WI BIO - Kenosha Co - SCHWEITZER, Philip Raymond

History of Kenosha & Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Lyman. Clarke Publishing, 
1916, v 2, pp 627-628

Rev. Philip Raymond SCHWEITZER, pastor of St. Francis Xavier congregation at 
Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, was born 01 November 1867 at St. 
Martins, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, a son of Theodore and Anna May (ACKER) 
SCHWEITZER. The father died in 1905, and the mother in 1891, the remains of 
both being interred in St. Martins Cemetery. The father was a pioneer 
settler of [the Territory of] Wisconsin, arriving in 1843. To him and his 
wife [to Theodore and Anna May (ACKER) SCHWEITZER] were born twelve children 
[note that only eleven are named]: (1) Theodore, who died in the fall of 
1871; (2) Magdalene, the wife of Peter BLATNER, a retired farmer residing in 
Milwaukee; (3) John, who met with an accidental death in 1875; (4) Mike, a 
retired farmer of Kaukauna [Outagamie County], Wisconsin; (5) George, an 
expressman living in Milwaukee; (6) William, who occupies the old homestead 
at St. Martins, Wisconsin, and has devoted his life to farming; (7) Philip 
Raymond, of this review; (8) Catherine, the wife of Stephen BROSEMER, a 
farmer living at [p 628] Huntsville [Madison County], Alabama; (9) Theodore, 
who carries on farming at St. Martins, Wisconsin; (10) Elizabeth, the wife 
of Phillip RYNDERS, a farmer of St. Martins, Wisconsin; and (11) Barbara, 
who became the wife of John SCHAEFER of St. Martins, Wisconsin, and is the 
mother of eleven children. She [Barbara (SCHWEITZER) SCHAEFER] died in 1904, 
at the age of forty years, and was laid to rest in St. Martins Cemetery, 
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

The Rev. Philip R. SCHWEITZER began his elementary studies in the Pio Nono 
College at St. Francis [Milwaukee County], Wisconsin. He studied the 
classics, philosophy, and theology in St. Francis Seminary, and was ordained 
to the priesthood in Chippewa Falls [Chippewa County], Wisconsin, by the Rt. 
Rev. Kilian FLASCH, D. D., on 07 September 1890. His first appointment was 
to St. Joseph's church at Sinsinawa, Grant County, Wisconsin, with Hazel 
Green as a mission. He was afterward transferred to St. Henry's church at 
Watertown, Wisconsin, but resigned on account of illness. [Watertown is a 
border community in both Jefferson and Dodge Counties. St. Henry's Church 
was established in 1853 in Jefferson County.] Later he was appointed 
chaplain of St. Mary's Hospital in Racine, Wisconsin, and subsequently was 
assigned to the pastorate of St. Francis Xavier congregation at Brighton 
[Brighton Township, Kenosha County], where he is now located. He is 
unfaltering in his efforts to upbuild the cause in the district in which he 
lives and is bending all of his energies toward that end. In the parish 
there are now ninety-seven families connected with the church, and there is a 
school known as St. Francis Xavier School, conducted by two Sisters of St. 
Francis from the St. Francis convent in Milwaukee County, with fifty-two 
pupils in attendance. The societies of the parish are the Married Ladies 
Sodality, the Rosary Society, the Young Ladies Sodality, and the Holy 
Guardian Angel Society for the children.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly