Rev John C Carr
Birth 19 APR 1874
Greenwood, Steuben County, New York, USA
Death 3 Apr 1955 (aged 80–81)
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Burial United German and French Cemetery
Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA
Plot Section 3
Memorial ID 69297151 · View Source
Rt. Rev. Msgr John Carr was the first director of Catholic Charities of Buffalo starting in 1924, and laid the groundwork for the appeal and the establishment of the Catholic Charities organization.
Monsenior . Carr had been named chaplain of the Mt. Carmel Guild in 1919 by Bishop Turner.
That organization developed into the present Catholic Charities. He was executive chairman and head of the finance committee until 1936. Always active in social work, he served as president of the New York State Conference of Catholic Charities, an organizer of the Buffalo Council of Social agencies and was active in many other groups. He was Charities director until 1934.
He completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester and was ordained on June 11, 1904.
After serving as an assistant in Buffalo parishes for four years he was named pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Fillmore, New York in 1908. Two years later, he was moved to St. John the Baptist in Boston New York and in 1912 was commissioned to organize St. Francis de Sales parish in the Hamlin Park Section of Buffalo. He built the school, the rectory and two churches, the last considered one of the most distinctive in the city. He died at the age of 81.
John Christopher Carr |