. 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. REV. EUGENE F. VALLDLY. 194 THE HIS


. 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. REV. EUGENE F. VALLDLY. 194 THE HISTORY OF OUR CRADLE LAND the public spirited citizens of the town. He has settled down to work likea native of Kansas, although, as his record will show, he is a product ofthe Eastern schools and an alumnus of a NeAv York college. Rev. Eugene F. Vallely was born in Reynoldsville, Pa., December23, 1888, but was raised in Du Bois, Pa., where he attended the gradeand high schools of St. Catherines church, graduated in June, 1906. Inthe fall of 1906 he entered St. Bonaventures College, Allegany, NewYork, and received his A. B. degree in 1911. He made his theologicalcourse in the same institution and was ordained by Bishop Ward in Church, Atchison, Kansas, April 3, 1914. He sang his first. THE NEW ST. PHILIPS CHURCH AKD SCHOOL. Solemn High Mass at Du Bois, Pa., Easter Sunday, April 12, 1914. Father Vallely was then assigned as assistant at St. Thomas Church,Armourdale, Kansas City, Kansas, where he remained till September 1,1914, when he was transferred to St. Marys Church, Kansas City, Kansas,as assistant to Rev. Alexander Jennings. Upon the illness of Father Jen-nings in November, 1915, he assumed charge of the parish and continuedduring the illness and after the death of Father Jennings until Septem-ber 1, 1916, when Father Burk assumed the rectorate of St. St. Marys he went to Leavenworth as Chaplain of St. VincentsHome and Rector of St. Francis de Sales,


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