The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-02-11
MONSIGNOR BUN IS DEAD

More than a year ago, Father. Joannes
John passed away, and now that Mon.
signor Buh is dead, all the members
of the class of 1853, have been called
to their reward
Comes to Minnesota.
After serving six years in his ma
tive diocese, Father Buh answered the
Invitation of Father Pirz, himself
eighty years Of age and worn out. by
missionary labors, and came to Min
nesota in April, 1864. From April TIL
November, he was project of the theo-
logians in the infant seminary of st.
Paul. and in November, 1864, he join
ed Father Pirz. in Crow Wing. At
that time, Crow Wing, Belle Prairie,
and Sank Rapids were the only trad
ing posts on the Mississippi. north of
st. Paul. There was a post, at Du-
luth, where the Italian church now
stands; the Indians lived in what are
now Morgan Park and New Duluth,
and occasionally their tepees were
seen on Minnesota Point During the
winter 1896, Monsignor Buh was
busy with the study of Chippewa. In
January, 1865, Frank Roy, trader, a
Canadian half breed, married to full
blooded Chippewa squaw, came to Fa-
Their Pirz and asked for young priest
to instruct his children at Winnebi-
goshish, Roy to furnish board and
lodging and teach the priest Chippe-
Iva. Father Buh offered to go. The
Tourney was made by team and wag-
on. The party consisted of Roy, Roy's.
daughter, Father Buh and the team.
|ster. The first night, they camped in
the snow before blazing fire of tam
|arack. Hay was spread on the ground,
and Roy kindly placed packing case
for Father Buh to lean against. The
Tourney lasted three days; the other
two nights the party had the shelter
of a roof. Father Buh's stay at Win
lnebigoshish was a success; the chill
dren learned their catechism, received
the Sacraments, and Father Buh made
solid progress in the Chippewa tongue.
In the summer of '65, Father Pirz
received letter from Bishop Grace,
summoning him and his assistant to
the diocesan retreat. The retreat was
made by Bishop Grace and 20 priests,
who had on their shoulders the re-
lsponsibility of all Minnesota and the
1.-TWO Dakotas.
Pastor Of Belle Prairie:
In 1865, Father Buh took up his res
idence in Belle Prairie. His first as
Isistant was Father Trobec, later Bish-
lop Trobec Of St. Cloud; his second,
Father Chandounet. Father Buh went
lon the missions while Father Chan
ldounet stayed at home. There was
lat Belle Prairie settlement Of
French Canadians numbering forty
families, the only white settlement
north of st. Cloud. Father Buh at
TENDED Little Falls and Duluth in Min
Inesota; in Wisconsin. he attended SUI
lperior, Ashland, Bayfield, and Bad Riy-
Ter, getting his faculties for Wisconsin
from Bishop Henni of Milwaukee.
I While at Belle Prairie. he Rfounded
missions at Red Lake, White Earth,
ILoech Lake and Sandy Lake. In 1865,
he built churches at Little Falls and
Crow Wing. In 1866, he built a church
lin North Prairie. another in Rich Prai.
rie, two in Chinatown, one for the
Poles, another for Irish and Canadian
catholics. In 1871, he founded a mis-
sion at Brainerd, and built church
There. *,
Has Many Missions. ,55
From 1877 to 1878, he had charge. Of
all the missions along the Northern
Pacific from Duluth to Brainerd and
from Carlton to Hinckley, and he, also
lattended Moorhead and Bismarck. In
WISCONSIN, he attended Superior. West
superior. Bayfield,, Ashland and La
Point In 1878, his missions were st.
lJoseph's in Ottertail county, Perham,
Little Falls and Belle Prairie.
l. Vicar General Of Duluth.
Father Buh went to Tower in 1883,
where he had for his first assistant
Father Bilbau whom he induced to
lcome to Minnesota. To Father Rub,
the diocese of Duluth also owes Fa-
lther Simon Lampe, o. S. B., who per-
lpetuates the old tradition of the In
dian missions, living on the Indian
Preservation near Cloquet, and minis
ltering to the Indians in Cloquet,
lCrookston and Grand Marais. From
Tower, Father Buh attended Ely and
Two Harbors, where he built a church
in 1889. When the diocese of Duluth
was formed in 1889, Father Buh was
named Vicar General, and filled the
office till his death. From Tower, Fa-
ther Buh attended Biwabik, Hibbing.
Virginia and Eveleth, when those
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