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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Father Michael Joseph Qurik, father Edwin b. Co. Cork
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:18:10 -0500


FYI- I am not related...

Biographical and Historical Record of Greene and Carroll Counties,
Iowa...Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1887

Michael Joseph Quirk, pastor of Grand Junction Catholic church, was born in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 29, 1838, son of Edwin Quirk, of Delaware
County Iowa, who was born in Cork, Ireland, and is over one hundred years
old. He is still hale and vigorous. His mother was Joanna Shane, a native of
Quebec, Canada. The father was in Chicago when there was nothing to indicate
the future great city except the barracks and a tavern. Our subject was
educated at St. Mary's Seminary in Perry County, Missouri, and at St.
Vincent's College at Cape Girardeau, and in St. Thomas' Seminary at
Bardstown, Kentucky. He received his theological education at St. Frances'
Theological College of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating there in 1870. He
was ordained at Dubuque in November 1870, by Bishop Hennessy. After his
ordination he went to Clayton county and took charge of mission work in that
and adjoining counties until the fall of 1875, when he went to Rickersville,
this State, and built a house of worship, being the first resident priest in
that place. In the spring of 1877 he went to St. Rose's in Fayette County,
where he had much hard work to do. He finished the church and organized
other churches, besides establishing a parochial school there. He came to
Grand Junction in September, 1879, and has built up a good congregation. He
is building a fine brick church, and has six other appointments besides the
one in Grand Junction. He is a very hard worker in the cause of
Christianity, sparing neither time nor means to further its interest.

Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/


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