Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — TO BE MADE A CARDINAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO BE MADE A CARDINAL.

This Signal Honor Will Be Conferred on Archbishop Ireland. The announcement that Archbishop Ireland is to bb made a cardinal directs attention anew to the gifted and aggressive churchman. The archbishop is thoroughly American. Born in Ireland in 1838, he early emigsated to this country and settled with his parents in the Northwest. Even as a boy his ability was so great that he was sent to France to be educated, after he had decided to choose the profession of the priesthood. He refused to take orders in France and returned to St. Paul to be confirmed. The outbreak of the civil war found the young priest filled with patriotic ardor sad eager to go to the front. He went M chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota regi-

ment and soon had gained the love of all the soldiers with him. In battle, however, he laid aside the clerical whenever he could help the fighters on the tiring line, and did not resume it till the wounded and dying needed his ministrations. Home from the war, he became rector of St Paul’s Cathedral. In 1875 Dr. Ireland, was appointed a bishop and assigned to the vicarate of Nebraska, but this assignment was changed and he was made coadjutor bishop of St. Paul. Nine years later he succeeded to the see of St. Paul, and in 1888 he was elevated to the archbishopric.

JOHN IRELAND.