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Rev. Francis B. Luebbermann, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June, 1857. He attended the Christian Brothers’ School of that city and at the age of fourteen began the study of languages, classics, finally philosophy and theology at St. Meinrad’s Seminary. He was ordained in 1880, and was located at Evansville, Ind., as assistant in Trinity church, and remained there until 1883. He located in Mt. Vernon in December, 1883, and after a brief respite returned in 1884, under permanent appointment to St. Matthew’s church, and has remained ever since. He has a congregation of 250 families, but, when he came, he had seventy-eight families only, an increase of 172 families. Rev. Father Luebbermann has been indefatigable in his labors to advance the prosperity of St. Matthew’s parish, and being a gentleman of scholarly attainments and eloquence, and withal possessed of a genial temperment, he has won the sincere affection and esteem of his flock, and these amiable qualities have proven to be no small factors in the successful prosecution of the good work he has set before him. His zeal in church labor is untiring and unflagging. He was appointed to the parish when in his early prime, and no clergyman could well have been found to carry out, with as favorable prospects for the desired results, the commendable, yet arduous duties to the performance of which he was assigned. Besides his parish duties Father Luebbermann has always been engaged in literary work of some kind, writing or translating books of historic interest. From 1888 until 1907 he published two monthly magazines, “The Poor Souls’ Advocate,” and “Der Armen Sulin Freund”; also started the “Knights of St. John’s Journal,” and in July, 1913, began the publication of the “Parish Record of St. Matthew’s Church.” The publication, now in its fifth month, is well edited, handsomely typed, and has a general circulation among the families of the parish.