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 CORRIGAN

CORRIGAN

lege, 1869-73, and professor of applied chemistry and mineralogy in the College of New Jersey from 1873. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Columhia in 1888. He published A Manual of Blowpipe Analysis and Determinative Minprahirjy (1882) ; and a translation of Plattner's Bluv^pipe Analysis (1870)

CORRIGAN, James Henry, educator, was born at Newark, N.J., June 29, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (English) Corrigan, natives of Leinster, Ireland. He was graduated at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md., in 1863. made his theological studies at tlie College of the Propaganda, Rome, Italy, and returning to his native country was ordained at Seton Hall col- lege, Oct. 20, 1867. In 1868 he was elected profes- sor of philosophy and ethics in Seton Hall college and director of the seminary. He became its Tice-president in 1872, his brother, the Rev. Dr. M. A. Corrigan, being president. In June, 1875, he was appointed a member of the board of trus- tees and secretary of the college. On June 19, 1876, his brother, M. A. Corrigan, resigned the presidency and he was elected to succeed him, being also professor of English literature. He resigned in 1888 and after spending a year in travel he became rector of St. Mary's church, Elizabeth, N.J., where he died Nov. 26, 1890.

CORRIGAN, Michael Augustine, third R.C. archbishop of New York, was born in Newark, N.J., Aug. 13, 1839; fourth son and fifth child of Thomas and Mary (English) Corrigan, who settled in the United States about 1820, having immigrated from Ireland. Thomas Corrigan became a prosperous grocer in Newark, N. J., and placed his son in the best Catholic schools of Newark. Young Corrigan was sent in 1853 for two yeai's' preliminary in- sti-uction to St. Mary's college, "Wilmington, Del., and in 1855 en- tered Mount St. Marj-'s college, Emmittsburg, Md., w^here he took the lead in his classes, graduating with dis- went to Rome in 1859 of the thirteen origi-

tinction in 1859. He and there became one nal students of the American college. While in Rome he won a number of medals in competition. On Sept. 19, 1863, lie was ordained a priest for the diocese of Newark. His ordination took place in the Cathedral church of the World, St. John Lateran, Rome, the officiating prelate being Cardinal Patrizi. After the ceremony he con-

tinued his studies until he received the degree of D.D. in 1864, after which he returned to Newark. He was assigned by Bishop Bayley to the chair of dogmatic theology and sacred scrip- ture in the seminary of Seton Hall college at South Orange, N.J. Subsequently he became vice-president, and on July 12, 1868, president of that institution, when Father McQuaid, the first president, became bishop of Rochester. On Oct. 8, 1868, by appointment of Bishop Bayley, Fr. Corrigan became vicar-general of the diocese of Newark, and during the absence of Bishop Baylej" at the Vatican council of 1870, he per- formed the work of president of Seton Hall college, and administrator of the Newark dio- cese. In 1872 when Bishop Bayley was made archbishop of Baltimore, Mgr. Corrigan was named administrator of the vacant diocese, pending the appointment of a new bishop, and on Feb. 11, 1873, he received official notice of his election as bishop. He was consecrated May 4, 1873, in the Newark cathedral by Arch- bishop McCloskey. The diocese of Newark became famed for its increasing prosperity, and through the efforts of Bishop Corrigan, in ad- dition to many new churches and schools, the Denville Catholic protectory for boys, the New- ark Home of the Good Shepherd, a refuge for misguided women, a hospital in charge of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and a convent for the nuns of the Perpetual Adoration, were established. He had his episcopal residence at Seton Hall col- lege and spent a portion of each week there. On Oct. 1, 1880, he was appointed coadjutor to Car- dinal McCloskey and ArchbishoiJ of the titular see of Petra, and was sent to New York with the right of succession. In 1883 the Pope invited him to Rome as the representative of New York to advise as to the work of the plenary council. The death of Cardinal McCloskey, Oct. 10, 1885, made Archbishop Corrigan the head of the arch- diocese of New York, the most important and in- fluential Catholic diocese in the United States. He was then the youngest archbishop, as he had been the youngest bishop in the Catholic hier- archy of the United States. In April, 1886, he received the pallimu, and in 1887 was appointed assistant at the pontifical throne. The territory embraced in his jurisdiction comprised not only the diocese of New York proper, but also those of Albany, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Newark, Ogdens- burg, Rochester, Trenton and the Bahama Isl- ands. In 1887 a controversy began between Archbishop Corrigan and the Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, which resulted in the deposition of the latter for advocating single tax theories, and ex- communication tor refusing to go to Rome. The rupture was not healed until 1893, when, after the visit of Mgr. Satolli to America, Arch-