A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 RT. REV. HENRY P. ROHLMAN, bishop of the Davenport Diocese, was brought to Iowa when two years of age, and in some measure, at least, the value of his services has been due to his long and intimate knowledge of the people of the Mississippi River Valley. Bishop Rohlman was born in Germany, March 17, 1876, and was but two years of age when his parents came to America and settled in Carroll County, Iowa. He was educated in the high school department of St. Lawrence College, at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, attended Columbia College at Dubuque, graduating in 1898, and pursued his theological course in the Grand Seminary at Montreal, Canada. He was ordained to the priesthood December 21, 1901, at Montreal, and at once returned to Iowa and became assistant to St. Mary's Church in Dubuque. His labors in Dubuque made him one of the best loved priests of that community. After four years he was sent to the Catholic University of America at Washington, pursuing special sociological studies with a view to entering the missionary field. Then followed the years of his work in the Apostolate, an organization fostered by the Most Rev. James J. Keane, archbishop of Dubuque, for conducting missions in the churches of his diocese. Father Rohlman in 1911 was appointed pastor of St. Mary's Church at Waterloo, remaining there six years. In 1917 he was selected by Archbishop Keane as chairman of the Columbia College endowment drive and was head of the committee which raised more than a million dollars for that Iowa educational institution. He continued for some time as business manager of the college and in 1923 was chosen to organize a new parish in the City of Dubuque. As a result of his great zeal and energy the parish of the Church of Nativity came to be one of the most important in that city within three years after its organization. Then came still greater honors when, on July 25, 1927, he was consecrated the fourth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport. He was consecrated on the forty-sixth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop John McMullen, who was the first bishop of Davenport. The consecrator in the impressive service was Archbishop Keane, of Dubuque, and there were many churchmen and laymen from Dubuque who joined in the tributes to the former priest who had labored so long and unselfishly in that Iowa city. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)