Rev. C. E. O-Flaherty


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REV. C. E. O'FLAHERTY, of Kimball, Brule county, is one of the 
able and well-known young priests of the Catholic church in this diocese 
and is doing an admirable work in his holy calling as a missionary in a 
wide territory. He was born on the 24th of April, 1878, in the City of 
Galway, Ireland, where his parents still reside. His earlier studies 
were made at Wilton College, Cork, and his theological education was 
begun at the Seminary of Foreign Missions, Lyons, France, and later 
completed in this country. He was ordained a priest by Bishop O'Gorman 
at Sioux Falls on the 15th of September, 1901, and was assigned to his 
present charge on September 22, 1901, the same extending over the 
greater part of Brule and Lyman counties. His ambition to advance the 
work and influence of his church in these frontier counties has brought 
him prominently before the public in his locality. Within his two years' 
incumbency of this position a beautiful rectory has been erected in 
Kimball, a church edifice completed in Pukwana, and the St. James church 
in Chamberlain erected at a cost of five thousand dollars, the same 
being the most beautiful public building in that thriving town. In 
addition to this a little church has been built at Iona, in Lyman 
county, and two more are soon to be built in the same county and under 
the direction of Father O'Flaherty, who, as may readily be understood, 
has few idle moments.