The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-29
of the church, is a trustee now,

trustee of the church, is q trustee now,
though he lives in East Orange. He lived
in Newark for more than sixty years.
At the time he was appointed Superin-
tendent of the Cemetery Of the Holy Sep
ulchre, in 1873, the place was a wilder
ness and comprised only thirteen acres.
There are now over seventy acres, and the
cemetery extends south from Central ave
nue. to South Orange avenue. 1t Is a beau-
tiful burial place now. 1t Is dotted with
dozens of artistic and costly monuments.
and there are winding carriage drives and
serpentine pathways.
AT Central avenue front Peter Hauck
is erecting a large mausoleum of granite
near the large Bernard M. Stanley Wind
covered vault, and at the corner OF Gen.
trail avenue and Grove street the Joseph
Sanford mausoleum is half finished. The
Hauck and Sanford nausoleums were
started after Mr.. Rowe retired as the
superintendent of the cemetery, but IL he
had not, by his energy, supported by the
late Bishops Corrigan and Wigger and
Bishop John ]. O'Connor, made the places
beautiful, the handsome vaults might not
nave been built.
Mr.. Rowe Is new quite feeble physically
and mentally. but rfs face is as full and
rosy as ever and his bI1a eyes are bright,
He has lived to see steam railroads and
electric trolley cars take the plane OF
stages. palatial ocean steamers succeed the
slow sailing ships of his youth, and in
his time the telegraph. telephone, phono-
graph. wireless telegraph, electric lighting
and many other wonderful Inventions have
come into use. and President after Presi-
dent of the United States has been elected
since he came of age. He saw men go
from Newark to fight In the Mexican War,
the Indian wars, the Civil War, the
Spanish-Ameriean War in Cuba and the
Philippines. He has lived to SIZE the United
States become a great world power. HIS
has seen many of his countrymen and
their sons become great among the giants
of business. law, science, literature, nance
and education in this country since he
came from Ireland, over four score years
ago.
Several aged Irishmen and women in
Newark believe Mr.. Rowe is a ccntenarinn.
One of them said his parents came from
Ireland in 1890, and his father often told
him that Mr.. Rowe was a young man then.
When told that Mrs. Rowe had in a prayer
book the date of her husbands birth, sent
from the parish in Ireland in which he
was born, the old man said:
birth records of the early part of the
last century are not always reliable, for
the registers in many churches in Ireland
were destroyed by British soldiers In the
days of vandalism, and the parish clerks
often made new birth records from
memory
u believe Mr.. Rowe is about 80 years
old, for l am So, and he was a young nan
when ] was a boy of 6 years, so my father
and mother told me-"
DR.. James Elliott was 50 years old when
he died, in December, 1906, a year and nine
months ago. If he were living now no
would be 80 years and 3 months old.
He said before he died that Mr.. Rowe
was ten years older than him. In his remi-
niscences written for the NEWARK ADJ
VERTISER in 1903 he told of a concert
and lecture given In Trinity Episcopal
Church in 1928 in aid of st. Johns Catholic
Church, which was dedicated that year.. 1t
was the only time a Roman Catholic priest
lectured in a Protestant church in Newark
michael Rowe was the only Catholic I
found" DIR. Elliott said, who remembered
that concert and lecture. / was In my
eleventh year at the time, and Michael
Rowe was about ten years older than mes