YOUNG, JOSUE M. 



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pastor of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Ohio, was ap- 

 pointed to succeed him. Such was the hmnil- 



; Dr. Young, however, that ho would fain 



(Krliuo the honor of being raised to the episco- 



:iml earnestly besought the Holy Father 



.w hiiu to decline accepting the appoint- 

 nuMit. His request was granted in so far as 

 >urg was concerned, but he was imme- 

 diately appointed to the see of Erie, Bishop 

 O'Connor being retranslated to Pittsburg. lie 



was consecrated in the cathedral of Cincinnati, 

 .in 1854. Once entered on his new field of 

 labor, Bishop Young devoted all the powers of 

 his mind and the energy of his character to 

 the interests of his diocese, and with the 

 limited means at his command, and the thin 

 and widely scattered population, he accom- 

 plished great things, and left behind him many 

 evidences of his zeal and charity. 



