The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-12
BRILLIANT CAREER
 OF PAULST FATHER
Rev Peter J. O'Callaghan MOurned By Thousands
 All Over Country
HONORED BY TAFT

Benedictlon was being said yes- Roman Catholic church TorrIng- ton at the opening of the sixtieth annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer lea when the Rev Peter J. O'Cal- laghan, president of the union, was found dead in his room at the Con- ley Inn.
 Father buckingham. q former superior of the Paulist Fathers, , founder and head of n Catholic seminary at Oakland, N. J., and | one of the most active prohibition | workers in the Catholic priesthood had been scheduled to preach the sermon at the opening mass When he did not appear the mass was continued without the sermon and William A. Gleason, chairman of the convention went to the hotel, where he found Father O'Cal- laghan dead.
 Death Ends Convention
 Tho priest lay in state at St Francis church last night awaiting word from his brother in New Jersey. All activities of the union were curtallcd and many of the 200 delegates to the convention. after paying their respects to their dead leader, left for their homes. The convention was to have lasted two days. Dr II. B. Hanchett. medical examiner, said that death was caused by acute indigestion.
 Father Buckingham had largely devoted the last twenty years to the cause of abstinence. Working both within and without the church. he was appointed in 1911 by President Taft as the United States delegate to the International Anti-Alcohol Congress. at The Hague. He served in the same capacity at conferences in Milan in 1913 and Copenhagen in 1923.
 He was president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amer lea from 1909 to 1916 and was elected again in 1924. He was great admlrcr of William Jennings Bryans efforts to curtail the con- sumption of liquor and served for a time after Rryan's death as vice president of the Bryan Memorial association.
 He had been vice-prcsldent of the National Temperance Council and was Il member of the perma- nent committee of the Interna- tional Congress Against Alcohol ism. His residence. as listed in Who's Who in America" was at Temperance, Mich, although he passed most of the late years in oakland. N. J.
 Called Dry Law Start of Fight
 After enactment of the national prohibition act Father Buckingham said repeatedly that the fight for temperance had just begun and so redoubled his and tho unions ef- forts to fight against liquor. He travelled widely. speaking at tenn perance meetings.
 Father O'Callaghan was born in Milford, Mass. in 1866. He ccle- bratcd his sixty-ffth birthday last week. He was graduated by Har- yard university in 1888 n Bachelor of Arts and pursued theological studies at St Thomas college, the Catholic University of America and St Mary's Seminary.
 Ordained to the priesthood in 1893, he became assistant at the Church of St Paul the Apostle. New York, serving until 1895. He then was a preacher for missions and rector of the Apostolic Mission House in Washington. He was founder and president of the Cath ollie Home Mission society and of the Community of Dominican Sls- ters of the Sick and Poor. In the war he was director of the United Committee on War Temper ance in the Army and Navy.
 Father buckingham founded the Mount Melchiscdech Roman Cath olice Seminary in oakland. N. J.. about ten years ago. Tho semin- ary was operated for five years. un- til destroyed by fire. It's founder later established n small seminary at the Delaware Water Gap.