Bio of CLEARY, Rev. James M. (b.1849), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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REV. JAMES M. CLEARY - Vol II, pg 81-82
Rev. James M. Cleary, for many years in charge of St. Charles Catholic church
and now pastor of the church of the Incarnation at Minneapolis, was born in
Boston. Massachusetts, on the 8th of September, 1849, his parents being Thomas
and Julia Cleary, who removed to the Northwest during the childhood days of
their son, James. He was educated in the public schools of Walworth county,
Wisconsin, in St. Francis Seminary and College of Milwaukee and in St. Lawrence
College at Calvary, Wisconsin. He entered the priesthood on the 9th of July,
1872, and has since devoted his life untiringly and zealously to the work of the
church. He is also widely known as a public lecturer and has taken a prominent
and helpful part in promoting the temperance cause, being for many years the
president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. He was also the
vice president of the Anti-Saloon League of America and has filled the office of
president of the Minneapolis Home Protection League. He is thus keenly
interested in all those forces which throw around mankind the safeguards that
will permit of right living and the development of character. Father Cleary
belongs to the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, also to the Catholic Order of
Foresters and to the Knights of Columbus. He has taken a prominent part in the
discussion of all vital civic questions and is always to be found on the side of
practical reform ana improvement and the movements in behalf of good government.
He belongs to the Six O'clock and Commercial clubs and he is esteemed and
honored not only by reason of what he has accomplished in the upbuilding of his
parish but in connection with the promotion of public benefit as well.