OBIT: Richard PHELAN, 1904, Idlewood, Allegheny County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich 
<millich84@hotmail.com>

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/
_________________________________________ 

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/obits/phelan-richard.txt

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, December 23, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 50

Phelan is Dead, Pittsburg, Dec. 20:

  After a lingering illness of three years due to the infirmities of 
old age, the Rt. Rev. Richard Phelan, Bishop of the Pittsburg Diocese 
of the Roman Catholic Church, died at noon today at St. Paul's Orphan 
Asylum, Idlewood, Pa., surrounded by his relatives and many church 
officials.  The end was peaceful, the venerable prelate quietly 
sleeping away.

Bishop Phelan Dead, Pittsburg, Dec. 21:

  The Rt. Rev. Richard Phelan, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of 
Pittsburg died at the orphan's home at Idlewood, age 76. He will be 
succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Regis Canevin.