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HISTORY OF COHASSRT. 



fisheries before the year 1850, as well as a number of 

 Irish immigrants of that period, made such a church 

 necessary. 



Rev. Hugh P. Smith,* of Roxbury, who then had the 

 oversight of these Roman Catholic newcomers in Wey- 

 mouth, Hingham, Cohasset, and Scituate, soon saw the 

 necessity of a building for public worship, and with char- 

 acteristic energy he set about it. From the time of its 

 completion in 1876, St. Anthony's Church has called an 

 increasing number of worshipers, until now there are as 



Photo, Harriet A. Nickerson. 



St. Anthony's Church (Roman Catholic). 

 Built 1876. 



high as five hundred at some services. During the sum- 

 mer months especially, when the visitors from city homes 

 bring more than a hundred domestic servants to our town, 



♦ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS AT COHASSET. 

 Rev. Hugh P. Smith and others, i86o(?)-76. 

 Peter J. Leddy, 1876-80. 



Gerald Fagin, 1880-84. 



Ignatius P. Egan, 1884-97. 



Charles F. Cowen, 1897-98. 



William McDonough, 1898- 



