Br. Falan Joseph

Peter Drysdale was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on December 12, 1851. He was one of the first students to attend Christian Brothers College High School in St. Joseph, when the Brothers opened it in 1867. Two years later he sought admission to Brothers Novitiate at Carondelet in July of 1869. There he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Falan Joseph on September 7, 1869. His first assignment took him in 1970 to St. John's School in St. Louis where he taught the 2nd grade. He was assigned to Christian Brothers College and the 5th grade in 1872. He became ill in 1873 and his parents requested they care for him at home. Brother Falan Joseph died in their home in St. Joseph, Missouri, at the age of twenty-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for five years.