Lake-Allen County IN Archives Biographies.....Barrett, Edward F. 1867 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

REV. EDWARD F. BARRETT.

    Rev. Edward F. Barrett, who has been the beloved pastor of All Saints
Catholic church at Hammond for the past seven years, has almost the entire
credit for the present flourishing condition of his church and parish. The
church had been organized but a year when he took charge, and there were then
but seventeen families under his religious care. There are now one hundred and
thirty-eight families. The church and the schoolhouse were built in 1897, and
there are now two hundred pupils in attendance. A handsome rectory of brick was
erected in 1898, and in the following year the sisters' convent was built.
Father Barrett has thrown his whole heart and religious zeal into the cause, and
has accomplished wonders in the short time of his pastorate. He is a tireless
worker not only in the cause of his own church but for humanity in general, and
he richly deserves his immense popularity among both Catholics and Protestants.
His kindness of heart, his benevolence and broad public spirit are traits of his
character that appeal to all men, and his depth of learning and catholicity of
sympathy enable him to wield a potent influence for righteousness in his community.

    Father Barrett was born in Rutland, Vermont, December 22, 1867, being a son
of James and Ann (Clifford) Barrett, natives of Tipperary county, Ireland. Both
his maternal and his paternal grandfather died in Ireland. His father has been
for fifty-two years foreman of the Vermont Marble Company at Rutland, and he and
his wife are highly esteemed citizens of that place. They had seven sons and
three daughters, nine of whom are mentioned as follows: John, of Rutland,
Vermont; William, of New York city; Patrick, of Rutland; James, of Mexico;
Sarah, wife of John Purcell, of Rutland; Michael, who died at the age of
sixteen; Henry, of Rutland; Rev. Edward F., of Hammond; and Mary E., of Hammond.

    Father Barrett was reared in his native city of Rutland, and attended both
the public and the parochial schools there. He was a student in Assumption
College in Canada, and took his theological course in the Grand Seminary at
Montreal. He was ordained to the priesthood in July, 1895, at Belle Isle, by
Bishop La Flech, and in the same year became assistant pastor of St. Patrick's
church at Fort Wayne, Indiana, under Father Delaney. He remained at Fort Wayne
for two years and then came to Hammond, where he took charge of All Saints'
church as the successor of Rev. John Cook, who had been its first pastor and
organizer in the previous year, 1896.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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