Rev. James J. Dunn    

REV. JAMES J. DUNN, pastor of St. Bridget’s Church, Meadville, was born in Malahide, Dublin Co., Ireland, June 9, 1841; arrived in Baltimore, Md., in 1849; entered Mt. St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Md., August 24, 1857; graduated at the same institution June, 1863, receiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; entered the seminary attached to the college in the fall of the same year and was ordained by Bishop Quinlan of Mobile for the diocese of Erie, in the church attached to the college, on October 28, 1866; remained for one year attached to the college as Adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek; entered upon missionary work at Oil City, Penn., October, 1867, was placed in charge of the congregation at Petroleum Center in June, 1868, and transferred to the charge of St. Bridget’s Church, Meadville, March 4, 1874.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 735.   View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free Trial  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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