Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Burke, Delou 1858 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

REV. DELOU BURKE.

    REV. DELOU BURKE, canon of Grace Cathedral, at Topeka, is one of the most
scholarly clergymen of this city, and is also one whose influence is felt in
many directions. His voice is always heard in support of higher and better
things, for what is noble, holy and helpful, and probably no man of his calling
is more universally esteemed. He was born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, March 24,
1858.

    Canon Burke was educated at the Central Normal College, at Danville,
Indiana, where he was graduated in 1877. He was one of the first students at
this college, which was then in its infancy but has since had lusty growth. From
his graduation until 1888, he engaged in teaching, and then entered the Nashotah
Theological Seminary, at Nashotah, Wisconsin, where he was graduated in 1892. On
Trinity Sunday of that year, he was ordained priest by Bishop Nicholson, in All
Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee.

    He then passed two years as rector of St. Mark's Church, Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin, and then accepted a call to St. James Church, South Bend, Indiana.
There his ministerial labors continued through a period of six years, during
which he secured the erection of a beautiful new church edifice. In the fall of
1898 he accepted a call to St. James' Church at Vincennes, Indiana, and held his
first service on Advent Sunday. In September, 1901, he was elected to the chair
of philosophy and pedagogy, in the Vincennes University. This educational
position he filled until the call came to him from Grace Cathedral, at Topeka.

    Rev. Mr. Burke was warmly welcomed to Topeka and a few months later was made
canon 01 the cathedral. As such, with multitudinous other duties, he has charge
of two flourishing missions, the Church of the Good Shepherd, in North Topeka,
and the Church of St. Simon, a colored mission. He is secretary of the faculty
of the Kansas Theological School, in which he is professor of Christian ethics
and Christian evidences; is assistant chaplain of Christ's Hospital; and acting
chaplain and teacher of Church history at the College of the Sisters of Bethany.
In addition to these numerous duties, Canon Burke finds time to do some teaching
at home, those fortunate enough to come under his personal and private
instruction having access to > his fine library, which is one of the best in the
city. As a writer on moral questions, he is also well known.

    Canon Burke has no domestic ties, but he enjoys the companionship of
congenial spirits to be found in fraternal associations. He has taken all the
degrees of Odd Fellowship, including the Canton; is a Knight Templar Mason, and
has taken all the degrees in the Knights of Pythias except the Uniform Rank.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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