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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 29, 1942
Knights of Columbus
Council in Augusta
Established in 1902
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nah Council, and a number of the
members of the Savannah and At
lanta councils were in attendance.
Before the ceremony, the Au
gusta candidates for membership
and the visiting Knights had at
tended St. Patrick's Church where
a Solemn High Mass w'as celebrat
ed by the Rev. P. H. McMahon,
with the Rev. Henry A. Schonhardt
as deacon, and the Rev. Aloyslus
O'Hanlon, O. S. B., of Savannah,
sub-deacon.
In additiop to those who had
made application for a charter for
Patrick Walsh Council, a number
of others were initiated with the
charter candidates:
W. H. Carey, C. J. Cosgrove,
Frank X. Dorr, Victor J. Dorr,
Lawrence A. Dorr, E. J. Doris, W.
A. Faughnan, Edward Ille, M. B.
Kelly, M. Mahoney, G. S. Mc
Donald, W. A. McKenna, J. T.
Neal, D. J. O’Leary, Frank J. Rou
lette, I. P. Ward, M. J. Murphy,
W. J. O'Connor.
Following the initiation cere
monial and the formal institution
of Patrick Walsh Council and the
presentation of its charter, an
elaborate banquet, was served at
the Albion Hotel. The menu in
cluded such delicacies as green
turtle soup, broiled pompano, soft
shell crabs on toast, broiled spring
chicken, tenderloin of beef, with
mushrooms, and other viands.
A. J. Gouley acted as toast
master, and the speakers included
the Rev. P. H. McMahon, the
Rev. J. O’Shanahan, S. J., the Rev.
Aloysius O’Hanlon, O. S. B., Sa
vannah; D. J. Callahan, Norfolk;
Va.; P. J. O’Connor, Savannah;
John F. Corrigan, Atlanta.. M. P.
Carroll. P. C. O’Gorman and John
R. Burse.
FIRST OFFICERS
During the week following the
institution of the council an elec
tion of officers was held and
Captain P. H. Rice was chosen as
the first Grand Knight of Patrick
Walsh Council.
Other charter officers of the
Council were: D. P. O'Connor,
Deputy Grand Knight; P. C.
O'Gorman, Chancellor, M. P. Car-
roll, Advocate; E. J. O'Connor,
Treasurer; Thomas J. O’Leary,
Recording Secretary; James J.
Joy, Financial Secretary; Frank G.
Reynolds, Warden; James J. De-
vine Inside Guard; John J. Conlon,
Outside Guard; Thomas S. Gray,
P. M. Mulherin and W. E. Joyce,
Trustees.
GRAND KNIGHTS OF
PATRICK WALSH COUNCIL
Captain Rice, the first Grand
Knight of Patrick Walsh Council,
served from its institution in 1902
until 1908. He was succeeded by
William M. Nixon, who was Grand
Knight until 1910. James J. Far
rell was Grand Knight from 1910
to 1911, being succeeded by D. J.
O'Donoghue. Mr. O'DonogJiue,
who at that time was manager of
the J. B. White & Co. store in
Augusta, was transferred else
where before completing his term
as Grand Knight, James J.
Mathewes being named to fill the
unexpired term until 1912.
Thomas P. Doris headed the
Council from 1912 to 1913, being
succeeded by John T. - Fogarty,
1913-1914. Charles C. Mulherin
was Grand Knight from 1914 to
1915. Thomas D. Murphy was
Grand Knight from 1915 to 1917,
being succeeded by Captain Rice,
who served again as Grand Knight
from 1917 to 1920. Alfred M. Bat-
tey headed the Council from 1920
to 1922; James B. Mulherin from
1922 to 1924; Charles C. Stulb
from 1924 to 1925; C. Dempsey
from 1925 to 1927; Robert B.
Arthur from 1927 to 1929; Dr. J. E.
Marriott from 1929 to 1931; John
T. Buckley from 1931 to 1933;
J. C. Dempsey from 1933 to 1934;
James B. Mulherin from 1934 to
. 1935; Victor Markwalter from 1935
to 1937; Louis J. O'Connell from
1937 to 1933; Edwin J. Dorr from.
1938 to 1940; James L. Bartley
from 1941 to 1942,^and John Pat
rick Price is the present Grand
Knight.
PRESENT - OFFICERS
Other officers of Patrick Walsh
Member of Patrick Walsh Council
Served as Postmaster in Augusta
THOMAS D. MURPHY
Thomas D. Murphy, beloved
Southern journalist, who was
managing editor of The Augusta
Chronicle at the time of his death,
was a former grand knight of
Patrick Walsh Council, Knights of
Columbus, who although a Demo
crat, was appointed postmaster in
Augusta, as a personal compli
ment, by President Taft, a Repub
lican president.
Mr. Murphy was born in Brooks
County, Georgia, in 1861. His mo
ther and father were natives of
Ireland who were married in Sa
vannah. Later the family moved to
Richmond County, near Augusta,
where he received his early educa
tion, attending St. Patrick’s,
Houghton and Tupelo Academy.
He started work on The Chronicle
under Senator Patrick Walsh, who
sent him to the University of
Georgia for a two-year course.
Coming back to Augusta he re
joined The' Chronicle. At various
Council at this time are: Bernard
J. Doris, Deputy Grand Knight;
John T. Buckley; Recording Sec
retary; Richard S. Heslen, Finan
cial Secretary; E. J. O’Connor,
Treasurer; Hugh Kinchley, Chan
cellor; John W. Burke, Advocate;
C. Y. Tarleton, Warden; John W.
McDonald, Lecturer; Frank J.
Sherman, Inside Guard; Louis
Mura, Outside Guard; James L.
Bartley, James B. Mulherin and
Victor Markwalter, Trustees. Rep
resentatives of the Council on the
Eoard of Directors of the K. of C.
Home Company are Alfred M.-Bat-
tey, William A. Lyons and Edward
P. Grealish. The Rev. Thomas A.
Brennan, pastor of St. Mary’s-on-
The-Hill Church, is the chaplain
of the Council.
A. D. TOBIN HEADED
FAMOUS DEGREE TEAM
The degree team organized by
Patrick Walsh Council, which was
headed by A. D. Tobin, was known
from Virginia to New Orleans, its
reputation having spread through
out the South. Among those of
its members who brought the team
distinction were C. C. F. Ham
mond, James J. Joy, James Ma
thewes, Leo Cotter, C. C. Mulherin
M. A. O’Connor and John Tarle-
toij,
Patrick Walsh Council has play
ed a prominent part in the ’Cath
olic life of Augusta for two score
years, and the vservice that it has
rendered to the Church, the
nation, the state and the com-
jmunity has earned the hearty
’congratulations that are now be-
jing extended to the members of
the Council upon the Fortieth
Anniversary of the granting of its
charter.
times he was connected with The
Atlanta Journal, The Savannah
Evening Press, which he assisted
in establishing; The Augusta
Herald, of which he was an or
ganizer; The Macon Telegraph and
The Savannah Morning News.
During his career at The
Chronicle he served under six edi
tors, Gregg Wright, Senator
Walsh, Pleasant Stovall, Edward
Hook, Thomas W. Loyless and
Thomas J. Hamilton. Among his
associates on The Chronicle were
Edward W. Barrett, late editor of
The Birmingham News, the late
Major John S. Cchen, editor of
The Atlanta Journal, the late
Major Archibald Butt, who lost
his life on the Titantic, and the late
Judge Oswald Eve.
Mr. Murphy’s column, “Talking
It Over,” on the editorial page of
The Chronicle, was one of the
most widely read in the South, it
was characteristic of him. His
patient, cheerful, charitable, kind
ly disposition, made it impossible
for him to say a sarcastic or even
critical thing about anyone. He
was without doubt one of the most
universally beloved men in Augus
ta and its vicinity. All races and
creeds united in honoring him at
his funeral, whicn Mayor Julian
Smith and members of City Coun
cil attended in a body.
His wife, Mrs. Mary Wall
Murphy, still survives him, and
was recently selected as one of
Augusta’s “Mrs. Minivers” in re
cognition of her untiring and out
standing service to veterans of the
World War, men now in the na
tion’s service, and the community.
Augustas Memorial to Patrick Walsh
NAVY COMMISSION FOR
FORMER AUGUSTAN
AUGUSTA, Ga.—William Bry
son, formerly of Augusta, who for
the past several years has been
connected with the Department of
Commerce in Washington as an
economic analyst, has been com
missioned a lieutenant in the
United States Navy.
Mr. Bryson, the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bryson,
giaduated from the Catholic High
School in Augusta, later grad
uating from the Georgetown
School of Foreign Service and do- I
ing post-graduate work at the ’
Catholic University.
He is a nephew of Judge Joseph
E. Bryson, of Augusta. His wife, j
Mrs. Ruth N. Bryson, is a native
of Detroit, where Lieutenant
Bryson was at one time associated
with a newspaper.
Barrett Plaza, the green-carpeted park, with its fountain and flow
ers, before the Union Station and flanked by the Post Office, in Au
gusta, is dominated by the statue of one of Augusta’s mos^ illustrious
sons, Patrick Walsh, whose memory is honored in its name by Patrick
Walsh Council, Knights of Columbus.
The larger-than-life figure of Senator Walsh, in bronze, is mount
ed on a marble pedestal, upon which are carved the words; “A Patri
otic Citizen; A Loyal Friend; A Lover of Humanity.”
ALEX H. EDELBLUT FURNITURE CO.
The Store of Quality and Originality
Modern Furniture Reproductions
Antiques, Fabrics, Rugs Imported
Phone 2-7607 Augusta, Ga. 1520 Walton Way
ONLY TWELVE LIVING
CHARTER MEMBERS OF
PATRICK WALSH COUNCIL
In the forty years that have
passed since Patrick Walsh Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, was
founded in 1902, only—twelve of
the Charter Members tire living
to participate in observance of
the Fortieth Anniversary of the
Council’s establishment.
These are: the Rev. Henry A.
Schonhardt, of Atlanta; E. J.
O'Connor, D. P, O'Connor, John
P. Keenan, T. S. Lyons, W. J.
Mulherin, W. C. Park, James J.
Mura, M. J. Callahan, Jerry E.
Lyons, M. J. Lyons, and T. P.
Doris, all now living in Augusta.
Congratulations to ...
Patrick Walsh Council
Knights of Columbus
Named for
Our Former
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Editor and Publisher
The Augusta Chronicle