Edwin V. O'Hara
Edwin Vincent O'Hara was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota, one of eight children. His parents had immigrated during the Irish potato famine. O'Hara studied at St. Paul's Seminary and in 1905 he was ordained to the priesthood. He served as a chaplain during World War I. After the war, he worked as a pastor in Portland, and worked to establish a minimum wage in Oregon, which became law in 1913. In 1917, he was the defendant when the law was tried (and upheld) before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1913, he was appointed chairman of Oregon's Industrial Welfare Commission. In 1923, he founded and became director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. In 1930, he was appointed Bishop of Great Falls, Montana by Pope Pius XI. In 1939 he was appointed Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1954, he was granted made Archbishop. He died in Milan, Italy, shortly after his 75th birthday. He is buried in Kansas City.
Books
OpenLibrary works by this author.
A program of Catholic rural action
Archbishop Ireland
Catholic history of Oregon
Catholic History of Oregon
Frank C. Stettler, plaintiff in error, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, et al., constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission, defendants in error, Elmira Simpson, plaintiff in error, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, et al., constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission, defendants in error
In the Supreme Court of the state of Oregon, October term, 1913, Frank C. Stettler, appellant, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, Bertha Moores and Amedee M. Smith, constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission of the state of Oregon, respondents
In the Supreme Court of the state of Oregon, October term, 1913, Frank C. Stettler, plaintiff and appellant, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, Bertha Moores, Amedee M. Smith, constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission of the state of Oregon, defendants and respondents
Minimum wage pamphlets
Oregon minimum wage cases
Pioneer Catholic history of Oregon
Pioneer Catholic history of Oregon
Report of the Social Survey Committee of the Consumers' League of Oregon on the wages, hours and conditions of work and cost and standard of living of women wage earners in Oregon with special reference to Portland
The church and the country community
The parish Confraternity of Christian doctrine in the United States of North America =
Welfare legislation for women and minors
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