Bio: Klein, Rev. Bernard (1859 - 19??)

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Surnames: Klein, Lechner, Hallmeier, Flasch

---Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Klein, Rev. Bernard (26 February 1859 -19??)

REV. BERNARD KLEIN, pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church at Mosinee, Wis., and also serving St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Haider, is one of the earnest, zealous and hard working priests of the Northern Wisconsin Diocese. He was born in Germany, February 26, 1859, and is a son of Frank and Walburga (Lechner) Klein. The parents of Father Klein spent the closing years of their lives in Wisconsin. They were good, Catholic people, kind as neighbors and irreproachable in every relation of life. They had four children: Creszens, who became the wife of John Hallmeier; and Joseph, Bernard and Ignatius, the two last named both entering the church, the youngest at present being stationed at East Bristol, Dane county, Wisconsin.  

After his preparatory studies Father Klein became a student in a German university and after coming to the United States his education for the priesthood was completed at the Salesianum, at St. Francis, in Milwaukee County, Wis., and he was ordained at La Crosse, Wis., by the Right Reverend Kilian Flasch. Prior to coming to St. Paul's parish, in January, 1910, Father Klein ministered to other parishes in the northern part of the state, where he is still recalled with reverence and affection. There are many Catholic families in this part of Marathon County and his time is very fully taken up in looking after their spiritual welfare, and, as a good priest, not forgetting their temporal affairs.