Clinton County IA Archives Church Records.....Rev. J. W. Scallan Copyright Date April 13, 1881
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DeWitt Observer, April 13, 1881

Death of Father Scallan

Rev. James W. Scallan, died at his rooms in DeWitt, Iowa, April 10th, 1881, at 
8 p.m., of congestion of the lungs, in his 48th year. He had been feeble for a 
long time, but was confined to his bed less than four days before his death.

On Monday morning the corpse was removed to the Catholic church, escorted by a 
large procession of sympathizing friends, where services appropiate to the 
occasion were held by the pastor, Rev. Father T. McCormick and Rev. Father 
Gaffney of Center Grove. The body remained at the church and the wake was 
observed Monday afternoon and night. It was proposed to remove the remains to 
Dubuque for interment, but upon the arrival of Rev. Father Nicholas Scallan of 
Waterloo, a brother of deceased, it was deemed best to lay them in the DeWitt 
cemetery, and the burial took place Tuesday forenoon, a long procession 
following the clay to its last resting place. Father Cosgrove officiated on 
the occasion and the following priests being present besides those mentioned: 
Cosgrove and Neirmann, of Davenport, Burke of Independence, Meagher of 
Anamosa, O'Dowd of Deep Creek, McCabe of Cedar Falls and McKinney of Vinton.

Rev. Scallan was born in Wexford, Ireland, July 25, 1833, and came with his 
parents to America, when a boy. In 1858 or 1859, he graduated from a Medical 
college at Winchester, Virginia; was ordained Priest at Dubuque by Bishop 
Smith in October 1859 and the next month took charge of St. Simons church in 
DeWitt, which pastorate he held about seventeen years, great prosperity 
attending the church under his administration.

Feeble health caused him to relinquish his relations as priest, from which he 
never more than partially recovered. During his retirement from active 
ministerial work Father Scallan's home was in DeWitt, he occasionally taking 
the altar for the accomodation of various neighboring churches. Rev. Scallan 
was as warm hearted a man as we ever knew. Always jovial, even in his ill 
health, he was a very companionable man and one whom it was a pleasure to meet.

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