4 - Report on St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Roseburg, Oregom

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Report on St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Roseburg, Oregom

1 p.; manuscript

Parish report and historical record for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Roseburg, Oregon, beginning on 21 January 1912, within a local population centre of 4,400 people. It outlines a chronological timeline of three serving pastors: Father Camillus Killian (1912–1913), Father Edward Walsh (1913–1919), and Father Adrian Sharkett, who was serving from 13 October 1919 to the date of the record. The document logs sacramental statistics, counting 300 parishioners, 138 baptisms, 34 marriages, and 16 converts, while noting that the community has one hospital and an eight-grade parish school staffed by two Sisters of Mercy. Financially, it records a substantial parish debt of $6,750.00 that was advanced and paid by the religious Order but is earmarked to be recollected from the parish itself. Finally, the log tracks regional missionary outreach, identifying the Holy Family Church in Glendale alongside five other regional mission stations – Myrtle Creek, Day’s Creek, Perdue, Yoncalla, Anlauf, and Cleaveland – detailing their distances from Roseburg and noting that they receive priestly visits roughly three times a year, or once a year if a church is nearby.

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