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Rev. Father
August Salick
Reverend August Salick,
born in Watertown in 1859, was a son of Joseph Salick
and celebrated his first Mass at St. Henry’s Church.
Father Salick
was ordained in Milwaukee in 1884. He
frequently returned to Watertown to participate in services at the church.
After ten years of service with St.
Joseph’s Pio Nono college
of St. Francis, and then in Potosi, Wisconsin, Salick
was called to Milwaukee, where he undertook the building up of St. Anne’s
Parish. In appreciation of his devoted
services since that time, the congregation of St. Anne’s church made the silver
anniversary of his ordination into the priesthood a gala day.
A cortege of nearly 800 children,
all dressed in white, 400 of whom were under 7 years of age, escorted him to
the church. With the entire neighborhood
resplendent with patriotic colors, Father Salick
began the twenty-sixth year of his priest-hood by means of the festivities in
Milwaukee.
The High Mass sermon was preached by
Father Kampschroer and Father Salick
sung the High Mass. A banquet was
attended by 350. The toastmaster was
Father Philip Schweitzer of Watertown.
In 1925 Father Salick
was invested with the title of monsignor by the pope. He died in 1934.
Cross Reference:
[ 1 ] In 1888
Watertown Jeweler Joseph Salick, father of August,
sold his two store buildings at the east end of