St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Schaller, Iowa

Catholic services date back to 1883 with the first Mass in the vicinity taken place and celebrated by Father Timothy Meagher.  From 1885 until a few years later, Mass was said in a building downtown in Schaller, a frame building was erected sometime between 1888-1892.

 

The first Catholic families recorded were: Michael Murray family, John Howell family, Charles Schroeder family, Michael Betz family, William Keefe family, Joseph Drey family, Michael Mulvihill family, Christian Ohlsen family, William Whalen family.

 

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