Hamilton County OhArchives Church Records.....St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Copyright Date 1920
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    St. John The Baptist Catholic Church. Among the many personal factors
contributing to the upbuilding and substantial prosperity of a city, there must
be those which plan and carry forward the enterprises and industries by which
men and women can work and live. There must be those who are equipped by
circumstances or otherwise to make laws for the common protection and to see
that they are carried out, and there must be others in a multitude of different
avenues to serve their fellow mortals according to the laws of humanity, each
one in his own way performing duties for the common weal, which in entirety,
cannot be delegated to anyone else. How great a work in this whole, the church
and its ministers perform, is perhaps never fully appreciated. Leading men into
paths removed from sin through its mission of personal Christianity of peace,
kindness and good will, it encourages and sympathizes when the struggle against
injustices seem too heavy to bear, and gives comfort in times of trouble and
bereavement. This noble, indispensable, civilizing and beneficent work is being
carried on in every land in the universe by the Roman Catholic church and the
personal work has been continuous for time that is counted by centuries. St.
John the Baptist Catholic church, of Harrison, Ohio, was established in 1849,
and attended by the Rev. Fathers of St. Francis' Monastery, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rev. D. Romboutz was the first resident pastor, and he came here in 1866. He
remained until 1868, when he was succeeded by Rev. Christian French, who
remained until 1871. Rev. H. Bors was then pastor, and in 1872 Rev. G. Egger
became pastor. He remained until August 16, 1881 and Rev. H. Johanning became
pastor. He was succeeded by Rev. B. Moeller, and he in turn by Rev. A. C.
Adelmann. The present church was built in 1876 and one year later the parish
house was built. In 1891 the school was built. At the present time there are
about ninety-three families in the parish, and about eighty-three children in
the school, who are taught by three Sisters of Charity. The present pastor of
St. John The Baptist's church, is Rev. Henry Eilermann, who was born in Ankum,
Hanover, Germany. He came to the United States at the age of fourteen, with his
uncle, Rev. Nicholas Eilermann, who was pastor of the church of the Immaculate
Conception at Botkins, Ohio. Rev. Henry Eilermann received his education in the
public schools of Germany and later in St. Meinrad College, Indiana. In 1887 he
entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary, at Price Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
studied Theology and Philosophy. He was ordained October 2, 1892, and for seven
years acted as assistant at various churches in the state of Ohio. In August,
1899, he was appointed pastor of the St. John the Baptist church, and since that
time he has gone in and out among his people, administering to all alike in the
spirit of brotherly love, even carrying the faith with him as a blessed gift.
The good he has done cannot be estimated, and it must compensate for the many
hours of discouragement that come to a faithful anxious priest, to know that his
people love and venerate him.

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