BIO: Patrick Dugan HARKINS, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, page 124.
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  REV. PATRICK DUGAN HARKINS - As principal of the Catholic High School at 
Altoona, Rev. Father Harkins has proven his efficiency and thoroughness at 
this era of the expanding of the membership of that school and the 
broadening of its interests with the large increase of the Catholic 
community.  Since his ordination, Father Harkins' experience in chaplaincy 
and curacy duties combined for his present successful leadership in one of 
the well-established schools of the diocese.
  Rev. Father Harkins, the son of Cornelius Harkins, who died in February, 
1920, and Catharine (Dugan) Harkins, was born May 14, 1892, at Wilmore, 
Cambria County, and he attended the Wilmore South Fork public schools and 
the South Fork High School where he graduated in 1910.  He then matriculated 
at St. Vincent College, at Beatty, where he graduated in the class of 1917, 
with his Bachelor's degree, and he was ordained to the priesthood, February 
27, 1921, at St. Cambria Church, Jamestown, by Rt. Rev. Bishop John J. 
McCort, D.D.  Father Harkins, in March, 1921, was appointed chaplain at the 
State Sanitarium, at Cresson.  In November of that year, he was appointed 
assistant at St. Mark's Church, in Altoona, serving until June, 1922, when 
he became principal of the Catholic High School, at Altoona, where he is 
serving to the present time.  He is a member of the council of the Knights 
of Columbus at Latrobe.