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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: Cap. Rev. FR. O.M. Lewis
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
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September 25, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 413-414
REV. FR. LEWIS, 0. M. Cap., pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at
Charleston, W. Va., was born at Pittsburg, Pa., June 30, 1876, and is one of
the five survivors of a family of six children born to his parents, who were
- Joseph P. and Mary (Snyder) Centner.
Father Lewis attended the parochial schools of Pittsburg and then entered St.
Fidelis College, at Herman, Butler County, Pa., where he made his classical
course as preparation for the priesthood and was graduated in 1895. After a
year's novitiate at Herman he continued his stulies, entering St. Peter &
Paul's Monastery, at Cumberland, Md., where he remained until 1901, in
December of which year he was ordained by Cardinal Gibbons. His first work
was educational in character, as he became professor of Latin, mathematics
and the natural sciences, at his alma mater. In July, 1910, he was called to
Charleston, W. Va., to take charge of the parish of the Sacred Heart, and
here he has continued, accomplishing much both in the way of advancing the
material as well as the spiritual interests of his people.
Father Lewis has a fine parochial school in operation, under the charge of
seven Sisters of the Order of St. Francis. The school proper is free, but a
boarding department is conducted in connection with it in order to
accommodate pupils from a distance. The building was erected by the late Rev.
Joseph E. Stenger. At present a high standard is maintained, both in regard
to moral and intellectual training. The church has its own burial ground
named Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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