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Charles A. Webber, a Splendid Layman (English)
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The people of this diocese have just suffered a loss of a great Christian soul who served his God and Church and people's interest in a hundred ways. He had vigorous personality and was a part of all that he had met in many walk of life. He grew up in old St. Peter parish on Hicks Street and maintained that interest to the end although he had moved into St. Paul's parish and resided on Congress St. I refer to Charles Albert Webber, who was famed as a good and conservative lawyer in Brooklyn for more than 60 years last past, who had had much to do in establishing the Knights of Columbus in Brooklyn and the State of New York, and who had a wealth of wisdom to contribute to the purposes and operations of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society, the Marquette League, the Catholic Summer School of America at Cliff Haven on Lake Champlain, New York, and he took a lot of satisfaction in a part he could play with fellow-citizens of Protestant, Jewish and Catholic faiths In what is known as the Good Will Symposium. Perhaps I knew him best as a trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library. ... (English)
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