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THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1939Ithe commercial, dyersviRises To(Continued from page two)Topchurch, and offered up his firstprayers for his young congregation-After offering up Holy Mass thefirst few times during the winter* New \ ienna, took care of Dyers- * and during the Sacrifice seeing the \iHe as an out-mission until a per- j snowflakes blowing in through themanent pastor should be appointed.'crentes of the new building andIn 1$$*) he opened the first bap*«feeling the intense cold until his tismai registry for the parish. This 1 fingers became numb- be deter-register comprised twelve records * mined to compleie the church as in i860 and two in 1S61, and all i soon as possible. The congregation were written in Latin. The Eng-; be:eg composed of pioneers and lish translation of a few appear • immigrants, was of course poor, herewith: j fcUl working energetically he soonNo. 1 February' 11. 1S69 I bap-: managed to ha*e the little churchtized Francis Herman Luthmers, plastered and painted; and m dueborn February 6, S60. of Francis 2t assumed the appearance ofFerdinand and Elizabeth Catherine *- worth* house of God. From thenLu tinners. The sponsors were onward the congregation toiitinuedFrank Yorwaid and A. Marv Meis. an a steady march of progress. InJ Orth, Missionary 2S*o, the church was enlarged b\No. L Feb»-anr n ^69 I baL- an extension* the duplicate of its .xg. •*. '«•----* *l oap- ^ ,Abo!eczed Louis Henry Henry born M “ . ’ . * . .February 8. im of and b«* measure one hundredMary Theresa Heary. Spoasow f!siu Mere Raphael B^rkleand Elizabeit 'henHoLreher 1church would be large enough forJ Orth, Missionary. hls Parish as ^ng 33 *e Bvlt;d* **1 manv lears later, however, heNo. 10. September 29, I860. I ‘realized iliai the church had again baptized Mary Higgins, born Sep-; b^.ome loo smal,: on ©rdinarv Sno-lenibtr 11, 1K0, of Daniel and days aot one four,h of the peopleBridget H'ggins. Sponsors 'vere;cou;d gain access ever* for stand-Michael Donahue and Mary Lee. j mg And final years wereJ. Orth, Missionary. j speiu ^ making preparations for the No 14 October 7, 1S61, I baptiz- \ budding of the present capacious ed Francis Wascfce, born October j and beautiful church. In 2S72, heassistant priest In the autumn erf jl887. the Bishop sent him the Rev. erend Joseph Bnnkniazm. in whom he found in these his List years, a most faithful assistant. It was now' Father Kcrtenkamp's com. taut prajer that he might 2i\e 10 see the new church dedicated- But God in His wisdom decreed otherwise. On Saturday, September 14, 188$ the zealous priest gave up his soul into the hands of Almighty! God. He had been the faithful pastor of Dxersviile for over twenty* | seven years. Having been a priest ! possessed of more than ordinary \ talents and gifts, imbued with a «deep zeal for God's glory a Lid the ‘Church's progress, and endowed3 w i t h a sweet disposition and ’fatherly chanty, it was but naturalthat his passing should have caused4 keen and intense sorrow In bis large congregation, among the members of which during his pastorate, he had solemnized about two hundred marriages, officiated at about tour hundred funerals, and baptized two thousand persons.Father Kortenkamp’s funeral was the last one Conducted from me old St- Francis Church.6. 1861, of Francis and Anna AVas-che Sponsors were Dorothy Kesch and Simon Scbermer.J. Orth. Missionary.The following entry is that of the first Baptism by Father Eorcen-kamp in the Dyersvi lie parish.erected a parsonage.In addition to the duties of bis parish. Father Kortenkamp, like the zealous worker he was, also attended to the missions near Dyers* ville. For seven years he acted as missionary-pastor of the church at| dehotf, Mary Jane Flynn. Joseph jxachtmazm, Cecilia Kimpgeist, ;Mary Higgins, Anna Holscher, ; Henry Goerdt, Elisabeth Katzberg, I Valentine Steinacher Herman Lam pert, Joseph Lippert* Elisabeth Zoelluer.Miss Sher, after having made a successful and historic beginning of present large Dyersxifle parochial schools, resigned her position at the end of the term. Late in the fall of 1S6L Mr. Ralph Bor-kle took charge of the sehooL In 1*65, a splendid frame school-* house w as built south of the church, and into this Prof- Burkle and the pupils moxed in the latter pan of that year. In the fall of 1SSS, Mr. Burkle retired from his position to take up agricultural 1 pursuits. He was followed by Professor Dressing who taught the ; school for the two following years.In ]70. Professor August Dor-:nes, formerly of Dubuque, became ^ the teacher, and continued in that scapacity until fee was succeeded jbv ib* Sisters of SL Francis.Each of these teachers duringthe period of service acted also asTHE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLNo. 15 February A. 1S62, I bap- ; Worth augton; und he often gave tszed Margaret Holscher, born | divine services at Delhi. He February 3, 1S62 of Henry and.*as further the first priest to be Bernadiae Holscher. Sponsors were dulv authorized to establish theBernard Holscher and Margaret Schulz.Anton Kortenkamp, Pastor.Father KortenkampThe Right Rev erend Clement Smyth appointed to the pastorate of St Francis Church Rev. Anthonycongregation at Luxemburg, ten miles north of Dyers ville. 'Since the Catholic settlers in these first years were widely sc altered. Father Kortenkamp occasionally drove, miles and miles to attend sick-calls; and it happened more than once in the earlyKortenkamp and the latter arrived days that when out on these duuesm Dyers ville on February 2. 1S62. He found a pretty brick church externally complete, but with itsduring the night, he was tradedby the howling wolves of the online. On one occasion when hei..Interior bare and empty- The con- was called in the spring of me year gregation was still in its infancy j io Buffalo Creek about twenty miles and as an infant did he nourish it j to the south west, he was almost for twenty-seven long j ears, until i drowned in attempting to cross a before his death be saw it a strong I swollen stream. The water was so and flourishing parish. intensely cold that as a result, heFather Kortenkamp w?c one of those pioneer priests who realized that for The success of a modern Catholic parish, a parochial school was absolutely essential. Among the members of his congregation hefGund willing response to the appeal for the establishment of such a school. Miss Mary Scher was engaged as the first teacher; she was engaged also as organist and as caretaker of the altar, for all these services sac* received the salary cf twenty five dollars a month. In the second week of October, 1S63, Miss Scher commenced the school in a rccm which Maurice Fink rented for that purpose in his humble dwelling In East Dyersvi lie; ; the rent was donated by Mr. Fink. Mrs Joseph Lembeck furnished the school with plain desks, the number of pupils In the beginning was fifteen and grew to twenty-five by Christmas. Thereupon the school was iuo\ed to a square frame-house south of the church: and before the end of this term the number of pupils reached forty. These children of the opesx-{organist and cboir-director. It is i interesting therefore to read the J following which appeared in the ] Dyers ville Commercial, November,15, 1S75:“The parishioners of St- Francis j church have put in their large and ! commodious church at this place.lone of the finest pipe organs inone Ol uie iiueav —!the state. It costs in the neighbor-Falher Kortenkamp was born near Muenster. Westphalia, Ger-nanv. March 13,1S34. In IS4S. whenbecame afflicted with a severe rheumauc disease; and when he resumed his duties after a longfourteen yeans of age. he catered ! illness he suffered from a lameness the Gymnasium at Muenster for J from which he never recovered the study of the classics, and iater j During the following years his on the University of Muenste- for lt;lameness was much increased and his theological course. He came to j his rheumatism became acute, ana Dubuque in 1861. and on November j when in 1SS5, dropsy set in, his 4. of the same year he was ordained ; complication of physical ills wasmg year w ere:August Bisping. Elizabeth Bis-ping, Bernard Bisping, Frank Och-senkebJe. Lena Ochsenkehle, Mary Ochsenkehle. Lena Henry, Lud-Henry, Albert Henry, AntonI hood of $1,800, but it is an orna jment and a convenience that they Shave long felt m great need of. land we are glad lo congratulate i them upon their success in secur-i Ing so fine an instrument. It is of very powerful and harmonious tone and fills the church with melody \ when operated by\ the skillful j hands of that excellent musician, j Prof. A. Domes.’* i The steady growth of the school \ made It necessary to secure a larg-I er building; so in 1S76 Father ! Kortenkamp erected, what was \ ihen judged to be a commodious br:ck sehoolhouse, m front of the ‘ frame building. This gave the chib jdreu four large rooms and provid-ied a residence for the Sisters in I the frame division, j In the meantime Father Korten-ikamn had completed arrangementsiwith the Sisters of St- Francis to\\ito the holy priesthood by the Most Rex erend Bishop of DjouQde. Clement Smyth.most serious.Because of h^s illness the increase of his parochial duties andduWhen he arrived in Dyersville, j the work in connec^on with the cmg February's wintry blasts, he • contemplated new church building.entered the cold and uncomfortable be asked Bishop Hennessy ror anLembeck. Louise Lembeck, Michael Braun. Anna Burkie, Mary Lip-pert. Anna Schumacher, Joseph Schemmel. Herman Schultz, John Schultz, George Prachner, Frank Prachner.Daniel Cunningham, George Cunningham. Mary Cunningham, Anthony Krantzberg. John Ballinger, Catherine Drexler, Elisabeth Koons, John Higgins, Mary Woer-I teach in the newly erected schooL j These Sisters arrived from their iMotherhouse in Iowa City shortly j before Christmas- 1S76, and the ! next month entered upon their j duties. These pioneer religious | women were Sister Anna, Sister JEditha and Sister Clara, who also 1 acted as church organist.* Toe school soon became very popular and was well patronized by jithe Catholics of Dyersville. After the demise of Father Kortenkamp, ’Father George W. Heer, the new pastor added Professor M. J. Knip-(Continuea On Page Four)
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