Father Gilbert Hartke. The unlikely story of a Catholic University priest and James Cagney by Blair A. Ruble

Gilbert "Gib" Hartke was the son of an interdenominational love match that transcended the social norms of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. His father, Emil, the offspring of a prominent first-generation German and Lutheran household, left medical school at the University of Illinois to marry his mother, Lillian Ward, a first-generation Irish Catholic. Emil converted to Catholicism over […] The post Father Gilbert …

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