Rev. Lawrence Link Biography

	This biography appears on page 992 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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REV. LAWRENCE LINK is a native of Germany, having been born in the 
province of Wurtemberg on the 5th of August, 1869. He received his 
preliminary educational discipline in the fatherland and at the age of 
fourteen years he came to America and passed two years with his 
relatives in Pennsylvania, and then came to Yankton, South Dakota, where 
he was under the instruction and episcopal guidance of Bishop Marty for 
one year, at the expiration of which he entered St. Thomas' College, at 
Marriam Park, St. Paul, where he completed his theological course, being 
ordained to the priesthood on the 2d of July, 1894, at Sioux Falls. His 
first charge comprised the towns of Hartford, Huntimer, Wellington and 
Garretson, this state, while he maintained his residence in Sioux Falls. 
In September of the same year Father Link was transferred to Tyndall, 
where he remained for a brief interval, at the expiration of which he 
was called to Yankton to assume charge of Sacred Heart church during the 
absence of the regular pastoral incumbent, Father Edward Jones, who was 
absent on a vacation. After the return of Father Jones the subject 
remained as his assistant until March 1, 1895, when the former was 
transferred to another charge and Father Link succeeded him in the 
pastoral charge of this parish, where he has since labored.