They All Want Fr. Jos. Connors

They All Want Fr. Jos. Connors

The many friends and acquaintances in Dexter and vicinity of Rev. Joseph Connors will read with feelings of pleasure the extract concerning him, which is taken from the Detroit Sunday Free Press:

"A great deal of interest is felt in Mt. Clemens, among Protestants and Roman Catholics alike, over the probable successor of Fr. Van Hoomiseu at St. Peter's. A delegation from the church have already visited Bishop Foley and earnestly requested that Father Joseph Connors be appointed to fill the place of Father Van. During his residence of four years at Mt. Clemens he has so endeared himself to his people that they feel that in having him too taken away from they, they are being bereaved a second time. There has been considerable talk, regardless of creed, that all citizens sign a petition to send to the bishop, asking that he be retained in the Bath Town, so far reaching has his influence for good been felt.

Fr. Connors was born in Dexter in 1865 and, after leaving his home in that town, was in business in Chicago for five years. Upon deciding to enter the priesthood he attended the St. Charles college at Baltimore, Ma., after which he taught three years in Sandwich. His education was finished in St. Mary's seminary in Cincinnati. He was ordained by Bishop Foley in Detroit in 1898, coming to Mt. Clemens as Fr. Van's assistant a few months afterward. His mother is still living in Dexter.