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Rev. Father August Salick
Reverend August Salick, born in Watertown in 1859, was a son of Joseph Salick and celebrated his first Mass at St. Henry’s Church.
Father Salick was ordained in Milwaukee in 1884. He frequently returned to Watertown to
participate in services at the church.
After ten years of
service with St. Joseph’s Pio Nono college of St.
Francis, and then in Potosi, Wisconsin, Salick was
called to Milwaukee, where he undertook the building up of St. Anne’s
Parish. In appreciation of his devoted
services since that time, the congregation of St. Anne’s church made the silver
anniversary of his ordination into the priesthood a gala day.
A cortege of nearly 800
children, all dressed in white, 400 of whom were under 7 years of age, escorted
him to the church. With the entire
neighborhood resplendent with patriotic colors, Father Salick
began the twenty-sixth year of his priest-hood by means of the festivities in
Milwaukee.
The High Mass sermon
was preached by Father Kampschroer and Father Salick sung the High Mass.
A banquet was attended by 350.
The toastmaster was Father Philip Schweitzer of Watertown.
In 1925 Father Salick was invested with the title of monsignor by the
pope. He died in 1934.
Cross Reference:
[ 1 ] In 1888 Watertown Jeweler Joseph Salick, father of August, sold his two store buildings at
the east end of