Louis Cremer was born in Calmar, Iowa, on April 26, 1873, but his family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father became a noted real estate dealer. Louis received his early education there and attended Cretin High School from where he entered the Institute at age seventeen. It is believed that he is the first graduate of Cretin High School to enter the Brothers. He received the habit and the religious name of Brother Joakim and received his first teaching assignment at St. Patrick's School in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1891. Two years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis where he remained for four years. In 1897 Brother Joakim was appointed Sub-director of the P.N. program at Glencoe. After four years he was assigned to St. Patrick's Commercial Academy in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained until his sudden death from pneumonia at age thirty-one, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fourteen years
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