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"When Father Kelly left in 1887, Father Lawrence H. Burns came to stay for 27 years. He directed the building of a much larger church in 1893, dedicated to the Sacred Heart in November 1893 by Bishop Joseph B. Cotter of Winona, Minnesota. In 1897…

"The Church of Saint John is eight miles northeast of Cascade and four miles south of Epworth. The two-acre church plot was given by a Protestant neighbor named Hooper. Father John Hawe directed the building of the first church in 1874 and cared for…

"Father James Saunders directed the building of the New Haven church and then saw to the building of the Riceville church. In the early spring of 1879 funds were collected by Pat Mulick and John Dargan. Among those who were generous toward the…

"When Father Henry P. Rohlman, a member of the Archdiocesan Mission Band, conducted a two weeks’ mission in a borrowed church in January 1909, the area Catholics decided to form a parish. Before Father Rohlman left Rockford, the people appointed Paul…

“Father Patrick F. Farrelly was appointed to Saint Rose Parish in 1876 or 1877, he became their first resident pastor in 1877. Father Byrne directed the building of a two-story frame school in 1882, a long building with only one room on each floor.…

“Before building a frame church in 1887, the Catholics of La Porte City in Black Hawk County gathered for monthly Mass in the home of Peter Trost whenever Father Thomas F. O’Brien visited them from his Eagle Center Parish. These pioneers built a…

“Immaculate Conception Parish came into existence early in the history of the archdiocese because the town of Lansing in northeast Iowa was an important trading and shipping center on the great waterway of the Mississippi. The Catholics in that area…

“During Father Kelly’s pastorate the people of Forest City also decided to build a church. Just before the church was completed, Father James P. Taken was appointed pastor of Forest City and Lake Mills with his residence in Forest City. Father Taken…

“Catholics residing southwest of Dubuque, in Mosalem and Table Mound Townships, were organized into a parish in 1872 by Father Thomas J. O’Reilly, a priest of the Cathedral in Dubuque. Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and Bishop Mathias Loras had celebrated…

“When Father Patrick Burke was appointed pastor of Independence to succeed Father Gosker in 1878, he planned a church for Jesup congregation. It was built in 1880 and dedicated to Saint Athanasius. That year Father Peter O’Dowd succeeded Father Burke…