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* Source 1 : History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio
Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881
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Source 2:
Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio
Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892
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EDWARD
JOSEPH VATTMANN, Roman Catholic Priest, Canal Fulton;
was born in Westphalia, Prussia; he is one of a family of
four children, one of whom is a Circuit Court Judge, and
another Color Sergeant in a Uhlan regiment of the land of
his birth. After attending the public schools of his
native place until he was 11 years of age, our subject
entered the Gymnasium and made a complete course of nine
years, when he graduated at the age of 20 years; he then
studied medicine one year, after which he commenced a
regular philosophical and theological course in Paderborn
University, and i three years graduated: he was then
ordained a Deacon of the Catholic Church. He emigrated
to America in the fall of 1864, and proceeded to St.
Charles, Mo., where, after a short service as an assistant,
he became parish priest of St. John's congregation, Franklin
Co., Mo.; he remained in his charge about two years, within
which he bought the Presbyterian Church building at the
county seat, and fitted it up for a Roman Catholic Church;
it was while he was located at St. John's that he became
amenable to the law known as "Drake's test oath law," under
which he and about forty other Catholic priests, upon
refusal to take this oath of allegiance to the United States
Government, were incarcerated in the public jails; having
been released on his own recognizance, he was never
afterward called upon to answer before the court. On
the expiration of his service in Franklin Co., Mo., he was
appointed to a charge at Findlay, Ohio, where he remained
about two years, and built St. Nicholas' Church, as a cost
of $15,000; during his stay there, he attended mission
stations at Fostoria (where he built a parsonage), at
Winter's, at Carey (where he laid the corner-stone of a new
church edifice), and at Bluffton; he was next appointed to
Dungannon, Columbiana Co., Ohio, where he remained about
eight years, and during his services there he established a
Catholic school, which he placed in charge of sixteen
"Sisters of Divine Providence," who had been banished from
Mayence, Germany, by the Government, and over this school
Father Vattmann was appointed Superior; at the
close of his pastorate in Dungannon, he removed to Canal
Fulton, where he has built a fine parsonage, and officiates
as Pastor at mission stations, among which may be mentioned
Marshallville, Orrville, Manchester, Fairview, Medina,
Russell, North Lawrence and several others; he has a school
in connection with the congregation, which numbers about one
hundred and twenty pupils, and employs as teachers only
those who are qualified to pass examination by the County
Board of Examiners. Father Vattmann is an
enthusiastic and efficient worker in the important position
he occupies and as a Pastor and preacher has achieved great
success; his manners are genial, education superior, has
fine administrative and executive ability, and is popular
with all classes of the community in which he resides.
~ Page 792 - Lawrence Twp. - History of Stark County:
with an outline sketch of Ohio - Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 |
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