BIO: David J. WALSH, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 67-68.
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  REV. DAVID J. WALSH, Huntingdon, Pa., was born May 10, 1867, in Blarney, 
County Cork, Ireland.  He is a son of Edmund and Elizabeth (Murphy) Walsh.  
All the ancestors and relatives of Father Walsh were born in Ireland; there 
his father and all his brothers and sisters still reside.  The family 
includes eleven children, of whom nine are living.  The mother died 
September 15, 1889, at the age of fifty-two.
  The education of David J. Walsh was begun in the schools of his native 
town, further carried on, for three years and a half, at Saint Colman's 
College, Fermoy, County Cook, and completed at the Irish College, Paris, 
France.  At the last-named institution, on the feast of Corpus Christi, 
1892, he was ordained to the priesthood.  Soon after his ordination, Father 
Walsh sailed for America, and immediately after his arrival, was appointed 
assistant pastor of St. Bridget's church, Pittsburg, Pa.  On the 12th of 
February, 1896, he took charge of his present parish, the Church of the Most 
Holy Trinity, Huntingdon, Pa.  This church, of which Rev. Father Walsh is 
rector, was built in 1828, and is one of the oldest in the Juniata Valley.  
The Reverend Father is a faithful pastor, beloved by his flock, and highly 
esteemed by the citizens of Huntingdon.