Catholic priest, Franciscan missionary, b. Roesebeck, Prussia. He joined the Franciscan Order in 1873, and in 1875 migrated to the U.S. In 1880 he was ordained in the Catholic priesthood at St. Louis, Mo. He was missionary to the Chippewa Indians at Superior (1880-1885) and to the Menominee at Keshena (1885-1897). In this capacity he helped found St. Joseph's Indian Industrial School at Keshena. He later left the state, but returned to Wisconsin in 1924 to do missionary work at Bayfield and after 1930 at Superior. Milwaukee Cath. Herald, Sept. 20, 1934; Commem. Biog. Record of the Upper Wis. Cos. . . . (Chicago, 1895); [H. H. Heming], Oath. Church in Wis. (Milwaukee, 1895--1898).Learn More
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