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John Henni was born on June 15, 1805, in Graubünden, Switzerland. He was the eldest of the seven children of Johann Georg Henni, a prosperous farmer, and his wife Maria Ursula (Henni) Henni.
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John Henni was born on June 15, 1805, in Graubünden, Switzerland. He was the eldest of the seven children of Johann Georg Henni, a prosperous farmer, and his wife Maria Ursula (Henni) Henni.
After attending a parish school in Misanenga John Henni went to a private school conducted at Meyerdorf by Johann Peter Mirer, later Bishop of St Gall, then followed his teacher to the Gymnasium at St. Gall, and subsequently studied in the Lyceum and Gymnasium at Lucerne. His residence with an uncle, chaplain of a Swiss regiment in the service of Holland, to whom he was indebted in part for his education; his study under Mirer; and a course at the Urban College of the Propaganda at Rome determined his vocation and eventual missionary career. Visiting Rome in 1828, the Revolutioner Frederic Rese, vicar general of Cincinnati, won Henni for the American mission. The young man arrived in New York on May 28, 1828, and proceeded to the seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky, where he completed his studies.
After ordination on February 2, 1829, John Henni taught philosophy at the Athenaeum, Cincinnati (today St. Xavier University), and in his spare time took a census of German Catholics in Ohio. In 1834 he was appointed vicar general of Cincinnati and pastor of Germans there. Two years later he published Ein Blick ins Thai des Ohios (1836).
Henni was the founder, in 1837, and the editor for six years of the Wahrheits-Freund, Cincinnati, the first German Catholic newspaper in the United States. Under his editorship this journal achieved a reputation as a medium of correct news and clear thinking, in matters political, moral, social, and religious. The first issue carried the Declaration of Independence, the story of Columbus, an appreciation of American unity, and a civilian creed, the keynote of which was obedience to law. His separate writings, which include a German Catechism (1835), and a pamphlet, Facts against Assertions (1844), belonged to passing literature, but bis periodic Pastorals contained some excellent observations in history and religion.
When Wisconsin became a diocese in November 1843 with Milwaukee as headquarters, Henni was selected as bishop. He was consecrated on March 19, 1844, in Cincinnati.
Less than a month after his arrival in his new field he set out for a four-months’ trip of discovery throughout the state, guided by his deep study of the Jesuit Relations and his untiring questioning of aged Indians.
During the Civil War, he aided recruiting by his addresses and his provision for chaplains.
In 1875 he became archbishop, amid demonstrations of regard by citizens of all creeds.
Six years later he died, in his seventy-seventh year.
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Henni hated slavery, but was against war as the means of abolishing it. Prohibition found no favor with him. He steadily expressed his opposition to autocratic governments, such as that of Prussia, which “make the foot fit the shoe. ”
Quotations: "Germans may be political enemies of nativist Whigs but not enemies of Whigs as natives. ”
Though courageous in politics, John Henni was tactful and never coercive.