History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . o wasdestroyed by the terrible eruption of MountPelee. After six years of educational workhere. Father Gres returned to France andser\-ed eight years as a missionary priest. In 1892, Father Gres came to Americaand located at Detroit, Michigan, where he wasassigiied as assistant pastor of St. JoachimsChurch, and remained in this connection untilJune, 1894, when he came to Bay City asassistant to Father J. Roth and later to FatherF. J. M. Michael Dangelzer. In 1900 he wasappointed pastor of St. Josephs parish and isnow rounding out
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . o wasdestroyed by the terrible eruption of MountPelee. After six years of educational workhere. Father Gres returned to France andser\-ed eight years as a missionary priest. In 1892, Father Gres came to Americaand located at Detroit, Michigan, where he wasassigiied as assistant pastor of St. JoachimsChurch, and remained in this connection untilJune, 1894, when he came to Bay City asassistant to Father J. Roth and later to FatherF. J. M. Michael Dangelzer. In 1900 he wasappointed pastor of St. Josephs parish and isnow rounding out his nth year in Bay Gres has taught himself the Englishlanguage. His pastorate has been markedwith large accessions to the church, with a greatincrease in the church school and with addedenthusiasm among the people. A new churchwill soon be erected, the financial affairs of theparish being in a most prosperous condition. Rev. Alphonsus Coignard, assistant priest,was born in Normandy, France, in 1874, waseducated at Mortain, France, where he gradu-. HON. CHESTER L. COLLINS AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 421 ated in 1892. He then joined the Society of theHoly Ghost in the same year. In 1897 he was•ordained at Baltimore, Maryland, by His Emi-nence, Cardinal Gibbons, as subdeacon and asdeacon. In February, 1898. he was ordained tothe priesthood under Archbishop Ryan, atPhiladelphia. Father Coignard taught theology at severalpoints for two years and then was sent as priestto Chippewa Falls, A\isconsin. In 1900 hecame to Bay City as assistant to Father Gres,when the latter assumed full charge of thisparish. Both these reverend gentlemen arelearned, pious men, whose churchly zeal is only•equaled by their manly, consecrated, unselfish,Christian individual lives. The academy in connection with St. Jo-sephs Church is managed by the DominicanSisters, a body of holy women whose reputa-tion for piety and scholarship extends over theworld. Nearly all grades are accommodatedhere
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