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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Rev. Walter Henry POWER, Pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Joliet; was born in 
Waterford, Ireland, in May, 1830; he received his classical education at Tramore, a 
celebrated watering place near Waterford; in March, 1849, he came to America, and 
entered the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, on Logan Square, Philadelphia, where 
he spent five years, and completed his theological studies ; he was ordained a clergyman 
of the Catholic Church in December, 1853, by Bishop NEUMANN, of Philadelphia, and, was 
appointed Assistant Pastor of St. Patrick's Church, of that city, and was shortly 
afterward transferred to St. Philip's Church, Southwark, Philadelphia; he afterward 
spent a year as assistant to the Foreign Vicar General of the Diocese of Philadelphia; 
from there he went to Hamilton, C. W., as assistant to the Bishop, where he remained 
two years; in March, 1859, he came  to Illinois, and located at Lacon, Marshall Co., 
where his jurisdiction extended over five counties, embracing some half a dozen 
churches; in June, 1860, he was transferred to Aurora  and in May, 1861, became 
Pastor of St. Patrick's Church, in Chicago; in November, the same year, he assumed 
the pastoral charge of St. Michael's Church, in Galena, where he remained eight 
years, coming to Joliet, as Pastor of St. Patrick's Church in September, 1869.