Background
Vos, Julius Emilius De was born on March 28, 1848 in Ingoygham, W. Flanders, Belgium. Son of John Baptist and Francisca (Baert) D.
Vos, Julius Emilius De was born on March 28, 1848 in Ingoygham, W. Flanders, Belgium. Son of John Baptist and Francisca (Baert) D.
Educated College Roulers, Seminary Bruges, and Louvain, Belgium.
Ordained Catholic priest, 1873, curate, Espierres, 1874-1877, Warneton, 1877-1883, Belgium. Moved to America, 1871. Pastor of Catholic colony, Ghent, Minnesota, 1883-1884, O’Connor, Nebraska, 1884-1885, Greeley Company, Nebraska, 1884-1805, Spalding, Nebraska, 1885-1805, Alliance, Nebraska, 1905-1906.
Pastor St. John Berchman’s Church, Chicago, since 1906. Organizer and president Catholic Colonization Society of the United States of America, since 1911. Director of colonization, Belgian-Holland Priesterbond.