizabeth Keenan, 
 
 I Mrs. Kate Ryan. 
 
 Chaplain.Mrs. Margaret Souster. 
 
 Representatives to Annual Conven- I Mrs. Mary O’Neil, 
 
 lion.< Mrs. Mary Scott. 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1899. 
 
 Chief Ranger.. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger. . 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Conductors. 
 
 Sentinels. 
 
 Chaplain. 
 
 . .Mrs. Mayme Myers. 
 
 ..Mrs. Fouise Long. 
 
 ... Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 . .Miss Catherine Colford. 
 . . Mrs. Mary Mann. 
 
 ^ Miss Ella Younger, 
 
 - Mrs. Mary Hanson, 
 
 ( Miss Clara Peabody. 
 
 < Miss Maria Grady, 
 
 ( Miss Delia Conway. 
 
 1 Mrs. Mary Glass, 
 
 ( Miss Elizabeth Keenan. 
 
 ..Mrs. Margaret Souster. 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1900. 
 
 Chief Ranger.Mrs Louise Long. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Mrs. Stasia Knox. 
 
 Recording Secretary.Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Miss Catherine Colford. 
 
 Treasurer.Mrs. Mary Mann. 
 
 Trustees 
 
 Conductors. 
 
 Sentinels. 
 
 Chaplain. 
 
 Representatives to Annual 
 tion. 
 
 I Miss Ella Younger, 
 
 . Mrs. Margaret Roach, 
 
 ( Mrs. Mary Paulson. 
 
 < Miss Maria Grady, 
 
 4 Miss Delia Conway. 
 
 ( Mrs. Mary Glass, 
 
 ( Miss Elizabeth Keenan. 
 
 .Mrs. Margaret Souster. 
 
 Conven- < Mrs. Mary Scott, 
 .( Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1901. 
 
 Chief Ranger.Mrs. Stasia Knox. 
 
 Vice Chief Ranger.Mrs. Sarah Norton. 
 
Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Conductors. 
 
 Sentinels. 
 
 Chaplain. 
 
 .Miss Julia Butler. 
 
 * 
 
 .Miss Mary Freeman. 
 
 .Mrs. Mary Mann. 
 
 ^ Mrs. Mary Paulson, 
 
 . Mrs. Anna Kramer, 
 
 ( Mrs. Nellie Doherty. 
 
 < Miss Lizzie Sands, 
 
 ( Miss Maggie Flynn. 
 
 < Mrs. Nellie Pease, 
 
 { Miss Mamie Duffy. 
 
 .Mrs. Margaret Souster. 
 
 Julia Butler, Recording Secretary. 
 
 ST. MARY’S SOCIAL AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 
 
 St. Mary’s Social and Benevolent Society was organized March n, 
 1894, for what its name indicates. Its motto has been “Each for all 
 and all for each.” The 150 members have made an honest effort to live 
 up to the high standard of its motto. Many needy families can testify to 
 the kind acts performed in an unostentatious manner by the ladies of 
 this society. The first officers of the society were : Mrs. E. Lynch, 
 president; Mrs. Geo. Souster, vice-president; Miss S. A. Guilford, 
 secretary, and Mrs. Jas. Meehan, treasurer. The present officers are : 
 Mrs. Alex. Scott, president; Miss Ella McOsker, vice-president; Miss 
 Maria Grady, treasurer, and Mrs. Clara E. Jencks, recording secretary. 
 In the intervening time a number of ladies have filled the various offices 
 to the entire satisfaction of their sister members. This is especially so 
 of Miss Marne Connor, who was treasurer for five years, and resigned on 
 account of ill health. The money disbursed by the benevolent com¬ 
 mittee since 1894 has been $1,500. Socially the society is a success. 
 It is grateful to the general public for the liberal patronage that has 
 always been bestowed upon it. The society appreciates the favors of 
 philanthropic friends. 
 
 PRESENT OFFICERS, 1902. 
 
 President.Mrs. Mary Scott. 
 
 Vice-President.Mrs. Stasia Knox. 
 
 Treasurer.Miss Maria Grady. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Mary Cull. 
 
St. Marys Parish, Elgin, 111 . 189 
 
 FORMER OFFICERS, 1894. 
 
 President.Mrs. Eugene Lynch. 
 
 Vice-President.Mrs. George Souster. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Sarah A. Guilford. 
 
 Treasurer.Mrs. James Meehan. 
 
 All re-elected in November. 
 
 MAY, 1895. 
 
 President.Mrs. Eugene Lynch. 
 
 Vice-President.Mrs. John Long. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Mary Cull. 
 
 Treasurer.Miss Marne Connor. 
 
 Miss Connor was re-elected at each succeeding election until May, 
 1901, when she declined to accept the office any longer. 
 
 NOVEMBER, 1895. 
 
 President.Mrs. Eugene Lynch (re-elected). 
 
 Vice-President.Mrs. George Souster. 
 
 Secretary.Mrs. C. F. Irwin. 
 
 MAY, 1896. 
 
 President.Mrs. Eva McOsker. 
 
 Vice-President.Mrs. N. Aubertin. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Rose McGuire. 
 
 NOVEMBER, 1896. 
 
 The only change in officers, Miss McGuire declined re-election, 
 and was succeeded by Miss Mary Flynn. 
 
 MAY, 1897. 
 
 President.Mrs. W. C. Thiers. 
 
 Vice-President.Miss Ella McOsker. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Mary E. Larkin. 
 
 MAY, 1898. 
 
 President.Mrs. Alex. Scott. 
 
 Vice-President.Miss Ella McOsker. 
 
 Secretary.Miss Rose Roche. 
 
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 Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 MAY, 1899 an< ^ 1900. 
 
 Same officers re-elected. Miss Roche resigning in December, 
 1900, was succeeded by Mrs. Clara E. Jencks. 
 
 MAY, 1901. 
 
 Miss Maria Grady, treasurer, to succeed Miss Connor. All the 
 other officers re-elected. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH’S COURT, 235, C. O. F. 
 
 This Court was organized in the fall of 1891, and was initiated on 
 November 21 of the same year, with sixteen charter members, by High 
 Treasurer Henry Dettmer of Chicago, in the presence of a large dele¬ 
 gation from Elgin Court and members of other out-of-town courts. 
 
 The first officers of the Court were : 
 
 Chief Ranger.Peter Westermann. 
 
 Vice-Chief Ranger.Herman Loeding. 
 
 Recording Secretary.A. F. Schader. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Chas. Danner. 
 
 Treasurer.H. S. Muetterties. 
 
 ( Theo. Beckman, 
 
 Trustees.- Peter Kampmeier, 
 
 ( John Kohn. 
 
 Conductors. i J oe Coesfeld, 
 
 ( rrank Loehr. 
 
 Sentinel.Frank Muller. 
 
 The record of the Court shows a remarkable success and growth in 
 the past eleven years, having paid out in that period the sum of $1,500 
 for sick benefits and $4,800 for endowments, and having at present a 
 membership of sixty-eight good standing Foresters. One of the most 
 remarkable features of the Court is the fact that it has not lost a single 
 member by death during all the time of its existence, and it may be 
 stated right here, that this is probably the only Court in the whole 
 order with a record of that kind. 
 
 Two beautiful flags, a society banner and a United States flag 
 (silk), a handsome large marshal staff, won in a Forester’s contest, and 
 a fine bronze crucifix, a gift of Rev. Father Riss to the Court, are among 
 the notable acquisitions of the Court. 
 
 It has been an established custom of the Court to celebrate its 
 annual anniversary on Thanksgiving evening of every year, and to 
 

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 invite on that occasion all the members of the St. Joseph’s congregation 
 and their friends to a social gathering and a free entertainment to their 
 meeting hall. 
 
 PRESENT AND PAST CHIEF RANGERS, ST. JOSEPH’S COURT, 235, C. O. F. 
 
 1. A. F. Schader, 3. William Meyers. 
 
 2. H. S. Muetterties, 4. Peter Westerman. 
 
 5. Theodore Beckmann. 
 
 Rev. Father Rhode, the present chaplain of the Court, is an eager 
 promoter and admirer of the C. O. F., and with his assistance the 
 prospect for the future of the Court is a very bright one. 
 
 St. Joseph’s Court meets every second and fourth Tuesday of each 
 month in the Strauss hall on Grove Avenue. 
 
 The present officers are: 
 
 Chief Ranger. 
 
 Vice-Chief Ranger. 
 
 First Chief Ranger 
 
 H. S. Muetterties. 
 Adolf Fischer. 
 
 Pet. Westermann. 
 
Golden Jubilee Souvenir 
 
 192 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 Financial Secretary. 
 Treasurer . 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Conductors 
 Sentinels. . 
 
 . . Geo. Kleiser. 
 
 . . Julius Werkes. 
 
 . John Werls. 
 
 ( Pet. Westermann, 
 Chas. Danner, 
 
 ( Pet. Kampmeier. 
 
 < Jos. Meyers, 
 
 ( Adam Joachem. 
 
 < John Gabski, 
 
 < H. Strieker. 
 
 THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. 
 
 The Knights of Columbus was organized in Connecticut in March. 
 1882, its councils are represented in most of the states and territories; 
 its membership is made up of,the intellect and sinew of the country, 
 and its principles are for the advancement of Catholicity and developing 
 a better social condition. The society has an insurance feature which 
 is optional with the candidate. The initiatory ceremonies of the 
 Knights of Columbus are beautiful, instructive and inspiring. 
 
 Elgin Council was organized on April 20, 1902, with a charter list 
 of seventy-five members. 
 
 Officers of the Council are: 
 
 Grand Knight.Lawrence Crane. 
 
 Deputy Grand Knight.Edward L. Ryan. 
 
 Recording Secretary.James R. O’Beirne. 
 
 Financial Secretary.Thos. J. Cleary. 
 
 Treasurer.Matthew J. Heslin. 
 
 Medical Examiner.H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 Lecturer.F. C. Fedou. 
 
 Chancellor.L. McNerny. 
 
 Advocate.F. E. Shopen. 
 
 Chaplain.Rev. J. J. McCann. 
 
 ( James Jeffers, 
 
 Trustees. - F. L. McQueenv, 
 
 ( Emil Kothe. 
 
 Warden.John Wagner. 
 
 Outside Guard.John Kothe. 
 
 Inside Guard.Joseph T. Roach. 
 
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 THE ALTAR AND ROSARY SOCIETY. 
 
 This society—the oldest in the parish—was organized by Father 
 Fitzsimmons about thirty years ago, its object being to assist the priest 
 in obtaining articles for use during the solemn services of the church, 
 and to keep the sanctuary in proper order. During the greater part of 
 Father Mackin’s pastorate, the work of caring for the altar was done 
 by his nieces, Mrs. Meenagh, and the Misses Murphy. Though a work 
 of no small responsibility, it was admirably done. With the new 
 church in 1900, came new life and vigor. Father McCann reorganized 
 the society, and in a short time, one hundred and five members were 
 enrolled. Officers were elected, the first ones being Elizabeth Conway, 
 president; Mrs. Foy, vice-president; Kathleen Tobin, secretary and 
 treasurer. 
 
 At the annual election of officers in 1901, Mrs. Geo. Souster was 
 elected president, Miss Conway, vice-president, Mary Duhy, secretary, 
 and Mrs. B. Kelly, treasurer. Father Gildea, as spiritual director, 
 instituted a series of lectures, explaining the meaning, origin and use of 
 the altar, and all pertaining to it. So instructive and interesting were 
 these lectures, that the members took the greatest pleasure in being 
 present at them; and with the meetings well attended, the work of the 
 society was much more easily accomplished. In the beginning of the 
 year the president, with characteristic energy, proposed the purchase of 
 a carpet for sanctuary and sacristy. The members generously seconded 
 her efforts, and on Holy Thursday the congregation had the pleasure 
 of seeing both covered with a beautiful new carpet. 
 
 The work in connection with caring for the sanctuary is much 
 more than one would think. The president appoints from four to six 
 ladies each month to do this work; their efforts have been most suc¬ 
 cessful, and the appreciation shown by Father McCann and the assist¬ 
 ant pastors has been extremely gratifying to them. To make the 
 sanctuary in the smallest degree a fitting home for the King of Kings is 
 a work in which the priests and altar society gladly and gratefully join. 
 
 Mary Duhy, Secretary. 
 
 LEAGUE OF THE SACRED HEART. 
 
 The Apostleship of Prayer in League with the Sacred Heart was 
 solemnly instituted in this parish on Sunday evening, January 28, 1900, 
 by Father Blackmore, S. J., of Holy Family Church, Chicago. Pre- 
 
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 vious to this time a number of people here had become affiliated with a 
 Chicago center, and not a few received holy communion on the first 
 Friday of every month; but this parish was not made a center until the 
 above date. On February 23, 1900, an election of officers was held, 
 with the result that Mrs. William Higgins was made president, Miss 
 Agnes Duffy, vice president, and Miss Nellie Reirdon. secretary and 
 treasurer. 
 
 The First Promoters’ reception was held here on January 6, 1901, 
 when ten promoters received crosses and diplomas. Twelve more 
 promoters were enrolled on June 26, 1901. There are now on the roll 
 seventy-nine promoters, and a membership of over twelve hundred. 
 
 A fair number have taken up the second degree. On an average, 
 about one hundred and fifty make the communion of reparation each 
 first Friday. 
 
 There are two meetings in the month, the league meeting on the 
 second Sunday evening, and the promoters’ meeting on the third. An 
 instruction by the director, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 
 are always features of these meetings. 
 
 During the month of June communions are offered daily for mem¬ 
 bers of the parish who may have neglected their Easter duty, and for 
 the conversion of fallen-away Catholics. 
 
 In June, 1901, we commenced the practice of keeping the Holy 
 Hour, from 7.30 to 8.30, the evening before the first Friday. 
 
 Sunday evening, September 29, 1901, there was an unveiling of a 
 beautiful statue of the Sacred Heart, the gift of a member of the con¬ 
 gregation. Rev. Thomas Sherman, S. J., archdiocesan director, was 
 present on the occasion and preached an eloquent sermon. After 
 benediction the promoters had the pleasure of meeting Father Sherman. 
 It was an evening of great joy to those devoted to the loving heart of 
 Jesus. 
 
 The Feast of Blessed Margaret Mary, October 25, 1901, was duly 
 observed, a large number of the league members attending mass and 
 receiving holy communion. 
 
 During the last six years thirty-two associates have departed this 
 life. Nellie Reirdon, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 THE ISABELLA CLUB. 
 
 The Isabella Club is a society composed of the young ladies of 
 St. Mary’s Church for social and literary purposes. It was organized 
 
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 June 16, 1901, with the following officers: Miss Celia Howard, presi 
 dent; Miss Nellie Riley, vice-president; Miss Mary M. Donoghue, 
 recording secretary; Miss Grace Tennant, financial secretary; Miss 
 Winnie McNerney, treasurer. 
 
 THE GIFFORD CLUB. 
 
 This club is composed of the young men of this parish. The fol¬ 
 lowing are the officers: President, John R. Powers; vice-president, 
 Lawrence McHenry; treasurer, John J. McGraw; recording secre¬ 
 tary, James Hennessey; financial secretary, George E. Hoelscher. 
 
St. Joseph’s Hospital. 
 
 In the spring of 1900 some Sisters of St. Joseph, from the hospital 
 in Belvidere, called on Father McCann and asked permission to can¬ 
 vass the parish for the benefit of their hospital. Father McCann 
 readily granted their request, and in the same breath asked them why 
 they had not come to Elgin instead of Belvidere, Elgin being so much 
 larger. The Sisters said they might in a year or two be ready to come 
 to Elgin. A year later the Sisters came down to look for a suitable 
 piece of property. Father McCann and Mr. Frank E. Shopen had 
 been looking about the city, and suggested the property at the south¬ 
 west corner of Prospect street and Jefferson avenue, known as the Gail 
 Johnson property, and owned by William Hewins. The Sisters liked 
 the place, and through Mr. Shopen bought it of Mr. Hewins for $6,300. 
 This was in July, 1901. 
 
 Two members of the Order came to Elgin as the guests of Mrs. 
 Shopen in order to canvass the town for funds. Mrs. Shopen took them 
 to her many friends, and the result was a subscription list of about two 
 thousand dollars. Part of this was collected in cash, and was at once 
 spent in improving the house and ground. People of all denominations 
 were on the subscription list, and have continued to take an active 
 interest in the institution. 
 
 Owing to obstacles that arose, the St. Joseph Sisters could not open 
 the hospital, and, therefore, in February, 1902, they transferred their 
 holding to the Franciscan Sisters of Joliet. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Shopen, together with Father Rohde, of St. Joseph’s 
 Church, deserve the credit for interesting the Franciscan Sisters in 
 Elgin. 
 
 The hospital was formally opened to the public on March 31, 1902. 
 A large number of people, interested in the work which will be done by 
 the Sisters, took advantage of the reception that day to see for the first 
 time the interior of the new hospital. 
 
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 From the beginning the institution has been kept full of patients, 
 the reputation of the Sisters as nurses making their hospitals popular 
 with the sick. 
 
 The Elgin Court of Foresters, St. Regina Court of Women Forest¬ 
 ers, St. Mary’s Social and Benevolent Society, all connected with St. 
 Mary’s parish, have each furnished a room in the hospital. Another 
 society of the parish, the Isabella Club, is now raising funds for the 
 
 ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL. 
 
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 same purpose. A number of St. Mary’s young ladies, together with a 
 number of non-Catholic young ladies, also raised funds and furnished a 
 room. 
 
 The Forester Court connected with St. Joseph’s Church, and a 
 ladies’ society of the same church, each furnished a room at the 
 hospital. 
 
 Rev. J. Rohde was appointed by the late Most Rev. Archbishop 
 P. A. Feehan, as chaplain for the hospital. 
 
 St. Joseph’s hospital has been a decided success from the start, and 
 we predict for it an equally successful future. 
 
The Elgin State Hospital for the Insane. 
 
 The Elgin State Hospital for the Insane was opened for the 
 admission of patients in 1872, with a population of about 300, the 
 present number being 1,300, the greater number of the patients being 
 from Cook County. The Elgin institution is for the northern district of 
 the State, each county being allowed a quota in proportion to the 
 population. The tendency in the present treatment of the insane is to 
 give to the patient the greatest liberty possible, commensurate with the 
 proper discipline and to divert his attention by placing before him the 
 more attractive in life, and to this end this institution has a wide reputa¬ 
 tion. The grounds of the hospital are a revelation, beautiful lakes, 
 and drives, boulevards, cement walks, knolls, rustic bridges arching 
 over numerous rivulets, acres of flower-beds, rose bushes and shade- 
 trees is the scene which greets the eye of one strolling through the 
 grounds. 
 
 The common belief that an insane person is a wild, ferocious person, 
 manacled and confined in a padded cell, peering through the bars with 
 an uncanny, fiendish looking expression, uttering demoniacal yells, is 
 very much overdrawn in these days of modern treatment of the insane. 
 Personal liberty is the watchword in the insane hospital of today, and 
 great credit is due Dr. Arthur Loewy, late superintendent, for his 
 practical application in this direction; restraint was placed upon the 
 patient only at the direction of the physician, and then only in an 
 emergency; the doors of the private rooms and dormitories were opened 
 night and day, allowing the inmates the freedom of the wards—the 
 latter measure was an innovation in hospital curriculum. The wisdom 
 of such a step, together with other scientific methods of treatment, was 
 apparent, however, in the rapid increase of recoveries, the doctor’s 
 report of 1894 and 1896, showing a recovery rate of fifty-three percent or 
 over a half of those discharged and twenty-three per cent more than any 
 other insane hospital in the country. Dr. H. J. Gahagan of this city 
 
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 was assistant to Dr. Loewy during the latter’s incumbency as super¬ 
 intendent; Dr. Frank S. Whitman, the present superintendent, with Dr. 
 E. A. Foley, first assistant, are painstaking and careful to the unfortu¬ 
 nates under their charge, and successful in the management of the 
 institution. 
 
 Mass has been said in the chapel every Sunday morning at 6.15 
 since April, 1901. by the Rev. John J. McCann, of St. Mary’s Church, or 
 one of his assistant pastors, priests who always hold themselves in readi¬ 
 ness, at call, to render the rites and consolation of religion to patients or 
 employes of the institution who are members of their fold. 
 
 The regular chaplain of the hospital holds religious sendees Sun¬ 
 day afternoons at 3 o’clock. 
 
 The music, vocal and instrumental, has been a noted feature of 
 these services. 
 
HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 FRHNKLIN 
 
 HBBY C.W1NG 
 
The Golden Jubilee. 
 
 The services began on Monday, October 28, 1901. The church 
 had been beautifully decorated for the occasion; over the main entrance 
 was an arch of evergreen, suspended from which was a banner bearing 
 the inscription : “1851 Golden Jubilee 1901.” The interior of the 
 church was festooned with evergreens and streamers of purple and 
 gold. The sanctuary and altars were decorated with a profusion of 
 palms, and plants, and flowers, and lights. 
 
 Promptly at 10:15 a. m -> the priests and altar boys filed out into 
 the sanctuary, and the first solemn high mass of the jubilee was cele¬ 
 brated. A ery Rev. D. J. Spillard, C. S. C., of New Orleans, was 
 celebrant; Rev. W. W. Barth, of McHenry, deacon; Rev. J. M. Stack- 
 able, of McHenry, sub-deacon; and Rev. J. P. Dore, of West Chicago, 
 master of ceremonies. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. 
 Thos. J. Whalen, of Chicago. He spoke particularly of what is expected 
 of the present and future generations of Catholics. 
 
 THE CATHOLICS OF TOMORROW. 
 
 SERMON BY REV. THOS. J. WHALEN. 
 
 The solidarity existing in the Catholic Church, based as it is in 
 the kinship of her members with her founder, Jesus Christ, gives us 
 the right to glory in the achievements of those who have gone before 
 us, but it also imposes on us the obligation to continue and perfect 
 their work as far as we are able. 
 
 Those Catholic parents and grandparents of ours, and their pred¬ 
 ecessors, what a noble lot they were! When we stop to consider the 
 constancy demanded, the hardships endured, the vicissitudes under¬ 
 gone, the sacrifices made, to keep alive and propagate the faith they 
 brought to this, a new and unsettled land, we are filled with admira¬ 
 tion. Scarcely four hundred years since the first permanent missionary 
 
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 landed on our continent. Not three hundred years since the mission¬ 
 aries came to our Northern and Middle States. Within the last cen¬ 
 tury, yes, within the memory of many now living, the Catholic priest 
 traveled through this and the State adjoining us on the north in great, 
 lumbering ox-drawn carts, administering to the spiritual wants of a 
 widely scattered [Catholic population. And today, what a change ! 
 
 REV. THOS. J. WHALEN. 
 
 Look at the mighty edifices erected to the glory of God—the grand 
 cathedrals, the magnificent churches, the hospitals, schools, asylums, 
 colleges, which on every hand bespeak the indomitable faith, zeal and 
 energy of our fathers. 
 
 I have stood amidst the ruins of the earliest churches in Florida; 
 knelt in prayer beside the neglected mounds where rest the ashes of 
 priest and layman martyred by the Indians ; I have seen the ruins of 
 the old mission churches of the southwest; traveled the Marquette trail 
 of northern Michigan, and it required the widest stretching of a vivid 
 
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 imagination to link that then living past with the present—to see in 
 such humble beginnings the source of today’s greatness, and to realize 
 that so much had been accomplished in so short a time. Truly those 
 older generations must have been a wonderful people. Well may we 
 apply to them the words of St. Paul, “ They have fought the good fight, 
 they have run their course, they kept the faith, they have gone to their 
 reward.” And for us, though we glory in their deeds we must not be 
 content with the work which they accomplished; we must take up the 
 weapons which fell from their hands, and, like the Grecian runners of 
 old who carried the sacred fire from the temple and spread it through 
 hamlet and town, we must catch the torch of divine faith from their 
 hands, never permit it to drop or grow dim, but pass it on to those who 
 come after us with its flame more brightly aglow, its brightness more 
 widely diffused through our zeal and our endeavors. 
 
 The hardships of our predecessors were mostly physical—the 
 difficulties they had to encounter were material. For them the great 
 problems were the building of churches and schools, the securing of 
 priests to administer to their wants. For us the difficulties are greater, 
 the problems harder of solution. It is a truism that where nations are 
 young and virile and where the natural surroundings demand an arduous 
 life, religion always flourishes and waxes strong. Hence it was that our 
 forefathers, though not blessed with much material wealth, being ani¬ 
 mated by a strong conviction of the necessity of religion, made the 
 sacrifices necessary and thus accomplished such wonderful results. 
 With us the difficulty is a radical one. We could, without half the sac¬ 
 rifices, accomplish much more than all these past generations in the 
 way of the material upbuilding of the church, but we lack the strong 
 enduring faith which animated their lives and was the mainspring of 
 their deeds. The Catholics of old, born and reared amid Catholic sur¬ 
 roundings, imbibed the truths of the church’s teaching and allowed them 
 to influence their actions, never doubting, never questioning but that in 
 the Catholic church was the fullness of truth, and that in her upbuild¬ 
 ing they were giving to the world the means whereby mankind would be 
 made better and their own future life assured. The Catholics of to¬ 
 day live in a different atmosphere. They are surrounded by a spirit of 
 doubt—not doubt as to the truth of the church’s teaching as opposed 
 to that of other churches, but doubt as to the fundamentals of all 
 religion. Owing to the bickerings of those outside of the Catholic 
 
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 church, the very essentials of Christianity are fading away. The world 
 says, with the poet, of God : 
 
 “ He is only a cloud and a smoke who was once a pillar of fire, 
 
 The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire.” 
 
 And of ourselves: 
 
 “Trusting no longer that earthly flower would bear heavenly fruit, 
 Come from the brute, poor souls—no souls—and to die with the 
 brute.” 
 
 And under that teaching men have broken away, 
 
 “ From the Christ, our human brother and friend. 
 
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 And Doubt is the lord of this dunghill and crows to the sun and the 
 moon, 
 
 Till the sun and the moon of our science are both of them turned into 
 blood, 
 
 And Hope will have broken her heart running after a shadow of good; 
 For their knowing and know-nothing books are scattered from hand to 
 hand.” 
 
 This growing tide of doubt must be checked and rolled back. Its 
 influence on the present and the coming generations of Catholics must 
 be overcome. The world must be forced to recognize that in the 
 teachings of the Catholic church may be found the solution of the 
 great enigmas which perplex men’s minds. But how is this to be ac¬ 
 complished ? To me there seems to be but one answer and that is by 
 placing the Catholic church and her teachings before the world in their 
 true light and showing how perfectly they are adapted to the needs of 
 humanity and society. To do this religion must be removed from the 
 sphere of mere sentiment. We must study the church’s teaching, and 
 then, considering the needs of society and the innate demand of the 
 human heart for something outside this world on which to rest its 
 hopes and aspirations, make manifest to the world that in the church 
 and her teachings can be found the panacea for the ills which beset 
 society and the solution of the questions of the soul. We Catholics 
 need not be— 
 
 “ As infants crying in the night, 
 
 As infants crying for the light, 
 
 And with no language but a cry.” 
 
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 For the church, our mother, is ever ready with the light of truth to 
 guide our wavering minds and with her helping voice to cheer our fal¬ 
 tering footsteps. All that is necessary is that we should try and know 
 her, for knowing we cannot but learn to love her, and loving her we 
 shall be impelled to make her truth and beauty known to all the world. 
 
 Knowledge is the root of love and, to my mind, the great cause of 
 lukewarmness among Catholics, and the soul-harrowing doubt of non¬ 
 believers is ignorance of the church and of her teachings. Consider 
 the case of Catholics. How few, even among the best educated, give a 
 thought to the teachings of the church outside of what is acquired in 
 the smallest text book. 
 
 The average child on leaving a Catholic school has the words 
 of the Catechism impressed upon his memory, is drilled in the 
 external practices of religion, has his conscience formed, in a general 
 way, as to what is right and what is wrong, and there his Catholic edu¬ 
 cation practically ends. Those outside of our schools are not even thus 
 fully equipped for the battle of life. Once the schoolroom is left be¬ 
 hind a thousand influences combine to overshadow and dim the im¬ 
 pressions of youth; various new and absorbing interests arise which 
 keep him from renewing and developing and firmly grounding his ear¬ 
 lier teaching. Contact with the world in the counting house or the 
 office makes him an adept in applying the principles of mathematics or 
 of grammar, the conversations he hears around him, the articles of 
 newspapers or magazines, or the pursuance of some trade, brings back 
 and develops the little he has learned regarding the various sciences, 
 but never a word to cause the fundamentals of religion to sink deeper 
 into his mind, never an influence to cause the principles of morality to 
 expand and blossom and bear fruit. All the influences are on the other 
 side. The world spirit would, from the view-point of science, eradicate 
 the fundamentals of Catholic faith and from practical life eliminate 
 principles of Catholic morality. Can we wonder, then, if with this 
 lack of knowledge, and under these circumstances, Catholics remain 
 dumb when the question of religion is broached, and have naught to 
 say when the great ethical problems regarding the state, the family and 
 social life are being discussed? This is the crying crime of Catholics 
 —they are ignorant of the faith they profess. They do not understand 
 that the church they adhere to is a living force, not a dead factor, in 
 the world ? s civilization. And with Catholics thus ignorant and in- 
 
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 different, can we expect that those outside of the church will turn to 
 her for guidance ? 
 
 To overcome this prevailing ignorance, to strengthen our Catholic 
 youth and men against the prevailing influences, to make known to the 
 world the rational and wonderful beauty of Catholic teaching, some 
 practical means must be devised. The church, through the pulpit and 
 the confessional, strives to keep alive the early teaching and develop 
 and apply the moral principles learned in the schools, but she can 
 reach only those who come to her. Some outside means is necessary 
 whereby the indifferent may be interested, the lukewarm made zealous; 
 whereby the Catholic training of the child may expand with the fuller 
 education of the youth, and then ripen into the wider personal knowl¬ 
 edge of manhood. Such knowledge, once secured, cannot but influence 
 man’s life and render him faithful in the performance of all his duties 
 to God, Church, Country, Family and his Fellow-man. 
 
 But by what means can such an education be obtained ? This is 
 an age of associations. You have your “ Sodalities,” your “ Foresters,” 
 your “Reading Circles,” your “Catholic Clubs.” Why not make 
 these an agency for the spread of Catholic and Christian knowl¬ 
 edge? New interest in your meetings could be awakened by arrang¬ 
 ing at intervals for a good, connected series of talks on some points of 
 Catholic teaching. 
 
 Take the church’s history. Try and grasp the essential points in 
 the history of that the most glorious institution the world ever saw. 
 More humble in its beginning than the mythical origin of Rome, more 
 warred against and persecuted than any of the world’s great nations, 
 more powerful and splendid than the vastest creation of peoples or of 
 kings, more enduring than the pyramids whose bases are hidden by the 
 ashes of dynasties uncounted and peoples unnumbered, surely her history 
 is worthy of your study. 
 
 Take up the influence of the church on civilization, or the bearing 
 of her teaching on the practical questions of the day: 
 
 The Church and Education. What has she done to keep alive and 
 spread the classic learning of which she was the sole guardian during 
 the middle ages? What does history say of her as the builder of 
 schools, the founder of universities, the patron of letters ? 
 
 The Church and Art. Was it not through her influence, and the 
 inspiration born of the ideals which she held before mankind that the 
 
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 great geniuses of the world produced those masterpieces of sculpture 
 and of painting which are the property of the human race ? In Architec¬ 
 ture the same. Under her sheltering aegis there sprang up those vast 
 domes, towering spires, airy minarets, which in the minds of their 
 builders served to grace the dwelling place of the living God, and 
 which we of today copy in despair 
 
 Take the questions of practical life : 
 
 The Church and the Labor Questio?i. What is her attitude in this 
 all-absorbing topic ? Is she, as so many of our labor leaders think, 
 antagonistic to their interests, or is she not rather the guardian and 
 protector of their rights, but unable to take practical steps towards the 
 amelioration of their conditions because of the hostile influences which 
 bar her from their councils and assembly halls ? 
 
 The Church and the Social Problem. What a mighty influence she 
 would be, if her teachings on this subject were not, as at present, 
 necessarily restricted to the influencing of the individual and the uplift 
 ing of the penitent, but could, through some organization, be brought to 
 bear on society as a whole. 
 
 The Church and Family. We read with pleasure of the attempts, 
 though futile, made by outside churches to follow in her footsteps in 
 safeguarding the family against the growing evil of divorce, and we are 
 apt to forget all that she has suffered for her adherence to these 
 principles in the past. Not only of marriages, but of the marital rela¬ 
 tions as well, is she the sole guardian, and from preacher and confessor 
 there is daily going forth warning and denunciation of the more insid¬ 
 ious attacks which are being made on the sanctity and purity of the 
 home. 
 
 And so with countless interesting and living topics. They could 
 be made the subjects for your lecture rooms and meeting places, and 
 through the interest thus awakened be made the subject of your home 
 reading, in place of the vast amount of useless and perverse literature 
 in which so much time is now wasted. Do not wait for your priests to do 
 it all. They may act as your counselors, guides, advisers, but the priest¬ 
 hood has no monopoly of learning. There are many in your ranks 
 who, if they realized that this duty was incumbent upon them, and set 
 themselves to the task, could treat these subjects more interestingly 
 and more effectively than the priests themselves, because they come in 
 closer contact with the thought of those with whom they associate. 
 
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 If such a spirit as this were awakened, a desire to know the truth 
 and seek it, there would be no need for an appeal to guard the interests 
 of our little ones by supplying them with the means for a good Christian 
 training. Our Catholic school system at present is in its incipiency. 
 They are good as far as they go, but we want them better and we want 
 them to go farther. At present it is a struggle; we are handicapped 
 financially, and until the past few years we lacked organization. We 
 hope for the time when every parish will have its grammar school, and 
 every city its high school, thoroughly equipped and able to compete 
 with any school system of the country. It is your duty as men to do 
 your part in this matter. Ten years ago the first great step towards 
 such organization was effected. Little by little the foundation had been 
 placed, the parochial schools had increased in numbers and efficiency; 
 the few parochial high schools and colleges supplemented their work, 
 but there was wanting a completion of the edifice. This was accom¬ 
 plished in the building of that greatest gift to the church of America in 
 the nineteenth century, the Catholic University of Washington, and now 
 its influence is being felt. Catholic colleges have been federated and 
 improved, and through their influence the high school system will be 
 completed, and the present century should see Catholic thought once 
 more a powerful influence in the molding of public opinion. 
 
 Would that I could make you, the men of today, and the men of 
 tomorrow, see the necessity for self-education and the education of 
 youth in Catholic principles and teaching. I am firmly convinced that it 
 is only through such knowledge that love for the church and her teachings 
 can be awakened and fostered. It is only through such knowledge that 
 that loyalty can be awakened which will be able to withstand the blight¬ 
 ing influences of indifferentism and doubt. It is through that love of the 
 church and her teachings, founded on a true knowledge of what she is, 
 what she has been, what her teachings are, and fostered and nourished 
 by a sincere devotion to her sacraments and devotions, and through the 
 loyalty to her teachings that must spring from such love, that her 
 members can put her teachings into practice, and thus prove to the 
 world that she is what by the divine plan she was intended to be, the 
 teacher of faith and the guardian of morals. 
 
 MONDAY AFTERNOON. 
 
 Woodman Hall was the scene of a merry gathering on this same 
 afternoon; for this was “Children’s Day.” Music, and songs, and 
 recitations, and refreshments afforded the young folk a most enjoyable 
 time. 
 
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 MONDAY NIGHT. 
 
 At 7:30 p. m., the church was again thronged with people, for 
 solemn benediction and a sermon had been announced. The officers of 
 benediction were Very Rev. D. J. Spillard, celebrant; Rev. A. Goulet, 
 of Harvard, Ill., deacon; Rev. Joseph Kramer, of Kalamazoo, Mich., 
 sub-deacon; and Rev. P. Gildea, master of ceremonies. Rev. Thomas 
 E. Cox, of St. Jarlath’s church, Chicago, delivered the following ser¬ 
 mon on the church : 
 
 THE CHURCH. 
 
 SERMON BY REV. THOMAS E. COX. 
 
 “ Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the high cedar, 
 and will set it ; I will crop off a tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and 
 will plant it on a mountain high and eminent. On the high mountains of Israel will I 
 plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear fruit, and it shall 
 become a great cedar; and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its 
 nest under the shadow of the branches thereof.” Ezeck. xvii:22, 23. 
 
 Verv Reverend and Reverend Fathers , Beloved Brethren: 
 
 In the sublime words which you have just heard, one of the great 
 prophets of the old law. Ezekiel, foretells the origin, progress and 
 results of a new dispensation. His theme is Christ and His Church. 
 
 The marrow of the high cedar ” signifies the royal stock of David. 
 •“ A tender twig ” refers to Christ Jesus. “ A mountain high and 
 eminent—the high mountains of Israel ” denote the church. Similarly 
 Isaias (ii:2) called the church “ the mountain of the house of the Lord,” 
 and the Psalmist (lxvii: 17) speaks of it as “a mountain in which God is 
 well pleased to dwell.” The “twig,” says the prophet, will “become a 
 great cedar.” “It shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear 
 fruit.” The Church in which Christ is planted will be rich in results. 
 “ Every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches 
 thereof.” All those who lift themselves above the earth and things 
 earthly shall find their true home and shelter here. 
 
 The figures and phrases employed by Ezekiel bear a striking 
 resemblance to the words of our Lord in the parable of the grain of 
 mustard-seed (Matt. xiii:31). In that parable Christ tells of the growth 
 and glory of His Kingdom, the Church, which He established to be the 
 home of his chosen ones, small in its beginnings, but destined to 
 flourish and grow, until it surpasses every other institution on earth. 
 
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 We have assembled here tonight in a devoutly religious spirit to 
 commemorate the planting of that mustard-seed on this spot. It is a 
 source of great joy and satisfaction to advert to the local aspects of this 
 celebration, to consider the progress and prosperity of Christ’s kingdom 
 here in our midst; but it is also eminently proper at this time for me to 
 survey the Church of Christ in its totality, as it stands from the begin- 
 
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 ning and sheds lustre on everything local. The Church of Christ 
 invites the study and challenges the praise and admiration of all right- 
 minded men. 
 
 Rationalism, naturalism and indifferentism are said to be the pre¬ 
 vailing and characteristic intellectual aberrations of our times. While 
 this is largely true, it is also a fact that the want of faith and the skep¬ 
 ticism which these intellectual phrases signify are nothing new. When 
 Christ, the “ light of the world,” laid down the condition and cause of 
 spiritual birth, saying : “Unless a man be born again he cannot see the 
 
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 kingdom of God” (John iii:3), the skeptical Pharisee was there to ask 
 “ How can a man be born when he is old ? ” When the Saviour 
 announced the fact of the remission of sins, they said (Matt, ix), “ He 
 blasphemeth,” and forthwith Christ must work a miracle to prove that 
 “ the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.” When with 
 tenderest love towards us He promised to give His body and blood for 
 the life and nourishment of our souls, the unbelieving multitude mur¬ 
 mured and said (John vi), “How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 
 This saying is hard, and who can hear it ? ” The world always has had 
 its rationalists, skeptics and indifferentists. 
 
 But in spite of such manifest exceptions, the vast majority of men 
 realize in their own hearts both the necessity of religion and the need 
 of revelation. In a word, mankind at large is ready to believe in the 
 reality of the supernatural. Without religion and revelation life and 
 death, virtue and vice, duty and destiny are but riddles, and confusion, 
 contradictions, darkness and despair would speedily turn the world 
 again to chaos. 
 
 Reason itself demands something higher than reason. Revelation 
 is supremely rational. The natural demands the supernatural. God 
 reveals Himself in His works, as indeed St. Paul remarks, “ so that 
 they ” who reject the lessons of Nature “ are inexcusable.” “ For,” says 
 the same Apostle, “ the invisible things of him from the creation of the 
 world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made ; 
 his eternal power also and divinity ” (Rom. i:5). But the book of 
 Nature does not fully express the author of Nature. Science does not 
 and cannot see everything. What Nature cannot teach man in a 
 natural way, the Creator has been pleased to tell in another way, a super¬ 
 natural way. This is revelation. Hence St. Paul again declares that 
 God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners spoke in times past 
 to the fathers, by the prophets, last of all in these days hath spoken to 
 us by His Son” (Heb. i: 1-3)- Christ was a revelation of God to Man. 
 
 The necessity of believing what has been truly revealed, and of 
 obeying whatever has been commanded, follows if we admit the fact of 
 revelation. This is consistent with the duty of an intelligent and free- 
 willed creature, who alone renders due homage through his intelligence 
 and will, by submitting his intellect in belief and by subjecting his will 
 in obedience to the Creator’s commands. All the doctrine, ceremonies 
 and services of true religion have no other end in view than the glory 
 
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 of the Creator and the perfection of the creature through the exercise 
 of intellect and will in knowing and doing the duties of life and the 
 commands of God. 
 
 It was not enough that Christ’s message to mankind should have 
 reached a solitary nation or a single generation. In order to enlighten 
 the whole world Christ must establish a teaching church. He said: “I 
 will build my Church” (Matt. xvi:i8). He gathered about Him a band 
 of disciples. He chose out of their midst twelve Apostles, “ Calling 
 together the twelve Apostles, he gave them power and authority” 
 (Luke ix:i). He gave them a world-wide commission. “ Go ye into the 
 whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature ” (Mark xvi: 15). 
 “ Going therefore, teach ye all nations” (Matt. xxviii:i8). The Church 
 which the Saviour founded was an institution for conveying His gospel 
 and teaching His truths to all men and to all times. Hence St. Paul 
 declares (Ephes. iv:n, 12), “ He gave some apostles and some prophets 
 and others some evangelists, and others some pastors and doctors, for the 
 perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying 
 of the body of Christ.” 
 
 Christ promised supernatural assistance to those w f hom He sent. 
 “ I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he 
 may abide with you forever. The Spirit of Truth” (John xiv:i6, 17). 
 “ I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which your adversaries shall not 
 be able to resist and gainsay” (Luke xxi:i5). “You shall receive the 
 power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and shall be witnesses to 
 me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the 
 uttermost parts of the earth” (Acts i:8). 
 
 He promised them His own divine power and presence and 
 authority. “ As the Father hath sent me, I also send you’’(John xx:2i). 
 “ I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world ” 
 (Matt. xxviii:2o). “ Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be 
 bound also in heaven ” (Matt, xvi: 19). “ He that heareth you heareth 
 
 me ” (Luke xx:i6). 
 
 Every one is bound to hear Christ’s Church, the rich and the poor, 
 the little and the great. “ We have received grace and apostleship for 
 obedience to the faith in all nations for His name ” (Rom. i:5). “ If 
 
 he will not hear the church,” says Christ, “let him be to thee as the 
 heathen and publican ” (Matt. xviii:i7). Hence St. Paul asks, “How 
 shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which, having begun to 
 
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 be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard 
 Him.” (Heb. ii:3). The notion that every man may make His own 
 religion and be his own church is one fostered by the father of lies to 
 bring to destruction the proud and self-conceited. The duty of finding 
 the church, and the obligation of obeying its commands, follow neces¬ 
 sarily from the existence and purpose of the church. 
 
 In order that no one should fail in finding the true faith, or in 
 entering the true fold, Christ endowed His church with certain marks, 
 by which it may be distinguished from every spurious rival, and may be 
 recognized and known as His alone. He has built His city on the 
 mountain; He has “ set His tabernacle in the sun.” The marks of the 
 true church are plainer than the features of the human face. Christ 
 established a visible, tangible institution. It has been called “the 
 mountain of the house of the Lord—prepared on the top of mountains.” 
 It is likened to a light upon a candle-stick. It is not an airy, nonde¬ 
 script phantasmagoria. It is composed of men ; its membership can be 
 numbered. We read in the Acts of the Apostles that in the very begin¬ 
 ning three thousand were added to the church in one day. Its doctrines 
 are definite and intelligible. Its sacraments and ceremonies are things 
 that fall under the cognizance of the senses. “ Faith cometh by hear¬ 
 ing—and how shall they hear without a preacher ? ” The church is, as 
 St. Paul says, the body of Christ, and nothing is more tangible and visi¬ 
 ble than a body. Visibility is, therefore, a prime requisite of the church 
 “built upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ 
 himself being the chief corner-stone” (Ephes. ii:2o). 
 
 The first mark of the true church is its unity. The words of the 
 Canticle express this most precisely: “ My perfect one is but one ” 
 (Cant. vi:8). The Acts of the Apostles (iv:32) tell us that “ the multitude 
 of believers had but one heart and one soul.” “ By this shall all men 
 know,” says our Lord, “that you are my disciples, if you have love one 
 for another ” (John xiii:35). “ We being many,” says St. Paul (1 Cor. 
 
 x:i7), “are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread.” And 
 again, “for in one spirit were we all baptized into one body ” (1 Cor. 
 xii.13). “One body and one spirit; as you are called in one hope of 
 your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of 
 all ” (Ephes. iv:46). “Other sheep I have,” says our Lord, “that are 
 not of this fold; them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice 
 and there shall be one fold and one shepherd ” (Johnx:i6). “Every 
 
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 kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate, and every city or 
 house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matt. xii:25). 
 
 The unitv of the church means that all of its members believe the 
 
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 same doctrines, partake of the same sacraments and obey the same 
 authority. It means oneness of doctrine, of observance and of govern¬ 
 ment. Schism transgresses against the authority of the church. 
 Heresy sins against unity of doctrine, and St. Paul says, “ a man that 
 is a heretic—avoid.” The theory that all creeds are equally pleasing 
 to God implies that falsehood and truth are of like force, or that nothing 
 is of necessity. It implies that the intellect is free to accept the absurd, 
 that truth is without any innate rights, and that all doctrine is a trifle. 
 St. Paul, however, taught otherwise. He tells the people to “ stand 
 fast in one spirit, in one mind, laboring together for the faith of the 
 gospel” (Phil. i:27). “There are some that trouble you,” he says, 
 “ and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we or an 
 angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have 
 preached to you, let him be anathema ” (Gal. i:7, 8). 
 
 The second mark of the true church is its holiness. “ Christ also 
 loved the church and delivered himself up for it, that he might sanctify 
 it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life, that he might 
 present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or 
 any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish ” 
 (Ephes. v:25, 27). “This is the law of the house upon the top of the 
 mountain; all its border round about is most holy” (Ezeck. xliii: 12). 
 The church is holy in its founder, Jesus Christ, “ who did no sin, neither 
 was guile found in his mouth ” (1 Pet. ii:22). The doctrines which 
 the church proposes are holy. “ For the grace of God our Saviour hath 
 appeared to all men, instructing us that denying ungodliness and worldly 
 desires we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world ” 
 (Titus ii:ii, 12). All are invited to a holy life. “ For our exhortation 
 was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit, but as we were 
 approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us, even so 
 we speak, not as pleasing men but God ” (1 Thess. ii:3. 4). Finally, 
 as a matter of fact, the church produces holy lives in her children. She 
 offers the most powerful means and the highest motive for right con¬ 
 duct. She presents the greatest examples of excellence in the innu¬ 
 merable host of holy men and women that have made life luminous by 
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 It must not be supposed, however, that all members of the true 
 church are saints. The only semblance of an argument against the 
 Church of God is the evil lives of some of its adherents. The goats are 
 found with the sheep, the cockle with the wheat; the good and bad 
 fishes are contained in the same net. This is the sad truth which St. 
 Peter confesses when he says, “ the name of God through you is blas¬ 
 phemed among the gentiles ” (Rom. ii:24). 
 
 The third mark of the true church is its Catholicity. The Jewish 
 dispensation, which was tribal and national in character, was to be suc¬ 
 ceeded by a society universal in scope. “ The mountain of the house 
 of the Lord,” says Isaias ii:2, “shall be prepared on the top of moun¬ 
 tains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow 
 unto it.” Christ Himself has said, “many shall come from the east and 
 the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the 
 kingdom of heaven ” (Matt. viii:n). “Teach ye all nations—teaching 
 them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And 
 behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world ” 
 (Matt. xxviii:2o). We learn from Christ Himself that his church must be 
 Catholic in territory, in time and in truth. It must subsist in all 
 ages, teach all nations, maintain all truth. This church is no foreign 
 institution ; it is at home everywhere. It possesses the power to spread 
 and the vitality to flourish from age to age, unaltered and unalterable. 
 Its membership is gathered out of every tribe and tongue and people 
 and nation. 
 
 The fourth mark of Christ’s church is its apostolicity. It was 
 founded on the apostles and it has its doctrine, its orders and its mission 
 from them. “ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them 
 the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb ” (Apoc. xxi:i4). 
 “ You are built upon the foundation of the apostles ” (Ephes. ii: 19, 20). 
 “ The doctrine of the apostles,” says St. Irenaeus, who lived in the 
 second century, “ is the true faith which is known to us through the 
 episcopal succession—which has reached even to our age.” A religion 
 that fails to connect us with the apostles of Christ is confessedly spu¬ 
 rious, unauthorized and erroneous. 
 
 The four marks already mentioned as belonging to the church, 
 —unity, holiness, Catholicity and Apostolicity—are the property of but 
 one institution on earth. They make it easy for an earnest seeker 
 to succeed in his search, and to be sure in his adhesion to the true faith. 
 
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 “ Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask for the old paths, which is the 
 good way, and walk ye in it; and you shall find refreshment for your 
 souls ” (Jer. vi:i6). 
 
 Besides these four characteristic marks, the church possesses cer¬ 
 tain essential attributes which must not be overlooked. It has authority ; 
 it possesses the life and power to perform its heavenly mission. It 
 speaks with no uncertain sound. It is infallible. It cannot teach as true 
 that which is false in faith or morals. The spirit of truth abides in it, 
 and guides it in the way of all truth. “ If any one preach to you a 
 gospel besides that which you have received, let him be anathema ” 
 (Gal. i:9). It is indefectible. It cannot fail in existence nor in the ex¬ 
 ercise of its powers. Christ has promised to be with it till the consum¬ 
 mation of the world. Let no one delude you. The religion of the 
 future will be the religion that Christ established, the one that goes 
 back to Jerusalem and comes down to us in an unbroken succession, 
 unimpaired in vitality and vigor. 
 
 If we look closely into the constitution and character of the church, 
 we cannot fail to recognize along with the great outward marks that 
 have been mentioned certain other minor notes that spring from her 
 very nature. To mention but two : first, her adaptability to human needs; 
 second, her missionary spirit. 
 
 Christ founded the church for men, and He has enriched it with 
 gifts and graces for all human needs. For every ill of life the church has 
 a remedy. For every right undertaking she offers encouragement and 
 aid. From our birth to our burial she comes to us with comforts and 
 consolations. The poor and rich, young and old, the learned and the 
 unlettered, find in her doctrines, her services, her sacraments, and her 
 tremendous sacrifice, the food that sustains and the force that lifts 
 human life into the sphere of the supernatural. 
 
 The church in all ages has given evidence of her apostolic com¬ 
 mission. She possesses the missionary spirit. This is why she is found 
 everywhere. Catholic missionaries have led the march into worlds 
 unknown. Her zealous sons have crossed the seas, penetrated the 
 dense forests, traversed the rivers and lakes in search of souls to save. 
 “ Verily their sound hath gone forth into the earth, and their words 
 unto the ends of the whole world ” (Rom. x:i8). The church is the 
 world’s greatest civilizer. 
 
 As a result of that missionary spirit, the church of God was estab¬ 
 lished here. Fifty years ago the mustard-seed was sown on this 
 
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 delightful spot. “The tender twig” was planted here “on a mountain 
 high and eminent.” Fifty years of sunshine and shower, of storm and 
 calm, have ripened the fruit. The lives of saintly men and the prayers 
 and tears of a noble, generous people have made the treasure of faith 
 precious to you all. This beautiful temple which you have erected and 
 the excellent school which you have established, and all the parochial 
 properties here stand in evidence of the generosity, piety, zeal and per¬ 
 fect good taste of the pastors and the people of this parish. 
 
 It is my earnest prayer that your future may be one of growth and 
 progress in every good, that the mark of Catholic unity be seen here. 
 “ Love one another.” Let harmony and helpfulness characterize the 
 people of this parish evermore. May your lives be examples of heroic 
 holiness. The Catholic name is a synonym of honor, honesty, purity, 
 sobriety and truth. You must stand for these virtues. Be loyal to the 
 authority of the church. Help one another to carry the burdens of life. 
 Lift yourselves above sordid, mean motives. Be people of conviction, 
 of conscience, of character. Again I repeat, make the marks of the 
 true church conspicuous in this congregation : unity, holiness, Catholic 
 faith and Apostolic zeal. The serious, earnest-minded people who 
 surround you will see your good works and will glorify God. The 
 whole community rejoices today in the joy of your Golden Jubilee. 
 The time is at hand for the Catholic church here to be the Church of 
 all the people. 
 
 TUESDAY MORNING. 
 
 On Tuesday morning a solemn requiem mass was offered for the 
 deceased priests and people of the parish. Rev. J. Rohde, of St. 
 Joseph’s Church, Elgin, was celebrant; and was assisted by Rev. Joseph 
 Kramer, deacon; Rev. P. Gormley, of Huntley, sub-deacon; and Rev. 
 A. Goulet, of Harvard, master of ceremonies. Father Spillard, who had 
 spent most of his boyhood and youth here, very appropriately preached 
 the historical sermon. 
 
 He took for his text the words of the Apocalypse, chapter xiv, 
 verse 13 : “And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, write : 
 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now 
 saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors : for their works 
 follow them.” 
 
 He first spoke of the foundation of the Catholic church by Christ 
 and His apostles. He gave a brief but graphic account of the labors 
 
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 and trials of the early Christian missionaries. Turning from the history 
 of the church at large, he related in a summary way the history of St. 
 Mary’s parish. The sacrifices of the priests and the poverty of the 
 people in the early days were mentioned. 
 
 Father Spillard came to Elgin in 1854, three years after the erec 
 tion of the first church. The priests before that time, therefore, were 
 not personally known to him; but he saw evidences of their zeal. He 
 spoke of Father Feely as the church builder, a man of learning, great 
 activity and business ability. He remembered Father Gallagher as a 
 quiet, studious priest, well beloved by all the people. He had a vivid 
 recollection of that good priest’s drowning. 
 
 Each of the former pastors was mentioned in turn, his character 
 sketched, and his chief works related. In speaking of Father Mackin, 
 he said that the present magnificent edifice would stand as a monu¬ 
 ment to him. 
 
 The sermon was particularly interesting to the older parishioners. 
 
 TUESDAY EVENING. 
 
 The parish reunion, which was held on Tuesday evening, was one 
 of the most enjoyable features of the jubilee celebration. Over a thou¬ 
 sand members of the church and their friends assembled at the hall, 
 listened to the informal program and talked over old times. Short 
 addresses were made by Fathers McCann, Spillard, and Maloney, and 
 by General J. S. Wilcox. Miss Hazel Fordrescher, Miss Nellie Jones, 
 and Mrs. Frank Spillard sang solos ; and Miss Fay played a piano 
 selection. Edna Walker. 
 
 WEDNESDAY MORNING, THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CHURCH. 
 
 The third and final day of the Jubilee celebration witnessed the 
 imposing and impressive ceremony of the dedication. The services at 
 the church were preceded by a stately procession from the depot. 
 Rt. Rev. P. J. Muldoon, our esteemed auxiliary bishop, arrived with a 
 host of accompanying clergymen, at 9:40 a. m., on the Chicago, Mil¬ 
 waukee & St. Paul Railway. They were welcomed to Elgin in fitting 
 manner by our worthy pastor, Rev. J. J. McCann and assistant pastors, 
 Rev. P. Gildea and Rev. J. B. Murray. 
 
 A procession, consisting of Elgin’s Court Catholic Order of For¬ 
 esters, the Gifford Club and the Temperance Cadets, had formed at 
 Pythian Hall and marched to the depot as escort to the Right Reverend 
 
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 Bishop and his party. Headed by a platoon of Elgin’s blue coated 
 guardians of the peace and the Elgin Military Band, the escort led the 
 way for the carriages containing the illustrious guests to the parochial 
 residence. There, the Right Reverend and Reverend gentlemen robed 
 themselves for the impressive ceremony. 
 
 Clear skies and radiant sunshine smiled heaven’s pleasure at the 
 ceremonial homage to the Master alike of heaven and earth. 
 
 Of the many consecrative and dedicatory ceremonies of the Catho¬ 
 lic church, none is more impressive than that witnessed in Elgin today. 
 
 From the first intonation of the penitential psalms to the final bene¬ 
 diction of the bishop, every detail is replete with a religious and deep 
 significance. 
 
 In these matter-of-fact days of ours, ceremonial of any sort is apt to 
 be regarded as vain display,but to any unprejudiced observer the cere¬ 
 monies of the Catholic church must appeal, if he will but note their 
 deep import, remembering that these same ceremonies and the accom¬ 
 panying psalms and anthems have been handed down unchanged for 
 generations since the earliest days of a church, whose natal day was 
 that which heard Christ’s announcement, “ Thou art Peter, and upon 
 this rock I will build my church.” 
 
 The first sentiment expressed in this ceremony of dedication is 
 that which all Christian writers teach is the first requirement on our 
 part, in addressing the Creator, humility, self-abasement, and the words 
 employed to express them are those of the psalmists of Holy Scripture 
 (Psalms 6, 31, 50, 101, 129, 142), known by the church as the seven 
 penitential psalms and beginning : “ Rebuke me not, O Lord, in Thy 
 indignation,nor chastise me in Thy wrath.” “Blessed are those whose 
 iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.” “ Blessed is the 
 man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there 
 is no guile.” “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great 
 mercy.” (The “miserere,” which has inspired so many poets and 
 artists.) “Out of the depth I have cried to Thee, O Lord, Lord hear my 
 prayer.” “ Hear, O Lord, my prayer and let my cry come unto Thee.” 
 
 These are followed by the litanies, supplications to the Almighty 
 and his sainted servants, to the one for direct aid, to the other for 
 intercession. After these the bishop blesses the water and salt, two 
 emblematical materials, which with oil and incense are so constantly 
 used by the church in all her ceremonies. He then sprinkles himself 
 and his attendants, again applying the words of the psalmist : 
 
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 “ Sprinkle me, O Lord, with hyssop and I will be cleansed, Thou 
 wilt cleanse me and I will be made whiter than snow.” Then he 
 sprinkles, in like manner, the outer walls and portals of the edifice, 
 blessing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, 
 whilst the attendant priests sing in scriptural phrase : “The house of 
 the Lord is founded upon the mountain-top and is exalted upon every 
 hill, and all the nations of the earth shall come to it.” 
 
 V. 
 
 INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH DURING HIGH MASS AFTER DEDICATION. 
 
 Assuming his mitre and pastoral staff, he approaches the closed 
 door of the church and strikes it with his staff, saying : “ Lift up your 
 
 gates, O princes, ascend eternal gates and the King of Glory will enter 
 in.” This ceremony he repeats a second and a third time, the last 
 time making the sign of the cross upon the threshold of the door, say¬ 
 ing : “ Behold the sign of the cross, let all phantoms flee before it.” 
 
 Being admitted with his attendants by the deacon who is within, he 
 says, “Peace to this house.” 
 
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 The interior of the edifice is then blessed in all its parts very much 
 after the same manner as the outer walls, accompanied by the chant¬ 
 ing of appropriate hymns, canticles and litanies, concluding with the 
 blessing and consecration of the altar itself, upon which is to be cele¬ 
 brated the divine sacrifice of the mass, the essential, the fundamental, 
 the raison d’etre of the Catholic church, the one thing which so entirely 
 and completely distinguishes it from any and all other “ places of wor¬ 
 ship. ,J The dedication ceremonies were followed by solemn high mass, 
 “Coram episcopo,” celebrated by Rev. Jas. Callaghan of St. Malachy’s 
 Church, Chicago, with Rev. P. C. Conway of St. Pius’ Church, as dea¬ 
 con ; and Rev. J. J. Dennison of St. Mary’s of the Lake, as sub-deacon ; 
 and Very Rev. D. J. Spillard, as master of ceremonies. The deacons 
 of honor were Very Rev. P. Dunne of Joliet, and Rev. J. Rohde of 
 Elgin. 
 
“My House is a House ot Prayer.” 
 
 Dedication Sermon, by Rev. E. L. Rivard, C. S. V., D. D. 
 
 Right Reverend Bishop, Reverend Fathers, a?id my Dear Brethren : 
 
 Aristotle once defined man as a religious animal. This is a singu¬ 
 lar saying; but, being interpreted, it means that man alone, being 
 rational, feels the need of associating himself with higher reason; that 
 he alone feels the necessity of acknowledging his dependence upon the 
 Supreme Being; that he alone is capable of appreciating the duty of 
 reverence and of loving service which he owes to his Creator, the ruler 
 of the universe and the bountiful giver of all good gifts. Hence, it is 
 deep down in man’s essential reasonableness that is rooted this instinct 
 of religion, this religious sense that prompts him to bend the knee in 
 adoration, to raise his eyes and hands to heaven in supplication, to 
 strike his breast in admission of his faults and to cry out for mercy and 
 pardon; it is this same religious sense which has from time immemorial 
 compelled man to build temples, to raise altars, to offer sacrifices, to 
 demand priests who should be mediators between the people and the 
 Most High, white-robed priests who should be peacemakers and recon¬ 
 cilers, consecrated pontiffs who should offer up prayers and sacrifices 
 to God in behalf of the people. 
 
 But as there is no priest without a sacrifice, this being the chief 
 reason of his existence, there is no sacrifice without an altar, and no 
 altar without a temple. Hence it is, that the temple, that offspring of 
 heaven and earth, the temple with all that it contains, is the creation 
 that answers man’s most rational cravings. When man builds a church 
 he erects a monument to his own spiritual nature and pays a tribute of 
 respect to Supreme Wisdom. 
 
 That you, my friends, have demanded the erection of this church 
 is a proof at once of your soundly enlightened reason and deep religious 
 faith ; that you have so soon completed it is evidence of your genuine 
 American energy and of your truly Catholic generosity. Upon both 
 are you to be sincerely and warmly congratulated. Thank God that He 
 gave you the capable priest who so ably seconded and directed your efforts 
 in doing this holy work; thank God that He gave you the zealous priest 
 
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 who so unsparingly spent himself in assisting you to build this church, a 
 priest whose most fitting and most edifying epitaph would be those 
 words of the psalmist so fully verified in him : “ The zeal for the house 
 of the Lord hath eaten me up.” 
 
 I did not know personally Father Mackin; but I love him for this 
 splendid temple which he built to the honor and glory of God ; I love 
 him and thank him for this thing of beauty he has endowed your city 
 
 REV. E. L. RIVARD. 
 
 withal. I love and bless him as we love Raphael, Michael Angelo, 
 Murillo—as we love all poets and artists, and all the builders of fair 
 things that are an inspiration to higher, larger and more joyous life. 
 May you long live, my friends, to enjoy the benefits of your church, 
 and to profit by the ministrations of the devoted clergy who are now at 
 your head, and for whom, as well as for you all, this day surely is one of 
 the most gratifying triumphs. Cherish evermore your church ; its far- 
 reaching influence, like genial sunlight, will beautify, cheer and sanctify 
 your homes and will strengthen the state in which we all live. 
 
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 You have fixed here your earthly homes. The man who builds a 
 home does a grand and a goodly work. He lays the foundation of 
 society and civilization. Without fixed abodes, without permanent 
 dwellings, men would be little else than roaming bands of untamed 
 savages. The bonds of human society are made fast by love; the 
 entire social edifice is cemented by love. The home is a great seal and 
 blazing furnace of love that radiates its heat throughout and vivifies 
 the whole social organism. There glows not a purer or brighter flame 
 upon all the altar fires of the earth than domestic love. Godlike is this 
 love in the trinity of human persons; it embraces—father, mother, 
 child. Sacred is conjugal love which in some mysterious and divine 
 fashion fuses and welds together two minds, two hearts, two wills, two 
 souls, two complete beings, and gives them oneness of tendency, one¬ 
 ness of purpose, of aspiration and of achievement; sacred is this love 
 and most carefully is it to be guarded, as a living vestal flame, upon the 
 inmost shrine of every home, to evermore brighten and genially 
 warm its own blessed sanctuary. Divinely patterned, too, is paternal 
 love, which ever inclines to and fast and clingingly embraces the 
 dear objects which it in some way creates. Sacred and of divine 
 precept is filial piety, the love that binds children to the authors 
 of their existence; and precious and sweet is brotherly love, 
 which, like silken cord, gently keeps within the glow and cheer of the 
 same domestic fires the brothers and sisters who derive their being 
 from the same immediate fount. These, the purest loves of earth, 
 sanctify the home and mark it a sacred spot. Without them the home 
 were as dreary and desolate as the deserted nests that hang from leaf¬ 
 less boughs in midwinter. 
 
 Now, to guard the sacredness of their homes, men have erected in 
 their midst palaces of justice; they have surrounded their cities with 
 strong walls of stone and fortified them with citadels and fortresses; 
 they have, in a word, enthroned justice and power, to shield, and 
 guard, and protect love. These things, the capital, the court of justice, 
 the armory, are symbols of the legislative, the judicial and the execu¬ 
 tive powers of government, without which human society could enjoy 
 no stability, no peace, no order, no happiness. These, too, are sacred 
 institutions and are of God. 
 
 But no sooner had men commenced building cities, homes for the 
 body, than, as Cicero tells us, they also began to build temples, those 
 common houses of the soul, temples in which men would come to meet 
 
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 their common Father, God, temples which would be strongholds of 
 divine justice and power upon earth, temples which should be beacons 
 of divine light beaming down upon earth’s dark ways, temples which 
 would be citadels of divine truth and blazing firesides of human and 
 divine love. The temple means all this ; and it must. It stands for 
 God’s supremacy in wisdom, in power, in justice ; it stands alike for 
 God’s supremacy in goodness, in love and in mercy. And, therefore, it 
 is that we must both respect and love the temple. If the temple taught 
 us nothing else than reverence, it would be the most potent of civiliz¬ 
 ing forces. The men of our age are not remarkable for reverence. 
 For the many there is naught that is sacred. But for the Christian the 
 temple at least is sacred; it is the throne of God's majesty upon earth ; 
 it is God’s court of justice in this, the earthly part of His great king¬ 
 dom ; it is the ark of God’s covenant with His people; it marks a 
 spot which is touched and sanctified by God’s coming; it is a holy place 
 which radiates divinity, a spot such as inspired respectful awe in the 
 sainted patriarch and compelled him to exclaim : “ Terrible is this 
 place ; surely it can be naught else than the house of God and the gate 
 of heaven.” 
 
 We should respect it because it is the house of God. Dovius mea: 
 My house, he calls it. Assuredly, it is admitted even among savages, 
 that we must respect a man in his own house, simply because he 
 receives us there; this is one of the undisputed rights of hospitality. 
 God is the master in his temple. He it is who receives us. And who 
 is God ? A spirit, most perfect, whom countless legions of angels serve 
 and adore; a king full of wisdom, and of power, of dignity and 
 grandeur. He it was who at the dawn of creation, with potent and 
 lavish hand, flung these thousand luminous orbs athwart the velvet 
 azure of the skies; He it is who paints the gorgeous splendors of sun¬ 
 sets ; He it is who clothes the lily of the field in splendor far surpassing 
 that of Solomon in all his glory ; He it is who has made man and 
 endowed him with faculties by which he can make his own all these 
 grandeurs and beauties of the universe; He it is who still maintains and 
 governs all things. Truly, is this God magnificent and great; He 
 receives us in his house. Ought we not to be reverent? He, too, is 
 our Judge, the all-knowing, all-seeing, the incorruptible. Before him 
 shall we all trembling stand one day, when the very pillars of heaven 
 shall be shaken. ’Tis He in whose presence we are here. Oh I with 
 what holy fear and awe we ought to enter into God’s temple. 
 
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 And, morever, my friends, we come here to do what? The most 
 solemn acts of our lives; to pray, to kneel in adoration, to take part in 
 the august sacrifice of mass, to beg forgiveness, to lay bare our 
 necessities. What is more momentous than baptism through which are 
 rent asunder the chains of bondage that make us slaves of Satan ? 
 What is more serious, more solemn, than these confessionals, these 
 lower courts of the supreme tribunal of the last judgment? Think of 
 it; this contrition, is it not a most heart-rending thing ? How it cleaves 
 and crushes and grinds the heart! And this avowal of guilt, this con¬ 
 fession of our sins, is it not most humiliating? Can it then be with 
 levity or unconcern we approach these hospitals of the soul to lay our 
 soul’s sores open to God’s healing power ? And this miraculous 
 absolution, this reconciliation, this reinvestiture in the nuptial robe of 
 grace, this putting on of the ring of pardon and of friendship ; what 
 sweetly solemn functions are these ! And what could be more august 
 than this altar whereupon is immolated the spotless victim of redemp¬ 
 tion, and this holy table where the soul is banqueted upon the bread of 
 angels and quaffs the blood of a God who died to wash away our sins ? 
 Again, where is it that is made that most sacred of compacts which is ever 
 entered into by man, the sacramental contract of marriage ? Here, in 
 the church, before God’s altar, in God’s presence. Here He attests 
 and approves your love and sets upon your sacred oaths of fidelity the 
 eternal seal of the sacrament. Such are the solemn acts we come here 
 to do. Remember, then, the respect which you owe to this edifice. Let 
 this church be for you what the ark of the covenant and the temple of 
 Jerusalem were to the people of God. Remember, too, how Christ, 
 mildness itself, drove out with whips those who desecrated the temple, 
 telling them: “The house of my Father is a house of prayer, and 
 you have made it a den of thieves,” Hence, treat this house with 
 respect; enter it, but with awe and holy reverence and humility. 
 “ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” says the Psalmist. 
 
 This fear, however, should be filial reverence and not craven, 
 abject fear. It is a sentiment which, as in children, is quite consistent 
 with love. And, now, the temple speaks to us of love ; for, it is not only 
 the throne of divine majesty, but it is also the house of our Father, the 
 home of our souls, the mother of our spiritual life. How sweet and 
 ever blessed and fondly loved are these, Father, Mother, Home ! How 
 love compelling is ever this word, home, with all the treasures it 
 contains! It is there we are born and reared, fed and taught. About 
 
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 this fond spot the heart enweaves our affections as the ivy entwines its 
 tendrils around the oak. It is the pole of the heart’s magnetic needle, 
 and towards it we ever turn. Such is the church for the soul. It is 
 our spiritual home. In it we are born to grace and salvation by bap¬ 
 tism and penance through the spiritual paternity of the priest; in it we 
 become children of God and brothers of Christ; in it we are adopted 
 heirs to the kingdom of heaven ; in it we are reared in the ways of truth 
 and virtue; in it we are clad in the garments of grace and girded with 
 strength to fight the combats of perfect Christians; in it we are fed upon 
 the bread of the strong in the sacrament of love; in it resides our treas¬ 
 ure, the God ever with us, that God who is Supreme Good, and the 
 possession of whom alone can ever fill the cravings of our hearts; in it 
 we are reminded by the daily sacrifice of the mass, and also by these 
 speaking pictures, of the supremest act of love ever performed in our 
 behalf, the death of Christ. ’Tis here we give vent to our feelings of 
 gladness, to the excess of our joy, repeating the love-chants of the 
 angels and the hozannas of exulting peoples : Glory to God in the 
 Highest, Holy, Holy, Holy, Blessed is He who cometh in the name of 
 the Lord. Here do we pour forth our souls in love and thanksgiving 
 in the swelling strains of the Te Deum. Verily, so rich are our churches 
 in heart filling treasure, in soul delighting good, in light, in beauty, in 
 joy, in cheer, in gladness, that there is little we might envy heaven. 
 Come then to this your beautiful church, my friends, with love and joy. 
 Come here to rejoice with the angels who fill this sanctuary; come here 
 to your spiritual home to rest and comfort your weary souls. Love 
 your church. Come to it often : “ Where your treasure is, there your 
 
 heart is also.” 
 
 You have now reasons to cherish your church more than ever. It 
 has but this moment been blessed by the Right Reverend Bishop ; and, as 
 the lustral water was sprinkled about its virgin walls, it was dedicated 
 to Mary. What sweetness and power in that name! May the sweet¬ 
 ness of the virgin and the tenderness of the mother ever draw you 
 lovingly hither to prayer. May the power of the Queen of Angels fill 
 you with confidence and assure you of favor and protection. And when 
 you pass her many beautiful feasts throughout the year, fail not, 
 especially ye youths and young maidens, to plead with her for that 
 cleanliness of heart which so well becomes and so splendidly adorns 
 your years, for that purity of soul which will enable you to appreciate 
 God’s own beauty and loveliness; fail not ye parents, to beg of her that 
 
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 she make you as herself, wise and prudent, that she, the mother most 
 afflicted, the mother of the Man of sorrows, make you patient and 
 resigned in all the vexatious trials of this vale of tears. Thus, if you 
 come here in these dispositions, will this your church be for you truly 
 an ark of salvation, a Sinai of inspiration, a holy place, where, under 
 the auspices of her who is called the Seat of Wisdom, you will learn to 
 know God better, and under the auspices of the Mother of Beautiful 
 
 THE JUBILEE ALTAR BOYS. 
 
 John Elbrinck, Arthur O’Brien, 
 
 John Mann, Guy Schifferle, Lawrence Ryan, Eddie Ponsonby, 
 Maurice Hartman, Redmond Ryan, 
 
 Eddie McOsker, Elmer Kelley, Carl Gieske, Freddie Stewart. 
 
 Love, you will learn to love God with your whole mind, heart and soul ; 
 a place where you learn to practice all the virtues which are the adorn¬ 
 ment of the highest, the largest, the most joyous and best human life, 
 virtues which will fit you to consort with angels in the endless bliss of 
 paradise. 
 
 The services closed with the singing of the “ Te Deum ” by the 
 choir and the congregation. 
 
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 At i o’clock a banquet was served at the parochial residence to all 
 the visiting clergy, among whom we may enumerate the following : 
 
 Very Rev. J. J. Flaherty, 
 Rockford, Ill. 
 
 Very Rev. P. Dunne, 
 
 Joliet, Ill. 
 
 Very Rev. D. J. Spillard, C. S. C., 
 New Orleans. 
 
 Rev. E. L. Rivard, C. S. V., D.D., 
 Bourbonnais, Ill. 
 
 Rev. W. Donahue, Joliet, Ill. 
 
 Rev. G. Rathz, Batavia, Ill. 
 
 Rev. J. A. Dunne, Pullman, 111 . 
 
 Rev. P. J. Gormley, Huntley, Ill. 
 
 Rev. J. L. Maloney, Fulton, Ill. 
 
 Rev. Jos. Kramer, 
 
 Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 
 Rev. F. J. Hartman, 
 
 Maple Park, Ill. 
 
 Rev. Thos, Finn, Rochelle, Ill. 
 
 Rev. J. J. Bennett, Sterling, Ill. 
 
 Rev. John F. Schmitt, Aurora, Ill. 
 
 Rev. C. J. Huth, Hampshire, Ill. 
 
 Rev. M. Stack, St. Charles, Ill. 
 
 Rev. A. Goulet, Harvard, Ill. 
 
 Rev. Jas. McGovern, D. D., 
 Lockport, Ill. 
 
 Rev. H. Quinn, Woodstock, Ill. 
 Rev. J. J. Kregan, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. C. J. Hynes, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. P. J. O’Connor, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. J. Nawn, Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. T. J. Bobal, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. J. F. Kinney, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. T. J. McCormick, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. J. J. Jennings, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. S. P. McDonnell, 
 
 Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. F. P. Canned, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. P. J. Conway, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. J. J. Dennison, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. E. J. Fox, Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. Jos. Joyce, Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. T. J. Whalen, Chicago, Ill. 
 Rev. T. E. Cox, Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. E. L. Dondanville, 
 
 Chicago, Ill. 
 
 JUBILEE COMMITTEES. 
 
 The success of the Jubilee celebration was due to the work of the 
 various committees, and their names deserve to be recorded. The 
 “ General Committee ” was composed of the officers of the various 
 parish societies : 
 
 ELGIN COURT CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS. 
 
 C. M. Buel, C. R., James Meehan, R. S., 
 
 T. J. Cleary, V. C. R., T. P. Sheehan, F. S., 
 
 N. P. Webber, Treas. 
 
 ST. REGINA COURT WOMEN’S CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS. 
 
 Mrs. A. Knox, C. R., Mrs. Mary Mann, Treas., 
 
 Mrs. D. Norton, V. C. R., Miss Julia Butler, R. S., 
 
 Miss Mary Freeman, F. S. 
 
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 st. mart’s social and benevolent society. 
 
 Mrs. A. Scott, Pres., 
 
 Mrs. F. Jencks, R. S., 
 
 Miss Ella McOsker, V. P., 
 
 Miss Maria Grady, Treas 
 
 GIFFORD CLUB. 
 
 John R. Powers, Pres., 
 
 James Hennessey, R. S., 
 
 Lawrence McNerny, V. P., 
 
 George E. Hoelscher, F. 
 
 John McGraw, Treas., 
 
 John O’Brien, M. C. 
 
 TEMPERANCE 
 
 CADETS. 
 
 John Costello, 
 
 Bernard Dunne, 
 
 John Morrissey, . 
 
 Raphael Thiers, 
 
 Dillon O’Neil. 
 
 SACRED HEART 
 
 LEAGUE. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Higgins, Pres., 
 
 Miss Agnes Duffy, V. P., 
 
 Miss Nellie Reirdon, 
 
 Sec. and Treas. 
 
 CHILDREN OF 
 
 MARY. 
 
 Miss Nellie Tennant, 
 
 Miss Ethel McCormick, 
 
 Miss Mary Tobin, 
 
 Miss Josephine Burke. 
 
 JUBILEE CHOIR. 
 
 Mrs. Eugenia Cook, 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Daveler, 
 
 Mrs. Carl Swanson, 
 
 Mrs. F. A. Spillard, 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Dakin, 
 
 Mrs. James Meehan, 
 
 Miss Grace Tennant, 
 
 Miss F. Lapeski, 
 
 Miss Tessie Smith, 
 
 Miss Anna Lynch, 
 
 Miss Nellie Jones, 
 
 Miss Josephine Lynch, 
 
 B. A. Schevers, 
 
 Wm. Ludford, 
 
 John Murphy, 
 
 Fred Mumme, 
 
 H. H. Herbert, 
 
 Otto Peabody, 
 
 E. J. Kohn, 
 
 James Meehan. 
 
 USHERS. 
 
 Joseph H. Jones, 
 
 John O’Brien, 
 
 Edward J. Roche, 
 
 E. J. Meehan, 
 
 M. C. Tobin, 
 
 Henry Sturm, 
 
 John F. Roche, 
 
 Edward Keating, 
 
 J. C. Aubertin, 
 
 Frank Ahrens, 
 
 Edward Larkin. 
 
THE JUBILEE CHOIR. 
 
 I. 
 
 Prof. H. Von Plees, 
 
 7- 
 
 Teresa Algeo, 
 
 2. 
 
 James Meehan, 
 
 8 . 
 
 Mrs. Eugenie Cook, 
 
 3- 
 
 Bernard Scheevers, 
 
 9- 
 
 Rev. John McCann, 
 
 4- 
 
 Henry Herbert, 
 
 10. 
 
 Mrs. C. Swanson, 
 
 5- 
 
 Wm. Ludford, 
 
 11. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Spillard, 
 
 6. 
 
 Josephine Lynch, 
 
 12. 
 
 Anna Lynch. 
 
 JUBILEE 
 
 1. Joseph Jones, 
 
 2. E. J. Roche, 
 
 3. M. C. Tobin, 
 
 4. J. F. Roche, 
 
 5. J. C. Aubertin, 
 
 6. John O’Brien, 
 
 USHERS. 
 
 7. E. J. Meehan, 
 
 8. Henry Sturm, 
 
 9. Edward Keating, 
 
 10. Frank Ahrens, 
 
 11. Edward Larkin. 
 
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 DECORATION COMMITTEE. 
 
 T. J. Cleary, Pres., 
 
 Edward Larkin, 
 
 Frank O’Flaherty, 
 
 H. H. Foy, 
 
 Wm. Burke, 
 
 E. F. Mann, 
 
 George Pilcher, 
 
 John Roche, 
 
 Jacob Kray, 
 
 John O’Brien, 
 
 L. R. Crane, 
 
 Edward Burns, 
 
 E. S. Mann, 
 
 Edward Foy, 
 
 J. F. Kothe. 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Dorley, 
 
 Mrs. J. P. Mann, 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, 
 
 Mrs. I. C. Burney, 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Roche, 
 
 Mrs. George Schmitt 
 
 Mrs. John Powers, 
 
 Mrs. Fred Jencks, 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Norton, 
 
 Mrs. Warren Stowe, 
 
 Miss Kate Connors, 
 
 Miss Johannah Ryan, 
 
 Miss Mary McElroy, 
 
 Miss Mary Spillard. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON 
 
 HISTORY AND PRINTING. 
 
 Rev. John J. McCann, 
 
 Mrs. H. A. Dorley, 
 
 T. P. Sheehan, Pres.; 
 
 Miss Ella McOsker, 
 
 Mary Donoghue, Sec.; 
 
 Miss Maria Grady, 
 
 M. C. Tobin, 
 
 Miss Delia Ryan, 
 
 Dan’l Gahan, Jr., 
 
 Miss Helen Duhy, 
 
 Edward Keogh, 
 
 Frank C. Fedou, 
 
 Miss Edna Walker. 
 
 General Committee. 
 
 Dr. H. J. Gahagan, 
 Rev. P. Gildea, 
 
 Thos. J. Cleary, 
 
 Mrs. S. Knox, 
 
 Miss Mary Freeman, 
 Miss Nellie Riley, 
 Miss Mary Donohue, 
 Rev. J. B. Murray, 
 
 Mrs. Geo. Souster, 
 
 Miss Mary Spillard, 
 Miss Lizzie Conway, 
 Mrs. William Higgins, 
 Miss Nellie Rierdon, 
 Mrs. B. Kelley, 
 
 Miss Ethel McCormick, 
 Miss Josephine Burke, 
 
St. Marys Parish, Elgin, 111. 
 
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 Miss Maria Grady, 
 Thos. P. Sheehan, 
 Mrs. Daniel Norton, 
 Miss Mary Duhy, 
 Miss Julia Butler, 
 Bernard Scheevers, 
 James Meehan. 
 
 C. M. Buel, 
 
 Mrs. Alex. Scott, 
 Miss Ella McOsker, 
 
 Miss Mary Tobin, 
 
 Rev. John J. McCann, 
 Miss Josephine Lynch, 
 Miss Nellie Tennant, 
 Raphael Thiers, 
 
 Dillon G. O’Neil, 
 Bernard Dunne, 
 
 John Morressey, 
 
 John Costello, 
 
 John McGraw. 
 
 DECORATION COMMITTEE. 
 
 1. Edward Keating, 
 
 2. Frank O’Flaherty, 
 
 3. Frank McSorley, 
 
 4. Thos. Cleary, 
 
 5. Henry Foy, 
 
 6. Edward Larkin, 
 
 7. Miss Johannah Ryan, 
 
 8. Mrs. Geo. Souster, 
 
 9. Mrs. John Powers, 
 
 10. Miss Mary Spillard, 
 
 11. Rev. J. J. McCann, 
 
 12. Mrs. Daniel Norton, 
 
 13. Miss Mary McElroy, 
 
 14. Mrs. J. B. Roach, 
 
 15. Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts. 
 
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 2. Miss Helen Duhy, 5. Miss Mary Donoghue, Sec., 
 
 3. Miss Delia Ryan, 6. Miss Edna Walker. 
 

 COMMITTEE ON HISTORY AND PRINTING—GENTLEMEN. 
 
 1. Rev. John J. McCann, 
 
 2. T. P. Sheehan, Pres., 
 
 3. Edward Keogh, 
 
 4. M. C. Tobin, 
 
 5. Frank C. Fedou, 
 
 6. Dan’l Gahan, Jr. 
 
Parish Customs. 
 
 IOH 5 A. M. 
 2:00 P. M. 
 4:00 P. M. 
 7:00 P. M. 
 7 . 3 O P. M. 
 
 SUNDAY SERVICES. 
 
 6:15 a. m. Mass and Instruction at Illinois Northern Hospital for the 
 
 Insane. 
 
 6:30 a. m. Mass at St. Mary’s Academy 
 
 8:15 a. m. Children’s Mass ard Instruction, followed by classes in 
 
 Catechism, Bible History and Church History. 
 
 9:15 a. m. Low Mass and Instruction. 
 
 High Mass and Sermon. 
 
 Baptisms. 
 
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 Fourth Sunday, Children of Maiy. 
 
 Sodality meeting. 
 
 Vespers and Benediction or Benediction alone. 
 
 At the 8:15 mass, three or four hymns are sung by the children in 
 chorus. Those who have made their First Holy Communion are given 
 a copy of “ Benziger’s Magazine ” once a month; the younger children 
 receive a copy of “ The Young Catholic Messenger” every second Sun¬ 
 day. All children who have attained the age of seven years are 
 expected to attend this mass on Sundays and Holydays, and to remain 
 after mass for Catechism class. Though there is no Catechism taught 
 during the months of July and August, the children attend this mass 
 the same as during the rest of the year. 
 
 The 8:15 mass is for the children: but parents who have pews are 
 free to attend when necessity compels them. 
 
 The 9:15 a. m. low mass, with instruction, is open to all. 
 
 10:15 high mass and sermon. 
 
 The priest who preaches the sermon at the high mass, also gives 
 the instruction at the two low masses. At the children’s mass, he 
 adapts his instruction to the minds of the young. The same subject is 
 treated at the three masses, in order that the whole congregation may 
 
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 hear the same subject on one day, and may be able to discuss it in their 
 homes. The instruction at the low masses is the epitome of the regular 
 sermon delivered at the last mass. 
 
 The high mass is the regular parish mass, and people ought to 
 make it a rule to attend it. Those who never attend the high mass 
 lose a great deal. They miss the music, which is a most important 
 feature of this service, and they also miss the development of the 
 instruction. In the short discourses at the earlier masses, the reasons 
 and detailed explanations of doctrine must necessarily be omitted for 
 lack of time. 
 
 Baptism is administered every Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. For 
 good reasons, baptism will be administered at any other hour and on 
 any other day of the week. 
 
 A saint’s name ought to be given to a child at baptism. The reason 
 is that the child may have the saint as a patron, and as a model of con¬ 
 duct. When the child grows up it ought to be given the life of its 
 patron saint to read. After first communion, the child would do well 
 to receive communion on the feast of his or her patron. Observance 
 of patronal feasts is an old and praiseworthy Catholic custom. 
 
 Only practical Catholics are permitted to act as sponsors. They 
 ought to be people of mature years, who understand the obligations 
 incurred. The father should always be present at his child’s baptism. 
 If the mother can attend, she should ask to be “ churched ” before leav¬ 
 ing ; for in this sacramental, a special blessing is invoked on mother 
 and child. 
 
 The law of the church requires that a child be baptized as soon as 
 possible after birth, and neglect in this matter is sinful. 
 
 Baptismal records are carefully kept in the parish house, and 
 copies may be had on application to the pastor by those who have a 
 right to them. 
 
 SODALITY MEETINGS. 
 
 There is a meeting of some church society every Sunday evening 
 at 7 o’clock, which all members ought to attend. 
 
 The Altar and Rosary Society meets on the first Sunday evening 
 of each month. 
 
 The League of the Sacred Heart on the second ; The Promoters 
 of the Sacred Heart League on the third; the Isabella Club on the 
 fourth. The Children of Mary meet at 4 p. m. on the fourth Sunday. 
 
 A mass is offered once a month for each sodality. 
 
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 MONTHLY COMMUNION DAYS. 
 
 On the first Sunday, the Altar and Rosary Society, and all the 
 married ladies of the parish. 
 
 On the second, the married men. 
 
 On the third, the young men and all the boys who have made their 
 first communion. 
 
 On the fourth, the Isabella Club, all other young ladies, the 
 Children of Mary, and all other girls who have made their first 
 communion. 
 
 On the first Friday of each month, all the members of the Sacred 
 Heart League who can, receive holy communion. 
 
 WEEK DAY MASSES. 
 
 6 A. M. 
 
 7:30 a. :\r. This mass is never omitted. High requiem masses at 
 this hour. 
 
 10 a. m. Funeral masses. Funeral masses may be sung earlier, 
 but are never sung later than 10 a. m. 
 
 CONFESSIONS. 
 
 Confessions are heard on Saturdays and on the eves of Holydays, 
 from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m., and after supper, from 7:30 until all are heard. 
 Confessions are heard before mass every morning; and will be heard at 
 any hour for good reasons. The church law implies that children 
 begin to go to confession as soon as they are old enough to know the 
 difference between right and wrong, that is, about the age of seven 
 years. It is a mistake to let children remain away from the sacrament 
 of penance until their first communion. It is well to let them become 
 accustomed to confession as early as possible. Going to confession 
 early prevents them from contracting any serious bad habits. Besides, 
 the sacrament of penance is a source of great grace which should not 
 be denied them. 
 
 CHURCH REVENUES. 
 
 One of the precepts of the church requires us to contribute accord¬ 
 ing to our means to the support of church and school. The members 
 of this parish deserve credit for the ready and generous manner in 
 which they observe it. 
 
 The regular revenue of the church is derived from pew rent, seat 
 money, the box collection, and the Easter and Christmas offerings. 
 
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 When the erection of new buildings is necessary, or when costly 
 improvements are to be made, special collections and subscriptions are 
 taken up. Money is also raised at intervals by bazaars, socials and 
 entertainments. On or about the 15th of August each year, a picnic is 
 held, the proceeds of which are used to pay for the papers and maga¬ 
 zines given to the Sunday School children. This picnic is especially 
 intended for the children, but the whole parish usually turns out, and 
 the affair is like a general parish recreation day. 
 
 FIRST COMMUNION. 
 
 Children generally receive their first holy communion about the 
 age of twelve. Attendance at Catechism classes every Sunday from the 
 age of seven insures sufficient preparation for communion at the age 
 of twelve. However, special classes three times a week are held in the 
 church for two or three months before its reception. The Sisters of the 
 academy have always been a most efficient aid in the preparation of the 
 children for this grand event. The training given the children makes 
 the reception of first communion each year a most beautiful and edify¬ 
 ing sight. 
 
 MISSIONS. 
 
 Every year or two a mission is given in the church by members of 
 some religious order. It is unnecessary to say that it is always a source 
 of great spiritual good. There are always a number of conversions. 
 Careless Catholics are made sensible of their mistake, and become reg¬ 
 ular again. Those who have always been faithful are made more fer¬ 
 vent. In a word, new spiritual life is infused into the whole congre¬ 
 gation. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS, 1902. 
 

ADVERTISEMENTS 
 
W. J. MEEHAN 
 
 Hardware 
 
 Stoves 
 
 Furnaces 
 
 Cutlery 
 
 Sporting 
 
 Goods 
 
 Tin , Sheet Iron 
 and Copper Work 
 
 9 CHICAGO STREET 
 
 TELEPHONE 1071 
 
2 
 
 ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH FACTORY 
 
3 
 
 She Earth and the 
 
 ELGIN 
 
 %eep time together 
 
 An illustrated history of the watch sent free. 
 
 ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH CO., Elgin, III. 
 
4 
 
 DR. H. J. GAHAGAN 
 
 SUITE 29 AND 31 
 
 the: sheirwin building 
 
 CORNER SPRING AND CHICAGO STREETS 
 
 HOURS 
 
 9 TO lO A. (VI., 2 TO 4- AND ~T TO 3:30 (=>. M . 
 TELEPHONES 
 
 OEEIOE 0.1781; RESIDENCE, 418 FULTON ST., 0.190-4- 
 
 Vo 
 
 
 Send for 
 
 {Dug 
 
 
 , Catalog 
 
 S/gin 
 
 
 1 
 
 TDatches 
 
 
 7/Jatches 
 
 ‘Direct 
 
 
 to 
 
 TjhoSo 
 
 ^uzek <5c Coo 
 
 €lgin, Sllinois 
 
 Notary $ubltr 
 
 Capital Hppr?snxt?d, (Eljxrtg iflxllxotx fclnllars 15 iFxrat Class Companies 
 
 Si. N. Sattgrrfirlti 
 
 (grttrral dlttsurattrr Agrnry 
 ailjT g-purling Elgin, 31U inn is 
 
 3\xt, ICxgljtxxxxxg, uJorxxatis, fBarglarg, $Jlat? Class, Arrxiifnt, Strain Soxlpra 
 
of 
 
 €>WTH 
 
 
6 
 
 W. T. WAIT WM. ROSS 
 
 WAIT & ROSS 
 
 Successors to WAIT & BURDICK 
 
 UNDERTAKING 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 FURNITURE, WINDOW SHADES 
 
 AND FIXTURES 
 
 164 Chicago Street, ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 TELEPHONE 92. 
 
Weber & Potterman 
 
 (Htgar jftauufarturprs 
 
 Mlriilraak m\i ISrtail Sralrrs 
 
 ■ r~ 
 
 60 Douglas Avenue 
 
 Elgin, Ill. 
 
 Geo. Souster 
 
 iFLOROT 
 
 Cut Flowers and Flower Designs a 
 Specialty 
 
 All kinds of Foliage and Flowering 
 Plants 
 
 Church, Wedding and Party Deco= 
 rations 
 
 Palms for Decorative Purposes 
 
 ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED 
 
 TELEPHONE 161 
 
 Cor. South State and Adams Sts. 
 
 Elgin, Illinois 
 
8 
 
 Dan 1 Gahan, Jr. 4 Peter Kramer 7 Thos. P Sheehan io Fred. Johnson 13 Geo. Schlensker 16 Stafford McOsker 19 Jacob Kray 
 
 Conrad M. Buel 5 John McNichol 8 Thos. Meehan ir Ben. Potterman 14 Wm. L. Roche r7 Harry A. Dorley 20 Frank McSorley 
 
 Edw. Kohn 6 Frank A. Howard 9 Chas. Bodenschatz 12 Wm. F. Lynch 15 Harry Crook 18 Nicholas P. Weber 21 John Roche 
 
TMEO. F. SWAN 
 
 Great Department Store 
 
 ELGIN 
 
 ILLINOIS 
 
 DEPARTMENTS 
 
 Dress Goods, Silks, Notions, Furs 
 Embroideries, Handkerchiefs, Laces 
 Hosiery, Knit Underwear, Jewelry 
 Domestics, Draperies and Curtains, Linens 
 White Goods, Wash Dress Goods, Linings 
 Trimmings and Braids, Corsets, Muslin Underwear 
 Art Goods, Fancy Goods, Leather Goods 
 Men’s Furnishings, Jackets, Suits 
 Skirts, Ready-to-wear Goods, Millinery 
 Toys, Sporting Goods, Trunks and Valises 
 House Goods, Crockery and Glassware, Shoes 
 Drugs and Toilet Articles, Hardware, Woodenware 
 Ribbons, Books, Stationery, Sheet Music 
 Gloves, Infants’ Wear 
 
10 
 
 H. A. DORLEY 
 
 fltrrrhmtt bailor 
 
 Room i, Nolting Block ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 JAMES MEEHAN CHAS. G. SHOEMAKER 
 
 CLOTH ING 
 
 AND 
 
 FURNISHINGS 
 
 L> XT TZT T T Has been in the FLORIST 
 
 * business in Elgin since 1872 
 
 Having had a life experience and an artistic taste in the arrange¬ 
 ment of flowers, his business has grown from small proportions 
 to its present standard, which for reliability and fair dealing 
 cannot be excelled. Always remember that B. O’Neil is in the 
 Florist business at 479 North Street. Telephone 49. 
 
11 
 
 interstate iPhone 99 
 Chicago Phone 9// 
 
 Stop at 
 
 aura. 
 
 77?cSitl SSros.j {Props. 
 
 (Sty//?; Sllinoi 
 
 trots 
 
12 
 
 The First National BanK 
 
 OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 GEO. P. LORD, President 
 
 D. F. BARCLAY, Vice-President 
 
 HENRY I. BOSWORTH, 2d Vice-President 
 ALFRED DOSWORTH, Cashier 
 
 A. C. HAWKINS, Assistant Cashier 
 
 Capital, $200,000 Surplus and Profit, $90,000 
 
 St. Charles National BanK 
 
 ST. CHARLES, ILLINOIS 
 
 Officers and Directors 
 
 M. C. GETZELMAN, CHAS. H. LUNGREEN, C. J. SCHMIDT, 
 
 Pres’t Vice-Pres’t Cashier 
 
 M. D. AKIN 
 
 Interest paid on time deposits 
 Safety deposit boxes for rent in separate vaults 
 
 JOHN A. BROWN 
 
 General banking business transacted 
 
13 
 
 popular (&i$av &tovz 
 
 IlhUtp gtchickler, T$xop. 
 
 15 ©htcctgc* street, ©Igitt, |iU. 
 09 ^03e street, .gUtrttra, giU* 
 
14 
 
 115 Center Street 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 163 
 
 Elgin , Illinois 
 
15 
 
16 
 
 A. 
 
 CLARK, M . D. 
 
 pjyairian anil fhtrgrnn 
 
 Office Hours: 9 to 10 a. m.: 1 to 3 , and 7 to 8 p. m. 
 
 RESIDENCE, TEL. 66 
 OFFICE CHI. TEL. 1002 
 OFFICE, N.W. TEL. 126 
 
 3© V. M. C. A. BLOCK 
 E LGIN, I LL. 
 
 Fred. W. Jencks 
 
 Room I, Opera House Block 
 
 General Fire Insurance Agency 
 
 Manager Elgin Opera house 
 City Bill Poster and Distributor 
 
 Office Phone 912 
 
 Residence Phone 27 
 
 H. J. CROOK 
 
 Watchmaker and Jeweler 
 
 22 GROVE AVENUE 
 
 FINE WATCH REFAIRING 
 FOR THE TRADE 
 A SPECIALTY 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
17 
 
 G. G. ALDRIDGE 
 
 160 CHICAGO STREET 
 
 HEADQUARTERS FOR 
 
 SPORTING GOODS 
 and MAGAZINES 
 
 SPECIAL AGENT FOR 
 
 THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS 
 THE CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD 
 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
 THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE 
 
 DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY 
 
 -CIGARS™ 
 
18 
 
 CENTER BUILDING-ILLINOIS NORTH ERN HOSPITAL FOR (THE INSANE 
 
Great 
 
 19 
 
 Durability 
 
 and 
 
 Complete 
 
 Comfort 
 
 that’s the whole story 
 
 (Good looks, of course) 
 
 (Pat. Colt Skin) 
 
 (Box Calf) (Vici Kid) 
 
 Charles F. Becker 
 
 West Side Shoe H ouse 
 
 Biggest and Best Shoe Store in Kane County 
 
20 
 
21 
 
 WM. HART 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 DRUGS, PAINTS, OILS, WINDOW GLASS, 
 
 WALL PAPER 
 
 154 CHICAGO STREET 
 
 Telephone No. 11 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Phone 1653 
 
 JAMES FLINN 
 
 GROCER 
 
 IS!. W. Cor. W. Chicago and State Sts. 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Etc. 
 
 Interior Decorating' 
 
 SION WRITING 
 
 Chicago Phone 1553 Elgin, Illinois 
 
 J- J. James 
 
 Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables 
 
 25 North State Street 
 
 Phones: Chicago ISS4, Af. IV. 637 
 
 Elgin f Illinois 
 
22 
 
 ACKEMANNS’ 
 
 THE BIG STORE 
 
 BIG IN EVERYTHING BUT PRICES 
 
 ELGIN 
 
 ILLINOIS 
 
 DEPARTMENTS 
 
 Ladies’ Tailored Suits, Skirts, Waists 
 and Coats, Dress Goods, Under 
 Muslins, Hosiery, Millinery, Ribbons, 
 Toilet Articles, Notions, Embroideries, 
 Laces, Draperies and Curtains, 
 Linings, Trimmings and Braids, 
 Infants’ Wear, Silks, Furs, Handker¬ 
 chiefs, Linens, Corsets, Leather Goods, 
 Toys, Hardware, Crockery and Glass¬ 
 ware, Shoes, Woodenware, Books, 
 Stationery, Furniture and Undertaking. 
 
23 
 
 Our {Pemodeled Store 
 
 *Druys, Stationery, Window S/ass, {Prescriptions, {Paint 
 Watt {Paper > {Poom 97/ouldinys 
 
 
 Fr.nrO 
 
 diPy — r ~ 
 
 u/jZ/ij//,,' 
 
 
 |tUlW£R WWW 
 
 SCHOOL 
 
 0BUC3 STATIOIrtW 
 
 BOOKS 
 
 .. 
 
 KWHUumJ 
 
 
 'mitHi/Himii lilt Mil**5* 
 
 f-mritYPE co 
 
 DRUGS 
 
24 
 
 M. J. DALEY OPEN ALL NIGHT T. E. ROCHI 
 
 PHONE S 
 
 DALEY c§6 ROCHE 
 
 iflmtrral Simtnr b 
 
 NO. lO SPRING STREET 
 
 JOENT. 3052 
 
 N. W. -4-39 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 HENRY McBRIDE 
 
 ■ ■ DEALER IN -- - 
 
 COAL AND WOOD 
 LIME, CEMENT, HAIR 
 BUILDING STONE 
 STUCCO, SEWER 
 
 pipe;, etc., etc. 
 
 OFFICE 
 
 7 S. State Street, West Side 
 
 Phone. 166 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 JOHN O'CONNELL 
 
 CIGARS 
 
25 
 
 BORDEN’S 
 
 EAGLE BRAND 
 
 CONDENSED MILK 
 
 THE 
 
 ORIGINAL 
 
 jZ? 
 
 jZ? 
 
 HAS 
 
 NO EQUAL 
 
 JZ? 
 
 AVOID SUBSTITUTES 
 
 THE BORDEN BRANDS HAVE OBTAINED THE 
 HIGHEST AWARD WHEREVER EXHIBITED 
 
 BORDEN’S 
 
 CONDENSED 
 
 MILK CO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 185 7 NEW YORK 
 
26 
 
 CUT PRICES 
 
 Elk: Drug Store 
 
 Your Medicines carefully compounded by 
 
 ZABRISKIE & AKIN 
 
 Registered Pharmacists 
 
 Both Telephones 76 
 
 C. N. Miller 
 
 Livery and. 
 Boarding 
 
 Stable 
 
 113 Grove Avenue 
 
 Elgin, Ill. 
 
 Eine Horses 
 and Carriages 
 of all Rinds 
 
 All Rigs delivered 
 and called for 
 
 Special 
 attention 
 to Boarders 
 
27 
 
 Rinehimer Bros. Mfg. Co. 
 
 Interior 
 
 Finish 
 
 Sash 
 
 Doors and 
 Mouldings 
 
 General 
 
 Mill 
 
 WorK 
 
 Store 
 
 and 
 
 Office 
 
 Fixtures 
 
 Factory and Office: 2 to 10 Kimball Street 
 Telephone 197 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 Elgin Bvtter Tub Co. 
 
 Manufacturers 
 
 of 
 
 Butter 
 
 Tubs 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Cheese 
 Boxes and 
 Creamery 
 Supplies 
 
 Telephone 169 
 
28 
 
 ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH:.FACTORY~February 22nd, 1904 
 
29 
 
 TAKE 
 
 THE ELECTRIC LINE 
 
 TO 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 FAST 
 
 FREQUENT 
 
 AND 
 
 CONVENIENT 
 
 SERVICE 
 
 TRAINS EVERY THIRTY MINUTES 
 NO DIRT NO DUST NO CINDERS 
 
 T5he 
 
 AURORA 
 
 ELGIN & CHICAGO 
 R AILWAY 
 
30 
 
 Rorig Sr Perschmann 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 Ice Cream and 
 Confectionery 
 
 157 Chicago Street 
 
 Both. Phones Mo. 155 Elgin, Illinois 
 
31 
 
 H. H. BUNKER 
 
 H. S. CHAMBERS 
 
 BUNKER 
 
 . & — 
 
 CHAMBERS 
 
 UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS 
 
 WEST SIDE ART STORE 
 
 Store. Both Phones 128. 
 
 Res. Chicago Phone 973. 
 
 Res. Inter-State Phone 5 1 3. 
 
 _Elgin, III. 
 
 U/jc Elgin National BanK 
 
 Will open an account 
 with you in its 
 
 SA VI NG S 
 DEPARTMENT 
 
 on the deposit of $1.00 
 or more, and pay 3/ 
 interest on it. 
 
 WE LEND YOU THIS 
 METAL BANK 
 
 ELGIN NATIONAL BANK. 
 
32 
 
 D. J. CHAMBERLAIN & CO. 
 
 The Big Boston Clothing Store 
 
 NOLTING BLOCK, ELGIN, ILL 
 
 For Reliable Clothing and Furnishings, go to 
 the BIG BOSTON. Remember we have sold 
 you the RIGHT KIND of Merchandise for the 
 past twenty-five years. ONE PRICE TO ALL 
 
 D. J. CHAMBERLAIN & CO. 
 
33 
 
34 
 
 . Hubner & Son 
 
 THE OLD 
 RELIABLE 
 SHOE HOUSE 
 
 51 Douglas Avenue 
 
 Chicago Phone gig 
 
 Lethin Brothers 
 
 Merchant Tailors 
 
 Fine Tailoring a Specialty 
 
 Boswort/i s Block , Fountain Square 
 
 Elgin , Illinois 
 
 J. SOOST 
 
 DE ?N ER All Kinds of Choice Meats 
 
 MANUFACTURER OF 
 
 Fine Sausage of Every Description 
 
 Both Phones . . Residence Phone 
 
 No. 165 1 59 Douglas Avenue Ind No .g 9 
 
35 
 
 C. L. GARRISON 
 
 LIVERY 
 
 FUNERALS AND PARTIES A SPECIALTY 
 
 Telephone 42 
 
 163 NORTH STREET 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
36 
 
 THE' NATIONAL HOUSE—February 22nd, 1904 
 
37 
 
 OFFICE HOURS 
 
 0.00 TO 10.00 A. M. 
 2.00 TO 4.00 P. M. 
 7.00 TO 8.30 P. M. 
 9UNDAYS, 12 TO 1 
 
 PHONES 
 
 { OFFICE, 06 
 RESIDENCE, 25 
 
 J. F. BELL, M. D. 
 
 OFFICE ! FOUNTAIN SQUARE 
 COR. CHICAGO ST. ANI) GROVE AVE. 
 
 RESIDENCE 
 
 15 NORTH CHANNING ST. ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 PHONEYS OFFICE, CHICAGO 70 
 
 NORTHWESTERN 06 
 
 RESIDENCE, 4654 
 
 DR. JAMES H. DALBEY 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 OVER HALE’S DRUG STORE 
 FOUNTAIN SQUARE 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 A. I i. HUBBARD 
 
 MAYOR 
 
 GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT 
 AND NOTARY RUBRIC 
 
 PHONE, CHICAGO 1154 
 
 Elgin, III. 
 
 BOTH PHONES No. !) MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE 
 
 FRANK W. JOSLYN 
 
 LAWYER 
 
 OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
38 
 
 Mount St. Joseph Academy 
 
 for Young Ladies Dubuque, Iowa 
 
 Collegiate Degrees, Academic Department accred¬ 
 ited to the University of Iowa. Excellent facilities 
 offered for the education of young women. Con¬ 
 servatory of Music and Art on the European plan. 
 
 One mile from Dubuque City, four hours' ride from Elgin, 
 direct railroad connections with Chicago, Elgin, Milwaukee, St, 
 Paul, Minneapolis, La Crosse, Omaha, Kansas City, St, Louis, 
 Commands 'blew of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois, Grounds 
 cover iwenty=five acres, golf links, tennis courts, groves and 
 pineries. Finely equipped buildings, private rooms. Three 
 general courses of study in the collegiate and academic depart¬ 
 ments, Special Normal course for students preparing to take 
 teachers ' examinations, Preparatory department, thorough busi¬ 
 ness course, private pupils received. 
 
 For Illustrated Catalogue, address 
 
 SISTER SUPERIOR 
 
 Mount St, Joseph's College, 
 
 DUBUQUE, IOWA 
 
39 
 
 e z r a rue: 
 
 AT TO R N E: V-AT-I-AW 
 
 REAL. ESTATE AND LOANS 
 
 WILD FARM LANDS CHEAP 
 AND CHOICE FARMS NEAR 
 ELGIN FOR SALE- 
 
 ROOMS -1 AND 2 
 HOME BANK BLOCK 
 E L<3 IN, ILL. 
 
 EOR CORRECT PLANS, RELIABLE ESTIMATES AND E A I T M - 
 EUL SUPERVISION OE BUILDING WORK CALL ON 
 
 SMITH HOAG 
 
 ARCHITECT 
 
 OFFICE: ROOM 7, NEWS BLOCK 
 
 RESIDENCE: 3 £3 S. UNION 
 
 LOW PRICES 
 FRESH GOODS 
 
 large: stock 
 
 ECONOMICAL DRUG STORE 
 
 E LG IN, ILL. 
 
 N. W. TEI_SSO 
 
 McBRIARTY 
 
 LAW, LOANS, INSURANCE:, REIAL EZ ST AT El 
 ROOM 1 , ELGIN BANK BLOCK 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
40 
 
 All Roads lead to 
 
 Kimball’s 
 
 The Best Place to Buy 
 
 F urniture 
 
 Carpets, Rugs and Matting 
 
 Slobc^Wcrt) icke 
 
 Elastic BooK Cases 
 and Office Filing Cabinets 
 
 Full line of Office Desks 
 and Chairs 
 
 We can save you money 
 
 14 Grove Avenue 
 
 Herman Muetterties 
 
 John Muetterties 
 
 Vienna 
 
 Bakery and 
 
 Grocery 
 
 Muetterties Bros., Props. 
 
 209 East Chicago Street 
 Elgin, Ill. 
 
41 
 
 Washington House 
 
 PAUL KEMLER, Proprietor 
 
 100-106 Division Street, Cor. Brook, ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Chicago Phone, 1083 N. W. Phone, 754 
 
 Elgin Rug Manufacturing Co, 
 
 70-72 
 River 
 Street 
 Elgin, Ill. 
 
 Rugs of all sizes 
 made from old 
 carpets 
 
 Carpet 
 Cleaning a 
 Specialty 
 
 Chicago Tel. 105 
 
42 
 
 Hawthorne Hardware 
 
 Company 
 
 Successors to Hawthorne Brothers 
 
 HARDWARE 
 
 Plumbing, Steam, Hot Water 
 and Hot Air Heating 
 
 SPORTING GOODS, FISHING TACKLE, ETC., ETC. 
 
 Tin, Sheet Iron and Job Work a Specialty 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Our Motto is “THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST” 
 
43 
 
 HEIDEMANN & SON 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 FLOUR, FEED, HAY, STRAW and OATS 
 
 SEEDS OF ALL KINDS 
 
 CORNER BROOK AND NORTH STREETS 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Chicago phone, 1473 Interstate phone, 177 
 
 A. J. VOLSTORFF 
 
 MANUFACTURER OF AND 
 DEALER IN 
 
 CUSTOM MADE 
 
 HARNESS 
 
 AND 
 
 COLLARS 
 
 BLANKETS 
 WHIPS, Etc. 
 
 REPAIRING a specialty 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 J. G. ELBERT 
 
 HORSESHOEING, GENERAL BLACKSMITHING 
 
 RUBBER TIRING 
 
 CARRIAGE AND WAGON REPAIRING 
 
 172 BROOK STREET opposite condensing factory 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. TELEPHONE 6806 
 
 20 RIVER ST., 
 
44 
 
 A. C. MUNTZ 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 PHONE 
 
 1593 
 
 LIVERY 
 
 - AND - 
 
 BOARDING 
 
 STABLE 
 
 N. W. 
 
 PHONE 
 
 415 
 
 FIRST-CLASS RIGS WITH OR WITHOUT DRIVERS 
 FURNISHED AT REASONABLE RATES 
 
 HACKS for WEDDINGS , FUNERALS , Etc. 
 
 BUSSES A SPECIALTY 
 
 166 NORTH STREET 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
45 
 
4 6 
 
47 
 
 k® 
 
 m earner 
 
 JT/anufacturers of 
 
 Casket 
 
 Tjrii 
 
 rimmings 
 
 0 ((// J) J) 0 0 
 
 ’m s 
 
 0 
 
 U/ie jCargest ^factory in t/ie Iff ortd devoted exctusivety 
 to the ^Manufacture of these Soods 
 
48 
 
 ELGIN, ELL. 
 
 RELIABLE 
 WATCHES 
 DIAMONDS 
 JEWELRY 
 SILVERWARE 
 CLOCKS 
 CUT GLASS 
 HAND PAINTED CHINA 
 
 YOUR EYES ACCURATELY FITTED 
 WITH GLASSES BY OUR TWO 
 EXPERIENCED OPTICIANS 
 
Canned Goods, Vegetables, Oysters, Fish and Poultry 
 
 /7 Chicago Street 
 
 Heavy agd Shelf Hardware 
 Housekeeping Goods, Stoves 
 
 Cheese Factory and Creamery 
 Apparatus and Supplies 
 
50 
 
 ELGIN'S 
 
 ONLY EXCLUSIVE 
 
 Book and Stationery 
 
 Store 
 
 AT28 GROVE AVENUE 
 
 ALWAYS CARRIES THE LATEST 
 
 BOOKS 
 
 FINE STATIONERY 
 
 BIBLES 
 
 AND PRA YER BOOKS 
 
 Zook & Dougherty 
 
 O WNERS 
 
51 
 
 O U I s 
 
 U M 
 
 MANUFACTURER O F* AND 
 
 AND RETAIL DEALER IN 
 
 CATERING A 
 6 R EC I A l_ TV 
 
 CONFECTIONERY 
 AND ICE OREIAM 
 
 TEl_«EF»MON K 
 
 IS DOUGLAS AVEZNUEI, ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 The Model Rug Factory 
 
 JOHN W. METZ, Proprietor 
 
 Chicago Phone 2932 207 Du Page Street, ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 High Grade Rugs from Old or New Ingrain, Brussels, 
 Moquette and Wilton Carpets 
 
52 
 
 JOHN NEWMAN 
 
 PROPRIETORS 
 
 Springbrook 
 
 TRADE MARK REGISTERED. 
 
 JOSEPH NEWMAN 
 
 OF FORTY 
 
 Creameries 
 
 Here is a picture of one of the beautiful Dairy type of cowS 
 producing the milK used in making SPRINGBROOK Creamery Butter 
 
 
 Yivr-vwtv^^vt'Yyvvrvrry' 
 
 JOHN NEWMAN CO. 
 
 ic 
 
 * rial iuu rr tUJi * 
 
 <l anc«A m d.wu.1 n * 
 
 « awicrn rr nai' 
 
 <feas5{i«‘ 
 
 d Pure Creamery Butler. 
 
 as /£ that others 
 cannot make as good 
 Butter as the John 
 /Ver/man Cos. E/gin 
 Premium 5pringbrook 
 Butter ~ 
 
 ? 
 
 90 
 
 Because the great 
 system of Dairies 
 from which the milk is produced that goes to make up 
 the SpringbrooK Butter are stocKed with 
 
 THE MOST SUPERB DAIRY COWS TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE 
 IN THIS COUNTRY. Rich pastured nds, absolute cleanliness of cows, 
 and scientific buttermaking is what renders this butter so desirable for 
 your table —your guests - your HEALTH 
 
 WE -SELL- THIS - BUTTER 
 
 IN ONE POUND PRINTS 
 
 10, 30 AND 50 IN A CASE 
 ALSO ALL SIZES IN TUBS 
 
 If your Dealer does not Keep it, order direct 
 
 JOHN NEWMAN CO., 
 
 Elgin, Ill. 
 
53 
 
 OFFICE HOURS ' U TO 12 A1 M * 
 
 ( 1:30 TO 4:30 F. M, 
 
 / 
 
 OPEN WATCH FACTORY PAY NIGHT ANI) SATURDAY 
 
 NIGHTS 
 
 CHICAGO PHONE 1781 
 
 DR. R. C. SMITH 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 ROOMS 29,30 & 31, SHERWIX BLOCK 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
54 
 
 SHERMAN HOSPITAL 
 
 Owned and Conducted by 
 
 THE ELGIN WOMAN’S CLUB 
 
 The Hospital is open to the sicK of all classes, 
 without regard to religion, nationality, sex or color. 
 In connection with the institution is a training school 
 for nurses, which covers a period of two years. 
 
55 
 
 Edward H. Abbott, M. D. 
 
 OFFICE 
 
 SUITE 24-25-26 SHERWIN BUILDING 
 CHICAGO PHONE 139 
 RESIDENCE, 454 STELLA STREET 
 CHICAGO PHONE 140 INTER-STATE PHONE 136 
 
 ( 9 TO 10 
 
 HOURS j 2 TO 4 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 ( 7 TO 8 
 
 f 9 TO 11 A. M. 
 
 OFFICE HOURS 2 TO 4 P. M. SUNDAYS: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 
 
 ( 7 TO 8 P. M * 
 
 H. W. Dueringer, M. D. 
 
 ^peutfcijer 
 
 OFFICE: 161 CHICAGO ST. RESIDENCE! 126 TENNYSON CT. 
 
 PHONE 2271 PHONE 2504 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 DR. LEONARD S. TAYLOR 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 OFFICE HOURS j 9:30 TO 12:00 A. M. PH O N ES j ° FFI CE • 1012 
 
 ( 7:00 TO 8:30 P.M. I RESIDENCE, 54 
 
 DR. S. P. BROWN 
 
 OFFICE: 12, 13 AND 14 SHERWIN BLOCK 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
55 
 
JOE H. JONES 
 
 FIRE, TORNADO 
 PLATE GLASS 
 HEALTH AND ACCIDENT 
 
 INSURANCE 
 
 SURETY BONDS 
 NOTARY PUBLIC 
 
 Room 3, Home Bank Block 
 
 CHICAGO TELEPHONE 1474 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
58 
 
 MISS M. E. crane 
 
 iFittr ffltUtnmi 
 
 lev ou rage: stre:e:t 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 I_. H . BAUER 
 
 IN ADDITION TO A LARGE AND WELL 
 SELECTED STOCK OR JEWELRY, 
 WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE 
 AND PRECIOUS STONES, WE MAIN- 
 TA IN A THOROUGH L Y EQUIPPED 
 REPAIR DEPARTMENT. WE EMPLOY 
 COMPETENT WORKMEN ONLY AND 
 GUARANTEE ALL. REI PA I R S 
 
 102 CHICAGO STREET 
 
 home: bank block 
 
 STORE PHONE S5 
 
 ROBERT SEIDEL 
 
 iFitu' 3Furmtur? 
 
 Utttortakittr; 
 
 14 DOUGLAS AVENUE 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
59 
 
 PHONES 
 
 1672 CHICAGO 
 230 INTER STATE 
 
 ASSISTANT STATES ATTORNEY 
 KANE COUNTY 
 
 CHARLES L. ABBOTT 
 
 LAWYER 
 
 29 HOME BANK BLOCK, - ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 GROTE 
 
 Real Estate 
 
 ■-AND- 
 
 INVESTMENTS 
 ELCIN, ILL 
 
 MONEY RECEIVED 
 AND LOANED ON 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
 HOUSES AND LOTS 
 FOR SALE IN ANY 
 PART OF THE CITY 
 
 GOOD FARMS FOR 
 SALE NEAR ELGIN 
 
 COOD BONDS AND 
 STOCKS BOUGHT 
 AND SOLD- 
 
 PHONES: CHICAGO 863 N.-WEST. 863 RESIDENCE 2344- 
 
 EDWARD C. MOORE 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 HOME BANK BLOCK, - ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
60 
 
 ^ 10-12 A. M. 
 
 CONSULTING HOURS,, \ 3-5 P. M. 
 
 ( 7-8 P. M. 
 
 SUNDAY 
 
 CONSULTATIONS BY 
 APPOINTMENT 
 
 ARTHUR B. STURM, M. D. 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 OFFICE: COR. DOUGLAS AVENUE AND MILWAUKEE STREET 
 
 TELEPHONE S24 
 
 RESIDENCE: 141 NORTH PORTER' STREET 
 TELEPHONE 1501 
 
 BOTH TELEPHONES; 220 
 
 REE brothers 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 COAL, WOOD, BRICK, 
 TILE, LIME 
 
 CEMENT, SLABS, SEWER PIPE, ETC. 
 
 LEHIGH VALLEY COAL A SPECIALTY 
 
 111 DIVISION STREET 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 W. W. ABELL 
 
 ARCHITECT AND 
 CIVIL ENCINEER 
 
 SPECIAL DESICNS OF 
 ALL CLASSES OF 
 BUILDINGS 
 
 ROOMS 30 AND 31 
 HOME BANK BLK. 
 
 ELGIN, ILL 
 
61 
 
 OFFICE PHONE 2293 HOUSE PHONE 0718 
 
 M. J. SPRINGER 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 EARMS-CITY PROPERTY 
 INSURANCE 
 
 ROOM 6, P O. BLK. ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 HAVE YOU MONEY AT HOME? YOU CAN’T 
 LOSE IN A PURCHASE OP OUR GOODS 
 
 CHICAGO TEL. 1081 DRUMMER SOAP 
 
 OFFICE AND FACTORY 
 
 Franklin and River Streets ELGIN, ILL. 
 
(32 
 
 Everybody 
 
 uses the 
 
 Chicago Telephone 
 
 It is the ideal means of 
 communication 
 
 It reaches everywhere 
 
 City and Country 
 
 Rates Five Cents a Day 
 
 and upwards, according to 
 the class of service desired 
 
 Chicago Telephone Company 
 
 J. W. Schramm, Manager 
 
 Elgin, III. 
 
63 
 
 Chicago Tel. 2832 N. W. Tel. 690 
 
 D* A* CHAMBERLIN 
 
 GENERAL INSURANCE 
 FIRE, LIGHTNING 
 WIND, TORNADO 
 AND PLATE GLASS 
 
 Rooms 1-2-3, Elgin Nat’l Bank Bldg* 
 
 ELGIN, ILL* 
 
 St Joseph's Hospital 
 
 NEW BUILDING 
 
 MODERN EQUIPMENTS 
 
 
 CONDUCTED BY 
 
 THE FRANCISCAN SISTERS 
 
 OF THE SACRED HEART 
 
 Prospect Boulevard and Jefferson Street 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 CHICAGO TELEPHONE 3393 
 N. W* TELEPHONE 121 
 
64 
 
 INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS 
 
 Academies and Schools 
 
 Page 
 
 Mount St. Joseph’s College and Academy_ 38 
 
 Architects 
 
 Abell, W. W. 60 
 
 Hoag, Smith. 39 
 
 Banks 
 
 Elgin National Bank. 3 
 
 First National Bank. 12 
 
 St. Charles National Bank, St. Charles, Ill_ 12 
 
 Book. Stationery and News Dealers 
 
 Aldridge, C. C. 17 
 
 Zook & Dougherty. 50 
 
 Blacksmithing and Horse Shoeing 
 
 Elbert, J. G. 43 
 
 Condensed MilkCo.'s and Creamery Prop’s 
 
 Borden’s Condensed Milk Co. 25 
 
 Newman, John, Co_?. 52 
 
 Clothing and Furnishing Stores 
 
 Chamberlain, D. J. & Co. 32 
 
 Meehan & Shoemaker. 10 
 
 Plant & Co. 20 
 
 Confectioners 
 
 Blum, Louis.51 
 
 Rorig & Perschmann. 30 
 
 Coal, Wood. Builders' Supply. Etc., Dealers 
 
 Lee Bros. 60 
 
 McBride, H.■. 24 
 
 Cigar and Tobacco Dealers 
 
 O’Connell, John. 24 
 
 Schickler, Phil. 13 
 
 Weber & Pattermann. 7 
 
 Department Stores 
 
 Ackemann Bros. 22 
 
 Swan, T. F. 9 
 
 Dentists 
 
 Dalbey, James H., D.D.S. 37 
 
 Moore, Edward C., D.D.S. 59 
 
 Smith, R. C., D.D.S. 53 
 
 Druggists 
 
 Economical Drug Store. 39 
 
 Elk Drug Store. 26 
 
 Hall, Edwin. 23 
 
 Hart, William. 21 
 
 Knodler, L. S.. . 33 
 
 Furniture Dealers 
 
 Kimball’s Furniture Store. 46 
 
 Seidel, Robert. 58 
 
 Wait & Ross. 6 
 
 Florists 
 
 O’Neil, B. 10 
 
 Souster, George. 7 
 
 Flour and Feed Stores 
 
 Heidemann & Son. 43 
 
 Grocers 
 
 Flinn, James. 21 
 
 James, J. J. . 21 
 
 Vienna Bakery & Grocery. 40 
 
 Hardware Dealers 
 
 Barclay, D. F. 49 
 
 Hawthorn Hardware Co. 42 
 
 Meehan, W. J. 1 
 
 Hotels and Restaurants 
 
 Burns’ Hotel. 45 
 
 Kelley House. 11 
 
 Washington House.-. 41 
 
 Hospitals 
 
 Sherman Hospital. 54 
 
 St. Joseph’s Hospital. 63 
 
 Insurance Agents 
 
 Chamberlin, D. A. 63 
 
 Dangerfield, E. N. 4 
 
 Hubbard, A. H. 37 
 
 Jencks, F. W. 16 
 
 Jones, Joe H. 57 
 
 Jewelers and Watch Dealers 
 
 Bauer, L. H. ; .*53 
 
 C rook, H. J. . . . . . . . . . . 16 
 
 Juzek, Thos. J. Co. . . . . . . . . . . 4 
 
 Rovelslad Bros... 48 
 
 Lawyers 
 
 Abbott, Charles L. 59 
 
 Joslyn, Frank W. .... 37 
 
 McBriarty, C. T... 39 
 
 Rue, Ezra."..39 
 
 Livery and Boardinq Stables 
 
 Branford, E. 44 
 
 Garrison, C. L.35 
 
 Miller, C. N. 26 
 
 Muntz, A. C.’ 44 
 
 Manufacturers 
 
 Elgin Butter Tub Co. 27 
 
 Elgin National Watch Co...... 2 arid 3 
 
 Elgin Rug Manfg. Co. 41 
 
 Elgin Silver Plate Co.' 47 
 
 Elgin Soap Works.[. ’ ’ 61 
 
 Rineheimer Bros. Mnfg. Co.” 27 
 
 The Model Rug Factory. 54 
 
 Weber & Pattermann. 7 
 
 Meat Markets 
 
 Ansel, Albert F. 49 
 
 Soost, J. 34 
 
 Merchant Tailors 
 
 Dorley, H. A. 40 
 
 Lethin Bros. 34 
 
 Millinery 
 
 Crane, Miss M. E. 58 
 
 Painting, Decorating, Etc. 
 
 Pendergast, A. L. 21 
 
 Physicians and Surqeons 
 
 Abbott, Edward H., M. D. 55 
 
 Bell, J. F., M. D. 37 
 
 Brown, S. P., M. D. 65 
 
 Clark, A. L., M. D. 46 
 
 Dueringer, H. W., M. D. 65 
 
 Gahagan, H. J., M. D. 4 
 
 Marckley, R. W., M. D. 33 
 
 Sturm, Arthur B., M. D. 60 
 
 Taylor, Leonard S., M. D. 55 
 
 Railway and Transportation Co. 
 
 Aurora, Elgin, and Chicago Railway Co. 29 
 
 Restaurants 
 
 Riverside Restaurant. 15 
 
 Town Block Restaurant. 5 
 
 Real Estate Dealers 
 
 Grote, William. 59 
 
 Springer, M. J. 61 
 
 Shoe Stores 
 
 Becker, Charles F. 19 
 
 Hubner & Son.A. 34 
 
 Saddlery and Harness Dealers 
 
 Volstorff, A. J. 43 
 
 Telephone Lines 
 
 Chicago Telephone Co. 62 
 
 Undertakers 
 
 Ackemann Bros. 22 
 
 Blinker & Chambers. 31 
 
 Seidel, Robert. 58 
 
 Wait & Ross. 6 
 
 Daley & Roche. 24 
 
 Illustrations 
 
 Hickory Club. 8 
 
 Illinois Northern Hospital for Insane. 18 
 
 Elgin National Watch Factory. 28 
 
 National House. 36 
 
 Chicago Street, Elgin, July 4, 1865. 46 
 
 Chicago Street, Elgin, July 5, 1865. 56 
 
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 SPECIAL SOUVENIR 
 BAZAR NUMBER 
 
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 T3dI. 2. (irtuhrr, 19UT Nn. 11 
 
 Masses 
 
 SUNDAY 
 
 8:15 a. m. — Low Mass and Sermon. 
 9:15 a. m.—Low Mass and Sermon. 
 10:15 a. m. — High M ass and Sermon. 
 3:30 p. m. — Rosary and Benediction. 
 4:00 p. m. Sodality Meetings. 
 
 WEEK DAYS 
 7:30 a. m.—Daily Mass. 
 
 FIRST FRIDAY 
 
 Confessions and Holy Hour and 
 Benediction the day before. 
 
 Friday morning masses at 6:00 
 and 7:30. 
 
 Rev. John McCann, Rev. D. E. McGrath, 
 
 Pastors 
 
An Exquisite Display of 
 
 STRIKING NEW FALL 
 READY-TO-WEAR 
 
 — GARMENTS — 
 
 SUITS 
 
 CLOAKS 
 
 SKIRTS 
 
 AND WAISTS 
 
 DRESS FABRICS of WOOL or SILK 
 Dress Accessories in Extensive Variety 
 
 The Bargain Basement is filled to 
 overflowing with bargains in ready-to- 
 wear as well as home necessities in 
 the dry goods line. 75c. buys more 
 in our Bargain Basement than $1.00 
 elsewhere. :: :: :: :: :: 
 
 I. Cohien Company"' 
 
 ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
OCTOBER CALENDAR 
 
 1. Tuesday, 
 
 2. Wednesday, 
 
 3. Thursday. 
 
 4. Friday. 
 
 5. Saturday, 
 
 St. Remigius. 
 
 Holy Guardian Angels. 
 
 St. Gerard. 
 
 St. Francis of Assisi. 
 
 St. Placidusand Comp..MM. 
 
 In Memorian. 
 
 August 26. Requiem High Mass for 
 Michael Roche. 
 
 August 30. Funeral Requiem High 
 Mass for Katie McGarrity. 
 
 September 2. Solemen Requiem High 
 Mass for Matthias Drennan. 
 
 September 2. Funeral Mass of The 
 Angels for Master Joseph Ryan. 
 
 September 6. Funeral Requiem High 
 Mass for Mrs. Eva Roberts. 
 
 September 10. Funeral Requiem 
 High Mass for Mrs. Anne Spalding. 
 
 September 30.‘ Funeral Requiem 
 High Mass for John Kirkpatrick. 
 
 October 2. Funeral Requiem High 
 Mass of Mrs. Catherine Hade. 
 
 October 3. Funeral Requiem High 
 Mass for Mrs. Kate Kelley. 
 
 October 8. Requiem High Mass for 
 Catherine Younger. 
 
 Marriages. 
 
 July 30. Arthur Edward Schneider, 
 son of Oswald Schneider and Martha 
 Ludwig, and Mary Teresa O’Malley, 
 daughter of Patrick and Mary Mullerkey. 
 Witnesses: Henry L. Krumrn and 
 
 Ereda Beier. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 August 31. J. Stuart McIntosh, son 
 of Thomas W. McIntosh and Jessie 
 Vorce, and Marie Murphy, daughter of 
 J. J. Murphy and Elizabeth Breen. 
 Witnesses: Willis Sparks and Rosa 
 
 Sparks. Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 14. Harry S. Hampton, 
 son of Samuel Hampton and Sarah 
 
 Brooks, and Mary Scherschel, daughter 
 Peter Scherschel and Mary Irnelers. 
 Witnesses: Peter and Della Scherschel. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 23. Daniel A. Murray, 
 son of Michael Murray and Mary Mc¬ 
 Coy, and Elsie Buschloge, daughter of 
 Peter Buschloge and Mary Peterson. 
 Witness: Maude E. Keating. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 25. James Richardson, 
 son of James Richardson and Mary 
 Pone, and Laura Faith, daughter of 
 John Faith and Mary Moran. Witnesses: 
 J. F.' Golden and Susie Faith. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 Baptisms. 
 
 August 25. Helen Unice, daughter of 
 Harry C. Wahl and Leone Chesbrough, 
 born August 5, 1907. Sponsors: James 
 Casey and Mabel Barry. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 August 27. Naomi Mary, daughter of 
 Patrick A. Murray and Mary Fallon, 
 born June 2, 1907. Sponsors: Walter 
 and Sadie Murray. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 15. Harry Edward, son 
 of Barney Busch and Rose Kaiser, born 
 August 30, 1907. Sponsors: Harry 
 
 Choinard and Ella Morrissey. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 15. Elmer John, son of 
 Barney Busch and Rose Kaiser, born 
 August 30, 1907. Sponsors: John Mor¬ 
 rissey and Georgia Wilbur. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
POTTER BROS, DRY GOODS COMPANY 
 
 - =- ELGIN, ILLINOIS - 
 
 THE CHARMING SUITS 
 
 Is the Subject of this Ad 
 
 If You Want NOVELTIES To Choose From 
 
 NO TWO ALIKE 
 
 This is your store. If you want the real tony kind of suits 
 
 cop from Pacquins S300 Paris Gowns 
 
 This is the store to trade in. All the swell novelties 
 of the season are here in abundance 
 
 See Our Big Display Before Making Any Purchases 
 
 F. L. Killip’s 
 Restaurant 
 
 156 Chicago Street 
 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 Chicago Phones 3032 and 2982 
 
 We Never Sleep. 
 
 Becker’s 
 
 Four Dollar Shoes 
 for Women are with¬ 
 out a doubt theSwel- 
 lest thing ever put 
 before the fair sex 
 
 BECKER’S 
 
 WEST SIOE SHOE STORE 
 
6. Sunday. - - - 
 
 St. Bruno. C. F. 
 
 7. Monday. - - - 
 
 Holy Rosary. 
 
 8. Tuesday, - - - 
 
 St. Bridget of Sweden. 
 
 9. Wednesday. - - - 
 
 St. Denis and Comp., MM. 
 
 10. Thursday. - - - 
 
 St. Francis Borgia. 
 
 11. Friday. - - - 
 
 St. Gummar. 
 
 12. Saturday. - - - 
 
 St. Wilfrid. 
 
 %>\. iflarij’B Arairnuf iRrrnrit 
 
 EDITORIAL STAFF 
 
 Editor-in-Chief, ANTHONY BURKE 
 
 Assistant Editor_Hazel Jones 
 
 Local Editor_Agnes Dorley 
 
 Exchange Editor_ _Rose Buel 
 
 Secretary_Jeannette Spillard 
 
 Treasurer_Cecelia Pendergast 
 
 Business Manager Harry McArdle 
 
 Application made for admission as second-class mail matter 
 
 Sept., 15. Mary Catherine, daughter 
 of 0. E. McMahan and Marv McKenzie, 
 born August 8, 1907. Sponsors: James 
 McKenzie and Catherine McMahan. 
 
 Bev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 15. Duncan, son of John 
 R. Power and Charlotte Duncan, born 
 August 16, 1907. Sponsors: Win. H. 
 and Alice Mary Lester. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 September 22. Marian Nellie, daugh¬ 
 ter of Edward Larkin and Nellie Sutton, 
 born September 12, 1907. Sponsors: 
 M. W. and Margaret Larkin. 
 
 Rev. John J. McCann. 
 
 September 22. Mary Irene, daughter 
 of Cornelius Gallagher and Margaret 
 Evensen, born April 19, 1903. Sponsors: 
 Eugene and Johanna Ferron. 
 
 Rev. D. E. McGrath. 
 
 Parish Notes. 
 
 Our most distinguished guest this 
 week was the Rev. Doctor John Webster 
 Melody, Professor of Moral theology 
 at the Catholic University of Washing¬ 
 ton, D. C. Dr. Melody is one of the 
 leading intellectual lights of this gener¬ 
 ation. Ilis position implies that. His 
 
 department in the Catholic University is 
 a post-graduate one. None but priests 
 who have made the regular studies 
 enter, their purpose usually being to 
 take degrees. 
 
 The genial, handsome, eloquent and 
 learned doctor is a very rare combina¬ 
 tion. You can find learned men, elo¬ 
 quent men, genial and handsome men; 
 but to find them all in one is very rare. 
 We find the fusion of these qualities in 
 Doctor Melody. To the doctor himself, 
 all this seems like a flattering joke. 
 But we are in dead earnest. We have 
 known him from his boyhood, have fol¬ 
 lowed his career, and know whereof 
 we speak. He is a man of whom the 
 Catholic University may well feel proud. 
 
 October is the "‘Month of the Rosary.” 
 Kindly say the rosary every day for the 
 success of the bazar. 
 
 Buy a home of your own. People 
 who are paying for a home, learn econ¬ 
 omy. Economy enables them to meet 
 all obligations. They have money for 
 everything, while people who are not 
 buying a home often grow careless. 
 They never learn economy, and so never 
 seem to have money for anything. Mr. 
 Joseph H. Jones, Home Bank Block, 
 can help you in securing a home. 
 
 The Bazar—but how about your 
 coupon book? Have you paid for it 
 yet? Do it today. If you cannot do it 
 at once, pay it in installments, a dollar 
 or two at a time. 
 
 The ladies in charge of the Bazar 
 booths have worked most faithfully, 
 and are certain to make the Bazar a 
 success. Pay for your coupon book, 
 and help swell their treasury fund. The 
 
We carry a full line of... 
 
 Enameled Kitchen Ware 
 
 ...and Cooking Utensils 
 
 Our Knives, Scissors, Meat and Bread Knives are selected 
 from the best the factory puts out. 
 
 We carry in stock, several different kinds of 
 
 WASHING MACHINES 
 
 And invite you to look Q t them. You are under no obliga¬ 
 tion to buy one, because u)e are always glad to have you examine 
 our stock an d compare prices. 
 
 HAWKINS BROS. 
 
 163 Chicago Street ELGIN, ILLINOIS 
 
 Visit Our 
 
 New Store 
 
 At 176 Chicago Street 
 
 And look over the 
 nicest stock of 
 
 Watches, Diamonds 
 Jewelry, Silver 
 Cut Glass, Etc. 
 
 IN ELGIN 
 
 We are always pleased 
 to show goods whether 
 you purchase or not 
 
 Bauer Jewelry Co. 
 
 Sherwin Building 
 
 “As Pretty as 
 
 a Picture” 
 
 That is what you will say when 
 you have seen the new patterns in 
 
 Ulall Papers 
 
 shown by 
 
 Elgin Painting & 
 Decorating Co. 
 
 Expert work in Paper Hanging, also 
 
 ‘ PAINTS, OILS, GLASS 
 
 216 Chicago Street 
 ELGIN, ILL. 
 
 TELEPHONE 384 
 
 Special sale of 10c. papers 
 this month 
 
13. Sunday. - - 
 
 14. Monday, - - 
 
 15. Tuesday. - - 
 
 16. Wednesday, - - 
 
 17. Thursday. - - 
 
 18. Friday, - - 
 
 19. Saturday, - - 
 
 St. Edward. K. C. 
 Maternity of the B. V. M. 
 St. Teresa. 
 
 St. Gall. 
 
 St. Hedwidge. 
 
 St. Luke, Evangelist. 
 
 St. Peter of Alcantara. 
 
 secretary of each booth keeps a record 
 of those who pay. She knows just what 
 you have done thus far. Next month 
 we will print a list of those who have 
 helped make the Bazar a success. Are 
 you going to be on that roll of honor? 
 
 Young Usher: “Is ‘Mr. So-and-so’ 
 stingy? I remarked that he did not 
 drop anything in the box.” 
 
 Wise Usher: “Ah no. He was treat¬ 
 ing the boys last night; and the Lord is 
 getting the benefit of an economical re¬ 
 solve on the morning after.” 
 
 Young Usher: “Well, Miss ‘What’s- 
 her-name’ wasn’t treating the boys last 
 night; and she, too, let me pass unob¬ 
 served.” 
 
 Wise Usher: “Don’t you see, she has 
 a new hat, and must stint the Lord 
 until it is paid for?” 
 
 If you do your share , the Bazar will 
 be a grand success. 
 
 You are urged by Pope Pius X to go 
 to Holy Communion every day, or at 
 least frequently. Freedom from mortal 
 sin is all that is necessary as a disposi¬ 
 tion. Pardon for venial offenders is ob¬ 
 tained by reciting the act of contrition, 
 the Our Father, or any other prayer, or 
 by the pious use of any sacramental. 
 
 If the children pray and work for our 
 Bazar, it must succeed. Just watch 
 the children. 
 
 Talk about a school! Look at our 
 increased attendance. Over seventy new 
 pupils. Another new teacher, a second 
 one coming. 
 
 The ushers say that there w r ere two 
 men and three women who forgot to 
 put an offering in the box last Sunday. 
 
 Wonder who they were? It’s strange 
 that so many people would be forgetful 
 on the same day. 
 
 Offerings. 
 
 BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, MASSES, FUNER¬ 
 ALS, SICK CALLS. 
 
 People often ask the priest what is the 
 usual offering on the occasion of receiv¬ 
 ing certain extra favors. We answer 
 as follows: People need not hesitate to 
 make an offering to their priest. When 
 he becomes a priest, he agrees to live 
 on the voluntary offerings of his people. 
 The salary allowed him is just sufficient 
 to pay his table expenses, and meet 
 necessary demands. It is understood 
 that the people will supply him with 
 sufficient money by their extra offerings 
 on the occasions of baptisms, marriages, 
 masses, and funerals. That is under¬ 
 stood. So the people need not hesitate 
 to offer the priest money, and he feels 
 no hesitation in accepting it. He is 
 not a business man with a fixed salary. 
 He depends on his people. He accepts 
 that situation of affairs when he becomes 
 a priest. But people often ask to know 
 what is the customary offering on dif¬ 
 ferent occasions. Hence the following: 
 
 Low Mass $1. 
 
 High Requiem Mass $15. 
 
 Solemn Requiem Mass $25. 
 
 Funeral service $10. 
 
 Solemn Funeral Mass $25. 
 
 Baptisms: $2 for father, $2 for god¬ 
 father; $1 for god-mother. 
 
 Baptism in house, $5. 
 
 Marriage, $10. 
 
 Dispensation, $5 or $10. 
 
 Nuptial High Mass and Marriage, $25. 
 
 Sick-calls: Nothing expected, but 
 
LIGHT WITH GAS 
 
 We will pipe your house For 
 $2.50 per room 
 
 This includes Fixtures 
 
 Western United Gas & Electric Company 
 
 Ackemann’s 
 
 Watch for Our Announcements 
 
 - NEXT ISSUE -• 
 
 ELGIN - - ■ ILLINOIS 
 
 The best place to buy any 
 kind of Furniture is at... 
 
 A. LEATH & CO. 
 
 66-68-72 GROVE AVENUE 
 
 ...LOW CREDIT TERMS 
 
20. Sunday, 
 
 21. Monday. 
 
 22. Tuesday. 
 
 23. Wednesday. 
 
 24. Thursday. 
 
 25. Friday. 
 
 26. Saturday, 
 
 St. John of Kenty. 
 
 St. Ursula and Comp. 
 
 St. Mary of Salome. 
 
 Most Holy Redeemer. 
 
 St. Rapael the Archangel. 
 SS. Crispin and Crispinian. 
 St. Evaristus. 
 
 people usually offer a dollar now and 
 then for a man for the sick person. 
 When a carriage is necessary, the peo¬ 
 ple calling the priest are expected to 
 pay for it. 
 
 Many Years of Service. 
 
 SISTERS MARY CONSTANCE AND MARY 
 SYNCLETICA CELEBRATE 25 
 YEARS’ WORK. 
 
 Many Gifts Presented to Them at St. Mary’s 
 Academy. 
 
 Twenty-five years of service as Sis¬ 
 ters of the Catholic Church was cele¬ 
 brated Sunday by two Sisters, Sister 
 Mary Constance and Sister Mary Syn- 
 cletica, at St. Mary’s Academy. Beau¬ 
 tiful gifts were given them, and with the 
 presence of several Sisters from out of 
 town the event was made a memorable 
 one. 
 
 When Sister Mary Constance, now 
 Sister Superior of St. Mary’s Academy, 
 took her vows twenty-five years ago at 
 the Mount St. Joseph convent, Dubuque, 
 Iowa, she was a member of the class of 
 which Sister Mary Syncletica was a 
 student. Sister Superior has been in 
 Elgin for five years and the second year 
 of Sister Mary Syncletica’s residence in 
 Elgin marks the third time that the 
 Sisters have taught at the same institu¬ 
 tion. 
 
 Had it not been that Father J. J. 
 McCann was summoned on a sick call, 
 high mass would have been celebrated 
 at the Academy Sunday morning in 
 honor of the event. Solemn benediction 
 was observed in the afternoon. Dr. 
 Melody, a professor at the Catholic 
 
 university at Washington, D. C., made 
 a brief address, congratulating the Sis¬ 
 ters. The Misses Anna Louise and 
 Elizabeth Souster furnished vocal and 
 instrumental music. 
 
 At 1:30 o’clock a banquet was served, 
 at which all of the visitors, including 
 Dr. Melody and father J. J. McCann, 
 were entertained. The dining room 
 was prettily decorated with blue and 
 white, colors of the school, and the table 
 decorations consisted of white roses. 
 
 The out of town guests were: Sister 
 Mary Rose and Sister Mary Gerald, of 
 Presentation Convent; Sister Mary Adel- 
 bert and Sister Mary Burissima, of An¬ 
 nunciation School; Sister Mary Albina 
 and Sister Mary Seraphica, of Holy 
 Cross school, Chicago; Sister Mary 
 Resignata, of Mount St. Joseph college, 
 Dubuque Iowa, and Miss Margaret 
 Leddv, of Chicago .—Elgin News. 
 
 Words. 
 
 “Kind hearts are the gardens, 
 
 Kind thoughts are the roots, 
 
 Kind words are the blossoms, 
 
 Kind deed are the fruits.” 
 
 Is it not pleasing to hold conversation 
 with the great and good of by-gone 
 years through the medium of their writ¬ 
 ten words? It is impossible to be under 
 the influence of a master mind without 
 feeling its power for good or evil, and 
 having its strongest utterances written 
 in indelible characters on our life’s page. 
 Hence, the necessity of pure and elevat¬ 
 ing books and companions. 
 
 Are not the works of some renowned 
 authors, though hostile to faith or mor¬ 
 als, pleasing to many? Can we not, after 
 
Kimball Pianos Kimball Pipe Organs 
 
 Kimball Self-Playing Instruments 
 
 Did you know there are more Kimball instruments today in the Cath¬ 
 olic institutions of America than of any other make? It is true, as can be 
 shown by statistics. 
 
 There are seventy-six of the largest Roman Catholic Churches in 
 America using the Kimball Tubular Pneumatic Pipe Organ, ranging in prices 
 from $1500.00 to $25000.00. A full list of these Catholic institutions will be 
 mailed to you for reference, if desired. 
 
 The list of Catholic churches and institutions using the KIMBALL 
 PIANO is too long to enumerate. They are used in Aurora—they are used 
 in Elgin. Are you going to invest in a Piano? Ask any of these institutions 
 about the Kimball, AND TAKE THEIR ADVICE. 
 
 When you buy a Piano, you should use great care, not only to pur¬ 
 chase a line instrument, but also to buy it from a concern which stands 
 behind its product at all times. Every instrument is backed by a warranty 
 that, means absolute protection. We will not have a dissatisfied patron. 
 Come and see us, or write for catalogue, prices, terms, etc. We will treat 
 you right. We will mail you absolutely free, postage prepaid, a fine Song 
 Book, if you will send us vour address; and mention the fact you saw this 
 advertisement in the “ST. MARY’S ACADEMY RECORD.” 
 
 Elgin Branch 
 No. 166 Chicago Street 
 
 JAS. W. MILL, 
 
 Local Representative 
 
 W. W. KIMBALL CO. 
 
 HENRY A. STONE, 
 
 Manager, 108 Main St., 
 
 Aurora, Illinois 
 
 Prepare... 
 
 
 The Best is None too Good 
 
 For Our Customers so You 
 
 For the coming 
 cold snap. Our 
 
 
 Will Always Find 
 
 Blankets and 
 
 
 THE BEST and 
 
 Comforters 
 
 
 TENDEREST MEATS and 
 
 Are quoted at 
 prices that you 
 
 
 Choice Eresh Vegetables 
 
 can’t afford to 
 
 
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 miss. :: :: 
 
 
 ALBERT F. ANSEL’S 
 
 KARSTEN’S 
 
 
 STAR MARKET 
 
 12 N. State Street 
 
 
 175 Chicago Street, Elgin, Illinois 
 
27. Sunday, 
 
 28. Monday, 
 
 29. Tuesday. 
 
 30. Wednesday. 
 
 31. Thursday. 
 
 St. Frumentius. 
 
 SS. Simon and Jude. 
 
 St. Narcissus. 
 
 St. Alphonsus Rodriguez. 
 Vigil. St. Quinctinus. 
 
 passing through dark and dangerous 
 passages, find bright gems of thought 
 in such writings? Yes, but they are 
 like the beautiful pearls hidden in the 
 dark, blue waves of the grand old ocean, 
 the finding of which imperils the life 
 of the diver. Why not select authors of 
 high repute, whose words are bright 
 gems of speech, and whose thoughts 
 are decked with priceless beauties, which 
 being emblems of faith and purity, tend 
 to elevate? How was Roger Sherman, 
 who became a member of the President’s 
 Cabinent, promoted from the lowly 
 bench of a shoemaker to a seat in Con¬ 
 gress, where his voice was heard among 
 the wisest and best of our Grand Re¬ 
 public? Was it not his power of lan¬ 
 guage and thought that worked this trans¬ 
 formation? We had a forcible example 
 of the Protency of Words during the 
 Chicago Convention a few years ago, 
 where a man, previously almost un¬ 
 known to the political world, was, by 
 the power of one speech, unanimously 
 nominated candidate for the presidency. 
 
 A renowned orator has said,“A man’s 
 word is himself, his reason, his con¬ 
 science, his faith, his love, his aspira¬ 
 tion.” If it is false and vile, he is so. it 
 is the expression of his principles, as 
 it has come to consciousness within him. 
 It is the man himself, his sign and sym¬ 
 bol, the form and mould and mirror of 
 his soul. Let us therefore weigh them 
 well, these little messengers that are so 
 powerful, and try them in the balance of 
 kindness, truth and charity, before send¬ 
 ing them forth on their errands. They 
 may leave us lightly decked with smiles 
 and return heavy laden with self- 
 reproach, and so changed that they ap¬ 
 pear like counterfeits, when compared 
 with the genuine utterances that es¬ 
 caped our lips a few days previous. 
 
 Let us drop them carefully, as if they 
 were to be engraven on alabaster tablets, 
 that when the last page sees the light, 
 free from all wavering erasures, and 
 wrought too perfectly for any after¬ 
 thought, then these wisdom-woven les¬ 
 sons, Faith shall read, and Love trans¬ 
 late; for words of kindness, sympathy 
 and truth shall live long after the lips 
 that uttered them have moulded in the 
 silent grave. 
 
 Many persons, on account of their po¬ 
 sition in life, have not the means of ob¬ 
 taining much knowledge, but the earnest 
 student has an immense advantage over¬ 
 all other classes of the community, for 
 he can unite the two most perfect and 
 desirable methods of gaining informa¬ 
 tion, viz--the accurate and profound 
 thoughts and deeds of our masters which 
 can be found in books and the general 
 information concerning man and things, 
 which conversation of the learned will 
 bestow. A light that is hardly seen 
 when standing alone, will, when placed 
 among others, not only give but receive 
 light. 
 
 The Amphetheatre of Athens echoed 
 the cheers for a trio of renowned dram¬ 
 atists, but all Greece throbbed beneath 
 the magic influence of Demosthenes’ 
 eloquent words. 
 
 Edith Long, ’07. 
 
 How far the little candle shed its 
 beam! So shines a good deed in a 
 naughty world. 
 
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 Mrs. M. McMahon 
 
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 Shampooing, Hair Goods,Toilet Preparations, Hair Dyeing 
 Hours—9 a. m. to 6 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. 
 Evenings by Appointment 
 
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 “MOST UP-TO-DATE” “MOST THOROUGH” 
 
 Stenographic and Commercial Courses day 
 and evening : : : : : : : Prospectus free 
 
 STUDENTS RECEIVED ANY TIME 
 
 PHONES: INTER-STATE 333, CHICAGO 333. 
 
 Forty Hours Devotion. 
 
 The Forty Hours Devotion is a devo¬ 
 tion which is celebrated from time to 
 time in almost all churches. It con¬ 
 tinues for forty hours, during which 
 time the Blessed Sacrament is ex¬ 
 posed in memory of the forty hours, 
 during which our Lord’s body lay in 
 the holy sepulchre. It first began in 
 Milan, in the year 1534, and fourteen 
 years later it was introduced into Pome 
 by St. Philip Neri, and sanctioned by 
 Pope Clement VIII, who November 25, 
 1592, issued a solemn Bull respecting it. 
 
 This devotion originated with a Caper- 
 chin friar of Milan, named Father Joseph, 
 who, when the city of Milan was suffer¬ 
 ing from a terrible war, and people 
 were almost in despair, told them if 
 they would give themselves to fervent 
 prayer for forty’ hours, their city and 
 country would be free from the devas¬ 
 tation of the enemies. A Forty Hours 
 prayer was then commenced in the 
 Cathedral, while the other churches 
 took it up in order. The people attend¬ 
 ed these prayers, and received the 
 sacraments of penance and holy com¬ 
 munion with great fervor and devotion. 
 Their prayers were soon answered, for 
 in a short time, Francis, King of France, 
 and the Emperor Charles V were seen at 
 the gate of Milan arranging a treaty of 
 peace. 
 
 The Forty Hours Devotion in St. 
 Mary’s Church, Elgin, began September 
 8th, the Nativity of our Blessed Mother. 
 Mass was celebrated by Rev. D. E. 
 McGrath, after which the Litany of the 
 
 Saints was chanted by Fathers McCann 
 and McGrath. A procession formed in 
 the sanctuary proceeded down the side 
 and up the middle aisles. This pro¬ 
 cession was very imposing; small girls 
 dressed in white carried beautiful fresh 
 cut-flowers and strewed them in the 
 aisles in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, 
 which was borne solemnly by the cele¬ 
 brant. The acolytes, preceded by the 
 cross bearer, were robed in white and 
 marched slowly and reverently through 
 the sacred edifice. 
 
 At the close of this procession, Dr. 
 Melody ascended the pulpit and deliv¬ 
 ered a most instructive and eloquent 
 sermon. The music was especially har¬ 
 monious and elevating. The excellent 
 vocalists were assisted by the accom¬ 
 plished organist, Miss Mary Tobin. 
 
 Tuesday morning the exercises closed 
 with High Mass, procession and Bene¬ 
 diction of the Blessed Sacrament. The 
 ceremonies of our holy church are very 
 impressive, when carried out solemnly. 
 The prayers, chanting, and singing in 
 the sanctuary; the choir, and devout 
 worshipers, bowed in silent adoration, 
 make a deep impression on an atten¬ 
 tive observer. 
 
 Member of Class ’09. 
 
 What is put into the first of life is put 
 into the whole of life. Start right. 
 
 Courtesy is one of the cheapest exer¬ 
 cises of virtue. It never costs anything 
 to be civil. 
 
BAZAR OFFICIALS ^ 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 Dr. H. T. Gahagan, President. 
 
 Mr. J. H. Jones, Treas. 
 
 Mr. Thomas J. Cleary, Sec’y. 
 
 Mr. M. J. Walsh Mrs. Milton Earin Mr. Wm. Dever Mrs. John F. Long 
 
 Mr. D. C. Hunter Mrs. M. K. Dillon Mr. John Larkin Miss Nellie Dwyer 
 
 Mr. F. E. Shopen Mrs. M. J. Walsh Miss Adele Caton 
 
 Walter Forkins 
 John Murphy 
 Peter Callaghan 
 John Graham 
 Christ Leitner 
 Peter Rholes 
 James Jeffers 
 James Hennessey 
 Maurice Ferry 
 
 C. E. Spillard 
 John Heslin 
 F. H. Hoelscher 
 E. P. Mann 
 
 RECEPTION COMMITTEE 
 Mr. M. J. Kielev, Chairman. 
 
 Peter Gierus 
 Matt Meredith 
 Frank Connor 
 John Hennessey 
 W. F. Lynch 
 Chas. Rose 
 M. S. Heslin 
 T. J. Jackman 
 Eaton Feldou 
 L. H. Rottistein 
 David Kane 
 
 D. G. Ring 
 Wm. Casey 
 
 Henry Meyers 
 James Spillard 
 
 E. P. Fish 
 Geo. E. Floelscher 
 A. J. McCartney 
 Lawrence McNerry 
 J. A. Rohles 
 Wm. Anselman, 
 Leo Mann 
 Walter Farley 
 Wm. Lester 
 James O’Beirne 
 Robert Ackerman 
 
 Eugene Dwyer 
 Frank Spillard 
 T. A. Frisby 
 James Kane 
 Leo Murray 
 Richard Phelan 
 E. A. Schevers 
 A. F. Burke 
 Ed. Wolaver 
 Chas. Gracer 
 Ed. T. Roche 
 Herman Wilson 
 Frank E. Shopen 
 
 TICKET OFFICE. 
 
 Mr. M. J. Walsh, Mr. Herman P.Wilson. 
 
 DOOR KEEPERS. 
 
 Oct. 16: Hon. J. C. Aubertin, 
 Oct. 17: John Ryan, 
 
 Oct. 18: Jacob Kray, 
 
 Oct. 19: D. S. Graham, 
 
 Oct. 21: T. P. Sheahan, 
 
 Oct. 22: M. C. Tobin, 
 
 Oct. 23: John J. Wills, 
 
 Oct. 24: J. F. Logan, 
 
 Oct. 25: E. J. Meehan, 
 
 Oct. 26: M. A. Spillard, 
 
 Eaton R. Fedou, Eugene Christie. 
 T. F. Jackman, David Kane. 
 
 John Doberty, Eugene Dennison. 
 Edward Kenealy, James Kenealy. 
 
 J. F. Knowles, P. J. Smith. 
 
 W. F. Naughton, James Mulroney. 
 James Rohles, George Pilcher. 
 Wm. Ludford, John McArdle. 
 Patrick Cox, John Hennessey. 
 Frank O’Flaherty, D. C. Hunter. 
 
 floor managers: M. J. Kilev, Chairman. 
 
 Oct. 16. Peter Callaghan, E. P. Fish, 
 Oct. 17. Christ Leitner, Peter Rohles, 
 Oct. 18. James Jeffers, J. A. Rohles, 
 Oct. 19. Maurice Ferry, Frank Connor, 
 Oct. 21. James Kane, W. F. Lynch, 
 Oct. 22. Richard Phelan, M. J. Heslin, 
 Oct. 23. A. F. Burke, Walter Farley, 
 Oct. 24. John Heslin, David Kane, 
 Oct. 25. F. J. Hoelscher, D. G. Ring, 
 Oct. 26. E. P. Mann, Wm. Casey, 
 
 John Graham, G. E. Hoelscher. 
 
 A. J. McCartnny, Lawrence McNerney. 
 James Hennessey, Wm. Anselman. 
 
 T. A. Frisby, John Hennessey. 
 
 Leo Murray, Charles Rose. 
 
 E. A. Schevers, T. J. Jackman. 
 
 Eaton R. Fedou, Charles Gracer. 
 
 Wm. Lester, E. J. Roche. 
 
 James O’Beime, Herman Wilson. 
 Robert Ackerman, F. 1]. Shopen. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 Oct. 17. 
 Oct. 18. 
 Oct. 19. 
 Oct. 21. 
 Oct. 22. 
 Oct. 23. 
 Oct, 24. 
 Oct. 25. 
 Oct. 26. 
 
 CLOAK ROOM. 
 
 John E. Gorman, 
 Eugene Burke, 
 Michael McCormick 
 John T. Gubbins, 
 James O’Rourke, 
 
 W. T. Mullan, 
 
 Fid ward Dietz, 
 James Hennessey, 
 E. P. Ferron, 
 
 James F. Flynn, 
 
 Henry McNamara. 
 
 P. H. Conway. 
 Leroy E. Ryan. 
 Edward Roach. 
 Thomas F. Meighen. 
 J. A. McCartney. 
 Andrew Phelan. 
 Matthew Meredith. 
 Mr. Larkin. 
 
 Patrick Ferron. 
 
WHEEL OF FORTUNE. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 Oct. 17. 
 Oct. 18. 
 Oct. 19. 
 Oct. 21. 
 Oct. 22. 
 Oct. 23. 
 Oct. 24. 
 Oct. 25. 
 Oct. 26. 
 
 Eugene Burke 
 M. McCormick 
 Andrew Phelan 
 E. P. Ferron 
 James Hennessey 
 T. F. Meighen 
 
 T. F. Meighen, E. P. Ferron, Ed. Roach. 
 
 James Hennessey, M. Keiley, W. T. Mullan. 
 
 James A. McCartney, John Gorman, Ed. Diez. 
 Patrick Ferron, James Flynn, John Power. 
 
 W. B. Roach, P. H. Conway, Mr. Larkin. 
 
 Leroy Ryan, H. McNamara, Andrew Phelan. 
 
 Matt Meredith, Thomas Roche, Dr. H. J. Gahagan. 
 
 M. McCormick, M. Keiley, James Flynn. 
 
 James Hennessey, E. P. Ferron, John Gorman. 
 
 Eugene Burke, J. W. McCartney, James O’Rourke. 
 
 DECORATION COMMITTEE. 
 
 James O’Rourke 
 P. H. Conway 
 James F. Flynn 
 Dr. H. J. Gahagan 
 M. Keiley 
 E. Roach 
 
 P. Ferron 
 H. McNamara 
 J. B. Roach 
 W. T. Mullan 
 John J. Gubbins 
 Leroy Ryan 
 
 W. B. Roach 
 John Gorman 
 J. A. McCartney 
 John R. Power 
 M. Meredith 
 M. Larkin 
 
 Booth No. 1, “Blarney Castle” 
 
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 All people living on the west side of 
 Elgin, south of the middle of South 
 Street, also people living in South Elgin, 
 Wayne, Bartlett, Itaska and in the 
 country south-west of Elgin, will help 
 this booth. The committee in charge 
 are: 
 
 Mrs. M. Earin, President. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Spillard, Vice Pres. 
 
 Mrs. Otto Biegle, 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Foley, 
 
 Mrs. John Maguire, 
 
 Elizabeth Tennant, Treas. 
 
 Elizabeth Souster, Secy. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Ahrens 
 Mrs. Wm. Bellows 
 Mrs. Otta Biegle 
 Mrs. Edward Schevers 
 Mrs. F. C. Fedou 
 Mrs. D. Hennessey 
 Mrs. Geo. Hoelscher 
 Mrs. Paul Kemler 
 Mrs. James Kennealy 
 Mrs. Geo. Knott 
 Mrs. Michael Lydon 
 Mrs. B. Tennant 
 Mrs. John Maguire 
 Mrs. Thomas Maguire 
 Mrs. John F. Roche 
 Mrs. Michael Murray 
 Mrs. Louis Provost 
 Mrs. Fred Rispin 
 
 Mrs. George Saunders 
 
 Mrs. George Souster 
 
 Mrs. Wm. West 
 
 Mrs. Joseph King 
 
 Mrs. Louis Dudenhofer 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Quinn 
 
 Mrs. M. C. Reinert 
 
 Mrs. John Reinert 
 
 Mrs. Thomas McGarry 
 
 Mrs. Ernest Kelley 
 
 Mrs. Henry Leiseberg 
 
 Mrs. Will Marvine 
 
 Mrs. J. L. Kelley, Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. James Shields, Bartlett 
 
 Miss May me Delehanty, Wayne 
 
 Miss Agnes Duffy 
 
 Miss Julia Duffy 
 
 Miss Kate Connor 
 
 Miss Maem Connor 
 
 Miss Catherine Ferran 
 
 Miss Lizzie Jordon 
 
 Miss Nellie Jordon 
 
 Miss Maem Kane 
 
 Miss Josephine Lynch 
 
 Miss Tessie Lydon 
 
 Miss Mamie Provost 
 
 Miss Mary Tennant 
 
 Miss Margaret Wallace 
 
 Miss Florida Coats 
 
 Miss Grace Tennant 
 
 Miss Winnie McNerney 
 
 Miss Agnes Murray 
 
 Miss Mary Murphy 
 
Blarney Castle,'Booth No.'l 
 
 Officials of Booth No. 1 
 
Booth No. 2, “Dutch Windmill” 
 
 All people living on the west side of 
 the river in Elgin, north of the middle 
 of South Street, and also people living 
 in Dundee and Carpentersville, will help 
 this booth. The women in charge are: 
 
 Mrs. M. K. Dillon, President. 
 
 Mrs. George Smith, Vice Pres. 
 
 Mrs. M. A. Spillard, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. Sam’l Sillier, 
 
 Miss Mary Duhy, 
 
 Mrs. Kichard Dwyer, Treas. 
 
 Miss Kathleen O’Neil, Secy. 
 
 Mrs. W. C. Thiers 
 Mrs. Martha Flaherty 
 Mrs. John Geddes 
 Mrs. Willis Smoyer 
 Mrs. Otto Gronberg 
 Mrs. Philip Whalen 
 Mrs. Matt. O’Neil 
 Mrs. John O’Connell 
 Mrs. P. N. Paulsen 
 Mrs. Patrick Costello 
 Mrs. James Keegan 
 Mrs. I. C. Burney 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Kofmehl 
 Mrs. Alice Egan 
 Mrs. Charles Slager 
 Mrs. Emma Scullion 
 Mrs. John Wilson 
 Mrs. Edward Wolaver 
 Mrs. Edward Nolan 
 Mrs. M. Spillard 
 Mrs. Mary Ponsonby 
 Mrs. John Logan 
 Mrs. Eugene Logan 
 Mrs. T. E. Morrissey 
 Mrs. Flora Russell 
 Miss Margaret Kelley 
 Miss Julia Jacobs 
 Miss Ella McCormick 
 Miss Alice Kenney 
 Miss Frances Elberinck 
 Miss Anna Gadke 
 Miss Ada Dillon 
 Miss Mary Duhy 
 Miss Edna Wolaver 
 Miss Eva Kramer 
 Miss Bessie Flemming 
 Miss Eva McCarty 
 Miss Mary Whipple 
 
 Bazar Notes. 
 
 Bazar in Elgin Coliseum Wednesday, 
 October 16, to Saturday, October 26. 
 Season tickets, $1. Single admission 
 25 cts. McKenzie’s Orchestra. Dance 
 free, from 8 to 11 p. m. 
 
 Mrs Wm. Foley has taken the place 
 of her sister, Mrs. John Reinert, on the 
 list of Vice Presidents of Booth No. 1. 
 
 It is most gratifying to see the way in 
 which the different Bazar groups are 
 working. The ladies in charge of each 
 booth are determined to make their 
 booth the winner of the prize for the 
 greatest success. In deciding the con¬ 
 test between the booths, the number of 
 coupon books sent out will be considered, 
 because they represent the number of 
 people in the district able to pay $5. 
 
 Talk about workers, we have the best 
 in Elgin. There is no other society in 
 the city that can at all compare with 
 
 our people in organization, industry, 
 generosity and unity. St. Mary’s is the 
 banner congregation in Kane County. 
 Have you not remarked that when clubs 
 and societies hold bazars and entertain¬ 
 ments they always look to people of St. 
 Mary’s parish for the most efficient 
 workers? It’s a fact. 
 
 Hot coffee and lunch will be served 
 every night. 
 
 The “A. A.” society of our handsom¬ 
 est young men is the latest to enter the 
 arena. They have volunteered to run a 
 second wheel of fortune for us. They 
 will give prizes of boxes of the best 
 candy. 
 
 Put a dime in “The Old Oaken 
 Bucket,” and see what you will get. 
 
 Buy a souvenir of the Dutch Wind¬ 
 mill, a piece of delf in the shape of a 
 mill—made in Holland. 
 
Officials of Booth No. 2 
 
 Officials of Booth No. 2 
 
Booth No. 3, “Grant’s Log Cabin” 
 
 This booth is for people living east 
 
 of 
 
 Mrs. Edward Hageman 
 
 the river and north of the middle 
 
 of 
 
 Mrs. James McMillan 
 
 Chicago Street. The ladies in charge 
 
 Mrs. Thos. Murray 
 
 are: 
 
 
 Mrs. Mary Lindsay 
 
 Mrs. M. J. Walsh, President. 
 
 Mrs. Harry Parker, Vice Pres. 
 
 Mrs. John Duffy “ “ 
 
 Mrs. H. McDonough, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. Edward Duffler, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. Peter Hines, “ “ 
 
 VIrs. John Gubbins, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Johnson, Secy. 
 
 Miss B. Brahan, Treas. 
 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Lester 
 
 Mrs. H. Loonier 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Fordrescher 
 Mrs. N. S. Jenks 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Jones 
 
 Mrs. Ed. Ryan 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Cassidy 
 
 Mrs. Joseph McKenzie 
 Mrs. Julius Wirkus 
 
 Mrs. C. J. Lenz 
 
 Mrs. Clara Jencks 
 
 
 Mrs. Edward Hart 
 
 Mrs. James McGarrigle 
 
 
 Mrs. John Osborne 
 
 Mrs. Maria Periolat 
 
 
 Mrs. Kate Smith 
 
 Mrs. Theo. Spillard 
 
 
 Mrs. John Knowles 
 
 Mrs. John Gubbins 
 
 
 Mrs. H. McDonough 
 
 Mrs. Edward Duppler 
 
 
 Mrs. Harry Wahl 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Herlihy 
 
 
 Mrs. Thomas E. Roche 
 
 Mrs. James O’Beirne 
 
 
 Miss Lulu McLaughlin 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Myers 
 
 
 Miss Catherine Drennan 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Burns 
 
 
 Miss Mary Moffit 
 
 Mrs. S. Holland 
 
 
 Miss Mary Pickham 
 
 Mrs. Mary Mann 
 
 
 Miss Catherine Apple 
 
 Mrs. H. Dorley 
 
 
 Miss Laura Quemheim 
 
 Mrs. John Powers, Sr. 
 
 
 Miss Mary McGarry 
 
 Mrs. John Powers, Jr. 
 
 
 Miss Mary Ward 
 
 Mrs. Frank O’Flaherty 
 
 
 Miss Mary Walker 
 
 Mrs. Ed. Abendroth 
 
 
 Miss Sarah O’Flaherty 
 
 Mrs. Mary Anderson 
 
 
 Miss Ella Younger 
 
 Mrs. F. Doerscher 
 
 
 Miss Kate Hall 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Smith 
 
 
 Miss Eva Krakowski 
 
 Mrs. Peter Hines 
 
 
 Miss Barbara Kemmat 
 
 The “A. A.” Club will have charge 
 of the candy wheel. They will also 
 assist the Hibernians, of the Decoration 
 Committee. 
 
 There will be many side attractions: 
 the “Lemon Tree,’’ the “Indian Wig¬ 
 wam,” “The Flower Booth,” “The 
 Cane Rack,” “The Baby Rack,” &c. 
 
 It’s a compliment to be arrested by 
 our pretty policemen. They arrest only 
 prominent men—men of standing in 
 professional or business or social life. 
 They don’t notice cranks. 
 
 Arrest and tine means that you are a 
 good fellow. 
 
 Our pretty policemen will give a fancy 
 drill every night at the opening of the 
 bazar. 
 
 Buy a lemon. 
 
 The officers of “The Children of Mary” 
 are the following: 
 
 President, Adele Catton. 
 
 Vice President, Mildred McKenzie. 
 
 Treasurer, Isabel Gubbins. 
 
 Secretary, Jeannette Spillard. 
 
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 lip 
 
 Grant’s Log Cabin, Booth No. 3 
 
 Officials of Booth No. 3 
 
Booth No. 4, “Japanese House” 
 
 This booth for people living east of 
 the river and south of the middle of 
 Chicago Street. The ladies in charge 
 are: 
 
 Mrs. John Long, President. 
 
 M rs. Mary Hunter, Vice Pres. 
 
 Mrs. Harry Daveler, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Breen, “ “ 
 
 Mrs. John Stickling, “ 
 
 Mrs. Matt. Meredith, Secy. 
 
 Miss J osie Folev, Treas. 
 
 Mrs. Fliza Garris 
 Mrs. Emil Kothe 
 Mrs. J. F. Brown 
 Mrs. Frank Clawson 
 Mrs. Andrew Filer 
 Mrs. H. J. Gahagan 
 Mrs. Albert Curtis 
 Mrs. A gnes Bouck 
 Mrs. Warren Stowe 
 Mrs. Wm. Naughton 
 Mrs. Andrew Pease 
 Mrs. Matt. O’Brien 
 Mrs. G. W. Egger 
 Mrs. M. Cosgrove 
 Mrs. A. L. Scott 
 Mrs. Wm. Dever 
 Mrs. Frank Ireland 
 Mrs. Katherine Ryan 
 Mrs. Harry Daveler 
 Mrs. John Rice 
 Mrs. Dan’l Burke 
 Mrs. Hannah Sullivan 
 Mrs. A. E. Laughlin 
 
 Mrs. David Lacey 
 Mrs. Eugenie Cook 
 Mrs. John Bowen 
 Mrs. E. Burzell 
 Mrs. John Doherty 
 Mrs. Fred Mum me 
 Mrs. J. B. Roach 
 M rs. Wm. Breen 
 Mrs. H. Simons 
 Miss Mary Foley 
 Miss Margaret Flvnn 
 Miss Nellie Kelly 
 Miss Anna Head 
 Miss Ada Kay 
 Miss Nellie Noonan 
 M iss Mary Keenan 
 Miss Ella McOsker 
 M iss Devirian Schram 
 Miss Nellie McGarrity 
 Miss Rose Kasser 
 Miss Julia Getch 
 Miss Mary Mullen 
 Miss Louise Denean 
 Miss Mary Bellew 
 Miss Louise Jordan 
 Miss Nellie Wallace 
 Miss Nellie Reirdon 
 Miss Kate Rierdon 
 Miss May Pilcher 
 Miss Maria Grady 
 Miss Mary Touhy 
 Miss Mable Ward 
 Miss Maggie Sutton 
 Miss Maggie Avlward 
 Miss Mary Rogers 
 
 Catholic Churches are universally 
 popular. They are always well con¬ 
 ducted. Innocent amusement in plenty. 
 That is all people look for. 
 
 Meet me at the Coliseum any night 
 from October 16 to 26. I’ll always be 
 there. PIverybody who counts will be 
 there. 
 
 Be sure to pay for your coupon book 
 before the close of the Bazar. Mr. 
 Jones and Mr. Cleary will be there every 
 night to take in coupon or ticket money. 
 
 You are the best one to advertise the 
 Bazar. Put in a good word today. 
 
 The Secretary of your division booth 
 has the number of your coupon book 
 and of your season ticket. She has a 
 record of all who pay for them. 
 
 Will this Bazar be a success? Yes, 
 on one condition—that you do what you 
 can, much or little. It depends on you. 
 
 The Isabella Club will manage the 
 “Russian Ice Palace,” where refresh¬ 
 ments, candy and cigars will be sold. 
 These young ladies are always in evi¬ 
 dence when we need help. They make 
 no promises; but they do things. And 
 they are always doing things. Banzai, 
 Isabella Club! 
 
Japanese Pavillion, Booth No. 4 
 
 Officials of Booth^No. 4 
 
Be sure to kiss the Blarney Stone. 
 
 Each of the four booths will give a 
 grand supper during the Bazaar. 
 
 Doors open at seven. Music closes at 
 eleven. 
 
 A good word costs you nothing, yet 
 it may mean dollars to the Bazar. Say 
 it now. 
 
 Visit the “Russian Ice Palace,” for 
 refreshments, candy, cream and cigars. 
 
 The officers of “The A. A. Club” are: 
 
 President, John Larkin. 
 
 Secretary, Edward Dietz. 
 
 Treasurer, Joseph Drennan. 
 
 “The A. A. Club” will assist the Ancient 
 Order of Hibernians in decorating the 
 booths. They will also serve as secret 
 police. Their special work will be to 
 run the “Candy Wheel of Fortune.” 
 Good for “The A. A. Club.” 
 
 The Foresters will look after the door; 
 the Knights of Columbus will be floor 
 managers; the Hibernians will look after 
 the decorations, the cloak-room, and 
 the wheel of fortune. Our men don’t 
 say much, but they work. We can 
 always count on them when and where 
 we need them. 
 
 We give in this issue a complete list 
 of Bazar officials. We might pick out 
 as many more good workers. The 
 others will get a chance to show their 
 metal next Bazar. 
 
 There will be no chance books. 
 
 If possible, the November number of 
 The Academy Record will contain a full 
 list of those who have paid for coupon 
 books and season tickets. Get on that 
 list. 
 
 You! Bazar! Success! 
 
 Habits formed early in life are like 
 letters cut into the beech tree; they grow 
 and widen with age. 
 
 Children of Mary. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 Miss Adele Catton, President. 
 
 Miss Mildred McKenzie, Vice Pres. 
 Miss Isabel Gubbins, Treasurer. 
 
 Miss Jeannette Spillard, Secretary. 
 
 ALTAR AND ROSARY SOCIETY OFFICIALS. 
 
 Miss Mary Duhv, President. 
 
 Mrs. James Brown, 1st, Vice Pres. 
 Mrs. James McGarrigle, 2d, Vice Pres. 
 Mrs. T. C. Barney 3d, Vice Pres. 
 
 Mrs. Emil Kothe, Secretary andTreas. 
 
 SACRISTANS. 
 
 Mrs. Emil Kothe 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Keenan 
 Miss Mary Keenan. 
 
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 Baby Show. 
 
 James Spillard, President. 
 
 Michael McCormick, Vice President. 
 Andrew Phelan. Vice President. 
 Matthew Spalding, Vice President. 
 Charles Spillard, Vice President. 
 Walter Healy, Vice President. 
 
 Patrick Naughton, Vice President. 
 Frank Connor, Vice President. 
 Thomas Frisby, Vice President. 
 William Mullen, Secretary 
 John Heslin, Treasurer. 
 
 * 
 
 The Arch-Confraternity 
 
 “ It is therefore a holv and wholesome thought 
 to prav for the Head, that they may be loosed 
 from Sin.” II Machab. 12 , 46 . 
 
 For the Relief of the Souls in Purgatory 
 ST. MARY’S CHURCH, Elgin, Ill. 
 
 I HEREBY CERTIFY 
 
 That M_ 
 
 was received by me into said Arch- 
 
 Confraternity _ 
 
 A. D. 190 
 
 Rtv. John J. McCann, Director. 
 INDULGENCES. 
 
 By virtue of Briefs and Rescripts of 
 the Sovereign Pontiffs Gregory XVI. 
 and Pius IX., members of “The Arch- 
 Confraternity for the Relief of Souls in 
 Purgatory,” after Confession and Holy 
 Communion, may gain 
 
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 Indian Wigwam 
 
 Officials of “Children of Mary” 
 
A PLENARY INDULGENCE, 
 
 1. On the day of Admisson, 
 
 2. Christmas Day, 
 
 3. Epiphany, 
 
 4. Corpus Christi, 
 
 5. Feast of the Immaculate Concep¬ 
 tion, B. V. M., 
 
 6. 
 
 Feast of the 
 
 Nativity, B. V. M. 
 
 7. 
 
 a a 
 
 Annunciation, B.V.M. 
 
 8. 
 
 a a 
 
 Purification, 
 
 9. 
 
 l l l l 
 
 Assumption, 
 
 10. 
 
 L L i L 
 
 St. Michael’s, 
 
 11. 
 
 Li L L 
 
 App. of St. Michael, 
 
 12. 
 
 L L L L 
 
 St. Joseph, 
 
 13. 
 
 Patronage 
 
 of St. Joseph, 
 
 14. 
 
 Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, 
 
 15. 
 
 All Souls Day, 
 
 16. 
 
 Once a month, on a day at option, 
 
 17. 
 
 Thursday 
 
 in Holy Week, 
 
 18. 
 
 Easter Day, 
 
 19. 
 
 Ascencion Day, 
 
 20. 
 
 Whenever 
 
 a member recieves 
 
 Holy Communion and prays for the in¬ 
 tentions of the Holy Father, 
 
 21. Every Monday, by hearing Mass 
 in suffrage for the Souls in Purgatory, 
 
 22. At the hour of death, if, Confes¬ 
 sion and Communion being impossible, 
 the Holy Name of Jesus be invoked. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Mercifully look down upon this sacri¬ 
 fice which we offer to Thee for the Souls 
 of Thy Servants, O Lord, we beseech 
 Thee, that to those, to whom Thou didst 
 grant the merit of Christian faith, Thou 
 mayest also grant its reward. 
 
 (Extract from the requiem mass.) 
 
 1. A requiem high mass will be sung 
 every month for a year for the repose 
 of the souls whom you intend to assist. 
 
 2. A requiem high mass will be sung 
 for yourself within a month after your 
 death, if at the time you are a member 
 of the Arch-Confraternity. 
 
 3. These masses will be announced 
 the preceding Sunday. 
 
 4. Give your name and address to 
 the pastor at any time. Your year of 
 membership begins on the day you join 
 the Arch-Confraternity. 
 
 5. If you like, hand the pastor a list 
 of the dead whom you wish to have 
 
 benefited. This list will be retained one 
 year, and placed on the alter when the 
 monthly requiem high mass is sung. 
 
 6. Have the pastor sign this certificate; 
 keep it in your prayer book; when your 
 year expires, renew your membership 
 by paying your dues for the next year. 
 
 7. Yearly dues, one dollar, to be 
 paid in advance. 
 
 “The mass is an action , not a mere 
 form of prayer. It is the greatest action 
 that can be performed on earth.” 
 
 Cardinal Newman. 
 
 “Although with bodily eyes I see the 
 priest at the altar of God offering bread 
 and wine, by the intuition of faith and 
 in the pure light of the soul I distinctly 
 see that Great High Priest and True 
 Pontiff, the Lord Jesus Christ, offering 
 Himself. He most assuredly is the 
 Priest, and He is the Sacrifice. The 
 Saving Victim, therefore, is never and 
 nowhere diminished or increased, deter¬ 
 iorated or changed, whether the priest 
 standing at the alter be a holy or a sin¬ 
 ful man.” Alcuin. 
 
 “In the mass we adore God, we thank 
 Him; we ask pardon for sin; we ask for 
 new blessings.” 
 
 Cardinal Vaughan. 
 
 “Lay this body anywhere; let not the 
 care for that any way disquiet you; this 
 only I request, that you w'ould remem¬ 
 ber me at the Lord’s altar,wherever you 
 be.” St. Monica to Her 
 
 Son St. Augustine. 
 
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 If eloquence is the power of express¬ 
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 purest and noblest thoughts, we con¬ 
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 As a theologian, participating in the 
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 Washington University, and the number 
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 marvelously flexible voice, an express¬ 
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 ism. He has also the distinction of 
 being an eminent orator, and for this 
 reason, he is frequently called upon to 
 be present at the great functions of our 
 Holy Church in many prominent par¬ 
 ishes. 
 
 The people of St. Mary’s parish have 
 reason to congratulate themselves on 
 being favored with three of his devo¬ 
 tional and rhetorical discourses during 
 the Forty Hours. 
 
 In Sunday morning’s sermon he took 
 for his text “What doth it profit a man 
 if he gain the whole world and lose his 
 own soul.” He dwelt on the subject 
 with great enthusiasm and during the 
 sermon referred to two examples. One, 
 the rich young man of Assisi, who re¬ 
 nouncing all his worldly honors, was 
 drawn to the service of God by hearing 
 a sermon on the same text. Thisyouug 
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 the Great St. Ignatius, to whom, after 
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 Jesus (Jesuits) that may truly be called 
 the Light of the Church at the present 
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 namely—a lively faith. Dr. Melody’s 
 closing remarks were of a character 
 touching the celebration of the Forty 
 Hours, and he strongly urged the peo¬ 
 ple to attend the devotions, especially 
 the adoration hours. This he did with 
 
 a warmth and enthusiasm that excited 
 the feelings of the people. 
 
 The subject chosen for our meditation 
 Sunday evening was Faith. Dr. Melody 
 told how all things in nature and his¬ 
 tory were accepted on the evidence of 
 others, especially historians and scien¬ 
 tists; but in matters of faith alone, man 
 refuses to accept anything but what he 
 can prove. It is not on the evidence of 
 man alone we accept religious truths, 
 but on the word of our Lord, who has 
 founded His Church, which teaches us 
 those sublime truths that we believe. 
 We must say with the apostle, “Lord I 
 believe, help Thou my unbelief.” He 
 told how this was true especially of our 
 Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. We 
 cannot understand this great truth, but 
 faith assures us it is so, and we accept 
 it on the words of our Divine Lord, who 
 cannot deceive nor be deceived. 
 
 Monday evening, the last of the series 
 of lectures, Dr. Melody took for his text 
 “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, 
 with thy whole soul, and thy whole 
 
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 there are, who think they love God be¬ 
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 duties, but when asked to lend a help¬ 
 ing hand for a charitable purpose, the 
 request meets with such a cold refusal 
 that you would sometimes gladly go 
 outside of the so-called church people 
 to meet a truly charitable person. He 
 dwelt with great enthusiasm on this sub¬ 
 ject, and above all solicited the people 
 to pray to our Lord in the Blessed Sacra¬ 
 ment to give them true charity. 
 
 Agnes Dorley, ’09. 
 
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 Life is too short to be spent nursing 
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