Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — CORRIGAN’S LIFE ENDS. [ARTICLE]

CORRIGAN’S LIFE ENDS.

Archbishop of New York Suddenly Sue- , cumbs to Pnenmonia. Archbishop Corrigan died at the archiepiscopal residence in New York City Monday night. He was considered out of danger when the collapse came at 10:30 o’clock, and ni< death came as a great shock to his relatives and the attendants at his bedside. Besides his two brothers, who were summoned, those present when the end came were: Father Lavalie, rector of the cathedral; the Mexican bishop; the Rev. Dr. Starrante, Italian secretary to the archbishop, and Father Curley, his English secretary, and a dozen priests of the archdiocese. Archbishop Corrigan’s illness began .as the result of an accident last February, when he fell between beams in the new Kelly Memorial Chapel, at the rear of the cathedral. Before he recovered pnennionia developed, but it was thought the crisis was past. The immediate cause of death was heart trouble. Michael Augustine Corrigan was born In Newark, N. J., Aug. 12, 1840. He was graduated at St. Mary's, Emmettsbttrg, Md., in 1859, and soon after entered the North American College at Rome to study for the priesthood. He was ordained by Cardinal Patvizi in the Laferan Basilica on Sept. 19, 1803, a year before the close of the theological studies. In 1804 the degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him. When, he re- . turned to his native land a few months later Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, then bishop of Newark, appointed him professor of dogmatic theology and sacred scripture at Seton Hall College, and in 1808 he succeeded Bishop McQuaid as president. In March, 1873, he was made bishop of Newark. In September. 1.880. Pope Leo elevated Bishop Corrigan to the office of coadjutor archbishop of the archdiocese of New York with the right of succession in the archiepiscopate to Cardinal McCloskey. Upon the death of the latter prelate in 1880 Dr. Corrigan was installed archfiishop.