Rev. Louis Gueguen

    Rev. Louis Gueguen, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Madison, Indiana. Father Gueguen is a native of France, and was born February 25, 1834, near Rostrenen, Department of Cotes du Nord. He graduated from the Ecclesiastical College of Plouguernevel, in 1855, and went through the theological course at St. Briene, the seat of the Department, in the years from 1855 to 1859.

    He came to the United States in 1859, having, before leaving France, received the order of deacon, and was ordained as priest in Vincennes, Indiana, on the 8th day of December of the same year, by Bishop De St. Palais, by whose solicitation he came to this country. After ordination he was appointed as assistant to the Rev. H. Du Pontavice, at Madison, Indiana, with whom he stayed the better part of one year, when he was called to Washington, Daviess County, Indiana, where he was stationed for only a few months. From    there he was appointed pastor of a congregation in Floyd County, near New Albany, where he stayed nearly three years, when he came, at the call of his ecclesiastical superior, tot he City of New Albany, where he had charge of the Church of the Holy Trinity for a short time.

    From New Albany he was appointed, in 1864, as pastor of a congregation at Loogootee, Martin County, Indiana, and attending from there two country churches -one in martin and one in Daviess County -besides having a smaller congregation in Martin County. Being relieved from two of these churches after eighteen months of service, he was retained at the Loogootee and St. Martin Churches, together, for nineteen years. At both of these places he was instrumental in building churches; and at Loogootee he built a parsonage.

    In 1885 he was appointed rector of St. Michael's Church, in Madison, Indiana, where he has been for over three years.

    The school in connection with St. Michael's is managed by the Sister of Providence; the attendance is about 150 pupils.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.