Br. Lambert Oswald

Peter and Margaret Ryan Haley gave birth in Midland, Michigan, on November 13, 1883, to a son they baptized with the name John. The family moved to Chicago and it was from there, at age of seventeen, he sought entrance to the religious life by joining the Novitiate in Glencoe, Missouri, on December 27, 1900. There he received the robe and religious name of Brother Lambert Oswald. After a year of scholastic training, on February 2, 1902, he was assigned to the orphanage at Feehanville. It was at the orphanage that it was discovered he had contracted tuberculosis which quickly took his life. Brother Lambert Oswald was nineteen years old, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only two years.