Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Klein, James 1873 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

REV. JAMES KLEIN.

    The Rev. James Klein, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church at Sleepy Eye,
this county, is a native son of Minnesota, having been bora in Morrison county,
this state, November 22, 1873, son of Nicholas and Mary (Schmitt) Klein, both
natives of Germany, who came to this country after their marriage and settled in
Morrison county, this state, in 1865, spending the remainder of their lives on a
farm there, the former dying in 1888 and the latter in 1893. They were the
parents of nine children, eight of whom are still living, but of these the
subject of this sketch and his sister are the only ones living in Brown county.

    James Klein received his elementary education in the public schools at North
Prairie and Richmond and when fourteen years of age began working on the farm,
continuing thus engaged until he was nineteen years of age, at which time his
strong leading in the direction of holy orders led him to enter St. John's
University with a view to preparing for the priesthood. After a year at that
institution he entered St. Lawrence College at Mt. Calvary, Wisconsin, where he
pursued a four-years course, in preparation for the seminary. Thus equipped he
entered the theological seminary at St. Paul, where he studied for five years
and six months and was ordained to the priesthood on September 24, 1902. Father
Klein celebrated his first mass in the church at Rice, in Benton county, his
home county at that time, and was then appointed assistant pastor of the church
of St. Francis at St. Paul, where he remained about a year, at the end of which
time he was transferred to St. Michael's parish at Madison, Minnesota, which he
served as pastor for seven years. He then was transferred to St. Elizabeth's
parish at Minneapolis and after a very successful pastorate of four years there
was transferred, on July 15, 1914, by Archbishop Ireland, to the irremovable
pastorate of St. Mary's at Sleepy Eye and has ever since been in charge of that
parish, during which time he has rendered a fine service in extending the
spiritual and material interests of the parish. Father Klein also has charge of
the mission church at Leavenworth, this county, and is doing a good work
throughout the parish.

     Father Klein is a member of the Knights of Columbus at New Ulm and of the
local branch of the Catholic Order of Foresters, of which he is chaplain, and in
the affairs of both of these organizations takes a warm interest.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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