Anthony Leopold Klawiter, Rev.

1859 - ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Włocławek. Orphaned at a young age Rev. Klawiter is a ward of his uncle who is a priest in the Włocławek diocese (his birth record comes from school records in Włocławek - no place of birth is listed - see below for info on place of birth source from 1906 interview). The information on the parent's of Rev. Klawiter comes from his biography in "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York" By Obed Edson.

1863 - involved with the Polish Insurrection.

1873-74 emigrated to the United States.

1874 appointed pastor in the parish at Blossburg, Pennsylvania.

1875-1877 pastor at St. Stanislaus Kostka in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1877-1881 pastor of St. Paul's & St. Anthony of Padua in Howard county, Nebraska.

1880 census Anthony Kleveter (born 1835 Poland - Priest) living at Kelso, Howard County, Nebraska, United States.

1881-1882 pastor at St. Stanislaus in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.

1882-1884 pastor of St. Hyacinth's in Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York.

1884-1886 pastor at St. Stanislaus in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.

1890 pastor at St. Adalbet's in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.

1890 pastor at St. Hyacinth's in Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York.

1891 pastor at St. Stanislaus in Cleveland, Ohio.

1891-1892 pastor at St. Stanislaus parish in Newark, New Jersey.

1892-1893 pastor at St. Stanislaus parish in Meriden, Connecticut.

1893-94 pastor of St. Stanislaus Parish, Winona, Minnesota.

1895 pastor of Mother of the Holy Rosary, an independent Catholic church (Polish National Catholic Church) formed in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Excommunicated by the bishop of the Buffalo diocese, Stephen V. Ryan.

1896 at the Polish community in Globville, near Denver, Colorado.

1897 pastor in the newly formed Polish National Catholic Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_National_Catholic_Church).

1898-1899 at Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts & New York Polish National Catholic Church parishes.

1900 census R.C. clergyman Anthony Klaeviter (born Nov. 1838 Poland Ger.) is living at Chicopee city Ward 4 (south part), Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

1901-1906 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

1907-1908 pastor of Our Lady of Czestochowa (today's St. Mary's) Parish in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Rev. Klawiter is inteviewed by Rev. B. Kowalski (Klawiter's place of birth at Chojnice, comes from this 7 page interview at the Winnepeg diocese archive).

1908-1913 mission priest in Mikado, Saskatchewan (St. Marys Polics National Catholic Church).

• see: Stanley L. Cuba, "Rev. Anthony Klawiter: Polish Roman and National Catholic Builder-Priest," Polish American Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Klawiter

Upon reaching America, Father Klawiter served as an assistant in various Chicago and Pittsburgh parishes. In October 1873 he became the first pastor of Saint Stanislaus Kostka in Pittsburgh, which he established in a former Presbyterian church on Penn Avenue; a parish school was established in the church basement. However, inter-parish strife forced Bishop John Tuigg of Pittsburgh to remove Father Klawiter from his position in 1877. As Stanley L. Cuba well observes, Father Klawiter's problems at his first pastorate "characterize practically all of his subsequent assignments in both Polish Roman and National Catholic Churches." Such was the case at Saint Anthony's Parish, which Father Klawiter founded at New Poznan, (now Farwell), Nebraska in 1878. He left New Poznan in December 1878 to help found Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church in Saint Louis, Missouri, returning to New Poznan for just enough time to alienate the parishioners at Saint Anthony and to be forced to leave. Father Klawiter then moved to New York State, where he pastored Saint Hyacinth's Parish in Dunkirk (1881-1884) and founded Saint Adalbert's Parish in Buffalo (1886-1890). After various intrigues forced Father Klawiter from the Diocese of Buffalo, he pastored Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Newark, New Jersey (1891-1892) and Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Meriden, Connecticut (1892-1893). His final stint as a Roman Catholic pastor began in September 1893 at Saint Stanislaus Kostka in Winona, Minnesota, where he began the building of a huge new church but was forced, at least partially, by a feud with the Kashubian poet turned American newspaper editor, Hieronim Derdowski, to leave Winona in the Spring of 1894.

Klawitter, Rev. Anthony - Clergyman. Born in 1839 in Poznan, Poland. Ordained in Wloclawek, Poland. Served as asst. in Lodz, Poland. From 1878 to 1879 in St. Louis, Mo.; came here from New Posen, Neb. From 1884 to 1886 asst. to Rev. John Pitass, Buffalo, N. Y. In 1886 pastor of St. Adalbert's Church, Buffalo, N. Y. In 1890 left Buffalo, N. Y. In 1891 pastor in McAdoo, Pa. Deceased. From "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek & a biography in the Pinkowski Files, taken from a letter by Rev. Felix Zwiardowski written in 1871.