Lalumiere, Stanislaus P.

Born: 1822-02-13 Vincennes, Indiana

Died: 1895-03-22 Cincinnati, Ohio

Born of French parents, Lalumiere graduated from St. Mary's College in Kentucky. Sometime in the late 1830s, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he was a deputy clerk in the Sangamon County Circuit Court, and it was in that capacity that he knew Abraham Lincoln. He was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois in 1844 after studying law in Vandalia and in Springfield. He went to St. Louis in 1848 and served as a deputy clerk in the United States Circuit Court, District of Missouri for a year before he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Florissant, Missouri, and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1855. In 1857, he moved to Milwaukee, where he was the principal of St. Aloysius Academy from 1857 to 1861 and then a pastor of St. Gall's Church during the Civil War.

Andrew J. Aikens and Lewis A. Proctor, eds., Men of Progress, Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Evening Wisconsin, 1897), 226-28; Harry H. Heming, The Catholic Church in Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Catholic Historical, 1895-98), 1036-38; State Bank of Illinois v. Musick et al., Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=140450.