SENECA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REV. BONIFACE RUSS (1886)

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SENECA COUNTY
HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.727
CHICAGO:
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886

BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP, SENECA COUNTY, OHIO

REV. BONIFACE RUSS, C. PP. S., Catholic Priest, New Riegel, was born in 
Auglaize County, Ohio, November 12, 1855, son of John and Barbara Russ, 
natives of Bavaria, Germany, where the former was born in 1812, latter 
in 1815; they immigrated to America, coming direct to Auglaize County, 
Ohio, where John Russ died in 1872, and his widow still resides. Our 
subject acquired his education in Carthagena, Mercer Co., Ohio. After 
his ordination, in 1878, he took charge of a congregation at St. 
Sebastian, Ohio, and August 24, 1880, he became pastor of the large 
congregation at New Riegel which was one of the first churches in the 
county.