Picture of Father Crowe

Title: Picture of Father Crowe
Description: Father Crowe was the founding reverend of St. Ita's church. He gathered 53 parishioner families and held the inaugeral mass in the guild hall before the church even had its own frame building. In the ensuing frame building Father Crowe established the convent that would run the school he established in the basement of the frame church. Eventually the parish would grow so much that Father Crowe would plead the archdiocese to commission a church to be designed and build. This church was build in the French Gothic style and it is still standing over 100 years later. Crowe unfortunately died after being struck as a pedestrian in a hit and run.
Contributor: Isaiah Dingus, Frannie Dreher
Date: 1925
Language: English
Rights: Item Courtesy of St. Ita's Congregation's Records
Is Part Of: St. Ita's
Source: St. Ita's Congregation's Records
City: Chicago
Denomination: en Roman Catholic Church
Neighborhood: en Edgewater