St. Patrick (Garryowen, Iowa)

St. Patrick (Garryowen, Iowa)

"St. Patrick’s at Garryowen began with the coming of Irish immigrants a few years after the conclusion of the Blackhawk War and the opening of the Iowa Territory to settlement. Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, the Italian Dominican missionary, tells the parish’s beginning in his own words. “Among the most noteworthy sites where Catholics had immigrated is that part of the region called Maquoketa (Makokiti) from the river that borders it. The place is about 20 miles from Dubuque."

- Kurt, Rev. Msgr. Edgar, Parish Profile #2, The Witness, December 7, 1986.

Saint Patrick, Garryowen

The Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College.

Loras College
Kucera Center for Catholic Thought
Frank and Ida Goedken Series: "Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley"

Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.

English.

Various primary and secondary sources.

1840-
History of the parish over the span of 179 years, including information about its priests and parishioners.

Archbishop Letter 1912 (1 document)
Archdiocese history Letter (1 document)
Cemetery Association By-Laws (1 document)
Centennial Booklet (1 document)
Correspondance Fr. Dunn (2 documents)
History (4 documents)
History of Bernard, Iowa (1 packet)
Kurt Letter (1 document)
Memoirs of Father Mazzuchelli, O.P. Chapter XXVIII Pages 254-256 (1 document)
Noonan History (11 documents)
O’Brien History (1 collection)
Otting, Rev., History Letter (1 document)
Pastor cards (1 set)
Parish Profile No. 2 (1 document)
Pastor List/ Historical Timeline (4 documents)
Perpetual Care Record Cemetery (1 document)  
Priest’s Holy Hour booklet (2 documents)
Property Insurance List 1925 (1 document)
Sesquicentennial (5 documents)
Sesquicentennial Book (1 document)
Rev. Rooney Letter (2 documents)
Witness Parish Profile (1 document)
Kruse, Rachel. “Two churches share name, ancestry,” Cascade Pioneer, 3 May 2006.