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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

Rev. Edward E. Van Lauwe was born at Ghent, Belgium, October 13, 1836; studied at St. Barbe, at the American college of Louvain, under Rev. P. Kindekins, and at the University of Louvain. He was ordained July 26, 1862, came to Detroit the same year, and six years later was appointed pastor of Port Huron.

Rev. Father E. VANLAUWE, pastor, is a native of Belgium, and was born in the city of Ghent, October 13, 1836. His early education in Latin was received at the college of St. Barbe, Ghent, under the direction of the Jesuit Fathers. In 1858, having decided to enter the ministry in the United States, he entered the American college of Louvain, devoted himself to the study of the English Language, and pursue his philosophical and theological studies in the famous University of Louvain; was ordained priest by His Eminence Cardinal Sterks, of Malines, Belgium, July 26, 1862, and the same year received his diploma as Baccalaureus in theology from the hand of Monseignor de ram, then Rector Magnificus of the University. In September of the same year, he started for America and arrived in Detroit November 22, 1862, and was first assigned to the cathedral in that city; after one year, commenced a new Mission in Lenawee County, where he resided in Clinton, and organized three other Missions there, and built and completed churches there. He came to Port Huron March 13, 1867, and since then has had charge of his present pastorate. pg. 599 Port Huron

Source : (collective work) : History of St. Clair County, Michigan : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive sketch of its cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies, its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, the whole preceded by a history of Michigan, and statistics of the state.; Chicago: A.T. Andreas & Co., 1883, 791  pgs.