Br. Julius of England

John McKeone was born the son of John and Catherine McGinnis McKeone in Killinkere, Ireland, on March 12, 1842. John emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-three entered the Novitiate of New York at Second Street on August 14, 1865. He received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Filin on October 2, 1865. He was sent to St. Louis to teach in 1866 and then to Chicago at St. Mary's where he withdrew from the Brothers in 1869. One year later he asked to return and was given the new religious name of Brother Julius of England. He served at La Salle as watchman in 1871 and taught in New Orleans in 1872-1874 when he was assigned to St. John's at Prairie du Chien where he remained until 1879. Brother Julius was assigned to St. Patrick's School in St. Louis in 1879 but one year later he was recalled to the New York District where for the next thirty-six years he served at Westchester, Troy, Albany and Utica. In February of 1916 he was assigned to attend the sick of the Community of Ancients at Pocantico Hills and it was there he died that same year at age seventy-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brothers for fifty-years.