Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Dunne, Patrick W 1852 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

PATRICK W. DUNNE. 

Pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Joliet, although comparatively young holds a 
high position in the ranks of the Catholic priesthood as one who is doing much 
to advance the interests of the church in various ways. To him are due the 
great improvements around the edifice in which his charge meets. Personally he 
is a genial, whole-souled man, very companionable, and not only dearly loved 
by his people but highly respected by the community in general for his good 
qualities of mind and heart. His intellect has been thoroughly cultured and 
his mind is stored with learning. In charitable work he is ever ready to lend 
a helping hand and the members of his own charge are treated with the greatest 
consideration regarding their physical needs, as well as the wants of their 
souls. Father Dunne is of mixed ancestry, his father, Edward Dunne, having 
been a native of Ireland, and his mother, Mary Finn, of Prince Edward Island. 
Edward Dunne came to Prince Edward Island in 1849, and 1851 went to Watertown, 
Wis., where he built the first church and first bridge in that place, the 
latter being over the Rock River. He had been reared to carpentering, his six 
brothers following the same trade or combining it with ship-carpentering. The 
seven Dunne brothers came to America, and two—William and Patrick— are now 
living in Chicago. The youngest brother, Dennis, was a man of wide reputation 
and high character, who became Vicar General of the Chicago Diocese. He 
departed his life in 1868. The father of our subject died in Joliet, July 2, 
1888. His last work was remodeling St. Patrick's Church, for which he had 
drawn all the plans and specifications and which he personally superintended. 
His widow is still living, making her home in Chicago, where a number of her 
children reside. To Edward and Mary Dunne nine daughters and six sons were 
born, ten of the number being yet alive. These all live in Chicago except 
Patrick and his sister Catherine who is with him in Joliet. The subject of 
this sketch was born in Watertown, Wis., March 4, 1852. His education was 
begun in the College of the Christian Brothers in Chicago. In the spring of 
1868, he entered St. Charles College, at Ellicott City, Md., from which 
institution he was graduated in 1874. Owing to sickness his studies were 
abandoned for a year, after which he renewed them in St. Mary's Seminary at 
Baltimore. In that institution he remained four and a half years, completing 
the line of studies which fitted him to enter the priesthood. On December 22, 
1879, he was ordained and sent to St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, where he 
arrived two days later, celebrating his first mass at midnight of that same 
day. Father Dunne became the Assistant Pastor of St. Mary's Church in Joliet, 
February 13, 1880, retaining that position until January 29, 1886, when he was 
appointed to that which he now fills. Here he became the successor of Father 
Walter Power, who died January 27, and whose pastorate had extended through 
seventeen years. In 1889, the Golden Jubilee of St. Patrick's Church was 
celebrated, the event being the grandest that Joliet had ever seen in 
connection with Catholic church work. The occasion was one that will long be 
remembered, not only by those who adhere to the Catholic faith but by all who 
witnessed it. The Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by Bishop Burke, of 
Cheyenne, and Arch-bishop Riordan, of San Francisco, the latter a cousin of 
Father Dunne, delivered the sermon. A lithographic portrait of Father Dunne 
appears in connection with his biographical sketch.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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