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 Holy
Trinity Catholic Church was established by Rev.
William Coonan about 1871-72. Wheatland was then a prosperous
manufacturing town, and many of the iron workers were Catholics. A large
frame church was erected by Father Coonan,
and for several years the congregation was in a flourishing condition.
In 1878 Rev. Bernard Lynch succeeded Father
Coonan, and the following year Rev. Patrick
Cosgrove became pastor. He served the congregation some two
years, when the decline of the town, caused by the mills shutting down,
did not justify a resident pastor, and Holy Trinity was placed under the
charge of the pastor at Sharpsville, where it has since remained [1888].
Fathers Coonan, Lynch and Cosgrove also
ministered to the Sharpsville congregation during a part of their
pastorates at Wheatland. Holy Trinity has dwindled down to a few
families, but if the mills again start up successfully, which is now
probable, its old-time prosperity will doubtless return.
The
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 490-491.
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