Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-01

many years was clerk of the Essex
county grand jury. The house was at
the corner of what is now Mulberry
and East Park streets. Mass was cele-
brated at the old stone house which
stood at Orange and High streets an
til about seventeen years ago, when
it was torn down and the present large
brick factory building put up on the
site.
Attended. st. Johns.
A church organization society collect
ed money from the Catholics in Newark
and Believille, and got the most money
In the latter place where a great num-
Der OF Catholics lived at the time. In
1928 the central part of the present st.
Johns Church in Mulberry street was
dedicated and the Rev. Gregory B. Par
due was the first pastor. He esta blished
a Sunday school which young Rowe at
tended.
For several terms. the lad went to the
private school of Bernard Kearney,
many of whose pupils afterwards were
successful in business and professions.
There was no public or parochial school
in Newark then. The Newark Acad-
envy was in Broad street near the pres
ent Morris canal, which was not in en-
~tlstence at the time. Neither was there
any steam railroad. Travel to New
York was by boat and stage. Nathan
Hedges, Bernard kearney. and oJfp
Nugent had private schools.
In 1885 the Rev. Patrick Moran be-
came pastor of st. Johns Church. he
opened a day school in a two-story
frame house in Plane street, near Mar
ket street.. and obtained John Nugent,'
a graduate of Maynooth College, Dub
lin, Ireland, as teacher for the boys
with a Miss Love as teacher for the
girls. Mr.. Nugent later became private
secretary to United States Senator
William Wright, publisher of a weekly
paper. the indicator, and then went
to California, where he founded in a
Francisco a paper called the Herald,
and he fought three duels before ne
died.
Bernard Kearney succeeded him in
charge of st. John's School, and a Miss
Quinn succeeded Miss Love-. Father
Moran later built thegpresent st. Johns
] School in Mulberry street. put up the
front of st. Johns Church and placed
the first chimes of bells in New Jersey.
He also established ST. Johns %circulat-
ing library, the first Catholic public
library in the State.
Learned a Trade.
While these things were being done
Mr.. Rowe was learning the coach and
carriage making trade in the factory
Of John d. Sayre. When he became
a journeyman he was called an expert
at his trade. He saw the Morris canal
dug and finished and the first boat that
passed through it. He also saw the
! first train of cars that ran over the
New Jersey railroad between Newark
and Jersey City, and he made a round
trip.
He worked in the Sayre factory until
the panic of 1887. which was a hard
blow to Newark. Mechanics We're
forced to work on the street for fifty
cents a day and were paid in shin
plasters." Mr.. Rowe got work at the
trade in Philadelphia for aayear. Then
he went to Virginia and worked in
Richmond two years; afterward at
Charlottesville, where the University OF
Virginia is, and then worked four years
at Petersburg, after which he returned
TO Newark. In the late ~forties Mr..
Rowe went to Cuba in the service OF
Don Gasjard Beitancourt, who was
building a steam railroad. Mr.. Rowe
| superintended the building of pas
senger coaches for the railroad. When
he returned to Newark the Rev. Father
Moran, who drew the plans for st.
Patrick's Church, now the Cathedral,
and the Rev. Dominick Senez a the
building finished except the roof. They
could not get a loan from the few
local banks. Mr.. Rowe loaned the
money for completing the roof. He
worked in a coach and carriage shop
until the place was burned when he
went to Canada for a year and then
tried Cuba again.
Joined st. Patrick's.
After his return to Newark he became
q member of st. Patrick's parish, and
for wears Bernard Kearney and he col
lected the pew rents at the entrance
doors at the Sunday masses. He had
many talks with the late bishop of
Rochester, Bernard McQuaid, when the
| latter was pastor of st. Patrick's
church, and when Bishop James Roose-
welt Bayley came to Newark and the
church became the cathedral of the new
diocese he was an active aid to the
! bishop.
When the civil war broke out Father
McQuaid made an eloquent appeal at
a great union meeting in front of the
old court house to Catholic men, urging
them to enlist. The late Monsignor
George Hobart Doane, then a young
convert and priest, was also intensely
patriotic. Bishop Bayley said one OF
the two should go to the war, n the
one who did would be made pastor OF
the cathedral when he returned to
Newark. Father Doane went to the
front and served as chaplain in the
First New Jersey brigade. When he
returned home he was appointed pas
tor of the cathedral and Father Nc
QUAD became president of Seton Hall
College.
MIR. Rowe was made a trustee of the
college. He was also elected a trustee
| of the Cemetry of the Holy Sepulchre,
which was opened in 1859.
When st. Joseph's parish was or
ganized and the Rev. James Dalton
built the first church ediflce there Mr..
Rowe became a trustee of the church.
He lived in Newark more than sixty
years. -
AT the time he was appointed superin-
tendent of the Cemetery of the Holy
Sepulchre in 1873 the place was y a
| wilderness ard comprised only thirteen