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St. Peters's
Church (Catholic), at Windham, was organized about about 1860. The
original members were: Felix Bradley, J. J. Bradley, C. Bradley, J. H.
Bradley, James McGillen, James Wollen, James Molloy, Michael Brierton,
James Burns, Edmond McCabe, Bartholomew McCabe, Oscar McCabe, Barney
McCabe, Dan McCabe, Lawrence Cusick, John Cusick, Jacob Robert, Adam
Robert, Neo Robert, Peter Robert, James Welch, Conrad Deckerman,
Michael Murphy, Lawrence Mungervan, Thomas Corcoran, John Corcoran,
John Bevrens, Philip Mulcahey, and others.
Five
acres of land, on section 35, was donated by Thomas Clark, of St.
Louis, for the church and cemetery, and in 1859-60 the present frame
building was erected. It has a membership of seventy families. P. J.
Sullivan, Father Dunn, James Davis and James Quinn, the present
incumbent, have been its pastors.
Source: The History of Johnson County,
IA 1836 - 1882; pg. 719
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