Br. Isaac Patrick

Joseph W. Quinlan was born the son of Joseph and Bridget on May 6, 1849, in Rahone, County Clare, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-four entered the Novitiate at Carondelet, Missouri, where he received the habit and religious name of Brother Isaac Patrick. In 1874 he was assigned in St. Louis at St. Patrick's School, in 1877 at Prairie du Chien and in 1879 at St. John's in Chicago, Illinois. He was at Carondelet in 1880 and in St. Malachy in 1881. Brother Isaac worked in New Mexico in 1882 at Mora, in 1884 at Santa Fe, and remained there until 1908. He was then assigned to Glencoe, Missouri, as Sub-Director for a year and in 1909 went to the College in St. Louis. He returned to Santa Fe in 1910 and remained until he was assigned in Winona in 1917. He was in St. Paul in 1918 and sent to Kansas City in 1919. He was assigned to the College in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he died within a few months of arrival at age seventy-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-seven years.