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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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REV. WILLIAM McCORMACK, pastor of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Joplin. He was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 4, 1856. His parents, Timothy and Rosanna (McGovern) McCormack, were natives of Ireland; his father was born in County Clare, and his mother was born in County Waterford. They are now living in New Haven, Conn. Our subject was raised in that city, and until sixteen years of age attended the city schools. In the fall of 1872 he entered the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., continuing two years; he then went to Suspension Bridge, N. Y., and entered the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, completing a course there in Jan., 1878. He then went to Allegheny, N. Y., and took a philosophical and theological course in the Bonaventure Seminary, remaining there four years, and graduating in June, 1882. He was ordained in the same year at the last named place, then came west to Kansas City, and one month thereafter came to Joplin. He took charge Sept. 17, 1882, and at once opened up the Catholic school of this city. [For further particulars concerning church and school see page 428.]
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