Obituary: Portage County, Wisconsin: Rev. Anthony J. ABB 

Gazette (Stevens Point) January 20, 1909 (Wed.) 

Former Pastor Dead  

Rev. A.J. Abb., who was assistant pastor of St. Stephen's church 
in this city for five years, commencing in 1879, when Rev. N. July, 
now of Stockbridge, Calumet county, was pastor, died at the Sisters' 
hospital in Green Bay, Monday morning.  Death was due to dropsy of the 
heart, with which he had been ill and gradually failing for the past 
two years.  

Anthony J. Abb was born in New York city and would have been 62 years 
of age on the 17th of next June.  He was the oldest in a large family.  
They came to Wisconsin in 1861, locating at Meeme, Manitowoc county, 
where both of the parents died.  After attending the local school, 
Father Abb entered Calvary seminary, thereafter studying in theological 
schools in Indiana, at St. Cloud, Minn., and Buffalo, N.Y., graduating 
at the latter place in 1872, and was ordained to the priesthood by 
Bishop Foley of Chicago.  After his ordination he assisted for a time 
in the cathedral at Green Bay and wat then assigned as postor of the 
church at Morristown, Brown county, coming to Stevens Point, as said 
before, in 1879.  

After leaving here Father Abb was pastor at Portage and Briggsville, 
and then went to Green Bay, where for a number of years he had been 
chaplain at the Orphans' Home, the Home of The Good Shepherd and other 
Catholic institutions.  He is survived by five brothers, Michael and 
George of Kaukauna, Frank of this city, Joseph of Houghton, Mich., and 
Roman of Meeme, and one sister, Mrs. Rose Kifferl of Green Bay.  
Father Abb was a kind, courteous gentleman, a sincere, devout follower 
of the Savious, in whose work he spent his entire life. 

The funeral took place from the cathedral in Green Bay at 10 o'clock 
this forenoon and was very largely attended.  His brother, Frank Abb, 
left for that city yesterday and Rev. W.J. Rice, pastor of St. Stephen's 
church, was also among the large number of clergymen present.

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