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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

REV. W M. De KELVER, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, Depere, is a native of Belgium, from which country he came to America at eight years of age. He was educated at the college of St. Francis, Milwaukee, where he completed his theological studies to 1871, and the same year was ordained priest at Green Bay and appointed to the church at Kilbourn City. He came to his present parish in 1876

Source : (collective work) : History of northern Wisconsin : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc.; Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, 1205 pgs.