Rev. Arthur John Schneider Biography


	This biography appears on page 45 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				REV. ARTHUR JOHN SCHNEIDER.  

	Rev. Arthur John Schneider, pastor of St. Mary's of Perpetual 
Help at Marion, was born in Centerville, Wisconsin, on the 18th of 
June, 1882, a son of Louis and Augusta Schneider. The father was a 
merchant and both he and his wife survive. Rev. Arthur J. Schneider was 
educated in the parochial schools of Wisconsin, in St. Francis 
Seminary, where he pursued his study of the classics and in St. Paul's 
Seminary of St. Paul, where he studied theology. He was ordained to the 
priesthood in 1908 by Archbishop Ireland and was first appointed as a 
missionary at Parker, South Dakota, where he remained for a year. In 
1909 he removed to Marion, at which time there was but a small frame 
church in the town. In the years which have since intervened he has 
carried the work of the church steadily forward and he erected the 
present beautiful brick edifice at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. 
There are sixty families in the congregation at Marion and eighty 
children in the school, being taught by six sisters of St. Francis. The 
school is in a flourishing condition and the work of the church has 
been carefully organized and is bringing forth good results. In 
addition to ministering to the needs of his parish, Rev. Schneider also 
attends Monroe, an out mission with twenty-five families.  

	Father Schneider holds membership with the Knights of Columbus at 
Mitchell. He is much interested in South Dakota and her welfare, 
especially in inducing good families to locate in this state. He is a 
broad-minded and progressive man, and studies the vital and significant 
problems of the age, as well as those which have to do directly with 
theology and the upbuilding of the church.