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John J McCann (son of George McCann and Cathrine Winn)1541, 1542 was born 25 Oct 1862 in Providence, RI1543, and died 1940 in Kane, IL.

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Rev. John J. McCann. - THE TENTH PASTOR.

Rev. John J. McCann was born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 25, 1862. He is the son of George T. and Catherine McCann of Aurora, Ill, to which place the family moved in July, 1866. Father McCann attended the Aurora public schools, and had spent one year in the high school when he went to college. Entering St. Viateur's College, Bourbonnais, Ill., in September, 1877, he remained there five years in the study of the classics and philosophy. He studied theology and kindred sciences in St.,. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., finishing the regular course of clerical studies January 6, 1888, on which date he received ordination at the hands of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. The next seven years he spent as assistant at St. James', Chicago; St. Philip's, Chicago; St. Mary's, Joliet, and St. Michael's, Galena. He was appointed pastor of the missions of Oregon, Polo and Forreston by Archbishop Feehan, November 28, 1894. He soon afterwards annexed the missions at Byron and Ashton. He organized the first Catholic congregation and built the first Catholic church at Byron in 1895. A four acre cemetery and six town lots were also purchased by him at Byron. The churches at Oregon and Ashton were greatly im-proved under his pastorate. In Polo he secured. a centrally located lot and erected a new church at a cost of a little over $10,000. Both churches which he built, that at Byron and that at Polo, were fully paid for before the first mass was said in them.

Father McCann is a member of the Albert Woodcock Camp, Sons of Veterans, Byron, Ill. When the Spanish American war broke out he was appointed chaplain of the Sons of Veterans' provisional regi-ment by Colonel Hamilton. In union with the regimental surgeon, Dr. E. H. Abbott of Elgin, he enlisted a full company of soldiers for the regiment in the vicinity of Oregon and Byron.

At a competitive examination, held Friday December IS, 1899, at the Cathedral residence, Chicago, he passed successful examination before the Archdiocesan Examining Board, and the next day was appointed by Archbishop Feehan to the irremovable rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Elgin.


More About John J McCann:
Date born 2: 1863, Rhode Island.1544
Date born 3: 1863, Rhode Island.1545
Residence 1: 1900, Elgin Ward 4, Kane, Illinois.1546
Residence 2: 1870, Aurora, Kane, Illinois.1547
Residence 3: 1910, 4-Wd Elgin, Kane, Illinois.1548
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