Church: Part 2- Pages 55-84: History of St. Augustine's Parish, St. Augustine, Cambria Co, PA Transcribed and submitted for use in the USGenWeb archives by: Judy Banja Every attempt was made to preserve the exact spellings and typographical errors of the original, without the addition of new typographical errors. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S PARISH St. Augustine, Dysart P. O. Cambria County, Penna. Published by The New Guide Pub. Co. Inc. 1922 [Page 55 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] History of St. Augustine's Parish SECOND EPOCH. Early Settlers - First Attended Mass at Loretto, and Sick Were attended by Father Gallitzin. Father Lemke Said Masses in Various Houses. Organization of the Parish. Its Various Pastors Down to the Present Time. After Father Gallitzin located in the McGuire settle In 1799, the colony of Catholics he gathered about him spread rapidly, and early in the nineteenth century there were several pioneers and their families located in what afterwards became Clearfield Township and the first congregation sometimes called the Loup Congregation or the St. Augustine Congregation, was located therein. The name Loup (not Loop) came from the name given by the French to a branch of the Chouanan (Shawnese) tribe, the de Loupes or des Loupes. The French, be it remembered, early explored Western New York and Western Pennsylvania as well as the Mississippi Valley and the chaplains of their exploring expedition were priests well educated in the art of cartography, one, Pere (Father) de La Roche, was the first to discover petroleum near Olean, New York, in the seventeenth century and marked the place on his map, "Fontaine Bitumine." Father Hennepin, another French priest, was the first to discover bituminous coal in what is now the United States, on Illinois River. Pere Bonnekamp, a Jesuit priest, a mathematician and geographer who accompanied Celeron down "Belle Riviere" (Beautiful River), now known as the Allegheny River, in 1749, was the first priest of whom we have an authentic record, who said Mass in Western Pennsylvania. Celeron's expedition was sent down the Allegheny River to lay claim to the region which the French called [Page 56 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] Nouvelle France (New France). At four places along the Allegheny River they buried leaden plates, the inscriptions on which claimed the country for the king of France, whose coat of arms was engraved thereon. One leaden plate was also buried on the Ohio river. The place of burial of one of these plates was mistaken until Rt. Rev. Msgr. A. A. Lambing, the noted Catholic historian, cleared up the error. He also compiled a history of the French occupation of Fort Du Quesne, and the religious services conducted therein by the chaplains, including the obsequies, on July 10, 1755, of Bojeau, the victor of the battle of the Monongahela, sometimes called "Braddock's Field." Some Early Conveyances of Land. One of the early conveyances of land in this region was that of John Penn to John Anderson in 1786. This land is now, the writer believes, in possession of Laguori Cassidy. Another early deed was that of Emmor and Deborah Bradley and Richard and Thomassin Thomas to Patrick Dawson, Wheatfield, 307 acres on Clearfield Creek one-half mile east of Chest Springs, date December 12, 1800, recorded June 16, 1805. There is an apparent error about the name Chest Spring, or Chest Springs. One story is that the name originated from the fact that two chestnut trees stood near the spring. The other circumstance was that it was derived from Chest Manor, a reservation of several hundred acres of land held for their own use by the Penns, which included the spring, and extended as far as the Bradley school-house in Allegheny Township. This opinion is held by P. J. Little, Esq., as well as by the writer. A singular reservation is that in a deed of land formerly Penn Manor near Johnstown. The one-fifth of all the gold and silver ore to be delivered at the "pitt's" moutb is reserved. From the record of the conveyance of land by Henry Krise and Mary, his wife, of 5 acres and 25 perches of land (the land on which St. Augustine's church and rectory are built), to Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, consideration $50.00, that of Krise's title to it is as follows: "It being part of a larger tract of land surveyed in the name of Henry Krise [Page 57 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] (Greiss) on a warrant in the year, A. D., 1813, which land was taken and held by said Henry Krise by improvement and actual residence." This deed is recorded in Deed Book Vol. 8, page 32, the witnesses having been John Zerbe and Thomas Adams. In another deed of Henry Krise and wife the Rev. John Burns was the grantee, and the consideration was $50.00, for a triangular piece of land containing 152 perches. That Henry Krise and his wife, Mary Jordan Krise, had an early residence in the St. Augustine parish is proven from the fact that their daughter, Margaret Mary Krise, now Mrs. Margaret Mary Delozier, of 1510 Second Avenue, Altoona, and the oldest living ex-member of the parish, was born near St. Augustine, August 11, 1827. She was baptized by Father Gallitzin, and married to Henry Delozier, now deceased, by Rev. Father Hugh P. Gallagher, they having been the first couple married in the first church in St. Augustine. She now resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maloney, at the address named. More of the Early Settlers of the Parish. Amongst the earliest settlers of the parish were the Nagles, Burgoons, Weaklands, Adamses, Dawsons, McGoughs and some others. As some of the veterans of the Revolutionary War settled in this section, especially the Nagles, the writer deems it expedient to give the names of all of those patriots of the county as found on the tablet of the soldiers' monument in Ebensburg, after interpolating that of Solomon Adams, who as already stated, lived within the borders of Cambria County before that war, who he has reason to believe, from a history he has read, was afterwards a captain in the army of Washington: Captain, Michael McGuire; Privates - Daniel Albaugh, Peter Albaugh, Archibald Christy, Samuel Cole, William Gray, Henry Hershberger, Peter Kaylor, Samuel Leidy, David Livingston, George Lewis, --- McGough, Reuel Miller, Henry Nagle, John Nagle, Richard Nagle, --- Perkins, William Pringle, Michael Rager, Jacob Ream, Godfrey Settlemyer, Henry Sharp, Felix A. Skelly, Patrick Skelly, John Wherry, Ludwig Wissinger, Patrick Skelly [Page 58 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] was killed at the siege of Yorktown. The name Philip Skelly, on the tablet is a repetition of Felix Skelly, or O'Skally. One of the Nagles - John - settled near the Beaver Dam in White Township. Richard and Henry Nagle lived near, or at, the site of Carrolltown. Of the others, McGough may have settled in this region, but probably none of the others. Formation of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The Diocese of Pittsburgh was formed from the Diocese of Philadelphia, in 1843, and Rt. Rev. Michael 0'Connor, a native of Ireland, became its first Bishop. In 1844, while returning from Rome, he visited Ireland and stopped at the college of Maynouth, where he called upon students to volunteer to accompany him to his new field of labors. Five students responded to his invitation. They were Revs. Hugh P. Gallagher, Tobias Mullen, afterwards Bishop of Erie, John Walsh, Peter Brown and Thomas McCullagh - as talented and zealous a quintet of priests as ever left that famous college. Bishop O'Connor promised them plenty of hard labor, but not much in the way of pecuniary remuneration. Bishop O'Connor, in 1847, gave the membership of the St. Augustine Congregation at 500 souls. In the cemetery of St. Augustine, the first interment in which, Sister Martina McCans says, was that of a girl, a child, a sister of Silas Ryan, now of Patton, for which interment she says her father, the late James P. McCans, dug the grave. Another early interment in this cemetery was that of the three infant sons of John and Julia Zerbee who died July 8, 1847, aged 8 days, The Christian name of the Ryan girl was Anastasia, and the date of her interment was July 6, 1845. From the inscriptions on the tombstones the writer has concluded that the early settlers of this region were noted for longevity. Some of the inscriptions follow: Edward Dunegan, died January 22, 1861, aged 63 years; Michael Dunegan, died May 20, 1888, in his 96th year; Catherine, his wife, died November 9th, 1865, in her 73 year; Jere Donahue, born June 27, 1808 --- ; Johanna, his wife, died January 7, 1893, aged 86 years; [Page 59 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] Thomas Adams, born January 13, 1822, died November 6, 1873; "Lewis G. McDermott, wounded in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, and died on the 30th in Hospital No. 6, Boonsborough, M'd., aged 23 years, 1 month and 12 day;" Lewis McDermott, a cousin of the former, wounded in the same battle, died sometime later; Arthur McDermott, died March 15, 1850, aged 58 years; Jane, his wife, November 23, 1880, aged 84 years; Julia, wife of Charles Dillon, died November 15, 1898, aged 78 years. Richard Nagle's remains are interred in St. Michael's cemetery, Loretto, as are also those of Felix Skelly, who died on the farm a couple miles southward of the present town of Wilmore, now owned by his grandson, James F. Skelly, July 3, 1835. Henry Nagle who lived near what is now Carrolltown, probably rests in St. Joseph's cemetery, Hart's Sleeping-Place. Where the remains of John Nagle repose, the writer can not say. Archibald Christy, Peter Kaylor, and --- McGough are probably buried in St. Michael's cemetery. Masses Said at St. Augustine Before the Formation of the Parish. It is probable that Father Lemke was the first priest to say Mass in the vicinity of St. Augustine. Mrs. Margaret Delozier says that he was the first priest to so and that he often said Mass in her father's house. It is doubtless certain that he said Mass in the house of Francis Hoover, close to the present church and in a school-house towards Beaver Dam. Father Hugh P. Gallagher, who succeeded Father Lemke as pastor at Loretto, in 1844, and his brother and assistant, Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher, doubtless often said masses in farm houses before the dedication of the first church, which was in 1849. Formation of the Congregation of St. Augustine. It is a fact which may not have come to the knowledge of some of the present generation that not until the publication of the decrees of the Council of Trent in the United States, by order of the Second Eacumenical Council of Baltimore in 1886, there were no parishes in the United States. The associations of the faithful were congregations and their pastors, missionary priests. Since the publication of the said decrees the congregations (except missionary sta- [Page 60 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] tions), have become parishes and their pastors, parish priests, or rectors. The Catholic community comprised within the present bounds of the parishes of St. Augustine, St. Thomas', Ashville, St. John the Baptist's, Frugality and part, at least, of what is now St. Monica's, Chest Springs, having reached according to the census of the community in 1847, as given by Bishop O'Connor, 500 souls, the congregation of St. Augustine was organized in that year and detached from that of St. Michael's, Loretto. The First Church of St. Augustine. The first church of St. Augustine, a frame building, weatherboarded and plastered, was built by John Zerbee, a grandson of Capt. Michael McGuire and father of Joseph Zerbee, of near St. Augustine who now possesses his great-grandfather's sword which he cherishes as a precious hierloom. John Zerbee donated $150.00 to the cost of the erection of this building, which was formally dedicated in 1859, although probably used to some extent before that time, as Mrs. Delozier says that she was married in it, and the time of her marriage was about 1848. A letter from Rev. Fr. John Canova, rector of St. Vincent de Paul church, Leisenring, Fayette Co., Penna. to whom Rt. Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh, very courteously referred the writer request for information concerning the parish of St. Augustine, states that the first church was dedicated by Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, the first Bishop of Pittsburgh, on June 9, 1849; and the enlarged church was dedicated by Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, his successor, on August 28, 1868. Francis Hoover, father of Joseph Hoover plastered this church. The following priests attended St. Augustine's Congregation Rev. Hugh P. Gallagher August, 1847-December, 1848 Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher December, 1848-June, 1852 Rev. John Burns March, 1853-April, 1866 Rev. E. J. Burns April, 1866-December, 1872 Rev. Thomas McEnrue January, 1873-October, 1877 Rev. Francis McCarthy October, 1877-July, 1879 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Martin Ryan July, 1879-April, 1890 [Page 61 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. P. Smith, V.G. July, 1883-October, 1883 Rev. P.J. McManus July, 1890-October, 1890 Rev. Henry McEvoy October, 1890-May, 1892 Rev. John J. Ludden May, 1892-January, 1900 Rev. Thomas R. Rea January, 1900-August, 1901 Rev. P. J. Quinn August, 1901-September, 1905 Rev. Garret B. Welch October, 1905-July, 1912 Rev. Joseph H. Farran July, 1912 Father Joseph H. Farran is the present rector. The following priests served as assistants Rev. E. J. Burns October, 1862-April, 1866 Rev. James Ward August, 1868-January, 1869 Rev. Dr. James Keogh April, 1869-May, 1870 Rev. F. J. Dignam December, 1870-January, 1873 Rev. Francis McCarthy March, 1872-May, 1873 Rev. Msgr. C. A. McDermott Feb'y, 1879-Aug., 1879 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Kittell August, 1879-November, 1871 Rev. Henry McEvoy February, 1884-January, 1885 The Town of Gallitzin - Alias St. Augustine. It is a fact which seems to have been forgotten by almost all of the present generation, even of the village itself, that the plan of the town was recorded in Deed Book, Vol. 9, page 47, on April 27, 1849, William Kittell, Prothonotary, under the title "Plan of town of Gallitzin, Clearfield Township, Cambria County." This plan was discovered several years ago by the writer while examining the records of the county for historical data. Recently, while once more examining the records of the county for data for this work, he called the attention of P. J. Little, Esq., who was assisting in the search, to the plan, which the latter soon found. This is plan gives the width of town as 490 feet; its length as 1620 feet. There is one street 40 feet in width with a sidewalk 10 feet wide on each side; two lots are in a block together and between them and the next two is alley 15 feet wide; the lots are 60 feet by 200 feet, and around them on the sides and ends of the plan is an alley, also 15 feet in width. At the south-east corner is a drawing of a building with a cross upon it (the old church of St. Augustine). On the north-east is the name Francis Hoover; on the south, that of Joseph Brant; on the west is the name of Thomas Adams, Sen.; and on the north is [Page 62 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] the name of John Carl. The church property also bounds it to the east side. There are 46 lots on the plan - 24 on the north and 22 on the south - lots 34 and 35 (or the place where they otherwise would have been), having been reserved for a "market square," but they have probably never been utilized for that purpose. As the railroad town of Gallitzin was started at about the same time, it is probable that this fact caused the name St. Augustine to be substituted for that of Gallitzin, the Clearfield Township town. A former resident furnishes the information that it was laid out by Joseph Brant, but he did not know its real name, consequently he had a lawyer search the records, for about 100 years back, for the plan of St. Augustine. Biographical Sketches of the Various Priests Who Served the Parish of St. Augustine. As intimately interwoven with the history of the parish is the record of the various priests, who as pastors and assistant pastors, attended to spiritual needs of the people in St. Augustine and vicinity, biographical sketches as far as obtainable are presented; and although Father Lemke did not serve the congregation as pastor after its formation, yet before that important event, he for year occasionally visited the locality, a condensed biographical sketch of his life precedes the other sketches. Father Peter Henry Lemke. From the writer's condensation of a biographical sketch of Father Lemke by the talented Dr. Flick, a man of literary attainments of a high order as well as a physician in the front rank of eminent scientists of our country, published in Philadelphia about the year 1899, which condensed sketch was published in the Johnstown Tribune some time about June of that year and afterwards incorporated in "Souvenir of Loretto Centenary," with some other information published therewith, the following information concerning Father Lemke is gleaned: Peter Henry Lemke was born in the town of Mecklenberg-Rhena, Germany, July 27, 1796. His parents, Lutherans in religion, were persons of more than average intelligence even for the middle class of Germans to which they belonged. His father was a magistrate, and his mother [Page 63 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] was the daughter of a school-master; but owing to the onerous duties of his father and the ill health of his mother, his religious instruction was neglected. Reverses in his father's business rendered it impossible him to acquire a good education in his native town; so he ran away to Schweren, where after passing a successful examination he entered school, supporting himself by giving lessons in music. This was in 1810. While at Schweren he became acquainted with a Catholic family who persuaded him to attend church with them. This was his first opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Catholics. In the University he became acquainted with a Catholic named Adler, older than himself, who also had been a soldier. Adler prescribed for him a course of reading, and this acquaintance afterwards resulted in Lemke's conversion to the Catholic faith. In 1819, having finished his studies, he was admitted to the Lutheran ministry, and went to his native village his first sermon, which it is said was a very eloquent one after he had overcome the trepidation that in the beginning had annoyed him. While assistant here, he came across some old writings of Luther in the library, and with the permission of his superior took them to his rooms where he read them carefully, the result of which was that he was no longer a Lutheran, and resigning his position, he sought his friend, Adler, whom he found at Ratisbon, who received him graciously, and the same evening introduced him to one Diepenbrock, who like Lemke, had been a soldier, somewhat careless in religion, but from reading Bishop Sailer's works had become a zealous religious teacher. After months of association with these two men, the latter of whom had in this time become a priest, Lemke found himself a Catholic in belief, and after a course of instruction was received into the Catholic Church April 21, 1824. Bishop Sailer, who received Lemke in to the church, sent him to one of his old priests in the country to study theology, and on April 11, 1826, he was ordained a priest. After his ordination, Father Lemke served three years with his preceptor, Father Buchner, when his friend Diepenbrock, now Cardinal, called him to Ratisbon, made him a vicar and intrusted him with the duties of preaching to [Page 64 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] the garrison and giving instruction in the high schools. In 1831 he was appointed Chaplain to a church on the estate of a rich nobleman, where he had little to do but oversee the agricultural operations on the estate. This experience was in after years of much value to him in establishing the settlement near Carrolltown.. In the fall of 1833, while thus engaged, he was visited by his friends, Diepenbrock, Clement Bretano, and Dr. Raes. During the conversation Dr. Raes read a letter from Bishop Kenrick, in which the latter deplored the lack of German priests in his diocese. "This would be something for you, Lemke," said Bretano, sarcastically, "a young man endowed, soul and body, with all required for a laborer in the vineyard of the Lord and here you are like an article of luxury growing fat and lusty whilst our poor Catholics in America starve for want of spiritual food." Instantly, every fibre of his religious nature aroused, Lemke resolved to go to America, and in 1834, with an exeat from his Bishop and. a letter from Dr. Raes to Bishop Kenrick, he walked to Paris with a knapsack on his back, and from thence to Havre, where he found a packet ready to sail; but his baggage which he appears to have shipped from Paris not having arrived, he was compelled to wait for another vessel, which delay was fortunate for him and for the German Catholics of Western Pennsylvania, as on his arrival in New York, August 20, 1934, he found that the packet he had missed had been lost at sea with all on board. Arriving in Philadelphia a few days afterwards, Bishop Kenrick, who was delighted at this coming, appointed him assistant at Holy Trinity Church, where he soon found it necessary to acquire a knowledge of the English language and Bishop Kenrick and his brother having been just then engaged in the study of the German language, Father Lemke went daily to the Bishop's house and exchanged lessons in German for lessons in English. While assistant here the Lutherans were holding a special celebration commemorative of Luther, and as Father Lemke had been a Lutheran in early life, and well posted on the subject, he delivered a discourse on the life of Luther on the following Sunday. [Page 65 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] After he had returned to the pastoral residence, he was called upon by a committee of the Trustees of the church, the spokesman of which delivered an ultimatum as follows: "That was a fine sermon you preached today, but as we wish to live in peace with our Protestant neighbors we come to tell you that you must not preach any more such sermons in our church." Springing to his feet and seizing a poker, Lemke thundered blacksmiths, you carpenters, you tailors! How dare you come here and tell me how to preach! Get out of here." They got out. On the following day Lemke related this occurrence to Bishop Kenrick and asked to be relieved of this charge. His request was granted, and he was given permission to engage in missionary work in other parts of the diocese; when taking his course to the Allegheny Mountains, ministering to scattered Catholics on the way, his objective point being Loretto to meet Father Gallitzin, he reached Munster in the month of September, 1834. His meeting with the Apostle of the Alleghenies he describes thus: "I arrived at last in safety at Munster, a little village laid out by Irish people on a table land of the Allegheny Mountains, only four miles from Gallitzin's residence. The stage stopped at the house of Peter Collins, a genuine Irishman, who kept the postoffice and hotel. The next morning, for it was evening when I arrived, and they would not on any account let me go on, a horse was saddled for me, and Thadeus, one of the numerous Collins children, now a man of influence and reputation, stood ready with a stick in his hand to show me the way, and to bring back the horse. We had gone about a mile or two in the woods when I saw a sled coming along drawn by two strong horses. N. B. - In September, in the most beautiful summer weather. "In the sled half sat and half reclined a venerable looking man, in an old, much worn overcoat, wearing a peasant's hat which no one, it is likely, would have cared to pick up in the street, and carrying a book in his hand. Seeing him brought along in this way, I thought there must have been an accident; that perhaps the old gentleman had dislocated a limb in the woods, but Thomas, who had been on ahead, came running back and said: 'There comes the priest,' pointing to the man in the sled. I rode up and asked: 'Are you really the pastor at Loretto?' 'Yes, I am [Page 66 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] he.' 'Prince Gallitzin?' 'At your service, sir; I am that very exalted personage,' saying this, he laughed heartily. 'You may perhaps, wonder,' he continued, when I had presented to him a letter from the Bishop of Philadelphia, 'at my singular retinue. But how can it be helped? We have not as yet, as you see, roads fit for wagons; we should be either fast or upset every moment. I cannot any longer ride horseback, having injured myself by a fall, and it is also coming hard for me to walk; besides I have all the requirements for mass to take with me. I am now on my way to a place where I have had for some years a station. You can now go on quietly to Loretto and make yourself comfortable there, I shall be at home this evening; or if you like better, you can come with me, perhaps it may interest you.' I chose to accompany him, and after riding some miles through the woods, we reached a genuine Pennsylvania farm house. "Here lived Joshua Parrish, one of the first settlers of that country, and the ancestor of a numerous posterity. The Catholics of the neighborhood, men, women and children, were already assembled in great numbers around the house, in which an altar was put up, its principal materials having been taken from the sled; Gallitzin then sat down in one corner to hear confessions, and I, in another corner attended a few Germans. The whole affair appeared very strange to me, but it was extremely touching to see the simple peasant home, with all its home furniture, and the great fireplace, in which there was roasting and boiling going on at the same time changed into a church; while the people, with their prayer books and their reverential manners, stood or knelt under the low projecting roof or under the trees, going in or out, just as their turn came for confession. After mass, at which Father Gallitzin preached, and when a few children had been baptized, the altar was taken away, and the dinner table set in its place. * * * In a word, all was so pleasant and friendly that involuntarily the love feasts of the first Christmas came to my mind. In the afternoon we went slowly on our way, Gallitzin in his sled and I on horseback, arriving at nightfall at Loretto." Father Lemke went back to Philadelphia, but soon returned to Loretto, expecting to live there with Gallitzin, but on the morning following his arrival Father Gallitzin [Page 67 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] took him to Ebensburg, December 23, 1834, and installed him there as pastor. This surprised Lemke, who told Gallitzin of his expectation to live with him. "Oh, no," replied the latter ratter, "these people (in Ebensburg) have built a church and want a resident priest, and besides I have no room in my house for you. And what is more," he continued, "the winters are so severe that it would be impossible for you to get here from Loretto. You will come to me once a month to care for my Germans, and for that I shall contribute something to your support." Father Lemke was thrown upon his resources to meet this emergency. He lived in a town in which the Welsh and English languages (the former of which he could neither speak nor understand and the latter but imperfectly) were spoken; so he applied himself to the study of English with energy and acted as his own hostler. He remained in Ebensburg until about 1837, when he removed to "Hart's Sleeping Place," at which place he had previously attended at Joseph's Church erected a couple of years prior to this time. He had intended to establish at St. Joseph's a colony of German emigrants, but the place not proving suitable, about the year 1840, he moved to where Carrolltown now stands with its large church of St. Benedict with its monastery and schools. Upon the death of Father Gallitzin in 1840, Father Lemke was appointed successor to the former, a position he did not desire, and accepted only in obedience to his Bishop. In 1844, however, he was succeeded by Father Hugh P. Gallagher, when he gladly returned to Carrolltown and soon commenced the erection of St. Benedict's church, having the latter part of the year 1844 visited Germany and collected considerable money to aid in its construction, which was completed in 1850, and was dedicated on Christmas day of that year. Father Lemke Induces the Benedictines to Come to America During the first visit of Father Lemke to Europe in 1844, he met several members of the Order of St. Benedict to whom he suggested the propriety of locating a branch of that order in America, offering his lands at Carrolltown as a suitable place for a monastery, and one of the order, Rev. Boniface Wimmer, with several companions, came to Carrolltown in 1846, but Wimmer going to Pittsburg to [Page 68 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] consult with Bishop O'Connor in relation to his project, the latter induced him to locate his monastery at Latrobe on land belonging to the diocese known as Sportsman's Hall, which he gave to the order for that purpose; and thus was established what is now the Archabbey of St. Vincent, which while a bitter disappointment to Father Lemke, situated as it is along the main line of the Pennsylvania-Railroad, near Beatty's Station, is a far better location for this institution than Carrolltown can ever be. After this, Father Lemke sold his property near Carrolltown to the Benedictines, and was for a time located in the Diocese of Philadelphia, returning to Carrolltown on a visit in 1849, when he resolved to become a Benedictine, which he did February 2, 1852; and going soon afterwards to Kansas, he suggested to Abbot Wimmer the propriety of establishing a branch of the order in that fertile State, and the Abbey of Atchison is the result. Father Lemke returned to St. Vincent's Abbey about the beginning of the year 1859, in the latter part of which year he went to Europe to collect money for the monastery and to attend to some business matters of his own. During his sojourn in Europe he collected 6,000 florins ($1,160) and wrote a "Life of Dr. Gallitzin." In 1860, he returned to America and was assigned to the Diocese of Newark, N. J., and given a congregation at Elizabeth. In 1876, at Elizabeth, he celebrated his "golden jubilee" as a priest. In 1876 he returned to St. Benedict's Monastery, Carrolltown. He died in 1882 amongst his old parishioners and the members of his order, and his last resting place in a lot set aside for the Benedictine Fathers is marked by a beautiful monument; but the record of his great deeds is the most enduring monument to the memory of this great and good man. Father A. P. Gibbs, 1844-46. Andrew Patrick Gibbs was born in Queens County, Ireland, in 1815. He was educated for the priesthood in St. Charles Borromeo's Seminary, Philadelphia, and was ordained a priest on September 20, 1840, by Bishop Kenrick, of Philadelphia. From 1844 until 1846, he attended St. Aloysius', Summit; St. Bartholomew's, Jefferson, and St. John Gaulbert's, Johnstown. For thirty-one years prior to his death he was pastor of St. Mary's Church, Lawrence- [Page 69 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] ville, Pittsburg. He died in 1885 at his residence, Forty-sixth street, Pittsburg, aged 70 years. He was a zealous priest and did much for the cause of religion throughout his long career. His remains repose in Mary's Cemetery, Pittsburg. Father Hugh P. Gallagher. Of Father Hugh P. Gallagher, the writer gleans from "Souvenir of Loretto Centennary," facts that he was born in Killygorden, County Donegal, Ireland, on Easter Sunday, that he became pastor of St. Michael's, Loretto, September 27, 1844, and served that congregation until 1852; hence, it will be seen that he was not a resident pastor of the St. Augustine's congregation, but served it from Loretto, from August, 1847 to December, 1848. Father Hugh Gallagher was one of the five students of Maymouth College, Ireland, who volunteered to come with Bishop O'Connor to America in 1844. All five, the writer believes, were ordained in Pittsburg the same year by Bishop O'Connor, and his first charge may have been that of St. Michael's, Loretto. He went to California in 1852 shortly after concluding his pastorate at Loretto. Of his death in California, the following paragraph is gleaned from "Souvenir of Loretto Centennary." Having been in California for twenty-nine years after his connection with St. Michael's, Loretto, Father Hugh Gallagher resigned his pastorate of St. Joseph's Church, San Francisco, and on advice of his physician, started on a journey to eastern states and Ireland to recruit his health. Returning, he finished his course on earth, and died in St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, on Friday morning March 10, 1882, in the 67th year of his age." The first marriage performed by Father Hugh Gallagher that of Henry Delozier and Margaret Mary Krise, the latter of whom is still living, the oldest ex-member of the parish, now living in Altoona. The first baptism recorded is that of Louis Bitner, son of Louis Bitner and Anna Maria Carl (the maiden name of the mother). The sponsors were William and Susanna Little. Father Joseph A. Gallagher. Of Father Joseph A. Gallagher, "Souvenir of Loretto Centennary records: "It is to be regretted that no bio- [Page 70 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] graphical notes of his esteemed brother, Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher, who succeeded him in the pastorate of Loretto, are to be found." The writer knows, however, that he also went to California where he died early in the seventies of last century. Father John Burns - First Resident Pastor. There was an interregnum between the ending of the pastorate of Rev. Joseph A. Gallagher and the appointment of Rev. John Burns as first resident pastor from June, 1852 to March, 1853. During this period we find the names appended to the Baptismal Register as the officiating priest as follows: Gerald A. Murtagh; P. Odila, 0. S. B., H. P. Gallagher; Tho Inbuleugh; P. Henricus Lemke, 0. S. B.; J. A. Gallagher; and Ju Carlett and Ricardus Browne. The first entry on the Baptismal Register by Father Burns in 1853, is dated March 20. It is all in Latin, as follows: "Georgius natus ex Jacobo Litzinger et Elizabeth McDermott, die decimo nono Februarii. Sponsores fuere Leonardus Litzinger, et Charlotte Will. "Joannes Burns." After a couple of records we find the signature J. Burns, the Latin Christian name being dropped. According to the record, Father John Burns baptized during his pastorate of more than thirteen years (the longest pastorate up to the present time), 861 persons, his last entry bearing date April 22, 1866. The congregation having increased from other causes than by births, particularly by reason of the lumber industry, the region being at that time, except the clearings for homestead farms, covered by a dense forest of pine, and many workmen, most of whom were Catholics, flocked in to hew timber for rafts to float down Clearfield Creek and Chest Creek to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and thence down that stream to the marts for this timber, the first church was found to be too small to accommodate the large congregation, and the enlargement of the sacred edifice was projected; transepts were built to it, giving a capacity of 70 feet by 170 feet, and a rededication of the church took place during the pastorate of Father E. J. Burns, brother of Father John Burns on August 28, 1868, by Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, Bishop of Pittsburg. Worn out by the labors and trials of his long and arduous service in this Vineyard of the Lord, the extent of [Page 71 - History of Parish of 5t. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] which at that time was probably not less than sixty square miles, and also much impressed by his association with the Benedictines of Carrolltown, of the peace and quiet of a religious life, Father John Burns joined that Order of rigid discipline and died a few years later. Pastorate of Father Edward J. Burns. Rev. Edward J. Burns, brother of Father John Burns and his assistant from October, 1862 to April, 1866, became the successor the latter, his first entry on the Registry bearing date April 29, of that year. During his pastorate he had for assistants, Rev. James Ward from August, 1868 to January, 1869; Rev. Dr. James Keogh from April, 1869 to May, 1870; Rev. E. J. Dignam from December, 1870 to January, 1873; and also Rev. Francis McCarthy from March, 1872 to May, 1872. From the number of assistant pastors who served under Father E. J. Burnes, as he signed his name - two at one time - it would appear that the congregation was at the zenith of its prosperity during his pastorate. Having gone to Pittsburg about December, 1872, Father Burnes died suddenly and unexpectedly in that city. He was succeeded by Rev. Father Thomas McEnrue in January, 1873. Father MeEnrue's Pastorate. As Father McEnrue's pastorate extended over the period of financial depression from 1873 for several years thereafter, on account of the failure of Jay Cooke & Co., and as he was a priest inured to arduous labors in a previous mission in the counties of Washington and Green, where he attended several missions, to serve which he was compelled to ride about 150 miles every week, and being a splendid horseman, and of robust health, he did not need an assistant. People who knew him say that during the business stagnation he often befriended people who were in financial difficulties, which he was able to do, as during his unremitting toils on the Washington-Greene missions for A;, several years, he was allowed the entire perquisites which it is said aggregated $2,000 per year. His pastorate at St. Augustine extended to October, 1877. As the writer was a school-mate of Father McEnrue as far back as 1854, he is better qualified to write a bio graphical sketch of his life than he is of any other pastor of the parish. [Page 72 - History of Parish of 5t. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] Thomas McEnrue was the eldest son of Mr. And Mrs. Terence McEnrue, who lived to attain the age of manhood. He was born near Jefferson (now Wilmore), October 28, 1842, and was baptized by Father M.W. Gibson, when he attended the congregations of St. Aloysius', St. Batholomew's, St. John Gaulbert's and the Reservoir mission. His parents were well-to-do, hospitable people, and unlike some other boys of that time, he was given all the advantages afforded by the public schools and subscription schools of the neighborhood, as was also the writer. As a schoolmate, he was the protector of the writer who was younger and none of the larger boys cared to contend with "Tom" McEnrue, who was physically, as well as intellectually, more than a match for any of them. Early evincing an inclination for the priesthood, he commenced the study of Latin under the tutelage of Father Thomas J. Walsh, who was pastor of St. Bartholomew's from 1854 to 1860, after which he went about a year to St. Francis' College, Loretto. In 1862, he entered St. Michael's Seminary, Pittsburg, where, along with Father Henry McHugh, also a native of St. Bartholomew's parish, and afterwards for twenty-three years its pastor, he was raised to the priesthood on June 6, 1868. On the following Sunday in St. Batholomew's church, assisted by Father John Hackett, the pastor, and Father McEnrue (priests were not plentiful in those days), Father McHugh, the elder of the two, said his first Mass; and on the following Sunday, Father McEnrue, assisted by the other two, said his first Mass. Of the many who were present at these Masses, but few, including the writer, are living - the three priests being dead. After leaving St. Augustine, Father McEnrue was pastor of St. Augustine, Freeport, Penna. While stationed at Freeport, he was awakened one night by a burglar standing at the door of his room, covering him with a revolver and ordering him to throw up his hands. Instead of throwing them up, by a quick movement he placed his hands on the bed, vaulted to the floor, kicked the door shut in the face of the burglar, seized his revolver, which was lying on a bureau nearby and fired a shot after the retreating burglar, but without effect. After Father McHugh, during his pastorate at Wilmore had, to accommodate the growing Catholic population [Page 73 - History of Parish of 5t. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] at South Fork, and the Webster mines at Ehrenfeld, built the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Ehrenfeld, Father McEnrue attended this church from Wilmore, after which he was appointed to the church of The Immaculate Conception, Irwin, Penn'a, where he died on February 26, 1910. His remains now repose in the old cemetery of St. Bartholomew's church in a concrete vault, surmounted by a splendid monument close to a double one equally magnificent which, in his filial devotion, he had erected over the tombs of his parents, and within the shadow of the church where he often served Mass, where his first Mass was said and his first sermon was preached, awaiting a glorious resurrection and an eternity of happiness. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Harbison, of Irwin, and by a niece and a nephew, children of his brother, the late W. H. McEnrue. Pastorate of Rev. Francis McCarthy. Rev. Francis McCarthy, who had been assistant to Father Ed. J. Burnes, for a short time in 1872, succeeded Father McEnrue in October, 1877, and continued in the pastorate until July, 1879. Father McCarthy was born in Pittsburg, but was ordained in Rome. He joined the Jesuits in 1880, and is now Chaplain at Governor's Island, N. Y., but has recently been in very feeble health. He is a distinguished orator, and it is said that so well versed is he in Scripture that he can quote any text without referring to the Sacred Volume. Pastorate of Rt. Rev. M'sg'r Martin Ryan. The pastorate of Monsignor Ryan extended from July, 1879 to April, 1890. There are 443 baptisms recorded in M's'g'r Ryan's time, some of which were from Chest Springs congregation. The St. Augustine congregation was also considerably reduced in size and numbers during the latter part of this pastorate by the formation of the parish of St. Thomas, Ashville. The St. Augustine congregation, as well as all other congregations in the country, became a parish after the publication of the decrees of the Council of Trent about the year 1887. From Souvenir of Loretto Centennary," the following biographical sketch of M's'g'r Ryan is quoted: [Page 74 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] "He was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, February 14, 1845. Coming to this country he entered St. Michael's Seminary where he pursued his philosophical and theological course, and where he was on June 7, 1873, ordained, to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. Bishop Domenec. "Immediately thereafter he was assigned as assistant to the late Rev. James Treacy, pastor of St. Bridget's Church, Pittsburg. In May, 1876, he was appointed pastor of St. Peter's church, Brownsville, and the outlying missions at Uniontown, Fayette county, and at Waynesburg, Greene County. In October of the same year he was transferred to St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburg, where he remained until his appointment in November, 1887, to the pastorate of St. Stephen's Church, Hazlewood, in the 23rd ward of the city. In July, 1879, he was transferred to the pastorate of St. Augustine, Cambria County, where he remained for nearly eleven years, during which period he erected the new church at Chest Springs, and formed the congregations at Ashville and Frugality. "When in April, 1890, Very Rev. E. A. Bush, the present Vicar General of the Diocese of Pittsburg, was appointed Rector of St. John's Church, Altoona, Father Ryan succeeded to the pastorate of St. Michael's, Loretto. "In March, 1891, he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Gallitzin, in succession to Very Rev. J. Boyle, V. F., transferred to Johnstown. Here in Gallitzin he has since remained, and on 7th of June, last year, he happily celebrated his Silver Jubilee-the 25th anniversary of his ordination." M's'g'r Ryan, while at St. Augustine must also have built the church of St. Thomas, Ashville, as the writer visited that place in April, 1890, and was in the church and rectory, nearby. Father Thomas Rosensteel was then pastor of that parish. The Diocese of Altoona having been formed in 1901, Father Ryan must have been transferred to Pittsburg before that time, else Bishop Garvey would not have allowed a priest of such vast experience and marked success to leave his diocese. A few years ago, in recognition of his distinguished services in the cause of religion he was appointed a Domestic Prelate with the title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor. He is at present rector of St. Brigid's, Pittsburg, and in recognition [Page 75 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] of his long and successful pastorate at St. Augustine, and the esteem and affection in which he is held by those of the parish who knew and revered him as their spiritual father and those of the younger people who know him by tradition handed down to them by their ancestors, he has been invited by the rector, Rev. Father Joseph H. Farran, to preach the sermon at the Solemn Pontifical Mass at the opening of the Diamond Jubilee, which invitation he has kindly accepted and will undoubtedly be accorded a grand ovation by both pastor and parishioners. Rectorate of Rt. Rev. M's'g'r T. P. Smith, V. G. Rt. Rev. M's'g'r T. P. Smith, now Rector of Sacred Heart church, Altoona, and Vicar General of the Altoona Diocese, was born in Gallitzin, and was ordained July 6, 1882. He became pro tempore rector of the St. Augustine parish in July, 1883, and continued in this position until October of the same year, during the absence in Europe of M's'g'r Ryan. He was for several years rector of the Holy Name church, Ebensburg, and was afterwards stationed at St. John's, Altoona, until sent by Bishop Phelan to organize the Sacred Heart parish on Twentieth street, Altoona, where he built a fine brick church, brick rectory, convent and sisters' schools. Almost, if not entirely from the founding of the parish, all improvements have been financed without resort to euchres, socials, bazaars or fairs. He was for years Chancellor and Vicar Foraine of the Altoona Diocese; and upon the resignation of the late M's'g'r John Boyle, rector of St. John Gaulbert's, Johnstown, from the position of Vicar-General of the diocese, a position he had held by appointment of the late Rt. Rev. E. A. Garvey soon after he took charge of the diocese, Very Rev. T. P. Smith, then Chancellor of the diocese and Vicar Foraine, was appointed to the vacated position. About the same time, in recognition of his many services in the cause of religion, he was created a domestic prelate by Pope Benedict XV, with the title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor. He is assisted in his arduous labors in the parish by his twin brother, Rev. Fr. Matthew F. Smith, endearingly known as "Father Matt," a historian of note, who several years ago, after much labor and research, had completed a history of the Altoona diocese and sent the type-written copy, to a New York publishing firm for publication, but the firm failed to live up to the agreement and Father Smith never got back his manuscript. To his courtesy the writer is in- [Page 76 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, PA.] debted for copious notes of several parishes in the diocese, which have been of much use to him in writing historical sketches of several parishes, not including, however, the parish of St. Augustine. M's'g'r Ryan, having returned to America, resumed his charge as rector of the parish until 1890, his last record on the Baptismal Register bearing date March 17, 1890, the number of which as annotated by Rev. Fr. Joseph Farran, being 3,034. Then follow several entries on the Register signed Wilfrid Frins, 0. S. B., P. Benedict Menges, 0. S. B., and P. Maximilian Herr, 0. S. B. Rev. P. J. McManus, Rector From July to October, 1890. Of Father McManus the writer has at hand no notes as to the dates and place of birth, time of ordination, and subsequent assignments. His first entry on the Baptismal Register is dated July 25, 1890, and his last record of five baptisms bears date of September 14, of the same year. Rev. Henry McEvoy, Rector From October, 1890 Until May, 1892. Father McEvoy, who had been assistant to M's'g'r Ryan from February, 1884 to January, 1885, became the next rector of the parish. His first record as rector bears date October 5, 1890, and his last entry is dated April 24, 1892. After leaving St. Augustine Father McEvoy was stationed in Pittsburg for some years. He was born in Ireland on April 15, 1854; ordained in Montreal, Canada, Dec. 23, 1883. He died in Ireland in 1920. Incidents of the Visit of Monsignor Bedini To the United States - 1852. In the year 1852, Monsignor Bedini, Nuncio of Pope Pius IX. to Brazil, visited the United States and was met at Hollidaysburg by Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, on December 6th, who accompanied him on his tour through the diocese. "Souvenir of Loretto Centennary" from which this outline is condensed with the exception of the last two paragraphs which is from another source, after detailing the hearty reception accorded the Nuncio at Hollidaysburg, Newry and Summit, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception December 8th, says: Page 77 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] "Under the direction of Captain William Ivory, as chief marshal, assisted by P. Clarke, A. Kelly, J. Collins and others as aides, a long and imposing procession moved along the pike towards Munster. In no part of the United States was Monsignor Bedini greeted with a more cordial welcome than that which he received in this truly Catholic locality. This immense crowd, of all ages and classes, principally from Loretto and Summit congregations, but largely represented by the Loop (St. Augustine), Chest Springs, Carrolltown and other neighboring towns and adjacent county, and swelled into unusual dimensions by a large force of laborers on the railroad, assembled to welcome to their mountain home the distinguished prelate who came to represent the Vicar of Christ. The procession, marching by way of Munster and what is now Kaylor, was met at the upper end of Loretto by a strong body of horsemen from the Loop. "At Loretto the reception to the Nunzio was as imposing as it was unmistakably Catholic. A large body of the congregation, with music resounding and banners flying, met him on the hill north of town, while about fifty of the Germans, nearly all of neverable age, with Philip Hertzog In the lead, rendered the 'Grosser Gott' in magnificent style. The procession divided near the church to allow the Nunzio and his cortege to pass through. The address prepared in the name of the Catholics of Cambria was here delivered by Mr. Thomas Collins, the gentleman who represented the county in the Legislature of the State. Very Rev. Father Heyden preached the sermon. The Loretto demonstration in honor of the representative of the Holy Father was most imposing and is talked of to this day. "On the following morning the Nunzio visited Ebensburg, and in the afternoon the clergy of the mountain district accompanied him to Jefferson (now Wilmore), where to took the train to Pittsburg. During his entire trip through Cambria County, though it was in the usually rough month of December, the weather was most beautiful." The year 1852 was the first year in which trains on the railroad ran in the winter months. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which was commenced in 1849, was in that year completed from Columbia to Altoona and from thence by a branch line to Hollidaysburg, and on the Western Division from Pittsburg to the Great Viaduct below South Fork, [Page 78 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] from which place to Altoona the road was not completed until the latter part of 1854; but by an agreement between the officials of the state and the Pennsylvania Railroad, the latter was granted the use of the Allegheny Portage Railroad (the New Portage was not then made), from Hollidaysburg to the Great Viaduct, in return for which accommodation the state was allowed the use of the Pennsylvania line from said Viaduct to a point at the lower end of the present railroad town of Conemaugh, where it crossed over the Little Conemaugh River to its own line from the canal basin in Johnstown to the foot of Plane No. 1. The reception of Bishop O'Connor and Monsignor Bedini in Pittsburg, as compared with the grand ovation extended to them in Cambria County was as a transition from Heaven to Hell. It was with considerable difficulty that they eluded a mob of "Native Americans" or Know Nothings, who were clamoring on the streets in opposition to the visit of the Nuncio. It was like a Nemesis of retribution that one Wharton Barker, the leader of the "Native Americans," who may, or may not, have been present on that occasion, was some time later, while walking along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, one evening to attend an Anti-Catholic meeting in a suburb of Pittsburg, was run down and killed by a locomotive steam engine. In striking contrast to the fate of this unfortunate man was that of Marchand, the founder of the "Native American" organization, who died a Catholic. The Oldest Former Member of the Parish. The good Sister Martini, of St. John's Convent, Altoona, having called the attention of the writer to the fact that the oldest former member of the parish, Mrs. Margaret Mary Delozier, relict of Henry Delozier, resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Maloney at 1510 Second avenue, Altoona, he called to see the venerable lady, and found her confined to her bed, she having about a year ago suffered a paralytic stroke, but although she complained of a loss of memory, her intellect appeared to be unimpaired despite her illness and the further fact that if she lives until the eleventh day of August next, she will have attained her ninety-fifth year. She is a daughter of the late Henry Krise and Mary Jordon Krise, and was born near St. Augustine, August 11, 1827, and was baptized by Father Gallitzin, although her name does not ap- [Page 79 - History of Pariah of 5t. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] pear on the copy of the Baptismal Register transcribed by Father Kittell, but as there was no other priest at hand there is no doubt of the fact. Other brothers and sisters of Mrs. Delozier were Eleen, Susan, Dr. John J., Louisa Ann, Bridget Ann, William and George, according to the Register of Father Gallitzin. Other names given by Mrs. Delozier are Valentine and Sarah. Margaret Mary Krise was married to Henry Delozier by Rev. Hugh P. Gallagher. They were the first couple married in the church at St. Augustine. Their children's names are Amadeus Bernard, John Cuthbert, Cyrillus Augustine, William Francis, Modestus Demer, Simon Marcellus, Herman Kempis and Mary Margaret, now Mrs. John E Maloney, the latter baptized July 16, 1864 by Father John Burns. Henry Delozier died while yet comparatively young, as a granite monument erected to his memory by his widow, the subject of this sketch, bears the inscription: "Henry Delozier, 1825-1865," from which it will be seen that Mrs. Delozier has been a widow for 57 years. Mrs. Delozier, who remembers Father Gallitzin well, says that never said Mass in what is now the parish of St. Augustine as there were not many people there in his time. Father Henry Lemke, she says, was the first priest to say Mass in her father's house frequently and also at other houses. The Fathers Gallagher also said Mass in her father's house before the first church was built. Mrs. Delozier spoke feelingly of the weekly visits to her of Sister Martini. "She hasn't been to see me yet this week," she said. Mrs. Delozier well remembers most of the pastors of St. Augustine - all down to and including M's'g'r Martin Ryan, of whom she spoke in terms of the highest appreciation. Henry Krise, the father of this venerable lady, it was who sold to Rt. Rev. M. O'Connor, the first bishop of Pittsburg, the land on which the first church was built, and on which the present beautiful church, the rectory and several other buildings now stand. Mrs. Delozier, despite her years, hopes to be present at the Diamond Jubilee of the parish in June. Like many others of the pioneers of the parish, the Deloziers are noted for longevity. Her parents are interred [Page 80 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] in the cemetery here. Her mother lived to be 104 years old, and her father, 73. The name Delozier is an Anglicised form of the French surname De Lozier (that last syllable, "ier" being pronounced ya). De Lozier means "of Lozier," as we in English often use the preposition "of" preceding a Christian name to distinguish persons. There are many Deloziers in the parish of St. Augustine and faithful members of the Church. The Diocese of Altoona And Its Bishops The Diocese of Pittsburgh having grown numerically too large to be attended by one bishop on account of the merging into one diocese of the two divisions of the former Diocese of Pittsburg after the resignation of Bishop Domence and the assumption for a time of the administration of the Diocese of Allegheny by Bishop Tuigg, the Diocese of Altoona was formed by order of Pope Leo XIII. in 1901, including with its bounds the counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset in the state of Pennsylvania, and Rt. Rev. M's'g'r Eugene A. Garvey, Rector of St. John's parish, Pittston, the largest parish in the Diocese of Scranton, and Vicar General of that diocese, was appointed to the bishopric of the new diocese. Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rt. Rev. Eugene A. Garvey. Rt. Rev. E. A. Garvey was born in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pa., 1845. He made his preparatory studies for the priesthood at Ellicott City, Md., and Glen Riddle, Pa., and continued his studies at the old St. Charles Seminary, Eighteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. He was ordained by Bishop O'Hara in Scranton, September, 1869, and was sent as assistant to Father Boethe, a German priest at Honesdale. In December, 1870, he was appointed pastor of the Holy Ghost Church, Athens, to which was attached the mission of Ridgeburg, eleven miles distant. In December, 1871, he was sent to take charge of [Page 81 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] the Annunciation Church, Williamsport, Pa. He remained there twenty-seven years, during which time he erected a parochial residence, free school, convent, and church and purchased a beautiful site for a cemetery. No one could wish for a more loyal, devoted or generous people. In the spring of 1898, he was asked by Bishop Hoban to accept the Vicar Generalship of the Scranton Diocese, and take charge of St. John's congregation, Pittston, Pa., the largest in the diocese. During his two and a half years residence in Pittston he made the large schools of the parish free for all the children, grading them from the lowest room in the parochial building to the highest in the academy. The schools took on new life and the people responded generously. During his incumbency in Pittston, a nice church was erected at Inkerman and one at Wyoming, both of which have pastors. In August, 1901, he received a letter from the Apostolic Delegate, Washington, informing him of his appointment to the See of Altoona. He was consecrated in the Scranton Cathedral, Sunday, the 8th of September, the same year. His first Pontifical Mass was sung in Pittston, the second in Williamsport, in which lovely city he spent, probably, the happiest years of his life. Without seeking publicity he has done all that lay in his power, to build up and strengthen Catholicity in the Altoona Diocese. The foregoing was the modest biographical sketch of the life of the late bishop, which was published by the writer in "History of St. Bartholomew's Parish," in 1909. Since that time, his present biographer in recording events of local history has become acquainted with facts concerning his unbounded love for the common people and especially the orphans of his diocese. The want of an orphan asylum in the eastern portion of the Pittsburgh diocese had long been felt before the Diocese of Altoona was established. On account of the crowded condition of St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, contiguous to Pittsburgh, it was almost impossible to get admission for orphans from the eastern portion of that diocese. The remoteness of that asylum from the eastern counties of the diocese was another drawback. To supply this long-felt want, Bishop Garvey early applied all his energies, and the result was the building at Summit, Cambria County, of St. John's Home, the good bishop subscribing of his limited means $1,000 towards aiding this project and subsequently [Page 82 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] when the clergy of the diocese at a birthday banquet, given in his honor, presented him with a purse of $2,000, he immediately turned it over to the furtherance of this great work of charity. Not content with this work, and doubtless also desirous for the seggregation of the sexes, he caused to be erected a short distance from the first substantial stone building, another building of brick, equally substantial, Which he called "St. Mary's Home for Girls," the first institution being thereafter denominated "St. John's Home for Boys." These two institutions are in charge of "Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary." When the writer visited these institutions about five years ago to write up historical sketches thereof, he was greatly surprised at witnessing the efficiency of the instruction therein imparted which fitted the graduates for admission to college, and some of the graduates had already obtained remunerative positions and at least two of them, at that early day, had expressed their gratitude to their alma mater by substantial donations to the institutions. The number of children in the two institutions at the time of the visit was 300, about 200, including some girls, yet in "St. John's Home and 99 in "St. Mary's Home for Girls." The best feature, however, of such instiutions is that the generality of those who are trained in them, in after life remain faithful to their religion. Nor was this all the charitable works undertaken by the late lamented bishop. In conjunction with the Right Reverend John J. McCort, then his auxiliary bishop, to aid him in the work which had become too arduous for his enfeebled health, feeling that there existed a necessity for an institution for the care of infants and children of tender years, he established in Ebensburg in the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, formerly the Mother House of that Order in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, a Home for Infants, opened about the beginning of the year 1920. Pope Pius IX., while yet plain Father Giovanni Mastai Ferretti, had by his great charity in providing institutions for the care of orphan children endeared himself so much in the estimation of his flock as to be known by them by the sobriquet of Tata Giovanni ("Daddy John"). Well might the late Bishop Garvey be affectionately denominated "Daddy Eugene." [Page 83 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] Not only was Bishop Garvey anxiously solicitious for the salvation of souls, but as a means to that end, he was deeply concerned about their temporal welfare. He strenuously condemned the deprivation of laborers by their employers of any part of their earnings. He wished all to be well housed, well fed and well clothed. In this connection he once in a public address in Johnstown opposed the levying of a tariff on wool imported into this country from abroad, which deprived the poor from procuring good warm clothes for themselves and their children. While solicitous for the decency of divine worship, the writer heard him advise people not to impoverish themselves by building churches beyond their means. Especially was he opposed to tall steeples, believing that a low tower with a spire of moderate elevation surmounted by the Sign of the Cross amply sufficient. That he was not anxious to hoard wealth is evinced by the fact that his estate after his death hardly approximated $500; but he undoubtedly had laid up much treasure in Heaven. Rt. Rev. John Joseph McCort, D. D., Second Bishop of the Diocese of Altoona. Rt. Rev. John Joseph McCort, D. D., was born in Philadelphia. He was educated for the priesthood at the Seminary of St. Charles Barromeo in that city, and was ordained to the priesthood by Rt. Rev. Jeremiah Shanahan, Bishop of Harrisburg, on October 14, 1883, and for sixteen years thereafter held a professorship in his alma mater, when he was appointed rector of Our Mother of Sorrows church, Philadelphia. On September 19, 1912, he vas consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, and along with the duties of this important office, he continued to serve as rector of Our Mother of Sorrows parish until March, 1920, when the late Bishop Eugene A. Garvey, on count of failing health, applied for a Coadjutor, when he came to Altoona. Since coming to Altoona, the duties of Bishop McCort have been many and arduous. Along with Bishop Garvey he labored strenuously to found St. Joseph's Home for Infants in Ebensburg, which was opened after the death if Bishop Garvey in January, 1921. In October, 1920, upon the death of Bishop Garvey, he, by virtue of the right of succession, became Bishop of Altoona. Since that time his endeavors to provide a cathed- [Page 84 - History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa.] ral for the diocese, has been one of the projects to which he has devoted his earnest efforts and which purpose gives promise of realization in the near future. Seeing the great need of Catholic high-schools to complete the preparatory education of the boys and girls of the diocese to enter colleges and academies, a building is now under way in the city of Altoona and another building is being erected in the city of Johnstown. In these schools those who have graduated from the numerous parochial schools of the diocese, who so desire, may prepare for admission into the higher institutions of learning - the academies, colleges and seminaries. The education imparted in these high schools will fit the graduates for the ordinary avocations of life, even without any additional education. St. John's Home for Boys and St. Mary's Home for Girls at Summit, Cambria County, are becoming, it is said, overcrowded, and additional buildings will in all probability be needed in there in the near future. The Infants' Home at Ebensburg is said to contain upwards of 50 infants and that institution will soon need enlargement. En passant, the writer desires to state that those contemplating the erection of buildings for school purposes should first visit the capacious school building erected by Father Garret Welch at Portage. The writer has visited many school buildings both of public and parochial schools, but never before saw one which so well filled the requirements of sanitation, the admission of light, and every other requisite of a modern school building. That Bishop McCort is deservedly popular, probably far beyond his expectations, was evinced by the grand ovation given to him in the city of Altoona on the occasion of his recent return from his trip to Europe in company with Rev. Fr. Jose P H. Farran, of St. Augustine. Long may he live to see the fruition of his hopes, ere he shall be called to enjoy in Heaven the reward of his great labors in the Vineyard of the Lord here on Earth! **