BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Francis X. TRAXLER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 402
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Rev. Francis X. TRAXLER

REV. FRANCIS X. TRAXLER, pastor of the church of the Holy Cross, at Spangler, is 
a son of Joseph and Mary (Schreiner) Traxler, and was born at Ploess, on the 
boundary-line between the kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and the province of 
Bohemia, Austro-Hungary, on June 21, 1860. He was reared at his native place 
until he had reached his fourteenth year, when he came to the United States, 
landing at New York city July 4, 1874. In a short time he came to western 
Pennsylvania and entered St. Vincent's college at Latrobe, Westmoreland county, 
where he applied himself to classical and theological studies. After ten years 
he graduated, and on June 20, 1884, was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. 
Tobia Mullen, D.D. Immediately after ordination he was made a pastor of a small 
Catholic congregation at Blue Island, Illinois, near Chicago. There he 
ministered for eighteen months, and then was transferred to Allegheny City, this 
State, where he served as pastor of St. Wenceslas church for nine years. At the 
end of that time, in 1895, he became the first resident pastor of the church of 
the Holy Cross, at Spangler, where he has been laboring ever since.