Religious Leaders Augustus Tolton

Augustus Tolton

Living place: Missouri

Birthday: 1-4-1854

Global rank: #66408

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Who is Religious Leaders Augustus Tolton?
The ex-slave became the first African-American priest in America's Roman Catholic Church. He founded the Catholic Church of St. Monica on the South Side of Chicago.
He attended the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy and became an ordained priest at the age of thirty-one.
 
 

Young / Before famous

During the American Civil War, he and his mother and siblings escaped from Missouri to Illinois slavery, where they found work at a tobacco company.

Family life info

The son of Peter Paul Tolton and Martha Jane Chisley, he was born into slavery in Missouri. The plantation owner's wife, Savilla Elliot, was once his godmother.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Religious Leaders Augustus Tolton?
He and Frederick Douglass were both notable former slaves.

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When was Religious Leaders Augustus Tolton born?
Augustus Tolton was born in 1-4-1854, death year is , at the age of 170.
Where is Religious Leaders Augustus Tolton's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Augustus Tolton was born in Missouri, . is a Religious Leaders, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Augustus Tolton's global rank is 66408 and whose rank is 208 in list of famous Religious Leaders.
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Events in 1854 and 1-4

Birthday Augustus Tolton (1-4) in history

  • Day 1-4 year 1789: Mr Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  • Day 1-4 year 1933: The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
  • Day 1-4 year 1945: American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
  • Day 1-4 year 1960: The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
  • Day 1-4 year 1970: President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
  • Day 1-4 year 1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer.
  • Day 1-4 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  • Day 1-4 year 2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic arrested on corruption charges.
  • Day 1-4 year 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
  • Day 1-4 year 2004: President Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill making it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
  • Day 1-4 year 2009: Sweden becomes the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage. The other countries with the same rights are The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.
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