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Augustine Tolton
Quincy,
IL ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
39° 55' 54.180012",
-91° 24' 16.980012"
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Illinois State
Historical Marker
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Father Tolton, the first Negro priest in the United States, was born of slave parents in Bush Creek, Missouri, in 1854. Educated at Quincy schools, he returned to this city after his ordination in Rome, Italy, in 1886. He celebrated his first public mass at St. Boniface Church in Quincy and later established St. Monica's Church for Negroes in Chicago. He died in Chicago in 1897, and is buried at St. Peter's Cemetery, Quincy.
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Augustine Tolton Historical Marker Location Map, Quincy, Illinois Map
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