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L.A. Carroll
REV. FATHER L.A. CARROLL, priest in charge of St. Mary�s Catholic Church
at Kittanning, was born July 9, 1873, at Allegheny City, Pa., son of Michael
and Catherine (Campbell) Carroll. The parents were born in County Down,
Ireland, and came to the United States in the sixties, during the Civil war.
Mr. Carroll became a traveling salesman, and continued in that line for many
years.Father Caroll attended public school in the fifteenth ward of Allegheny
City, and later at Herman, Butler Co., Pa., and is a graduate of the college
of St. Fidelis, at Herman. From there he entered St. Vincent Seminary, in
Westmoreland county, Pa., where he completed his theological studies, and he
was ordained priest at Connellsville, Pa., continuing there for two years,
when he was transferred to Wilkinsburg, and still later was placed in charge
of the church at West Newton, Pa. During the great strike at Monessen, Pa., he
was in charge of the Catholic Church there, and for a time was assistant
priest at Irwin, Pa. During the Typhoid epidemic at Butler, Pa., he was
transferred to that city, and did heroic work among the sick and dying,
working day and night regardless of creed. Probably no man did more to relieve
suffering, soothe the pillow of the dying, and finally stamp out the disease,
than he. His heroism, kindness of heart and purpose and knowledge of sanitary
requirements will long be remembered by the grateful people of Butler. In 1904
he was placed in charge of St. Mary�s at Kittanning. Here, as elsewhere, his
efforts have been rewarded, for the parrish is in a flourishing condition.
When he took charge his congregation consisted of about forty families, but at
present he has two hundred enrolled as members of the church. In 1907 he built
a parochial school edifice, a four-room brick structure, with four sisters of
St. Joseph as teachers. There are two hundred pupils in the school. The church
building has been greatly improved by interior decorating and exterior
painting. An earnest, devout man, Father Carroll is also a good business
manager, and his parish shows the results of his energy and foresight on every
side.Source: Pages 904-905, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed November 1998 by Nanci Michalkiewicz for the Armstrong County
Beers Project
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