Biographical Sketch of Rev. John J. McMAHON; Philadelphia Co., PA

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"Philadelphia, A History of the City and its People; A Record of 225 Years"
Publisher:  S. H. Clark; Philadelphia; 1912.     Vol. 3, page 266
Author, Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
 
REV. JOHN J. McMAHON
     Rev. John J. McMahon, assistant pastor of the Church of the Assumption, was 
born in St. Clair, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1875.  His 
father, Patrick McMahon, a native of Ireland, came to the United States at the 
age of seventeen years and died at the age of seventy-six.
     Rev. McMahon supplemented his early education by study in the La Salle 
College of Philadelphia, and spent two years in Niagara University and nine 
years in St. Charles Seminary at Overbrook.  He took holy orders on the 30th of 
May, 1905, being ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Prendergast at Overbrook.  
He spent seven months as assistant pastor in St. Charles church in Philadelphia, 
and was afterward for three years assistant pastor at Holy Spirit church at 
Sharon Hill.  Later he was assigned to St. Joseph's church in Reading, 
Pennsylvania, where he continued for eight months, after which he came to his 
present parish.  Here he has zealously and earnestly labored for the promotion 
of Catholicism.  He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and also of the 
Philophrian, a Philadelphia organization.