REV. BONIFACE RUSS , C. PP. S., Catholic Priest, New Riegel, was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, November 12, 1855, son of John and Barbara Russ, natives of Bavaria, Germany, where the former was born in 1812, latter in 1815; they immigrated to America, coming direct to Auglaize County, Ohio, where John Russ died in 1872, and his widow still resides. Our subject acquired his education in Carthagena, Mercer Co., Ohio. After his ordination, in 1878, he took charge of a congregation at St. Sebastian, Ohio, and August 24, 1880, he became pastor of the large congregation at New Riegel which was one of the first churches in the county.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.727
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