The Irish standard., 1915-09-01

N. Y, January S, 1852, and died at
Fargo, N. D., July 16 1909: His
parents, John Stanley, and Nancy
Stanley, moved with their family to
Faribau1t, Minn., when the future
bishop was but five years old. After
short stay in Faribault the family
moved to St. Paul and it was in that
city, then a frontier town of the
Northwest, that Bishop Stanley re-
ceived his elementary education, which
was supplemented later during his
career at St. Johns College, College,
vile, Minn., from which institution he
graduated in 1862 His education was
further advanced by his entrance into
the College of the Propaganda at
Rome. This was made possible
through the interest taken in him by
Bishop Grace, the then Bishop of St.
Paul. He was ordained May 80, 1874,
at the College of the Propaganda and
Immediately returned to Minnesota,
where he was appointed assistant pas
tor at the Cathedral, Archbishop Ire
land, then Father Ireland, being the
Cathedral pastor. The years spent in
St. Paul were years of marked activ-
eagerness the study of literature and
Northwestern Chronicle, then pub
lished in St. Paul, in addition to his
PASTORAL duties. Bishop Stanley was
a linguist of rare ability, a man of
broad information, with tempera-
ment refined and cultured. His abil-
ity as linguist served him we'll when
the jurisdiction of the Dakotas was
divided into North and South Dakota
and Bishop Stanley was given charge
of the northern state. Needless to say
that when he came to his missions in
the various settlements, often made
up of particular race speaking their
native tongue, he found evidence of
keen responses when he addressed his
hearers in the language to which their
ears were accustomed.
Bishop Stanley was consecrated
Bishop December u, 1885, At that
time there were in North Dakota
thirty-three priests, with sixty
churches, one hospital and fourteen
schools. At the time of his death,
twenty years later, the diocese of
North Dakota numbered one hundred
six priests, with two hundred TWENTY
five churches, thirty-four schools, six
academies, four hospitals and thirty
eight missions.
Bishop Stanley found that his du-
ties made it necessary for him to
move the seat of his diocese from
Jamestown to Fargo. The citizens of
Fargo responded most heartily by
donating $1,000 toward the building
of the new cathedral at Fargo. I'M
mediately following his removal to
Fargo, a period of distress was ex-
perienced in his new See city. owing
to a devastating fire. Bishop Stanley
supported himself by taking the lee
ture platform, conducting retreats
and missions. Prosperity soon re-
turned and each succeeding year
brought new evidence of the growth
and prosperity of the diocese of North
Dakota.
AS a pioneer organizer Bishop Shan
ley had no peer. His interest in men
reached every form of public ACTIVITY
His desire to extend his usefulness
was evident in the convention of the
Catholic laymen, which he called to
meet in Fargo. For the first time
representative Catholics throughout
the state of North Dakota were rub
bing elbows and exchanging ideas.
He brought noted men in the Cath
olic Church to inspire and direct
those whom he called together. His
interests in the work of the native
Redmen has made lasting impress
sion, not only On the Indians at North
Dakota, but throughout the nation
He has done more than any other
individual in the early history in
North Dakota to raise the standard
of her morality, this being accom-
plished through his vigorous stand
against the divorce laws which then
existed. He was a delegate to the