New York Times, 10 August 1925 SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 9 (AP).--The Rev. James F. Ahern, 51 years old, rector of St, Michael's Cathedral and for twenty-five years a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, died at the Mercy Hospital Saturday night. Father Ahern was ordained at Rome in 1900. He was sent to the Springfield Diocese and made chaplain of the House of the Good Shepherd. In 1902, transferred as assistant pastor at the Holy Family Church, leaving there the next year to become Chancellor of the Cathedral and Secretary to Bishop Beaven. In 1917 he was raised to the rectorship of the Cathedral. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -