calsfoundation@cals.org
August 21, 2011
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald, the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, was instrumental in the Churchs entrance into agreements with railroad companies to provide land grants encouraging Catholic immigration to Arkansas in the late 1800s. Two such agreements led to the establishment of strong areas of German settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, especially in Logan County. The bishop is shown here in the early 1900s.