Background
Burke, Maurice Francis was born on May 5, 1845 in in Ireland. Son of Francis Noonan and Joanna (Casey) Burke.
Burke, Maurice Francis was born on May 5, 1845 in in Ireland. Son of Francis Noonan and Joanna (Casey) Burke.
St. Mary’s, Chicago; Notre Dame, Indiana. Americani College, Rome.
Curate at St. Mary’s Church, Chicago, two years. Pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Joliet, 111., nine years, where he built a church and two schools. Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1887. Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Joseph, Missouri, since 1893.
Reading Dante and studying the languages.