History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . ST. AGNES CHURCH, IRON RIVER, equally divided between Poles and Bo-hemians. The decline of lumber indus-tries in the city caused a considerable re-duction among these. To recompensehim for the loss Father Papon receivedBirch Creek as a mission. Finding thecountry life congenial he removed to thatplace and attends, from there to bothplaces every Sunday. Birch Cr
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . ST. AGNES CHURCH, IRON RIVER, equally divided between Poles and Bo-hemians. The decline of lumber indus-tries in the city caused a considerable re-duction among these. To recompensehim for the loss Father Papon receivedBirch Creek as a mission. Finding thecountry life congenial he removed to thatplace and attends, from there to bothplaces every Sunday. Birch Creek, has a church, dedicatedto the Blessed Trinity. It was built bythe people themselves and blessed in rectory was built by Father Papon. 326 HISTORY Of THE DIOCESE OF STEPHENSON. PRECIOUS BLOOD. The lumbermen and few scatteredfarmers first drew the attention of FatherFox, then stationed in Spalding, to Steph-enson. Being detailed to look after thespiritual welfare of Catholics scattered allover the Menominee Range he found hisway to Stephenson in September 1878,. REV. JAMES LENHART, PH. D., BORN AT CAMBERG,NASSAU, DECEMBER 28, 187I, ORDAINED INMARQUETTE, JULY $, 1894, BY BISHOP VERTIN. where many men were employed by theseveral lumber industries and not a fewfarmers, attracted by the richness of thesoil, had already made their homes veteran missionary at once saw inthese two factors permanency to thesmall village. In the little school house hegathered the willing ones, said Mass and preached to them teaching their childrento love God, their neighbor and theircountry. His unselfish zeal imbued themwith sacrifices on their part and the re-sult of mutual labors was a small J. B. Goodman, now of Chicago, do-nated three lots and by the end of the year1879 the quaint little church, overlooked,like a watchtower, the busy camp to theNorth. For five years the pastors fromSpalding held it as a mission, and wentthere every Sunday to say Mass. OnAugust 19, 1
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