BIO:  MERKLE, Rev. Carl James, Campbell Co., KY
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History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 252
Campbell Co.

     REV. CARL JAMES MERKLE, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Catholic
Church at Newport, has given all his time and service to the Catholic
Church, especially in Kentucky, since his ordination as a priest.
     He was born at Dayton, Ohio, June 16, 1891, and acquired his
elementary education in the Emmanuel parochial school.  He spent six
years in his classical studies of Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario,
and five years as a student of philosophy and theology in St. Mary
Seminary , at Baltimore, Maryland.  He was ordained in the Catholic
University at Washington, D.C., by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop
Bonzano, June 23, 1915.
     Father Merkle was for five months assistant pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church at Bellevue, Kentucky; for two and a half year assistant
pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church in Newport; than for two and
a half years pastor of St. John Church at Carlisle; and and in November
of 1920, returned to the scene of his earlier labors at Newport, as
pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church.
     This parish was established in 1911 by Rev. Stephan Schmid; the new
brick church and school was dedicated in October of the following year
with Rev. Ed. G. Klosterman as pastor.  He erected the handsome brick
rector in 1916, at 10 Chesapeake Avenue, in Ingalls Park, and later
purchased a residence for the teachers.  In 1921 a necessary addition
was made to the school and to the Sisters' house.
     Father Merkle is the third son and fourth child of Michael Merkle,
who was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1851, of Nicholas Dauben-Merkle and
Magdalene Zeitler.  In 1863 he accompanied his widowed mother to
America, locating at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he learned the
shoemaker's trade.  As a young man he went to Dayton, Ohio, and was a
retail shoe merchant there until 1901, after which he developed an
industry for the manufacture of overalls, barbers' and waiters' coats
and similar garments, continuing active in business almost until his
death in 1909.  He was a very sincere Catholic and loyal citizen.  His
first wife, whom he married at Dayton, was Caroline Worman, a native of
that city.  She died with her third child, leaving two others: George, a
traveling salesman, who died at Charleston, West Virginia, at the age of
twenty-five; and Leona (Sister Providentia), a member of the
congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence, now Directress of
Mount Saint Martin Young Women's Institute at Newport, Kentucky.
     The second wife of Michael Merkle was Catherine B. Loges, who was
born of Joseph Loges and Philomena Hortsman at Dayton in 1862, and is
still living in that city.  She is the mother of nine children: Robert a
plumber at Dayton; Rev. Carl James; Olivia, now Mrs. Wagner; Raymond and
Victor, draftsmen; Irene and Florence, stenographers - all living in
Dayton; Joseph and a younger brother died in infancy.

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