Showing 1 results

Archival description
Minwegen, Peter
Print preview Hierarchy View:

Peter Minwegen reminiscences, circa 1972.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 209
  • collection
  • circa 1972

Reminiscences of Father Peter Minwegen, O.M.I., concerning his service as a missionary in Canada, 1908-1915; his flight to the U.S. during World War I to escape internment because of his German citizenship; his experiences, 1915-ca. 1925, as a priest in Jim Falls and in Cornell, Wisconsin, where the Ku Klux Klan was active; his successful use of Sebastian Kneipp's water cure in various illnesses; and the efforts of the Oblate fathers to establish their own Midwest province.