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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Rev. Father M. J. DORNEY, Pastor of St. Dennis' Catholic Church, Lockport; was born in 
Springfield, Mass., March 11, 1851; at the age of 9 years, he entered the University of 
St. Mary's of the Lake, situated in Chicago, in which he remained a student seven years; 
leaving there, he entered the college at Suspension Bridge, N. Y.; here he remained three 
years, completing his literary course, and received the degree of A. B.; one year after, 
that of A. M.; he next entered upon his theological course in St. Mary's Seminary, located 
in Baltimore; this institution is one among the oldest in our land, the grant of land on 
which it is situated having been made by Chas. CARROLL, one of the signers of the Declaration 
of Independence; he finished the course in December, 1873, and Jan. 27, 1874, was ordained 
a priest in the Holy Catholic Church. By appointment from the Bishop, he was sent to St. 
John's Catholic Church, in Chicago, to assist Father WALDRON in the ministrations of the 
Church; here he remained two and one-half years. Aug. 29,1876, he came to his charge in 
Lockport; under his direct supervision, a splendid stone church is now being erected, at 
a cost of $30,000, and which when completed will far surpass in size and beauty all other 
churches in Lockport.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.