Biographical Sketch of

Rev. January Czarnowski

Transcribed by Barbara Voss



Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Page 446

Rev. January Czarnowski, resident Priest in charge of two Catholic Churches in Berlin, St. Stanislaus and St. Michaels, 
was born in West Prussia April 30. 1845, and is a son of Andreas and Hellwig (Shebilsky) Czarnowski. The subject of this 
sketch was educated in the Gymnasium of Culm and was graduated in the class of 1869. He was then ordained on the 21st 
of September 1873, when he emigrated from Poland to America. His first charge in this country was the Church of St. 
Stanislaus in Princeton, Wis., and in 1886, removing to Berlin; he also became Pastor of St. Michael�s Church. He 
was instrumental in building the large and elegant church edifice of St. Stanislaus, in Berlin, and has done effective 
work for his people. Father Czarnowski was for a time in charge of and caused to be built a church in Portage County, 
Wis., called St. Cazimer. He has now been located in Berlin four years and has won the love of his entire congregation.






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