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    1. [GEIGER-L] GEIGER, Catholic Priest in Penn. Can anyone identify him?
    2. A friend just passed this note along to me and I thought I would see whether anyone on the list has any idea who this GEIGER is. He was a Jesuit Priest in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately no first name is given for this Priest--it merely says GEIGER in the book. The book also does not give us any exact time frame to help further identify Father Geiger. Can anyone identify him? I have an old out of print book, "Old Jesuit Trails in Penn's Forest" by Leo Gregory Fink. On page 169 it reads, "In addition to the Jesuit missionaries from Goshenhoppen and Haycock, other priests came later to care for the Catholics of the entire Lehigh Valley from Easton and Bethlehem. The most famous of these priests were the Fathers Gustenake, Tanzer, GEIGER, and Winters. Allentown, or as it was often called, "Northamptontown," was thus regarded only as a mission station from the days of Father Schneider in 1741 until the purchase of ground for the building of a permanent church in the year 1857." Joan

    07/25/1998 04:36:46