Sacramento County
Biographies
REV. THOMAS
GRACE
REV. THOMAS GRACE, pastor of St. Rose’s Church, Catholic, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, about 1842; educated in the private schools of his native place, and at St. Peter’s, Wexford, under the instruction of Bishop Furlong, and also at All Hallows College, Dublin; was ordained to the priesthood in 1867, and in September, that year, he came to California. In this State he first had charge of the parish at Red Bluff, being the first pastor there; built the Convent of Mercy; was subsequently at Grass Valley, Marysville, and finally came to Sacramento in July, 1881. His father, James Grace, was of Norman extraction, being a descendant of the famous Raymond le Gros in the twelfth century.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 659. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.