. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. worked for a Mr. Blair as a packer
. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. worked for a Mr. Blair as a packer andbutcher until 1865. when he again came to Kansas. His father came to this Statein 1865. Mr. Coughlin was married in Kansas City in 1868, by Rev. Father Donnelly,to Miss Bridget McLaughlin, his Crawfordsville, Indiana, sweetheart, who facedthe hardships of the early days with her husband, uncomplainingly, and who washer husbands best inspiration. Privations then were many and comforts and necessities few, but there wouldhave been no pioneering, no development of the sturdy pioneer character, if thishad not been true. He brought practically nothing with him to Kansas excepthis determined purpose, his sturdy character and the integrity that illuminatedhis whole life and which are characteristic of his family. The prairie cabinswere few and widely scattered, and when he went away from home at night hehung a lantern at his cabin door to guide his return. He walked to Leavenworthfor his provisions and carried them home on his back. Finally he became th^. THOMAS COUGHLIN. 206 THE HISTORY OF OUR CRADLE LAND proud possessor of a pony, and by working an occasional day for the neighborpioneers, he secured the use of another pony with which to break up his prairiefarm and get part of it planted. From this humble beginning, by slow degrees,with what we now regard as the hardships of pioneer life, but which were thenconsidered merely the incidents necessary in the countrys development, ca
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