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epidemic broke out in 1894 and took the lives of nine parish schoolchildren. A somewhat cross and irritable man, Father
Lewandowski resigned from the parish in a fit of anger in 1899, and died of a heart attack the following year while riding in a streetcar.
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The parish provided a grade school. Attached below is a photo of the graduating 8th grade class (ca. 1912), including Frank E. Gregorski, Judge, District Court, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 1953–1960.
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Two U.S. Congressman called St. Vincent de Paul their home parish.
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