Br. Antonian Patrick

John Keough was born on October 27, 1842, in Philadelphia, the son of Patrick and Mary Crowley Keough. He served as a soldier in the Civil War but on September 6, 1868, at age 26, he "traded in his soldier's uniform for the habit of the Christian Brothers" when he entered the Novitiate at Carondelet, where on October 31st he became Brother Antonian Patrick. His first teaching assignment came in St. Louis at St. Patrick's School in 1868 until 1872 when he was assigned to St. Maria's. He returned to St. Patrick's in 1873 but was named Director of Patee Town, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Brother Antonian returned to St. Louis in 1878 to St. Patrick's and a year later to CBC in St. Louis. In 1880 he taught classes at Glencoe but later that year was assigned to the new house in Dubuque. Two years later he served the Feehanville Orphanage as bookkeeper, a job he did in many schools for the next twenty years. He moved "almost" every year for the remainder of his career: 1884, St. John's School in Chicago; 1885, St. Malachy's School in St. Louis; 1886, St. Bridget's School in St. Louis as Director; 1887, he returned to Feehanville; 1888, CBC, St. Louis; 1889, St. Malachy's in St. Louis; 1891, CBC in St. Joseph, Missouri and De La Salle Academy in Chicago; 1892, CBC, Memphis; 1894, De La Salle Academy in Kansas City; and in 1895, he returned to St. Joseph, Missouri. He experienced health problems and he was sent to the milder climate of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Somewhat rested a year later, he returned to St. Joseph, Missouri, and was named Sub-Director of the P.N. in Glencoe in 1909 while residing in the Community of Ancients. His kidney ailments overcame him in the winter of 1911 and he was confined to his bed until his death in July at age sixty-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-three years.