Columban Bregenzer Biography


	This biography appears on page 786 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				COLUMBAN BREGENZER.  

	Columban Bregenzer, in charge of the Catholic church at Sturgis, 
was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, August 21, 1864, a son of Thomas and 
Mary (Meyer) Bregenzer, who were also natives of Wurtemberg, the former 
born in 1828 a ml the latter July 6, 1833. They never came to America 
and the father, who was a carpenter by trade and also served as 
coroner, died in the year 1911, having long survived his wife who 
passed away in 1884.  

	Columban Bregenzer attended the parochial schools for a number of 
years and spent four years as a high-school pupil in Germany. He 
studied philosophy and theology at Conception, Missouri, where he 
continued his education between the years 1892 and 1900. He taught in 
the college at Conception, Missouri, for two years and also did mission 
work. In 1902 he went to Sturgis and has since been in charge of the 
Catholic church at that place.