The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

14th of August, 1873, thirty-four years
ago next month. Father Kelly's stay
in Salt Lake had been brief, and but
Father Patrick Walsh, my predecessor,
had had opportunity for noble and sue
cessful work. Barring the few addi-
tons afterward put on it, the church
of st. Mary stood then practically as
it stands now. The congregation
turned over to me was small; indeed.
the regular communicates numbered
only about a dozen souls. During the
first year | never had more than fifty
people in my audience, but they were
the same liberal givers that ] had
found among the primitive mining
camps in Nevada. Among those whom
/ can readily recOllect to whom the
church owes the great debt in its
early days and who were members OF
Patrick Walsh's congregation when 1
arrived. were Mrs. Marshall, the widow
of Judge Marshall, who died quite re-
Gently. Mrs. O'Reilly and her husband
and Mrs. Simpkins and her husband.
Judge Marshall afterward became a
member of the church, receiving the
sacrament before his death.
Oldest Surviving Pastor.
There were at that time less than
five hundred Gentiles in what was then
the territory OF Utah. / am the Oldest
surviving pastor in Salt Lake City who
is still i'm charge of his church. Blsh-
! Op futile, EpscOpalian, now of St
Louis, is the only minister of the gOs-
pei now alive who was in active work
when I came here.
There was also Methodist mission
and the PreSbytcrians held services i'm
a hall. The pastor of the former WAS
Rev. Mr.. Pierce, whom / remember
well.
My title as pastor Of St. MaTy's was
a very high sounding one, that of rec
, tor of the territory of Utah, but there
were at that time no communicates
outside of salt Lake City and old ST.
Mary'S. ] was alone for the first year
and then the bishop sent to me from
| California Father Dennis Kelly, who is
now my vicar general He has been
for thirty-thTee years my faithful CO.
Iaborer and friend. We had d very
hard road to travel at first. ] would
! become almost discouraged with tine
/ size of my audiences. I even used the
1 newspapers to announce IN advance at
/ times that I would speak on a paTtic
uiar subject. You must remember that
/ that was "A very different salt Lake
/ from the salt Lake of today 1 had
/ been here some time before they put
| in the first one-mUle cars on Main
street. There were only about 5000
people i'm the entire city. But as the
/ city began to grow, St Marys also be
gan to grow until We had our beauti-
! full old church filed and it has been SO
| ever since.
Work Broadens Out.
ct was only three years after
came to Salt Lake that we were on p
| satisfactory enough basis in salt Lake
| City to justify reaching out into the
territory beyond. We dedicated ST.
Joseph's at Ogden with Father Cush-
nahan as rector in 1876. The growth OF
! traffic across the Union Pacific and the
subsequent remarkable development OF
that city have made it one Of our larg-
est subparishes. Two years later We
sent Father GaIligan to Park City.
We now have there as attendants
about one thousand Catholics, the next
greatest number to Ogden. Father
| DonahOe went to Eureka in 1888 and
the church OF St. Patricks has been
in f1ourishing condition since. ST.
Johns, at Provo, was founded in 1892
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