Middleton, O.S.A., Father Thomas C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to James F. Edwards Notre Dame, Indiana, 1898 August 09

He is engaged in writing a paper on early Catholicity in northern New York, especially at Carthage where one Father Michael E. Clarke was rector for 40 years. Clarke was ordained in Indiana, but Middelton wants to know where, when, and by whom. He also asks for data on Father John Farnan who died in Detroit about 1849. Pencil note in Edwards' hand): Clarke was ordained at Vincennes by Bishop de la Hailandiere; he came with the Eudists from Rennes, 1839; first pastor of LaFayette; ordained about 1843. Further note: This is not the man.

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