San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Gerard, Rev. H. L. 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page 95
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     REV. H. L. GERARD, who for many years has been a leader at San Francisco 
in the work carried on by the Marist Fathers, is a native of France. His early 
education was acquired at Vitre College in Brittany, and he came to America at 
the age of eighteen, in 1891.

     Here he attended the Catholic University of America at Washington, was 
ordained there in 1896, and for a number of years was engaged in duties as a 
teacher at Jefferson College in Louisiana. From Louisiana he went to 
Massachusetts and in the great manufacturing center of Lawrence was assistant 
pastor three years and pastor six years. For one year he was assistant pastor 
of the church at Haverhill, Massachusetts.

     Father Gerard in 1921 came to San Francisco. He served six years as a 
pastor and four years as assistant pastor, and during this time he built the 
two schools connected with the two parishes of the Marist Fathers in San 
Francisco.

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